The Few That Lived

Rainbow Dash slowly raised the blinds to the only window in the dark room. It had hardly been big enough to squeeze through the last time, but, due to her athletic habits and lean body, she managed to slide out without drawing any attention to herself.

The rainbow maned pegasus silently peeked into the pitch black streets of Ponyville, ducking below the windowsill every time a pair of faint glowing yellow eyes turned in her direction, that is, if both eyes were still intact.

One of the things Dash had gotten to know as "Trotters" was rummaging through a garbage bin directly below her, its bottom jaw had been detached somehow the tongue stuck directly out of the throat and flailed about like a sick pony's tail, spewing spit and blood onto anything it came into contact with. The thing was a walking corpse, anypony would know that, no matter how uneducated or excessively smart. It attracted flies and maggots like rotting meat, this one specifically had its intestines dragging on the ground behind her, it could take any amount of pain that would stop any normal pony and leave them screaming for their lives and could just walk through it, break their legs; they're crawling on their knees, break the spine; they're still reaching out for just one good bite of your flesh, the only way Dash had figured out how to kill them was either to sever the head or cause extreme blunt force trauma to the brain.

Rainbow Dash could bear the sight no longer, her stomach was begging for her to turn away before she lost her lunch, which wasn't an option right now, they were low on food as it was. Pinkie Pie and Applejack were both eating peanut butter sandwiches in silence, partially because most of the Trotters in Ponyville were in the hospital and partially because Pinkie had just explained what had happened to Equestria, just before the world around them had gone to hell, hundreds of ponies had gathered in the hospital for what the military had described as "Safety." Well, safety had turned into a full blown slaughter, Rainbow Dash had personally witnessed most of the townsfolk lined up against a wall and executed all at once, a few of her friends had been in line for the "Vaccine" as well, Thunderlane, Cloud Chaser, even Ditzy Doo. After a few minutes, the soldiers began to check the rooms. luckily for the Elements Of Harmony, Shining Armor had opened the door with his assault rifle raised, he lowered it after a few seconds and looked at all of us, sighed, and fired his gun a few times into the wall. Rarity shrieked but Twilight had covered her mouth, Shining then took off out of the door and put a large medical cabinet in the way to   blow the door from being opened without strain.

Then he left.

That was weeks ago, something that needed to be forgotten. Rainbow Dash looked back at her friends, they were the only two she had left in this world, Celestia was most likely dead or gone, some had said she fled the city when the outbreak started, trying to find refuge in some other city, or country perhaps. Twilight, Rarity and Fluttershy had left for Canterlot three days apart, Canterlot was so far from Ponyville that Rainbow Dash had expected them to still be walking there, or maybe they hadn’t even made it out of town...

Rainbow Dash told herself to stay positive, it was the only thing that kept her sane, if she were to lose her friends she would most likely lose it. She had seen plenty of ponies lose it in the beginning, when things weren’t even that bad.

A crash outside drew Rainbow Dash back to the window, her friends as well.

Three ponies moved quickly towards a house, one of them had tripped into a flimsy fence and broke it, attracting a few Trotters which his friends quickly took care of with the help of a large pipe and a baseball bat.

“Looters” Pinkie Pie said,

She judged well, all three of them were in fact Looters, each of them would go around houses, finding anything worthwhile to take and sell to the black market.

“What about them?” Applejack asked,

In the rising sun, Rainbow Dash could make out 4, no, 5 silhouettes rushing towards the Looters with large firearms in their hooves or held by a magical aura.

“Hooves up motherfuckers!” One commanded, raising the gun to the three looters

“Thieves” Rainbow Dash muttered, she had been in a personal run-in with one of these assholes, they would demand everything from a pony, take it, and kill whoever had given them the supplies. They were ruthless and dangerous.

Rainbow had the luck to have wings though, she had sped away from the crazy pony and high-tailed it back to the hospital without being seen or followed.

“Give it all!” One shouted,

The Looters handed over all of their supplies, weapons, food, money, everything.

“What is your guys’ problem?” One of the looters asked,

A blast from a double barreled shotgun shut him up,

The pony fell lifelessly to the ground, the newly acquired hole in his stomach leaked blood and chunks of his innards that had been blown to pieces from the initial blast.

“Sweet Celestia...” Applejack said,

The dead pony’s friends stepped back in shock, one began to run but ran into a Trotter,

The one who had stayed put was shot and killed, while the Thieves retreated they used the last looter as bait for their escape.

The trotters crowded around the Looters, ripping off pieces of flesh in their teeth, drinking his blood and choking down his bones, it was disgusting to the ponies in the hospital, Applejack had puked and Pinkie Pie was gagging, but Rainbow Dash only watched as they dug into the others without mercy, piling on top of them and not leaving until every muscle, every drop of blood, every bone, was gone.

Pinkie Pie pulled her away at last with a worried look in her eyes, “Don’t watch, Dashie” She said,

Dash fell into her arms and sobbed like a child would do to her mother, yelling insults and pitiful cries to nopony in particular like, “Why us?” and “I don’t want to be here anymore”

Pinkie Pie had mentioned suicide once, Dash had slapped her across the face for it, she wouldn’t tolerate anypony saying something like that. It had hurt Pinkie physically but made her stronger mentally, it made her strong to know that her friend wouldn’t give up any time soon, but it was time for Pinkie to be strong for Dash.

Pinkie Pie pushed Dash off of her and gave her a forceful smack across her face, had enough to knock the spit out of her mouth.

Rainbow Dash returned with a look of sadness and confusion, “Why did you-”

“Dash, I don’t want to be in this world either, but we are.” Pinkie said, “We are all in this together, ‘till death do us part.” Pinkie had used a phrase she had heard many times at marriages but she felt like it was appropriate for the situation.

Rainbow Dash examined her friend for a few seconds then hugged her, “Only death won’t come” She said,

Rainbow Dash thought what she had said, she wanted to believe that death would never come in this world. But, deep down, her mind told her that it would come someday, So Dash promised herself that, she would stall that day for as long as she could.

But nopony can dodge death.