Fallout Equestria: Mountain Mystery.

There are stories of creations waking up and becoming problems for the world. Old war creatures that suddenly find their way out of their pens. The Blue hats try too hard to find a way to protect Wymarnic. They don’t seem to understand the bigger issue is they caused more problems than helped. They tried to cast a spell to make more rain form above the land. But instead, they made it so it rains only a certain time a day. They even destroyed the soil of the land. Just in case the zebras took over the land. Most of the Blue hats removed their memories so their secrets could never be taken from them. The memory block didn’t last forever so now they’re starting to go around destroying everything they created.

Written by Paladin Soda Pop

We finally made it into the bunker. But Bumble Bee couldn’t even remember the code to open the door leading down into the lab. We have been sitting here in the lobby for almost a few hours while Bumble tries to remember all the codes. Root paces around while Blossom is on one of the older couches fast asleep.

Bumble tosses her books away growling in anger trying to break the keypad now. I stood up from the chair using my magic to stop her hoof from smashing into the keypad. Leaning down beside to help her. I just look at her as she looks back at me. The look on her face made her very angry and disappointed that she couldn’t remember.

“Allow me to try to understand this Bumble. You all removed your memories of being Blue hats and someone finding those black orbs brought the memories back or did the spell fall apart?”

It took a while for Bumble to even answer. I don’t wish to push her. I glance at the keypad. It’s one of the older keypads that hasn’t been seen in this area for a long time. Since many try to take them apart for the parts inside the keypads.

“The spell was used to keep us from using the weapons on the zebra population. Since we started to notice after the war started slowing down and the bombs fell. We saw that the zebras became a big part of keeping these mountains alive. So all our work is to make weapons to attack just them. It caused us to see that we worked to fight the wrong enemy. But I know full well we can turn the weapons to harm pegasi.”

I glance at the sleeping Blossom.

“Then I can’t promise her that those she knows won’t die from the attack.”

Bumble turns her head just a bit to glance at Blossom.

“Can we trust her not to backstab us? You know how pegasi are. They have no idea what is going on here. So they could have sent her to infiltrate us and then backstab us. I don’t know about you Smoke pipe but I can’t trust her.”

I snorted laughing.

“That’s what many say about a Blue hat. Then does that mean I shouldn’t trust you hmm? Wasn’t it you and the other Blue hats who turned our adopted son into a plant monster or did I forget about that hmm?!”

Bumble's ears pin to the back of her head. I didn’t want to be this rude or mean to her. But she knows full well saying stuff like this. I am going to give it back to her even harsher. I don’t want to do it but sometimes you kind of have to.

“Pipe please, you know I loved our son. You also forget he volunteered. It was our stupidity that made him connected to that forest. So I had nothing to do with it. So don’t you dare blame me!! I didn’t want to do it!”

Tears stream the ghoul mares cheeks. I just stare at her while she cries. The poor mare sobs softly and deep enough that it’s loud. I hear heavy hooves coming up and Roots hoof smacks the back of my head.

“How dare you do that to your wife?!”

I stare at Root.

“Can’t you tell Smoke Pipe she is trying hard and you just turn around and accuse her? Why would you do that? Maybe she deserves it but she is still your fucking wife. She doesn’t deserve this treatment.”

I stood up, turning around to stare at Root, my eyes full of anger for a friend. I don’t even remember why I had such anger for Root. I could see that her eyes were glowing bright red. I turned my head just a moment to see a large blue goat and his horns glowing bright red. A large smile formed his face.

“This coming from the mare that is a fucking slut!! How dare you tell me what I should or should not do?! I fucking care for my wife how dare you!! I love her so much but I am not going to forgive her for everything she did.”

I didn’t hear Blossom move but she forces between the two of us her wings spreading to block me and Root. She turns her head to look at me. I could see the soft pegasus mare not happy with me or Root.

“You two need to calm down. Before you allow the hate sickness to take full control of you. If you relax now it won’t take over you. So please and Smoke pipe you should know what I mean. With how your eyes are glowing you have seen him.”

It finally hit me. My mind flashes to what I saw. Grogar the seals that held him back are weakening. He can release the hate sickness he used so long ago. The stories about him using hate magic to make the land around him weaker and docile are coming true. I turn my head back to the spot I saw him. There is nothing there but I knew he was there and I feel the hate sickness leaving me.

“Root...I am sorry.”

Root stood there, tears falling from her eyes.

“I know you are Smoke Pipe. But those words you said hit hard. Even if it’s true lately. But with everything going on it’s the only way I can cope with being taken by a stallion. Please don’t think of me like a slut Smoke Pipe. It would just break my heart in many places.”

I take a deep breath, Blossom backing away Root and I hug each other tightly. I wish I didn’t treat her like that. Then I realize how I treated Bumble. I turn to look at her. I wasn’t under the hate sickness when I spoke to her.

“Bumble..listen we got a lot to work to do with how we see each other. I am very sorry for how I treated you.”

Bumble sighs nuzzling into me.

“I wish I didn’t do everything I did to you. I wish I didn’t use our marriage to stop you from getting in the way of the Blue hats. I wish I could remember the codes I used to get this door open. I don’t remember any codes at all.”

I glance over at the computer on the desk. I head over to the desk to see if the computer has any power. The computer has been on all this time and still has the power to work. Using my magic to look through the files. Root sits beside me. I glance at her. I have never gotten so angry at her before. I regret what I said to her. I wish I could take it all back.

“Do you think the computer would hold old files of the codes?”

I shrug my shoulders.

“If it does it would be kind of funny. That they removed all their memories but they forgot to delete every file from their systems. You can say much about the Blue hats but their ability to delete old files is not easy for them to remember. I know from being married to Bumble she lost many files.”

I look over to Bumble Bee

“No offense sweetheart.”

Bumble laughs.

“No no, I deserve that after losing our marriage license”

I chuckled. I forgot about that. I remember my mother hating my choice of mare to marry. I remember what I told her. That I refuse to have a foal that is fatherless like I was. A foal with both parents becomes better than what happened to me. Calling every stallion she brought home daddy for a time.

“You’re doing it again Pipe.”

I turn my head looking at Root.

“Doing what again?”

Root giggles.

“You’re seeing the world black and white. Because your detective mind has to talk to itself. Then sometimes you say words out loud. Now it might be best to find these codes. This place is starting to bother me.”

She would be correct. I do see the world. I was about to finish my thoughts as I turned my head to look at a strange falcon on the top of a file cabinet. It’s a Maltese falcon. I remember stories about an old detective searching for it. I use my magic to pick it up. Wow, it’s the real thing turning it over to find the code written on the bottom.

Is it that easy? No, that is too easy. I would think the code is for one of the files. I go through the files trying to find one that needs the code. I find a file that needs a code looking at the number again. It’s one, seven, nine, and five putting in that code. I found the file and I read it out loud.

“To those trying to remember the code for the keypad. That means you found the code for this file under the falcon. Can’t allow you to get the keypad code that easily. But I don’t have the time to make a crazy clue hunt for it. So look at the desk for a blue baseball hat. It should be inside the rim of it.”

Root rolls her eyes.

“Really?! The blue hats made it that easy? There are no traps, there are no random robots? It will be that easy and we don’t get a knife or a bomb in our butts? I don’t buy it, this is the same group that almost killed me.”

Oh yes, I remember that Root was going to go meet with a stallion. The stallion turned out to be a blue hat. He then tried to take blood from her and she thought it was an easy lay. Of course, it was just a way to get her killed.

Opening up the desk I find an old baseball hat. Looking through the rim I find the code. It’s a bit faded. I can read the first three numbers.

“Okay Bumble it’s nine, ten, four, and hmm try zero.”

Bumble did the numbers I said and it opened. I found it funny that the faded one is a zero. Unless the pad was more screwed up than I thought it was. The door opens up and we all look inside. There are many claw marks on the door and walls. Dried blood all over the walls.

“Well ain’t that lovely it looks like somepony had a party of insanity. So Bumble, do you remember what is down here?”

Bumble turns her head to look at me shrugging her shoulders.

“I have no idea. I have a feeling though that we won’t like what we see down here.”

Blossom and Root stay behind me while Bumble and I go ahead. The stairs haven’t been used in years and they creak and groan. The metal stairs feel a bit weak as well. It’s gotten to the point that if we aren’t careful we would have to find a safer way out.

“We need to be careful though the pens could be open. They will leave us alone but Blossom might want to eat her. Because we created some of these creatures to go after the pegasi.”

Blossom’s ears pin to the back of her head.

“Why would you do such a thing?”

Bumble turned her head to glance at Blossom. A weak smile forms on her face. She shrugs her shoulders.

“We have no idea we even had pegasi in the Blue hats and they told us that their species of pony could backstab us so we need to be ready. So yes I am sorry Blossom.”

Blossom shakes her head.

“The enclave is correct, a lot of you ground ponies are insane.”

I glance over to Blossom a smirk forming on my face.

“Well, Blossom, do you blame us? We have done well for ourselves for 200 years and many of us haven’t even caused a problem for the Enclave for so long. So I feel it’s not our fault unless there is something I am unsure of.”

Blossom stays silent. From just looking at her and the emotions on her face. I think she wasn’t expecting me to say that. Of course, I am sure someone did anger them. I was expecting another war to start up because of stupid ponies.

“I have been meaning to ask Blossom what is the reason that the Enclave came down from their little home?”

I stayed silent after Root’s question. One would think she would have asked this question already. Since she has pushed Blossom into sleeping with stallions like she has been doing a lot of the time. But I can’t help but think there is a reason for this.

“It’s because a mare that some call the toaster repair pony has been causing some problems. We don’t know what she wants. But we know she is gathering the hearts of the wasteland to fight us. From what I have seen here.. We deserve all the treatment we get. We are too full of ourselves. I felt that way when I met Smoke pipe. Till he showed me around.”

I knew that somepony was causing problems. I am sure it’s more than just one pretending to be a hero. I am sure they have a sense of trumped-up justice. I am a hero. The world must conform to what I think because I wish to change. When it is the reality it takes those around the hero to cause the change.

We finally made it downstairs. It all seems to be situated in one big room ahead. The other rooms are locker showers and sleeping chambers. The door to the lab is removed from its frame and laying on the hard floor.

“Wait for a second this is a lab. It’s just one room?”

Blossom’s question was a reasonable one. All old war labs and weapon labs have had more than one room. I wonder if the Blue hats didn’t understand what they were doing. Well with how the rain has been coming and how they destroyed the soil I am not surprised at all. Bumble sighs

“Yes.. a lot of the Blue hats didn’t understand what was going on. So they made just one lab for everything. All our weapons are in this lab. It is why we have to make sure we destroy this bunker. We don’t want any of the gangs finding these weapons and...Smoke pipe no one was following us where they were?”

I shrug my shoulders.

“Who would want to follow us in the middle of nowhere just for weapons that might not even work. Now that would either be the dumbest or the stupidest idea I have ever seen.”

Before I could say any more a creature screams.

“The Storm King rises!!”

Coming down the stairs are a bunch of the Storm King’s old minions. There are more of them than there are of us. A Mr. Gutsy with them floats down the stairs.

“Oh, he is raising my children, oh praise the words of the king. Now ponies can do this the easy way or the hard way. All we want here is all information on the project Storm Watch and the locations of all villains if you let us by and let us do what we want. We will leave you be and go on our way.”

I took a deep breath and I knew it. Someone did follow the idea of project Storm watch. The enemies of old have been in lockup for so many years. That it wouldn’t surprise me if a Blue hat had a hoof in the creation of it.

“Project Storm watch?”

Blossom and Root ask.

“Project Storm watch is brainwashing or mind controlling enemies of old to get the world ready for the return of Grogar. I was told that the project was scrapped before the end of the war. It seems someone kept it going in secret and… if I may ask a robot. What will you do with this information?”

The robot turns its many eyes to look at me.

“That is the question most don’t understand: we need to find these villains. The world is not peaceful like many want to believe. Heroes are running rampant; they are forcing their views of heroism on a mindless world. We wish to bring forth a real world even if it means by death and real justice.”

That is all I needed to hear. I shift to the side nodding to the others to do the same.

“But..”

Root wanted to argue. I shook my head. Bumble agreed with me that the idea of heroes didn’t even work in the past. The heroes of Equestria allowed the war to corrupt them. So there is no way I am going to step in their way.

“You’re smarter than Wheel Tread gave you credit for Detective”

I smirk.

"So Wheel Tread still lives eh? One question though what happened to the two moose waiting for us outside? Did you kill them or chase them off?"

The robot turns heading into the open lab room. A few of the storm king minions follow them. There are no sounds of battle but soon after the robot yells. I could tell if it was in anger or from something else. Soon after the robot comes back out.

“All the info on Project StormWatch has been transferred like the day the bombs fell to a land called Widowmaker. Oh and those two Moose we just chased them off. I may be a crazy robot Detective but I won't kill innocent creatures ever again.

My ear’s pinned to the back of my head. That desert is hell on earth. If these creatures head there to find the project then I can’t stop them. All I can do is give them directions.

“The best way to get there”

The robot lifts its weapon to stop me.

“I already know the way. Now we must go. He has risen the Storm King's return will bring forth the world that we need a world without heroes. A world that is willing to make heroes and villains into Legends and myths.”

I didn’t say a word. After they left Root and Blossom stare at me with disappointment in their eyes. But when I turned to look at Bumble she agreed with me. I am no hero myself, I am just a detective trying to solve a mystery. A mystery that is leading to a weapon that could save us.

“I know what you two are going to say. I am sorry that I didn’t fight them. Heroes didn’t save us even during the war. It caused us more problems. Problems I don’t wish to talk about because most never understand.”

I head into the lab. The other three are behind me. Looking around noticing that in the cages all the creatures are dead from hunger. There are no weapons at all in this room. Bumble sits at the console.

“Okay, the weapons are below us. Just the security has gone insane and it will take time for us to get down there. There is only one thing I can do.”

Bumble clicks a few buttons a compartment opens up a weapon to fight the security comes out of the wall. I go over to pull it out and read the side of it. It’s called. ‘Robot smasher.’ I read further on it. ‘This is the only way to take down our security if they go out of control. It takes time to charge and if you’re a unicorn it will take the magic from your core to use it. So use it wisely.

“We will all go. But we should rest a bit before going and then go.”

Blossom and Root put up a makeshift tent for themselves and I already hear them snoring. As Bumble is getting ready to fall asleep herself. From what I noticed she couldn’t stay away from staying up for so long.

“Smoke Pipe, why are we waiting? We could go down there and charge.”

She yawned before she could finish.

“We can’t overuse a lot of our magic core to just get here. We haven’t even taken the time to rest our cores. I have been having issues carrying my gun. I haven’t allowed my core to rest since old Antler. Root and Blossom need their rest. It took us so long to get up here. Even though we’re just in a cart that causes more problems since we couldn’t sleep in the carts that easily.”

Bumble nods and lays down on a cot. I just look at the others and look at the weapon. There is more of a reason I am worried about that. This gun will use the magic of all races. Each magic is different in the core of a pony. Earth ponies’ magic core is connected more to their body. Pegasus is connected to their ability to fly. But unicorns it’s their life force, at least that is how I was told about it.

I lay on my cot closing my eyes to relax. I am worried that allowing the storm king minions and whoever that robot was the info of project Storm Watch. I worry that whoever has to deal with them someday won’t be able to. Before I fall into a dreamless sleep. I just keep thinking about why this bunker is so freaking small and why almost every creature made here is dead.

I wonder why they made extra areas just for the weapons? Maybe they felt it was the only way to protect them? I will never know I take a deep breath unsure what to think. It's something I am not fond of thinking about. This weapon could hurt us all and these weapons could cause more problems and could be best just to destroy them. I finally let the memory fade, closing my eyes to sleep.