Fallout Equestria: Woven Hooves

Electro Flyer and his companion Sunrise Sassy danced as they listened to music coming from Flyer's Pip-Buck. "Hey Ponies! Rumor has it that a Stable was attacked only days ago, resulting in no survivors. Our hearts go out to Stable 108." said the little radio. "Who was that? That wasn't music." Flyer said, painfully curious. "Oh that? That's DJ PON-3. He gives a shit ton of news about current affairs in the Wasteland. It's pretty fun to listen to. I used to have a radio back at my shop." She said. Sunrise had been missing her little store. Although she it's only been a few days, it feels like months to Flyer since the two had left Hoffball City. The catchy music returned to their ears. "Hey, where are we going?" asked Sunrise after a few moments of just music. "We are heading to a little town I found on my map." replied Flyer. "Oh okay. Where's that?" her onslaught of questions seeming endless. "Luxury Hill." He replied. "Why?" another question. "A chance to get caps." he replied. "What's the bounty on?" she asked. "six hundred caps if we clear the town. It's full of Raiders." He answered. She finally stopped asking questions. They could see the small town. The two ponies laid low. Sunrise took out her sniper rifle. One of the many weapons in the arsenal she brought. She used it rather than Flyer because, not only was it hers, but she had magic to work with. It's pretty much impossible to be accurate when you have to hold your weapons in your mouth.

She took aim and fired. The shot missed every possible target. All it did really, was get the attention of the poor pony next the shot. The two ponies hid behind the nearest house. Flyer used his pistol to burn holes into the necks of two ponies. The two poor victims fell to the ground and stared at Sunrise as she watched them drown in their own blood. With a smile on her face. Flyer knew this unicorn was crazy. Earlier that day, she had run out of ammo in her sniper rifle, so she thought it was clever to cleave Raiders with her gun. Just like a mad mare.

The two ponies then trotted out of cover. The area was safe all because Sunrise went on a butcher spree while Flyer sat and thought about why his only friend was a complete mad mare. the two ponies proceeded into the house they had taken cover behind.

Inside the house, Flyer and Sunrise found an audio log sitting on a table just inside the door. "Can we listen to it?" asked Sunrise. "Sure, why not?" responded Flyer. He picked up the audio log and crammed it into his Pip-Buck. He read the title: Suicide Note. He sighed and hit played.

"This will be my last entry for a while." said a soft, mare's voice. The crunching of leaves beneath hooves could be heard. "Ministry of Peace and I have failed to stop everypony from fighting. The zebras still dropped their Mega Spells on Equestria. Our field nurses couldn't help the poor ponies that were tortured with the effects of the Mega Spells. I have no purpose if there isn't anypony left to help." the soft pony voice was then heard sobbing. It got more distant. Flyer assumed it was because the mare was walking away. Then her hooves stopped crunching leaves as her body was heard hitting the ground. The mare was obviously dead, but hoof steps were still heard once more. Then all that was heard was the wind. The audio log ended.

A new quest appeared on Flyer's Pip-Buck. "Soul Search" was the name of Flyer's new task. "Hey Flyer, how'd the tape get to this house if the mare died in the woods?" asked Sunrise. "Huh. I don't know. Why don't we try to find out?" answered Flyer. The two ponies trotted out of the house. Sunrise was cheerful, but Flyer wasn't good with dealing with the death of ponies. After all, Sunrise had done most of the killing. "Look! There!" Sunrise shouted as she pointed with her hoof towards a bunch of dead trees. "What of it? It's just some dead trees." Flyer said. "The mare in the tape died in those woods!" Sunrise shouted once more. "It doesn't mean those woods. There's tons of woods around here." Flyer replied. Sunrise ignored him and began bouncing towards the woods. Flyer sighed, trotting after her.

When they got to the woods, the first thing that Sunrise Sassy did was start sneaking around on the very tips of her hooves. "What are you doing?" asked Electro Flyer. "Discovering!" shouted Sunrise. Flyer groaned and began walking with her. Sunrise suddenly shot her hoof in the way of Flyer. "A clue!" she shouted as she pointed at some hoof prints. "Sunrise, those look no where near two hundred years old. They don't belong to that mare on the tape." said Flyer. Sunrise just began bouncing once more, dirt crunching aggressively beneath her hooves. Her hooves shot to the ground in all directions as she scanned the area. "Another clue!" she shouted. Her horn illuminated a circle around some incredibly fresh looking blood. "Sunrise, that's not the mare's blood. But something out here is wounded, and I don't want to find out what." Flyer said. "Priorities!" Sunrise shouted. "I have my priorities straight. I'm putting our lives before this stupid, two hundred year old crime investigation!" Flyer began shouting. Tears began to well up in Sunrise's eyes. "What's the matter, now?" Flyer asked in a shout. "Y-y-you yelled at me!" Sunrise yelled in response. The mare then began to cry like a filly and ran in the direction away from Flyer. "Sunrise, wait!" Flyer yelled after her. She didn't stop. She kept running until she disappeared into the ever-growing fog.

Flyer ran after her. He had to get her back, he just had to. He crashed through all the dead branches. Visibility was difficult through the thickness of the fog. He put his head down to avoid getting whipped in the face by branches. He continued breaking through the deceased foliage with his eyes sealed shut. His lack of visibility prevented him from seeing Sunrise lying in the dirt. He tripped over her and face planted. He opened his eyes. He turned to Sunrise. "Sunrise, I'm sorry I yelled at you. Please don't run away from me like that again." he said. "Uh-uh-okay. I'm sorry too." she said, wiping the tears from her eyes. "Look what I found." she said as she pointed to a pony skeleton lying in the dirt. "The body of the mare in the tape? Um, okay." Flyer replied, utterly confused. He walked over to the body. Well, skeleton. He looked at the chest of what was left of a lab coat the mare had been wearing. "Ministry of Peace." he read aloud. He read a small tag above the Ministry of Peace logo. "Fluttershy?" he read, confused. "Ministry Mare Fluttershy killed herself?" asked Sunrise. "I guess so." Flyer replied.

The two ponies turned back to find a moving mass in the distance. The two ponies turned back to find the moving pony was mad a silhouette by the fog. Flyer checked his Pip-Buck to see if it was hostile. It glowed with a yellow indicator. Flyer and Sunrise approached the pony with caution. What they found was a grey stallion with the word "Smile"carved into both flanks where a cutie mark should have been. The moving they had seen was the rise and fall of the stallion's chest.

"He's unconscious." Flyer said. "Let's help him!" said Sunrise. Flyer groaned as Sunrise levitated the stallion onto his back. The two, now three ponies moved in the direction of a structure Sunrise spotted in the distance. Flyer clicked the radio back on. DJ PON-3 was rambling on about some mare called "Security" that cleared out Raiders somewhere. Flyer wasn't paying attention enough to care about some hero in Hoofington. He was too lost in thought about how guilty he was for making Sunrise cry. He didn't care if she was as sensitive as a filly. He just knew he felt bad about upsetting her. He regained focus of the Wasteland around him when music started to play. The trip to the strange structure was completely silent, aside from the music. No pony uttered a single word.

When they got to the structure, they weren't greeted by any pony. It seemed empty. When Flyer stepped through the door, he was greeted by the green light of a terminal, shrouded by the mass of a stallion in armor. "Mr. Large Pony? Um, who are you?" Sunrise asked. The stallion turned around and would probably have looked shocked if Flyer was able to see the stallion's face.