Fallout Equestria: Shanty Town Shake Down
Fallout Equestria: Shanty Town Shake Down
(Author's note: I wrote this before i started reading the original FoE.)
30 year after the bale-fire bombs hit, their were few safe-havens in the Equestrian wasteland.
Blue Moon was walking across the wasteland once know as Equestria. He has been walking for days on end with little food or water. He takes a pocket watch out of his saddle bag and checks the time.
“12:27” he murmurs to himself “I should find a place to sleep.” As he looks up he sees a faint light off in the distance.
“Looks like a settlement,” he thought “with food, delicious food.” at this thought his eyes widened and he started to drool. Its been about a week since he had a full meal and he wouldn’t pass up the chance to get another one. He used all his strength as he sprinted towards the town. Once he reached the gates he got a chill down his spine like theirs something evil about the town. Just then, he heard shouts from the other end of the town and sprinted towards them. Once he got close enough to see what was going on he stopped dead in his tracks because from outside the house the shouts were coming from they stood two large, tough looking steeds. These men were guards for the nobles of Equestria, well at least they used to be before they deserted in search of riches. Blue Moon walked up to them,
“How’s it going fellas, great night we’re having.” he said in a shaky voice. The bigger of the two turned to him and said
“If you know what’s good for you, you’d turn around and start walking.” The look in his eyes shot and instant feeling of fear into Blue Moon who Immediately turned around. That moment the doors of the house opened and their stood a third guard who had a sack of carrots on his back. He was defiantly the leader of the group, his armor was polished to a great consent while the others were scuffed and scratched. Blue Moon hesitated to turn around, but did anyway and when he did, all three guards shot a menacing glance at him. Blue Moon was frozen with fear, one of them got down as if he were about to charge this made Blue Moon jump and then stumble to the ground. All of them started laughing as they walked away. After they were far enough away he stood back up and walked towards the house. He walked in to and older colt laying on the floor, Blue Moon helped the colt up.
“Are you okay?” asked Blue Moon.
“Yes I’m fine, thank you good sir.” said the old colt “my name’s Crock Pot by the way.”
“You mean THE Crock Pot, like the one that was in the wonderbolts”
“That was the old me kid I’m to old for that stuff now.”
Blue Moon was astounded, he has been a big fan of the wonderbolts ever since he found a hollow tapes of one of their fly-bys. He looked at his hero. His smile turned to a frown when he saw that Crock Pot was missing a wing. He also noticed that he had a burn in the shape of a cloud with a lighting blot where his cutie mark should be. He tried to ignore it and not stare.
“my names Blue Moon.” He said as he was looking around the house at all the pictures of Crock Pot’s wonderbolt days, but one in particular caught his eye. The picture was of Crock Pot as a small child and a young rainbow haired filly.
“That’s Rainbow Dash, she’s the greatest flyer Equestria has ever know. After years of trying she finally got into the wonderbolts. I was only a little thing when she broke the speed record. I wonder what she’s up to these days. Probably living the life in the with her friends, goddess what I wouldn’t give to be….” Before Crock Pot could finish his story he was cut off by a rustling from a nearby crate. Blue Moon turned and looked at it, expecting to see some sort of monster, but instead a small filly popped out.
“Is it safe to come out now?” she whispered.
“yes speed, its safe.” said Crock Pot “Blue Moon this is my grand-daughter, speedy hooves.”
“Nice to meet you.” said Blue Moon holding out a hoof expecting her to shake it, but instead she shy’d behind her grandfather.
“it’s ok sweetie he’s a good guy.” Crock Pot said with a laugh. She was very hesitant to shake Blue Moon’s hoof.
“my names Speedy Hooves” she said in a quiet voice “but everyone calls me speed.” she had a surprisingly strong handshake for such a small filly. After shaking the pain out of his hoof Blue Moon turned to Crock Pot,
“who were those guys?”
“they’re a bunch of thugs who have been terrorizing this town for months.” he said, his voice had a hint of rage in it. “they just took a weeks supply of food. Now we don’t have anything to eat.”
“I’ll get your food back.” Blue Moon said, instantly regretting it.
“you really think that you can take down an entire faction of those guys?” Crock pot said skeptically.
“Yes I can, no problem. In the words of Rainbow Dash, I can do it in ten seconds flat.” Crock Pot just stared at him blankly.
“well, I should be going” said Blue Moon turning to walk out the door.
“Can I come with you?” said Speed. Blue Moon didn’t know what to say. He spun around and looked at Crock Pot expecting him to say something, but he was also waiting to hear the answer.
“don’t you think it’ll be a little to dangerous for you.” he said finally.
“no I’m tough enough for anything.” she said with a determined look on her face. Looking back up at Crock Pot, Blue Moon said,
“don’t you have anything to say about this.”
“Take care of her.” he said. Blue Moon’s jaw dropped.
“o-o-okay…well lets go.”
“Wait before you got,” said Crock Pot once again stopping him. “Take this.” he reached into a chest and threw a wonderbolts outfit at Blue Moon. He already had one but it was badly damaged and when he picked this one up he noticed that it was heavier then the one he had.
“it has plate armor under the cloth and the goggles are made of bullet proof glass.”
“Thanks I’m sure it will come in handy, but don’t you think Speed will need one.” he turned to her and she was just sitting their smiling. She already had it on one before he finished his sentence. After Blue Moon put his on the two unlikely teammate set out into the night prepared for anything.
(Author's note: i had a editor but he F-ed up the paragraphing so i had to use my original. if it has any spelling mistakes fell free to point them out so i can fix them.)