Fallout Equestria: Mountain Mystery.

There are stories of many peace talks going wrong. When peace talks go wrong those around the ones speaking for peace tend to still keep the peace. It’s not always easy to understand why things never go well. It’s a time when the story will come to an end and so would peace. Maybe someday we zebras will forget the past and learn to have peace with the ponies? I highly doubt many of my species will wish for it.

Written by Jonon 10 years before she met Star Shooter.

I never thought I would be working to make a deal with the Enclave. With the gang leaders nowhere to be found at the moment, I feel it’s up to me to do what I can. I sit at the bar like normal. Like I am talking to someone who wants me to go on a mystery journey.

The music in the background of a young mare singing a song I know well.

“Oh, my love. Our moon glows tonight. Come dance with me we shall become one under the moon. While we drink our bourbon under the misty moon and make love to it as we sing together and drink.”

I glance at Moonshine who stares at the stallion. They both look at each as the mare leans on the bar staring at the pegasus, a sweet smile forming on her face.

“Hello, handsome can I get you a drink?”

Blaze smiles leaning into the bar to stare into the eyes of the bartender owner. I see the lust in their eyes. I wonder if it’s just going to be only lust. I light my pipe taking a few drags and blowing the smoke between them. Moonshine looking at me.

“Get him what I drink Moonshine you two can go find a bed later.”

Moonshine snorts, turning her head back to the stallion she winks at him heading to go make us the drinks. Blaze eases back into his chair a smirk of hunger forming on his face. He turns his head to look at me frowning.

“Ahem sorry..”

I just chuckle.

“You act as if you have never seen mares up into those clouds.”

Blaze smirks.

“Not as beautiful as she is. As pegasus tends to be sometimes the parents make it so their sons and daughter get married to make the gene pool pure. Now not all of the enclave is like this, just a few groups are. I joined the enclave army to get away from the so-called fake marriage. We broke our marriage before then but I heard she died recently in a bomb going off at an old Ministry of Magic building.”

I nod blowing smoke out of my mouth looking over to the door and seeing Root and Blossom come in. Globe eyes and Draco don’t seem to be with them. I am not worried about it but I do worry if this chance for peace will be hard to get.

“So I take it that the return of the Enclave is not going over so well?’

Blaze signs and Moonshine puts the drink down in front of him. He lifts it with his wings to take a sip. Setting it back down looking at me. His eyes are full of sadness and pain. I could tell they have been doing things he doesn’t approve of.

“I get many of those above me consider the ponies below savage. But allowing their troops to murder children. I heard stories of children lifting weapons to them. The Enclave killing them there are stories of a pony who took the ashes of a dead child putting them into a bottle holding it crying. After all these stories came to me after we came here. There are even more stories of the entire land over back in mainland Equestria rising to fight the enclave”

He takes a deep drink from the drink. While he allows me and the others to let what he said sink in. The stories are true then a hero rose to fight the enclave. Even though a hero rises they tend to leave more problems behind than they help. They will learn this the hard way sooner or later. There is no hero in this land, no hero at all. Each time a hero tried to rise here the gangs killed them.

“Heros are a problem. Heroes never help everypony they tend to help those who are on those below. At times those above need help as well. Even those who have mental problems. When the hero is done fulfilling her story something else will happen and It’s a sad truth.”

Blaze sets down the drink glancing at me.

“From the words, you say you don’t trust when a hero does anything.”

I sigh, taking my drink in my magic drinking from the cup. I look into the fluid seeing how I used to look. My young skin and my fur not decaying. I look happy. I don't look ready to get betrayed every turn and every time I see the next path of my heart.

“If Twilight and her friends were those so-called heroes. Why did they allow this and not use their elements to stop the war before it got too bad? I am sure they had falling outs too. Every friendship has a falling out. Stories of friends always break from each other's ideas and hopes.”

Blaze sighs.

“I doubt we will ever know. After the loss of so many of my troops and the fact that only a hundred are alive after getting there and they’re tired of all the fighting. So I heard the gang leaders look at you with respect. If you tell them peace is the way to go then it’s a way to go.”

I chuckle softly. Most of the reason I watched most of them grow up. Lavender is the one I adopted and raised before she became the gang leader and renamed them the Lavender crew. I take a deep breathtaking drink from the cup.

“I have watched many of them grow up. I even adopted one of them when their life took a turn for the worst. So yes peace is always needed. So when I have a chance I will talk about getting peace.”

Root and Blossom look outside seeing ponies and zebras even rangers firing on something. Something was going on outside before I could say anything. I feel a strange device in the back of my head.

“Turn around slowly.”

I turn to see a troggle of the minions of Grogar I watch while many of them come out of a rip and it closes. The troggle backs away. I see a donkey dressed in a jester-like outfit. He smirks at me, taking my drink and drinking it.

“Ah, detective, my master wants to thank you for leading us to your home. He wants us to make an example of you so his return no one will stop him.”

A smirk forms on my face.

“Oh, you must be his minion, Bray.”

I lift my pipe, lighting it again taking a few drags from it. I am doing my best to save face hoping they will not fire at me. I am scared to death deep down but I can’t allow them to use my fear to go after those around me.

“Yes, the master wants an example of him now. Kill him.”

The troggles get ready to aim at me. The window in the bar explodes open. The spider creature from the bunker charges in with Rolex on his back. He lifts his Tommy Gun and fires at the troggles killing many of them with his bullets as many go to hide. The spider fires acid from his mouth hitting a few of the troggles.

With everything going on I lost track of Bray. I stood up from my stool looking at the others. Rolex gets off the back of the spider creature. Rolex smirks.

“Just like the old chase hmm detective? Now before we go on and on. We need to fight back against this army. We need to plan to make it to the tear outside of town which is helping them make smaller tears.”

It’s time for the final battle of this land I am sure. Who will know who is the victor and become the winner we must do whatever we can to end this battle. I lean in with Blaze and the others to make a plan as quickly as we can.,