The Scaled Courierby Chaos NightmareChaptersS.P.E.C.I.A.L, Skill, Perks and GearChapter 1 Welcome to Our Town editedChapter 2 Return home editedChapter 3 The party editedChapter 5 The Past part 1Chapter 6 Lazy daysChapter 7 Diamond Dog risingNoticeFinal messageChapter 4 The talk editedS.P.E.C.I.A.L, Skill, Perks and GearSpike 'Scales' stats S.P.E.C.I.A.L Strength 10 Perception 7 Endurance 7 Charisma 7 Intelligence 10 Agility 6 Luck 6 Skill [/hr] Barter 100 Energy weapons 92 Explosive 92 Guns 100 Lockpicking 100 Medicine 100 Melee Weapons 87 Repair 80 Science 100 Sneak 87 Speech 100 Survival 100 Unarmed 100 Perks Abominable 3 Adamantium Skeleton Animal Control Animal Friend 2 Better Criticals Big Brained Bonds of Steel Broad Daylight Bug Stomper 2 Burden to Bear Camarader-E 4 Camel of the Mojave Cardiac Arrest Certified Tech Coin Operator Commando Comprehesion Computer Whiz Day Tripper DMAgent DNAvenger 2 Educated Explorer Eye for Eye Fast Metabolism Fortune Finder Free Radical Grim Reapers Sprint Hand Loader Heavyweight Here and Now Intence Training 9 Lessons Learned Lonesome Road Lord Death Machine Head 2 Marked Mysterious Stranger Nuka Chemist Plasma Spaz Power Armor Training Quick Draw Ranger Takedown Rapid Reload Reinforced Spine Retention Roughin It Scourge of the East Scrounger Sierra Madre Martini Skilled Strong Back Super Slam Swift Learner 3 Tag! Them's Good Eatin' Thought You Died Tought Guy Vigiliant Recycler Walker Instinct Weapon Handling Wild Wastland Weapons A Light In Shining Darkness AER14 Prototype Anti-Material Rifle Big Mountain Transponder Blood-Nap Dinner Bell Elijah's Advanced LAER Flare gun Flash bangs Frag Grenades Frag Mines Holorifle Maria Marksman Carbine Paladin Toaster Plasma Grenades Plasma Mines Protonic Inversal Axe Survivalist Rifle Clothing Advanced Riot Gear Advanced Riot Gear Helmet Courier Duster Daniel's Hat Daniel's Outfit Rebreather Stealth Suit Mk II Ulysses' Duster Benny's suit Chapter 1 Welcome to Our Town editedI woke up on the side of a mountain, wondering how I got from a little shack-turn-Inn in Wyoming to the side of a mountain. I was glad I was in my Riot gear because something told me that it was pretty cold up here, probably the snow. Not used to cold in the wasteland, well, snow cold anyway. Either way I needed to find a town soon or I would have to fly in a random direction till I found something and I hated that. My wings grew in alright, or so I assumed, but the risk of being shot isn’t worth it. Part of why I loved hearing Riot gear, too many people mistook me for a small super mutant. Half an hour passed as I walked through the snow covered hills and I finally found a town in the distance. I pulled out my Anti-Material Rifle to scope it out. Just to make sure it wasn't a raider camp, been there don’t wanna do that again. What I saw surprised me. "Ponies? I'm back In Equestria?" I said to myself as I remembered the last time I was In Equestria. I was having an argument with Twilight about something that I don't remember anymore. "Fine." I shouted as I left the Library running for who knows how long till I ended up In the Everfree forest. I heard a noise that startled me. "Hello?" I said, scared. "Is anypony out there?" I asked to myself as I walked backwards into something. "Twilight?" As I turned around to see a Timberwolf staring at me "*gulp* hello Mr. Timberwolf." Backing up, I saw more of them came out of the bushes. Seeing this I decided to run away from them. After a short while I lost them by climbing up a tree. 'I hope I lost them.' I thought to myself as I yawned as my eyes closed 'I guess I could sleep for a while before I return to Twilight and apologies.' I thought to myself as I drifted into sleep. When next I woke up I wouldn't be in Equestria anymore. As I drifted out of my thoughts as I entered the town. Many eyes were on me as they haven't seen Armor like mine before. As I walked through the town I saw a group of ponies that looked familiar 'Twilight?' I thought to myself before going, 'No that can’t be them, it’s been years.' But as I got closer I overheard one of them speak. "Come on Fluttershy." The pony who said it was a pink unicorn with a purple mane holding staff. Her voice rubbed me the wrong way, It was too friendly, which normally wouldn't raise any flags for an Equestrian, but for a wastelander It was easy to pick up. "Oh, hello. I'm Starlight Glimmer. Welcome to Our Town." I decided to play along. "Hi I'm... Big Iron. I was wondering where I was?" lying about my name, not the first time I’ve done that. I’ve actually rarely used my real name since I appeared in the Wastelands. "Well like I said, your in Our town. That's the name of the town by the way, but in any case welcome to our lovely little town. We'll bring you some food for your stay." She said as the town started to leave to do their roles. As Fluttershy passed me she whispered something in my ear. "You need to get out of here!" Before walking away. It was confirmation as to what my gut feeling had told me that this town was bad news. As I wandered the town I thought back to when I found myself in Arroyo. Arroyo, 25 years ago. I woke up in a a patch of grass, I looked around for the tree I was sleeping in, but nothing around me looked like the area I was sleeping in. It didn't even look like the Everfree forest anymore! "Hello." I said to nobody as I heard a noise behind me as a large gecko like creature came out of the bush. I screamed as more of them came out of the bushes and started chasing me. I ran away screaming. After a few minutes of running I ran into a dead end I shouted and cried as they were getting close then, I heard a sound I would soon become all too familiar with. I just looked at the bodies of the geckos as a large figure came up to me and spoke. "Hello little guy." I looked up to see a large human, at least that’s how Lyra always described them as, standing over me and the sight of him caused me to faint. The old man PoV, a few minutes ago I was out for a walk out in the hunting grounds near the town when I heard someone scream coming from the area. 'Shit, I told the children not to play here.' I thought to myself as I pulled out my old 10mm to go save the child, but when I got there I saw a purple gecko being chased by a group of larger geckos. Probably a runt being chased by some alphas. I ran to shoot the back of one in the back of the head before they turned to face me. I shoot the one on the left, killing it before shooting the last one dead. With that done I went up to the little guy. "Hello little guy." I said hoping that it wouldn't try to attack me, but it collapsed in front of me. "Poor thing must have been running for a while." I picked it up to bring back to my hut in the village. As I entered the village I stopped one of the guards "Gather a hunting party, there’s a child lost in the hunting grounds." I told him as I headed to my hut to focus on the… gecko? "Now what are you?" I asked as I looked at the gecko "There is no w-..." I begin to say as the gecko mumbled something. "Five more minutes Twilight." It mumbled as I shook it awake It looked around as if it was wondering where it was. "What happened?" IIt spoke in the voice I heard screaming earlier. I went out of my tent to tell one somebody to tell the headhunter to recall the hunters the child that I had heard was the mutant gecko I had found. As I reentered my hut I found that he was looking at his claws in confusion. "You're a human right?" It asked. I nodded and said yes which made him more confused "Where am I?" He asked. "You are in the town of Arroyo." I said as he tried to climb down from the table. I helped him down. "Do you have a quill and paper?" He asked I looked around for some paper, but I had no idea what a quill was. "Here I don't think I have a quill, but do you need a pencil?" I asked handing him a piece of paper before heading off to find a pencil or pen. As soon as he wrote something up he took a deep breath and burned the letter. "Why did you do that!?" I yelled, stomping out the fire. He just looked at the fire mumbling how it didn't work. Was something else supposed to happen just now? "Are you okay?" I asked as he started to cry. "No. I don't know where I am and I can't get back home." He cried. "Well... you can stay with me for as long as you need to." I said trying to comfort him. He’s like a toddler really. The gecko, er, kid? looked up at me. "R, rely?" I looked at him for a moment as he hugged me. Yeah, he’s just a kid. "What's your name little fella?" "I'm spike." PoV Spike I snapped out of my thoughts as I was being lead into a cave. The townsfolk, that could/would, told me they were being controlled by Starlight Glimmer, which I didn't buy due to the fact that If that were true then she would be trying to steal my nonexistent cutie mark. As I entered the cave I played along, but couldn't help but be surprised at the wall of cutie marks. "Well that's a nice collection you got there. So where is yours?" I asked as a surprised Starlight came out of hiding. As she opened her mouth I spoke before she could. "Save the 'I'm better then you' talk and just get on with it." She looked offended, but complied by lifting me up in the air as she was about to say something I dropped a flashbang down. "What’s this? Your big plan?" She mocked, levitating the flashbang close to her face causing me to smirked underneath my helmet. That’s gonna hurt~ "I wouldn't hold it so close to you if I were you." I spoke as It went off. She screamed, blinded and fear in her voice. Her not being able to see anything caused her to drop me. I fell on my feet where I ran and punched her in the face, knocking her out. I grabbed her staff and broke it into pieces, I then took a key from her unconscious body to unlock one of the Cutie mark containers letting one fly off to whomever it belongs to before I placed a grenade in its container then pulled the pin. Would have taken forever if it was one-by-one. I told everypony to run as I grabbed Starlight Slimmer and ran out of the cave before the grenade exploded, causing all the cutie marks to fly off to there respective owners all except for Starlight's. "Where's her cutie mark?" One of the ponies asked I had a feeling. "Somepony bring me a bucket of water, I have an idea." Fluttershy came to me holding a bucket in her wings. "Thank you." I said pouring the bucket over Starlight Glimmer waking her up and revealing her cutie mark. She just painted over it. *Gasp* everypony said as she stood up "What?" she asked before noticing that her cutie mark wasn't a equal sign, but a star and waves. Before she could say anything Twilight and her friends came out to give a Friendship speech, but as she was in the middle of it Starlight shouted "QUIET!" Stopping Twilight in her tracks. Before she could teleport away I punched her again knocking her out. "You didn't need to do that!" Twilight yelled as I placed Starlight on the ground. "Does anypony have a rope? I don't want this bounty to get away." Twilight seemed surprised. "Bounty? There's a bounty on her?" "Probably, I mean she did kidnap an Alicorn Princess." She rolled her eyes. "Okay, so what you're saying is that there's no bounty on her" "Okay maybe not, but she did hold you hostage and try to brainwash all of you." I retorted. "Fine I'll give you a bounty when we get to Canterlot." "Great." I said as A.J. handed me some rope to tie Starlight up with. "Before we head out I need to do something real quick." I said, leaving them with Starlight wondering where their cutie marks where. Canterlot, Celestia PoV I was finishing a stack of paperwork when I had gotten a note in a way that I haven't gotten In awhile. Via Spike. It had been months since he disappeared and I couldn't reach him, but to finally get word from him was making me happy. The note was short but made me cry in joy. Hey mom, I'm coming home with Twilight, but you may not recognize me (Twilight sure doesn’t, neither does the others) but look for the one In black and a helmet. Love spike My son was coming home! Chapter 2 Return home editedThe train ride home was awkward to say the least, with Twilight and Applejack giving me a bad look while Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and Rarity kept asking me questions. ‘Who I was’, ‘What was I doing in 'Our Town' ‘, ‘Why did I help them’ and most importantly ‘Where did I get my armor’. I tried to ignore all of it and look out the window trying to see the countryside, it brought me back to the time I spent In Arroyo. Arroyo 23 years ago It had been a few years since I just appeared here and I had gotten used to the town. Took a while, but everyone got used to me too. "Spike come on." Tyler, the old man that took me in, said. "Coming Sir." I shouted as I ran over to the Temple of Trials. This town started off as just a small tribe some many years ago and now… it’s a thriving city. That was long before I got here though. When I got there, I saw him placing bottles along the walls. "Okay Spike, you are going to take this," He said, handing me a BB gun. "And shoot those bottles." He finished. I looked at him and then back to the large, compared to me, toy gun he had handed me and simply asked the greatest of all philosophy questions to exist on any world. "Why?" He looked at me for a minute before speaking. "I'm teaching you how to shoot a gun because you’re not going to spend your whole life here, and I want to teach you how to defend yourself." "Do I need to hurt people in order to protect myself?" He looked at me for a time. "Well... That's a hard question to answer Spike and I for one I can't answer." I thought about it for a minute before I tried my hands at shooting the bottles. I missed the first few times, but after an hour of practice I finally hit one. "That's good Spike. Now look down the sights for better accuracy." I did as he asked. This time it only took half an hour for me to hit a bottle. "Good Spike. Just takes time. Let’s head back, it should be diner time soon." "Now arriving at Canterlot Station!" The announcer called. Snapping me out of my memories . "Okay, I'll lead you to the castle." Twilight said as we got up from our seats and walked out of the train and were greeted by some royal guards. "We were instructed to escort you and your friends to the castle as an order from Princess Celestia." The head guard said as they began to lead Twilight and her friends away, leaving me behind. "Hey what about me?" I said as I ran after them. "Halt!" One of them shouted. "Get any closer to the prin-" He started as Twilight Interrupted him. Meh, had worse welcomes. Much worse welcomes. "He's with us." Twilight said as the guard looked at her like, ‘Are you sure?' but didn't question it. As we got to the castle and entered the throne room, we were greeted by Princess Celestia. Well… not to surprised she hasn’t changed at all. "Hello Twilight, I was told that Spike was going to be with you." She said as Twilight gave a confused look. "How? We never sent a letter... We can’t even send letters, we don't have Spike." I smirked under my helmet. "Well the note did say you wouldn't recognize me, and to look for the one in black." I said as I took my helmet off giving her a smile. Everypony looked at me, clearly not believing that I am Spike, before Celestia jumped on me hugging me "Oh sweetie! You're back!" She said as she stroked my back. "Okay mom, you can stop your hurting me." That was a half truth. In reality she was squeezing my fresher scars too tight, but as she stopped I could feel the glares of the others. Well this will be as fun as killing raiders with a BB gun. "How do we know that this is really Spike? It could be a changeling trying to feed or another dragon trying to steal treasure from Canterlot." Twilight said as the rest of the girls nodded and everypony turned to Applejack. "What are ya'll lookin at me fer” "Well you’re the Element of Honesty, so you can tell if he's lying, right?" Rainbow asked. "If ah couldn't tell that Chrysalis was lying to mah face I wouldn't be able to tell if this dragon is Spike or not. It's like saying Rarity would hand out free dresses because she's the element of Generosity." Applejack earned a glare from Rarity with that statement. "Twilight's first kiss was when you were thirteen with her own brother" Twilight's face went red and the other girls looked at her strange. "There was a loose floorboard I tripped and accidentally kissed him!" She defended before looking at the ground in shame. Everypony looked at me wondering what that was about. "Hey, you said prove I was Spike and I did." They all looked at each other. "Now about that bounty?" Everypony looked back at me. "What? I still want the caps." "Caps Darling? As in bottle caps?" Rarity asked. "That's a story for another day." I said, not wanting to tell them about the wasteland. A place like that would give them all nightmares. Did me most of my first year with all the stories I was told. "So Spike, where were you? And how did you get so big!?" Celestia asked. "That is also a story for another day..." Before I could ask a question myself, my stomach growled and Celestia took a quick notice. "Perhaps we should get something to eat first?" We all headed inside the castle and Starlight headed to the dungeons. "Wait, Canterlot Castle has a dungeon?" Twilight asked as we walked to the dining room. It was filled with food and my mouth was watering just looking at it all. Half an hour of eating later we started talking again. "Wow Spike! You sure can pack it down." Pinkie said. I was trying to speak with some food in my mouth, but Rarity took offence. "Please finish eating before you speak please Darling." Rarity said, disgusted at my lack of manners. "*gulp* Sorry I was trying to say, this was the best food I've had In twentyfive years." Everypony looked surprised, which was justified. They all looked at each other before Twilight spoke. "Twentyfive years? Spike you’re not that old." "Yes I am, I was gone for twentyfive years." They still looked shocked. "Which reminds me, how do you all still look the same?" "I knew he was an Impostor! The real Spike has only been gone for three months!" Rainbow said before jumping off the table to tackle me. I dodged and put her into an armlock. She had the greatest WTF face I’ve ever seen. "Try that again, I dare you" I threaten as everypony gasps. I started applying some extra pressure, hurting Rainbow Dash a little. "Spike, Rainbow, stop that! There is a reasonable explanation for all this!" Twilight said, turning to Celestia. "Right Celestia?" Everypony looked at Celestia as I let Rainbow go skimpier back to her side of the table. That’s gonna bruise her ego for… five minutes tops. "Well Spike may have fallen into a temporal anomaly that took him to from the Everfree forest to where ever he ended up, then to the mountains near... Our-Town. That's what the town was called right?" Everypony nodded. "Okay, so if this tepi-whose-it is real, then why is he that big? I'm pretty sure that a dragon would still be a baby size or at least a little taller than we last saw him." Rainbow Dash added. "Oh there is an easy explanation for that, Greed Growth." I said as everypony looked at me like I was crazy. "What I learned how to control my greed so I can stay in my teenage form without any of the side effects." "Sister what is all the commotion in here?" Luna said as she entered the dining room, laying eyes on me immediately. "Hello Auntie Luna." I say as she looks at me for a bit before realizing who I was. "SPIKE! YOU'VE RETURNED!" She shouts as she tackle-hugs me. "Ow ow ow, aunt Luna you're hugging to hard." I say as she lets go. "We are so sorry Spike." She apologized. "Did you get bigger?" "Yes we were discussing that. Apparently he was gone from his perspective 25 year." Celestia says nonchalantly as Luna looks surprised. "Ah, the old Temporal anomaly thing." Luna said before anyone could ask questions. "I read it in a book, hold on." She teleported away and teleporting back in seconds. "Here it is." She declared, putting the book on the table. " 'The legend of Maxx.' Why haven't I heard about this book before?" Twilight asked as it became clear to her it was a graphic novel, stuff she avoids. And another ego bruised. "Well in ether case Spike's back you know what this calls for A PARTY!" Pinkie exclaimed as Celestia agreed wholeheartedly. "Yes, we shall have a Party in Canterlot for the return of my son." Celestia said, bumming Pinkie out that she couldn't plan the party herself. While they were talking about the party I headed to my old room in the castle to sleep. Arroyo 15 years ago "Hey old man, you here?" I asked as Tyler looked on from his tent. "Over here Spike!" He said as I walked in on the old man talking with an NCR representative. They’ve been at it a while now. "We were just about finished making a deal for Arroyo to become part of the NCR. It will just be a few minutes. Could you wait?" He asked as he was finishing up with the NCR representative. Ten or twelve minutes passed and the representative left the tent. I entered and saw Tyler sitting on a chair. "So Spike, what's going on?'" "I'm leaving the village to join the NCR military." I said, expecting him to be surprised, but he just drank his tea peacefully. Was he expecting this? "That’s good for you. Kids gotta grow up somehow and see the world, or what’s left of it. When are you leaving?" "In a few hours I just wanted to say good bye and thanks for taking me in." I say, hugging him before I left, all the things I decided to take with me in a rucksack and headed off. Chapter 3 The party editedI was in Twilight's treehouse, getting ready for the day of helping Twilight with her work. I honestly missed doing this. "I'm ready to help Twilight.." I said to her, sounding like I did when I was ten. "Why would I want your help, MURDERER?" She said, glaring at me. "W-what?" I was stunned. "You heard me MURDERER, why would I want your help?" she chased me out with her magic. As I was confused I ran into Rainbow Dash and Applejack at the food venders. "Oh, hey Girls. whats up?" They glared at me. Not again. "Oh, hello MURDERER" Rainbow Dash said as she and AJ turned to face away from me. "What's going on?" I asked myself. I walked to the carousel boutique, ponies were giving me bad looks as I walked towards Rarity’s boutique. "Hello?" I shout as I entered the boutique. "Ah yeas welcome to Carousel Boutique where everything is... Oh it’s you MURDERER. Get out, I have nothing for you here MURDERER. She then got a broom and tried to swat me out of her Boutique "Whats going on?" I asked myself. I saw Moms chariot in the sky heading towards Twilight’s Library. I ran towards the chariot as It was landing. "Hi mom." I said with a happy tone as she looked at me with disgust. Her… too. "Oh hello MURDERER, please don't call me mom anymore." She said as she walked passed me and into Twilight's Library. "Whats going on!?" I shouted as ponies surrounded me, shouting at me in a chant. MURDERER! MURDERER! MURDERER! They walked around me. I woke up in a cold sweat. "What... happened?" I asked myself as I got up from my bed went for my bag pulling, out some whiskey. "last bottle, darn." I said before I started drinking from the bottle. I finished the bottle and thought to myself, 'what was that dream about?' I asked myself as I glanced down at my Pipboy. 'Only 4:30.' I thought to myself as I put on what I thought was my duster when, it was Ulysses' duster I soon realized, nut didn’t care at the moment, I also took A Light In Shining Darkness and Blood-nap just in case some punk tries to mug me. Freeside was enough to make it a habit. The walk was peaceful, nobody tried to mug me, there were no Legion troops telling me that the caesar had marked me for death, no Deathclaws or Cazadors trying to attack me. That last part happened more than it should have. One time Legion ran into me at the same time a Deathclaw pack did. Even then there was no truce, those idiots were too brainwashed. The night was perfect, so why did I feel off. I pulled out my Vault 13 canteen and took a drink of water. I looked through my Pipboy to see what time it was 'only 5:00.' I thought to myself as I yawned 'I should head back to bed.' I thought to myself as I headed back home. The rest of the day passed as nothing of note really happened. Just talks about the party, what music I would want, what kind of food should be there, and so on. A week passed quickly as it was now time for the party. Mom wanted me to have a custom made suit for it, but I insisted that I already had one. I was behind curtains waiting my announcement, as soon as I was was announced the curtains went up and ponies gasped at the sight of a dragon in a suit as I walked down. I heard mumbling of ponies, one pony said that my suit was tacky, which it was, another was commenting on how it was outrageous that the Princesses son was a dragon and so on and so on. After that was done with I said hello to Twilight and the gang. "So Spike where did you get that suit?" Rarity asked. "I got it from a guy was bugging me." I said a half truth. Benny did bug me, I just left out the part where he nearly killed me and I killed him with his own gun. As we were talking, Blueblood came over to talk "Oh... hello Blueblood." Rarity said. trying to be as polite as possible. "Hello, Rarity was it?" He asked before turning to me "Spike! It’s been far too long." "Hello Blueblood, It’s so nice to see you" I said. "How have you been?" "Oh, I've been fine" I lied. Last twentyfive years were hell compared to home… then again, it’s hell for them too. "So how did you go to get so big so fast?" "I'd rather not say." I was attempting to leave, I was getting social anxiety. Wasteland will do that. "Come on, tell us "Pinkie said, jumping. "No means no Pinkie." I tell her as I head for the bar. "Where are you going?" Twilight asked. "To the bar. I need a drink." I say, trying to leave this conversation. "You can't drink, your just a baby," Twilight when Blueblood cut in. "Actually, according to the Law Spike being a dragon means he can drink when ever he wants to... and by that I mean no matter his age he is allowed to drink. Some stuff involving their metabolism and high resistance to poisons." Blueblood explained as I went towards the bar. "How do you even know that?" "Well you don't think I spend all my time swatting Mares away and staring at Stallions all day, do you?" He explain to everyponies surprise when he said stallions. "So that means your..." Rainbow started. "Gay, yes." He finished. “Most mares don’t care, some try and get me drunk so an ‘incident’ will occur and they can marry into the royal family.” “I had no idea Blueblood.” Rarity said. “I figured since you aren’t from Canterlot. While I admit you look lovely Rarity, without a pair and shaft you are not my type.” As they kept talking I went to the bar to get a drink. "So what will you have?" The bartender asked. "I'll take a rum and cola." I said as he poured me the drink. As the night went on I kept on I headed outside to clear my head. I couldn’t get that stupid dream out of my head. "Spike we need to talk" Luna said. I didn’t even notice when she walked next to me. "What is is it auntie Luna?" I asked in a semi drunk tone. Man I must have drank a lot... "I saw your dreams for the past few nights and we need to talk about them." She said with a stern voice. I quickly sobered up "What are you talking about?" "Like I said we need to talk but not here meet me tomorrow" She said as she flew away, I headed back inside trying to forget what Luna said for the moment and went back into the Party. After the party I headed to my room where Luna was waiting for me. "I thought we were going to talk tomorrow?" I asked as I realised she was holding Elijah's Advanced LAER! "Please put that down." "I was just admiring the trinket you have 'A victor's spoil' am I correct?" she asked "Please don't play with that it's a deadly weapon." I say covering my mouth as I let slip that I have weapons. "So you have weapons?" She asked as she teleported behind me and grabbed Maria, she held it pointed at me. This will only end badly. "How do you use it?" She asked as her finger went over the trigger. *BANG* A shot went off, hitting me in the shoulder. "SON OF A BITCH!" I shouted as Luna dropped the gun which I then picked up because it was important to me. "I'm so sorry!" Luna said, not knowing what to do as I went over to my backpack and pulled out a first aid kit full of stimpacks and drugs. I pulled out a dose of Med-X and a Stimpack before I injected myself with the med-X, then went for the stim. "It's okay, you didn't know what would have happened I said "But could you leave for a few minutes I need to change" I asked. "Sure." She said as she teleported out of my room. "Well that's one way to get out of a conversation." I said as I took of my clothing and changed into a undershirt and underpants. I went to bed, dreading tomorrow as it would be the day I would have to tell everypony about the wastelands. Chapter 5 The Past part 1I stood in line at Navarro Outpost which from what the old man said was former Enclave territory that had gotten repurposed as an NCR training ground, I stood with the other recruits getting weird looks from them. "Is Something funny you FEV reject!?" The drill Sergeant asked as I looked at him. "NO SIR!" I responded scared out of my mind. "GOOD!" the Sergeant said as he handed out Service rifles. "These are the standard Service Rifles, these will be your best friend in the field." he said as we got into position and fired our guns at a series of targets the best of us would have the chance to become Rangers. ** In vault city. "Get out of here Mutant." A passer-by said as I walked with my unit patrolling the City close to the barrack. "Ignore them son." My commander said as we walked into the barracks. "Man Scales, you really should see the city at night." My bunkmate said as I rolled my eyes "I would if I could but most of the city hates me for being a mutant and won't give me service not even the fast food places" I said, I had been classified as A mutant for so long I started to forget about Equestria, about Twilight and mom, about the fact I was a Dragon and well everything. ** It had been a year since I was an NCR soldier. It was nice while it lasted but when It came time to re-enlist I did want to take that, I simply wanted to wander the wastes and luckily for me as the Unit that I would have been sent with was sent to fight at the battle of Hoover dam and some of the people I knew where lost in the battle and While I was morning them I was also glad that I wasn't there as I had a feeling I would have died there, instead I walked between the NCR territory's and the Mojave for a while now. ** I was on my way through Goodsprings to deliver a package to New Vegas, not that would let me in, no, new vegas is for humans and no mutants allowed, bullshit I've seen ghouls go in so why not mutant allowed? I thought to myself as I walked up the hill to get a good vue of Vegas from here, but as I got to the top I felt something hit the back of my head and I was knocked out. When I came to my senses I awoke to see that my hands where gloved and bound and I was gagged. "You got what you were after so pay up." somebody said as I tried to struggle my way out of the ropes. "Your crying in the rain, palley." another person said as I began to look up. "Huh, guess who's waking up over here." a third person said as I looked up to see two great. Khans and some asshole in a suit? "Time to cash out." the asshole said. The first khan said. "will you get it over with." the asshole put his finger up shutting the khan up. "Maybe Khan's kill people without looking them in the face, but I ain't a fink, dig?" he said pulling out the chip I was supposed to deliver. "You've made your last delivery , Kid." he said putting the chip away. " Sorry you got twisted up in this scene." he said pulling out a gold plated gun. "From where you're kneeling it must seem like an 18 carat run of bad luck." he pointed his gun at me "Truth is, game was rigged by the start." he said firing the bullet in my head/ After that everything goes dark and I awoke in Doc Mitchell's house. "whoa take it easy there son." The good doctor said "You're in goodsprings, you took a bullet to the head." he said as I panicked. "Calm down I managed to get it out, well what mattered anyway" he said as I grabbed a mirror to see my face it was the same as it was only with a little scar on the side of one of my cut spines, it was barely noticeable. "Thanks." I said as I got up. "Whoa easy now" he said holding me. "Let's get you up." he said helping me off the bed before sending me to a Vit-o-matic Vigor Tester to see what my S.P.E.C.I.A.L stats were and took me to his couch to ask me some questions before sending me on my way to see somebody named Sunny smiles. "Before you go I want to give you this my Pipboy I don't really have a use for it anymore." he said giving it to me. "Thanks."I said as I left for the saloon where I met with Sunny Smiles. "Cheyenne down girl, sorry she thinks you're a giant gecko, bad dog." She said, scolding her dog "You must be the mutant Doc Mitchell patched up, I must say your not what I thought you would look like." she said. "Yeah I'm not what anybody expects." I said scratching the back of my head as we headed out to the back of the saloon to practice shooting some sunset sarsaparilla bottles before she offered me a job. "You're pretty good with a rifle wanna help me clear out some geckos?" she asked. "Sure." I said as she lead me to the reservoir where the Geckos were, after a few head shots we cleared out the first two area's and were heading to the third one when we heard a scream coming from the third water reservoir , I ran ahead seeing a young woman being attacked by three geckos I didn't have time to pull out my 9mm pistol or my varmint rifle so I grabbed one of the geckos and snapped its neck before throwing the corpse at the second gecko knocking it down a hill where it cracked its head before grabbing the final and cooking it alive with my fire breath I must have looked like a demon from hell when I did this as when I looked at the girl who called out for help she looked terrified. "Are you okay?" I asked as she just ran away as I looked at sunny smiles who was startled to say the least. "Okay? well before you go I should show you how to survive in the wastes, though I’m not sure you’ll need them." she said as I sorta rolled my eyes but reluctantly agreed to do it. After gathering the ingredients from the school which reminded me of something and graveyard next to my grave I made some healing powder and went to meet with Trudy. "You have till tomorrow or were taking this town down." A rather rude man said to what I'm guessing was Trudy after introducing myself and fixing her radio Trudy told me that the men who shot me probably went south to Primm and after seeing ringo who asked me to help with the help of Sunny and the town we managed to kill the powder gangers. "Thanks for the help, I know that a payment wasn't on the table but here." Ringo said handing me a hundred caps and as I was preparing to leave the woman who ran from me earlier came up to me. "I'm sorry I didn't thank you at the reservoir but here." she said handing me three bottles of clean water. "this is for saving my life." she said before running off. As I made my way to Primm I was stopped by a man who said his wife was trapped between some Geckos which turned out to be a trap and a man who explained me what blue started caps where as I had gotten a few on my travels, though I was kicking myself as I remember paying for stuff with those blue caps before back in the NCR. When I got to Primm I was told to see a Lt.Hayes who told me that a bunch of escaped convicts had taken over the town and that they didn't have the manpower to take the town back, So I went into the town killing the few that were out there and entering the Vikki and Vance Casino and being met with a gun to my head "Whoa." I said. "I'm not one of the escaped convicts." I said as the man put his gun down. "I don't know what it was brought you to Primm, youngster, but you might want to rethink your plans. Town's gone to hell.” he said. "I'm a courier from Mojave outpost." I said as I handed him a manifest of my job. "I'm looking for information." I said. "Let me see that." He said reading the manifest. "Oh it was one of those jobs." he said. "That cowboy robot had us hire six couriers. Each was carrying something a little different. A pair of dice, a chess piece, that kind of stuff. Last word I had from the office, it looked like payment had been received for the other five jobs. Guess it was just your chip that didn't make it. First deadbeat we hired to do the job canceled. Hope a storm from the Divide skins him alive. Well, that's where you came in." "You mean that robot cowboy?" I said pointing to the Protectron. "No it was a different robot." he said. "what about the guy that canceled?" I asked. "Yeah, got this look when he saw you next down on the Courier list. His expression turned right around, asked me if your name was for real. I said, sure as lack of rain, you were still kicking. Then he turned down the job, just like that. I asked if he was sure, it was good money. No, let "Courier Six" carry the package, that's what he said - like the Mojave'd sort you out or something. Then he just up and walked out." he said as I wondered who this other courier was. "Anyway my package got stolen by some asshole in a tacky suit." I said. You should ask deputy Beagle,Well, you can call Beagle a deputy so long as you don't harbor too high an opinion of the word. Boy was 'bout as useful as tits on a radscorpion. Only qualification he ever had was to be brother to the wife of the sheriff. Still, I s'pose he don't deserve what's befell him. We would've considered paying the ransom, if we'd had caps to spare." he said as I left the casino to head to the Bison steve hotel where I killed some more escaped convicts and got the deputy out. "Thanks a lot." he said. "Can you give me some information on the people I'm looking for?" I asked. "Well I could but my memories a bit foggy maybe getting the town a new sheriff would help." he said as I rolled my eyes and wondered why he wasn't sheriff before I went to the NCR encampment to ask them to to take over the town, they said if they could get more help from the outpost they would annex the town, so I walked to the outpost where I introduced myself to the commander knight and did a job for the ranger posted there, I was rewarded with a service rifle which reminded me of my service days. when I got back and informed the camp that they had the authority to annex the town I went back to deputy Beagle. "Well if it isn't the lawbringer." he said sarcastically. "What crawled up your ass?" I asked. 'It's just I'm not deputy anymore, apparently a few months of experience doesn't account for anything." he said all angry. “Yeah boo who now can you tell me about those guys?" I asked. "Yeah, they went down to Nipton." he said as I had my next destination. Chapter 6 Lazy daysA few days after I told Mom the girls and Luna about the wasteland or at least a version of my story I went into the city of Canterlot. I still got a few stairs, as a Dragon in strange clothing it was not a common sight in Canterlot, but as long as nobody was denying me service for being a Dragon or mutant I was too happy to endure the stairs. I made my way to a burger stand when some foal said "look mommy a dragon." and pointed at me. "Free Swimmer that's rude." she said scolding the foal before she turned to "I'm sorry sir." "It's okay I almost forgot what I was." I joked as I was called worse before so it didn't faze me I walked up to the counter and ordered my hayburger as the day of questionable meats while sometimes good was over for me for better or worse. I then headed to the park to enjoy my food. While in the park I saw families playing people enjoying themselves and other thing you wouldn't commonly see in the Mojave, maybe the NCR if you were lucky, but not the Mojave. after I finished eating a soccer ball was kicked in my direction. "Hey Mr. can you kick the ball in our direction?" The colt asked as I kicked the ball back to him. "Thanks MR." the colt said running with his ball. It was nice to see green again and not be underground or have mutant plant monsters. But as I was preparing to leave when I heard rattling from the bush beside me and old instincts kicked in as I drew Maria. As a squirrel came out of the bush I put Maria back in the holster and walked away before I embarrassed myself or hurt somepony. I decided to catch a movie as I had nothing better to do, as I got in with my snacks I sat down to watch it, It was some garbage sci-fi movie that reminded me to much of Big Mountain and I had to get out of there before I had a bad flashback to take a wrong turn, Having your brain, heart and spine ripped out of you will do that. I was unable to get my money back from the movie which meant I was stuck with a ticket to a movie that I walked out on due to PTSD. I decided to visit the royal treasury to see If my bottle caps had anything of interest. “Ah hello Spike.” The stallion said as I took a seat. “I’m Shiny Metal, now lets see those caps.” He said as I pulled out a bottle cap and handed it to him. “Ah yes now could you give me a moment to inspect it.” he said as I left the office to let him work. “Ah hello Spike.” another Stallion said as he entered the room. “Shiny metal is busy right now sorry.” I said as he looked at me funny. “But I have the reports he asked for what could he be so busy with?” he asked. I pulled out a bottle cap and said. “He’s trying to see if these bottle caps are worth anything.” I said as he began laughing. “Yeah maybe two cents.” he said laughing as Shiny metal came out. “Oh good I have your...” he said as he was pushed aside. “Spike how many of these bottle caps do you have?” Shiny metal asked. “I don’t maybe a couple thousand.” I said as the guy that was carrying papers whistled. “Wow thats a lot of pennies.” he said “now about those papers” the stallion said as Shiny ignored him. “Spike if you cash them all at once you may bankrupt Equestria.” Shiny said as the stallion dropped his papers. “What how there just bottle caps?” he said as Shiny finally acknowledged him. “The metal is next to non existence in well the planet and he has thousands if not hundred thousands bits in a handful of Caps.” Shiny said as the stallion jaw dropped and he began to pick up the papers he dropped. “I’ll need those papers when you're done fooling around.” Shiny metal said as I left the royal treasury. I wondered what to do next as one of Luna’s guards came to me. “Your aunt has requested you.” he said as I followed him to the castle and up to Luna’s tower. “Princess I have brought your nephew.” the guard said. “Good, you may leave us.” she said. “Yes princess.” the guard said as he left. “Hello Luna.” I said as she looked at me. “Spike take a sea.t” she said firmly as I took a seat. “Is there something wrong?” I asked. “I want to know why did you lie when you told your story?” She said as I faked ignorance. “I didn’t Lie.” I said, lying. “You're lying right now.” she said. “Whats this about?” I asked. “In your dreams your marking yourself as a murderer yet in the story you told you spoke your way out of your problems and when you did fight you didn’t do the kill them, dreams don’t lie.” She said as I came clean. “Fine I didn't want the others to hear how I killed In the Mojave you saw what Fluttershy looked like when I said I was attacked by a dog I didn’t want them to look at me differently.” I said as Luna looked at me. “Fine I’ll keep your secret, only because I feel like you should be the one to tell them not me.” She said as I walked out. “I need a drink...” I said as I pulled out my vault 13 water canteen and took a drink. “I wonder if any bars are open.” I asked myself as I flew off to the bar district. Chapter 7 Diamond Dog risingWe moved fast, dogs from all the cavers running and digging through the soil as we made out way to the main meeting cavern. Unlike other caverns and tunnels, it was carved from salt deposits, and lit with glowing stones. A Warband was called. No dog alive was born when the last Warband was called, but it’s a call every Diamond dog must answer when word reached their ears. I stood as leader of my pack and looked upon the many packs wondering with this may dogs who was left to fight. I turned to my second in command Runt who asked, “Who is leading this Warband?” I could not answer as It was unknown. Before anymore talking could a large Dog stood on a platform at the end of the cavern a thunderous roar from the dogs could be heard before the cavern when quiet. “Here me my kin! For untold generations we dogs have been stuck digging underground and scraping by with polluted water and whatever we managed to hunt for food! No longer! Today, I am leading all of us to the cursed mountain! Where it’s core is ripe with gems our ancestors mined and collected for years before the wretched ponies stole our home from us! Follow me, and we will have gems, food, water, and we can finally live under the sun like our ancestors before us! Who here is with me!” The dogs cheered as I noticed a odd looking dog standing behind him the stench of something foul was coming off him. “Are we really going to the cursed mountain?” My Runt asked. “Keep your voice down I have a feeling that your tone might get you killed.” I said. In the tunnels behind the salt cavern was a room reserved for the Warchief the leader of the warband. “That was a good speech Warchief.” I said as the warchief finished a rotten meal. “Well your magic better make it so because the last thing I will do before the curse claims me is take your sorry hide down.” The warchief said before asking “And how will capturing these wretched Ponies get us the mountain?” “Simple, with a bit of some special magic I have learned, their souls will act as a barrier around you, keeping the curse from harming you. Best part, the corpses left behind will make a fresh meal.” I said, starting the ritual, the ponies whose souls were being taken were panicking as darkness flowed from candles down their throats, orbs of light being taken out as the bodies fell over, limp and lifeless. The orbs all came together, forming one large orb, which I held in my hand. “Are you ready Warchief?” I asked him, ready for the next part. The warchief nodded as he grabbed the orb and took the power for himself and smiled, the souls flowing into his skin and, as a result, covering his own soul once they reached it. The perfect camouflage for the curse. “You’ve done well Shaman I feel stronger than before.” He said as I walked off. “Where are you off to?” He asked. “I must commune with our ancestors, taking back our rightful home will grant us their blessings in battle.” I said, seeing him nodding, satisfied with that as he left. Once he was gone, I began chanting, smoke arising from my fireplace...and a figure appeared. My Master. “Greetings Master. The plan is set. Everything is going according to plan.” I informed him. My master nodded and spoke. “Good, as long as nothing interferes with our plan I won’t have to end you.” Before long the smoke disappeared. A few days passed since I told my family the abridged version of my adventure in the wasteland. I was wondering the castle when I saw that mare from the village that I captured. I followed them to see where they were taking her. “Hey wait up.” I said as they stopped. “What is it sir.” one of them asked. “I wanted to know what you were doing with her?” I asked. “Princess Celestia wanted somepony to interrogate her to see what she knows.” The guard said. “Has anyo-pony been ordered to do this interrogation?” I asked. “No sir they haven’t.” the other guard said. “Then allow me to do it.” I said as they both looked at eachother confused. “The Princess would rather somepony qualified to do it.” the guard said before saying “but it would save us time.” “Good.” I said as I walked into the room where Starlight Glimmer was chained up. “So your here to judge me.” she said. “Yes I am.” I said looking at what Starlight actually did other than kidnap Twilight and the others. “Well it's interesting NoticeSomething has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.Final messageClick here Chapter 4 The talk editedAuthor's Note If more people ask for it I will post Spike's S.P.E.C.I.A.L stats and traits It is back my good people after 2 months of waiting and thanks to a new editor. As some people complained that I didn't actually show his past in this chapter just a 'montage' of reactions from the mane 6 pluse the princesses next chapter is about his past Chapter 4 The talk edited I woke up peacefully no nightmares to speak of, it was probably the alcohol that kept the nightmares at bay, but as I got out of my bed I realized I would probably need to talk to Luna and the others today which filled me with dread. "Let's get this over with." I said, putting on my NCR duster and brought my bag. "Luna, I'm ready for that talk." I said, knocking on her door. "Just a minute." Luna said as I heard a cat screaming and some junk falling. "Yes?" She asked with the door semi closed. "Are you okay in there? I think I heard a cat?" I asked as she closed the door on me. "Just give me a minute." I took a seat on the nearby steps. Five minutes passed before she left her room. "Okay Spike, lets talk. Oh, forgot to asked this last night, what were those things you injected into your shoulder?" I winced at the question, but sighed. "The first one was called med-x it helps with the pain the second one was a stimpack It also helps with the pain but in a different way" I explain as we walked down the spiral stairs. "So, about the nightmares you've been having?" Luna started "Yes, I know the reason I'll explain it with the others." I said as we had got to the bottom of the stairs. "The others?" Luna asked. She noticed the two headed bear on my back. "What does that symbol mean?" "It is the symbol of the the bear which fought against the bull." I said, trying to replicate what Ulysses said to me. "The bear and the bull?" "I'll tell you once we get mom and the rest of the girls." "Why do we need to get them?" "I'm going to tell you everything about my travels, as much as I don't want to." "Why don't you want to tell us about it?" Luna asked, concerned for me. "You will see when we get together." I said, looking at the sky. "But now, let's get breakfast" I said as we walked into the dining room where everypony was waiting for us. "What took you two so long?" Rainbow asked. "I need to tell you guys what happened when I was gone." I said as Twilight gleamed with excitement. "Calm down Twilight" She sat back down "Before I tell you about let's get through breakfast first." We all sat down to eat. As we were eating I over heard conversations that the others were having. "Maybe he went to a world like the Power ponies." I overheard Rainbow and Pinkie say while I overheard Twilight and Rarity talk about what the culture was like, Fluttershy and Applejack were wondering what the symbol on my back was. After breakfast we all headed to the garden where nopony would disturb us. "Okay before we start, I'm going to have you know that the world I was in was post apocalyptic." I told them Twilight and Luna gasped when I said it, but the rest were just wondering what that means. "In other words a world after the end of the world." Some of them still looked confused before Luna explained. "Imagine if all of a sudden a large flood came and washed away all the land below Canterlot. The world would be In a post apocalyptic stait as a majority of life had been washed away." Luna explained further, to the shock of everypony, not her explaining just the explanation. "Yes, just replace flood with deadly corruption and after a war that only lasted two hours and wiped out all its combattants off the face of the planet and you've got a pretty good explanation," I said as everypony looked horrified. "There's a reason I didn't want to tell you guys about this." I said as they looked at each other. "Well let's start at the beginning." I said as they gathered around me "It all started with the argument with Twilight a few months ago." I said as Pinkie raised her hand. "Yes Pinkie?" "What was the argument about?" "I don't remember, probably something stupid." I said as Twilight looked at me. "What?" "Nothing" She replied "Anyway, I ran out into the Everfree forest." I said as Rainbow interrupted me. "Why did you run into the Everfree forest?" "I don't know it was twentyfive years ago." I said as pinkie spoke up again. "I thought it was three months ago?" "Three months your time. Anyway I fell asleep in a tree and woke up in a hunting area outside a town.” Half an hour passed. "That's when he tough me to use a gun." I said I placed cans around the area and shot them with Maria. "Spike, was that a..." Twilight started. "A weapon, yes. This little things going to have more relevance later down the story." I explained as Twilight put her hands on her mouth covering up something she said. "Anyway, he didn't just teach me how to defend myself he taught me history, science,math and other skills." An hour passed "That's when I joined The NCR military as a Soldier." I said as they looked at each other "But you were a baby." Twilight insisted on saying. I rolled my eyes "Yes, but I was also twenty and by their standards. I was a young adult and before you ask, no they did not count dragon years because I didn't tell them I was a dragon. Solely on the simple basis they would have not believed me." "Then what did they think you were?" Fluttershy asked. "A mutant Gecko." I told them as they all looked at me. "What? They have mutants in there world. I thought I explained this?" Two more hours pass And that takes us to the second battle for hoover dam where I fought against the Legion" I said, finishing up. " And that was pretty much my trip before magically returning here... Well okay I left out the Sierra Madre, Zion, The big Empty, and the Divide, but those are stories for another day." I said as the everypony started talking about what had happened they were confused about the world I had told them. “So, what did you do after the battle at beaver dam?” Rainbow asked. “Hoover dam. And all I really did after that was help New Vegas and the Mojave rebuild from what the Legion had done.” “What happened to the Legate Lanius? Was he imprisoned with the rest?” Twilight asked. “... Permanently.”
S.P.E.C.I.A.L, Skill, Perks and GearSpike 'Scales' stats S.P.E.C.I.A.L Strength 10 Perception 7 Endurance 7 Charisma 7 Intelligence 10 Agility 6 Luck 6 Skill [/hr] Barter 100 Energy weapons 92 Explosive 92 Guns 100 Lockpicking 100 Medicine 100 Melee Weapons 87 Repair 80 Science 100 Sneak 87 Speech 100 Survival 100 Unarmed 100 Perks Abominable 3 Adamantium Skeleton Animal Control Animal Friend 2 Better Criticals Big Brained Bonds of Steel Broad Daylight Bug Stomper 2 Burden to Bear Camarader-E 4 Camel of the Mojave Cardiac Arrest Certified Tech Coin Operator Commando Comprehesion Computer Whiz Day Tripper DMAgent DNAvenger 2 Educated Explorer Eye for Eye Fast Metabolism Fortune Finder Free Radical Grim Reapers Sprint Hand Loader Heavyweight Here and Now Intence Training 9 Lessons Learned Lonesome Road Lord Death Machine Head 2 Marked Mysterious Stranger Nuka Chemist Plasma Spaz Power Armor Training Quick Draw Ranger Takedown Rapid Reload Reinforced Spine Retention Roughin It Scourge of the East Scrounger Sierra Madre Martini Skilled Strong Back Super Slam Swift Learner 3 Tag! Them's Good Eatin' Thought You Died Tought Guy Vigiliant Recycler Walker Instinct Weapon Handling Wild Wastland Weapons A Light In Shining Darkness AER14 Prototype Anti-Material Rifle Big Mountain Transponder Blood-Nap Dinner Bell Elijah's Advanced LAER Flare gun Flash bangs Frag Grenades Frag Mines Holorifle Maria Marksman Carbine Paladin Toaster Plasma Grenades Plasma Mines Protonic Inversal Axe Survivalist Rifle Clothing Advanced Riot Gear Advanced Riot Gear Helmet Courier Duster Daniel's Hat Daniel's Outfit Rebreather Stealth Suit Mk II Ulysses' Duster Benny's suit
Chapter 1 Welcome to Our Town editedI woke up on the side of a mountain, wondering how I got from a little shack-turn-Inn in Wyoming to the side of a mountain. I was glad I was in my Riot gear because something told me that it was pretty cold up here, probably the snow. Not used to cold in the wasteland, well, snow cold anyway. Either way I needed to find a town soon or I would have to fly in a random direction till I found something and I hated that. My wings grew in alright, or so I assumed, but the risk of being shot isn’t worth it. Part of why I loved hearing Riot gear, too many people mistook me for a small super mutant. Half an hour passed as I walked through the snow covered hills and I finally found a town in the distance. I pulled out my Anti-Material Rifle to scope it out. Just to make sure it wasn't a raider camp, been there don’t wanna do that again. What I saw surprised me. "Ponies? I'm back In Equestria?" I said to myself as I remembered the last time I was In Equestria. I was having an argument with Twilight about something that I don't remember anymore. "Fine." I shouted as I left the Library running for who knows how long till I ended up In the Everfree forest. I heard a noise that startled me. "Hello?" I said, scared. "Is anypony out there?" I asked to myself as I walked backwards into something. "Twilight?" As I turned around to see a Timberwolf staring at me "*gulp* hello Mr. Timberwolf." Backing up, I saw more of them came out of the bushes. Seeing this I decided to run away from them. After a short while I lost them by climbing up a tree. 'I hope I lost them.' I thought to myself as I yawned as my eyes closed 'I guess I could sleep for a while before I return to Twilight and apologies.' I thought to myself as I drifted into sleep. When next I woke up I wouldn't be in Equestria anymore. As I drifted out of my thoughts as I entered the town. Many eyes were on me as they haven't seen Armor like mine before. As I walked through the town I saw a group of ponies that looked familiar 'Twilight?' I thought to myself before going, 'No that can’t be them, it’s been years.' But as I got closer I overheard one of them speak. "Come on Fluttershy." The pony who said it was a pink unicorn with a purple mane holding staff. Her voice rubbed me the wrong way, It was too friendly, which normally wouldn't raise any flags for an Equestrian, but for a wastelander It was easy to pick up. "Oh, hello. I'm Starlight Glimmer. Welcome to Our Town." I decided to play along. "Hi I'm... Big Iron. I was wondering where I was?" lying about my name, not the first time I’ve done that. I’ve actually rarely used my real name since I appeared in the Wastelands. "Well like I said, your in Our town. That's the name of the town by the way, but in any case welcome to our lovely little town. We'll bring you some food for your stay." She said as the town started to leave to do their roles. As Fluttershy passed me she whispered something in my ear. "You need to get out of here!" Before walking away. It was confirmation as to what my gut feeling had told me that this town was bad news. As I wandered the town I thought back to when I found myself in Arroyo. Arroyo, 25 years ago. I woke up in a a patch of grass, I looked around for the tree I was sleeping in, but nothing around me looked like the area I was sleeping in. It didn't even look like the Everfree forest anymore! "Hello." I said to nobody as I heard a noise behind me as a large gecko like creature came out of the bush. I screamed as more of them came out of the bushes and started chasing me. I ran away screaming. After a few minutes of running I ran into a dead end I shouted and cried as they were getting close then, I heard a sound I would soon become all too familiar with. I just looked at the bodies of the geckos as a large figure came up to me and spoke. "Hello little guy." I looked up to see a large human, at least that’s how Lyra always described them as, standing over me and the sight of him caused me to faint. The old man PoV, a few minutes ago I was out for a walk out in the hunting grounds near the town when I heard someone scream coming from the area. 'Shit, I told the children not to play here.' I thought to myself as I pulled out my old 10mm to go save the child, but when I got there I saw a purple gecko being chased by a group of larger geckos. Probably a runt being chased by some alphas. I ran to shoot the back of one in the back of the head before they turned to face me. I shoot the one on the left, killing it before shooting the last one dead. With that done I went up to the little guy. "Hello little guy." I said hoping that it wouldn't try to attack me, but it collapsed in front of me. "Poor thing must have been running for a while." I picked it up to bring back to my hut in the village. As I entered the village I stopped one of the guards "Gather a hunting party, there’s a child lost in the hunting grounds." I told him as I headed to my hut to focus on the… gecko? "Now what are you?" I asked as I looked at the gecko "There is no w-..." I begin to say as the gecko mumbled something. "Five more minutes Twilight." It mumbled as I shook it awake It looked around as if it was wondering where it was. "What happened?" IIt spoke in the voice I heard screaming earlier. I went out of my tent to tell one somebody to tell the headhunter to recall the hunters the child that I had heard was the mutant gecko I had found. As I reentered my hut I found that he was looking at his claws in confusion. "You're a human right?" It asked. I nodded and said yes which made him more confused "Where am I?" He asked. "You are in the town of Arroyo." I said as he tried to climb down from the table. I helped him down. "Do you have a quill and paper?" He asked I looked around for some paper, but I had no idea what a quill was. "Here I don't think I have a quill, but do you need a pencil?" I asked handing him a piece of paper before heading off to find a pencil or pen. As soon as he wrote something up he took a deep breath and burned the letter. "Why did you do that!?" I yelled, stomping out the fire. He just looked at the fire mumbling how it didn't work. Was something else supposed to happen just now? "Are you okay?" I asked as he started to cry. "No. I don't know where I am and I can't get back home." He cried. "Well... you can stay with me for as long as you need to." I said trying to comfort him. He’s like a toddler really. The gecko, er, kid? looked up at me. "R, rely?" I looked at him for a moment as he hugged me. Yeah, he’s just a kid. "What's your name little fella?" "I'm spike." PoV Spike I snapped out of my thoughts as I was being lead into a cave. The townsfolk, that could/would, told me they were being controlled by Starlight Glimmer, which I didn't buy due to the fact that If that were true then she would be trying to steal my nonexistent cutie mark. As I entered the cave I played along, but couldn't help but be surprised at the wall of cutie marks. "Well that's a nice collection you got there. So where is yours?" I asked as a surprised Starlight came out of hiding. As she opened her mouth I spoke before she could. "Save the 'I'm better then you' talk and just get on with it." She looked offended, but complied by lifting me up in the air as she was about to say something I dropped a flashbang down. "What’s this? Your big plan?" She mocked, levitating the flashbang close to her face causing me to smirked underneath my helmet. That’s gonna hurt~ "I wouldn't hold it so close to you if I were you." I spoke as It went off. She screamed, blinded and fear in her voice. Her not being able to see anything caused her to drop me. I fell on my feet where I ran and punched her in the face, knocking her out. I grabbed her staff and broke it into pieces, I then took a key from her unconscious body to unlock one of the Cutie mark containers letting one fly off to whomever it belongs to before I placed a grenade in its container then pulled the pin. Would have taken forever if it was one-by-one. I told everypony to run as I grabbed Starlight Slimmer and ran out of the cave before the grenade exploded, causing all the cutie marks to fly off to there respective owners all except for Starlight's. "Where's her cutie mark?" One of the ponies asked I had a feeling. "Somepony bring me a bucket of water, I have an idea." Fluttershy came to me holding a bucket in her wings. "Thank you." I said pouring the bucket over Starlight Glimmer waking her up and revealing her cutie mark. She just painted over it. *Gasp* everypony said as she stood up "What?" she asked before noticing that her cutie mark wasn't a equal sign, but a star and waves. Before she could say anything Twilight and her friends came out to give a Friendship speech, but as she was in the middle of it Starlight shouted "QUIET!" Stopping Twilight in her tracks. Before she could teleport away I punched her again knocking her out. "You didn't need to do that!" Twilight yelled as I placed Starlight on the ground. "Does anypony have a rope? I don't want this bounty to get away." Twilight seemed surprised. "Bounty? There's a bounty on her?" "Probably, I mean she did kidnap an Alicorn Princess." She rolled her eyes. "Okay, so what you're saying is that there's no bounty on her" "Okay maybe not, but she did hold you hostage and try to brainwash all of you." I retorted. "Fine I'll give you a bounty when we get to Canterlot." "Great." I said as A.J. handed me some rope to tie Starlight up with. "Before we head out I need to do something real quick." I said, leaving them with Starlight wondering where their cutie marks where. Canterlot, Celestia PoV I was finishing a stack of paperwork when I had gotten a note in a way that I haven't gotten In awhile. Via Spike. It had been months since he disappeared and I couldn't reach him, but to finally get word from him was making me happy. The note was short but made me cry in joy. Hey mom, I'm coming home with Twilight, but you may not recognize me (Twilight sure doesn’t, neither does the others) but look for the one In black and a helmet. Love spike My son was coming home!
Chapter 2 Return home editedThe train ride home was awkward to say the least, with Twilight and Applejack giving me a bad look while Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and Rarity kept asking me questions. ‘Who I was’, ‘What was I doing in 'Our Town' ‘, ‘Why did I help them’ and most importantly ‘Where did I get my armor’. I tried to ignore all of it and look out the window trying to see the countryside, it brought me back to the time I spent In Arroyo. Arroyo 23 years ago It had been a few years since I just appeared here and I had gotten used to the town. Took a while, but everyone got used to me too. "Spike come on." Tyler, the old man that took me in, said. "Coming Sir." I shouted as I ran over to the Temple of Trials. This town started off as just a small tribe some many years ago and now… it’s a thriving city. That was long before I got here though. When I got there, I saw him placing bottles along the walls. "Okay Spike, you are going to take this," He said, handing me a BB gun. "And shoot those bottles." He finished. I looked at him and then back to the large, compared to me, toy gun he had handed me and simply asked the greatest of all philosophy questions to exist on any world. "Why?" He looked at me for a minute before speaking. "I'm teaching you how to shoot a gun because you’re not going to spend your whole life here, and I want to teach you how to defend yourself." "Do I need to hurt people in order to protect myself?" He looked at me for a time. "Well... That's a hard question to answer Spike and I for one I can't answer." I thought about it for a minute before I tried my hands at shooting the bottles. I missed the first few times, but after an hour of practice I finally hit one. "That's good Spike. Now look down the sights for better accuracy." I did as he asked. This time it only took half an hour for me to hit a bottle. "Good Spike. Just takes time. Let’s head back, it should be diner time soon." "Now arriving at Canterlot Station!" The announcer called. Snapping me out of my memories . "Okay, I'll lead you to the castle." Twilight said as we got up from our seats and walked out of the train and were greeted by some royal guards. "We were instructed to escort you and your friends to the castle as an order from Princess Celestia." The head guard said as they began to lead Twilight and her friends away, leaving me behind. "Hey what about me?" I said as I ran after them. "Halt!" One of them shouted. "Get any closer to the prin-" He started as Twilight Interrupted him. Meh, had worse welcomes. Much worse welcomes. "He's with us." Twilight said as the guard looked at her like, ‘Are you sure?' but didn't question it. As we got to the castle and entered the throne room, we were greeted by Princess Celestia. Well… not to surprised she hasn’t changed at all. "Hello Twilight, I was told that Spike was going to be with you." She said as Twilight gave a confused look. "How? We never sent a letter... We can’t even send letters, we don't have Spike." I smirked under my helmet. "Well the note did say you wouldn't recognize me, and to look for the one in black." I said as I took my helmet off giving her a smile. Everypony looked at me, clearly not believing that I am Spike, before Celestia jumped on me hugging me "Oh sweetie! You're back!" She said as she stroked my back. "Okay mom, you can stop your hurting me." That was a half truth. In reality she was squeezing my fresher scars too tight, but as she stopped I could feel the glares of the others. Well this will be as fun as killing raiders with a BB gun. "How do we know that this is really Spike? It could be a changeling trying to feed or another dragon trying to steal treasure from Canterlot." Twilight said as the rest of the girls nodded and everypony turned to Applejack. "What are ya'll lookin at me fer” "Well you’re the Element of Honesty, so you can tell if he's lying, right?" Rainbow asked. "If ah couldn't tell that Chrysalis was lying to mah face I wouldn't be able to tell if this dragon is Spike or not. It's like saying Rarity would hand out free dresses because she's the element of Generosity." Applejack earned a glare from Rarity with that statement. "Twilight's first kiss was when you were thirteen with her own brother" Twilight's face went red and the other girls looked at her strange. "There was a loose floorboard I tripped and accidentally kissed him!" She defended before looking at the ground in shame. Everypony looked at me wondering what that was about. "Hey, you said prove I was Spike and I did." They all looked at each other. "Now about that bounty?" Everypony looked back at me. "What? I still want the caps." "Caps Darling? As in bottle caps?" Rarity asked. "That's a story for another day." I said, not wanting to tell them about the wasteland. A place like that would give them all nightmares. Did me most of my first year with all the stories I was told. "So Spike, where were you? And how did you get so big!?" Celestia asked. "That is also a story for another day..." Before I could ask a question myself, my stomach growled and Celestia took a quick notice. "Perhaps we should get something to eat first?" We all headed inside the castle and Starlight headed to the dungeons. "Wait, Canterlot Castle has a dungeon?" Twilight asked as we walked to the dining room. It was filled with food and my mouth was watering just looking at it all. Half an hour of eating later we started talking again. "Wow Spike! You sure can pack it down." Pinkie said. I was trying to speak with some food in my mouth, but Rarity took offence. "Please finish eating before you speak please Darling." Rarity said, disgusted at my lack of manners. "*gulp* Sorry I was trying to say, this was the best food I've had In twentyfive years." Everypony looked surprised, which was justified. They all looked at each other before Twilight spoke. "Twentyfive years? Spike you’re not that old." "Yes I am, I was gone for twentyfive years." They still looked shocked. "Which reminds me, how do you all still look the same?" "I knew he was an Impostor! The real Spike has only been gone for three months!" Rainbow said before jumping off the table to tackle me. I dodged and put her into an armlock. She had the greatest WTF face I’ve ever seen. "Try that again, I dare you" I threaten as everypony gasps. I started applying some extra pressure, hurting Rainbow Dash a little. "Spike, Rainbow, stop that! There is a reasonable explanation for all this!" Twilight said, turning to Celestia. "Right Celestia?" Everypony looked at Celestia as I let Rainbow go skimpier back to her side of the table. That’s gonna bruise her ego for… five minutes tops. "Well Spike may have fallen into a temporal anomaly that took him to from the Everfree forest to where ever he ended up, then to the mountains near... Our-Town. That's what the town was called right?" Everypony nodded. "Okay, so if this tepi-whose-it is real, then why is he that big? I'm pretty sure that a dragon would still be a baby size or at least a little taller than we last saw him." Rainbow Dash added. "Oh there is an easy explanation for that, Greed Growth." I said as everypony looked at me like I was crazy. "What I learned how to control my greed so I can stay in my teenage form without any of the side effects." "Sister what is all the commotion in here?" Luna said as she entered the dining room, laying eyes on me immediately. "Hello Auntie Luna." I say as she looks at me for a bit before realizing who I was. "SPIKE! YOU'VE RETURNED!" She shouts as she tackle-hugs me. "Ow ow ow, aunt Luna you're hugging to hard." I say as she lets go. "We are so sorry Spike." She apologized. "Did you get bigger?" "Yes we were discussing that. Apparently he was gone from his perspective 25 year." Celestia says nonchalantly as Luna looks surprised. "Ah, the old Temporal anomaly thing." Luna said before anyone could ask questions. "I read it in a book, hold on." She teleported away and teleporting back in seconds. "Here it is." She declared, putting the book on the table. " 'The legend of Maxx.' Why haven't I heard about this book before?" Twilight asked as it became clear to her it was a graphic novel, stuff she avoids. And another ego bruised. "Well in ether case Spike's back you know what this calls for A PARTY!" Pinkie exclaimed as Celestia agreed wholeheartedly. "Yes, we shall have a Party in Canterlot for the return of my son." Celestia said, bumming Pinkie out that she couldn't plan the party herself. While they were talking about the party I headed to my old room in the castle to sleep. Arroyo 15 years ago "Hey old man, you here?" I asked as Tyler looked on from his tent. "Over here Spike!" He said as I walked in on the old man talking with an NCR representative. They’ve been at it a while now. "We were just about finished making a deal for Arroyo to become part of the NCR. It will just be a few minutes. Could you wait?" He asked as he was finishing up with the NCR representative. Ten or twelve minutes passed and the representative left the tent. I entered and saw Tyler sitting on a chair. "So Spike, what's going on?'" "I'm leaving the village to join the NCR military." I said, expecting him to be surprised, but he just drank his tea peacefully. Was he expecting this? "That’s good for you. Kids gotta grow up somehow and see the world, or what’s left of it. When are you leaving?" "In a few hours I just wanted to say good bye and thanks for taking me in." I say, hugging him before I left, all the things I decided to take with me in a rucksack and headed off.
Chapter 3 The party editedI was in Twilight's treehouse, getting ready for the day of helping Twilight with her work. I honestly missed doing this. "I'm ready to help Twilight.." I said to her, sounding like I did when I was ten. "Why would I want your help, MURDERER?" She said, glaring at me. "W-what?" I was stunned. "You heard me MURDERER, why would I want your help?" she chased me out with her magic. As I was confused I ran into Rainbow Dash and Applejack at the food venders. "Oh, hey Girls. whats up?" They glared at me. Not again. "Oh, hello MURDERER" Rainbow Dash said as she and AJ turned to face away from me. "What's going on?" I asked myself. I walked to the carousel boutique, ponies were giving me bad looks as I walked towards Rarity’s boutique. "Hello?" I shout as I entered the boutique. "Ah yeas welcome to Carousel Boutique where everything is... Oh it’s you MURDERER. Get out, I have nothing for you here MURDERER. She then got a broom and tried to swat me out of her Boutique "Whats going on?" I asked myself. I saw Moms chariot in the sky heading towards Twilight’s Library. I ran towards the chariot as It was landing. "Hi mom." I said with a happy tone as she looked at me with disgust. Her… too. "Oh hello MURDERER, please don't call me mom anymore." She said as she walked passed me and into Twilight's Library. "Whats going on!?" I shouted as ponies surrounded me, shouting at me in a chant. MURDERER! MURDERER! MURDERER! They walked around me. I woke up in a cold sweat. "What... happened?" I asked myself as I got up from my bed went for my bag pulling, out some whiskey. "last bottle, darn." I said before I started drinking from the bottle. I finished the bottle and thought to myself, 'what was that dream about?' I asked myself as I glanced down at my Pipboy. 'Only 4:30.' I thought to myself as I put on what I thought was my duster when, it was Ulysses' duster I soon realized, nut didn’t care at the moment, I also took A Light In Shining Darkness and Blood-nap just in case some punk tries to mug me. Freeside was enough to make it a habit. The walk was peaceful, nobody tried to mug me, there were no Legion troops telling me that the caesar had marked me for death, no Deathclaws or Cazadors trying to attack me. That last part happened more than it should have. One time Legion ran into me at the same time a Deathclaw pack did. Even then there was no truce, those idiots were too brainwashed. The night was perfect, so why did I feel off. I pulled out my Vault 13 canteen and took a drink of water. I looked through my Pipboy to see what time it was 'only 5:00.' I thought to myself as I yawned 'I should head back to bed.' I thought to myself as I headed back home. The rest of the day passed as nothing of note really happened. Just talks about the party, what music I would want, what kind of food should be there, and so on. A week passed quickly as it was now time for the party. Mom wanted me to have a custom made suit for it, but I insisted that I already had one. I was behind curtains waiting my announcement, as soon as I was was announced the curtains went up and ponies gasped at the sight of a dragon in a suit as I walked down. I heard mumbling of ponies, one pony said that my suit was tacky, which it was, another was commenting on how it was outrageous that the Princesses son was a dragon and so on and so on. After that was done with I said hello to Twilight and the gang. "So Spike where did you get that suit?" Rarity asked. "I got it from a guy was bugging me." I said a half truth. Benny did bug me, I just left out the part where he nearly killed me and I killed him with his own gun. As we were talking, Blueblood came over to talk "Oh... hello Blueblood." Rarity said. trying to be as polite as possible. "Hello, Rarity was it?" He asked before turning to me "Spike! It’s been far too long." "Hello Blueblood, It’s so nice to see you" I said. "How have you been?" "Oh, I've been fine" I lied. Last twentyfive years were hell compared to home… then again, it’s hell for them too. "So how did you go to get so big so fast?" "I'd rather not say." I was attempting to leave, I was getting social anxiety. Wasteland will do that. "Come on, tell us "Pinkie said, jumping. "No means no Pinkie." I tell her as I head for the bar. "Where are you going?" Twilight asked. "To the bar. I need a drink." I say, trying to leave this conversation. "You can't drink, your just a baby," Twilight when Blueblood cut in. "Actually, according to the Law Spike being a dragon means he can drink when ever he wants to... and by that I mean no matter his age he is allowed to drink. Some stuff involving their metabolism and high resistance to poisons." Blueblood explained as I went towards the bar. "How do you even know that?" "Well you don't think I spend all my time swatting Mares away and staring at Stallions all day, do you?" He explain to everyponies surprise when he said stallions. "So that means your..." Rainbow started. "Gay, yes." He finished. “Most mares don’t care, some try and get me drunk so an ‘incident’ will occur and they can marry into the royal family.” “I had no idea Blueblood.” Rarity said. “I figured since you aren’t from Canterlot. While I admit you look lovely Rarity, without a pair and shaft you are not my type.” As they kept talking I went to the bar to get a drink. "So what will you have?" The bartender asked. "I'll take a rum and cola." I said as he poured me the drink. As the night went on I kept on I headed outside to clear my head. I couldn’t get that stupid dream out of my head. "Spike we need to talk" Luna said. I didn’t even notice when she walked next to me. "What is is it auntie Luna?" I asked in a semi drunk tone. Man I must have drank a lot... "I saw your dreams for the past few nights and we need to talk about them." She said with a stern voice. I quickly sobered up "What are you talking about?" "Like I said we need to talk but not here meet me tomorrow" She said as she flew away, I headed back inside trying to forget what Luna said for the moment and went back into the Party. After the party I headed to my room where Luna was waiting for me. "I thought we were going to talk tomorrow?" I asked as I realised she was holding Elijah's Advanced LAER! "Please put that down." "I was just admiring the trinket you have 'A victor's spoil' am I correct?" she asked "Please don't play with that it's a deadly weapon." I say covering my mouth as I let slip that I have weapons. "So you have weapons?" She asked as she teleported behind me and grabbed Maria, she held it pointed at me. This will only end badly. "How do you use it?" She asked as her finger went over the trigger. *BANG* A shot went off, hitting me in the shoulder. "SON OF A BITCH!" I shouted as Luna dropped the gun which I then picked up because it was important to me. "I'm so sorry!" Luna said, not knowing what to do as I went over to my backpack and pulled out a first aid kit full of stimpacks and drugs. I pulled out a dose of Med-X and a Stimpack before I injected myself with the med-X, then went for the stim. "It's okay, you didn't know what would have happened I said "But could you leave for a few minutes I need to change" I asked. "Sure." She said as she teleported out of my room. "Well that's one way to get out of a conversation." I said as I took of my clothing and changed into a undershirt and underpants. I went to bed, dreading tomorrow as it would be the day I would have to tell everypony about the wastelands.
Chapter 5 The Past part 1I stood in line at Navarro Outpost which from what the old man said was former Enclave territory that had gotten repurposed as an NCR training ground, I stood with the other recruits getting weird looks from them. "Is Something funny you FEV reject!?" The drill Sergeant asked as I looked at him. "NO SIR!" I responded scared out of my mind. "GOOD!" the Sergeant said as he handed out Service rifles. "These are the standard Service Rifles, these will be your best friend in the field." he said as we got into position and fired our guns at a series of targets the best of us would have the chance to become Rangers. ** In vault city. "Get out of here Mutant." A passer-by said as I walked with my unit patrolling the City close to the barrack. "Ignore them son." My commander said as we walked into the barracks. "Man Scales, you really should see the city at night." My bunkmate said as I rolled my eyes "I would if I could but most of the city hates me for being a mutant and won't give me service not even the fast food places" I said, I had been classified as A mutant for so long I started to forget about Equestria, about Twilight and mom, about the fact I was a Dragon and well everything. ** It had been a year since I was an NCR soldier. It was nice while it lasted but when It came time to re-enlist I did want to take that, I simply wanted to wander the wastes and luckily for me as the Unit that I would have been sent with was sent to fight at the battle of Hoover dam and some of the people I knew where lost in the battle and While I was morning them I was also glad that I wasn't there as I had a feeling I would have died there, instead I walked between the NCR territory's and the Mojave for a while now. ** I was on my way through Goodsprings to deliver a package to New Vegas, not that would let me in, no, new vegas is for humans and no mutants allowed, bullshit I've seen ghouls go in so why not mutant allowed? I thought to myself as I walked up the hill to get a good vue of Vegas from here, but as I got to the top I felt something hit the back of my head and I was knocked out. When I came to my senses I awoke to see that my hands where gloved and bound and I was gagged. "You got what you were after so pay up." somebody said as I tried to struggle my way out of the ropes. "Your crying in the rain, palley." another person said as I began to look up. "Huh, guess who's waking up over here." a third person said as I looked up to see two great. Khans and some asshole in a suit? "Time to cash out." the asshole said. The first khan said. "will you get it over with." the asshole put his finger up shutting the khan up. "Maybe Khan's kill people without looking them in the face, but I ain't a fink, dig?" he said pulling out the chip I was supposed to deliver. "You've made your last delivery , Kid." he said putting the chip away. " Sorry you got twisted up in this scene." he said pulling out a gold plated gun. "From where you're kneeling it must seem like an 18 carat run of bad luck." he pointed his gun at me "Truth is, game was rigged by the start." he said firing the bullet in my head/ After that everything goes dark and I awoke in Doc Mitchell's house. "whoa take it easy there son." The good doctor said "You're in goodsprings, you took a bullet to the head." he said as I panicked. "Calm down I managed to get it out, well what mattered anyway" he said as I grabbed a mirror to see my face it was the same as it was only with a little scar on the side of one of my cut spines, it was barely noticeable. "Thanks." I said as I got up. "Whoa easy now" he said holding me. "Let's get you up." he said helping me off the bed before sending me to a Vit-o-matic Vigor Tester to see what my S.P.E.C.I.A.L stats were and took me to his couch to ask me some questions before sending me on my way to see somebody named Sunny smiles. "Before you go I want to give you this my Pipboy I don't really have a use for it anymore." he said giving it to me. "Thanks."I said as I left for the saloon where I met with Sunny Smiles. "Cheyenne down girl, sorry she thinks you're a giant gecko, bad dog." She said, scolding her dog "You must be the mutant Doc Mitchell patched up, I must say your not what I thought you would look like." she said. "Yeah I'm not what anybody expects." I said scratching the back of my head as we headed out to the back of the saloon to practice shooting some sunset sarsaparilla bottles before she offered me a job. "You're pretty good with a rifle wanna help me clear out some geckos?" she asked. "Sure." I said as she lead me to the reservoir where the Geckos were, after a few head shots we cleared out the first two area's and were heading to the third one when we heard a scream coming from the third water reservoir , I ran ahead seeing a young woman being attacked by three geckos I didn't have time to pull out my 9mm pistol or my varmint rifle so I grabbed one of the geckos and snapped its neck before throwing the corpse at the second gecko knocking it down a hill where it cracked its head before grabbing the final and cooking it alive with my fire breath I must have looked like a demon from hell when I did this as when I looked at the girl who called out for help she looked terrified. "Are you okay?" I asked as she just ran away as I looked at sunny smiles who was startled to say the least. "Okay? well before you go I should show you how to survive in the wastes, though I’m not sure you’ll need them." she said as I sorta rolled my eyes but reluctantly agreed to do it. After gathering the ingredients from the school which reminded me of something and graveyard next to my grave I made some healing powder and went to meet with Trudy. "You have till tomorrow or were taking this town down." A rather rude man said to what I'm guessing was Trudy after introducing myself and fixing her radio Trudy told me that the men who shot me probably went south to Primm and after seeing ringo who asked me to help with the help of Sunny and the town we managed to kill the powder gangers. "Thanks for the help, I know that a payment wasn't on the table but here." Ringo said handing me a hundred caps and as I was preparing to leave the woman who ran from me earlier came up to me. "I'm sorry I didn't thank you at the reservoir but here." she said handing me three bottles of clean water. "this is for saving my life." she said before running off. As I made my way to Primm I was stopped by a man who said his wife was trapped between some Geckos which turned out to be a trap and a man who explained me what blue started caps where as I had gotten a few on my travels, though I was kicking myself as I remember paying for stuff with those blue caps before back in the NCR. When I got to Primm I was told to see a Lt.Hayes who told me that a bunch of escaped convicts had taken over the town and that they didn't have the manpower to take the town back, So I went into the town killing the few that were out there and entering the Vikki and Vance Casino and being met with a gun to my head "Whoa." I said. "I'm not one of the escaped convicts." I said as the man put his gun down. "I don't know what it was brought you to Primm, youngster, but you might want to rethink your plans. Town's gone to hell.” he said. "I'm a courier from Mojave outpost." I said as I handed him a manifest of my job. "I'm looking for information." I said. "Let me see that." He said reading the manifest. "Oh it was one of those jobs." he said. "That cowboy robot had us hire six couriers. Each was carrying something a little different. A pair of dice, a chess piece, that kind of stuff. Last word I had from the office, it looked like payment had been received for the other five jobs. Guess it was just your chip that didn't make it. First deadbeat we hired to do the job canceled. Hope a storm from the Divide skins him alive. Well, that's where you came in." "You mean that robot cowboy?" I said pointing to the Protectron. "No it was a different robot." he said. "what about the guy that canceled?" I asked. "Yeah, got this look when he saw you next down on the Courier list. His expression turned right around, asked me if your name was for real. I said, sure as lack of rain, you were still kicking. Then he turned down the job, just like that. I asked if he was sure, it was good money. No, let "Courier Six" carry the package, that's what he said - like the Mojave'd sort you out or something. Then he just up and walked out." he said as I wondered who this other courier was. "Anyway my package got stolen by some asshole in a tacky suit." I said. You should ask deputy Beagle,Well, you can call Beagle a deputy so long as you don't harbor too high an opinion of the word. Boy was 'bout as useful as tits on a radscorpion. Only qualification he ever had was to be brother to the wife of the sheriff. Still, I s'pose he don't deserve what's befell him. We would've considered paying the ransom, if we'd had caps to spare." he said as I left the casino to head to the Bison steve hotel where I killed some more escaped convicts and got the deputy out. "Thanks a lot." he said. "Can you give me some information on the people I'm looking for?" I asked. "Well I could but my memories a bit foggy maybe getting the town a new sheriff would help." he said as I rolled my eyes and wondered why he wasn't sheriff before I went to the NCR encampment to ask them to to take over the town, they said if they could get more help from the outpost they would annex the town, so I walked to the outpost where I introduced myself to the commander knight and did a job for the ranger posted there, I was rewarded with a service rifle which reminded me of my service days. when I got back and informed the camp that they had the authority to annex the town I went back to deputy Beagle. "Well if it isn't the lawbringer." he said sarcastically. "What crawled up your ass?" I asked. 'It's just I'm not deputy anymore, apparently a few months of experience doesn't account for anything." he said all angry. “Yeah boo who now can you tell me about those guys?" I asked. "Yeah, they went down to Nipton." he said as I had my next destination.
Chapter 6 Lazy daysA few days after I told Mom the girls and Luna about the wasteland or at least a version of my story I went into the city of Canterlot. I still got a few stairs, as a Dragon in strange clothing it was not a common sight in Canterlot, but as long as nobody was denying me service for being a Dragon or mutant I was too happy to endure the stairs. I made my way to a burger stand when some foal said "look mommy a dragon." and pointed at me. "Free Swimmer that's rude." she said scolding the foal before she turned to "I'm sorry sir." "It's okay I almost forgot what I was." I joked as I was called worse before so it didn't faze me I walked up to the counter and ordered my hayburger as the day of questionable meats while sometimes good was over for me for better or worse. I then headed to the park to enjoy my food. While in the park I saw families playing people enjoying themselves and other thing you wouldn't commonly see in the Mojave, maybe the NCR if you were lucky, but not the Mojave. after I finished eating a soccer ball was kicked in my direction. "Hey Mr. can you kick the ball in our direction?" The colt asked as I kicked the ball back to him. "Thanks MR." the colt said running with his ball. It was nice to see green again and not be underground or have mutant plant monsters. But as I was preparing to leave when I heard rattling from the bush beside me and old instincts kicked in as I drew Maria. As a squirrel came out of the bush I put Maria back in the holster and walked away before I embarrassed myself or hurt somepony. I decided to catch a movie as I had nothing better to do, as I got in with my snacks I sat down to watch it, It was some garbage sci-fi movie that reminded me to much of Big Mountain and I had to get out of there before I had a bad flashback to take a wrong turn, Having your brain, heart and spine ripped out of you will do that. I was unable to get my money back from the movie which meant I was stuck with a ticket to a movie that I walked out on due to PTSD. I decided to visit the royal treasury to see If my bottle caps had anything of interest. “Ah hello Spike.” The stallion said as I took a seat. “I’m Shiny Metal, now lets see those caps.” He said as I pulled out a bottle cap and handed it to him. “Ah yes now could you give me a moment to inspect it.” he said as I left the office to let him work. “Ah hello Spike.” another Stallion said as he entered the room. “Shiny metal is busy right now sorry.” I said as he looked at me funny. “But I have the reports he asked for what could he be so busy with?” he asked. I pulled out a bottle cap and said. “He’s trying to see if these bottle caps are worth anything.” I said as he began laughing. “Yeah maybe two cents.” he said laughing as Shiny metal came out. “Oh good I have your...” he said as he was pushed aside. “Spike how many of these bottle caps do you have?” Shiny metal asked. “I don’t maybe a couple thousand.” I said as the guy that was carrying papers whistled. “Wow thats a lot of pennies.” he said “now about those papers” the stallion said as Shiny ignored him. “Spike if you cash them all at once you may bankrupt Equestria.” Shiny said as the stallion dropped his papers. “What how there just bottle caps?” he said as Shiny finally acknowledged him. “The metal is next to non existence in well the planet and he has thousands if not hundred thousands bits in a handful of Caps.” Shiny said as the stallion jaw dropped and he began to pick up the papers he dropped. “I’ll need those papers when you're done fooling around.” Shiny metal said as I left the royal treasury. I wondered what to do next as one of Luna’s guards came to me. “Your aunt has requested you.” he said as I followed him to the castle and up to Luna’s tower. “Princess I have brought your nephew.” the guard said. “Good, you may leave us.” she said. “Yes princess.” the guard said as he left. “Hello Luna.” I said as she looked at me. “Spike take a sea.t” she said firmly as I took a seat. “Is there something wrong?” I asked. “I want to know why did you lie when you told your story?” She said as I faked ignorance. “I didn’t Lie.” I said, lying. “You're lying right now.” she said. “Whats this about?” I asked. “In your dreams your marking yourself as a murderer yet in the story you told you spoke your way out of your problems and when you did fight you didn’t do the kill them, dreams don’t lie.” She said as I came clean. “Fine I didn't want the others to hear how I killed In the Mojave you saw what Fluttershy looked like when I said I was attacked by a dog I didn’t want them to look at me differently.” I said as Luna looked at me. “Fine I’ll keep your secret, only because I feel like you should be the one to tell them not me.” She said as I walked out. “I need a drink...” I said as I pulled out my vault 13 water canteen and took a drink. “I wonder if any bars are open.” I asked myself as I flew off to the bar district.
Chapter 7 Diamond Dog risingWe moved fast, dogs from all the cavers running and digging through the soil as we made out way to the main meeting cavern. Unlike other caverns and tunnels, it was carved from salt deposits, and lit with glowing stones. A Warband was called. No dog alive was born when the last Warband was called, but it’s a call every Diamond dog must answer when word reached their ears. I stood as leader of my pack and looked upon the many packs wondering with this may dogs who was left to fight. I turned to my second in command Runt who asked, “Who is leading this Warband?” I could not answer as It was unknown. Before anymore talking could a large Dog stood on a platform at the end of the cavern a thunderous roar from the dogs could be heard before the cavern when quiet. “Here me my kin! For untold generations we dogs have been stuck digging underground and scraping by with polluted water and whatever we managed to hunt for food! No longer! Today, I am leading all of us to the cursed mountain! Where it’s core is ripe with gems our ancestors mined and collected for years before the wretched ponies stole our home from us! Follow me, and we will have gems, food, water, and we can finally live under the sun like our ancestors before us! Who here is with me!” The dogs cheered as I noticed a odd looking dog standing behind him the stench of something foul was coming off him. “Are we really going to the cursed mountain?” My Runt asked. “Keep your voice down I have a feeling that your tone might get you killed.” I said. In the tunnels behind the salt cavern was a room reserved for the Warchief the leader of the warband. “That was a good speech Warchief.” I said as the warchief finished a rotten meal. “Well your magic better make it so because the last thing I will do before the curse claims me is take your sorry hide down.” The warchief said before asking “And how will capturing these wretched Ponies get us the mountain?” “Simple, with a bit of some special magic I have learned, their souls will act as a barrier around you, keeping the curse from harming you. Best part, the corpses left behind will make a fresh meal.” I said, starting the ritual, the ponies whose souls were being taken were panicking as darkness flowed from candles down their throats, orbs of light being taken out as the bodies fell over, limp and lifeless. The orbs all came together, forming one large orb, which I held in my hand. “Are you ready Warchief?” I asked him, ready for the next part. The warchief nodded as he grabbed the orb and took the power for himself and smiled, the souls flowing into his skin and, as a result, covering his own soul once they reached it. The perfect camouflage for the curse. “You’ve done well Shaman I feel stronger than before.” He said as I walked off. “Where are you off to?” He asked. “I must commune with our ancestors, taking back our rightful home will grant us their blessings in battle.” I said, seeing him nodding, satisfied with that as he left. Once he was gone, I began chanting, smoke arising from my fireplace...and a figure appeared. My Master. “Greetings Master. The plan is set. Everything is going according to plan.” I informed him. My master nodded and spoke. “Good, as long as nothing interferes with our plan I won’t have to end you.” Before long the smoke disappeared. A few days passed since I told my family the abridged version of my adventure in the wasteland. I was wondering the castle when I saw that mare from the village that I captured. I followed them to see where they were taking her. “Hey wait up.” I said as they stopped. “What is it sir.” one of them asked. “I wanted to know what you were doing with her?” I asked. “Princess Celestia wanted somepony to interrogate her to see what she knows.” The guard said. “Has anyo-pony been ordered to do this interrogation?” I asked. “No sir they haven’t.” the other guard said. “Then allow me to do it.” I said as they both looked at eachother confused. “The Princess would rather somepony qualified to do it.” the guard said before saying “but it would save us time.” “Good.” I said as I walked into the room where Starlight Glimmer was chained up. “So your here to judge me.” she said. “Yes I am.” I said looking at what Starlight actually did other than kidnap Twilight and the others. “Well it's interesting
Chapter 4 The talk editedAuthor's Note If more people ask for it I will post Spike's S.P.E.C.I.A.L stats and traits It is back my good people after 2 months of waiting and thanks to a new editor. As some people complained that I didn't actually show his past in this chapter just a 'montage' of reactions from the mane 6 pluse the princesses next chapter is about his past Chapter 4 The talk edited I woke up peacefully no nightmares to speak of, it was probably the alcohol that kept the nightmares at bay, but as I got out of my bed I realized I would probably need to talk to Luna and the others today which filled me with dread. "Let's get this over with." I said, putting on my NCR duster and brought my bag. "Luna, I'm ready for that talk." I said, knocking on her door. "Just a minute." Luna said as I heard a cat screaming and some junk falling. "Yes?" She asked with the door semi closed. "Are you okay in there? I think I heard a cat?" I asked as she closed the door on me. "Just give me a minute." I took a seat on the nearby steps. Five minutes passed before she left her room. "Okay Spike, lets talk. Oh, forgot to asked this last night, what were those things you injected into your shoulder?" I winced at the question, but sighed. "The first one was called med-x it helps with the pain the second one was a stimpack It also helps with the pain but in a different way" I explain as we walked down the spiral stairs. "So, about the nightmares you've been having?" Luna started "Yes, I know the reason I'll explain it with the others." I said as we had got to the bottom of the stairs. "The others?" Luna asked. She noticed the two headed bear on my back. "What does that symbol mean?" "It is the symbol of the the bear which fought against the bull." I said, trying to replicate what Ulysses said to me. "The bear and the bull?" "I'll tell you once we get mom and the rest of the girls." "Why do we need to get them?" "I'm going to tell you everything about my travels, as much as I don't want to." "Why don't you want to tell us about it?" Luna asked, concerned for me. "You will see when we get together." I said, looking at the sky. "But now, let's get breakfast" I said as we walked into the dining room where everypony was waiting for us. "What took you two so long?" Rainbow asked. "I need to tell you guys what happened when I was gone." I said as Twilight gleamed with excitement. "Calm down Twilight" She sat back down "Before I tell you about let's get through breakfast first." We all sat down to eat. As we were eating I over heard conversations that the others were having. "Maybe he went to a world like the Power ponies." I overheard Rainbow and Pinkie say while I overheard Twilight and Rarity talk about what the culture was like, Fluttershy and Applejack were wondering what the symbol on my back was. After breakfast we all headed to the garden where nopony would disturb us. "Okay before we start, I'm going to have you know that the world I was in was post apocalyptic." I told them Twilight and Luna gasped when I said it, but the rest were just wondering what that means. "In other words a world after the end of the world." Some of them still looked confused before Luna explained. "Imagine if all of a sudden a large flood came and washed away all the land below Canterlot. The world would be In a post apocalyptic stait as a majority of life had been washed away." Luna explained further, to the shock of everypony, not her explaining just the explanation. "Yes, just replace flood with deadly corruption and after a war that only lasted two hours and wiped out all its combattants off the face of the planet and you've got a pretty good explanation," I said as everypony looked horrified. "There's a reason I didn't want to tell you guys about this." I said as they looked at each other. "Well let's start at the beginning." I said as they gathered around me "It all started with the argument with Twilight a few months ago." I said as Pinkie raised her hand. "Yes Pinkie?" "What was the argument about?" "I don't remember, probably something stupid." I said as Twilight looked at me. "What?" "Nothing" She replied "Anyway, I ran out into the Everfree forest." I said as Rainbow interrupted me. "Why did you run into the Everfree forest?" "I don't know it was twentyfive years ago." I said as pinkie spoke up again. "I thought it was three months ago?" "Three months your time. Anyway I fell asleep in a tree and woke up in a hunting area outside a town.” Half an hour passed. "That's when he tough me to use a gun." I said I placed cans around the area and shot them with Maria. "Spike, was that a..." Twilight started. "A weapon, yes. This little things going to have more relevance later down the story." I explained as Twilight put her hands on her mouth covering up something she said. "Anyway, he didn't just teach me how to defend myself he taught me history, science,math and other skills." An hour passed "That's when I joined The NCR military as a Soldier." I said as they looked at each other "But you were a baby." Twilight insisted on saying. I rolled my eyes "Yes, but I was also twenty and by their standards. I was a young adult and before you ask, no they did not count dragon years because I didn't tell them I was a dragon. Solely on the simple basis they would have not believed me." "Then what did they think you were?" Fluttershy asked. "A mutant Gecko." I told them as they all looked at me. "What? They have mutants in there world. I thought I explained this?" Two more hours pass And that takes us to the second battle for hoover dam where I fought against the Legion" I said, finishing up. " And that was pretty much my trip before magically returning here... Well okay I left out the Sierra Madre, Zion, The big Empty, and the Divide, but those are stories for another day." I said as the everypony started talking about what had happened they were confused about the world I had told them. “So, what did you do after the battle at beaver dam?” Rainbow asked. “Hoover dam. And all I really did after that was help New Vegas and the Mojave rebuild from what the Legion had done.” “What happened to the Legate Lanius? Was he imprisoned with the rest?” Twilight asked. “... Permanently.”
