Fallout Equestria: Mountain Mystery.

Recording from years ago. A mare sits in a chair looking into a camera. She looks at the list that is in front of her tears have been streaming down her face. It’s like the world has just ended for her and the rest of the world.

“So many dead. The world has ended like so many said it would. I wish we listened to the others in Wymarnic and stopped with our tests of weapons and tried to help stop the war. I am sorry to all that see this if anyone still lives. Please destroy all the weapons that are down here. We have destroyed our land to spite the princess and the zebras.”

The mare sighs looking at the list.

“This list I have with me is all the weapons we created. If you are searching for any of these weapons please don’t use them. If you use one of them and don't use them on any souls it would cause more problems and you will regret every moment of it.”

The mare sighs again, shifting out of the seat. She takes a deep breath and salutes with her hoof to the cam.

“To all that survived we are sorry.”

She bits into some strange pill and after a few seconds she dies struggling to breathe and lets out her final breath and the recording finally ends. I look at the screen looking back to Bumblebee who looks on in horror.

“You can’t expect all the other Blue hats to just accept this fate, Bumble.”

She turns her head to look at me smiling weakly. Root and Blossom are gathering our gear to get ready to go down the halls of the weapons. I agree we should try to destroy these weapons. I am sure it’s the only choice we have now.

“I know Smoke Pipe. Just I wish things went a different path. I am sure we would have screwed ourselves over. Just to spite the princess and their minions. It’s the sad truth of the matter that we will never know if we would have survived or not.”

I chuckle getting off the chair looking at the others who are finally ready. Root and Blossom look down the hall. I can see the fear in their eyes. It's the fear that I have in my heart. We have no idea what will be found there.

“Are you sure about this Pipe?”

I stand by Root looking towards her smiling.

“If we don’t do anything Root and find something to scare the pegasi into at least wanting peace. We have to at least try. It’s the only thing we can do my friend. You and I know that if we don’t. The entire land will fight to the death.”

Root nods.

“True.”

Blossom stood on the other side of me.

“I don’t want my friends and family to fight to the death with your home. Is there anything we could do at all?”

I shrug my shoulders. The only thing we could do is try to explain that something worse is coming. I doubt anyone would believe it without proof. I wonder if the Blue hats have information on Grogar returning. The magic keeping him at bay must be slowly breaking. I have noticed the hate sickness that he spread so long ago. The sickness opens the rage centers of the brain.

“What are you thinking, Pipe?”

I glance at Root and a weak smile forms on my face.

“We need to find something to convince us that something worse is coming. The only way is to try to get proof that Grogar is returning.”

Bumble taps my shoulder with a hoof. I turn my head to look at her.

“There is one way. You have been collecting those orbs. There are two more one is here and you get them all you connect it. Then it might send a warning to them about what is going on. The issue is only one can get this information. Are ones with Pip-bucks or find a computer that can get the information. So not everypony will believe us even so”

I sigh she is correct.

“I have been meaning to ask.”

I turn to look at Blossom. Bumble does the same to look at Blossom who is about to ask some questions.

“Well, how I learned about these black orbs. It’s why I was here to get them. The Enclave captured a blue hat. She left this land she said and went to live in a community that accepted ghouls. They were about to kill her then she said I am a blue hat. It made some pegasi a little upset because. They don’t like ghouls and the stories of the blue hats aren’t very kind either.”

Bumble sighs.

“I am not surprised the stories of the Blue hats even here are hateful. We deserve it for what we did to our land. So they sent you to get the orbs? They do understand right the orbs have nothing to do about weapons. It shows what we did to ourselves and then getting them all triggers something we built for the battle ahead. It was meant for the war if it came this way. Then we were told by a zebra that the demon goat necromancer will return.”

Blossom sighs.

“They won’t even listen to me. They were already on the way here before I even came. They just wanted to find these weapons the blue hat talked about. So I am unsure what to think of all this. Are we ready to find these weapons or orb?”

Bumble leads on ahead; she is wearing her hat now that has her name on it. A bunch of cameras watches us. I turn to look at one of them. As I swear they are alive I am sure knowing the Blue hats are alive.

“Don’t touch anything. The security will not do anything unless they realize you aren’t one like me. So if they see any of you without me. It might release the security robots to take you on and try to kill you or force you out.”

We go down these crazy halls on the walls, dried blood, and bones of creatures the blue hats created and blue hates themselves. Getting to the first door looking at the sign near the door. It’s not even a weapon. Its seeds for gardens looking at Bumble she shakes her head.

“Those seeds won’t survive what we did to this land. We tried to mutate the seeds so we could help them grow here. If you feel you want to take them and give them to a zebra to work on. Then do so but I warn you. You might not like what you learn about these seeds.”

I nod and we follow her into the seed room.

“How many of them can we take?”

It is a good question. Anything we can grow would be great.

“You can take them all. The security I doubt will care if you took these. It’s not a weapon, it's just mutated seeds we experimented on. There should be at least oh here.”

Bumble floats over a bag for me to put all the seeds inside it. I quickly do not open the empty bag taking every seed I can. I don’t care if these are mutated or experimented on, if we can find any way to grow these it will be easier for us to give food to the land. I hover the bag in my magic putting it around Root’s shoulder. It’s pretty heavy and she is the strongest of all of us.

“Heh, sometimes it pays to be an earth pony.”

I laugh nodding following Bumble while she leads us through the halls and we find more weapon doors. She stops me from even looking at them and she shakes her head to the others.

“These weapons are locked here for a reason. None of these weapons would even harm the Enclave.”

I glance at the name Little lady. A frown forms on my face, noticing this door has been broken into.

“Bumble, this one is gone.”

She glances at the door, sighing.

“That one got broken into before the bombs fell. A mare named Mimic took the weapon then she and her friends left Equestria to never be seen again. She was a Blue hat herself and her friends convinced her to leave. One of her friends is a griffin. I don't remember his name and twins. I suspect they died.”

I am sure they did.

“What did this weapon do exactly?”

Bumble kept walking with us not far behind. It took her a while to remember what the weapon did. I don’t blame her for not remembering what the weapon did. It’s going to be hard to remember everything since most never write it down. I know some ghouls like me who wrote everything down. I did the same when I had the chance to do so.

“Oh yes, I remember. The weapon was a mistake. When you shoot something with its special ammo it would explode inside them. Then the ammo breaks up and goes into others. If you’re not careful it could go into you. There are only a few boxes of ammo ever made for it. It can use ammo from other guns. It would just overheat it more and it would be harder to use it later on.”

I have a feeling that a lot of these weapons are gone. I glance at another door while we walk down the hall. I see the sign that says zebra pistol. The door is opened just a bit and Bumble refuses to go inside.

“Another weapon of yours gone.”

Bumble nods.

“We know where that one ended up though. I doubt we would ever get it again though. That weapon happens to be used by some wolf creature. This wolf creature happens to be some small-time hero and that’s it.”

I have a bad feeling that many of the weapons have been missing for ages. One more door we passed has been broken into as well. The sign has been ruined behind the ability to read it. While we walk we are getting deeper into the bunker going down the stairs seeing more scratches on the wall dried blood caked all over the walls.

“Careful, we have no idea what we might find down here. The room holding the orb should be down here. I hope you understand that the security might not be working down here. So get all your weapons primed and ready.”

I nod, pulling out my magnum from my pocket with my magic. Make sure that there is ammo inside the chamber. There is ammo looking at the others with me priming their weapons to be ready. We get down the stairs and we are fully at the bottom. There are so many bones and bodies of just recently killed creatures down here.

“Blossom be careful. Stick right beside me I will be your shield.”

Blossom smiles at Root.

“Thank you Root.”

Root nods, turning to look at me and Bumble. I nod while the four of us go through the halls. We hear creatures skittering around us roaring and howling like they’re near us but they could be pretty far away.

“Okay, you three follow me. I know just the right path to get to the orb. Then we will set the self district and destroy all these weapons.”

I look around to make sure that we don’t get snuck upon while we walk through the bone-riddled floors. Each time we step on a bone though there is a loud crack. We hear more skittering roaring of anger and rage.

“Whatever is down here is not happy we are here. Just we told everyone we would be back with weapons. What are we going to tell them that we couldn’t find any weapons?”

Bumble glances at me.

“Tell them the truth. Maybe we could try to make a truce. Maybe Blossom could do something for us. Maybe she could go to whoever the leader is asking them to meet with you at the computer that holds the orbs. I doubt it will work though. I am sure we will have to fight hard to keep them from harming more in this land.”

I sigh it’s not going to be easy at all. The only way it will be easy is if they’re willing to talk. I highly doubt it. Before we could go on, more and more creatures slowly came around and they walked by us. One of them looks at me. With its head, it swings like it wants us to follow. I nod to the others while we follow the wolf creature through the halls.

“Are you sure about this Smoke Pipe?”

A few minutes later the wolf leads us through halls into a large metal door from the looks of it. This is a created forest that the blue hats made for these creations. The door closes and before I could say anything a naga comes out of the forest. A real naga I haven’t ever seen one. But these are creations of Grogar. At least that is the rumor I heard over the years each time I have met one.

“Don’t worry, these creatures are safe and smart. I am one of the nagas from Widowmaker desert. I was on the journey to becoming an adult then stumbled here and found my way inside. I have been here for almost I believe 20 years now.”

I felt it was right to ask.

“Why would naga stay here?’

The naga shrugs her shoulders.

“Well, why not learn and to understand why these Blue hats created these creatures. These creatures are creatures who just want to live. If you leave them alone they will leave you alone. Before you ask how I survived down here? This forest grows food and thankfully I am not a meat-eater. So I survive on the fruit and whatever else grows down here.”

It was hard for me to stay silent.

“Listen, Miss, we are here to find a black orb that holds information on Grogar. Have you noticed any of the weapons down here?”

Naga nods.

“Yes, I have made sure all the weapons are fully sealed. What do you plan to do after you get this orb?”

Bumble stood high on her hooves. She stood right in front of the Naga and looked down at Bumble. I worry about what is going to happen after what she is about to say. I hold my breath, closing my eyes worrying about what will happen.

“We want to set the self-destruct up above. But since it seems you have the bunker well protected we won’t do so. What do you plan to do? Do you plan on heading back home when you have a chance to?”

The naga shrugs her shoulders.

“I am thinking maybe in a few years I will head back. I am known as Salt scale. I have been away from my kind for too long. I was hoping to find something to remove the nightmare moon curse. So please find your orb and leave. Oh and warning there are worse creatures in here than what you see here. So please get that orb and try not to cause too many problems to the order of things here. Just being here has caused a lot of problems with that order. I will send one of my friends here to go with you. But first, it might be best to rest at least. During the night, the creatures of the night are more active.”

I think we already rested a while ago. Maybe she is right though it’s best to rest. It took us a while to get everything out and after an hour with everything ready even our cooking supplies. Salt scales made us a meal of the fruit and veggies that she has been able to grow in here.

“So are you just here for the orb? I have a feeling you aren’t telling me the entire truth are you?”

I felt it’s time to say the truth. I took a deep breath again, blowing hot air out of my mouth. Watching the others eat.

“We came here for weapons to fight the Enclave. I feel though it’s a bad idea to even bring any of these weapons out of the bunker.”

The others ate while I was speaking.

“Ah, I see. Well, I highly doubt any of these weapons would help you. I read up on most of them. A lot of them are mostly land-destroying weapons. Now I will be helping you get to the orb. Just please don’t set the bomb that would cause the bunker to get destroyed. These creatures even though they have been created deserve to live as well.”

I nod going into the tent that Root had with her. Since she can use it now since we are in a place like this, Root and Blossom sleep in bags outside. I have a Bumble feeling and I need to have a long talk sometime. Maybe it will be a time.

“Bumble after we wake up before we go. You and I need to have a long talk, are you willing to do so?”

Bumble nods laying in the sleeping bag to fall asleep. I do the same laying in the sleeping bag using my magic to watch the creatures guard us. I have a bad feeling that these creatures Salt Scales spoke of sometimes walk inside here. I close my eyes feeling myself drift into a dreamless sleep. Of course, a strange sound makes it so I couldn't fall asleep. I open the tent just a bit. Salt scales is talking to Blossom.

"I wish I could understand your species you fly and from what you tell me they want to cause more harm than good. If you feel that me helping you will work then I will do so. Now please rest Blossom I will talk to you more about this later."

Blossom nods and Salt looks into the tent she bows her head to me knowing that I am awake. I just give a very weak smile nodding closing the tent flap. I close my eyes going into a dreamless sleep.