Fallout Equestria: Forgotten Relics

Chapter One: The Awakening

I have slumbered for a time unknown but I have slowly awakened ever since I felt the world shake as the world is slowly being poisoned, but as time flowed I slowly awoke from my slumber. I do not know where I am but through a now thin layer of ice I saw strange looking ponies with stripes breaking the ice, I wanted to tell them to stop but couldn't as they broke me free from a prison of ice.

" You are fools to release me." I said in a weakened voice.

" It does not matter, the war between zebras and ponies has long since been over." the figure said in a strange accent.

" What war?" I asked.

" Do you not know about the war between zebras and ponies?" the figure asked.

" I am sorry, but I do not know of a war." I replied.

The group of strange ponies brought me with them on their journey to a land they call Equestria and brought me to a strange castle called Tenpony tower, I saw many strange things on our adventure but sadly couldn't study them, they told me that I should look for the library in the castle. As I approached the castle ponies in strange armor approached asking for any weapons, I told them that I was a wizard and that I had no weapons, the two ponies looked at one another and finally told me that I could enter but if the zebras were not with me they could not enter as the ponies pointed towards the strange ponies behind me, I never knew they were zebra but they seemed to have no intention of entering. I have never met a zebra before but I have been told by master Dark Star that zebras were a strong and proud warrior race.

As I entered the castle I was greeted by more ponies in strange clothing but I knew that I was still on a quest to find this library.

I searched the castle for five hours and I have yet to find the library of Tenpony, but I eventually found the library of Tenpony a few minutes later and as I entered a majestic golden owl flew down to me.

" Hello, how may I help you?" the golden owl asked.

" Ahem, yes I would like to know when the war between ponies and zebras took place." I replied.

" The war had happened about 196 years from today." the golden owl answered, 196 years? Was I truly asleep for that long? " You look familiar, what is your name?" the golden owl asked.

" My apologies, my name is Dark Spectre dark magic master, or close to master." I answered.

" So you have finally awaken from such a long sleep." the golden owl said before flying up to a shelf and grabbing two books. When the golden owl flew back down the owl was carrying two books, the title of the books were surprising to me since it read ' The Fall of a Brother and The Rise of a Hero ' both written by Eternal Light. " Your name has been mentioned many times in both of these books, but they were written over 10,000 years ago." the golden owl said.

10,000 years I was asleep, I have nothing to say other than the fact that my brother got fame from ponies while I was labeled as a mad wizard who went crazy with power.

I said my goodbyes to the majestic golden owl before I left the castle of Tenpony. Waiting outside were the zebras that broke me out of my ice prison, I'm happy that I know they were zebras. As I approached them a lot of ponies that past them gave the zebras a very familiar stare.

" So um, I thank you for releasing me from my ice slumber so if there is anything I can help you with then I am happy to help." I said to the zebras.

" It is okay, but sadly we can not have you follow us since many zebras will try to kill you." an older looking zebra replied.

The zebras left waving to me so I happily waved back. Here I was all alone again, I headed off in a random direction since I knew nothing about Equestria.

I was walking for only 1 hour and 48 minutes before a bunch of ponies in yet again strange armor or clothing attacked me and then they put shackles on me and told me to start walking, I don't know what their problem was since they were being very forceful.

About 12 hours later and I ended up in a place that the ponies keep calling Appleloosa, but I didn't like the fact that they put a strange collar on me as they shoved me into a bloody cage, but inside the cage with me was a zebra mare, I needed to know more about this new world so I decided to talk to the zebra.

" Hello friend, do you mind telling me what this metal collar around my neck is?" I asked politely to the zebra.

" It is a bomb collar." the zebra answered calmly.

" What is a bomb?" I asked the zebra again.

" Are you stupid?" the zebra mare asked rather rudely.

" Well you see, I've been in a very long slumber being trapped in ice for 10,000 years so I don't know much about this new world." I answered receiving a shocked look from the zebra.

" Well if you really want to know, the metal ring that is currently around your neck and my neck is called a bomb collar, it will explode if we slaves tried to escape." the zebra mare explained.

" Will they explode if they are attached to somepony other than us?" I asked, the zebra mare just nodded.

So I thought of a new idea, back when I was in the wizard temple I did learn normal spells that other apprentices learned and one of them I find useful in this situation, a very simple transportation spell, it allows me to teleport any object to another area or even onto another pony.

There were two ponies guarding the exit and we needed a distraction, so I teleported the collars from me and the zebra mare on to the necks of the two guards, as I saw their heads get blown off I quickly casted a teleportation spell on me and the zebra mare.

The spell transported the zebra and I to a hill that was possibly one or one and a half miles away from the town. I quickly use a molding magic spell to make a key for our shackles, when we got the shackles off I ran in a random direction again.

" You fool, if you go that way you'll end up in New Appleloosa, they are allies with the slavers." the zebra mare warned.

Awe I feel loved, never before in my life has anypony ever cared for me except for my brother and parents, now a zebra is caring for me. The two of us ran for 3 hours north into a forest.

We ran deeper and deeper into the forest until we saw the edge of the forest where a small hut or a very small house stood near the edge of the forest.

" We will stay there for the night." the zebra mare suggested.

The two of us entered the dusty old home, and to my surprise it was in good shape compared to a lot of other places, but there was only one bed room and one couch. Being the gentlecolt that I am I told her that she can take the bed and that I'll sleep on the couch, she just looked at me funny.

" Do you think you can make a fire?" the zebra asked pointing at the fireplace.

" No problem at all." I replied casting a simple fire spell. " So, my name is Dark Spectre what is yours?" I asked, the zebra mare looked at me with a 'why do you want to know' face, but she answered anyway.

" My name is Mala, in zebra it means to be as fast as the wind." the zebra answered.

" Well it is nice to meet you Mala, I can not say that it is the first time I have met a zebra." I said half laughing.

" And they did not try to kill you?" Mala asked.

" No, but they did free me from my 10,000 years slumber in ice." I answered, Mala looked at me with a very small smile.

" Well I guess I shall warm up here before I sleep." Mala said sitting in front of the fireplace, I noticed that she had lots of cuts and bruises on her, so I did something that my brother would do as I walked up to her to use my magic to heal her, but the results were different since Mala jumped back getting really defensive.

" What do you think you are doing?" Mala asked.

" Please calm down Mala." I asked, Mala was still on the defensive. " I'm not going to do anything bad to you, I only want to heal your wounds." I said calmly. As I approached her I used the spell on one of her cuts, Mala just watched in awe as the wound closed up. That seemed to have did the trick as Mala calmed down and sat near the fire again.

" Well, I'll let you heal my wounds, but nothing else." she said in a cautious manner.

" I promise." I said before getting down to healing her wounds.

I had found many wounds on Mala, which made me mad for the first time, why would anypony do something like this. Mala got up after a few minutes and told me to put out the fire, so I used a fire extinguishing spell to put it out, but I noticed that Mala pulled out a blanket and laid there instead.

" You don't want the bed?" I asked Mala.

" I am used to sleeping on the ground." Mala replied.

" Then I shall stay and keep an eye out for the slavers." I said before walking over to look at the window that was facing the forest we had just left.

I had been watching the forest for a couple hours to the point that I was starting to get tired myself, so I just summoned a few dark sentinels to do teh job. I walked back to the couch and laid there to rest, I have forgotten how great it felt to sleep on a soft surface.

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" Hey, wake up."  a voice whispered to me. " Come on, you need to wake up." the voice said a little louder.

" What is going on." I asked tiredly.

" We need to get going, we can not stay here any longer." Mala said while trying to get me moving. I got up after the fifth time she pushed me since I landed on the ground face first.

" Alright I am awake, what is happening Mala?" I asked again, Mala just told me to stay quiet as we walked out of the hut.

" We are near Ponyville, there will be raiders." Mala said quietly, if my knowledge is correct, a raider in my time lived in deserts and would rob you blind or kill you, so raiders in this time must be worse.

We walked around for a little longer until we approached a large town, I saw other ponies walking around the town so I attempted to walk up to one of them to ask for directions, but Mala stopped me from doing so.

" Are you mad!?" Mala asked, last time I checked I was not crazy. " Those are raiders, this town is raider territory, if a raider sees you they will kill you and eat you." Mala explained, ponies eating other ponies, that was either very disturbing or very intriguing.

" So what do you suggest we do?" I asked Mala.

" We should get you a weapon first." Mala answered, I am a proud wizard so I use my magic to fight. But before I could tell her I saw her sneaking off into the town. For twenty minutes we were sneaking until we reached a part of the town with only a few raiders.

" Do you see that raider up there?" Mala asked pointing at a rooftop, I looked up and saw a raider on the rooftop wielding a strange weapon. I focused my magic to clamp his mouth shut as I pulled him down from the roof. " Good, now take this sniper rifle." Mala ordered, I looked at the strange object floating in front of me. " Please tell me you know how to use it?" Mala asked.

" 10,000 years remember, but I will use a history spell to find out how to use it." I assured her, as I casted the spell on the object, but I didn't learn about just this weapon, I re-lived the war 200 years ago and saw the evolution of weapons and technology, and holy Solaris were these weapons powerful. But not only did I learn the history of this world's weapons and technology, but I kinda picked up the slang ponies spoke in this era.

" So, do you know how to use it now?" Mala asked.

" Yeah, and I like the long range on this weapon." I replied.

" Let's get going, if we go this way we will ended up at Glyphmark." Mala said walking north-east.

We walked about 1 mile away from the town and we haven't met any raiders, I would love to study what makes a pony a raider but I would need a living specimen to do that. We were walking near some train tracks with lots of trees on either side of us, I didn't really like the feeling I was getting from all of these trees, I felt as if I was being watched. Then my suspicions were proven right when a few zebras jumped out of the woods pointing guns at us and shouted at us.

" Si hoja au sisi risasi!" one of the zebras shouted, they just said do not move or we shoot, I am so happy that master Dark Star made me learn so many languages.

" Tuna maana wewe hakuna madhara!" I shouted in their native tongue not to shoot us.

" Jinsi gani unajua lugha yetu?" a zebra asked me how I knew how to speak their language.

" Mimi kujifunza jinsi ya kuzungumza lugha yako kwa sababu mimi alivutiwa na punda milia kama mtoto mdogo." I told the zebras that when I was young I was fascinated with them so I learned their language.

" Then if you truly mean us no harm then follow me." another more older zebra said walking off in the same direction we were headed.

" Then if I were to gain your trust shouldn't I give you my weapon first?" I asked. The older looking zebra just smiled a little but continued walking.

We walked for five more hours before we reached a settlement that was thriving with zebras, by this time I had to cast a painkiller spell on my own legs to make my tired legs stop hurting. Then something caught my eye, a sign that read Glyphdale in the zebra language but I just thought it was just a mistake.

" This is not Glyphmark." Mala whispered to me.

" What do you mean it's not Glyphmark?" I asked.

" I mean it is not Glpyhmark!" Mala whispered to me louder.

" Of course this is not Glyphmark, this is Glyphdale." a zebra replied.

" Where are we?" I asked.

" Like I said this is glyphdale." the same zebra said again.

" Well to be specific this the base of foal mountain." the elder looking zebra corrected. " Why is there a pony here?" the old zebra asked.

" He speaks in our tongue elder." the zebra whispered to the older one.

" Then we shall welcome this pony to our home!" the elder zebra shouted.

" Um, thank you very much for your hospitality." I said to the elder zebra.

For the rest of the night the zebras played music around a large bonfire chanting in zebra in a kind of call and response style.

Hoja haraka: Move quickly

juu ya vilima: on the hills

ndani ya treni ya Zebrica: aboard trains of Zebrica

Wewe ni mbio mbali: You're running away

juu ya vilima: on the hills

ndani ya treni ya Zebrica: aboard trains of Zebrica.

I didn't understand what most of the song meant but to the zebras it was something that must be very special to them. After the night of playing music and singing around the bonfire some zebras guided Mala and I to a small hut. I thought the hut was nice but Mala probably didn't want to be this close to me. We sat inside the small hut for a few more minutes before we both laid down to rest, but I wasn't very tired due to being asleep for 10,000 years, the thought of sleeping for that long still surprises me.

" Hey Mala." I called to the zebra mare lying down next to me.

" What do you want?" Mala asked.

" Do you have any family?" I asked.

" No, not anymore." Mala answered.

" What happened to them?" I asked.

" Slavers happened, they got caught and sold to Fillydelphia." Mala answered bitterly.

" So do you want to save them?" I asked Mala.

" I wish I could, but I can't teleport and I don't even know if they are still alive." Mala replied, but then thought of something.

" I am a unicorn after all, if I couldn't use a simple teleportation spell then what kind of unicorn would I be." I said in a fancy accent.

" Well if you think it is possible." Mala replied. " What about your family Dark Spectre?" Mala asked.

" My parents are long gone since the last time I saw them was over 10,000 years ago and my older brother sealed me in ice for 10,000 years because I got possessed by a crazy spirit." I answered.

" That sounds rough." Mala replied.

The two of us talked a little longer before going to sleep, after we went to sleep I was still not very tired, I looked over to Mala and now that I got a closer look the stripes on her back were like a tree and tree branches, there was a large black line going all the way down her back and each stripe would split into two stripes, she had two stripes pointing down above her eyes and two pointing up under her eye. The one thing about a zebra that fascinate me the most is their glyphs, Mala's glyph looks like wind symbols, but I guess I'll ask her about it some other time.

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When I woke up Mala was not sleeping in her wool bed so I jumped out of bed and ran outside of the hut. I looked around but couldn't see her anywhere.

" Hey have you've seen Mala?" I asked one of the zebra guards.

" Yes, she went to clean herself in a nearby pond." the zebra answered.

" And you let her go alone!?" I said with a worried tone in my voice, I can't believe they would let her go alone, what if she were spotted by slavers.

I grabbed my rifle and headed toward the direction of the pond that Mala went to. I just know something bad is going to happen since the hair on the back of my neck in standing on end. After I ran for about a couple of minutes I eventually found the pond that Mala was at, it was more like a large pond though. Mala was on the opposite end of the pond from where I was and to make it worse I saw two ponies carrying chains and shackles slowly creeping up on her. I couldn't just let them capture her but I didn't have time to think as I held up my rifle with my magic and took aim. With two steady shots I took down the two ponies and the rifle was loud enough that Mala heard it and looked at me, she gave me a shocked look as she covered her chest and nethers, I don't know why ponies and now zebras do that since we don't usually wear clothes.

" What the hell are you shooting at!?" Mala shouted at me.

" I was protecting you!" I shouted back teleporting to her.

"I don't need you to protec-" Mala tried be shout back but I quickly shushed her.

" Hurry, this way quick." I whispered loudly.

" Why?" she whispered back.

" There were slavers" I whispered point to the bodies behind her, she looked back to where she was and saw the two bodies lying there. We walked for thirteen minutes before we finally made it back to Glyphdale. Once there we were able to tell the zebras that slavers might be nearby, the elder zebra told us that they could handle the slavers themselves. Then two zebras walked up to the two of us and dropped two saddlebags in front of us.

" This is for the two of you." the elder zebra said.

We happily accepted the gifts as I picked up the bags with my magic and sat them on my back and Mala's back. As we left Glyphdale we waved goodbye to the kind zebras before heading off to Fillydelphia to rescue some ponies and zebras.

* in Fillydelphia *

" What do you mean she escaped!?" a shadowy pony shouted.

" I'm sorry sir but this unicorn was there with her." a blue unicorn said rather nervously.

" Well you better get her back or else you'll have to fight in the pit with my pet." the shadowy pony warned.

" Y-yes sir." the blue unicorn replied.

" When I get my hooves on that unicorn I swear I'm gonna feed him limb from limb to the hellhounds." the shadowy pony said before breaking into a menacing laugh.

* End of chapter one *