Twilight Sparkle was walking through the desert, tired, but she couldn't give up right now. She needed somewhere to live now that she was banished from Equestria, and there was no way she was going to die out in a desert.

So she kept walking.

Until she ended up in a forest.

MEANWHILE SOMEWHERE ELSE

A zombie wearing a lab coat was talking to some other zombies. There were eight of them (nine of you include the one wearing a lab coat): four of them were completely normal zombies, one had a slightly deformed face, one had no arms, and two of them had purple skin, with one also having a slightly deformed face.

"Alright, my zombies!" said the zombie who was wearing a lab coat. "Today, we're going to attack that crazy man's house."

"Zomboss," said one of the basic zombies, "Why can't we just attack another house?"

"Because he's my arch-enemy!" said Zomboss. "He always gets what he wants and I don't! Anyways, I think we should go and start attacking."

Just as the zombies were about to leave, Zomboss then tapped the basic zombie with a slightly deformed face. "Hey?"

"Yes, Zomboss?"

"Go and carry this seed packet to taunt the crazy man before you eat his brains." the zombie nodded and grabbed the seed packet, put it in his pocket, and then ran off to catch up with the other zombies.

The house had a lawn of grass in front of it. However, most of it was unsodded and bare, with only 1 line of grass in the middle of the bare lawn. Sitting in the far back of the line was a pea plant with eyes and a mouth that looked like a shooter.

"Man, I wonder when those zombies are gonna come," said the pea plant, "Crazy Dave told me about them, and I can't wait to finally test out my shooting skills at them."

The zombies were sneaking behind bushes, ready to attack the plant.

"Ready to go first?" whispered the purple zombie with a slightly deformed face.

"I'm ready!" whispered a basic zombie, who was wearing shorts. He then began walking towards the plant. But the pea plant was ready. He shot a pea at the zombie. It flew, then it hit the zombie in the head. But the zombie was still walking.

The pea plant kept shooting, until after the zombie got hit by four more peas, his arm fell off! The pea plant smiled. It was working! He shot five more peas, one at a time, as the zombie kept taking the brunt of the peas, his head suddenly popped off and fell onto the ground!

The now-headless body stumbled for a few seconds, then fell over.

"We lost one!" yelled the armless zombie quietly to avoid being heard.

"Then I'll go next," said the purple zombie with a slightly deformed face.

He advanced towards the plant, but the peas hit him many times. Until his head popped off like the one the peashooting plant just killed.

Then another basic zombie, whose eyes were bulging out so much that they looked like gumballs, hopped onto the lawn and marched towards the peashooter like the other two zombies did, but unsurprisingly, he was met with several peas hitting him. Then he suddenly tripped just as the peashooter shot another pea, and the pea hit the zombie, knocking his head clean off, and the head rolled towards an unfinished building zone, where it drowned in the wet cement.

Now this made the other zombies angry. "Get him!" roared the normal purple zombie as he charged towards the Peashooter, the other zombies following him behind. Peashooter shot many peas. He killed the purple zombie, the basic zombie with hair sticking up, the armless zombie, the basic zombie with the slightly deformed face.

But there was only one more basic zombie left, and he also had gumball-like eyes. However, unlike the one Peashooter had just killed, the eyes weren't bulging out as much. He was near the peashooter, and was close to eating the poor plant up. When suddenly:

"Leave him alone you big bully!"

The peashooter and zombie turned to see a purple unicorn running and she pounced the zombie. She fired a few magic beams at the zombie, before the magic was enough to damage the zombie so much he stopped breathing and fell limp to the ground.

The unicorn then turned her head to the peashooter. "Are you okay?" she asked.

"Don't worry about it, I am," said the plant, "But thanks for saving my life. What's your name?"

"My name's Twilight Sparkle, what's yours?"

"Oh, my name is Peashooter and I shoot peas at my enemies, hitting their knees."

"Hey, you just rhymed," said Twilight, and the two shared a laugh, before Twilight spoke up again, "Anyways, do you know where I can live?" asked the unicorn, "I was banished from my old home for an attempted murder I did not commit."

"Well, you can always live with me and Crazy Dave!" said Peashooter. "I'll show you the house." and the two walked in the house.

"Well, that was a fail," said Dr. Zomboss to his minions, who have been revived by some gravestones. "Luckily, it was only your first time, so I can forgive you all for that. But I do feel like you need proper names so that I can address you all more easily." Just then an idea went into his head. "I know!" he said. "Shorts-wearing zombie, your name is now Basic, the gumball-eyed zombie will now be Watterson, the zombie with smaller gumball eyes will now be Elmore, the zombie with his hair sticking up will be Untote, the deformed-face zombie will now be Boot, the armless zombie will now just be Armless, the purple zombie will just be Purple, and the purple deformed-face zombie will now be Nurp."

"My name sounds stupid!" shouted Elmore.

"Shut up. It was either that or Gaylord," said Zomboss.

"Good point."

"Twilight, I want you to meet Crazy Dave," said Peashooter. Just then, an peach-fur earth pony with a brown beard, mane and tail, along with a saucepan on his head, and a potted plant for a cutie mark, came down the stairs.

"Wabby wabbo!" shouted Crazy Dave, "So that's the Twilight I've heard about all over the world. It's such an honor to meet you!"

"Heh, thanks," said Twilight, "But I'm not the hero I once was." And she proceeded to tell Crazy Dave the story of how she was banished from Equestria forever and how she ended up in Neighborville.

"You mean these ponies thought you murdered an innocent pony and didn't even look closely?" said Crazy Dave. "They need to get their facts straight."

"I mean I can't really blame them," said Twilight. "The imposter was convincing, and I'm more upset about how the princesses and my family were quick to jump to conclusions and blame me for it! At least my best friends and assistant stood by me the whole time."

"Well, since you don't have a home now, I'll gladly give you an offer to live with me and my plants here."

"But isn't Peashooter your only plant?" asked Twilight.

"Hey you two!" shouted Peashooter. "Check what I found!" The two ponies ran to see that Peashooter had discovered a seed packet. It had a smiling sunflower on it.

"Oh, that was one of the plants Zomboss stole!" exclaimed Crazy Dave.

"Who's Zomboss?" asked Twilight.

"He's my rival. We used to be best friends, but one day, he began bullying others and acting too arrogant, and I had enough of his bullying, so I stood up to him. However, he ended our friendship and swore revenge on me, and he stated that one day he would create an army of zombies to end me."

"Wow, so that was what was attacking Peashooter and what I killed with my magic beams."

"Yeah," said Crazy Dave. "Last night, he kidnapped all my plants, except Peashooter, who was fast asleep with me, and my room was locked so he and the other zombies couldn't get in." He then planted the sunflower seed, and a smiling sunflower popped out of the ground.

"Happy birthday!" she yelled happily, only to have a brick thrown at her by a grumpy old pony. "It's not my birthday!" he yelled and staggered off, his cane helping him move his fragile and tired body.

"Sunflower, are you okay?" asked Peashooter.

"I'll be fine, just a minor bruise," said Sunflower.

"Who are you anyways?" asked Twilight.

"My name's Sunflower, and I give sun energy to plants to help them defeat zombies quicker."

"Wabbo, I think we should all go back to the house and find a room for you to sleep in, Twilight." said Crazy Dave.

"Alright then," said Twilight, as she followed him, Peashooter and Sunflower back into the house.

Author's Note

Yes, Crazy Dave will be a pony in this fanfic. However, the zombies will still be undead humans. Next chapter will explain why.