Steel Breaker
Thirty minutes earlier

Me and Dogmeat arrived at the Vault in only five minutes by running. Opening the large steel Vault door, hearing the alarm go off as the door screeched open.

Once the door was fully opened, Andy was waiting on the other side waiting.

“Good morning, Sir!” Andy greeted. I walked passed him, not wanting to waste time. Andy followed behind along with Dogmeat.

“Sir?” Andy said with worry in his tone.

“No time, someone I thought dead came back, again.” I said, sneering the word again.

“Ulysses? She's alive!?” Andy said with shock. I nodded as I punched the button for the elevator. Only seconds later, the doors opened with a loud ding and I stepped inside.

I pressed the sub-basement, that's where all my weapons and armor are, along with a few things that I found over the years.

The elevator dropped, I felt myself start floating up as if there was no gravity. Dogmeat, prone onto the floor, digging his claws onto the floor as the elevator continued while Andy wasn't affected.

Then without any warning, we stopped. I dropped back onto my feet as the door opened. Dogmeat pulled his claws out of the floor and ran out.

I flipped the switch for the lights, turning them on through the entire room that could be classified as a warehouse. Shelves upon shelves of loot, I had collected over the years around the Wastes.

But those weren't the reason I was here. Walking through the seemingly endless room until the shelves changed into weapon racks and armor stands.

I looked at the old T-51b Power armor and moved it out of the way and found my customized X-01 Power Armor. I had painted red with white stripes.

I saw something glimmer inside one the left shoulder pad.

Sticking my hand in and trying to feel the object inside. Feeling something that doesn't belong in there, I took hold of it and yanked it out.

I opened my hand and saw a talisman. I about to throw it away but stopped as I heard a familiar voice.

“My name is Jace Beleren, Master of the Five Colour manas, Caller of the elements, The Summoner if you wish for my help in a fight, or just a friend to talk to I will come and help.” I blinked and stared at the talisman.

“I'll make this simple Jace. Someone wants me dead and to bring back the Old World, this is bad for everyone, including the entire planet.” I said to the talisman. It then shone before it hovered off my hand and embedded itself on the wall.

It then started spinning and slowly, a portal emerged from the Talisman.

Ulysses

“What is he doing?” I asked the lobotomite next to me.

“I don't know.” it answered. I grabbed it by the neck and made eye contact with it.

“Then find out! And take this with you. If I know that idiot, he'll probably have an armed warhead inside.” I said, throwing it onto the floor and gave it the Laser Detonator. It nodded as it scattered towards the castle.

‘Once this insect is out of the way, I'll be able to finally revive The Old World.’ I thought as I took hold of my newly remade Old Glory.

“The World will burn in the atomic fires of creation.” I growled out.

Jace, up in the mountains.

“THIS ISN’T HOW I WANTED TO SPEND MY WEEKEND DOING!!!” I yelled as I killed a wurm. I sensed some monster up in the mountains and Tia asked me to see what's up. I went up there and found a cave with a nest of wurms in it.

I donned my armor and pulled out my sword and fate and went to work. About a few hours later I cleared all but one. It charged at me and I aimed my gun at it and fired. The shot went into it’s mouth and then it exploded. I sighed and looked around.

“Well, that’s done with now I can get back and-” I stopped as I heard a voice.

“I'll make this simple Jace. Someone wants me dead and to bring back the Old World, this is bad for everyone, including the entire planet.” I blinked a bit and looked as the portal opened. I laughed a bit and looked at it.

“No rest for the wicked huh.” I said as I walked into the portal.

Steel Breaker

While finishing up in putting my armor, seeing the H.U.D activate, I saw that the armor was in good condition.

Flicking my wrist, seeing my built in flamethrower activate. Smirking, I flicked my wrist again, deactivating the flamethrower.

I looked back at the portal and saw someone emerge through it.

“Intruder detected!” Andy shouted, activating his buzzsaw. The man in armor pointed a gun at him.

“Try it and see what will happen.” He said.

“Andy, stand down. He's with me.” I said, looking at Andy. He wasn't looking at the man in armor. Following his gaze, I saw a changeling near a warhead.

“The hell?” Jace said.

My eyes grew wide as I saw the changeling pull out a Laser Detonator. It was aiming at the warhead and almost pulled the trigger but Dogmeat tackled the Changeling to the ground and bit its arm.

It dropped the Detonator as it screamed in pain. I ran towards them as the changeling pulled out a knife and stabbed Dogmeats right front leg.

Dogmeat let out a howl of pain before he was pushed away by the changeling. It then grabbed the Detonator and pulled the trigger.

It armed the warhead, giving us only a few seconds before detonation. I ran up to the changeling and grabbed a metal pipe from the floor.

I bashed him on the side of its head. As he was on the floor and looked at me, I embedded the pipe in its throat.

I saw Jace preparing a shield with Andy hovering behind him. I grabbed Dogmeat and ran up to Jace.

I entered the shield as it closed.

“Don't look at the explosion!” I said as I covered Dogmeats eyes and closed mine. All of a sudden, everything went white and silent.

The silence was soon shattered as a loud explosion was heard.

Now

I opened my eyes and was greeted with rubble over the shield. I activated another feature of my armor, making the gauntlets of the armor start vibrating violently.

“Open the shield a bit.” I said to Jace. He nodded and opened it a bit.

I placed my hands on the rubble, pulverizing the rubble.

“This may take a few minutes.” I sighed out as my headlights turned on.

Twilight Sparkle

To say that the town was in panic was putting it lightly. Everything soon went into pure chaos.

Some ponies were screaming about the end of life while others couldn't do anything but look at the forest in fear and shock.

The girls had arrived asking about the explosion and as soon as they saw Chrysalis, their moods only worsen.

I had to explain to them on the way to the forest but throughout it all, the only thing I could think was if Steel was in the explosion which only worsen my worries.

Even more so when I saw the state of the Everfree Castle, scratch that, Everfree Crater. We walked up to the edge and saw rubble on the bottom.

I felt some magic that I never felt before. Soon the rubble started to violently shake before being pulverized.

Seeing the arm of Steel’s armor through the dust only relieved me slightly. I spread open my wings and flew down with Chrysalis following behind.

Landing beside the large pile, I started moving it out of the way with magic with the help of Chrysalis.

Steel Breaker

Finally breaking through, I could hear someone outside digging us out.

“You're good to move this shit out of the way.” I said to Jace.

“Well you better move.” He said. I moved out of the way and saw his hand glow. The rubble glowed and vibrate a bit. I heard someone yell something. Then after a minute the rocks shot out like bullets. I saw Jace look at me. I saw a red glow under the helmet.

“After you.” He said to me. I walked out of the newly made hole and looked around.

I took hold of my helmet and twisted it to the left, causing a loud click and I took it off.

“Steel!” I heard Twilight's voice. I looked to my left and saw Twilight and Chrysalis.

Twilight ran up to me and hugged me.

“Twilight, what are you doing here? It's dangerous, especially now.” I said to her as she pulled back. Before she could say anything I heard someone whistled behind me.

“Damn, thank the Maker that I spent five years perfecting my shield spells.” Jace said. Twilight saw Jace then looked at me.

“I'll explain later back at the castle, where you're supposed to be.” I said to her.

“I couldn't sit around while I saw that explosion and I can fight, so do my friends.” She said. I looked at Jace for some help. He put his hands up and shook his head.

“Don’t look at me, lover boy.” I stared at him some more. I looked back at Twilight, knowing that she would stay even if I said no.

“Fine, but the first sight of a firefight, run.” I said as I took out a familiar chrome 9mm pistol.

“Chrys, catch!” I shouted as I tossed the pistol at her. She caught it with ease and cocked it.

Soon, the sound of fighting could be heard above. I readied the jet-pack but stopped as the edges of the crater was soon surrounded by Changelings.

I could see that they had the same weapons, a survivalist single shot rifle with grips.

“Fuck.” I growled out.

“Friends or yours?” Jace said. He pulled out his gun and lighting course around his hand.

“I wouldn't do that if I were you!” A familiar voice shouted. I looked up and saw the bitch.

She wore the same sleeveless Duster with the Old World flag on the back.

“Ulysses.” I growled.

“You can't kill me, Wanderer. I was born to bring back The Old World and I intend to do so, one way..” She said as she pushed Pinkie in front of her and pulled out a 12.7mm pistol.

“Or another.” She finished as she pointed the gun at Pinkie. Twilight saw this and was immediately worried and scared.

“Can I?” Jace asked me. I saw a faint glow around him.

“You can try.” I whispered. Jace put his gun away and looked at Ulysses.

“HEY YOU!” He yelled. She looked at him. “Sur-!” A flash came and he was gone. Replaced was Pinkie. I looked back at Ulysses and saw Jace was there. I saw his fist glowed green.

Jace

“-Prise!!” I yelled as I punched her in the face. She took a step backwards. I blinked in surprise. She tough.

“One of the perks of being a Lobotomite, I don't feel anything.” She said as she returned the punch. I didn’t even move.

“One of the perks of being over forty thousand years old, I felt worst.” I remarked.

“Really? Then how about..” She trailed off as she took out a large sniper rifle.

She smirked as a loud boom was heard, I suddenly felt massive amount of pain. She then pulled trigger and I felt pain on my torso.

“Ow.” I said and looked at her. I saw her smirking. I pulled my gun and pointed at her. She laughed at me.

“Try it.” She said with a smirk. I could hear shouts from Steel to not fire. I stared at her for a minute and chuckled.

“Your name is Ulysses?” I asked her.

“Yes.” She answered. I smiled under my helmet.

“Nice name, for a guy.” I said as I slammed her gun, breaking it and ported back to the group. I kneeled down to catch my breath.

“Send in the Lobotomites.” I heard Ulysses say in an emotionless voice. Soon a few cages were dropped down the crater.

Chrysalis knew what was happening and made sure to have enough ammo. Steel took out an assault rifle with an ACOG sight. I looked back at the rest of them.

Fluttershy took deep breaths and took a fighting stance. Rainbow and AppleJack picked up rebars.

Rarity, surprisingly had taken the same fighting stance as Fluttershy. Twilight readied her magic as her eyes shone in a lavender light.

The cages crashed onto the floor, I counted ten cages.

The doors were ripped open as a swarm of mutilated Changelings poured out of the cages.

“Don't hold back, their mindless beasts with only the need to kill and eat anything they find.” Steel said before he ran towards the swarm. I smiled and pulled my gun and sword.

“Mindless beasts? It feels like I never left home.” I then charged into the swarm.

The first one ran at me. It tried to swipe at me but I dodge out of the way and cut it’s arm off. It snarled at me and kept coming. I took it’s head off and watched it twitched. I turned and saw two more coming after me. I pointed fate at them and shot twice and watched them exploded. A group of them jumped on me but I blinked away and shot at the group. The group exploded and left some burt body parts. I turned to see Chrysalis shooting them with deadly accuracy, each shot hitting them in the head. Dash and Applejack were holding their own while Fluttershy and Rarity were surprisingly doing the same. I saw Twilight holding off ten of them as she shot magic bolt at them. They didn’t seemed to mind unless she hit them in the head, which turned into dust. I saw one of them run around and was going to attack her from behind.

“Oh no you don’t.” I felt red mana all over my body and I sprinted forward. In a second I was at it and grabbed its head and slammed it on the ground. It’s head popped like a grape. I turned and slammed my fist on the ground and poured green mana into it. The ground shot up and impaled the others that twilight was fighting. Twilight looked at me wide eyed as I just waved her off.

“Tell you later.” I said and blurred towards another group. I cut down about ten more and now I was back to back with Chrysalis. She reloaded as I shot a flaming spear at one of them, burning it to a crisp.

“That’s forty one for me, how many you got?” I asked her. She shot two more and snorted.

“Forty six, looks like I’m winning.” I turned and saw her smirking at me. I aimed Fate and shot six times, hitting six of them.

“Forty seven, now I’m winning.” She rolled her eyes and shot a few more. The fight went on and I saw Steel fighting Ulysses. I turned and saw the changelings aiming their guns at Steel. I smiled at a thought. I twisted around and whipped my gun and firing. I used my mana to control where it went. I hit one of them and the bullet kept going. Each One got hit and disintegrated at it. It went around until it headed to Ulysses but that’s bitch dodge out of the way at the last second.

“I ALWAYS WANTED TO DO THAT!!!” I yelled as a group of them dog pile on me. I felt about twenty on me and clawing on me. I focus the rad mana and fired a fireball, I knew that I was going to be fine but the rest. Ashes. I looked up and counted the ones I killed with the bullet and the ones that are ash.

“That’s eighty three for me!!!” I yelled.

“DAMN IT!” Chrysalis yelled. I heard a string of shots and clicks then more shots. I saw three groups of them fell. I chuckled and ran after some more of them.

Steel Breaker

Welp, I can kiss my armor good bye. Ulysses has improved in her fighting and speed, judging from the bullet that took out the changelings.

I moved my leg up from the armor and waited till she got close again. When she took out a brand new Old Glory staff and ran up to me, I smirked as I reeled back my leg as far as the armor let me and kicked the chest peice open.

The chestplate hit her, no doubt about that. I climbed out of the armor through the hole and took out Old Glory. Once she stood back up and saw me, we walked around in a circle.

She got impatient and attacked first, allowing me to not only block her, but also jab her knee with my staff. She grunted as her knee bent the wrong way before snapping it back into place.

“Die, insect!” She yelled, taking out a .44 caliber revolver and firing. The bullet pierced through me and I'm pretty sure it hit a lung.

“You know as well as I do, I'm impossible to kill.” I said as I felt the wound heal. When the punctured lung healed, I felt a burning sensation.

“Gaah!!” She shouted, charging at me. She jumped and tried to smash me with the staff. I dropped mine and took hold of hers, then spun it around before throwing her and the spear to a tree.

While she was dazed, I ran up to her and knee kicked her head, earning a sickening crunch. I grabbed her by the neck of her duster and threw her near the edge.

I walked up to her, knowing she won't get up from that. Placing a hoof on her chest to be sure, I heard someone run up behind me but I grabbed my assailant's arm, twisted it and then threw him down the cliff.

“The Old World is dead, so is the Wasteland, the N.C.R, The Legion, every single faction throughout the years, dead. You're stuck in the past, allow me to remedy that.” I said, placing my hoof on her neck and applied force to it.

I was about to stomp her neck but was soon tackled by a Lobotomite, sending me and the Rabid Changeling down the cliff.

As we fell down, it tried to bite and claw me like a zombie. I pushed its head up to the wall, making it scrape his face as well.

I didn't have time to do anything else and crash onto the ground. The crash knocked me out but before losing consciousness, I saw that my body was being engulfed by blue flame.

‘The jig is up.’ Were my thoughts before everything went dark.

Jace

I brought my sword down on the last changeling. I looked around to see if there was anymore but didn’t see any. I turned to see Steel on fire with blue flame. I began to panic as I ran to him I saw Ulysses got up and limped away(Maybe?) but I didn’t have time for her. I got to where Steel is and looked at him. I knew that some creatures are affected by flames differently back home but this isn’t my home and I had no idea what to do. I leaned in to get a closer look at Steel.

“Don’t touch him!” I jumped at the shout. I turned to Chrysalis as she walked up beside me. I saw the rest of the mane six standing behind her. Twilight was crying. I looked at Chrysalis as I dropped my armor. She raised an eyebrow at me.

“Don’t ask.” I said to her. I then pointed at Steel. “What the hell is going on?” She looked at Steel and I couldn’t read her face.

“How much do you know about Steel.” I looked at her for a minute.

“Not a lot, he didn’t talk about himself a lot and I never asked, but I did know that the first time I met him he was really depressed.” I looked at the now burning Steel. I couldn’t smell anything burning. Odd. “He sure as hell didn’t say anything about him burning blue.”

“He's not burning, he's...changing.” Chrysalis said. I narrowed my eyes at her and looked at Steel. I saw the flames die down and I saw what turned into.

“A changeling?” I said, confusion clouded my mind. What laid in front of me was a changeling. I heard gasps behind me. I kneeled down and put two fingers on his neck to check if he’s alive. I felt a pulse and nodded. I looked around to the rest of them then looked at Chrysalis.

“We need to get to some place safe, can you all stand close together.” They all did and with the help of Chrysalis got Steel up. As soon as we got close I ported everyone to Twilight’s castle.

As soon as we got there we found a room with a bed and put him on it. I turned to the rest of the mane six and asked that Twilight stayed while the rest go and try to calm the town and for Fluttershy to take care of Dogmeat. They argued but I simply put a seal on the door to make sure that no one can enter. I turned and saw Twilight sitting near Steel on one side of the bed as Chrysalis stood at the end. I walked up to her and crossed my arms.

“I want to know what’s going on, who’s Ulysses, why does she want to destroy the world and why Steel is a changeling. Don’t leave anything out.” I said to her.

“Ulysses is my sister and she thinks that the world before The Great War can be restored with the same things that made the Wastelands. We weren't always Changelings, Steel and I were normal ponies, as normal as it gets back then.” She started.

“I used to work at a post office known as the Mojave Express. I joined to be like my sister, she used to make a difference when out to deliver but all of a sudden, she vanished. I was then assigned her position as Courier Six and had been given something important to deliver but that's for another time.” She stopped to drink a bit of water.

“Anyway, I lost my memories and found Steel on the way to find the guy who shot me. When I got all my memories back, I followed my sister's hoofsteps and it got us to a place known as Big M.T.” She said.

“We were then drugged and hauled off to a medical area, then took out some of our organs and replaced them but that wasn't enough for them, no they had to inject us with a Modified Virus that should've left us as wild savages, like the ones we fought. It changed us and the pain, it wouldn't stop.” Her voice was cracking a little.

“When we finally got to see what happened, well you can guess the rest.” She finished her explanation. As I was listening I took out Fate and started to clean her. Chrysalis looked at me but I motion that I was still listening. As she finished I clicked Fate back together and holster her then looked at Steel. Both of them went through hell and back. Something I knew very well.

“So how is she going to do it? You said that she’s going to try to change the world back before The Great War.” I asked her.

“With Atomic Warheads.” She answered. I looked at her wide eyed.

“Seriously…” I asked as she nodded. I rubbed my eyes. “Now that’s a scary thought.” I looked at Steel and started thinking. If she's going to use Atomic Warheads then I don’t know what will happen. I’ve seen some shit but seeing an atomic blast isn’t one of them.

“Any idea where they are?”

“No, but she has a detonator, all she needs to do is point, click and watch the fireworks.” Chrysalis said. I groaned and started to pace. She has a detonator for them. She can set them off anytime she wants. The question is…

“Why doesn’t she just detonate them now?” I asked.

“Because, the detonator needs to be facing the warhead. I'm sure you saw it too.” She said. I nodded and stopped pacing. We have time, that’s good. Right now she's injured from the fight with Steel. That means we have time but if she’s like Steel that means she can heal fast. A thought went through my head that didn’t make sense.

“When I was facing her, after she shot me twice I pointed my gun at her and Steel said don’t shoot her, Why.” I faced Chrysalis.

“Because she'll either move out of the way or flick it back at you.” She answered. I thought about it for a moment. When I took out all of her gunners she did move out of the way. So she’s tough, fast and strong. Also bat shit insane as well.

“What are our options.” I asked her.

“We wait.” A gruff voice behind me said. I turned and saw what looked like an orc that been dragged over a rocky road. I blinked at him.

“Hello.” I said.

“Greetings.” He said.

“It's good to see you, Fawkes.” I heard Chrysalis say.

“It is good to see you as well, after all these years, Dead Eye.” Fawkes said.

“It's Chrysalis nowadays.” Chrysalis said. I snorted at that, now it made sense with her crazy aim. As they talked I was sitting in a chair thinking. ‘We wait’ I frowned at that. I hate waiting, it means that they are moving around and we aren’t. I began to vibrate as I thought. Why here. Why is she here. The only answers I came up with are either she is looking for something, the warheads are somewhere near here or she knew that Steel was here and wanted to kill her.

“Why, why here.” I said out loud. I looked over to Twilight and stared at her.

“What makes Ponyville so important?” I asked her. She blinked at me.

“I don't know.” She answered. I looked down a bit then looked at both Chrysalis and Fawkes.

“What is her relationship with Steel, I get the impression that he pissed her off.” I asked.

“She is, for an idiotic reason.” Fawkes answered.

“And what might that be?” I asked him, only to receive an answer from Chrysalis.

“She was close to launching the bombs but Steel and I managed to make it before she did. We fought, she lost and Steel killed her.” She answered. I knew she was leaving something out. Narrowing my eyes at her, waiting for her to tell everything.

“We couldn't stop the warheads from launching, so Steel redirected their coordinates and bombed The N.C.R and The Legion. I knew it had to be done for the sake of the people of the Mojave but Steel took it personally.” She said.

“How so?” I asked her.

“The N.C.R or The New Canterlot Republic had promised safety to the people and at the time, we've accepted but only a decade later they have been focusing only on Hoover Dam and ignoring all calls for help. While the N.C.R were busy getting electricity, Caesar's Legion were busy taking settlements and crucifying the innocent.” She said. I looked over to Steel.

‘Why bomb them?’ I thought. I was able to see a small twitch from his left hand. It kept twitching for two full minutes before closing into a fist a couple of times.

“Ugh.” I heard him groan as he placed his synthetic hand on his forehead. Twilight looked at him, expecting something horrible to happen.

“Steel?” I heard Twilight whisper. Steel didn't answer but sat up with a blank expression, his eyes were grey, almost lifeless. Twilight cupped Steels cheeks and moved his gaze towards her.

“Steel, it's me, Twilight.” She said, only receiving the blank stare in return. Twilight started to tear up from this.

“Please, say something.” She begged, tears streaming down her muzzle. Steel looked back at Twilight, then raised his left hand and cupped her cheek with it.

He proceeded to wipe her tears away.

“Don't cry, Twilight. You shouldn't cry.” I heard him say. Twilight looked at him as he did this.

His eyes slowly regained their color.

“I'm sorry, for not telling you about...this.” Steel said as he gestured at himself.

“Why?” I asked him. Steels ears flatten onto his head.

“I was afraid.” He answered. I felt that this was going to be an emotional moment for the two of them. Sad to say but I’m a giant asshole.

“You were afraid that she wouldn’t like you if she knew that you look like a giant bug? HA! I met different versions of Twilight and a couple of them fell in love and got married with a demon.” I told them. They all turned to me and glared at me. I felt uncomfortable.

“... I think I’m going to go to the library, maybe I can find something there.” And with that I ported out of the room.

Steel

“Fuck you too, buddy.” I said as I buried my face in my hands.

“Is it true?” I heard Twilight ask me.

“Yeah.” I said, my voice muffled through my hands. I felt a pair of arms wrap around me.

“Steel, it doesn't matter what you're, I'll always love you.” I raised my head and saw Twilight holding me in loving embrace.

Slowly but surely, I returned the embrace. A small smile formed on my lips as I did this.

“You don't know how much that means to me.” I said to her.

Jace

Back on earth and even my world I will always be a bookworm. I was sitting in Twilight's library reading through book after book. Each of them have something to do with Ponyville and anything and everything around the place. I even have a book of the history of Equestria. Each book I go through I could only find stuff that I already knew of., I knew that there’s wasn’t going to be a page that say where the warheads are going to be. I cared a book over to another table with maps and paper. I got a map of Ponyville out and saw different points that could help if Ulysses decided to attack the place.

“I can put a barrier up around the town to keep them out but it would take time to make one big enough, so if I can summoned some groups to defend the place while I make the barrier.” I scratch my head. I hate sitting still and waiting. I prefer doing something, even if we’re waiting if I knew something is going on that would help us I would be fine.

I sighed and looked over some plans I made. I know that I would have enough mana to make a army of my own to hold of Ulysses army as long as I can.

I frowned and went over to the books and grabbed one that I didn’t read yet. I skimmed through it until I came to a page that caught my eye. I saids that Ponyville wasn’t the first city that was built. There was a town called Springvale that was here before. I stared at that name for a few minutes.

“Springvale, why does that name sound important.” I muttered to myself. I looked up and ported to the room Steel was in. I knocked on the door and waited. As I waited I looked at the page again and re-read it again. I heard the door open and saw Chrysalis in front of me.

“Hey, how is he?” I asked her.

“He's been through worse but he's already out of bed.” She answered. I nodded at her.

“So can I come in or am I going to get punched in the face?” She blinked at me.

“He won't punch you, he said it himself.” She said. She moved out of the way and I walked in. I saw Steel. Then I felt pain in my foot.

“GOD DAMN IT, NOT AGAIN!!!” I yelled and was holding my foot. I hopped around and fell to the floor.

“Didn't say anything about shooting you though.” I heard Chrysalis say as she walked by. I glared at her for a minute and felt my mana healing my foot. I got up and tested my foot. It still was sore but liveable.

“I deserve that.” I bent down and picked up the book. I dusted it a bit and turned to the page I had it on. I looked up to see Steel glaring at me. “What?”

“I missed.” He said. I looked at the barrel of his gun and followed to its intended target.

“You fucker!” I shouted. He snorted a bit. He holset his gun and I grumbled a bit.

“Anyway, I went through some books in the library and made some plans on defending the town.” I lift the book I had with me. “I also found this, one of the pages said that there was a town here that goes by the name Springvale, I don’t know about you but I have a feeling that there’s something important about it.” I told them all.

“Apples, anyone feeling for apples?” Steel asked. We all looked at him for a moment.

“Uhh did you hit your head?” I asked him.

“No, he's right. I'm also feeling for apples.” Fawkes said

“Good, Jace you can dig, right?” Steel asked. I was still lost with the whole apples thing.

“Uhh I’m not from around here so I have no idea what the hell you are talking about.” Steel just stared at me then left the room with the other three.

“AM I MISSING SOMETHING!”

Steel

Why didn't I ever get rid of the bomb, why!? I had the Brotherhood on my back, I could've asked them.

Whatever, I need to dig up Megaton for it, I got Fawkes and Chrysalis. We didn't waste time and hurried to the Apple Farm.

“She is planning to detonate a fifty eight megaton bomb, how original though didn't you disarm it?” Fawkes asked as we stepped out of the castle.

“Yes but I didn't remove the Disarm and rearm switch.” I said.

“Why is there a switch for that?” Chrysalis asked.

“The Commies didn't expect the bomb to be a dud and just crash without exploding.” I explained to her.

With that said we ran all the way to Sweet Apple Acres. I looked back and I didn’t see Jace at all.

Shaking my head I continued on.

We arrived at the farm and I turned to look at my Pip-boy and accessed the map, showing me that we right above Megaton.

“We're here.” I said to the two behind me.

My left ear twitch as I felt someone else.

“Nice try, Jace but you need to try harder.” I said outloud.

“About time you all got here.” I turned to see him leaning up on a tree. “By the way, did you know there’s a town under the farm, kinda cool.”

“I give you my thanks, Captain Obvious.” Fawkes said with an un-amused tone.

“Your welcome, also I would of offered to port you all here but you left before I could say anything.” He pushed himself off the tree. “So what’s the plan?”

“Can you extract the bomb, you're literally standing above it's location.” I said. Jace looked at me for a moment.

“I can but I need some time to set up, I don’t think it’s the size of a tin can.” He said as a cane appeared and he started to carve out a circle. After a few minutes he was finish. It was two large circles with runes in them. I saw Twilight stare in awe at them. I couldn’t help but chuckled.

“Alright, everyone stand back.” Jace said. He stood in the circles and put his hands on them. The outer ring glowed white as the inner ring glowed blue. The air shimmered as I saw the outlines of the bomb.

“Amazing…” I heard Twilight said beside me. “I never felt magic on this scale before.”

“I've seen a few.” I said to her. I looked at the outlines and saw the bomb coming through.

“What’s also amazing is that he has two powerful spells going off at the same time.” I frowned at her.

“What do you mean?” I asked.

“Those rings they are both different spells, the blue one is getting the bomb and the white one is… well I don’t know about that one.” She answered. I looked at Jace for a moment.

“What are you planing?” I said to myself. I watched as the blue ring dimmed down and I saw that bomb was sitting on the ground in front of Jace. He looked at me.

“One giant ass bomb as ordered.” He bowed to me.

“Good. Now..” I said as I walked towards it and ripped off the switch.

“We get rid of this.” I said as. i crushed it in my hands. I turned to look at the bomb.

“Now, what are we going to do with the Fat Man Lookalike?” I asked. Jace looked at the bomb.

“Well destroying it might be a bad idea, it could blow up if we tried.” He said.

“Anything else?” I asked him.

“I don’t know, sure you disarmed it but what stopping someone else building an rearmed switch and using it, all I got is destroying it which is out, moving it or finding someone to take it apart.” Jace rubbed his head a bit. “I know one person who can take it apart but she’s in my world and finding her is another issue and I can move it anywhere I want but that’s just delay it.”

“Chrysalis, do you want to get rid of Ulysses?” I asked the Changeling.

“Yes, even if it means the destruction of the Hive.” She said, causing me to snort a bit.

“Cut the act, you know you, me and your sister are the only Changelings in existence.” I said, arms crossed and eyes narrowed at her.

“Steel, what do you mean?” Twilight asked me.

“The ones you fought at the crater were mutants, Lobotomites. The ones you saw surrounding the crater-” I was cut off by Chrys.

“Are Synths.” She admitted.

Everyone stood in silence, Twilight was the most confused of the group.

“I'll explain another time.” I looked over to Jace with a thought in mind.

“Hey, is Megaton completely buried or is it inside a cavern?” I asked Jace. He stared at me for a moment and put one finger up and kneeled down. He put his left hand and I saw the green gem glow. I heard a soft *thump!* as the glow went into the ground like a wave. He then looked at me.

“It’s weird, it’s not buried. I sense tunnels underneath with what I can guess is Megaton in the middle, so yes it’s inside a cavern. I think it’s the main hub of a network of tunnels that travel in every direction for I guess miles.” He looked down to the ground. “It’s like a Sliver hive down there.”

“A Sliver?” I asked. He looked at me and snapped his fingers. An image appeared in front of us.

It looked like a weird bug thing.

“Nasty ass buggers aren’t they, they have a sorta hive mind and they are tough. Tougher than those Synths and Lobo-what you call them.” He dashed the images away.”

“All I need's a few things from things from Megaton, little knick knacks I had collected over the years.” I said with a smirk, earning a dark chuckle from Fawkes. He knows what's up. Jace nodded and snapped his fingers and some gems appeared. He handed a few to me.

“Transport gems, instantly takes you wherever you want and it’s a one way trip. Always a good idea to have a few on hand.” He said as he handed some to Fawkes and Chrysalis.

“What about me?” I heard Twilight ask. Jace looked at her and back to his bag. He looked up and saw me.

“Ummm, sorry fresh out.” Twilight crossed her arms.

“I'm going to try something stupid.” I said as I put my hands together, closing the gems inside and focused.

My hand shone blue for a split second, followed by a small headache. I don't use magic, it'll kill me if I do.

Opening my hands, I was greeted with double the amount of Transport Gems. I heard Jace whistled at me.

“You know for an untrained person making transport gems will have negative side effects.” He said.

“That's why..I'm using the copies.” I said as I placed the copied gems in my pocket. I turned to Twilight and gave her the original gems.

“Thank you.” She said with a smile. For a second, I could feel the pain fade away. I saw Jace look at me and narrowed his eyes.

I asked everyone if they were ready and I was the first to use one. The gem shone and consumed me in the light.

Appearing on the other side, meaning Megaton, I felt as if I was on fire. I've been on fire many times before, this isn't any different.

Looking around, I could see a plant overgrown Megaton. I was interrupted from my sight seeing as I heard a loud spit noise.

I ducked without another thought, dodging the spore. I picked up a rusted pipe and looked around and found the Flytrap.

Using the V.A.T.S I had a hundred percent chance for a hit. So readying the pipe as if it was a spear, I threw it.

The pipe pierced through the lower jaw and embedded itself on the scrap wall behind it.

Sighing, I straightened up from my previous stance. I could see a light flicker behind me.

Turning around, I faced the source and I couldn't help but grin.

Moriarty’ Saloon.

I chuckled a bit to myself as a couple of bright flashes filled the area. I looked behind me and saw that the rest of the group followed. It took a few minutes for Chrysalis and Twilight to get used to the dark while Jace and Fawkes were fine.

“Watch your step and Twilight..” I said as I looked over to as she was about to touch the Flytrap.

“Don't touch that.” I finished as I walked up a familiar hill. Fawkes went ahead and entered the Clinic for anything while Chrysalis went to Craterside supplies store.

Finally on top of the hill, I turned left through the corner and saw the door to my old home.

Trying to open the door, only to find out that's stuck. Pushing harder on the door, opening slowly.

I stopped and took a step back, then kicked the door fully open. The sound echoed throughout the caverns.

I stepped inside and the first thing I did was turn on my Pip-boy light. I was surprised to find the place clean, no plant had came through, no Flytraps just a clean room.

Walking to the back of the house, I saw the old refrigerator and pried it open. I smirked at what I found and they were in good condition too.

Jace

I watched as the other three headed off and I looked over to the sign and saw the saloon part. I looked over to Twilight and crossed my arms.

“Go on, ask them.” I said to her. She blinked at me.

“Ask you what?” She answered. I rolled my eyes.

“I know that look of yours, you probably have about a million questions to ask about me, right?” I moved over to the door of the place. I saw that the plant life over grow the door and I saw two flytraps over the door. I made short work of them and used fire to burn them away. I pushed at the door and saw that is was stuck. I was about to kick open the door when I heard a sound from inside. I stepped back and decided to wait for the rest. I looked back at Twilight and waved her off.

“Don’t ask, now then your questions.” I told her. She blinked at me as I stood beside her. “We have time now and after this trip I don’t think you have any other time to ask.”

“R-right, umm where to start,” ‘Oh boy’ I thought. “Your magic, I never felt anything like it before.” I tilted my head a bit.

“What your talking about is something called Mana. In my world mana is basically the life force of the land, it’s intertwined with everyone not just unicorns.” I lift my hand up and made five orbs appear. One for each colour. Twilight looked at them in awe.

“Everything, from the smallest animal to the biggest of mountains there’s mana. Over time creatures found a way to control it’s power.” I lifted my hand and made one of the vines come out and made a flower bloom. “There’s are some who uses it to bring life and protection to lands, while others…” I twisted my hand and saw the plant wither and die. “Death and destruction.” I crossed my arms and looked over to Twilight.

“Any other questions.” I asked her.

“Umm you said your world, what do you mean by that?” I snorted at her.

“Do you think I’m from here do you, no I’m not from this world I’m from another.” I tilted my head a bit. “You know the Multiverse theory, that’s my answer.” I smiled at her and she blinked a few time.

“I have one more question.” I nodded to her. She shifted a bit.

“Are you, lonely?” I looked at her. That… that’s something different.

“What do you mean?” I asked her.

“Well I didn’t know it at first but when I was talking to my friend Fluttershy, she said that your eyes are that of one that’s lonely, is it true?” I looked at her for a bit and sighed.

“I’m old Twilight, I’m older than most then I know of. Hell I’m older than the princesses.” She gasped at that. I closed my eyes. “But I’m old and I’m tired, tired of fighting, tired of runnin, I’m tired of seeing my friends get hurt, seeing blood shed and so much more and all I want is to stop being tired. So no Twilight I’m not lonely, just very tired.”

“Then why don’t you stop?” She asked. I looked at her and gave her a sad smile.

“Because Twilight, if I stop who will be there to help those that are needed.” I told her. I saw Chrysalis walking back with a big bag of supplies and Fawkes with a small bag. When I say small I mean small to him. I waved at them.

“To think that the Doctor would leave without all these Stimpacks and pain killing chems.” Fawkes said to Chrysalis.

“At least you found something good, I found some Jet, a shit load of Med-X and a large metal thing.” Chrysalis said as they both arrived. I looked at the thing she got and, well it’s a thing alright. I heard someone walking up to us. I looked up and saw an armored person.

“Alright I got everything I needed, what did you guys fou- Is that a Rock-it launcher!” The armored person said.

“Ummm…” Me and Twilight said to him.

He stood up on the walkway near the hill. He had a very large bag over his shoulder.

He then jumped off and landed perfectly on the ground.

“Seriously, where did you get that?” He asked Chrysalis.

“In the Craterside general store.” Chrysalis answered.

“Right, now I know this might be bad but…” I jerked my thumb towards the saloon. “I heard something in there.”

“Fine, I'll go check it out.” He said as he went up to the saloon. As he walked up the ramps, I could hear weird sounds coming from one of the tunnels.

“Err, I think we overstayed our welcome.” I said out loud.

Steel Breaker

Walking up to the old saloon sure brought back some memories of this place, mostly the drunk fights but hey, a guy needs to earn his caps, right?

Anyway, I arrived at the front door and leaned towards the door, waiting to hear something. I could hear the sound of banging followed by a scratchy voice.

“Come on, I just fixed this piece of shit.*Bang* Finally.” The voice said as a song started playing.

I took hold of the door and started pulling it, causing the hinges to bust open. Once the door was fully torn apart, I shone my Pip boy light at the inside of the saloon and saw a familiar face.

“Gob.” I said, gaining his attention. His eyes grew wide as he saw me.

“Oh God, are you real or did I finally gone off the deep end?” He asked.

“How long have you been down here?” I asked him. He walked up to me and gave me a quick look.

“I've been here since the Capital wasteland grew plants, I guess I must've been knocked out because when I woke up, I saw that Megaton had been buried and full of Killer plants. I think that was like, two years ago.” He explained.

“Well, I think it's time to bring you back out. Also, what's with the music?” I asked him.

“The Spores don't like music, I think it slowly kill them but as long as I got the radio working I can walk around the caverns if I wanted to.” He said. I told him to wait outside while I did something.

Walking to the back room and busting open the door, I was greeted with the sight of a griffin skeleton with familiar clothing surrounded by caps and Whisky bottles.

Smirking, I crouched down.

“Tsk, tsk, died a drunk. Guess I owe Celestia and Luna after all.” I said to no one in particular as I picked up the caps. I counted two hundred, since caps aren't the currency it'll be perfect ammunition for the Rock-it Launcher.

Opening the large bag I'm carrying, seeing a few Mini-Nukes and a Fat Man. I had always wondered why did they call it a Fat Man in this world.

Moving the Nukes aside, I found a pouch full of caps and added the two hundred from the corpse.

Straightening up, I looked down at Moriarty’s remains.

“I always thought you were always a drunk son of a bitch, this just proves it.” I said before walking out of the room.

I passed the counter but stopped just a few inches away from the doorway out. I looked back.

Seeing something reflect the light of my Pip-boy back at the counter. I walked back and blew some air at the counter, sending the dust into the air.

I was then greeted by four Plasma Grenades. I took them without a second thought.

As I stood on the exit, I looked back at the saloon and nodded before walking back down the ramp back to the group.

Jace

When I first saw him I almost threw a fireball at him. But after seeing both Fawkes and Chrysalis didn’t react to him I didn’t. Don’t look at me like that, I fought ghouls before and they were mostly mindless and wanted to eat me. Twilight on the other hand hid behind me. I heard the ghoul sighed.

“You alright Gob?” Chrysalis asked. Gob just shrugged.

“Spent most of my time down here and I still make people jump at me, oh well.” He said. I saw Steel walk out of the saloon.

“I guess we got everything?” I asked him.

“Sort of, I couldn't find my musket.” Steel said to me with a shrug. I looked at him then down the cavens.

“As much as I want to find your musket, I think we overstayed our welcome.” I said to him. We all heard a clicking sound coming from the caverns.

“You guys go on ahead, I'm going to leave a parting gift.” Steel said as took out something from the bag but it was too dark to see but I could see its silhouette.

“Right, see you up there.” I said and putting a hand on Twilight's shoulder and porting back up. I wince as we came up. Damn it. I rubbed my eyes a bit and looked at Twilight. I saw her doing the same. I heard some pops and saw that Fawkes, Chrysalis and Gob. Gob didn’t look so good.

“Uggg what was that about, it made me want to puke.” I shrugged at him.

“Teleporting will do that to you, so what is Steel-” I got cut off when I heard a thump from down below. “Nevermind.” A few minutes later Steel came up by flying through the warp.

“OH-GOD-NOT-AGAIN!” I heard him shout something in ludicrous speed as his back hit a tree, he held a strange catapult like thing as he fell onto the ground. I stared at him.

“Not going to ask.” I said to them. Fawkes went to help him up.

“That is the fourth time you get injured by using that.” Fawkes said as he pulled Steel’s arm and helped him onto his hooves.

“Shit happens all the time, I just make them happen more often.” Steel replied as he took hold of the large device and the bag behind him. Fawkes just shook his head.

“So now that’s out of the way, two questions one, what are we going to do with that,” I pointed at the warhead. “And two, are we ready for the group we are going to fight?”

Steel took off his helmet, revealing a maniac grin.

“I got an idea for the bomb.” He said. Fawke looked at him along with the rest of us.

End of part 1

Author's Note

Chrysalis:

This is part one of three, crossover with DemonG.

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