Fallout Equestria: Victim of the past

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Chapter 2

The Grand Tour

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As we walked up to the gate of new Appleoosa I got the feeling that I wouldn't like this place. "So this is new Appleoosa?" I said staring at the train cars piled up at three tall in places, easily five times as tall as me.

"Yup!" Allen exclaimed in a exceptionally cheery voice that I hadn't heard from her the whole way from where I woke up, "like it? We scavenged the cars from the train yard down the road. But that was before I was born."

"Oh? Can ya give me the grand tour?" I asked half expecting her to say no and get somepony else to give a tour.

"SURE!" She said loudly as she hopped up and down.

"Glad your enthusiastic." I said after jumping about a three feet in the air, waiting for my heart to start up again.

"I love giving tours! Its really fun." She said now calming down a bit.

"Okay lead the way, I guess."

"Yay!" She exclaimed loudly again.

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She led me to the main locations like the clinic, the bar/restraunt and lastly to the shop called absolutely everything but she stoped me before we went in. "I gata say something about the owner before we go in cause she doesn't like being called a zombie."

"Zombie? Why would I call her a zombie?" I asked slightly confused.

"Well you see, she is a sane ghoul, ghouls are ponies or griffons who have been hit by ALOT of magical radiation but survived, most are insane or soon to be, but some stay sane but take a lot of flak for it." She said giving me a brief history lesson on "ghouls"

"Alright I will try to be as kind as possible." I said putting a smirk on my face after saying it.

"Alrighty then!" She said now opening the door for me.

I walked through but held the door for Allen to enter as well. Turning around after closing the door Allen spoke up enough to echo slightly through the room. "Alright ditzey should be behi-" she didn't get any farther when I interrupted VERY excitedly.

"Derpy is alive!?" I exclaimed loud enough that a mare behind the counter in the storage room knocked something over making  a crash that sounded like a glass house blew up. Like she was famous in ponyville for, she stumbled out with her eyes characteristically pointing off in different directions. "Derpy?" I said as I ran over to the counter grabbing the grey mare in a big bear hug, not even noticing the missing fur and near corpse like wings she had.

She was as surprised as anypony who was suddenly thrown into a bear hug. Disengageing from my hug she pulled out a chalk board and wrote sir? Who are you? she backed up from the counter making sure to keep her eyes "sort of" on me.

"Derpy its me, Giga, we were best friends before all this happened, remember?" I asked more in a pleading tone. Something must've clicked because she looked at me, smiled, then grabbed me in an even tighter hug than I gave her. "Gah. Can't. Breathe." I gasped before she let up.

She grabbed the chalk board in her mouth and walked out from behind the counter.

Giga, its been forever! wrote the mare who was the only pony who wanted to be my friend, since I didn't have any and she had very few because she was clumsy. Scratching out the previous message she wrote out some more: well welcome to absolutely every thing. she smiled warmly to me like she usually did before the world ended.

"Thanks, so what do you sell here?" I asked pretty much knowing the answer.

She put a hoof up to the "Absolutely Everything" on the chalk board.

"Should have thought." I said giving a small chuckle "why do you write on that board instead of talking?"

She just looked at the ground and didn't write anything

"Her tongue was cut out by raiders" said Allen who I thought was still by the door.

"Ah!" I yelped while jumping three feet in the air, landing on my stomach not my legs. "Allen. Please don't scare me like that." Derpy giggled as I got back to my hooves for the second time today.

"Sorry" said Allen suddenly showing a shy side for the first time since we met.

"Its alright, anyways they cut out your tounge?" Directing the conversation back to derpy. Nodding she opened her mouth and pointed with her hoof to where her tounge should have been. Looking ashamed she started to walk back behind the counter. This was the first time since when I first met derpy that she was ashamed of her self, and I wanted it to be the last. Trotting over to her I grabbed her hoof and pulled her gently back to the foyer of the building where we stood not moments before. "Woah, woah ditzey its alright" choosing to use her first name instead of derpy I put a hoof over her shoulder. "Its alright, you are just as good of a mare with out speech as you were with it" I've never been good at comforting ponies but I have helped them not turn suicidal at iron shod. she smiled then hugged me.

Grabbing her chalk board she scribbled out: thanks giga, did you just come in here to help an old mare?

"Um. No... Allen here was showing me around and she brought me here last. Sorry I couldn't get here sooner." I looked around admiring the piles appon piles of stuff derpy had set out on the walls and the floor. One thing did jump out at me though, a silenced zebra assault rifle with a toggleable night vision scope and extended mags. "Hey derpy?" After the little reunion she had walked back behind the counter and was sorting some orange packets and throwing away one in every three. She looked up from the tedious task. "How much does this cost?" Pointing towards the amazing gun.

She started scribbling: 500 caps for the gun and 5 per magazine. my smile died as soon as I read it. Scribbling further she wrote: for you I'll take a third of the price off the gun, the ammo is the same though. she wiped the board after I read it and wrote: gata make money, sorry giga

"Its alright, I could get that from looting dead raiders hopefully. Oh hey how much does ammo for this cost?" Drawing the .44 from my coat pocket "and how much for a holster?"

She wrote out the prices with no degree of difficulty remembering them three for six bullets, and thirty for a holster pulling out thirty-nine caps I hoofed them over to her, where she promptly put them in the, some how working, cash register. She wrote out quickly before disappearing into the backone second while I get your stuff. she was back before I even finished reading and ploped a dark brown leather holster and eighteen bullets on the counter. She continued writing: how did you get a silencer for a revolver?

"Thank you derpy" I nodded to her while picking up the equipment and ammo in my telekinesis. "It was on a dead raider that Allen here took out." She just nodded, so we both turned to go.

As I waved to derpy who was back to sorting orange packets, Allen  spoke up. "So how do you know ditzey. Hmm?" She asked with enough venom to kill a Ursa Major.

"She was my best friend before the war." I said a little peeved she would act so oddly to find out me and ditzey were friends.

"Okay, explain to me how that happened." She demanded again.

"Alright if you want, but its an odd one." I said now sitting down clearing my throat.

"I had just moved to ponyville and had managed to find a house for rent..."

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"Thank you Mrs. Kicker for letting me stay as a tenant in your house." I said trying to keep on the good side of Cloud Kicker just in case she lives up to her name and the cloud was my face.

"Its no problem I usually live in a cloud house anyways this is more of a nonpegasi guest house." She smiled at me then looked over at the town clock, "oh, no. Sorry Mr. Byte but I need to an appointment. See you soon." She said running for about five feet before taking off towards the spa.

"It seems Aloe and Lotus got the heater working again." I chuckled to my self. I had sent even been here a week and a lot of stuff happened.

As it turns out sitting in a house with nothing to do is pretty boring, so I hopped up and wandered ponyville.

As I walked by a house that somehow wasn't bouncing down the street from the volume of the music playing, I knew this was going to be an interesting day.

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"Wait that sounds a lot like DJ PON-3!" Said Allen now no longer ready to kill me.

"As in fact it was, though I never met them face to face I heard a lot about her."

"DJ PON-3 is a stallion..." Allen spoke up again in a very no-stupid-shit voice.

"She was a mare."

"Stallion"

"Mare" before it came to blows like most arguments do when im involved in someway I relented, "alright fine here he is a stallion here."

"Agh hem." Again clearing my throat

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After passing nothing more ridiculous than DJ PON-3's house, I finally found a place of somewhat sanity. The park. I wandered for a good twenty minutes before I saw a very sad mare sitting on a bench crying softly to her self. My mind instantly went into use shoulder as pillow mode, as soon as I saw her. Sitting down I put my hoof on her shoulder as she sat leaning forward like that cyan mare with the lyre for a cutie mark sat.

"Are you alright?" Apparently I startled her because she almost jumped into the fountain behind us with a statue of celestia standing looking very regal. "Woah, woah. Its alright. My names Giga Byte what's yours?" getting pleasantries out of the way fast was the best way I could think of to get her to talk about that was wrong.

"I... I... I'm ditzey doo, but every pony just calls me derpy." She said still looking at the ground.

"Why is that?" I asked genuinely wondering.

"Because, I can't do anything right..." She broke into tears again as she said this.

"Its alright ditzey, what happened?" Still trying to help her, she looked up at me and I saw she had one eye that looked around while one focused as best as it could on me.

"Everyone hates me, I ruined the parade for big Macintosh when I bumped into a cloud and it lit the float on fire. Now I got fired and can't do anything." She said like the way a pony talks when they just want to lay down and die.

"Hey its alright, come with me I've got stuff at my house we can make... Do you like muffins?" I asked not expecting a to get tackled by ditzey.

"I love muffins!" She said letting out a squee of exitement. Completely forgetting being sad.

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"As you can guess if you've known derpy for any amount of time, we became friends right after I said muffin." I said wrapping up the short story for Allen. "So not one of the best, I've made my first friend stories, but I think its fine... for me at !east."

"Heh. Heh." She forcibly laughed "at least you have friends, my brother is all I've got." She said now in a sad voice.

"Don't worry, I'll get him back." I said trying to cheer her up. "So what do ya wana do?"

"Get my brother back!" She said instantly popping back into her excited voice.

she REALY wants him back, kinda sad she can't come with to get him. I thought to my self. "Um, Allen? I've got to go in alone." I said knowing her next reaction.

"Alright." She said completely throwing off my explanation on why she couldn't go with, it took me a second to register what she said.

"I'm sorry Allen but you can't... Wait what?"

"I said alright. I can guess by what your wearing and the silencers you try to go with stealth if you can. I'm quiet but in a place like that? I'll get us both killed." She said almost verbatim, my reasoning.

"I... Thanks Allen. I'll get your brother back. Now, can I ask, how many ponies are in there?"

"About forty." She said nonchalantly.

"Well this is gana be fun."