Chapter 2: First Wave

Everypony started panicking, trying to run from the zombie invasion. Red flags with brains in scripted on it rose through the air as the horde of zombies entered the town, destroying and eating everything in its path. Some ponies run, some just fainted like these three

Thankfully we'll be able to see those three faint again, but sadly....

*Chomp!* *Chomp!*

*GULP*

Another pony fell to the hands of another zombie, her blood staining the ground with red. The zombies continued to march forward towards the Mane 6, deeming them as their top priority. Rainbow Dash started to growl.

"I had enough of this! Time for payback!" Rainbow Dash yelled as she charged at the zombies at supersonic speeds. Applejack galloped next to her.

"You got that partner!" Applejack said as they charged at the zombies.

"No girls! Don't go!" Twilight yelled at them to come back but it was already too late, they were already too close to retreat.

Rainbow Dash slammed into a zombie with her front hooves, knocking its head off clean and sending the body tumbling into nearby zombies. Applejack turned around with her back hoofs to the zombies and bucked them with all the force she had, sending yet another group of zombies flying. Outside of their range the military zombie looked at the fight through their binoculars.

"Apparently these beings have their own way of fighting. Seems that next time we'll have to get the more sturdier ones if we are to continue this invasion." The general said. Dr. Zomboss laughed.

"But this invasion is going all too well! Even if we did lose this battle the amount that they lost would be enough to recover and then it'd be zompony vs pony!" Dr. Zomboss yelled out, laughing as another pony did a terrified scream before dying. "But seems like out of all of them, those two mares will give us the most trouble, though I'm sure that we'll find a way to destroy them." Dr. Zomboss stated. The commander smiled.

"You got that right. As each moment passes, our zombies are still coming, but they're starting to get tired." The commander said as they examined the battle. The two mares fought fiercely against the zombies, shooting their heads up into the air, but with each hit their hooves started to get a bit tired as more and more zombies attacked them.

"Twilight! We need your help!" Applejack yelled as she bucked another zombie's head into the sky. Twilight sighed, shaking her head.

"Oh why did you two decided to get yourself into this...." Twilight said, before now looking at the swarm. She charged up her magic and fired a deadly spell, causing a huge amount of dust to go into the air. But when the dust cleared, to everypony's shock, the zombie was still standing.

"BRAINS~" The zombie cried out, walking more closer to Twilight. Twilight grunted as she charged up a second spell, but the same affect was given.

"Why can't I do any damage against them?!" Twilight yelled as she shot beam after beam, tiring herself out. A zombie was able to flank her from behind and started to come from behind. Twilight spun around and yelled as the zombie was a mere inch away from her. The zombie opened his hands and was about to chomp down on her when a deadly jewel came out of nowhere and tore through the zombie's head, destroying it instantly.

"They may be resistant to our magic, but even so, I won't let any one of those filthy hands get on my clean fur, much less on my friends." Rarity said with a smile, before grabbing her stock pile of jewels and throwing them. The zombies started to get mowed down by the jewels, but even so, more and more replaced them.

"They're getting too numerous!" Rainbow Dash yelled as she smashed into another zombie. A loud *BANG* was heard as Pinkie Pie used her Party Cannon to try and blow away the zombies, but with no affect.

"Pinkie, I don't think confetti would be enough to blow them away." Twilight said as she grabbed a random table and threw it away at the nearest zombie, stunning him, but not killing him. The sound of Pinkie pulling up something heavy was heard, and suddenly another *BANG* was heard, and a hot orb of metal shot through the air, blowing up some of the zombies. Everypony looked at Pinkie, who did a embarrassed chuckle.

"Oops!" Pinkie said sheepishly. Twilight shrugged.

"Well that could work." Twilight said, before they began the new charge to counterattack the zombies, who already slaughtered at least 50 ponies. Even without being able to shoot deadly beams of magic, using other objects as a means of attacking and defending themselves, the mane 6 and a bunch of other ponies started to fire back at the zombies.

"Twilight! Use me as a flamethrower!" Spike yelled as he let Twilight pick him up with her magic. Spike took a deep breath and started to shoot out a huge green flame that either set zombies on fire, or immediately burned them to crisp.

From afar the doctor growled.

"No! No! Not this again!" Dr. Zomboss cried out, smashing his fists on his monitor. On the contrary, the commander seemed as focused as ever.

"No need to worry. We've already killed 50 of them, enough to regain our footing if this were to turn into a long lasting war." The Commander said. "We still have a huge amount of our forces though. With the exception of those being burned down by that dragon of theirs, the zombies that are already being defeated are already picking themselves up together, so while it may seem we've lost 50 of ours, we actually only lost 10 due to that dragon, meaning that they're still 50 that are still in one piece, and 40 that can instantly rearm themselves." The Commander said. "But now things will get interesting once they start finding a way to defend themselves."

Down in the battlefield, the zombies started to retreat as they realized that the force they were being countered with were starting to overwhelm them. They scrambled everywhere, trying to find something to protect themselves. A zombie signaled another to come along with him. They started to go into a house, where they found a bunch of buckets laying around. They looked at each other, evil smiles on their faces, and picked up as many buckets as they could and dashed out of the house.

After a few moments of silence, the ponies started to cheer, believing that they had won.

"Alright! We showed those zombies what we're made of!" Rainbow Dash yelled in triumph. Applejack smiled, but her smile also contained sadness.

"You're right. We did showed them what we got. But we can't forget the loses we had today." Applejack said, taking off her hat and soon a solemnity went through the air. Everypony looked at the ones laying on the ground, their now-still eyes looking up at what would be their last sight before death. Blood stained the ground and pieces of what they would guess were their brains cause some of the spectators to barf up. But then a small beat started to be heard.

"Twilight, do you hear that music?" Rarity asked. Twilight slowly nodded, but that nod became more slower by the second.

"I do....." Twilight said. A zombie holding a drum came out of the forest, thumping out a beat that went along with the previous music they heard. And slowly zombies started to appear everywhere again, this time with a bucket on their head.

"I think we may have entered the next stage of horror." Rarity said, her eyes fixed on these new batch of zombies. Twilight gulped.

"Yes. Yes we did." Twilight said, before the next wave of zombies began.

Meanwhile.....

Fluttershy was running. Running for her life. You can quite expect that a shy timid mare like her would do that, especially when she saw what was happening. Zombies eating the brains of a pony right in front of her? Yeah, that would give even the supposedly person that says 'I'm not scared of anything!' the chills and would send them running away, unless they had a problem in their own brain that hinders them of feeling scared (which some actually do but that's not what we're discussing now, are we?). In her possession was the Peashooter who was trying to get out of her grasp, only for her to tighten her grasp.

"No! I won't let you see the same fate that they did! I don't want to lose you!" Fluttershy yelled at the Peashooter. Peashooter had his head low as Fluttershy started to walk away.

"But if you don't.....your friends will die...." Peashooter said as he looked in the general direction of the invading force of the undead. Fluttershy could see how difficult it was starting to get with the zombies now having this metallic protection. "Do you want to see them die too?" Peashooter asked. Tears streamed down from her face as she realized her plant friend was right.

"But how can we be able to defeat them? You're a plant! I'm a pegasus who's scared of just a twig falling!" Fluttershy said, before jumping into the air with a 'eep!' as the said object fell next to her. She started to cry. "You see!? I'm too weak to do anything!" Fluttershy said, crying. Peashooter came next to her.

"Do you want to know why I came here?" Peashooter said. Fluttershy looked up to her plant friend. Peashooter sighed. "A few years ago in my world, where I came from, a similar zombie invasion began. Zombies were killing everything in their path. I was just a little baby Peashooter, I was scared or confronting them, seeing how the zombies easily destroyed everything. But it was when my owner, Dave, told me to have faith in myself. I may be small and weak, but I could be able to do things that no other human was able to do. I was the first of my kind to be planted, just when the zombies got to our front yard. I was scared. I saw the zombie nearing to me. But when I saw Dave's face of confidence and trust, I realized I couldn't fail him, nor could I fail myself, nor the world. And from that moment on I became a key part in stopping the zombies from eating the last line of hope for humanity." Peashooter said in his native language. He looked down at the ground and at the grass.

"But even though we're strong, we eventually reach our limit. There is your friends, fighting for their lives, but eventually, even the strongest and fastest will reach to the point where they can't fight, and that's where they'll get eaten by the zombies. They need you! They need us!"

"But how can I even fight them! I can't! Even if I did have the courage I'm too slow! Too weak to do anything!" Fluttershy yelled at the Peashooter. Peashooter nodded.

"That's right. You might be weak, but you also got the most strongest army in your pocket." Peashooter said, signaling the pouch that Fluttershy had. Fluttershy looked at the pouch the plant was referring to.

"This?" Fluttershy asked. Peashooter nodded.

"Yes. What that has is what we call sun, which instantly grows a plant of what you choose. Some cost little to none, while others cost a fortune. You have to plant more of us in order for us to succeed, before they eat your friends!" Peashooter exclaimed. Fluttershy got her serious mode on.

"You're right. Our friends are in trouble, and they need us to help them!" Fluttershy said before racing back to the inferno.

Meanwhile.....

"Okay! First zombies that can eat our brains come, and now they come with buckets!?" Rainbow Dash cried out as she attempted to buck a zombie but the metallic object withstood the blow. The zombie still was shot backward, but the zombie was able to get himself on his feet and he continued to walk forward along with the rest of the zombies.

"This fight is getting way too hard! Would've been useful if they weren't resistant to magic." Applejack said as she bucked a zombie in the stomach, but without the ability to do a head shot, the zombie was able to get himself up.

"This is no fun!" Pinkie Pie said, throwing rocks at the zombie's head, only for each one to bounce off with a *CLANG* as rock met metal. The zombies continued to move forward towards the group, eating everything in their path.

"Brains~"

"This fight is getting impossible!" Rarity exclaimed as she fired some of her sharp jewels at the zombies, but somehow the metal bucket was what absorbed the blast and not the flesh being attacked.

"More fire Spike! More fire!" Twilight yelled as Spike continued to blow on the ground, somehow still able to burn some of the group.

"T-twilight....I-i'm getting...t-tired....." Spike said as he closed his eyes and started to sleep. The fire that once raged from the dragon now shut off. Luckily for them Spike had burn enough zombies to give them a precious minute to think before the next wave approached them.

From afar the evil doctor laughed.

"Yes! Finally! That pesky little dragon finally got tired! Now we can attack with full strength!" Dr Zomboss cried out. The commander gritted his teeth.

"We would have to do that soon. Look master." The commander said, giving his binoculars to Dr. Zomboss, who widened his eyes. There in the outskirts of the town, the doctor could see a very familiar plant coming with a butterscotch mare.

"I-impossible! Those plants shouldn't be here!" The doctor exclaimed as he looked ahead. The commander growled.

"Seems that they were aware of us coming and so they came here to stop us again." The commander said. "Luckily for us it's only one Peashooter. The problem would be how many sun they have. If they have little they would lack the power to fight back, but if its a huge amount..... we may have to call off this invasion." The commander said. The doctor started to stomp his feet.

"I won't accept this!" The doctor said. He called out to a sleeping red figure. "Go get them!" The doctor cried out. Then the figure opened his eyes and got up and started to charge into the battlefield.....

Fluttershy and Peashooter raced through the town, avoiding some of the zombies along the way. A zombie attempted to lay his hand on Fluttershy, but one single pea from the Peashooter knocked down the zombie away for a while.

"Fluttershy! Grab some of the sun you have and a seed packet and throw them in front of us. It will instantly spawn a plant!" Peashooter yelled. Fluttershy was fumbling through the seed packets trying to find that didn't pass the limit when suddenly Rainbow Dash appeared in front of them.

"What are you doing here!? Run away!" Rainbow Dash yelled as she started to shake her friend. "You're too innocent to die Fluttershy! You're one of my best friends! I won't let you die by letting you come here! Go now!" Rainbow Dash yelled as she shook Fluttershy. Unfortunately for both of them Fluttershy accidentally dropped on of her seed packets with 50 sun and it spawned a Sunflower.

"Oh look! A Sunflower!" Fluttershy said, inspecting the flower. Rainbow Dash face-hooved.

"Fluttershy! This is not the time to be playing around with your cute little plants! Run away Fluttershy!" Rainbow Dash said as she continued to shake her. The rest of the Mane 6 appeared.

"Fluttershy! What are you doing!?" Twilight yelled, looking at the plant and back to her friend. Fluttershy remained calm.

"Peashooter convinced me to come to help you guys." Fluttershy said. Peashooter nodded when suddenly Rainbow Dash grabbed him.

"And what in your little plant brain were you thinking of endangering Fluttershy! Hm?!" Rainbow Dash said to the Peashooter. Peashooter spoke to Fluttershy and she interpreted what he said.

"Peashooter said that he believes in me that I could help win this fight." Fluttershy said. Rainbow Dash face-hooved.

"Then how the heck are we supposed to win with a green plant that shoots out peas and a sunflower who just dances?!" Rainbow Dash said when suddenly the Sunflower started to glow.

"Are you ready to fight Sunflower?" Fluttershy said. The Sunflower shockingly shook her head. "What do you mean you can't fight? Peashooter can." Fluttershy said. Again Sunflower shook her head. "You're a producer, not an offensive plant?" Fluttershy asked. Sunflower nodded. "Oh."

"Then what are you waiting for!? Try to find an offensive plant then if you're such a genius!" Rainbow Dash yelled a she suddenly did a round-house kick, knocking away another metal bucket zombie away. Fluttershy scrambled to find another seed packet. When she threw it, the seed packet turned into yet another Sunflower.

"Oops...."

"Stop wasting our sun on these useless plants Fluttershy!" Rainbow Dash yelled as she kicked another zombie.

"Hey! Now that was uncalled for!" Applejack said as Fluttershy attempted again only to produce another sunflower.

"What do you mean that was uncalled for!? Fluttershy is wasting the sun or whatever the currency is....how the heck does it even work anyways!?" Rainbow Dash exclaimed

"I believe the sun is used to instantly spawn a plant whereas it would've taken the time to grow like Peashooter did." Twilight said. Fluttershy grabbed another seed packet when suddenly Rainbow looked at her in the eye.

"Don't you dare plant it!" Rainbow Dash said. Fluttershy started to slowly loosen her grip. "Don't you! I'm warning you!" Rainbow Dash said. Fluttershy accidentally fumbled it and it spawned another Sunflower.

"Oh for goodness sake's! Now we ran out of this sun or whatever it is! How are we supposed to get more now!?" Rainbow Dash said. The zombie's moans were literally right behind them. Rainbow flew up to the air and suddenly the air shook as a Sonic Rainboom was produced. A rainbow streak crashed into the zombies, creating a huge explosion. Zombies where thrown away and Rainbow Dash was in the middle of them. The zombies now seeing their chance started to crawl towards her.

"Rainbow no!" Applejack yelled as she ran to help her friend. The cowgirl tried to fight off the zombies but in matter of moments the two were encircled.

"I guess this is the end of the road for both of us." Rainbow Dash said as she slowly got up. Applejack now super tired, did a sad smile.

"I guess so partner." Applejack said, with the zombies now around them. The two mares hugged each other as they screamed for their lives, just when the sunflowers glowed and produced mini suns which the pocket collected.

"Fluttershy! Use those sun and throw the seed that looks like a cherry at them before its too late!" Peashooter exclaimed. Fluttershy fumbled for said object and she threw the seed packet with 150 sun. The seed packet turned into this:

which started to grow rapidly. By the time it reached the two, it was now ready to blow. The zombies looked up and saw the red cherry ready to release everything it had. The zombies had their mouths wide open from shock when.....

KABOOM!

The Cherry Bomb suddenly detonated, releasing a huge wave of heat as the zombies were incinerated. The metal buckets provided no protection from this blast as the zombies became black dust that fell to the ground. Two figures were tossed from the explosion and landed in front of them. It was Rainbow Dash and Applejack. Twilight ran over them, trying to feel a pulse but found none.

"T-they're dead...." Twilight said. The friends looks in shock, Fluttershy too. They started to cry while Peashooter looked through the seed packets. Fluttershy looked at Peashooter.

"Why did you let me do this!? They're now gone....." Fluttershy said, tears streaming down her cheeks. The Sunflowers upon realizing the two seed packets that Peashooter held, started to produce another batch of sun, with the total now at 150. The pocket suddenly absorbed the extra sun coming from the sky, now reaching the total of 200 sun. The Peashooter grabbed the two plants and together the plants started to haul the two seed packets to the sun.

"What good will anything do? Rainbow and Applejack are dead...." Rarity said crying with her hoof over her eyes. The plants mustered their energy to combined the two seed packets with the 200 sun and a blinding light appeared as two orange carrots appeared.

"You know what you gotta do Intensive Carrot." Peashooter said as he signaled the two carrots. The carrots nodded as they approached the two dead mares. A flash of light happened as the two carrots got absorbed into the two dead bodies. As the mares cried, they heard two very familiar voices groan.

"What the heck just happened....?"

"I don't know but the last thing I remember was seeing two very angry cherries look at us before blowing up or something." The other voice said. "Then a flash of light and then I woke up here."

"Same!" The other voice said. The crying friends looked up and saw their beloved friends now alive.

"RAINBOW! APPLEJACK!" The group of friends yelled as they hugged the pair. The two were confused.

"Now what's with the sudden hug? Did we win?" Rainbow Dash asked as they looked around. There were still zombies around chasing ponies throughout the town.

"No! We saw you two die!" Twilight said with tears still on her face. The two friends looked bewildered.

"W-we died?!" Applejack exclaimed. Fluttershy nodded

"You died from the explosion, but thanks to these plants you two were able to come back." Fluttershy said. Rainbow suddenly became puzzled.

"Wait to make plants you need sun, right?"

"You need sun to instantly make plants."

"So then how did you create more plants without sun?" Rainbow Dash asked. Fluttershy gestured to the Sunflowers.

"These Sunflowers might not have the power to fight, but they have the power to produce an army of plants." Fluttershy said as the sunflowers suddenly produced a batch of sun with the pocket collected. Rainbow Dash looked at the plants with a guilty face.

"Sorry for saying you were all useless plants...." Rainbow Dash said. The Sunflowers beamed their faces.

"They forgive you." Fluttershy said, when Twilight grabbed the Sunflowers.

"First was the Peashooter and now you four!? How are you able to produce sun!?" Twilight exclaimed. Rarity placed a hoof on her.

"Darling this is not the time. The zombies are still coming." Rarity said as she signaled the coming zombies. Twilight nodded.

"Okay. This is our plan. Wait first of all do we have a unlimited amount of seed packets?" Twilight asked. Fluttershy started to count.

"No. Apparently only 5 per kind and we already have 4 deployed Sunflowers, one Peashooter, one Cherry Bomb and two Intensive Carrots that were used." Fluttershy answered. Twilight nodded

"Okay Fluttershy save one seed packet from each kind and plant them somewhere else so that they produce more plants from their seeds. You'll provide us with an army of plants. Applejack and Rainbow. You're job is to continue using your speed and strength to buy us time so that Fluttershy can produce more of these plants." Twilight said. The two nodded. "Pinkie Pie. Use whatever method you have to slow down the zombies, and you're free to even break the laws of physics to do so." Pinkie Pie started to jump around before dashing for some party supplies to use against the zombies. "Rarity. Do you have anything from your shop that we could use, for me and you are going to use as much as we can find." Twilight said. Rarity nodded as she started to collect everything usable in this fight. "And plants, we're trusting you to help us here. You're all ready?" Twilight asked. The plants nodded. "Now let the fight....begin....." Twilight said, her voice trailing off as she spotted a zombie rapidly moving around, eating every brain he found. Twilight immediately set up a barrier, right when said zombie crashed right into it, disabling it completely. Kneeling down Peashooter and the rest instantly recognized the zombie through its clothing and helmet.

"Football Zombie...." Peashooter said with a glare. Football Zombie looked up, his eyes looking right at the girls.

"This is going to be a tough fight." Sunflower said. "Potato Mine would take too much time to arm, and Cherry Bomb is on a cool down, and we don't have the proper plants yet to fight him off." She said.

"But we're not going to give up!" Peashooter exclaimed, and the showdown between the common Peashooter and famous All-Star Football Zombie would begin, and this fight would decide who gets to stay, and who gets to leave.

To be Continued.....

Author's Note

Football Zombie aka All-Star Zombie. Fast. Super in Defense and Offense. Can absorb tons of damage. He has appeared to fight the plants and ponies.

The Potato Mine would take too long to arm itself against the All-Star Zombie. The Cherry Bomb is on cool down mode. They lack the firepower to defend against the horde of Bucket Zombies, much less the All-Star Zombie.

Will the Plants be able to defend themselves against the horde of Bucket Zombies and All-Star Zombies, or will they succumb to his defense and offense? Find out next time in the next chapter of THERE'S A ZOMBIE ON YOUR LAWN!