Discord himself couldn't have been responsible for the sight lying before Earl. Ponyville, destroyed. By the very creatures that killed his home world. There were fires raging throughout every building, practically the entire town was engulfed in a massive flame, and Earl was at the heart of it. As he cautiously walked the streets, avoiding all of the fire he could, He instinctively called out.

"Twilight?!" He shouted over the roar of the flames and screaming.

"In here! HELP ME!" The purple unicorn replied, terrified.

Earl followed the voice to a nearby house and threw the door open. One of the creatures, which he had despised so much, was making a meal of the defenseless mare. In an instant, the grey unicorn's body went limp as he fell to the ground. More zombies began flooding through the door, staring at the tasty animal before them. Without hesitation they began devouring Earl's flesh as he screamed in pain...

Defenseless....

Weak...

Earl briskly snapped awake , gasping for air and sweating profusely. He glanced around and let out a relived sigh, he was back in Zecora's hut.

Just a dream... He thought, trying to calm himself.

But it had felt so real to him, it almost hurt to think about what the zombies had done. He could feel their teeth ripping through his coat. After a moment he shook his head wildly, trying to rid his mind of the terrible nightmare.

"Freedom, 35" A voice said faintly from outside of the house.

Earl would recognize that voice anywhere.

"Uhhh... Charlie, Delta, 31... Fuck I don't know, just come over here." He replied.

Rainbow Dash chuckled and appeared before one of the windows, as she tried to enter, however, she was blocked by Shining's magical barricade.

"Hey, what?" She asked, confused.

"We had to barricade the house," Earl said, trotting towards the window. "I thought you were only supposed to meet us at night?"

"I know, but I've got something on a 'large group'. Like you talked about last night?"

Earl glanced towards his still-sleeping teammates.

"It might be a little bit before we can take care of them." He said.

"That's fine, it's not like the Zeds are going anywhere." She replied with a laugh.

Noticing Earl's serious expression, she coughed awkwardly and continued.

"So yeah... there's a lot of hills here, so It might be a bit confusing."

The rainbow maned pegasus pointed her hoof in the direction of the horde.

"It's about half mile that way, across 2, maybe 3, hills." She said.

"Alright, thanks Rainbow." Earl said with a smile.

"Yep." She said, returning the smile.

Both of them turned away to leave, but Rainbow Dash quickly remembered something.

"Oh, hey Earl!" She said, turning back around.

"Yeah?" the grey unicorn asked, spinning around as well.

"Your maaaaaarefriend said; 'I wish he was here, oh, how I wish my snuggle bug cutie constable could be with me here again. Oh, woe is me!'" She said mockingly.

Earl narrowed his eyebrows and held a slightly annoyed expression. Rainbow Dash chuckled.

"C'mon lighten up!" She said.

"What did she really say?" Earl asked, his tone switching to annoyed as well.

Dash sighed.

"She said she misses you too. A lot. And she hopes you're safe." The cyan pegasus replied.

Earl smiled widely and Rainbow Dash groaned loudly before leaving. The grey unicorn simply shook his head and walked over to his teammates.

Upon reaching Big Mac, he realized the music player was still spitting out slightly noticeable music. He simply shrugged and levitated the device and headphones away from Mac, shut it off and secured the to his belt. Walking closer, he placed a hoof on the red earth pony's shoulder and shook him awake.

"Hey, Mac," Earl said loudly.

After a few moments, Macintosh's eyes slowly creaked open.

"We've gotta get moving." he continued.

The earth pony yawned loudly and jumped up to his hooves. As Mac stretched his limbs, Earl approached shining and did the same.

"Woah, uhhwhat?!" Shining asked worriedly.

"Hey, chill out. It's Earl."

"Oh... Shit." Shining said, rubbing his eyes.

"You alright?"

"Yeah," The captain said, standing up. "Just some messed up dreams."

"I know how that is." Earl replied as the three entered the same room.

"So what's goin' on?" Mac asked.

"Dash dropped by earlier. She had some info on a large group of Zeds about a half-mile away." Earl replied.

Shining raised an eyebrow.

"So we're just going to charge right into a massive group of dangerous creatures?" He asked.

"How else are we supposed to exterminate them?" Earl asked.

Shining shrugged and continued listening.

"Now, I say we leave now to save some daylight. Sound good?"

Both members of the group nodded.

"Alright, well. Lets-" Earl said approaching the door.

Upon reaching it, he had forgotten about the magical barriers completely and slammed face first into the slightly invisible shield.

"What the fu.... Shines." He said, annoyed.

Mac and Shining laughed for a moment before the white unicorn used his horn to take down the barriers. Earl simply rolled his eyes and lead them out.

"Are you serious?!" Shining asked as the three approached the edge of the final hill.

"Well shit, I didn't think there would be that many..." Earl said, noticing the massive amount of infected before him.

The horde had to have been roughly 150 Zeds strong.

"What do you reckon we do?" Mac asked, also nervous.

Earl scanned the horde. He could take out a few with his pistol, but that would just draw more attention, and he only had one clip. Shining could use his magic, but probably wouldn't be able to take out the whole horde.

"Shit..." Earl said turning away from the group.

He was simply delaying the inevitable. There was only one way to exterminate all of the Zeds, and each of them knew it.

"Fuck it." Earl said, turning back to them

The grey unicorn levitated his bat from the belt and raised it high.

"LEEEEEEEEROY!" He screamed at the top of his lungs as he charged down the hill.

God, I've always wanted to do that... He thought.

Mac and Shining both raised an eyebrow and glanced towards each other.

"Did he just run in?" Shining asked, dumbfounded.

"JEEEENKINS!" Earl shouted again, this time a few feet from the horde.

Mac shrugged and grabbed his shovel in his teeth. The large red earth pony let out a fierce battle cry and charged down the hill as well. Shining shrugged, readied his horn and did the same.