Fallout Equestria: The Lost Empire

“They Say What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger. Yeah, But At What Cost.”

Pain!

That was the only thing that I felt, pain. Just pain, all over my body. All the way from my forehead and all the way down to the tip of my tail. I felt bruises over my body, it wouldn’t have surprised if my purple scales were now blue from all of the bruises. My eyes were still closed and I didn’t want to open to check. I didn’t want to open them ever again. Why was I still alive, I was still able to feel this pain, I just wanted it to end.

I let out a small whimper as tears began to flow out of my closed eyes. I was even surprised that I still had tears to shed after all the shit that I had gone through.

I could hear some ponies talking not that far away from me. One of them I recognized as Sweet Breeze, my best friend. He was probably talking to one of the doctor ponies that was in the Stable. I had never met any of them, I almost never went above the third floor of the Stable.

Me meeting Breeze was even an accident. I met him when I was running errands for the Overmare before the one that… you get the picture.

The ponies that were talking must have heard my whimpers as they stopped talking. I heard one of them trotting towards me. It being impossible not to hear the clang of hooves hitting steel every time they took a step.

“Eta… are you awake?” I heard somepony ask, it was Sweet Breeze. I slowly nodded my head. I kept my eyes closed Breeze continued to speak to me. His light voice always being a source of calmness and peace for me. His cutie mark was a dove holding an olive branch with the olives being in the shapes of hearts, after all. The bird of love and peace after all, and right now I need peace more than anything.

Breeze said his words in a solemn tone, it wouldn’t have surprised me if he was crying right now. “Eta, I’ve read your medical report. Whatever whoever did to you the doctors are almost certain that…” Breeze said stopping mid-sentence. I knew what he was going to tell me. I already knew it was almost a certainty after what that bitch did to me, but I needed confirmation.

“Just say it.” I said with my eyes still closed.

“There almost certain that you will never be able to have kids later in your life.” Breeze said with a sniff from the amount tears that he was obviously shedding at that moment.

I was broken, tears began to flow out my eyes. “How long have I been asleep.” I whimpered, I needed to know how much of my life had taken away from me by that bitch and her brown minion.

“You’ve been out for a few days, we even almost lost you once.” Breeze said, a snort coming from me. “What Eta?” Breeze asked me, surprised by my snort.

“Wouldn’t it been better.” I said opening my eyes for the first time. Sweet Breeze being sitting on his haunches next to my hospital bed. Her forehooves only a few inches from one of my paws. I instinctively brought my paw closer to my body as Breeze spoke.

“Would’ve what been better?” Sweet Breeze asked me. I slowly turned my head to face him. I could tell that he had been crying lately.

“If I had died.” I said and Breeze’s face dropped.

“Eta… I know you have been through a lot, but death isn’t the answer.” I heard Breeze tell me. I turned my head away from him. I wasn’t in the mood to hear this speech from him.

“Is it.” I said defeated the pain in my abomination now being what I was focusing on.

Breeze let out a heavy sigh as he turned his said to speak to the pony that he was speaking to before I had woke up. “Red Cross, would you be so kind as to tell Eta’s mother that she is awake.” Sweet Breeze said to the other medical pony. The pony being a bright white unicorn mare with a large red cross for a cutie mark.

My eyes widened, my breathing increased, and my heart felt like it was about to pop out of my chest.

“My mom! Is is ok! What happened to her!?! Answer me Breeze!” I asked Breeze quickly.

“Eta, calm down your mom is fine.” Breeze said to me him holding up his hooves in a manner to calm me down. His attempt didn’t work as my instincts kicked in and I screamed.

“Don’t touch me!” I screamed trying to get a far away from Sweet Breeze as I could. Me falling off my hospital bed in fear. I hit the hard steel floor with a loud thud.

“Eta, I’m not going to touch you. I just trying to help.” Breeze said, but I wasn’t listening. I kept retreating backward until I hit the wall of the room. My heart kept beating faster and Sweet Breeze’s body slowly began to warp into that of the brown stallion that had taken my dignity away. I felt trapped and the stallion kept trotting slowly toward me. He had come back, he had come back to finish what he had started.
“Ah! Stay away from me! Stay away from me… you monster!” I cried, tears flowing from my eyes like a river.

“Eta… I’m… I’m your friend.” The brown stallion said, tears forming in his eyes. Why was he crying, I was the one that he hurt? Was truly he that twisted to think that he was my friend after what he had done. No, I was the victim here, not him!

“No your not! You were never my friend! YOU ATTACKED ME!” I screamed, the stallion physically hurt by my words.

“Eta… I’m never hurt in my life. Why are you saying these things.” He said, his tears making me want to kill him even more.

“You know exactly why! Now, stay away from me!” I roared, I had never breathed fire before but I was willing to do so if meant that I would finally be safe.

“Eta… I’m just trying to help.” He whimpered, his actions disgusted me. How could He be brought to bucking tears from the truth? How could think He was my friend. How could He do all of these terrible things to me, and now try make me feel bad about it? He was still moving closer to me and I reacted the only way I could. I gave me something I wanted to give him since he… attacked me.

“Stay away from ME!” I roared as I swung my tail around and hit him right across his chest. Him going flying across the room and landing into some kind of medical instrument with a loud crash.

“What is going on in here?” I heard the white nurse pony say as she entered the room. Her trotting in just as the brown stallion hit the medical equipment. “Sweet Breeze!” She said rushing to his side.

“Wait! What!” I screamed internally as my the brown stallion’s body began to warp back into the yellow body of my friend. Oh no, what have I done? I just attacked Sweet Breeze, and he was bleeding. He had a deep gash on the top of his forehead. I hadn’t just attacked my friend, I had caused him to bleed. What happening to me!

“I’m fine, I’m fine… check on Eta.” Sweet Breeze grunted in pain. The white mare took a single look at me and must have seen the look of terror on my face, her eyes beginning to water.

“I’ll be right back, just stay right there Breeze. I’ll go get somepony to help you with that cut.” She said as ran out of the room to get whatever she was looking for.

“Breeze, I’m… I’m sorry. I don’t know happened to me.” I said to Breeze.

“You have now reason to apologize to me.” Breeze said to me, him beginning to raise to his hooves.
I shifted my attention away from my wounded friend as the door to the room was opened and the same white mare from earlier trotted in. Her joined by another nurse. The pony that she brought with helping Breeze slowly limp out of the room.

“Just stay still Eta, your mother’s on her way.” The white mare’s said leaving the room. The door closing automatically behind her. And then I was alone. Alone, I hated being alone. Why was I alone? Why did everyone leave me? Why did this have to happen to me?!?

I couldn’t take it anymore. My walls shattered and I broke down. My tears began to flow freely as I collapsed onto the cold steel floor. I cried myself into another nightmare filled sleep.

I don’t know how long I was asleep, but I didn’t awaken until I felt someone poking me in the forehead.
Wait! Someone was touching me. My eyes shot open and I screamed. Whoever was touching then embraced me in a giant bear hug. I kept screaming, my legs kicking in every direction.

“Let me go. Let me go!” I screamed, me not even realizing who was hugging me.

“No! I am never letting you go again!” I heard the familiar voice to me ever say. My kicking stopped as I looked up to see the purple eyes of my mother.

“Mom… Mommy.” I whimpered now accepting her hug. More tears coming from my eyes.

“Yes honey, Mommy’s here and she’s never letting go.” My mommy said, her forelegs cradling my head as she slowly rocked me back and forth in her tight embrace as I cried into her shoulder. Her large wings wrapping around my body like a bulletproof shield to the horrors of the world. “There, there, now just let it all out. I’m right here for you.” My mommy whispered as she patted the top of my head. “I’m right here.” She repeated as I continued to cry into her.

I don’t know how long I cried, seconds, minutes, hours, they were all the same to me. But when I had finally run out of tears I looked up at my mommy. Her face was neutral. I had come to expect that from her. She rarely showed emotion and when she did… while had to know her to even see it. I could see that she was hurt, she knew what had happened to me. She had to. I could see that her purple eyes were red from crying. Maybe not while I was awake, but definitely when I was knocked out.

When my mommy noticed that I had stopped crying looked down at me. “Are you done.” She said with a smile that seemed to hurt her muscles to give.

“Hmmm… I think so” I whimpered with a close nod and a sniff.

“Good, now tell me what happened.” She said in only a way that a mother could.

“You already know happened.” I whimpered back

“I know, but I still need you to tell me.” My mom said.

The memories of what happened to me came flooding back. I could tell her everything. Tell her how I was tricked into letting my guard down. How the Overmare made a stallion cum all over my face. I could tell her how I was raped both in my pussy and my mouth. I could tell her how my pussy was destroyed by a cock designed to make so that a mare could never have children later in her life. But I… I couldn’t. I couldn’t tell her what happened. When I tried to piece the words in my head my body wouldn’t listen and say them. I was frozen in silence. Finally, I gave up and said.

“I can’t.” I told my mom.

“Eta, I know it’s hard to talk about, but you have to tell me.” My mom said with words of understanding, maybe a little too much understanding.

“Mom, I can’t tell you. I’m trying to tell you, but I just... can’t.” I whimpered, my eyes were watery but I didn’t cry. I couldn’t cry anymore. I had run out of tears to shed.

My mom let out a heavy sigh and said something that took my breath away. “She made you promise not to tell me, didn’t she.” My mom said, and my eyes widened at her words.

“What?” I said in disbelief.

“The Overmare, she did this to you, didn’t she.” My mom said with absolute certainty in her voice. How did she know, how could she have known. Unless... scratch what I said earlier. I still had some tears left in me.
“Mom, you weren’t. Were you?” I asked my mom, not believing that strongest woman I had ever known could have gone through what I did.

“Yes Eta, yes.” My mom said and her eyes began to become watery and tears flowed from them. This was the first time I had seen my mom cry in front of me, and I can… can’t even describe to you how heart wrenching it was to watch. “Just like you… I was raped when was your age.” My mom said through sobs, are positions now switching with her being the one crying her eyes out and I was the one receiving all of the tears into my shoulder.

I don’t know how long the hug with my mother had lasted, but it was certainly over an hour. We just sat there, in each other tight embrace. Two dragons, mother and daughter. Two victims of something terrible together.

However, whenever we finally broke our hug my mom spoke to me. “Ok, Eta enough this crying nonsense.” My mom said, wiping away the tears from her eyes. My seemingly emotionless mom was back, and I needed that side of her right. While seeing her more emotional side was helpful, especially after I learned that she had gone through the same experience that I did and survived. In truth, I needed the rock I had always been able to turn to.

“Now, you are still in recovery. That bitch really bucked you up...” My mom said her words a little surprising to me. Despite what you would think from my language, she rarely if ever cursed. So the fact that she was opening cursing in front of me just showed how much anger she was hiding inside her hardened scales. “and you need your rest. So get on that bed and sleep.” My mom said her simple directness that I have come to know. My mom was back and I was happy that she was.

“Yes, mom.” I said and followed my mother’s instructions as I climbed into my hospital in the center of the room. My head hitting the pillow with an audible ‘proof’. My mom then rose to legs and started to walk toward the metal door that led out of the room. My heart began beat faster as I watched my mom walk away from me. Not wanting to be alone I called out to her.

“Mom!” I called out to my mother. Her movements coming to a stop and her head whipping around to the sound of her frightened child. My heart began to beat a little slower as our eyes locked and I took a deep breath before continuing. “Mom, could… could you maybe stay and keep me company. I… I don’t want to be left alone.” I said, my mom’s face giving me an understanding smile. Her walking over to my bed’s side.

“Of course, I will stay with Eta, you are my baby and I will protect you, forever.” She said in a way that only a mother could as she planted a kiss on the top of my forehead. “Now go to sleep, I will be right over there if you need me.” My mom said, pointing at the right corner of the room.

A happy smile appeared my face as I spoke to her. “Ok, thank you, mom, you’re the best.” I said giving my mom a small hug.
“I know, now go to sleep.” She said as I laid back down my pillow. She walked over to the corner and laid down in a half circle. Her tail wrapping around her body as she laid down.

“I love you, mom.” I said as my eyes began to droop.

“I love you too, honey.” She said back as she rested her head on one of her forelegs.

“Forever…” I began to say, my mom finishing more me.

“And Always.” My mom finished as my eyes closed and I drifted off into dreamland. Me about to have a dream that would shape the rest of my life forever.

Level Up! New Perk: Mother’s Love-- You have the protection of your mother around you at all times. All damage dealt to you is decreased by 25%.