Chapters Prologue
Fluttershy looked down from the top of her Lucky 38 down on the multiple new buildings of the Strip, her keen eyes observing the now thousands of humans as they go on about there day. Three years. It had been three years since she was dumped her by her "friends". She absently glanced at her right wing, now fully robotic, the damaged muscles finally giving away only a month ago. The pitch black wing was only colored by the splash of pink and blue, small as it was she smiled at the fine work that Angela must have spent hours working on and perhaps most of her funding. She'll have to get Yes Man to send some couple thousand-no the hard working scientist gave her the new wing without being told, simply because she knew that Fluttershy's wing days were numbered, the queen of New Vegas reminded herself, 'make that at least a million caps- she even got the trio of butterfly's right.
Yes, she decided, then and there that tomorrow she'll pay a visit to the honest scientist, the skyscraper of a casino could surely house another, hell she could have the crazy Houses basement for a lab! All 13 floors!
The next morning Fluttershy woke up as the dawns first Rays of light crawled through the pre-war windows onto the casinos penthouse. One of the only living things, on the the top floor at least, cracked a light blue eye at the blasted ball of fire and proceeded to hide in the massive sheets.
Up above, a unique sight for the Wastelands shook its white head and jumped...
"Ugh! Angel! Why must you do that every morning?"
Angel watched as the once shy Pegasus came out from under her 'cave' and simply gave an amused look.
"I wouldn't have slept until midday!"
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"... Yeah, ok I would."
His work done the worlds only bunny moved toward the window, he didn't know why but he greatly enjoyed looking down from such heights.
Fluttershy slid off the master bed and went to one of the rooms new editions, a massive armor cabinet. In which she housed her many armors and suits. Opening it she was greeted by the voice of Yes Man.
"And what would we be wearing today? Power armor?"
"No, let's go with the Desert Courier's Mojave Crusader." The DCMC was a special suit that was built purely for her, it was a cross of the NCR's ranger armor, with a power armor's systems within and lastly to top it all used micro energy cell powered generators to give a very impressive force field to say that reduced most if not all incoming damage- best part was that all energy based damage the armor would have taken just recharged the suit instead!
"A perfect choice if I may say so. Oh, I would like to inform you the underground labs have been set up for miss Angela's arrival."
"Good."
Fluttershy waited as the two robotic hands finished help put the DCMC on, before having the helmet rest on her side and leaving toward the elevator.
Said bunny was on his friends back in seconds.
Fluttershy sat in the cocktail lounge with Cassidy, a former caravan owner, and truly one of Fluttershy's female friends, along with Rex the cyborg dog were the casinos only residents other than Fluttershy and Angle.
"So where we heading today?"
"Camp McCarran. I'm going to see if I can't get Angela to stay here."
"It'll be nice to to see another face."
"Oh, why did I teach you to be witty?"
The two were able to hold there straight faces for all but a minute until they started laughing at once.
Far south of the expanding New Vegas, in the old Mojave drive in movie parking lot a sudden flash of purple scared off a young coyote cup before dissolving into five shapes.
Fluttershy enjoyed the sensation of flying, all Pegasus did, but Fluttershy had to stop flying as much since her wing was originally harmed. But with the new improved wing she could once again fly to her hearts content.
"Sorry Angel. I forgot you came along."
Cass, who was keeping up with Rex from the ground chuckled at her friend and the pony's pet and there bickering.
As the four residents of Lucky 38 made it past the newest districts of Freeside she waved to the multiple people, wither it be human super mutants or other. She smiled as an older mutant, one of the first to be truthful, entertained a group of kids with stories of the world before the war.
She glanced back at her yellow friend and smiled in amusement as Fluttershy had begun walking as at least a dozen children surrounded her. Even as the said queen of Vegas was wearing a full armor minuses the helmet, the black and red smooth metal that had armies running at first glance, Fluttershy could make anyone at ease.
Before long they had to say goodbye to the little ankle biters, as the came to the end of Freeside. From there it took only about five minutes to make it to Camp McCarran. Upon entering through the large metal gates NCR troopers nodded or even saluted toward them and when they neared the buildings doors a female trooper opened the door for them. Cass nodded in thanks as she walked in, causing the trainee to blush- good to know they were still respected.
Not for the first time Cass wondered if her fellow human was human with how much she could squeeze.
"Oh it's good to see you!" Angela exclaimed, clearly excited."How is the wing Flutters?"
"Very nice feels like mine. Response to me very nicely. Thank you again."
"I didn't know it was a get together, I would have brought Sunny."
The occupants of the room turned to meet a tall broad man, standing at just over six feet. He was wearing a NCR Elite Riot Gear with modifications. The helmet had a flashlight and built in binoculars, along with the NCR radio. The jacket was replaced with a Courier Duster version but with a trio of butterflies on the left shoulder. At his hip was a katana and 10mm SMG and a 9mm SMG.
"John!"
The man chuckled as he removed his helmet to reveal his sandy blond hair that spicked in all directions, a pair of forest green eyes shone in humor and chuckled as the 'scariest' animal tackled him mid flight.
"I believe that General John Smith to you... Ugh!"
The man's height was halved as a armored hoof found itself in his gut.
"So you finally made it to General?"
"I've been station here in Vegas actually."
"Well, we have room at the 38, in fact that's why we came."
Cass turned to the scientist, "we would like it you found the casino to be home. You can have all 13 of the basement floors as your labs."
Angela felt her jaw drop at the sear size of what her lab would be. Shaking her head, she smiled, " I would love to but the NCR wouldn't-"
"I have no problem with miss Williams being stationed at the Lucky 38."
Everyone turned to John in question, as the man merely smirked, "I'm the areas General, remember?"
"Then I would happily take you offer."
Fluttershy smiled brightly.
For the next few hours the group of four laughed and told stories about what they been doing since last they meet while the helped Angale pack up her equipment. Luckily she didn't have any experiments going on at the time, so they took barely any time sorting through the laboratory.
They were about to go to the cafeteria and get some lunch when the Securitron moved into the room and it's video feed changed from the stoic military personal to the grinning face of Yes Man.
With a raised eyebrow Fluttershy moved to the front of her friends as Angle jumped onto her head.
"What is it Yes Man?"
"Excuse me miss Fluttershy, I know you gave control of what to do with situations, but I felt that you would personally do this one."
Even more intrigued than before Fluttershy waved to have the unique Securitron continue.
"The Securitron posted at GoodSpings report that the town revived five new residents when they were being chased by giant geckos. The reports describe these five as 'a purple unicorn with a star on each flank, a blue Pegasus with rainbow colored mane and a rainbow lightning bolt on each flank, a pink pony with a pink mane and three bloons on her flanks, a orange pony with a blond mane and a trio of red apples were seen on both sides of her flank, lastly a pure white unicorn with purple mane bearing a trio blue diamonds.' Miss Fluttershy?" Yes Man actually rolled back as his bosses eyes gained a dark look. The mares rage retreated as her friends each crouched down beside her.
"It's ok, we won't let them hurt you." John spoke with care and the others voiced in agreement, Rex takes it farther by licking her face electing a laugh as she wiped the slobber off.
Turning back to the Securitron that currently housed Yes Man.
"Thank you Yes Man. Have a Securitron keep an eye on them at all times, and have them head to the lucky 38 in a week. Tell the residents of GoodSpings for me."
The robot saluted, "Your orders are already transmitted to all Securitrons in and near GoodSprings." And with that the screen went static before the military persons face returned and the 'New Vegas Police' returned to its post
Fluttershy remained in the hold of her friends and whispered clearly and edged, "So they finally came? Well, let's play."
Author's Note
First story ever!
Twilight looked around her, she didn't know where exactly the spell had sent her and the others- that alone marked off anywhere in Equestia. She ignored the bickering of AJ and Dashy, more focused on the large metal... Things on wheels? Strange. What was even stranger was that not a single one was intact.
She was studying the weird things that when Rarity tapped her on the shoulder she let loose a massive, high pitched scream as she left the ground so fast, Rainbow was seriously considering the possibility her friend had Pegasus blood. Twilight took a total of five minutes to get her heartbeat rate down.
"I do so apologies dear, I don't mean to cause you fright. I merely wished to ask if you knew where we are?"
"No. I don't think we're in Equestia though."
"Well, let's not just stand grazing grass! Let's go savage us an city!"
The girls turned to the pink earth pony and if not for the simple being used to the randomness, they would be seriously considering their sanity.
The cotton candy maned mare was wearing what was an obviously leather suit that seemed to not be made for four legged animal as the clothes had knee guards on two of the limbs, and nothing on the forelegs. Lastly she found some sorta helmet with eyes but one was missing, in it's place was broken glass.
There was a least a few cups of dried blood scattered across the entire thing.
This however was beyond the four ponies capacity of simply shrugging off and simultaneously four shreks vibrated through the area, echoing in the canons.
"Pinkie! Take that off! It's covered in blood!"
"It is?" The said earth pony looked down and hummed, "why yes it is. Oh well it was a size too big anyway."
Pinkie proceeded to jump off the border, leaving the armor somehow behind in a neatly folded fashion.
"Ho-how I-is it-" Twilight started before Applejack placed a hoof on the element of magics shoulder, giving the unicorn a pointed look.
"Right, it's Pinkie Pie."
"Yep." The farm pony replied popping the p.
The group of five started to follow the beaten up road in a northbound direction as Rainbow saw a massive white building in that general location, and if the creatures of this world were like them, their leader would be in the highest location possible.
They were walking, or in Rainbows case flying, for about an hour maybe two when Pinkie stopped dead still.
"What's wr-" Twilight started to ask but stopped when she, along with the others watched as the hyperactive mare seemed to have a seizure. Her limbs were shaking like noodles and her tail all but flattened out like a cats.
The four mares glanced between one another before speaking: "oh, no."
A rustle of bushes took their eyes as a group of yellow almost gold scaled geckos the size of Big Mac came out.
Rainbow, ether in bravery or ego, flew right up to them and held out a hoof. "Hi! I'm Rainbow Da-AHHH!"
The leading gecko, instead of greeting the element of loyalty had chosen to dig its claws into her flesh.
The Pegasus was quick to increase the distance as her foreleg bled violently. "What was that for?!"
"Now that wasn't ve-" Rarity yelped as the leader lounged at the mares causing them to quickly turn and run.
"Twilight! Teleport!" Applejack shouted as they ran full speed, she looked back to see the geckos were keeping up, if not catching up to the ponies.
"I can't! I need to be able to clearly visualize a location to teleport!"
"Than we better keep up the speed!"
They ran for what seemed like hours, carefully trying to remain on the road as they didn't want to get loss, when Rainbow saw something up ahead.
"I see a town! Maybe we can get help there!"
And with that the they doubled their efforts until at last, one of the residents of the town, Twilight thought was a machine, spotted them and raised an arm...
A flash originated from behind them and they glanced to look as the geckos were blown to bits.
The mares were so shocked by the killing that when a voice called out they barely heard it until a metal claw took Rainbows still bleeding leg.
"This is seriously injured. The town has a doctor and shelter. Please follow me."
The five elements turned to the voice and meet a weird machine rolling on a single wheel. It took another minute until the robots comment clicked and they hurried to it.
Twilight was trying to determine what the machine was as they walked through the town; GoodSprings she believed it was called. The town had a few houses here and there but three just seemed to grab your eye.
First was a bar called Prospector Salon, near the edge of the small town. Next to the Salon a store called GoodSprings general store... The only store that she could see.
And lastly was a big house that rested on a hill that the robot was leading them.
"Is something wrong?" The moving machine asked, obviously noticing her staring.
"What are you?"
"I am Securitron number 117 class 'John'. I am a defense and building model sent to GoodSpings to help the town."
"Who made you?"
"I was designed by the Head of New Vegas. We have arrived."
Indeed they had, and as John-117 was about to ring the doorbell said door already opened and the mares came face to face with an old man with a white mane and hunched back.
The old doc could feel his eyes widen at the sight of five ponies and instantly knew why code Nightkin was issued.
"I'll see what I can do come inside you all, best I get a look at all of you while I'm at it."
Securitron John-117 waited for a second outside the door before turning around and headed to the shack. Upon reaching, he plunged himself into the generator and his screen changed from the military personality into a radar.
"Yes Man." He called to the head Securitron, knowing that the Queen would wish to know, "Code Harmony is active, five ponies have entered GoodSpings."
Author's Note
Chapter two! Ok should I continue with this or should I go into the three years Fluttershy is in the Mojave?
She always loved children, they were just so free, so... Ok so they had faults. Fluttershy concluded as a boy, no older than seven tackled her from above.
"Eric, please get off me. What would your mother say?" She asked, a small grin sporting her face as the young man got off.
She turned to the little. girl, a year year younger than her brother, Sarah, as she twirled her mane into a pair of ponytails.
"Miss shy?"
Turning she saw another boy, Chris she believed was his name, a thirteen young man whose family was one of the first to move into the first living districts.
"Yes? What's wrong?"
"I overheard my mom telling my dad last night, something about a block of the building department, is mom going to lose her job?"
Ah, yes. With the arrival of her friends, she almost forgot. The advancements of growing the city toward the west had hit a snag, a massive Giant Fire Ant nest that housed at least a good few thousand of the insects. Chris' mom was a head chief of the deportment teams, CASS or Construction Assistance Security System, were amazing at heavy lifting and protecting the work crew but they didn't seem to understand that blueprints are 2d examples of something needed in 3d.
"No, I'll be sending a few JOHNs to clear the area. Your mom is not losing her job."
The young mans relief was cut when the schools education Securitron, REX or Reserve Educational eXample, number 14, if Fluttershy remembered correctly, called for break to be over. Fluttershy waited as the last kid entered the school before heading home.
The three Securitron types, other than the normal, were a very lucky find. It seemed Mr. House had planned out even a rebuild of the world before the war, but he never finished the plans. But with both Yes Man and Angela working together the first of all three were soon done and from there came mass reputation.
JOHN or Junos Ordnance Hindrance Nullifier; John wanted Jupiter, but Sunny pulled wife on him and her favorite goddess was chosen instead; was less powerful than the original Securitron but far better for not destroying any nearby buildings with its targeting systems. And so far less expensive to make, for every original Securitron made, five JOHNs could be made.
CASS was made to be the constitution force but was abandoned when the robots couldn't get the work done due to not building anything but posters. 2d version of what they were supposed to be. House couldn't understand that you just have humans read the plans and they tell the Securitrons what to do.
And lastly are the REX models, designed to teach the children, it was forgotten when it became too expensive to store knowledge into a robot that had no defense system.
Making it to the opened window of the 38 penthouse, she flew in, and Yes Man remotely closed it. She was greeted by the sight of Angel and Rex completing in what must have been their millionth staring contest.
As she walked toward the two toward her closet, the elevator opened with a light 'bing' letting Angela and John to enter the upmost room. They walked past her without noticing her, but the cyborg couldn't blame them as they were moving the largest of equipment through the only elevator that lead to the lower basement levels... And she was only up to Johns knees.
She grumbled about being short, before moving into her bedroom, and the armor storage cabinet.
The DCMC was powerful, but was also a double edged sword. It's power source; energy cells; were rapidly used, about 20 energy cells for every minute that the force field was on.
As the cabinets robotic arms worked to remove the last piece of the suit, she couldn't help but sigh in relief as she stretched her aching limbs, artificial included.
"You know I could make it so the wing wouldn't be so sensitive."
Turning her head as the robotic arms removed her armor, Fluttershy saw that Angela had finished moving the box and decided that her bookshelf, full with pre-war books, needed to be sat on.
Shaking her head in amusement, the last of her armor removed, she turned fully to her friend. Not surprised of the question, she in fact expected it.
"No, it must be sensitive." Seeing the humans confusion, she continued, "You see, for a Pegasus to safely fly, he or she needs to be able to react to the tiniest of changes within the air currents, for that we are born with extremely sensitive fur, and feathers. Otherwise we would never react fast enough, causing us to crash."
That was another weakness of her custom armor, the thing had to light and let her feel the wind currents, as such the leather was truly there to cover the mobile force field, it wouldn't protect her from a thrown rock, thus the force field had to be on for the armor to be of any use.
It was also was why she had a hatred for heavy armor, in fact until the DCMC was made she had to wear what was known as Lightweight Leather Armor if she wanted to fly... That and since she was a quadrupedal, no armor was fitted for her and was troublesome
Angela nodded, committing the new snippet of info to memory. "I could perhaps make it readjust itself."
Once again shaking her head she replied, "That could be even more dangerous. What if I don't react to the change as fast as it? It would throw me off balance, and I would not be able to control it."
The resident scientist had to agree, as much as she disliked her unique friend being in pain, the fast solution was worst than the issue. Finally shrugging she hopped from the pine wood self, deciding to cheek on the other two humans before they broke something important.
Fluttershy watched as the ends of her coat vanished from sight before chuckling, knowing full well that the debate was not over.
She walked to the monitor that housed the AI of Yes Man, careful not to disrupt the still going stare contest. She sat down on the floor in front of the face of her most unique Securitron.
"What's the news on our nations visitors?"
Author's Note
That was anoying, it wouldn't post correctly. Anyway, sorry for a blank chapter, no idea why it wouldn't save it.