Zombies gonna match with some Hardcore Country.

Applejack wanted nothing more than to get her hooves on King Sombra, for terrorizing the ponies in her town, not to mention kidnapping her sister. After finding Sombra she brought the fight to him, not backing down. Sombra realized this, which is the main reason he blasted her into a portal.

Applejack had gone flying through the portal and after a while she landed near some building in an abandoned city.

"Ow, rough landing, where am ah?"

She looked around and noticed that the city was deserted.

"Something ain't right with this town, ah better search inside this here building, maybe I'll find something"

The building itself was about 3 stories high, it was a medical facility.

She went inside the buiding the front lobby looked ok, "Looks like some type of doctor's place", she called around, "Hello!?" then she heard some noise towards the back, "Maybe somepony's there, or at least someone"

She went through the door leading to the back, "Hello, pardon me but-" she noticed the place was a mess, "Hoo wee, someone needs to clean up" she continued around and heard a noise again, this time from upstairs, so she went up but when she got to the second floor, she noticed some blood on the walls.

"Ah sure hope that's just red paint or something, and that it spilt", she hears more noise again but grew a bit reluctant to check it out, until she heard a scream.

"What was that!?" Applejack was nervous and as much as she just wanted to run, a curious part of her wanted to investigate, so she cautiously approached the sound of the scream and checked behind a closed door, "Somepony in trouble in here?"

Then she saw something that would make her spine shiver, a group of creatures feasting on the remains of another.

"Wh-wh-what's going on in here!?"

She then drew the attention of the creatures and they started to approach her, hunger in their eyes.

"Now stay back...ya hear? Keep away from me!"

The creatures ignored her demands and continued to approach.

"Ah said stay back!" Applejack shouted

The creatures approached her some more, she decided to turn tail and run, looking for the staircase to go down, unfortunately more monsters had appeared there.

Applejack's heart pounded maybe 100 beats a second at this point, "This ain't good, what world did Sombra send me too!?"

She decided to keep running, the found a room to hide in with no monsters and barricaded the door, "How am ah gonna escape this place in one piece?"

Outside Chris Redfield had arrived at the building joined by Leon Kennedy, Bruce McGirvren, former UBCS agent Carlos Oliviera & Chris's younger sister, Claire Redfield.

"Ok team, this place is the source of the infection in this town, your duty is to go in there and retrieve any virus samples you find so we know exactly what we're dealing with, then plant the bombs and destroy this place, any questions?"

Bruce raised his hand.

"What is it Bruce", Chris asked in a someone annoyed tone.

"First what do we need a virus same for? It's very likely the T-Virus since zombies were reported, not Manjini, or J'avo or whatever the hell they're called"

"I remember when they were Ganados", Leon said to himself.

"Second, why bomb the place? Ain't the government just gonna blow up the city like they always do during an Outbreak?"

Chris sighed, "First off more than one kind of virus can make zombies, we wanna make sure it's either something old or something new, second we wanna avoid bombing the if we can, it's easier to just destroy the source of infection, now you all have your orders, get to it and good luck"

The others saluted and went inside, before that Chris spoke.

"Oh and Claire...be careful"

Claire grinned, "Hey I've done well so far"

Chris chuckled, "Yeah you have"

Leon looked to Chris, "We'll keep an eye on her, but knowing her, she might be saving us instead"

Chris chuckled a bit more as they all went in, then he decided to head back to his other allies, they were checking the streets for any survivors.

The four went into the building.

"Ok split up, search for survivors and for samples, I'm gonna go plant the bomb in the basement, should hopefully be enough to cause this to tumble down", Leon said.

Everyone nodded and they each went their own way, the place was big but not too big so it wasn't gonna be hard to maneuver around. Carlos searched the 1st floor, Bruce went to the second, and Claire went to the 3rd.

As Bruce searched around, he shot any zombie he came across and looked through various doors to find some virus samples.

"Nothing here I can use, most of this stuff is smashed up"

He continued down and noticed a group of zombies outside a door trying to get in.

"That's weird, looks like they're trying to get inside, they also seem hungry, I'm guessing a survivor's in there, better check on that" he approached the door and shot each of the zombies in the head before going to the door and trying to open, but it was jammed on the other side.

"Hello? Anyone in there?" he continued trying to open the door, "I'm here to help, if your a survivor let me in, I'll get you out of this place!"

"Go away!" he heard from inside.

"Huh? Sounds like a girl, little on the country side too", Bruce spoke again, "Hey I'm a friend, I'm here to help"

"Ah said go away!"

Bruce sighed, "I ain't gonna leave you here, now stand aside I'm gonna take this door down"

"Yeah good luck with that!" Applejack said.

Bruce whipped out his shotgun and shot dow the door, much to Applejack's surprise, and did enough damage to move everything out the way.

He went inside the room, put away his shotgun and took out his handgun again and searched around, "Where'd that girl go?"

Applejack was nowhere to be found, Bruce assumed she had hidden after he fired his shotgun.

He looked around and noticed the closet in the room, "Hey you in there?"

He cautiously approached the door and opened it with his gun armed, he looked inside and saw something he didn't expect, "A pony? What the hell is a pony doing here? And why is it wearing a cowbow hat? Looks so weird"

"Who you calling weird!?" Applejack asked, freaking Bruce out.

"What the hell? Did you just talk?" Bruce's eyes were bugging out.

"Yeah ah talked"

"But...you're a pony!"

"Obviously! What in tarnation are you?" Applejack asked with much annoyance in her voice.

"I'm a human!"

"A what now?"

Bruce shook his head, "Nevermind, look it's really dangerous here, we gotta leave before more zombies come"

"Excuse me, did you just say 'zombie'? There ain't no such thing as zombies"

Bruce raised his eyebrow, "Did you not see the creatures in this place? I'm pretty sure that was why you were hiding"

"I don't know what those things were but zombies? That's just ridiculous"

Bruce rubbed his temples "You're a talking pony and you call zombies ridiculous?"

Applejack looked annoyed, "What's so weird about me talking? All ponies talk!"

"Huh? No they don't, they just go 'neigh'!"

Applejack narrowed her eyes, "You watch yourself buddy"

Bruce looked a little taken back but dismissed it, "This isn't important, what's important is that I get you out of here, now come on"

Applejack looked suspicious, "You expect me to trust you?"

"Come on now, my job is to rescue any survivors I find, that includes you, now come on, I gotta help you"

Applejack looked unsure, "I don't now..."

Bruce sighed, "Look, I don't know much of what's going on here but I do know that I need to get you to safety, I can't leave here in good conscious knowing you're probably gonna get killed, so please just come with me, I swear I'll help yah"

Applejack stared into his eyes, "Ah think ah can trust you, I'm pretty good at sensing honesty in another"

Bruce sighed in relief and smiled at her, "Good, now follow closely and be sure to follow my orders"

Applejack nodded, "Sure thing mister"

"Good, oh and my name's Bruce by the way"

"I'm Applejack"

"Cute name, let's move"

Both left the room with Bruce aiming his gun around.

"So tell me Bruce, what's going on here anyway?"

"Well I'm here with my team to investigate the viral outbreak that caused these zombies, this virus is dangerous cause it can create even stronger monsters, so we have to put a stop to it, my job was to find a sample, which I wasn't able to, I hope my teammates had better luck, and also find survivors, case in point, you"

"So your job is to hunt...zombies?"

"Sorta, any type of B.O.W."

"B.O.W.? A bow?"

"No, it means Biological Organic Weapon, these monsters were created for army reasons"

"Wow, whoever came up with that must be a real evil genius or something"

"Yeah, the person behind it is dead but there are several-hold on", Bruce took the time to shoot a few zombies before resuming, "There are several other people doing that same thing"

"That's horrible, to know that-zombie on the right", Bruce shot the zombie and Applejack resumed, "To know that someone would do something like this"

"True...so where are you from?"

Before Applejack could answer, something popped out of a ventilation shaft.

"Uh...what is tarnation is that?"

The creature crawled on the ceiling, it's long tongue hanging out.

"I saw those in reports, it's a Licker!"

"A What?"

The Licker tried to attack them with it's tongue but Bruce was able to get himself and Applejack out the way in time.

"What the! That thing attacked us with it's tongue!" Applejack shouted.

Bruce shot it with his shotgun, killing it.

"Well that takes care of that", Bruce said.

Applejack turned and saw something scary, "Uh Bruce, ah wouldn't say that"

She pointed to the several other Lickers on the way.

"Oh shit! We gotta go!" Bruce then grabbed Applejack and started running.

"Um, I can run you know!" Applejack said.

"I ain't gonna risk you getting killed", Bruce said while running.

Bruce kept running but around almost every corner he ran into a wall of zombies, he wouldn't dare stop to fight them, it would allow time for the lickers to catch up, so he would keep running, "Where's that God Damn staircase!?"

As he ran, Leon radioed him.

"Bruce, everything ok with you?"

"Not exactly", Bruce said, still running and dodging, "I found a survivor but now we're being chased by an army of lickers, I gotta get downstairs soon or I'll risk us both getting killed!"

"You got a survivor!? Uh ok I'm gonna try to head over to you, I'll get Carlos and Claire to help!"

As Bruce ran he saw some testing place used by scientists for experiments and a window leading to a lower level testing ground, "Hold on, I'm gonna take a shortcut downstairs!"

Bruce ran at the glass and jumped through, landing down below, holding on to Applejack, but hurting himself a bit.

"You crazy! That was totally reckless", she saw that the glass cut his arm a bit, "Now yer hurt!"

"I'm fine, like I said I'm more concerned with getting you out of here"

Applejack seemed confused, "Yer gonna risk yourself for a mare you just met? I'm flattered but ah don't want that on mah conscious"

"It's my job, to serve and protect"

Applejack felt a little touched that someone she just met was risking a lot to save her, "Yer a real kind fellow"

"Like I said, it's my job", he heard the sound of the lickers, "Damn, they're coming, lets go!" he held Applejack tight and ran more.

As he ran he encountered Carlos.

"You ok Bruce? Leon radioed, saying you need help"

"I"m fine, we just gotta leave and get her out of here", Bruce said, gesturing to Applejack.

"A pony? This is the survivor you risked your life for? What's with that stupid looking hat?"

"Mah hat ain't stupid looking!" Applejack shouted, scaring Carlos.

"The fuck!? How did that pony speak!?" Carlos asked.

"I don't know man, but we need to leave before them God Damn lickers come back"

Applejack looked over Bruce's shoulder, "Too late!"

Bruce and Carlos saw the lickers.

"Shit, run, I'll cover you!" Carlos said and whipped out his machine gun to fire at The Lickers, keeping them at bay.

Bruce made it to the main lobby where Leon was at, he noticed Bruce, "There you are, wait is that a pony?" Leon asked.

Carlos overheard Leon as he shot the lickers, "Yeah he has a pony, that can talk!"

Leon looked curious, "A talking pony?"

Applejack nodded, "Yeah, ah can talk, which is apparently weird to all of yah"

Leon did a double take, "That is the strangest thing I've ever seen...and I've seen a lot of crazy things in my life"

Claire radioed in, "Leon, I'm on my way down, I have a sample of the virus, I just gotta get past some zombies"

"Good job Claire, but be careful, Bruce said he saw Lickers, a lot of them", Leon said.

"Right, I can handle them", Claire said.

"Well I'm gonna send Carlos up there to help just in case"

Carlos looked confused, "Huh, why me?"

"Cause I need to speak with Bruce"

Carlos nodded, "Ok then", he ran to the staircase, shooting some lickers, others lickers however went for Leon, Bruce & Applejack.

Leon and Bruce shot the Lickers as they spoke.

"So who's this pony? How can she talk?" Leon asked.

"Her name's Applejack, I don't know how she can talk, she says it's normal for her though", Bruce replied.

"Everypony where I'm from talks, unless they're infants" Applejack said.

"You must be from some strange place, around here ponies don't talk"

"Yeah ah heard, other than neighing"

As they shot the lickers, more zombies came.

"Shit, too many! Claire needs to hurry up before-" one zombie grabbed Leon and was wrestling the gun from him, Leon let go and stabbed the zombie in the neck and carved down, then he stabbed another in the head, and one through the eye, getting blood all over his arm, causing Applejack to hold back some vomit.

Bruce grabbed his shotgun and used it to blow the zombies away, blowing some heads clean off with his blasts, Applejack getting nauseous at the sight of blood and guts everywhere.

Bruce noticed this, "Turn away Applejack, this ain't something to look at"

Applejack nodded but as she turned, a licker had jumped on her and pinned her down.

"AAAHHH! Get off me! Bruce help!" she struggled as the creature hissed in her face, she got a good look at it, scary sight for her, and the creature lifted it's claws up to stab her in the face, but Bruce shot it away.

"Get the fuck away from her you ugly bastards!" he continued shooting all oncoming lickers, soon some zombies arrived as well, one grabbing Applejack, causing her to buck kick in retaliation, though she kicked it hard enough to essentially destroy part of it's head, causing her to nearly vomit.

"Oh sweet Celestia, I'm gonna be sick!" she held back some vomit, "I can't take this no more, I gotta run!" she attempted to run away from the violence.

"Applejack get back here! It's not safe!"

Bruce was right, she was ambushed by several zombies, all swarming over her tried to eat her, she knocked a few away but this was too scary for her, all these monsters were inches away from killing her.

"SOMEONE HELP! PLEASE! AH DON'T WANNA DIE HERE!" Applejack shouted.

Luckily for her, Bruce managed to shoot each of them in the head, blood falling on Applejack each time, getting her coat strained in blood, Bruce then grabbed her and pulled her out, getting some blood on him as well but he didn't care.

"Don't worry little gal, I got ya"

Applejack hugged him, whimpering a bit, "Ah was so scared"

"I know, but I got ya" Bruce hugged and patted her head.

Soon Claire arrived with Carlos, "Lets leave!"

All of them ran out the buidling as Leon set the timer to explode in 20 seconds, giving them enough time to make a clear distance from the building before the explosion.

"Whoa, that was freaken close", Carlos said.

"Yeah, too close, least we all escaped in one piece, with that pony, how's she holding up Bruce?" Leon asked.

Leon then saw that Applejack was crying & sobbing on Bruce's shoulder, the near death experience plus all the violence and all the death she's seen took a toll on her head.

Bruce patted her back as she cried, "It's alright there little pony, I got yah, I ain't gonna let nothing happen to yah", Bruce said what he could to try to calm her down, it wasn't working much, she just cried louder.

Chris then contacted Leon, "Leon you there? I saw the explosion from here, how did the mission go?"

"It went well, Claire found a virus sample and Bruce found a survivor", Leon replied.

"That's great news, good on Claire...but who is the survivor? Someone who worked there, or a random civilian? Any injuries to report, no signs of infection?"

"She's not hurt, though she's pretty traumatized from what happened, she's crying on Bruce's shoulder"

"Understandable, this is a scary situation, best to let her relieve her emotions"

"I don't know if she's infected, Bruce just saved her from a bunch of zombies, I don't know if she was bitten in the process"

"We can check later"

"I do know this though, she's not from around here"

"Huh? What makes you say that?"

"You're gonna have to see it to believe it Chris, it's nothing you've ever seen before"

Chris was confused now, he though he's seen everything, what do they have that he hasn't seen before?

"Well get here soon, I called Josh Stone, he's chopper", Chris said.

"Right, see you then", Leon said, then hung up, as Applejack continued to relieve her emotions while Bruce hugged her, trying to calm her down.

Leon sighed, "Where did she come from? Is there some stuff that goes beyond B.O.W.s?"

That's all for this chapter, next time the group will learn about Applejack, as she also learns about their goal, however the question is, how will Applejack cope with this trauma?