Chapter eight
reunion
author notes: waz up everypony! Yep I've decided to upload this chap jus to keep mah loyal readers with me. so I aint going to be as long as the others but hope you still enjoy it!

Thirty minutes went by, thirty blood churning, heart stopping, and spine chilling minutes went by. The small band of survivors were sat quietly in the cave and waited for the mutated ponies in the otherwise of the wall to realize that there was fresh meat on the other side of wood wall.

" how dumb are they?" wonderbread whispered to star charmer who was cradling her sword.

" well they do have rotting brains." she whispered back. Her remark brought a chuckle from everypony that sat in the cave.

" don't worry none sis, as long as I'm alive I won't let any of them creatures harm you." big Mac said holding a rather bulky sword, it went with his body structure quite well.

" ditto." applejack said back to her big brother.

" I think we're found out." bass said as he crept up to the boarded up entrance," I hear them clawing at the wood."

" are you sure?" twilight asked as her horn glowed as she readied herself.

" pretty sure." bass said and put his ear up against the wood. He could hear the mutated rip parts of wood off with their mouths. Suddenly there was small explosion of splinters right in front of bass' snout as a pony smashed it's snout through the wood.

" oh fuck!" bass yelled and backed away from the door as more ponies broke holes into it.

Wonderbread jumped as he saw the mutated get closer to breaking in," oh shit!"

" motherfucking assholes ain't taking me without a fight!" rough rider yelled and ran up to the door and shoved his sword through the several holes in the door. His sword penetrated several ponies' brains leaving red blood and grey brain matter on his sword. As rough rider kept stabbing away at the ponies who tried to tear though the door the far end of the wall was being ripped apart and then finally gave way letting in the mutated.

Twilight was the first one to attack the new onslaught of mutated ponies. She released a bolt of purple lightning from her horn which penetrated three ponies leaving them without hearts.

Bass ran to the group and slashed away at the ponies sending blood and body parts flying all over the place as he kept swinging back and forth. He relieved pony of its jaw and then knocked it to the ground and punctured its spinal cord with a sword to the neck. The pony gagged as the sword ceased all nerve messages to the rest of the body.

Applejack and big Mac fought side by side. Big literally cut two ponies in half with his sword. Applejack was swinging away with a dagger, she cut the vital organs from several ponies before she apple bucked two snapping their necks backwards in a unnatural manner.

Wonderbread and star charmer had each other's backs as they fought at the other end of the wall. Wonderbread was commencing a series of stabs and the slashes, severely wounding or mostly killing the mutated ponies in one hit. Star charmer was doing graceful slashes that turned into deadly stabs. She would slice a head off and in the same slicing motion turn it into a stab which in turn went through the throat of the pony behind the one she had just killed.

"exactly how long does it take to fly back from canterlot?" bass yelled over the sound of steel against flesh.

" it all depends if they found a cure!" rough rider answered as he moved from the door to twilight slashing away as the door broke letting in more mutated ponies," as in if they did it shouldn't be long! Or if they didn't they could be trying again or on their way back now!"

" I hope they found it!" wonderbread yelled from his position next to star charmer.

" how much longer until we reach your little hideaway?" Luna asked.

" not very far princess." rainbow replied as the group of four flew onwards," it's in that mountain right there." she pointed with her hoof towards the looming mountain that came closer as they flew towards it.

Lightning was flying and reading the book he had found in the room of the dead survivors. He was retreading the paragraphs of when the group was trapped in the room.

"I plan to spend my final moments writing the horrors I have to witness into this book. Please don't let this go to waste, it is my life on paper. Please tell princess Luna of she is still alive...I've always loved her, but she would never be happy with a guard that guards the princess of the sun." he read in his head. Lightning looked back at Luna seeing that's she was actually pretty dirty. Her starry mane had blood splatters in various places, her obsidian tiara had a chunk missing and her breastplate had big dents in it.

Lightning slowed his flying, his wing still hurting. He came to Luna's side," Luna I think you should read this." he said offering her the journal of the survivor. Luna looked at the book and levitated it in front of her flipping through the pages, reading as she flew.

" who is this?" Luna asked closing the book as she finished reading.

" I do not know, it seems he never write his name down." lightning answered.

" I never knew that somepony actually had affection for me." Luna said handing lightning back the book. Lightning shook his head and pushed the book away from himself

" I think you should keep it. After all it was your admirer's" lightning smiled at the princess of the night.

" indeed." Luna said as she levitated the book next to her.

" hey I see the cave!" rainbow called from up ahead.

'good. My wing is killing me' lightning thought .

By this time in the battle, almost all of the survivors were drenched in blood. Only twilight still held her original purple color as she kept blasting away powerful spells at the mutated opposites who tried to gnaw away at them.

Star charmer was starting to look weary as she kept up her levitating speed swinging the sword back and forth. Wonderbread looked as of the entire thing was going to make him die either way.

Big Mac and applejack were holding their own. Applejack looked sore from apple bucking do many of the mutated. Big Mac had a fire in his eyes that made him keep swinging his sword.

Rough rider was fueled by a image nary flame that kept him fighting. He moved from the door over to bass to watch his back.

Bass seemed to be the only one to have full energy. He jumped from side to side dodging the snapping of jaws, he let out multiple slashes as he landed cutting more of the horde into pieces. He risked a glance at the sky to see of lightning or any of the canterlot group was flying towards them. He was almost bitten on the ribs by a pony but it was blasted away, it's face exploding splattering blood and brain matter over bass. He looked to see twilight standing there looking pretty tired.

He gave a nod to twilight and went back to cutting the ponies back down to the appropriate places in the circle of life, dead. As he cut down the final pony that dared to enter the cave he could hear more from outside.

" what are they doing?" wonderbread asked.

" I think they may actually be rallying themselves for another push." twilight said.

" rotten brains eh?" wonderbread said to star charmer.

" they still took forever to realize we were behind the wall." star retorted.

They waited for the mutated to come in with a new horde and try to take their little fortress again.

" is that them!" rider asked pointing up in the sky.

Bass squinted as he saw five silhouettes in the sky," I think it is."

The group that flew off to canterlot swooped down as they reached the cave.

" rainbow dash! Drop some molotovs on those fuckers!" lightning yelled.

Rainbow smiled and pulled out a Molotov and Luna lit the rag on the end with her magic. Rainbow then proceeded to fold her wings and dive down the horde awaiting outside of the broken wall. She spread her wings just a few feet from the ground and dropped the bottle. The bottle fell to the ground and broke as it hit the hard rock that made up the cliff. The liquid inside splashed over everything in its splash radius. As the flaming rag fell onto the liquid soaked ground it bursts into flames catching what was ever soaked on fire.

Applejack let out a yell of excitement as she watched from behind the ruins of the wall. As most of the horde of mutated ponies burned or fell of the cliff lightning and the other Pegasi including Luna landed and greeted the rest of the survivors.

"you saved our asses!" bass said slapping lightning on the back.

" I wouldn't say it was me." lightning said.

" okay them it was all of ya" bass said smiling.

" princess Luna! You're alive!" twilight said running up to Luna.

" twilight sparkles! How are thee?" Luna said smiling seeing her sister's student run up to her.

" stressed, very stressed." twilight responded.

" that completely understandable dear twilight. Tis are stressful times."

" how'd it go?" wonderbread asked walking up to frost coat.

" not good, he tried creating a cure. But all it did was make 'em fuckers explode." frost said walking up to his friend.

"explode!" wonderbread laughed," oh man! I would've love to see that!"

Lightning overheard wonderbread yell that out and his face grew into a scowl of defeat.

" it really exploded?" bass asked hiding his smile.

" fuckin closet full of guts and blood." lightning mumbled.

" RD how was the adventure!" applejack said walking over to rainbow.

" it was okay I guess. Not as cool as I wanted it to be." rainbow smiled.

" princess I would love to sit down and chat with you but this cave is no longer safe, I mean look around us. We barely survived that onslaught." twilight said.

" twilight I agree with thee completely but where would thou have us go?" Luna asked.

" best I figure it princess." rough rider said walking up," we go deep into the forest. There it would be harder for them to find us."

" you mean the everfree forest!" green bolt asked.

" exactly."

" b...but that place has no control or harmony in it!"

" bullshit." lightning said," I've been in there more times than you can count. You mind your own business and the forest lets you have a happy time."

" you've been in the everfree forest?" twilight asked.

" hell yeah! How could I resist a mystery like that!"

" it matters not where we go but what is known is that we must leave this cave at once." Luna said levitating supplies into a saddlebag and then onto twilight's back.

Nopony argued with Luna's statement but instead slowly dispersed and started to gather supplies. As green bolt gathered what few things she had such as her sword, some berries, and a book or two she borrowed from twilight. She gazed over at lightning runner and saw that he seemed to be depressed.

" I thought you didn't care if you failed on the cure?" green bolt asked walking over to lightning as he strapped his saddlebags full of notes onto his back.

" it always hurts when you fail green bolt. I'm was actually hoping I would prove myself wrong. I'm tired of failing." lightning sighed.

" you haven't failed at everything." green bolt whispered.

"oh? Give something I've succeeded at, cause that would be-" lightning was cut off as green bolt pressed her lips against his own. Lightning spent a few seconds in heaven before green bolt pulled herself away.

" you succeeded in capturing my heart." green bolt smiled sweetly at him.

" I...we...I..." lightning stammered as he brain tried to calculate what just happened," I guess I'm not a complete failure after all." he smiled and then green bolt kissed him again.

" looks like lightning runner finally found his special mare." bass commented to rough rider as he watched the two ponies kiss.

" well look at that. Ain't they a cute couple." rough rider said as he slung his saddlebags across his back.

Author notes: well there you have. Short and SWEET huh? Very sweet ending if I do say so myself. I'm going t get cracking on the next chap so leave a review and *puts on shades* ill be back.