*Sunset's POV*

As I managed to regained consciousness, what I felt first was my head is basically throbbing in pain right now 'Ungh, my head hurts. What just hit me?' I thought to myself as I recall my memories of what happened that time.

*After walking through the destabilized portal*

After a few seconds from being blinded by a flash of white as it beginning to fade, I then slowly opened my eyes and squint at the sudden brightness, after my eyes readjusts, I managed to only see light blue.

'Huh, I thought the mirror room was supposed to be darker...' I snap my eyes wide open as I decided to look down. I wish I wouldn't do that, as I looked down, I saw a bunch of fluffy, white clouds. My face scrunched into fear and my eyes turned into pin-pricks as I made a small squeak.

And then gravity takes effect as I am screaming my way down. I continued screaming until I realized that I have my horn back, so I tried to focus myself to cast the teleportation spell while still in stomach-turning vertigo. I closed my eyes shut and then trying to imagine a ground. Then my horn started to spark as the magic suddenly takes full effect.

*POP*

After I manage to teleport myself safely to the ground. Instead of feeling soft grass or snow, I felt... rough sand. 'Wait a second' I opened my eyes to look around my surroundings. It's a desert-filled canyon and I somehow stood on top of the train tracks. 'This is not a place from the map of Equestria has where I last remembered. And this is not how Appleloosa looks like.' I thought to myself in confusion.

"Huh, odd. Where are the trains?" I muttered to myself in puzzlement until my eyes widen in realization "My bag!" I shouted as I desperately searching my bag until I heard a small thud behind me. I slowly turned my head to look whats behind me. It's my bag. I then sigh in relief as I magically grab it "Well, aren't you a sight for sore eyes?" I chuckled to myself while having a dopey grin plastered onto my face. Completely oblivious towards the incoming object headed towards me.

*CRASH*

I then felt a blow behind my head accompanied by a sound of glass shattering as I then blacked out.

*Present*

'So, recalling what I remembered: Desert, train tracks with no trains. Not on Equestria...' my thought died down on the last few words as I suddenly remembered. I really am not in Equestria. I shoot my eyes wide open as I rise up. Only to cringe as a sudden painful headache makes me close my eyes as I grunt in discomfort while I placed my hoof on top of a... cloth.

I opened my eyes to see white-textured cloth blocked my vision while also wrapped around my head. My eyes slowly widen into panic as I start hyperventilating and begin to tear the cloth with my hoof out of desperation, only to be interrupted by a small cough as I froze in fear. Afraid of what's happening now.

*POV Change*
*A few minutes ago*

Well, this is surely an interesting discovery. It seems that I'm no longer the only sapient pony in the wasteland, after I wrapped a new batch of bandages around the entire mare's head after a certain incident. I began in a very rough quote, unquote "snooping around yer belongings" coming from my certain uncle. Just not invading the very, very private things. Just trying to know who she is, after carefully fishing around her bag, I grab hold of something thin and plastic, I then pulled it out and it looks like one of those old pre-war identification cards. So I begin reading it out loud.

Canterlot High Student Identification

Name: Sunset Shimmer
A-

"Nope." I then shove the id card back into the bag out of respect. 'Only know the name, only know the name' I mentally repeated to myself, until I heard movement from the bedsheet where I put 'Sunset Shimmer' on it. I looked at her as she's slowly started to stir, only to suddenly leaned forward and cringed in discomfort as she puts her hoof onto her bandage wraps and she suddenly froze. A few seconds later, I heard her starting to hyperventilate and before she starts panicking and also trying to tear my newly bought and wrapped bandages, I politely cough and she immediately froze.

"You should breaaathe slowly and calm down, Sunset." I calmly and profesionally adviced to her as she flinched about me saying her name.

"W-where am I?" she timidly asks as her body started to relax.

"In a cave, on my bedsheet, wrapping your bruised head." Hey that rhymes... maybe.

"H-how did you know my name?"

"Erm, your id card?" my face turned sheepish as she tensed and face towards my general direction thanks to her equine ears. 'I believe she is glaring at me' I thought and attempt to defuse the situation, "Just the name, nothing else." I quickly explained, and it works as she then slowly relaxes but still maybe glaring at me.

"O-ok then? Then if you know my name, can I get yours?" she requests. Who denied her, she's a bit cute before I wrapped her bruised head thanks to my clumsiness.

"Chris. Chris Turner." I said my name.

"Ok then, Chris. Then can you please tell me why my head is wrapped up?"

"Erm." I looked away for a moment and thinking of something, then I opened my mouth.

*Yesterday- A few minutes later after finding Sunset*

After arriving to our little hideout, Little Ripper then unceremoniously threw my stuff at the nearby cave wall, much to my dismay as I glare at him and he just innocently shrugs. I sigh in exasperation because of what we've been through for today:

First, we found a Dead Wind Cavern, fought a bunch of deathclaws and killing the Legendary Deathclaw. Much to my accomplishment, I managed to make a overcoat out of its skin, so it's a win-win. Although it's heavy as fuck. So it's a draw... of wasting my ammo and stimpaks. And my now ruined ripper. Somehow I felt light-headed after leaving the cave, I don't know why.

Second, a boring radio report about Legion slavers fucking around the Wasteland and me saving the day. I really wanted to be LEFT ALONE, MR. NEW VEGAS!

Third, incoming reports from Officer Scully that there is a Settlement at North are now under attack and needs our help. And it's no brainer that those bloody Super Mutant Behemoths almost wreck my stuff. And this 'Peterson Jarvey' guy annoys me that even more settlements required my help.

Guess how many settlements that needs my help?

Thirty-three... and they're at Montana. That's like a fourteen days trip to get there. Even if I reached there, they're fucked up sideways anyway.

And finally, Fourth, I found a wounded and unconscious unicorn mare who is now under my care. A first living pony I ever found during my 30 years of living in a wild Wasteland as the only living sapient equine on Earth. Well, not anymore.

After recalling the events for today, I then slowly put the mare down on the soft dirt before getting something from my bag. After a few moments of rummaging it, I found what I needed; Two bedrolls, some fresh bandages, a bottle of pure alcohol (For medical purposes), a tweezer, a troll and finally an unread pre-war book that I snatch at Mr.House's personal library.

After I fished out my required equipment, I then started to unroll the beds and then pick up the mare afterwards. After I set her down, I then carefully placed her head onto of my lap as I started to heal her bleeding head, totally forgetting something strapped onto my right fetlock.

As I finished my work, I then gently lay her down on the bed and I grabbed the blankets and placed them on her. Suddenly, she grabs hold of it and then she snuggled into it as she smiles in content. Making me smile warmly at the cute sight as I then walk towards my bed and plop onto it as I began reading the book within my furry grasp earlier.

As I opened the book, I began to dramatically read the title. For my own amusement.

"Fifty sh-"

I instantly slammed the doorstopper shut as I realized that the book I'm holding onto is a weird Pre-War erotica novel. Something about grey ties and a big red apple.

"What the fu-" I wordlessly said with my expression in pure confusion and shock. While also adding in the horror that this 200 years old man have a fetish about apples slowly inserting into the tie loop and coming out of it, over and over. That's... fucked up. And kinky too.

"Something's wrong, Alpha?" a sudden, deep voice behind me startles me as I yelped and dropped the book.

The noise of it's fall startled the Bacon mare as she began to sit up and screams. Causing me to also scream as I then 'accidentally' punched her in the face while also delivering an explosive payload to come along with it. Instantly knocking her out, while also adding more new bruises on her face.

By my mounted shotgun... luckily it's blank.

After realizing what I've done, my eyes wander around the cave to see a smug looking deathclaw with his toothy smile. And a cyborg canine tilts his head to the side in confusion.

I then heard a beep as I wander my eyes to the upper left of my peripheral vision to see a message popped up.

Bacon Mare is unconscious!

Only a few words coming out of my mouth as I then look at the unconscious Mare and then to my two companions.

"Uh, whoops."

Then suddenly, a small troll claps its hands together, accompanied with it's creepy happy expression.

Only for me to instantly blew it up with my 12.7mm Pistol, accompanied with a fuming expression on my face as I'm still glaring at the little troll's smokey remains with vengeance.

*Present*

"An accident." I nonchalantly answered while shrugging.

"Oh." Sunset's shoulder slumped downwards as she's still looking at me "So, how long can I remove it? It's itchy." to prove her point, she began scratching her bandaged head with her hoof.

As she said that, I immediately check the time on my pip-boy. A few seconds later, I then look at her with a cheerful smile on my face "Well Sunset, you can remove them now if you wanted to."

After I said that she can remove the bandages now, her horn then glows as my newly bought bandages are now glowing and being instantly shredded into tiny pieces. I then look at the torn pieces of cloth with a disappointing frown.

'You failed me, "Non-tearable Cloth".' I mentally said at the pieces with disappointment. I then look at the tan unicorn and my eyes slowly widen in awe.

She looks like... the same as she was before. The bruises on her face are gone, even the scars are now non-existent. She has cyan eyes which looks, a bit pretty on her to be honest. Suddenly, my stupor got derailed as I heard a loud, feminine gasp. I then saw Sunset greedily gasping for air as she felt like she's in an ocean for too long. While me, I just looked at her with amusement on my face as I then support my head with my gloved hoof.

*Third-Person POV*

Sunset just greedily breathe in the air towards her lungs as she struggles to breathe from the bandages that was wrapped around her head a while ago. After she felt relaxed, she then looks at her human savior with a grateful smile.

Only for the smile to falter as the only being she sees is a silver-coated stallion with a black and yellow mane and tail. His hazy-green eyes looked at her with curiosity and amusement. What finds her odd in her perspective, is that the stallion is wearing a olive and black uniform with a cap that looks like have a giant 'E' with stars surrounding it patched onto the cap.

She looks at him oddly "So, you're Chris?" the stallion slowly nods, Sunset then puts a hoof below her chin as she then ponders in thought "Huh, I thought only humans have names like that." the stallion then raised his eyebrow. Sunset noticed it as she raised her hooves in defense "No offense." Chris shrugs.

"None taken, so. Sunset." he replied as he then shuffle closer towards the edge of his bed "How did you get here anyways?"

Sunset nervously rubs her head "Um, I believe I accidentally traveled here by a magical mirror." she then winced as her headache are coming back as she then scrunched her face in concentration "I traveled here to..." her eyes widen in realization "TO SEE MY FORMER TEACHER, PRINCESS CELESTIA!" she shouted as Chris jump back from the mare's sudden yelling. He then quickly recovers as he then looks at the frantic bacon mare with confusion.

"Oh my gosh, now I remembered! I was supposed to be in pony Equestria but-" she got cut off as Chris waves his hooves infront of him.

"Wait, wait, wait. Pony Equestria?" Chris asked as Sunset nods, "Huh." he slumped his shoulders as he is deep in thought until he looks back at the Unicorn "Please continue." he then motions for her to go on as he then crosses his forelegs against his chest with a blank look on his face.

Sunset looks at him in surprise that he felt unfazed until she realized something what he said as she then continues "*ahem* As I was saying, I traveled through the magical statue from where I am. To Equestria where I can see Princess Celestia and Twilight Sparkle while also maybe re-gaining my old citizenship there and start my life there." she roughly explained "But-"

"But suddenly you're end up here and not there, is that it?" he concludes, the Unicorn slowly nods.

"I-I think so." Sunset then looks at Chris with a hopeful look on her face "Do you know anything about dimensional transportation?" after Sunset said that, Chris looks up in thought while he caresses his furry chin with his left hoof.

"Hm."

*1 Month ago*
*Outskirts of Searchlight Airport- Under Henderson Enclave Control*

Chris was looking at the suspicious looking hole ahead of him which is actually near the fences of the Enclave controlled Searchlight Airport.

He is wearing his MK.II Stealth Suit with it's helmet strapped onto his left waist. His weapon on his back is a heavily degraded This Machine, while his left hip contains a Jury-rigged Pipe Pistol (Courtesy from a random Raider which is a gift for shooting the said raider in the face. Not his body, nor his leg, just his face).

He was sitting on his rump as he was still staring at the hole with his right hoof scratching his head with a puzzled look on his face.

"Who the heck put this thing here?" he muttered to himself, he then heard footsteps as he looks to his right to see 2 Enclave Troopers heading towards him, he then ignores them as he then continued to stare at the big hole.

As they get closer, the one at the left pass through Chris' peripheral vision and he then unfortunately falls through the hole while the stallion goes wide eyed at this trooper's stupidity.

"AAAAAH!" the scream dies down as the soldier fell deeper and deeper until only silence greets the stallion.

The second Enclave Trooper somehow looks unfazed by this event as she stares at the hole which her teammate fell through with a expressionless look behind her helmet. She then looks at the shocked and confused stallion with a still blank look.

"General Jamison will lead us to glory." she said as she then continued her original patrol. Albeit without a partner.

Chris then shakes his head and he then shrugs "Well, another adventure. Another loot." he then jumps into the rabbit hole "Away!" he yelled above the hole as he then fades away mid-air.

*Present*

Chris shrugs as he then gave the Unicorn with a shake of his head "I got nothing." he said with a frown. Sunset then looks down with a saddened look "But, maybe your friends will try to get you home, hopefully." he said with a hopeful smile on his face as Sunset raised her head and she then smiled at him in return.

They both stared at eachother's eyes for too long that Sunset began to noticed as she then looks away with a faint blush on her face while Chris does the same, albeit without a blush of his own.

"So" Chris is the first to say as Sunset looks back at him "Wanna trade history with eachother while you're stuck here?" he asked as Sunset hums in thought and she then nods in agreement. Without hesitation, Chris then bolted towards his bag as he rummaging inside it to find his pencil and an empty book. He then returns to his spot with his book and pencil in hooves as he then looks at her with a questioning look.

"So, what to start?"

Sunset thought about it "Hm, how about this world's civilization? Mostly this place." she asked.

Chris raised one of his eyebrow "Okay? The answer for most factions is this; It's extremely shite." Sunset just slightly flinched from his sudden cuss word "You have Raiders, Birthday Legionaries, Crazy Hobos, Mugger Grannies, New Cunty Republicans, Wannabe Slavers and lastly: Aliens!" he finished with a crazed expression on his face, complete with a rapid eye twitch. Then, his expression turned cheerful "Except for some; like the Followers of The Apocalypse, The Kings, Westside and lastly, New World Hope."

She looks at him in shock at the amount of bad things he listed "Wow, I didn't believe it would be this bad." her expression turned into small, hopeful smile by the mention of the not-so terrible factions "Well, atleast there is SOME good things here."

Chris nods his head "It is, sister. So, my turn. You said something about Princess Celestia, correct?" she nods "Can you tell me about her history, please?" he then opens his book and hovered the tip of his pencil onto the blank page with anticipation.

"Well sure. But, my history about Princess Celestia is a bit rusty since I was at the human world for a long time, but here I go. About one thousand years ago of Equestria's time."

"Mhm, she's a granny." Chris muttered quietly without Sunset hearing him as he is busy writing while Sunset is busy roughly remembering her former teacher's history.

"Her name is Princess Celestia. She officially raises the Sun. And she also has her sister Princess Luna, who raises the moon."

"So her and her sister's names in my book are now Officially Sunbutt and Moonbutt. And they're both grannies."

"She then gained many praises from her subjects than her sister Luna."

"So Princess Sunbutt get many pats in the back, while her sister only gets a multiple middle fingers. What a bunch of dicks her subjects are, not giving her sister praises too."

"Luna then has heard that her sister is getting more praises by their subjects than her, so much so that Princess Luna fell into anger and jealousy."

"So, she decides to hide in the attic and secretly planned out to how to be loved."

"That is, until a few days later, she became Nightmare Moon. Then she announced to her subjects that she will make sure that she will make Night lasts forever."

"She then doomed her species by her own stupidity of not knowing the future consequences of photosynthesis without the presence of the sun."

"The two sisters then fought eachother, until Princess Celestia have to force herself to banish her sister to the moon for a millennia with the power of the Elements of Harmony."

"Wow, that sucks. Getting beaten by magical gems."

"One thousand years later, the Mare of the Moon has returned. And with the new bearers of Harmony, they managed to erased Nightmare Moon and returned the lost Princess Luna."

"So, she has returned, monologues, and then get beaten by the gems again, and also puked out Moonbutt. Awesome."

"And um-" Sunset concentrates hard but gives up as she then shrugs "I believe that's it for their history. So, what about this world's story? Since this is different where I was from." she asked while Chris closed his book, snapped his pencil in half and throw it away and placed the book back inside his backpack.

Chris then looks at her after he put his book back inside the bag "Okay?" he then sits back down on his bed and claps his hooves together and furiously rubs them afterwards "So, want a short story or a long story?" he glanced at her.

"Long story, please?"

He nods "Okay then." Chris breathes in REALLY hard before making a lengthy exhalation, he then makes a lengthy exhale as he looks at Sunset for a very lengthy story time "So around 200 years ago-"

*Equestria- Crystal Empire*
*Mirror Room*

Within the Palace of the Crystal Empire, are a few ponies waiting patiently for a certain mare to come out of the portal. The mirror room was decorated with balloons, confectionaries and a huge banner displaying 'Welcome back to Equestria, Sunset!' onto it. After a few minutes of silence, the lavender alicorn sighs.

"Ugh, where is she? She's gone for like" the lavender alicorn then conjures a watch before dissipating it afterwards "1.23 hours!" she yelled with a pouting face.

The lavender mare then felt a wing touched her back as she then looks at her former mentor who have a reassuring look on her face "Now, now dear Twilight Sparkle, Sunset might be felt nervous to come back here. At least, give her time." she said with motherly smile.

Twilight Sparkle then returns her own smile at her former mentor "Maybe you're right, Pr- I mean, Celestia." she then gaze towards the mirror "We maybe have to wait for a while."

*A few hours later*

"She hasn't pass through yet. Where could she be?"

The group then started to become very worried about Sunset not arriving, as Twilight started to pace back and forth in front of the portal, muttering to herself. While her friends look at the lavender alicorn in worry.

"Uh, Twalaight." the orange mare with a stetson said as Twilight stops dead in her tracks as she then looks at the cowpony. "Shouldn't we, ya know. Use that fency book of yers to contact Sunset?"

Twilight's eyes widen in realization "Oh my Celestia, You're right, Applejack! I know I forgot something." she then bolted right pass them with a speed which makes a certain present rainbow maned pegasus look at her blur in jealousy.

She then returns with a book she was holding in her magical grasp. Twilight then summons her quill as she then began writing a message onto the book.

"Dear Sunset, if you're reading this. Please respond, I hope you're okay." she writes outloud. After she wrote it, she then closed her book and teleports her quill to somewhere else as she the looks at her friends and her former mentor "Let's wait for her reply." they nodded in agreement, except for the rainbow pegasus as she then looks bored and passes out from boredom.

*Back to the two*

"-and that is why NCR are okay but still, a bunch of silver-tongue dicks." Chris finished his story telling towards the Unicorn.

As Sunset listened intently to all his story telling with wide eyes, she then saw her bag glowed at the corner of her vision. Gaining her attention and also the stallion's.

"Uh, why is your bag glowing?" he asked with a puzzled look.

"Because." Sunset's horn glows as the book covered in her magic emerged from her bag and showed it to him "This book, it is a two way message book for me and Twilight..." she explained but her voice died down at the last word. She immediately flipped open the book's page to see Twilight's message.

"Dear Sunset, if you're reading this. Please respond, I hope you're okay." she read aloud. She then looks at Chris "Can I borrow the pencil, please?" he nods as he hoofs her the pencil and she magically grabbed it from his grip while mouthing 'thanks' and began writing back towards her alicorn friend.

"Yes, Twilight. I'm okay, I'm with Chris at The... Mojave Wasteland." she hesitantly writes the name at the end. After she wrote her message, she closed the book and she then place it back into her backpack. She then looks back at Chris. Who was lost in thought.

"Should we, you know. Go outside?" she asked with a nervous look.

"Hm?" he then looks at her before his eyes slowly widen "Oh yeah, let's go. But." he looks at her with a questioned look "Do you know how to use a gun?" he asked.

Sunset then remembers her human friend that she tries to remember who taught her about handling a gun properly "Uh, yeah. I know how to hold a gun." she said until then she realized what his meaning was as she looks at him with a scared expression "Do I. Do I have to?"

He nonchalantly shrugs "The Wasteland is a dangerous place, so handling a gun is very common. But you look like you're very hesitant about it." to confirm his statement. Sunset nods hesitantly, he sighs "Don't worry, you don't have to kill anything or anyone who will hurt you. Just disable them and run, like I supposed to do when I was a Courier." he said with a small smile. But only flinch on the inside as his gloved right hoof starts to burn by his recent memories of the 'incident'.

"You're a Courier?"

"Yep, one of those messengers who sent out weird packages."

Sunset slowly nods as she finishes her bowl of soup who Chris cooked a while ago during his story telling. She then placed her empty bowl onto her lap and stare at it "I thought you're a cook, and a doctor. Like most of those Housestallions." she immediately regretted to say that as Chris looks at her with a confused expression.

"What?" Sunset froze by his tone "What do you mean 'Housestallion'?" he said with a small tone of anger.

She looks at him as she nervously fidgets her hooves "Um, yeah... about that." she took a glance at his face before looking down again "Do. Do you know what are the rates from mares to stallion in Equestria?" she asks with a saddened look.

He calms down about what she meant "There's something wrong about it. Is it?" he said.

Sunset sighs in sadness "Yes, there is something wrong about it." she said as she looks at him with a downed look "Ever since the pony tribes worked together. There's something happening around that time." she slumped her shoulders further "There is a war."

"What war?"

"A war against the Caribou." she said the name with an obvious hint of anger "Most of the stallions gave away their lives to fight against those monsters." her horn then sparks as well as her eyes narrowed "And even though we've won. They suddenly casted a curse upon us of which every single stallion. Even a colt, have their chromosomes messed up. From a ratio of a filly to a colt which is from 1 to 1. Now 5 to 1." she then closed her eyes and sighs while her horn dissipates any gathered up magic "We. We've tried to reverse the effects. Not even the princesses can do it. Tartarus, even Starswirl can't reverse the effects." she looks at him with sadness evident onto her face "So we tried and tried again, but no results. And that's where we decided that herding is a solution."

While Sunset explains. Chris looks at her with sympathy, his anger diminishes due to Sunset's explanation. He closed his eyes and sigh "So. That's the reason why. Is it?" Sunset looks at him and shallowly nods "Look, sorry about my small outburst. But, more explanations about that will come later because we should prepare ourselves."

"Why?" she asked.

He raised his pip-boy and shows it to her his map which displays multiple red blips closing in to their position "Because we got company in less than 30 minutes." he said with a no-nonsense look.

Somewhere in a snow covered region

*Unknown POV*

Scanning around the freezing wastes with my binoculars, I found something in the distance. Upon close inspection, I was met with an interesting sight. Multiple armor-clad soldiers marching through the streets, carrying weapons made from unknown technology. What scares me, is that there's a lot of bloatflies in varying sizes hovering beside them, as if they have some sort of relationship with eachother.

Taking the risks of gathering more intelligence, I get closer towards the army. Within a suitable distance, I then rejoined myself with the snow. Getting out my binoculars again, I've managed to see that the soldiers are wearing those Enclave power armors. And based by their movement of the general direction, I believe they're heading towards the west coast.

Without any time to think, I then called my CO through my walkie-talkie. Not without camouflaging myself with the snow to avoid detection.

"This is Zulu 6-4 to Theta Command, over." I said as I placed my walkie-talkie next to my ear to hear any response. Only to receive static.

"I repeat, this is Zulu 6-4 to Theta Command, over." I repeat. And I get another static.

"Officer Jackson, this is Scout Master Killian! Respond, over!?" I yelled through the walkie-talkie. And again, static.

Groaning in frustration, I clipped back my walkie-talkie back to my waist as I then looked back at the army. And they're gone.

"Oh god, I hope those poor bastards put up a fight." I muttered to myself in concern as I began trekking through the snow back to HQ.

Author's Note

The Courier's S.P.E.C.I.A.L (Warning: Virus detected, obtaining 2 months old of data)

Chris Turner- Level:???

S- 6
P- 8
E- 5
C- 5
I- 8
A- 5
L- 3

Perks:

Unusual Medic: Your Medical Expertise has caused multiple doctors to go into a Baffling mess.
Effect: Wounds are healed at an exceptional rate (Note: Only compatible for your companions, not yourself. Selfish prick.)