Equestria of The Dead: Twilight Sparkle
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Load Full StoryNext ChapterJune 10th, 2012: First reported case of mysterious illness in Applewood, Califoalnia.
Total Dead: None
Total Infected: 55 = 2 hours after discovery
June 12th: Disease arrives in Vanhoover, Seaddle, and Salt Lick City. Princess Celestia calls for State of Emergency.
Total Dead: 123 = *48 hours after exposure*
Total Infected: 200+
June 13th: Reports of random maulings and riots occuring within the affected areas of Equestria. Disease arrives in St. Moois, Mexicolt City, and Coltorado.
Total Dead: 350
Total Infected: 500+
June 19th: Princess Celestia declares Martial Law on all unaffected Equestrian cities. Disease arrives in Manephis, Mannessee; Area immediately quarantined by Royal Guard. Gulf of Mexicolt contaminated with disease. Hundreds become infected and die 48 hours after exposure.
Total Dead: 1045
Total Infected: 1425
June 22nd: Captain Shining Armor plans attack against "rioters" to keep Chicacolt, Fillynois under control. Attack was unsuccessful. News reporters and citizens begin to claim the rising of the recently deceased.
Total Dead: 4032
Total Infected: 6992
June 23rd: Rumors going around Ponyville of contaminated water sources; rumors are false. Disease arrives in Appleoosa, Baltimare, and Manehattan. The walking dead quickly overrun said areas 48 hours later. Rolling blackouts occur all over Equestria, leaving the whole country in total darkness.
Total Dead: 826702
Total Infected: 1120895
June 25th: More rumors begin within Ponyville of contaminated water sources: rumors are true. Disease arrives in Ponyville and Fillydelphia. Citizens quickly placed under quarantine in Ponyville. Many infected citizens are executed to prevent the spread of infection. Method of execution is unsuccessful.
Total Dead: 1633926
Total Infected: 3300901
June 28th: The walking dead attack Ponyville; Fillydelphia firebombed by Royal Guard; Disease reaches Canterlot. Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Princess Cadence, and Shining Armor evacuated from Canterlot.
Total Dead: 7368559
Total Infected: 16625296
June 30th: Ponyville is overrun. Final order is given by Shining Armor to firebomb Canterlot; Canterlot is bombed minutes after. Reports of the infection reaching the Griffon kingdom. Further news reports now go silent. Princesses Celestia, Luna, Cadence, and Captain Shining Armor are not heard from again...
Total Dead: 72020205
Total Infected: 100000000+
It is the dead of night. The moon is shining high in the night sky, the stars are twinkling, and the crickets chirp. It would be what most would call a peaceful night...if it weren't for the countless dead ponies wandering about outside, moaning and groaning.
Your name is Twilight Sparkle. You are 16 years old, the Element of Magic, Princess Celestia's star pupil, and...possibly...the only survivor in Ponyville. To think of you being the last pony alive in town is quite shocking and saddening. To know that so many ponies never had the chance...It broke your heart.
It's another night that has passed, and you've boarded up your door with the wooden planks, hoping they would hopefully hold so you could survive another day against the dead. A lantern is lit dimly in the center of the room, the only existant light in town. Deciding to enter another entry for the day, you head over to your bookcase. The faint light of your horn illuminates a certain book from one of the shelves. But it isn't just any book. It's your diary. The one book you wouldn't let anyone read because...well, it's personal!
Taking the diary from its shelf, you place it onto the table in the center of the room. You levitate a quill and ink over towards you from the kitchen area. Dipping the quill in ink, you open up your diary and begin to write.
"Dear diary,
I searched Ponyville again today. I haven't found much, just some beans and water. I still haven't found any other survivors either. I think I'm the only one left here. A few hours ago, I heard a broadcast on the radio about a refuge camp a few miles outside Fillydelphia. If I don't find anypony else or any food tomorrow, I guess I'll have to leave Ponyville.
If I do leave, I'm taking as many books as I can. Also, who knows? Maybe I'll find my friends there. Even...Lightning."
You stop writing. Just writing that name made you want to cry and cry and cry. Lightning Flash was a stallion you had met back when you first came to Ponyville. But he's not just your friend...he's your stallionfriend. Your special somepony. You had started going out with him after you defeated Nightmare Moon. He was the one you loved.
Some nights, you cry yourself to sleep for one reason: you're alone. There is nopony to talk to...nopony to cuddle with, or kiss, or even...
You stop thinking further, and continue to write.
"Plus, the...zombies, or Walkers, as I like to call them, are getting closer to my home. I almost got caught a few times. If they find out where I am, my little wooden planks aren't really going to help much against a horde.
I can't give up hope. I know my friends are out there. The day after tomorrow, I'm leaving Ponyville, and I'm going to that camp. I won't give up until I find Lightning and my friends.
-Twilight Sparkle, July 14th, 2012."
You look at the date. You aren't sure if it's even right anymore, but you know it's July. One month...one month since it all started. You remember reading the newspaper about it. In big, fat letters, the papers read, "MYSTERIOUS ILLNESS TAKES HUNDREDS ACROSS EQUESTRIA."
You can't even comprehend what had happened, even now. It all happened so fast. It just sprung out of nowhere. Hundreds of thousands of ponies got sick in a matter of days. Then all of a sudden, news came up about random maulings and riots happening. It didn't make much sense. Then ponies began about the sick ponies being dead, coming back to life and attacking anypony, friend or stranger alike. It still didn't make sense for Zombies to actually happen. Zombies were nothing but science fiction. They were a myth! A story! And here they were in the real world, eating everyone they came across. It was just...just-
*KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK*
Your thoughts are suddenly interrupted when you hear a rapid knocking at your door. Is it your imagination?
"Please! Is anypony in there! Hello? Hello?!"
It can't be. A survivor? But you've checked nearly every house in Ponyville. Unless you missed one...no, you've checked every single one. You're sure of it.
"Hello, please let me in!"
The voice is feminine, so you know it's a mare. Could your mind be playing games on you? Are you just imagining this? Or is a survivor really standing out there, begging for your help?
"Please! Let me in! They're coming! Please, I don't want to die! Let me in!!!"
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