Stable 44
Once upon a time, in the magical land of Equestria...
…there came an era when the ideals of friendship gave way to greed, selfishness, paranoia and a jealous reaping of dwindling space and natural resources. Lands took up arms against their neighbors. The end of the world occurred much as we had predicted -- the world was plunged into an abyss of balefire and dark magic. The details are trivial and pointless. The reasons, as always, purely our own. The world was nearly wiped clean of life. A great cleansing; a magical spark struck by pony hooves quickly raged out of control. Megaspells rained from the skies. Entire lands were swallowed in flames and fell beneath the boiling oceans. Ponykind was almost extinguished, their spirits becoming part of the ambient radiation that blanketed the lands. A quiet darkness fell across the world...
…But it was not, as some had predicted, the end of the world. Instead, the apocalypse was simply the prologue for another bloody chapter in pony history. In the early days, thousands were spared the horrors of the holocaust by taking refuge in enormous underground shelters known as Stables. But when they emerged, they had only the hell of the wastes to greet them. Except stable 44. Stable 44 was kept sealed. Until that fate full day. The day i first set hoof on scorched earth the day i began my legend. my name is echo and this is my story.
Fallout: Equestria
the scorched land
My name is Dusk and i am a stable dweller. But my stable was different one that fateful day wen the bombs fell and we were sealed inside the overmare told us the truth. She told us of stable-techs treachery she told us that we were a social experiment insted of just cramming ponies inside this stable was a shelter for all there were pegasus earth ponies and unicorns but there were also gryphons and zebras as well.
200 hundred years after the bombs fell we remain. Stedfast and unwavering we survive locked tight in the stable. Im zebra and this is my story.
I am a maintenance technician more specifically armor and weapons maintenance. Its dull work but it keeps me busy and a few of my friends on the security force even take me to the fire arms range to work on my aim even if i will never need it. But its good work and i enjoy it swapping parts cleaning firing pin assemblies and re stitching and covering armored barding. Its strange though my lack of horn leaving me with out the ability of fine manipulation and telepathy. So its a surprise that i would be a weapons tech.
Chapter 1 wake up call
I awoke to the tinkling sound of the small bell around my neck on a simple collar.
"morning rose" opening my eye i see the face of my mare-friend (err griffon friend? I duno)
"sorry love did i wake you?" she gives the bell at my through another gentle flick. "Do you ever take this off?"
"No you gave it to me why would i take it off?" I give her a quick peck on her beck.
"Yea i know but i gave it to you as a joke."
"So it reminds me of you. Besides i fell naked with out it."
"Ok fine what ever. We had better get up its almost time for work."
"First shower!!! I say jumping out of bed and dashing into the bath-room.
"Fine" she says walking in with me and closing the door behind us. "But I'm going to help."
We have ben dating for about 7 months now and as it is aren't supposed to share quarters until we marry but with rose working security no-pony pays us any mind. And we all know were going to get married eventually if we could but since were "filly-foolers" its a big no no (still duno bout the terms with a griffin) and like i said the only reason we aren't bothered by the others is because of rose's security status. The collar was her first month anniversary present to me she gave it to me so she could keep track of me saying i un intentionally "sneak" around. Its not my fault zebras are extremely quiet its just how we are.
After we finish our shower (she loves it when i help her preen her wings) we pull on our uniforms and head to our duty stations. After work we meet up at the shooting range. Rose started to teach me to shoot when we first started dating and it was just a fun activity for us to together but soon it became a place of ideas as she complained about the armory not having larger caliber weapons and we began experimenting. At first it was small things comp 12 instead of gunpowder a bigger slug on the bullet but eventually i had an idea why not make our own weapon?
If it worked we could show the over-mare and the head of security. maybe start mass producing them but first we had to make a working prototype. We called our pet project simply "that gun" and the idea was to build a hand gun system to fire the 5.56 rifle round. Due to the fact that they were rifle rounds we realized a traditional magazine wouldn't work correctly so we tried a revolver frame. After 2 months of work the prototype was finished. A 5.56 nato revolving handgun with an easy load system and a jam sensor.
On its first range test rose was the one to fire it and it worked quite well but she complained about the grip being uncomfortable to griffons. Just as we had finished the tests and had put "that gun" away in its case an alarm klaxon began to blare to the stable and the over-mare's voice informed us that all security personnel and weapons techs were to immediately report to the armory. That we would be briefed by head of security wen we got there.
The two of us being only two rooms over we were to first to arrive and we stood near the front as the rest pilled in after. The crowd parted as steady shot our head of security walked to the front. A rather tall unicorn stalion with a dull brown coat and a bright orang mane. He was already dressed in his armored barding and his twin battle saddle on and ready his 12mm pistols holstered at his side.
" All right ponies I'm shore you are all wondering what the buck is going on so I'm going to tell it to you straight. The stable is under attack a group of heavily armed ponies are up top banging away at the door. Now normally this wouldn't be a problem but these guys have the good stuff. Powered assault armor explosives and heavy weapons. But on the bright side we now know that we are not alone and that it is safe to leave the vault witch is exactly what we will be doing. Ok so i want everypony armed armored and ready to move. We half to repel the invaders long enough to get our ponies out got it?"
"Sir yes sir!" Everypony called out running to there lockers to get ready. I began help them fasten armor and weapons in and generally making shore everything was in working condition. I then ran to the atrium were the non security personnel where gathering to be escorted out the back door. i meet up with Silent Night and Charming Mask my only two other friends.
"Hey Dusk are you ok?" mask asked looming over me. he was big even buy earthpony standards and with his maroon coat and spiked grey main he was hard to miss. strangely enough he was not a security pony but instead an administrator working with the overmare. "i know Rose is going to half to fight so i wanted to make shure you were ok."
"im fine i just hope shes alright"
"she will be" silent was buy no means inconspicuous with his black coat or his blue and orange main. but him being one of the only Pegasus made him relay easy to spot "damn girl is a tough one."
"thank guys your right she will be fine." i say trying to relax wen i heard a familiar voice.
"hey stripes! guess who got evac duty?"
i ran and knocked her over with excitement "oh thank luna!!!!" i said kissing her "i was so woried"
"i knew you would be" she said ruffling my mane "thats why i came to tell you. now can ya get off please? the other security guys are staring."
