Chapter 5: The Help?

I stood outside the barred up gates of Canterlot. Once the guard started assembling a machine gun turret on top of one of the lookout posts, I had started hustling away as fast as I could, unfortunately losing one of my wings and my tail. I had started falling apart even faster than before!

Oh, Twilight, please hurry... I thought as I looked up into the dark, gloomy skies.

"But Princess! He's different! He saved my life!"

Twilight was attempting to change her mentor's mind about Thunder. However, no matter what she tried, she couldn't change the alicorn's mind.

"I'm sorry, Twilight!" Celestia answered. "But for the safety of the rest of our citizens, we simply cannot have an infected roaming around inside the gates of Canterlot! Whether he's different or not!"

"But, Celestia, he's-"

"I'm sorry, Twilight." Celestia responded. "But the answer is no."

Twilight held her head down, giving up on the hopes of changing Celestia's mind. She slowly started to walk out of what was left of the Canterlot castle and onto the quiet streets of what used to be known as a hustle-and-bustle kind of city. She raised her wings as she began closing in on the gates of Canterlot.

If she won't help him, Twilight told herself, I will.

She flew into the air and over the barred gates, revealing the cold, torn up outside world. Looking down, she slowly descended and touched the ground. She looked left and right, up and down, all over for Thunder, who was no where to be seen.

"Thunder?" She called out. "Where are you?"

No answer...

I sure hope he's alright...

I looked around, trying desperately to avoid the savage timberwolves. How or why they were here was beyond me but I had to find cover.

And fast. I could sense the aroma of the timberwolves' breath not too far from here. I looked around one last time and saw a little shed in the distance.

WROOOOAAAHHH!

The timberwolves were getting closer. I hustled on over to the little abandoned shed as fast as I could go, losing some more body parts along the way.

I made it into the safe zone for now, without being noticed. I had lost another leg, my right hind hoof, along with my mane. I'm pretty sure one of my lungs fell out of me but I didn't need that anymore. I was down to two legs, one wing, one eye, one lung, and whatever else was inside of me.

With two legs now, a right front hoof and a left hind hoof, I had to double the weight put on each of them in order to keep me up. I started pacing inside the shed in order to get used to this new form. The longer I paced, the more I thought about how this shit never should have happened!

The infection has only been present for about a month now, but the majority of Equestria is gone! Cloudsdale was considered to be the first safe haven, but fell to the wrath of the infected within a matter of hours. Ponyville was swept through without even a fight. Manehattan and Fillydelphia were also brought down at the hooves of the infected within hours. News of the infection quickly made its way towards Canterlot and that's why they have a huge, rugged gateway. Nopony's heard from the Crystal Empire and its inhabitants so it was thought that they have fallen, too. Las Pegasus and Baltimare have also been swept through, infecting all of their citizens. Canterlot was one of the only remaining cities left, and even they have been attacked.

Infected ponies started attacking the castle, going for Celestia and Luna. They tore off bricks from the castle and actually made a huge dent in the structure of it. One of the towers had fallen, crushing Luna in the process and killing her. Celestia fled the castle and let the unicorn guards and the Pegasus guards handle the infected, ultimately stopping them in their tracks by shooting them to death. The guards saw a break in the zombie ambush and hustled to finish the metal walls, which they successfully did, losing many valuable guards along the way, unfortunately. A mere total of 37 ponies, unicorns being the majority, were left after the attack on Canterlot. The death toll made its way into the thousands and grew each and every day.

I paced around on my two legs a little bit more until I realized something.

"Twi!" I yelled. "She. Still. There!"

I opened the door to the shed, rushing to go find Twilight, only to find a timberwolf standing right in front of me. I ran away as fast as I could, but running on twos was a lot harder than what it seemed. I tripped over, breaking off my left hind hoof. I used my last remaining hoof to try to drag myself away, but was snatched up by the timberwolf.

WROOOOAAAHHH!

The terrible breath assaulted my face as it was bringing me closer to its mouth.

"Help! Me!" I screamed as I was being brought closer to the timberwolf. It opened its mouth as I shut my eye, accepting my destiny.