Fallout Equestria: EQUIS Rising

July 12th, 2377 16:00 Hours

Dusty walked into the office and walked up to my desk. I had my back turned to him staring intently at the screens that showed the stable. It had only been an hour since I issued the confinement orders. The halls and atrium were dead. Save that for Security ponies going between the quarters counting the ponies and Serenade, who was walking up to my office.

"Dusty, we have an issue" I said without turning around. Iron Guard had yet to send out the news of what befell the 25 missing ponies.

"What is it Glacier?" He said sensing the distress in my voice.

"When can your friend get here?" I said flatly.

"Glacier I told you tomorrow." He said with a nervousness in his voice.

"That's not good enough Dusty, I need them here now" I turned around and looked at him in the eyes.

The door opened and Serenade walked in at first she carried herself as if she was irritated, however, that changed when she saw me.

"Glacier, what's wrong dear" she said approaching me. I turned around and clicked the monitors off and then back to them both.

"EQUIS has attacked the stable" I said as I turned on the map of the stable. "25 ponies went missing today and we found them here" I highlighted the corridor on the map "they were dead, brains removed."

"The signature of EQUIS alright" Dusty said as he bowed his head. Serenade looked shocked as if she was finally coming to a full understanding.

"Dusty we need your friend here now" Dusty shook his head "I know but the quickest I can get them here is tomorrow morning."

I didn't like the answer but it's what I had to work with. I closed the map and got up from my desk.

"Okay Dusty, but early!" I stressed the importance of early.

He nodded and left the office. Serenade walked up to me smirked a little

"Sorry for smacking y-" I pushed her away

"Serenade don't apologize, it helped me a little" I said as I walked to the doorway "I think we need to head on out of here and get some rest and relaxation, by ourselves." I saw the hurt in her face but I couldn't think of doing anything with her not with EQUIS making their presence known to me and the stable.

July 12th, 2377 - 21:45 Hours

I laid in my bed looking up, once again at the dull ceiling. Thoughts raced through my mind, what if the outside world is not healed enough for us? What would we do with EQUIS then? I rolled over and pushed my muzzle into the pillow.

"Glacier" her voice said.I looked up and Star Charmer was there. A smile on her face. "Tomorrow we finally get a chance to open the stable" she was almost giddy.

"Well if we can access the monitors" I said almost sounding defeated.

"Glacier" she said walking up to me kissing me on my broken horn "I am almost certain the monitors will work."

It was a hope l that I had but I couldn't help but see the darkness creeping around.

"I don't know Star" I said as I lifted myself up to meet her eyes "I feel this darkness around me, around tomorrow" I sighed and closed my eyes and laid my head down

"Don't worry about tomorrow, everything will be fine" her last words faded. I looked up and found that she was gone. I laid back down again seeking once more for sleep,

"Easy for you to say Star."

July 13th, 2377 - 08:20 Hours

Dusty was waiting by my office door when I arrived. At his side stood a pony I had never met before. Cloaked in a hood that hid their face all I could make out was the fact the figure was about the size of a foal.

"Hello, Dusty" I said with a half hearted smile "Is this your friend?"

Dusty nodded "This is Cion"

I opened the door and let the walk in first. I followed behind Cion, I watched as the figure slipped the cloak off the reveal a unicorn Pseudo.

"Hello Glacier" the foal spoke in a smooth voice.

It was hard to determine whether they were a stallion or mare. I bowed and walked over to my desk and pulled up the monitors to the same screen that plagued me. Cion nodded

"right to business I see" they smiled and walked up to the terminal and began to study it.

"Don't worry Glacier, she's the best code cracker we have" Dusty said with assurance.

"You bet you sweet ass I am" Cion said. She floated a pouch from her side with what seemed like levitation magic up and pulled out a screwdriver and began to remove a plate from the side. "I have to have access to the hardwiring" she said.

I nodded and left her to do her work. Serenade walked in to see Cion remove the plate. She eyed Dusty first and then me and then sat down on a chair.

"Here we are" Cion said as she pulled out a junction of wires. "This will allow me to plug in and gain you access to the monitors" she said as she reached up and removed her left ear to reveal an uplink cable.

With her unicorn like levitation magic she pulled the cable down and inserted it into the junction. She looked at the terminal screen and typed in a command and then looked back at us

"back in a jiffy" and with that she hit the keyboard and fell limp.

Her mouth hung open and her eyes were a solid shade of black with what looked like green lines of code. I walked over to her and stared at the screen windows were popping up and disappearing in flashes. It was amazing with each pop up that appeared and disappeared another character in the passcode was unveiled. I watched as the last of the passcode was unlocked and with that the screen went blank and then lines of data began to fill the screen. Cion had done it.

"We have access" I said as I shouted

"I told you Cion was the best" Dusty said as he walked over to the terminal to see what had been uncovered.

He nudged Cion a little she was limp, still. He nudged harder

"Hey Cion, quit fooling around" he said as he nudged again only to have her fall into the floor. Her mouth gaping and her eyes were solid black. "This can't be" Dusty said as he began to nudge her more. He stuck an ear to her chest "The core is not running anymore" he said as he kicked her in the chest hard enough to crack, maybe even shatter ribs. He returned his ear to her chest, nothing. Frantically he began to slam his hooves into her chest hoping that her core could kickstart from the jolts. "She was a child" he screamed as he began to damage her outer core. She was gone.

"What happened Dusty?" Serenade said "everything was going perfect"

Dusty shook his head."I should have expected it" Dusty said. He walked over to a chair and sat down looking blankly into the nothingness. "I should have expected it" he repeated.

"You should have expected what Dusty?" Serenade asked placing as hoof on his shoulder.

Dusty shook it off and cleared his throat "EQUIS knew rogue Pseudos would help open the door so they hid a program to kill any Pseudo that would override the passcode" he said as he got up and walked over to Cion. He bent down and disconnected the now lifeless core of Cion with his teeth. "That danger was always present, I suppose" Dusty said almost emotionless "What bothers me the most is that she had only been with my group for only 2 months, she was the baby".

I looked down and then back at the screen. Dusty walked Cion's lifeless body to the bed in the adjacent room and laid her to rest.

"Dusty we have the access to the monitors. We have what we needed" I said as I scrolled through the information. "Cion died for all of us to live" I said trying to lift the spirit of the room. I looked over line after line. "It looks like the monitors scan twice a day" I said "once in the morning and then again in the evening" Serenade walked up to see the screen "the most recent update says that air quality is sitting at 83% pure. We can breathe out there!" I almost shouted

"That's good but what about the ground." Dusty said as he walked back into the room, it was obvious he had completely disconnected from the earlier mishap with Cion.

"Ground radiation is at a nominal level" I almost sang as I spun in my chair "We can leave the stable!"

Serenade smiled and placed her hooves around me. "Glacier this is wonderful we can save everypony, but how do we get out?"

Dusty cleared his throat, "I would suspect that there would be an option to open the door"

I returned to the screen and scrolled down more sure enough there was an option to open an evacuation tunnel. This was the first time the mention of an evacuation tunnel was ever seen. It seemed that the door to the stable was hidden and was only accessible through an evacuation tunnel.

"Well this is it" I smiled "time to save everypony!" I pressed the button and the desk began to creak.

The floor began to groan with the sound of metal grinding. I jumped back as the desk slid forward and the floor separated revealing stairs that lead downward. Suddenly a voice broke across the intercoms, it was an unfamiliar voice, it was sweet but almost demanding "ATTENTION STABLE 744." The voice said "THE EVACUATION TUNNEL HAS BEEN OPENED PLEASE RETURN TO ALL SAFE ROOMS. THE SAFE ROOMS ARE THE LIVING QUARTERS, CLINIC AND CAFETERIA" I turned to Serenade and Dusty

"Well let's go see where this leads" I said as I walked down into the unknown.

The hall reminded me of the hall where the 25 missing ponies were killed. The lights flickered with age as we all walked down the hallway. Dust covered every inch of the floor. Faded red paint pointed toward the end of the hall and we followed. At the end of the hall we found a large unlit opening that illuminated immediately as we stepped in. There it was, the huge gear like door of Stable 744. The solid metal door was covered in aged and tarnished blue and yellow paint. I looked around and saw only a yellow control panel and a huge hanging drill like contraption that pointed towards the door.

"Well" I said "are we ready?"

Serenade nodded and Dusty just stared at the door. I walked up to the control panel and flipped a switch. The panel lit up and I found one red button that was larger than the rest that said open. I smiled and pressed the button and ran to meet my friends. The drill made a loud clang as it fell and swung towards the door. The drill spun into the center and another loud clang was heard but the door did not move, however, the voice returned "ATTENTION STABLE 744 STABLE DOOR HAS BEEN BREACHED DEPRESSURIZATION OF STABLE IN PROCESS" a hiss could be heard from deep inside the tunnels. The hiss was followed with a rumble and then the red lights began to flash all around us "ATTENTION STABLE 744 DEPRESSURIZATION COMPLETE. CLEANSING SAFE ROOMS" I turned to Dusty what did that mean I thought. "EXPERIMENT CORRUPTED, OPENING STABLE DOOR"

"This is not good" Dusty said as the door slowly began to slide away "We just killed everypony in the stable"

However, what happened next, that was hell. With a blinding light I was, along with my friends sucked in towards the small opening between the door and frame. Dusty slammed into the wall next to the door. Serenade slammed her head on the frame as she was pulled through the opening. I grabbed Dusty's hoof and pulled him with me as I passed into the blinding light of being outside. Dusty landed on top of me crushing my right leg. I wailed in pain as he pushed himself up and shook himself off.

"Glacier are you okay" he said as I got up and began to favor my right leg.

"Yeah, I'm fine just my leg" I said looking down at the limp leg It looked as if there was no bone structure at all.

I looked around and saw Serenade laying on her side yards away from me. I hobbled over to her to see what I was not expecting. There she laid, her head smashed open, red liquid pooled around her. As I looked upon her I began to feel sick in the bottom of my stomach I began to cry. tears streamed down my face and mixed with the red liquid. I dropped down to her body and as I did I felt metal. Surprised, I glanced up and saw her head was full of terminal components. Was it true? This whole time I had been in a relationship with a pseudo? With my good leg I rolled her over and saw her face. She opened the one eye she had left and looked at me.

"G G Glacier" she sputtered "We Did it, we saved everypony." Her eye rolled into her head and she died believing we had accomplished some great feat.

I got up and was met with Dusty. "I didn't know she was a pseudo, Glacier" he said as he walked away from the opening of the stable.

as he walked away I began to walk towards the stable "I need to save the others" I said as I hobbled into the opening a slight breeze now leaving the stable

"Glacier there's n-"

The explosion that ripped through the stable hit me as I marched into what truly became hell. The fire licked me burning my entire coat and mane away. I felt my ribs break under the concussive force as it threw me back out of the stable. What felt like an eternity only lasted seconds. I felt pain lash up from my limbs and felt the heat sear my lungs. I was flung from the would be grave where now everypony that was left inside had certainly perished. I hit a rock wall and fell with a thud. Dusty galloped to me and had a panicked look about him. I looked around, in shock, and lifted my previously damaged right leg. Only to not see it.

"W w w where's my leg?" I managed to spit out only for Dusty to quiet me "Dusty where's my leg" my vision faded and reasserted itself I began to look around me in a dizzying shake only to feel nothing. My body was broken and shock was taking the pain away.

"Glacier, I'll fix this" I heard Dusty say.

My vision went black for a second but again reasserted itself

"F f f f fix w what Dusty?" I managed to say but nothing was said.

I looked over and saw the burning husk of the stable trying to find Dusty, only to find the now burning body of Serenade.

"D d dusty I'm cold" I said as I looked up and saw the ceiling of a cave.

Strange here I was looking at another damn ceiling. Darkness flooded my vision from the edges and there she was, Star Charmer.

"Star what are you doing here?" I said easier than anything else I had said just moments before.

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

"We are going to meet Celestia and Luna."

Glacier Mane Will Return!