Fallout Equestria: Cyber's Story

Cyber's P.O.V

"Ironhoof! Thank god you're still here! You know the code for the Stable's door." Treble said, wiping tears from her eyes with her hoof.

"Well...not exactly." Ironhoof said with a look of sadness on his usually pissed off looking face.

"What do you mean, your the warden. Isn't that something The Overmare tells you when you become a warden?" I yelled, I honestly thought we weren't getting out of here now, I sat down on my hind legs, as did Treble.

"Well no, only she knows the door combination. But that really doesn't matter. How do you think the mutants got in in the first place." Ironhoof said.

"Wait...what?" I questioned, looking over at Treble, she just shrugged.

"When the generator blew, the door opened up, letting in the mutants." He said. "So the door is wide open, we just have to fight our way out."

"What are mutants?" Treble interrupted.

"It's the things that your coltfriend over here have been killing." Ironhoof said.

"Well...I thought they were zombies, like a disease or something did this to them." I responded.

"You can say that. What killed them was radiation poisoning, something left behind by the megaspells during the war that put everypony in these damned Stables." Ironhoof said, looking at the ground. He was obviously depressed about what was going on, I really don't blame him. Who knows how many of his guard friends he's seen torn to pieces or become a all you can eat buffet to these so called mutants...but wait, how did he know so much about the outside. Nopony has ever been out of the Stable since they first closed over a hundred years ago...I was curious.

"Ironhoof...how do you know so much about the outside?" I questioned, Treble looked at me, then started to intently stare at Ironhoof.

"Nevermind that! We need to leave!" Ironhoof yelled. He was getting defensive, he was trying to dodge my questioned.

"No...you'll tell us why, or where not leaving!" I yelled back.

"God damnit Cyber! That isn't going to matter in a minute if we don't leave right Celestia Damn now!" He screamed, he was hiding something.

I went to yell back, but Treble grabbed my hoof and stopped me.

"Look Cyber, he's right. Look at the compass on your pipbuck, these things are everywhere! We need to go, we can ask questions once were out." Treble said...and damn was she right.

"We will talk about this once were out." I said, looking furiously into Ironhoof's eyes.

"Glad to here it. Now follow me to the stairs, the elevators are down. Cyber, get her some armor. I'll watch you guys while you get her some." Ironhoof's said, I was actually about so suggest the same thing.

I looked over at Treble. "Babe, stay here. I'm going to get you that armor outside. I'll be right back, just stay with Ironhoof, you'll be okay." I said, looking intently into her neon green eyes.

"You have two minutes..." She said, she was starting to tear up again.

"That's all I need." I said as I kissed her cheek and walked out into the hall, shield raised.

I was going slowly as I could hear more mutants around the corner, no doubt feeding on something else. Another thought that made me want to puke.

As soon as I got within telekinetic reach of the guards body, I started undoing all the straps on his armor. It wasn't long until all the gear was floating in the light blue mist of my magic. I slowly started walking back into Treble's room. Once in I plopped all the gear onto her bed...I felt bad that I couldn't get her some that wasn't just as soaked in blood as mine was.

"Well...come here babe. I'm sorry you have to wear this...but it's way better than nothing." I said, she was staring at it like she just saw the guard get killed...wait...she did...now I felt bad giving it to her.

"I'm sorry Treble...do you want mine instead...I can wear this one if it makes you feel any better." I said, I honestly felt bad trying to give her the armor of a pony that she just saw get brutally murdered.

"Y...Yes...thank you." Treble said.

"Hey...this is nice and all...but were gonna have mutants on us real soon if you two don't hurry up!" Ironhoof jumped in.

I quickly started undoing all of my armor. Every time I took a piece of I would snuggly fit it on Treble with my magic and then replacing it with the other set of gear to save some time. I was lucky that I had stronger magic, otherwise this would be nearly impossible to do.

"Treble...you okay?" I asked as I put on her chest piece.

"It's...It's really warm...and nasty...*gag*" Treble said, she was cut off by spilling her lunch on the floor beneath her and crashing to the ground. I didn't blame her either, I have been wanting to do the same thing sense I walked out of my room. I walked over to her and put my hoof around her while I snapped on her helmet.

"I'm so sorry Treble, but it could mean life and death if one of those things were to get a hit on you. We'll try to get you something better when we get out." I said, I was hoping that it was comforting her...even in the slightest bit.

"It's okay...I understand...this stuff is really heavy Cyber." She said, she was definably crying now.

"I know...but it's gets lighter once you get used to it. Don't worry, I'll be by your side. Are you ready?" I asked as I put on the rest of my armor and riot saddle.

"Yea...lets get this over with...quick." She said as she slowly stood back up.

"Okay. Ironhoof, let's go." I said as Treble and I walked up behind him. He was still guarding the door.

"Thank Luna! Follow me and stay quiet, the less attention we attract to ourselves the better. Follow me to the stairs." He said as he walked out into the hallway. Treble and I followed close behind.

Once we got to the stairs I started to hear a loud rumble similar to the first erupt from the floors under us. I looked back at Treble, she was almost frozen in fear. I looked at Ironhoof, he could tell what I was about to ask...but then the lights went out and the alarms stopped, and everything went dead silent other then the menacing howls and screams of mutants

"We need to go, the backup generator just blew. Nothing will work now. These things seem to be stronger in the dark, watch yourself now." Ironhoof said as he slowly started walking backup the stairs. We followed.

Ironhoof turned on his flashlight connected to his helmet, something that he had installed himself. He shined it on a wall, it read F2 in all yellow, giant letters.

"One more floor to go, let's move." He said, continuing up. We again followed. We really didn't have a choice though now, without his light...Treble and I would be lost.

We walked up onto the next floor, a large F1 shined beside the exit door. We made it this far, but my pipbuck was reading tons of threats outside of the door, plus we still had a few rooms to go through until we reached the mane door to the Stable. Ironhoof turned around to talk to us.

"Okay...this floor is going to be flooded with mutants. Our best bet is to run for it. That sound alright with you guys.

I looked over at Treble, she nodded.

"Sounds good." I said, levitating out my baton. Treble pulled hers out of her sheath and grasped it in her mouth. I never understood how earth ponies were able to do stuff without magic, it just seemed difficult. But hey, if she could kill one of those things just as easy as I could with magic by using her mouth...that's fine by me.

"Okay, I'll go in front. Cyber, you in middle. Treble, stay in back." Ironhoof said, I wasn't cool with Treble being in the back.

"Hey...no. Treble, you go in the middle. I can fight anything behind us. I know you don't want to." I said.

"I was thinking the same thing." Treble said.

"That's my bad, probably should have considered that." Ironhoof said. I was slightly pissed at him now, but he was saving our lives...so I didn't say anything.

"Okay, I'm going to open the door on three." He said.

"Okay, I'm ready. Treble?" I said, she nodded. She couldn't talk with the baton in her mouth.

"Alright...One...Two...Three!" He screamed, we all went charging out the door. following Ironhoof.

Every hall, room, and everything in-between was infested with mutants. Thank god these things weren't fast. We usually only had to deal with about three or four with every room we entered. It honestly wasn't that bad right now.

We ran into a hallway labeled MAIN HALL.

"This is it!" Ironhoof yelled. "The door is right around this cor" *BANG* Ironhoof dropped to the ground with a scream as he turned the corner, his head blowing clean off as he fell to the ground like a bag of rocks, blood painting the walls behind him, and all followed by a maniacal, twisted, deep toned laugh.

I stopped in my tracks and grabbed Trebles tail with my teeth and yanked her behind me.

"Stay here." I said as I sat her down up against the wall, put up my shield, and went around the corner. I was not expecting what I saw.

In front of me was a large, yellow coated, puffy veined, muscled up, earth pony gripping a two barreled gun in his mouth. I have never seen a gun before, let alone had one aimed directly at me.

*BANG* The shot hit the shield directly, putting what looked to be hundreds of dents in it, but not piercing it. The pony wasn't a mutant, but instead completely normal and seemed untouched by radiation like the mutants, but instead a normal pony...nut either way, he was a still a red mark on my pipbuck. So he was an enemy in my book.

The gun in his mouth popped open, two red, cylindrical tubes popping out of the back of the barrels. He pulled two more of those red tubes out of his saddle bags, then slid them into the same part of the barrel that the other two flew out of. Then aimed at me again.

*BANG* I heard Treble yelp after this one as more pellets dented my shield. I knew I had to end this and get rid of this guy so Treble wouldn't come around that corner...but then he opened back up the gun and started putting more red tubes into the weapon. So he could only shoot once and then had to but more rounds in the gun. I took this chance and sprung forward, bashing the pony with my shield. Causing him to drop his weapon and yelp. I then jumped on top him and cracked his head with my baton. He flailed and tried to hit me with his hoof, and it probably would have hurt if it wasn't for the riot gear. I rapidly hit his head with the baton, each hit drawing out slightly more blood from his skull. And I continued until he fell limp. He was dead, the red dot that was on my pipbuck was now gone...it was over with...but then the thought sat in...I just killed a pony, a living, breathing pony! I stepped off of his corpse and nearly threw up next to him.

"Treble...it's okay...you can come out now, it's safe...we won." I said, trying to regain my breath.

I turned and saw Treble cautiously come around the corner, she was shaking with fear. I walked up to her and hugged her even tighter than I did before...and finally started to let the tears roll down my cheeks.

"It had to be done...I'm just glad your okay Cyber. Look, there's the door...we can leave this hell!" Treble said, hugging me in return, tears also rolling down her face.

I got out of our hug and turned to face the Stable's main door...it was wide open...we could leave...we could finally leave! I looked over at Treble and nodded. Then we started walking...but I was stopped by something. I turned back around and looked at the headless corpse of Ironhoof...I picked his helmet up of the ground and crouched down beside him, laying the helmet on his chest.

"Thank you." I said.

"We wouldn't have made it if it wasn't for your loss." Treble added in, sitting beside me as we both shed a few last tears before we got up and continued to walk back out the main door of the stable. On the way out I grabbed the pony's gun and holstered it with my baton...then Treble and I walked out of the door of Stable 82...our home.

Footnote: Level Up

New Perk: Mutant Slayer

You now do 10% more damage to mutants of any kind.