Bang Bang Bang!

"Everyone ready for our trip?" Sunset asked as she and the other double checked their gear. Rainbow Dash gave thumbs up and Applejack slung her bag over her shoulder with ease with an affirming nod. Pinkie had a bag that was stuffed to the brim with party gear, and Fluttershy had the bare minimum with only clothes and animal food. Rarity and Twilight had bags filled with similar items, make-up, clothes and the like, only Twilight had an extra bag with scientific equipment.

Rarity spoke up, "I think I speak for all of us when I say that we are indeed ready for our Spring Break in Equestria!" The other girls cheered with her, each of them wondering what their counterparts were like. Everyone except Sunset Shimmer. She was purely Equestrian, yet had never once met her counterpart from this world. She wondered if she was an anomaly here, but eventually pushed those thoughts aside. Grabbing her journal from her bag, she messaged Princess Twilight.

Hey, Twilight! We're all ready on our end to start our vacation. How's everything looking on your end?

Everything's looking good! My friends and I are excited to see the girls for the first time... again! They might be a tad bit disorientated at seeing themselves not in front of a mirror, but as Pinkie tells me "It's like the Mirror Pool, but better!"
I hope she's right about that part...

Laughing at the written words, she closed the book and stuffed it back in the pack. "Alright girls, they might be a bit confused at first but just let them sink it all in when we go through okay? And Pinkie, please try to keep calm, okay? We don't need another "Who's on First" skit." Everyone all agreed and put their hands together in a circle.

"Let our first Equestiran vaction... begin!" Pinkie cheered as they all shot their hands in the air. Nothing could ruin their fun now.

"Ellis! Oh, shit! Come on, come on, I got ya." Rochelle urged, picking up the young mechanic from the ground. Once on his feet, Ellis was still a bit shaken up but still able to give a bat a mean swing. Said swing connected with an infected, knocking of it's jaw in a bloody arc, then he finished it off with a brutal swing to the nose. It stumbled a bit before falling and Ellis gave himself a mental pat on the back. Pulling up the shotgun slinged on his side he and the other three formed a circle, back to back shooting and smashing infected alike. The four survivors against a horde of zombies, at first Ellis would be ecstatic about it, him and his buddies Keith, Dave, and Paul would've been shooting the shit while shooting shit... He shook his head. "Not now Ellis, not now..."

Rochelle had had worse days, she could still be an intern at the news station or maybe even still stranded in Savannah. Somehow, in some sick twisted way she was happy with her situation. As it turns out, zombies are a good outlet for pent up anger, and did she have a lot. She thought back to being an intern, how her boss treated her (and everyone else) like shit. Now though, she had an auto-rifle in her hands, a knap-sac full of ammo and one hell of a bone to pick. "Jacob, this one's for you."

On her right was a man in a fancy suit, now stained red, brown, and other colors that he didn't even know about. Nick was a conman at heart, being part of the Hells Angels after all. He met another member from the Philly sect, but he couldn't really see eye to eye with him. For the most part, he's been alone all his life. He doesn't know who his parents are, he shot his ex-wife, he's been on the bad end of the law plenty of times. Now though, there is no law except for fend for yourself, and boy could he ever. However in the situation he was currently in, fighting what seems to be endless hordes of infected, he realized that sometimes being alone was the worst way to be. "If I had to pick between dying alone or surrounded by friends, I'm pretty sure I'd be buried by now..."

The last man, the defacto leader, was a big huggable man called Coach. None of the others knew his real name, but he didn't mind it at all. Coaching a highschool football team and leading a rag-tag team of survivors was much more the same than what he had previously thought. While Nick wanted to run the second they were out of the Mall, it was Coach that convinced him to stay. Revving up his chainsaw as more infected came his way he swung violently in their direction and cut them to shreds. His big heart and fatherly attitude was enough to keep this team together, but he couldn't just give himself all the praise, Rochelle and Ellis and admittedly even Nick had their own ways of keeping the group together. "AAAAHHH! Eat that shit!" He cried as the chainsaw mowed through more and more infected recklessly charging at them. "C'mon Teddy, you made it through the Mall and the Port, you can make it through a goddamn theme park!"

A choked scream cut through through the howls of the infected, and Rochelle suddenly found herself being moved against her will. "Shit, I'm being dragged away!" She cried, before Nick aimed up with his rifle and shot the Smoker dead. Rochelle fell down to the ground, regaining her barings as Nick helped her back up. "Man, I owe you one good."

"Yeah, don't mention it." Nick said, handing back her rifle to her. Both took aim over each others shoulders and shot the infected coming at them at high speeds. "Everyone stick together! We're almost to the safe house!" And there was a safe house... right inside of the Tunnel of Love. "Come on! Everyone inside the Tunnel of Love!"

"Aw man, of all the places to be, it HAD to be the tunnel of love..." Ellis said groaning as they slammed the door shut. Everyone cheered their luck at making it before Nick turned to Ellis.

"I'm gonna regret this, but why do *you* hate the Tunnel of Love, Ellis?"

"Well, back when I was younger I had girlfriend named Gretchen, and every time we hung out together she would always make us go through the tunnel of love back in our local amusement park. I hated it because it wasn't even romantic and shit, it was just an excuse for her to start smoking and she always constantly blew it in my face. Worst time of my life." Ellis said as he leaned against the door recalling a time that did not have any of his friends in it. Nick raised an eyebrow.

"So if you hated her so much why'd you still go out with her?"

"Let's just say her daddy was a cop and leave it at that, okay Nick?" This raised the eyebrows of all three survivors, and Nick let out a low whistle.

Coach spoke up. "Okay, okay, enough reminiscing. I've been through the Tunnel of Love here once or twice, and I know that there's a maintenance tunnel around here somewhere. If we're lucky, that tunnel will lead straight outside. Also, something y'all should know is that the tunnels here are narrower than shit, so every place is gonna be choke point. Don't get swarmed, and we all stick together. Everyone ready?"

"Hold on Coach," Rochelle spoke up. She took a look at the supplies in front of them and took note. Grabbing more ammo for her auto-rifle and slinging a new health pack on her back, she gave a thumbs up.

"Ellis, you ready to rock?" He asked the youngest of the group, and Ellis cracked his knuckles and cocked his shotgun. Coach nodded in approval. "Nick? You all good?"

"Yeah, yeah give me a second." He said downing the last of the pain pills and filling up his ammo. He reloaded his pistols, and cracked his neck. "Alright, good to go."

"'Ight then," Coach said taking the bar off the door and pushing it open, "Game on, baby!"

Twilight and her friends all awaited Sunset and their counterpart by the mirror, excited and antsy to meet them. "Oooh, Twilight when are they getting here?!" Pinkie asked jumping around and pronking about, zipping to and fro around the castle ready to meet her herself again for the first time. Suddenly stopped by a magenta glow, Pinkie was calmly set down.

"I know you're... nervo-cited, Pinkie," Pinkie giggled, "but they'll be here shortly, they're just double checking some things before they come through." Twilight said as the book in mirror began to vibrate. Bringing it down, she opened to see three words written which made her smile even wider than before.

Here we come!

"Okay girls! They're coming so everyone get ready to give... ourselves, I guess, a nice big Equestrian welcome!" Twilight said as everyone got into position.

"Oh my, I've never said surprise to *myself* before..." Fluttershy mumbled, and Rainbow Dash through a hoof over her withers.

"Speak for yourself Fluts, I say hello to myself in the mirror all day!" She said, polishing her hoof on her chest. Her brow furrowed for a moment in realization before posthumously adding "N-Not that it's a bad thing..."

Applejack and Rarity laughed lightly at the speedsters slip up and even Fluttershy felt a little better now, seeing as it would be like talking to a mirror. As they all eagerly awaited, a rumble blew through the town of Ponyville, making all the girls jump. Twilight looked outside of her castle to see a celestial beast, a Scorpio running around rampant around the small town. "Looks like the meeting is gonna have to wait a second girls! We got a monster to fight!"

Teleporting both herself and her friends, they took up stances for the upcoming battle. Unbeknownst to any of their knowledge, a dark figure had entered her castle and made it's way straight to the mirror. Raising a glowing clawed hand, the book was removed and the magic feeding the portal died out. The figure read through a few pages before shutting the book entirely and without a second thought, the book began to smolder. Soon not long after, the figure looked through the window and saw them cleaning up the mess the Scorpio had made, and decided now would be a good time to leave. A pair of leathery wings shot out from under his cloak, and he cackled a wicked laugh as he made an escape that not even the Princess of Friendship knew about.

While this shadowy figure had an ulterior motive behind burning the book, he inadvertently caused even more grief. The Rainbooms were already going through the portal when the magic shut off, and with no connection to Equestria, the mirror a shot them in a new, different direction. It was Earth, just not their Earth...

"Ah god, not again! I just washed this!" Rochelle complained as the Boomer exploded on her, causing all of the infected in the area to go berserk and focus all their attention on her. Foregoing the rifle, she hefted up her machete and began swinging into the incoming horde. Ellis and Nick were body guarding her, and Coach was picking off infected running by, making their jobs easier. "Eugh, if I ever get used to this shit, it'll be too soon." She said as her eyesight cleared and she managed to wipe the rest of bile off of herself. "Come on, lets keep going."

The survivors managed to find Coach's maintenance tunnel, but the way outside was blocked. "Damn it! So close..." Coach grumbled, clearly upset that the way was unusable. Ellis began looking around before a small breeze tickled his skin and he began to follow it. Opening a backroom door, he saw a big hole in the ground, and looking down it he could feel the breeze grow slightly stronger. "Hey y'all! Over here!" The other three came jogging in, looking at the hole and feeling the breeze.

"Good job, Ellis!" Nick patted his back and was getting ready to jump down, only for Coach to stop him. "Hey, what gives? There's a breeze so that means theirs a way out!"

"Nicolaus, I want you to think for a second: What could've made a hole that big, and is it still down there?" Coach said calmly, but rather cautiously. The implication made Nick second guess the hole and he stepped back very far away from it. "Alright y'all," Coach said gathering around Nick and the others, "Ellis here found a way out, but the only problem is that their may be a Tank down this way. Everyone reload, and make sure that you're 100% dead ready. Once we jump down, no going back up." Everyone looked rather concerned. Here was the only way out, but there might be a really nasty surprise for them waiting around the corner. Ellis raised his hand to catch their attention.

"Okay, listen I got an idea. I jump down alone and do a little re-con. If there's any trouble I'll come yelling for help. I'll only go as far until I see the zombies." He explained, to which both Rochelle and Coach flat out said "No". Nick riased his hand next.

"I suggest we do Ellis's plan, but with me rather than him." Everyone turned to Nick, rather shocked at the sudden selflessness. "Listen, you guys, you're all good folks. Ellis was a mechanic, Coach is a, well, coach, and Rochelle was just a news girl. I know I always joke around saying that I'll leave the first chance I get, but being with you guys for a week... God, I can't believe these are the real words coming from own mouth, it's made me see you guys as a family." Nick said pulling the charger handle of his rifle. "And no family needs a con-man like me. If the coast is clear, I'll call you guys down. If you hear gunfire... Try to find another way." Then without wanting to hear a complaint, he jumped down the hole into a lower part of the Tunnel of Love. "Okay Nicky... you just made a stupid decision by sacrificing yourself to get made into hamburger meat by a possible Tank... defiantly going on my list of firsts."

Ellis, Coach and Rochelle waited for five minutes, and in Coach's opinion, that was five minutes too long. "Okay everyone, get ready to jump down. 3... 2..."

"Hey guys! Come on, there's no infected down here! Where ever the big guy he must be long gone by now." Nicks voice carried up from the whole and he gave a little thumbs up. "Jump down, I got you guys." Rochelle jumped down first, and Nick reached down and caught her enough to slow her fall. "Hey, I didn't know it was raining women." Nick said as half joke. Rochelle said nothing, save for a smirk and a chuckle. The other two were caught in the same way, and they looked ahead to confirm Nick's statement, no zombies, no specials, just them.

"Well shit, no zombies. Thank God for small favors!" Ellis exclaimed, sitting in a swan boat to relax. Coach took a seat next to him and started relaxing too. Rochelle sat on the wall and let her feet rest while they had the brief respite. Nick joined her the wall and sat down next to her.

"So, was that pick up line or joke?"

"Mostly a joke, I know you got eyes for the Biker back on the bridge." Nick said coolly. He looked away for moment before looking back to see Rochelle's reaction. She was looking kind of surprised and kind of frustrated, in Nick's lady killer mind, that was a 50/50 shot in the dark, so he picked his next words carefully. "Listen, what I did was dumb, but I meant it when I said you guys as my family. I... I was bad person in the past, before all this. I was con-man, a hustler." he took off one of his rings, "hell, I was even in a biker gang." Rochelle snorted at that.

"For real? A biker gang? No offence Nick, but I can't see you riding a motor bike, let alone wearing a leather vest." She said laughing a little. Nick nodded his head at her.

"Oh yeah? What about you miss 'Run and get my coffee'? How did you go from busgirl to news anchor?" he challenged. She was going to retort, but the smirk on Nicks face said it all. She lowered her hand and gave another chuckle. "Yeah, that's what I thought. Anyways... yes, I was in a motorcycle gang. I was the right hand man of our boss. I was gonna be next, but uh... well..." He trailed of, gesturing around. Rochelle nodded in understanding and stretched out her arms. Nick suddenly felt tired too, as did Coach and Ellis, who were both trying really hard not to fall asleep. Coach got up from the swan and grabbed Ellis by the shoulder.

"Come on everyone, we need to keep moving. We're almost--" Coach was cut off by a large, blinding flash as one of the side rooms lit up like the sun. "What the hell?! Everyone up, now!" Hearing the older man's urgency, the other three stood up, guns ready for whatever kind of infected had stumbled into the Tunnel. "Okay y'all, on three. 1... 2... 3!"

All three jumped from behind the wall ready to blast the hell out of whatever made that light. They were all rather surprised when seven girls, no older than 17 were in a heap on the floor. The first girl, short in stature and rainbow colored hair, was the first one to look around and stared wide eyed at the four survivors who were carrying guns... and pointed at them.

"Uh..." She said in a raspy voice looking at Coach. "Don't be alarmed... we're... uh..." she stumbled on her words for a moment before looking back at Coach. "We're cops...?"

Nick put his head in his hand as his gun fell away from the group of girls. "Oh brother, not another one..."