Fallout: Equestria- Arcane Division

“Remember ponies, When you’re the best, you’re better than the rest. DJ Pon3 Homage, keeping it awesome.”

Homage takes the coffee cup up with her magic.

“These mornings are getting harder and harder,” She remarks to herself drinking from the coffee cup.

The unicorn removes her robe and walks over to the bathroom to spruce herself up in the mirror.

Click!

Homage pulls the chain to her bathroom light allowing her to see herself.

To her shock there was a steel gray mare, but her mane. Her mane wasn’t the blue it should be. It had change to streaks of blue, yellow and red. Her horn was striped with the same colors. Homage looks down at her legs to see they broke out in cutie mark like objects in the shape of multicolored quotation marks.

“What the f- “

“-uck,” Max found himself on his back in a gurney. The bucks stared down at his crotch. His scrotum was swollen and staples sealed a surgical incision down the middle.

“Hello! Is anyone here!” Max shouts, “And who the fuck took my balls!”

“Fusssk! He said balls,” A pony giggles over the PA.

“This isn’t funny!” Max roars back.

“Come on man, hold your horses, wait you can’t,” The voice mocked back.

Max painfully climbs down from the gurney and limps to the door. He pounds on the door's side and shouts. “Come out here and I’ll show you.”

“I see what you are trying to do, but I don’t know, you are falling a little flat.” The pony replied.

“Errr,” Max growled.

“Hey, A griffon!” The pony over the PA points out.

Thrack!

“Max? You’re uninfected?” Melissa’s voice says over the PA.

“Infected with what?” Max replied.

“Megan, give him the vaccine,” Melissa orders.

“Megan?” Max says to himself.

A syringe with glowing violent liquid slides under the door.

“Inject yourself with that,” Melissa tells the buck.

Max stabs his shoulder with the syringe. “Melissa? What’s going on? I woke up in here and some bastard castrated me.” He tells the griffon.

“Castrated? You mean you didn’t know?” Melissa said in shock.

“Didn’t know what?” Max raised an eye.

“By law all raiders and who used to be raiders are gelded,” Melissa explains, “By definition raiders are rapists and all rapists loose their rights to breed. Also it allows us to keep both males and females in the same prison and not care about then fucking each other.”

“Well, I remember passing out,” Max tries to think back. “I don’t remember anyone telling me they were going to take my buckhood away from me.”

“Yeah, we had to put you in the hospital,” Melissa replied, “Your in Tenpony, I guess they decided to snip you well you were passed out. Sorry man, that was over a day ago.”

“I’ve been out for over a day!” Max shouts, “What happened?”

The door opens, A humanoid female was on the other side.

“See for yourself,” She told the buck.

“I take it you’re Megan?” Max remarks.

The buck slowly limps out the door. In front of him was a disheveled hallway. Pon3’s voice could be heard over the radio.

“Good morning to me and all of you who isn’t me. Homage here the very best D- no, best pony in the whole wide world. Want to say, I thank myself for being the best.”

“Sorry about this, but I don’t think I have time to find a bathroom,” Max puts his forehooves on the wall. He began to painfully urinate at a slow trickle.

The buck’s hooves start to slip causing Megan to have to hold him up.

“Thanks,” Max told the woman as he finished.

Melissa walked from around the corner dragging an unconscious dark purple pegasus. His hair and wings were in the colors of purple, bluish purple and red. His arrow head cutie mark was lavender. But smaller more simple arrowhead cutie marks covered his body, mostly his legs.

“What is it?” Max asked.

“Over ninety percent of the ponies has caught this disease,” Melissa explains.

“We been trying our best to help these poor souls,” Convoy adds flying up in a spritebot.

“It's hard enough stopping them from hurting themselves,” Megan sighs.

“Could you guys start from the beginning?” Max asks.

Three days ago,

Troja scans an unconscious Max with her glowing horn. “He should be out for a while,” She tells Melissa, “I’ll order the doctor to scan his brain.”

The party stood at the gates of Tenpony.

“Well I have a ton of mission debriefs to go through back at the office,” Melissa stretched her wings.

“We all have our work to do,” Sioux Falls adds.

A gray unicorn buck with an elkish build and pink tennis racket cutie mark walks up to them.

“Your companion was part of the Enclave?” He points at Sioux Falls.

“Yes,” Melissa answers.

“I have orders to take you with me,” The buck told them.

“This must be serious if they want you to jump to work right after entering the city,” Convoy points out.

“Do you need all of us?” Troja asks, “I should stay with Max.”

“Um, we should be fine for now,” Melissa tells the mutie unicorn.

Melissa and Sioux Falls was led to Tenpony’s marketplace. [The seedy one] There was a good block quarantined off.

“Melissa, aren’t you a sore sight for these pony eyes,” Ginger Roots cheered to the griffon.

“Ginger Roots,” Melissa smiles back, “Sorry you couldn’t make it to the teams last expedition.”

“It's alright,” Ginger Roots ways off.

“It's nice to see you too,” Convoy adds.

“Think you sweet heart,” Ginger Roots replied.

“Now, why em I needed?” Sioux Falls asks.

“Oh, fallow me,” Ginger Roots told them.

The griffon and pegasus walks past the quarantine line to fallow the ginger unicorn.

“I ruled it out of being war era in origin,” Ginger Roots told them, “I believe it to be Enclave in design made within the last hundred years.”

Inside one of the hut like shops was a metal capsule with a cloud shooting lighting made of primary colors.

“If its Enclave make why would it have Rainbow Dash’s cutie mark?” Melissa points out.

“They think it could be a bomb of some kind,” Ginger Roots waves her hoof outside, “I told them it’s not.”

“It’s a biohazard container,” Sioux Falls notes, “I still don’t know why Rainbow Dash’s cutie mark would be on it.”

“If it’s a biohazard we should blow it up,” Melissa remarks.

“No!” Sioux Falls and Ginger Roots said in unison.

“We have no clue what’s inside this thing right now,” Sioux Falls points out.

“What if there are more of these things?” Ginger Roots adds.

“I don’t think the VIN number would be useful after a hundred years but I could still try the Enclave,” Sioux Falls remarks.

“I’ll have to ask the bosses about that,” Melissa answers, “Enclave has a bad habit of covering their past mistakes with death and explosions.”

“Want me to scan the object?” Convoy asks.

“Please do,” Melissa answers.

The griffon breathes blue energy into the device. It turns red.

“That’s not good,” Convoy remarks.

“What is it?” Melissa orders.

“This device has been recently breached,” Convoy explains, “By the pressure this has been opened with in the last few hours.”

“Can you tell us what’s in it?” Sioux Falls demands.

“Let’s see, Data logs shows there’s also vaccines and antivirals inside, The vaccines are still usable but the antiviral is too degenerated to be of use.” Convoy tells them, “This appears to be Cutie Pox but modified with somepony’s DNA.”

“Rainbow Dash,” Sioux Falls told them.

“You know what this is?” Melissa asks.

“Rainbowfied Pox,” Sioux Falls answers, “Cutie Pox modified as to give somepony the appearance of Rainbow Dash’s descendant so we could bypass the Ministry of Awesome’s DNA locks.”

“I’m guessing it didn’t work,” Melissa deadpanned.

“It worked too well,” Sioux Falls told them, “Rainbow Dash’s DNA locks don’t work like the others. You just couldn’t have Rainbow Dash’s DNA. The clones we made of her proved that. There was a personality factor as well. That’s why we used Cutie Pox as a way to modify a pony’s way of thinking.”

“Shit, if Red Eye got a hold of this thing,” Melissa gulped, “I hate to think what he would have done with this.”

“I don’t think he would have done anything with it since he was anticutie mark,” Ginger Roots points out, “I do remember Twilight Sparkle writing about Cutie Pox. Applebloom had them once. Apparently the magical virus is dormant in all ponies. When activated it attacks the cutie mark factor. Some potion caused Applebloom’s Cutie Pox to flare up.”

“We should remove this device,” Convoy suggests.

“I concur,” Melissa agreed.

After wrapping the artifact in plastic, they transported it up to Arcane Division’s research lab.

As Ginger Roots and Sioux Falls settle down with the object, Melissa walks into the AD’s communication room.

“Hi,” Megan speaks up from around the corner. She was playing with a knife in her hand.

“I thought you quit,” Melissa told the woman.

“I didn’t quit, I can just do things on my own that I can’t with a group,” Megan shrugged.

Melissa presses a button on the room’s control panel, “Littlepip, I’m here to report.”

Melissa pauses for a reply.

“Littlepip?” Melissa speaks in the microphone again.

“Over here,” A female voice behind Melissa scares her.

The griffon turns around to see Littlepip smirking at her dressed in casual barding of a white button up shirt and a black vest.

“You’re out of the weather control pod?” Melissa said in shock.

“There was this strange malfunction a few months back. I was sequestered in the tower keeping it a secret until we realize the extent of the malfunction.” Littlepip told the griffon. “The machine has to be shut down for maintenance and complete system reboot going through each tower one by one. Until they are done, I’m stuck here, these repairs could take a year.” The mare smirks, "I'm taking the chance to do something I've thought I'd never do."

Troja walks into the room. “Littlepip is out and about I see,” She scans the pony with her horn.

“Does she always do that?” Littlepip asks nervously.

“Yeah,” Melissa replied.

Troja raised an eyebrow. “You’re pregnant?”

“Um yes, I wanted to have a foal anything wrong with that?” Littlepip gets defensive.

“It’s not normal, the foal it's not a pony,” Troja replied in her monotone voice.

Littlepip’s ears flip back. “Ah…um..Well then… I got to go.”

Littlepip rushed into the elevator trying poorly to hold back her sobs.

“That was mean,” Megan remarks.

“It’s the truth, I don’t know what’s in her belly but it’s not a pony,” Troja answers.

“We’ll let her deal with it,” Melissa snaps.

“That light is flashing,” Troja points out, “I think it’s for you.”

“Melissa! You better come down here,” Sioux Falls says in a giggly tone. “This is kind of cool.”

Melissa, Megan and Troja enters the lab area. Sioux Falls and Ginger Roots were sealed in. The ponies appearances had changed since they were last seen.

Sioux Falls broke out in feather symbols of maroon, grass green and yellow. The colors streaked her wings and mane. Ginger Roots with autumn colored roots spreading across her legs.

“Look if you didn’t like so cheated I would have gotten to the vaccine,” Ginger Roots waves the pink glowing syringes in the air.

“I didn’t cheat you're just slow, a slowy slow poke,” Sioux Falls snaps, “Besides there was nothing we could have done we were already infeck-a? something. Way before we opened that thing? I bet yeah the whole city is like this by now.”

Megan turns on a nearby radio.

“Remember ponies, When you’re the best, you’re better than the rest. DJ Pon3 Homage, keeping it awesome.”

“She’s right, Homage seems to have it too,” Megan points out.

“What’s going on with them?” Convoy asks.

Troja scans the ponies with her horn. “Their personalities have been altered.”

“Of course they are acting like Rainbow Dash,” Melissa points out.

“Are we in danger of getting infected,” Megan points at herself and Melissa.

“We don’t have cutie marks so I don’t think we are,” Melissa replied.

“Unless it makes a jump,” Convoy adds, “Life finds away.”

Ginger Roots taps on the glass. “Guys, let us out, being in here is like ‘so’ boring and stuff.”

“I don’t think we want you infecting our last remaining pony friend,” Megan smiles back.

Sweep!

Sioux Falls had her butt pressed against the glass. Ginger Roots gives her a look.

“Now watch me do an impression of a sucker fish,” Sioux Fall spread her cheeks apart with her hooves and lifts her tail before pressing up against the glass again.

Megan makes a fround and is repulsed back. “If all ponies have the lack of self control as these two.”

“All of Tenpony will fall,” Melissa finishes. She sighs, “Okay, first things first how do we stop Troja from getting sick?”

“Well as these two have said, they have vaccine syringes,” Megan points back at the infected behind her.

“I do have the data to make the antiviral,” Convoy tells them, “This lab appears to be inadequate for making them though, Maybe Tenpony’s hospital?”

“Okay question,” Melissa speaks up, “Difference between vaccine and antiviral?”

“Vaccine stops you from getting sick, antiviral helps fight the illness after you are sick.” Troja explains.

“How is Max doing by the way?” Melissa asks.

“They will keep him sedated monitoring his brain,” Troja answers.

“Okay, We open the lab and grab the vaccine, Give it to Troja before she goes ‘rainbow’.” Melissa tells them, “From there we go to the hospital and use the lab to make the antiviral so that we can cure everypony.”

“Okay,” Megan walks over to the lab door. “What's the code to open this?”

“0206,” Sioux Falls’s vagina replied.

The door buzzes and opens

“Yes I’m free!” Sioux Falls shouts. She turns to Ginger Roots. “Race you chubby.”

“I’m not fat,” Ginger Root huffed chasing after Sioux Falls, “I’m in the perfect physical cond-Awe! Cramp!”

Megan shakes her head and walks into the lab. She came back out with the glowing syringes.

“Troja hold still,” Megan prepares to poke the pony.

“No, Stop, it’s too late,” Troja pulls away.

Before Megan's and Melissa's eyes the lavender pony’s mane and horn turned wood colors. Her legs became covered in wooden horseshoes.

“I’m going to use my like mambo to cast a sadist spell on myself,” Troja told them as she cast a spell making her head glow. The pony passes out.

“Great,” Melissa snaps.

“At least we can still reach the hospital floor,” Convoy points out.

Suddenly the power goes out.

“As you were saying?” Melissa groans.

A voice comes on the radio. “This is Life Bloom, I have put Tenpony tower on lock down to quarantine the outbreak from the rest of the land of Equestria. Radio communication will remain on so I can relay messages to you. But for now all travel between the floors of the town has been halted until further notice.”

“So we are stuck here?” Megan remarks.

“We just have to get down there manually,” Melissa told the woman.

“Can’t you just fly out the window?” Convoy points out.

“Yes, but all the windows are locked tight because of the lockdown,” Melissa explains, “I’m sure I could find some way out. But where would I go and how could I get on the hospital wing from outside?”

“I see your point,” Convoy replied.

They managed to get out of Arcane Division HQ. The streets of Tenpony were full of chaos. Ponies fighting each other. Ponies destroying stuff and the uninfected confused and horrified.

“Okay so, you’re here,” Max replied to the others.

“The hospital has its own power source so the lab should be able to make the antivirals,” Convoy tells them, “At least a limited amount. One of you should use the hospital radio to tell Life Bloom we have a cure. Once he’s able to open the tower we should be able to get all the supplies we need to make the full amount.”

“I’ll do that,” Megan says just before opening the door. A rainbowfied Littlepip tumbles out. The pony was dehydrated.

Max became shocked at the sight of Littlepip. Then a sudden migraine caused him to turn and walk away.

Convoy fallows after the buck. “Are you okay?”

“I think I know that mare,” Max moaned.

“She is famous,” Convoy replied.

“No, I met her somewhere,” Max told him, “Could you give me a moment?”

Megan check’s Littlepip’s pulse. “Someone get some water!” She shouts.

Melissa gives Littlepip her canteen. She greedily takes the water.

“What happened,” Melissa asks.

“After what Troja said, I freaked out and came here,” Littlepip explains, “Then things went crazy and the quarantine announcement happened,” Littlepip caresses her belly. “I don’t know I got scared and hid. I should have been helping people, but I hid.”

(She doesn’t seem to be affected by the virus much,) Convoy says over the mental link.

(Of course she’s not affected, she’s already an idiot,) Melissa smirks.

“What are you smirking at?” Littlepip snaps.

Melissa rubs Littlepip on the back. “This fear you feel, look at it this way, it’s part of the sacrifice we make.”

Megan came walking back. “Okay Life Bloom says he’ll lift the quarantine.”

Homage’s voice pops up on the radio. “Now for part twelve of my live reading of Daring Do and the Midas Hoof by Twilight Velvet. There I was standing in front of- something I can’t read, I holding the- I don’t know what that word is either, entering the cat-a-something…”

“Who’s Daring Do?” Max asks.

“All the Rainbows seem to be obsessed with her,” Melissa rolls her eyes.

“Oh Daring Do is like the best,” Littlepip perks up.

“See what I mean,” Melissa smirks.

“I got the first batch of antivirals,” Convoy comes floating up with a batch of yellow milk color liquid.

“One way to find out it works,” Melissa takes the syringe and wipes down Littlepip’s arm.

“Is that safe for per-Ouch!” Melissa stabs Littlepip in midsentence.

“How do you feel?” Melissa asks the pony.

“A little…” Littlepip faints, Melissa catches the pony in her arms. A moment later Littlepip turns back to normal.

“Okay it works now how do we get this to the infected as quick as possible? I don’t think they are mature enough to let us give them all shots.” Melissa notes.

“Antivirals can be produced in a pill form,” Convoy points out, “Tell them its candy.”

“These Rainbow ponies don’t seem to be that smart,” Max adds, “Maybe we can trick them with something they like?”

“If we put on a Daring Do play they would go nuts over it,” Megan smirks.

“And so the word was put out that the best actors in Equestria was to perform a Daring Do play, Completely fake of course. To be held just outside of Tenpony. When Tenpony opened its doors, the Rainbow infected flocked to see it. Each pony was given a bag laced with antivirals. And to those wonderful people of Arcane Division who saved us. All my kisses. DJ Pon3 Homage signing out.”

Sioux Falls and Ginger Roots rub their arms.

“So, lucky that wasn’t a Pinkie Pie themed virus,” Ginger Roots snicker nervously to Sioux Falls.

The look Sioux Falls gives Ginger Roots made the unicorn's heart sink.

“Oh merciful Celestia no,” Ginger Roots gasped.

A foal was digging in the dirt went his shovel hits something metal.

“I found something!” The foal shouts as he brushed off the container revealing three balloons markings.