Fallout Equestria: LoneBolt

There was nothing to describe on how I was feeling right now. I could only stare at this old timer with utter disbelief, while a furious storm of emotions brewed inside of me. I wanted to hit him. I really want to deck this old bastard for claiming to be apart Bunker Colt. After telling him military secrets that are from a project that's meant to keep the peace, he has the fucking audacity to claim to be apart of it. I could literally feel my blood boiling as this asshole was still doing the Wonderbolt's salute. If it wasn't for the injuries that I've suffered, I would of already of leap from this bed I was confined to and promptly be the tar out of him.

His stupid smile started to fade as he realized that he was pissing me off. He stopped saluting me and sat next to me, despite the fact that I still wanted to hit him so much. Tension started to build in the air again. All signs of acting friendly towards one another has disappeared at this point.

"So... You don't believe me, Commander Fleetfoot?" He asked, while keeping his distance from my hooves. Him just talking like he knows me made my blood turn to steam. How dare this... This civilian claim to be part of Rising Phoenix!? How dare he say that I've woken up fifty years pass the date that I was suppose to wake! I will kill him if he disrespects the project one more time by claiming to be apart of it.

"Of fucking corse I don't believe you, civilian." I could see him flinch from the venom from my words. He actually seemed hurt from the words I had spoken.

"Commander... I know it may be hard to believe, but you did past the eighty year mark, by fifty years. I am one of the last members of Bunker Colt and If-" I cut him off before he could continue his lies.

"Shut up, Civilian! I don't care what you have to say. I tell you one of the Ministry of Morale's secrets and you have the balls to claim to be apart of it. Do you have any idea what the princesses will do to me!?"

"Commander, the prin-"

I cut him off again as I continued to spew venomous words towards Smash'n Grab.

"Actually, what the princesses could do to me is nothing on what's going to happen to me now. You have no idea on what kind of trouble I've brought upon myself. I fucking broke a Pinkie promise when telling you those secrets! I doubt you even understand what a Pinkie promise is. If you even understood a fraction of what a Piknkie promise is then you would be throwing up right now out of fear. When you break one it's the fastest way to lose a friend's trust, though I doubt you even understand the concept of 'Friendship'."

I was fuming still with anger and fear om what's going to happen to me is starting to mix in. Smash'n Grab just sat there, letting me tear into him verbally. I think he was too caught off guard by my sudden rage to even come up with a reasponse. "Pinkie will be coming after me now. I bet on my life that the corpse of Pinkie will rise and chase me down for breaking a promise I made over eighty years ago."

Smash'n Grab seemed to get some confidence back from my tongue lashing. He collected himself and fixed what was left of his demeanor. "Commander... Now I know you survived a tough enemy when leaving your bunker and it's easy to be scared of the unfamiliar, but my boys and I can assure you that the head of the Ministry of Morale won't be coming after you from beyond the dead."

I scoffed at his meaningless words. I was still extremely pissed and decided to lose out again at the old bastard. "I bet you and whoever you're with are no better than those earth pony savages that happily greeted me when the main door to Alpha Bunker o...opened."

I trailed off at the end when i realized what I was saying at the end. Alpha Bunker's door is still open. Open to those mosters to have free reign over. The defense turrets were riddled with error codes and are currently offline. So there's no way to stop them from...

In the heat of the moment of leaving Alpha Bunker and engaging those hostiles, I had forgotten to close the main door to Alpha Bunker. All that anger inside me suddenly flipped over to panic. I soon started to hyperventilate and became hard to breath. Just thinking about the mistake I had made caused me to go into panic more. I was in such a state of hysteria that I didn't even notice that Smash'n Grab had gotten up from where he was sitting from and trotted up to me.

A sharp pain spread across my face suddenly. I was snapped out of my hysteria. I looked up and saw that Smash'n had his hoof out stretched to his side. It was obvious on what he had just done. He slapped me? I was in disbelief that he had actually slapped me across the face. It became that it was Smash'n Grab's turn to be angry.

"Don't ya dare compare me or my family to those ponies! Never ever say that they're similar to us ponies in anyway. I may have done some bad stuff to survive, but I'm nothing like the Amenas." He shouted at me. This change in behavior from Smash'n Grab scared me a little. One moment I'm tearing into a stallion who has no backbone to stand up the verbal abuse, then the next thing I know he's putting me in my place with just a few simple words. His shouting caused me to sink into the bed I had been laying In just find some way to escape.

Smash'n Grab seemed to notice my submissive demeanor and stopped himself before saying anything worse than he already had.  Before saying anything else, he took a deep breath and began doing breathing exercise similar to what I do. With his temper now at ease, Smash'n Grab sat back down. It made the atmosphere in the room less tense, so I let up on my guard. It was easy to tell that Smash'n Grab had regretted on what he had said. I didn't hold it against him for yelling at me. I had let my mouth run and words were said that I really shouldn't of said. My words had cut deep into him and it was easy to tell that they were still causing pain in him. I regretted saying those words. I had attentially meant to hurt the old bastard for speaking such lies about being apart of project Rising Phoenix, but I never meant to hurt him this badly.

The small room was silent for a while. Neither one of us wanted to speak up, since we had both hurt each other deeply with words alone. During this silence I looked to the window of this one pony mobile home. There were mountains in view and I couldn't see much else. Thick fog covered majority, if not all parts of the sky. The world outside looked sick with all those clouds hanging around. It just made the mood in this room even worst. I tore my sight away from the depressing seen outside and back to Smash'n Grab. He saw that I was looking back at him. All he did was rub a hoof on the back of his neck and shied away from me.

My worries about Alpha Bunker were still in the back of my mine, but I... I just couldn't bring myself to speak up. I might be a military pony through and through, but I'm still just a simple pony. He may be a lying, no good, wing breaking pegasus, but I still can tell when a fellow pony has been hurt

Before I could even muster the strength to even talk, Smash'n Grab beat me to it. "I'm sorry Commander. Lost my cool there. I know you didn't mean on what you said, since you don't know who the Amenas are and what they've done to ponies around here. But... But when you said those... Those words. It just ticked me off the wrong way. To even think about being compared to those monsters drives me to the skies."

Smash'n Grab sighed. He stared down at the floor for a moment, before looking back up at me. He gave a half assed smile at me. My ears folded against my head. This just made me feel worst. This pony who I only met twenty minutes ago and throughly abused with words in that time has already forgiven me. I could never do that. Even if the pony didn't know what they were saying to me, I couldn't forgive them in the matter of seconds after being insulted. If he's willing to forgive me, then maybe he's willing to help? It's worth a shot to try.

With confidence and some high optimism, I spoke. "I need to go back there."

My words caught Smash'n Grab off guard, since I hadn't spoken in awhile. The old stallion was confussed for a bit. "I'm sorry, but do you mine repeating what you just said."

"I need to go back to my bunker. It's very important that I do."

Smash'n Grab seemed even more perplexed. "I really hope I'm just going senile, but did you say that you want to go back? Back to the Amenas camp? The place you barly survived leaving in the first place? The same place that me and my boys rescued you from?"

I nodded a simple yes to all his questions. It seemed to have made his left eye twitch.

"Are you crazy!? What in Celestia's plot do you want to go back, you nearly died just leaving the place!"

"Even though I forgive your blatant lies from earlier, I can't answer that. I just need to get back to my bunker. It's important that I do get back there."

The old pegasus was perplexed with emotions. From my point of view, he looked like he was switching between bewilderment and disbelief. I took this as the oppirtunity to slide out of my bed. The IV tube was still in my foreleg so I took hold of the stand and slowly passed myself over to my armor that was resting on the tiny table. Getting to my armor was a little difficult. The wagon was still moving, and unlucky for me, it was on a bumpy road. I grateful that I had the IV stand with me. I probably would of fallen and caused more damage to my shoulder, if it weren't for the sturdy piece of medical equipment.

It didn't take long to reach and see my armor. The kind of damage the TB-52 Hurricane had suffered from was anypony's guess. I was shot at numerous amount of times with with a varity of weapons and explosives. Before taking a closer look at my armor, I looked back at Smash'n Grab. He seemed to be still perplexed by my words. With him occupied, I began to look over my armor.

First I started by checking over the talismans and enchantments that were placed in the armor. Everything seemed to be were it should be, expect for two things. The tailsman that dampened the recoil for the EX-BB had been removed. Most likely removed my one of Smash'n Grab's boys. The other part that wasn't right was the repair tailsman. It had suffered damange from that stupid Colt-in-ah-Box. This meant that my armor could no longer repair itself and any future damage was permanent. I cursed to myself for being careless with handling this armor.

Now that the talisman have been checked over. I examined the damage that had been dealt to the TB-52 Hurricane. The rear section of the armor was completely ruined, expect for the bottom parts of the leggings. There was no salvaging it, so I moved on to the other parts. The right shoulder piece had a nice clean hole in it. Seeing that made look down at my banaged wound. It made me grateful that the armor took most of the blast for me. With this size of hole, I would of been dead if not for the armor.Before I could even start to look over my weapons that were still attached to the suit, I felt myself forcefully turned around.

Smash'n Grab was looking at me dead in the eyes. He had this look of concern on his face. "Look... Commander. I know you want to go back to your bunker, but I can't let that happen. It was a big enough risk to even get that close to their camp. It's to dangerous for-"

Smash'n Grab seemed to be unwilling to let me go back. He was just naming off reasons on why not to go back. The choice at this moment was just to tell the stallion on why I needed to go back, despite the number of protocols I'd be breaking. Eh... Not like I haven't broken them already for going into detail about Project Rising Phoenix.

"Because I forgot to shut the main door to Alpha Bunker!" I shouted at him. It seemed the best choice in getting him to shut up, which as it turned out it worked.

Smash'n Grab stooded there for a second, before shacking his head back and forth. "Do you think we would leave the front door to the Alpha Bunker open? We saw the door open before finding you lying in the dirt bleeding to death. My boys had dealt with those kinds of bunkers before, so they snuck up to the door and proceeded to flip the manual override switch to the forcefully close the door. It wasn't easy for them in the less, but they managed and now that door ain't going to be opening again anytime soon."

I would say that I'm relieved that the door is shut, but hearing that the override switch has been flipped now ruined any chance of me being cooperative with him.

"You fucking idiot!"

This time I caught Smash'n Grab off guard. Once again Smash'n Grab was confused. He looked more worried than confused though, but that didn't matter to me at the moment. The only thing I want to do now was follow through with my orginal thoughts I had earlier. I'm so going to punch you now you old bastard.

"Did it ever accrue to you on where the rest of Alpha Bunker soldiers are! Their still down there, under that spell that has allowed me to be here in the first place!" My temper was getting the better of me again, but I really didn't care. I wanted to be mad and I had all the right to be.

"My troops are still under and haven't awoken yet! I tried to wake them, but due a malfunction in the system it made it so I couldn't wake them and I had no clue on how to disable the spell manually. I know the override code to the machines that currently keep them the way they are, but the systems were fried for some reason. Oh and it wasn't just the chambers that had issues, but the whole fucking bunker. The entire mainframe of Alpha Bunker is fucked up. It's a Celestia miracle that I even managed to open the front door!"

My anger was boiling over and now turned to unadulterated rage. I took a good hold of the IV stand with my bandaged hoof. I defiantly was going to punch him and he knew it. I sent a quick gab to his side, but he blocked me. I responded by using the IV stand to my advantage. In mere seconds I round house kicked the fucker to the ground. In my fit of rage I ripped out my IV tubes and jumped on top of Smash'n Grab. I grabbed him by his head and brought his eyes up to mine. I stared directly into his eyes, so he could see the wrath he has brought upon himself. "You fucked them! Fucked them to tararus for shutting that door with the override! I swore to protect them and now that has been ruined because of you!"

I dropped his head back down against the wooden floor. I raised a hoof, ready to strike him for ruining the promises that I had made. Before I could even bring my hoof down upon his face, I felt a prick against my neck. I slapped my hoof against my neck to what ever had pricked me in the neck. I soon felt dizzy and started to lose some balance. In my peripheral vision, something caught my ever weakening attention. A quick look away from Smash'n Grab, I saw a syringe floating in the air, being enveloped by grey magic. At this point I had fallen on my ass, since I could no longer stand. My vision also started to blur, but I managed to see past the syringe and saw a unicorn filly standing by the door.

I couldn't tell what she looked like because i couldn't clearly see anymor. Even with drugs going through my system, I stood back up, ready to face against the unicorn. Through blury movement from the unicorn I saw her bring something out from what looked like a saddle bag. The object she had pulled out flew through the air and I was meet with another prick against my neck. With a second dose of whatever had been in the syringes, it  finally did its job. I went down like a sack of gems, but not before saying one more thing. "Yuuu berstaurd."

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[Audio log recording #1 now commencing]

Uh...is thing on?

*audio from unknown pony* Yes it is Captain. The light above means that it's recording what we speak.

It does? Oh uh... Thank you... private...Winter....winter heart

*audio from Private Winter Heart* No need to thank me Captain. I'm just here to aid and assist you If anything wrong happens.

Oh well... Ok private... Uh... Ok got to start speaking my thoughts out loud now. Ok...ok...you can do this...you can do this Fleetfoot. Nothing to be scared of...nothing at all. It's just a simple experiment. It's for the war... to beat those striped bastards. Nothing to worry about.... Just going to be a test subject on... On... What is this stuff you'll be putting into me?

*Audio from unknown pony*- It's an experimental chemical compound that has been fused with unicorn magic. You are here to test the effects it has on the pony body. You do remember the papers that you had to sign in order to be allowed to be a test subject?

Yes I'm aware of what I signed. I'm not that old to have my mine slip away from me just yet! Don't you give me that look you egghead. Even if I wasn't this old, I'd still do this to make Equestria and the princesses proud.

*Audio from private Winter Heart*- Fleetfoot, the recording is still going. Remember it's very important you only speak your own thoughts. This data is needed for the Ministry of Arcane Science.

Oh... Sorry. Just get distracted easily from the old age. Hmm hmph... This is Fleetfoot, former Wonderbolt captain, now retiree. I have volinteered myself for the experiment that was mentioned by the egghead from earlier. This audio log is to keep track of my mental functions and for future scientific study if this experiment leads to anything. Now I'm suppose to record my thoughts on how I feel about this all. The only this I can say is... Is that I'm scared on what's going to happen... I'm really scared right now. I just hope this is enough to make up for past mistakes.

[Audio log recording #1 now ending]

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"Unicorns." It was the first this that came to mine when I regain consciousness. The silly unicorn used 'levitate the thing from behind technic' with a syringe full of...of sedatives. I giggled a little. Damn am I glad it wasn't the one I was allergic. I highly doubt they have the meds to treat me if I was.

I sighed with relief that my life wasn't ended by some simple as malpractice. I giggled a little more at the thought. I couldn't help but start laughing even more. It was ridicules in my mine. That me, Fleetfoot, the pegasus that has seen more live combat than any other pony in history, taken down by the use of the incorrect sedative. It was obvious that the drugs were still in my system, so I was a little loopy.

My giggle fit didn't last long. Light was shining through the window again into my eyes. In my drug induced stupor, I tried to grab the light, but felt something holding down my hoof. I lifted my head and saw that I was now bounded to the bed I had been. "Oh yeah hee he hee. They put restraints on me. Hee he hee."

Out of boredom, I started to hum my favorite Sweetie Belle song. I loved the song, despite the fact I couldn't remember the name to it. With Sweetie Belle on my mine, I started to think about her hot sister. Just thinking about her made me drool. I thought she was the most beautiful thing I've seen in my life. I never acted upon it though. It was just a fantasy and nothing more. I prefered pegasus over unicorns, but if given the chance I would do it ground side if it meant being with her.

My ears twitch at the sound of the door to this wagon opens. I look up to see who it was. It was a unicorn mare, though she did look a little young to be full grown. The pony had a silver pink coat that had been stained with dirt around the hooves and a rosey brown mane. She also had eyes the color of a cloudy day. To my eyes It looked like she was dipped in pink paint, if it wasn't for the dirt on her hooves and the silver highlights in her mane. Damn did she look sexy in my impared mind.

While looking up and down at her body, I saw that she was wearing something. It was a white foreleg band that had the Wonderbolts insignia on it.

Seeing that Wonderbolts insignia on a unicorn made me giggle. It was obsured to just think about it. A unicorn, being a wonderbolt. That just maybe me smile. "Hee he you hee hee he bet-better take that band off or I-I'll brake your leg hee he." I said, trying my best to supress my laughter.

My words didn't seem to bother her much at all, but I did manage to get her attention. She was staring at me with her steely colored eyes and expressionless face. I gave a sexy wink and smile towards her. She rolled her eyes at my jester. I giggled. Hee hee, she shot me down, hee hee.

I got a little excited when she approached me. It seemed my charm might of actually worked. I was disappointed by learned that she was in charge of my well being. She checked my banages and made sure that there wasn't any bleeding. I eyes her lustfully for a bit. I wanted her, but knew I couldn't since I was bounded to the bed. Now that option no longer viable, my mine started to wander. Why was I so... angry earlier... was it something this pretty filly said.... No. I don't that was it. Maybe I was mad for her wearing a Wonderbolts insignia?.... No that's not either.... Oh it was that old pony...Mash Have... Bash Tab... Smash'n Grab that's it. He's pony who pissed me off.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw that the pink unicorn was leaving. She must of finished checking up on me while I was thinking to myself. I couldn't just let her leave, so I called out to her.

"Hey pinkie unicorn, I need you for a second!" I could hear her sigh from my bed. She walked back to me and stood over me with a look that told me she wasn't the happiest of ponies. "What is it?" She asked dejected tone.

"Tell me. Why do you look like ya had somepony piss in your cereal?" I asked, while trying my best not to giggle at the words I just said.

My question seemed to annoy her. Without a single word, she turned around and began to trot towards the door. Her walking away actually scared me, so I called to her again. "Please tell me pink pony! I just want to know. Please don't leave, I'm so bored and I really don't like being alone!"

She once again stopped and turned back to me. When she came back to me she looked even more pissed than before. "For your information my name is Misty Haze, not 'Pink unicorn'. And the reason I look like 'Somepony pissed in my cereal', it's because you started to beat up my great uncle, like he greatly offended you."

I couldn't help by snicker at her saying 'Somepony pissed in my cereal'. Me snickering annoyed Misty Haze further. Her eye twitched with every giggle that left my mouth. Before she could scream at me, I spoke up. "Sorry... Sorry. Can't help it... *giggle* drugs still in my system. Hee hee he."

My apology and explanation for my giggly behavior seemed to calm her down, for now. Misty Haze now looked like she was more willing to listen to what I really had to say and to ignore my less than serious comments. "Ok... That explains a bit... For your behavior change... But that still doesn't explain your sudden attack upon my uncle Grab."

"I attacked him because he and his 'boys' damned my entire company to certain doom with no way of rescuing them from the hell that their in. That's the reason why I attacked him." Not once did Misty Haze flinch nor did her expression changed when I said why I had beat the feathers off her uncle. It seemed that my explanation has fallen death ears, since she still carried that look of annoyance and anger.

"How did my uncle 'damned your company to certain doom'? What, did he leave them leaderless to fight against the Amenas by taking you with us or did he somehow get them made into dashites for being on the surface without permission?" She questioned me.

I was half expecting her to start screaming at me for saying not given a better 'explanation' for hurting Smash'n Grab, but that didn't happen. She instead asked me on what her uncle had done. Her questions confused me. It was easy to tell that she was making assumptions, but on what I had no clue. The word Dashite held no meaning to me at the moment as her attutde was getting on my nerves now. "Look filly, I have no idea on what your talking about when it comes to the word 'Dashite', but my troops were doomed to certain death when the moment the doors to Alpha Bunker were closed with the override switch."

"Fine, keep your reason for attacking my uncle you Dashite. I don't care anymore." Misty Haze turned away from me with a huff and walked towards the door.

Before she left she turned her head back to me. "Oh and I hope your troops die back there. It's not like they were any better than those Amenas. I don't see why uncle Grab wants you to live. You should of been left In that hole to die like you deserve."

My eyes widen at what she said. A familiar rage rose up in my chest. I began to thrash and shack against the restraints that held me down. I wanted to kill her to. Even with the drugs in my system, I wasn't going to remain relaxed and calm. I shouted and screamed the most vile things I could think of at the top of my lungs so she could hear on what I'm going to do to her the moment these restraints are removed. My shouting didn't last lost as it exhausted me to the point that I passed out.

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With a sudden shack I was awoken from my exhaustion. My eyes cracked open and were meet by the sight of Smash'n Grab. Anger set in pretty quickly the moment I saw his face. I went to hit him in the muzzle with my hoof, but was once again stopped by the restraints. I still want to hurt him for his lies, but at this time I'm unable to, so decide it was best to wait.

He was looking over my wounds and was making sure that the bandage hadn't come undone. Smash'n Grab was thorough with his checking. Once he had finished, he took a step back and sat down next to me.

I looked over him and saw that he actually looked somewhat tired from something. Most likely from the traveling that has been going on since I ended up in this bed. It dawned upon me that I never though on where we were going. I knew that Alpha Bunker was located near Unicorn range and Galloping Gorge. Outside didn't really help on giving me an idea on where I was. It was night time at the moment and still cloudy from earlier. Sure the mountains were a clue that i was in either northern or southwest Equestria, but other than that I had no clue.

"Hazel doesn't mean what she said to you."

I turned to Smash'n Grab. I frowned at him. "Are you sure? Because she sounded pretty serious."

"Oh I know. She's just mad that you got a few decent hits on me without a reason."

"Without reason? I beat you because you had the balls to claim to be a part of P.R.P. And not only that, but to say that I went fifty years further than I was suppose to. Plus you damned all my troops to certain death. I have a hard time believing that she doesn't know the reason why I hurt you in the first place."

Smash'n Grab started to get a little restless. "Well... I can see your point there. She doesn't know about a thing, cept the few words you said to her."

He started to chuckle a little. "You know what? She still thinks that we were out to scavange the gorge."

My mood wasn't improving with him being near, but what he just said did catch my attention. "What do you mean by that you old bastard?"

That seemed to put a smile on the stallions face. "I mean that she don't know a thing about the project, nor do my boys. I kept them in the dark on the real reason why we came."

"And what would that be?"

"Well for you of course! The equipment in Bunker Colt still works and it picked up on your little broadcast this morning. Boy did I get a laugh from that. Always forgot how much you hate technology when it doesn't work for you."

My jaw dropped at what he was saying. There is no way in Tartarus that this old bag of feathers knows about my haterd for Tec. The only way he could of know is if he knew me personally or... Listened to my broadcast.

He smirked at my dumbfounded look. "With that look on your face that means your starting to believe me a little. Oh yeah, before you had cut me off with your violent rant, I was going to say that I have proof that I was part of the project and Bunker Colt." Grab stood up and pulled something out of his zebra cloak. I couldn't see it well since it was night time. Smash got closer so I could get a good look. I gasped the moment I saw it. No... That's not possible! This has to be a fake. A complete fake. There's no way he could of gotten ahold of it.

Dangling in front of my face was a key... The master key to Bunker Colt. Every Commander in Rising Phoenix was given a master key to all rooms to the bunker that they were placed in charge of. It was meant to be a key to unlock doors to rooms that had suffered contamination leaks or to unlock a door if the system in the bunker were malfunctioning. That key is meant to be known by the commander only and no one else. If this pony has it... Then he might be... Telling the truth.

"Judging by your silence, your Starting to realize I've been telling the truth the whole time. Aren't ya Commander Fleetfoot?" Smash'n Grab said as he placed the key back into his cloak.

I nodded. "Yes I'm... I'm starting to realize you were right... but tell me... where... How did you get that?"

"It was given to me right before Commander Joy Weaver passed away from old age. He wanted me to keep it safe for him." Smash'n Grab got closer to me and began to undue the restraints on me and to remove the IV that had replaced the other one I ripped out earlier. Only took a second for him to undo everything.

The moment they were undone, I got up from the bed and began to stretch. My body was sore all over and in some spots still hurt. I looked up to Smash'n Grab and saw he had the same smile from earlier. I sighed with defeat. "Ok... Fine. I believe you now."

That made Smash'n Grab's smile become bigger. "Well good, because we just reached our destination."

"And where would that be? It's actually been bothering me for awhile."

Smash'n Grab walked over to the door and opened it for me. "Take a look. It should be very familiar to you."

I did just that and walked to the door to see where we have ended up. With one look, my breath was instantly taken away. I couldn't believe it. The whole place was untouched and intacted. I dropped to the floor and stare out at what I was seeing.

"Rainbow Falls."