Fighting off the Dead

The ponies awoke in a dark room, separated from each other. Twilight, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy on one side, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, and Rarity on the other.  The door that separated them was sealed and locked.  Not even Twilight's magic could crack the lock that sealed them in their chambers.

"I don't really think I need to say it,"  Rainbow Dash said, startled by something.  "But I think were in another place that has different types of things then what we had back in Equestria.

"It appears we're in an insane asylum,"  Twilight said in a 'as a matter-of-fact' voice.  "Odd, nopony seems to be here."

Applejack looked behind her, and saw something she'd never seen before: a walking corpse.

"Umm, guys...."  Applejack shouted, worried by it trying to attack her.  "I think were dealing with something a little over our heads here."

"Oh what can you possibly me-"  Rarity started.

Twilight realized what was happening and instructed everyone to try and at least hurt them.  She knew that they wouldn't be able to kill them, however they might've been able to slow them down.  Twilight looked for an escape to what, at the time, seemed to be their tomb.  She never planned on dying in an asylum covered with zombie blood.... then again, who could?

"Twilight,"  Rainbow shouted over the moan of the undead surrounding them.  "Whatever you're going to do, do it fast!"

"I'm trying!"

Twilight noticed a knife under one of the corpses that the ponies had managed to kill.  She gulped at the thought of her friends killing things with a blade, but she knew it had to be done.

"Rainbow, grab the knife under the body to my left."

Rainbow did as she was instructed and picked up the knife.  Rainbow stared at the knife, gulping at the thought of cutting up dead bodies.  Rainbow took a deep breath and swung the knife behind her, decapitating the human corpse behind her.  The blood from the neck squirted on the knife, leaving a thick red coating on the sharp kitchen knife.  Rainbow felt tears streaming down her cheeks.

"Rainbow, they're already dead."  Twilight said trying to comfort Rainbow.

Rainbow steeled herself and started to get back to defending Twilight while she was working at opening the door opposite of the locked one.  Fluttershy was sitting next to Twilight, watching her work on the door to divert her eyes from the merciless killing happening behind her.

Applejack found a gun above a zombie on a broken bookshelf, and was shooting the zombies as they came.  Rarity was trying to avoid the blood that popped from the zombies as they were shot.  Pinkie Pie knew about her little obsession and was also trying to avoid the blood that surrounded her.  Finally, Pinkie Pie got one of the zombies' blood on her body.  She started out frowning, then that frown slowly turned into a grin.

"It's..... so...... beautiful...."  Pinkie said, giggling.

Pinkie found a knife under another dead body, and started slashing all of the zombies down.  Limbs flying everywhere, the blood was everywhere.

"BLOOD! THE BEAUTIFUL BLOOD!"

"Darn,"  Applejack murmured, shocked.  "I never knew that Pinkie was THAT insane."

Twilight had managed to open the door leading to what appeared to be a sort of chemicals lab, a chem lab that had been torn down.

"Alright, everypony out!"  Twilight shouted as she waved at the door, instructing them where to go.

Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash rushed out of the cramped room into the more open lab.  Twilight had saw that the girls on the other side had managed to move a couch that was blocking the way to what appeared to be a good holdout spot.  There was another couch blocking the way to the next floor above them.  Twilight easily moved the couch with her magic, and again guided the ponies upstairs.

"Of course, there's always another door...."  Twilight sighed.

"Don't worry Fluttershy and I can keep them off your back,"  Rainbow said.  "We found a few shotguns on the staircase."

"I-I-I....."  Fluttershy was obviously in a state of shock.

Rainbow turned to face her.  "Listen, if we're going to make it through this, we need you to stay calm."

Fluttershy took deep breaths and grabbed a machine gun she'd found.

"If I have to kill, I don't want to see their faces."

"I understand."

Rainbow grabbed a shotgun and took flight, granted it wasn't very high considering they were in a cramped space with a rather low ceiling, but the zombies were still unable to touch her.  Rainbow's speed served her well when using that trench gun, she could fly around a group of zombies and then shoot them and the zombies couldn't really do anything about it.  Twilight was still working on opening the door when she had an idea.

"Rainbow, toss me your knife!"  Twilight shouted.

Rainbow complied with Twilight and slid the knife over to her.  Twilight then stuck the knife in between the crease that was in the door, and pulled.  After a few minutes of pulling, the door finally opened to a room that appeared to have some sort of message written on the walls.

"Hey Twilight!"  Applejack shouted from the balcony opposite of them.  "Can you try and go a tad bit faster?"

"We're working on it!"

Twilight took the knife to the second door she encountered upstairs, and it opened once more.  There was one more door left, but what was in the kitchen she was in......  it was horrible.

"Don't let Fluttershy in here."  Twilight whispered to Rainbow.

"Yeah, she'd probably lose it."

What was in the kitchen was a bunch of dates and numbers written in what appeared to be blood.  The mysterious writing was on the floors, walls and even some on the ceiling.  Twilight shook her head and focused on getting to her friends.  Twilight saw one last door and what appeared to be a power switch behind it.  Twilight, for the last time, put the knife in between the door crease and it opened to reveal 4 dead bodies.  All were wearing military issue uniforms, and were badly decomposed.  Twilight ignored the corpses, and instead turned her attention to the power switch.

"So, we work all of this way for a switch?"  Twilight murmured.

She noticed the hand that was on the switch, but Twilight didn't care.  She took one hard tug on the switch and everything around her jolted to life..... even the zombies.  Six zombies had surrounded Twilight. Once Twilight had turned around, she unleashed a blast of magic that destroyed all of the zombies surrounding her and her friends.

Applejack rushed into the power room, obviously excited to see Twilight.  Not far behind her was Pinkie Pie, followed by Rarity.

"Boy, are we glad to see you!"

Twilight had no time to congratulate herself, she knew that more of the undead were coming for them.

"Listen, we need to find a place to hold out until I find a way out of this place."

"You got it."  Applejack said.

Rainbow and Fluttershy rushed into the room, panting.  They pointed to the door that they came from.

"Everyone get ready,"  Twilight shouted.  "We're in for the fight of our lives."

As soon as she said that, a hoard of the undead approached the ponies.  Applejack was armed with a MP40,  Fluttershy with a Thompson,  Rainbow with a Trench Gun, Pinkie with a cleaver she found in the kitchen.  Rarity and Twilight were the ones that were trying to find a way to get all of them out of the asylum.  As they were fighting of the dead, Applejack remembered seeing a switch next to where she found her MP40, and wondered if that did anything now that the electricity was on.

"Everypony, follow me!"  Applejack shouted as she sprinted off.

Everypony decided it was best to stay with Applejack, considering how she was the second strongest there.  Applejack rushed around the corner to where she saw the switch, Twilight came up behind her and advised her to try and pull it.  Applejack pulled the lever, and felt a small shock travel through her.  The result was a wall of electricity that surrounded the ponies.

"Good, that should buy me some time."  Twilight murmured.

Twilight focused her energy on getting the other five ponies out of the asylum.  She grunted trying to focus on all of the ponies at once, one at a time.  First, Fluttershy was out of there in a poof.  Then Rarity, and then the rest of them.  Twilight was left surrounded by zombies with all of her friends gone.  Twilight was too tired to teleport out of there.  She sprinted away from the impending hoard of zombies.

Twilight started shooting out of her horn, it was firing at an insane speed.  Twilight turned on another trap next to her and once again focused.  She took a deep breath and teleported out of the undead asylum.

That was the start of the ponies' adventure with other survivors, fighting off the undead.