Fallout: Equestria - Crystal Lane

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An hour passed by and nothing exciting had happened so far, “How long until we wake her highness from her slumber?” I asked Clear as I clutched the ceremonial spear that all Crystal Guards are given when on general guard duty and not actively defending the Goddess from an immediate threat.

“We’ve got a few minutes to kill before it’s time to wake her," she answered.

I nodded in recognition before I had my Crystal Rifle raised so that I could inspect it. The Crystal Rifle, or the CR-47 as those who prefer the official name call it, is an energy-based rifle based off of the design of the laser rifles of Equestria and built using Ironshod factory equipment. The Crystal Rifle has much of its design ripped from the Energy Rifle and is able to be powered by Crystal Charge Packs and normal MF cells. It is quite a nice weapon and standard for those serving in the Order of the Crystal Swords.

"One would think that she’d wake up earlier than this, being a Goddess and leader of a nation,” Clear suddenly said, interrupting my inspection of my rifle.

“A nation of one city,” I argued, “And besides, I’ve heard that she normally doesn’t go to sleep until late at night, up to some sort of magical studying or something like that.”

“Where did you hear that from?” Clear asked.

“I heard it from Night Skies over at the Temple to the Mare of Peace and Kindness; she said that the Goddess regularly spends the majority of the evening in her library,” I answered.

“Night Skies? The old mare who gets regularly assigned to that Temple? There are plenty of ponies who I’d trust to know more about her highness’s nightly activities than that Unicorn,” Clear said rolling her eyes.

“You just haven’t liked her since she beat you in that archery contest,” I proclaimed.

“My arrows were weighed down with frost and you know it,” she replied.

“Hey, I’m just saying, it’s possible,” I said hoping to diffuse the situation; I really didn’t want to listen to another rant about all the various factors that took a part in her loss in that contest.

“Whatever, just check the time,” Clear said angrily.

I smiled and shook my head as I looked at a nearby clock, “8:29, looks like a minute left till we need to wake her up,” I replied.

“You don’t think she could hear us in there, right?” Clear suddenly asked.

“Nah, I’m pretty sure that she would have some sort of sound-proofing spells while she sleeps, I heard from Night Skies that-” I said before being interrupted.

“More Night Skies? Damn it girl, you listen to that Unicorn more than you do to the Head Caretaker or even your changeling Queen,” Clear rolled her eyes.

“Whatever, it’s time to wake her highness. Do you want to do it or should I?” I replied.

“I’ll do it, but we’re doing what I want to do tonight, alright?” Clear answered smiling.

“Alright then, we’ll see what that mind of yours comes up with,” I answered back, smiling as well.

Clear then turned towards the door and opened it and stuck her head in. After looking, inside she saw something that must have piqued her interest because she said a quick, “Huh,” in a “Well, that makes sense” type of tone before saying, “Your highness, we are but an hour and a half from Common’s Court.”

I heard the Goddess mumble something in return before Clear pulled her head out of the room and closed the door with a smile on her face. “What?” I inquired.

“I can’t believe I saw her highness with bed-head, that is so cool,” She answered excited.

“Really? That’s what you’re excited about?” I asked.

“Of course, all we ever get to see of her highness is the poofed up, public relations version. Even a Goddess has to deal with bed-head, looks like mine and her’s don’t come naturally, Xithy. You don’t even care to even brush your little fin-mane-thing,” Clear answered rolling her eyes.

“You are literally the only non-changeling I know of that uses that name, in any form, more than once, and besides, I have no need to brush when all I need to do is just shift into whatever form I want. One of the many advantages of being a changeling is that I don’t ever need to go to those hair salons or whatever, I just think of what I think you’d like and, bam, we wake up the next morning with sore muscles and happy memories,” I said in reply.

“Fair enough point, Luminous, but you’re not the only one who initiates, my hole-filled partner. I remember once when I had a rope and some old wiring-” Clear said before a loud crash sounded from the Goddess’s room.

“Whoa!” I yelled in surprise before I took out my Crystal Rifle and I bolted into the room where I saw something that I’d never thought that I would ever see, an alicorn that is most certainly not the Goddess, who was held in a shield that seemed to be coming from the same Midnight-Blue Alicorn who I had just seen. Despite my hesitation, my bursting in seemed to distract the Alicorn because her shield seemed to flicker before a burst of light emanated from it, which quickly exploded outward and pushed both me and the Alicorn off of our hooves.
“What is that?” I heard Clear yell as she rushed into the room.

“I am a force of nature, small one!” I heard the alicorn yell. I then pulled up my Crystal Rifle again and I shot at her, hoping to kill whatever this threat was. “Foolish little bug-pony! Your silly bullets do not harm me!” The Alicorn yelled behind a shield before I saw a burst of magic emanate from her horn hurtling towards me. A pink shield appeared in front of me before the magic burst reached me and exploded on impact sending a shockwave that knocked me against the door behind me flinging me out of the room before I hit something hard and I lost consciousness.

I awoke on a bed, but I couldn’t quite open my eyes; I simply moved my head a little and I mumbled something not recognizable before I heard a rush of movement near me. “She’s waking up, your highness!” I heard a stallion’s voice yell.

“Good, go check on her partner, Doctor Stern, I’ll have need of their services soon, if this attack is only the first of more then I’ll need all of my Crystal Swords,” I heard the Goddess say before I heard a door open.

“Miss Clear Night, you must get back to your bed, you are not ready to be up and about yet,” Doctor Stern said.

“No, I need to see her, is she ok?” I heard Clear Night’s voice say before I groaned as a wave of pain hit me.

“You need to get out of here, miss, please, you must not disturb the patient,” Doctor Stern said trying to dissuade her.

“No, I’m not leaving her!” Clear said.

“Please leave, Miss Night,” Doctor Stern said sounding agitated.

“There is no need for this, Doctor, just let her stay, you already said that my little changeling here was in the process of waking. Please return to your other patients, if we have need of you then I shall call you down,” The Goddess said.

“Yes, your highness,” Doctor Stern conceded soon before I heard a door close.

I finally opened my eyes to see Clear looking at me, first in worry and then in relief. Despite the seriousness of the situation I jokingly said, “I’m sorry, were you looking for Luminous? Or perhaps Blacky?”

“Oh shut up you, you’ll be lucky to get anything out of me for the next few weeks,” Clear said smiling, tearing up.

“I seem to recall a certain maid outfit that you absolutely love on a stallion,” I chuckled before I remembered the Goddess standing there smiling. I wasn’t sure whether or not a blush could show through black chitin, but it certainly showed on Clear’s crystalline, baby-blue face.

“It is good to see my savior in such high spirits after facing off such a powerful enemy,” the Goddess said continuing to smile, “In such times as we are to enter, such a good attitude will be needed.”

I frowned before asking, “What do you mean, your highness?” I heard her say something about the possibility of more attacks but I was sure that she meant more than just that.

“Troubling times are ahead of us, my little savior, and even I can’t stop the clock from turning,” the Goddess answered, “Soon crystal will have to stand against a foe mightier than the Yaks and I fear that it will shatter before it can bend.”

That entire bit sounded like a riddle from some weird fiction book or whatever, which was echoed by Clear saying, “Your highness, please forgive me but that made absolutely no sense.”

“Please forgive me, my subjects, but I have not spoken informally in such a very long amount of time. I am very fortunate to not have developed the ‘royal we’ that my aunt spoke with when she first returned from the Moon,” the Goddess replied.

“If I may, your highness, do you know what that thing that attacked you was?” I asked, “It looked like an Alicorn, but you are the only one left, right?”

“I actually do not know how it is possible, but that thing was, indeed, an Alicorn. I have heard from my sources in the south about these creatures but I always thought that they were just stories that were meant to scare little foals, but now it seems that I thought wrong. This Alicorn, a creature that does not fit that very noble title once held by the two rulers of Equestria, was somehow able to sneak into my quarters and ambush me while I still slumbered,” the Goddess answered.

“I apologize, your highness, we should have been more vigilant-” I attempted to apologize before being interrupted.

“There is no need to apologize, little one. Were it not for your distraction I never could have escaped that shield nor could I have killed it and been ready for the two others that showed up soon after. It was only due to your distraction that I could have gotten my Cadenza Lite from a drawer. After that thing disengaged its shields to fire at you, I was able to put a shield around you and Clear Night and then put a bullet through that thing’s skull,” the Goddess said graciously.

“How did you kill the other ones?” I asked my curiosity stewing.

“After I dispatched of the blue one, a dark-green Alicorn and a purple Alicorn showed up right after. I had to spend a second magically enhancing my bullets to punch through their shields but it worked,” she answered.

Before I could ask any more questions, Clear asked the Goddess, “Your highness, I’m sorry to ask but how exactly did you have time to put a shield around us, and then find a gun, load it, and then fire it?”

I could almost hear the Goddess laugh quietly before she replied, “I have been alive for a very long amount of time, little one. I’m old enough to have been the foal-sitter of Twilight Sparkle, the mare that you ponies worship as the Mare of Magic and Science. Your description of her is not all that far off, especially in the days prior to the Ministries. Due to my age, and after devoting myself to my magical studies in remembrance to her, I have learned many things about magic. It’s the biggest thing that keeps me alive, my knowledge of magic. I have outlived my normal lifespan by at least a hundred years, you see.”

I stood stunned as the fact of the age of the Goddess came rushing to me. I always knew that she was a pre-war Alicorn, that was the basis of our faith, but to have been a foal-sitter for one of the vessels of the Spirit of Harmony is just purely amazing. “I had never thought about how old you were, your highness,” I said.

“Most ponies never do, and most never thought of how long my aunts were alive either, to be honest. Celestia had been alive for more than a thousand years; old enough to have seen the reign of Sombra begin and end. She and Luna were both bothered by their ages, even if they would never admit it, they could never truly love a pony other than their respective sister, and the times that they did would always end with them outliving that love. I guess in the end that doesn’t really matter as they perished as did Celestia’s prized student Twilight Sparkle and I managed to stay alive here, away from all of my friends and family down south, nopony to love except my Shining Armor and I managed to outlive him. Only my will, magical ability, and my promise to him to re-take Equestria from the Wasteland keep me alive,” the Goddess replied sullenly.

I looked at the Goddess and I saw the pain in her face, she had been through so much and to have outlived all that she knew and loved. “Your highness,” I said trying to think of something to say.

“Please, just rest up, my loyal subject. I have a talk in mind for you and you’ll need all of your strength to get through it. Ms. Clear Skies, if you wish to stay with your partner then please do so, I’m sure she’d enjoy your company, and don’t worry about any sounds you mares make, I’ve made this room soundproof,” the Goddess said, winking.

“I will, your highness,” Clear replied with what I could swear was a blush. I blushed as well, considering the fact that I never thought that I would hear such a comment from the Goddess.

As the Goddess walked out of the room, Clear looked at me with a wicked smile. “What?” I asked.

“Oh nothing, it’s too bad we can’t get up to any shenanigans, I’d be afraid of hurting ya,” she answered keeping that smile whilst trotting towards the foot of the bed.
“Wh-what are you doing, Clear? What are you doing down there?” I asked.

“Oh it’s nothing, just a little peppy action with a certain area of a certain mare, a little pick-me-up that you need,” she said after reaching the foot of my bed and leaning in.

“Whoa Clear, I know her highness said that the room was soundproof but I thi- OH MY GODDESS!” I said as I tried to dissuade her before I she spread my legs and placed her tongue in a place that I had experienced it many times before.

Quest Completed: Defending the Princess

Level up!

New Perk: Pony Sutra II: You are even more experienced in the art of giving and receiving physical pleasure. Certain characters are more likely to be seduced to have sexual encounters with you.