Tales by Balefirelight (a Fallout: Equestria Group Collab)

Space

by Veradon Chimera

He peered out through the tiny window of the artificial satellite and stared down at something only a number of ponies had ever seen before: Equus, full and round, a bright, blue planet and the most beautiful thing out there in space. Not even the sun or moon could compare in its majesty! But its beauty belied the darker forces operating on its surface.

There! Just on the curvature of the planet, where the Zebra Empire was just about to pass beyond his sight. Dozens of tiny pinpricks of light, arcing through the sky towards Equestria.

He knew what they were, fear had whipped them into a bogeyman down on the ground. Every buck and mare, young or old, lived in the shadow of their threat.

Balefire missiles.

He grabbed a bottle of Wild Pegasus and undid the screw-top. He took a swig, watching the lights make their progress. It was happening, they finally did it. The world was ending and he had a balcony seat for the entire event.

Cloudsdayle was hit first, the entire city just washed away on a shockwave. Next was Splendid Valley, for some bizarre reason. Then Manehatten. He took another swig.

After that, he lost track of just what was being hit, but could recognise that it was a laundry list of cities. Any significant population centre just wiped in a split second. He could almost pretend it wasn’t real, just an extravagant show involving the whole of Equestria and millions of fireworks! Fireworks, because the war was over! They’d won!

The glamour cracked when a balefire missile hit his own home. Baltimare went up just the same as anywhere else. Only this time he could practical see the flames licking the streets he walked as a foal. It tore through homes and businesses, no regard for who or what stood in its way. Strangely enough though, these images had now no sound. In his head, they were as silent as the apocalypse he was watching. He drained the bottle and let it float away.

Then, twenty minutes later, everything stopped. The megaspells ceased, leaving Equestria pockmarked. It was almost as if the country was ill.

After a few days of calling on the radio, he realised nopony was coming for him. There wasn’t anypony there to come for him. He was alone up there, with no way to get back to Equus. So all that he had left was to wait for the end. That satellite would become his tomb and eventually his tomb’s orbit would decay until it eventually burned up in the atmosphere.

Nopony would even know that he’d been up there, his unique perspective of the Last Day to be lost forever.