Author's Note

Sorry for the delay! Work has been a bother, and I got a bit of a fucked up knee. It's my day off today and I finished this just for you guys, thanks for sticking around!

The Seldom Seen Kid

"Oh brother, not another one..." The man in the fancy suit said lowering his weapon and putting his head in his hand. While the guy in the t-shirt was chuckling a bit, and the lady and the big guy were still looking over them. Rainbow knew guns, shot some with her dad, and then went to the range every so often with Applejack and her brother, so seeing big guns being pointed at something that wasn't a target made her very cooperative despite herself. Soon the other girls began to come to and began looking around, all of them stopping at the big man with a big gun and chainsaw on his back.

"Okay y'all, we don't want no trouble. Don't know who you are, but quite frankly, I don't care at the moment. You're not trying to eat us, so get up and follow us." He said before Rainbow rounded on him.

"Now wait just a--" Suit stuck his rifle in her face and was just itching to pull the trigger. "Come on, Blue... give me a reason."

Rainbow, while always being the hothead she was, smartly stood down, watching as Suit aimed at her a little longer, seeing if she would make a move. Seeing nothing was going to happen, he backed up still staring before turning around following the big man. The truckie came up to her. "Hey, listen. You kinda caught us at a bad time. We're all on edge. Any of y'all know how to shoot?" Rainbow, Applejack, and surprisingly Rarity raised their hands. "Huh, alright. You three, grab a weapon from the table over there. The rest of you, stay in the middle of us. They'll ambush you quicker than ants."

"Ants don't ambush, Ellis." The girl said as she walked after the other three. The Truckie, named Ellis, coughed a little and mumbled something. Fluttershy raised her hand and Ellis nodded at her.

"Um, mister Ellis, what uh, do you need g-guns for?" She asked, staring cautiously at the gun in his hand. Ellis looked at the timid girl, seeing her soft features and brimming innocence. An extremely bitter thought flew through his mind, but he swallowed it down.

"Well ma'am, we're shooting zombies." Ellis said, seeing the group with a varying amount of stares.

Twilight Sparkle, child prodigy, science whiz extradonare, was just told by a mechanic that zombies were real. She wanted to laugh, she wanted to scoff, and do many things. However as she glanced over Ellis' body, she noticed bruises, scratches, she suddenly began to wonder how that all happened. She opened her mouth to say something when a menacing growl echoed through the area. Ellis was suddenly alert, gun up and eyes scanning the place. He looked over at Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Rarity. "You three grab a weapon now. We have a bit of a problem." The growling began getting louder as they came back with two pistols and pump shotgun. A dark figure in a hoodie came from around the corner on all fours. One of the first things the girls noticed were the boils and calluses on it's arms, the bleeding from it's mouth and the nails that ended in claws. Needless to say, Twilight herself was gobsmacked by an actual honest to God zombie in front of her.

Said zombie seemed to single her out, as its head turned to the purple haired girl and crouched even lower. She took a step back as it howled and it leaped like a lion towards an antelope. Landing on her and knocking her friends away it did not hesitate for a second. As the first swipe ripped deep in her chest. Then, for a brief moment, Midnight woke up. Her eyes burned blue and her hands glowed a blackish purple and she tore the zombie off of herself. The zombie let out a confused and surprised squeal before it suddenly saw what was behind it. The fiend fell limp and Twilight carelessly discarded the corpse as she got up from the floor and clutched her chest. She looked at her friends, noticing the shocked faces of Rarity, Fluttershy and the others and took into account what just happened seconds ago. Her eyes, still a burning blue scanned all of them, including Ellis who just stared in surprise. She shut her eyes tight, forcing herself to calm down and force the monster within back into it's cage.

Ellis tapped Rainbow on the shoulder, "This something that happens often?" She only shook her head as she came up to her side and placed a hand on her shoulder, along with the others. Coach and the others came back after hearing the Hunter scream, but when the came back they saw the girls crying and Ellis standing there staring at them.

"Damn Ellis, normally I make women cry, what did you do?" Nick said sarcastically as he noticed three of them had guns now. Ellis still didn't say anything, but he just turned back to the corpse of the Hunter that was thrown away.

"I saw all of that... it was just seconds but I saw it." Ellis thought replaying the scene in his head again. The Hunter jumped on her, it got one swipe in, then suddenly it was launched up and... he shivered. "I know they probably mean no harm, but I thought zombies were bad enough..."

Nick shook him lightly, now concerned. "Hey, if you need to talk you can always lean on us." Ellis, still strangely silent nodded and walked out without a word. Nick looked at the Hunter then back at the girls, the noticed the one crying was bleeding. "She's still a kid..." he thought bitterly. He had nothing against kids, but that made the situation worse. Back when he had a more questionable clientele, he always refused jobs that involved people with kids. They called him a coward, a fool and many other names, but inwardly he didn't mind it one bit.

One of the girls looked at him and her expression lit up a little bit. "Could you s-spare that medical kit?" She said pointing at the med kit on his back. He took it off his back and handed it her and she gladly accepted it, though her face fell a little after feeling the weight. She opened it to confirm her fears, a single roll of gauze and small little bit alcohol. She went back to Twilight and began to go to work. Cleaning the scratches first, she took a scrap of cloth that was in the kit and began to gently yet firmly clean her wounds. The painful hisses coming from her friend made her heart hurt, but she had no time to be sorry. Being careful, she began to tightly wrap the gauze around Twilight's chest and used the tape to hold it all together. "There, good as new. We'll have to change it later in the morning though." She said patting her shoulder.

At that moment, all of them thought the same thought. "If we make it to the morning..."

While the seven girls huddled around their hurt member, the four survivors gathered around. Coach swallowed, his throat going dry. "Okay, so we have two major problems: First, these newcomers. We don't know them, only 3 of them can fight according to Ellis, and one of them is hurt already. I hate to say it, but I don't know if we can take 'em in." He said looking back the girls with a sorrowful look.

Nick cleared his throat and shook his head. "No, and this is coming from me. They're just kids Coach, they can't survive by themselves... even is what Ellis said is true." He said, still skeptical that the one hurt killed a Hunter with her mind. The others had their doubts too, thinking that Ellis was making it all up.

Ellis groaned. "I TOLD you, she just picked it up with her MIND and she popped his top off like a bottle of beer! Why would I lie about that?" He argued crossing his arms. The other three just couldn't believe anything that he was saying, thinking he killed it and then made it look like the girls killed it, probably to gain points to stick with them. Coach wouldn't have any of it.

"Ellis, I know you want to stick up for them since they're so young," he said placing a hand on his shoulder, "but I think it's time to stop with the games. We'll help them up until the next safe room, after that, they're on their own." Coach decided. Ellis stared at Coach then turned to Rochelle, looking at her expecting her to throw her input in.

"Hey, don't look at me! I might be a girl, but that doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of things. I hate to say it, because I can tell it's not that easy for Coach to say it, but I think he's right." She said siding with Coach. "And also... that's gonna be a problem, it's two and two."

Coach groaned a little. "Look, I'm not happy with it either, if I could have it my way I'd take them and everyone else with us! But we can't, and we won't. We need to look after our own Ellis. S'far as I'm concerned, it's just us four." Ellis looked at the older man and realized he sounded a lot like how Zoey described Bill, their lost member. Before a decision could be reached, the seven girls came out of the tunnel and went out to meet them. Before anyone could react, a strangled cough cut off any conversation that would ensue.

"Look alive people, Smoker's arou-- AH SHIT!" Coach said struggling against the tongue that lassoed around his body. A Smoker, high up on the rollercoaster could be seen dragging him and pinning him against the fence. The tongue constricted tightly around the large man, and before anyone could react Rainbow Dash was already up their behind the Smoker with a bat in her hands. Nick took a moment to notice that his back felt a little light all of the sudden. The Smoker itself was not paying attention to Rainbow haired assassin behind it, and only noticed her too late as heavy swing to its back made it roar in pain and bite it's tongue off, freeing Coach.

"C'mon ugly I can take you, you Richard Simmons looking mother f-- WOAH!" Rainbow exclaimed as the Smoker swiped at her with disease ridden, boiled hands. She swung against it, dodging swipes and scratches. She was fast, but not all of the time. The Smoker, seemingly getting mad at toying with it's prey bull charged at her. Not expecting such a bold rush, she was caught off guard and stumbled allowing the Smoker to wrap it's hands around her neck and squeezed as hard as it could. The Smoker coughed violently in her face, releasing green smoke that made breathing harder and her eyes watered like onions were in front of her. The noxious fumes and the choking together almost made her go limp, and in a last ditch effort she took the bat jabbed it into the knee of the Smoker as hard as she physically could.

The Smoker howled in pain and let go of her neck, allowing Rainbow to breath once again. She coughed as gasped for air like never before, clutching her neck feeling the fingers of the Smoker around her still, like a lingering phantom. She grit her teeth and grabbed the bat and went to the floored Smoker, who was trying to stand despite it's broken leg. In response to this she swung the bat into it's other leg, causing it fall over completely. When she was sure it wasn't trying to stand back up she threw the bat down the side of the coaster and began dragging the still alive Smoker by the legs. Seeing a rail that was broken she looked down the drop, a good 20 feet down. She nodded and dragged the Smoker to the edge.

"So long shit for brains." She said before football kicking the Smoker in the head, making it roll the rest of the edge over, and where it fell head first into the pavement, causing a green cloud of smoke explode from it's body. Touching her geode, bright baby blue wings erupted from her back like an angel and she soon touched down in front of her friends and the survivors. "Hell yeah! Rainbow one, zombies zilch." While her friends gave her some hoots and hollers, the other 4 looked in amazement.

Coach cleared his throat and turned to Ellis. "You know what?" he said looking at the younger mechanic, "I take back everything I said."