As Earl reached the bottom of the hill, he swung his bat fiercely, meeting the faces of several Zeds and alerting a few more. Blood fell fresh from their mouths as the Zeds hit the ground. Without wasting any time, Earl stomped each of their heads and continued his full-on assault. Soon, Mac and Shining entered the fight. The white unicorn began picking off several enemies with his battlemagic, while the large red stallion charged into the group, sending several Zeds flying through the air.

"Earl!" Shining said, glancing towards his teammate.

The grey unicorn spun around to find a Zed inches from his face. A bolt instantly struck right through it's skull, briskly sending it to it's death.

Earl glanced towards Shining who gave a simple nod and went back to the slaughter.

As Mac continued rampaging throughout the crowd, he had attracted the attention of most of it. Glancing back, he realized a large amount of Zeds staring at him angrily.

"Uhh, guys." Mac said nervously.

The zombies continued approaching Mac with no reply from his teammates.

"GUYS!" Mac shouted.

The Zeds were now inches from him.

Earl heard the scream and glanced towards the earth pony, who had recently been pinned by the creatures.

"Shit!" Earl shouted.

He quickly drew the pistol from it's holster with levitation and Aimed it towards the crowd. With near perfect accuracy, he sent a bullet flying right through the skull of Mac's attacker, followed by a barrage of bullets to other nearby Zeds.

"What the hell?!" Shining shouted, startled by the blast.

Earl ignored his teammate and watched in terror as the crowd turn their attention to him instead.

Thanks gun. He thought.

Mac, newly freed, jumped to his hooves and began fighting again, not noticing that most of the Zeds were now fixated on Earl.

As the grey unicorn tried to fire the gun once more, he was greeted by a familiar clicking sound.

"You've got to be KIDDING ME!" Earl shouted, throwing the gun at the crowd and sprinting off towards the tree line.

A few moments later, Mac and Shining had finished off the last of their enemies.

"Yeah!" Shining shouted victoriously.

"Wait, where's Earl?" Mac said, finishing off his final kill.

Both ponies looked around nervously before finding a large crowd of Zeds moving in to the treeline. After exchanging a nervous glance, they ran towards it.

Earl was furiously swinging his bat at the crowd as he backed away. He soon realized that the crowd was too large and simply turned to run. To the unicorn's demise, he had backed himself right into a corner of rocks and thick trees.

"FUCK!" He shouted angrily, throwing his bat towards the crowd.

This is it... He thought as he backed himself as far as he could go.

Terror instantly entered the former human's heart as he fell to his haunches and closed his eyes before the horde.

God dammit I wish I had my shotgun... He thought angrily.

The thoughts of the powerful weapon entered his mind a few seconds later. The feel of the weapon, the shells, it's power, the wood finish. His horn began to glow as the thoughts of the weapon swirled in his mind.

"Well this is it. Do your fucking worst!" He shouted with pure anger in his voice, his eyes still shut tight.

Twilight, home, Mac, Shining, Equestria. The thoughts ran wildly across his mind. How would they deal with the infection with out him? What if the zombies escaped the forest?

At that moment, Earl's fear and anger had reached peak. The unicorn was shivering and sweating profusely.

If only I had my shotgun...

The thought of his weapon entered his mind once more, and instantly, a massive booming shot rang out through the forest as Earl was savagely thrown backwards against the rock. The grey unicorn opened his eyes and found a few Zeds flying backwards through the air, flesh ripped fresh from their bodies. His eyes wandered up to his horn, and to his surprise, it was smoking.

No. Fucking. Way.

Glancing towards the advancing crowd, he closed his eyes quickly and thought about the shotgun once more.

"Why isn't it working?!" He shouted angrily.

It was then he realized one of the most important aspects of the weapon.

Click-Click!

A wicked grin spread across Earl's face as he aimed his horn towards the crowd. With one thought, a massive, heart pounding boom sounded throughout the forest as a large blue bolt surrounded by smaller bolts escaped the grey unicorn's horn. The blast immediately sent multiple Zeds flying through the air and tearing flesh from several others.

Nearby, Big Mac and Shining nearly fainted from the deafening sounds that had erupted form the forest.

"What the hell was that?!" Mac asked, looking around wildly.

"How the hell should I-?" Shining replied.

"THAT'S RIGHT! COME GET A TASTE!" Earl shouted from beyond the treeline.

Shining glanced nervously and saw multiple bright flashes through the trees.

"Holy shit... I think that's Earl!" He said, turning to Mac. "Let's go!"

The two ponies took of towards the treeline as the loud booms continued.

"Oh you picked the WRONG day to PISS ME OFF!" Earl shouted, laughing maniacally .

Most of the crowd had been dealt with at this point and only a handful remained. Mac and Shining soon reached Earl's position and watched as he continued sending bolts flying through the remaining infected, each shot followed by a distinct 'Click-click'.

After all of the Zeds had been dealt with, Shining and Mac were staring awestruck at the bloody mess.

"Oh, hey." Earl said nonchalantly, his horn still smoking.

"How?" Shining said, the only words he could muster.

"I uhh... remembered this battlemagic spell." Earl said.

"Dude, you've got to teach me that one! I thought I knew every battlemagic spell, but that, wow." Shining said excitedly.

The white unicorn noticed Earl's expression, which was completely terrified.

"Earl?" He asked worriedly.

The former human simply pointed his hoof up at the rock behind them. Both Mac and Shining turned and were greeted by the ghastly sight of Zeds lining the top of the rock above them. Hundreds of the snarling flesh-freaks stared down at then menacingly.

"Well, shit." Mac said, terrified as well.

"Zecora's hut, NOW!" Earl shouted.