When I said I'm doing two stories, I meant it. I'm under construction in this story and 'Scales in School', so without further ado, lets get going, Enjoy...

-Prologue-

It was another cold night in Canterlot, almost everypony in this major city were asleep by this hour, snuggling in their warm blankets and their heads in the comfort of their pillows, dreaming of places of candy, happiness, wonder, adventure, and so many other experiencial events. Thus another extrordinary vice of relentless ponies were awake and doing their duties as of being the Royal Guards of none other than Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. Keeping absolutely still at the front doors of a massive castle that the two royal sisters lived in.

Without anymore things to do than stand and watch for eight-hours straight, a guard peeked around, moving his head left and right to catch glimpses of a few ponies trotting along the dark streets of Canterlot. He nudged his partner, curious of the ponies bein out this late at night, "Hey, can you figure why someponies don't just, you know, go to sleep when its the right time to?"

"I don't know, we have to be here for another three hours, so why bother thinking about the other ponies being awake at this time when we have to?"

"Yeah, but... Are you seeing that? Look..." The guard stepped away from his current position and squinted his eyes, then they enlarged, "That pony just attacked that other one, lets go." The guard began galloping to the scene, having his sword ready to be drawn out that was in its slat beside his shoulder, along with his partner following along.

The two rushed past the pasture of the royal garden and out to the main-street. They met with the attacker and the victim when on guard drew his sword out with magic, "Get off of him, what do you think you're doing?" There wasn't a response from the pony and the victim didn't move either, it started to creep both of the guards that they approached closer to the unresponsive pony. "I said get off of him, I'm going to have to need you to lay on your stomach, hooves behind your head. I'm hereby placing you under arrest." The guard knew this wasn't really his job, but it seemed best to do.

Again the pony was not listening. This angered the guards and they both pulled it off, then jumped a few feet back to see this pony was covered in blood mostly all over the face, and the eyes weren't even a proper pupil color, they were just full yellow that a glow came from the sockets. "Woah! What the Celestia is that!" He had the sword readied to strike right by the ponies...thing...creature? Whatever it was, it was beside its head about to be decapitated.

"Well what're you waiting for!? Kill that thing!" The other yelled, also keeping his sword readied. The first guard then swung fiercely at the neck, the splash of blood the first to be witnessed, spilling drastically from the artery to the ground, the hearts of the guards pounding at such a pace that it seemed it was going to self-implode. With one deep breath and a loud gulp, the guard spoke in a scared tone while he breathed heavily, "We should tell the princess about this. This is not a usual thing to see in our streets." And they left the site of a dead pony and a dead...pony-eating creature.

*Six days later*

Nopony knows what was going on. Pegasi Royal Guards were dropping like bombs onto the streets of Canterlot, while the unicorn and earth guards were barricading each corner, the castle, homes, and a certain number of restaurants and markets, then a force field formed up around the mountain city, keeping anypony from coming in or out. Everypony stood watch of what the city was once a peaceful place, now suddenly turned into a fortress, what exactly was occuring at the very least of moments?

Princess Celestia stepped out from her castle and onto her balcony high above at a tower, giving her a clear view of the frightened city. Her expression was serious, very intruding to the pony eye that it seemed to pierce into it generally. Her voice was not like her normal voice though, it sounded scared, hopeless, like how a book would describe a scared creature. "My little ponies, there seems to be a...mishap...of events that will occur...the city is going under lockdown and so will the neighboring cities and towns such as Appleloosa and Ponyville and all the others. The Equestrian Guards have been sent there, so don't be alarmed of any family member outside this city."

A pony seemed concerned that she stepped up with full confidence, her eyes looking with no fear, but worry, "What is going on that theres a sudden lockdown in all towns and cities of Equestria? Whats been hidden from us?"

Celestia was surprised of this ponies courage, but being asked what was hidden from them shocked her the most. She couldn't respond but stare down at the awaiting pony, having ear held high waiting for a response, "Well?" She said, "We're waiting..."

"There's been an outburst..." All the ponies gasped, but stopped after an instant, "What has out-bursted?" Another pony asked, stepping up from the crowd as well that all the others started sharing thoughts and worries with eachother.

The princess didn't how to put it out to them, so she decided it was best to just spat it out, "An infection has started and some ponies have already been consumed by it. It turned them into flesh-eaters and we are configuring a cure as fast as possible."
"Who is this "we" ponies, the CDC, a group of scientists, hell even my neighbor, who?!"

Celestia had a few tears run down her eyes, she had fibbed of the few ponies being infected, outside the city of Canterlot was all a lie. The cities below the mountain were highly infected and there was nothing to be done but kill every remaining pony down there, including some of Celestias beloved ponies, such as Twilight Sparkle. Celestia gave out an order to the guards to not tell anypony else, but just kill everypony outside Canterlot, infected or not, they had to die. She continued to stare at the ponies she knew that would never forgive her for not saying the ugly truth, stepping a few feet back from the balcony and looking away from the outside and to her younger sister, Luna. She couldn't smile nor even show any faith in her eyes, nothing filled the dark eyes, nothing but hopelessness and ongoing suffering. "What are we going to do Luna? I just told all of Canterlot to remain calm when I lied to them about the other ponies outside the shield were okay when they are actually all going to die."

"Get Gear Switch out there, he could probably configure the problem and figure how this virus started, only time will tell Tia."

"Chapter 1: The Next Morning"

"Weapons?"

"Check."

"Camping supplies?"

"Check."

"Food and something to drink?"

"Can we hurry this up, the CDC is on patrol with the Guards, though they're busy with the undead bastards. We should have some time then to get out if here before they burn this place up. My home...will be burned."

"Everything else then?"

"Lets just go, buck this, I don't wanna spend another- Get down they're coming in!"

A door in a dark and trashed bakery opened up, revealing a few ponies in a hazmat suit or in armor, armed and ready to shoot anything down. "Go check the kitchen for any food, we haven't eaten in hours." One demanded, sending a pony into the kitchen area with one other for anything to eat. "Where do you ponies would hide in here? I mean why can't Celestia just let us bring them to Canterlot where they can be safe. If they're not infected, then don't deserve another chance at life?"

"She said to never talk about feeling sorry for the survivors. Just think of them as another trotter and just gun them down."

"But how can when I know I'll be haunted by this for the rest of my life?"

"She also said anypony who continues talking about it can be killed and will be marked MIA or KIA from trotter. So keep your mouth shut and keep looking for survivors, then we burn this building."

A few minutes flew by and nopony was found with the naked eye, driving the ponies to consider that there were no life in the building. "Light the horn and start the fire when we give the 'go'." The pony nodded to her captain and everypony went back out into the smogged town. There was smog because of the other burning buildings outside this one, more brighter than the how this fire will be soon. Everypony of the Guards and CDC stepped out a certain distance, "Light it up..." The unicorn lit up her horn and a small fire erupted in the building, "Next building." The captain ordered, and off they were to destroy another home. "TROTTERS! Take them down!" Now gunshots were heard from the weapons they carried, after a sound of multiple groans were heard all around outside.

Once the group was gone, a few ponies that were not apart of the group, but were survivors, emerged from their hiding spots. The small fire was starting to spread wildly and if they put it out, it would draw attention back to the CDC outside. So they had to get out of there...FAST!

One pony looked outside a broken window, some of the glass shards on the floor poking at her hooves, but not penetrating through, "Where'd you say Rainbow Dash and her group would be at? At Sweet Apple Acres?"

"Yeah, we have to get quickly as well, the Guards will be there in no time and we have to collect as many apples as possible."

"Well we shouldn't waste anymore time, lets go."

The ponies stood up and slowly exited the same way the last group entered, keeping heads down and moving swiftly through the black-smoked streets and around the ashed corners, hopefully not to be spotted by any opposing ponies. Why would Celestia order for everypony to be dead, if they were infected or not? Why was this all happening so quickly? What will become if this fallen kingdom? These were questions that won't be answered for the time being, because this was the time for survival and swiftness, instinct and intelligence, faith and friendship. These were times of great abandoning, forgottening, revolutionizing... For this is none that will never be experienced by any other, but the ponies of Equestria.

The ponies continued galloping swiftly with their saddle packs ponderously bouncing against their shoulder, the breaths taken each second as they grew more tired in need of rest, the sweat rushing down the foreheads and slipping off the tip of the nose or chin and onto the blood stained ground from the fallen ponies, killed by either trotter, or Guards. Eyeing at the sight of hope, the ponies smiled and kept pace, reaching their desination. Then suddenly a gunshot was heard from behind.

One of the ponies turned around and saw a pony shooting down another pony, but this pony that was being shot at had open gashes around its body along with the deep red blood stains in the fur and it had yellow glowing eyes, but to top it off was the demonically sharp teeth, the teeth that sunk into that pony and made it scream out in pain. Nopony though even bothered to help it, it was bitten and there is nothing to do about it, especially since it was bitten in the neck area. The pony collapsed onto the floor and gasped for air as the other pony ate away at the flesh, eating it alive. And now the pony laid dead, the eyes open with no life nor faith, just a blank open stare into nothing.

The rushing group had made it to a farm, an apple farm. A large amount of trees had basically apples growing on them while a much larger amount were dead because of no sunlight, no water, and no clean air for the tree to intake. Another group of ponies was spotted picking the trees of the remaining fresh apples, placing them in baskets that were strapped to each of the ponies backs. The approached the harvesters without any worry because they knew who they were.

One pony was relieved to see a friend, but was worried of any CDC or Guard watching them, "Applejack, Big Mac, Applebloom, we're back from Sugarcube Corner, and we brought food that should last us awhile because Pinkie was able to mix it with an ingredient that prevents it from going rotten." Called a mare from the group, joining with the farmers to enlarge the group.

"Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie, glad ya'll er' back. Thanks Pinkie by the way for the extra food, we're gonna need it." Applejack thanked, shrugging her shoulders of the two baskets of apples that laid on her back.

"You're welcome Applejack! What are going to so now?! Come on, I'm hyped to slice at another trotter!" Pinkie asked excitedly, making reving sounds like how a chainsaw would sound.

"Calm down Pinkie, the chainsaw is in the barn. Where ya left it." AJ informed, pointing to a half-burnt, rusted red barn.

Pinkie galloped to the shack and was out with a chainsaw that had a bloodied blade and dripped of that blood from an earlier use with it, "Can I use it come on, come on!?"

"Not now Pinkie. We're not in much danger, right now, we have to gather everypony else and go to Zecoras back in the Everfree." Twilight exclaimed, making the crazed mare lower the bladed machine onto a strap on her back.

"Wait, Rainbow Dash isn't with ya? That means she, Fluttershy and Derpy are still out there lookin' fer Spike and Doctor Whooves."

Twilight thought of a few locations, "Where would they be then Applejack? The library was burned down, the bakery was as well, and the boutique, that leaves Fluttershys home. They could be there."

Applejack spotted her saddle pack and lifted the pack onto her shoulders that had a shotgun and a few other supplies in it, "Well me n' my family have everythin', lets go, they're probably in trouble." Big Mac and Applebloom grabbed their gear as well and the gang left, right as multiple trotters began following behind with their creepy groaning sounds.

Meanwhile, at a shack that was highly barricaded, the windows boarded up and the doors as well, gun barrels pointing out of small gaps in the boarded window. It was hard to see anything due to massive amounts of smog in the air from the burning homes in Ponyville.

"Hey Rainbow Dash, why aren't we going back to Sweet Apple Acres? That's where we need to go to meet Twilight and everypony else."

"There's too many of both those bucking flesh-eaters and the CDC out there. Spike, we can't risk it."

"We can't risk staying in here , they've burned the whole town and now they're going to come out here be burn Fluttershys home."

"w-where would the animals go? if they burn this down, some of the animals would have no place to go to." Fluttershy asked, fear taking full control of her mind.

"They're 'wild' animals, they'll find a way through. And Fluttershy could you please grab a gun and aim through one of the windows?" Rainbow exclaimed, grabbing a gun in her hooves and tossing to the shy pegasus.

"Wait, let me ask RD, the smog? Can't you clear it?" Rainbow Dash facehoofed herself, thinking it was a stupid question Spike asked, she decided to answer anyway.

"And let us be exposed and get killed, sure. And besides, I can't because us ponies are not supposed to breathe that stuff, unlike you though scales." She answered, making the dragon keep his mouth shut, not for long though.

"Hey Doc, you and Derpy okay over there? Need anything?"

"No, we're okay Spike, we're just worried still."

"Worried about what Whooves?"

"Dinky, our daughter. Last we saw her was five days ago, we took her to school right before the Equestrian Guard came down and started shooting everypony down. Yeah we were wondering on day one why suddenly Celestias army came and started picking us off one by one, then when day two came, they showed up, the zomponies." Whooves explained, everything changed so fast that it was hard to believe. Only less than a week has passed and who would've guessed that pandamonium would spread throughout Equestria on such short notice.

"I see shadows in the dense smog." Spike informed,

"Can you see two yellow glowing dots?"

"No, they're not trotters, I think its Twilight and everypony else, because theres alot of ponies coming."

"Be prepared then, either its Twilight and them or they could be the CDC and the Guards."

Princess Celestia was sitting in a conference room, with her sister beside her and a grey furred pegasus sitting across the table, looking stern and serious. A meeting had to be conducted to see how to face this new infectious pulsanary component.

The grey furred stallion looked to the princess's with no appealing attitude, no fear seemed to take control either, just a blank stare. He looked down to his only bionic leg, checking if the gears were functioning properly. He then asked "So what have you called me for Celestia? Make it quick too."

"Gear Switch, we need you out there to get a sample of that virus, help us figure out how it started and how to stop it."

"Wait...you need me, to go out there? With those infected sons of bitches?"

"Yes, you're the only pony we know that would have enough guts to face the virus." Celestia remarked, "I'm not asking this as a favor, I'm asking this as a ticket to save ponykind."

"How can you save it if you're annihilating the ponies outside?"

Celestia slammed her hooves on the table furiously, "Who told you that I ordered Code: Green?"

"You did... Just now." Gear Switch snickered, smiling down at Celestia, "If you want me out there without attracting attention to both infected and non-infected, I'm going to need a team, it doesn't matter who it is. Just anypony willing to go, not like I'll guarantee them to live all the way through." He smiled deviously, standing from his chair and exiting the room, the sound of gears shifting as his bionic leg came to function.

Luna seemed stunned, "Who would want to go out there? It doesn't seem like he'll get anypony to go with him."

"We'll need to tell them the truth of whats going out there as well. And what did he mean by, 'guarantee them to live all the way'?"

*Yawn* done with chapter one after a few days of thinking how this should go. Code: Green is: "All ponies outside Canterlot must be killed". Just making it simple instead of making a damn paragraph about one code.

Reminder, this is not the only story I will be working on. I as well will be on my other story, "Scales in School" (A Spike in school story). Please don't expect chapters often since I'll be working on both.

Questions and OC's will be tolerated in the reviews, questions I'll guarantee to answer and OC's I'll determine to be in this story, but OC's I will not promise to live through the whole story. Sorry...

Check up for chapter two sometime soon, Happy Reading Experiences!

-Neon Scythe