Fallout Equestria: Last Breath

Chapter Two: The Void

The doors closed with a clang leaving me and a dark tunnel ahead. The darkness was widespread, and not a single source of light was sighted, with an exception of my PipBuck, which had little affect on the darkness. I had an urge to vomit whatever was left in my stomach as an unbearable stench came to be the farther I walked down the tunnel. It smelled like rotting fruit, covered in age-old cheese. The stench got to the point that I began to run back repeatedly, just to get a whiff of fresh air. I wasn't used to this. Not at all. I waved my PipBuck's light near the walls of the dirt tunnel, finding nothing but gravel and dirt.

That was until I stepped on something. The crackle echoed the long dirt corridor. As I moved my hoof, the crackling grew louder until I lifted it. I jerked my leg around, the light showering the object. What lay there was a cracked skull, of what seemed like a stallion. Upon further inspection, the rest of the bones were laid out, in a format that looked like it was cowering, or protecting, something or some pony else.

Now I really needed to vomit. The burning sensation tingling my throat. Of course, these were the corpses of the ponies, desperately trying to get inside the Stable as they're skin was melted away by destruction itself. They were helpless. While the outside world was burning, we were all living happy, working, lives. Unaware of the situation.

I trotted further down the hall, the stench now becoming more familiar to my senses. I brought my PipBuck up to my attention, staring at the happy, galloping pony used to display any physical abnormalities. Under the pony read the name: Sunrise Gust, in big, bold, letters. I sighed, looking down, further releasing my foreleg.

I walked to a newly found door at the suspected, end of the tunnel. Once I had left the tunnel, the closest place to home in the outside, I would have an unfamiliar land to greet me. What could I expect?

I pushed open the door with a hoof, as the wind began to make a howling noise. All that there was a pure darkness, with a red-ish tone to the invisible ceiling. I looked up, a massive void engulfing me, making me want to cower down. What was this? What was the outside? It sure as fuck wasn't what we had learned about. Unless...

The ground was paved in gravel as a notification appeared on my PipBuck. 'Grand Mare Freeway. I nearly cringed at trying to figure out how my PipBuck put a label on this dead land. As I stood still fitting together pieces of what to do, and how to do it, I decided to keep on going.