The Wanderers

by TheDarkenedDawn

Introduction: Dawned Isolation

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An old bunker littered with various canned goods lays hidden underground in an unknown location, This bunker holds three rooms. a Bedroom, a Kitchen, and a room full of mechanical stuff. The bunkers rooms are arranged in a strange way. a small square room sits in the middle, it has a ladder leading upward on it's southern wall, one door on the eastern, western, and northern walls. The bedroom is to the west, the kitchen to the east, and the mechanical room is to the north.

An old pony stands in the middle of his bedroom, in an unknown bunker. This pony is red from head to hoof and has reddish brownish eyes. his entire body is covered with old rags, well, everything besides his left eye. This pony is reading a book. An old, dusty book about the friendship problems twilight sparkle and her friends wrote many many years ago.

'Course, Twilight and her friends are long since gone, Along with any other pony that ever existed. Today the pony's are only fossilized remains laying several hundred feet beneath the sand.

As far as this pony reading the book knows, He's the only living pony in equestria. What's the name of this red pony?

"I Just call myself dawned isolation." The red pony said. Dawned isolation has tried to open the cans, but has had no luck. he proceeds to rip a page out of the book he's reading and eats it. "I Question the nutritional value of these pages." Dawned isolation says with his mouth full of paper.

Dawned isolation puts the book down and stands up, he looks around the bedroom, which is the room he's currently in. In the top left corner is a pile of newspaper dawned sleeps on. In the top right corner is a storage box, filled with canned foods. The rest of room is filled with junk that's not worth explaining.

Dawned Leaves the bedroom, and enters the small square room in the center-ish of the bunker. He enters the eastern room, which is the kitchen. On the northern wall of the kitchen, is a series of counters and cabinets, there's a refrigerator, but it's been powered down for as long as you've been in this bunker. Next to the refrigerator, is a refrgificator, which is in no relevance to the story in any way.

Dawned opens all the cabinets in search of a can-opener, hoping he can one day enjoy the vast varieties of canned goods that litter the bunker. "Oh can-opener, where are you?" dawned shouts into the kitchen cabinets, After mere moments of searching he gives up. He goes back into the square room in the center-ish of the bunker. He enters the northern room, which happens to be the mechanical room.

Inside the northern wing, pipes run along the the ceiling of the room, and various keypads, circuit breakers, and utility shelves line the walls. Across the room from the entrance, is a large screen, in front of it is a huge keyboard, it has over 600 keys! Who needs that many keys!? Anyways,

Dawned walks over to the keyboard and pushes "Enter" on the keyboard, the large screen turns on. The screen shows a large white tree, with bright green leaves. The surrounding are looks like a desert. a black tab opens on the side of the screen, that gives the exact coordinates of this tree. "Pony measurement units! I Know those!" Dawned speaks aloud. Yet nobody is around to hear him.

on the far right of the keyboard is a big red button that says "Self destruct". He has no idea what this means.

Dawned stands there and ponders for a moment. "What could this button do?" He asks himself "Maybe it could make it rain? Or possibly give me some food?" Dawned thinks to himself. "Speaking of food, Maybe it could dispense a...Can-opener?" Dawned thinks to himself. "But then again, it could ALSO Do something horrible, like magically destroy all cans in equestria? Hmmm..." Dawned begins to weigh his options.

After three to four minutes wasted, he narrowed it down to these two possibilities: It could dispense a can opener, or it could blow the bunker up...

...So he takes his chances.

Dawned pushes the red button that reads "Self destruct", on the screen a timer appears. It counts down 5 minutes. Uh oh, this is bad! Dawned assumes. "Who knows what'll happen when the timer get's to zero!" Dawned says as he begins to panic. "I've got to grab my things and get out of here!!!!" He shouts.

Dawned bolts into the kitchen, in the corner of of the kitchen, is the Crystal heart, hollowed out with the top taken off like a pumpkin. With the crystal heart in hoof, he bolts into the bedroom, gathering up as many canned goods as possible, and sticks them in the hollowed crystal heart. Before he leaves, he takes a good two to three minutes to say his goodbyes to his awesome newspaper bed, it's the coolest thing dawned has ever seen.

Remembering time is at his disadvantage,  he quickly runs to the ladder in the square room in the center-ish of the bunker, he climbs the ladder. He descends out of a hatch, right beneath where the crystal heart podium was, it blends in almost perfectly with the walkway, making it impossible to see.

The sun is shining down on dawned isolation's face, the hidden hatch are four pillars that used to hold a castle, Around the four pillars are old houses that are completely wrecked. Sand is the only thing inhabiting this place now. Dawn has his trusty hollowed crystal heart full of canned goods on his back, and begins his escape of this old place. With only hoof prints behind him, he leaves the town.

Dawned feels the wind in his face as it slips through the old rags he wears. He looks behind himself and watches his home, formerly known as the crystal empire, blow up. leaving only a massive crater. Dawned sheds a tear seeing as his home was just blown up. But dawned looks back and begins his journey to find a new home. I Guess this is how it goes in the wasteland.

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