Apocalyptic Nightmare Act One Part 2: Killing is Easy, Forgetting Who You Killed is Hard

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Ponyville Square

Six friends stared at the destruction that had wrought Ponyville in a measly two hours. It was disturbing, sickening, and downright wrong, but there it was staring them in the face, and they stared back. Fluttershy, of all people, was the first on who found her voice. "Shouldn't we, umm... get going... I mean, if we should, if that's okay with you..."

"No, 'Shy you're right... we all should jus' getta move on then..." Even though everything in my being is tellin' me NOT to...

"Yeah, no need standing around like a... a... Standy McStanderson...?" Despite the fact I want to run out of here as fast as possible...

"I-- I hear ya 'Shy! Just... need to get going..." And my legs won't move when I tell them to... I'm scared this time, for real!

"Yes, darling. What Applejack said, get a move on..." But... poor Sweetie Belle... I want to go home and check on her first...

"Fluttershy is right, we just need to get going... If we can..." Spike... Wait, what about Mom and Dad, and Shining and Cadence?! The Princesses?! Are they like this too!?

As the they began having their doubts, they were unaware that a collected mass of what used to be human beings started to surround them. It wasn't until they heard one of them growled that they looked up at the group of fifteen or twenty surrounding them. Fluttershy gulped in fear, Rainbow Dash shook on the spot, Applejack scowled and growled back, Pinkie, while angry, felt the sudden need to flee, Rarity breathed hard, inwardly panicking, and Twilight stood stock still, with on her chest moving up and down. They all saw familiar faces, Button Mash and his Mother, Mayor Mare, Lightning Dust and Cloud Kicker, Blossom Forth, Thunderlane, and Rumble... Friends of theirs that wanted to kill them.

And they had to the same, just to survive.

"Okay... I'm sure we can't talk our way out of this one..."

And then they all attacked.

Who were once their friends all sprinted towards them, dead set on killing all six of them. The first one jumped onto Twilight who held it at bay by pushing her tonfa against it's neck, Applejack used her bat to push them down and knock them back, Rarity and Fluttershy were fight back as well, with Rarity doing all the work and Fluttershy meekly trying to start the chainsaw, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie were doing actual work, swinging their bats and breaking the infected's arms. Rainbow, who had finally had enough, brought the bat above her head slammed down hard. The only problem was that when she looked up, she didn't hit the zombie she was aiming for...

Looking down, she dropped the bat and grabbed who she hit. Scootaloo, now sporting a large gash on her face accompanied by the fracture in her head, stared at Dash with soulless eyes and and whimpered softly before slumping into her. "aaaaaAAAAAAAHH!!!! I KILLED HER HOLY SHIT, I KILLED SCOOTS!!" She screamed into the air shaking the small body off of her. "Oh shit... oh shit... I killed Scoots... Oh fuck, I killed Scoots..." She mumbled to herself as she reached for the bat. "No... I didn't kill Scoots... You... You made me kill Scootaloo! YOU MADE ME DO IT!!" She swung the bat at the first one she saw, Carrot Top, and sickening crack echoed through the square. Rainbow's magenta eyes glowed with anger and sorrow, and she took it all it out on them.

"DAMN YOU! I'LL KILL EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!!" Rainbow yelled as she swung again, and again, and again, and again... Her five friends watched as she beat the horde to a pulp. She eventually slowed down on who used to Daven Port, and sunk to her knees crying. She crawled over to the corpse of Scootaloo and picked her up, cradling her. "Shhhh.... It's okay now... you're," she hiccuped a bit, "you're asleep now... no one's ever gonna wake you up..." Rainbow cried and tears fell onto the her dead body. "You... you were out crusading again, weren't ya? Trying to find you're... you're calling in life-- Oh gods above... I'm sorry I wasn't there, Scoots. You saw them and... I didn't hear you... c-call out f-f-for me..."

Fluttershy placed a hand on her shoulder, causing Rainbow to whip her head back to stare at her. Fluttershy herself had tears and sunk to her knees as well, giving Dash a comforting hug. "Hey... it wasn't your fault... It was there's. You had nothing to do with it okay?"

"...Shovel... Bring me a shovel..." Rainbow said and Applejack and Pinkie went back in the garage to find one. Pinkie came back with it and Rainbow tore it out of her hands, digging a shallow grave. When it hit three feet, according to Twilight, she stuck the shovel in the ground and picked up Scootaloo and gently placed her down. After saying a few quick words, Rainbow began scooping up dirt and placing it back in the hole and patting it down. She shoved the shovel in the ground above the grave and picked up her bat and began walking away.

"Hey! Where're you goin'?" Applejack asked.

Rainbow Dash looked back with the most calm look on her that they've seen in years. "We can't stay here. Twenty so people is only what? A sixteenth, a twenty-secondth, of Ponyville? Well, think about how many are out there right now... I've done the math about 1,000 people are in Ponyville, give or take a few ten. Still only six of us. Six versus thousands of them Applejack, thousands."

"And how in blazes do you figure thousands?"

"Because, if it's here... it's probably everywhere... Girls... Welcome to the end of the world..."