A New World, a New Terror

Chapters

Chapter 2: Surprise!
I Gotta be Outa My Goddamn Mind
Chapter 4: No Regrets
Chapter 5: Let's Take a Field Trip
Chapter 6: Kick Ass or Haul Ass
Chapter 7: Shopping Trip!
Chapter 8: The Shit Has Hit the Car
Chapter 9: Calling the Dr. Your Patient is Waiting.
Chapter 10: The Protector
Chapter 11: No Breaks! Back to Work!
Chapter 12: Mending Friendships
Chapter 13: Clear Chests
Chapter 14: Old Memories, Same Heartbreak
Chapter 15: Pain and Healing
Chapter 16: More Healing
Chapter 17: Reveals and More Reveals
Chapter 18: A Fluttering Heart
Author's Request
Chapter 19: Clensing
Chapter 20: Physical Therapy
Chapter 21: Confusion and Clarity
Again, a Note From the Author
Chapter 23: Coping
Chapter 24: Never Any Rest
Prologue
Chapter 1: Welcome to Southern California, My Home
Author's Note: Apologies
Chapter 22: Resting and Recovery

Chapter 2: Surprise!

“Wait, Matt, help!!” I heard the girl scream in the distance, I wanted to run over as fast as I could. But too many of these fucking zombies surrounded me. I couldn’t go back. But I had to – I loved her.

“What kind of dream was that!?” I blurted out as I suddenly shot out of bed, sweat covering my body, breathing heavily. I couldn’t explain it. Was it some sort of vision of the past? No… Nothing like that happened, maybe the future? Ugh, whatever it is it needs to stop. I’ve been having the same dream for about a week now and it’s starting to get old.

I reluctantly got out of bed and put some clothes on, but not my full gear. I also only grabbed my .32, feelin content with our safety at the moment.

I come downstairs and find everyone eating.

“Morning everyone, what time is it?

“Noon you lazy butt.” Miles deadpanned.

“Shit really!?” I never sleep in that late, I’m almost always up at 6 or 7am, so why noon? Things just don’t feel right apparently. “I got to get to work scavenging then, who wants to join me today?” I was always scavenging the area for whatever I could find. Food, water, ammo, clothes, you name it, I was looking for it. And especially after last night, I didn’t want to go alone.

“I’LL GO! PICK ME!” Mig enthusiastically raised his hand and jumped in his chair.

I couldn’t help but chuckle at his childish spirit, even in the midst of all this chaos and death.

“Yeah I choose you Mig, get your stuff ready. We’ll leave in 15.” He nods as he gets up and cleans his bowl of cereal, and I run upstairs to get my full gear on. Despite the recent events, I felt like things could go well today, a turnaround if you will.
I’m waiting for Mig to get outside, and I’m quickly getting impatient.

“C’mon you lazy asshole! The car’s runnin!” I screamed as I honked the horn of the car. Soon enough he came running outside in his metal gear, brass knuckles and machete. Mig’s a close combat guy, and likes it up close and personal. Why? Hell if I know, he just likes it. I guess cause he is a boxer and is comfortable in that situation. Hey, if it keeps you alive I say do it.

So we head out, searching nearby houses for anything we can find. We took the white van today, thinking we might get lucky.

“So Cuz, what’s up? You aren’t acting yourself.” Miguel, obviously still thinking about last night, asked.
I took a deep sigh and was silent, deep in thought for a moment.

“It’s hard to say. I question what would happen to you all if I died? I mean, we all run off of each other, and if one is gone? The whole operation would fall apart. The same could be said with any of you!” I could feel the hot tears running down my cheeks. Crap.

“Hey, listen Cuz,” Mig puts his hand on my shoulder, “nothing is going to happen to you. You’re the most badass dude of us all! You’re the reason we are alive right now and not a bone meal! No way a zombie gets you! And about us, I know you could carry on the whole thing without one of us. But that won’t happen either, because we are bonded by friendship, nothing will break us apart.”

“Dammit it, you always know what to say don’t ya?” I say, not practically crying like a baby from all the emotion.

“Yeah, I guess I-“

“HEEELLLLLPPPP”

I bring the van to a grinding halt, and look around.

“You heard that right Mig?”

“Sure did, da funk was that?”

“AAHHHH. SOMEONE HELP US!”

“Sounds like some people are in deep shit, down to go find ‘em and be heroes?” I said with a slight grin

“Oh you know it Cuz!” Mig was ecstatic about helping someone.

So was I.

We drive over to where we heard the screams, and sure enough, we see about a dozen or so Zombies attacking a house. The doors were closed, and we saw some people up in the 2nd story window looking out.

“Hey girls, something else is here. It’s bigger than the rest!” a girl with a raspy voice said as I overheard her from the car. I didn’t know if they were talking about us or something different. I did a quick survey and found nothing but Zombies, but I tossed the comment aside for the moment.

“Alight Mig, you know what to do. Stay sharp, and take the left side. I got the right.”

“Ohhh yea, you got it Cuz” I could hear the anticipation in Mig’s voice. I was ready for some revenge for last night, I needed a good release.

And oh boy did I get one.

I came running out, screaming, and with my Rambo knife in hand. I quickly got one in the back of the head before it turned, and then got one on the side. But now they noticed me, so now was the time to back up a bit. I smiled as I brought out my shotty, and had my way with them.

*click click*

“Ahhh, music to my ears” I calmly said as I shot one Zombie in the head, causing it to explode everywhere, with the body collapsing soon after.

“Boo ya mother-fucker” I quietly said as I cocked the death machine once more.

*BOOM!*

It was loud and it was sexy, the sound of my gun firing, the sound of a skull exploding into tiny little pieces. I know, I’m kinda fucked up in the head. But I have an excuse cause I’m in the zombie apocalypse, right?

Whatever, as I took out the 4th zombie with my shotty, I looked over to Mig as he punched the last zombie in the skull, and causing it to topple over. He quickly jumped on it and beat the living (?) shit out of it.

“Alright Mig it’s done, let’s get inside” I said with confidence, cocking my shotgun once more.

I run inside with Mig behind me; thank god for daylight, I could actually see inside for once.

I see another zombie, and without thinking I shoot its brains out.

“JEEZZZ that thing got PWNED!!” Mig quickly said as he watching the zombie collapse. We were like two kids at a candy store right now, releasing our anger and frustration on these things.

We get upstairs to find one last zombie clawing at a closed door. The door we assumed the girls were at.

“Ok, place your bet. These girls hot or not?” I say chuckling as we get to the last zombie.

“Ummm, one Kit Kat says they are hot!” Mig says, pondering his bet to see if it was a good one.

“Ok you’re on. I want it unwrapped this time though” I say smiling at Mig.

“Hey it wasn’t my fault Pancho got to it before you did. You were just too slow getting to it!” Mig said defensively.

“Whatever. Just finish this thing will ya?” pointing towards the zombie. Mig nods as he grabs his machete, and with a quick swoop chops its head off.

“Good, now lets see who gets the chocolate deliciousness.” I say, trying to open the door. Then I realized it was locked – d’oh.

“Hey, it’s all clear out here. You’re safe to come out. We won’t hurt you we promise, we heard you screaming for help so we came to help” I say knocking on the door.

Silence.

“Is anybody in there? Hello?” I’m beginning to question if they were safe in there at all.

“HEY PEOPLE!” Mig shouts, slamming on the door “WE JUST SAVED YOUR ASSES. HOW BOUT A THANKS? OR A KISS? OR BOTH!?” We both laugh.

“If I win this bet you can get all the kisses” I whisper to Mig

“And I will get all of them if I win” He responds.

“Da hell that isn’t fair! You-“ The door unlocks and slowly opens.

What I saw in front of me nearly made me want to pass out.

Oh wait, I did.

Author's note: I don't know how this will be received. So I guess tell me if you want this to keep going or not. Thanks!

I Gotta be Outa My Goddamn Mind

“Ugghh my head.” I slowly murmured.

“Hey Cuz you’re awake! How ya feelin?” Mig enthusiastically asked. He seemed a little too jolly, something unusual for him.

“Aside from hitting my head on whatever I hit it on and a throbbing headache, I’m doin alright.” I keep rubbing my head, I realize I was in a bed in some sort of master bedroom. It was nice until I realized why I hit my head in the first place.

“WAIT, where are those girls we came to rescue?”

“Right there” Mig gestures over to the other side of the room. There I see, 6 girls, all clad naked. In a corner, scared to death. Yet they all looked really familiar, like I knew them all from somewhere. They looked like they had been almost killed.

Oh wait.

“Hey girls, nice to meet you,” I groggily say, thinking I could get hit on them since I rescued them.

I didn’t even notice a girl with big poofy pink hair popped out of nowhere in my face and asked questions.

“HII’MPINKIEPIEWHATSYOURNAME?OHHIBETIT’SAREALLYFUNNAME.DOYOULIKEFUNILIKEFUNITSREALLYFUN.OHHHWESHOULDHAVEAPARTYTOCELEBRATEWHATDOYOUTHINK?”

One with long black hair with a purple stripe highlight came in and pulled her away, but she seemed to have problems walking and balancing. And she looked like she had gone bat shit crazy.

“WHAT IN THE NAME OF CELESTIA IS GOING ON HERE!?”

That caught me off guard… Did she just say in the name of – Naaa I’m hearing things.

“What do you mean?” I quizzically asked, slightly confused

“Why did you do that to all those creatures!?” Asked the dark haired girl, really sounding irritated and scared.

“Who did we kill? We didn’t kill anything, ma’am” I’m starting to get annoyed, she better not be talking bout the zombies.

“All those things trying to get to us, I understand they seemed to be attacking us for some reason, maybe because they thought we were different? But that isn’t very nice…” She was trailing off so I stepped in once more

“You talkin bout those things? The zombies? If so where the hell have you been these past few months? In a bunker? And why you all butt naked?”

“Zombies? And what do you mean naked? Why don’t you have any fur or cutie marks?”

“Wait, WHAT!?” Mig finally spoke up, after he was done drooling over the girls and their bodies.

I had to admit, they were pretty hot, though probably clinically insane.

“Yeah, what do you mean? This isn’t My Little Pony here. And, uh, you shouldn’t be talking since none of you got any of that.” I deadpanned.

“What in tarnation..!?” A tall blonde said, in a thick southern accent. She had nice eyes, a deep green.

They all panicked, and were frantically searching their bodies and screaming.

“WHERE’S OUT CUTIE MARKS!?” The dark haired girl screamed.

“MY WINGS!! THEY’RE GONE? WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM?!” A short girl with rainbow colored hair and a raspy voice blurted out. I think that was the same who saw our van earlier.

“MY HORN. MY BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL HORN! IT’S MISSING! OH THIS IS THE WORST, POSSIBLE, THING!” A tall paler girl with long, purple, beautiful hair cried. Jesus that screech hurt my ears.

Drama queen much? Well, sounds like the girls from My Little Pony, and they look like them, and seemingly act like them…. Though Pinkie has been quiet since “Twilight” had pulled her away from me.

I noticed how they all were sitting, not standing, I wonder if….

“What about our hooves? What are these weird things at the end of them?” said a soft-spoken girl with smooth pink hair, but I could barely hear her.

“You mean hands? And fingers?” I deadpanned.

“And these here lumps?” said the southern girl, grabbing her boobs.

“Ummm….” I didn’t know how to explain it, “Those are your-

“-Ok ok ok, so where are you girls from?” Mig said, thankfully cutting me off.

“Equestria. Where is this?” The dark haired girl asked.

“California, or what’s left of it anyway.” I bluntly said.

“Where’s that? And what are we?”

“The United States, on Earth, in the Milky Way. You know, here. And we’re humans, all of us.” I was beginning to come around to the idea, but needed more proof. But I didn’t want to be too blunt with it either.

“Hmm… I wonder if my teleportation spell went wrong.” This girl was definitely acting like Twilight, but I needed more.
“What do you mean?” I asked, trying to figure out if they are real or not.

“Well, you see, I wanted to try to work on my teleportation. I found an old scroll that managed to let me teleport much more precisely with much less magic use. I wonder if I read it wrong or did something I shouldn’t have.”

“So you mean to tell me you wanted to transport to somewhere in some other dimension and somehow ended up in ours, in the middle of this death trap?” Mig asked, sounding quite intelligent.

“In a nutshell, yes.”

“Seems legit.” I sarcastically say before turning away.

“Ok, well, why don’t we settle this at our place? It’s safer than here, and we can talk it over with the others.-“
“others?” The dark haired girl cut in.

“Yeah, the other people we are surviving with. Plus, we can get you all something to wear.” I say blushing, my cheeks were completely red. I hadn’t seen a girls’ body in forever, though they weren’t really girls’ bodies… Ugh confusion.

“Um, sure. Thanks?” The girl, reluctantly responded.

“Ok, let’s head towards the van. And get out of here. Mig you take shotgun and you all can take the back.” I ordered. And we head outside.

We head for the van, and this silence is killing me. I decided to try to break the ice. Just start with names, let’s see how they act.

“So girls, we never introduced each other. My name’s Matt and this here is my cousin or Cuz Mig.”
They all say hi, so I ask again.

“What’s your names?”

The dark haired girl spoke up again.

“I’m Twilight Sparkle. And these are my friends, Apple Jack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rarity”
Welp, this just got insane.

As we get in the car I snapped. Even though I thought they were them, I still had my doubts.

“Are you all pulling my leg or something? Seriously, what are your names?”

“I just told you, why, don’t you believe me?” Twilight responded, almost worried.

“Frankly I don’t, those are the names of ponies…..from…..a…..t…v…show…..”

I taper off; this couldn’t really be them, could it? I mean, I would love to meet them, I really would. But why here? And why now? Why couldn’t it be before the apocalypse? Plus how could I tell them they don’t exist in our world…

“What’s a TV Show?” Twilight asked, not even breaking my concentration in the least bit.

“Moving…pictures….” I was still deep in thought. Were these really those girls? Either way, they seemed clueless out here and would be dead before nightfall if we left them out here. It was only the right thing to do.

“OUCH, what the hell Mig?” I said as I grabbed my arm, the dick punched me, hard.

“Let’s GOO!! You’re just sitting there looking off into space drooling!”

“Blah, ok, sorry, let’s go.” I sigh, and turn the van around.

This will be fun bringing this to the others.

Chapter 4: No Regrets

Mig and I gave each other a quick glance, we could both tell what was going through our minds.

These might actually be the girls…

We were slowly becoming convinced. But our question was if any of the others would be. Xoch maybe, but certainly not the others. They’d think we lost our goddamn minds. Well, haven’t we all?

Things were deathly quiet in van on the ride home. We were luckily only about 10 minutes away so it wasn’t so bad. Part of me just wanted to go all fanboy Brony on them and go crazy. Buuuttt I think that just might make matters worse, so we will have to keep that bottled up for now. I know Mig was dying to hug Fluttershy like crazy. I knew I wanted to hug RD, but we kept it in, for now.

At this point I noticed the girls were cold, really cold. They were shivering.

“H-h-h-how do y-y-you k-k-keep warm without f-f-fur?” A very cold and quiet Fluttershy said to Twilight.

“I d-d-don’t know” She responded.

I chuckled, overhearing their quick conversation. “We wear these,” pointing out my shirt and pants “This is what keeps us warm. We don’t have fur, not good enough fur I should say.”

“OK, how can you prove to us that you girls are really from Equestria and actually ponies? I might like you a LOT more if you are” Mig randomly jumped in, as he liked to do.

“Dammit Mig you can’t just be so blunt!” I wanted to agree with him, but something inside of me told me they already were. I didn’t want to go too deep into that conversation yet so I just kept quiet.

“Well since we ain’t got a’horns or wings we can’t prove much” Applejack stated, bringing us to a problem.

“Well, like I said before, let’s work it out back at Base Camp. We’re just about there anyway.” Mig said all matter factly.
“Yeah, we’re here. Welcome to Base Camp, girls”

They all awed at the massive size of it. All eyes went big, and couldn’t believe it. Though the crude fences and walls around it didn’t add to the décor, it still looked nice.

“Wow, is this a castle?” Twilight asked, still amazed.

“Hah, that’s funny. I wish! But no, it’s a house. Bigger than most? Yes. But no castle.”

She seemed to accept that answer, though it seemed she wanted more out of me. I wasn’t giving them every detail of everything. That would come later, when they seem more affiliated with everything going on.

“Ok girls, stay out here with Mig. I’m gonna gather everyone and prepare them for this.”

“Just hurry. We’re freezing out here!” RD snapped. I flinched.

Dammit

“Ok ok, I will try! Calm down RD” I responded.

“Ok-WAIT! Why did you call me that? Only my friends call me that!”

“Ummm, just instinct.” Applejack gave me a mean glare when I said that, she knew I was lying. I’m a horrible liar. But again, I was surprised she didn’t say anything. These girls are acting weird.

I went inside to find Shadow and Pancho wrestling on the floor, and Beans and Xoch were watching and laughing.

Good, right where I left them. Now, hopefully their good mood will make things easier.

“Hey guys!” I yelled out.

“Hey Matt, where’s Mig?” Xoch noticed right away.

“He’s outside with some people we found”

“MORE PEOPLE!?” everyone blurted out. But excitedly.

“Yeah, 6 girls to be exact, about our age too”

“Are they hot?” Shadow cut in, the damn woman chaser.

“Yeah not bad. But there is one thing…” Everyone looked at me quizzically, expecting something insane. “… They say they are from Equestria. Y’know, from MLP? And they say they are the Mane 6.”

Laughter ensued.

“BAHAHAHAHA you can’t be serious? Oh my god you’re hilarious Matt. Just hilarious.” Beans bursted out, holding on to his sides.

“I’m serious, Beans. They are all outside, NAKED, and freezing. So I’m gonna bring them in. Don’t act like yourselves ok? It’ll just scare em.”

They all nodded in agreement. I opened the door and motioned for them all to come in. I couldn’t help but chuckle noticing Mig’s extreme blush walking behind the girls.

They walk in, and are met with pure silence. You could hear the dust hit the floor.

Well it’s better than what I expected.

“Everyone, I’d like you to meet our new guests, survivors, friends,” motioning towards the girls “This is Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie. Girls, this is Beans, Pancho, Shadow and Xoch.”

Awkward hellos quietly made it around the room, and I decided to break them apart for now, and deal with each group separately.

“Xoch, why don’t you take the girls upstairs and find some clothes for them? I need to talk to the guys really quick” I quietly said, feelin nervous about what may happen.

“Oh, ok! No problem! Follow me girls!” She cheered, and off they went. Wow, she seemed to take it well, or is just playing along. I’ll go for the latter.

As soon as we heard the door to the girls’ room close, it started.

“WOOAAHHH DID YOU SEE THOSE GIRLS!?” Shadow blurted almost loud enough for them to hear.

“Yeah man, good pick up Matt, nice job” added in Beans.

“Guys, this is serious. I’m really beginning to think this might be THE girls from My Little Pony. Mig back me up here”

“Err I don’t know Cuz, I mean, yeah, it sure is convincing. I almost am, but like I said before, I want proof before I believe anything” bringing up that old subject, are we Mig?

“Matt, stop acting delirious” Beans came in, sounding a lot more serious for once, “Do you really think they are?”

“Yes, I do, the more I think about it, the more I believe them!”

“WHY?” they all almost shouted

Damn. Well my reasoning, my dreams, all these gut feelings I’ve been having, they all point to this. That’s why. But what if everyone thinks I’ve gone absolutely bonkers? They’d kick me out of basecamp! I’d be left on my own against the horde!

NO.

They wouldn’t do that, they are my closest friends. I can tell them anything, can’t I? Screw it. I’m just throwing it all out on the table, let’s see how it goes.

“My real reason? Why I believe these girls?” they all nod, waiting to hear my response. *sigh* “I’ve been having these dreams lately, these past few days, to be more precise. They keep involving girls, mainly one with a raspy voice, kinda like Rainbow Dash’s, and they’re in danger. I can’t save them, but I can save myself. I don’t, I try to save them – but I wake up before anything happens. That’s one part. Second? You all notice I’ve been out of it lately?”

They all nod again.

“It’s because of these weird feelings I’ve had. Gut feelings telling me to do things out of the ordinary. Like that late night scavenger hunt on my own, I still don’t know why, but it has to be related. Or me sleeping in, if I didn’t sleep in Mig and I wouldn’t have heard the girls. I feel like there’s something out there telling me something, some kind of hint. That’s why I believe them. It makes a lot of sense of what’s been happening to me lately.”

I looked down; I didn’t want to look them in the eyes. I could feel the hot tears running down my even hotter face. The feeling of a whole bunch of eyes just staring at you, but you not staring at them, is not a pleasant one. But then I felt something that changed it all.

A hand fell on my shoulder. I look up to see it’s Pancho’s hand. He is just giving a warm, welcoming smile. I broke down and gave in for a hug. Soon enough everyone else joined in, emotions high.

“Matt, if that’s what you feel, we believe you. You’re damn lucky we will follow your gut to hell and back” Pancho warmly said.
“Wait we didn’t do that already getting to this house?” Beans blurted. Laughter ensued, and things were feeling better. The lump I had been feeling in my throat was clearing. Blah I hate that feeling.

“AHEM”
We all jumped, it took a moment of scrambling to see Xoch was at the bottom of the stairs, smiling deviously.
“Here are the girls!” she had a hand pointing up the stairs, and down they walked.
Well they cleaned up nicely.

Twilight was in dark jeans, purple converse, and a tight purple button up jacket that was over her black shirt.

Applejack was in some short shorts, boots (I didn’t even know there were any here, I scouted the whole damn place too), and a light brown tank top. Oh, she had stetson her hat too, again, WHERE THE HELL DID THEY GET THIS FROM!?

Ahem….

Pinkie was in lighter, skinny blue jeans. She had slippers (wut), and a pink v-neck t-shirt.

Rainbow Dash was in black sweatpants with a light blue stripe going down the sides, sneakers, and had a blue shirt with a thick white stripe across it.

Rarity was in dark skinny jeans, heels (I need to talk to her and Xoch about that), and had a white flowing blouse over it all. She was really flowy, she needed to tighten her clothes, it could get into trouble….

And finally, Fluttershy was also in a yellow summer dress, with white tights on underneath. Sneakers on. Again, we will need to have a talk later.

“Wow, you girls look great! How do they feel?” I did notice a couple of them squirming in their outfits, mainly RD.

“They feel a little, cramped.” RD complained.

“And these, human? Bodies?” Twilight spoke up. “As Xoch told me, are very unique. Though the bipedal movement will be something to get used to, and having these… things” referring to her hands.

“Eh you’ll get used to it all soon enough. So are these gonna be your everyday outfits?” I ask, hoping for Rarity and Fluttershy to say no. I don’t want any issues right off the bat.

They all say yes.

Internal facepalm.

“Well, not exactly” I hear a posh voice speak up, for the first time. “I don’t want this to get ruined, being such a marvelous outfit. Perhaps I can spruce something else up, something with a little more pizazz, what do you think darling?” looking towards Xoch.

“I like the idea! Think you can make me something?” she happily responds.

“Why of course darling! It’s the least I can do for you helping us out. Why, I can make something for everyone!” Oh boy, she’s getting in that mood.

“Ok hold on there, what exactly do you mean by pizazz?” Beans came in.

“Well, more style! More elegance! More beauty!”

This doesn’t seem good. I begin to tell her a flowy dress might be a bad idea, “Well then Rar-“

“But, I must head to bed, everyone. It has been a rather tiring day.” She cut me off…

“Yeah, we all should. We can discuss more tomorrow,” Twilight agreed. They all nodded.

“Ok, let me take you all to where you will sleep” Xoch said before taking them up. We all said our goodnights and let it be.

I really hope I don’t come to regret not saying anything….

Chapter 5: Let's Take a Field Trip

“I’m coming! Hold on!!”

I was panting harder than I ever had, my heart felt like it would jump out of my chest into the hands of those freaks.

“Hurry, Matt, they’re getting in!!”

I kept shooting my way through. There was no easy, or quiet way to do this. The shit had already hit the fan, I needed to get to her.

BOOM *click click* BOOM *click click*

I made my way upstairs to the room, but all I heard was her screaming, and the door had been broken down.

“GAH”

I fell out of bed, another nightmare, same house, same voice.

But it went farther than usual…

“Ugh these need to stop. These nightmares are going to kill me”

“Well that isn’t a good way to look at them, given the situation” said a voice from the door.

I turn to see Shadow, fully dressed for the day and hands in his pockets, looking kind of shy and worried.

“He-he, maybe. You ok? You look…. Stiff.”

“Well, I wanted to ask you something…” he averted his gaze from mine, directing his sight towards the floor.

“Yes..? You know you can ask anything, man. Nothing is too weird or insane.” I tried to say as sympathetically and genuine as I could. I think it got him to relax a bit.

“Well, I was wondering, think I can come with you scouting today?”

“Is that what got you all tight and worried?” I questioned whether or not this was serious or if he was leaving something out.

“No, it isn’t. Think we can bring Applejack with us?”

“BAHAHAHAHAHA you got the hots for her don’t ya?” though I couldn’t be a bigger hypocrite right now, it was more comforting knowing I wasn’t the only one.

“Shut up!! Like you don’t have a thing for the multi-colored hair girl!”

Shit, he caught me.

“Ok ok ok shut up. Well do you think it would be smart to bring them out?” I didn’t know what to think of that. Part of me wanted them to get used to it, but it might be too much.

“I don’t know actually. I had hoped you would have an answer for that.” Shadow flatly said, chuckling.

“Ok how bout we ask the girls? We can have a group discussion on it.”

“Yeah, sounds good, I like that”

“Good, everyone up?” Our voices were beginning to perk at the idea of things moving forward.

“Yeah, you’re the last one lazy butt” Shadow joked.

“Aight, round up our group and let’s meet in the office room. I will be down in a bit. Let me get dressed and I will meet you all in the living room.”

Shadow nodded and walked out.
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I got downstairs to find the girls in the living room chatting, they seemed a bit more cheery, I wonder how long that would last in this world. Rarity and Flutterhsy were still wearing their flowing dresses/outfits.

“Good morning Matt” Twilight greeted me.

“Morning Twilight, girls” giving a nod to the rest, which they gave back “How you all doing?”

“Well we’d like to know why you’re all meeting without us in the other room” Twilight asked, placing her hands on her hips
Heh, she’s already acting like a regular teenage girl.

“Uhm, it’s important stuff regarding you girls. Don’t worry, it isn’t anything bad. Just, how to go about a few things.” I done goofed.

“What kind of stuff, huh, buster?” Rainbow came in, obviously annoyed from my response. “You going to try something funny? Cause if so let’s go, right here!” putting her fists up.

God I wanted to hug her from that.

“Rainbow Dash, we shouldn’t act like towards them.” Fluttershy jumped in. “We should be thanking them for letting us stay here and giving us food. Thank you Matt” she softly said, seemingly a bit more comfortable with me.

“You’re welcome Fluttershy. Now, if you all excuse me, I must meet with the others.” Waving them off as I walked towards the office room.

“Ok fools,” I said once I entered the room, “so there’s this matter of pony-girls in our home who don’t know a thing about their bodies. On top of that we are living in a deadly, terrifying zombie apocalyptic world.”

“I’ve heard worse.” Beans deadpanned.

“Yeah, your voice” Pancho commented, getting a laugh out of us all.

“Ok, seriously, Shadow brought up the idea of taking them out. As much as I agree with that, we shouldn’t take them all at once, nor should it be extreme either. It should be mainly working on running, then later on defense. Does this work?” I asked, hoping for a decent response.

They all nodded in agreement.

“Cool, so today, Me and Shadow can take AJ and RD out. Pancho and Xoch can take Pinkie and Rarity. Mig and Beans can take Twi and Fluttershy. Sound good?”

“Damn, me and thee girls. I don’t know man” Pancho sarcastically remarked.

“Oh you’ll live. Well, unless anyone has anything else to say, let’s head out.”

“Wait, so where are we going to go?” Xoch brought up. Good point.

“Ok, so let’s square that away now, so we all know where each other are. Shadow and I can take them to the baseball field.” He liked that idea.

“Xoch and I will take them to the movie theatre plaza” Chris excitedly said.

“Where should we take them, Beans?” Mig asked.

“Shit, I don’t really know. How about the local university?”

“Better than what I had in mind. Sounds good.” Mig agreed.

“Ok so we all know.” I took command again. “Be back here by 4pm. If you’re not back we will search frantically for your asses so be back in time.” Everyone nodded.

We went out and told the girls the situation. They seemed quite reluctant to it, but could’ve taken it worse. They eventually agreed to it and we went into our groups. Shadow seemed happy as a clam, which i haven't seen him, hell, any of us truly happy in a while. Was a pleasant surprise.

We all went outside in full gear, and went our separate ways for the day. Hopefully we will see them all come back.

A/N: I felt like this was a short chapter, though word wise it isn't too far off. Well if it is short I apologize. See it as a set up for some (hopefully) good chapters in the future? Yes. Please rate and comment as you see fit! Thanks all :D

Chapter 6: Kick Ass or Haul Ass

A/N: The next few chapters will be the groups on their own adventures for the day. Enjoy! Rate and comment please!!

Me and RD were in the front seats while Shadow and AJ were in the back of my Focus. It was all quiet, I needed some music to calm myself. I plugged in my Ipod and started playing some music.

Ahh it was like the old days, playing this with Pancho and Shadow in my garage, and old friends in that garage band we had. God we sucked, but we enjoyed ourselves.

It took a moment of prodding from Applejack to snap me out of my nostalgic day dreaming.

“Uh, don’t mean ta’ bother ya, but where ‘sactly we headed, and ain’t this music a bit loud?” asked AJ in that southern slang of hers.

“Oh, an open area. Open where we can do a lot of stuff, and see any zombies from a far if we are noticed. There’s no sneaking up on us there. And hey, this is goo music. Dash seems to enjoy it." I point out RD slowly bobbing her head, leading to a full on head banging.

“Oh, ‘nd what are these, ‘Zombies’ you keep yappin about? They them things you” she took a pause, perhaps to grasp what we did to save them yesterday. “killed?”

“Yes, those. But, thing is they aren’t really alive.” I tried to conjure up a good explanation for it all.

“What in tarnation do ya mean they ain’t alive? They were walking and moving!” AJ couldn’t believe what I was saying, even RD was staring at us, mainly me, making me blush a bit.

“They aren’t really alive! In short, this disease they have, it kills you. But, it then brings the brain back to life, but only a part that just makes you a mindless killing machine. What they are. Plus, they feel no pain. You can only stop them if you destroy the brain or remove the head all together. Just a simple stab or shot to the chest won’t do a thing. That’s the crazy part about it all.”

Only the music played, all of us just listening, or thinking about all this.

At least that’s what I assumed.

“YES. FINALLY WE’RE HERE!” Shadow was happy; he was cooped up in that car for a bit.

“Woah, this looks like some sort of sport type of place” RD in awe of the giant baseball diamond in from of her.

“Ha, that’s exactly right Dash. Was a fun sport called baseball. Maybe once we are done of this zombie issue we can play and I can teach you” I said while smiling at her.

She caught me, giving me an awkward smile back.

“Yeah, huh, that sounds, nice” As she grabbed the back of her neck, looking away.

“So what are we doin here?” Aj said, getting impatient.

“We’re gonna run over basics in this world. Unfortunately we can’t run over super basics, you just got to dive right into it. Running, and defense. Right?” Shadow asked looking towards me.

“Right. Basically, in this world, there’s the first rule of dealing with zombies right in front of you: Kick ass, or Haul ass.”

“Haul what?” RD was confused already, great.

“Run, fast.” I quickly responded.

“Oh, well I can do that! I was the fastest flyer in all of Equestria! I can out-whatever-you-called-it those things no sweat!” RD pridefully puffed out her chest.

“Oh really? Race me to that tree over there?” I said with a quite smirk.

“You’re on! Ready set go!” She quickly counted off before running.

Rather, taking 2 steps before falling flat on her face.

“Now, THAT right there, is why we are out here today, my students” I playfully said, offering my hand to RD, before she slapped it away in embaressment.

Oh man, hurt ego. Even worse, hurt RAINBOW DASH ego.

“Hey Dash, it’s ok! You’re new to this. You’ll get it over time. I’m sure you can get faster than all of us at some point!” I tried to console her.

“Well, I don’t know, ah think she might have a problem getting past yours truly” AJ cut in, not making things any better.

“Bad timing AJ” Shadow whispered to her.

“Oh, is that a challenge?” I hear Rainbow say while still looking down at the ground, sounding a bit perked up.

“Cause if it is, YOU’RE ON APPLEJACK!” Rainbow stands up, ready to race.

AJ adjusts her hat, smirks, and begins to run.

Only thing is, she does that Rainbow had just done a minute ago.

“I think you girls need to practice a bit first, hehe” I say giggling. Shadow couldn’t stop laughing, it was hard not to. “Ok Shadow help out AJ and I got Rainbow. Let’s see whose girl is better after an hour.”

“You’re on fool. AJ will kick Ranbow’s butt!”

“Hah! In your dreams maybe!” I respond, everyone in good spirits finally. “Alright Rainbow, let’s go practice.”

*Skipping an hour ahead, both sides practicing and drilling, with a bunch of pep talks mixed I there*

“Alright, let’s see who’s faster. Though, I think we all know Rainbow is gonna win” I say smiling at her. She returns the smile, yet still keeps her prideful look in front of the others.

“So, let’s say, from here to the first to that tree, about a 50 yard run.” Shadow calls out, seeming confident in AJ.

“Sounds good. Girls?” I ask. They both nod in agreement of terms.

“Ok,” Shadow calls out, both girls are now lined up. “ready, set………………………………………………………”

“DAMMIT SHADOW CALL IT OUT ALREADY” I scream, annoyed but laughing at his humor.

“…………………………………..GO!” And with that both girls sped off, a huge improvement from before. You could see how well they ran, and ran quick. Both of the, sprinting at full speeds, and Shadow and I watching and cheering. Both girls were neck and neck, until he hear a unified *SLAP* against the goal tree.

“I WON!!” Rainbow jumped up, cheering.

“Nyuh-uh! Ah won that race! Admit it Rainbow Dash!” AJ disputed.

“No way!! I obviously won that, you’re just jealous” Rainbow responded, puffing out her chest once again.

“How bout a tie?” I come in compromising.

“Ugh, fiinnee” Rainbow, unhappily, agreed to.

“Yeah, guess so” AJ said as she kicked the dirt on the ground.

“Well with that done, next up is-“

*thump*

We all quickly turn around, and see a zombie walking towards us.

“Perfect.” I whisper as I see it. “Shadow, let’s rope this guy up. You distract him, and I will rope him.”

Shadow nods and begins waving his arms to get its attention. It works. As it walks over towards him, I come from behind and tackle the thing to the ground. As it squirms to get up and make me lunch, I tie up its hands before it does anything. Next I get more rope and wrap some over its mouth, making sure it won’t bite us. Finally, I tie a knot around its neck, and leave a lot more, so it’s on it like a leash. Both girls just stand in awe how quickly and efficiently we contained it, as well as not acting scared one bit.

“Them things are mighty creepy. How you not scared of em?” AJ thinks outloud.

“We’ve dealt with them a lot longer in many situations, just one doesn’t faze us” Shadow responded.

“Oh…” AJ didn’t have much of a response. I tie up the zombie to a pole, and if these things could look pissed off, I bet this guy is just livid.
“Ok girls, next is defense against these things.” I sound confident in the beginning of the lesson. “Like I said, our motto is ‘Kick Ass or Haul Ass’, so we just worked on Hauling ass and you girls are looking great there. So if there are ever too many, remember, haul ass!!”

The girls nod, looking as serious as ever. Though, possibly uneasy about what might come of this lesson.

“But if there are only a couple, best thing is to kick ass. So, we have a volunteer” I say pointing towards the tied up, helpless zombie. “and we will practice a few things. At the end, one of you will have to put it down.”

“You mean…” RD gulps “…kill it?”

“Yes, Rainbow. Unfortunately, in the world we live in now, its kill or be killed. And since I don’t want ANYTHING to happen to you girls, this lesson is highly important.”

Both girls seem to grasp the grim reality we live in, that there is no easy way to live with these zombies.

“First rule: Aim for the head. These things can only be killed by the head, so you aim there. If they are hurt in the stomach…” I take out my knife and stab it in the chest. It doesn’t flinch, and keeps squirming. “… It will keep trying to make you lunch. But if it’s stabbed in the head, it will be done for. These things are luckily, soft. Now watch”

I cut the rope holding the zombies’ hands together.

“When they grab you, if you have a weapon, you cut those hands or arms off” I let it grab me, but I swiftly grab an arm and pretend to cut it. “See? Not too difficult, right?” I hold out my knife towards the girls. “Now, one of you, first, stab its stomach. Just get used to the feeling of violence.”

Both girls are extremely hesitant, and look at each other, and back at the knife, and then back at each other.
“*sigh*, I’ll go first.” Rainbow shyly responds, taking the knife from my hands.

*BOOM*

“CRAP! The hell was that?” I yell out. Seeing some smoke come up about a mile or 2 away, I think that’s where Pancho and company are.

“Seems like a car explosion, probably Pancho messing with stuff as always.” Shadow responded, calm as can be.

“Yeah, you’re probably right.” I put my focus back on Rainbow, “just remember, this won’t cause it any pain. It’s ALREADY DEAD.”

She nods, and she closes her eyes and looks away as she thrusts her arm towards the gut of the zombie. The squishing sound made makes her cringe a bit, but it goes away. She slowly pulls out the knife, and finally opens her eyes and looks at me.

“Very good Dash. Now, you’re turn AJ”

Rainbow hands off the knife to AJ, who reluctantly takes it. She walks towards the zombie, it making muffled grunts and groans, reaching out for AJ. But she was much more accepting to the idea of a deadly world, and stabs the monster straight in the chest with a grunt and a glare towards it. She quickly pulls out, steps back, and breathes.

“Again, very well AJ. Next is the hand removal. AJ since you have the knife mind just keep goin?”

“Not really, no.” she responds, walking back towards the monster.

She turns around and lets it grab her on the shoulder. As soon as it does she quickly grabs its hand, ducks and turns around, twisting the zombies arm. She flings the knife downwards towards its wrist and cuts it off. Very quick. Very efficient. Very deadly.

“Well done AJ! Welp, I guess it’s Rainbows turn. You ready?”

“As ready as I’ll ever be I guess” she says as she tapers off.

AJ hands her the knife, and Rainbow turns around. She takes a deep breath and lets the zombie grab her.
Only this time at the moment it grabs her, she panics. And even worse, it managed to chew through the rope.
“OH SHIT” I gasp as I see it grabbing her and bringing her neck towards its mouth. It was hungry.

“HEELLP. GET IT OFF ME!” She screams and drops the knife.

I get my pistol out ready to blow its brains out, but I hear AJ call me off.

“Ah got this Matt, stand back” She runs over to the zombie, and turns quickly as she lifts her leg and kicked the zombie in the skull.

It flew right off its shoulders, landing a good 10 feet away from us. The zombie went limp, releasing its grasp of Rainbow.

Me and Shadow were stunned, both from the zombie nearly getting to Rainbow, but from AJ, literally kicking a zombie’s head off.

We quickly shook off the shock and went to RD’s comfort. She was crying, scared.

“It was just too much. When we first got here one almost got me, and I just remembered that when it grabbed now, I couldn’t handle it. I’m sorry Matt” she struggled to keep from a total breakdown.

“It’s ok, you did fine. We can work on this some other time. Let’s go home, k? And by the way, nice save there AJ." I say as she blushes a bit from the compliment.

She nods, all the other agree and we heads towards the car.

As we head back my phone goes off, I take it out to see it’s Pancho.

Huh, I wonder what he wants.

Chapter 7: Shopping Trip!

A/N: Thanks all for reading and following this! Just a quick nod to you all! And to all new people, please rate and comment! Thanks!

A/N 2: Remember, the groups is separated doing their own things. Last chapter was Matt and Shadow with Dash and AJ. Now, prepare for insanity with Mig and Beans and their day adventure with Twilight and Fluttershy! :D

Driving off to a local university, things were awfully awkward in the car for the four. Beans was driving with Twilight riding shotgun, and Mig and Fluttershy had the window seats in the back. Beans decided to break the silence after a few minutes.

“Well since we are on our own, I figure Matt is probably teaching the other two, uh..” trailing as he forgot AJ and Dash’s names.

“Applejack and Rainbow Dash” Twilight filled in for him.

“Yeah, those two,” Beans still not really comprehending the situation. “since he’s probably teaching them defense and Pancho and Xoch teaching the others, god knows what, we will work on the other important part of living in this world: Scavenging”

“What exactly are we scavenging?” Twilight quizzically asked.

“Anything and everything. Food, water, medical supplies, ammunition, fun stuff” Mig answer her, a slight smirk on his face when he said the last part.

“Do you not have that much of it in this world?” Fluttershy spoke up, making Mig smile and internally fanboy like crazy.

“No, we do…” Mig responded, trying to contain himself. “it’s just since we live together and use up all this stuff, we gotta go find it. No markets to buy from, we just take at this point”

“So you’re stealing?” Twilight asks, judging.

“It isn’t stealing if no one is selling it” Beans sarcastically cuts in, getting an annoyed face from Twilight. “Listen, since the zombies hit, it’s a free for all out here. Grab what you can, how you can. Otherwise, you’re done for. Right Mig?”

“Yah.” Was all he got out. He was too focused on the scenery, the bleak amount that was left.

“Well, anyway, we are gonna look around a university for some medical supplies. Nothing too crazy, just basic cold medicine stuff and what not. If they have food or water, even better.” Beans authoritatively stated, laying out their plans.

“Wait, have we cleared that area out yet?” Mig asks, realizing the possibility of putting the girls in danger.

“Actually no, so yeah, it could be dangerous. If it’s packed we book it, if not, we stock up.” Beans said, seeming like he thought of this beforehand.

“So how are we going to learn from this?” Twilight asks, still judging, HARD.

“You will see what kind of stuff we need and use, and learn to sneak around in case you need to be sneaky. And some medical stuff as well.” Beans responds, still sounding as confident as ever. “Hey, look, there it is.”

Up ahead they see giant towers and buildings, all in matching styles. The grand university is one to behold, and the girls take it in.

“You like how the place looks?”Mig asks the girls. They both just give him a nod and stare in awe. “Just wait, Twi. If we can get to the library, you’ll really fall in love.”

“Is it as big as the Royal Canterlot Library?” Twilight asks, teaming with excitement of a whole library as big as her favorite from back home.

“Bigger.” Mig smiles. Twilight smiled even larger at the thought of this.

They finally park and head over towards the library, but not without a lesson along the way.

“Okay girls, we will work on sneaking on the way to the medical center.” Mig takes over for this lesson. “First off, never run. Crouch walk, and try to keep on your toes.” Mig gives an example. The girls struggle, much like RD and AJ did, but they weren’t running, so they got it a lot faster. Plus it was Twilight and Fluttershy learning, something they both do very well and fast.

“Whisper when talking. It’d be better if you didn’t, but if you do, whisper. We prefer making hand signals, which you girls can learn later. For now, we whisper.” Mig keeps smiling at Fluttershy, but she averts her gaze every time they make eye contact. Disappointing Mig each time it happens, which was quite a lot.

After some brief practice, they make their way to the medical center near the center of campus, zombie free. Something no one was expecting, but they weren’t complaining.

“Wow, I’m surprised we haven’t run into any zombies yet” Mig thinks outloud.

“Shut up Mig! You don’t want to jinx us!” Beans quickly snapped back. Upon saying this, they hear a groan down the hall.

“God dammit Mig. Remind me to kick your ass later for doing that.” Beans said in an annoyed tone.

“Hey don’t blame me! It was already there!” Mig defended himself, laughing at the same time.

“Uhh, excuse me. Guys? Shouldn’t we run? That is, if you think we should.” Fluttershy interrupted, scared to death of the monster about 15 feet from her.

“No, I GOT DIS” Mig said as he ran up, unsceathing his machete, and cleaning cutting off its head.

“SWEET CELESTIA” Twilight blurted out at the sight of the decapitated head.

“Oh, I guess you still aren’t used to it huh?” Mig responded, seeing Fluttershy cowering from him behind Twilight, saddening him.

“GUYS. BE QUIET” Beans quietly, yet sternly commanded. “If you want to invite all the zombies here, be my guest. Just do it when I’m nowhere near you.” He sarcastically remarked. Just as he said that, they heard a whole armada’s worth of footsteps and groans close in on them.

“Oh shiznet…” Mig quietly said. “I think it’s time we..”

“RRRRRUUUNNNNNN” Fluttershy screamed at the top of her lungs.

They all made a mad dash back to the car, across the entire campus. Screaming and yelling and flailing their arms in the air the whole time. By the time they made it back to the car, they all couldn’t help but giggle at their scaredy-cat-ness.

“Hot bout the supermarket?” Mig asked, getting a laugh and a nod from everyone else.

They made their way to the market, and one they knew should be empty or near empty.

“Ok, this should be a lot better. Hopefully.” Beans commented as they walked on in.

The dark, quiet atmosphere of the market gave it a very eerie feeling. The smell of rotting meats and fruits filled the air, and instantly made everyone uneasy.

“I don’t like the looks of this place. You sure it’s safe?” Twilight asked, cautiously taking each step behind Beans.

“Yeah, I said its fine. We cleared this place out ages ago” Beans proclaimed. “Ok, let’s look for the canned food mainly.

Actually, Mig, you and Flutters go find water. Twilight and I got food.” Mig nodded and grabbed Fluttershy’s arm as they
walked to find water. Beans and Twilight headed towards the opposite side of the store.

Mig and Fluttershy found a surplus of water bottles, untouched and ripe for the picking. They found a cart and started loading the water up. Mig decided to start up a small conversation.

“Hey Fluttters,” She looks up, curious as to what he has to say. “I want to say I’m sorry for earlier. For scaring you. I didn’t want to do that, I really didn’t. But I want to protect you and Twilight. Especially you. That’s why I did it.” Mig was looking down, loading bottles the entire time.

Fluttershy had effectively stopped loading to gather her thoughts, and responded.

“But it’s just that you killed that poor innocent creature. What if they are just sick? You’re just killing sick people who need help! That isn’t a nice thing to do!” Fluttershy snapped at Mig, effectively breaking his heart into a million pieces.

“But…” He had no response. He was so caught off guard from her response he was left speechless.

“No butts!! You’re all killing these things!! I’m very disappointed in all of you! Especially Matt! He leads you all into doing this!”

This hit a soft spot in Mig, causing him to snap back.

“Leave him out of this! You don’t know his whole story! Don’t judge him if you don’t even know what happened with him and his family! You realize we don’t our parents or siblings with us? We all lost them. But Matt, his was, just… bad. He has his reasons for all this.” Mig defended his cousin, as he was sure his cousin would do the same for him.

The argument didn’t do much in Fluttershy’s mind, however.

“I. DON’T. CARE.” She claimed, staring into his eyes. This stare, just froze him. She stared at him, and he quivered like a baby.

“Ok!! I’m sorry!! Just stop staring at me like that! It’s freaking me out!!” Mig pleads to Fluttershy.

“HEY GUYS. SHUT THE HELL UP. IS THE MARRIED COUPLE READY TO LEAVE? CAUSE WE ARE” Beans yelled from the other side of the store.

“YEAH WE GOOD” Mig yelled back, though, things were far from good. Things were horrible, actually. Fluttershy just gave Mig The Stare, made him quiver like a little bitch, and broke his heart by her harsh attitude towards what they do to the zombies.

*Meanwhile, on the other side of the store*

“Ok Twilight, we want these, look for them.” Beans threw a can of soup towards her, which she dropped. “Careful. Anyway, anything that has that logo or same can design, throw in the basket. We will need it.”

“So we are only getting one type of food? Isn’t that kind of, dull?” Twilight questioned.

“Yeah, it is. But it’s the only food out there for now that isn’t bad. So we have to take advantage.” Beans quickly responded.
“Alright” At this point they were beginning to hear voices. At first, Twilight cowered and Beans went into defense mode, but soon realized it was Mig and Fluttershy yelling, seemingly at each other.

“I wonder what they are arguing about…” Twilight thought outloud.

“Whatever it is, it’s annoying as hell.” Beans commented, continuing his search for soup cans, grabbing the last of them.

“Well, this should hold us up for another week or so. Ready?” Beans asked Twilight, who nodded in response.

They could still hear the yelling, and Beans had enough. “HEY GUYS. SHUT THE HELL UP. IS THE MARRIED COUPLE READY TO LEAVE? CAUSE WE ARE”.

“YEAH WE GOOD” was the only response they got, it was good enough for Beans since it shut them up.

“Why did you call them a married couple? They don’t seem to even get along at all” said Twilight, who was thoroughly confused.

“Because that’s how married couples are” Beans said chuckling.

Twilight was still confused, but figured to learn about it later. They met up with the other two and went on towards the car.

The moment they walk outside they immediately notice smoke in the distance.

“Huh, wonder what that’s from” Mig asks no one in particular.

“Yeah, me too. Probably a random car exploding. A lot of those recently” Beans reasoned.

*ring ring*

Beans' phone was going off, it was Matt.

“Hey Matt what’s up?”

The others just watched as Beans froze, dropping his phone on the ground.

“GUYS WE NEED TO BOOK IT HOME, NOW”

Chapter 8: The Shit Has Hit the Car

A/N: So now, the last group adventure!! Get ready for some craziness! And with my current plans for this story (which could still change, slightly or drastically), we still got a while before this story ends ;D And remember, please rate and comment! :D
PS: Songs are kinda fun to listen to as you read, just a friendly fyi :D
PPS: Remember to check my page for updates and info on how the story is coming along!

“Boo-yah!! Let’s get rollin!” Pancho yelled out as he got into his car, with Pinkie Pie riding shotgun with Xoch and Rarity in the back. He also wanted some loud music, and he knew what to play exactly, something fun.

“Wow! I really like this song, what’s it about?” Pinkie asked, curious about the catchy tune.

“Hehe, well, if you have to know, it’s about two people fu-“

“TWO PEOPLE BEING FRIENDS AND WRESTLING!” Xoch interrupted, smiling at Pancho and Pinkie, trying to keep SOME of their original innocence intact. Pancho playfully gave her a death glare, she just stuck her tongue out at him.

“Um, what kind of wrestling?” Rarity asked, “This doesn’t sound like any sport I’m familiar with” she said cautiously.

“Welll, if you want to know, this wrestling involves no clothing and putting -“

“PUTTING OTHERS IN A CHOKEHOLD!!” Xoch interrupted again, smiling at Pancho.

“GODDAMMIT XOCH LET ME SAY THEY ARE FUCKING!!” Pancho finally yelled, before Xoch could interrupt him.
“What’s fucking? Is it fun?” Pinkie asked with a smile, legitimately curious.

The facepalm from Pancho could be heard around the world, and is exactly what caused the car explosion and everyone else seeing it from previous chapters.

No, I’m kidding. Well, not the facepalm, it was still a pretty hard facepalm.

Xoch couldn’t contain her laughter after seeing all this unfold, and Rarity was left there awkwardly laughing like she understood what was going on.

“Gah, I give up. We’re here anyway, c’mon everyone.” Pancho, unenthusiastically said. His fun was killed. He did leave the music going, yet it wasn’t want prettier than earlier. It was loud, it was raw, he liked it. The music gave him an adrenaline, and it fueled him to do what he was going to do, hell, it fueled him to do anything.

“Well, I’m not good at these speech things. But, I will tell you a part of living in zombie world. Not searching for stuff or learning to kill. But, we will learn to have fun and laugh.” Pancho finished with a smirk on his face.

“YYAAAYYYILIKEHAVINGFUNWHATKINDOFFUNAREWEGOINGTOHAVE?HUH?HUH?HUH?
ITHINKWENEEDSOMEPARTYMATERIALSFORTHI-“

“Wwooaahh ok there calm down Pinkie” Pancho tried to stop her before she pulled out that party cannon, if she had it. He didn’t know if she would bring it out, but didn’t want to risk it.

“And the type of fun will involve that” pointing towards a car in the distance “going KABOOM! And will learn about zombie kill of the week (A/N: SHOUTOUT TO MY FAV ZOM-COM Zombieland!), where we get bragging rights for the funniest/coolest kill of the week.” Pancho happily said.

“You, actually are proud of killing these things?” Rarity asked, looking disgusted at him.

“Hell yeah! It’s the only thing that keeps me sane, plus we need to laugh a bit, relax if we want to survive this with our heads, literally and figuratively.” Pancho giggled.

“It just seems so… barbaric.” Rarity replied

“It kinda is, I like it” Pancho squeed. “Anyway, let me show you” And with that Pancho pulled out his auto shotty and unleashed hell on the defenseless car. *BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM* Is all you heard from the loud death machine. Pinkie and Rarity covered their ears as it rang out. Holes filled the front of the car, and soon enough you could see smoke coming from the bottom of the hood.

“ooohh yea that’s what I want to see.” Pancho grinned. He looked towards Rarity and Pinkie, and took out his handgun and held it out towards them “Your turn! One of you has to go!” He happily cheered.

Rarity looked suspicious of the whole thing, but Pinkie was willing.

“I’ll try!! This looks fun!” She exclaimed. She took the gun from him, but didn’t know what to do with it. “Hey, how come you got stuff to come out of yours but not mine!?” Pinkie was quite confused.

“Oh, well you point it at the car, like you did before, and pull this trigger here” Xoch told her, showing an example and fired a shot at the car.

“OOHHHH OK LEMME TRY!!” she quickly took the gun and turn all around pointing it, making Pancho and Xoch duck.
“Careful!! They don’t just kill zombies!!” Xoch yelled out.

“Oh, teehee, sorry!” Pinkie apologized, and aimed the gun at the car. *BANG* The recoil sent her back a bit, but she somehow hit the car.

“WWOOOWWW THAT WAS FUN” Pinkie yelled out, looking at the gun before aiming it again and firing two quick shots, but understanding the recoil without anyone telling her.

“I LIKE THIS TOY. CAN I TRY YOURS PANCHO!? THAT BIG ONE?” She asked, really getting excited now.
“Umm I don’t think so, not yet. I don’t think you can handle the –“ Too late. She ran and snatched it out of his hands before he could finish. She ran out and positioned herself and fired a shot of the shotgun. This time it thoroughly sent her flying on to her ass, but she laughed at this.

“WOW THIS IS EVEN MORE FUN. I LIKE THIS. HERE YOU GO PANCHO” She threw the gun at him, luckily he was paying attention and caught it without setting it off.

“I think you created something you can’t stop…” Xoch whispered to Pancho.

“I KNOW! Don’t you love it? Another fighter for the group, I like it.” Pancho laughed. “well, your turn Rarity!” He said, focusing his attention on her now, who was quiet this entire time.

“Do I haavveee to?” She asked in her whiney voice.

“Ugh, no you don’t. You can watch.” Pancho didn’t even try. He figured she wouldn’t be worth the time to convince. “Pinkie, you can finish off the car if you want. Any weapon you want.” He pointed towards the handgun, his Auto Shotty, Xoch’s .44 Magnum, or an AK that Pancho stole out of their weapons room for shits and giggles.

“Ummmm, I want this one!” She grabbed the AK and tried firing, but it didn’t go off.

“Heeyy, what gives? I wanted to shoot this thing!” She said, banging the gun with her palm.

“Oh, it’s on safety. Let me turn that off for you” Pancho said as he flicked the switch. “Now, try.”

And with that, the rounds flew out of the gun, with her quickly aiming the gun towards the sky.

“WOW! Haha this gun is great! I want to keep this one!” She said as she hugged it. She aimed it again at the car and continued firing until it was out. “Aww man, no more?”

“do not fear, my Pony friend! We have more ammo!!” Pancho declared, as he took the gun from Pinkie and reloaded it for her.

By this time, the car had become engulfed in a flame from the hood, and smoke was getting high up.

“Ohhh she’s getting close!! I can’t wait!” Pancho teemed with joy.

In the midst of all this, Rarity caught something move in the car.

“Wait, I think someone is in that car!” She yelled, pointing.

“What!?” Xoch and Pancho were caught off guard. But Pancho quickly reasoned it had to be a zombie, it it was moving. The amount of bullets that got through had to pierce it, so it can’t be alive.

“Naahh I wouldn’t worry bout it, Rarity. We fired too many shots in that car, if it’s moving, it isn’t truly alive.” Chris told her, she didn’t like that answer. Being the Element of Generosity, she had to try to help.

“NO! I must save whoever is in there! I just know that’s someone alive!” She ran towards the flaming car, Pinkie still firing.
“Pinkie stop firing!!” Pancho demanded. She abruptly stopped, realizing what was going on. “Rarity, get away from that car! It’s going to blow!” Pancho warned.

She did not heed his warning and got to the car. She opened up the back door, and saw what Pancho warned: a zombie.
She froze in place at the proximity of the monster, it just stared right back at her. Eventually it made the first move and lunged at her with all that it could. She realized what was happening and finally snapped out of it, and tried to get away. But, the monster got a hold of her flowy dress as she turned around. She couldn’t break free of it. She screamed bloody murder as she tried to escape. The monster climbed his way up to her, ready to make a meal out of her before the car could take them. The others couldn’t do anything. They knew getting too close to that car would be too dangerous, and didn’t want to risk shooting and missing and hitting Rarity instead.

Pancho finally decided something needed to be done.

“Fuck it, I’m going in” he said, determined. He took his first running steps at the car as the zombie was ready to take his first bite.

*BOOOOOMMMMM*

The car exploded.

Xoch and Pinkie gasped at the sight of the giant explosion.

Pancho froze.

“Oh no…” was all he could mutter.

No one could believe what just happened. Her kindness, her generosity, just got her killed. In a freak accident too.
“FIND HER!” Pancho yelled out, and they quickly scattered around the car. Within seconds Xoch yelled out. “She’s here!! I THINK SHE’S STILL ALIVE!!”

They all ran over to check. She was badly burned all over her body. Her hair was fried, black char covered her body. Most of her dress was gone, and she was extremely hot to the touch. But still breathing, barely.

“Oh my god you’re alive. Ok hold on Rarity we’re gonna patch you up. I promise. Hold on” Pancho told her. They were all scared, and didn’t know what would happen. And if that zombie did get a bite, but they didn’t see anything, and hoped for the best.

But of course, nothing is all easy. Pancho turns around to see another fine sight: a line of zombies converging on them. All the loud music, gun shooting, and not the explosion had shown the zombies where they are, and they found them.

“FUCK. We can’t catch a break can we?” Pancho pouted. “Pinkie, I know this is sudden, but I need you to take these things out. You and Xoch cover me as I get Rarity to the car. Ok?”

Pinkie nodded with an extremely happy smile. Xoch gave a serious nod and readied her gun. They ran out towards the mass of zombies and started firing. Xoch had extreme precision with her shots, and every time you heard her shoot, a zombie fell towards the ground. Pinkie just ran around with her new toy and fired like mad. She mostly hit them in the chest. But still hit a number in the head. Pinkie was laughing the whole time, blood flying all over, getting all over her and Xoch’s clothes.

Pancho ran in between them, carrying Rarity on his back. Xoch was getting closed in and Pancho saw this.

“BABE WATCH OUT!” He yelled out. She didn’t need the warning. She pulled out her other handgun, and begun to do more work. One got particularly close, and she hit it in the head with the bud of one of the guns, stunning it. She then grabbed it, pushed it into another zombie, and shot. One bullet, two zombies. She grinned, and kept shooting.

"Zombie kill of the week nominee.." Pancho thought to himself as he watched his girl kick ass.

They finally get to the car and the girls covered Pancho as he secured Rarity in her sear in the back seat.

“Xoch get in the back with her. Pinkie get in the front!” Pancho ordered.

They all got in and drove off.

“Shit shit shit shit, I need to get the others back home. First, Matt..”

He got out his phone and called up Matt to get back up at Base Camp.

Chapter 9: Calling the Dr. Your Patient is Waiting.

A/N: Yeah, I was gone for a while (or what feels like it) and I’m back with another exciting chapter! Hope you all like it! Enjoy! Don’t forget to rate and comment!! :D

Matt’s POV

“WHAT!?” Was all I could get out after hearing the news about Rarity from Pancho.

“I’m dead fucking serious Matt. We need to get back to Base Camp and work on her, ASAP” Pancho replied, sounding as serious and worried as ever.

“You know I’ll be there. See you soon. God Bless”

“Shit, we’re all gonna need it in these crazy times” he responded, hanging up right after. I didn’t even want to think about any bad possibilities, just the possible ways to help treat Rarity right now. Anything else would come after we get back and try to do our best.

“EVERYONE IN THE CAR NOW!!” I yell out, and startling everyone as well.

“Jee willickers, why the rush?” AJ asked, still walking to the car, not hustling like I did.

“Cause Rarity’s hurt! Bad! Now the sooner you get in, the sooner we can get to her. So if you don’t mind…” I point to the backseat, with a sarcastic tone.

“WHAT!?!?” Everyone yelped. Yupp, shit’s getting real now.

“Ya, you heard me. Now please, GET IN!” I yell again, this time everyone promptly getting in. I screech off towards base camp. I see a zombie on the way, I felt a tad upset, so as I drove by I opened up my door and let it collide with the zombie, sending it flying.

Gah I needed that.

“What happened with Rarity?” Dash asked me, sounding scared.

“Remember that explosion we saw a bit ago? Well turns out Rarity got caught in that explosion.” I responded, trying to hold back my scared feelings.

“Is she going to be alright?” RD asked what we were all thinking.

“I hope so…”

Beans POV

“Why? What’s goin on?” Mig asked, somewhat reluctantly.

“Rarity just got seriously hurt. That smoke over there?” Beans said pointing towards the smoke in the distance. “That was a car explosion. Rarity was right next to it when it exploded, really messing her up. We need to get back to fix her up!”

“Oh shizznet. Well why didn’t you say so? Let’s book it!” Mig responded. Fluttershy and Twilight were stunned at hearing the news. The boys nearly forgot about them.

“Oh shit, the girls…” Beans whispered to himself. He looked to see they were nearly heartbroken after hearing their best friend was gravely injured.

“Girls, she’s going to be ok. But we have to hurry back to make sure she will be. Ok?” Beans sympathetically reasoned with them. Twilight agreed with the reasoning and ran for the car. Fluttershy soon followed, but reluctantly. Almost afraid of going with them, with Mig.

Everyone raced towards Base Camp. Pancho and company got there first, followed by Beans and Co. Matt and his group were the last to reach home.

We got back to the sight of Pinkie and Fluttershy outside.

“Hey where are the others? Hows Rarity?” I quickly ask the girls.

“They’re all inside, upstairs, trying to help her.I can’t be there, she doesn’t look right, I can’t stand seeing her like that.” Fluttershy got out, scared of the fate of her friend. “And I don’t know how Rarity is doing, really. She just doesn’t look well.”
“And I’m out here to keep Fluttershy company! We all need to smile a bit more! Even now!” Pinkie yelled, jumping for glee.

Still Pinkie, at least one of them still has their usual cookiness to them. Good.

“Alright, let’s head upstairs and check up on them. Girls, you can choose to join us or not. Up to you.” I ask RD and AJ.

“I’ll join you guys. I don’t want to be away from Rarity. I want to help!” RD responded, still sounding kind of shaken up.

“Ah’ll go too. No way Ah’m gonna leave Rarity alone in a time like this.” AJ reasoned. With that, we all went up to see the situation.

We got up there to see Pancho, Mig, and Twi all huddled around Rarity on a bed.

“Hey Pancho, how she doin?” I ask Pancho, barely getting his attention.

“Burned. Hurt. Ow.” Was all I got.

Well no shit ow. Thanks for the intelligent report bro.

“Twilight, mind deciphering what he said?” I annoyingly asked, still haven’t looked over Rarity myself.

“She has 3rd degree burns all over her body. We are doing our best to cool her down, but you don’t have much ice so it makes it hard. A zombie almost had her, and we thought it did get her. But there are no bite marks anywhere so we can only assume she didn’t get bit.” Twilight responded. Finally, a detailed answer.

RD and AJ were still stuck at the door. They couldn’t believe their eyes. There was their friend, who they could barely see through us crowding the bed. But they knew she was there, but didn’t want to accept it.

“Golly, Rarity sure looks mighty bad.” AJ whispered to Rainbow.

“Yeah, I can’t believe it. But, I guess we are lucky we ran into these guys, huh?” Rainbow responded to AJ, still whispering.
“Ya darn right we are. But I changed mah mind, I can’t stick here, it’s too much.” AJ resolved, before quickly turned around and walked out. Leaving Rainbow there at the door, still frozen.

It took a second to register that a zombie almost got Rarity. “Woah, hold on a second. A zombie almost got her? Lemme look. Whereabouts did it almost get her?” I ask, finally reaching Rarity.

Her skin had been discolored and burnt all over. She was quiet. But breathing, luckily. She was extremely hot to the touch, this was bad. My little medical knowledge remembers 3rd degree burns normally require surgery. We currently lack a surgeon at the moment so it might be difficult to perform it.

First, however, I examine for those bite marks Twilight mentioned, or lack thereof.

“The zombie tried for her neck. But again, I don’t think it got her.” Twilight responded, trying to get me to believe her words.
“I trust what you saw and believe, Twi. But you can never be too sure about these sorts of things. If it goes unnoticed we are all at serious risk.” I reason to her, sensing her annoyance.

I continued examining Rarity’s neck. It got very little burning. It looked more 2nd degree, possibly even first. But, no bite marks. None that I could see.

“Pancho did you ever examine for bite marks?” I ask him as he’s still trying to patch up Rarity.
“Yes. Nothin.”

At least this made sense.

“Ok, let’s conclude she didn’t get bitten. There’s still these burns. How’s her back?” I ask, trying to get a better idea of what’s going on here.

“Not bad. It, along with her neck, got the least of the blow. It was really weird, considering that’s the part that faced the car.” Twi thought. “Unless the zombie on her back took the damage for her…” She began to realize that as a major if not the answer to why Rarity’s back and neck weren’t as bad.

“Makes sense. But still, normally surgery is done to remove burns of this magnitude.” I still think outloud.

“Then let’s do it.” Pancho muttered out, finally stopping his work on Rarity. Lots of burn cream all over body, along with ice packs all around her.

“Excuse me, Pancho?” I asked, dumbfounded at what he said.

“Let’s do the surgery. We got the materials, remember? When we searched that hospital? We have the equipment, and you got the know-how.” Pancho reasoned.

“That’s insane! What if we screw up!? We’ll kill her!!” I yell, thinking Pancho finally lost it.

“If we don’t, she will die. We have to try. It’s her best hope.” Pancho responded, calmly.

Crap. He was right. There was no way around it, if we wanted her alive. Which we did, so I finally conceded to the idea.

“Fine. You’re right. We need to operate. Now. We can’t wait. Get the equipment. Twilight, get plenty of water. This could take a while.”

God help us.

A/N: Had to do some Wiki searching for some of that burn info hehe :D Anyway, DUH DUH DUHHHH. What'll happen next chapter? Wait and see ;D

A/N 2: I wonder if anyone caught my huge derp in this chapter...

Chapter 10: The Protector

A/N: Next chapter! YAY! Hopefully you enjoy this one! Please rate and comment so I know if I’m doing good or not. Remember this is my first ever fic! :D

“Well dammit, Pancho, get the medical supplies from downstairs. Shadow, go inform the girls we will be a while up here. Twi you go too.” I ordered the group upstairs, still uncertain whether this was the best thing to do for Rarity.

“But I want to help! I don’t to sit and do nothing to help my friend!” Twilight protested.

“Well how much have you learned about the human anatomy? I don’t doubt your medical expertise if we were ponies, but we are a different species all together.” I tried to reason with her.

“Well, not much… But I can learn!” she responded.

“No, we don’t have the time. We have to act now. I’m sorry Twi, really, I am.” I sympathetically told her. She wasn’t too happy with that at all.

“C’mon Twilight, let’s go downstairs. We can do something else to help out, okay?” Mig tried to help the situation. It didn’t really do much good for her, I could tell she was upset, who could blame her? But there wasn’t anything she could do, plus I don’t know how steady she would be with those hands.

Pancho eventually got back with the medical supplies, and it was just me and him. We were nervous as hell, but something had to be done for her, and this was the best thing we could think of.

“Alright, bro. She has it worst on her arms here” I say pointing towards her left arm “and right shoulder here, as well as the back of her right leg. Those need this removal bad. But also her lower back is pretty toast as well. So I say we focus on her shoulder, her leg, then her back, then her arm. Sound like a plan?” I ask him.

“Sounds good to me. And, sorry about all this. I shoulda been more careful.” Pancho said, with a slight rasp to his voice.
“We can discuss that all later. For now, let’s focus on getting Rarity patched up.” I responded, holding back a tad bit of anger directed towards Pancho, and myself.

We got out the scalpel, and started cutting around her first bad burn. It was a real soft and easy cut, making me a little uneasy. Once I finished cutting around it we slowly removed it. Blood starting seeping out a bit, Pancho quickly got some gauze and patched it up. That went surprisingly well.

*Back downstairs while the work is being done, Beans’ POV*

I was getting worried, about what might happen to Rarity. All the girls were nervous as hell. I need to distract them.
“Hey girls, I got an idea to pass the time. You ever heard of video games?” I ask them, trying to sound peppy for them all.
They all shake their heads, looking slightly confused.

“Great. Well, you know the TV and how we watch stuff on it, ya?” I ask, this time getting a nod from them. “Well with video games, they are games you can play on the TV. You can control characters on different adventures, or race, or fight, or nearly anything!”

They seemed intrigued by the idea, and I knew I needed a good game to reel them in. I go to the TV and make sure the Wii is plugged in. It is, awesome. Then I go to the cabinet in the same room, and grab one of the boxes with a game in it. The title? “Super Smash Bros Brawl”.

“This game, is a fighting game. You choose a character and fight. Try to knock them off the stage, and whoever loses their last life loses. It’s a last man standing type of deal. Who wants to try it first?” I ask, no one raises their hand.

“Fine, AJ, Rainbow Dash, you two can go first. Against Shadow.” I ordered.

“Aww what? Why 2 on 1? That isn’t fair!” Shadow complained.

“What? You too big of a wimp to go against two girls who never even heard of the term video game?” I retorted. It shut him up quickly and he agreed to play.

Applejack and Rainbow seemed a little more intrigued to try it. The game started up and Shadow set up the match settings. 5 lives each, no time limit. Shadow chose his favorite character, Snake. The girls took a bit to choose, but eventually found one they liked. Applejack chose Donkey Kong, and Rainbow chose Sonic. Shadow chose the stage as well, going on the Pirate Ship (from LoZ: WW)

First thing that was said was by AJ:

“Woah look at those little critters! My monkey looks big, he gon’ put a stompin on ya’ll!”

“Nyuh-uh! My blue guy is going to get you good!” RD retorted, sounding motivated.

Then they realized they have no idea how to control them, and resorted to button mashing. Shadow laughed as their characters flailed about on screen. He attacked them from afar, and continued laughing his ass off.

“Girls, use the sticks to move! And use the A button to hit!” I call out, and they quickly use my advice to improve. They got a hold of it quick, because after they both lost a couple lives they were fighting smart. Eventually they were all yelling as the fighting took place, and everyone got involved and was cheering and yelling. We all were taking turns to play, it was a blast.
I notice Twilight whisper to Mig for a bit, before I see them begin to head out for the door.

“Hey! Where you two going?” I call out while everyone else is distracted at AJ and RD’s competitiveness.
“Quick scouting. Be back in 5. I promise!” Mig responds before heading out.

They better not get us in more trouble.

*Back upstairs to Matt’s POV*

We repeated the process of cutting, peeling, and patching up all over her body, where she needed the removals the most. It took us a couple hours of work but we eventually did it.

We succeeded. She’s gonna pull through.

We both heaved a heavy sigh in relief. She heavily covered in gauze, but knew that at least the burnt areas were much better and her blood flow should run smooth now. She was still knocked out cold, but still breathing, regular heartbeat, she should be fine. We decided to let her rest and head downstairs, and find out why it got so loud downstairs.
We get down to find AJ and Dash playing…. Super Smash?

Awww sheeett, someone introduced them to video games. This won’t end well. They were surprisingly good at the game and played it smart, like me.

“Hey Matt, you might have some competition in this game for once” Xoch told me, implying the skill of both the girls. Everyone knew I was the best out of the group in that game, our favorite game.

“Heh, we might need to settle who’s the best huh? I’m down for a good ol’ fashioned beat down as always.” I triumphantly proclaimed. Then I noticed, we lacked a Mig and a Twilight.

“Hey, where’s Mig and Twilight? I thought they were with you guys.” I ask, curious.

“Oh, they left. I don’t know why. I think he said scouting, but back in 5?” Beans responded, unsure of his own answer.
“Well, fuck. Remember, people? We keep tabs on who is where AT ALL TIMES. We do this to make sure we have no accidents or issues. Plus we aren’t worried or kept in the dark on each other. FUCK.” I angrily yell out. No one really noticed, which upset me even more.

I get out my phone and try calling Mig, but he doesn’t answer. I tried a few more times and same thing, no response.

That isn’t good.

“God dammit” I whisper, before I yell out for everyone to hear “DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE MIG AND TWILIGHT WENT OFF TO?”

“They left? Where’d they go?” AJ responded, pausing the game.

“Yeah, we didn’t even notice” Shadow added. This set me over.

“GOD DAMMIT EVERYONE. I just said this, we need to know where everyone is at all times, so situations don’t get fucked. I tried calling him 5 times and he hasn’t answered. He’s good with his phone too, so something isn’t right. Best part? We have no fucking clue where he is because no one got a response from him or Twilight on where they went. This is just fucking ridiculous.” I was seething, and terrified.

“Calm down there mister!” Rainbow cut in “I’m sure they’re perfectly fine, they’re probably-“

My turn to cut in.

“YOU’RE NOT SURE! None of us are! That’s why I’m so goddam worried something might have happened! For all we know they got ambushed and are both dead!” You could hear the dust hit the floor it was so quiet after my burst of anger.

“Why are ya more wound up than a rattlesnack in a pickle barrel? Ah don’t think you need to be this crazy over where they are.” AJ said, a little annoyed at my anger.

“BECAUSE I’M TRYING TO PROTECT YOU ALL! I don’t want anything to happen to ANY of you if I’m here to do something about it. The way I lost my parents, my sister, my girlfriend…” I began to taper off, and AJ began to regret her last statement.
“I lost those closest to me in the beginning of the craziness, and after that I swore not to let that happen to anyone else. I can’t handle anymore pain.” I was beginning to tear up, memories of the past, flooding my mind. It was a wave of pure emotion, raw emotion.

“Well everyone else here lost their parents, what makes you so special?” RD again asked, sounding so sure of herself.
“Oh no…” Shadow whispered.

“What makes me special? What… makes me special? You think that I’m under the impression that I’m special? If I’m special my fucking parents would be here! My fucking little baby sister would be here with me! Not up in fucking heaven! They all died in the worst possible way that I could have imagined. They, were all lucky.” I say pointing towards the group.

“Their parents abandoned them, or just flat out rejected them. They didn’t really give a crap about their families, except me. I did, and I lost them. In a terrible way..” I was crying hard at this point. There was no point holding back my tears. They were already out, I gave in.

“What happened, sugercube? You know you can tell us anything” AJ asked, sounding worried for me.

“I don’t wanna talk about it. Let’s just… let’s just find Mig and Twilight. But we can’t leave Rarity here alone.” I began to clear myself up as best I could, trying to sound better. I was still miserable on the inside. Remembering my loving mother, my brave father, my innocent little sister… I always thought life would be nothing without them, especially my little sister. I’m still amazed I’m here without her.

“Pinkie, Pancho, Fluttershy, and Xoch, I want you to stay here and watch over Rarity. Everyone else, split up and find them.”
“WAIT! I THINK I KNOW WHERE THEY ARE!” Beans yelled out, even startling me.

“I remember when we first split, we went to the university. She was amazed at the library.” He began to think.

“And she wanted to learn more about the human anatomy to help with Rarity…” I also thought outloud.

“She’s at the university library.” We both concluded at the same time.

“FUCK! But it’s infested with zombies. We split there and went to the market instead.” Beans said, worried.

“You serious? Why the hell would they do that? Is Mig stupid?” I was annoyed, beginning to forget the past, for now.

“I don’t know, but we should hurry” Beans concluded.

“I agree. Let’s go people.” I gesture towards the way out and RD, AJ, Shadow, Beans and I headed out.

God let them be ok.

A/N: Well, another chapter in the books!! Or book... whatever. Anyway, expect things to pick up a bit more from chapter to chapter. Thanks for reading!! :)

Chapter 11: No Breaks! Back to Work!

A/N: Hey y'all! Hope you're digging the story, it's beginning to pick up! :O
Well let me know what you think, good or bad. I gladly take all comments! Thanks you all! Love the support I am getting on it thus far! :D

***Mig’s POV***

Twilight got closer to me as everyone was busy watching Applejack and Rainbow Dash play Brawl. It kinda made me uncomfortable as she got even closer, and closer.

“Uhh, Twi, everything cool?” I asked awkwardly, hoping to snap her to reality. It worked. I think.

“Oh, uh, yea?” She fumbled her words a bit, blushing. D’aaww

“Well, uhh, you’re getting really close. Is there something you want?” I ask, almost hoping she’d say no.

“Well, there is one thing I want. I want to learn about the human body, and well, I want you to help me with that.” Twilight quietly whispers to me, I notice we got Beans’ attention a bit.

BUT WAIT WHAT DID SHE ASK!? SHE WANTS TO LEARN ABOUT THE HUMAN BODY WITH ME!?

“Woah, uh, Twi, you sure you want me? I mean, what about someone like Matt or Beans? I’m sure they would be good guys to study…” I didn’t know what to think of that question, I was still baffled.

“Study, you? Oh no” she giggled. Why she giggling? “I don’t want to actually observe you, though that is a good idea, I just want a way to get to that library we saw at that university” she said smiling.

“Ohhhhh ok well I can do that. Let’s go!” I was enthusiastic about getting out, so we hopped off the couch and went on our way. I felt like facepalming for thinking she wanted to observe my body, derp.

“Hey where you two going?” Beans yelled to us over everyone else’s voices.

“We are going scouting in the library at the university. Be back by 5 I promise!” I yelled back, though I don’t know how much he heard. I didn’t really give a funk. We just left like that.

“Off for learning!” I yell out, cheerily. I got Twi to giggle a bit, which made me feel accomplished. We got in our car and went on our way.

***Matt’s POV***

We all were in the white van, and hauling major ass to the library. Apparently they left about an hour ago, so they should’ve been done by now. But, my positive thinking just tells me it’s Twilight in one of the biggest libraries in the state, Celestia knows how she would feel in there.

I was driving the van, with Shadow in the front with me. AJ, RD and Beans were all in the back. I still needed my soundtrack for speeding through the streets.

“Matt, you need to show me more songs by this band. I love them! They RULE!” Dashie confessed, constantly banging her head.

Yeeee made her a metal-head. Me gusta.

“Sure, once we get back I can show some cool stuff. Other bands like them too. But still, lets focus here. We got two people to find in a giant library, and who knows how lost Twi could be in there. Mig won’t know his way around, and the place is infested with zombies. God you’re lucky you have me to navigate the library. Thank god I went here.” I said, getting back on track.

We eventually got to the school a few minutes later, guns locked and loaded.

“Alright people, lets split. AJ you’re with me, we will head around the west side of the library. The rest of you go east side. Call if you need anything. If it’s extremely urgent, yell. We’ll hear ya.” I order, and everyone nods in agreement and heads off.

“WAIT!” Shadow yelled out, freezing us all. “Shouldn’t the girls be armed? I don’t think they are.”

“Good point” Beans responds “Something small for each of them?”

“Yea, a pistol and a knife each. 3 reloads each.” I say, as I return to the van, unlocking the weapons chest in the back. I grab the necessary items and give them to the girls. “Point, and pull the trigger. Please don’t aim at us, that will hurt, a lot.” I say dryly, but everyone still laughed.

We ran towards the library, and already we noticed the high amount of zombies around the entrances of the library.
“Shit, ok people, high amount of zombies. Don’t hold back on bullets. Let em fly.” I yell out, and Beans and Shadow gave me a thumbs up, smiling. Man oh man I think they wanted to kill some zombies, cause I saw them run in guns blazing. RD followed behind them, but she didn’t seem to do much.

I couldn’t look at them all day, I had zombies to kill myself. And AJ, on the otherhand, had gotten ahead of me and was stabbing them in the head with amazing efficiency. ~~Dayum.~~

I run in with my shotgun and start unloading myself. Those things didn’t even know what him them. Me and AJ had amazing communication throughout the killing spree.

“Behind ya AJ!” I yell out, and she quickly spun around chopping off the zombies head, it’s body slowly falling to the ground.

“Thanks, pardner. Your left!” She yelled out and quickly duck below its grasp and shoot it in the head with my shotty.

*click click*

“Another one bites the dust…” I murmur to myself.

We quickly make our way in, taking out every zombie we see. AJ kept to the knife, she had a fondness for that thing I see. I alternated between my shotty and my knife and pistol. Neither one of us really skipped a beat when it came to killing those things.

We made our way through the entire first story and no sign of either Mig or Twi. Dammit. Well they probably went up.
We went up to the second floor and found a significantly less amount of zombies here. We stuck to our melee weapons it was that empty. We called out for the two, but no response.

3rd story it is.

We got up there and found a lot more zombies here, back to the firearms. We blew our way through those things and found them all huddling around one door, which was partially destroyed.

“THERE THEY ARE! THROUGH THAT DOOR!” I yell to the group, and they notice the door being attacked. We very quickly kill them off and yell through the door.

“MIG!? TWI!? YOU THERE!? ARE YOU OK!?” I yell out.

“The fuck? Who the hell are you?” responded a deep voice.

“Huh? This isn’t Mig?” I was thoroughly confused and now worried again.

“No, this is Curtis, who the hell are you?” the voice once again responded, with anger in it.

“Curtis? As in the Curtis from high school who abandoned all your friends because you’re a dick?” I ask.

Curtis had been a friend of ours, all of us, back in high school. But as soon as we graduated he called us all stupid, anarchist people who shouldn’t have friends because we lack logic. He basically called us everything bad imaginable, and felt justified by it all. So, yeah, we hated him.

“What? What do you mean? Who are you?” Curtis responded.

“Matt…..”

“Holy… it’s you!?” the door swung open and there he way. Long, shaggy black hair. Baggy blue jeans and a beat up green shirt. He had a goofy smile and olive skin. He hugged me.

“Ok, nice to see you too” I wore the fakest smile I have ever put on. But, if I wanted to find Mig and Twi, he might be able to help. “So, have you seen Mig and/or a girl around here?” I ask him

“Yeah, well, kinda. I heard screaming and yelling earlier, they were heading upstairs I think. I just hid here though.” He responded. That was all I needed.

“Alright people you heard him let’s head on up” I say, ignoring Curtis at this point.

“Hey, what about me!? I wanna get out of here as well!” Curtis asked, worried about his fate.

“Hey, listen, we are here to find Mig and a friend. Sorry. And we don’t have the supplies to help someone else now,” Total bullshit, I know. But I didn’t want him around, at all. It would just be trouble, I know it. “And plus, I don’t think you can handle the way we run things. By the looks of it you pissed your pants hiding from those things.”

What was a joke turned into an insult, as he had, in fact, pissed himself.

“Bahaha Matt he actually did piss himself! I can smell it back here!” Beans yelled out, laughing hysterically.

“Shut up Beans, we need to get moving.” I responded, and we ran off. Curtis just stayed behind, quiet.

We made our way up to the top floor of the library, and more zombies. We handled them pretty well, and I was happy Dashie was making progress in accepting this world, and fighting back. She slowly became more confident, which is good, you need that in this world.

We hear screaming off in the distance.

“MIG!! TWI! WE’RE COMING! HANG ON!” I yell, hopefully they heard us.

Please live. Please live. For the love of god, please live. Was all I could think to myself. But when we got there, it wasn’t a zombie that had caused the screams.

We found Curtis, with Mig’s gun in hand, and just standing there. But even worse, we saw Mig was shot in the stomach.
“CURTIS WHAT THE FUCKING HELL” I was absolutely seething with anger. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. The last family I have left, my cousin, was there dying. At the hands of someone, we both hated, and still wasn’t a zombie.

“I wanted to be saved! I wanted to feel wanted! But NO! You had to save this asshole and this wench!” Curtis growled between his teeth.

“Don’t you DARE call her that! I swear to God Curtis, put the gun down, and run for your fucking life. I’m showing my caring side now. Run.” I was ready to shoot him, I was surprised I didn’t. I guess since I knew him from before this hell. But still, I hated this prick.

“How the hell are you being caring? You’re telling me to run, into that pit of zombies downstairs!” He replied, confused and angry.

“There aren’t any left, we killed them all. And caring? I could have shot you and asked questions later, but I didn’t, for some damn reason I didn’t. Now, like I said before, run away. And don’t look back.” I cocked my shotgun for emphasis, and show I was ready.

He didn’t budge, and raised the gun towards me. Everyone was still, and I could feel someone grab my hand when he did it.
It was Rainbow Dash.

“It’s ok…” I whispered softly, trying to calm her. She didn’t buy it.

“No, it isn’t! This guy is crazy! He’s going to kill us all!” She blurted out, loud enough for him to hear.

“What!? I’m crazy? I can show you crazy! I can shoot this off willy nilly!” And proceeded to shoot at the ceiling. “Or, I could shoot people, like you!” He aimed his gun for RD and fired.

It was like time moved in slow motion. For I saw that bullet fly across the room, and hit RD in the shoulder. She collapsed to the ground in pain, and he smiled at her pain.

That was it.

I aimed my gun at his knees and shot him twice, once at each knee. He quickly fell to the ground in agony, dropping the gun.
“You’re going to fucking regret that you sorry sack of shit.” He probably saw the anger in my eyes, and his previous look of confidence and possible insanity quickly shifted to a look of pure fear.

“Beans, Shadow, help RD and Mig. Girls, you help. I’ll catch up” I order.

AJ didn’t like the idea of leaving me behind. “But Matt-“

“JUST DO IT.” I snapped back, causing her to flinch. They reluctantly got a hold of Rainbow and Mig and left the building.
I was left alone, with Curtis, who was bleeding profusely.

“We gave you an out, you could have run, and had a chance to survive. Hell, you might’ve had a chance to stay with us, if you had proven yourself. But, now, since you obviously didn’t like the idea of living, we will have to do something about that, huh?” I ask, he was silent, terrified.

I grab him by his shirt, and drag him along the library. I find a couple zombies still lurking around. I whistle, and get their attention. I simply drop Curtis and walk away.

“NO! PLEASE NO! DON’T DO THIS! I’LL DO ANYTHING I SWEAR! DON’T LEAVE ME!” He pleaded as I walked away. The zombies reached him, and began to make him a meal.

But yet, I still wasn’t happy. His ear-shattering scream of pain could be heard throughout the library, and this did nothing.

“FUCK YOU MATT. FUCK YOU. I HOPE YOU ROT IN-“

*BANG*

I put him out of his misery. As much as I wanted him to suffer, it was too much, even for me. I felt, almost bad for it. But he fucking deserved it, he shot Mig who might die, and tried to kill Dash, who neither one did anything to him. He chose all that, not me, I just defended those who I care about, like always.

I walked out, to find Mig being loaded up in the van. RD seemed shooken up, but wasn’t too bad. She would live, no problem.

I was just worried about Mig.

I got in, no one said a word, and we quickly drove off to Base Camp. To work on, yet another member of the group.

Chapter 12: Mending Friendships

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I was quickly driving home, Rainbow was bleeding pretty good, but it was slowly stopping. Shadow was helping her with it and was doing a good job. It was Mig who I was worried about, as Twilight and Beans both worked on him, trying to stop the bleeding. He was slowly growing more pale, and his breathing was getting sharper and wasn’t as smooth as we wanted it.
I was getting scared, really scared.

We finally got home and I was honking the horn like a madman to get the others to come out, and luckily they did.
They flew out that door, and waited for what could await them.

“Jeez Matt, where’s the fire?” Xoch asked as I got out of the van and went around and opened the back.

“It’s right here, now hurry and make room for two upstairs” I plainly said, as I opened the door to show a Rainbow Dash shot in the shoulder and bleeding bad, and a dying Mig.

“OH MY GOD WHAT HAPPENED!?” Pancho blurted out, completely taken off guard from what he was just witnessed.

“I’ll tell you later, but now Xoch and Pinkie, you go and hurry up and make sure upstairs is ready for these two!” I ordered.

“And Pancho, help us with em. Beans, you and I got Mig. Pancho, check on Rainbow.”

“Ahhh man, why does this hurt so much? I can’t take it!” RD yelled out in pain, she was crying pretty bad.

“I’m sorry Dash, I really am!” I yelled in response as Beans and I carried away Mig to the house.

We went upstairs, careful not to drop Mig and make things worse. As we got up we found Rarity in the same spot as before, still need to check on her as well, and room made on the bed for Mig. A big armchair had been set up for Dash when she got up.

“Ok, let him down gently…” Beans said as we put Mig on the bed. When we got another look at him, he was nearly white. But still breathing.

“G-g-guys? Y-you there?” Mig whispered.

“Yeah Cuz, We’re here. How you feelin big guy?” I whispered back, sounding worried as ever
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“I’ve had better days…” He coughed profusely, and spoke in a raspy voice. “Ugh, being shot sucks balls” he lightly joked. He always was a positive happy guy.

“Yeah, I know Cuz. Just hang in there, things’ll be ok. We’re gonn patch you up good” I told him, a tear coming from my eye. It wasn’t looking good for him.

“You better, Cuz. Remember, we need to play against AJ and RD in Brawl, kick some arse.” He said smiling at me. At this point RD came in with a rag up against her flesh wound, blood stained and tied around her. Everyone else also came up, I mean everyone.

“OH MY GOSH! What happened!?” Fluttershy yelped, completely terrified at Mig’s current state.

“Eh, not a good day for me, Flutters. But you get used to it” He said with a smirk, still trying to keep his upbeat attitude.

“Well it’s going to get better! We need to help you get better!” She responded, still sounding worried. Was she, growing fond of our Mig? “Someone get some medicine!” She ordered.

“Hey Fluttershy, he needs more than that.” Shadow responded, not amused.

“I know! But we start with the basics!” She snapped back. Damn, ok.

“Err, alright. You head the lady, get the meds!” I quickly ordered. She’s good with medical stuff, or something like that. At least she was from the show, so hopefully it carries over into a zombie world.

Beans came back with medications of different types.

“Ok. Oh, I need water!” Fluttershy thought outloud.

“I can get some, gimme a bit!” Shadow ran downstairs.

“A pitcher, please! If you, don’t mind, that is…” She tapered off. Ahh, still same old Fluttershy.

Shadow came back up with a giant pitcher of water. Fluttershy grabbed it and poured some on his wound, to clean it off I assume. She then gave some for him to drink, he barely got any down.

“Oh, all this blood…” She meekly said, seemingly grossed out.

“Alright, my turn to take over.” I confidently said. I grabbed the tweezers and got on my knees and up close to the bleeding wound. “Alright Mig, this’ll just hurt a lot. Hold still” I stuck the tweezers in, trying to find the bullet.

“AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH”, the bloodcurling scream of pain escaped Mig. He was hell now, and we were his only hope of salvation.

“Dammit stop moving!! You’re making things worse!” I cursed. He was still screaming in pain, and everyone flinched at his screams.

Meanwhile AJ and Pancho worked on RD.

“Be lucky you’re not in his position” Pancho said to RD as the screams of pain were heard. “You’re going to live. Easy.”
He had her take off her shirt and he cleaned the wound as best he could. The bullet was still in there, and he knew it.

“Now, RD, unfortunately the bullet is still inside you. We need to do what they are doing with Mig, get it out.” Pancho softly said.

A ghastly expression formed on Dash’s face. She doesn’t like that idea one bit.

“Wait, no! If I’m going to scream like that then no! That looks too painful!” She retorted.

“I know, it’s going to suck, I’m not going to lie. But, we have to, we don’t want you to get an infection. It will make things a lot worse.” Pancho reasoned.

Even AJ chimed in. “Sugercube, I agree with’m. If we are ta help make things better, we need’a get this out of yah.”
Rainbow groaned, in both pain and annoyance, and reluctantly agreed.

“GOTCHYA!” I yelled from across the room. I got the bullet out of Mig’s body. Well, now it’s just stop the bleeding and patch it up. Easier said than done unfortunately.

I notice a few surrounding Dash, and then it hit me.

She got fucking shot, and I hardly batted an eye.

God, if there was ever a time to feel guilt, it was then. I mean sure, I give myself some sort of an excuse cause Mig was/is dying, and she is going to live, barring some freak accident.

I told Beans, Fluttershy, Twilight and Shadow to help with Mig. I needed to check on Rainbow.

“Hey there girl, how ya holdin up?” I asked, trying to lighten the mood as much as I could, sounding awkward as hell.
“Ugh, not good.” She groaned in that raspy voice of hers. God, that crush on her wasn’t fair at all.

“Situation?” I ask Pancho, calmy.

“Bleeding is going down, but we still need to get that bullet out. We just barely got her to let us do it.” He quietly said, just quiet enough so RD wouldn’t hear.

“I’ll do it.” I said, loud for her to hear.

“Do what?” Dashie asked, confused and slightly worried. I walked back to our medical supplies and got another pair of tweezers and walked back, trying to look as calm as I could.

“OHHH NO, NOOOONONONONONONO” Rainbow nearly stood up, terrified now.

“Rainbow it was to be done!! We don’t want you to get an infection!” I retorted, she still not wanting nothing to do with what happened to Mig.

“Listen, it won’t hurt as much as it did Mig. He is weak and dying, thus everything hurts a lot more. Plus, that was in his stomach. You got it up here” I said pointing towards her shoulder “there aren’t as many pain receptors here, so it won’t be as bad. I promise.”

“Promise?” She looked up at me, those big purple eyes, with a pleading look to them.

“Yeah, Rainbow Dash, I promise.” I say smiling towards her, trying to comfort her. She finally does agree, and turns away. “Alright, hold still.” I say, sticking my tongue out in concentration, as the tweezers make contact in the flesh would.

“AAAHHHH” Rainbow flailed in pain.

“It’s ok, it’s ok. Hold still, it won’t be long” I say in a comforting voice, trying to get her to calm down. She is still in a lot of pain. Man, it kills me to see that. But it had to be done, and soon enough I had the bullet out.

“Ok, patch her up guys. She’s gonna be fine.” I heave a sigh of relief, and sit down in the corner of the room. Still taking in what’s going on around me.

It’s just so much. The girls come in to this world, this world filled with zombies. Everyone I knew and loved was dead, minus this small group here. And now I might lose the last amount of family I had left.

Why God? Why?

Chapter 13: Clear Chests

A/N: Sorry for the long hiatus. It's been busy. Relationship issues, busy school load, working two jobs. Life isn't easy, eh? Anyway, please rate and comment. I appreciate every bit of it. Thanks you guys, love you all.

“MATT COME QUICK!” I hear Twilight shout, snapping me out of my daze.

“Yeah? What is it?” I ask, expecting them to say Mig is gone, or near gone.

“I think we stopped the bleeding!!” Beans yelled out in happiness.

Oh my god.

“But…” I mumbled, in pure shock.

“Yeah, we’ve been pressuring it like a sonufabitch, and trying to clean it as well. With a few drugs added in, I think it’s all working now. He just might pull through.”

“Ah, I…. He…” I couldn’t believe it. He was going to live. “Wow…”

I was in disbelief, but in a good way, I was extremely happy. Mi familia. I could still say that, my family is still alive. Tears of joy escaped and ran down my cheeks, I was on Cloud 9. Beans saw this and gave me a deep hug. I tried my best to return it, but I was in so much shock I barely could. He understood, he pulled back and smiled, patting me on the back.

I walked out of the room, smiling. But, now that I know he is going to live, I felt the need to let out my anger. Angry at him, and Twi, for running off without telling anyone. That’s what gets you killed in this world, that’s how you end up dead – by doing spontaneous things, willy nilly shit with no one knowing.

“EVERYONE GET THE FUCK DOWNSTAIRS NOW” I yelled, rage filled.

They need this talking to. Shit needs to get straightened out, what the rules are, and how to be smart. Just because we have new members of this group doesn’t mean the rules and how we did things gets tossed out the window. I don’t hold much accountability for the girls, but more so for the others. But the girls needed to know how to live, how to survive. Hopefully what’s already happened has been a wake up call, to get their attention.

Everyone came downstairs, save Mig, Rarity, and Fluttershy. Flutters stayed to watch over them.

“Yo Matt what’s up?” Beans asked. “You sound pissed. Shouldn’t you-“

“SHUT THE FUCK UP!” I snapped back, causing him to flinch back.

“Woah what the hell man?” He asked, obviously taken aback by my sudden burst of rage.

“I’ll tell you what the hell. It’s everyone going off and doing whatever the fuck their hearts please.” I yell, looking at a lot of them.

“It’s shooting up cars in the middle of fucking nowhere and yourselves getting blown up” I say glaring at Pancho and them. “It’s running off to zombie infested areas without telling anyone!” I glare at Twi, she averts my glare. “You guys are all fucking the rules, the guidelines to fucking survive!” I was absolutely seething.

“Now, for the most part, you girls” I was looking down at the ground, not wanting to look at any of them “You girls didn’t or don’t know the rules all that well, so I will cut you some slack. But you GOTTA know what you can and can’t do here. If you don’t, you’ll end up like Rarity or Mig upstairs…. Or worse.”

Dead silence invaded the room. No one wanted to say anything, nor did I think they could think of anything to say. I didn’t care if I scared anyone, it was for their own good, I’m trying to protect them. I want them safe.

“But you others, there’s no fucking excuse. You all know what we can and can’t do. Just because these girls show up does it mean to ignore all that we’ve done for some extra fun.” The lecture continued, I sounded more pleading at this point.

“I’m all for fun, you all know that. But in moderation. We can’t attract those things here, nor can we go out and put ourselves in risky situations for no good reason.”

“Are you sure you’re for fun? It sure doesn’t seem like it!” Rainbow shouted out of nowhere. I think it caught all of us off guard. She was annoyed.

“When we first get here the first thing you teach us is shooting a gun and killing these things! And if we’re home all you’re doing is talking zombies and planning with the others! You never have fun!” She accused me.

Welp, if there was ever a time to get hurt, and extremely agitated all over again, I guess it’s now.

“Hold up there Rainbow Dash, Ah’m sure there’s a reason for it all” AJ defended me.

“Thanks, AJ” I nodded at her, she returned it.

“There is Dash, I want to make sure you were ready in case anything happened. We never know when we might get hit by a wave of these things. If we did, and I never taught you, you know the trouble you, us, would be in?” I asked her, she annoyingly shook her head.

Damn she’s still cute when she’s pissed.

“Bad trouble.” Dramatic pause ftw. “And like I said, all I want is for you guys to be safe. I don’t want anything to happen to anyone. Not after what’s happened with my own family and loved ones…” I taper off.

“Ok I’ve heard enough of this! Why are you always mentioning them? I’ve seen, no one else has their family! What makes you so special, huh bub?” She crossed her arms and glared at me.

I didn’t know how to respond, I just took a few steps back and sat of the chair that was conveniently behind me.
“It is different. We didn’t really care for our families” Beans spoke up.

“Yeah, I hated my family. I didn’t feel much when I couldn’t find them.” Shadow stated.

“You’re telling me, my parents, and same with Mig’s, just tossed us out on the street when the zombies hit.” Pancho added in.
“Matt, he cared for his, and they cared for him..” Beans was about to tell the story.

“Beans, it’s good.” I told him, he held up his hands in defense and took a step back.

“You wanna know why I’m the way I am?” I asked no one in particular, I guess more towards Rainbow. I didn’t look up for an answer, I just told it.

*sigh*

A/N: Ok, I know, short as hell chapter. BUT HEAR ME OUT. This next chapter is probably going to be long, plus, you find out Matt's past :O
So yea, I just wanted to get something out, let you all know I'm still here! I still have big plans for this story! So stick around! :D

Chapter 14: Old Memories, Same Heartbreak

A/N: This is Matt’s outward thinking. He is telling them the story of the first day, of how all this happened. So remember this is NOT PRESENT DAY. Though I use present tense, this is more of a recall of what happened. Don't forget to rate and comment! And I update my profile to let you know stuff going on regarding this story! Don't forget to check it out!
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I was at school, an hour from home. I remember it clear as day.

It was a small class, only about a dozen of us, and we were discussing the effects of film on society in the US in my discussion class.

“… and with those films by D.W. Griffith, they did do something special in the US then.” I finished my argument. Then we heard someone banging on the door.

“It’s open” my professor said. The person just kept banging. We were all confused a bit, and just laughed it off.
Eventually the one kid by the door got up and opened it for that person.

It was the last thing he ever did.

A fucking zombie collapsed on him, and starting eating his neck. His blood-curling screams of pain and terror were something I can never forget. It was a sight I still can’t stop envisioning. We all screamed in terror ourselves, at the sight of one of our friends getting murdered by what seemed like a cannibal, an insane one.

Eventually it realized there were a whole bunch of other hearty meals there and charged towards another guy. Big, burly guy. He pushed him off pretty easily, but the zombie landed on this one girl. None of us even thought about it but the zombie decided to take care of her. It made a good dent in her shoulder, the blood pouring out endlessly.

The big guy ran to the rescue, and punched the zombie to the ground. But of course, he was way too late. He went to her aid, while others focused on the first guy. They both rolled in pain and suffering, and we quickly did our best to get them ready to take to the medical center on campus.

But, things can’t go smoothly, eh?

The zombie that was punched got back up, and got a hold of the big guy.

Down 3.

I and the professor got the zombie off and pushed it away. I remembered I always had my little 3” knife in my bag, for any reason. I ran for the bag, and frantically looked for it.

*OOMF*

I got tackled by the zombie, and it tried to make me dinner. I was scared for my life, I kept it away pushing it at the shoulders.
“THE KNIFE! THERE’S A KNIFE IN MY BAG! SOMEONE GET IT!” I yelled in desperation. The pretty girl in class ran over towards my bag and looked for it. She found it, but didn’t know what to do.

“FUCKING OPEN IT AND STAP THIS THING!” I yelled in panic.

“I don’t know how to open it!!” she screamed. But the professor grabbed it from her and stabbed it right in the rib cage.

No affect.

“What the fuck, get it again!” I yelled. The professor did so and nothing happened.

“Try the head!” and the professor quickly stabbed it in the head and it went limp.

“Thank god…” I swore under my breath. “Thanks professor” I smile at him

“Don’t mention it, Matthew” he smiled back. But the moment was quickly destroyed when we heard another girl scream.

The first guy who got bit, bit the girl who just screamed.

Oh shit.

He was growling and foaming at the mouth, and his eyes had glazed over. And soon enough the first girl had the same stuff going on.

“RRUNNNN!!!” I yelled, and everyone quickly did so. But a few people didn’t get past the doors. They got caught by those things.

Not many of us were left. 4 down in class. 3 more on the way out. We were down to 4: Me, the pretty girl, the professor, and one other guy. We frantically looked around and saw nothing, everything was fine and dandy.

“Why isn’t everyone panicking!?” The girl asked.

“I don’t know….” I slowly said as I looked in another room. Everything looked fine, professor teaching, students listening.

“This is really weird.”

We all ran out to meet the true terror.

Hundreds of these things walked the campus.

“Oh god…” the professor muttered. “Listen, I want you all to get out of here. Run.” He told us, he didn’t have to tell me twice.

We ran our separate ways. I heard a yell and saw the guy get attacked, dammit. He was a pretty cool kid too.

I ran through the multiple zombies along the way to my car. Then it hit me.

Mom. Dad. My sister. My girlfriend.

Oh god, I need to hurry. I plugged in my earbuds which had a mic in them and connected it to my phone as I ran. Thank god for voice command.

“Call mom” I yelled, and it actually recognized it, to my surprise.

*ring, ring, ring, ring*

“MATT! Where are you?” my mom quickly asked me, sounding terrified.

“I’m still on campus! Please don’t tell me these things are over there as well!” I plead, praying it’s all ok there.

“They are!” She yelled. My heart sank. “Me and your father are in the office room, and he has his shotgun out. But he’s hurt. I think he’s bit”

What…..

“Mom, are you telling me…” I didn’t want to come to that realization…

“I don’t know Matt, but please hurry home!” she ordered me. I gotta listen to my momma.

“You got it mom. I’m on my way. But please, if anything happens to dad, do what needs to be done. I know he’s your husband, but PLEASE, for your children, do what needs to be done.” I beg her, hoping she will listen to me.

“I will Matt, just hurry!” She started crying, and hung up. I couldn’t breathe, my heart thumped harder than a wrecking ball on a building. The feeling was indescribable, I needed to get home.

I finally got to my car, and drove off. I next called my sister, hoping she would answer at school.

*ring ring ring ring ring ring*

No answer.

Dammit, I need to get her. Out of anyone, she was the most important. I couldn’t lose my baby sister. Not her, anyone but her.

I called my girlfriend next. I loved her, I really did. We had been together for 3 years, and on our 4th anniversary I was ready to propose. Fuck not getting married while in college, I loved her, and she loved me. I was ready, and I knew she was, hehe.
But I wanted to make sure she would be ok, if I needed to get her, if she was alive.

*ring ring ring*

“MATT!! Oh my god, I can’t take it!” She screamed through my Bluetooth device.

“What what what??” I asked

“These, things!! They all ate my parents!! Or, I thought they ate them. My mom tried to eat my sister but only bit her. I thought it was all ok.” She told me.

Oh no.

“And she isn’t! She turned into one of those crazy flesh-eating things!! It’s like a zombie apocalypse!” She yelled at me. I didn’t know what to say to that, her family was all gone, just like that.

“I’m so sorry honey, I really am. I’m on my way to get you-“

“NO! Don’t! Please, don’t….” She tapered off, this really scared me.

“Don’t? Why not?” I asked her

“Because, I don’t need any saving. I’m saving myself from this.” She calmly told me.

“Wait, what do you mean? Do you have weapons over there?” I asked her, almost excited.

“Yeah, my dad’s .38.” Was all she responded, she sounded like she was crying.

“Well that isn’t going to get you very far babe” I say, trying to lighten the mood.

“It’ll get me far enough. I need to wake up from this nightmare, and this is the only way I can think of.” She resolutely said, mainly to herself more than me.

“Kim, please, tell me, you’re not thinking of what I think you’re thinking about….” Tears started to fall, I knew it, but I didn’t want it to happen.

“Matt, there’s no way out! Can’t you see it!? It’s a bad nightmare! And I’m going to wake up!!” She yelled, sobbing hysterically. She was broken.

“Kim you can’t!! this isn’t a dream!! It’s real life! If you do it, there is no waking up. It’s death. I won’t get to see you, you won’t see me.” I was crying hysterically myself.

“I will. Soon enough, I will see you Matt. I love you.” She calmly said again.

“Kim, will you marry me?” It was my last hope, I wanted her alive. She was what I thought my soulmate, I loved her with all my heart.

“Not now. Later, Matt. I love you babe, see you soon. I love you” She said one last time.

“KIM NO PLEASE DO-“

*BANG*

I stopped my car in the middle of traffic. My love, my girlfriend, gone. I just sat there, in utter disbelief, she’s gone. I cried hysterically, hot tears running down my cheeks, my nose running like an avalanche. This whole thing was too much. Maybe she had a point…

NO.

I can’t just throw in the towel. I have family and friends, I need to get to them, I know Kim would want that…. At least, I hope.
I continued my drive, rushing over to my little sister’s school. She took priority, my parents, if they were alive, could wait.
I finally got there, and panic ensued all over. Shit, I was in panic mode myself, finally. I got out of my car and grabbed the little handgun I hid in my car. Yes, I know, crazy. But you never know when you go to a school in the ghetto!! You need to be prepared.

“CAROLINE!!! CARROLLIINNEE!!!” I yelled out at the top of my lungs as I ran throughout the school. I ran into a few zombies, luckily all the emotion drove me to dispatch them quickly. Tweens ran all around, screaming, some were zombies. That really struck home. Seeing those kids, barely 12 or 13, dead. Death all over.

God, why must you do this to us?

I kept yelling, trying to find mi hermanita. She meant everything to me, I had to find her.

“MATT!!” I heard a voice crack, I turned to see my little sister running over to hug me.

“Ohhh god Lina, I found you. Ohh thank god I found you, thank god thank god.” I was crying like a baby, so happy I found her. I kissed her all over her face, I couldn’t contain myself.

“Mattt stop!! What’s going on?” She asked, getting slightly serious. She always was a mature one.

“Don’t worry, Lina. It’s fine. We need to get home. Mom and dad are waiting for us, ok?” I softly told her. She nodded, but kept tending to her wrist, which was covered by her colorful yet dark jacket.

“Everything ok, sissy?” I ask, heading towards her wrist.

“Yeah, all fine. I just tripped” She said as she pulled her wrist away.

“Hey, lemme see, ok? I wanna make sure it’s nothing too serious.” I get a little more stern, just to be safe.

What my eyes saw in front of me, I could never have prepared myself for, not in a million years.

Bite marks, bleeding bite marks.

I gasped and covered my mouth, trying to hold back my emotions.

Not her, noooooooonononononononononono. Anyone but her, please god anyone but her.

“What happened?” I asked, trying to sound calm, like it was nothing. She fell for it.

“Some crazy guy bit me! Can you believe it? He just walked up to me, acting all weird, and grabbed me and bit my wrist! Luckily Mr. Horosney…” I stopped paying attention to the story.

Some guy bit her.

Some crazy guy bit her.

A fucking zombie bit my little sister, and now… Now this, she is infected. My world, my little sister….

I hugged her. As tight as I possibly could, tears falling down my cheek.

“Gah, Matt, enough!!” She annoyingly asked. Damn tweens, trying to be so mature and not display love.

“Oh Lina shut up!! Let me hold you” I said, choking on my own emotions. I didn’t want her to turn into those shits. So much rage, and depression was striking me.

I finally broke the embrace, and noticed she was crying. She had seen her share of zombie movies, and I think it dawned on her as well.

“Matt, I don’t want to die” She said sobbing

Oh, oh my god. That broke me.

“Oh, you won’t sweetie. It’s fine. I know a way to save you, I promise.” I warmly said, trying to calm her.

“Really?” She asked, sounding a little more optimistic.

“Yeah…” I kissed her on the cheeks, wiping her tears, but I was still crying uncontrollably.

“But why are you still crying, Matt?” She asked, picking up on it. Damn you and your smartness.

“Oh, I’m just happy to see you is all, Lina.” I lied, but luckily as smart as she was, she was still gullible.

“Oh, ok…” was all she could get out.

“Now, let’s just get you home ok? Mom and Dad are worried about you.”

“Are they ok?” She asks. I didn’t have an answer, but I lied.

“Yeah, they are perfectly fine. They scared all the zombies from coming in, we are safe Caroline.”

“Sweet!!!” She yelled, and walked ahead of me.

My sweet little sister. I love you so so much. Why did this have to happen to you? You’re too sweet and nice to die…

She couldn’t become one of those. I can’t let it happen. If my parents found out as well, the pain they would feel. I can’t let that happen.

I walked up to Lina, patting her head. She was still much smaller than me. I kissed her head once more.

“I love you Caroline, you know that, right?” I ask her, crying.

“I love you too Matt, always!” She cheerily said.

My heart was in a million pieces. She walked ahead of me again, with me trailing. I looked at her, and looked at my gun I still held. I saw those zombies still walking around, mindless fucks.

This isn’t the fate for my little sister. She can’t fall to those levels. It had to be done.

I love you Caroline, I do, with all of my heart.

I always will.

My world.

Mi hermanita.

I will see you someday, my sweet little buggie.

*BANG*

Chapter 15: Pain and Healing

A/N: I'm ALLIIVVEE!!! Kinda. Midterms kicked my ass. I'm happy they are almost over with. Another weekend I'm going to be one. But again, hopefully sometime next week I get the next chapter out. Oh, and I hope you're liking this!! We are still nowhere near done! :D And remember to rate and comment. PLLEAASEE give me any feedback you have, I love it all! Thanks!

Tears.

Pain.

Suffering.

Relief.

Regret.

It all swirled in my mind as I drove back home. So much has happened these past 2 hours. So many dead. So many missing. Loved ones lost, forever.

My evidence laid still in the backseat, I couldn’t bare to leave my evidence back there. I would never forgive myself. But I planned on doing something right with her, not nothing.

Physically I was numb, yet I felt the heat of my tears falling down my cheeks. It was hard to see, the tears filled my eyes and everything was just a watery distortion. Thank God it was a quick drive home.

Wait, thank, GOD? Why the fuck would I do that? Look what’s just happened, who I’ve lost around me, and I’m thanking God? What the hell is wrong with me?

I got home, and saw a few zombies lingering outside the front door. I closed the doors to my car and locked the doors, promptly causing a beep from the car.

Shit.

They were aware of me. And slowly walked over towards me. Well since they know, might as well go crazy.

I fired the gun I had like crazy.

Miss. Miss. Hit in shoulder. Miss. HEADSHOT.

Ok, that’s one. Dammit still two more, and four bullets left.

I tried to calm myself down, and closed my left eye as I took aim at one head.

BOOM.

Headshot.

Fuck yeah.

I then did the same for the next, and succeeded in copying my first attempt. Two bullets left.

I ran inside, only to hear the death screams of a woman.

“MOOOMMMMM” I yelled.

“MATT!!! OHH MMYY GOODDD HEELLPP MEEE.” She yelled back, almost like she was being tortured. Not what I wanted to hear. I quickly ran inside and found a single zombie scratching at the office door. It had a giant hole in the middle of it. Fuck.

I got out the knife and stabbed the zombie in the back of the head. It was stuck on the knife, out of frustration I ripped it out with all of my might, and made quite a mess.

I turned my attention to the room, and ran in.

I felt like my heart fell into my stomach, I couldn’t believe it.

My dad, my best friend, was eating my mom at her stomach.

No.

Oh my god.

“DAD NOOO” I yelled.

It stopped eating my mom, who looked just about dead. It got up and turned towards me. It stumbled over, arm extended towards me. It, I mean my dad, wanted to eat me.

The hot tears fell, and I couldn’t look at what has happened to my family. They are all gone. My sister got bit. My dad is already a zombie. And he ate my mom. Not to mention my dogs are missing. My whole family has been destroyed.

“Dad, I’m sorry.” I said, raising my gun towards his head. He growled, blood and flesh dripping from his mouth. His white eyes full of primitive thought, if that. “I love you.”

*BOOM*

*Thump*

I ran to my mom and got down to her on the ground.

“Oh my god mom, I’m so sorry. I’m sorry I couldn’t get here in time. I’m-“

She cut me off. “It’s ok, Matt, you still tried. Where’s Lina? Where’s my baby girl?”

I paused. I couldn’t tell my mom her little daughter is dead as well.

“She’s in my car. She’s waitng on me to get you guys. She’s safe” I calmly told her.

“Oh, good. Take care of her Matt. Please. Don’t let anything happen to her, please.” My mom pleaded to me.

“Of course, mom. I won’t let anything happen to her. I promise.” I smiled, yet the tears kept falling. I didn’t want to look down towards the mess my father made on her.

“I love…..you….Ma-“ She couldn’t finish.

Why.

Why does this need to happen to me? Why god?

I walked out of the room, I had to to what was right. I walked out to my garage, and a shovel.

And I dug. I dug for hours. Four, deep, long holes in the front yard. The entire time, I just cried, and felt numb. Though my muscles ached, i felt nothing. My heart ached, yet I was apathetic.

Once finished with the holes, I wrapped the final two bodies in sheets. I took them to their final resting places, and placed them in their peaceful haven.

It was time to join them. There was no point, really.

The love of my life,

My little sister,

My father,

My mother,

All gone.

I have nothing left to live for. So why bother struggling to survive? I should just join them all. It would just help me skip all this crazy survival crap. It would, wouldn’t it?

I got out my gun. One bullet left. It was meant to be. I was meant to do this. God does have a plan, huh?

I closed my eyes. I felt the cold metal of the gun against the temple of my head. I took a deep breathe. I looked up one last time.

“Forgive me, Father.”

I closed my eyes, and took one last breathe.

*RING RING*

“MIG YOU’RE ALIVE!? WHERE ARE YOU!?”

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“And the rest is kind of history. We met up, found the others you see before you. And found supplies like we showed you the other day. And here we are.” I finished telling the story. The story of my past. I didn’t even realize I was on the ground, just sitting there. Everyone all around me, Xoch giving me a loving embrace.

“And, that, is why I may seem a little, harsh or different at times. I don’t want to go through that again. I don’t want to lose others. I don’t want to feel like I need to kill myself. I don’t want any of you to fall to the same fate my family fell to. I love you all, and I don’t want to lose all I love all over again. It would just be too much for my heart to handle.” I confessed.

“Ah’m sorry pardner. I can’t even imagine bein’ without Big Mac or Granny Smith.” AJ tried to comfort me.

“I still can’t believe you went through it all and still seem, well, not insane.” Twi thought.

“Ha, I ask myself that everyday Twilight. If you ever think of something let me know.” I joked, trying to lighten the mood in any way.

Then, idea.

“Well, Rainbow..” I got her attention. She seemed, well, depressed. I think my story got to her, as her eyes were puffy and red.

“*sniff*… yeah?” She asked, all hoarse.

“Be honest, you think I’m no fun still?” I asked, straight faced.

“Uhm, I mean you seem cool. But, I mean, yeah. You just, kinda, um, you know, just do.” She fumbled. She’s too damn cute when she’s confused.

“So that means a no, got it.” I said confidently.

“NO! I mean, um” she tried to retort, but failed.

“No, RD, it’s ok. You don’t think I can have fun. Well, with my mood tanked like this, I think I need some fun.” I said, beginning to smirk.

Pinkie’s ears perked up.

“OHHH MAYBE WE CAN HAVE A PARTY. PARTIES ARE ALWAYS FUN I LOVE PARTIES!!! LET’S HAVE A PARTY RIGHT NOW!!” She yelled, throwing confetti everywhere.

Where did she….

Nevermind. Pinkie Pie, Matt, Pinkie Pie.

I chuckled.

“Yeah, Pinkie, a party. But not a party you’re used to or know of.” I said, smiling at Beans and Pancho.

“Ohhh boy, Matt, I like you’re thinking.” Beans said smiling back.

“Wait, what are you thinking!?!” Pancho asked, confused.

“How bout one of our party packages?” I ask, unable to contain my smile.

“OOOHHH, Matt I love you.” Pancho laughed and was all giddy. “Which one?”

“Party Package U” I said swiftly.

“OOHHH shit, Matt you sure? With these girls? I mean, I’m all for a good time, trust me I love this package. But, with them?”

Beans asked, to make sure it was ok.

“Oh yeah, now get the bin.” I told em.

They got up and got the bin.

“Girls, we will show you what we do for fun. And Dash, I will show you fun.” I said smiling.

Beans and Pancho returned with the bin. And popped the lid off.

Two 32-racks of Budweiser. 4 64-oz bottles of Jack Daniels whiskey. A pound of weed.

And a Nintendo-64 with Mario Party.

“Let’s do this.”

Chapter 16: More Healing

A/N: Hey y’all!!! IIII LLIIIVVEEEE!!! *cue dramatic music*
So yeah, I’m back. Or at least I’m trying to be back. I truly apologize for those of you who have waited patiently. I promise I won’t let you down in the end ;D And I’ve just been busy with a lot. My girlfriend of 3 years broke up with me so that was added into the mix in my stressy life. But again, for a thousand more times, I'm sorry for this leave of absence. The semester ends in a couple weeks, then I'm 100% more open. I'm going to TRY to get one more chapter in before hand, then it's again off to the races. So, please, enjoy this chapter :)

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*music*

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..”GET IN TO DA CHOPPA”…

………”DRINK RAINBOW! TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!”…

“Ridem cowbooyy!!”…

… “FUCKIN DOOO ITTTT”…

Ugh, what happened last night?

I woke up to a glaring, painful sunlight hitting me in the face. The first thing I noticed was Rainbow, AJ, and Shadow all in the same bed as me. I was stark nude, along with Shadow. Rainbow had on my shirt, one of Shadow’s boots, and that was it, as far as I could tell.

AJ was in bra and underwear, with my bandana around her eyes.

What…. The…. Fuck….

“Ugh, jesus Christ” Was all I could mutter before knocking out again.

A few hours later I woke up again. This time Shadow and AJ were gone, but Rainbow remained.

I also noticed Mig, all bandaged up on the floor. He was taped up all around his body. But that wasn’t it. Rarity was also all taped up against him. They were like a giant burrito of tape, stuck together.

“God, last night must have been insane” I mumbled, causing RD to stir.

FUCK. Clothes. NOW.

I stumbled out of bed, only to find more pain and ache in my body. I found a pair of jeans and quickly put them on, barely beating Rainbow looking over at me.

“Hey Dash, how ya doin?” I asked in a very hoarse voice.

“Umm.. I… I don’t know really.” She looked slightly confused, probably why she can’t remember last night.

“Why can’t I remember what happened last night?” She asked me, confused.

Called it.

“He, alcohol, my dear Dash, alcohol.” I said triumphantly. “If you have a lot of it, the stuff we drank last night, it can erase your short term memory. AKA make you forget that night. Crazy stuff huh?”

“Yeah, real crazy.” She was still in a daze, her hair all ruffled around from bed head. I think it was bed head. “Hey, why am I in your shirt? And this boot?”

“Alcohol, Dashie.” I plainly said. She got the hint pretty quickly, and took off the boot, keeping on my shirt. She got up out of bed, and stretched, very slowly.

The shirt went down to her mid thighs, jeez it looked adorable.

“AAHHH” She moaned in pain.

“WHAT WHAT!? WHAT HAPPENED!?”

“MY HEEEAADDD. IT HURRTSS” she blurted out, I was still worried.

“WELL WHAT MIGHT HAVE DONE IT!? WHAT DID YOU DO!?” I asked, yelling, in a panic.

“QUIET! YOUR YELLING HURTS IT MORREEE”

Oh, hehehehe.

“HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh Dash, you’re fine. You’re just gonna need some food and coffee. C’mon, let’s get you downstairs.”

I said putting my arm around her, leading her to the door. Luckily, my experience with heavy drinking left me not too hung over. I still forgot last night, but all those college frat parties definitely had their affects.

I led her downstairs to find Shadow, AJ and Xoch up and talking around the kitchen table.

“Hey gang, how you doin?” I asked, noticing AJ and Shadow also extremely hung over, with their heads in their hands and moaning.

“uuhhhhh” was the only response I got out of those two.

“That well huh? Ha. Is that coffee I smell Xoch?” I ask her, smelling the brew of fresh coffee. Perfect for a good hang over.

“Why yes it is Mateo!!” No one calls me Mateo anymore…. “I made enough for everyone!” She proclaimed.

“Enough with the noiisseee” Shadow complained, holding his head.

“Pardners, d’y’all mind keepin it down? This headache’s killin me” AJ also chimed in.

“Don’t worry you two, it’ll get better in a couple hours. Till then, suck it up” I jokingly said. “Hey, where’s Pancho?” I ask, noticing a lack of a man fondling Xoch.

“Oh, he’s still knocked out over there” She points him out in the living room.

Typical Pancho.

He was splayed out on a couch, beer cans all around him. But he looked content, for being drunk off his ass. Maybe we did really need that, a night of just fuckin around.

Fucking…

God what happened last night with me and Rainbow? And Shadow and AJ…

“What about Beans?” I wanted to make sure at least everyone was still present and accounted for, even if they were disabled by the effects of alcohol.

“I’m not sure actually. I haven’t really looked for him so I don’t know!” Xoch said all cheery. Ugh, cheeriness annoys me.

I wandered around the house in my half-awake and half-drunken stupor trying to find him. Checked the bedrooms, the meeting room, everywhere – no luck.

Shit, where the hell could he be? The bastard…

“HEEELLPP”

“You hear that!?” Xoch worriedly said

“Ya that sounded like the closet…” I replied, thinking,

Oh please be ok Beans… Not my best friend as well…

I ran towards the closet door, knife in hand, and opened it.

Beans’ body fell out. Covered in bloo… WINE!?

“God dammit you drunken fool” I said laughing at how drunk he still was, apparently he never stopped drinking.

“What? I jus’ like to have funnnnn Matty-my-boy-my-friend-that-I-love-so-much” Beans replied all slurred.

“Ha, alrighty. Let’s get you up bro” I lean down to help him up, Xoch comes to my aid. We sit him at the table of hangovers (the same table AJ, Shadow and Dashie were still suffering at). Beans just let his head fall on the table and knocked out.

“Well at least everyone is accounted for. Jesus, must’ve been a night” I proclaim to no one in particular.

“Oh it was!! I even have videos and pictures!” Xoch proudly said.

“WHAT!? WE DO!?” I was shocked. Well, shocked evidence remained. Not shocked it was Xoch who did it.

“Yeah, I just gotta find the camera somewhere…” she started to think, “hmmm, I actually don’t know where it is. Oh well!” she shrugged her shoulders and went over towards the coffee, which was, at this point, ready.

“You serious!? I wanna see the evidence of last night!” And see if there were any hints of what went down with me and RD last night.

“Well find it yourself!! I don’t wanna search this destroyed house!” She snapped back.

I looked back, and noticed:

This place was a wreck.

Crap.

Chapter 17: Reveals and More Reveals

A/N: Hey y'all! Told you this story wasn't going to die ;) Anyway, here is the next chapter, and I really hope you enjoy it! And I thank you all for posting comments and opinions on this each chapter, I really do appreciate it, really, I do :D Now get to readin'!

Piece by piece, can by can, bottle by bottle.

Me, Xoch and Shadow were cleaning up the house. It was still early and everyone else was still too drunk or hungover to do anything productive for us.

As we were picking up stuff, the thought came…

“WAIT WHERE THE HELL IS PINKIE PIE AND TWILIGHT!?”

“HEREIAMYOUFOUNDME!”

Pinkie yelled out in happiness as she jumped from a pile of junk, knocking me over in surprise.

“GAH. Jesus Pinkie you scared the hell out of me” I said as I got back up to my feet.

“Oh did I? I’m sorry!” Still practically yelling.

“It’s ok! Just keep it down will ya? We don’t want every damn zombie at our front door do we?” I asked her, she was getting pretty loud.

“Ok!” she said in a quiet whisper. I could barely hear her. Oh well, at least she’s quiet now.

“Hey Pinkie, one last thing,” I had to see if she knew where Twilight was, “have you seen Twilight? WE don’t know where she is..”

And in that moment Pinkie just reached into a pile next to her and pulled out Twilight. She was passed out.

“How did….” I tried to put logic into Pinkie physics… Yeah not happening. “…Nevermind, glad we got Twilight.” I said, calmly.

I stepped towards Twilight to get her from Pinkie when I felt myself kick something that wasn’t a beer bottle or can…

IT WAS A CAMERA.

“Uhm, guys, I think I found it” I said with slight reluctance. As excited and curious as I was to see what was on it, I was still worried what I might see on it as well.

“NO WAY LET’S SEE IT” Shadow blurted out, clearly hoping he had hooked up with AJ. We all knew he wanted to, but didn’t know how to go about proclaiming his love for her… Kinda like me.

“Alright alright, fine. Let’s see here…” I turned on the camera and –

BANG BANG BANG

Something was banging on the front door….

“Matt…” Shadow said quietly “…what the hell was that?”

“I don’t know… cover me” I said as I approached the door. I pulled my knife from my pants, and slowly approached the door. I was really nervous, mainly because we are really vulnerable right now. Only a few of us can fight, whether it’s people or zombies, we are crippled right now.

I took a look into the peep hole in the door, but nothing was in sight. “I don’t see anything…” I said softly to myself.

“What’s there Matt? How many zombies are there?” Xoch asked, her pistol armed and ready.

I slowly opened the door, wary of what might happen.

Next thing I knew I saw a black blur run right towards me, and knock me flat on my ass.

“STOP RIGHT THERE MISTER” yelled Xoch as I was knocked over, still kinda not knowing what’s goin on.

“YOU MOVE AND YOU’RE DEAD MAN” Shadow also commanded. By this time I was getting back on my feet, still in a slight daze and shock from that. I thought I was a dead man for a second.

I felt a hand grab me from behind, and I thought it was one of us grabbing me.

Nope, the stranger got a hold of me and locked me in a chokehold, and I felt a chamber go against my temple.

Oh shit. I’m being held hostage.

“YOU MAKE A FUCKING MOVE AND I BLOW HIS BRAINS OUT!” the stranger yelled out. I could see Xoch and Shadow
terrified for me, they obeyed his command. “Goooooood. Now, tell me how many of you are there. Is it just you? More?” He asked. He’s sizing us up, he has more, he has to.

Silence answered him. They didn’t know what to do, I could tell.

“FUCKING ANSWER ME OR HE’S DONE” the man said shoving the chamber even harder into my head, that shit hurt too.
“There’s us… and 1 more fighter. The girls with pink, black and purple hair don’t fight though. We have a couple more but they don’t fight either. So you’re only dealing with 4 fighters.” I told him. It’s believable, since we have a number of girls with brightly colored hair.

“Where’s this other fighter? If he comes up behind me I swear-“

“He’s that drunken fool passed out on the couch over there” I told him, motioning to the still knocked out Pancho. “He won’t cause you much harm for a while, every bottle you see in this room he finished.” There were a shit ton of bottles. Whether or not that is actually true is beyond me, but I wouldn’t be shocked either, given his track record.

“Ah, well, where are the others!?” He again asked, pretty much demanding they show up.

“AJ! DASH!” I yelled out. They slowly walked out from around a corner. They were still recovering from, their hangover but were recovering well.

“What do you want Ma-“ Dash went dead silent seeing the situation in front of her. Then she went from shock to anger, quickly. “IF YOU DON’T RELEASE HIM I’M GONNA-“

“What? Kill me? Beat me? If you do I can you your friend here will be joining me from beyond the grave. It’s your choice” he said, sounding so sure of himself. It got Rainbow to stop in her tracks and keep quiet.

“It’s ok Dash, just stay calm ok?” I tried to reassure her.

Out of the corner of my eye I saw something move, and so did our visitor.

“WHAT WAS THAT!?” He asked in a panic. “I SAW SOMETHING MOVE”

“Oh that was probably our dog. My dog. He’s a basset hound who doesn’t like to show himself to strangers. Don’t worry. He will come out soon.” I lied. And the fool bought it.

I kept looking and I saw Beans poke his out from behind a couch, his knife out and ready. He looked like he was ready to nail this dude in the head. But I wanted to make sure shit wouldn’t really go down if we did kill him right away.
I motioned for Beans to wait a minute, just holding up a finger as in to wait.

“Now, I like your place here. Me and some pals are gonna move in I think. And well, you guys? You’re movin out. Sorry to say…. No not really” the stranger told us.

He does have others. Now, where the hell are they? I mouthed Xoch if anyone was behind the guy. She waggled a finger back and forth.

~~No.~~

“HEY GUYS. THEY ONLY GOT A COUPLE PEOPLE WHO FIGHT. I GOT THEIR LEADER HOSTAGE. LET’S MOVE IN QUICK” yelled our guest.

Fuck.

I looked back at Beans and gave a thumbs up. I decided our best shot against a group of real humans would be to just go gunfight. If we wait to sober up we are done for sure. At least this way, we have a chance. At that moment I dead weighted the man holding me to give myself room from the knife throw. I looked up at the guy, and there was the knife in his head, right in the temple.

Nice shot. Gotta give him credit for that later.

He fell and I closed the front door and locked it shut.

“HEY THEY GOT MAC. EVERYONE LET’S GET THEM” shouted a voice as I closed the door.

Shit.

“EVERYONE GRAB YOUR GEAR NOW. WE GOT A FIREFIGHT”

Chapter 18: A Fluttering Heart

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“EVERYONE HURRY THE HELL UP!” I barked as everyone was getting their stuff.

I was up on the deck that stretched out from my room from the second story. Bullets flew all around me. My room was getting destroyed from the baptism by fire. We were all gonna get baptized by fire.

Pancho was sitting in a corner, still hungover. He could barely sit up straight. Really sucks, could use him. He’s a hell of a shot with his AK.

Xoch came running in, armor and all, armed with her sniper rifle.

Shit, she only brings that bad boy out in major emergencies. Guess she sees this as a dire situation. I probably should too, but for some reason I don’t.

“Ok well you’re the first one here, congrats. You get a cookie once we’re all done here. Let’s clean up the street” I say with a sly voice. She gives me a smirk and runs away. Probably a good hiding spot to snipe these guys. Hope she’s smart and doesn’t get spotted.

There were easily 10 of them out there. This was not going to be easy by any means.

Goddammit Mig. Why you gotta be hurt?

Goddammit Pancho. Why you gotta be drunk?

I wonder how AJ and Dash are doin.

“Heya Matt!” I heard a southern voice call out to me. Speak of the devil.

“AJ! Dash! Great to see you two are doin better.” Talking about their hangovers.

“Yeah, well, we gotta do our part in ‘dis here rangle, right pardner?” She said with a smile.

“Great to hear. Well, be smart. Get downstairs with Beans and Shadow. Where’s Pinkie? I need her up here with me.” And as if she was waiting for me she ran into the room with full soldier gear.

~~We don’t have soldier uniforms…..~~

“Fuck it. Pinkie, shoot.” I said deadpanned. She saluted me and started shooting at them. Mainly at the cars.

At the cars

“THAT’S IT.” I had my eureka moment.

“What’s it?” Dashie asked me before her and AJ went downstairs.

“Grab all the grenades you find. And have Beans make some molotovs if we can. Tell him we will blow their rides. But go for one at a time. Not spread out. Maybe the shock of one exploding on them can stun them a bit where we can make a push.” I said confidently. I actually liked this plan, but couldn’t pause to congratulate myself. I had to get back to work.

I just shot my AK at them, hoping to hit a couple guys. At the least get them to rethink charging us.

Suddenly, one by one, they just dropped. I’d see them drop to the ground, dropping their weapons, and falling dead.

What the hell is going on? Well, I’m not really complaining but DAMN.

“You see that Pinkie?” I ask her, to make sure I’m not losing my mind.

“Yeah, but I’m not doing it! I don’t know who or what or where is doing it but WOOW it is so cool how they are just…” she just kept on rambling. Well at least I’m not insane.

“Pinkie, stay up here and watch for anymore. Shoot at em if you see any more. And watch over Pancho” I told her. I was gonna head out myself and check at their level.

I first ran to the other room upstairs and checked up on Fluttershy.

“Oh! Matthew! What’s going on? I hear a lot of noise and yelling out there and-“

“It’s ok Fluttershy. Just a couple bullies showed up. We are gonna talk to them. Just stay here, and lock the door ok? I will come when it’s all safe.” I told her, trying not to cause her concern.

“Oh, ok Matthew. Be careful!” she softly told me.

“I will Fluttershy, you too, ok? I don’t know what we would do without you” I said smiling at her, causing her to blush a little and look away. I chuckled and left the room.

I ran downstairs and saw everyone was just as confused as I was. But Xoch wasn’t with them.

“Hey where’s Xoch?” I ask, curious where our curly-haired badass went.

“I don’t know! I haven’t seen her at all!” Dashie said.

“Ok, well let’s scout it out outside. Beans, you’re joining me. Shadow, stay here. Watch our backs, and make sure no one gets in any other way.” I told him as he just nodded in silence. His face looked as serious as I’ve ever seen it. Insane, he was always the happy go lucky, always smiling and goofy kid before all this. Now he’s hardened, battle tested, and it seems like that old child-like innocence he once had is gone. Damn these zombies. Just ruined everything.

Beans and I made our way out the door, both crouched and guns at eye level. We were ready to duck and pull the trigger at any second. But the reason I wanted him out here is cause we are nearly brothers. We operate on the same wavelength almost all the time, that’s invaluable in a time like this.

As we were carefully scanning the street I heard a footstep.

“Beans, hush” I whispered as I froze in place, my gaze focused on the source of the footstep.

I felt nervous. Really nervous, to be honest. Haven’t had a confrontation like this in a long time, and I was afraid I wouldn’t be up to my old self, plus I was still light-headed from last night’s extravaganza.

“MATT FUCKIN MOVE”

I was shoved to the ground as bullets flew right over me. I saw Beans shoot at one of the guys, presumably the one who shot at me.

But it suddenly stopped.

Beans was fine, and he helped me up.

“I got ‘em, don’t worry” Beans said as he tried to comfort me.

“Thanks bro, I don’t know what I’d do without ya” I said with a smile, breathing a heavy sigh of relief.

“I don’t know either, man. I’m just too important to you.” He joked, nudging me and smiling.

Ah, like old times.

“Ha.Ha. You’re hilarious, Beans. Well now that these guys are done, let’s check out what’s in these vans-“

“HEEEELLLLLPPPPP”

“Shit what the hell?” Beans cursed in shock.

“That came from upstairs…” I recognized that scream. “HOLY SHIT THAT’S FLUTTERSHY” I yell. “BEANS LET’S MOVE” I commanded as we ran as fast as we could upstairs.

I led the way over to the room where she was nursing Mig and Rarity.

I felt my heart sink to my stomach once I saw what was happening in there.

It was one of those bastards who attacked. He was holding Fluttershy hostage. But it wasn’t just like he ran in and held a gun – he had beaten her, bad. Both eyes were swollen, she was bleeding from her left arm, and it looked like she could barely put any weight on her right leg. She was crying from pain and fear, and it just tore me apart.

“You bastard LET HER GO NOW” I yelled at the man.

“And why should I? You killed every single one of my friends. And all we wanted was some food. Just some fucking food. And you murder all of us.” He responded. His voice sounded hoarse, and full of hate. He has been through a lot, you could tell. His grimy, dirty look along with his tattered black skinny jeans and leather jack further proved these were men on the road.

“FOOD? If you had just asked for some we could have fucking spared you a little. But you’re ‘ambassador’ held me hostage, just like you’re doing with our friend. And he threatened to kill me, and take over our home. So correct me if I’m wrong but that isn’t asking for a bite to eat.” I snapped back. Either this man is completely delusional and a total dick, or his friend could’ve gone rogue. Either way, I assumed the first, we just can’t take chances.

“BULLSHIT! DON’T FUCKING LIE! YOU LIE AND YOUR FRIEND HERE FEELS THE CONSEQUENCES” he snapped, holding the barrely of his pistol against Flutter’s temple.

I could see the fear in Fluttershy’s eyes. She was staring straight at me. She was begging me on the inside to save her, to get her from this insane man. And it killed me that I couldn’t right away.

“Don’t! Please! Not Fluttershy! Please!” said a raspy voice behind me. It was Dashie.

“Dash, get downstairs. We can handle this” I tried to tell her. She didn’t listen.

“You can’t do anything to her! She did nothing to you guys! It was us! Kill one of us! Not her!” RD pleaded. She sounded nothing like herself, she was scared and confused. Not the confident, arrogant mare that she normally is.

“Dash I told you get downstairs! Please!” I said a little more sternly. I didn’t want her dealing with this.

“Oh? She’s the innocent one, is she?” The man said, smiling, looking down at Fluttershy. “Well, so was ours. He was the little brother in the group. So I guess this makes us even.”

My heart stopped once he said that.

*BANG*

Her body went limp, and slowly fell to the ground.

“NO YOU BASTARD” I yelled, tears falling down my face as Beans and I light him up. He quickly fell to the ground, bullet holes filled his body.

Rainbow ran to Fluttershy’s now still body as Beans and I dealt with the monster.

“Noooononononononono Fluttershy… No…” she choked out, knelt over her body, holding her blood soaked hand. A clean hole straight through the side of her head.

“You can’t die Fluttershy. You just can’t. We need you. I need you…” whispered Rainbow Dash. She weeped at her womb; I don’t think any of us could hold back our tears.

“Oh god…” Beans whispered.

“Close and lock the door Beans. No one needs to see this right now.” I told him, looking down at RD and Fluttershy’s body.
“But don’t you think-“

“JUST DO IT.” I snapped, causing him to flinch. “I’m sorry, just, please. We need an easy way to break this to the group.

Well, an easier way. No easy way to tell them the purest of us all has been shot in cold blood.”

He nodded and proceeded to close and lock the door. I could hear footsteps coming up the stairs.

“Hey what’s goin on in there!?” Shadow yelled, banging on the door.

“Shadow just go downstairs and keep everyone there! We’ll be down in a bit!” I yelled back. He was quiet, but I heard footsteps go back downstairs. Good.

“Ok, Beans, grab those sheets over there. We need to wrap her up.” I reluctantly said. Dash looked at me in shock.
“Why are we doing that?” she asked me, confused.

“Dash, it’s how we do it here. We bury the dead. Though not many do it now, I’d prefer to for someone I care about.” I told her, trying to sound as calm as possible, holding back as many tears as I could. But I was failing, I could feel some tears roll down my cheeks.

“Oh, ok.” She just said, looking back at Fluttershy. “Wait, will she…”

“No, she won’t. She was shot in the brain. There is no coming back once that happens. Don’t worry, she’s resting forever now.” I said as I wrapped up Fluttershy.

I was shaking as I did it, and I could barely hold her. I was just, scared. With as much death that was going on, I could barely hold a dead body. Maybe cause it was someone I knew and cared about. Either way, it was hard to wrap her up.

We all were just there in dead silence as I wrapped up Fluttershy. Rainbow still sobbing. Beans was stone solid. I looked to him when I was done, and he looked to a Mig that was laying in bed, still out cold from that shot from Curtis.

“How is he going to take this?” Beans asked me, worried.

“I don’t know. Him and Rarity. Both are just going to be….” I couldn’t even think about what they would think, or do.

Especially Mig. “… I don’t want to think about it.”

“Well you’re gonna have to at some point” Beans replied.

“Yeah well not at this point I don’t.” I told him as I stood up.

“Well, time to tell everyone else.”

Author's Request

Sorry for this not being a new chapter, but I wanted a decent way to ask as many people as possible, so I figured my story would be the best.

I am currently working on a new story (in addition to this, don't worry, this won't die). This story will be much more light-hearted, and could be a nice change if I need to lighten myself up from writing "A New World, a New Terror" - cause I will be honest, it depresses me at times too, especially this latest chapter.

Well either way while working on this new story, I would like to inquire if anyone would be interested in just looking over it, and tell me what they think about the new story/idea. I don't know how the reaction to it would be so I'm asking you guys, the readers, what you would think.

Thanks again, and I will try to get the next chapter out as soon as possible!

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Chapter 19: Clensing

A/N: So I decided to say "Fuck sleep!" And pump out another chapter for y'all! Another interesting one to write.
Either way, enjoy the chapter! As always, please rate and leave your thoughts! Any inputs on my writing would be greatly appreciated!

I unlocked the door and started to make my way downstairs. I stopped to looked back at Rainbow and Beans, only to see them staring at me.

“C’mon guys, we all need to go down there. We all were a part of it, and we all need to be there to break it to the group.” I said, holding back my tears, stopping myself from breaking down right there.

I need to be strong for everyone. I just know it’ll be hard for everyone, and we need a pillar to keep us going. I don’t know who else would or can, so I have to be, at least for now.

We all walked downstairs together, slow, and in step. We came downstairs to find everyone sitting on the couches in the living room.

We all walked in front of them all, and we just stood in silence. I couldn’t figure out the right way to put it.

“Everyone. That was a hard fought battle. We all put our lives on the line to protect each other, and I think many of us if not all of us would sacrifice our lives if it meant the safety of this group, no, this family.” Everyone’s gaze was fixed upon me, and I could feel it. It just made everything so much harder. I was shaking at the thought of telling them the news, I felt like I could throw up.

“And I try my best to watch over you guys. We all watch over each other, we love each other. I love you all so much, so very very much. And when one of us dies, a part of me dies.” Everyone began to look nervous as I said this.

“Matt what do you mean by all this, we all survived…. Right?” Shadow asked.

I just stood in silence.

“Matt?” Twilight tried to get my attention.

“I can’t find any easy way to put this. You all heard that single gunshot after we ran upstairs right?” and everyone nodded.
“One of those damn bastards snuck in through the second story somehow.” Everyone gasped at hearing this. “And he held Fluttershy hostage. He held her at gunpoint, blaming all of us for the death of his friends.”

I could see Twilight, Applejack and Pinkie all tearing up at hearing Fluttershy getting threatened. God I wish she only got threatened or beaten. God I wish.

“He wanted revenge. That single shot? It was that man shooting Fluttershy.”

And with that everyone else went stone solid. You could hear the dust hitting the floor it was so quiet.

“… And he killed her.” I just looked down, tears rolling down my cheeks and falling to the floor. My whole body was still shaking. All of a sudden the girls all started crying, hysterically crying. I think Pinkie took it the hardest.

“Matt, please tell me you’re kidding, please for the love of Celestia tell me this is some cruel joke.” Twilight begged me.

“I wish it were. I wish I was playing some horrible joke.” I collapsed to the ground on my knees, my head buried in my hands. I couldn’t hold it back anymore. I finally gave in to my emotions. I started sobbing uncontrollably.

“I’m sorry. I tried my best to save her, I really did. I was thinking of a plan to get her out of his control, anything to keep her safe, to keep us all safe. But he acted too quickly for me to do something. I’m sorry to you all. I’m sorry to you girls, losing one of your best friends. I’m just sorry to Fluttershy. She didn’t deserve to die like that. And I could’ve saved her, but I didn’t! I’m a fucking failure!!”

“Where… Where is she now?” asked Twilight, in between her sobs.

“She’s upstairs. We have her wrapped up. We are going to bury her in the back. It’s where we decided we would bury our dead, our loved ones.” Beans responded for me.

“Wait, isn’t she… isn’t she going to turn into… into.. one of…those….things?” Pinkie asked.

“No. Because of where she was shot, that won’t happen.” Beans again said in my stead, as I was still a wreck. Thank God he managed to take control while I was, having my moment of weakness.

Everyone was a wreck. We were all just sitting there weeping, mourning the loss of a dear friend. The friendliest of us all, the kindest of us all, the sweetest of us all. The one who wouldn’t harm a fly, even in this world; yet she is the one to be brutally murdered.

My depression soon began to fade. But now, it wasn’t just an empty feeling. It was anger. I was getting pissed. Pissed at those fools who though themselves to be badasses. Who thought they could do anything, who had to kill the innocent one to “get even” when he knew he would die.

That mother fucking asshole.

This whole fucking world, all of it. It’s a piece of motherfucking shit. Every single zombie needs to just fucking die. If they did, this world could become peaceful again. Life would thrive, humanity would thrive. These girls could live a much better, more peaceful, more fulfilling life. We all can.

Us residents can go back to what it once was like, happy. Our lives were relatively ok. I mean, a world without zombies is automatically so much better.

I just want that world back. Not a zombie filled world, but a world of peace and happiness.

I hit my boiling point.

I ran back upstairs, and grabbed my AK. I loaded it on my back and stocked up on ammo. I grabbed my shotgun. I made sure I had plenty of shells to go along with it.

I got my 3 pistols. Two holstered on my belt. One on my left knee.

I holstered my two knives. One on my left shoulder, the other on my right knee.

I tightened my bandana.

I took one last look at the wrapped corpse that once was our Fluttershy. Now lifeless, now motionless. All because of that asshole. All because of these fucking zombies.

They need to dealt with. Just like a rodent problem, they need to be exterminated.

I ran back downstairs and towards the front door, tears still streaming down my face. My shotgun in hand.

“Matt where are you going?” Beans asked me in confusion, seeing me in my full gear, something I almost never do.

“Out. You’re in charge for now.”

Author's Note

Just like in the last chapter, I was literally shaking while writing it. I was shaking, my breathing got extremely heavy, and I seriously felt myself choke up while writing the beginning of this one. This story is even having an emotion affect on its author as well!!

Which is why I'm working on that new, light-hearted fic. It'll help me keep my emotions balanced, and just give me something different to write. Keep an eye out for it, it will be released soon enough! And I will probably leave a note about it here when I do release it.

Thanks for your support y'all!!

Chapter 20: Physical Therapy

Author’s Note: Hi all!! So thanks for reading thus far, and this story is looking as strong as ever! But I do haz an announcement: I have a new story up, called “Alcohol, College, and The Elements of Harmony”. It’s a much lighter toned, funnier story. It’s a good balance when I’m working on this. So perhaps check it out? :D
Either way, enjoy this chapter! Comment and rate as always please!

I couldn’t hold back my feelings, or my emotions anymore. I just felt an overwhelming urge to destroy what I could, get revenge for Fluttershy. No one should ever do that to her, and I’m going to make sure everyone, and everything in my path feels the pain I have felt.

I got in my car, started it up and sped away. I saw Beans come out the front door in my rear view, but I paid no attention to it. I needed to do this.

To be honest I didn’t even feel like myself, I felt, distant. Something else was controlling me, making me feel what I felt, and making me think what I thought. It was weird, different, yet peaceful.

I turned on some music in my car as I drove, just to get my mind off of things, yet prepare it.

I was honking my horn, I blasted the music as loud as I could, I tried to make as much noise as possible. I drove past dozens of these fuckin’ freaks, each one slowly following my speeding red car.

I eventually stopped at a four-way intersection, coming to a screeching halt. I got out of my car, witnessing exactly what I wanted to see:

An armada of these walking fuckbags limping at me from every direction.

“Bring it you sons of bitches.” I quietly whisper to myself.

I grab my AK first, holstering my shotgun for later. No time to wait.

“FUCK YOU AALLLLLLLLLL” I yell as I charge towards one side of the intersection. Gun blazing, me yelling, zombies dropping. With nearly every bullet coming out, it was hitting zombie after zombie. I wasn’t firing from the hip, I looked down the iron sights. I wanted to make sure to waste as many of these things as possible.

Shot after shot, these fuckers were dropping like flies.

*click*

Shit, gotta reload.

As I reached for a new mag, a hand grabbed me on my left shoulder. My first reaction was to swing around and nail whatever it was in the head with the back of my gun.

Yep, another fucker. I stomped on its head as I reloaded my AK. I went back to what I was doing and continued clearing out the streets. Pure rage filled my heart and mind, and I couldn’t think of anything but killing, revenge, and Fluttershy.

The pile of bodies began to stack up, and then one side of the intersection was cleared. I turned to see others quick approaching. I decided to hit the street adjacent to the one I hit, I didn’t want to get surrounded and have no escape route.

I ran over to the next street, determined as ever to destroy these things. As I shot at each one, the moans and groans they made became quieter and quieter. My music was becoming more audible, just pumping me up even more. The amount of pure adrenaline running through my veins was unbelievable, never had I experienced such a rush before.

*click*

Fuck, gotta reload….

SHIT I’m out of AK ammo. The thought came just as a zombie was reaching out in front of me. The crowd was getting very close to me, and I had to back up; but not before busting the brains out of that zombie with the butt of the AK before dropping it.

I grabbed my shotty from its holster on my back, and BOOM… headshot. Cleaned a head right off a zombie’s shoulders.

*click click* BOOM *click click* BOOM

With every shot, a body fell to the ground for eternity.

*click*

FUCK RELOADING MAN.

And even worse I have to load up each individual shell, so it took time. The zombies made a good advance while I reloaded. Then I noticed what I had feared – the ones behind in the other streets were beginning to reach me.

I pulled an about face and started wasting those guys. But I could feel the ones I was working on creeping ever closer to me.

Fuck, I gotta move.

I began side stepping towads the clear street, and shooting zombies as I retreated.

*click*

GOD DAMMIT.

I rushed a zombie and smashed its face in with the butt of the shotgun, firmly re-killing it. I dropped the gun and brought out a pistol and my knife. There were still easily 60 zombies or so heading towards me, and I knew this wouldn’t be easy. But I didn’t care. They needed to die. And stay dead.

At least I was more mobile know, as I could shoot from afar, and use my knife if they got close. I ran about the front of the horde, killing one after another. Shoot, stab, shoot, stab, stab, shoot, stab.

*click*

Madre de dios…

I dropped the gun and grabbed pistol #2 and I continued with my same plan. I wasted every zombie I could and as swiftly as I could. I would let one get close, stab it, and shoot one right by it. And repeat. It was efficient, and I felt safe doing it. Stab, shoot, stab, shoot.

*click*

Putain de commence de merde!

Down to pistol #3, and my last one too. Fuck. I won’t be able to finish them like this, at least I don’t think so. That would be serious god mode at the moment.

WAIT.

I have fuckin emergency ammo in the trunk of my car!

……

……..which is across this damn platoon of zombies.

It’s just my day isn’t it? FUCK.

*click*

NIQUER JE VOUS EMMERDE SALAUD!

I tossed the gun at a zombies head, surprisingly killing it. I took out my second knife, and dual wielded that shit. It was all I had left. But I couldn’t be scared, I couldn’t wimp out now. I had a mission: grab my downed AK and shotgun and make it to the car where more ammo waited.

I checked my surroundings to find a viable spot to make a run for my AK, since that had the least zombies around it. I got lucky and found a hole towards the left of the horde. I still had to make a run through them. I could take ‘em, no problem.

I dashed through the hole, remembering my old days of tackle football with friends twice a week, and tried to juke and bowl over them zombies. I made sure to stab a few in the head as I made my way through. I felt hand after hand brush against me; I stomped on numerous heads, effectively causing them to splatter brain guts everywhere. I even managed to decapitate a few heads on the way.

I made it to my AK where only 3 zombies were walking by it. I made a leap towards two of them and simultaneously stabbed each through the eye with a knife, knocking them both on the ground. I got up and stabbed the last one through the jaw and up the skull, causing blood to spew out its mouth. I pulled out my knife and let the bastard fall to the ground, chucking at how easy it can be to kill a zombie.

But thank god, my AK. I picked it up and ran for the car, which was still blasting my music this whole time. I popped the trunk and there it was: a small bag with a couple more mags of AK ammo and 16 shotgun shells.
Merry fuckin’ Christmas.

I loaded my AK and just laughed at the bottlenecked zombies now limping towards me.

“HO HO HO MOTHA FUCKAS!” I laughed maniacally as I sprayed the zombies with my beautiful AK, and again they dropped like flies. I couldn’t be happier and prouder of this annihilation I was doing.

*click*

Well shit, there goes that. One quick reload later and off I went, dropping these fuckers like the scum they are. And crazily enough, there was only about a dozen left.

*click*

Well, I might as well enjoy the last bit, make this every bit satisfying as I can make it.

I dropped my AK once again, and brought out my dual knives. Both 8 inchers were doused in infected blood. These things were seasoned killers now, and if I stabbed any living human with these, anywhere on the body, they are done for….

~~Heeyyyyyy~~……

I just walked up to them, one by one, and decapitated each one. I just walked up to one, crossed my knives across its neck, and cut it off. They cut like butter on their softened skin, muscles and bones. It was extremely satisfying.

Down to one more. Poor mother fucker. The bastard just limped at me, you could see he got bit on the left ankle, it was totally chewed up. He was even in a grey suit, classy mother fucker. Too bad he got bit, might have been a cool dude. Oh well, too late to find out now.

With one more battle cry, I lunged towards its head and stabbed the zombie right in the skull. It was quick, and decisive.

I got up and just looked around.

Bodies everywhere. It looked like a bloody war, a bloody massacre.

Hell, it was a massacre.

Easily 90 or so of those things here. I just stood there, panting, bathed in the blood of the infected, looking at the horrors of this world.

I can’t believe I did all this; I just massacred a horde on my own. Jesus Christ, I didn’t know I had it in me. Well, I guess I should grab my dropped guns and head back home. Didn’t really plan on coming back home….

….Well not as a human….

Author's Note

Yeah, was kinda fun writing this chapter, not gonna lie. Listened to some badass music to get me pumped and BAM it did the job I think. Waddya think? Was hard choosing the right music to play for the background, but I'm happy with what I chose. Would you have done some other music? Comment what you woulda had playing for this badassery!

And don't forget, check out my new story!! :D

Chapter 21: Confusion and Clarity

I was breathing heavily, just looking around me. Bodies all around, blood flowing through the streets like a flood. It was a sight for the ages, a sight that would scar anyone who saw this. I guess I’m just desensitized from violence and death, cause I saw nothing too gruesome about this.

Off in the distance, I heard something, a noise…

It was a car, heading straight towards me, coming from the direction the house was.

It’s Beans’ car.

The car stops at the intersection and the riders get out: Beans, Rainbow, Pancho and AJ. I couldn’t muster a word; I just let the scene do the talking for me.

“Matt, what, what the hell is this?” Beans asked me, in total disbelief in what I’ve done. I didn’t respond. “Did you really do all this? Did you really kill all these zombies?” I simply nodded.

“Sweet Celestia…” Rainbow said out loud, taken off guard at what was in front of her.

“I hear ya sister, I can’t believe mah eyes” AJ said, looking at the dead bodies littering the street.

I simply fell to the ground, up against my car. Music still blasting like crazy.

“As much as I love this music, we gotta quiet this down buddy” Pancho said as he turned off my music, then turning to me, all eyes on me.

“Sorry. I’m sorry to all of you. It’s just… Fluttershy, and that damn bastard, and these fucking zombies and and and..” I couldn’t handle it anymore. This whole world, this stress, losing my friends, those I care about. What if we don’t make it? What if we all die some horrible way in a week? Then what the fuck was all this for? Why the fu-

SLAP

AJ gave me a good slap, and I needed it too. It got me to shut up and concentrate for a bit.

“Yah need to listen here, pardner.” AJ tried to calm me down a bit. “It’s ok. We’re all sad bout Fluttershy, but we can’t give up now! We have to keep surviving, for her. She’d want that.”

“She would want that huh? For us all to be ok, to survive. To be happy….” I tapered off into thought.

“Matt, listen,” I felt a hand on my shoulder, it was Beans. “I know this has to be hard. You want to protect us all from harm, especially the girls. No one tries harder than you do, and we all can see it. You don’t need to run from us, scared we will turn on you. If it wasn’t for you I think a lot more of us would be dead.”

“I’M NOT SCARED!” I snapped back at Beans, he was wrong. “It isn’t that, I’m not scared. I’m angry. Pissed. I know I could’ve done something to save her. I wasn’t thinking quick enough, I didn’t react like I should’ve. And Fluttershy paid the consequences for that.” I started crying, finally. After all this, I finally let it all out. A waterfall of tears fell down my cheeks, falling off onto the pavement, mixing with the blood already there.

“Matt, I saw how you were. You tried your best! There was nothing we could do.” RD said throwing in her two cents.

“But Dash, I COULD HAVE done something. He was the type to shoot at us first if we made an advance, not her. I could have made an attempt at him, given myself to save her. It would have worked. He wasn’t disciplined like that.” I countered her comfort, choking on tears.

“But then we would have lost you! Our leader! What about then? Then you’re putting us all in danger!” RD refuted.

“Ha, you got guys like Beans and Pancho and Mig and Shadow helping you. You coulda made it without me.” I tried telling them.

“Matt there’s no way in hell I can fill your shoes. I’m too much of a drunk” Pancho chuckled.

“Yeah same here. The only reason we aren’t too bad is cause YOU keep us in check.” Beans backed up Pancho. “Plus Mig’s out of commission right now and Shadow is too in love with App- Er I mean Shadow is just too young to handle it now.” AJ gave Beans a look, to which he ignored completely.

I couldn’t help but chuckle at that.

“What’s so funny, huh pardner?” AJ interrogated me.

“Ah it’s nothing, don’t worry about it.” I covered for Beans. “You guys just give me too much credit” I said with a half-smile, tears still running down my face.

“No,” Rainbow jumped in, getting down to my level, “we don’t give you enough.” She followed that statement with a peck on the cheek, and rubbing my tears away.

My face felt red hot with that little kiss. It caught me way the hell off guard, more off guard than if a hundred zombies came walking up. Shit, could I choose the zombies instead? I have no idea how to deal with this feeling, not since my late girlfriend.

“Uh, thanks, Rainbow.” I said as I put my hand where she kissed me. A hard blush ran to my cheeks, and I could feel it. We just stared at each other, giving each other soft smiles at the same time. Something was there, I know it, there has to be. It’s been so long since this feeling but I recognize it, I know what this is: love.

“Uh, Rainbow, mind givin’ the fella a lil’ room?” AJ tried to snap us two out of our little trance.

“Oh, uh, yeah, hehe. I guess I can do that.” Rainbow blushed and scratched the back of her neck as she backed off a bit, still looking at me.

“Thanks for the support guys, really.” I said as I slowly got back up. “I think we should head back. How is everyone else?”

“A mess.” Beans quickly responds.

“Hm. What of… her… body?” I ask, realizing as much as I’d rather hide from this topic, it needs to be dealt with just a bit more.

“Still in the room.” Beans again responds, authoritatively.

“Well we need bury her; give her a proper funeral and resting place. I assume the other guys’ bodies are still there?” I ask Beans. He simply nods. “Ok, for those guys we need to dig a ditch and burn them. Or…”

We did need a way to scare others away, or at least alert those coming in there are people living here, and we aren’t to be trifled with.

“Why don’t we hang a couple at the front gates of the street? There, we can scare those thinging of raiding the place away. Or at the very least make them think twice. Intimidation. And a decent lure for some zombies and clear the area out a little more. Every zombie kill counts, right?” I proposed to the small group in front of me.

“Eh, I’m not so sure about that plan Matt. It may cause unwanted attention. Don’t you think people may want to test us seeing that? That we might have something worth protecting? Like food, water and guns?” Pancho says, playing devil’s advocate.

“Good point. Why don’t we just bring this up to the group as a whole in an official meeting, sound fair?” I try to appease him, hoping we can do this. I like this idea, it could work well.

“Yeah, sure; we can talk about it more then. Let’s just get back home ok?” he smiles at me, placing his hand on my shoulder.

“Yeah, let’s go home.” I smile and pick up my gun and get in my car. Rainbow decides to join me and Pancho and AJ go with Beans.

I turn my iPod and put on better music. (A/N: TAKES YOU OFF PAGE. BEWAAARREE!!) Rainbow and I just exchange smiles, and drive off.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAHHH”

Rainbow screams bloody murder as a zombie is trying to get her from the back seat in the car.

“HOW IN THE BLOOD SOAKED PROTESTANT HELL DID YOU MANAGE TO GET IN!?” I grunt as I let go of the wheel and get my knife.

I stab it before it gets a chance to get its hands on her. Thank God.

“You ok Dash?” I ask, checking her really quick to make sure of no marks.

“Yeah, yeah, I think so.” She pauses to get a grip of herself. “Thanks Matt.” She smiles at me, and gives me yet another peck on the cheek. Again, caught off guard. I put my hand up to my cheek again, and just smile at her.

"Of course, Dash. Anytime" A big grin escapes me, and she giggles. "What?" I ask confused.

"Oh nothing! You're just funny when you're blushing like that!" Rainbow continued to giggle.

"Ah hush! It's just my natural look is all" I lied, "Nothin to do with you!" I try to defend myself.

"Doesn't seem like it!" She continued to give me a hard time. I just shook my head, laughed, and drove towards the sunset.

Author's Note

Another chapter yay!

Anywhoo sorry I'm laggin it on these chapters. I'm trying my best here. Hope you enjoyed this chapter! Much more to come! Don't forget to rate and comment! Thanks!

And don't forget to check out my other story, "Alcohol, College, and the Elements of Harmony"!

Again, a Note From the Author

I LIIIIIIIVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

So yeah, I thought I'd put this little bit of info out there for y'all:

I am alive
This story is far from dead
I am in the midst of finals at my university, so I will still be away for another week
But after that, my schedule will be free, and then it's free game!!
I have recently seen a number of underground zombie movies, where I've formed some new ideas. I seriously can't wait to write it all down in the form of this story.
I'm extremely sorry for just disappearing like that, I shoulda left a note or something. I will understand if you no longer want to read this or are angry at me or whatever. University just got extremely hectic and busy and hard and yeaahhh... life in general.

PS. You can expect the next chapter to come out in about a week and a half, two weeks tops!

Chapter 23: Coping

“MIG!? What are you doing walking around!? You should be resting, cuz!” I rush over to aid my crippled cousin down the remaining steps. I walk him towards one of the couches in the living room and sit him down, his face still grimacing from the abdominal pain.

“Be careful man! Those wounds haven’t fully closed yet! One harsh movement and you’re bleeding a river again!” I scold him a bit, but he just chuckles and gives me his usual sly grin.

“Eh, I’ll be alright, cuz. You know us - we can tough through anything that comes our way!” He gallantly holds up his fists with a giant grin. That bastard was in a chippy mood as ever – how could I tell him the news about Fluttershy?

“So, uh, can I get some food or something? I’m STARVING!” He asked no one in particular, looking around the room at everyone, still in our casual/formal attire for Fluttershy’s funeral, some of us holding back the tears we just shed, myself included.

We all just fumbled with what to do, until AJ finally stepped up and took control.

“Ah’ll get ya somthin’ to eat! Whaddya have, Mig?” she asks in a very kind manner while kneeling down in front of him.
“Do we have any chicken noodle soup cans left? Cause I’ve been craving that for a while!” His face beaming with happiness, the guy couldn’t have been in a happier state. I think the fact he survived his first major injury and sees us all here has put him in this good mood – though he was always a very optimistic guy to begin with.

“Sure thing, sugercube. Ah’ll get right on it.” AJ pats his knees smiling, and gets up towards the kitchen to start his soup.

“Hey, guys, really quick, what’s with all the blood up there in the room I was in? Someone else get hurt?”

And like that we all froze. I could see a few of the girls, mainly Twilight, begin to choke up again hard, and tried their damn best to hold back from breaking down again. Even AJ stopped dead in her tracks upon hearing that.

“Um, Mig, I really don’t know how to say it, and there is no easy way of saying it…” I tried to think of the best way to put it to Mig. But there just wasn’t an easy way to put it, it just had to be said.

“Matt, what isn’t easy to say?” His face began to look a little worried. Everyone was looking at us, looking to see what will unfold as I tell him the devastating news that Fluttershy, the girl all us real humans knew he had a crush for, was brutally murdered by a bunch of psychos.

“While you were out, a group of thugs came to the house and tried to take it over,”

“OH SHIZNIT. They just come barging in wanting it for themselves?” He might have thought that was the bad news, if only it was.

“Yeah, barging in, taking me captive. But luckily for Mr. Knifey over there,” I gesture towards Beans, his face solid as a rock, expressionless. “he got the guy and got me free. A firefight ensued, and we managed to kill them all off. We managed to get a decent amount of supplies from them too.”

“Oh sounds pretty crazy, cuz! But was that it? Honestly you scare me some-“

“That’s not everything.” I interrupted. I didn’t want him to get a false sense of security about this. He really began to look worried now. “Once we thought we killed them all off, we heard a scream from your room. We run up to see there was one man left – and he held Fluttershy at gunpoint.”

At these words his eyes grew big, and he began looking around the room for Fluttershy. He was beginning to put the pieces together. His eyes began to cloud, and you could see water forming in his eyes. It tore me apart to have to tell him the news.
“She was watching over you the entire time, and that bastard he, he…” It was so hard to finish that sentence.

“Matt, no. Please, Matt, no. Tell me this is a dream. Tell me this is a horrible, horrible nightmare.” Tears began streaming down his face as he grabbed a hold of my shoulders. His voice was choking up where he was beginning to become hard to understand. “Don’t tell me she’s dead! Please, Matt, for the love of God, please tell me she’s not dead!” He was shaking me as I just looked down.

Finally, I managed to just point to her grave in the backyard. I couldn’t even bare to look at him. I could feel him use me as a support to get up, and he slowly walked away towards the back. You could hear his quiet sobbing, and others trying to support him along his walk to the back. I looked up to see Beans go to help him walk and he just pushes him away – not averting his gaze upon the freshly filled gravesite.

Mig reaches Fluttershy’s grave, and just stands and looks at it for about a minute. Then you see him collapse to his knees, and bawl like you haven’t heard anyone bawl before. But he wasn’t the only one, soon others started crying again. Twilight let her head fall on AJ, who was wiping away tears of her own. Xoch buried her head in Pancho’s shoulder as she wept, and he was being the strong man for her, one of the few in the group. I see RD also fall down to her butt and she buries her head in her hands, hunched over and crying. Pinkie fell on the couch and wept a waterfall, you could see her tears fall from the couch onto the floor – we were all a wreck.

I walked out there to him, closing the glass sliding door behind me – it was only me and him, no one else.

“Mig, I’m so sorry you had to find out this way. But I know what you’re going through right now, losing the ones you truly love and care about, it couldn’t be a harder thing to deal with…” I was at a loss for words. All I could really do was kneel next to him, and comfort him as best I could.

“What… What happened to the guy who… who-“

“We took care of him, thoroughly. Him and all those other bastards are piled in the front - we were prepared to burn ‘em.”

“Well, at least, at least he’s dead.” Mig said with a cold, raspy voice. He not once was averting his gaze from her grave.

“Yeah, at least there’s that.” I rubbed his back with my hand, patting him as well. I just didn’t know what to do; I didn’t really have anyone to comfort me when I lost my family, so I didn’t know what he wanted to hear or what needed to be said or anything, really.

“Matt, could you just leave me here for a bit? I want to be alone with Fluttershy for a little while.” He pleaded me while still looking down.

“Yeah, Cuz, no problem. I’ll let you be for a bit.” I smile and pat him on the back, and get up to walk inside.

“How’s he taking it?” Shadow asked me, looking at me with his bloodshot eyes, filled with water and pain.

“Not too well, he wanted to be left alone for a bit. So let’s just let him be for now; AJ, mind working on that soup for him? That and maybe some crackers? He still needs to eat.” I ask her and she nods, turning towards the kitchen to get to work.

She eventually brought the food out to him, but he didn’t touch it. I had AJ leave the crackers but bring the soup back in, I didn’t want it to go to waste.

But as time went by, he just stayed still, on his knees, looking at Fluttershy’s grave. It turned into hours, he was just kneeling there, not moving. We all took turns going out there one by one and checking up on him, but each person was only there for a minute or so before he shoo’d them away.

The sun was finally beginning to set, and he had not budged all day. He had hardly eaten. I decided to finally go out and try to get him back in. He needed to keep his strength up and eat and rest, but most importantly, he has to try to move on and stay strong.

I head outside and tell everyone to just let us be, and make sure not to watch us – I wanted this to be between me and him, cousin to cousin, between family.

I sat down next to him, and he is just staring at the grave. Few tears running down his face, I think he ran his tears dry by this point. But I just sat there next to him, looking out towards out beautiful landscape view, waiting for one of us to speak up, and he finally does.

“Did you… did you say she was watching over me?” His voice was raspy, he sounded like one of those people who had been screaming their whole lives and had a real raspy voice, but much more depressed.

“Yeah, she was. She watched over you and Rarity feverously, it was truly something to behold. She not once left your guys’ side – particularly yours.” I calmly and quietly told him, hoping these words would help at least a little bit, knowing she wasn’t all angry at him or anything.

“After our fight at the market – wait, did you –“

“Yeah, I heard about it. She gave you a good scolding I hear.”

“Yeah, over killing these zombies. She thought they were still live people who were sick, and that you were an ass, but I covered for you, Cuz. Cause, well, you’re my family. But it sucked to go against her, it really did. So when she snapped at me, I was crushed.” I didn’t know about the exact details, so hearing that he stood up for me and the group’s tactics against her, was quite the surprise.

“I think, that’s what hurts the most about losing Fluttershy…” Mig began to say while playing with some of the loose dirt by his hands. “… Is that I never got a chance to make amends with her. Sure, she might have looked over me like you said, but I never knew that. I never got to say sorry for being a dick to her, and I wanted us to be on good terms.” He finally began to wipe away his tears, he was looking like a mess.

“I just wanted to be able to talk to her again about that situation, and I wanted to tell her I had feelings for her. But, but now, I won’t get that chance.” He was choking up again, and he was shaking. All this stress was taking its toll on his body. “I never got to walk up to her, say ‘Fluttershy, I love you’ and kiss her. I know, I’m weird for wanting that, but I won’t hide it. She was damn awesome and I liked her, I wanted to be around her more often. And now, I can’t. No matter how badly I want to.”

“I know. Trust me I know you liked her, and I know you wanted to tell her. I couldn’t imagine a greater pain, Cuz. But don’t worry, you aren’t the only one who’s got a thing for their fav pony-girl-I don’t even know.” I tried to console Mig, and figured one thing was to try to lighten the mood, perhaps get a chuckle or something.

“What do you mean?” he asked me quizzically, finally looking to me instead of Fluttershy’s grave.

“I got a thing for Rainbow Dash. It’s hard to admit, and even harder to accept, but I do. Shit, I just admitted I got a thing for her. What the hell?” I outwardly think to him.

“Glad to know I’m not the only one, and glad to see you’re moving on from your past.” Mig referencing my past girlfriend who, well, you remember.

“I think she would want me to move on, and fight and be strong. She always said I was an emotionally strong person, and I think she’d want me to try and keep that up - much how I think Fluttershy would want the same out of you.” I wrap my arm around his shoulder, we were both just looking out at the large plain that welcomed us in our backyard.

“She’d want you to keep fighting, to keep surviving. She wouldn’t want you to roll over and quit, she’d want you to keep living and to move forward. You and I both know she cared about us all, and she put others first. And I think that she, being the selfless girl she was, would want us to move on and prosper in our lives.”

I think those words are what got to him, what he needed to hear.

“Yeah, maybe you’re right.” He sniffled and wiped away some more tears. “I know she wouldn’t want us to die out here.” He tried to reason with himself, and I just let him get through this thought process of his. “She’d want us to live, love, laugh, and be friends and make new ones. Not hate everyone and not do anything with our lives, but the opposite.” A small grin appeared on his face, if only for a split second, but one managed to manifest itself on him. That was all I needed to know that he would get through this.

“C’mon Cuz, let’s get you that soup you wanted.” I got up and held out my hands for him to grab on to. He looked up at me, then back to Fluttershy ,then back to me, until finally lifting his hands up letting me grab a hold of him. I gently lifted him up and helped him inside.

“Hey, can I still have that soup?” he asked me as we walked in.

“Yeah, sure, you can have that soup still.” I said with a slight chuckle, trying to be the positive one for him this time.

“Guys! Let’s get this guy some soup!”

Author's Note

No joke I had this chapter sitting for about two weeks, I still don't know why this wasn't uploaded. My bad people, my bad... hehe. As always, rate and comment! Thanks!

Chapter 24: Never Any Rest

A few days have passed since the Fluttershy and Miguel incident. We have slowly been moving on from it, and focusing on keeping alive ourselves. Luckily, we seem to be working much more as a single unit: scavenging, cooking, cleaning, fighting – we are all working on the same page and I love it. AJ and Pinkie have become awesome cooks for the group, Twilight has helped keep things organized and remains the leader for the girls, and Dash has become quite the scavenger as of late.

Though not all has been perfect – Mig and Beans have gotten a little reckless lately and going on random late night scavenges or drives. I’ve been trying my best to stop them but they just want to go out for shits and giggles. At least every time they come back they come with a good amount of food or ammo, but it’s still risky going out late and I really don’t like it.
But, like I said, it’s nice seeing us all work together. Us all being on the same page increases out chances for survival, and that’s all that matters.

Anyway it’s early in the afternoon, and I feel like going out on a scavenging run.

“Hey, anyone wanna join me on a scavenging run? I’m feeling kinda bored and could use some fresh air.”

“Yeah sure I’ll join ya, I’m hungry!” Beans shouts as he jumps off the couch he was napping on.

“Cool, anyone else?” I ask no one in particular as everyone was doing something throughout the house.

“Yeah, me! Lemme come!” Dash said as she ran up to me with those awesome eyes of hers.

“Yeah sure, you can join us, Dashie. You and Beans get ready, I wanna scout a lot of places today.” I tell her and Beans, they nod and go grab their gear. “Everyone behave while we’re gone, I don’t wanna see the damn place up in flames when we come back. Understood, Pancho?” I give him a grin as he is downing some soup.

“Hey! I resent that!” he points and give me the finger. I just laugh as I turn around towards the door.

“See ya guys later! Xoch is in charge while I’m gone!” God I hope I don’t regret that decision, that psycho-woman.

Once Rainbow, Beans and I get in the car I try to think where we should go first. I knew of a few neighborhoods close by we haven’t hit.

Meanwhile, Beans decided to take control of the music (A/N: MUSIC TAKES YOU OFF PAGE) for the ride. Ahhh the old days of partying and getting drunk, I miss those days.

“So what’s the plan, Mateo?” Beans asked me as he bobbed his head to the music.

“I figured we could hit the neighborhood by our old elementary, we haven’t that place yet.”

“Wait, Matt, you sure? We haven’t been there since…”

“Since day 1, I know. But we have to look past it and grab a hold of all the things we can get – it’s just ripe for the picking and you know it.”

“Hey, uuhh,” Dash finally spoke up for the first time in the car ride “,what place are we talking about exactly? I’m lost.”

“My neighborhood, the houses surrounding my old house before the zombies hit.” I simply stated without much emotion, in a very matter of fact manner.

We drove up to a house on a corner, and just looking at it in the car gave me a very eerie feeling. The house used to be owned by an old friend of mine. I wonder what happened to him…

We got out and walked up to the busted door. The house used to be very nice, a pretty garden in front with who knows how many types of flowers, a white picket fence, and a very modest house overall. But now, all those flowers have wilted and been trampled, windows broken, the fence has been knocked down and lost most of it’s color, same for the house paint.

We walked in and the house was pitch black inside. Curtains covered the windows so we could hardly see a thing.

“Beans tear off those curtains, we need to see.” I commanded. He nodded and began to tear off curtains. Dash and I walked the downstairs part of the house, flashlights and knives in our hands, ready for anything.

“GAH FUCK ME.”

“BEANS!” Dash and I run over to the living room and see Beans under a zombie.

“God damn piece of shit…” he grunted as he held the zombie by the neck, just inches from his face, blood dripping from its mouth.

“I’m comin!” I run up to the scuffle and stab the zombie right through its temple, the body effectively going limp.

“Shit, warn me next time! I got its guts all over me!”

“Bitch you woulda got messy anyways, stop being a bitch.” I snap back as I help him up, he gave me a pat on the back.

“Glad you got my back, man.” He says smiling, resting his hand on my shoulders.

“Always, brudda.”

Rainbow just kept an eye out for any unwelcome visitors as Beans and I had our bro moment. Hey, we’re allowed to have one once in a while! We’ve been best friends since we were five, kinda hard to imagine life without this fool.

“Uhh, guys, hate to break this up, but we got work to do.” Rainbow interrupted. She was right.

“Yeah, the bottom story clear?” I ask Rainbow. She nodded. “Awesome. Lets head upstairs.”

We went on and cleared the house. No problem. Onto the next.

*ring ring*

“Yeah wassup Xoch? All ok?...

SHE IS!? How is she? Is she ok? How is she responding? Need us there?

Ok, be there soon.”

“What was that all about?” Rainbow asked as we were about to enter our next house.

“Rarity is up! She isn’t liking how she looks right now, but she’s up and alert.” I respond as I walk towards the car, Beans and Rainbow following me.

“Really!? That’s awesome! Do you *cough cough*know if she *cough* is gonna be 100% *cough* soon?” Beans asked, coughing up a lung all of a sudden.

“Yeah, she should be. Will you? You don’t sound good man.”

“Yeah I’m fine, let’s just get back home, ok?” I nod and we drive back home with little findings from our search.

We get back to the house and walk in to see Rarity sitting on the couch downstairs. AJ some soup and the rest of the girls crowded around her, she was crying her eyes out. Xoch walked up to me and told me that Rarity woke up screaming – apparently waking up in a blood soaked room isn’t the best thing to wake up to, we should've learned our lesson already from Mig, but nope. But she asked a lot of questions eventually leading to learning about Fluttershy.

I walked up to Rarity to try to comfort her, but it was hard, she was a total wreck. She looked horrible, her hair was still messed up from the explosion, nor had her skin healed fully, and it was still pretty raw and sensitive. When she looked up at me, I could see her eyes were swollen red from the crying, she was in pure misery. But what was misery turned to pure rage and hatred, and soon I almost feared those eyes that were looking up at me.

“YOU.” She shouted in a raspy, anger-filled voice. “This is all your fault mister!” She got up and poked me in the chest as she said that. She was pissed, and I became confused.

“My fault? What did I do?” I didn’t really try to insinuate anything, I just figured this was a way for her to vent out her feelings, so I let her lash out.

“It’s your fault Fluttershy died here! If you had done a better job protecting us, and if you knew what you were doing, maybe she might still be here! You could have saved her! You could have done something! Instead you just let those hooligans get away with killing the kindest pony we all know!” Her voice steadily raised as she continued yelling at me. “Better defenses, better leading, better everything! You are a horrible leader and everyone here is lucky to be alive with you in charge!”

Ouch. I know she’s pretty shook up about Fluttershy, but damn. That, that got to me a bit.

“I’m, I’m sorry you feel that way Rarity, but I don’t claim to be a perfect leader. I’m learning as I go, this is a situation I haven’t really fully prepared for.” Was the only defense I put up, again figuring I’d let her win the argument.

“SORRY!? Sorry is all you have to say!? Sorry isn’t going to bring our precious Fluttershy back, it won’t keep us safe, it won’t get us back home!” Rarity was steaming at this point.

“Hey Rarity *cough cough* listen…” Beans stepped in at this point. “You may think he’s *cough cough* a bad leader, but I think *cough* I speak *cough* for the rest of us when *cough cough* I say… that…” and just like that he collapsed in front of us all.

“BEANS”

Author's Note

Soooo as my apology present for lagging it on chapters, here's two back to back! Enjoy!! :D

Prologue

(AUTHOR'S NOTE: I do not have an editor. Unless you want to call Microsoft word my editor. If anyone would have interest in being my editor, let me know! Thanks! :D Hope you enjoy!

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It was all I heard around me. All I saw was whatever my flashlight shined on, the light in the house was dead. All I could smell was the grotesque odor of rotting meat. All I could feel were the cold beads of sweat running down my face. I was scared, terrified actually, but yet comfortable. Maybe it was the 7 inch knife I held in my other hand, or perhaps the gear I wore. My combat helmet and metal gear, or maybe my other weapons? My shotgun wrapped on my back along with my AK-47. Or my 3 handguns holstered on my hips and one in my right boot. *CRASH* “WHO’S THERE?” I quickly said. It came from the kitchen; I realized those were glass plates shattering. What did it though? I slowly made my way to the kitchen; at this point I was crouching, trying not to make a single sound. I slowly turned the corner, seeing more of the kitchen. It looked nice, marble counter tops, island counter with a ceiling overhanging, stainless steel sink and a grey sleek fridge. Would’ve been nice to cook here.

But I wasn’t there to cook, unfortunately. My thoughts came to a halt as I saw a figure standing right there, just feet from me. It just stood there, not a peep coming from either of us. I reluctantly turned my flashlight on it, there it was, blood spread all over its face, and a chunk of meat missing from its neck. A person. But not just any person, hell, I wish it was.

It was a fuckin’ zombie.

“Ah crap” was all I could manage to say until the freak fall on me, trying to make me its dinner. Luckily I had my knife out. I stabbed it through the neck, keeping it away from my face. Blood splattered everywhere, I made sure to close my eyes and mouth as the blood flew, I did NOT want to turn into one of those things, not after all that has happened. I threw it off me, it still trying to turn me into a meal. I got back on my feet and rushed over to it, this time I was in control, and pierced its eye socket with my Rambo-esque knife. I pulled it out and hit the other eye, again making sure my mouth and eyes were closed as I did it. I released the zombie and it collapsed onto the floor, motionless.

Phew

I continued walking around the house, looking. What I did find was something that brought me back to the good ol’ days before this: A Rainbow Dash figurine. Still in good condition. I was never one to collect stuff, but I loved the show. So guess what? I was a brony. And I didn’t care. A number of people from my past life mocked me for it, but I knew it would someday come back to bite them in the ass. And guess what? It did – literally. Anyway I decided to pocket the figurine, and head out. I was done with what I was doing, I just wanted to get home and sleep. Enough stress for today – I get enough of it anyway.
I head outside, ready for my car to greet me and ready for a calming ride home, but one thing managed to get in my way of getting to the car.

Another fucking zombie.

“C’mon this shit’s getting old!!” I screamed as I lunged towards the zombie, knife in hand, quickly and efficiently piercing its skull. The crack it made was disgusting, yet satisfying. I threw the double lifeless corpse onto the ground and just stared at it for a bit.

I wonder who that person was before, how they were. I doubt they were as much as an ass then as they are now. I wonder if he’s in heaven, wishing for someone to put his body down. Or I wonder if some part of him is trapped in there, wishing to be released, set free by someone.

My universe defying logic and thinking was cut short when I noticed the horde of zombies heading my way. There was easily 75-100 of them, all slowly limping, but yet trying to get to me as fast as they could, the idea of getting a meal giving them motivation to move.

“Mother of god…” was all I could muster to say. I was frozen. The amount of zombies I witnessed was an ungodly amount, no one person could take out this amount on their own. I’m never the one to back down, I never run from a fight, especially with these fucks. But this time I was just frozen solid, reduced to a statue staring down death itself. Only until they were feet away did I realize what would happen if I didn’t move. I didn’t want to die. Not after what I’ve done, what I promised mom and dad, or my sister. It would only disappoint them if I didn’t keep on going. So I did what any sensible person would do in a time like that - I quickly ran for my car. But, some zombies were in the way of me getting to my car. I didn’t have time to kill them all; I could only run through them and pray I didn’t get caught.

I ran through, pretending I was back on the playground with friends playing tackle football. I ducked my head, tucked in my arms, lowered my shoulders and went all “The Refrigerator” on their asses. Next thing I knew I ran into my car, causing a dent in the side of it.

“Ow, fuck that hurt.” I said rubbing my shoulder, noticing the dent.

“dammit well that sucks” I grumbled, before remembering I need to get the fuck out of there before I become zombie chow.
I get in the car, and drive off in the opposite direction of my house, hopefully I drive them away.

“God I hope they aren’t smart enough to realize what I’m doing” I whisper, driving off for home, the horde following.

Chapter 1: Welcome to Southern California, My Home

Nice to meet ya. Name’s Matt, Matthew, Mateo, whatever you feel like calling me. Most people call me Matt so I guess that. I just left that house I got attacked in, and heading back to Base Camp. It’s basically what me and my friends/fellow survivors call our home. It’s actually a mansion we decided to occupy during the whole mess.

Oh, in case you haven’t realized, the zombie apocalypse happened, and just about everyone is dead.

I was at my university when I became aware of it, and had to work my ass off to save who I could, but that’s a story for another time.

I drove through the gated area where Base Camp was, and saw the house. It was big, big enough for about a dozen people, typical of some rich areas here in SoCal. Brownish/yellowish paint job, floor pillars surround the mansion, with windows facing the street from nearly every room. There were 4 other cars parked in front, a black sedan, a black Chevy, a maroon corolla, and a white van. I parked my Focus in the back of the line on the street. Got out, and just stood there in front of our house. Layers of gates and fences surrounded our house, for added protection of course. I was so happy I was alive, to be there, back “home” to my closest family I had. I just took it in a bit, before I heard the front door open.

“Matt, you’re back! Get in here, some of us are gonna watch My Little Pony now, hurry up!” said a skinny teen. He stood about an inch taller than me, fluffy hair, and though skinny, still had an athletic build.

“I’m takin my time, Mig, I had an incident scouting”

“Oh boy, what happened cousin?” We were the only ones left in our family alive, so we had an even more special bond than before. I could tell he was worried, I was worried. I never get worried.

“Nearly got it today. The fucker just surprised me, fell on and nearly took out my neck. Then a horde tried to rip me to shreds. Thank god I played football all those years. I’m lucky to be here right now and not out there as one of those things.” A slight tremble in my voice, and Miguel seemed even more worried.

“Cuz, I’m sorry. Why didn’t you take anyone with you? You know it’s dangerous to be out there at night, I’m still confused why you did.”

“Beats me, I just felt like goin out.” I really didn’t know why I did. I broke two of our sacred rules. I went out at night. And I went out there alone. Really stupid, but something told me to go out, I can’t put my finger on it, I just did. But I wasn’t exactly in the mood to tell Mig all the story, so I left it at that. Luckily, so did he.

“Ok, well let’s head on in. I need my ponies.” Said Miguel, at this point punching my arm and running inside, motioning for me to follow, I did.

I closed the door once I was inside, and I see the other survivors, my friends, sitting on a couple couches towards a TV with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic on.

Chris, or as we called him “Pancho” was about my height and weight. Solid build. He had a very deep and monotone voice, yet still struck with power. He always carried around his automatic shotgun with him, it was his baby. Couldn’t blame him, that thing has done some ungodly things, and gotten us out of trouble plenty of times. His black short hair looked a little ruffled, probably did the nasty with his girlfriend.

Next to him was his girlfriend, Xoch. She had dark-red curly hair, and I mean curly. She was a couple inches shorter than Pancho, toned body. She had a .44 magnum with her. She wasn’t a big guns person, but wanted to be. She’s a real spitfire who can fuck shit UP when the time calls for it, but it doesn’t happen often. Imagine if the Hulk was a tiny Hispanic girl.

On a separate couch were Miles (or Shadow) and Thomas (Beans). Miles was our token black guy, short, skinny, but fast. Short black curly hair, he normally has a couple handguns on him at a time. And a knife as well. He’s like a little brother to me, we were neighbors before all this and best friends, so it was nice still having him around. He too lost his family to those fucks, something we all could relate. Beans was a bit thicker than us all, but not fat. He was strong, dirty blonde hair that look unkept even though it was short. He loved his semi-auto guns. He talked about them and bragged about them quite a bit, and was pretty funny. He’s a natural comedian and prankster, so is Pancho, so those two together can be quite a mess, but it definitely lightens the mood to quite an extent.

“Hey bitches and sons of bitches, you miss me?” I say very sarcastically, something we all do a lot.

“Yeah babe a lot, I’ve been waiting on you all night” Beans responded with a sly smile on his face.

“Nah, not really. I’ve been busy all night really hehe” Pancho deviously said while grabbing a hold of Xoch, her response?

Slapping him, getting a chuckle out of all of us.

“No. Because now I have no TV since you are hogging it with this crap” Shadow said, sounding just as sour as you can imagine for being a pony hater.

“Fuck you, Shadow don’t you be hatin on our ponies, they kick ass” I quickly responded. Half serious and half joking.

“NO THEY DON’T. THEY STINK” Miles retorted. I was ready to come back but Beans stepped in.

“Bro, Matt, yes they do. It’s retarded, like your face. I vote a different show. How about Spongebob?”

“That sounds tempting, but I WANT MAH PONIES NAO” Xoch angrily yelled. We could all sense the anger, we quickly shut up and watched the show.

Me, Mig, and Xoch were the bronies of the group. We loved the show and watched it all the time together even before the shit hit the fan. Beans, Shadow and Pancho, on the otherhand, weren’t as big as fans as us. Pancho didn’t mind it but preferred not to watch it. Thomas watched it with us one night and didn’t like it. Shadow has never seen an episode and refuses to, thinking it’s girly and stupid. There’s no convincing him. But, I still try anyway, it’s fun to do anyway, it annoys him and I like to annoy him.

We had watched a few episodes, by this time it was beginning to get late. Plus, we didn’t want to risk any Z’s come crashing to our place, so we called it a night. We all had separate rooms, all on the second floor. Again, a couple obstacles on the stairs helped delay any zombies comin in, plus with bells attached, we would hear them as well.

I got to my room, I had the biggest. King sized bed, with brownish carpet and curtains placed over the windows. Power still ran in this area, but we didn’t use the house lights much. I slowly removed my armor and weapons, a 5 minute process, and quickly fell asleep. The attack still lingering in the back of my mind.

How does death feel? Will I keep the others safe from it? What if we find more people? What then?

Author's Note: Apologies

So, I thought I'd come on here and give a quick statement on what's going on:

This story is no where near dead.
My university is a lot tougher and more time consuming than I thought
My fraternity is also taking up so much of my time with parties, brotherhood events and mixers with other sororities.
I also am working two jobs at this point, so that adds in as well.
Working on chapters is definitely not that easy with all my time taken away, and I still have to remember time for my girlfriend, family, and others close to me.
I am trying my best to work on this, and has been in the back of my mind for a while
THE STORY IS NOT DEAD BY A LONG SHOT!!

So yeah. That's the jist of what's goin on. For example, this week,

Today, Class until 4:30, then home by 6. Then homework and studying for a midterm Thursday. Work at 9pm until 2am.
Tomorrow, class until 5, home by around 6:30, repeat process, minus work.
Wednesday, class until 4:30, study. Then fraternity meeting lasting until 10pm and gotta bone up for midterm on Thursday
Thursday, midterm. Class till 5, then dinner with a sorority at 7 lasting all night.
Friday, class until 3, work at 5 until 1am.
Saturday, school's football game. All day thing.
Sunday, work all day.

So pretty much in random spots I'm gonna try to work on this. It's just hard. So bear with me, por favor. :)

You guys are the greatest, just letting you know.

Chapter 22: Resting and Recovery

RD and I were just barely pulling up to the house when Pancho, AJ and Beans were already out and waiting for us.

“What took you guys? We saw you stop for a second behind us.” Pancho asked both me and RD.

“Oh, well, nothing really. Only a zombie was in my back seat and almost ate RD’s head off but other than that we just stopped to have some tea is all.” I sarcastically remarked, trying to not make a big deal out of it.

“WHAT!?” Was all I heard in response.

Yepp, saw that one coming.

“Yeah a zombie managed to slip in my car and almost got Rainbow here. But don’t worry, all good. She’s safe, that’s all that matters.” I say smiling as I take a glance at her. She looked away as I looked at her, blushing. “But we need to get in there and calm everyone down. How are they?”

“Scared, depressed, what do you expect? Fluttershy is dead!” Beans replied.

Every time I hear that, every time I hear that or think about it, I still, and will not, be able to wrap my mind around it. I still feel horrible for these girls, getting stuck in this godforsaken world, and losing their best friend. I could only imagine how traumatizing that has to be.

“Yeah, ok, well, time to head in.” I take a breath and walk in house. I see everyone sitting in the living room, still sobbing and not knowing what to do with themselves. Twilight happens to see me first, and once we make eye contact, she gets up off the couch and speedily walks towards me.

SLAP.

“OW! What the hell was that for!?” I shout as I tend to my left cheek, pulsating from the slap.

“Why did you run off like that!? You had us all terrified! We thought we might lose you too on top of Fluttershy! Then what would we do?” Twilight barked at me. She was furiously upset. You could see the pain in her clouded eyes, full of tears and reddened from constant rubbing.

“Twilight, I…” I saw everyone looking at me with somber looks, pain in their eyes, all looking to me for an answer, for help. “…Everyone: I’m sorry for running off like that. I truly am. I shouldn’t have done that. I did what I swore I would never allow to happen me, I let my emotions get the best of me. And I ran off in anger and fear, I shouldn’t have. I almost died out there, I was irresponsible, I was foolish, and I was wrong to do that. I’m sorry everyone, I hope you all can forgive me one day.” I couldn’t bear to look anyone in the eyes - I was too far ashamed of what I had done. The reality of what I did, the foolish blood rage, set in.

I soon felt a hand on my shoulder, I turn to see Twilight, staring at me with those big purple eyes, and pulls me in for an embrace. Soon I see Shadow walk up and hug me as well, followed by Xoch, then Rarity, then everyone else.

“Matt, we could never be truly angry with you, ever.” Shadow speaks on everyone’s behalf.

“Thank you, thank you all so much.” I begin to bawl like a little baby, I didn’t even bother holding it in anymore, I let it all out.

We hugged it out for what seemed like an hour, we all forgot about time and the zombies for a little bit. All we cared about was each other, how we are there for each other no matter what.

Soon everyone began to let go of the embrace, and I did my best to fill my leader roll as best as possible.

“Guys, I know it’s really shitty timing, but we have to properly take care of Fluttershy. Has a proper site been made yet?” I ask the group, to which everyone just silently shakes their heads. “Alright then, Pancho, Beans and I will begin work on the burial site. Shadow and Dashie, I want you two to work on a tombstone for her. Shadow can carve and Dash can say what should be carved. Make it look good, ok?”

Everyone nods, and we get to work.

“Wait, what about everyone else?” Xoch asks me, making me realize there are far too many hands to split the work, and too many hands who want to help in some way.

“I’m not sure. We really don’t need anyone else to help, this isn’t a large job to deal with. If you can think of something let me know though.” I tell her as I walk towards our backyard with Pancho and Beans.

We walk outside, and see the beautiful scenery. I was reminded why we chose this house to hole up to begin with: the backyard was just spectacular. It was a large, grassy backyard, with lots of rose bushes and flowers outlining it. There was a little patio looking out towards the empty plain behind the backyard, and it ran far and wide. As the sun was setting, you could see the golden sun light up the long grass, and with a gentle breeze, slowly move the grass in a way that made it look like there was a dance out there just for you.

“Alright, guys. Let’s start digging. Remember, this needs to be plenty deep. Seven or eight feet deep oughta do it, as well as six feet long, three feet wide.” I order the other two as they grab our shovels.

We dug for what seemed like forever. Seconds turned to minutes, minutes turned to hours. Soon the sun set, forcing us to turn on the patio lights so we could keep digging. We wanted to finish this by morning, we didn’t want Fluttershy laying in that room long. We took breaks, we had others fill in for us, but it was an all-night project. Next thing we knew the sun was rising, but we finally finished. And by that time, Dash and Shadow had finished the tombstone.

Here lies Fluttershy.
Died: November 20, 2012
A kind soul, a caring person,
and the perfect friend.

We placed the tombstone at the head of her grave, and we were now ready to put her to rest.

We called everyone down for the burial. Everyone dressed in their best possible attires, and soon surrounded her grave site. Pancho and I went up to get her body, still laying where we left her. He grabbed her by the shoulders, me by the feet, and brought her downstairs and outside to the back, where everyone stood waiting.

We gently laid her down in her grave, some of us still crying our eyes out, some stood stone solid. Dash was one of those stone solid – she looked emotionless, almost uncaring. It made me sick to my stomach how this world was changing the girls, they were quickly losing their innocence, and now their lives.

The cool morning air made it feel calm, and peaceful. Before this whole zombie mess happened, this was the weather, the temperature, that I lived for. Blue skies, a warm sun, with cool air, a picture perfect atmosphere, with a solemn situation.

We all just gazed down at her body, silent, sobbing. “Shouldn’t we say a few words?” Shadow spoke up, finally, I agreed.

“Yeah…” I stepped up and cleared my throat. “… Fluttershy, she was what you wanted in a perfect person. She was kind, caring, loving, always put others before herself. If you were happy, she was happy. All she cared about were her friends, and their well-being. And when she came to this world, she handled it better than any of us could have imagined. She proved she was loving, but at the same time, strong. She helped with medical aid, and while a timid girl, she didn’t shy away from what needed to be done.”

“She also made Mig fear her more than a pack of hungry zombies” Beans chimed in, trying to crack a joke.

“Oh she did? Huh, I didn’t know that…” I was quiet for a second. Miguel… “She got Mig to shake in his boots! She did it all, and it was impossible not to love her to pieces. She was a saint among humans. Now, she is in her rightful place, away from the terrors, the death, the disease that is this world. She’s safe now, and she’ll be seeing us one day. One day Fluttershy, we’ll be seeing you again.” I look towards the clouds floating above me. A cool breeze kissed me on the cheek, making me wonder if that’s her, watching over us. “Fluttershy, we will miss you with every inch of our hearts. Rest is peace girl. You’re in a better place now.” I cross myself grabbing a shovel, and begin burying her. Beans and Pancho join in, and everyone stays till the very end. We finally bury her, and take one last look at her tombstone before heading in together.

But when we walk in, none of us were prepared for what we saw on the stairs.

There was someone walking down them, slowly, with one hand on the wooden railing, the other holding on to his stomach. He was obviously in pain, struggling to make it down the stairs. It was Mig.

“Erghh, hey guys! What’s-ARGH-er, what’s up?”

Author's Note

Welp here's my comeback chapter! Waddya think? Lemme know! Thanks guys! And glad to finally be back! :D