Prologue: Equestria's Fall
Let me start off by saying this is NOT supposed to be in any way related to the fanfiction Fallout Equestria. I never bothered to read FO:E and therefore know absolutely nothing about it. Before you downvote me, please read the story with an open mind. I love Fallout and MLP and I don't love having to follow someone else's work. THERE WILL BE SOME SIMILARITIES! I can't control that, because I've never read the fanfiction by Kkat, but I've got about four different editors now to make sure similarities stay as much as minor details. The basic plot is absolutely nothing like FO:E, I've quadruple checked that.
Prologue
Nopony had ever thought Luna would win this war. Celestia seemed too powerful, with the help of her most faithful student Twilight Sparkle and her friends and the Elements of Harmony. But when that friendship crumpled, what did Celestia have left?
Crimson blood stained almost every bit of Equestria, brothers had killed brothers, mothers had killed sisters. It seemed like every single pony had a side in this thousand-year war, and nopony was safe. Fillies were brought up hating one another. Harmony in Equestria was long gone. The only thing that had kept everypony together for so long was now shattered.
Fluttershy stood on the brink of insanity. She had never feared death when her friends were around, although she was a shy and timid little pony. They had made her feel safe. Now she stands in the middle of an open field. War rages all around her. Her precious little animals she held so dearly, her white fluffy bunnies and shy little mice and even her favorite bear, now all lay in the same mass grave. The only one to survive being Angel, who is all she has left.
Fluttershy sheds a tear as she hovers over the grave. She wonders how different things could have been, unable to shake the thought from her mind. She missed her friends. Even if she still had them, they wouldn't be the same. War changes ponies for the worse. Pinkie Pie, once a cheerful and smiling pony, now stood on the front lines of battle, slaughtering anything that came near her....Friendly or not. Rarity now sits closed up in her little shop, designing new uniforms for soldiers. Rainbow Dash has, despite her loyal reputation, betrayed Celestia, joining Nightmare Moon's forces. Twilight Sparkle is held up with the Princess in Canterlot. Nopony outside of there has seen her in over a year. Applejack has disappeared. Fluttershy doesn't want to accept that she is probably dead, so she pretends that she is just busy working on the farm. The same farm that was destroyed four years ago in attempt to starve out Celestia's forces. And it had worked.
“Goodbye my friends...” Fluttershy whispers over the animals, covering them with dirt soaking wet from her tears. She names them all as she does so, not missing a single animal. Angel twitches his ears in respect, never had he been this serious in his life.
After the grave is covered, Fluttershy turns to him.
“What do we do now, Angel? Where do we go?” Her own home had previously been destroyed by one of her ex-best friends, despite her attempts to fix their friendship.
Angel motions to a poster stapled to a nearby tree, advertising that there was still room left in the Stable just outside of Ponyville, Stable 101. Fluttershy had heard of the Stables, and knew once she was there, she would be safe when Equestria was in ruins. She thinks over this decision for a second, then solemnly nods in agreement.
“We will be safe there.” She says, “Do you have the things we saved from my house?” Angel motions towards a saddle bag bearing Fluttershy's cutie mark on it. Fluttershy trots over to it, carefully opening it and looking through its contents. There she found her Element of Kindness, Twilight's favorite book of spells that she had left one day and never came back for, an invitation to Stable 101, a book containing information about the Elements of Harmony, and an old photograph of Fluttershy and her friends the very first time they attended the Grand Galloping Gala (and due to the war worsening, it was also their last). Tears come to her eyes again as she shuts the saddle bag and slings it over her back, galloping as fast as she possibly can to Stable 101.
….......
That night, Equestria fell. Armed with weapons created by the most powerful unicorns in their world, Nightmare Moon and Celestia destroyed each other, and Equestria with it.Ponies fled in thousands to the Stables....but therewere lots of ponies and limited Stable space. Riots broke out as those who didn't make it into a Stable tried to force their way inside. But everypony failed. Anypony who had not gone to a Stable either met a horrible demise...or changed forever, and life as everypony knew it ceased to exist.Some suffered a fate equal to or even worse than death. But life did very much continue on in Equestria. Ponies who were not fortunate enough to find a Stable but fortunate enough to survive the end lived in a lawless, chaotic world that Celestia would be rolling in her grave over...if she even had one, that is. Even though they had seen what had happened during the war and how fighting only ends in destruction, ponies continued to kill each other over things as simple as food and a place to sleep. Small towns were set up...though were usually quickly taken over by gangs or destroyed. While the magic and power of Twilight Sparkle and her friends became an old fairy tale... Because no matter what happens, no matter who gets killed or what gets destroyed, war....war never changes.
Author's Note
I know it won't be as good as Fallout Equestria, this is the first fanfiction I've actually ever written. Please keep an open mind as you read it, as you would any fanfiction, and if you decide you don't like it, there's a dislike button and a comments section to chew me out. I'm open to ideas, so please don't hesitate to tell me how to improve my writing, and...thanks for at least clicking on my story. :)
