Twilight's expression instantly changed to ecstatic and her eyes were glowing with excitement.

"I didn't even think of that!" She said, almost jumping for joy on the couch.

Earl smiled and rested his hands on the back of his head as he reclined himself onto the couch.

"Yep, I figured if you used magic like that to get here, and it still works, we could use it to get you home." He said, happy his explanation was met with a positive reaction.

After a moment the purple mare frowned slightly.

"I was barely able to do it last time though..." She said quietly.

Earl was quickly taken back by her change in demeanor.

"What do you mean?" He asked worriedly.

"I had to exert all of my energy just to get the portal to open for a few seconds."

"You can do it again, right?"

Twilight's frown grew larger.

"Right?"

She looked down quickly.

Earl sighed after realizing her change in emotion.

"Hey," He said, putting his hand on her shoulder. "Sorry for the pressure. But if something can get you home, and off this dead rock, I think it's worth a shot."

Twilight nodded and smiled slightly.

"Alright?" The human asked with a smile.

"Alright." Twilight said with a slight chuckle.

"Alright," Earl sang happily as he sprung up from the couch.

He breathed deeply.

"Well, I'm so hungry I could eat a h-" Earl quickly cut himself off.

Twilight raised a brow and grew a puzzled expression.

Wow, I'm a dumbass...

"Uhh... Never mind, I'm hungry, we should eat." Earl said with a nervous smile.

The purple unicorn shrugged and laughed as she followed the human upstairs.

After securing the locks on his door yet again, Earl threw open the closet door and looked through the selections.

"God, why can't microwaves still work..." He said to himself as he eyed a box of Hot Pockets.

Twilight raised her head from a laying position on the bed.

"Microwave?" She asked.

Earl turned around with the box in his hand.

"Yeah. It's a machine that cooks things with nuclear energy and radiation and stuff..."

"Nuclear energy, isn't that dangerous?"

Earl chuckled slightly, turned back, and placed the box on the shelf above him.

"Welcome to Earth."

Twilight wasn't sure what his statement was supposed to mean, but simply shook her head as Earl walked over with various wrapped foods.

"Uhhh... So I've god Nature Bars, Cliff Bars, Some Trail Mix, I think this is oatmeal." He said, fumbling through the packaging in his hands.

The purple unicorn then realized how hungry she really was.

"Whatever you'd suggest." She said with a smile.

Earl nodded and handed her two Nature Bars and the bag of Trail mix. She levitated them in front of her face for a moment.

"So how do we get to the food?" She asked.

Earl was about to take a bite of his bar before realizing that she didn't have hands, or knew how packaged food worked.

"Oh, right. Give me one second." He said.

The human jumped off of the bed and started deactivating the various locks on his door.

"What are you doing?" She asked.

"Grabbing a plate." He said before Twilight had a chance to respond.

He charged down the stairs and ran into the kitchen. After searching through cupboards for a few moments, he found a small plate and quietly shut the cupboard. Earl wasted no time in getting back up the stairs, staying anywhere in the house too long other than his room made him uneasy. When he entered the room, he saw Twilight looking out of a small gap in the drawn shades. He secured the locks and walked over to her side, to examine what she was staring at. An infected was outside going crazy, It was screaming loudly and violently flailing it's limbs in every direction. The human turned and noticed the worried expression on her face, and gently pulled her away from the window.

"It's alright, OK? If any of them get in here, they have to deal with me." He said, trying to calm her.

It worked, but only for a moment as the screams from outside grew louder. As the ghastly sound from outside entered her ears she only became more frightened. Earl quickly pulled her close and put his hands over her ears, the horrid sound was getting to him as well.

"Shhh... It'll be OK." He said shakily, trying to calm the now whimpering unicorn.

The screaming only grew louder, and Twilight dug her head into the human's chest. Earl had began shaking and tears started to well in his eyes.

It can't get in, It's not alive. It can't get in, It's not alive. He repeated in his head over and over again.

Louder.

"It can't get in, It's not alive. It can't get in, it's not alive." He began frantically saying out loud.

Twilight payed no mind and continued trying to get the ghastly scream out of her mind.

It continued scratching at their ears like nails on a chalkboard.

It wouldn't stop.

Earl slowly opened his eyes to find that his room was completely covered in a thick sheet of darkness, a sharp pain was sustained in his chest. He quickly looked down but couldn't see anything in the darkness. After a few moments his eyes adjusted to the darkness and he found Twilight resting her head on his chest, but her horn was stabbing him. He slowly pulled away from her, groaning at the pain of his stab wound. After successfully getting up without waking her, he examined the unopened packages of food from earlier.

It's the zombie apocalypse, why do I keep falling asleep?! He thought to himself.

He shrugged it off and reached for the plate he had obtained earlier.

After about an hour Twilight slowly lifted herself from her laying position and glanced around the room. A soft glow danced around the room as the light from a few various candles flickered. Earl was sitting on the floor with his metallic device again, bobbing his head slowly. She then noticed a small plate of food in front of her. The two Nature Bars were used as eyes and a few various nuts from the trail mix were placed in a smile, creating a culinary happy-face. Twilight chuckled and smiled. Earl shot his head up at the sudden appearance of sound, but calmed a bit as he found the source.

"I thought you'd like that." He said with a smile, noticing her expression.

"I do," She said with a laugh. "Thank you."

"No problem." He said as he began flicking across various screens on his device.

Twilight smiled wider and began eating her meal. The taste surprised her, she didn't expect anything from this desolate world to bring her some sort of joy, But the various tastes helped calm her.

After she had finished, she glanced towards Earl, who was bobbing his head again.

"Hey." She said softly.

No answer.

"Uhh.. Earl?" She said slightly louder.

Earl snapped upwards and placed his hand on his bat.

"What? Oh, hey." He said, taking his hand off of the weapon.

Earl took one of the small white wires out of his ear.

"What is that?" She asked, pointing her hoof towards the small device in his hand.

"This?" Earl asked, raising the device in the air. "It's called an Ipod, it plays music."

Twilight tilted her head slightly.

"How does it...?-" She asked, confused.

"I don't really know, I just use it." Earl said with a laugh. "Do you want to hear it?"

Twilight smiled brightly.

"Sure." She said.

Earl returned the smile, got to his feet and walked over to her.

"OK, so you just kind of... uhhh..." He said, examining the earbuds.

Well that's probably not going to work. He thought.

"One sec." He said before darting over to the closet.

After rummaging through the closet for a second Earl returned with a pair of studio headphones.

"These used to be my dads." He said, plugging them into the device. "Here."

Earl put the headphones over her ears and the fit was surprisingly comfortable for her.

"Alright, just listen."

After cycling through the screens for a moment, Earl finally found the perfect selection.

Twilight looked around worriedly for a second, but could make out that Earl was trying to tell her something.

It's just part of the song. She could make out.

Earl smiled and walked back to the dresser and sat down next to his bat.

She'll be busy for a while. He thought.

A few seconds later, the purple mare's eyes grew wide and her jaw fell open.

Earl chuckled.

A girl who likes rush. That's rare.