Fallout equestria: key of ruin

Fallout equestria key of ruin

Chapter 6: the colors of my foe

Blacklight and co had been reeking for most if the day. It was getting dark so they agreed to set up camp.

"so duster." started golden heart.

"yeah?" replied duster.

"can ya tell us more about your raider days?" asked golden heart.

Blacklight lit a fire using an incineration spell.

"yeah" added blacklight.

"guess I could tell ya a little bit" said duster.

Duster cleared his throat and begun.

"believe it or not, being a raider had some perks. I always had food, and I learned how to make some things"

"What kind of things?" asked blacklight as he floated out three cans of pork and beans.

"drugs, bombs." replied duster. "I even made my own drug. I call it patch"

"Why?" asked golden heart.

"it's a mix of a healing potion, pain killers, and hydra." it patches ya right up and you wont feel that funky sensation healing potions normally give ya."

Duster took a bottle of bluish purple liquid from his saddlebag.

"But it can only be consumed once per hour." Added duster.

Duster put the bottle back into his saddle bag.

"Sounds handy." said golden heart.

Blacklight tossed duster a can of pork and beans and he caught it in his hooves.

"we could use something like that" said blacklight. "can you make some more of that stuff?"

Duster smirked.

"if ya get me the proper ingredients." replied duster.

Blacklight handed golden heart the second can of pork and beans.

"So what's the plan when we find the zebras?" asked goldenheart.

"well it depends on if they are hostile or not." replied blacklight. As he opened his can with his knife.

"um, could you-"

Before goldenheart could finish blacklight floated the knife over to her can, opened it, then returned the knife to his holster.

"thanks" said goldenheart.

Duster opened his can using his teeth.

"any last minute questions?" asked duster.

"just one" replied blacklight as he swallowed a mouthful of pork and beans. "why do you have that baseball bat?"

Duster looked at the baseball bat handle sticking out of his saddlebag.

"when I was a little foal, my old man gave me it" replied duster. "he said bones, your gunna crack some skulls just like me."

duster poured some pork and beans into his mouth and swallowed.

"never had the heart to get rid of it."

Blacklight smiled.

"least you had a dad" said goldenheart.

The smile left black's face.

"you don't have a dad?" asked blacklight.

Goldenheart looked down.

"I did........" Began goldenheart. " But he turned his back on my mom the moment he had his way with her."

goldenheart poured pork and beans into her mouth and swallowed.

"bastard never gave a damn bout me" said golden heart. "my mom loved me though. but I. Wish that dad would have stayed......"

Blacklight put a hoof on goldenheart's shoulder.

"it's ok" said blacklight.

Duster finished off his meal and leaned his back against a rock.

"well I'm off to bed" said duster.

Duster adjusted his hat to cover his eyes.

"don't get too loud"

Duster fell asleep while goldenheart and blacklight blushed a bright red.

"uh.... Night I guess" said blacklight.

Blacklight curled up and fell asleep on the ground.

"night" replied goldenheart.

Goldenheart fell asleep lying on her back.

The next morning they continued walking. They were quiet for awhile untill blacklight decided to start up a conversation.

"so you think these zebras will know where my father's murderer is?" asked blacklight.

"I have no idea" replied duster. "this place used to be full of zebras at one point"

"when?" asked golden heart.

"way before the war" replied duster. "according to ledgend, the western wastes used to be entirely zebra. Then some time later celestia acquired the land and ponies became the dominant species."

" well there obviously isn't alot now" said blacklight. "I haven't seen a zebra since the ones who killed my father"

"well zebras are rare in the wasteland now" said duster.

"when should we be there?" asked golden heart.

Blacklight stopped and checked his pip buck.

"if we keep walking, we can get there by this evening" replied blacklight.

The trio continued walking.

The three stopped at what appeared to be the wreckage of a wagon. There were crates scattered around the wreak.

"well look at that" said duster.

"search for supplies" said blacklight.

Duster broke open a wooden crate with a strong kick with his hind legs.

"hello" said duster noticing something that had caught his eye.

Duster pushed away broken pieces of wood and uncovered a pack of cigarettes.

" dibs on these" said duster as he lifted the pack in a dim orange glow and put them away in his saddlebag.

"that stuff will kill you" said goldenheart as she struggled to open a tightly sealed crate.

" so do drugs but ponies keep doing them" said duster.

Blacklight noticed a trunk close to the wreakage. Blacklight opened the trunk and noticed it only had one thing inside it. It was another memory orb.

"keep watch" said blacklight.

His curiosity got the better of him and he took the orb out of the trunk. Then focusing his magic on it the world around began to go white.

oooooooooOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo

Blacklight immediately recognized the area he was in. It was just like the first orb he experienced. He also noticed that he was the same pony as the first orb.

"moon dust" blacklight thought to himself.

Moon dust was trotting towards that library from before. He opened the door and the purple librarian pony called twilight sparkle stood reading a book.

" twilight?" said moon dust.

Twilight put her book away and walked up to moon dust.

"hey it's you" said twilight.

"I'm just returning that book I checked out." said moon dust as he levitated that fellowship of the knight book from before.

Twilight took the book from him and put it on a nearby shelf.

"it was a great book" said moon dust.

"it was" added twilight.

"could I ask you something?" asked moon dust.

Blacklight could tell that he was nervous.

"sure" replied twilight.

"you want to go to that Octavia concert with me?" moon dust asked nervously.

"sounds like fun" replied twilight. "pick me up at eight"

"great!" said moon dust as he tried to contain his joy.

Then everything went white.

oooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo

Blacklight found himself back at the wreckage with golden heart and duster staring at him.

"so what was in that orb?" asked duster.

Blacklight put the orb into his bag with the others.

"a stallion's cherished memory" replied blacklight.

The three continued walking untill they saw a building in the distance.

"that's the place" said blacklight.

Duster took a pair of binoculars out of his saddlebag and handed them to blacklight.

"see what we got waiting for us" said duster.

Blacklight nodded and looked through the binoculars.

The building itself was a metal building with a fence around it. Sure enough there were zebras guarding it. They wore bizarre metal armor that covered their front, their hind legs, and their muzzles. They wore goggles and had glowing machines strapped to their back. They levitated bizarre looking rifles.

"wait." said blacklight "are they levitating those guns? That's...... Impossible!"

"What's wrong?" asked duster.

Blacklight gave the binoculars to duster and he looked.

"what in the hay?" said duster awestruck. "either we are both high as buck or they really are using magic to hold their guns"

"maybe those things on their back have something to do with it." replied blacklight.

"what do you think they are? Some sort of magic generator?" asked golden heart

"might just be" replied blacklight.

Duster put the binoculars away.

"so what's the plan?" asked duster.

"I think we need to get a closer look" said blacklight.

Blacklight and co were only a few feet away from the compound.

"ok we got closer" said golden heart. "now what?"

Blacklight paused to think.

"duster could you try going up to them?" asked blacklight.

"sure I'll go up to the zebras with superior technology and make friends with them." said duster sarcastically.

"well do you have a better-

"freeze!"

Blacklight and co turned to see an armored zebra pointing it's rifle at them.

"why do you come here you filthy pony" asked the zebra.

"who are you calling filthy?" replied duster.

"uh hi sorry I'f we are trespassing" started blacklight.

"I ought to-

The zebra stopped mid sentence.

"is that?"

The zebra fixed his gaze to the key around blacklight's neck.

"he seems interested in your key black" said golden heart.

"at long last...." said the zebra.

He pushed the barrel of his rifle right into blacklight's face.

"what the!?" yelled blacklight.

"your comming with me." ordered the zebra.

"no I'm staying here" replied blacklight.

Duster aimed his battle saddle at the zebra.

"hooves off pal!" said duster.

"shut the buck up you filth-

Before he could finish duster filled the zebra's head with bullets. The zebra fell to the ground dead.

"who's filthy now bitch!?" screamed duster.

"he knew about the key" said blacklight.

"uh we have a problem" said golden heart.

Duster's shooting had alerted the guards that they were there.

"intruders!" yelled one zebra.

"the grey one! He has the key!" yelled another.

"buck." said blacklight as he floated out his sniper rifle.

Golden heart took out her syringe gun.

"definitely hostile" said duster.

The zebras began to open fire with their weapons.

"behind cover!" yelled duster.

Duster jumped behind a large rock. Golden heart did the same. Blacklight leaped towards the boulder but a bullet from one of the zebra's guns hit his leg. He fell to the ground, Blacklight couldn't move.

"help!" yelled blacklight.

Duster pulled blacklight behind the boulder.

"can't move!" said blacklight.

"static bullets!" replied duster. "zebra assault rifle enchants it's bullets to stun it's targets."

Duster took a small bottle of red liquid From his saddle bag and poured some of it into blacklight's mouth.

Blacklight felt the paralysis vanish.

"thanks" said blacklight.

Blacklight peeked his head from behind the boulder and took aim with the sniper rifle. Blacklight fired a shot that hit one of the zebras on the compound's roof in the flank. It staggered and fell off of the compound.

"I have an idea!" said duster.

Duster took a grenade out of his bag.

"hit em with this!"

Blacklight lifted the grenade with magic and pulled the pin.

"eat it mother buckers!" yelled blacklight.

He threw the grenade and it hit a zebra square in the face before blowing it to bits.

"ha ha! I live when things blow up!" yelled duster.

Duster fired a burst from his battle saddle at a unlucky zebra.

"use the launcher!" yelled a zebra.

A zebra with a missile launcher battle saddle fired a missile and it landed in front of blacklight and co.... But it didn't detonate.

"..... It's a dud?" said golden heart.

A set of vents opened on the missile and green gas began spewing out of them. The three began coughing.

"the- cough!- buck!?" yelled blacklight.

"shut they- cough!- are trying- cough!- ta gas us out!" yelled duster.

"any- cough!- bright idea-cough!- s!?" asked golden heart.

Blacklight tried as hard as he could and stapes the missile in a green magical glow.

"hope that- cough!- armor doesn't have - cough!- gas masks!" yelled blacklight.

Blacklight lifted the missile out of the ground with magic and threw it back at the zebras, it landed on the ground in front of them, and the zebras began coughing.

"move up while they are distracted!" yelled duster.

Dusted took out his baseball bat, holding it in his mouth and charged the compound. Black put away his sniper rifle and took out his shotgun before he and golden heart followed duster's lead.

Duster reached the compound just as the gas dispersed. He galloped towards a zebra and smacked him across the face with his bat, shattering the zebra's goggles. The zebra fell to the ground and duster finished him off by smashing his head under his hoof.

Blacklight and golden heart quickly caught up and blacklight fired a shot into a nearby zebra. Goldenheart fired syringes at the unarmored sides of two nearby zebras. The chemicals in the syringes took effect and the zebras fell to the ground shivering. Blacklight quickly finished them off with head shots.

"think that's the last of them" said blacklight, putting his shotgun away.

Duster put his bat away.

"aw, I was starting to have fun." said duster jokingly.

Golden heart put away her syringe gun.

"what now?" asked golden heart.

Blacklight looked at her then at the compound.

"duster, keep guard outside, gold, your with me." replied blacklight.

The two entered the compound.

The inside was built mostly of steel. It had a simple layout, a large room full of beds, a kitchen, a room with tables and chairs. Blacklight and golden heart walked around the facility until they stopped at a room labeled office. Blacklight slowly opened the door. The room had filing cabinets, a desk, a terminal, and a ham radio.

"wonder why there's no zebras inside?" asked golden heart.

"I think they all joined the fight outside" said blacklight.

They walked into the room.

"I'll check the terminal" said golden heart.

Golden heart walked over to the terminal only to discover that it had no screen.

"it's broken?" said goldenheart.

"grevier base come in!"

Golden heart shrieked in suprise.

"buck!"

Blacklight turned to the source of the sound, it was the ham radio, it was on.

"greiver base! This is your commander! Respond!" yelled the voice coming from the radio.

Blacklight froze up, he heard that voice before, 14 years ago.....

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"Clean up this mess! I want that key!"

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It was his father's murderer.

Blacklight dashed to the radio and picked up the mic with magic.

"ive been looking for you" said blacklight.

Goldenheart looked at blacklight with confusion.

"who is this?" asked the voice.

"the pony who killed every zebra at this base." replied blacklight. "the same pony who is going to kill you!"

"and why would YOU want to kill me?" said the voice.

"don't play games you killed my father! You slit his bucking throat!" yelled blacklight.

"ah I remember him..... Stuborn bastard." said the voice. "this explains what he did with the key."

Blacklight was angry now.

"why do you want this stupid key!?" yelled blacklight.

The voice laughed.

"you don't know?..... Well let's just say it's the key that unlocks our future." replied the voice.

"our?" asked blacklight.

"yes our future" said the voice. "we are the true heirs of equestria, we are the future, we are the zebras of the west, we are the horde!"

Blacklight slammed his hoof against the desk.

"I'm going to kill you!" yelled blacklight.

The voice merely laughed again.

"you think you can kill me? The field commander of the horde?" asked the voice mockingly. "who do you think you are!"

"my name..... Is blacklight." said blacklight.

The voice paused.

"well blacklight" said the voice. "I look forward to killing you"

"I told you my name now tell me yours!" demanded blacklight.

The voice laughed, harder than before.

"oh you slay me black! You hunt me yet you don't even know my name!?"

Blacklight growled angrily.

"very well, I am Commander Zex." replied the voice. "I'd love to talk some more, but I have to go. However I will leave you with this, I will have that key, even if I have to tear it out of your filthy pony mouth, it will be ours! THE WEST IS RIGHTFULLY OURS! LONG LIVE THE FUTURE!, LONG LIVE THE HORDE!"

The line went dead.

"damn it!" yelled blacklight.

Blacklight smashed the ham radio with his hoof and let the mic fall to the ground.

"who was that?" asked goldenheart.

Blacklight looked at golden heart.

"that was the bastard who killed my father...."

Blacklight and golden heart exited the compound to find duster standing next to a small pile of zebra weapons.

"guys!" yelled duster.

Duster galloped over to the two.

"zebra weapons" said duster gesturing towards the pile. "we hit the motherload!"

Blacklight floated a bottle of apple whiskey out of duster's saddlebag

"if you wanted booze all ya had to do was ask" said duster.

Blacklight walked over to the pile and drenched it in apple whiskey.

"hey!" yelled duster.

Blacklight's horn glowed red. He touched the horn to the pile and it began to smoke, then he took two steps back and the pile caught fire.

"the buck!?" yelled duster.

Duster galloped over to blacklight and tackled him onto the ground.

"are you crazy!?" yelled duster.

"these weapons were made for the sole purpose of eliminating ponykind!" replied blacklight.

"I can live with that!" yelled duster. "I'm talking about my last bottle of apple whiskey!"

Then a bottle of apple whiskey dropped in front of duster. Duster scrambled off if blacklight and cradled the bottle.

"black!" yelled goldenheart.

Golden heart galloped over to blacklight and helped him up.

"you ok?" asked golden heart.

"I'm fine..." replied blacklight. "where did the whiskey come from?"

Blacklight turned to see a red sprite bot in front of duster with an open front compartment. The sprite bot turned towards blacklight.

"hello again black" said the sprite bot.

Black trotted over the the sprite bot.

"one?"......

Reputation with The Horde is now wanted.

LEVEL UP!

Speech is now 50

QUEST PERK

Filty animals- zebras suck. You do increased damage to zebras and enemies using zebra weapons.

NEW PERK

High Noon- this town ain't big enough for the both of you! Pistols and revolver do increased damage against enemies using pistols or revolvers.

MAGIC SPELL LEARNED

Ignite- you can use magic to ignite some flammable objects.