Fallout Equestria: Days Of Forgotten Past

Location: Park Gardens, Ministry Row, Canterlot

Stable Number: 1

A Hour Before The Fall

Rhythm the blue unicorn sat on the park bench looking at Canterlot castle nearby, she sighed flicking her tail "choices choices" she mumbled to herself, she was now officially a Mare only yesterday she was a Filly however now she had a choice to make for the rest of her life. She had been schooled at Celestia's School For Gifted Unicorns and before that well she didn't really remember before that. Rhythm flicked her blue mane nibbling on the end of the pencil, she was fond of nibbling things and was often scolded by her mother for it. In-front of her was a list of career options. She glanced around the park slightly annoyed by the war propaganda that was pined on every tree, bin and wherever it could go. It didn't help that she had lost her father in the war when his own magic backfired causing his own demise instead of the Zebra he had tried to kill. Rhythm glanced at the page again, either join the army or help with the war effort, she looked at the moral officer thinking that could be rather fun however she was still undecided and she did have until her next lesson to decide.She tucked the several folds of paper into her blue saddlebag and started to walk back towards the University which was a good kilometre away however she always liked a good walk.

Rhythm spent most of her breaks visiting this park, her normal group of friends had already gone and joined the army as soon as they got their graduation list the previous week. Suddenly from a nearby street a voice called out "hey little me with flank of the blank". Rhythm turned her head and saw her cousin Noteworthy giving him a scowl, her coat and mane was the same colour as his however her amber eyes were slightly different and he was a good foot larger but that was not the reason for the scowl. She was the only mare at her school not to have her cutiemark, she normally covered her flank with darker colours to hide her blank flank. "what?" she asked frowning at him.

Noteworthy tilted his head "now now, i'm only teasing little blank" he answered using one of his many nicknames for her, "I've got a message, after you finish whatever you special Unicorn's do at your school your going to have to come back to Ministry Row" he informed her. Rhythm twitched her ear "special event?, Ministry Row?" she asked curious. Noteworthy smiled "oh no, little flank you can't trick me into telling you, anyway you've been to Ministry Row before when they opened up that stable down the end" he summarised flicking his blue tail "you know where it is right?" he asked when he was told where it was in the monotone evacuation plan that Rhythm had heard earlier that day he sniggered "i forgot you get that every day, well see you later little flank some of us have actual work we have to do"  he finished before turning around and trotting away down a high-street towards the centre of Canterlot.

The Fall

Rhythm continued down the track, it was convenient that her University was on Ministry Row but then again most important things were. It was that big. Canterlot castle was in the distance and Rhythm continued looking at it while walking, she wondered what it would be like to live in it, the golden roof with the big glass windows then she tripped on a discarded bottle and hit the ground sending starts dance over her vision as her sensitive horn struck the ground. Rhythm stood up awkwardly before glancing at her dress, luckily she had not torn its white fabric but it had grey spots on where she had rubbed it against the diry road. Rhythm's horn glowed and the spots were gone, she levitated the bottle she had tripped over and threw it across the road shattering it into thousands of pieces making her feel better. Then it came Boom.