Fallout Equestria: Remnants

TIME: 0300 hours
LOCATION: Stallion living quarters

I sat and stared out my viewing platform looking at the distant Equestria.
I wondered what it would be like down there, Cold or hot windy rainy all that stuff. Even the type of creatures the world holds. To feel the soft grass in your hoofs, to swim in a cool lake that holds fish and frogs. I try and wonder why we are even up here in the first place. Then a time came up in my head when Silver Line told me why.
About 1000 years ago Princess Celestia wanted to bring a new sense of order in that anamynously helped pony kind. A test was conducted of five strong hearted ponies and DJRTW was chosen for the duty. And this order was known as the Equestrian Mobile Task Force. so on then Celestia granted DJRTW with Alicorn powers to say, DJRTW was then to lead the force to a rural part of Equestria even I don't know. There they built themselves up. Learned and even managed to create a higher grade of technology over time, after centries finally the EMTF created a ship known as a "Fleetship" due to the fact that the Army was getting larger and it was harder to keep under cover they took off into the atmosphere keeping themselves undiscovered. Only 10 ships were created. And they all used a piece of technology mostly known as the "cloak" appearently it took our engineers hundreds of years perfecting it and trying to cover the whole ship. Each Fleetship has nearly 7000 personal depending on how many breeding units there were.
The more breeding units the more fucking and the more ponies. The less breeding units less fucking and less ponies fairly simple hm?. Well wrong. Lots of ponies wish to have the permission to breed and resort to keeping there foals hidden if one ever has a foal without a breeding permit. So the exact number of a crew is very unknown. Fleet 005 is the largest ship there is and probrobly the last.
You see after the incident of one of the Fleets ships power caught in a EMP blast by a exploding satterlite the ship somehow just...flung out of orbit and just faded from radar and we've sent out more ships but they just vanished as well. Ever since it was cut down the 005 we've just remained as a stationary ship orbiting our planet.

"I gotta lay off the dessert"

I said in a shallow way clutching my gut as it ached.
Closing my eyes I relaxed and soon, fell asleep.

Time: 0600 hours

"WAKE UP ALREADY"

the mare yelled as she kicked my side and I grunted falling off the bed onto the floor.

"Ah the hell is wrong with you?!"

I yelled standing up fixing my mane quickly noticing that...the emergency alarms were going off and that behind circuts the red flashes of the lights can be seen going off as well.

"What's going on??"

I said walking to the door

"Sector B has gone absaloutley crazy with that. Crazy virus in the foods and everypony is eating each other!!"

Circuts yelled with a scared voice

"I got worried about you so I broke through security and came and found you..."

I felt I little touched by that. Not in a weird romantic way but a way where nopony left behind feel.
I smiled

"don't worry about me. I'm tough"

She eased up a little and her pupils dialiated to being normal unlike when she woke me with a feared look

"the Fleet commander is coming to get you. A-a certain protocol was activated where every important pony are forced into chambers!"

She yelled

"YOU THERE"

A raspy and loud voice spoke it's self. Both of us turning our head we looked at a CON soldier covered in blood that is not his by the looks. His shaky moments and red rimmed mouth he grinned.

"Looks like I found another stash to stash away in my stash....hehe"

he grinned as he walked forward and lunged holding a knife. Dodging his attack I slammed my hoof into the back of his head and held circuts behind me as he recovered quickly.

"God dam bitch!"

He yelled as he bucked my chest and I stumbled back clanging into my desk.

"Stupid CON!"

Circuts yelled as she picks up my desk chair and slams it against his armor wich just deflected it with no problem before uppercuting circuit sending her to the floor.
Getting up. And getting tackled. Shit, he pinned me against the wall as I tried to set my self free.

BANG

my eyes widened as his head and whole upper body just...dissapeared and decorated my wall with red mush. My ears ringed due to the round being shot in such a Confined space.

"Fucker..."

A familiar voice spoke and Commander Red Shell stepped into the room with a couple of guards behind him.
Okay. At this point my eyes were ready to pop out as I stood shocked at the commander. Red Shell is the commander of the R.F.S.F the Royal Fleet Security Force.what was a pony like him doing way over here in this end of the ship. Well I put two and two together, he was obviously here for me.

"Circuts!"

I helped her up and looked at the large cut on her cheek

"Are you alright..?"

I said in worry.

"Yeah I'm fine.."

she said shrugging me off.

"Elite. Come with me I've been ordered to contain you in a cryo chamber until the problems of the Fleetship are under control"

I tilted my head

"Circuts is coming with me"

pulling her closer to my side

"I'm afraid that isn't possible Elite"

One of the guards said as he walked forward.

"Well I'm Making it possible"
I growled.

"I'm sorry you just ca-"

That's all the guard said before my hoof met his muzzle breaking through his visor. Grabbing his helmet with magic I slammed his face once more into the wall just adding the blood as the other break whipped out his baton and struck my side. But that didn't stop me as I stopped his next blow with it and started to beat him senseless.

"Enough!"

RedShell yelled with a surprised face watching as I dropped his guard to the ground groaning

"Enough! I'll let her come"

I sighed in relief grabbing Circuts hoof tightly we followed RedShell his guards getting up following after us with the commander.

On the way to the chambers there was fresh blood running down the walls , pools of the red thick substance streaming down ladder hatches and stairs and even on the ceiling it dripped and I mean it. The blood wasn't the unsettling part, it was the fact that there were no bodies laying about, maybe your occasional chunk of flesh strewn about but other than that it was just the disgusting amount of blood that laid before us. The alarms were starting to get a little annoying. Every now and then a explosion followed by screaming and gun shots is heard above us or below or even on our level, the guards including red would stop and get twitchy.

"This way this way!"

The commander pointed his hoof down a dark flickering hall, ahead were the shadows of ponies on the walls and floor moving quickly followed by the flashes of gun fire and screaming. We continued this a couple of times avoiding groups of crazy ponies. All the Bucks stopped an looked around shocked and dumbfounded

"Sir...there were bodies here literally ten minutes ago...did...they...did they just get up again..."

Red She'll shook his head

"There's no way they can turn in minutes while dead....and if so...were doomed..."

As a whole we kept moving through . There must be the security force trying to contain this sector for all the distant battle noises. but nothing seems wrong due to actually not seeing anything yet, besides the blood that remained by the deceased.
I knew that for some reason I should've brung my valuables. For some reason I have a gut feeling that there's no returning after this.

TIME: 0340 hours
Location: Fleetship Cryo chambers no.4

"What took so long, red? I've expected your arrival at least an hour ago. Luckily crazies haven't overun this area"

The Overseeing Commander SilverBullet said in a worried tone as we entered a large hallway connecting to the chamber. I noticed all the flashing lights and the door to the chamber being guarded by CONtainment soldier suited in heavy Raid armour.
"Forgive me sir on the way to extract Five here we encountered a group of Raiders"

RedShell said as I walked forward.

"Raiders...?"

"My boys have been nick naming them that sir"

He frowned turning to me

"Scratches dear buck Our Fleetship isn't safe...and until we can get things under control again...your gonna be in a Cryo chamber . I'm not sure how long. But I hope you are released soon...it's a protocol called broken wings where the ship is crippled and critical and we lock important ponies like you into Cryo Chambers"

Before he could say anything else a broke out down at the entrance of the hall and alarms started going off as the emergency doors kicked in and started to close. those crazy ponies broke through holding a gun or some makeshift weapon as they charged down the hall.

"Get in that cryo chamber now! Protect Silver Bullet!"

RedShell yelled as five of the guards lined up in the hall forming a barricade of them selves and held up there weapons and started firing. I turned to see the chamber door locked and sealed and looked at Circuts.
She looked scared and nervous. For a engineer she was pretty tough.

"What's Gonna happen scratch!?"

She yelled over the blaring alarms and gun fire.

"I don't know.."

A small green...grenade landed in between us and the guards.

"GRE-!"

BOOM

I flew back as blue plasma swallowed the defending guards and Silver Bullet hitting my head on the wall.

Things were a blur and I could barely see anything due to the flash.
The bells were ringing in my ears and all I heard were the distant sound of..heavy hoof steps and yelling before a huge figure stood over me. I shaked my head and looked up.
It was RTW standing in the smoke, the leader of the EMTF. I choked as he held up a Elite Sword and forced the thick door to open and jammed it there. He slowly picked me up. His large bulky armour felt smooth but cold.
Before I knew it I was in a cryo chamber in the dark and my eyes widened at the sight of him standing and the entrance forcing the doors shut. He looked at me one last time before shutting the doors completely. Along with the light.

"Wait!. Wait dammit! Circuts!"

I yelled as I pounded against the hard cold glass of the chamber and felt my body going numb.

"You have to let circuts in..."

I hit the glass tube and gave it a small Crack as I grew to numb to actually move.
And soon, darkness and the cold slowly took over.

--

"In here!"

Circuts yelled and I hopped into a closet with her. We both stayed silent as a security buck ran past

"I seen them this way!"

One yelled

"We split up on the maintenance tunnels I know her tricks cmon!"

We heard there fast moving clops fade, after a while minute we both laughed as I rests my head against the wall in relief

"Pretty funny prank huh?" Circuts giggled

"Yeah that was! Next time let's double the little bombs in there toilets"

I laughed recalling the memory in my mind. Me and Circuts had dropped little remote controlled bombs that Circuts whipped up in the toilets of one of the security checkpoints. We had waited for one of the up tight bucks to enter and BLAM, right in the middle of a shit we got him.

"The look on his face!" Circuts would not stop laughing

I put a hoof to my gut trying to stop my self

"Okay...Oka-HRRM?!"

And just like that Circuts had kissed me, To be honest I was completely surprised. We had been friends for years, and now she does this? Does she really like me? I didn't know how to react. I just stared at her and let her enjoy the moment as I turned a crimson red.

"Heh...you are a terrible kisser..."

She smiled

"I-I-I never kissed before! D-did you expect me to know h-how?!"

She just laughed and patted my chest with her hoof

"Hahah! Don't be so shocked scratchy! It was gonna happen sooner or later! Plus you kinda gotta learn silly....cuz sooner or later your gonna sleep with your first mare~"

"H-hey hey! I'm not even into that stuff!"

She turned her head to the side and grinned

"Your still a terrible kisser..."

I chuckled and smiled

"Well...wanna try that again...?"

She looked up and smiled "sure..."

I slowly leaned down before the closet's door slowly slid open. We both stopped and stared up at RedShell with his golden visor lifted up. He looked amused and sighed softly chuckling.

"Circuts and the Elite...didn't see that coming...cmon you little love birds to the detention centre"

--

Time:...
Location: Cryo chamber no.4

Silence...silence is all I heard for a long time and out of the blue was a hiss growing louder and louder, it was my consciousness coming back to me, after the hiss of air I heard the door slide up quickly.

Slowly I felt my perception and my eyes shot open as I gasped panting and fell out of the chamber falling forward onto...Rusty...a rusty floor.
It was pitch black, or maybe it was the fact I couldn't see anything. I started to panic a little maybe I was blind from the Cryo chamber but I realized why, I could remember during when me and Circuts were eating lunch she had explained that Cryo chambers can cause temporary blindness. I calmed and felt the rusty cold floor the only thing I could grasp onto before pushing my self up. I had no idea where I was going, everything felt so uncomfortable. I stopped and listened to every sound I heard. After minutes of walking around blind I leaned against a wall and listened to my own breathing while occasionally rubbing my eyes in frustration.

"Come on....come on!"
I grunted realizing my voice sounds rather raspy.

I must've fallen asleep because when I opened my eyes I could see again, it wasn't much improved because it really was pitch black. I shook from the coldness and looked around only to see the Cryo Control's panel and the blinking red alarm signal on the panel as well

"h-hello?....Anypony?..."

when the darkness failed to reply I stood up and rubbed my eyes and shivered.
Checking my surrounding I closed my eyes and thought to my self what had happened...I was put in here by RTW...and..that's what happened..the grenade...Silverbullet..........Circuts...
Since I was released the ship had to be at normal status now...right?...
I turned around and stumbled towards the cryotubes panel anxious to see how long I was asleep. I tapped and wiped the dusty cracked screen and looked at log....

"218 years......"

I said quietly and started backing up staring at the screen.

"218 years...oh Celestia..."

I shut my eyes.
This had to be some dream...
I sat on my rump and sighed.
Okay...if the ship was at a normal state then there would be medical ponies here, welcoming me back or somthing. The I heard a hiss. I looked up as a distant blue panel lit up.
I stumbled to my hoofs and ran to it.
And to my suprise...it was another pony in a cryo tube.

"Hey!"

I yelled as I looked at the panel and then at the glass sliding up as a light sparked and blinked alot before coming on showing a mare. A...pilot...a EMTF Fleet transport pilot mare...
She fell forward and I caught her by her vest, fur frozen and shivering.

"Hey. Are you alright?...can you hear me?..."

Her eyes shot open same as I did and she freaked out punching me. I ignored and tried to bare how much that hurt and looked down

"Ah! Dammit that hurt...Hey hey! Your alright! Your safe! Calm down, pilot"

She panted and looked up again and took another look and she too shivered.

"W-where am I...? I can't see anything!"

I could tell. Her eyes were just a blur of blue.

"What's happening?! W-ho are you?!"

"Hey it's alright your safe. My names Scratches, what's your name?"

I said picking her up and carrying her to a corner and rested her head on my chest, she was cold. Very cold, she buried her muzzle into my chest for warmth and panted rapidly.

"M-my names Flare...F-Flare Signal..."

She managed to whisper out

"That's a cool name, what do you do for a living?"

She paused for a moment thinking

"I'm a Transport Pilot...best in the 12th Lead..."

"That's great really great...what do you like doing..."

"I like...to...pause....for a moment....and...just look at our.." She passed out and breathed calmy, I sat there letting out another sigh and sat making sure she lays in a comfortable position or I hoped anyways. I didn't move waiting hours and hours. It must've been five hours until she finally started to move a little.

"Hey...."

Her eyes slowly opened and fluttered before looking at me. Her eyes before were blue. But now how ever, her eyes were a bright ruby red. Much like mine but I've never noticed how red stood out so much

"I u-um are you alright..."

"Yeah...I am..."

She nodded replying to me

"Wait where are we..."

She got up putting a hoof on her head rubbing her temples

"We're in a Cryo chamber room...if it weren't obvious...put here under that emergency protocol thing"

"I...I think I remember now...I knew they would fail"

I look at her and frowned getting curious as I noticed her short mane just barely seen under her large pilot like helmet. Her heavily padded suit with metal plates. Despite it was thick. She had a very attractive slim figure. I could tell her coat was a light grey and her mane was pitch black and red tipped, something was familiar about it.

"What do you mean fail?"

I said She simply sighed and slowly took off her helmet. Revealing her mane, long and wavy I caught me off guard I thought it was short

"The protocol didn't work...I had a feeling it didn't. ..the plan. The ponies..."

The mare looked up and stared up at me

"As all I know right now...we could be the only ones on this ship unless there are other undisturbed tubes...I highly doubt it though...our home is gone..."

Her horn glowed and lit the chamber with a light blue, why didn't I do that earlier

"Well..."

I thought about circuts. The thought stalled my words and the mare pilot tilted her head again.

"Well what?"

She asked dumbfounded

"Well...we should go check it out"

She stopped and wondered for a second or two

"Agreed we should find supplies and anything useful first...and figure a way to open that door"

She finally replied

"Names Flare Signal, if I didn't tell you already I don't know"

I turned and looked at some empty shelves on the sides.

//WARNING. NO FLEET SYSTEMS DETECTED. ACTIVATING EMERGENCY HEADS.UP.DISPLAY SURVIVAL SYSTEMS.///*beep*
SYSTEMS ONLINE.//

I blinked and stared at the hollowgram that popped up in front of me go red with the alert and my HUD powered off.
A few moments later it flickered back to life Excepted...things were different.
the arrangement of everything.
Stats of my body Condition were put into its number one concern. The Hollowgram was a bit smaller and our HUDs were glowing red instead of blue.I looked at Flare and hers did that exact same process.

My eye caught somthing sitting on the top shelf. A small worn carboard box.
My horn glowed and I floated it down.
What ever it was it was pretty heavy. I pryed the box open and seen...my saddlebags.
I was confused. I thought I didn't bring anything. I pulled it out dropping the box and looked inside. I looked at a old equestrian tape recorder with a tape already in it and picked it up carefully hitting the play button.

"By the time you hear this I shall be long gone dead or alive .Perhaps you might need this for when you wake up. I know your going to be very confused and maybe scared. I'm never around and that is a valid reason to not trust my words but I need you to do a favour for me, escape...Yes indeed it is something that Anypony wouldn't dare doing but for the sake of the EMTF do it for us do it for me...The commanders escape shuttle still hasn't been used when you get to the master bridge the code to open the shuttle is 55j-690-22c5. I put a pony there with you a mare who is able to fly the shuttle down. I got to go but when you get to Equestria you reunite the remnants of the EMTF, and maybe if I'm not dead by then...come find me at a large mountain with hot internals...I programmed the shuttle with a guid that will land you in a certain area. Remember who you are no matter the shape or form, this is RTW Leader of the Equestrian Mobile Task Force....signing off"

My eyes widened.
Did he go back and get some of my stuff?.
I opened the bags and looked in.
my book of medical research. I dug around more eventually finding a couple of rations, damn they really don't have a shelf life. There were maps of the Fleetship, Anti biotics, water and finally a picture of me and circuts...

I sighed and lifted the picture out of the bag and looked at it. I was sitting with a bored look while circuts was standing beside me with the most brightest smile a pony can expect.

"Is that your special somepony?"

Flare said as she peeked over.
Blushing I frowned and tossed the picture in my saddlebag.

"M-my uh...closest friend..."

"Oh uh sorry"

Flare said as she found a saddlebag as well.
I packed my journal and books and turned to the door and looked at Flare.

"So what's the plan?"

Flare looked up at me fixing her pilot's helmet

"First I want to know if you were put here purposely and if you had anything to do with a plan to escape"

I held the tape recorder and played it again letting her listen to it. afterwards her ears pinned back and shook her head

"I don't know, they just broke into my quarters as I was getting ready for a transport flight and took me here saying I was 'important' that's the last thing I remember"

I observed our surroundings looking at all the empty Cryo chambers, strange they only put two ponies here.

"We have to escape....sounds easy..."

"sounds simple"

Flare nodded once in agreement

Looking at the door I examined it and tried the pad and nothing.
I rolled my eyes sighing

"What now?"

putting as much distance as I can away from the door I charged forward putting 110% into pushing my self forward sprinting I pushed my self off of the ground turning my self around mid air and pointed my hind hoofs at the door and slammed into it as hard as I could. The giant door nearly came off entirely as a whole if it weren't my hoof smashing through a layer of the metal door getting it caught inside.

"Ahh!"

I wiggled around and flopped onto my face and got up dusting my self off.

"That should've done the trick...."

Flare stood shocked and awed at what just happened. Not everyday you'll see a pony knock something big down everyday I guess.

"It's one of the perks from taking hoof to hoof combat training hah"

We managed to get the door pryed open enough for a pony to fit through with a crow bar, as soon as we stepped out we were both horrified at the mess that layed before us. 200 year old battle grounds. The skeletons scattered the floors along with what remained of there armour and clothing. Everywhere where we stepped dust arose from the ground and rushed into the air and danced around the heavy air.

"Hey! Hey! You two there! I know you just got out of that Cryo pod. Listen my name is Captain blind flash of the CONtainment force! Me and my soldiers woke up like you and were being attacked help us please! We're at the new armoury that was built right before the fall of Equestria!"

The speakers crackled and went out before he could say anything else.

Flare looked at me

"I know where follow me!"

I trust he's a captain, maybe he was in a chamber like us-no time to think but must just trust him and act now, I followed Flare towards the armoury. I stopped no, we stopped at the sight of a large pile of bones,skeletons and rotting armour. It was weird, I might have known one of those ponies, it's weird to see something Me and flare see so run down and old almost like a relic. It was also disturbing, we both made our way around the graveyard like room and opened a hatch door and ran until we could hear the distant gunfire and yells of other ponies, we both looked at each other and nodded. I took the crowbar and ran into the hall way watching ponies in makeshift plates of armour firing at others in CON suits, I knew who to help.

I charged and a mare looked at me surprised as I swung the bar upwards taking the helmet off and snarled slamming the crow bar's hook into her skull. Leaving the bar in her I snatched the Equestrian Assault rifle she had and unloaded the magazine into the buck that just noticed me. I tackled the last pony that was in the back suppressing fire on the armoury and started to slam my hoof on his head until he stopped moving.

I panted heavily and looked at the dead bucks smashed face and gasped before pushing my self up and leaning against the wall shaking from the adrenaline rush. I had just killed a couple of more ponies, but...they were the crazy ponies right? I looked at the mare with a crowbar in her skull and noticed the crazy in her eyes, it was obvious to tell the difference between a infected pony and non infected. But I still wasn't satisfied, because that pony had a innocent life before. Even that buck that I just smashed his skull into mush had a life.

"Hey you, get your ass in here!"

A buck dressed in heavy assault armour waved his hoof standing under a huge gate.

We both scurried into the armoury
As the giant door slid closed and locked. Me and flare both jumped out of our fur at the sight of the captain who had half of his face burned or mutated or something!

"Oh Celestia you certainly live up to your name, blind flash!"

Flare kicked my rib and frowned

"What. Haven't seen a ghoul before son. Well, I'm not really a full ghoul"

"Ah! Uh no no no I just. Yeah I've never seen something like...that before"

I yelled back still in surprise

"Hah well you should probably get used to it, I'm not the only one with this mug around"

I nodded quickly

"So what are you two, wait a minute are you Scratches? That Elite experiment or what ever??"

I looked around and nodded

"Uh yeah that's me"

He shook his head and trotted around me examining me.

"I knew they froze your ass up but I didn't think you'd come out any time soon! You could really help us take this ship back!"

Flare spoke up interrupting him

"Well...I did my home work on Elites and without there suits he"

She pointed at me

"Doesn't have the full potential of a Elite. He doesn't even have a Elite's sword or lance!"

Okay I was confused at this point

"Hey just wait a minute did I say u was gonna help you guys?"

I looked at the captain and he stared at me deep in thought

"You have a choice, you can help us or leave, but we will bump into each other again regardless. If you help us. I will help you, I'll give you some time to think about it"

He nodded as I leaned on the wall again as flare trotted up to me

"Scratch, this is an opportunity to get there help and fight our way to the shuttle"

My ears perked up and I looked at flare then the captain. If we help them he will help us. His soldiers can clear a path to the masters bridge and to the shuttle. I liked the sound of all of this.

I grinned

"Alright. Watcha need pops"

Footnote: level up

Mare killer: your experience with taking to a mare has added a advantage in combat amplifying all damage by 20% and you also have a higher chance of persuading a mare while talking