Life in Stable 54 went back to normal quickly. Boom became a teacher teaching wasteland survival. I went back to my job fixing Stable 54’s farming system if it broke down. But today the Overmare wanted to see me. Goddess life’s hard.

Arriving at the floor, I could see Boom sitting outside dressed up like any other stable pony.

"Hey Boom."

"Hey Stable, looks like we both know this involves the outside world."

Nodding, I opened the door and we headed in. The Overmare was sitting on her podium. When she saw us, she was quick to move down to talk.

"Slashwing, Miss Ageton. We, Chief Lightshell, Head Doctor Newhaven and myself, have agreed it's time to try again. We will open the stable and join the outside."

This was surprising. I expected we needed to go find more parts for something but an exodus?

"But most of the wasteland is dangerous raiders, slavers, and all sorts of monsters. You're not equipped to defend an entire stable population." Boom commented.

The Overmare nodded at Booms remark, "I know, that's why we need both of you to go out and find us enough weapons and protection to help us be prepared to leave."

Three hours later, Boom collected the last of our ammo from the Stable Armory. We headed out about 45 minutes later. Got to say, the wasteland is quite peaceful out here... WAIT, What was that? Well a green unicorn seems to be running towards us. Wait, it's Doctor Stitch.

It was Stitch all right. I would recognize a Stable 54 branding anywhere and doctors had an overcoat on top of it in that weird doctor way. He was coming our way fast. Boom suddenly gasped and had her magic around her grenade rifle, firing at a nearby pile of ruble.

Kaboom pony parts flying everywhere, KABANG, KABANG raiders running from a building, firing madly at us. Well time to stay alive. bang missed click click kaboom. Doesn't matter if Boom is a bit off, she's doing better at spotting them. Thump a raider snuck up on me and got me with a bat.

"I'm gonna use your stomach as a pillow and head as a..." Bang bang thank the Goddess she was so close. I'm not good with range. Looking over I could finally see Doctor Stitch. A raider was reloading one of those massive red bullet guns. I think it's some kind of pistol. Watching as the raider lined up the shot, a baton flew up from the ground, knocking his head up. It caused the shot to miss before the baton came back down on his neck. CRACK the raider went slumping walking over.

Stitch lifted a more recognizable 9mm pistol from another raider's corpse with his magic and let off two rounds into the raider's head. Boom started looting corpses and I walked over to Doctor Stitch who was busy taking ammo off the two dead raiders near him.

"So why are you here all of a sudden?" Not like it mattered. "Overmare send you?"

Stitch looked up at me and almost looked like he was in the middle of telling somepony they had only weeks to live. "No, I've decided I want to travel the outside. Medical ponies are abundant in Stable 54. I won't be missed."

"As long as it's alright with you." he said, fixing his glasses.

This is bad. I'm not the leader. I just follow Boom around. "Um, you should ask Boom. She knows more and is better at being in charge."

Getting a nod, he walked off. I went to look for the mare I killed. I found her weapon. A weird grey rod with a red section right after the mouth rest. It looks like some kind of club. Wait, the red thing is a burnt out gem. At some point this was powered by magic. That's neat and mine now.

Author's Note

first things first THANKS TO ALL THAT READ THIS AND TO THE LIKES AND MY AWOMES EDITOR who makes this 20% more readable
second thing second this chapter is shorter because I wanted to introduce stitch into the story and set him up