Chapter 6
Princess celestia watched her sister. " Luna, I can't help but feel that the world as we know it is collapsing under our feet." She said In a melancholy tone. Luna responded quicly and aggressively. " it is th D! They make ' fire arms ' to save us all. But sooner or later they will be pointing them at our own citizens. And they have kept us from helping our citizens, Locking us up in this tower. " Luna was in a state of rage, Her anger centered at th D. They are destroying their ways of life, or as far as Luna believed, creating new and vile ones. She trotted over to a window to stare down at what she thought was a field of th agents, shooting their firearms. She was only half correct. The window in front of her exploded into millions of glass fragments, covering her in broken glass. A stray caliber had hit the window. ' but how could this happen' Luna thought. ' they had a Sheild around us.' She said before blacking out. The scene out side was not what Luna expected. The zombies were converging on the castle. ' save us all' thought celestia. ' this is the end. Maybe not the the end of the world, but the end of something. Our Life will never be the same.'
The 7 ponies were wide awake that morning. They gathered what supplies they could and were ready to head out. But, caunterlot was overflowing with the walking dead. Thousands of undead ponies slowly shuffled through the street, their hooves scuffing the ground. On the ground was a layer or two of severed body parts. Hooves and fore legs lay under foot along with bones and maggot riddled organs. Ponyville was gory but compared to this, caunterlot was a blood bath. Thousands of the dead were moving In the streets of a once lively city.
The ponies plan was to travel to the castle where rainbow dash and rarity hoped to meet up with the rest of their friends in order to use the elements of harmony against the oncoming hordes of zombies. All they needed was a way to get outside. The mass of zombies filled caunterlot with 3 times more than what it was originally supposed to contain. Their best idea was to fly and carry the ones who couldn't fly. And they were about to take off now. They had accessed the roof where they were getting ready to take off. Rainbow dash seemed unusually quiet. Rarity walked over to rainbow. " darling, I know why you are so sad. We all did things that we regret. " the white unicorn said. The cyan blue mare looked down and said. " I was a coward. When pony ville was attacked by zombies, I got scared and abandoned my team, running with my tail between my legs. My whole team died because my lack of courage. They did nothing wrong. They did anything but wrong." She started crying. Before she could say anymore, rarity embraced her, and held her tight, not romantically, more friendly but not to the point that would arouse the young pegasaus. It was a friend hug, to cheer rainbow up and bring her back to the present. The rest of the team noticed and walked over to the two mares, and engaged in the hug. Again it was a friendly hug and not romantic( although a certain pegasaus, with a coin as a cutie mark, was some what aroused embracing rainbow dash.)
They then grabbed their stuff, and with rainbow dash( now rejuvenated and ready for a fight, ready to win) lead them off towards the castle. " and we are under way!" Yelled shadow. For him, he was inspired. ' maybe that's what my talent is, cheering people up.' He thought. But when he looked at his still blank flank, he grew disappointed. He then smiled and laughed a little. 'Some day i will get mine.'
Celestia was finally allowed out of her room to visit her sister, who was still knocked out by the extreme blood loss she suffered when she was hit. When celestia entered the medical bed, she saw her sister, Luna's eyes closed looking as if she was asleep, on a bed with an IV in her foreleg. Next to her bed stood 4 of the mane 6. Twilight, apple jack, pinkie pie and fluttershy stood next to Luna's bed. " princess." Twilight said noticing celestia. " it is all ok twilight. The doctors said that Luna only suffered minor wounds. But she almost lost a gallon of blood. " celestia spoke grimly. " I see." Twilight responded, trying to get a conversation with her mentor that was away from the zombies or Luna's accident. " celestia, why haven't we been able to contact you the past week. The guards wouldn't even let us 10 feet from the castle. " twilight said. " my student, it is much too hard to explain right now. There have been some safety aplied to the castle and it is hard to talk to the outside world. " celestia said, barley telling the whole truth. " this is not the place to talk. We should go to the throne room, then we can discuss the ' zombie problem." The princess said again. The elements nodded and followed the alicorn out of the room. But just before they all left, fluttershy noticed a strange wound. That wound happened to be a 5 inch hole that cut cleanly through Luna's shoulder. The elements have not been told about the fire arms or the stray caliber, they were just told Luna accidently fell through a window but celestia had caught her. Fluttershy knew then, that they were all lies. Some thing more precise happened. She knew then that there was a conspiracy behind all this. For all she knew, all equestrian government had turned against them.
The 7 survivors were on their way to the royal caunterlot castle. They took no extra time to reach the front gates. There was just one small problem: the gate was locked. Now the Pegasi in the group were tiered and didn't want to use the extra energy. " how do we get past the wall?" Lyra commented. Rainbow, panting, replied" I don't ... Know. Maybe... We ... Can climb. But first... Can we have a rest?" Lyra smiled and said" you know what? I think we should find another way in. There has to be an opening somewhere." And so it was decided that they would look for a hole in the wall. Half way around, rainbow looked up, and instantly her smile faded to an expression of utter horror. " oh no. No, no, this can't be happening." She said as her eyes laid upon the dark clouds floating up towards a pristine white cloud city. That city happened to be cloudsdale. And as the black hazes drifted towards it, the sudden realization shocked the seven ponies. " they learned to fly." Sky watcher said as the pegasaus zombies flew up towards cloudsdale. " I need to save them. But you guys?" Rainbow said , realizing what she must do. Rarity also realizing this spoke " rainbow dash, you know what you need to do. That is your home, and we can't blame you for your loyalty to your home." Rainbow dash shook her head. " what about my loyalty to my friends?"
" rainbow, that is your home. I give you permission to defend you're home, to put your loyalty to thousands of innocents before us. We will be fine anyways. "
Rarity continued. Rainbow dash looked at the ground and sighed. She knew that her home town need to be saved or else it could end up like ponieville or caunterlot. But then she thought about her friends. ' I know my friends want me to make the best decision. But I don't want to put my loyalty behind my home. ' rainbow thought. She then came to a decision as she ground her teeth then closed her eyes. She then took off for cloudsdale. " that's my rainbow dash!" Rarity yelled. The group then continued on to find a way into the castle.
Rainbow dash flew towards her home almost at the speed of light. She thought about her decision and her friends the whole way there. ' they wanted you to do what was right.'
As soon as she reached the city In the clouds, she was frightened by the sight. ' just like ponyville.' Rainbow thought. The ponies In cloudsdale were running screaming away from the undead. The living were getting brutally murdered by the dead. Some were getting eaten alive right in front of rainbows eyes. What was she supposed to do? ' I would have to take them all out at once. But how?' She then smiled as she had an idea. She would have to get real high in the air to do this and the results might destroy a good portion of cloudsdale but it would assuredly get rid of the zombies. ' yes, this will work.' Rainbow thought as she prepared to do the most awesome trick she's ever done.
The six ponies burst through the doors to the guards barracks. Once in, they browsed for weapons they could use. Rarity found a spear while lucky found a sword. Lyra, golden star and sky watcher found battle axes. As they all got used to the feeling of the weapons, shadow looked at a torch. This one looked like any other torches with a fire blazing in it. But shadow could see the gears behind it, that went into the wall. Shadow then grabbed it and pulled. A door opened next to him. In the hole in the wall, shadow discovered the weird devices in it. They looked like big hollow metal tubes attached to a L shaped piece of wood. And In the vertice there was a metal finger that stuck out. Under that metal finger was a metal bar shaped like a sideways 6. Shadow picked one up and studied it. He then pulled down on the 6 and discovered that it went down. Then, after pulling up again, he heard the metal finger click. He put his hoof in front of the finger and accidentally pushed it back. A loud crack was heard that sounded like a miniature sonic rain boom. Five inches from raritys head was a 2 inch hole. All the ponies looked at shadow, then to the thing in his hooves. " I think we should go now." Shadow said, embarrassed. They made their way out of the barracks and started going up to the throne room.
