Fallout Equestria: Mountain Mystery.

Stories of the past always tell you of the history of many greats. Sometimes the greats have done something that could help many others. Some even have said this mare or this stallion could have been great for what they have done. History sometimes can be faulted. But not for all creatures the history of the ponies of the war. Even the stories within the dead buildings of the former war.

Time's never have been easy for all. But those that wish to see the future and understand the past. We can't allow ourselves to be ready for that. This Firefly is one of those greats now I don't know fully about her. But while I have been walking through the area of Antler that mostly has ponies within it. She is honored all over the place along with many others. The ponies of the future honor the past. There are stories that she built this entire pony town by herself. Even though some have said that didn't happen just the ponies don't seem to be able to be told the difference. I never thought I would learn how Now I finally made it to the tomb.

The tomb was a normal pegasus tomb and kept everything very respected most of the items of their lives kept in cases. Looking into the tomb I could see the coffin was broken open and the remains removed. I needed to talk to the leaders of the clan that kept this tomb protected. Normally in my experience with Pegasus clans, mares lead them and they did most of the marriages to stallions. So the head of the clan was a mare named Fireflight. She is a pure red mare that had firey hair and eyes.

"Hello, Detective I'm Fireflight. I am to be giving you all the resources of the clan. If you need our guards or anything we will give them to you. Just please find the body."

I gave a nod. "Now tell me what you can about your clan?”

Fireflight nods. "Well, we have been part of the leadership ever since the founding and other Pegasus clans have issues with that. But I doubt any of them would go this far into stealing remains of our founder. We doubt it was one of the Moose’s but I can leave to let you find some clues."

"Please do." The mare left I wasn't sure what to think. I never liked these big clans. It was rare to even find them out here outside of Cantorlot or other big areas that would have them. Always so full of themselves and able to do more. Now many things to check there are more laid to rest here than just the head of the clan. Maybe If I opened the others I could find out what there is about them. Looking up at the statue of the mare that was made. She wore a type of guard armor that she didn't bring with her and she had wing blades. Oh those things that I used to see powerful guards or ones from the training that had them.

Looking through the tomb and the golden coffin. The lid is not broken but it is cracked. Looking side the coffin of Firefly I noticed a few scratches. Looking closer at the marks. The marks looked deep and cut in the stone. I know Griffins can do this or hell hounds but I'm very unsure that any of them did this. In this tomb, only the heads of the clan would be buried here. So I went to check another of the head of the clan. Opening it up I noticed that this one's body was still whole and didn't even decay. On the side, her name was Singsong huh interesting name. From the looks of her, she wasn't a fighter like a founder but more diplomatic. Looking around her place it’s mostly meddling and how she did amazing things with race relations.

Looking at the next tomb lifting it. My eyes went wide again the body didn't decay. Looking at what he achieved. He was a doctor and helped others make medicines to help the sick ponies after the war. But why would anyone steal the body of this mare? I walked to see if I can find another tomb and I stopped on a loose stone and stairs opened up for me to go down to. Slowly going down the stairs. I looked through the tomb and when I got deeper into the tunnel it leads to a casket that was wood with the words. Our greatest mistake and failure looking around I saw what this one did. He tried to kill the other ponies and control the area. he ruined the reputation of their clan. Then there is writing.

"I curse my entire family. To when the anniversary of my death. Others will finally learn that the mare before us was a faulty leader and will take action in removing her and bringing me back from the dead." Before I could read on a felt a gun in the back of my head.

"I'm sorry detective but you have seen too much."I didn't know the voice and I could even look behind to see. The voice sounds robotic.

"I take it you helped take the body?"

The voice chuckled.

"Oh, that wasn't me.You just have seen too much and our failure. I am sure I know who took it but why would I tell you? The clan needs to fall they control too much and they need to free more for the other ponies."

I sighed.

"So you wish to harm." Before I could go on I was hit in the back of the head and my vision was very fuzzy while I was lead to a patch of dirt already dug up. I could see there were other ponies in cloaks and wearing a mask. The mask of their clan so they could hide who they were I tried to speak and move but I was tide and gaged. I was forced into the case now I am sure I was going to hear them talk about being villains and their plans.

"Lock him inside and dumb him and I know the best place to. Crazymare Canyon. We can't allow him to stop us from our plans." Before anything could happen I heard hooves on flesh smacking the masked ponies and something lifted me and my vision finally went dark.

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Secret Room in Firefly clan house.

I opened my eyes groaning a bit. A mare sat at the end of the bed.

"Ah, you're awake."

Slowly getting off the bed and I turned to stare at the mare.

"I have a feeling you're wondering what is going on?"

I nodded slowly groaning I may be a ghoul and many other things but I still get pain easy. I looked at the mare seeing who she was. I never saw her before

"I'm the real head of the clan. But I had to go into hiding since there is a civil war in my family. They feel that the bloodline of Firefly is long dead since I refuse to do the test that would allow me to become a leader. The elder's wished to start it but my family started doing this crazy civil war."

I sighed nodding.

"Do you know what happened to Firefly's Remains?"

The mare smirked. "She wasn't ever buried her body was never found. She went off before she died and they have been searching for her remains for years."

Great I thought to myself I needed to look for the remains but now there is no such thing. Now maybe there is a way that I can help her become a leader.

"Okay, where are the elders of the clan at?"

The mare nodded and clicked on a button that leads us down another set of secret tunnels. "The rest of my family doesn’t know that these are down here. If they ever found their elders they would try to force them to make them the leaders of the clan."

I have been through clan wars before. But I never thought I would see a clan war after the war ended so long ago. But of course, these ponies have never been in the wasteland before. I am sure they never even heard of it. I had to make sure of this and understand if this mare knew.

"You know the world ended right?' The white mare I was finally able to see her fur color and turned to look at me. Her orange eyes looked at me in horror.

"What do you mean the world ended?"

I sighed looking away from a moment.

"When we get to the elders I will explain to you."

She lead me through the rest of the tunnels I could hear the different factions she is talking about what they would do with their power. I stayed silent for the moment but I could tell I shook up the mare and I made to the room that protected the elders.

"Ah, there you are Snowfeather. I see you found the detective that was hired to find Firefly. Only we know what happened to her.”

"Now I shall explain the world ended after the bombs fell and are these ponies trying to take control of this clan realizing that there is a war on the outside? They should just stop this and help with defending my home town. I doubt they would even care if their power is taken away."

one of the elders sighed. "That's easier said than done. One of the mares that want power is a decedent of a former enclave. Of course, she has no idea how to work the armor to even contact them. The other is of a cult that worked their way into the family known as the cult of black clouds. A cult that found a way to decay the clouds to make them rain acid and destroy as much as they can."

Cocking my eyebrow a cult that tries to destroy clouds? I don't get it why would they try to destroy clouds.

"They're linked to a cult called The pact. A group that is getting ready for the return of." The elder said the name and that name made me sick a moment.

"I know that name...but it's best not to talk about it. We need to deal with this first so I can go save my friends from the ghoul in old antler."

The elders sighed nodding. "The only way we can stop them from taking power is forcing Snowfeather to the test. It's not going to be a very easy test for her. She has to go through three tests. The test of Wisdom. The test of might and the test of endurance. That would mean we need an outside influence to make sure to watch."

"I know just the ones. SnowFeather can you get out of here and go to the leaders of Antler?"

SnowFeather nods. "I should explain to them what is going on?"

I nodded. "Yes, then I will go deal with the two groups and try to get them to listen to reason. By explaining what I have seen and what happens during this time. So hopefully they all will listen and if they don't. I will try to take them down."

Snowfeather nodded and went outside of the building through the secret rooms and I looked to the elders and smiled.

"Do you have a sound system in this building?" The elder nodded.

"Follow me."

I was lead by the elder to an office that held a PA system that was used to help the clan get information and other things. I sat in the desk using my magic to lift the old Mic and started to speak into it.

"Testing testing. This is the detective that you just tried to murder. Now, how about you learn the truth." I took a deep breath. "Firefly died years ago. The fact that the journal that I found in the building of the leaders was written by a mare known as Firefly. The fact you all think she is still alive. She died so long ago how do I know this? She died in the old land before Equestria was founded. Now you're part of her clan. Whoever this mare was that came to this land that used her name wasn't her real name. But that's not it the world on the outside is dead. The war ended in horror and death. All you can think of right now is power.”

I turned off the PA then the elder looked at me.

"How did you know?"

I chuckled. "Because I know who you are.." I stared at the elder. I could tell the face of the elder knew she was caught.

"Just one question. How did you do it?"

She sighed.

"Before Firefly died she transferred her soul to another. It was a forbidden spell to do this. Each one that came to an end her soul kept transferring. So...I am Firefly and after all this... I want to finally rest."

I nodded. "So did Celestia know?"

The elder nodded weakly sitting in a chair her hooves had cracks and her body looked weak. "My soul is weak I can't transfer to another." She sighed looking to the floor. "I formed this clan way after Equestria was founded. But then I noticed. As the world went on. I followed the world along the way. I didn't even know what to think anymore. The younger guard that I was housed in. I found my way to this land after the bombs. Thanks to that my soul started to weaken. I no longer feel that I can move along. But I must watch the next one take over without these fools to control the clan."

The door of the office was smashed in by the two other leaders of the clan the ones that wished to take over. I looked up to them seeing the mare Fireflight and looking to the stallion who I didn't know. They all had weapons ready to kill me. I just chuckled.

"So you wish to kill me in front of Firefly?" The two looked at me than the elder. "Yes, she is the founder of your clan. I a sure you have gone and said by Firefly's teets and all this stuff."I chuckled. "But the fact she has been here the entire time watching you fail at getting power."

"I doubt she will care if we kill you, Detective." Fireflight pointed out. She lifted her wing blades.

"Oh, I have much to live for Fireflight the fact that the Enclave has returned."

I saw the horror on Fireflight’s face along with the stallion.

"There is a battle going on the outside of our land. Outsiders are coming to look for the Blue hats are you going to keep this up with wanting power? Your clan is the most respected clan if you did this without doing it right you could lose your standing in power. I'm sure many other clans would love to take over your spot in power."

The two sat down. I lifted the Mic to them. "Now tell your followers that the war is off. I am going to need your help to break into the Antler of old, to get my friends back. But before I go on... what happens to your remains Firefly? I heard your body never decayed and was carried from the old land to Equestria what happen to it?"

Firefly sighed she stood up in her weak body. "The body never left the clan's homestead in Cantorlot. So a casket was made to show that I was taken away when I was dead. But it seems I failed in showing my clan."

SnowFeather walked into the room looking at the others. "They're here so we can finally get this done and Detective I want you to join me in this. But I need to get my body ready."

The two sighed. "Fine, we will tell the others to stand down and allow SnowFeather to take over." She lifted her head to the PA system a sigh filled her lungs. "This is Fireflight stand down my friends.. my uncle will do the same. We will be accepting Snowfeather to be our next leader of the clan. Also, the enclave has returned from what I have been told. The world on the outside is in another war. We can no longer sit back and wait."

They left and they left me with Firefly who sat back tears ran down her face. I could tell she was close to dying but I had to ask. I had to ask what the past world was like before Equestria. But I can't fully tell if she was willing to tell me. The old mare couldn't walk from the stress. I could tell her heart was slowly beating.

"You kept up with a lie for so long Firefly. That you never thought it would be broken? I do hope that you have learned something from this. I'm sorry for what is going on with you and the fact that you did this and why did you do this?"

Firefly looked to me for a moment I felt the other elders come up from behind me and with their wings, they held me there Firefly went to the door closing it and locking.

"I can't just die, Detective, my clan needs me." I was tide up and a magic blocker was placed on my horn. "So I need to find a body and your body is all I can think of."

They brought in a unicorn for the spell and I sat there closing my eyes I had no idea this would happen. But I smiled weakly. "So this is what the great Firefly resorts to? Stealing bodies? You're not the hero of the past any longer you're no better than the Enclave. So what you said before was a lie." I just lift a pipe with my magic since the blocker is faulty. I just let her keep up with the image that she has me trapped. Of course, she is too hysterical to know the difference anyway. Then suddenly as if it was fate the blocker works and I drop the pipe out of my magic biting down on the end. So I can keep smoking trying to not show fear. Even though right now I have a great amount of it.

The unicorn starts casting the spell. Many words are so old ponish I don't even know what they mean.

"Normally I get a willing body that will allow their soul to be destroyed by me so please I need to see this through." I could tell she was desperate to find a body that she could use to help rein in her clan. The spell started slowly started to slip and wave around our bodies. I could feel it tugging into me to put her soul inside me.

"Firefly if you do this. I will not be able to save my friends and you will be thought of not only one to allow murder. But you would also be one that allows rape.” The ponies of old never really cared about these types of things. From the stories, I have read. They just cared for image and status the normal of the times.

Firefly stomped her hooves on the floor. The floor breaks she didn’t care any longer. "I need your body so I can make sure the new leader has my wisdom. They need my wisdom!!!” Tears stream down the old mares face.

Through one of the secret doors, Snowfeather broke in and flew into the air grabbing the book of the spell and ripping it apart. The old body of Firefly couldn't even move but she screamed in anger.

"How dare you do that to me?! I need to be there for you. I can't just allow the clan to go on without me!!" Snowfeather just stared at the elder.

"If you're the great Firefly then why would you try to steal the body of the detective? You founded this clan to bring honor to the princess even when your clan refused to join Luna. Are you willing to destroy all that because you need the body of a ghoul? If the princess could see you now. They would say you fell so far."

Firefly sighed. "Majesty gave me that spell before she was banished by Star Swirl. Now that I look back I can no longer even do this. The spell would end the life of the unicorn that did it. Magic is no longer strong enough to do spells like this. At least that's what I have been told thanks to the war." She closed her eyes I could tell that she was lost and unsure how to handle it. But even though the unicorn was knocked out and the spell was ripped apart. The spell was still taking its course. I started screaming as the soul from the elder mare that housed Firefly started to seep into me. Snowfeather pushed me out of the way and it went into her. The elder turning into bones and dust.

I was pushed so far away in the chair that it broke and I stood up onto my hooves and felt the pulse of Snowfeather she was alive even after the pain of the soul going inside her. She opened her eyes and it was her same eye color bright white. She stood up on her hooves weakly I could tell she was fighting inside herself and then it looked like she won.

"Forgive me Detective for what I have tried to do. Snowfeather is here and she wishes to have her body back. She wants me to pass on. I doubt I could give her the wisdom she needs. My time is gone...it's time for me to go on. Please forgive me, detective."

I nodded.

"I will forgive you Firefly go with the old world and become one with Elysium. Tell your story to those that went there when you should have gone before." The old soul nodded her eyes looked weary and ready to go. She closed her eyes and a strange light left Snowfeathers body and it flew into the sky. Snowfeather passed out from the pain of having the soul leave her. She wouldn't wake for a while it will give me time to make sure the two groups stay peaceful.

Lifting the Mic to my mouth I spoke into it.

"Come to the office and if you still want violence I will leave and tell the leaders of Antler to destroy your power. To allow another clan to take over the leadership of the seat." The two leaders of both groups came in and they looked at Snowfeather and then to me.

"Firefly has gone to the endless path of happiness to tell her story. Now before I do this sit.. I got a deal for you two." The two finally sat down and I sat in another chair putting my four hooves in the chair opening my pocket to get my smoke pipe with my magic and smoke it. I took a few breaths of smoke blowing it out.

"What do you want detective." I could tell Fireflight was upset along with her uncle. They both wanted the power so badly but they’re more blind then I thought. They need to follow the paths. Fireflight looked at her uncle. He looked back to her and they both nodded. "So again what do you want you have stopped us from our goal. You have ruined our chances to get power. But you told us the truth how would we be taken seriously if a coup happen when we needed a leader and with an election going on that could lose us the seat and power."

"Is that all you ponies care about power? Ponies are dying outside of our lands and I have two friends trapped in old antler and they could have already been killed by that Stallion. Now, are you willing to do my deal and this is my deal? My deal is I let you get this done and you bring some of your warriors to defend Buffalo hoof while my friends and I go find the Blue hat bunker. So I can find weapons and the rest of the black orbs so I can make sure to understand what is going to happen fifty years from now. Are you willing to let me go to do this?"

They looked at each other. I could tell they had hearts and their hearts would either be taken by this or not care. The fact that the mare had tears in her eyes and the uncle nodded.

"We need to talk to our followers Detective if you're willing to let us go."

I gave a nod and they left the room SnowFeather slowly stood up after everything that happened she groaned in pain. I helped her to the couch and I said beside her still smoking from my pipe. She looked like she saw a lifetime of memories and didn't even take them well. I wonder how many of them were painful to her and how many of them were old friends that firefly lost so long ago. Maybe she will know maybe she won't but it's will be easier to tell.

"Detective I saw so much and everything she has done. She did good and evil. The evil was to keep her clan from falling apart. She did so much to those under her she forced many stallions to breed with her. But she regretted this life and only felt that she could go on. I don't know what to think anymore." I wrapped my left foreleg around her gently patting her back.

"Be happy you never knew my mother. She was what you call a big slut and I was born after a stallion took advantage of her and to get back at me she called me Smoke Pipe but later in her life she loved and me and started to raise me right. She told me she never wished me to turn into what she did. I was there watching her die from consumption. After everything, she had done. She paid the price and I held her and her last words to me were this. Please forgive me for what I caused my dear Smoke Pipe. Don't remember me like this remember me as the strong mare that loved you so much."

Snowfeather smiled. "Your friends must care for you. You're what most call a zombie detective. What are they like?"

I sighed. "One of them is Enclave but she was on the run and she was so unsure about living in this land. Root a former guard of Friendship city I lied about where she came from and said that she was part of this land all her life. But she is a horny mare that sleeps with any stallion that is willing to get in bed with her. I am extremely amazed she hasn’t gotten a foal yet. if she has she sure hasn’t told me but I am sure I will learn sooner or later that she did."

Snowfeather nodded. "Are you going to be here to see the clan make me their leader."

I shook my head. "No, I have been here too long. I need to get to the meeting with the leaders. So I did this for you first so I could go see them. I need to make sure they're willing to help the Moose to help me get my friends back and then get some to my home. They will be attacking in a month."

"I see when I become the leader of the clan I will be sending them and ask if Antler can do the same. But I don't know what they will do."

I nodded. I watched the two leaders walk back in and they sat in their chairs.

"It's done they will stand down and help Snowfeather become the leader. I wish it wouldn't have happened this way but the clan is not happy after what I told them about Firefly. She did so much to all of us and never told us that she was still alive. I wish we knew so we could learn about the past."

The stallion finally opened his mouth to speak.

"I agree I looked up to her myself but the fact she would try to steal bodies to stay alive as long as she did. But I hope she learned all she could to when she took her wisdom to Elysium. I am sure she will be there for a long time to speak every story and will be remembered as Firefly the Great."

I smiled nodding.

"That's what she deserves. Even if she did evil and so much. She did live during the old times before Equestria was found. I am sure sooner or later we would have learned what fully happen to her. I do wish I could have gotten to know her more. But all I know about is in the story of Gusty the great. I wish I could have met Gusty as well. It's something we all want to see."

The two ponies looked at each other I could tell they had questions I am a ghoul that has been alive for 200 years and so many things I have seen I am sure they will ask me the questions they wish to ask and I can ask them before I go. I wish I could be gone now to meet with the clans. I no longer wished to be here it brings back to many memories seeing pony lives like this peaceful and even willing to take power away from another since that's how the old world was and it made me smile.

"All three of us seem to have a question for you... But I am sure we all think about it."

SnowFeather nodded. "What was the past like?"

I smiled and I told them all the stories of the six mares. That fought Discord who fought Nightmare moon who did so much for us. I didn't leave anything out and then I went to the war and how sad it got. The war started because of coal and gems. How toxic the world friendship had become since it turned to greed and they all looked at me with smiles. Even with how sad the story was getting I went on with the storytelling them everything not removing anything.