The Stables were never meant to save anypony
Fallout Equetria: Stable 30
*beep-beep-beep* I slam down my hoof onto the wall to get my Pibuck to stop beeping I groaned out loud and thought “Why can’t I get some extra sleep once in awhile”. I flopped out of the bed and onto my hooves I trotted to the bathroom. I turned the shower on with my magic and step into the shower if I wasn’t awake now am I because it was ice cold “GAAHH! Didn’t maintenance fix the hot water talisman last week because it had the same problem!?”
I finished showering with a little bit of soap and cleaned it off. With that I walked over to the mirror and magic my toothbrush with toothpaste over to me and brushed my teeth. Once I was done with that I brush my mane it is aqua blue with a white stripe running down the center my coat is snow white then I clean the bathroom, make my bed I checked my Pibuck it says 11:00 A.M. I started work a the Stable Nursery at 1:00 P.M. so I have an hour to spare. With that done I went my closet pull out a Stable 30 uniform it is washed, steamed and is marked in several places with the numbers 30 on it. With that done I walked out of my room and into the Stable grey hallways of Stable 30 so bleak and boring looking it makes it depressing if you ask me it really could use some colors maybe blue or yellow. I walked down the hallway toward the lunchroom for lunch.
On the way my stomach rumbles reminding me I haven’t eaten any food today doesn’t make it any better that Stable food is absolutely disgusting except for the cherries and apples they have. As I was lost in my train of thought for a second and was brought back to the present by Kick he works in maintenance.
“Hey you looked a little lost in thought there for a moment what were you thinking about?”.
“Oh the heating talisman in my shower is broken again it isn’t heating the water up”.
“Well I will have to fix it again.”
“Yeah but you said that three times already and it’s still broke.”
“I know we just don’t have the tools anymore that’s why the Overmare opened the Stable up remember? he grumbles back”
“I know but I wish it would get done sooner.”
“Alright when you get back to your room tonight it should be fixed”. With that I finished my walk to the lunchroom in silence
I arrived in the lunchroom it is a huge grey room with a bunch of metal tables and benches. I walk to the back of the line and wait about ten minutes before I can get my breakfast, apples with cherries and with hay and oats that they say has a great taste but we all know it tastes absolutely horrible.
“Hey Kick why do they still serve the same old disgusting hay and oats if the Stable is open for trade that 200 year old food tastes way better than this”.
To which he replied “I wouldn’t eat that food with eight foot pole it was outside for 200 years around radiation and Godesses knows what diseases are out there”.
“Oh come on Kick you gotta live a little besides we got RadX and Radaway.” Whatever still won’t eat it” he grumbled back to me.
Seeing that it's futile to continue the argument I ended it there. “Soooo... What do you think the outside is like?”.
“Well if its anything like the ponies from that caravan that came a couple days ago said it’s that there’s magical radiation and raiders everywhere I think I’d like to stay here” he replied.
“Ahhh... You're no fun Kick you never like to take chances for anything”. We finish eating our food and put the trays back Kick has a brown coat with a green mane and a wrench with a screwdriver cutie mark. “See ya Frosty hopefully the heating talisman works this time”.
With that I walked out into the hallway towards the Stable Nursery. Every newborn foal in Stable 30 has spend at least one day in the nursery for the health evaluation and because they have to do paperwork on the foals such as the time they were born, sex, height and weight. I walked into the nursery and clocked in on the terminal at the front desk where receptionist is she says “Hi” she said with venom in her voice.
“So you decide to actually do your work or do I have to do it like usual Morning?” I say with sarcasm. As I pick up the check list I have check everyday when I clock in.
“Well Frost some of us are too beautiful to work I wouldn’t want ruin my hooficure and don’t forget that you have to go to the E.R tonight”.
With that I took the checklist gave Morning a glare and silently went about doing my job in the nursery doing all the things on the checklist such as feeding them, giving them milk, and finally changing the diapers. Once I was finished and checked off all of the work on the list. Once everything on the checklist was finished I read a book to the foals about the Princesses Luna and Celestia with the Elements of Harmony .I walked up to the desk and hooved it to Morning we met each other with a silent glare because we didn’t want to get written up for waking up the foals by fighting again.
“Well my shift is over I’m clocking out” I looked over to see her reading a magazine.
“Huh whuu.. Whatever go I don’t care” Morning said then went back to reading her magazine.
The walk back to my room was normal as usual went to the lunchroom and had dinner which was about the same as breakfast except that instead of hay and oats we had pizza which was vegetarian obviously but it tasted like cardboard and that’s saying something because cardboard tastes better. Ooops getting off track rambling to myself. But I went in line got a tray and got my food I was walking to a table when I saw Cherry waving his brown hoof for me to come over we always sit together during dinner.
“Hey Frost why don’t you come on over I saved you a seat” he scooted over and offered me a seat and his cherry red mane falls over into his eyes which he brushes away.
“Yeah we've been saving that seat for you at the table for about an hour now” said a stallion with a golden yellow coat with a orange mane and tail I glanced at his flank which had an apple on it.
“Hey something on my flank ‘cause you've been staring at it for quite a bit”
Upon noticing this I looked away as fast as I could and my cheeks turned a bright crimson “Wh-aaat no I’m not I was looking at the uhh.... the Golden bench yup the bench I saw some gum on it” I managed to stutter out.
“Are you sure? Your cheeks look red enough to cook a couple of eggs” too of which made me blush even harder which showed through my white coat fairly well “Ahh come on Frost you know I’m just playin’ ‘round with you” he replied with his mock western accent that he sometimes uses.
“Heh heh.. Yeah I knew that” I said and I went about eating my food the pizza was worse than usual but food is food whatcha gonna do since we don’t have any caps to trade with the Equestrian Wastelanders. Yeah caps as in Sparkle-Cola caps yup those. I know what you're thinking “Why use caps!? It makes no sense why not use bits!” well you see when the bombs fell on the cities most of the bits melted, and plus the fact gold is very rare and hard to find let alone smelt it down. So instead they just use bottle caps they are easier to find plus they last forever.
I finished my apple then cherries to wash down the awful flavor. “Well I’m finished it’s getting late I better get to bed” that wasn’t far from the truth but I actually always felt awkward around Golden Delicious I didn’t know why but I don’t like him like him sure as a friend but certainly I couldn’t ever like him that way. You see I’m not into stallions per say I’m into umm... you see fillies. Yes I am a filly-fooler there isn’t anypony that knows except for my parents because all the other ponies in the Stable would be very supportive of it maybe wastelanders would be but the Stable doesn’t support things like that.
I walked out into the hallway and to my room. On the way I saw the Overmare Strawberry Tart she saw me and says “Hey Frost you have a good day today?”.
I stared into her red eyes Strawberry had red eyes with a white coat and a white mane, tail because she was an albino they were rare in a Stable. Whenever I was around her I always got a weird feeling in my stomach like there was butterflies in it or something to that extent. I notice that I was staring into her eyes but before she noticed so I hurriedly turn away and tried to hide the blush I have one my face which she must of not noticed because she didn’t say anything about it.
“Yeah my day has been pretty good so far how about yours? ‘Cause I heard that you're going to be letting wastelanders live in the Stable for caps”. Since we don’t have caps for trade and if we are going to be going out into the Wasteland we need to have caps.
“Yeah I will be because we don’t have any caps for trade only fresh food but we need that to feed the Stable so we can only do that for so long”. Well what she said is true fresh food in the Wasteland is worth a lot of caps because the soil is irradiated with magical radiation, taint and the cloud cover is constant with The Grand Pegasus Enclave not caring for us dirt ponies as they call us. So it’s very hard to get fresh food as you can see so they have to eat two-hundred plus years old food. You think it would be stale or be expired? Nope it’s still fairly fresh with all those preservatives although I’m sure some of them can’t be good for you.
“Well that’s true we do need the food the feed the Stable also so we can’t trade all of our food and since we do have some extra rooms we could rent them out to Wastelanders”. It is true that there is extra Stable rooms since Stable 30 was made for three thousand ponies but the door shut at two thousand the other thousand ponies never made it into the Stable on time they either got caught in the blast zones or were too late. “See ya tomorrow Strawberry”
“Yup see you tomorrow Frost” she replied with her usual smile. A fact I don’t have many friends in the Stable anypony who is friends with me is because of my talent but I did have a couple real friends and Strawberry the Overmare is one of them although I do have some friends such as Kick and Golden they have been my friends for a long time. As she walked away I caught myself watching her swaying flanks. But I didn’t notice that somepony behind me as he tapped my back with a black hoof which caused me to jump about five feet into the air.
“MEEP! Whad'ya do that for I thought my heart was going to jump out its chest!” I turned around to see who it was only to see Strawberries husband Steel-Bit
“If I catch ya looking at her that way again there’s gonna be trouble to pay you got that?” I swear Steel always acted like he had a stick up his flank all the time.
“Yeah yeah whatever” I grumbled out as I finished walking to my room.
I walked into my room and took off my Stable uniform then put it in the laundry basket for to be cleaned later, I looked in the mirror and saw my cutie mark it was of two snowflakes crossing each other I got it because I’m good at freezing things but what use is that in a Stable I ask you? No use at all unless the air conditioner is broken then all of the sudden ponies I don’t talk to ask to come in my room. I was eight years old when I got it, it was one of the days when the air conditioner broke and a Stable with no air conditioner it's like being on the inside of a volcano. Plus since we have coats permanently attached to our bodies it makes in ten times worse so I was looking for a spell in one of the Ministry of Arcane Science by Twilight Sparkle spell books that would freeze the room. I found one and it worked it made the room go from one hundred degrees and got it down to a comfortable sixty degrees, my parents were so proud then I got a weird tingly feeling on my flank and blam there was my cutie mark.
I went into the bathroom to make sure the heating talisman works this time. I turned the hot water knob and it worked I could see the steam coming off of the water “Thank Celestia the heating talisman works!” I yelled excitedly because even though you’d think I like cold no I don’t just because my cutie mark is two snowflakes and my talent is freezing stuff it does not mean I like the cold one bit but I don’t like it hot either.
Once I was finished in the bathroom I walked out and into the main part of my room then turned on my Pibuck’s radio I heard Sweetie Belle singing on the radio then smoothe bucks voice came on.
“Annnnd that was Sweetie Belle singing Hush Now Quiet Now by the Cutie Mark Crusaders. This is DJ-Trotter now I don’t know if you know this but the maintenance ponies during the graveyard shift have been reporting weird things happening on basement levels of the Stable reportedly they keep on hearing buzzing sounds like giant bugs and green flashes of light occurring in the corridors. Now I don’t know what it is but they definitely aren’t Radroaches and that’s for sure but I would watch yourself in case it’s something big. And on a side note we should be getting a new caravan here and since we don’t have any caps Overmare Strawberry said that she will be renting out the thousand extra rooms that we have in the Stable so remember treat others as you want them to treat you but report all suspicious activities to the Overmare .But until then here’s The Wastelanders .”
As I sat there and listened to there and listened to there to the music I was about to fall asleep on my bed until somepony started banging on the door I got up and stumbled over to the door.
“Who’s there I was trying to yawwwn sleep and what do you want?” I managed to mumble out and rubbed the sleepiness out of my eye’s with my hooves.
“It’s me Sunspot your mother. Could you open the door you're needed in the medical bay because tonight you have to go to the E.R. tonight it's your turn to watch for injured Wastelanders ” I then open the door with my magic.
“Oh I how could I have forgotten about that?” I asked because I never usually forget things like that.
With that I walked out of the door and trotted to the E.R. We usually get a couple a day since raiders have been more active than usual either that or a new band of raiders is coming through.
It was about halfway through my shift when somepony barged into the E.R he was profusely bleeding from all over the place. One of the nurses ran out to see what all the commotion was that’s when he collapsed. I levitated him onto a gurney and rushed him into a sterilized surgery room.
Oh was it a site to see his barding was covered in bullet holes he was also missing an ear. I immediately rushed over and administered and immediately put MedX via IV drip into his hoof to numb him but also to make sure he doesn’t wake up and we won’t have a potential problem during the operation.
“What are you standing there for!? I need a scalpel to get the bullets out of his body!” I yelled and that seems to get the other doctors out of his stupor that he was in at the moment. He hooved the scalpel over to me I took of his barding so I could examine the wounds.
I took the scalpel found the first wound it was caused by a hollow point slug it shredded all the flesh to pieces it took twenty minutes to get it out of his chest cavity, there was multiple gunshot wounds caused by .223 calibre rounds.
“I need some healing potions to close the wound caused by the shotgun slug it barely missed a major artery leading to the heart”. If the slug would have been any further then he would have bled out before even coming here.
With the slug out there was four gunshots caused by .223 caliber ammunition there was one in his left shoulder blade, two in his his back of which barely missed his spine, finally two in his right back hind leg.
I grabbed a pair of tweezers then pulled out the one in his shoulder it took some of the bone with it we our Stable is not supplied with the supplies to fix that so he will probably have to fuse metal with it because it’s easier to break.
The two in his back were really tricky and hard to get out because of the proximity of them being so close to his spine. “Could I get a sponge here sweats getting in my eyes” one of the nurses that were with levitated a sponge over to dry my face. “Thanks I needed that”.
One wrong move would paralyze him from the waist below for life unless he gets cybernetic hind legs, either that or replaces that part of the spine with cybernetics. I had to dig around in his back to get the one out because it got stuck in one of his vertebrae luckily it didn't need replacing I took some healing potion and poured it over the wound it closed up I could hear the vertebrae fixing itself. Then came for the tricky one it somehow managed to disintegrate upon impact when it went into his back in total I had to pick out five pieces of it they weren’t too small so I could get them out and didn’t have to leave any inside him because it would probably cause lead poisoning.
“Well that operation went better than I thought it would. He should wake up in about two days judging by the amount of blood he lost if anything else happens before then you know the procedure and give him some Medx syringes he will need it for the pain”. With that I wiped off my hooves with a towel. I walked out of the operation room but before I left I had to do paperwork because of the cause of it. Once finished with my paperwork. I went to check on the other patients since I was already here I might as well check.
I walked out of the room I really didn’t know what to do so I just walked randomly until I was in front of the Overmares room. Strawberry was in front of the door I wave over to her and walk over.
“Hey you busy or anything?” I said as I finished walking over.
“Nope today has been boring completely boring but how’d the surgery on that Wastelander go anyways?”
“Went better than I hope those raiders really did a number on him his barding looked like Swiss cheese with all of the holes that were in it. He should wake up in about two days though”. I replied while shivering remembering the scene in my head.
“Well that’s good I might have to tighten security around the Stable entrance though so in case the raiders followed him when he walked here”. That worried me I know raiders are stupid drugged up cannibals and in general just act upon their impulses but in numbers they can do some real damage like when they attacked New Fillydelphia they had trained guardsmen and didn’t last.
“Yeah but I doubt the raiders actually followed him because a smart raider is like finding a needle in a haystack.” which was true. “But how’s your filly been doing?”.
“Oh you know Rose is just like the other fillies at her age she acts like she is constantly eating Apple Sugar Bombs just like I was when I was a filly really”.
I know Tart she doesn’t like it when I call her that she prefers Berry doesn’t like it when I ask this question maybe this time I can get her to oh well lets see. “Hey Tart why are you still married to her father anyways he’s not the same as when you married him anyways you two used to be the best couple together? Now it’s like every other day you two are arguing over everthing”.
“You know I don’t like when you call me that, but I married him because of political pressure ponies think that the Overmare has to marry somepony in order to stay the Overmare and have a foal.” Never did like politics it’s stupid in my opinion but hey nothing I can do about it. “I really do wish I could divorce him but I can’t if I wanna keep this position and I’m doing it for Rose to she needs a Dad also”.
“Have you ever thought of upgrading Stable securities weapons because we only have shotguns and pistols I know that the Stable is tight quarters fighting but if we had a couple assault rifles we could fight them in the entrance because if they were to get into the Stable it would probably be a massacre”. Which is true.
“Yeah I have but you gotta remember at the entrance there is two turrets with machine guns plus the fact that we are not fighters we are doctors and nurses”.
While that is true firearms and weapons in general have always fascinated me they cause so much destruction but they are so small. How we went from flint lock muskets and rifles to Megaspell Missiles and Balefire bombs in such a short amount of time. They are crafted with such care. My personal favorite has always been the Colt AR-15 civilian model of the Colt M-16 Equestrian Army assault rifle. Although its not automatic it still packs quite a punch with .223 Reighmington round.
“Yeah I know but those turrets don’t have unlimited ammo”. Which was true because they only had about two hundred rounds in them.
“I know plus no pony is allowed weapons besides Stable security and you know that”. Tart said to me. Which I know is true.
“I know that but... You know what I mean I know it’s for safety reasons”. I said but before I could say anything else a certain magenta colored little filly rounded the corner.
“Mommy!” she yelled and jumped on Tart.
“D’aww so much cute you do know how cute that is”. She gave me a death glare but laughed anyways.
“How was your day sweetie what did you learn at school today huh?”. Tart asked as she Rose ruffled her mane with a hoof.
“Today we learned about how Princess Luna raised the Moon and Princess Celestia raise the Sun” she said with a smile “Tomorrow we're going to be learning about the Elements of Harmony too!” when she said that she smiled even wider.
“Well some filly is certainly excited aren’t they? Why don’t ya go talk to your Dad me and Frost here are talking”. With that Rose went running to her Dad.
“Man does she have a lot of energy” I said while smiling fillies just have that effect on me always make me smile no matter what mood I’m in.
“You're telling me I’m the one that has to raise her” Tart said with a smile while snickering at the memories of shenanigans she used to get into as a filly trying to get her cutie mark. “I really think her cutie mark is going to be in gardening she’s really good at it. But what use is gardening in the Wasteland know what I mean?”.
“Yeah I do the soil is either irradiated with magical radiation, taint or plants won’t grow in it because of the cloud cover”. I said with a sigh one of the things I always dreamed of seeing was the Suns warm rays touching my coat. I think about it with a sigh.
“Yeah but that’s never gonna happen in a million years it’s been there since the end of the war two hundred years ago what’s gonna change that? Plus any Pegasi who do speak out against them and leave the cloud cover and come down get branded Dashites.” You see the Enclave doesn’t take too kindly when its own citizens or military personnel try to leave and head down here. They take a brand of cloud with a lightning bolt Rainbow Dash’s cutie mark and bran it over the ponies own cutie mark. “Oh yeah also before I forget somepony came to the Stable earlier today and gave everypony a free copy of the Wasteland Survival Guide said her name was a Ditzy Doo a pegasus ghoul”.
“What’s a ghoul anyways? Never heard of them before or seen one”. It was true I never saw a ghoul back then I would've screamed running around saying zombie pony over and over.
“Well a ghoul hows a nice way to put it ummm... A ghoul is pony from before the Great War started they were either civilians or in the military they are usually two hundred plus years old ”. I almost burst out laughing there I thought it was impossible to live that long.
“There is no way somepony can live that long there is absolutely no way its possible”. I said trying not to laugh at her for saying that it sounded ridiculous at the time.
“Well it is although usually their mane usually has fallen out along with their coat. The skin is gone also revealing the muscle beneath also they’re eyes are white and since ghouls can effectively live forever they do not need food, water or air to breathe for that matter also radiation actually heals them”.
“Ewww that sounds disgusting living corpses that are decomposing that’s disgusting”. Now let me tell you they do smell pretty bad but you usually get used to it after a while after all it’s the Wasteland everything and everypony smells bad.
“Yeah when they lose their mind it’s never good it can happen at any time to any ghoul doesn’t matter sooner or later it will happen when it does they turn feral and you gotta kill them to put them out of their misery or else they will eat you.” What she said about the whole going feral thing it’s true I have seen a ghoul go feral before it’s not a pretty sight it’s sad they lose their mind and sanity. But getting off track back to it.
“Wow that’s gotta suck to be a ghoul”. I said
“Has its upside though immune to radiation but it ain’t worth it though”. Which is true it’s just not worth it to me some ponies might think it’s worth it not me.
“Oh have you heard of DJ-P0N3 I have been listening to him for a while but we can’t get the signal in the Stable probably because of the walls were gonna see if we can’t get the radio transmitter on top the Stable working”.
“That's a good idea actually if we could get the parts that we need to fix it but it’s gonna be expensive that’s for sure”.
“Well I gotta go Frost I have to make sure that Rose didn’t take something apart trying to get her cutie mark again”.
“Alright see ya tomorrow Tart today has been pretty boring I don’t know about you”. With that said I wave her off with a hoof and start to trot off.
As I was trotting around aimlessly I thought “Ugh I am soooo bored I don’t know what to do I have nothing to do” which was true because I already did everything I was supposed to do for the day. Then a thought occurred to me “Nopony has been outside the Stable yet except the Overmare and security so why not besides the way the Wastelanders say it sounds like there’s always adventure and excitement”. Which was true nopony had tried leaving the Stable yet. “I wonder what it’s like out there only things I know is what other ponies have told me which isn’t much to go on if anything”. I thought out loud to myself.
I turned around to start walking to the Stable door. On my way to the Stable door I said “Hello” and “Hi” to other ponies but only as a friendly gesture because you don’t wanna make enemies in the Stable because if you do it will make your life a living Tartarus because you live with them your whole life in a big metal bunker buried underground. Well at least it used to be like that but everypony just wants to stay inside the Stable where it's all safe and comfortable. I mean I can understand where they are coming from no slavers or raiders. Oh I didn’t tell you what raiders and slavers are now did I?
Well Slavers a pretty much what they sound like they are ponies who enslave other ponies and sell them they put bomb collars around their necks that will explode if the Slaver hits the detonator or if the slave goes too far away from the detonator. Generally they don’t care what happens to the slaves as long as they get sold they don’t care how old they are or any health problems they have really no better than raiders if you ask me.
Now Raiders they are crazy they have a lot of psychological problems always hopped up on drugs generally Dash or Buck since they are easier to find. They shoot and kill anything that moves especially anything that’s alive ghoul or not that has four hooves. They rape and pillage everything they sound like what the word raider would bring into your hea. They are also cannibals they eat pony meat, they will even eat their own dead they have no morals at all. Basically you see any just kill them on sight or they will kill you plus a good raider is a dead raider nuff said really.
I arrived at the Stable door it’s a huge metal door made out of steel and lead, the lead was to keep the magical radiation out since lead is the only metal that blocks it out, the steel was for strength. The door was at least five feet thick reinforced steel. It had a big number thirty paint on the middle of the door on the back and in the front in faded yellow paint. There was two easily seen turrets with automatic weapons and two security ponies with 12 gauge Reighmington 870 Express shotguns and Equestrian Army standard issue forest camouflage.
One of them a grey colt with a cutie mark of a rifle and a sword crossed together turned around to see who was coming up from behind them.
“Halt who goes there?” he shouted in my direction at me.
“It’s me Frost Wire friend of the Overmare” I said back to him.
“Oh its you what do you want? You know that nopony is allowed outside of the Stable yet except for Stable security and the Overmare herself right?” Of course I knew that but with colts like him I know how to let’s just say manipulate colts they are all the same.
“Of course I know that but could you just let little ‘ole me out I promise I won’t get in trouble?”. I said while puffing my lips out at him.
“No sorry you can’t no exceptions” I continued to pout even more and gave the best puppy dog eyes look I could muster it seemed to work because he finally caved in “Alright please just stop giving me that look I can’t stand it I will let you out for ten minutes but after that if you don’t come back in I’m going to have to come to get you then I will get in trouble for letting you out in the first place” he said with a sigh and let me through.
I walked through the Stable door and let me tell you it is way different than anypony said waaaay different. There is no ceiling just endless grey clouds with no blue sky or sun in the sky like others have told me but what they've told me pales in comparison to what I saw the moment I looked up at it I had a sense of vertigo. My face turned green and I lost all sense of balance I fell flat on my flank the world was spinning. I puked all of my day’s meals all over the ground, the ground out here was different it wasn’t metal but hard and soft at the sametime. It consisted of hard pointed, jagged rocks and soft dirt, mud. Definitely much much more different than ponies have described it to me. The land mass was endless in all directions it went as far as the eye could see and more than that hundreds of thousands of miles of it. I was brought out of my stupor by the security colt coming out and shouting at me.
“Alright alright sheesh I’m coming you don’t need to yell” I said with a hint of annoyance in my voice “Besides it’s not even been ten minutes yet so what could it possibly be that’s so important?”.
“Well it’s Stable curfew right now and anypony who doesn’t have a job or is in Stable security has to go to their rooms” he explained to me with an authoritative tone in his voice.
With that said I started the long trot back to my room. I decided to see how late it was sense the cloud cover wouldn’t let me see the sun and just tell time by that. I glanced at my Pipbuck and it said 12:00 A.M at night. I thought to myself “Why didn’t I check that earlier now I’m probably going to wake up late in the morning now then get sent to the Overmare Strawberries office she won’t be happy either”.
I rounded the corner and trotted into my room then took my Stable 30 uniform off it was dirty yellow because of going outside “Probably going to get in trouble for that too” I thought to myself.
I threw the Stable uniform in the laundry basket, then trotted over to my bed and lifted the covers. Stable-Tec mattresses were notorious for being uncomfortable especially after being 200 years old didn’t help to make it any better.
But in no time it did its work in no time I was almost asleep but before I fell into unconsciousness “I hope tomorrow isn’t so boring I don’t care what happens as long as something exciting happens”. Oh would I dread saying that for the next few days after.
Perception: 2
Endurance: 1
Charisma: 1
Intelligence: 1
Agility: 1
Luck: 1
Magic: 3
Out of the Stable and into the Wasteland
Out of the Stable and into the Wasteland
It was a normal start just like any day I woke up slammed my Pipbuck on the wall to make the annoying beeping sound stop I don’t know why I just don’t turn the alarm function to be honest probably has to deal with the fact that I really don’t know how to use it.
I did my daily morning routines such as showering, brushing my teeth then putting the boring Stable clothes we wear everyday, then stepped out of my room and into the grey hallways that make up Stable 30. I went to lunch and just like everyday it was boring old boring hay and oats same as usual. I saw Cherry again and went to walk over to him.
“Hey what’s up Frost? Why do you look so glum today is going to be exciting a trader is coming today who knows what he might have”. Cherry said with a smile.
That was surprising to me at least because nopony told me and I’m the one that usually knows about anything that involves stuff outside the Stable. “Really there is?” to which he nods to “When is the trader coming? Because I wanna see what he’s got for sale, might have some interesting stuff but I wonder if he will accept bits since I have no caps”.
“I’m pretty sure he will accept bits but might cost more but you might be able to exchange them for caps for a price though of course nothing is free out there”. Cherry said while chewing on some oats and getting it all over his face and table in the process of it.
“Ewww what have I told you about chewing while talking it’s disgusting plus it gets the food everywhere I better not find any in my mane or coat like last time it took forever to get out”. I said while looking to see if I could find any that got on me once I saw that there was none I calmed down.
“You know you will never get me to quit that old habit it’s impossible remember you tried last time and went crazy because of it”. He said while smirking.
Yes I did try once but never again will I try nor will it be mentioned what happened. “Yes I remember that and we both said we would never mention it ever again”.
As I finished saying that a security pony came up to our table and said “Do you happen to be Frost Wire?” in monotone emotionless voice that they usually have.
I answered with “Yes why am I needed somewhere or something like that because my shift hasn’t even started at the Nursery yet”.
“Yes the Overmare said she needs to see you in her office so she sent me to escort you and that you are supposed to leave now”.
That’s weird I thought because I never got in trouble in the Stable before this okay you got me I used to get in trouble all the time as a little filly trying to get my cutie mark, but other than that nothing else I did came to recent memory. “I didn’t do anything wrong did I?”
“No the Overmare just said she needs to see you right away is all”.
“Okay then well I guess I will see you later then Cherry”.
With that I sat up and walked away with the security pony to the Overmares office. We were finally at the Overmares office which was about a ten minutes top trot from the lunch room to her office.
“Well we're here she should be able to see you now” he motioned with his hoof to the door for me to go in.
With that I trotted up to Tarts door, but before I could she opened the door and motioned to me with her hoof to come in.
“What am I here for I didn’t do anything wrong did I?” I asked with confusion in my voice.
“No I didn’t bring you here to talk about your little expedition to the surface” which shocked me how did she find out?. I looked up to her with a confused face. “I can see the confusion on your face did you really think I wouldn’t find out? There are cameras at the entrance that are monitored 24/7 every single hour of every single day, but I’m getting off track here why I called you here is because we have to leave the Stable as fast as we can”.
I stood there processing what she just said to me and it shocked me. “Why do we need to leave the Stable it has enough supplies and power to last another hundred years?”.
“Because you see a group is coming to enslave the entire Stable they are called The Zebra Remnants they believe in the old ways of the Czar and kill or enslave any ponies that they come across”.
“B-b-but why do they do that? That’s just wrong, it’s just wrong to enslave and kill ponies why didn’t you do something to stop this!?” I practically shouted.
“Shhh we don’t want to alert anypony the only ponies that know are me and you if anypony else found out it would be widespread panic and rioting all over the Stable”. Tart said in a hushed kind of tone.
“But what are we going to do? We don’t have the kind of weapon that they will have, we only have close quarters weapons they will tear us to the security ponies to shreds our only hope is those turrets but they don’t have much ammo”. I asked while trembling and generally trying not to freak out because I mean who wouldn’t freak out that somepony is trying to kill you all, and or enslave all of you?
“Well we are going to leave plain and simple I already have all the things packed so that we can leave and Rose doesn’t know she just thinks she's going on a trip okay? She’s just a foal she doesn’t need to know about these kind of things”. Tart tossed me a bag full of food and purified water, it also had a pistol in it with four magazines ten rounds of ammo each.
“How’d you get this past security without them finding out?”
“Well being Overmare has it’s benefits you know. Pick up your bag were leaving now”.
I went to pick up the bag but a muffled ptoo and a spark of metal in front of me stopped me from picking it up.
A zebra materialized out of thin air he had some sort of cloak on my guess was that it was what made him invisible. “I don’t think your going anywhere you're just going to stay right here”. He said in a accented voice.
“Why are you doing this to the Stable, we haven’t done anything wrong to you?” Tart asked with a angry tone in her voice.
“What did you expected Xavier to actually hold the deal with you? Hahaha don’t make me laugh please seriously. We are the Remnants we take what we want when we want and how we want to.”
“What!? I thought we had a deal Xavier told me so himself”.
“Well I guess Xavier changed his mind then”.
“T-tart what is he talking about, and what is this deal he is talking about?” I asked in a scared tone.
“Tsk tsk you mean to tell me you haven’t told anyone your little secret yet what a shame”. He said with a mocking kind of tone.
“*sigh* sorry Frost I hope you can forgive for what I’m about to tell you and show just know I had my reasons for it”. With that said a green light emanated from Tart and got so bright I had to shield my eyes once the light was gone in Tarts place was a weird looking thing, it looked like a pony but had black fur, butterfly like wings with holes in them, had a crooked horn with holes in it and had holes in its legs.
“W-what are you?” I asked with a scared kind of tone to my voice.
“I am a Changeling we can feed off of emotions but the one we like to feed off of is love, and if your wondering what the deal was it was that the Remnants wouldn’t bother this Stable and I would get to be Overmare if I gave them food and water”. She went back to looking like Tart again by time she finished. “And do you not remember the accident Tart had a couple days ago and got hospitalized for? Well it killed her she didn’t make it she died because of blood loss, so I took her appearance so all of her friends and family would be happy”.
“Yes and look where that got you hmm?? Now you are going to die any last words? Also Xavier sends his regards to you” I heard a door opening and a security pony was opening the door.
“Yes look behind you!”. But he was too late a shotgun blast blew his brains out all over the wall and his head disappeared into a red mist.
It took me a couple seconds to realize what had happened but when I did I threw up on the floor.
“Strawberry are you okay!?” the security pony shouted.
“Yes I’m fine but what’s the problem”.
“It’s the Stable some group launched a surprise attack against us the turrets held them back for a while but they killed both guards.”
“Okay I want you to alert the rest of security and focus on saving as many Stable residents as you can possible”.
With a salute the security pony left to do his orders and immediately afterwards the sounds of gunshots were heard echoing through hallways.
“We can’t stay here come on Rose hope up onto my back”. “Oh no Rose saw what happened” I thought to myself and she had tears streaming down her cheeks from her eyes and they were red and puffy from crying.
“Come on sweetie hop up onto my back we're going to somewhere nice away from all these mean zebras okay?”. Rose nodded to that and climbed onto Tarts back then wiped off her tears with a hoof while sniffling.
“Okay I was hoping that we could leave without causing a commotion but that plan just got destroyed so let’s go before they decide to come and see why this zebra hasn’t come back yet”. I nodded to that and we trotted over to the door and walked out into the hallways there were some dead zebras but mostly security ponies or anypony who picked up in arms and fought back.
“I need you to keep your eyes closed okay Rose? Just keep them closed until I tell you to open them”. She listened and kept her eyes closed like she was told I don’t think she would’ve opened them anyways since she was so scared.
“What are we going to do they are probably all over the place?”
“There is a secret passageway by the Stable Atrium if we get there we can get out without any problems at all that’s if we don’t get caught which probably isn’t going to happen. The passage leads to the tunnel outside the Stable door and at the exit of the tunnel so we shouldn’t encounter any when we leave”.
As trotted towards the Atrium we could hear the echoes of a gunshot every now and then they were probably finishing the rest of the Stable security off. As we got nearer and nearer to the Atrium the more bodies we could see because it was so close the the Stable door and Tart had to tell Rose multiple times to keep her eyes shut and not to open them. There was also blood all over the place, severed limbs and guts all over the place. If it weren’t for the fact I already threw up all my stomach contents I would've done it again but instead I just dry heaved.
We were about halfway to the Atrium when I heard some voices and swiveled my ears to listen.
“Hey Tart I think I hear somepony” I whispered to Tart and she also stopped to listen.
“I don’t get it why don’t we just kill all of these ponies don’t know why were ordered to keep them all”. A voice said it sounded like a buck.
“Because we can keep them as slaves you idiot or we can sell them for money”. A second voice said.
“Whatever lets just get this over with and look for any stragglers left behind and catch them”.
“Alright let’s get this over with I don’t know why we're even looking because they got most of the Stable ponies in the lunchroom already”.
“Tart what do we do they are coming down this way!” I harshly whispered to Tart.
“I don’t know let me think of something there's nowhere for us to hide!” She whispered back rather loudly.
“Hey do you hear something?” Oh no I thought they heard us.
“Yeah I think I did let’s check it out it came from down here”.
“See what you did you got us caught no we have nowhere to hide”.
“Yes but you do remember what I brought myself and gave to you right?” Wait... No she couldn’t be suggesting that! There’s no way I could kill any living thing I’m a Nurse after all.
“How could you suggest that I kill somepony! It’s just wrong to kill something!”
At that moment the zebras came around and saw us. “Well what do we have here? You three are going to be coming with us”.
“Rose I want you to get off my back and run over to Frost okay? Once you get to her keep your hooves over your ears”. With that Rose ran over to me and put hooves to her ears while shutting her eyes.
Tart had pulled out her pistol and shot two rounds at the zebra one grazed his shoulder and the other was absorbed by his barding. The other zebra a mare came around and fired her shotgun with a blam at Tart but she ducked.
I frantically reached into my bag with my magic to get the pistol she gave me .While Tart and the zebra mare were focused on each other and shooting the stallion tried to sneak up on her.
I finally got the pistol out the bag and I targeted the shot two times at the stallion's as he was about to shoot Tart head the pistol reported with a bang! bang! and his head disappeared into a red mist. I dropped the pistol from my magics shaky grip and it clattered to the ground.
That seemed enough distraction for the mare and just like that her head turned into a red mist. “Thanks Frost he would've killed me” she looked onto her back and saw that Rose was okay she just had her hooves to her ears.
“Is the loud banging gone Mommy?” Rose asked with a scared kind of tone to her voice.
“Yes the loud banging is gone” Tart said with a nod of her head and nudged Rose up to her hooves with her snout.
“What do we do now Tart? They probably heard the noise from the guns and add it together when these zebras don’t report back they are going to come looking for them so what do we do now?”
“Well we're going to have to gallop the rest of the way to the secret passage and pray to Celestia and Luna that the Zebra Remnant doesn’t know about it that’s about all we can do. I mean we're outnumbered”.
What she said was true because there was just two of us well three if you counted Rose, but she was just a filly she couldn’t do anything. “Alright Rose hop on up onto my back” I kneeled down onto the floor so that Rose could hop up onto my back.
Tart turned to me and said “Alright on the count of three we are going to gallop to the passageway”.
I nodded to her and and we took a stance to gallop “One...Two....Three! Gallop for it Frost!” Tart shouted to me and I started to gallop to the secret passageway with Rose on my back with her forelegs holding onto my neck so she wouldn’t fall off.
As luck would have it as soon as we made a gallop for bullets started to whizz past our heads but thankfully none of them hit us instead hitting the ground in front of us and pinging off the metal walls of the Stable. But I we didn’t get to safety before I got grazed on the shoulder by a stray bullet. It hurt but with the adrenaline pumping through my system I barely felt it.
We stopped when we reached the destination. “Tart are you sure this is where it’s at? I see nothing here just a wall, a plain boring wall at that”.
“Exactly Frost that’s what it’s supposed to look like. Watch this.” With that she typed something into her Pipbuck and all of the sudden the wall shimmered and a terminal popped up and out of the ground. Tart then typed something in the terminal and a door opened up. “Alright heres the passageway! Hurry up and get in before those zebras find us!”.
I trotted into the passageway as quickly as possible. Just because we lost them doesn’t mean we won’t get caught by them again. You know I figured it would be fancy inside but no it was just a regular boring tunnel with brownish grey rocks all over the place and brown dirt but dirt is always brown so yeah...
But anyways the tunnel wasn’t that long it took about ten minutes to get to the other side of the tunnel it had a terminal by the door to open it up the terminal was built by Stable-Tech same company that built the Stables themselves it had a green glow to it. Tart typed something in and it chirped in a robotic voice.
“Access granted”. It startled me out of my thoughts.
“Alright I don’t know if they are out there or not so get your gun out with your magic and be ready just in case they are out there since our EFS isn’t activated on our Pipbucks I can’t tell if they are”.
“Wait what’s EFS”. I asked with a confused tone in my voice.
“EFS it means Eyes Forwards Sparkle basically lets you see if there is anypony within a certain amount of miles, it also lets you see if they are friendly or hostile. Green means friendly, yellow is really in between the two, red as you guessed means hostile and that is shoot to kill”.
“Ohh that sounds really useful so why isn’t it activated?”.
“Because the only ones who have it activated is Security since they actually have a use for it in the Stable. Also there is SATS or Stable Arcane Targeting Spell it helps you target what you are shooting at”.
“Okay Rose we are going outside. You always wanted to go outside haven’t you?”
Rose shook her head twice “Yeah I always have Mom I bet it looks so cool out there”. She put a smile on her face. She was so innocent.
“Alright Frost I’m opening the door”. Tart said and I took my pistol out so it would be ready in case I needed to use it. Now I didn’t like the idea of killing somepony and I still don’t but sometimes you have to.
The door opened with a grinding sound that you get from metal that hasn’t been maintained. Well plus the fact that there was rust all over the door too probably the reason why really.
“Also Frost we don’t have a lot of ammo so make all your shots count!”.
The grinding sound finally stopped and the door was open and in front of the door were five zebras. When I mean were I meant it because I fired the whole magazine into them I only hit two of them judging by the screams I heard. I then jumped to the side to avoid the automatic fire that came immediately afterwards.
“Frost I’m going to try and override our Pipbucks with the Overmare’s code so we can use SATS and the EFS okay? Just keep them off of me it will probably take about five minutes”.
I poked my head out of the cover and fired two shots at the head of one of the wounded ones I could tell it hit the head because of the sickening wet popping sound it made and then went back behind the cover so I wouldn’t get hit.
“Alright Frost I got SATS and the EFS working all you have to do is think about using SATS and it should pop up. Okay?”
I nodded my head in acknowledgement to her and popped my head out of cover and thought about using it and a immediately time came to a standstill and a text message popped up in my vision.
“Welcome to S.A.T.S or Stable Arcane Targeting system.....”
I just scrolled through it because I don’t need to read it already know what it does. Plus who reads it anyways? Am I right or what?
Immediately the four zebras left were all highlighted in a green glow and percentages showed up the best percentage I could find was 80% so I selected that zebra four times. Then time restored itself and I fired the gun four times one of the shots missed, one went into his left foreleg and the other two went into his chest he immediately bled out.
Tart took care of the rest of the zebras. All her shots were targeted at the chests and heads of the three remaining zebras not one shot missed, never knew she was such a good shot.
“Tart when did you get to be such a great shot? Well I mean the original Tart she never liked guns, she never was a good shot either”.
“Well all of us chanelings are trained in firearms and before you go asking if I need your love to survive no I don’t. The Old World changelings did but us new changelings have evolved to be able to eat other emotions as well but love is preferable because it tastes sweet unlike fear and anger which have a bitter aftertaste to say the least”.
“Ohh I wasn’t really wondering if you could eat other emotions I was also wondering if you can eat pony food?”.
“Yes we can eat pony food as well but it simply has no taste”.
“What do you mean it has no taste?” I asked with clear confusion in my voice.
“Exactly what I said a changeling cannot taste regular food it’s just bland to us”.
“Wait you seriously cannot taste food? Man you're missing out I feel bad for you”.
“Got the same reaction from the other ponies in the Wasteland also you’ll get used to it trust me”. Tart said with a sigh and a roll of her eyes. “But trust me being able to eat emotions comes in handy never go hungry when there isn’t food around”.
“Well I never thought of it that way but now that you say it does sound useful”.
“Yes it is but now we need to get moving before more zebras come”.
I trotted out of the cave and into the main Stable tunnel exit and trotted up to Tart.
“Alright Rose you can hop off my back now since we are in the main tunnel”.
“Also Tart I have another question who is Xavier?”.
“He is the zebra who came to offer the deal to me I was on the verge of starvation what else was I supposed to do? He is the leader of the Trottingham Zebra Remnant Legion. I wouldn’t advise going after him if I were you right now because we are in no shape to go after him right now, nor do we have the supplies or weapons to get to him. Also I don’t even know where he is”.
Rose hopped off of my and onto her hooves. “I wonder what it’s like out there. I could get my cutie mark”.
“Also Frost take one of zebras assault rifles since you're a unicorn you can use them and grab some ammo also”.
I was appalled that Tart told to me to scavenge dead bodies. It’s bad enough that I had to kill them which I still thought was wrong. But now I had to defile the bodies? That was just wrong to me but things are different out there. So I reluctantly trotted up and levitated one of the zebra assault rifles into onto my back, then scavenged the bodies for some ammo. From the bodies I scavenged a little over two hundred rounds of 7.62×39mm rifle cartridges.
“Okay before we leave gotta shut the Stable door it will only slow them down because they will get out”. She got up and trotted over to the Stable door and there was another terminal by it. A cable popped out of her Pipbuck from the side of it and connected to the terminal. A couple seconds later with a hiss and jet of steam the cog shaped door shut.
“Alright it should take them a day to open that door without the proper commands or the terminal will lock them out”. I just nodded along to that because to be honest I was never good with computers not my specialty really. Just your average medical pony here.
“Alright Rose follow me and Frost do not wonder off okay? There is a lot of dangerous stuff out there like magical radiation”. Rose just had the typical filly reaction to that.
“Bu--” Rose tried to say but was cut off by Tart.
“No buts little filly it’s dangerous out there okay?”
“Yes Mooom okay” Rose sighed and rolled her eyes. Typical filly I tell you what.
We started to trot our way out of the tunnel took about twenty or so minutes. We trotted out of the tunnel and into a metro tunnel. A sign told me more specifically that it was the Trottingham metro station, the sign itself was in a state of disrepair. The metal it was made of was completely rusted and had green paint peeling off of it, well it must of been green ‘cause I’m color blind since my pupils are white.
The metro station itself was another thing it was in a state of severe disrepair. I could see that the tracks were not fit to be used by any locomotive and there was pony skeletons on the platform they probably didn’t even know what hit them. The roof to the building wasn’t in much better condition either, it was rusty in places, some parts collapsed or there was just holes in it. There was also a derailed train that had flipped on its side most likely flipped over because of the shock wave caused by the Megaspell’s detonation.
I felt myself gape at the site of it and sat there in a stupor for a couple of minutes until I finally snapped out of it by Tart talking to me.
“Hello anypony in there?” she said while waving a hoof in my face. “Good you were kinda zoned out there for a minute”.
“Wuuuu.... Oh sorry my bad just this place is huge it must of been filled with ponies trying to leave Trottingham when news of Cloudsdale got hit by a megaspell but looks like these ponies didn’t make it”.
“Yeah when everypony got the news that Cloudsdale was hit they all went into a mad rush to leave the cities in anyway possible but what they didn’t think about was that magical radiation doesn’t care if you’re in or by the blast the wind carries it and the fallout also that rained down”. Tart said while looking around probably for ammo or food.
“Yeah it must’ve been horrible knowing that everypony you loved and cared for all died”. I nodded too.
“You gotta remember that not everypony could get to a Stable only 100,000 lucky ponies go to them”.
I looked around the metro station one more time and decided that we should check the derailed train for supplies. “Hey Tart why don’t we check out the train it might have some supplies in it?”.
“Hey that’s actually a good idea Frost don’t know why I didn’t think of it there could be medical supplies or food on it”.
“Umm.. Why would there be medical supplies on a train?”.
“Trust me on this one out here in the Wasteland you can find the most unusual of things in places”.
“Okay let’s go check it out then”. I said as we started trotting towards the train.
As we started trotting towards the train we could see more damage that the metro station, there was also dead and scrapped ponitrons at random intervals. As we rounded a corner a working ponitron came into view in front of us.
“Halt! Show Trottingham Metro Station tickets or prepare to be exterminated you five seconds to comply!”
It scared the shit out of me and I think scared everypony else also but Tart picked Rose up and put her behind cover and I just realized that the ponitron was done counting down.
“Prepare to be exterminated!” it shouted and started spewing out 20mm rounds from its gatling gun that was on its right arm. I barely jumped to the side in time but didn’t escape unscathed though. Just as I jumped to the side two rounds hit me in my flank. It felt like somepony hitting you as hard as they could while also burning you on the skin and on the inside.
“Frost you okay over there?”
“No I got hit two times by it!” I said with pain in my voice there was also tears in my eyes from the pain.
“In your saddlebags there should be a roll of healing bandages and a vial full of Med-X”. I used my magic to open up my saddlebags and searched inside of them and found a roll of healing bandages and a vial of Med-X.
I jabbed the needle end of the Med-X into my shoulder and was met with instant relief of the pain I was experiencing. I then took the roll of bandages and put them on my flank they started to stop the bleeding but the bullets inside of me were still a problem they would have to come out at a later time.
I looked around for something to distract the ponitron with so we could take it out and what looked like a metal egg with a blue band on it and threw it at the ponitron. What I didn’t expect to happen was for it to explode in front of it, or for the ponitron to explode in a shower of sparks.
“Nice Frost where’d you find that EMP grenade at?”
“Uh what’s a EMP grenade?” I tilted my head in confusion.
“A grenade is an explosive that pull the pin on and it explodes there’s a bunch of different types most common is fragmentation basically it just explodes and showers shrapnel all over the place. An EMP or Electromagnetic Pulse is a wave of energy that kills any electronics close enough to the blast zone. Most commonly associated with Nuclear weapons of which were much more powerful than the Megaspells were but they were really rare since they use radioactive metals such as uranium or plutonium but the blast was much more powerful”.
“Oh just saw one laying around didn’t know what it was actually”.
“Are you sure that you’re okay? You lost some blood there plus it was your first time getting shot”.
“No I’m fine the Med-X is numbing the pain besides I have feeling that this going to be happening a lot out here”. I waved my hoof to her while saying it. “Anyways we need to check this train for supplies especially since I just used some of mine”.
“Alright when we are finished checking the train we need to find an exit from this building I don’t trust it for shelter”.
We started trotting towards the train again albeit a bit slower because of my injury I was limping a little bit.
Once inside the train I could see all the pony skeletons that littered the floor. Tart made Rose look away from them while we searched the the seats for anything we could sell for money. I found ten bottlecaps, one healing potions and also managed to find some preserved pre-war canned food. There was also a box of Sugar Apple Bombs. Although I was pretty sure those were stale by now.
“Hey Tart what did you managed to find?”.
“I found some more 9mm ammo for our pistols I would say about two magazines worth of it”.
“Nice find I just found some Sugar Apple Bombs, pre-war canned food, bottlecaps, four healing potions that's about it really”.
“Those healing potions will come in handy but only use them when you can’t use something else”.
Rose came up and she had something that she was carrying in her mouth.
“What did you find Rose?”.
“I dunno what it is something called Hydra weird name if you ask me”.
“Where did you find it at Rose? That will come in handy”.
“Oh where Frost found those healing potions”.
“Yes but Hydra is a very dangerous drug take it too much and your cells will stop healing your body without the drug plus it tends to make tumors and disfiguring growths”. I got weird looks from the both of them. “What I’m a medical pony I know this stuff”.
“Oookay then just remember from now on check your EFS Frost and use SATS as a last resort since the spell takes a while to recharge once you use it”.
I checked my EFS and there was only two dots on it and they were both green.
“Alright I didn’t see any other ponies here except for us”.
“Well then let’s get off this train we have to find the exit from this building as I said I don’t trust it”.
I trotted out of the train and back into the station with Tart and Rose we were right back where we were. I checked my Pipbuck for an exit from the station and found that the exit was on the right side of the building.
“Hey the exit is on the right side of the building”. I gesture with a hoof towards the right.
“How did you know that?” Tart asks with confusion.
“Remember the Pipbuck has an auto mapping feature on it?”
“Ohh yeah I totally forgot about that I guess my bad” she answered while blushing from embarrassment from forgetting that I mean she’s the Overmare after all. Well okay she’s not the original Tart gotta remember she’s a changeling now and that the original Tart died.
“Oh I have been meaning to ask but how long can you keep your disguise up?”
“Well I can essentially keep it up forever as long as I have the energy to do it that means I can’t starve”.
With that being said we started trotting towards the metro station exit. It wasn’t that long of a trot we go there in about a minute.
“You ready guys who knows what’s out there?” with me saying that I opened up the door to metro station and walked out of it and right into a camp of Raiders.
Footnote
Level Up!
Perk unlocked Wastelander
You are now are Wastelander you now know are starting to learn how to survive out in the big empty. Also you now know how to scavenge for food and other supplies.
Sorry for taking so long on this chapter plus I got rid of the level up thing from the first chapter didnt really like it but anyways chapter 3 will take a while also
