Ray of Sunshine
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
Summer Dream looked over her filly, beautiful as she could be, newly born in her hooves. She looked to her husband. Rainy Nights, who was crying right now, he never cried. “So what do you think we should name her?” She asks her husband.
“I think... she’s our new sunshine, as cloudy as it might be... so, how about Cloudy Sunshine?” He smiles softly, wiping the tears away.
Summer smiled brightly, nodding, even though the reasoning was corny, she loved the name. “Sunshine... our little ray of Sunshine.”
You make me happy when skies are grey
As Summer watch the foal start to buzz around the wrecked excuse of a house they were staying in, she smiled bright, giggling and flying up to catch the speedy filly, spinning around with her in her hooves. The filly giggled back and nuzzled her mother, the grey of her mane contrasting her mother’s bright yellow coat.
“Oh my, I see my two mares are playing around in here.” Her father smiled from the ground, holding a jar of foal food. Cloudy recognized it and zoomed to him, slobbering lightly over his hoof. “Alright alright! Let’s get you fed little filly!”
Summer in that moment, completely forgot they were in a hell accursed apocalypse, and felt like this is what old equestrian family might have been like.
You never know, dear, how much I love you
“But Mooom! I want to go play on the terminal!” Cloudy, aged only 5 years whined to her mother. Her mother sighed a bit and shook her head.
“We don’t know if it’s trapped Sunshine, if it is, you might get hurt. I never want you hurt.” She hugged her foal lightly, petting her mane. Cloudy huffed a bit, pouting but nodding.
“I still don’t know why we can’t just check it out... but okay Mommy... I promise I won’t go near it without you or Daddy.” She kept snuggling her mother as Summer looked to the terminal. It had a small metal antenna revolving around the back, something Cloudy couldn’t see, but it meant it was booby trapped.
“I love you Sunshine.”
Please don't take my sunshine away
“PLEASE NO!” The screams pierced into Cloudy’s ears, terrifying her as she heard the wet guttural sounds of her mother’s body being mutilated. “JUST DON’T HURT SUNSHINE! DON’T TAKE HER AWAY!” Her mother was the only voice she recognized, her father only letting out a few screams as Cloudy had no doubt that his head had been cut off or destroyed in some way.
Cloudy slowly rocked herself, making sure to be quiet in the room she had accidentally locked herself in. The last sound she heard from her mother was another scream, but the last words she swore she heard was...
“I love you Sunshine.”
The other night, dear, as I lay sleeping
I dreamt I held you in my arms
Cloudy awoke in a hot sweat. She was in some town, some small town she didn’t care for the name. She felt a hotness in her arms, a warm body she was cuddling with. She didn’t open her eyes. She whispered and cried as she snuggled the form. “Mommy I had such a terrible dream!”
When I awoke, dear, I was mistaken
The larger filly that Cloudy had saved from some thugs earlier today, String Bean, looked to her, sleepily awaking. “Huh? Mommy, I’m String...” She said sleepily.
So I hung my head, and I cried
Cloudy looked over to String Bean and put on a fake smile, coughing a bit and nodding. “Sorry... dumb dream made me think things. Go back to bed.” She smiles and pets the filly before turning over and curling lightly, tears silently streaming down her face.
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are grey
Cloudy smiled and flew up in the air as String trotted and then galloped underneath her. They were going to go and find some scrap for an odd job. String held a 9mm in her mouth just incase they would come across anything dangerous. But they never did really, just some rats and radroaches.
You never know, dear, how much I love you
Cloudy blushed as the cool wasteland air hit her. She had been feeling weird around her friend lately. Like, all gushy and blushy and stuff. She didn’t know why she felt that way, but she knew that it felt very good when she was with String Bean. After this mission, she would tell her how she felt, maybe String could help, String was always better with talking to ponies.
Please don't take my sunshine away
Pain, boiling hot pain flared up Cloudy’s side, searing her left hind leg as the flames burned through her jumpsuit. She looked for String, looking for backup to help take out this stupid robot. She started to fly up into the air, her knife in her teeth as she looked around. Just from the corner of her eye, she saw String, the brown earthpony filly charge out at the robot. “Don’t hurt my fillyfriend!” She screamed as the bot and started to unload her pistol into it’s side.
The robot took no real damage from this, turning slightly to see String. String then burned in a terrible gout of fire, melting her skin and eyeballs morbidly. Cloudy screamed, but not in pain, at least not physical pain. She cried and started to stab the robot, over and over again, until it died, it’s thrusters giving out. She left the knife in and rushed to the seared corpse of her now dead friend... no fillyfriend. And she wept.
I'll always love you and make you happy
The Real World stung to Cloudy. She couldn’t handle it, ever. She just wanted to sleep all day, stay in her dream world, Where she could play with her Mommy, her Daddy, and her String Bean. So that’s what she did, she wanted to be happy, she always wanted to be happy.
Cloudy looked over at the sharp almost glowing knife on her nightstand. She would be happy if she were with them. She reached over, grabbing the knife and bringing it up to her face. She stared at the reflection in it, a blue strained eye staring back, tears flowing down her muzzle. She slowly started to bring it to her neck.
If you will only say the same
She dropped the knife, crying and dry heaving in sorrow. She couldn’t do it. She wasn’t brave enough, she wasn’t sure enough about anything right now. She didn’t want to hurt, but she needed to hurt to go and be with her loved ones. But... not while she slept.
She slowly felt the darkness drift over her as she closed her eyes, flying to her dream sanctuary.
But if you leave me to love another,
You'll regret it all one day
A loud banging at her door woke up the small filly, huddled in some blanket on the dirty old mattress. She looked up just as the door burst open, a large angry looking dirty brown mare staring at her. “You’ve been in this place for a whole week! And you haven’t paid past the first day. I might like kids, but this isn’t a charity service!” She yelled at Cloudy, who just shivered, her disheveled mane looking terrible on her. “So, you need to pay off the caps you owe! All 120!” The mare said to Cloudy, who wanted to debate this, wanted to run away, she wanted to go to sleep. But she simply nodded, getting up and moving to her bag, slowly realizing she had no caps.
The mare looked at the situation and sighed. “Alright, you’re going to go and do a job for me, okay?” She asked Cloudy, who again, could only nod.
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
The filly squinted her eyes as she looked up at the sun, the clouds barely obscuring it. She had been inside for a whole week... and the goddesses damned cloud layer was gone?! She couldn’t believe it! She lightened up as she started to fly up, slowly remember her job. She was to go get some scrap to help pay for her room. She started to zoom towards a ruined building, right as the sun slowly started to get covered.
You make me happy when skies are grey
The thunderstorm started as quickly as Cloudy had seen it blot out the sun. She was a bit relieved as she sat under some concrete, the heavy pouring rain making the wasteland as dark as it had been before. She had only seen this one storm cloud, so she knew it wasn’t the wasteland coming around again and plotting out the sun forever. She giggled and laughed as she looked around, picking up small pieces of long dead robots. She almost wanted to go out and play in the rain, something she barely ever wanted to do, not after her Mom had told her that the rain was radioactive.
You never know, dear, how much I love you
She flew high up into the sky, getting near the storm cloud and bathing in it’s harsh waters. She made sure to avoid anything that looked like electricity. Cloudy then flew as fast as she could, back towards the bar she was staying in. She came in with a determined look, smirking at the mare as she dumped her haul all over the mare’s barcounter.
“We’re even.” She said as she started to trot away, smirking as she did so. She decided to impress the crowd and do a super speedy strut, making some of them ooh and ah at her moving so fast while looking like she was trotting normally.
Please don't take my sunshine away
She grunted and covered her ears as she heard a horrendously loud bang come from someplace in the distance. She was taking as much cover as she could in this building. A small two story building, someone left standing after all these years.
There was fighting outside, fighting she knew she couldn’t get involved in. Maybe some mercs versus some raiders or something. But from the squawking, the raiders were winning. She started to move to the back door. “It’ll be better to get out of her before I get hurt.” She sighed. But as soon as her sentence left her lips, she felt the weight of a whole ceiling collapse on her hind legs, leaving the filly trapped under ti as she let out a loud wail of pain. She started to cry softly, then from softly she started to cry louder, and louder. She wailed as the loud gunshots stopped happening, the filly tearing up and letting out her bottled emotions from years past.
“I think I hear somepony.” She heard a voice say, making her eep and shut up. She was dead... she had alerted the raiders of where she was, and now, she would die like this, or be put through worse...
Please don't take my sunshine away...
