A Troubled Pony

by LegendofBrony20

Rating: teen
Tags: Sad, Alternate Universe
Length: 2379

This may be a 15-16 chapter story describing the life of Victoria. A 27 year old mare that lives in a post-apocalyptic wasteland and all the challenges she must overcome in order to survive and prosper

Chapter 1: Savior in Disguise or Death in a Bottle

Okay you are good you’re low on ammo and that’s fine. I don’t think you will run into any bandits or raiders or whatever they call themselves. You aren’t going to run into any of them here okay Victoria They won’t chase you this far away from their camp… But you also don’t know where you are… Where am I? I stopped at an old, rotting tree and the dry, crusty, bare, Equestrian earth under my hooves. I looked up at the desolate skies with few clouds to cover the suns hot Impact on the Equestrian dry lands before me. I wondered if there was a way out of this hellhole people call home. I opened my knapsack and saw that there was a little bottle of water that was left over from another pony I killed, I took it out of my knapsack and poured it on my wings which were the only things keeping me alive… Where are you going Victoria…? I don’t know but all I know is that it can’t get worse… All you need to do is find a place to be warm for the night… Well can ya hurry up my god I’m burning up out here…! NO I CAN’T HURRY UP BECAUSE I’M THE ONE BURNING UP OUT HERE IF IT WASN’T FOR MY WINGS IF I WAS JUST A REGULAR EARTH PONY WE WOULD ALL BE DEAD RIGHT NOW! Ugh these voices in my head are killing me I mean I like the sympathetic one but the freaking brat one is killing my head…. I need some aspirin…. But the thing is THERE IS NO FREAKING ASPIRIN OUT IN THIS WASTELAND OF NOTHINGNESS! Oh well I guess I do kind of need to hurry up with finding that shelter its going to get wicked cold at night. Ugh this freaking climate change is killing me I hate it so much but I mean its enough to handle for one pony but I mean if I had a group oh god that would be complete hell…. Anyway lets go onto some shelter…. Where ever that may be…. Ugh I wish I had some pony else to at least talk to. I can’t stand being in a big group of like three or four ponies but I can handle one pony it actually could help me but oh well I’ll just see if I can stand by myself until I find some pony to help me…

Well…. Look there is a…. what is that is it a… A FREAKING DRAGON WHAT THE WHAT… Hehe ha-ha it is a dragon she looks really nice let’s introduce ourselves…. If only I had legs… why don’t you walk over to heR…? How about no she could be really dangerous you know that she could kill us but I might just fire some warning shots and also SHE IS A DRAGON SHE COULD BE MUCH OLDER THAN ME YOU KNOW THAT. Or, or she might be the same age as you or a little younger I mean look at her she looks completely terrified… I mean I would be in this situation but…. You know it kind of looks like she was being chased by something because just…. Look at her. It looks like she has a hole in her leg or at least a bullet wound or something of that sort you know… Okay I guess I’ll see if she is or, was being chased by something and if so I’ll take care of it with the few bullets I have left….

“U…. Uhm excuse me uh…. Miss uh… uh” said Victoria.

The dragon hugs me quick and hides behind me. I think she’s hiding from something Victoria… Yeah I think so too. A male earth pony approaches me his voice coarse and his breathe horrific.

“Well hello there can I have my dragon back.” asked the earth pony.

Is this earth pony serious there are two reasons I’m not giving him the dragon. One he’s an earth pony, and two he is obviously a slave driver or something of that sort.

“Absolutely not you aren’t going to get her from me.” Said Victoria calmly.

The stallion looked at me like I was stupid or something.

“Uh what do you mean you’re not going to give her to me?” questioned the earth pony.

I’m not sure I quite understood his question.

“I mean no. you can’t have her you stinky earth pony, you’re probably one of the worst types of ponies I mean look at you baking in the sun like a fool where as I have my wings to keep me cool and you’re just there rotting away by the sun, if you don’t find shelter soon you might die of heat exhaustion. Well you better leave before I kill you.” growled Victoria.

So he laughed really nervously like he was terrified of me or something.

“F-F-F-Fine I-I-I-I-I-I’ll go b-b-b-b-but just y-y-y-y-y-you wait I’ll get you someday." Said the earth pony nervously.

He looks at me with fear in his eyes and begins to run away. Hmm I wonder what his problem was all I said was that I’ll kill him… Uhm Victoria I think that’s why… And you did sound kind of scary I mean it was really scary you even shut us up for a while… Oh I’m sorry guys I didn’t know I was that scary… Anyway.

“Uh…. Miss why were you out here by yourself you can really get hurt.” asked Victoria.

The dragon looks at me in such an endearing way that I forget why I asked it. But then she begins to talk to me.

“H… Hi I am terribly sorry to cause you this trouble, it’s just that the mean man shot me in my leg and he didn’t even care so I decided to run away, but can we please get out of here?” Gently whined the dragon.

Uhm yeah I was just going to leave if you weren’t right in front of me like that.

“Hehe yeah we can go. I was actually just going to find some shelter for the night. If you would like to come you are welcomed to come along with us I-I-I-I mean me hehe.” Said Victoria nervously.

Crap she almost figured out that I have voices in my head anyways this little girl is probably a little, hmm Unpredictable I guess you can call it. I feel it in my wings. CRAP MY WINGS OH NO I FORGOT THEY ARE STILL UP! Alright I put my wings down because one it’s getting colder so I don’t need them up and two they are a great blanket at night. Crap it’s getting colder and it kind of looks like the dragon is getting a little cold.

“Hey uhm just climb on my back okay” said Victoria.

Well that was probably the worst idea ever I mean she clawed my back but at least she looks warm… that’s all I care about right now… Hey you know what it’s kind of like you are her mom or something Victoria I mean with you taking care of her and all that you can practically raise her it would be nice huh to finally have a family of your own… Hehe yeah and you and I can be like the crazy aunts even though she’s probably never going to see us mostly because we are voices in her head but still… NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. I am not having a family sure I’ll take care of her but I’m not going to have a family it would be too much of a burden on me… But your twenty-seven there is no reason for you not to have a family, you are a young, beautiful mare you know that… Hehe yeah but not prettier than me… Oh shut up you can’t even be seen all you are is a disembodied voice in my head.

“Hey thanks for saving me back there I’ll try not to be a burden to you miss.” said the dragon.

“No its fine it will be nice to have another body to talk with and… uh yeah that is why you won’t be a burden.”said Victoria rather quickly.

Ugh I can’t think about anything or even thoughts about me because the two idiots will bust in… HEY WHO YOU CALLING IDIOTS… YEAH WERE NOT IDIOTS WERE FABULOUS… Oh really then why does one of you make stupid suggestions most of the time… Well that’s because at the time they sound like a good idea but apparently they aren’t a bad idea but they are a good idea in a way I-I-I-I-I-I g-g-g-g-guess… oh no please don’t start crying you know I can’t handle it when you cry and then ill cry out loud and then she will think I’m crazy, please don’t cry.

“Oh really well I don’t eat much I never have really so I won’t eat much of your food supply.” stated the dragon.

“Well neither do I mostly because I really don’t get a lot to eat. I don’t kill anything to eat so I just eat off of crap food cans that are in the abandoned markets you know. I mean it’s just absurd that you have to kill to get what you want in this world I would prefer not to kill but if I have to I will and I won’t feel sorry about it.” said Victoria bluntly.

Obviously she is scared of me… Well duh you just basically told the poor girl you won’t feel bad if you kill anybody… what is going on with you today you are more blood-thirsty than ever we have never seen you this serious and blunt usually you would just sweeten the blow a little bit. But now you just say it outright… I mean that is just not like you Victoria not at all… Well excuse me I thought I didn’t have to be polite you know considering this is the post-apocalyptic era and all I thought I can be as blunt as I can because the world is so blunt with us. The world says that we can’t thrive in something like this; a place like this is more of nothing than anything I guess you can call it.

“W-w-w-well m-m-m-my mom said that and she isn’t here anymore which is a problem I have with that saying so please don’t say it…. I don’t want it to happen to you… I guess you can say I feel a little safer with you around almost like… Yawn… my mom.” said the dragon.

What’s going on why did I just suddenly go quiet, my throat is seizing up and there is something I’m feeling inside of me…? Could it be love Victoria…? WHAT NO, NO, NO, NO, IT CANNOT BE THAT I GUESS IT’S SYMPATHY FOR THE POOR GIRL, JUST BECAUSE SHE SAID THAT IM ALMOST LIKE HER MOM, DOESN’T MEAN THAT I AM HER MOM, AND I WONT THINK ABOUT BEING HER MOM, IM NOT AND. “NEVER WILL BE HER MOM NOT EVEN IF SHE ASKS ME TO BE HER MOM… oops.” yelled Victoria. Why is she looking at me like that like she really couldn’t think that I meant that could she? Or was I just being kind of mean to where my first impression on her actually made her to think that I would mean that… Well listen Victoria you kind of did scare her terribly bad like really bad I guess because she thought that you would actually hurt her if needed to… Uh hehe yeah I mean you sounded like you meant it and its not all the time that someone sounds like that… But she couldn’t think I meant or even if she doesn’t believe me might mean that she thinks im absolutely bat shit crazy… Ugh Victoria you have too much stress on you, you need to make sure that you are okay can you remember what your mother told you, the three rules of the wasteland…. I remember them hehe… uh yeah I think I can, lets see, rule number one, think about your self first, number two, think about others, number three, kill if you have to, so I think that’s what she told me more or less.

“Listen I’m not asking you to be my mom… im not even asking you anything. I’m saying that you are exactly like my mom… my mom was just like you a strong, independent, beautiful, and smart mare or at least I think your smart although you probably are a little bit crazy, but im not saying you are completely insane like some of the people ive met out here.” stated the dragon. She has obviously been through some really traumatizing experiences because she has obviously met people crazier than me which I haven’t… I guess its because you usually stay by yourself… hehe yeah there is probably no one crazier than you, I guess she is saying that because she hasn’t seen your true craziness… I don’t think you should show her that side of you Victoria than she would probably leave you… or maybe she will stay with her and become crazy with you hehe… No, I don’t want her to see my crazy side, although she will see my… insane side I guess… hehe look maybe her absolute bloodlust side where she is dying to kill some one… Please. Just. Shut up, please that’s all you can do for me now is shut up to where I don’t hear you anymore.

“Uh yeah I guess… and thank you for the compliments… or at least I hope they were compliments.” said Victoria. Why, why did she have to say that to me, it made me feel uncomfortable… Victoria are you sure you don’t know the emotions your feeling right now…? Hehe yeah you loooooooooove her so much that you are going to become her second mother… No I am not that is absolutely an absurd idea. I cannot be her mom my number one priority right now is to find home before we both freeze to death… The question is…. Where is home.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2015-01-30 18:41:46 UTC

Chapter 1: Savior in Disguise or Death in a Bottle

Okay you are good you’re low on ammo and that’s fine. I don’t think you will run into any bandits or raiders or whatever they call themselves. You aren’t going to run into any of them here okay Victoria They won’t chase you this far away from their camp… But you also don’t know where you are… Where am I? I stopped at an old, rotting tree and the dry, crusty, bare, Equestrian earth under my hooves. I looked up at the desolate skies with few clouds to cover the suns hot Impact on the Equestrian dry lands before me. I wondered if there was a way out of this hellhole people call home. I opened my knapsack and saw that there was a little bottle of water that was left over from another pony I killed, I took it out of my knapsack and poured it on my wings which were the only things keeping me alive… Where are you going Victoria…? I don’t know but all I know is that it can’t get worse… All you need to do is find a place to be warm for the night… Well can ya hurry up my god I’m burning up out here…! NO I CAN’T HURRY UP BECAUSE I’M THE ONE BURNING UP OUT HERE IF IT WASN’T FOR MY WINGS IF I WAS JUST A REGULAR EARTH PONY WE WOULD ALL BE DEAD RIGHT NOW! Ugh these voices in my head are killing me I mean I like the sympathetic one but the freaking brat one is killing my head…. I need some aspirin…. But the thing is THERE IS NO FREAKING ASPIRIN OUT IN THIS WASTELAND OF NOTHINGNESS! Oh well I guess I do kind of need to hurry up with finding that shelter its going to get wicked cold at night. Ugh this freaking climate change is killing me I hate it so much but I mean its enough to handle for one pony but I mean if I had a group oh god that would be complete hell…. Anyway lets go onto some shelter…. Where ever that may be…. Ugh I wish I had some pony else to at least talk to. I can’t stand  being in a big group of like three or four ponies but I can handle one pony it actually could help me but oh well I’ll just see if I can stand by myself until I find some pony to help me…

Well…. Look there is a…. what is that is it a… A FREAKING DRAGON WHAT THE WHAT... Hehe ha-ha it is a dragon she looks really nice let’s introduce ourselves…. If only I had legs... why don’t you walk over to her…? How about no she could be really dangerous you know that she could kill us but I might just fire some warning shots and also SHE IS A DRAGON SHE COULD BE MUCH OLDER THAN ME YOU KNOW THAT... Or, or she might be the same age as you or a little younger I mean look at her she looks completely terrified… I mean I would be in this situation but…. You know it kind of looks like she was being chased by something because just…. Look at her. It looks like she has a hole in her leg or at least a bullet wound or something of that sort you know… Okay I guess I’ll see if she is or, was being chased by something and if so I’ll take care of it with the few bullets I have left….

“U…. Uhm excuse me uh…. Miss uh... uh” said Victoria.

The dragon hugs me quick and hides behind me. I think she’s hiding from something Victoria… Yeah I think so too. A male earth pony approaches me his voice coarse and his breathe horrific.

“Well hello there can I have my dragon back.” asked the earth pony.

Is this earth pony serious there are two reasons I’m not giving him the dragon. One he’s an earth pony, and two he is obviously a slave driver or something of that sort.

“Absolutely not you aren’t going to get her from me.” Said Victoria calmly.

The stallion looked at me like I was stupid or something.

“Uh what do you mean you’re not going to give her to me?” questioned the earth pony.

I’m not sure I quite understood his question.

“I mean no. you can’t have her you stinky earth pony, you’re probably one of the worst types of ponies I mean look at you baking in the sun like a fool where as I have my wings to keep me cool and you’re just there rotting away by the sun, if you don’t find shelter soon you might die of heat exhaustion. Well you better leave before I kill you.” growled Victoria.

So he laughed really nervously like he was terrified of me or something.

“F-F-F-Fine I-I-I-I-I-I’ll go b-b-b-b-but just y-y-y-y-y-you wait I’ll get you someday." Said the earth pony nervously.

He looks at me with fear in his eyes and begins to run away. Hmm I wonder what his problem was all I said was that I’ll kill him… Uhm Victoria I think that’s why… And you did sound kind of scary I mean it was really scary you even shut us up for a while… Oh I’m sorry guys I didn’t know I was that scary… Anyway.

“Uh…. Miss why were you out here by yourself you can really get hurt.” asked Victoria.

The dragon looks at me in such an endearing way that I forget why I asked it. But then she begins to talk to me.

“H… Hi I am terribly sorry to cause you this trouble, it’s just that the mean man shot me in my leg and he didn’t even care so I decided to run away, but can we please get out of here?” Gently whined the dragon.

Uhm yeah I was just going to leave if you weren’t right in front of me like that.

“Hehe yeah we can go. I was actually just going to find some shelter for the night. If you would like to come you are welcomed to come along with us I-I-I-I mean me hehe.” Said Victoria nervously.

Crap she almost figured out that I have voices in my head anyways this little girl is probably a little, hmm  Unpredictable I guess you can call it. I feel it in my wings. CRAP MY WINGS OH NO I FORGOT THEY ARE STILL UP! Alright I put my wings down because one it’s getting colder so I don’t need them up and two they are a great blanket at night. Crap it’s getting colder and it kind of looks like the dragon is getting a little cold.

“Hey uhm just climb on my back okay” said Victoria.

Well that was probably the worst idea ever I mean she clawed my back but at least she looks warm, that’s all I care about right now... Hey you know what it’s kind of like you are her mom or something Victoria I mean with you taking care of her and all that you can practically raise her it would be nice huh to finally have a family of your own… Hehe yeah and you and I can be like the crazy aunts even though she’s probably never going to see us mostly because we are voices in her head but still… NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. I am not having a family sure I’ll take care of her but I’m not going to have a family it would be too much of a burden on me... But your twenty-seven there is no reason for you not to have a family, you are a young, beautiful mare you know that… Hehe yeah but not prettier than me…  Oh shut up you can’t even be seen all you are is a disembodied voice in my head.

“Hey thanks for saving me back there I’ll try not to be a burden to you miss.” said the dragon.

“No its fine it will be nice to have another body to talk with and… uh yeah that is why you won’t be a burden.”said Victoria rather quickly.

Ugh I can’t think about anything  or even thoughts about me because the two idiots will bust in… HEY WHO YOU CALLING IDIOTS… YEAH WERE NOT IDIOTS WERE FABULOUS… Oh really then why does one of you make stupid suggestions most of the time… Well that’s because at the time they sound like a good idea but apparently they aren’t a bad idea but they are a good idea in a way I-I-I-I-I-I g-g-g-g-guess… oh no please don’t start crying you know I can’t handle it when you cry and then ill cry out loud and then she will think I’m crazy, please don’t cry.

“Oh really well I don’t eat much I never have really so I won’t eat much of your food supply.” stated the dragon.

“Well neither do I mostly because I really don’t get a lot to eat. I don’t kill anything to eat so I just eat off of crap food cans that are in the abandoned markets you know. I mean it’s just absurd that you have to kill to get what you want in this world I would prefer not to kill but if I have to I will and I won’t feel sorry about it.” said Victoria bluntly.

Obviously she is scared of me… Well duh you just basically told the poor girl you won’t feel bad if you kill anybody… what is going on with you today you are more blood-thirsty than ever we have never seen you this serious and blunt usually you would just sweeten the blow a little bit. But now you just say it outright…  I mean that is just not like you Victoria not at all... Well excuse me I thought I didn’t have to be polite you know considering this is the post-apocalyptic era and all I thought I can be as blunt as I can because the world is so blunt with us. The world says that we can’t thrive in something like this; a place like this is more of nothing than anything I guess you can call it.

“W-w-w-well m-m-m-my mom said that and she isn’t here anymore which is a problem I have with that saying so please don’t say it…. I don’t want it to happen to you… I guess you can say I feel a little safer with you around almost like… Yawn… my mom.” said the dragon.

What’s going on why did I just suddenly go quiet, my throat is seizing up and there is something I’m feeling inside of me…? Could it be love Victoria…?  WHAT NO, NO, NO, NO, IT CANNOT BE THAT I GUESS IT’S SYMPATHY FOR THE POOR GIRL, JUST BECAUSE SHE SAID THAT IM ALMOST LIKE HER MOM, DOESN’T MEAN THAT I AM HER MOM, AND I WONT THINK ABOUT BEING HER MOM, IM NOT AND. “NEVER WILL BE HER MOM NOT EVEN IF SHE ASKS ME TO BE HER MOM… oops.” yelled Victoria.

Why is she looking at me like that like she really couldn’t think that I meant that could she? Or was I just being kind of mean to where my first impression on her actually made her to think that I would mean that… Well listen Victoria you kind of did scare her terribly bad like really bad I guess because she thought that you would actually hurt her if needed to… Uh hehe yeah I mean you sounded like you meant it and its not all the time that someone sounds like that… But she couldn’t think I meant or even if she doesn’t believe me might mean that she thinks im absolutely bat shit crazy… Ugh Victoria you have too much stress on you, you need to make sure that you are okay can you remember what your mother told you, the three rules of the wasteland…. I remember them hehe… uh yeah I think I can, lets see, rule number one, think about your self first, number two, think about others, number three, kill if you have to, so I think that’s what she told me more or less.

“Listen I’m not asking you to be my mom… I'm not even asking you anything. I’m saying that you are exactly like my mom… my mom was just like you a strong, independent, beautiful, and smart mare or at least I think your smart although you probably are a little bit crazy, but I'm not saying you are completely insane like some of the people I've met out here.” stated the dragon. She has obviously been through some really traumatizing experiences because she has obviously met people crazier than me which I haven’t… I guess its because you usually stay by yourself… hehe yeah there is probably no one crazier than you, I guess she is saying that because she hasn’t seen your true craziness… I don’t think you should show her that side of you Victoria than she would probably leave you… or maybe she will stay with her and become crazy with you hehe… No, I don’t want her to see my crazy side, although she will see my… insane side I guess… hehe look maybe her absolute bloodlust side where she is dying to kill some one… Please. Just. Shut up, please that’s all you can do for me now is shut up to where I don’t hear you anymore.

“Uh yeah I guess… and thank you for the compliments… or at least I hope they were compliments.” said Victoria.

Why, why did she have to say that to me, it made me feel uncomfortable… Victoria are you sure you don’t know the emotions your feeling right now…? Hehe yeah you loooooooooove her so much that you are going to become her second mother…  No I am not that is absolutely an absurd idea. I cannot be her mom my number one priority right now is to find home before we both freeze to death… The question is…. Where is home.