Fallout Equestria: EQUIS Rising

"What is this?" I asked as the world around me was the familiar white. However, instead of making a grand entrance Luna sat patiently for me.

I walked up to her and she smiled. Her mane flowed as if it was alive. It was peppered with stars and twinkling lights just like the old pictures from the stable.

"Hello Glacier, again" she said

"Why am I here your majesty" I asked in a hasty bow. It was then I realized I wasn't a pseudo here but I was in my normal body.

"Well, Glacier" she said as she stood up "I have been watching you, your friends saved your life and now you are putting your life on the line for your friend. You are noble"

I didn't know what to say. I didn't see what I was doing as a noble sacrifice but a just cause. Did that make me noble?

"I thought it was the right thing." I said

She walked up to me and put a hoof on my shoulder.

"I know what is about to happen, Glacier." She said "travel west and south, although major parts of the wastes are claimed by virtuous ponies. It is time for you to take place as a virtuous soul."

She turned away from me and the scene went dark again.

OPTICAL NERVE INPUT SUCCESSFUL

"Glacier can you hear me?"

"I don't think he has come out of it yet"

"Glacier nod if you can hear me"

I groaned my mechanical voice left my mouth. I shifted my head up and down to signify I was responsive. As soon as my nods stopped Cyen flew in front of my face.

"I need to test your responses to ensure I got the surgery correct" he said "now follow me side to side" the orb moved to the left and the the right, I did as instructed. "Good now up and down" again I followed. "Everything checks out for sensory output I'll come back and check again" and with that he buzzed off.

"Dusty" I said turning to him "am I an alicorn?"

He shook his head. "Not yet, the surgery was" he paused "complicated to say the least" he paused again "everything went great nothing went wrong" he assured me "I just wanted to let you wake up first before adding changes"

I sat up and looked around the room, it was a different room than before. The room was bare and only had a disheveled couch and a few chairs.

"What about Star Charmer?" I asked looking around and noticing her new body was not around.

"She is in the operating room" Dusty said "She's fine but not awake yet" Dusty walked up to me and helped me up and out of my position on the couch. "She won't look like Serenade, Glacier" Dusty said. Although I had not thought about this made me feel more at ease.

"That's good I guess" I said as I began to walk.

"I went ahead and stripped the fur lining on Star Charmers new body so you wouldn't be haunted every time you looked at her.

This was probably for the best, I followed Dusty out of the room and into the operating room. There we found Cyen checking monitors and vitals. On the table laid a solid white pony shaped robot. The chest heaved slightly with silent breaths. The body, obviously female due to its curves was sleek and smooth, definitely the oddity of the room because it looked too clean for this world. There where lights on it's chest that were dead but you could hear a slight hum of life. Cyen floated over to me and Dusty

"She's in R.E.M sleep, a very good sign" he said before looking me over again "how are you? You seem fine" he said bobbing in my face.

"I'm good was disoriented at first-" he cut me off

"Good sign the brain is responding to its surroundings" he said before turning to Dusty "you can have your fun with equipping armor" he said before floating back to the sleeping Star Charmer.

I followed Dusty out of the medical building and into the robotics facility. Where Dusty had shown me what he was planned on doing to remedy my lack of armor. He walked into a room with a work bench and a metallic stand.

"Alright" he said "if you can stand on a that platform we can begin" he motioned toward the metallic stand.

As I walked up to the stand it shifted and spilt apart to surround me with four spires. I looked and Dusty as small robotic arms came from each spire.

"How do we go about building an Alicorn?" Dusty said as he grabbed the first piece of armoring "first we clean you out" he turned to a terminal screen and selected something that caused air to blow all over my body. "That should do it now let's start from the ground up shall we?"

He hoofed over the first piece to one of the robotic arms and then a second piece to another until all the arms were loaded. He walked back to the terminal and began to press the buttons causing the spires to spin. With lightening speed the arms installed the first pieces of armor, lower leg guards. The guards were white just as Star Charmers, having them installed I felt heavier but like I could jump higher than a normal pony.

"Dusty do these pieces of armor have any enhancements?" I asked

He walked back over and loaded the arms with the next pieces "yeah the legs will help with endurance as well as sturdiness and maybe jumping" he said as he finished loading the arms and walked back to the terminal.

The same process continued and the upper leg armor was installed. I felt the same enhancements as before. Now was time to install flank and chest armor. The arms worked just as quick as the chest was bolted in and hooked up the flank was also installed, giving me a metallic swaying tail. Dusty grabbed a piece that was obviously for my neck and loaded into the arm.

"Almost finished" he said as he stepped away

The arm went up to my throat and began to equip the armor. As this was happening I saw Dusty load the back armor into the other two arms. It had wings, Large wings. He stepped back and the arms moved over to my sides and dropped the back plate and wings on my back the weight was enormous but my legs held strong. The arms worked quickly and bolted it down. I could feel that now I had wings and could move them. It was not a sensory feeling but just an acknowledgement that they were there and they could move. With one hoof extended and holding what seemed to be a hollow unicorn head Dusty walked up to me.

"This is it" he said "this is the most advanced head piece I have ever seen. It will link into your CPU, which happens to be your brain, and allow you to control every piece of your equipment. It also has preloaded spells that are quite impressive" he placed the head on the arm "it is also loaded with all the technology that a Pip-buck has" he walked to the terminal and started the arms again. This time at the end everything changed. My vision went black and then green numbers filled my vision. BOOTING UP popped up and then was replaced with black. Soon the black gave way to the room and messages began to pop up. VOICE CALIBRATION. COMPLETE. WING CALIBRATION. COMPLETE. Other messages came and went soon they all stopped and a compass appeared in the corner of my eye and a Heads Up Display lined the top of my vision. Dusty walked up to me and looked me over.

"Well how do you feel?" He asked

"To be honest" I said with a start, my voice was different now I sounded like I use to before everything had happened. I place a hoof over my mouth.

"Don't be so surprised" Dusty said "I told you I would fix you"

I put my hoof back down "do you have anymore surprises?" I asked he put a hoof on me and turned me around.

"Well, remember I said we couldn't give you skin and hair?" he said, I nodded "well decided to delve deeper into this place and while looking around I went on a hunch" he said as we began to walk out of the room. "And I found where they put them on the pseudos. I had to work on it to get it to run but I got it working. I know you would be happy to have some fur on you and personally I think it would be best to put some on you before we travel. We don't want to cause too much attention, hell Im sure an alicorn would cause enough"

I agreed and I was happy to hear that. We walked into another time riddled room. This one had a machine that looked like I was suppose to step in and the skin would be applied. Dusty stepped me up to the machine and I entered. Dusty walked back to a terminal and began to press buttons the machine began to whir as it encompassed me inside. I could hear Dusty outside the machine.

"Now Glacier" he shouted over the machine "this first step with lay a clear skin over you that will simulate a nervous system. After that this will be painful."

Before I could object the machine laid a thin clear substance on me and I began to feel. I no longer felt like a machine but rather a pony. Then another flesh colored skin fell on me and the machine began to tuck and secure it on me from the reflective surface of the walls around me I could see that I looked like a naked hairless alicorn. The feeling was amazing, I could feel air on my new skin and the heat of the lights. Then came the pain. The machine began to insert each follicle of hair and it was excruciating. I screamed but nothing stopped the pain. Every hair was being forced into the pink skin and I could not stop it. My screaming echoed off the walls and I watched my new hair and mane be installed on my body. My pink body began to become gray and my new mane took on the color blue I was looking more like my old self, only now I had wings too. The last step was the worse. The machine held open my newly formed eyelids and inserted lens that made my eyes look lifelike instead of the lifeless eyes of a robotic pony. It was not until the blade came down to my muzzle that I realized I had no mouth. My screams were through my new skin. The cut was precise and clean. The machine finished up by molding the skin tighter and giving me more life like features. When the machine opened up you could not tell I was any different that the Goddess Celestia herself, the only differences were the obvious ones. Dull pain ached over my body. My grey coat began to lighten to a whiter shade of grey, almost white but not quite. I stepped forward wincing as I stepped.

"The pain should subside in an hour or so." Dusty said.

"Yeah I hope so." My new voice mimicked my original voice so well it was eerie.

I stepped up to Dusty and realized now instead of standing around the same size. I was at least a half a pony taller than him. It was also around this time I noticed my hoof steps sounded natural as opposed to the clanking of metal.

"I on taking Star Charmer in here as well to get her coated with fur and a mane" Dusty said as I began to walk around the room.

"That would be a good Idea" I said as I stopped in front of another machine that looked odd. It was still apart of the skin machine but looked like it worked separate of the machine as a whole. "Dusty" I asked "what is this for"

He walked up to the terminal and began to activate the machine.

"It appears to be a cutie mark machine" he said cycling through the options.

I looked down at my flank. It was bare, of course what was I expecting? My original cutie mark was a boring snow flake. Something I had never seen, nor had anyone else in the stable for that matter. The mark was pointless and only meant I was part of the Glacier family tree.

"I want a new mark" I said to Dusty

He paused his cycling and looked up at me.

"What would we give you?" He asked

"I don't know" I said "when I was out during my surgeries I saw Goddess Luna and she told me what I needed to do." I turned away from the machine "when ponies see me they will think I'm a god. As over stallion, I killed my ponies, now I've been given a chance to redeem myself as a leader by becoming a god. Ponies shouldn't think otherwise." I turned back to the machine and approached it.

The machine opened up but did not close as the other one had instead two arms came out and centered on my flanks.

"So what do you think my new mark should be?" I asked Dusty

"Well since you are a god now it has be something that would connect you to the goddesses" Dusty said thinking

I began to think, the only thing I knew about the goddesses besides the dreams with Luna was what the Stable texts had provided. Dusty began to type on the terminal quickly.

"I got it" he said as he began to select the options he wanted.

"What is it? I asked before he could start the machine. I had a feeling this was a one time thing, no take backs.

"It's from one of the stable books on the goddesses." He said "the book has a whole page of symbols that were used in old spell books that implied divinity. The symbol I'm thinking of is simple to replicate and no doubt will work with your godlike appearance."

He began to start the machine up and I looked at him worry in my eyes but I did not move to stop him. The machine hurt, but after applying my skin on I could handle this. I looked at my flank as the mark began to form. I watched as a circle encompassed a triangle that held a square that swallowed another circle. The mark was obviously ancient and I hoped it fit with the "godlike appearance" like Dusty said it would. When it was finished Dusty approached me.

"It looks good" he said

"Hurts like hell but yeah, so what's it mean?" I said trying to ignore the pain

"Hell if I know" he stated

"What? You branded me and don't know what it means?" I said angrily.

My horn glowed bright blue and a wave of magic knocked Dusty back into a wall. Immediately after seeing this power I stopped and galloped to him.

"I I I'm so sorry Dusty I didn't mean to" I said helping him out of the crater in the wall.

"Don't worry about it" the look in his eyes were full of shock and fear. "I'm sure we will find out what you mark means one day" he stood on this legs and turned to walk out of the room "we need to check and see if Star Charmer is awake"

We walked into the medical school again this time Horizon who was sitting in the corner of the main room stopped what he was doing a stared.

"Glacier? Is that you?" He said with hesitation

I nodded "is Star Charmer awake yet"

He shook his head "Cyen has been in there the whole time."

I looked at Dusty "maybe you should get some rest, I know that's what I'm going to do"

Dusty nodded and walked out of the room and down the hallway.

"Well Horizon" I said walking over to an all but destroyed couch "I'm going to try and sleep off this aching I have from having skin and hair put on me."

Horizon continued to stare at me, he opened his muzzle opened as if to ask a question but then he closed it.

"Please hold all questions till after I sleep." I said as I rolled over and drifted off to sleep. Hoping the pain would be gone by the time I woke up.

The feeling of somepony watching me jogged me from my dreamless sleep. The first scene I saw was the sagging ceiling. I took note that I did not see the optical nerve connection message. However, that was the least of my problems. I turned to find my stalker to be met face to face with the mare that I had only seen in hallucinations.

"Good Morning Darling" the light blue unicorn said with a smile.