Hey Bronies! Got a review that inspired a shout-out to the people who have reviewed: FireBreath5150, Lyra Heartstrings14, and invaderASH247. Thank you all so much for the reviews, this story exists for and because of you. Here's a new chapter.

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All three of them are confused. Why would Pinky Pie be here in the tunnels? A mental hazard tunnel, even.

"Pinky, what're you doing here?" Dash asks over the music.

"Uh, having a party, duh. It's crazy great in here. Best party spot EVER! Here, let me introduce you to my friends!"

Bourbon gives Twilight and Dash a look that's half-way between 'Do you know her?' and 'Oh, Celestia, there are others?'. Pinky leads them to a green glow stick sitting next to a huge pile of expended ones, next to a boom-box that's playing music that's probably too loud to be healthy.

"There's John, George, Amy, and Jean-Baptiste. They really know how to party!" Pinky says, motioning to a group of ponies.

"Ahm, Pinky Pie, was it? Pinky Pie, zose ponies are all dead, you realize zis, don't you?" Bourbon points out plainly as Rainbow Dash throws up and Twilight starts to sway unsteadily, both disgusted by the disfigured and bloodied bodies.

"They are not dead, they're just really REALLY hung over. They'll wake up soon. Isn't that right, Jean-Baptiste?"Bourbon turns to the Dash and Twi.

"She's your proble- I mean, friend, if you vant her along, get her, but I'm not spending any more time or energy vis zis." he says, walking past them towards the next station.

"Okay, um, Pinky, I would really like you to join u-"

"REALLY? You want ME to come with you to, um, place?" Pinky practically tackles Twilight in her excitement.

"Um, yeah, I would, uh, love you to!" Pinky's grin threatens to tear her face down the center as she stands up, smashes her boom box against the wall, and gathers her things. While she's gathering her stuff, Dash sifts through the trashed metal for ammunition. They have to run a bit to catch up to Bourbon, but when they do, they can start to see the light of another station, which they reach in a matter of minutes afterward.

"Hold!" a hoarse voice comes from behind an overturned wooden box that the guard is probably trying to fool themselves into thinking is adequate cover against the mutants, "What's your business in City?"

"Just passing srough, after, of course, getting a vire brush and polishing your voice," Bourbon replies sarcastically, "What are you yelling at all day? Hardly anypony passes through these stations."

The guard scowls at Bourbon as eh passes, but opens the main gate anyway. The station is actually fairly similar too Outreach in appearance, with an almost out-of-repair look to it. But that's as far as the similarities go. As said to the guard, they literally pass straight through, without even stopping to rest or get more supplies.

"Well that was a strange station," Dash comments as they leave the station behind.

"I think you mean AWESOME station! Did you see the market? They had a whole section for party stuff!" Pinky says, emitting what can only be described as a 'fan-girl squeal'.

"Well, the next station up is-"

"Ve're not going straight up," Bourbon cuts Twilight off, "Ve're going to ze nors-east. Ze station straight up vas Overrun by mutants a few monts ago. So ve are going to Trimelt. Ah, zis is our turn right here, actually." He spots a small shoot-off tunnel that is mostly covered in cobwebs, which erupt in multi-color flame as he burns them with a lighter that he pulls out of his vest-pocket. The tunnel is only really wide enough for one pony at a time to pass through, so Bourbon takes a lead and goes in first, followed by Twilight, Pinky, and Dash (in that order). The passage is colder even than the main tunnels, and so damp that they can feel it sucking the warmth from their bodies. The ceiling is dripping with a watery sludge that also runs down the side of the cobbled walls. They are about halfway through, when Bourbon suddenly stops.

"Do you hear zat?" he asks them, his ears perking up to double check if he actually heard anything in the first place, the rest do the same. For a few seconds, there is nothing, but then, there is a piercing, high pitched tone that screams through the air in the thin shoot-off. Bourbon gets his gun ready, as does Dash, using her tried and trusted AK instead of the new and not yet battle proven gauss rifle. They finish loading just in time to see the mutants flooding into the narrow tunnel, climbing over each other and the walls, racing towards what they hope to be their next, terrified meal. The two ponies fire into the waves of ever nearing mutants coming in from both sides of the tunnel, the muzzle-flashes reflecting off of their eyes and casting leaping shadows across the sides of the tunnel.

Then all of a sudden, an agonized scream is heard.

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Not much, but I wanted to post SOMETHING today, because in about a week, 08:00 to 20:00 band camp starts up, which ends as schools restarts, and it'll just be a mess. Hopefully next chapter will be longer, but until then, D.F.t.b.A. /)*(\