Equestria of the Dead

"So, you wanna?" asked Button.

"No way, I don't wanna die just yet." Spike answered. The group had traveled through the streets on their way towards Starswirl Bridge when they took a quick detour at a clothing store; after Spike and Button made a quick search of the place. "Well since we're gonna be here a while, i'm gonna stand guard up front." Button suggested. "No telling when those zombies will show up. I'll let you know if I hear anything."

"Hold on, maybe I should come with you." Spike suggested.

"No way." Button said. "Twilight would freak out if she walked out of there and you weren't here. Mom told how she kept checking the entrance to the bath house just to see if you were still there or not." Button chuckled as he left Spike alone. Seconds later, something was thrown at Spike's direction. He look to the ground a saw a small button that looked to be part of a shirt that was thrown at him. Moments later, another one was thrown, this time hitting him on the side of the head. Spike turned towards the changing rooms and saw Twilight peaking out and motioning him to come over. He did just that; wondering what it was she wanted.

"What's up?" he asked.

"Spike.....could you.....find me another one?" she asked with a redden face.

"Why? Doesn't fit?" he asked.

"No....it doesn't match." she answered.

Spike stood there and gave her a blank look while raising an eyebrow. "Seriously?" he said with a deadpan voice. Spike wasn't surprised, Twilight was always like this. EVERYTHING has to either match, or be in some kind of order. If not, then she'd go to pieces. Some call it OCD, but Spike calls it an unavoidable annoyance. "What do you mean, it doesn't match?"

"Can you just get me another pair?" she asked as she handed him bright red bra. "And make sure it's the same size as that one."

"Fine." Spike said with a sigh and roll of his eyes. "What color you want?"

"Light blue, please." she answered with a cute smile. Spike wasn't gonna argue with her, honestly there was no time to. The sooner she and the others get dressed the sooner they could be on their way. They still had to figure out how they were going to cross Starswirl Bridge without possibly being water cannoned off the damn thing. From they saw on the news coverage, it seemed like they were only letting certain people cross the bridge. As Spike made it to the area where the bras were, another thought entered her mind. "Maybe there's a boating dock nearby." he thought. "If so, we could we could across the river by boat." Spike searched the rack until he came across a couple of light blue bras for Twilight. After matching the sizes, Spike grabbed one and made his way back to the changing room where Twilight poked her head out.

"Here you go." he said as he handed it to her. "You know, you don't have to hide, i've already seen you , remember?"

"I know that." she said with a blush. "I don't want Button to see me."

"Button's all the way at the entrance keeping an eye out for zombies." Spike explained. Twilight poked her head out even further looked out to see that Button was no where to be found. With a sigh of relief, she opened the door fully and revealed to Spike that she was wearing nothing but a pair of light blue panties; using an arm to hide her large breasts. Slowly, she moved her arm from her chest; revealing them to Spike with an even darker blush on her face. This was the second time Spike's eyes had gazed upon her glorious assets. He fought off the urge to touch them as Twilight began putting on her matching bra. "S-So, what's the plan?" she said; breaking the silence between them.

"G-Getting across the bridge with be difficult." he started. "To be honest, I don't think we'll be able to. I was thinking that there should be a boating dock nearby."

"You wanna sail across the river?" she asked.

"It might be our best bet to get back home." he answered. "Besides, you saw that news report, they're only letting certain people cross. So the odds of us making it over that way are slim at best."

"Yeah...I guess you're right." Twilight said as she turned around; showing off her nice rounded ass to Spike. Spike quickly found himself mesmerized by what was in front of him; especially when Twilight bent over to grab her shirt. She about to put on when she glanced over at the side mirror and caught Spike checking her out. With a smile, and her face as red as an apple, Twilight proceeded to put on her shirt while giving Spike a show by shaking her ass a little. This act nearly caused Spike to lose it; especially when she bent over once again to grab her skirt. As she was putting it on, Spike couldn't help but notice that the skirt she was wearing, was so small that one move in the right direction or a gust of wind, and he'll get clear view of her ass. After getting dressed, Twilight turned to face Spike and saw that he was completely flustered. She couldn't help but let out a giggle as her mind started to go back to that night when the two of them had sex. She'd be lying to herself is she said she didn't think about it. To tell the truth, part of her was looking forward to doing it with him again; whenever they had the chance to be alone of course. Walking up to Spike, she grabbed his hand and led him out away from the changing area where they met up with the others towards the entrance.

"Everybody's ready?" Spike asked.

"Yeah, so what's the plan?" asked Sunset. "Obviously, we're not going to be able to make it across the bridge; especially with these weapons on us."

"Spike thinks we could sail across." Twilight answered.

"There should be a boating dock somewhere near the bridge." he explained. "If we can get our hands on a boat, then we could just sail across the river."

"If that's the plan, then we better move on it quick." Rarity suggested. "Something tells me you aren't the only one with that idea."

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Starswirl Bridge wasn't that far away from where the group left, but it certainly felt that way. With all the zombies, and alternate paths the had to take, they were surprised that it was still daybreak when they started to come upon it, but at least they were able to get a few practice rounds out if it. Right in front of them was an extremely long line of cars that were abandoned by their owners and people pushing to get passed one another while the police were struggling to maintain order. "This way." Spike said as he led everyone down a nearby street. They made more cuts through alleys and buildings than they could count, not to mention more of the undead, but it was all worth it when they came across the boating dock.

"We have to hurry." said Sunset. "Hopefully, they're some boats left." They wasted no time in sprinting over while at the same time trying not to bring too much attention to themselves. The last thing they needed was to be overwhelmed by a large group of hostile people trying to cross the bridge. Upon reaching the dock, the group discovered that it had been completely destroyed; with some boats looking as though a bomb went off on them. There were several dead bodies floating in the water and on land with blood everywhere.

"Now what?" asked Button.

"Let's look around." Spike suggested. "There should be at least one working boat."

The group did just that, slowly moving about the dock and checking out any boat that looked to have the least amount of damage while being on the lookout for any zombie that might spring up out of nowhere. To cover more ground, they broke off into two groups of threes; Button, Cream, and Rarity in one direction, and Spike, Twilight, and Sunset in another. Each boat they check was the same as the last, either wrecked or burnt. They were about to give up when Cream discovered a fishing boat on the far end of the dock that looked untouched. Everyone hurried over there and breathed a sigh of relief when they discoverered that it was still in working condition. Now they had a way across the river. It looked as though it was going to be a tight fit, but they had no time to waste on something like that. One by one they got in the boat with Spike being the last. He pulled the cord on the motor a couple of times before it finally kicked on. Soon they were off albeit at a rocky start. Spike had no idea how to steer a fishing boat, and getting use to how it works took a while. He managed to steer it underneath the bridge in order to keep out of sight of the cops who might try to stop them, or the people who might be desperate enough to jump over the rails and on top of them just to make to the other side.

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Up on the bridge, one of the police officers heard the sound of a motor boat passing by. He made his way over to the edge and caught Spike and others sailing across. "Hey, what's going on over there?!" called one of his colleagues. "You see something?"

"No. Nothing." he said turning back to face him. "Just my imagination."

"If you say so." he said before walking away.

The officer looked back over the edge at Spike and the others and gave a smirk. "Good luck you guys." he said before heading back to his post.

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Spike shut off the motor and used the boat's momentum to get as close to shore as he could while remaining underneath the bridge. Once they hit landfall, the group took in their surroundings, and thankfully there were no undead monsters or cops to get in their way. As they walked out from under the bridge, they noticed a large group of people walking. It seemed like they were headed to a certain destination; somewhere safe maybe. "Maybe we can blend in with them somehow?" Twilight suggested.

"Or use them as cover to get past the cops." Sunset added.

"Either way, it's better than just staying right here." said Spike. "Let's move." The group began to make their move; walking along the coast until they found a walk path that would lead them up towards the street. Trying their best to keep their weapons hidden, they slowly started to blend in with the crowd as they were being led down the street; not making any eye contact with the police that were watching every move.

"Rarity, which is the closest route to your house?" Spike asked.

Rarity looked around before answering. "Next street over." she answered. "There's a gas station down there. We can take the street next to it to enter the residential neighborhood."

"Okay, let us know when we're near it." Spike said. "On my signal, we make a break for it."

Not far from them, two police officers overseeing the evacuation, noticed one of their fellow officers approaching them. He was walking in an odd way; almost stumbling over. The two officers thought nothing of it; believing that he was just tired. Not that they blame him; who knows how long it's been since any of them had actually slept. The stumbling officer had kept his head down as he approached his colleagues; weird breathing noises from his mouth. "Long day, man?" one of the officers joked as he attempted to placed his hand on his colleague's shoulder. At that point, the officer grabbed the man's arm and bit down on it. The officer screamed out in pain as blood splattered everywhere; catching the attention of the civilians nearby. Seeing what was happening in front of them caused fear and panic to quickly take over. As the officer fell over to the ground, his partner opened fire on the zombie; hitting it in the head and killing it instantly. As he walked over to confirm it was dead, the officer that was bitten quickly grabbed his partner's leg and bit into it. The officer yelled out in pain and fell to the ground. Witnessing this, the crowd of people started screaming with some of the running off.

Other officers nearby ran to the scene in order to get it under control. They opened fire on the two zombies killing them instantly, however, in doing so, caused the people far away who heard the firing to panic, but that wasn't their only problem. The noise they caused alerted nearby zombies, including the one that bit the first officer, and they were making their way over. The rest of the officers tried their best to calm everyone down, but to no avail. It wasn't until the zombies started appearing that the crowd went into a frenzy.

Seeing that everything had gone to hell real quick, Spike motioned for the others to move. The entire group broke free from the crowd and started to make their way towards the next street, but were stopped when they came face to face with a horde of zombies. Spike, Button, Rarity, and Twilight took aim with their weapons and opened fire. The silencers equipped to the guns did the trick as there wasn't any loud sound coming from them that would alert any more zombies nearby. Sunset, in the blink of an eye, charged the monsters; unsheathing her sword and slicing the heads off three of them at once before sheathing it again like a badass anime character. A second later, she was back at it again; striking down any zombie she could while the others continued firing. Cream stood behind everyone; tasked with hold the duffle bag filled with ammunition to hand out as soon as any of them started to run out. As soon as there was an opening, Spike motioned for them to push through, however, Cream couldn't bring herself to do so. "Mom, what are you doing?!" yelled button.

"These poor people." she said. "We can't just abandon them." Looking back, the group could see people running over each other screaming in a panic while loud gunshots were going off. Just that quick, there was a horde of zombies attacking them. It was pure pandemonium as people were trampling over each other in an attempt to just get away. In all the chaos, most of the people were tackled to the ground by zombies and mauled to death; even a young mother and her child. Blood splattered from the both of the as the zombies torn through their flesh; their screams of agony were the stuff of nightmares. Seconds later, they rose to their feet as one of them. Thankfully, Cream and the others didn't see that horrific event, but they DID witness a man grab someone and throw them to the ground as he attempted to escape while a small fight broke out between a cop and two people trying to take his gun. Eventually it ended with one of them getting shot and the other grabbed by a zombie they attracted with their noise. The situation was getting worse with each passing second, and the longer the group stood there, the more at risk they'd be in. Button grabbed his mother's arm and pulled her away. "There's nothing we can do!" he yelled. "We have to move before we get caught up in that as well!" The group started to run down the street; as did a multiple people who were right behind them. This was bad as their constant screaming alerted multiple zombies who were nearby; especially the ones coming out of the gas station Rarity talked about earlier.

To their right, Spike could see even more of them heading their way. Although they were moving at a snail's pace, they could quickly surround you if you're not paying enough attention. "Where to now?!" Twilight asked.

"This way!" Rarity answered as she took the lead. She lead everyone down a nearby street that appeared to be abandoned, but that quickly changed when nine zombies came out of nowhere and wondered into the street. Spike and Sunset quickly took care of them making room for the others to make it on through. Turning down another street to their left, they were now in the residential area where they were shocked to find a barricade a few feet in front of them with a large group of people attempting to break through. Yelling a screaming filled the area as they fought against the guards, then suddenly, multiple gunshots went off. The guards began firing on the people much to the shock and horror of the others. Button turned looked behind him and saw a horde of zombies making their way towards the barricade and the people running away and screaming. "This is getting ridiculous, where are they coming from?!" he yelled.

"We have to find another way around, come on!" yelled Spike. The group took a detour through someone's yard and into the backyard where Button shot through a wooden fence for them to squeeze through; all the while the people running a screaming for their lives began to escalate as they were attacked. As they made it to the next street over, they found that there was another barricade with a few guards to keep people out.

"They have the whole permeameter blocked off I bet." said Sunset.

"Now what?" asked Twilight.

*HONK* HONK*

Twilight question would soon be answered as the group saw a fast approaching semi truck heading straight for them. Without a second thought, the group ran out of the way just as the truck passed them. It was going for a head on collisions with the barricade. The guards stationed there ordered the truck to stop, but their words fell of deaf ears. Two of the guards, believing that it was a good idea, took aim and began firing at the wheels of the truck. They managed to hit their target, and caused a blow out, however, it wouldn't be long before the started to regret that decision as the fast moving truck was now swerving out of control. The guards started to run for their lives as the out of control as the truck toppled over and crashed through the barricade with such force, debris flew everywhere; even smashing against the fuel tanker which caused a massive explosion as it ran into a house a few feet away. The force of it caused nearby windows to shatter, but that wasn't all. It was loud enough to catch the attention of every single zombie in the area.

"Let's go, we don't have much time." Spike said. With nothing in their way at the moment, the group ran towards the now destroyed barricade. They had to hurry, not because of the guards or zombies, but because of the fact that the truck was leaking even more gas. Once that ignites, it'll set off another explosion. Running as fast as they could, they hurried passed the fire and debris; the scent of diesel fuel was thick in the air. Up ahead of them, they could see the guards still running for their lives; one of them on a radio possibly calling for backup. Not wanting to get caught, the group decided to cut through another home residence to keep out of site. They ran non stop through several properties before coming to a stop in the middle of the street when they felt there was enough distance between them and the guards; the sounds of another massive explosion going off behind them.

"W-Wait." Creamed panted as she fell to her knees. "I.....I can't g-go.....a-any longer."

"Why don't we go rest at that park over there." Twilight suggested. A few feet from where they were was a small neighborhood park with all the things you'd expect to find there. Button helped his mother up and the group made their way over. Cream wasted no time in taking a seat on the bench that was located in the shade of a large tree while Twilight and Button headed over towards the water fountain. Spike, Sunset, and Rarity kept a lookout for any signs of the guards or undead that might've slipped through. It wouldn't surprise any of them if they did. No matter what happens, these zombies somehow manage to get to their victims and multiply their ranks; sometimes at record breaking speed even though they were slower than a snail.

"So, how far is it to your house?" Spike asked.

"Not far." Rarity answered as she pointed. "See that large hill over there, that's where we need to go. My house is right at the top."

"Okay, as soon as everyone's rested up, we should make our way over there." said Sunset. "Though, we might need to make a few detours along the way."

"Yeah. It'd be a hassle if we ran into those guards." Rarity agreed. The trio headed back to the others and sat in the shade to rest up as much as possible; though they couldn't stay long. Pretty soon, they would have to be on the move once again, but for now, they were going to enjoy this little time of peace as much as they could.