Fallout Equestria: Rat Paws in the sand.

"The sand is but another way to see the past. Just with the hooves claws and dance of the past."

Once upon a time in the Magical land of Equestria. It all started way before any war's before even the war started. It started for most would say with us... The rats. For us, rats were part of the world with the ponies. Most would say that we are a threat to them. We would carry fleas that bring sickness. We even brought the stank of death to most. But most of us were just a plain pest. We broke into ponies home's just to live to find food. Through the wood or if a door was left open. But again it was like we were a threat to them and we were too stupid to even notice.

The one known as Fluttershy helped take care of us a lot. Did we deserve it? Maybe? I doubt it fully but think of it from our point of view. We are always hungry little critters. Maybe we deserved to be killed by the thousands... Maybe we are a threat to the world. But I think many of our species didn't care. There are normally more of us than the ponies. But our simple little brains didn't focus on that. Food, breed, food, breed, feeding and breeding every time. Some time or another they would call somepony..to gas us and murder us by the 100's... But of course, we didn't care the rats again simple little brains no one understood us... But the yellow one.

Ah yes the yellow one her and her five friends... That seemed to be heroes of the world. The orange one, known as Applejack the farmer. We never had issues with her. We lived on her farm and our home was then destroyed when Stable Tech ripped it apart to make a Stable. But yes how would some of us know this? If we are just stupid? That will be explained in time. But again way before the war even happen. Strange machines were started to be created. We never could find a way onto the clouds why would we? Rainbow Dash hmm. She was close to the Yellow pegasus one of her close friends. Rainbow Dash, I don't know much about her really. Just the fact it seems she started some Pegasus project.

Again how do Rat's know so much? That shall be said when my thoughts get there of course. I am old after all so you youngins want stories now...now!!

A voice spoke up. "Um, grandpa...you're getting a bit nuts again."

I blinked a moment "OH, sorry. Ahem." I looked back to the little ones of many different races that wished to hear this story. It's been 50 years since the Lightbringer did so much for us. "Ah, yes...let me get back to the story."

Rainbow Dash did many things for her friends. She was very loyal and some of us when we read about her. Wanted to follow her path the idea of following the path of the Loyal one was the idea of most of us. Being loyal is something I loved to see and loved to learn. But again, the idea of how most of us learned this is to come. Pinkie Pie.....her ideas of how to help fix Equestria didn't help us one bit..her so-called Moral helped murder a lot of us and did a lot to her own kind. We never understood why she was given these powers. Her robotic creations haunted us, even then.

Rarity an interesting creature of beauty. Never took kindly to our kind. She tried to always have us killed even though she was friends with the yellow one. It's always interesting to see how the world took to her. A creator of fine dresses that you could never find again in the wasteland unless another with the skills find their way into the world. It's a peaceful way of learning and understanding. But she had the generous heart and soul that was meant give to those that barely had any. Those ideas would never be seen again in this world. but until the next bearer of that element was found. But that would take a long time. But that is another story of course.

Twilight Sparkle, a mare that we never could understand. A creature of weirdness to most of us. When we read up on her... It was like interesting. Her ideas and what she did in the world was very interesting. Twilight Sparkle did so much for her friends. She loved her friends so much they even saved Equestria together from Nightmare Moon and Discord. Discord, a creature, an interesting creature that caused more harm than good. But these six ponies didn't only save the world. I am sure they also destroyed it.

Bring it to the start of the war. Most of us went to the bodies of the dead to eat what we could along with the crows and another pest. More pest that could have come to the endless way of how things came to pass. Scootaloo, the founder we think of Stable tech, of course, we never really learned much about them. But the rats normally everyday pest in the land of Equestria the war was just starting and we always enjoyed the dead and the food we found in the camps.

But sadly some of us got ran over by the battles that did happen we did get into the middle and some had to eat us to live. It was an awful sight for the ponies of the past. I felt sorry for them I really did when I learned about them and what they had to do to live. I know it's not a simple thing to learn. But most of what comes is what happens. The battles we got in the middle of, we got stomped on and sometimes got burned. It was odd to see this happen but the path of a rat was something we always found pain or death when it came to the end of it. The idea of this is to understand why we became like this.

But still we always just ran around like normal then it was a calm every normal day. It was a strange sound the ground shook and suddenly Boom. The world went red and green and screams filled the air. In one day the world ended. Some of our kind got contained by the radiation and the taint that came from it... But some just got the normal rads. They went from pack to pack spreading the rads. A few months it was getting very nasty for some of them.

Some died awful nasty ways. Then we started growing larger and larger. We grew to the point of pony size. But we weren't as smart as the ponies yet anyway. One of the pack leader's went closer to the sight of the bomb. Soaking up more rads and then went back to the pack. The brain inside the rat's started to become a bit bigger and after another set of months. The rats started to stand on their hind legs and with a bend in their backs. They could walk normally on them. But they then started becoming pack rats gathering whatever they can read. First was a book of stories at the time young stories. For young fouls. But they went through more raids finding more stuff to read. That is where they learned more about the world. The Ministries were talked about in some of the books. But they didn't become that smart till one of them met a ghoul that could speak. But this was a year later, the ghoul taught this one how to speak and to learn.

He went back to teach the others we started to become more like we are now... But it would take time. We found books on how to build and we found old ruined crap and started to build a small city in the sewer's made from old shakes and old parts of buildings. We built a community started to learn how to write and make laws. We wrote history books of what some remembered before the bombs fell. But of course, it was hard to read most of them. It took a long time for that to become normal. But we started to use junk trash cans and even ruined weapons. Most of them were remade but turned into more worthless crap. It got to the point we had to be tough again... But we had to learn how to make armour and weapons. At first down the line, the years slowly went by... But the above world was still pretty deadly. But we had to go out to find food.

Finding food was never easy. But we did have to fight smaller creature's to get their meat for food. The idea of this wasn't something we wanted. But again becoming a race of the wasteland you had to do things you didn't care for. The idea of this was going to be hard. We didn't find any ponies again for awhile like that ghoul. We just heard gunshots and screaming sometimes. But it was a normal thing in this world now. The world was so far gone we didn't even try to think of a way to protect it. We just wanted to live and survive the pain of that was going to be very hard for us. The point of the idea of this was something that we needed.

A voice spoke up. "Um, grandfather? Grandfather!!"

Cannon ball the speaker of the story seemed to pass out and doctors came in and put him in his bed. Then a pony doctor came in it, was Kipkipe.

"Little ones, let him rest. Let us take care of him." She smiled sweetly as the other doctors pushed the little ones out and the door closed. The young Rat Creeper, Cannons Grandaughter wanted to hear the rest of the story. But she won't be able to tell Grandpa woke again. But she wanted to read and learn. She went to the library that was in part of the city and she looked at the graves. She seen these so many times but never read this.

"Here lies Softpaw, a hero that gave her life to fight the Enclave." She looked to the next one

"Pot head guard and my best friend. Cannon ball."

"Wheel tread, I wish I said I wasn't happy that he was dead... Tiria."
She couldn't make out the last one but then walked to the pedestal in the middle of the city. It had a glowing orb inside. She wasn't sure what is was... But ever since she lived here... She saw this thing and finally saw two more graves in front of it. She didn't wish to read them. Because she had no idea who these two were... But she looked at the glass case that held a Pip-buck and a bunch of weapons and armour and also a journal.

It's been 50 year's since the Lightbringer helped this world. She was born in a world of green and not as many dangers. She watched as a large robot known as Ra Proto walking around the town guarding it. She looked up at the gate seeing an old blue mare with a shield on her flank. Along with a Griffin watching with her. She walked away running into a large metal pony. He seemed to be turned off. But she has seen this pony here ever since she was born. She kicked him hating running into this pony. The eyes turning on and stared at the little creature.

Walking away staring at the graves looking at it with great sadness. Then started to do a patrol like the other robot.

She sighed and walked into the building she shared with many other creatures but her family had their own room. She was the daughter of a princess but...she didn't like it... She was treated so differently. The Reaper fields no longer needed him since it was fully protected without him. The only part that is still full of danger is the bog on the way. But she sighed walking to the school since she could learn something and went inside. Seeing Deep thought the changeling he was already had a school session going on. He was teaching much different. Races he was a kind gentle soul that loved to teach young minds. He taught her every day along with her friends. She walked back to check on her grandfather noticing something.

Her paws in the sand looking at them blinking. She never knew that her kind had these type of paws. The hunch in her back was starting to hurt so she got on all fours to look closer at the paws. They meant something to her it seems and she looked up seeing Ra Proto staring at her.

"...I...um..not doing anything wrong am I?"

Proto spoke. "Scanning....scanning....scanning... Error...error...." Just sparked a bit and walked back along its path. She blinked and sighed walking back to see her Grandfather. She heard the pony and him arguing.

"You can't just stay awake Cannon... You need to rest!!"

Cannon laughs. "Oh come on did you say the same to when you asked...her....oops." He covered his mouth and Kip walked out of the room tears falling from her eyes.

"Kip!" He yelled. "I am sorry... I keep forgetting how painful it is to you all." He sighed and leaned in his bed. "Damn it... Cannon."

She walked into the room and Cannon smiled.

"Grandfather.... I wish for the rest of the story."

He blinked and sighed.

"Alright, little one."

He sat up and sighed a bit.

Well, let's see if I remember correctly. Ah yes, our species. It was ten years after the world ended. We found a group of ponies... That seemed friendly enough at first they gave us enough food to live and some books that they found. But these ponies didn't care what we looked like... But there would be time's we would meet those that didn't care for us. But at this time it was before it became that... We ate and read the books they gave us. We learned more of the world we were in but we couldn't use the magic. it was something we didn't care to learn really. But the idea of magic in this world was something we stayed near. A book that some read was how to build weapons. We built them and found made sure we made enough to protect the pack and the little town we formed. But as it went on. Some strange monsters started showing up in the world above so it was going to be harder to learn of the city above.

Some of our kind didn't return it was starting to become more known... That if we were going to live we needed to sneak through the city by using the very sewers. So every now and then they went above to find more way's to get out of the city and in the city. But some of us started to die because...not all of us could handle the changes to our bodies. So it would take many generations to fix that. But of course, it's was something we had to deal with. But it wasn't the only thing we had to deal with. Some of the ponies started becoming what is known raiders.

Very very nasty ponies that wished to harm us. But we took out a lot of them as well. More years have past and we started getting very paranoid of the ponies above us. We didn't trust them unless they wanted to trade with us. We also gave ourselves a name the Pack Rats. Because we took everything we found. But the problem with the ponies they even started attacking the ones we traded with. So at times, we found the ones we traded with were dead... But not always from raiders. Some of the creatures of the city got pretty nasty even. It got to the point we didn't even leave to look for ponies. But that happen when above got very nasty. We would sometimes find dead bodies in the sewers and take whatever we could from them. Then to live we took the bodies and cooked them. But again we are rats we had to find a way to live.

So every time we went into the buildings we made sure it was basements. Some basements had protection in them and ponies. But we head some our kind that could sneak through the basements that helped us find the endless food and weapons that were left behind but the ponies of old. But the issues for us were becoming even worse. But our time for the worst would be so long after. But a lot of ponies started to trade a bit along manehatten we tried to trade again. They started shooting us. So we had to stay in the sewers even more.

Cannon ball started coughing couldn't speak anymore and laid back.

"I can't tell you anymore tonight... My little granddaughter." He coughs more and Kip rushed back in with water and helped him drink with her magic.

"Snow paw..please let him rest."

She sighed and nodded.

250 years ago. A war broke out in Equestria that would change Equestria forever. The Lightbringer brought back peace. Ten years after the Gardens of Equestria were started up and brought life back to Equestria. Most were alive to see this. Cannon Ball is one of the few only Rat Creepers along with his daughter being the only remaining Rat Creepers that were alive during that time. 40 years after he is now slowly dying like the rest of the old that brought back peace to their new home. He is the only Rat Creeper that remembers how it was before..he became King..now he has little time to explain the story before he passes away.

Written by: Megaskullmon

Editor: rainbowscoots1

Fallout Equestria: Rat paws in the sand.