Equestria of the Dead

It was late in the morning when the group traveled the empty streets to head towards the nearest pawn shop to obtain supplies and weapons of some kind in order to defend themselves. As they walked, Cream noticed how close Twilight was to Spike; she was practically hanging off him, but just chalked it up to her being scared that they could be attacked by those zombies at any time. "Just how far away is it?" she asked.

"Not that far, just a few more blocks." Button answered.

"So what are we going to do after the pawn shop?" asked Sunset.

"We head to whoever's house is closest." Spike explained.

"That would be mine." Rarity spoke up. "Once we cross Starswirl Bridge, it shouldn't take us long to get there."

"Sounds like a plan." Spike said as the group continued walking. Along the way, Spike glanced over at Twilight who was blushing profusely with a cute smile on her face. Clearly, she was thinking about last night when the two of them had sex. This caused Spike to think about the same thing, only, he wondered if any of the others heard anything. The two of them weren't loud, but the sound of the bed creaking was; especially at the end of their lovemaking where they both threw caution to the wind and raced to the finish line together. Spike wondered what brought that on all of a sudden. Did Twilight really see him that way, or was just a spur of the moment kind of thing?

"S-Spike?" Twilight spoke up, but only so the two of them could hear. "About last night......do......do you regret doing it, cause I don't." At this point, the two of them were blushing. "To be honest....I......."

"Guys, look!" Button alerted. Everyone looked ahead of them and saw a that the street was filled with zombies walking about aimlessly about.

"Should've known getting to the pawn shop wouldn't be easy." said Rarity. "What now?"

"This way!" Button said as he led everyone down a nearby alley. They were about to make it to the next street over, only to stop once they noticed a few zombies standing in the middle of the street. The group had to be as quiet as possible when walking past them; one peep from them, and they'll be forced to fight. Moving ever so quietly, they managed to get around them and make it to the other side of the street, but as soon as they did that, another problem arose.

*BANG*

Someone with a shotgun came from nowhere and blasted a random zombie in the face. This person was only a few feet away from them, but the noise he made caused the zombies to react. "Inside, quick!" Spike said and the girls were the first to enter the empty building. Spike took point and served as cover until everyone got inside.

"HEY!" yelled the man with the shotgun. He was trying to get their attention, but ended up causing more zombies to moved to their location.

"SPIKE!" Twilight screamed; causing Spike to turn around. As he did so, he came face to face with a male zombie who was too close for comfort, and with the sound of that shotgun combined with Twilight yelling his name, the zombie moved forward. Thankfully, Spike lifted up his axe to stop it from biting him, however, the zombie was too strong and forced Spike on the ground on his back. "Spike, NO!" Twilight screamed. Button reached behind him to pulled the handgun Spike has tossed to him yesterday, but hesitated to use it. If he fired a shot, then the noise would just cause even more zombies to head their way. The undead creature inched closer and closer to Spike's neck, but then suddenly, the creature started to ease up a bit which confused Spike. Just then, Sunset ran forward and whacked the creature in the head with her wooden sword; killing it instantly.

"You okay?" she asked as she extended a hand.

"I've been better." Spike answered as he was helped up. "Let's get inside, quick." As the moved inside, the man with the shotgun continued to call out to them. He started running, but was ultimately caught by the zombies. He tried to fire off a shot, but he was dragged to the ground as they piled on top of him; his screams of agony filled the area. Once inside the building, Spike shut the door and locked it. "We need something to barricade it." Sunset said as she looked around. The building they were in was a bakery, and in front of them were multiple tables and chairs. Spike, Sunset, and Button grabbed one of the tables and moved it up against the door; along with a few chairs. That's when they all witness the zombies attempting to get in. "That won't hold them for long." said Button.

"Let's try the back exit." suggested Cream Heart. The group quickly moved towards the back of the bakery where they came across the exit door. Spike very slowly opened it and peeked outside; getting his ax ready for anything that would jump out at them. He took two steps out into the back alley and signaled to everyone that the coast was clear. One by one, everyone walked out of the building and took a sigh of relief that they managed to escape. "We made it." said Button.

"Barely." Twilight replied as she moved close to Spike.

"We need to move." said Spike. "Once they break through that door, the noise will cause even more zombies to come this way."

"That pawn shop better have silencers otherwise we'll will be screwed after the first shot." said Rarity.

"I was thinking the same thing." Cream Heart answered. "But most importantly, how can we be sure they'll be any weapons left when we get there? I imagine that the pawn shop would've been raided by now."

"Well, it doesn't hurt to try." Spike answered. "Maybe there's something left over." Going down the back alley, the group eventually made to another abandoned street. This had a few wrecked cars and buildings that were broken into, not only that, but the street had a few dead zombies laying about; most of which had bullet holes in their heads while bleeding out. Spike was the first one to start walking with the others right behind him; looking around at all the broken windows and blood stained walls. It was just like a horror movie, except, this was real life. Everything that was happening was real, and though only two days had passed, this entire area looked as though it's been this way for years.

"Hey, Spike." Button called as he walked up to him. "Sorry for what happened back there."

"What are you talking about?" he asked.

"What that zombie tackled you, I was gonna use that gun you gave me but......" he started.

"You didn't use it." Spike finished his sentence. "It's a good thing you didn't, otherwise we would've been dealing with even more of them."

"Yeah, that's what I thought, but still....." he argued. Their conversation soon came to a halt when the group stumbled upon a group of men in their mid to late 20s; all of which were carrying guns.

"Other survivors." said Cream. She only took two steps forward before Spike held an arm out; stopping her. He had a serious look on his face; as did everyone else. Cream was confused as to why they were being so suspicious of the group of men ahead of them; especially Twilight and Spike. If they were the ones who killed those zombies back there, then maybe they could help. "Why is everyone acting like they might attack us?" she asked. Button grabbed his mother's arm and along with everyone else, headed over down the next street over. The group was speed walking as fast as they could as they hoped the men didn't see them. "W-What's wrong with all of you?" she asked.

"Those men were the same ones that shot at both me and Spike the other day." Twilight explained. "They're crazy and are most likely to shoot at anything that moves; zombies or otherwise."

"I could tell just by looking at them that they were no good." said Rarity. "The best thing for us is to avoid anyone who looks suspicious. At least until we have something to defend ourselves properly." Seconds later, they all heard multiple shots being fired. This caused them to start running; hoping that they wouldn't be found, but sadly, that's what happened a few seconds later. Behind them, one of the men blasted an innocent person in the back as they tried to runaway; killing them instantly as they laughed. He lifted his head and noticed Spike and the others running down the street. He looked back and called his friends over; telling them that he's found "fresh meat". Two of them came running while the rest continued shooting at whoever they saw. Three of the men gave chase with one of them firing at the group. One of the bullets whizzed passed them; almost hitting one of them.

"They're shooting at us!" yelled Cream.

"Keep running!" yelled Spike. The men were starting to close in on them; nearly getting into firing range, but were unable to hit any of them. As they ran, Cream tripped over an empty beer bottle and hit the ground hard. The others ran a couple of steps ahead of her before they noticed. "MOM!" Button yelled as his mother groaned in pain. This gave the men the opportunity to get closer and aim their guns at them; especially her. Cream looked up with absolute fear as they approached her. Tears started to form in her eyes as thoughts of being taken away from her baby boy filled her mind; that this was how her life was going to end. The look in the men's eyes grew even crazier as they placed their fingers on the triggers. Cream sealed her eyes shut and prayed for someone, anyone to save her. She didn't want to die. Not here. Not like this.

*BANG* *BANG* *BANG*

Cream screamed to the top of her lungs as she heard those three gunshots. She curled up into a ball as three more shot rang out; slowly lifting her head up a few seconds afterwards. It was then she saw Button standing in front of her. Her first thought was the he jumped in front and took the bullets for her. She was going to scream out, but then he started to walk forward. Cream couldn't see it, but her son had the angriest look on his face; one that was the stuff of nightmares as he approached the three men. Standing over one of them, he reloaded the revolver and put a bullet in their head before turning his attention to the other two. One was dead from the earlier shots and the other attempted to get away by dragging his body across the pavement; blood pouring out of him as he moved. Button slowly walked over to him, aim his gun at the man's head, and pulled the trigger. Cream Heart was all that he had in this world, and he'll be damned if anyone tries to take her away from him. Speaking of which, the school nurse slowly rose to her feet just as her son turned back to face her. With nothing holding her back, she ran towards him and held him tight; crying her heart out. Button held his mother tight and tried his best to console her, but that time had to be put on hold as they managed to attract a horde of zombies. Before they knew it, they were surrounded by them.

"Now what?" Twilight asked.

"No choice, we fight!" Spike answered as he readied his ax. With a powerful swing, he cut off the head of one before turning his attention towards another. Twilight, swinging her bat, bashed in the heads of at least three of them while Sunset took out an additional two. Rarity backed away from the four zombies that were closing in on her until she stepped on the shotgun that one of the men were holding. Without thinking, she reached down and grabbed it; aiming it right at the creatures before firing it off. She blasted the heads of both of them off, but the force caused her to fall backwards. Button took this time to finish off the last two with his revolver before turning his attention back to his mother.

"GET DOWN!" he yelled as he noticed two zombies approaching her from behind. Button took aim and pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. He quickly realized that he was out of bullets, then dropped the gun to move towards one of the others that belonged to the men he killed. Cream dropped to the ground giving her son enough room to open fire on the walking dead.

Spike had just finished killing two more of them when he lifted his head and saw even more coming at them. "Shit." he muttered as he quickly looked around. "We gotta go, NOW!" Everyone looked up and saw the horde of zombies coming at them. Without another thought, Button and Rarity quickly searched the men for any weapons and ammo they had on them and gathered up what they could. Twilight pulled Cream to her feet and the entire group started to make a break for it; just missing being seen by the other members of the three men's group who came running as they saw their friends laying on the ground about to be surrounded by zombies. There were four of them in total and each one took their anger out on any zombie that came their way. Believing their friends were killed by these monsters, their anger held no bounds. One by one, the walking dead fell at the hands of these men; the sounds of gunfire and screams of rage filled the area. This action of theirs alerted even more zombies to head their way which they eventually took care of.

An untold amount of time has passed before the last of the walking dead was killed; the street was littered with the bodies of rotting corpses and blood. Looking over at the dead bodies of their friends, the leader of the group noticed something. Why haven't they gotten up and attacked them? That's what usually happens when you're bitten by these things, but for some reason, they stayed on the ground. Upon further investigation, the leader discovered multiple bullet holes on each of their bodies. Not only that, but their guns were gone as well. Someone, had gotten the drop on them, killed them, and took their weapons. Anger began to flail up inside all four men as they set off on a new mission. Find whoever killed their friends and make them suffer before ending them.

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The sun had already begun to set when Spike and the others came across a motel that had a giant hole where the front office was located. First impressions stated that a vehicle of some kind had crashed through. That theory was proven correct when the group headed inside and a saw a wrecked car in the middle of the room. Spike headed over the front desk, and began searching the area. "Spike, what are you looking for?" Twilight asked.

"A key to one of the upper level rooms." he answered. "Since these things can't climb stairs, we should be safer up there." Spike found a keycard to one of the upper level rooms and came from behind the counter. As the group left the area, Rarity noticed that this place had a bathouse. After running and fighting zombies all day, a bath is just what she needed to wash off all the dirt, sweat, and zombie blood stains off. Heading upstairs, the group walked towards their motel room, albeit very slowly. They had to be a quiet as possible; just in case someone who might've been bitten had managed to make it here just before turning. Spike used the key card on the door and slowly opened it; turning on the lights. The room itself was just as you'd imagine it. Two large beds with a lamp and an alarm clock sitting on a small table in between them, a desk and chair, large dresser with a tv, and at the end of the room, a small bathroom that had only a toilet and a sink; which made sense as this place did have a bath house. After a careful examination, Spike determined that it was safe to enter and everyone went it; Spike taking one last look outside before entering the room himself. In doing so, he noticed that right across the street from them was the one place they were trying to make it to, the pawn shop. It was too dangerous to travel there right now, so it'll have to wait until tomorrow.

After shutting the door behind him, everyone was making themselves comfortable. Twilight grabbed the remote and turned on the tv. The first thing that popped on was news coverage of everything that was going on all around the world. "It's getting worse." said Sunset. "Much worse." Twilight turned the channel and came upon another news coverage; this one showing Starswirl Bridge.

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"I REPEAT, THE CITY IS UNDER A TRAFFIC RESTRICTION! ANYONE WHO TRIES TO CROSS WILL BE STOPPED!"

The announcement came from a police cruiser as many cops fought off zombies and people trying to force themselves through the barricade. Amongst the chaos, four high school students, two boys and two girls, had managed to climb over the barricade and make their over the bridge; catching the attention of one of the police officers. "Hey, wait!" he yelled, but they ignored him. The students all laughed at the cop calling out to them as they continued on. It wasn't long before they were confronted by a police convoy; two vehicles of theirs were with powerful water cannons.

"YOU OVER THERE, GET BACK NOW!" yelled the police chief over the intercom. "DO NOT TRY TO CROSS THE BRIDGE! THIS IS YOUR LAST WARNING!"

The leader of the group, a young man holding a stick and a duffle back fill with cash, stepped up and a pointed at the cops. "Shut the fuck up!" he yelled. "We don't have to listen to a bunch pigs! In case you haven't figured it out, it's every man for himself these days, asshole!" One of the girls squealed and grabbed him by the arm; commenting on how "cool" he was for standing up to the cops, however, his moment of "coolness" would come to and end.

"BLAST'EM!" order the chief. One of the cops fired the water cannon at the students; hitting the second girl and the leader of the group deadon, and knocking them over into the river. Seeing that two of her friends were possible killed in front of her, the first girl tried to make a case that she was an innocent bystander, but the cops didn't give her a chance to say anything. She too was blasted by the water cannon and sent over the bridge. This only left one member of the group. He stood there in shock for about a few seconds before realizing that this wasn't worth dying over. He turned around and started to run away screaming, but unfortunately for him, the cops weren't in a forgiving mood tonight. A blast from the water cannon hit the guy in the back; causing his body to go flying into the bridge's arches before going over into the river.

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As the group watched the news coverage, they witnessed the a water cannon on the bridge being fired, however, due to the fact that they were seeing it from the perspective of a helicopter, they believed that it was zombies being hit instead of who it actually was.

"It doesn't look like we'll be crossing that bridge anytime soon." said Button and he held his mother. "Is there any other way?"

"No." answered Twilight. "The only way to any of our houses is to cross Starswirl Bridge."

"So now what?" Button asked.

"Now, we take a much needed bath." Rarity spoke up.

"A bath? Where?" asked Sunset. "There's no bath tub here."

"This place has a bath house." Rarity explained. "I saw it on the way over here."

"I don't know, you think that's a good idea?" asked Twilight. "I mean, it's night out. What if one of those zombies are out there?"

"Do you REALLY want to go to sleep smelling like God knows what?" Rarity argued. Twilight knew that Rarity had a point. She was starting to catch a whiff if the stench coming off her and the others. Not to mention the zombie blood stains that covered their clothes. Where were they gonna wash them? Any noise that came from a washing machine, or them bathing, would surely alert any zombies that's nearby. Sunset headed towards the dresser and opened up one of the drawers where she found a few towels and two pairs of white robes.

"Looks like there's only enough for two people." she said as she grabbed the items and laid them on the bed.

"I doubt there's any in the front office." said Spike. "Guess, i'll have to grab more key cards and get some more from the other rooms."

"Spike, wait." Twilight said as she got up from the bed.

"Don't worry, Twilight, I won't be long." Spike reassured. Taking his ax with him, Spike slowly opened the door and walked out. Sunset could see the extremely worried look on Twilight's face and placed a hand on her shoulder in an attempt to calm her. Button wanted to follow right after him, but he couldn't leave his mother behind; especially after the events from earlier. All they could do right now was wait for Spike to come back and hope nothing bad happens to him along the way.