Fallout equestria: key of ruin

Fallout equestria key of ruin

chapter 1: welcome to the western wastes.

Blacklight trekked across the dusty wasteland in silence. He was miles away from the camp now. Blacklight stopped suddenly having a realization. He didn't know where to go.

He knew very little about the wasteland, only some small childhood memories and stories told by some of the griffins, he had no idea where to begin his search.

"I really should have thought this over more." blacklight said to himself.

Blacklight's moment of silence. Was interupted by what sounded like polka music.

"the hell?" said blacklight.

Blacklight walked towards the sound of the music.

"who could be playing music out here?"

Blacklight stopped in his tracks. He saw where the music was comming from. It was coming from a sprite bot. Blacklight had seen a broken one back in the camp, but this one was different. It was painted bright blue. Blacklight approached the sprite bot slowly.

"um.... Hello?"

Blacklight stopped again.

"wait a sec, what am I doing?" blacklight questioned himself. "this is a sprite bot! It can't talk! Let alone understand me!"

Suddenly the music stopped and the sprite bot turned to face blacklight.

"what the?"

A light on the sprite bot turned on and glowed a bright yellow.

"oh I understand alright"

The voice came from the sprite bot.

"holy buck!" yelled blacklight.

Instinctively he levitated his pistol out of his bag and aimed it at the sprite bot.

"easy there tiger" stated the bot. "no need to go pulling guns on everypony"

Blacklight lowered his weapon.

"how..... Are you talking?" blacklight asked "sprite bots can't talk."

"well I'm not a sprite bot. Think of this as a radio. I'm really somewhere else" replied the voice coming from the sprite bot.

Blacklight put away his gun.

"so who are you?" asked blacklight.

"it's for the best that you don't know. I've already said too much"

The sprite bot turned to leave but blacklight stopped it.

"wait, I have some questions."

"like what?" asked the voice.

Blacklight paused.

"I'm looking for a zebra with a scar over one of it's eyes." replied blacklight.

"sorry kid" answered the voice "don't see too many sprite bots".

"well do ya at least know what this is?" asked blacklight gesturing to the key around his neck.

"well ain't that something" said the voice. "I can tell you this, it looks like it was from before the war."

"one last question." said blacklight. "where is the nearest town?"

The sprite bot paused for a moment. Then began it's response.

"closest town is bitterhoof. Thats about an hour away. But I don't think you will find anything you need there"

"thanks for your help" said blacklight.

Blacklight began to walk away.

"hold it" said the voice.

Blacklight stopped.

"what is your name?"

Blacklight turned to face the sprite bot.

"black light."

"black light eh, well black, your alright in my book. You can call me , One"

"why do they call you that?"

Before blacklight got his answer the light on the sprite bit turned off and began playing polka music again as it hovered away.

"who was that?" blacklight thought to himself.

Blacklight looked at his pip buck and saw that a location was marked on it.

"bitterhoof it is then".

Blacklight headed towards the direction of the marker.

Blacklight had been walking for an hour. He saw the ruins if a town in the distance and stopped for a break.

"that must be it".

Blacklight levitated a bottle of water out of his bag and took a big sip then put it back in his bag and continued His walk towards bitterhoof. Blacklight stopped at the town gates and saw that nopony was there.

"hello!" yelled blacklight. "anypony there?"

He looked at his pip-buck and noticed two red marks on is eyes-forward-sparkle (E.F.S. For short)

"buck" muttered blacklight pulling out his pistol. And taking cover behind a large rock.

Blacklight peeked his head out and saw two fugues approaching. One was an earth pony and the other was a unicorn. Both wore makeshift armor. The ilunicorn was levitating a pump action shotgun and the earth pony was holding a pool cue in it's mouth. They fit the description of something he heard about in the camp.

"raiders"

The unicorn noticed blacklight.

"there he is!"

The unicorn fired a shot but it missed and the earth pony charged at blacklight. Blacklight looked at his gun then back at the raiders.

"first real firefight." blacklight told himself. "hope that training worked."

Blacklight got out from cover and took aim at the charging raider.

"I'm gunna rip out your throat and use you for a rug!" he heard the raider yell.

Blacklight fired two shots. The first hit the head, stunning the raider and the second went clean through it's eye socket, killing the raider. Blacklight saw the other raider take aim. Acting quickly blacklight lifted up the pool cue with magic and tossed it at the raider. The pool cue impaled the raider through the chest, piercing it's heart. Killing him.

Blacklight put away his gun. He had not only survived his first real fight, but he had won it.

Blacklight searched the first raider's body. Only thing he found was five bottle caps. Then he turned his attention to the other body. The other body held more loot. The second raider had a bottle of water, ten caps and some shotgun shells. Shotgun shells.

Blacklight turned his attention to the discarded shotgun. Blacklight floated it up to eye level and examined it. It was intact and in good condition.

"must be my lucky day"

Blacklight stashed the shotgun and the ammo in his bag and walked into the town.

Blacklight had made his first mistake. He saw that the town was full of raiders. Blacklight took shelter in an abandoned building before anypony noticed him.

"stupid sprite bot" said blacklight. "I'm in this cesspool of raiders with just a knife, a pistol, and a shotgun."

blacklight heard the doorknob turn.

"shit." blacklight hid in a nearby closet. the front door opened slowly and he saw through a crack in the door two raiders, one male and one female walk in, locking the door behind them.

"looks like you can't keep your hands off of me flaming bow" said the male raider.

"just shut up and mount me" said the female raider.

Blacklight closed the closet door fully. He didn't want another traumatic memory. Blacklight decided to look around the closet for supplies and to pass the time. There were metal crates but they were all empty. Blacklight's attention turned towards a cardboard box. Blacklight opened the box and saw it's sole content.

It was a purplish orb with a label on it.

"the day I met her"

Blacklight's curiosity got the best of him and he levitated it out of the box. But upon bringing it to eye level, everything went white.

Blacklight was no longer in a closet. He was in a bustling town full of happy ponies. And he was no longer himself. He was a black unicorn colt with a white mane with a full moon for a cutie mark. Walking down the street.

"this is weird" blacklight thought to himself.

The colt stopped at a large tree building.

"why is he stopping?" thought blacklight.

"this must be the ponyville library" said the colt.

The colt walked up to the door and opened it. Inside was shelves full of books, soo many books. But nopony was there.

"hello?" asked the colt.

"just a sec!" replied a female voice.

A purple unicorn pony with a purple mane and some kind of star for a cutie mark walked in through a nearby set of stairs.

"welcome to the ponyville library, how may I help you" asked the purple mare.

"oh hello." said the colt. "I'm looking for a book called fellowship of the knights. A friend said I should read it but he lost his copy."

"I've read that book" replied the mare. "it's a great read"

The purple unicorn used magic to levitate a book off of the shelf and passed it to the colt.

"thank you miss....." the colt paused.

"my name is twilight sparkle" said the purple mare.

Then everything became white again.

Blacklight was back in the closet, and he was himself again.

"what was that?" blacklight thought to himself. " couldn't control what the pony that I was was doing, but I could see what he saw. It was like I was living his memory."

Blacklight stashed the orb into his bag and opened the closet door a bit to check if the raiders were still there. Luckily they were both asleep on the floor.

"nows my chance" blacklight tip toed out of the closet and headed towards the door. Blacklight was about to open the door when loud sounds of gunfire erupted outside, awaking the two raiders.

"hey!" cried one of them.

"aw buck!" blacklight yelled as he took his knife out of his holster using magic.

The male raider started bolted up and rushed blacklight, but blacklight stabbed him whil he was charging, ending him. Then he noticed the female raider reaching for a 10mm pistol. Blacklight quickly jammed the knife into her spine and twisted it. Causing her back to split in two. Blacklight removed his knife and used the fabric from their clothes to while the blood off before putting his knife away.

"that gunfire"

Blacklight opened to door and saw the raiders firing at a group of cleaner ponies in armor. The raiders were too busy to notice him. Black could hear yelling from the other ponies.

"were pinned down!"

"medic!"

"don't give up!"

Blacklight could tell the raiders were winnin

"those other ponies must be good" blacklight told himself. " maybe I can help."

Blacklight floated his shotgun and combat knife out and snuck up on the raiders.

"were going to eat tonight!" yelled one raider.

Blacklight made his move. He snuck up behind one raider using a bolt action gun and jammed his combat knife into the raider's neck, causing the raider to scream in pain. The other raiders alerted to the noise, turned to see blacklight.

"get him!" yelled one of the raiders.

Blacklight aimed his shotgun and fired a shot into the closest raider, his head burst into large red chunks as blacklight pumped the shotgun and took aim again. The raiders took aim at blacklight, completely forgetting about the other ponies. Blacklight acted fast, he held the corpse of the raider he stabbed in front of him with magic. The corpse absorbed almost all of the bullets impact. While the raiders were trying to get black, the other ponies took advantage of the opportunity and gunned down the remaining distracted raiders using assault rifles.

With the battle over, blacklight let the corpse fall to the ground and put away his weapons. Then turned to the other ponies.

"whos that guy" said one of them.

"he ain't no raider thats for sure" said another.

Blacklight walked over to the ponies. Black could see clearly what they looked like now. They wore dust brown armor and helmets,

"is everypony ok?" asked blacklight.

One of them walked forwards, his armor was a darker shade than the others, he wore a different helmet too. Physically he was a peach colored stallion with a black mane and a rifle for a cutie mark.

"as far as we can tell, no casualties but some wounded." replied the stallion. "if you hadn't come in things would have been worse."

Blacklight smiled at the mention that none of them died.

"glad I could help" said blacklight. "I'm blacklight" blacklight extended his hoof to the stallion.

"I'm sergeant hoofbeat of the new guard" replied the stallion as he shook his hoof.

"what's the new guard?" asked blacklight.

"never heard of us?" asked hoofbeat. "we are a group of volunteers who based ourselves off of the pre war royal guard. Our goal is to stop all of the chaos in this end of the wastes."

"this end of the wastes?" asked blacklight.

"yes, this is the western wastes." replied hoofbeat. Hoofbeat pointed his hoof at a large mountain range far in the distance. "those mountains there, they divide us from the rest of the wasteland. If you go through the mountain pass, you end up in the main wasteland, there lies the ponyville ruins, new appoloza, and Canterlot. We don't have any influence there since it's past our range of influence."

Hoofbeat turned towards the town gate.

"I can tell you more at the camp. come on"

Hoofbeat and his troops took blacklight to a large camp with steel walls, watch towers, and some intact buildings. Blacklight and hoofbeat sat in front of a campfire.

"where was I...." started hoofbeat. "ah yes, our area of operation Is very limited. We managed to decrease raider activity here, but we are facing a problem."

"what kind of problems?" asked blacklight.

"ever hear of a stable?" asked hoofbeat.

Blacklight nodded.

"well there's a bunch of raiders in stable 22, they have it's residents hostage. Said that If we try going past their so called boundary that they would kill them all". Hoofbeat paused. " we need to free those hostages so we can get in further, expand...... Build more bases."

"there you are" said a voice.

The two turned to see an older unicorn stallion with a white coat, a grey beard, grey mane, and a shield for a cutie mark. He wore grey armor rather than brown armor.

"sir" said hoofbeat as he gave a salute.

"at ease" said the older stallion.

The stallion sat down next to hoofbeat.

"so your the one who saved some of my boys." said the stallion to blacklight. "I'm comander shield."

"I'm blacklight."

Shield looked at blacklight.

"I'm the leader of the guard. I can't thank you enough," shield began " you helped a group of ponies that you never even met before."

Shield took out a small sack of caps and gave it to blacklight.

"this is for your troubles" said shield. "I now ask you, can you help us with an important task?"

"what is it?" asked blacklight?

"I know hoofbeat told you about the stable." shield paused for a moment. "we need a third party, someone like you."

Blacklight put the caps in his bag. Then he turned back to shield.

"let me guess" blacklight began. "you want me to break the hostages out?"

Shield nodded.

"we will supply you with whatever you would need, ammo, medicine, whatever you need to break them out." replied shield. "if you decline, I understand."

Blacklight took a moment to think things over before he came to a conclusion.

"I will, but on one condition"

"name it" replied hoofbeat.

"I'm looking for a zebra" said blacklight. "I want to know if you seen him. He has a scar over one of his eyes"

Shield smiled.

"I sadly haven't seen your zebra, but I know someone who has." shield replied. "save the hostages, and I'll direct you to him."

Blacklight shook shield's hoof.

"deal"

Shield got up.

"you go in tomorrow" shield started. "tonight you rest, we have a spare room you can sleep in."

Blacklight laid in the bed awake. He couldn't get to sleep. But he quickly remembered the book alvere gave him.

"maybe reading will help" blacklight thought to himself.

Blacklight lifted the book out with magic and opened it to page one. It was a story from long before the war. The book detailed how six ponies saved equestria from eternal night. Blacklight read their names to himself.

"rainbow dash....... Applejack....... Pinkie pie....... Fluttershy....... Rarity......... Twilight..... Sparkle."

Black remembered his experience from the orb, the purple mare.

"twilight sparkle....., the element of magic"

Blacklight put the book back in the bag and closed his eyes.

"was this pony famous?" that was the last thing that crossed his Mind before he fell asleep.

To be continued.........

Reputation with new guard is now accepted.

LEVEL UP!
Small guns is now 25
Stealth is now 25

new perk!

<Spy- what did you expect? You gain bonuses to sneak and lockpick whenever you are indoors.