Fallout: Canterlot City

Sunset Shimmer sat at the steps of a partly fallen house, all the while watching the small 10mm gun that she held in her hands. The redheaded girl noticed how black it was and how much it shined, how well kept it was considering the age of the weapon. She did all that just so she wouldn’t think about what she had done.

She had shot once and the bullet had went through the back of the head, as simple as that, no screaming, no groaning or cursing out from the victim, he just felt and didn’t get up again. It was disheartening, surprising and oh so shocking. So shocking that Sunset has been sitting down in front of what used to be one of the favorite stores of kids before the war. The good ol’ Sugarcube was now defunct just like the rest of businesses that had been part of that block; thankfully they had arrived in time to Vault 47.

Sunset could only stare at the gun so she wouldn’t stare at the empty eye of the bandit, and she did mean one eye since the bullet had destroyed the other eye and part of its face, leaving behind a husk of what once was a living being.

She knew she should be feeling sick, that she should be raging or screaming or crying… but the only thing she felt right now was relief knowing that the bandit would hurt no one after this. Was she a bad person for thinking that? Was something wrong with her?

Her sight and mind never put attention to the oncoming reinforcements; thankfully those same reinforcements were on her side.

Consisting of Applejack, Quick Trigger and Chrome Shield, the three had guns ready and were looking around before meeting with the other person besides Sunset and AJ all but threw herself at his arms.

“Pa, never scare me like this again.” The usually tough farm girl all but bawled at seeing her father alive while this one gladly returned the hug. They maintained the hug for several seconds before they separated. Applejack turned her head to the sitting girl not too far from them and her face changed from relief to annoyance. “So, in what kind of trouble did you got my father this time?”

“AJ, that’s enough.”

“But Pa, she…”

“I said enough.” Red Barn had a voice of command that made everyone stay straight when he talked, probably due to his past in the army before the bombs. Nowadays people could forget his curriculum until he had to be serious, and this was one of those times. “I don’t know what kind of grudge you two have, but I won’t have my own daughter talk that way to an innocent girl.”

“Sure, an innocent, which Sunset isn’t. Don’t you remember how she was before we all went down into that damn Vault?”

“I sure do, but this is a different time, we all changed because of that, now look at her, does she look like that bully?”

“No, but… what is she doing?”

“She went into shock… I hate to think that I wasn’t capable of defending myself but… Sunset saved my life killing the last bandit; I thought this zone was safe once again and wanted to scout for a little bit, thankfully miss Shimmer here followed me. I heard her say that she wanted to find a clean holotape, no idea what she wanted to do with it,” Barn said knowing full well that all any explanation about the technology that had been created due to the atom craziness would always fly over his head.

“Then we found three bandits, new kids, probably couldn’t get into any big band and decided to go solo. One of them had me under his sight before I could react and if it weren’t for her, I wouldn’t be here right now.”

“But why is she like that?”

“Because she had to kill. Not everyone reacts the same way after something like that,” he said, sitting down at Sunset’s side, then he took the 10mm from her hands and the teenager finally turned around to look at him with vacant eyes. Red Barn almost cursed seeing such a young girl having to live with the consequences of taking a man’s life.

“Is it wrong?”

“What is it?”

“That I feel relieved that he’s dead?” she simply asked before the tears began to fall from her eyes. Barn had no answer to her question. The only thing he could do was hug the teenager until she stopped crying.