Fallout Equestria: Vice & Virtue

by Bronydiamio

Bias

Previous Chapter

It felt like it was only a moment but when I awoke my hooves we're bound and I was stuck looking up at a used-to-be white tile ceiling and an ugg... ghoul. My entire body convulsed up trying to get away from the foul creature on top of me, I wanted to try so hard to escape or atleast be able to block this place out.

"Calm down." a familiar voice echoed off the walls reverberating and getting more and more distorted. "Shade its Rarity calm down..... Rose get away he can't stand Ghouls. I assure you he means no harm but this must be like his worst nightmare. He's been like this as long as I've been with him.
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The ghoul appeared feminine form but her muscles were barely connected. "Well he should be kinder to the pony that just saved his life, but while I’m gone please tell him what I've done to his leg and how much that would cost." The ghoul spoke barely audible with the raspiness of a thousand years of decay.

"Rarity what did it do to me please tell me she didn't turn me into one of them." I said my volume increasing with each words as I continually tested my bonds with no luck.

"Calm down she just gave you a bit of an enhancement, it was to save your life. On your front right hoof she gave you a piece of machinery, it kind of looks like an iron cuff. She said something about a new way to give you drugs and incorporate your breeder thing." Star said moving up to my face and freeing one of my hooves

Lifting it up I saw what looked like a iron disc shooved into my leg with holes filled with every kind of drug imaginable and some I haven't even saw before. "Rarity where’s my saddle I’m feeling fine lets get going." I said magically unlocking my binds. I had magic why hadn't I thought of that before I am not a smart soldier.

"About that.." Star spoke as she hoofed at the ground. "It got broken in the battle; she let you have that little device if she could keep the scrap metal. I agreed."

"Rarity I made it out of the battle we were safe, I fired it right before I passed out she STOLE IT." I shouted levitating all the scalpels and running out of the room. I ran out into a blood stained hallway. Looking into the rooms as I ran past them I saw the bodies of a countless number of ponies, some were electrocuted some looked to be overdoses. "She was experimenting on PONIES, on ME." Star stopped cold in her tracks as I spoke her eyes growing wider as she looked into the room infront of her.

Running back to her I saw what had frightened her even more then the experiments. A dozen or so corpses hooked on meat hooks all being hauled into some kind of incinerator the worst was that it seemed to be processing their ashes and producing vials of a black powder.

One of the hooks swayed, somepony was in here hopefully it’s that bitch rose I want to make her pay for what she has done. Suddenly one of the "corpses" opened their eyes these ponies weren't dead they were ghouls. Looking down at the contraption on my hoof silently blaming it for all the trouble in this place I saw something that made me vomit up everything I have ever eaten. One of the slots for chems was filled with that grey powder.

"Ghouls never change they're always touching on subjects that should be removed from this world completely, this one is no exception. Leave these be Star we don't know which ones are feral." I told star. She decided to ignore the order and rushed to the aid of the first ghoul. As soon as her hoof met flesh its eyes flashed open as its muscles contracted and bent its body to bite her. Its mouth became enshrouded in a magical glow which preceded to break its spine all down its neck and back. One of the ghouls had the hook slid its back and landed with a thud on the floor.

The sound of what one would imagine a demon spawning echoed around the room as the fallen ghoul stood up. The knives I was floating shot into the ghoul penetrating out the other side and hitting the wall on the other side. The ghoul managed a half laugh before the scalpels exploded in a flurry of blades. Most of them launched themselves out of my levitation field. By the time my attack was finished I had only a single blade left. "Wait Shade I think she's the one who took care of the feral one, see look she has a horn." Star said taking the knife out of my levitational field and into her own.

"Don't be foalish there aren't any unicorn ghouls let alone any that can still use magic." I said my eyes laid intently on the ghoul to make sure it didn't get back up.

"Wait I'm not one of those feral ones unicorns don't lose their mind so easily." the ghoul spoke sounding to be a hundred or so years old.

"I don't trust her she's probably that doctors assistant." I said lining my last blade up for another strike.

"Then why the hay would I be set on a hook in this lab, and besides the point set that down your not going to do any good I am a Canterlot ghoul after all." the ghoul said becoming younger and younger as she spoke.

"Whats a Canterlot ghoul and why would that make you invincible." I spoke sternly threatening her with my knife.

"I assumed my fame preceded me but I guess this is a bit far away. In the capitol, Canterlot, during the wars the zebras bombarded the city with nuclear missiles for hours causing the princess to raise the shield for protection. The zebras used one of their stealth cloaks and snuck in a pink cloud bomb and detonated it killing and fusing everyone within the city. The ones that made it into the stable survived for a few generations but the cloud forced itself in through the door and killed them to. A large percentage of those that supposedly dies in the pink cloud ended up becoming Canterlot ghouls as they are called they are mostly like normal ghoul except they are often fused to some item and can only be killed through dismemberment." She recited as her body pulled itself together looking almost alive once again. "My body can regenerate itself as long as I still have control of my magic, but not even Star Sparkle maintained her magic for long I am the current know record for the longest time spent in control of their magic and sanity."