Fallout Equestria: A Heart Full of Bullets

"APPLESEED!" I yelled as I charged towards the ghoul, the butt of my gun raised to a position, meant to hit it into the creatures skull.

I jumped towards it raising the gun higher, so I could strike it's head harder. I started to bring the gun down, when Appleseed's face appeared, her hooves raised in a defensive position. I swung my body and the gun right, barely dodging the two ponies, and landing, in a heap, into a group of barrels.

damn Celestia to Tartarus that filly is going to be a pain in my ass, isn't she?

I jumped up and tried to aim for the ghoul's head, but Appleseed kept putting her face in the way,

"Kid get out of the way, so I can kill the thing!" I ordered, still trying to get a head in the sight

"No, ah'm not moving until you hear me out," she said, sticking her head in the way again,

"Fine! I give up, tell me why you won't let me shoot it," I put my gun down, finally giving up and waited for her to explain,

"First of all, she wasn't trying to bite mah head off, she was just hurt, so ah helped her bah giving her the last of mah painkillers, and-"

"Wait, wait, wait, YOU DID WHAT!" I yelled at her, almost wanting to put a bullet in her small skull,

"She was forced to attack us, or else they would've killed her, but now she is queen of her pack, because you killed the strongest of the pack, and now for healing her, she is willing to help us when we need her, so now we have an ally, now do you understand," she told me, standing on her hind legs and swirling her fore legs around each other.

I sighed, she was right about one thing, I did understand, but that still didn't mean the ghoul would turn on us,

"Look kid, just because you saved some pony, doesn't mean they will return the favor, so from now on, ask me before you do something like that again," I explained, letting her know one of the ground rules as well.

She nodded and turned to the ghoul,

"See, told you he'd leave you alone after some convincing," this comment earned her a glare from me,

"So, ah was wondering, what do we call ya?"

"Just call me, Carrottop, it's who I was before the megaspells,"

"Great, ah'm Appleseed, and this is... aheh, ah'm sorry I never got-"

"Bulletmoon, my name's Bulletmoon" I interrupted, a quick nod followed,

"It is good to meet you two, and I'm guessing you would like to leave safely, so I-"

"No, I think we're safe, so we will just be going, if we need you we'll call you on channel nine, since you guys probably have an unused, perfectly fine, radio, so...um...bye," and with that, Appleseed and I left the vault.

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We walked across the wasteland, well more like I was, Appleseed was riding on my back again.

good thing I didn't wear a battle saddle or this would have been worse, I thought as I trudged across the dirt.

After we had left, I made one more perimeter check, for safe measures, and Appleseed walked for a short distance, before nearly collapsing from lack of certain things. Now here we were, about an hour later, still trotting, silently, across the land to my home. I decided to break the silence,

"So, tell me about your stable life, were you alone, did you have a family, or what?" I asked, a little curious, hopefully a certain phrase wouldn't come to my head if this went wrong.

"Well duh, of course ah had a family, ah lived with mah momma, papa, and big sister, Rosepetal. Me and her was like two peas in a pod, except she didn't have the accent, and was nothing like our momma or papa. She was like mah great, great, great, great grandma, Lovetap, looked like her too. Except the ribbons on the her hair were green instead of red. She is also has cream colored like me, and she has brown hair-"

"Has?" I questioned, raising an eyebrow,

"Oh," she said sadly, before letting her head drop down to stare at my back,

"She might still be alive,"

"What do you mean, everypony in the-"

"Yes, everypony in the stable is dead, but about three months before the massacre, the overmare sent a group of ponies to start a civilization out here, mah sister was one of those ponies. We used to keep in touch with a radio in mah room, until the massacre two weeks ago, she probably thinks the radio broke, I miss her an awful lot, but I don't have any way to-"

"I have a radio at my house you could use it to contact her,"

"You do! Oh thank you thank you thank you, Bulletmoon!" She jumped off my back and started jumping up and down, excitedly.

Appleseed was for the first time after the massacre, excited, but the stable had been abandoned for way longer than two weeks. It was going to break her heart when she found out how long it had been.

maybe I should tell her before she talks to her sister, I didn't know what I was going to do,

"Hey, kid...uh...there's something you should know before we contact your sister,"

"Ah can't wait to talk to Rosepetal, she will be so happy to talk to me again, you are like the best friend ah never had, now what is it you wanted to tell me,"

I gulped, best friend, I didn't think I could have a friend, this was going to be harder than I thought,

"That...you are going to have to eat something first, you're as skinny as a twig without leaves" I couldn't tell her how long it has been it would kill her.

She smiled, "okay...ah'll eat, but after ah'm going to talk to mah sister, and we are gonna catch up on the past two weeks"

I laughed nervously, "aheh, yeah"

After a couple of minutes, she stopped jumping and got back on my back.

"So, how far are we from your house,"

"Not much farther, it's just over this hill, than we will just have to walk about a half-mile, and we're there,"

"YAY" she squeaked, she was about to jump off, when she realized how hyper she was and situated herself.

We continued up the small hill,

hopefully, those alicorns didn't burn down my home I thought as we reached the top,

"There it is," I pointed out to the makeshift building at the bottom of the hill,

"It's not much but, it's shelter," I told Appleseed, whose face changed to a, I'm-not-gonna-laugh face.

"What, I made it myself, it's harder than it looks" I told her, realizing I just said that and that I've talked more than I ever expected to.

She shrugged and fixed her face, before we started our way down. I still wondered how I was going to take care of her. I had no experience, and I had lived alone for so long, I didn't even know I could speak for that long. Hopefully, her sister would want me to take her to where ever she was. We finished our decent and started the half-mile journey to finish the journey, we'd get there by the time the sun set on the horizon, and we did.

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I opened the door and stepped into the darkness,

"Woah it's really dark in here," Appleseed said, blinking her eyes multiple times to adjust,

"Yeah, no kidding," I had been outside longer, so it was much darker than what she was adjusting to.

After adjusting, Appleseed jumped off my back and went looking for the radio, which I had to stop her so I could cook dinner and she would eat,

"Hey, not so fast, you eat first," I told her putting a hoof in front of her,

This earned a sigh from her as she turned towards what she thought was the kitchen, I stopped her again,

"Kitchen's that way," I pushed her head to the left to face the kitchen,

"Aheh, I knew that" she laughed, nervously, before walking to the kitchen,

"Nice try," I whispered to her as her tail disappeared into the room.

I made my way towards the kitchen, a frown forming on my face. How was I going to tell her that she's been hiding for years instead of two weeks? Another thing lingered in my head, how did she survive without food or water, did she find food and water? I pushed the thoughts to the back of my head, this was a time for cooking, not a time for moping. I puffed out my chest for a second, before realizing I was acting childish,

"Wow it's been awhile since I've done that" I told myself, it wasn't until later that I realized I was changing.