Fallout Equestria: The Pegasus Out of Time

Nothing happened for a moment. Then, a siren started to sound. A machine had lowered its self slowly and move towards the door. Its prongs fitted perfectly in the holes the door had on it. With a somehow more painful squeal of metal on metal, the door that led outside slowly opened. The only thought running through my head was "is everything okay out there?". But when I was able to see outside, my question was quickly answered.

I'm not sure how to accurately describe what I saw then the word, wasteland. Everything was dead. Nothing was green and nopony to be seen for miles. the skies were covered with dark clouds that stretched for what seemed like infinity. It was a horror show come to life.

I can feel my legs buckle as I fell to my knees. My entire life as I knew it was gone. My family, my friends. They were all dead. And it also felt like I would end up the same way unless I started moving. So I got up and took a deep breath before walking out to the barren wasteland.

The first steps I took seemed to be the hardest. Because when I could see my home city, I had frozen up again. What I could tell from where I am, it was empty. No one to be seen within the city limits. My home was probably looted when I was frozen in there. That's when I noticed the ticking on my pipbuck. When I looked at it, I saw the RAD meter slowly go up. Was Manehattan really been hit with a megaspell? No. If it was, most of the buildings would have fallen by now. So it must have been something else. But what was it? For now, it doesn't matter. My RAD was rising so I had to get away from here. At least far enough to be safe from radiation poisoning.
As I opened my wings, I noticed what seemed to be an impossible number of red tics on my EFS. I almost believed that it was a glitch. there was no way that that many hostile entities where alive in there. The radiation was hitting me from the stable doors, so how could anyone be alive in Manehatton? I had to force myself to look away and take off, flying south-east and away from my home. Sometimes I wish I hadn't even gone into the stable in the first place.

As I flew in the sky, for what felt like hours, nothing would change. Everything I passed looked the same, dead. I was beginning to wonder if I was the last pony alive in Equestria. Then that thought left my mind when I say a grey tic show up on my EFS. A neutral entity? Well, whatever it was better than nothing. So I started to lower myself down as the tic was growing bigger. Who or whatever it was, I wanted to know if it was going to be friendly.

Scanning the area, I could see a unicorn pony covered in what could assume was amour of rubber, metal sheets, and some sort of leather. I had lowered myself to the point to the point where she could hear me and called out, "Hay! Can you help me out?"

The mare responded by jumping in surprise and pointing a 9mm pistol at me with a magical grip, the tick turning to red. I had stopped in my tracks as she held me a gunpoint, getting a good look at her terribly scared face. Her sister grin felt like she was already had several screws in her head and there was no way to get them out. I could already tell that she had no intention to help me.

"Well lookie here," she said with a snicker, "looks like a pegasus from a stable had lost his way. And when I thought I had lost my luck."

she mad motioned me to land with her firearm. I did so, not wanting to get shot with whatever bullet her gun was holding. I could feel myself lower a wing down to my 10mm as the mare walked toward me. The mare cocked her head as she studied me.

"You must be freshly out as well, given how clean you look." She giggled as if I was a child, " But that doesn't mean you don't know how to protect yourself with that gun of yours!" she then shot her gun at me, hitting my wing that had a grip on my gun. I yelped in pain and fell to my knees. the pain was unbearable like a furnace was burning in my wing. I could hear the mare's crazed laughter over the screaming in my head. Whoever this was, she was completely lost up there. The insane mare then knocked me across my face with her pistol. To her displeasure, I didn't fall down to the ground like she forcefully tried to. I could tell that she didn't like me not doing what she wanted as she pointed her gun at my forehead. Using my reflexes, I knocked her pistol away and pull out my own and pointed it at her.

BLAM! BLAM!

My wing jerked painfully as I shot a bullet into the mares head. Blood and brain matter splatted onto my face when I closed my eyes. I could hear the corpse fall to the ground as I panted heavily. cleaning my face, I looked down at the mare I killed. Adrenalin had taken over my senses as I put my pistol away and leaned down to the corpse. For some reason, I couldn't feel any guilt for this pony that I just murdered. Instead, I felt glad that I had ended her life. Realisation about my gear led me to take everything this mare had; from her barding to her weapons and armor. surprising enough, the mare had 2 potions (witched my pipbuck declared that they had healing properties) and drank one. then I placed the holster of the 9mm on my other side.

Of course, the armor was too small for me to wear so I just put them in the saddle bags the mare had. the potion started doing its work as I feel the bullet push out of my flesh and started to heal up. I let out a pained sigh and sat down to collect my thoughts.

I just murdered somepony. just like that, dead. without a moment a hesitation. I killed the first pony found within miles of anywhere. It would be traumatizing to any pony before this... this wasteland. But I had to do it. It would have been me dead if I didn't do anything about it.

I stayed there as I let the potion heal me for a moment longer. then I stood up and gave my wing a few test flaps. My wing was still sore from the quickness of the potion. I considered it too dangerous to fly now, so I started to walk southern.

About a half an hour later, I noticed that my pipbuck had been making some sort of sound. As if it was notifying me of something. When I looked at my pipbuck, I noticed that the map function was going crazy. working away at my surroundings of this barren wasteland. To my disappointment, there wasn't any place that could be friendly within days of walking. One statement that seemed the closest to me was to the west, but it was longer on foot than in the air. The settalment didn't have a name, but it was better than nothing. I needed to see if anypony was still sane and not crazy like that mare. Knowing that would put me at some ease. I turned left and headed west my new destination.

walking takes longer than I expected... I haven't made it half way and night had started to roll in. Princess Luna must be watching over some dreams of fillies and colts by now, If she and her sister were still alive. the night wind had already arrived in as I shuddered in my jumpsuit. I guess stable-tech didn't plan on anyone facing cold weather or any weather for that matter. I needed to find a way to warm up.

looking around I managed to find some sort of firelight to my right. activating my EFS, I could see that there were three tics on my campus. two of them where red. the other was blue. I assume that two of those crazy ponies had captured someone. But that blue tic is what caught my attention. Blue means someone friendly, someone sane. I pulled out my 10mm and quickly flew towards the camp as quietly as I could, landing a few feet away and couch down. The two where stallions from what I could tell from the conversation they were having.

"...and those damned ponies in new appaloosa." one of the crazed ponies said, " A bunch of pains in our ass."

"Oh well," the other chuckled, "We still managed to get something afterward."

I assumed that they meant the pony that they had hostage. What exactly did they have in mind for this pony? Torture? Slavery? It doesn't matter, I was going to save that pony. Even if it means I could die trying. I took a deep, slow breath before I stood up and shot two rounds into one of the crazed ponies skull, this one being another unicorn.

The other pony, an earth pony, jumped to attention as his companion dies, quickly pulling out a bat with his teeth and rushing towards me. Standing my ground, I went to fire another round into his head. Click. I had fired my last round into that unicorn and I had nothing else to reload it with. before I knew it, the earth pony was already on top of me as he swang his bat at my chest. the force of the hit was enough to knock the wind out of me and possibly broke a few ribs as I was knocked to my back. I had no time to think about the pain as I pulled out the 9mm with my other wing. somehow, I had activated the SATS, allowing me to get a good shot between the earth pony's eyes. He landed next to me as he died.

It took a moment, but I managed to stand up and put my pistols away. looking over the stallions a had just killed, I began taking their things. It didn't feel right to be doing this but it had to in order to survive. the unicorn was holding ammo for my 10mm as well as my 9mm. I also found a shotgun of some sorts with some shells to go with it. I put them in my saddlebags as I went to loot the earth pony. he was holding more than just the bat. Food and water to keep me going for a week at best. I also found a medium sized pouch. it had some weight in it so I decided to check it out later.

when I had finished looting and reloading my guns, I walked over to the fire. in the firelight, I saw a mare unconscious on the ground. she was an earth pony as well. I began to wonder what had happened to the pegasi in Equestria? I couldn't be the last one, could I? Shaking my head, I disregarded that thought. that sounded impossible to even think about. what I should be worried about is that this pony was okay. she seemed so peaceful as she slept. I shouldn't wake her up now. in fact, sleep sounded really good right now. even if I had to sleep on the dirt. I picked the softest spot of dirt I could find and lay down, letting the comfort of sleep drag me under.