Zombified Equestria

It as just a normal day in Equestria, where an experiment is in the process of going wrong.  "Okay, Bon Bon, I'm going to cast this spell upon you." the young unicorn, named Twilight Sparkle, said to the earth pony.  "Alright, so gimme one last rundown what's this gonna do to me?" she replied.  "Well, if I'm right, it should make you stronger and faster. I wanna cast it on you before I do so on Rainbow Dash." she said, slightly nervously.  'Or at least that's what it SUPPOSED to do.'  Her horn glowed a bright purple and Bon Bon was lifted in the air.

     She was engulfed in a bright light and a white flash spread all throughout the library.  When the light cleared, Bon Bon was on the ground in a pool of blood flinching. "SWEET CELESTIA!" Twilight exclaimed at the top of her lungs. "Its about time!" A pegasus said lifting the soul from Bon Bon's lifeless body and putting it in his watch then casting a spell through the means of incantation changing everyone to a form known as "humans."

     "Trust me, this new form will be worth it, and your gonna need this," the stranger said, handing her a spell book and a gun. "When am I going to need a gun?" Twilight asked. "THAT!" he called pointing at Bon Bon's lifeless body raise up on her new human feet, moaning and staring at twilight as if she were hungry. "Impossible!" Twilight said, watching with horror in her eyes.

    She grabbed the gun, which appeared to be a small handgun, and fired six quick rounds into the zombified version of her former friend, watching it walk toward her and sink its oddly misshapen teeth into her now human shoulder.

     But that was six months ago, and since then I've had to watch the infection spread from my domain of the underworld. My name is Ross Grimm and I was chosen by Celestia to guard and count the souls that pass into the gates and on occasion I was allowed to save a few lives like Applejack, though she is one of them now.  But I watched many of my friends die though their souls stayed with them like the subconscious of the brain, NO control over their own bodies.

     "...I will allow you to assist the survivors and one of my elite guards Shining Armor will watch over your Domain. Singed, Princess Celestia." I said aloud the letter I received.  "Thank you miss Derpy that will be all, you may be on your way." I said to the rather ditzy messenger. "Okay, see ya!" She called flying off in her human form carrying a rather large assault rifle with her, for protection obviously.

     So i head out meeting Shining Armor halfway to my first stop, Ponyville.  (Okay my first stop the library to see if that unicorn I spoke with is okay, Twilight was it? Ah yes it was.). I walked in calmly. "Twilight!" I called out, "You there?"  I watched a quick movement of unknown origin go by me. "Is that you Miss Sparkle?" I asked again hoping for an answer, unfortunately the only answer I got was a female on top of me pressing down on my shoulders, I was pressing on her to keep from being bitten. "Sorry to intrude Ms. Sparkle but stop trying to eat me, okay?".

     I was met with a deep moan from what used to be Twilight. A bullet burst through her head. "A-are you okay?"a familiar voice said to me. "Ah Fluttershy its been a while.!" I said to my old friend, from before I was chosen to watch the underworld.  "R-Ross? I-is that you Ross I don't think we've spoken since we were kids!" She replied.

     I could remember it like it happened yesterday it was my 8th birthday party, one of Pinkemina's first, we all were having fun (except twilight she wasn't there) Rainbow Dash challenged me to my first race, and I lost, but after the cake and the games I got a letter from Celestia, telling me I would guard the underworld.  "Yep, so how's Pinkemina?" I asked concerned for Pinkie.  "Breathing."  "That's always a good sign" I said, "So where are you all staying?"  "Sugarcube corner." Fluttershy informed me.

     So that's where we headed and killing those things when they got in our way.  When we arrived I was covered from head to former hoof in blood.  "Pinkemina Dianne Pie! Where are you?"I cried out in the middle of the small building.  "Kitchen!" I got as a reply.  I walked in to see a gory scene, but where was Pinkemina?  "Hey!" I heard from my left side.  "Pinkemina Dianne Pi- SWEET CELESTIA WHERE IS YOUR LEG!" I shouted and bit my tounge staring at her "leg" wondering why she had an artificial limb.  "I would have been one of them if not for Rarity!" She half-giggled-half-coughed.

     "Yes not my best work but okay I suppose." Rarity said from across the room.  "Hey Rarity." I said to her noticing she put on some weight, was I going to tell her, no I've seen things that would make Big McIntosh soil himself but I am TERRIFIED of Rarity.  I mean I knew why she put on some extra weight it was more than likely stress, I mean I'd go crazy to if someone who meant as much to me as Sweetie Belle meant to her.  "Stop staring," She shouted at me with tears in her eyes "I know I'm fat!"  "I never said anything miss meltdown," I said VERY sarcastically.  "I'm sorry I just don't feel the same way as I used to after I watched her turn, it took two weeks for her to become one of th-those things.  "I could see the awkward combination of insanity and utter terror.  "Howdy." I heard a small voice behind me. "Ah Applebloom, I presume."I said to the little filly.  "That is Applebloom." Fluttershy commented.  "So now you know us, ALL of us." Rarity said to me.

     I headed out to the ruins of what used to be Ponyville.  Finding the used to be locals, blowing their brains out on the way.  So when I ran into the one place I thought wouldn't be overrun, and of course me being me I was wrong, I ran out of ammo halfway through the hoard and then it was knives, "CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP!" I shouted and stabbed with increased fear and of course adrenaline.

      Stab, one blade snaps 'crap.' I thought. Swish right across another's gut.  Stab second blade shatters. Fists. Oh god why. I am weaker than butterfly, I will more than likely be bitten.  That thought jinxed me, about fifteen minutes into the fight, nom nom nom in my left shoulder, pain only pain and vague grogginess.  Of course, again saved by guess who, Fluttershy, like a wuss.  So, we headed back to Sugarcube Corner, and I had to explain the bites, yes plural of bite, bites, and also I had to apologize to, well everyone (I am very cocky.).

     So the next day I felt a severe migraine. "That's how Sweetie Belle was on her first day of infection." Rarity said with tears in her eyes.  We heard a knock at the door.  When we opened it we saw, well Applejack, half turned.  Which scared the life out of me when I opened the door, again I'm half turned myself, so not thinking.

     "Where's Applebloom?" She asked not stuttering but slurred as though she were drunk, though like me half turned.  "Applebloom, where are ya?!" She hollered.  "Applejack!" She came running at full speed toward her fleshy falling off-ish sister.  "Applebloom, I'm turning." She looked in her sister's eyes and cried, blood she cried blood, creepy excruciatingly creepy.  "I AM TRUE SCIENCE!" Luna burst through the door yelling something about science and cures, it made NO sense whatsoever. "Perfect you two aren't fully turned, perfect!" She looked at Applejack and I saying cure over and over again.  "Come with me I can help you." She said to us leading us into the kitchen and injecting us with a strange purple liquid that burned in my arm and stung like a hornet, but all I could do was fall to the ground and totally spas out, it was the most painful thing I have ever experienced.

     But after that I blacked out, when I woke up I looked at A.J. her speech still very slurred as though she was plastered.  "Are y-you alright sugar cube?"she said slurred and scarred. Of course I had already recovered in the speech division. "Yep, so I wanted to talk to you about when we were eight, I love you" I said to her, drunk on pain.  "Is now really the best time?" She replied her face red as, well an apple.  "Hey, no better time than the present!" I said.  "Aw!" I heard in three voices at once, and an EWW from Applebloom. "I'll go make celebratory cupcakes!" Pinkie said hopping off just as happy-go-lucky as ever.  "Well sugar cube," she said, my statement sobered her up REAL quick.  "I won't lie to you, I love you too." She replied.  "Congratulations!" Rarity said to me.  I was hoping there were more men there than just me, because that feeling of Alpha-Male gets old really REALLY quickly.  So we ate dinner and went to bed that night all of us early, except for me, I stayed up watching for those things to come get some from the happiest man on the planet.

     Than right as I was almost asleep I heard a moan from a live person, it was a moan of pain, she wasn't bitten but she crashed into the ground pretty hard, fractured a wing even.  "Ow!" The small former Pegasus said in pain.   "Rainbow Dash, we haven't spoken in a while you seem, different somehow almost as though you've been being followed." As the prince of the underworld I learned to pick up on cues like that.  "Ah but she is being followed." From behind her a man with an odd single saber-fang and horns both different, very asymmetrical.  "Discord?" I heard from behind me, Fluttershy's approach was quiet enough to make me jump.  "What's all the commotion?" Applejack said tiredly.  "Rainbow's alive!" I said flabbergasted at the very thought.  She was bleeding, not a lot but enough to attract"them".

     Applejack opened one of the doors and gestured for her to enter.  I blocked the doorway so Discord couldn't enter, I then counted the spirits by means of my watch and wrote on a parchment and sent it off to Celestia.  "Come on!" Discord said to me.  I knew he could've easily teleported behind me and "helped", but for some reason he wouldn't, or maybe couldn't.  "Discord, give me a good reason to let you in." I said, I am very distrusting of him after what happened when he visited my domain and released about half a trillion spirits, took me six months to get 'em all corralled back in there.  "So Mr. Half-southern." Discord called out my heritage, he knew I didn't like my father, a stupid redneck, he was abusive called me pathetic, stupid, worthless.  I really hated him.

"You're part southern?" I was asked by A.J., she was absolutely flabbergasted.  "Yepperz!" Pinkemina said to her, she knew for a while now.  "Were you trying to keep that a secret?" Rainbow inquired.  Pinkemina then looked at me and gave off the look of terror, as it turns out Rainbow Dash and Discord led about 250 of those monsters here.  "R-Ross turn around!" Pinkie said in a slight yell.  "Huh, what?" I said turning around to see them all, at that point i was blind firing praying for headshots. But hey, that night wasn't bad we all slept well, no attacks.

     I woke ten minutes later than normal.  I walked down stairs kinda staggering around i didn't see A.J. sitting in a chair.  "Mornin' Ross" she said not dressed in normal clothes, still pajamas.  "Hey." I said my voice slurred.  "Hi!" I heard from behind me I didn't hear Pinkie coming.  She scared me enough for me to, in one fluent motion pull a knife to her throat and stop myself from killing her.  "What are you doin' Ross?" Applejack asked me, she knew I stopped.  "My bad, just kinda jumpy with those things." I said with my "oops" face on.  "It's fine." Pinkie said.  "Why did you apologize?!" I heard from the stairs, "That was probably the quickest reflex I've ever seen, and I've watched videos of myself." Rainbow said just as cocky as ever.

     I sheathed my knife.  "So A.J. I wanted to know about what happened while I was guardi- away." I said a tear in my eye.  "Not much, just the elements of harmony." She said like it was a minor detail.  "Okay cool, I'm going hunting." I told her with my sniper on my shoulder and about ten extra clips.  "I'll go with you." Discord said behind me.  I reached for my knife, but stopped realizing, if he wanted me dead he would've killed me by now.  "Okay then." I said with a grimace on my face.  I felt breathing on my shoulder while I was thinking about plans of attack, only to be distracted by the heat of the breath on my shoulder, it was warm on my shoulder, I was cold, it felt like a small flame to me.  "Aren't you forgetting something?" Applejack.  "No I've got ammo, this guy I think; I've got everyt-" I was cut off by a kiss, which after that my face was as red as my coat used to be, a nice dark blood red, the surprise was on my face.  "Maybe I did?" I said with a look that screamed ALPHA-MALE all over my face.  "Hey, oh! Is now a bad time to say rematch on our race from when we were kids?" Rainbow looked at me and my cocky look on my face.  "Maybe later Rainbow, I'm going hunting." I told her.  Rainbow gave me that 'you're just scared' look.

      Discord and I were out for about an hour when I turned to ask him why he had returned, but he had disappeared.  "Excuse me Discord where are you?" I called out.  I felt a sharp pain in my head, everything went dark.  When I awoke I was in a dark room, tied down at my hands and feet on a steel board, tilted at an angle so I could see everything.  "So what do you think, finish him off or let him bleed to death?" A scarred man who I could barely see.  Discord was on a table like me, on my left.  "Hey, Discord." I said smiling.  "Well, I think we shou- Hey stop talking!" The other man who I thought I recognized said to Discord and I, slapped us across our faces, with a knife.  Pain shot through my face.  I stopped to calm myself, only to see a black cylinder, MY black cylinder.  "So Grimm, how are you, do you remember me?" The other man said to me. "Firestarter?" I knew him, the original replacement of the last Grimm but he hightailed out of the underworld. I was next on Celestia's list.

    VHe released me saying something about kidding with me and the look on my face.  So I led him back his "partner" was a spirit.  I knew the spirit as well it was Twilight.  "Did your brother let you out?" I asked her.  "Yes." She said, "I'd like to join you, my brother said I could if its cool with you anyway."  "Sure I never had the chance to introduce myself, I am Ross Grimm." I said with a bow.  Afterwards we went back to Sugarcube Corner.  Everyone was happy to see Twilight again, Rainbow even shed tears.  "Its hot, I'm SWEATY!" Rainbow said lying.  "Thank 'ya Ross." Applejack told me with her southern twang.  "Anytime, Ya' know I love 'ya!" I said letting my own southern accent come through.  "You're southern?" Twilight asked..  Everyone answered with a yes.  So I sent a letter to Shining Armor, "...Twilight will be staying with the others and I."  I sent it out with Derpy.

       "AJ!" I yelled through the building after falling asleep outside.  Sugarcube Corner was covered in more blood than usual.  "Guys?" I called.  "Ha ha ya' got me!" I said nervously hoping for a joke.  "Hello!" I heard from nowhere in particular.  A ball of concentrated flame whizzed by my head.  I walked toward the kitchen to see Applejack and the others tied down to chairs, a bomb strapped to AJ's chest.  She mumbled something I couldn't understand.  "Ah!  One more step and they die." Firestarter said with a remote in his hand, it controlled the bomb.  Tears streamed from their eyes like Niagara Falls.  "I'll fix this, don't worry!" I said in the middle of a minor freak out.

     My mind frazzled, 'move quick, strike quicker' the only thought in my mind at that moment.  "Kill me, lose them.  Kill yourself they walk away." Firestarter said the ultimatum.  I simply pulled the black cylinder from my jacket pocket.  "Count of three Firestarter, count of three." I said to him making him think.  "Count of three for what?" He asked me.  "ONE!" I said dashing toward him quicker than he could move his thumb from the button that would detonate the explosive.  "TWO!" I said jamming my elbow into his kidneys, causing him to grip the detonator harder.  "THREE!" I shouted finishing him off, thankfully he jammed the button into the hole to where it was stuck there.

     "There ya' go." I said looking like I controlled who lived and who died, in a way I kinda did though.  I undid their restraints, Rainbow had ones on her wings to keep her from flying off.  "Thank you." Rainbow said quietly, "Man!  Now I owe you!" She said angrily, glaring at me.  I dragged Firestarter's body outside to give those thing food for the night.  We wouldn't have to deal with them in the middle of the night.

     I ran that night to where I dropped off his body, darted my eyes around and stole his bones, I was crafting armor to signify death, which is what I was.  "Hey, Ross!  What's in the sack?" Pinkie said from behind me.  "Nothing Pinkemina." I said feeling my eyes subconsciously darting around.  The bones shifting in the bag over my shoulder.  It made a sound that could only be described as scraping.  "Are these bones?" Rainbow asked, she grabbed one from a small hole in the bag.  "Yes, truth is I am making a rather intimidating set of armor." I said calmly.  "So, bone armor?" Applejack said from the stairs on my left.  "Yeah, but no helm." I replied to her question with a blank face, "I have to let these dry after I clean them, their fresh." "That's not creepy at all!" Rainbow thought aloud, "Sorry Ross I had to let that out."  She laughed until she couldn't breathe.

     The next morning I was in the basement I claimed as my room.  My potion making things lie on my left, my various spell books on the right.  In front of me in the back of the room, my crafting table.  Bones lie scattered across the table.  A knock on my door causes me to turn around.  "I heard about your armor and want to help.". Rarity said looking interested in my designs.  "Sure just don't touch that." I said pointing to a jar containing an odd mist.  "Understood." She said obviously raring to go.

     After about an hour and a half down there we returned to sea level.  I walk out wearing a suit of armor made of nothing but bones.  Various ribs going down the chest piece.  A skull on the left shoulder, the sleeves made of various different bones.  From the shoulder to my elbows uncovered.  Gauntlets from my lower wrists to my fingers.  My legs covered, sharpened shoulder blades on my knees pointing up and slightly curved to fit, literal shoulder BLADES.  "Woah, sugar cube don't ya' think ya' went just a hair to far?" Applejack asked me a look of fear on her face.  "No, I am basically death and I must look the part." I said with a cocky smirk on my face.  I could tell she was unpleased.  "Epic!" Rainbow said walking around me, "Even your wings have bone plating!"  "Yep, I thought it would look good.  Does it?" I asked.  "Yeah actually it does." Rainbow said, "So about our race, wanna go?"  "Lets go, circuit or straight sprint?" I inquired.  "Huh, I guess I never thought of it like that.  Sprint." She said with that ready to go look on her face we all know.  "Now Rainbow don't get too testy, he is an amazing distance flyer ya' know." Applejack said.  Talking about me like that made me feel like the king of the skies.

     We set out for the skies after about ten minutes.  "Go!" Pinkie shouted to us.  I took off like a jet, Rainbow not too far behind.  Soon a cone of air surrounded her signifying the sonic rainboom wasn't too far behind.  'Okay duskboom time.' I thought to myself.  My move, which is very similar to hers, the sonic duskboom a dark grey, but not black, circular wave of energy tripling my speed.  I got very close when I could see a dark ball in front of me.  Talons in my gut.  Pain loads of pain.  I dropped into a spiral, and passed out.

     I woke up in an abandoned hospital surrounded by people, including one I didn't know.  "Hi there." I said tired and wanting to go back to sleep.  I shut my eyes and rolled over.  "No sugar cube get up." Applejack said poking my side.  "Why?" I asked sarcastically.  "Rainbow, see this?" A.J. asked her pointing at me.  "Yeah." She replied bored.  "That's what you look like in the morning." A.J. said making her point.  "Can I sleep now?" I asked tiredly.  My eyes opened to see the person I didn't know, funny thing is I did know her.  I saved her life once.  Gilda, a young griffin, acts a lot like Rainbow Dash, and I have told I do too.  "Seriously, Gilda?" I looked at her wanting to know why she was there.  "Yeah, gotta problem with it?" She gave me the 'no one loves you' look otherwise known as the 'go to hell' look.  "Anyway Ross we found you a house." Rainbow said smiling.  "Neat." I said, that 'seriously!' look on my face.  "We'll be neighbors, except you'll be in the sky." Applejack said to me.  I thought about that, clouds and grass, fun.  "You'll be my neighbor too, its on the cloud next to mine." Rainbow says.

     I left with Rainbow to see this mighty cloud, it was a storm cloud.  "You're kidding." I said.  "Oh, I thought this would happen.  I told them 'storm clouds are stupid.'" She said with a look of 'I told them so' all over her.  "This is the most AMAZING THING I HAVE EVER SEEN!" I told Rainbow.  She showed me the inside. I turned around too quickly and smacked her with an open wing.  "Hey!  Watch it, Ross!" She snapped.  "Heh, my bad." I said scratching my head.  She snorted and led me to the master bedroom. I simply laid down on the cloud bed and slept.  "He is like me." Rainbow said walking away and going home.

     I awoke in the middle of the night to the sound of footsteps in my new found home.  I walked from my room to the kitchen to see a certain tired former pegasus rummaging through the room.  "Rainbow?" I said startling her enough to throw a knife at me.  I ducked under it with ease.  "Oh, hey Ross." She sounded as tired as I was.  She explained to me why she was there and the awkward thoughts she had been reading.  She then proceeded to inform me she could read the thoughts of others.  She told me basically everything.  "So why do you think so much about me, stop doing it, it feels weird.  Hey!  You're doing it now!". She said angrily.  She wasn't wrong, my life is composed of awkwardness.  She read my thoughts of her.  How I saw her as a role model.  So after us talking for about an hour the sun rose and we went back to Sugarcube Corner, and began conversing with the others.

     "Hey, uh Ross come with me." Applejack said to me.  I obliged.  "Yes?" I asked.  "Well about our relationship, I think you've changed a lot, but so have I, you just aren't the same Ross I was in love with seven years ago." She said explaining in detail various ways I've changed.  "So it just won't work, I'm sorry." She finished.

     "Its cool." I said flying to my cloud moving out away, closer to the library.  Most of the leaves had fallen off the hollow tree.  Rainbow visited me about an hour and a half later.  "That was odd for you, I read it, try clearing that head of yours." She said.  I couldn't when I stopped thinking of Applejack, I though of Rainbow and her ability the others didn't know about.  She looked into my eyes, the sunrise behind her made it looked like her extended wings were shining.  "Stop thinking that." She said an angry look on her face.  I couldn't help but notice how beautiful she looked right then and there.  "Sorry." I said hoping she left my mind.

     I made an ammo run the next day when we were near out.  I found food and plenty of ammo.  Pinkie got some gnarly bite marks on her artificial limb.  Rainbow's cloud drifted toward mine closer day after day.  She comes over frequently.  I didn't know why, and she knew I didn't.  Until the third Monday of winter.  I as usual completed my duty of gathering ammunition and slaughtering those former people.  My wings closed as I landed at home, to see Rainbow standing in my home.  "Hey." I said startling her.  "Oh, heh hey Ross didn't see ya there." She replied nervously.  "You continue to show up here you know that right." I said to her confused.  'Why is she here?' I thought knowing she read my mind at that point.  Gilda walked in from the room on my left.  'You lead her here!' I thought looking at Rainbow Dash.  'Yeah, of course I did!' She thought.  'I just read your thoughts!' I thought to her.  Powers of the Grim is what my families abilities are called apparently I was gifted with my father's, telepathy.  'You did!' She thought at me.  "Yes, fascinating isn't it!" I said aloud.  "I guess." She said.  As if on cue Gilda stopped us and pinned me on the ground.  "Keep off Dash, she doesn't like you like that." She said the claws on her hands dug into my neck and chest.  "Congratulations, you know how to read my emotions." I said to the former griffon.  "Woah dude!" Rainbow said her face redder than any rose I had ever seen.

      I stopped and looked at Rainbow, she looked different at sundown than sunrise, and I had seen her at both.  I simply pushed Gilda off me and rolled on top of her. I pulled a small black cylinder from my pocket, blood dripping from my neck, making me very dizzy.  "Hey sorry!" She was afraid.  I knew she was.  'Sorry Rainbow.' I told her through my thought and took off quicker than a bullet.  "Wait Ross!" She replied aloud a hand extended out toward me.  "I love you." She realized I was to far off to hear her.  I cried, I didn't bother fighting the tears, I fell toward the ground faster and faster.  I wasn't paying attention to my surroundings and crashed hard enough to leave a crater in the earth below.

      I woke up in the same room of the same hospital in the same town.  "Celestia knows little Trio wishes he was here." I sighed at the thought of my dog.  "You have a pet?" Pinkie said her eyes practically glowing with excitement.  "Yep the same pet every Grimm has except mines only a puppy, he was just born about six months ago, I bet he's bigger now." I smiled.  "What is he?" Rainbow asked with Tank by her side.  "A dog." I replied.  "What breed?" Twilight inquired.  "Cerberus." I said.  A crack in the ground opened up to a green colored ridge, allowing a puppy with three heads to jump out.  "TRIO!" I exclaimed.  The little Cerberus licked my face with all three heads.  'So that's Trio?' Rainbow asked me with telepathy.  "Yes!" I said aloud. "Yes what no one said anything?" Twilight asked.  That made Rainbow Dash sigh.  She explained everything and even proved it by having Pinkie think of a number.  "Eight hundred and three." She said concluding her speech.  All eyes were on Pinkemina.  "She's right!" She exclaimed her jaw agape.  'Was that really necessary?' I thought to her, 'I hope things aren't awkward between us.'  'You do realize Gilda doesn't really know me, if ya know what I mean.' She told me through telepathy.  'So you actually do love me?' I asked her.  "Yes!  Celestia!  It took you ten minutes to figure that out." She said her face again red.  Everyone else had left.

     About a week afterwards I took to the skies toward the library at top speed from our visit in Canterlot.  "Okay bag check." Rainbow said cheerfully.  I had to report to Celestia about the Elements Of Harmony. I was told I may house the element of magic because of Twilight being dead and myself being the first spellcasting pegasus.  "Got my watch and scythe, that's all I brought." I told her.  "Good thing to, how's your wing Ross?" Rainbow asked me.  I extended my right wing, I had a bit of a crash landing getting here.  Some crazed pegasus tried to knock me out of the sky.  "Tingly." I said a slight wince on my face.  "It gets like that, if I had a bit for every time I broke or sprained a wing I'd be rich." She said with a laugh.  "Well, the flight back should help you lose the weight you gained here." I said poking her midsection, which sent me into a laughing fit.  "Hey!  Not cool Ross!" She said embarrassed.  "Hey if you can crack jokes on the fact that I'm short than I can do that." It was true I was a five seven pegasus, technically I'm human, short for our race.  "I guess that justifies it." She said obviously not caring anymore.  "Thanks Loyalty." I said.  "Dude you know I hate that!" She said anger in her voice.  I held in the laughter I felt at her anger, when she gets mad her face goes blood red, like when she's embarrassed.  I couldn't help it, just how red her face was made me laugh like a hyena.  "Alright sugar cube, suit up." I told her putting on my armor made of bones.  She wore a matching set, it was a gift I made with some bones I had left over.  Hard to take your girlfriend's measurements, she thinks you're getting all intimate and stuff.  "Okay but can we get breakfast first I'm starving!" She said.  My stomach growled at the point.  "Sure." I said smiling, and at five thirty in the morning, a rare sight.

     After about fifteen minutes of almost burning a guest room, and a hotel next door, down and eating for about ten, we set out for Ponyville.  It took us five minutes at most from point A to point B.  We returned and explained to Twilight about the Elements Of Harmony.  When we concluded my watched glowed a bright gold and changed to a gold color with my mark on the face, two scythes in an X, and Twilight's next to mine.  "Oh wow!" I said knowing I didn't do it.  "Did that really just happen?" Twilight said the bewilderment in her voice.  "Epic." Even Rainbow sounded surprised and bewildered.

     About a fortnight went by and by that time Rainbow and I had been on a date in a zombie infested world, how many couples can say that might I add.  Gilda was bitten and put down "humanely", in other words I splattered her brains on the pavement when tried to bite Rainbow.  "Dashie!" I called through my home.  "Yes?" She said rounding the corner of my home from the bedroom to the kitchen.  "Well I was going to ask where my shirt went but, now there's no need." I said pointing a whisk at her.  "Whisk, stove's on, mixing bowl in the sink.  Eggs?" She asked.  "Correct my dear." I said smiling. As it turns out she loves eggs, who knew right?  She walked up behind me and kissed my cheek.  "Smells great.  What you're cooking not you, I mean you do, but I-" she said frantically but was silenced by my index finger to her lips.  "Stop stressing out Dashie." I told her.  "So after we eat wanna go check on the radio?" Rainbow Dash asked me.  "Sure." I had built a radio from nothing but steel and an old computer.  So we ate and went to Sugarcube Corner.  "Hey there folks!" I exclaimed as I entered.  "SHUSH!" Applebloom said to me.  "Repeat this is Scootaloo I'm in Ponyville I need help I'm in the library an AH!" The young one that I knew as Scootaloo screamed.  "Cousin Scootaloo this is Ross, I'm on my way don't panic." I said to her, she was a Grimm.  "Wait, Cousin Scootaloo?" Applebloom gave me a look that said 'What'.  I headed to the library at top speed, the place was surrounded by those things.  "Hey Fleshy!" I yelled like a hero.  All of them turned toward me.  I loaded my twin pistols.

     It was all over in about ten minutes, it took three for the place to look like the underworld.  "Scootaloo!" She was in a corner crying, her leg had been bitten.  'Luna!' I pushed into the princess of the night's mind.  'Scootaloo has been bitten please help me.'  She arrived soon after to inject the young one with the cure.  "Hey Scootaloo." I said after she awoke after fifteen minutes of silence.  "Ross!" She exclaimed.  She jumped up and grabbed me in a hug and cried.  "Its okay." I said to her in a whisper.  She told me how she got back to Ponyville.  "We need to train you so that if I die you can take my place, after all you and I are the last of the Grimms." I told her smiling to her and handing her a small purple cylinder.  "What is this?" She asked me, her small wings extended.  "Its your scythe, you are a Grimm you must know how to use it." I grinned at her and brought her my training room.

     After about a month she could mirror my every move.  "Bravo!" I shouted and began to execute the battle formation.  Scootaloo snapped to attention and immediately picked up on move three.  After ten minutes we had open and closed our scythes three times.  "Nice drill little one!" I ran my hand through her hair.  "Thanks!" She said smiling.  "Ross, don't ya think you two have been training too hard?" Rainbow asked me with a concerned look.  "Yeah I guess.  Sorry little one!" I shouted toward my younger cousin.  "Its fine Ross!" She said to me.  "Get down!" Pinkie shrieked through the stronghold.  We all dropped like flies.  A flower pot from a balcony dropped onto my head.  "Ow!" I said, shards of harder clay in my long hair, which was pulled up.  "That looked like it hurt, honey." Rainbow said to me.  She examined my head, I opened my mouth and tasted a little blood and blacked out.

     Common scene, hospital everyone there.  "Sorry don't really like blood." I said still dizzy from blacking out.  "You were out for a week.  It was more of a coma." Twilight said to me.  She continued to explain I had a concussion and when I blacked out it put me into a coma.  "Fun." I said, I was still tired.  "I was here the whole time." Rainbow said to me and smiled.  "I knew you were loyal but, I didn't think like this." I told her smiling.  "The next day I went on an ammo run, only to be captured by you." I said to the silhouette in front of me.  "That's your life story?" The person of a gender I didn't know asked me.  "Yes." I told him turning my head and seeing Rainbow asleep next to me.

• End Of Part One