Fallout: Equestria- Arcane Division

“Latenight don’t kill me, I have children,” The Blue stallion found himself giggling at the writer’s note.

He was an earth pony with a #2 pencil cutie mark. The pencil had bat wings. His cutie mark appeared one day after spending an all nighter drawing.

“Latenight? Don’t tell me you started another page,” Hikari the dull yellow and fire red unicorn calls out.”

Latenight sighs and puts his pencil down. “Coming dear,”

The earth pony goes to lay down with the phoenix marked unicorn.

“Now you can finish those drawings in the morning,” Hikari playfully beeps Latenight on the nose.

“Yeaoooh,” The earth pony was interrupted by a yawn, “But I’m going to meet with Sweetie Talk at work tomorrow and want to get as many sketches done as I can.”

The pony falls asleep.

“Our children are in danger of the Zebra menace. Arming them will keep them safe.” The simple black and white sign of a foal pointing a gun at a shocked Zebra said.

The sign was next to a pair of vending machines, one that dispenses soda and one that dispenses bullets.

The green and blond unicorn mare just bought a soft drink. It was the newest flavor of Sparkle-Cola 'Mellon'. It had a picture of a smiling slice of watermelon with deformed black seeds.

The mare had a speech bubble with a heart inside it as a cutie mark. She got it after doodling a funny comic strip that made another foal laugh.

“Sweetie Talk!” Latenight shouts waving his hoof. “I finished those sketches.”

“You’re late Latenight,” Sweetie Talk smirks.

“I had to finish this morning,” Latenight groaned, “Hikari made me go to bed.”

“Really?” Sweetie Talk gives a sly look.

“Not like that Sweetie,” The earth pony unzipped his saddle bag. The unicorn instinctively pulls up the pony’s sketch book.

Sweetie Talk smiles and laughs, “You did Daring Do’s expression better than I imagined.” The pony finshish looking through the rest of the folder. “The approvals came back down from the Ministry of Image we can start inking and coloring the next issue.”

“Nice,” Latenight smiles.

“We should head up to the editor’s office.”

“Image Code Authority
All Zebra or their allies must be depicted as evil,
All crime and illegal activity must be root caused by Zebra or their allies,
If an Equestrian is shown doing wrong or evil acts they must be shown to have been corrupted by a Zebra or their allies,
All Equestrian government officials and respected institutions shall never be presented in such a way as to create disrespect for established authority,
All Zebra or their allies must be punished for their misdeeds,
All depictions of realistic genitalia of penis, vagina, utters and anus is forbidden,
As to not to imply genitalia that exist ponies must be depicted with thier tails cropped up exposing the buttocks,” This was on the sign hung up on the back wall of Brighthorn’s office.

He was a white unicorn with a black mane. Cutie mark, a horn with a yellow aurora around it.

“Good, good,” The pony smiles at the green unicorn and blue earth pony.

There was a sudden knock at the door.

“Who is it?” Brighthorn speaks up.

“May I come in dear,” A regal sounding mare answers.

“Um-yes,” Brighthorn became flushed at the voice.

“Say what?” The voice answers.

“Come in,” Brighthorn spoke up.

Sweetie Talk stares off as Rarity herself walks into the room.

“Rarity? She never visits the IMW building,” Latenight notes.

Rarity stops at the two ponies and smiles. “You’re the ponies I’ve been looking for.”

“Really ma’am? Us,” Sweetie talk answers nervously.

“The comic division of this company has the comic rights to the Daring Do books and you’re the head writer for said comics?” Rarity asks.

“Yes ma’am,” Sweetie Talk shakes her head dumbly.

“You know the Twilight Velvet wing of the Princess Twilight Sparkle Grand Library and Museum is opening,” Rarity told the ponies, “I’m here to personally invite you all to the grand opening and that you’d be donating some your fine Daring Do graphic novels to the wing.”

“Yes ma’am,” Brighthorn nods his head.

“In addition I’m personally inviting you two and your companions to the opening,” Rarity told Sweetie Talk and Latenight. “It would be a glorious opportunity for a photo opt with Twilight Velvet who will be appearing.”

“Twilight Velvet will be there,” Latenight wags his tail.

“I don’t think my husband would make it though,” Sweetie Talk remarks.

“Come on Sweetie doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy yourself,” Latenight smirks.

“Yeah,” Sweetie Talk sighs.

A flash of light blinds the green unicorn. She had been shaking Twilight Velvet’s hoof. Latenight and Hikari stood behind Sweetie Talk. All the ponies wore nice party attire.

Twilight Velvet removed her hoof. The mare had seemed cold and distant. Like a pony just going through the motions.

“You two having a good time?” A bright maroon mare walks up to Latenight and Hikari holding a check board with her magic. She had an indigo mane with a white streak. A moon slit with a magic star in its center was her cutie mark.

“Um we are fine,” Latenight answers nervously feeling a little out of his element. Hikari was at his side drinking a glass of alcoholic punch out of a shallow and thin glass.

“You’re Moonlight Sliver correct?” Hikari remarks, “You are Twilight Sparkle's daughter. Why are you helping party goers. Don’t you personally run the Ministry of Magic? And at such a young age too.”

“Yeah, But this building is a pet project of mine,” Moonlight smiles back, “My mother deserves to be honored. That and I never been a hooves off kind of pony.”

“From what I remembered of your mother when she lived in Ponyville that’s a lot like her,” Hikari notes.

Moonlight Sliver blushes, “Thank you.”

The maroon mare sees her grandmother hitting the punch bar a little hard.

“Velvet, Please don’t make a spectacle,” The young mare whispers to the older one.

“Did I do something to offend you?” Sweetie Talk remarks to the white mare.

“No, Sorry if I made you think that,” Twilight Velvet apologized.

“Was it that mother couldn’t make it,” Moonlight Sliver asks.

“No,” Twilight Velvet Sighs, “I know she’s busy.”

“That's nonsense,” Sweetie Talk snaps, “Your granddaughter is just as busy.” The green unicorn waves to Rarity in the crowd behind her. “And she seems to make it to all the events as well.”

“Twilight has a hard enough time making time for her friends much less me,” Twilight Velvet exclaims. “Sliver, she only sees you because you work with her.”

“What ever,” Moonlight Sliver turns and stomps off.

Twilight Velvet stares at a bunch of books of her's on the nearby shelves. “They are lies they are all lies, preserved by magic so that future generations can be tainted.”

“What?” Sweetie Talk reacts.

“My most prized and favored works aren’t even here,” Twilight Velvet says somberly. “She had them all changed.” The mare glances over at Rarity

“Rarity?” Sweetie Talk questions.

“I need some air,” Twilight Velvet was pretty red faced by now. Sweetie Talk didn’t want to leave the mare alone so she fallows the mare to the study gardens.

“Sweetie! Velvet!” Latenight shouts.

Twilight Velvet lies on a concrete bench as she allowed her head to clear in the fresh air.

“I’m sorry about this,” She says to Sweetie Talk, “You remember what it was like to be a writer before the world changed.”

“I’m just happy to be getting a pay check to be honest,” Sweetie Talk replied, “In the end I think Daring Do means more to you than me.”

“I'm frustrated having the Ministry of Image tell me what I can and cannot write,” Twilight Velvet spat, “Change and burn my old books. I know Moonlight Sliver means well but to celebrate them at this moment in time is insulting. Ministry of Image is suppose to project a certain image and I don’t like what I see.”

“Foooooreveeeeeeer!” A spritebot sounded off.”

“Did that thing talk?” Latenight points out, “I heard rumors but I never heard them speak.”

“I think it’s saying I’m saying too much,” Twilight Velvet smirks, “Not like they could do anything to me. Only butcher my work more.”

“Velvet,” Moonlight Sliver walks out from the shadows, “You think mother would allow Rarity to just do what she did?”

“She could have stopped her,” Twilight Velvet snaps.

Moonlight Sliver checks to see if anypony was around.

“What are you doing?” Twilight Velvet asks.

With a spark from her horn the young mare disables the spritebot. Then she closes her eyes and activates her magic causing her horn to glow.

First there was one green twinkle then there was another and another.

“Fireflies?” Latenight remarks as he turns around to allow him to fallow the many lights appearing around them.

The green lights whirled around the ponies. Everything whooshed and suddenly the lights dissipated. The ponies found themselves in a dark room.

“Was that a teleportation spell?” Sweetie Talk asks, “No transport spell, It's basically alchemy activated with magic. I made it from papa Spike's dragon ash. I dumped half the batch in the Study Gardens and the other half here. Because of that I can only transport in those preset locations. But pretty much any unicorn can use it.”

“Even a pony like me with very little magic can use it?” Sweetie Talk points out.

“In theory yes,” With a wave of her horn Moonlight Sliver lights up the room.

“Books!” Twilight Velvet shouts in wonder as she takes a book off of one of the many many shelves, “This addition came out before the Ministry of Image probate.” She takes another book, “This one too.”

“Twilight Sparkle set up many of these special hidden libraries,” Moonlight Sliver floats over a book to her grandmother. “This one is under your wing of my mother’s Library.”

Twilight Velvet’s eyes light up. “My first Daring Do book!” The mare cries, “The Ministry of Image banned it.”

“I haven’t seen some of these books in years,” Sweetie Talk remarks.

“I would love to read this one,” Latenight takes a blue book off the shelf.

“I have a magic stamp that allows you to check out books. It will send the books back here after a set time,” Moonlight Sliver explains.

“Self returning books neat,” Sweetie Talk smirks.

“Thanks Moonlight,” Twilight Velvet told her granddaughter.

Latenight tossed and turned in bed.

“Dear? What’s the matter?” Hikari sits up and asks.

“I’m just having one of my sleepless nights,” Latenight slides out of bed.

“Where are you going?” Hikari asks.

“I need a walk,” Latenight gives the unicorn a kiss before leaving.

The pony ran down the street. As he ran he came across a news stand open late.

“You're open late,” Latenight remarks to the stand owner a cream colored pony with an anaglyph cutie mark.

“There ain’t no rest for the wicked,” The owner smirks.

Latenight takes a few steps closer to the news stand owner. He speaks in hushed tones. “You still know how to get a hold of that underground printer?”

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“For some of us, it is hard to remember how important our freedom of speech is. I know for a fact what evils can happen when a good pony says nothing. DJ Pon3 Homage signing out.”
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Ginger Roots extinguished her horn. She takes a sigh of relief. The past viewing spell took a lot out of the pony.

At the pony’s hooves was an open comic book. The smiling faces of Latenight and Sweetie Talk looked back at her.

In order to use her past viewing spell she would need to have seen a pony’s face or cutie mark, know their name and have something they have touched. The comic book gave her all she needed.

To decompress Ginger Roots activates the viewing orb with Twilight Sparkle again.

“Hello, I’m Twilight Sparkle, “If you are listening to this thing then I fear the worst has happened to my people. If you were unlucky enough to not get into a Stable then fear not. Within the wildlands of Equestria there is a peaceful land that the Zebra shouldn’t know about. Whatever ponies can should voyage there and found a new society. This orb contains the map to this land. Please write it down and leave this orb behind for others to find their way.”

Ginger Roots walks away with the orb still running.

Twilight stops talking and looks through the orb cautiously. “That stupid cunt left the orb on again,” She complains as she turns off her side of the orb with her horn magic.