Chapter 19: Nightmare Moon

"Rick, what are we going to do, she has clearly lost it." Carol asked being the only one in any kind of physical shape to even speak with somepony. Daryl's is upset over his brother; Maggie is upset over Glenn while her father comforts her. Carl is too busy taking care of Judith.

"What exactly do you think we should Carol?" Rick flattened his ears and began pacing in an attempt to think of something. He mumbled a few words here and there but nothing came to mind. What could they do in a strange world? If they did anything wrong, Rick was sure that Twilight or one of the princesses, specifically Luna at this point, would do something, though he couldn't be sure as to what. Rick let out a defeated sigh. "All that we could possibly do is talk to Twilight and besides, most of us are really dead weight at the moment. We wouldn't make it on our own, not anymore."

"Then lets talk to her then, surely" Carol was cut off by the others coming in.

"Let's go Rick; we all just want to go." Hershel said holding his daughter close. The others nodded in agreement.

Rick looked between his group and a set of doors behind him leading to the throne room. After a few moments he nodded. "So we leave but only once everyone has their strength back. I don't want" Rick was cut off by screams from below and a rather large pony landing in front of them. Her horn is long and her wing spread is large. She is, as far as Rick could tell, as tall as Celestia. The mares' eyes turquoise with a slit in them like a dragons. Her mane and tail are blue like the night sky and stars cover them. Armor covers her body and her cutie mark is just like Luna's. "Who are you and what do you want?" Rick asked.

The pony laughed manically at the question she was asked. "I am Nightmare Moon and I rule this world now. Where is Twilight Sparkle, she is the only one that stands in my way." The group in front of Nightmare Moon raised their weapons ready to fire. Nightmare Moon chuckled and used her magic to take the weapons away and threw them to the side. "You foolish outsiders think your puny toys can hurt me, I'm protected by the ultimate weapon of chaos."

As this was said, a certain Draconequus appeared. "Now hold on a minute, that is my title. True I'm not who I used to be but I am still more chaotic then you will ever be little Miss Nightmare." Discord said clearly unhappy about what was said.

"You foolish creature, you really think that you're in control? Why do you think that your pathetic attempts to rid Equestria of the walkers have failed so miserably?" Discord said nothing as Nightmare Moon continued to speak. "The book won't let you." Discords eyes widened and he backed away fearfully. "You understand now don't you?" An old book floated up from behind Nightmare Moon as well as a horde of walker ponies. The walker ponies started moving forward but were stopped. "No, stay where you are." The walkers stopped where they stood. "You can't stop it, the book will rule and everything you know will die." Nightmare moon raised her horn into the air and sent a shockwave out in all directions knocking back the group and Discord. She walked past the group who are now on the ground burst through the doors to the throne room. "Twilight Sparkle, your time has come!"

Twilight sat on the throne head down not willing to look at anypony until she heard the voice, the voice of the pony that she and her friends defeated so long ago. Twilight's head shot up in surprise. What she saw horrified her, Nightmare Moon with an unknown amount of walkers behind her and a book floating above. "How, how are you back?"

"The book, the book has brought me back. This time I am my own, no longer do I have Luna to support me. She will soon be dead and I will be all that's left. Now onto business, I hear that you've given up on things. That's fine with me, thanks to you; your brother is no longer a problem for me." Twilight's look of horror intensified. "Luna, Celestia, Cadance, and your brother are all dead. The only threat left is you, not that your brother was much of a threat." Nightmare Moon charged up a magical blast but it died down when a shot was fired. Nightmare Moon screamed in pain. She turned around to face the one who shot her and saw Rick, his gun floating in front of him. "It appears that you outsiders are a much bigger threat then I anticipated. I no longer need you here, so let me send you back. You made such a good distraction for our little princess to deal with." Before the group realized what happened, a portal opened up and began sucking them in.

Twilight watched as the portal opened up and couldn't help but think that those ponies, they don't deserve to go back to a world where they are always scared. True that the same thing is happening here but perhaps she could change things. Maybe Luna was right, the still seemed to fight despite the hopelessness, so she should too. Twilight teleported over to the portal that had already sucked in Daryl and Rick, the others hung onto whatever they could find. Carol slipped and was just about to be sucked in when Twilight grabbed onto her with her magic and threw her away from the portal. "You're not going back!" Twilight screamed and then noticed Nightmare Moon coming after her. Twilight jumped in front of the portal and pushed as many of Rick's group away as possible.

"No, you will not ruin this you pest." Nightmare Moon said ready to strike Twilight but she began flinching. "Princess Twilight, you must go and…find the words…go through the…portal." Luna said trying to take over her body but failing miserably.

"Princess Luna?" Twilight asked shocked as she was sucked through the portal. It closed behind her just as Nightmare Moon pushed Luna back. Twilight landed with a hard thud on the ground, blood came from a cut on her head. Twilight reached up with her hand, wait, her hand? Twilight fumbled around trying to scoot herself backwards. "What happened to me and you?" Rick held out his hand which Twilight raised an eyebrow to. "What are you doing?"

"Grab my hand with yours and I'll help you up." Twilight reached up with her hand unsure of how to grip Ricks but Rick took care of that. Rick grabbed onto Twilight's hand and pulled her up. "Hard to be a different species isn't it? Twilight nodded as she stumbled around on her feet.

Twilight is dressed in a purple tank top and purple jeans, her skin is tanned. Twilight looked herself over and found a few things odd about herself but those would be questions for another time. Right now getting used to walking would be her top priority though one thing did bug her. "What happened to my horn and wings?" Twilight asked feeling her head and looking herself over.

"One thing you have to realize is that humans don't have those things. The only things with wings here are birds and arguably a specific type of fish. There are few things with horns but they aren't magical in any way. You're human, get used to it." Daryl said and then noticed where they are. "Rick, we had better get out of here." Rick nodded.

"Hold on, Princess Luna was able to say something to me before I got sucked through. She said to find the words, I'm not sure why but I think that these words are in there." Twilight pointed toward the prison.

"Are you positive?" Rick asked

"Let me put it this way, what choice have we got?" Rick looked to Daryl and the two reluctantly nodded. "Let's go, get them then." Twilight started toward the prison clumsily but got grabbed from behind. "What's the deal?"

"We will go but first we have a few things to take care of. You need to learn to use a gun. You also need to be able to stand by yourself. We should also get more weapons then what we've got here. We'll leave, get ourselves together, then come back and fight our way in." Twilight looked toward the prison and found walkers everywhere and nodded. "Good, let's move."

A/N: I hope you enjoyed the chapter and please review, thank you.