Surviving Equestria's Queen

Starlight walked over to Twilight's desk once again, her mane a bit frazzled from the stress of the situation. Not the zombies, mind, she could probably blast half the horde with a single spell. Instead, her worry was the crazy amounts of friendly fire Twilight seemed to be willing to do for the ‘survival’ of the city. "Okay... the scavenger teams are about to go out, but please explain to me one more time: Why are we sending the most able-bodied ponies outside the makeshift walls when the zombies are, like, right there?!"

Twilight, who for some reason had an eyepatch on her left eye now, answered with a soft voice reminiscent of Celestia. "We'll need food and supplies to survive the coming winter, otherwise it'll be just a matter of days till ponies resort to cannibalism."

"It's been barely a day since this started.” Starlight deadpanned. “We've got a large stockpile of food already in the city’s stockpiles. Also, wouldn't it be easier to just send pegasi? Even the flying zombies can't fly very well, they’ve got no coordination and easy to avoid while airborne."

Twilight shook her head, as if disappointed by her student. "I'm thinking long-term, Starlight, we'll need to survive for years till the zombies die of starvation."

"Ooooor, you could think short-term and solve the problem instead of dragging it out unnecessarily?” Starlight offered with a forced smile, which got no reaction from Twilight. “At least don't send already safe ponies to their most-likely horrible deaths."

The alicorn waved her hoof dismissively. "Oh, don't worry about that. I added mercy bombs to their gear in case of that."

“You wha-” Starlight didn't even flinch as a series of explosions were heard in the distance. She simply let out a heavy sigh. "I think you didn't take into account the fact that they would be staying close together."

Starlight walked over to the window to inspect the damage. "Well, the barricade wall is now destroyed, and the zombies are now swarming the stockpiles where all the food’s at. Perfect."

“That's… quite the problem.” Starlight's eyes widened as Twilight seemed to finally snap out of her delusions. “We'll close the gates to the castle, we can't afford to feed the rest of the city. We'll have to survive off of what we have here.”

“So… we're straight up leaving ponies behind now?” Straight paused. “Actually, I think they might have better chances that way.”