Starlight Glimmer was resting in her cryopod for many, many years, and then something happened that she never expected happened: she woke up!

"I am... awake?"

There was a tape recorder on the desk next to her, it was beeping softly and flashing green on the play button. Starlight pressed the button, and the voice of Twilight Sparkle came out.

"Starlight, if you're hearing this, then you must have woke up! Good! However... by the time you do hear this, I will be in cryosleep myself... and somewhere else in Equestria, I couldn't tell you where though... but the reason I did it is because it was the only way for me to survive any longer. And I need you to awake me Starlight! our friends are dead and the only ponies you can trust anymore are the ones living in Ponyville! Next to this recorder is a three-directional plasma-epee, you're gonna need it Starlight! Even with magic as powerful as your's! And next to your chamber is Rarity's little sister Sweetie Belle... as a robot, in order to activate her you need to levitate her out of her station. Once active however, she won't be her normal cheery sel--"

The audio cut out.

"Won't be her normal cheery self? Then what will she be like? Mature?"

Starlight hadn't a clue, but she had to go with it. She levitated the "three-directional plasma-epee" that Twilight had mentioned, and it looked like a short metal tube with two slimmer, smoother ones coiling around it, both facing opposite directions horizantally at the top. There was a switch in the middle, Starlight used her levitation to flick it, and she was amazed! It shot a one-meter long red lazer out the top and two shorter ones out the tubes that coiled around it, so it looked like she was levitating a red, upside-down 'T'. Starlight swung it back and forth, and her mind was blown! She then switched the the plasma-epee off, and turned her head back towards where Twilight said Sweetie Belle was, and Sweetie looked like a white, filly with a lavender, pink swirly mane. She appeared to be a deactivated robot, resting in a metal box. Since Twilight had said Sweetie was activated by levitating her out, that's just what Starlight did, and then Sweetie's eyes opened, and they were hazel, yet they were robotic. And then Sweetie Belle spoke, with the voice of a robot.

"WOAH!"

Starlight was shocked enough to drop her.

"I CANNOT BELIEVE IT! I AM STILL ALIVE!?"

"I... guess?"

"ALTHOUGH I FEEL STRANGELEY LIKE A ROBOT."

"Well, you sure look like it, and sound like it."

"I GUESS THAT WOULD CONFIRM IT THEN. ANYWAYS I'M SWEETIE BELLE, AND WHAT'S YOUR NAME?"

"I'm Starlight Glimmer, but... how exactly did you end up this way?"

"WELL... THE LAST THING I REMEMBER WAS WHEN I WAS HELPING MY FRIENDS OUT, AND AT ONE POINT THEY WERE MURDERED IN FRONT OF ME WITH ME, PINKIE AND TWILIGHT WERE THE ONLY SURVIVERS, AND WHILE TROTTING THROUGH THE EVERFREE FOREST I HAD HEARD THE SOUND OF A PLASMA-EPEE ACTIVATING AND THEN..."

"And then...?"

"I NEVER KNEW WHAT HIT HIT ME. ALL I KNEW WAS THAT I DIED!"

"And you were revived as a robot?"

"APPARANTLY."

"And Twilight left me a note to find her in a freezing chamber somewhere in Equestria."

"WELL, WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR? LET'S GO!"

Starlight then trotted out of the underground alongside Sweetie,

If the only ponies you can trust are the ones living in ponyville, then what must have happened to Equestria!?

Starlight wondered,

All of Equestria must have gone to complete chaos!

She couldn't imagine what possibly could've happened to Equestria, not that she even wanted to.

When they got out, it was a wasteland. All of Ponyville was completely condemned, even the few survivers that were over there looked comepletely poor, and beat up. Starlight was too horrified about this to realize right away that she was heating up quiickly.

"I AM SURE THAT YOU HAVE NOTICED THE EXTREME HEAT? IF YOU GET HOT ENOUGH OUT HERE YOU WILL BE SUNBURNED, AND ENOUGH OF THAT SUNBURN WILL SET YOU ON FIRE. THE ONLY WAY TO REDUCE SUNBURN IS BY SEEING A DOCTOR, OR BY USING ICE. IT APPEARS THOUGH, THAT AS A ROBOT, I AM IMMUNE TO THE HEAT."

This is when Starlight started to get afraid, knowing that it was that easy to find herself dead at any time without her realizing it.

"WELL, WE DON'T HAVE ANY QUILLS RIGHT NOW, SO WE MIGHT AS WELL FIND WAYS TO GET SOME."

"Quills?"

"OH YEAH, I FORGOT TO MENTION, THEY STARTED USING QUILLS AS CURRENCY."

Starlight felt that the civillians there would have some quills themselves, and the best way to obtain them would be if she did something for them. Starlight trotted up to the nearest pony there, Sweetie coming along.

"Uh... excuse me, but..."

The pony stopped her right there and said:

"I take it you're new to this wasteland?"

"...Yes actually, but..."

"Then you're gonna need some quills, i'm gonna offer you 500 quills so long as you do me a favor."

"What can I do for you then?"

"Do you see that castle over there?"

He pointed towards the castle that Starlight knew had to have been Twilight's castle, but it looked dirty, and red instead of cyan.

"Yes, I do see that castle."

"Well, it's been overrun by griffons, and they have weaponry more advanced than anypony here could even stand a chance against. But you have a robot on your side, and robots are extremely rare, as they have the power of 15 nuclear warheads. You'll surely be able to take back the castle."

Starlight knew that this seemed pretty extreme, but she never knew that as a robot, Sweetie was that dangerous. Either way, she had to accept.

"I'll do it."

"Okay, let me know when do rid the castle of those griffons completely."

NEW QUEST: TAKE BACK THE CASTLE

Author's Note

Please excuse this story, I originally intended to make this my own equivalent to FALLOUT, but ultimately decided it unnecessary.

Also the "three-directional plasma-epee" is what Star Wars fans would call a "Kylo Renn Lightsaber"