Fighting off the Dead

by acemanaustin00

Rating: mature
Tags: Adventure, Crossover
Length: 5127

The Mane 6 wake up in an asylum, surrounded by electroshock equipment and blood. They are separated by a locked door, and zombies are coming after them. At first, they realize that they have to kill these corpses to survive themselves.

The Mane 6 wake up in an asylum, surrounded by electroshock equipment and blood. They are separated by a locked door, and zombies are coming after them. At first, they realize that they have to kill these corpses to survive themselves.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2013-08-24 07:27:03 UTC

Asylum

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.

Swamp

"Richtofen, what the hell did you do?"  Dempsey shouted, rubbing his head.

"I do not know, but why not just run into ze teleporter when I said to guard us?"  Richtofen said, his voice rising.

Then the ponies appeared in a zap of electricity.

"Shit, one of those zombie dogs?"  Dempsey said, pointing his gun at the burst of electricity.

The ponies got back up from their prone position.  Applejack saw the gun being pointed at her and her friends and drew her MP40 and aimed it at Dempsey's head.

"It appears as if we're in Japan,"  Takeo murmured from behind Dempsey.  "It is good to be back in my homeland."

All of the ponies were now standing and waiting for someone to make a move.  Twilight noticed that one of the zombies was coming up behind the one that was pointing the gun at them.

"Look out!"  Twilight screamed.

Dempsey turned around.  "Fuck you, freak-bag!"  He shouted as he shoved a blade through the zombies heart.

"Oh why didn't you just let ze zombie eat him?"  Richtofen questioned.

Twilight slowly stepped out of the corner, and instructed the girls to do the same.  Dempsey had lowered his gun that was pointed at the ponies

"Hey, guys,"  Nikolai said, shooting the zombies with a M1A1 Carbine.  "Can we save this arguing for later?"

"I agree with that guy,"  Rainbow said.  "We need to get out of here."

They started to realize that all they were going to accomplish by arguing was a gaping bite mark, or just being eaten.  Twilight moved the debris obstructing their forward path to the zombie-infested swamp.

"Fascinating, these equines seemed to have mastered the powers of telekinesis,  how VONDERBAR!"  Richtofen shouted.

In Richtofen's surprise, he was swarmed by the incoming dead.  Everyone one else was out of the zombie infested building, and out into the swamp.

"NEIN!  I can't go to hell, I have nothing to wear!"  Richtofen shouted in disapproval.

Richtofen was being smacked down by the hoard of zombies, each one trying to go for a bite on The Doctor.  Each time one went in for a bite, he kicked them back.  Richtofen's cries for help eventually fell upon the ears of Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash.

"It sounds like that one guy needs our help,"  Rainbow said to Fluttershy, while shooting a zombie in front of her.  "Let's go!"

Fluttershy followed closely behind Rainbow as they sprinted up the stairs to see The Doctor on the floor, kicking back the undead.  Richtofen noticed the ponies.

"Comrade, help!"  Richtofen managed to shout.

Rainbow quickly shot two of the zombies surrounding Richtofen, sending little bits of their cranium onto Richtofen's body.

"Well, I suppose I should thank you,"  Richtofen said, brushing himself off.  "But, no time for that now."

Rainbow stare of disapproval quickly changed The Doctor's mind.

"Thank you, comrade."

"You're welcome."

Dempsey then ran in through the door.  "Hey, if you're all done with the hugs, kisses and nice shit, would you mind killing these fucking maggot-addicts?"

They all turned their attention to the door where the undead were swarming in.  Pinkie can up from behind the last ten zombies and sliced their heads off, meanwhile spilling blood all over the maggot-ridden floor.

"Here she comes...."  Rainbow had long before known about Pinkie's blood lust, and had tried to avoid contact with any blood around Pinkie.

"What the fuck are you talking about?"  Dempsey shouted, lifting Rainbow by the throat.

Pinkie came up from behind Dempsey and swiped at his arm that was suspending Rainbow in the air, leaving a deep gash in Dempsey's left arm.  Dempsey dropped Rainbow to the floor and Richtofen came to Rainbow's aid.  Rainbow proceeded past the wincing Dempsey and ran out the door with Richtofen.  Fluttershy sat by Dempsey, trying to mend his cut.

"What the fuck is wrong with you people?!"  Dempsey screamed.

"Don't mess with my friends and we'll get along just fine,"  Pinkie said,  "Until then, I am considering you my enemy."

Dempsey tried to get up and punch Pinkie, but fell to the ground after Pinkie kicked his leg out from under him.  The undead were approaching once again.  Pinkie protected Fluttershy as she healed Dempsey.

Rarity, Nikolai, and Applejack where in a shack labeled "Doctor's Quarters", shooting the rotten as they came through the door.  Rarity eventually found a piece of cloth and started working on some form of armor.

"Uh, Princess, now's not the time to work on some frilly dress!"  Applejack shouted from a door.

"I'm making some armor for one of these companions, maybe that will make them trust us more."

"A drunk Russian needs only a drink to be invincible."  Nikolai belched.

Applejack was running low on ammo and time, AJ eventually had to use a piece of broken glass to cut the zombies.  AJ ran back to where Rarity was sitting and took the unfinished body armor and tossed it to Nikolai.  Rarity stood back and watched with horror as Applejack cut the zombies open.

"Fuck, I'm out!  Nikolai shouted.

"You have a knife and a broken bottle, dont'cha?"  Applejack screamed as she sliced another zombies throat.

Rarity looked behind her and saw a lone zombie and stole Nikolai's knife and stabbed the zombie.  Rarity watched with horror as the zombie fell and blood squirted to the floor.  Applejack then let out a piercing scream.  Three zombies had crawled on top of AJ and were trying to swipe at her.

"Yeah, a little help would be nice!"

Applejack shoved her piece of glass into a zombies head and was now defenseless.

Rarity ran up to Applejack and handed her the blood-stained knife.  AJ quickly stabbed all three zombies.

"Thanks for the help pardner."

"I suppose we have to stick together to survive."

"Are you forgetting about the Russian that's in trouble?!"  Nikolai shouted over the screams of the dead.

Applejack quickly pushed the zombies off of Nikolai and stabbed them one by one.  Nikolai shared his thanks and agreed to find the rest of the group.

In the Communications Room, Takeo and Twilight were stuck in the marsh and the undead horde was closing in quickly.  Twilight blasted a few away whilst Takeo shot a few dead, but once Takeo had run out of ammo, Twilight had to teleport them back to the group, who had all reunited back next to a giant meteor.

"Now ze teleporter should be somewhere around here."  Richtofen noted.

"Not to rush you, but we have a fuck-ton of 'em coming through that door over there!"  Dempsey shouted.

Thousands of zombies quickly sprinted towards the group, hungry for their flesh.  Richtofen had found the teleporter, but needed to power it up by entering a complicated sequence of numbers on to the mainframe.

"Richtofen, are you almost done?"  Takeo asked.

"IT IS DONE!"  Richtofen shouted manically.

They all piled in the teleporter and disappeared in a flash.  They were heading towards a facility, where many secrets will be revealed.

Facility

They arrived in the center of a large facility, standing on some sort of pad.  Richtofen immediately instructed the group to take refuge near one of the boarded up windows until further notice.  They did as instructed and shot all of the zombies that came close to the windows.  When Richtofen commanded they vacate the area, Twilight found a radio log and proceeded to listen to it while following closely behind the group.

"Stand up."  A moan responded to the request.  "STAND UP!"  The voice's command was responded to with another groan.  "Good, now look at me, and walk forward."  Two heavy footsteps were heard.  "Excellent, further."  A thud as if someone fell was audible in the background.  "It's alright, just stay there."  The footsteps were getting louder and quicker.  "Calm down, I ORDER YOU!"  A scream was heard.  "Kill it!"  A gunshot blasted through the speakers of the radio.  "Bring me another!"  Static.

Twilight stared at the radio, shaking her head.  They were trying to train these things by implementing simple commands issued to the zombies.  As she fought off the dead, she couldn't stop thinking about how they were once being trained like animals.  She kept running to every room, trying to find more radios.  Finally, in the room next to teleporter C, she found another radio.

    "Gentlemen, allow me to take this opportunity to welcome you to Group 9-3-5.  This is a prestigious moment in the history of our race. You represent the future of technological advancement.  You are the pioneers of human discovery.  In your hands lies the destiny of mankind.  In our hands is a great power and with that power comes a price.  You have volunteered to be part of this great experiment and with that decision comes the responsibility of absolute secrecy.  No one is to know what you do, where you work, what our research has uncovered, or what our purpose will be.  You will have no further contact with your governments or with your families.  Your decision to fully dedicate your lives to Group 9-3-5 is absolute.  In your lockers you will find your field ops manual which will direct you should our manifesto get compromised.  We cannot afford to let this power fall into the wrong hands and therefore the field ops manual should be considered your bible.  Make your preparations now. A new dawn is beginning for mankind."

9-3-5... those emblems on the doors must be theirs.  Twilight thought.

Inside of the room with the teleporter, she found another radio.

"But I'm all out of hope. Goodbye my friend."  A man said to himself.

"Warning, the shield is now active, find and destroy the designated materials and report to the barracks, this is not a drill."  The same voice from the previous radios was heard in a PA system.

"Dammit! - I can't find my pills... they are coming, I must do what I must do, God forgive us all!"  Choking and screaming was heard in the background.

Twilight's face turned pale as she realized what had happened.  They took cyanide pills to avoid giving away the secrets of this "Group 9-3-5".  Zombies had stopped coming for a short amount of time, so Twilight continued her search for more of the radios.  In what appeared to be the remains of a run-down office, she'd found another radio.

    "Sophia, this letter is to go to the Reichstag High Command immediately.  Gentlemen, it is with the utmost urgency that I draw your attention to the lack of funding being injected into The Giant project.  While I believe we are close to realizing the ultimate plan, we still have several years of development before it is ready.  It would be folly to cut our expenditure so early in our development.  As you know, early tests on the DG-2 have easily outperformed expectations and we fully anticipate mass producing the Wunderwaffe within the next few years.  Work on the matter transference has however come to a standstill.  We simply do not have enough Element 115 to continue the experiments.  The test subjects have survived teleportation but are currently unresponsive to commands and cannot be controlled.  If we are to overcome this obstacle we need to increase the frequency and size of the experiment.  To this end, I suggest we find not only a regular supply of 115, but that we also find a larger conduit to channel the energy.  Our operatives in America have informed us that the US have a large supply of the element at the Nevada base, so time is of the essence if we are to stay ahead of them.  This cannot be done if you cut the budget, nor can it be done if you insist on pressuring us into action before we are ready. I am of course available for discussion of the matter but in the meantime, I will continue with the work here and try to win this damned war.  Signed, etcetera etcetera, Doctor Maxis."

So they were developing weapons to win a war.  DG-2?  Didn't Richtofen say the name of the weapon Dempsey had was named the "WonderWaffe DG-2"?  Something is going on here, and I don't like it...

Another radio in the room just outside the office.

"Initiating test number 3, subject is within the test chamber, activate power."  Dr. Maxis said.

A power switch is heard being thrown, followed by a voice.  "O-Oh my God!"

"Get a hold of yourself and clean that up!  Test number 3 unsuccessful, test subject has been reduced to the same state as previous subjects, clean up the test chamber and re-calibrate the system!  Let's do it again."  Maxis had screamed.

"Yes, Doctor."  The other voice responded.

The other voice sounded like Richtofen.  So Richtofen must've been a part of 9-3-5, that would explain why he knew how to calibrate the teleporter and knew what the DG-2 was.

It took time searching for the next one, but Twilight had found it stuck in a crack of a wall.

"Now, you must be very diligent with her, Samantha.  Owning a dog is a great responsibility."  Maxis said proudly.

"Yes, father.  Oh, I love her."  A little girl's voice rang out.

"You must feed her every day, and walk her, and be very careful when you play with her.  You know she's going to have puppies?"

"Really?  Can I keep the puppies too father?"

"We'll see, Samantha.  One step at a time."

Maxis had a daughter here?  But what about leaving everything in your past behind, about complete and utter secrecy?  Twilight had given up on trying to understand Maxis' motives and the motives of his group.  All she knew was that they were responsible for the zombies and these teleporters.

Twilight had found yet another radio.

"Edward, tie the damn thing down.  We can't have it running around during the test."  Maxis shouted while a dog barked in the background.  It was heard whimpering a few seconds later.

"It's tied down now, Doctor Maxis."  Richtofen said.

"Initiating test number five.  Subject is within the test chamber.  Activate power."  The same noise from earlier was heard.

"Searching for vitals.  No reading, Doctor.  The subject has... disappeared.  Doctor Maxis, we've done it!"  Richtofen screeched, over-joyed.

"Don't be foolish!  Test number five is unsuccessful.  Subject has vanished, yes, but has not reappeared at the mainframe.  Recalibrate the damn system now!"  Maxis shouted.

Twilight had found what was the last radio, and listened carefully.

"Initiating test number six.  Subject is within test chamber.  Activate power."  Maxis said.

The power sounded and an unfamiliar ping followed.

"Damn it, Edward!  Did you set up the device correctly?!"  Maxis sounded furious.

"Yes Doctor.  As per your specifications."  Richtofen said spitefully.

"If you had done it to my specifications then it would have worked, wouldn't it?  As usual, your incompetence has-"  A sound of thunder is heard.  "What?"

"Do you hear that, Doctor?"

"Quiet, you fool!  Test number six is a failure, but the experiment has caused some kind of electrical force to energize within the chamber.  Well, open the door!"

"Doctor, I don't think..."

"Open the door!"  The door is heard opening and a dog growls.

"Daddy, what are you doing with Fluffy?"  The little girl's voice had returned.

"Damn it, Samantha.  I told you never to come in here.  Edward, get her out of here."

"Yes, Doctor."

The growls came again and the little girl screamed.

"What's wrong with her?  Daddy, what did you do?  Fluffy!"

"Come back here!  Samantha. Stop her!  Easy. Come here, Samantha.  Good girl. Gently, Samantha.  That's not Fluffy anymore.  We must get out of here."  The door is heard closing.  "What?  Edward what are you doing?  Open the door. Edward, open this door now!!"

"Dad. I'm scared."

"Don't you... Stay by me, Samantha."

"Goodbye, Doctor Maxis."  The power was activated and Richtofen was heard laughing.

Twilight stared at the radio in disbelief.  Richtofen had killed a little girl and her father with their own dog.  Twilight ran up to Richtofen and shoved all the radios towards him.

"GOT ANYTHING TO SAY, EDWARD?"  Twilight shouted.

"Get away from me schweinehund!"  Richtofen screamed.

"I found these lying around this facility, we deserve to know what's happening here!"  Twilight lifted Richtofen up and slammed him up against the wall.

"Listen well schweinehund, what I did here does not matter to our current situation.  I made a counter-measure for ze zombies, ya?"  Richtofen said.

"But what you've done here is unforgivable.  What reason would you have for slaughtering a little girl?"

"IT MATTERS NOT!  WHAT I'VE DONE HERE IS OF MY OWN MOTIVE AND REASONING!"

"Your reasoning and judgement seems flawed."

Richtofen stared at Twilight angrily, waiting for her to slam him into another wall.  To his surprise, Twilight let him go.

"I might be angry, but I don't believe in revenge."  Twilight said furiously.

Richtofen grabbed his weapon, and started walking towards Rainbow Dash.  He told her to follow him to the mainframe.  Richtofen then expertly linked all the teleporters to the mainframe in which they came.  Then the undead started to come back.  Everyone met up in a single teleporter, to see how long they could survive.

"Are all of y'all full on ammo?"  Applejack asked.

Everyone replied with a yes.

"Let's kick some freak-bag ass!"  Dempsey shouted joyfully.

"Here they come!"  Rainbow shouted.

Thousands of the undead flooded through the doors to the room where our survivors rest.  One by one, the flood shrank to a smaller and smaller amount.

Will you come join me in my game?  Pinkie suddenly heard a voice in her head.

"Did any of you guys say something?"  The question was met with everyone saying no.

Do me a favor, KILL RICHTOFEN!

"He hasn't given me a reason to do that yet."

Oh well, I guess you will have to remain a simple pawn for me and him to play with.  You will learn of the evils this man is capable of soon enough.  Until then, enjoy your hell.

"Wait, who are you?"

I am Samantha, I am your gamemaster.  I decide when you live, and when you die.

"Well, we're not going down without a fight."

Then the game will be even more entertaining for me.

Pinkie then heard a demonic laugh.  When she recovered from hearing the voice, they were close to getting overrun.

After everyone let out a collective scream, Richtofen activated the teleporter and they once again teleported away, but this time to a whole new time.

Theater

The group appeared at an abandoned German theater, littered with Nazi Flags.  As the group finally came to their senses, Twilight advised they get moving as soon as possible, for she was sure there were more undead there.  Before they left the room they appeared in, Richtofen noticed chalk lettering that spelled out "Beware of the Six".

"There are six of you, is this sentence trying to reveal something about you and your friends?"  Richtofen said.

"If we wanted to harm you, we wouldn't have helped you back at the swamp."  Twilight snapped back.

"True enough... for now."  Richtofen murmured.

Twilight just shook her head and look at the three doors in the room.  One seemed sealed from the inside, the other two could be opened easily with her magic.  Twilight decided they would take the upstairs route and opened that door.  What she saw inside was a board with unlit lights on it, and four pictures of her allies and one with a silhouette of a man.

"Who's this?"  Applejack asked when she saw the shadowy figure in the picture.

"I don't know, but it doesn't matter right now.  We need to keep moving."  Twilight said.

Richtofen walked by the posters.  "NEIN! These are relics that need to be destroyed!"

"Why would you say that, Richtofen?"  Twilight questioned.

"These relics were not fit for your eyes my equestrian friend, they must be burned!"

"Go ahead and burn them, but I'm not gonna watch them burn to ashes, neither are my friends."  Rainbow said.

"No, no, no, that could be my best picture!"  Nikolai shouted.

Twilight decided to open the next door and the next, until they came to a switch.  A switch that looked similar to the one in the asylum.  She decided to pull the switch and the entire theater radiated with life and activity afterwords.  With that life, came another hoard of zombies.  Richtofen seemed to be creeping towards the device that looked like another teleporter pod when a zombie ran up behind him.

"Richtofen, behind you!" Twilight screamed.

Richtofen swiftly turned and stabbed the zombie with a machete, then continued his run towards the teleporter.  Applejack and Takeo defended him whist he cut and rearranged a number of wires.  After Richtofen had properly coordinated the wires, the zombies suddenly stopped coming.  Twilight went looking for more radios in this abandoned theater.  She found one hanging from a chandelier in the main room of the theater.

"The timeline for deployment can be accelerated.  Given the progress we have made in the past two weeks, if patient two-six can retain the impressions longer than twenty-six hours, we will have the process perfected."  Static was heard after that.

Twilight had the impression that they were trying to brain-wash the undead to make them into a kind of "super-solider".  An immortal, infinite army.

She found another radio in an alleyway.

A sigh is heard.  "Another setback. Patient two-six was killed this morning in a field test.  He lost control and attacked one of our handlers.  His injuries were minor but patient two-six was destroyed.  The break in programming coincided with the flashing lights and loud noises of the fire alarm in the test facility." A knock is heard.  "One moment!" The knocking repeated. "What is it?"  Static was once again heard.

Their most successful subject lost control and was killed, the same thing happened at the Facility.

Twilight couldn't find any more radios, which meant her search for information here was over.  Until Rarity found something useful among a pile of raggedy dresses; a film reel.

"Now we need to find a projector."  Twilight said.

"Leave that to me, I am shtill looking for information on what Maxis was doing here and I know where a projector is." Richtofen said.

Richtofen lead the entire group to the teleporter and teleported them to the projector control room.  Rarity then put in her flim reel.

"The test subjects have been undergoing treatment for five days with very little progress.  I have been assured that, given time, the programming will take hold."  Static.

"He was experimenting without his best scientist, what a fatal mistake."  Richtofen mocked.

"Let's keep looking for more film reels."  Twilight ordered.

The rest of the film reels were all in cases in the room they were in, so one at a time they inserted their reels in.

    "In the past weeks, we have made great strides in breaking through to their subconscious. I have had the projectionists make edits to the few. These changes have been very effective."  Followed by, "Subject two-six has had a breakthrough, he is responding to the treatment and following basic instructions, the violent outbursts have been greatly reduced, and given time, we feel this method of treatment will be 100 percent effective in most cases."

No one said a word, and Richtofen agreed to leaving the theater so they could move on to better and more information about what happened.  He teleported them back with a controller and then sent them to a small platform in Siberia.

"Today, my friends, we take flight."