Fallout Equestria: Forgotten Relics

Chapter Two: Making Friends

Slavery is something that should never happen no matter how poisoned the world is and it is something that had made me furious. I thought that all slavers should die for what they have done to others and I intend to make that happen someday.

" Are you alright?" a voice called out to me. " Hello?" a zebra mare said waving her hoof in front of my face.

" Sorry, did you say something?" I asked Mala shaking my head.

" Yes indeed, how do you suppose you are going to get in there and rescue my parents and any other slaves?" Mala asked.

" Well that also depends if your parents are there or not." I replied.

" Well what is the plan because we are almost close to Fillydelphia." my zebra companion asked.

" Well I am going to use a transformation spell to turn myself into a dragon and sneak in as a slave." I answered.

" Are you crazy they will kill you!?" Mala shouted at me.

"Don't worry about it, I will have you far out here while I go in.." I told her. " If you are worried about the slavers killing me then you can rest easy, it will more than a few bullets to kill me after all." I assured her.

" That is not the problem." Mala said quietly.

" Then what is?" I asked her. " If we are friends then you can tell me anything." I reminded her.

" I-i'm-" Mala hesitated. " I'm worried that you would run the second you get!" Mala cried, I have never seen her cry before, if I was truly her friend then I have to make sure she doesn't cry like this.

" Mala, please look at me." I asked her, she slowly looked up to me but was still crying." I said that I was going to rescue your folks no matter what, and I will tell you that I will never let slavers capture you ever again." I told her in a calm yet strong voice.

" How do I know for sure?" Mala asked with a lot of sniffling.

" I never go back on my word." I assured her before giving her a big hug. " So don't worry since I will be right back, but it might take a while to actually find your parents." I added, with that Mala slowed her crying as I walked off towards Fillydelphia.

It was around dusk currently and I was finally approaching Fillydelphia so I began to cast my spell to turn into a dragon, but my plan didn't go so well since I turned into a dragon pony hybrid instead. I was not finished perfecting this spell so I knew I was going to mess up something, I just don't know what went wrong since it worked perfectly on my lab rats back at the wizard temple.

" Hey dude look over there!" I heard a pony shout.

" Hell yeah, that'll fetch a high price." I heard another pony shouting.

I didn't have time to react as a net was shot at me, I am still amazed at the evolution of technology over the 10,000 years, if we had this during my time it would have been easier to catch specimens to use in my studies. The ponies were sounding quite happy that they captured me by the sound of them mumbling to each other about how many caps they will get, I do not know what a cap is but it must be very valuable here.

" Hey check it out we caught you guys a dragon pony!" one of my captors shouted to a pony standing by a gate. When we got close to the gate the pony standing guard just looked at me and smiled.

" Good work, you two may enter." the pony said before opening the gate.

As I was dragged in I saw slaves of all kind from foals to adults and even a few pegasi but I was dragged fairly far away from the other ponies that I saw since I was dragged down some steps and then through a hallway full of cages. Then I was thrown into what I thought was an arena of some sorts.

" Hey boss check out what we found." my other captor called, a large pony in the shadows on a throne of some sort leaned forward a little to get a closer look at me but I couldn't get a good look at him, too bad I don't have night vision.

" Well well well, a dragon pony." a deep voice replied slowly from the shadows. " Throw him in with the other one, I want them to get a good look at each other before tomorrow's match." the voice said.

The captors then dragged me off again and then they threw me into a cage. Honestly they could be a bit more gentle with the dragging and throwing. I looked around the room to see if I could find Mala's parents. Then I saw an opening to another cell so I peeked through only to find a few ponies lying about in the cage but no zebras. Then I looked across my cage and then I saw a zebra mare leaning close to the back wall, it was dark but I could make out large scar in the shape of and X on her right cheek.

" Are you by chance related to a zebra named Mala?" I whispered loudly to the zebra mare.

" Y-yes I am?" the zebra mare asked. " W-who are you?" the mare asked.

" I am a friend of hers." I replied, in a way I was her friend. " Is your husband still here?" I asked, the mare just shook her head and started to cry. Hearing her cry like that was one of the most horrible things I have ever heard since being in this land, I will teach these slavers a lesson for committing such atrocities.

It was starting to get late so I looked around some more before I found a mattress lying in a corner. As I approached the bed I realized that something was already on it and that something just noticed me and jumped up from the bed. I looked closer at the figure now standing in front of me and I realized that it had scales.

" Who are you?" the figure asked in a female voice.

" I am a friend." I told the female creature.

" You look like me." the female creature said.

" What do you mean like you?" I asked her.

" Aren't you a dragon pony?" the figure asked.

" Yes I am." I lied. " What are you doing in here?" I asked her.

" Well I was captured and imprisoned here." the figure replied. " Just like you I was captured and imprisoned here." the figure said, I could not understand her at all, she sounds quite shy but at the same time look intimidating due to her size, but I guess all dragon ponies were big considering that I was quite big myself.

" Don't you want to be freed?" I questioned.

" I would like to but if I tried to leave they would hurt me." the figure answered. " I'm going back to sleep now." she said before laying back down to curl up and sleep.

" So even creatures that are as big as her were afraid of slavers." I said to myself, I didn't get a good look at her since I thought that a female dragon pony would prefer more space to herself due to past experiences with dragons. I was also getting too tired to stay awake so I justed pulled out a mattress that she was not using, I laid down on the mattress and curled up as I drifted off to sleep.

The next morning I awoke to find myself to being dragged again, but this time I think I should pretend to be like a dragon pony hybrid and luckily this spell allows me to perfectly imitate the creature or pony that I was transformed into. I started to move around frantically trying to kick at the ponies dragging me.

" Wow you're a feisty one." one of the slavers said.

" Better be careful Chopper, last time a pony was too relaxed around one of these guys got his head ripped off." another slaver warned.

" Holy shit are they really that dangerous Slicer?" Chopper asked.

" Yep, so don't let yer guard down." Slicer replied.

I honestly didn't like being dragged so I let out a hardy dragon roar to get them to stop dragging me, but they just keep dragging.

" Holy shit what the hell was that!?" I heard somepony shout. Then I heard another dragon roar, a female dragon's roar, must be my new body telling me that it was a female since that was how dragons would be able to find a mate during mating season.

" You've got to be kidding me there's two of them!?" I heard the pony shout again. " Please boss you've gotta let me out of here, please boss I'll do anything!" I heard the pony begging for his life. I was now just approaching the steel gate to an arena but I was about to be put in smaller cage now, as the ponies threw me into the cage they quickly took the net off of me and ran for a steel door behind and closing it behind them. Well I guess I am going to have to play along with their game for now.

" Welcome slavers and all to the arena, today we have a slaver that tried to scam us and a zebra who are going to fight our top beast and a new addition to the arena!" the same deep voice announced. " Let the fight begin!" the voice shouted as the gate to my small cage opened. There was a pony standing in the center of the arena with the zebra mare I saw from last night. I stepped out of my cage and so did another dragon pony hybrid, she must have been the figure I was talking to last night. She was all bloodied so I can't get a good look at her, but the two of us started circling the zebra and ex-slaver waiting for the right moment to attack. Then the other dragon pony jumped for the zebra, I too jumped for the zebra but it was not to attack the zebra but it was to protect the zebra.

" What do you think you're doing!" the dragon pony growled to me.

" She is mine you, but can have the other!" I growled back, I feel like I am turning more dragon than a pony the longer I was like this.

" What's this a fight between the hybrids?" a pony said in the background.

" Unless you don't want to get out of here then just play along." I whispered to the dragon pony.

The dragon pony just looked at me as if I were crazy, but luckily for me none of us were wearing bomb collars or shackles, these slaver must have really stupid to not put bomb collars on us. All I have to do is teleport us out of this place, but a part of me wanted to get rid of the slaver leader. The crowd that was watching us were starting to get really rowdy causing the slaver guards to control the crowd, maybe now was the best time to teleport us out of here. I focused onto the the zebra, dragon pony and myself and teleported us out of the arena and away from the city.

" Wait what about me!?" the ex-slaver shouted at nothing and everything.

" AAARRGGHHH! Find them!" the deep voice commanded.

" You know they won't find them Bloodhooves dear." a white unicorn with a blue mane and tail said from behind him.

" They'd better." Bloodhooves said under his breath.

The teleportation spell was on target as it teleported me to where I left Mala. Praise Solaris for this wonderful outcome, this was one of my first ever success in teleporting directly on target since entering the wastelands.

" Mother!" I heard Mala called.

" Oh my child." I heard the zebra mare cry to her daughter.

" Where is father?" Mala asked.

" I am sorry Mala, but I did not see him there." I apologised to her.

" He tried to protect me and another but died for doing so." the zebra mare said before starting to cry. " He was a true warrior to the end." Mala's mother cried, indeed I will acknowledge his bravery for what he did, I did not know the full detail but he must have been a far more better being than what I was.

" We should get out of here before the slavers get here, I recommend going to the Tower of Tenpony." I said to the zebras and dragon pony. The three nodded to me and we began to run northeast again, and for a second I thought I saw some slavers running at us but went south instead.

" So when are you going to stop looking like a dragon pony?" Mala asked me.

" I kind of like this so I will keep the look for awhile." I replied.

" So you are not a dragon pony like me?" the female dragon pony asked.

" Well in a way no, but my DNA is currently made to match that of a dragon pony so I am also kind of like a dragon pony." I replied.

" How does that work?" Mala asked.

" Changelings have been around for a very long time so when I decided to study them I learned a thing or two about their transformation ability." I replied. " I found out that when a changeling transforms into something else they also change their DNA, so I figured out how to make my own spell from it but it is still a work in process since if I think of a creature that I have the DNA of I tend mix the creature's DNA with my own turning myself into a halfbreed." I explained while still running like there was no tomorrow.

" That sounds complicated." the dragon pony said.

" Very complicated." I replied, " but knowledge is not always easy to learn or fabricate." I added.

We were running for a couple more minutes until we were far away from Fillydelphia but we were still far away from the Tower of Tenpony. So after walking around for a few minutes I saw a small town with the name Ashtown. It was a very small town close to the ocean but was dead center between the Tower of Tenpony and Fillydelphia, it had a few houses and to my surprise there were a few ponies living here, so I decided to greet them.

" Uh, hello fellow ponies." I called to the ponies, but at the sight me they all ran off. " Did I say something wrong?" I asked nopony in particular.

" I think it is because they see two zebras and two dragon pony hybrids." Mala replied.

" Well that is kind of speciesist." I replied hanging my head down in depression, first I get ridiculed for using dark magic and now for looking like another species. " We mean you ponies no harm!" I said really loudly to no pony in particular again.

" How do we know you ain't lyin'?" a female pony wearing a star on her duster said stepping out from cover, I've seen some cowponies in my day and boy did she look like one.

" Please we need some food and possibly a bath for these two since they had just escaped slavers." I said to the mare.

" Alright but only if you help us in return." the mare said, help them with what though?

" Whatever you need help with I am sure I can help." I replied.

" Not to far from here is a power plant that we use to power our town, but some alicorns moved in and took over the power plant so we need somepony to get rid of them." the mare said, oh joy I get to study an alicorn.

" Why do you guys not do it yourselves before?" I asked.

" Well that's 'cause we need to be here protectin' our own." the cowpony replied.

" Do they know that you live here?" I asked the mare.

" Yep, they'll drop into our town and take away ponies every now and then." the mare replied.

" Well you sure sound worried about them." I whispered to myself sarcastically. " I will see if I can free your ponies too." I said to the mare. " Do you have anypony here that knows how to work the power plant?" I asked the mare.

" Yep, he's over there." the mare replied pointing to a unicorn colt sitting near a campfire. I walked over to the colt to ask for his help but his reaction was not what I was hoping for.

" AHHH!" he screamed curling into a ball, I swear that younglings at the wizard temple were more braver than him. " Please don't eat me!" he begged.

" I am not going to eat you." I said with a small growl in my voice, I was starting to sound more like a dragon pony than ever and I love it.

" Y-you're not?" the colt replied.

" No, but I need you to come with me since I do not know how to operate your power plants." I said to the colt.

" Oh is that all?" the colt asked. " Then let's get going." the colt said cheerfully.  I told him that my plan was to get rid of the alicorns occupying the power plant to get the power back and rescue any pony we can, but he did not seem interested in the alicorns.

About a half hour later we were on our way to the power plant, and not surprising enough the colt was scared about approaching it.

" So I heard that you are a unicorn?" the colt asked.

" Yes indeed." I replied.

" Prove it." the colt shot a 'if you don't prove it then you are a liar' look at me/

"Fine I'll just change back." I said to the colt before trying to use my spell. " Oh no." I said to myself.

" What's wrong?" the colt asked. " Can use magic?" the colt taunted, if I could I would show this colt the horrors of my experiments, then again he lives out here in the wasteland so my experiments would look like anything else in the wasteland.

" My spell won't change me back." I replied panicking, great my spell backfires on me, but that is what I get for not testing this spell in reverse on another pony." Well it appears to be that I am stuck in this form." I said to the colt.

" You mean you can't use magic." the colt replied.

" Oh I can do magic." I said to the colt casting a high level ice spell, the colt watched in awe as a large ice sculpture of a dragon appeared out of the ground from where I shot an ice blue beam.

" Woah." the colt said in amazement. " What else can you do." the colt asked.

" I do have magic limits so I can only cast so many spells and they also depend on the level of the spell as well." I replied. " But I would like your name young one." I requested.

" My name is Bolts." the colt answered. I have no comments, does he use lightning spells or something? " Anyway we're just about there." Bolts said pointing at a building.

" Well my name is Dark Spectre." I introduced back before we were right in front of the building. " Stay close behind me." I told the colt, he did not even question me as he quickly hid behind me.

As we entered the building I was expecting something very horrific to appear before me, but there was nothing here since the building was completely empty. We walked around to find the captured ponies but there was nothing on the first floor, I stayed cautious and never dropped my guard for one second. Then the two of us found the stairs down to the second floor and when I opened the door we were immediately hit by the smell of death.

" What the hell do you think is down there?" Bolts asked.

" Whatever is down there it is not good." I told the colt.

We walked down the stairs and through a dark hallway, having the same sense of smell as a dragon pony hybrid I was smelling blood and lots of it. We walked around a corner and there she was, an alicorn walking down the hallway.

" Alright I am going to take that alicorn out." I whispered to Bolts.

" Are you sure about that, it seems like a bad idea." the colt replied, I nodded and picked up my rifle to aim it,  then a loud bang was heard as I shot the alicorn in the neck. The alicorns must have heard it too since we were now surrounded.

" What are you doing here!?" a female voice shouted in my head.

" Well if you are in my head then you would know." I replied to the alicorns clearing my mind and thinking only of what I'd do if I got my hooves or claws on an alicorn.

" Y-you foul demon!" the voice shouted in my mind, the voice is giving me a bad headache. " You vile creature, you are nothing but a relic of the past!" the voice shouted. I was starting to get bored of hanging upside down, so I made my move.

" Well I will get back to work now." I said before teleporting behind an alicorn wielding a sword, I think a sword would fit better with my magic than a rifle.

" How dare yo-" was all an alicorn was able to say before I sliced her head off with the sword.

" You know what, I have been asleep for so long so please excuse me as my urge to dissect and experiment on something is starting to come back to me." I said to the alicorns, I already knew a lot about many things back in my era through books so having so many chances to study something new in this land is really exciting. " I can't wait to experiment on you." I said to the alicorns.

" What are you?" one of the alicorns asked.

" Just a pony looking for more knowledge." I replied, the alicorns were now backing away getting ready to teleport away.

" Hey they're getting away!" Bolts shouted as the alicorns disappeared in a flash. " What was that talk about wanting to dissect them or whatever, they were standing right there, if you were going to do that stuff then why didn't you kill them!?" the colt complained.

" Indeed I do want to dissect an alicorn, but the anatomy of an alicorn is very similar to that of the three races combined." I replied. " But I am not insane to the point where I would dissect and experiment on everything I see." I added.

We looked around the second floor a little longer and I was happy that there was not another floor. After a few more minutes of searching we eventually found some of the kidnapped ponies tied up by ropes. After finding the power room Bolts was able to successfully get what he called the power generators working again.

When we finished up we headed out of the power plant and walked back to Ashtown with the ponies we freed. I had to admit that seeing an alicorn was quite the experience.

" Maybe you should try to transform back to yourself again." Bolts suggested to me.

" Maybe I will." I replied, I started to cast my spell again but only for it to do nothing. " Well it would seem that I am stuck like this." I said to the colt. " Well Solaris smite thee in the ass." I cursed.

" Then it's a stupid spell." the colt said under his breath.

" I am sorry but you are not a wizard like me so you have no say in the matter." I whispered to the colt with a growl. " I guess I should have gotten my own DNA first before using my spell, but I will certainly do it for this body." I said to the colt.

" Well you better because you look awesome like that." Bolts said to me chuckling. I realized that for the first time that ever since I awoke I was met with welcoming hoofs and some hostile ponies but nonetheless I was welcomed here compared to back in my time.

The day was getting close to dusk and I was now sitting on a mattress close to a window. I wish I could turn back time to the good old days to prevent myself from entering that tomb, but changing anything in the past is never a good thing since the smallest change could change everything. I was staring out to the clouded night sky pondering my reason for being here, possibly the world wants me to start over again but that might be too much of a stretch.

" Hey are you ok?" a voice asked from behind me. I looked back to see Mala looking at me worried. " Hello?" a zebra called walking in front of me. " Eques to Spectre." the mare said waving her hoof in my face.

" I-I'm fine Mala." I said shaking my head.

" You don't look fine to me." Mala said in worried manner. Does she mean my new body or the new look on my face.

" What do you mean by that?" I asked the zebra mare.

" I mean that you look troubled." Mala replied. " Is there something wrong Dark Spectre?" Mala asked. Something was still not clear to me, I have been traveling with her for a few days now and I have yet to know what she thinks of me.

" Are we friends Mala?" I asked the zebra mare.

" If that is it then I would have to say...." Mala paused to think. " ...yes, since you have helped me more than once after all." Mala finally answered. " Remember what you said to me?" Mala asked.

" What did I say?" I asked.

" You said that if we were truly friends then we can always tell each other our problems." Mala answered.

" So I'm a friend huh?" I whispered to myself.

My first friend in my whole life was zebra, I am not complain or anything but I am sad that I found my first friend 10,000 years after being sealed away. Mala then walked over to her mother next to the fire while the dragon pony walked up to sit on the mattress with me, I guess now that I am a dragon pony she must feel more comfortable near me.

" Well Dark Spectre you have rescued me from slavers once back in Appleloosa, you saved me from being captured a second time near Glyphdale and you freed my mother today, so that is a good enough reason for me to trust you completely compared to when I first met you." Mala said out of the blue.

" What so you didn't trust me enough even though I freed you on the same day we met?" I asked in a joking matter.

" Don't forget me." the dragon pony added. I realized that we never got her name.

" By the way what is your name?" I asked the dragon pony.

" I never had a name." the dragon pony replied.

" Have you ever thought of a name?" I asked her.

" Yeah it's um..." the dragon pony started to think really hard. " I would like to be called Sapphyre with a Y." the dragon pony finally said after 10 minutes of thinking.

" That is a fine name Sapphyre." I replied, Sapphyre had a azurish white fur coat with scales underneath the fur coat, she had white scales going from her throat to her chest, her mane were light blue scales that flowed backwards, no horns so I don't think she can use magic but she did have scaled and feathered wings, and she had beautiful crystal blue eyes, for some strange reason I really liked her even though I had just met her last night.

" I like it, nice to meet Sapphyre." Mala greeted.

" So I guess we will have to find another place to go other than the Tower of Tenpony now that I can't change back to a pony." I said to Mala and her mother.

" Why don't we go west from here, there is a zebra settlement that way." Mala's mother suggested.

" How do you know that there is a settlement that way?" I asked her.

" That is the settlement that I used to live in before I left to explore the wastelands." Mala's mother replied.

" Oh by the way what is your name?" I asked her.

" Oh yes, my name is Zuri." the mother answered.

" I never got to ask but how did you meet your husband?" I asked.

" Oh that was such a romantic tale." Zuri replied.

" Oh please tell us the story!" Mala and Sapphyre said at the same time.

" Alright girls, I met Mala's father on my fifth day out of my home when I was attacked by slavers, I thought I was done for but when all of a sudden a brave strong zebra appeared out of nowhere and defeated the slavers and as I looked into his eyes I felt a spark, after that day the two of us ran off to start our own settlement together, the end." Zuri told the story with passion as the two girls looked at her with those big watery eyes, then they looked at me funny.

" I don't know why you two are looking at me like that but I am a lone wizard." I stated, that seemed to make them stop staring at me with the 'I want you' face. " Well it is good to finally know your name, and some of your history, but are you certain that there is a settlement to the west of here?" I asked her, Zuri just nodded in response. " Then we should get some sleep since we will be on a long adventure tomorrow." I said to everypony or everybody, I don't know anymore since none of us are ponies. I just pushed that question to my list of things to figure out later list as I curled up like a dragon to sleep on the mattress, but some other dragon pony curled up really close to me and I was starting to feel awkward, but I somehow slept through the night just fine.

When I woke up I looked up to see Mala snickering at me, I have no idea what was so funny but it may have something to do with the heavy object lying on my back.

" What is so funn-" I was rudely interrupted by Mala shoving her hoof in my mouth shushing me and pointing at my back. I looked over to my shoulder to find Sapphyre lying on it, I was kind of embarrassed about it but I let her sleep some more.

After waiting 25 minutes for Sapphyre to wake up we started to get our stuff packed and head off, as we were leaving the town I was expecting to leave before anypony wakes up, but somepony called us from behind.

" Y'all are welcome back here any time you, got that." a pony shouted from behind us. We turned around to see a yellow coated mare with a golden mane tied into a ponytail wearing a duster with a star on it.

" Oh yeah I never got your name." I told the mare.

" Mah name is GoldenStar." the mare replied.

" We will be sure to visit every now and then." I assured her as we started to walk off to the west, we waved goodbye to GoldenStar the sheriff of Ashtown.

*Meanwhile somewhere in the wasteland*

" What are you talking about!?" a hooded mare shouted.

" I mean that you should go out there and make yourself useful and make some friends for once!" a bartender shouted back.

" I have lots of friends you jackass!" the hooded mare yelled.

" Yeah, all of the drunks in this bar, make some real friends kid." the bartender suggested. " And don't come back until you made at least two friends!" the bartender yelled to the hooded mare as she left the bar.

" Stupid old geezer, thinks I can't make any friends huh." the hooded mare said under her breath.

*End of Chapter Two*