ThunderHooves lead the way and I trailed behind, wondering why exactly I thought it would be a good idea to go and follow that clearly insane mare.

I wasn't sure what I was planning on doing, I wasn't strong, wasn't fast and wasn't at all a help in this sort of situation, the only thing I could think of was that if that mare wanted to survive she wouldn't go on her own.

Naturally my wings got tired after a while, being unused to flying it was a miracle that I made it as far as I did

"You two are so slow." The familiar voice said from above me

ThunderHooves grabbed Rainbow's tail in his mouth and descended to the road

He spat out the tail, "What in Celestia's name were you thinking?"

"I'm going to go and find my friends" Rainbowdash asserted, "Either you can go and cower in Cloudsdale or you can help."

"We're going to Cloudsdale right now miss" ThunderHooves ordered

"I can go on my own" Rainbowdash scoffed

"I'll go"

ThunderHooves and Rainbowdash looked at me in shock

It took my about five seconds to register what came out of my mouth

"Are you sure kid?" ThunderHooves looked me over

"Was I sure when we came out here?" I asked, "I just think she won't do too well on her own."

"I can handle myself" Rainbowdash snorted

"A zombie apocalypse is not where you want to handle yourself" I said, "We're closer to Ponyville at this point."

"It'd be the best place to go" ThunderHooves said, "Let's get moving."

Rainbowdash looked at the both of us; she didn't seem to be very cynical

The three of us got walking, my wings were too tired for me to fly. ThunderHooves kept his ears perked up, just in case there was a jump party waiting

Ponyville came into view, they had large gates and walls set up to keep the zombies out. Only one or two of the three gates were under siege

"Hope your wings can handle a takeoff kid" ThunderHooves said, "We'll have to fly over the walls."

I stretched out my wings, hopefully I'd be able to get over the walls

I heard a growl from behind me, there was a painful strike on the back of my head and I fell forward, rolling onto my back from instinct

There was a group of zombies and they didn't seem to care whether all three of us made it out alive

I used my wings to push myself up, and threw out my hind legs blindly. Luckily for me a zombie lunged and I hit it square in the snout

The rest of the hoard that snuck up on us attacked, with Rainbow and ThunderHooves fighting the most. I was getting my licks in when I could, my heart beating at around 50 miles per hour. ThunderHooves picked me up and threw me through the air and over the walls, Rainbow and the captain flew up and over.

I hit the ground on the other side pretty hard, almost causing a blackout from pain, the hit on the back of my head didn't help.

ThunderHooves landed next to me, "You alright?"

"I-I'm not sure…" I answered, my stutter back from sheer fright

Some unicorn guards ran up to us, "What are you not doing in Cloudsdale?"

"I'm Captain ThunderHooves, and this is the element of Loyalty." ThunderHooves said, "She's here to assist the other elements."

"We aren't items you know." Rainbowdash snorted

"And this one?" the unicorn guard looked at me critically

"This here's Jackpot, he came on his own will." ThunderHooves answered, "Now where's the other element?"

"The gates have been breached!" a call from the other side of the town sounded

"Captain, we'll need your help." The three guards rushed off

Rainbowdash looked at me, "Twilight should be in the library."

"Right" I almost ran off, "Where's the library?"

"Follow me!" Rainbowdash ran off

I barely kept up, my lungs burning from all the physical activity I undertook today. When we reached a giant tree Rainbowdash stopped.

A loud crack and bright light emanated from the tree, I snuck in the front doors

A baby dragon was unconscious nearby, a purple unicorn was knocked to the ground

Then I saw her, it was Rezura, the mare that had caused all this trouble.

"It's been nice having this chat but I think that you've been stalling long enough." Rezura said

She was firing some beam into the unicorn's head, Rainbowdash seemed ready to pounce

I'm still not sure what happened, apparently I did something rather out of character

I rushed forward, knocking Rezura over and Twilight-as I later learned her name was- was able to crawl away

Rezura bucked me off and I hit the bookshelf on the other side of the library, she stood indignantly

"A pest, nothing more." She looked me over, "Not even strong enough to fly."

"Hey!" A voice shouted from behind her, a pot of boiling water smacked Rezura to the side

The baby dragon stood behind the mare, who threw herself out the window in pain

"Twilight!" the baby dragon called, running up to the unicorn, "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine Spike" Twilight answered, "What about you?"

"I'm alright, who's he?" Spike jabbed a thumb at me

At this point you should know: I wasn't at my sharpest after ramming into the necromantress, my head was pounding and my speech was garbled, as I soon found.

"Hemebhenm." Is what came out

It was intended to be 'hello'

"Hemebhenm?" Spike looked at me weird, "Were you hit on your head?"

Rainbowdash flew in from the window, "Jackpot, the captain is on his way here."

So she was getting backup, that's why Spike was my assistance. Well thank Celestia for baby dragons.

ThunderHooves arrived a few minutes later, checking the wounds of each of us

Rainbowdash was in the best condition being the one who got backup, Spike was next with moderate cuts, then Twilight with magical deficiency, then there was me with a moderate concussion and more than one moderate scrape, bruising was common on all of us

"I judged you too soon" the unicorn guard apologized, "I thought you were just a foolish foal, but what you did here was pretty brave."

"I'm still not sure that was even me." I answered, feeling a bit better

The rest of the town was patching up the gates, being all unicorn it was easy

"Where are the earth ponies?" Rainbowdash asked

"They're at Apploosa" the unicorn guard said

"Well" Twilight looked ready to get moving, "Let's go to Apploosa."