Fallout: Equestria- Arcane Division

Three hellhounds sat around a fire roasting a deer carcass. The ponies of the party had their own campfire several meters away not wanting be near the pony shaped corpse.

The deer when it was captured screamed and begged for its life. Due to their magic the ponies could hear its words but the hellhounds couldn’t.

There were three ponies that were added to the expedition as they left Ponyville.

Fire Fight A strongly build earth buck with a yellow coat and flame main. His cutie mark was of a red hot shield with suppressed flames below it. Fire Fight was a former citizen of the Republic and an expert on their culture.

Zeus's Kiss a Steel Ranger scribe, He has a white coat and blonde mane his cutie mark was of a chunk of fulgurite glass. The pony is a powerful magic user and a historian like Ginger Roots and acts as the groups cleric healer.

The third was a light brown earth mare with a black mane tied into a pair of pig tails, Her cutie mark lily pads. Her name was Lilyfoot an expert tracker, thief and monster hunter.

The final pony was a blue tinged white pegasus with a black mane. He had a tribal eye cutie mark. His name was Flashpoint, an Enclave communications expert. He carried a satellite radio pack so that the group could remain in contact with the NCR command.

The griffons had to find their own food out in the wild. Luckily for them there were some large mutie rats that smelt the deer meat and explored out the entrance of the mine.

Melissa hacks at a mutant rat with a machete. “If these rats are all that we are going to run into I think we can set out into the mine in the morning?”

“Yeah, But I'm a little worried we would run into a cave troll in there.” Deseret remarks.

Melissa shutters, “Remember that mutie one we had to take down under the Philadelphia tunnels?”

“Hopefully if one is here it would be a little more civil,” Deseret mumbles.

The mine entrance had two statues of diamond dogs. The words were still visible. One said ‘Ziggy’ the other ‘Stardust’.

Ginger Roots was trying to use her past viewing magic on the dog statues. After a few moments Melissa walks up to her.

“Any luck with doing whatever it is you are doing?” The honey griffon asks.

“A little,” Ginger Roots sighs. “These Ziggy and Stardust was the loyal followers of the Master who found this mine."

Ginger Roots walks over to the hellhounds. “Excuse me, Lassie is it? What do you know about these mines?”

The hellhound gives the pony a glare.

“Every time I ask one of you I get that glare,” Ginger Roots gives a look back.

“Lassie why don’t you tell her,” Vaspa smirks.

The griffon’s presence makes the other two hellhound snicker at Lassie. The creatures were named Rin Tin and Hooch.

“Okay, Ever heard of the Diamond King Incursion?” Lassie asks.

“It was a conflict Equestria had been in. It started before the Great War with the Zebra and finished before the war escalated,” Ginger Roots answers, “The reason ponies had control over the Splendid Valley area.”

The hellhounds spat on the ground.

Lassie speaks up, “You ponies would say he first appeared in Canterlot. With is crystal orb of power the Diamond King king of the diamond dogs put Celestia under his mind control. He had taken power for quite some time before any of you ponies could figure out his ruse.”

“Twilight Sparkle and Harmony bearers freed Celestia driving the Diamond King away.” Ginger Roots finished.

“Yes,” Lassie nods her head. “Knowing he couldn’t fight the powers of the mares the Diamond King seeked out help. The lord of diamond dogs commissioned a creature of great power to forge machines of metal in the form of the element bearers. A gnome with a magic hammer that could build anything.”

“I thought he was a dwarf?” Hooch adds.

“He had to be something different, like a demigod,” Rin Tin chimes in.

“I like dwarves,” Ginger Roots smiles.

“As the machines fought the element bearers, The Diamond King enslaves a unicorn town near the valley.” Lassie continues.

“That’s not nice,” Ginger Roots points out.

“Well things don’t work out for him,” Lassie adds, “To the King’s dismay he had to teach the unicorns gem finding magic.”

“I would think very few unicorns could learn that,” Ginger Roots remarks making her horn glow.

Lassie starts up again. “Well in control of the town the Diamond King falls in love with a unicorn mare of the name of Wolf Vein.”

“Eww,” Vaspa squirms.

“Like you should talk,” Melissa mocked.

“To protect her husband and daughter who the Diamond King had locked away. Wolf Vein agreed to marry him.” Lassie told them, “In return she could never see nore hear from them again. But unbeknownst to Wolf Vein the Diamond King had them killed. Only the daughter didn’t die.”

“Her name was Squirrelpuff the wolf hunter if I remember right,” Ginger Roots notes.”

Lassie continues, “Mean while the Diamond King finds out that the mare he took as his wife was pregnant. To make the child his own the King used his magic to reach into Wolf Vein’s womb. He removed the unborn’s eyes. Destroyed one, removed one of his own eyes and stuck the unborn eye in his empty socket. Then put his eye into the unborn’s socket. When the foal was born it was a hybrid of a diamond dog and a unicorn pony.”

“That was one way of getting it done,” Melissa snickered.

“If I remember right over time Wolf Vein and her daughter Nightshade became powerful magic users who subverted the Diamond King,” Ginger Roots adds. “It didn’t stop the war since the King turned his former wife into an evil and power hungry being. Nightshade wasn’t that better.”

“Many dogs didn’t want to fallow a pony and disserted,” Lassie adds, “It allowed Squirrelpuff to confront her mother and sister. She killed Wolf Vein and after a long battle Nightshade kills Squirrelpuff. Soon after Equestria moved in and forced our ancestors out. The diamond dogs that disserted the tribe moved back into Splendid Valley just before the balefire bombs fell.”

“And the dogs that was drove away?” Ginger Roots asked.

Lassie looks at the old mine. “There are rumors, They fallowed Nightshade to this place.”

“Wonderful.” Ginger cheers, “The possibility of running into an untainted tribe of diamond dogs, Could you imagine how important that is.”

“All I know, the pack leader wants to know how inhabitable the mine is,” Lassie shrugged.

Back at the mouth of the mine Deseret trips over a clump of vines. The plant rips away revealing some kind of pony effigy made from wood, stone and bones tied to gether.

“Roots!” Deseret shouts,

The ginger pony runs over to the griffon.

“What do you make of this?” Deseret asks.

“Oh, my goddess,” Ginger Roots looks at the fake pony scanning it with her horn.

“Hello,”

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“Remember just because history is written by the victors, doesn’t mean the forgotten events can’t return to bite you. Just because there are things we don’t like does not mean we take the eraser to it. We might learn from them. DJ Pon3 Homage signing out”