Welcome to the Wasteland, Sunshine
Chapter 4
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Chris' POV
As soon as we exit the caverns, we immediately shut our eyes closed from the sudden bright glare of the sun. When it has already dimmed down we slowly open our eyes again and I looked back at my companions, mostly my brother and Little Ripper, "Jake, Little Rip." I speak up gaining their attention, "You guys go ahead, we'll catch up." Jake and Little Ripper look at each-other before looking back at me and shrugged.
"Sure, big bro."
"Affirmative, Alpha." they both agreed as they walk pass by me, Sunset and Rex.
Sunset raised her eyebrow as she's watching my brother and the deathclaw walking away, "Where are they going?" she asks as she's slowly trot to my side.
I looked at Sunset, "Goodsprings." I simply replied.
"So, why aren't we following them?"
"Because I want to show you the Mojave, remember?"
Sunset squints her eyes as she's trying to remember until they go wide and she facehoofed due to a minor case of amnesia get to her, "Oh right." Sunset muttered in realization as she placed her hoof down before looking back at me, "Lead the way, then." she motioned her hoof at me in a 'go on' gesture.
I nodded as I begin trotting up the hill with Sunset following me, to avoid the awkward moment of silence I twisted the knob on my pip-boy and the Radio New Vegas channel was heard as it began playing Johnny Guitar and I immediately frown. Sunsets ears perked up as she quickly catches up to me until she's beside me as she is now glancing at my pip-boy.
"Chris." Sunset speaks up causing me to look at her and replied with a 'hm?', "I have never get to say this but... what is that on your foreleg?" she asked with slight hint of curiosity.
A faint smile appeared on my face, "This." I slightly jerked my fore-leg which have my pip-boy strapped to it, "Is the Pip-Boy 3000. A state of the art wrist-held computer which does... things." I said as we stopped at the top of the hill and I put my flank on the ground and shows her the Pip-Boy as it displays my status, "It does what you need like; monitoring your health," I pressed the 'Items' tab, "checking your inventory, and" I then pressed the 'Data' tab, "check the notes you have read, some holotapes to listen to and lastly see a full view of the place you're traveling around in." I said as the Pip-boys map quickly loads up and shows her the map of the Mojave.
Sunset stares at the Pip-Boy in awe as she then looks into my eyes with hers, "Where can I get one?" she asks innocently.
I chuckled at her childish display, "In due time, Sunset." I said as I patted her on the head, "In due time." I removed my hoof away from her as she's now giving me a playful glare. She flashed me a mischevious smirk as she clonked me at the back of my head with her magic, a feign stunned expression was formed on my face.
"No touching." she said as I quickly shake my head and gave her a playful glare until I let my eyes wander to the side and noticed something as I glanced back at Sunset who then gives me a confused look. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing." I replied as I placed my hoof to her cheek which cause her to blush a little as her eyes lock onto mine.
"Uh, Chris. What are you doing?" she asked and I replied by moving her head to the side while my head followed hers to see The Strip in its gambling glory, "Whoa..." she muttered in awe.
"Welcome to New Vegas, Sunset Shimmer." I said, still staring at The Strip. Until I looked back at her and saw that she's still staring at it with awe-struck face, rolling my eyes and with a smirk I moved my hoof inches away to her ear and make an audible snap.
And it works as Sunset snaps out of her trance and quickly blinks her eyes as she looked back at me, "Huh? What is it?" she asked confused.
"Let's go Sunset. That place is our destination soon. Right now, we'll stay at my house in GoodSprings" I said as I motioned my head before trotting down the hill with Sunset trailing behind me. Until we slowed down to a stop as I quickly noticed someone's missing as I closed my eyes and sighed, "Alright Rex, enough playtime. Let's go." I said to the hiding cyber canine as the sound of a de-activating stealth field was heard and a bark afterwards before the cyber canine jumps out of his hiding spot and is now in front of me as he is now sitting on his haunches while looking at me with a happy look on his face.
I smiled as I then pet Rex on his head and he lets out a breath of excitement with a wag of his tail. I stopped petting him as I looked behind me and saw Sunset smiled at our little bonding before standing by my side.
The golden unicorn looked at me. "Is the dog yours?" she asked.
I nodded my head, "Yep. Got him for being friends with The Kings and also replaced his decayed brain." I replied as I glanced at Rex and he whimpers at the memory that day. I quickly comfort him, "It's okay boy, it's just one time." I assured him and he quickly returned to his happy self as I then looked back to see Sunset giving Rex a pitiful look. I looked up to the sun before looking back down at my Pip-Boy and saw that it's already afternoon. "Wow. Time flies fast." I muttered as I looked back at the two and I motioned my foreleg, "Come on. I believe Jake and Ripper are probably waiting for us right now." I said as I quickened my pace with Sunset and Rex following me.
A few minutes later, we saw Jake sitting on one of the bag with Ripper lying down on the ground across from him as they're busy having a conversation with each-other. They quickly perked up by my hoofsteps as they looked at my general direction and saw me with Sunset and Rex as my little brother waves at me with a small smile. He jumps off the bag and walked towards us.
"What took you guys so long?" Jake asked as he's now standing infront of me with his hands placed on his hips.
I shrugged my shoulders. "Sightseeing." I replied.
Jake raised his eyebrow and gave me a suspicious look, "'Sightseeing', huh?" he said as he looked above my shoulders before looking back at me and shakes his head. "I'm not gonna question it." he then walks back to Little Ripper who is now grabbing the bags while Jake grabbed his satchel and both of them are now waiting for us. When I trot by them, they start following me as we're now heading towards Goodsprings.
THIRD POV
While they're following Chris who was lost in thought. Jake quickly noticed that his brother's neon, acoustic guitar which is poking out of the bag on his back has what appears to be blood on it.
"Chris, did you whack someone with your guitar again?" Jake asked with an annoyed tone which caused Sunset's face to instantly turn into shock while also making Chris stopped mid-trot as he looked back at Jake with an innocent look.
"Uh, no?" Chris innocently replied.
Jake crossed his arms while narrowing his eyes. "Chris..."
Chris pauses for a moment before he hangs his head low and sighed, "Okay, you got me. I just sent one of the Birthday assassin to space. That's all." he admits as he nonchalantly waves his hoof.
Jake immediately facepalmed and shakes his head as he sighs, "Dangit Chris." he muttered as he removes his hand away from his face and he looks back at his brother. "You know that the day after tomorrow will be your guitar lesson with the Lonesome Drifter, right?" he asks.
Chris froze as his expression turned blank as his eyes widened, "Oh... shit." he muttered in realization.
"Oh shit indeed. So start fixing that guitar right now or else Drifter will lose his shit again like last time."
Chris' hoof found its place at the ground as he let out a long sigh, "Fiiiiine... but after we took a nice rest at our house and then I can fix 'er up again." he starts trotting again with the others following suit.
Behind him, Sunset quickly change her pace until she's beside him as she looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "Is it true?" she asked.
Chris looked at her and mimicked her expression. "True... what?"
"That your guitar can send people to space."
The stallion rubs the back of his neck. "Well... about that. I really don't know how it works. That one day, I carefully dismantled it after I sent my first victim to space and the only thing I found were only the parts for the guitar, no unusual things inside. Which is just... odd."
Sunset moved her eyes away for a moment as she's thinking of something before looking back at him. "Um, one question Chris."
"Shoot."
"Who's the first one did you launch?"
Chris glanced away as his mouth slowly turned into a cheeky smile. "Uuuh."
Earth's outer atmosphere
Orbiting the devastated Earth is a single, large Zetan mothership. Within the said mothership, are the Earth's historical figures who are now bored out of their minds. While they're busy maintaining the ship, they heard a loud thud. Looking at the large window of the ship they slowly raise their eyebrows in confusion. Flattened against the windshield, is a Caucasian man wearing a grime business suit, a fedora and a pair of eyeglasses with a .22 SMG strapped behind his back. And he's also alive... somehow.
Looking at the occupants inside the ship, he gave them a wide smile. "Nyehaeh! There's the high roller!"
Back to the Group
"Just a random arsehole. That's all." Chris said with a nonchalant shrug.
Sunset tilt her head down while raising her eyebrow. "You sure?"
He smirks. "Yep."
The golden unicorn's expression remains the same and then she shrugged her shoulders, "If you say so." she said as she looks ahead.
Jake quickly catches up to them as he's now leaning against his brothers shoulder as the boy have a tired look on his face, "Chris, can I ride on your back again?" he asked with a yawn. Causing Sunset's expression gone blank as her face slowly flushed red while Chris looks at his sleepy brother with an arched eyebrow as they stopped again.
"Tired already?" Chris asks and Jake slowly nods which the stallion shrugs, "Alright then, climb on." as he said that, Little Ripper overhead their conversation lets out an annoyed snort as he approaches them and grabs Chris' duffel bag and hoist it up with the others on his shoulders.
"After this, give me double the amount of Steak you have, Alpha." the deathclaw grumbles as his expression turned into frustration of being a pack Brahmin... again.
The stallion looks at his blood brother and crosses his heart, "I'll take your word for it, Little Rip." he promised as the deathclaw lets out a huff and gave his alpha a 'You'll better be' look which the stallion rolls his eyes at this before turning his head to his human brother as he lowers himself down to the ground. "Up and over, Jake."
The boy placed his hands on his brother's back before hoisting himself up. With both his legs clung to the stallions barrel, Jake wrapped his arms around Chris' neck and he rests his head against the back of the stallion's, "Even after all those dirt, grime and all the mess on your coat. It's still soooo soft." Jake lets out a relaxed sigh as he rubbed his face against his brothers coat.
Chris gave a heartwarming smile to his little brother as the boy starts to doze off and not long after he let out a soft snore, Chris turns his head at Sunset who is giving him a small smile. "You really take good care of him for a long time, isn't it?" she asked.
The stallion's expression fell as he slowly looks away, "Yeah..." he replied with a small hint of sadness.
The golden unicorn's expression turned into concern as she noticed his sudden mood change. She took two steps to him, "Is there something wrong?" and she noticed a single tear in his eye as he's still looking away as she then place her hoof on his shoulder. "Chris?"
He then looks into her eyes as his mouth opens and closes. Trying to put a word out as he then closed his eyes and sighs. Feeling relaxed, he opened his eyes again. "I don't wanna talk about it, Sunny. I'll tell you when it's time, ok?"
Removing her hoof away from his shoulder, she nods, "Alright then." she then paused as she looked at him confused with her head cocked to the side. "Wait, Sunny?"
"It's my best friend's name. I just mistook you from her." he explained as he nervously glanced away.
The unicorn mare slowly raised her eyebrow before furrowing them, "'her'?" she asked with a slight hint of jealousy.
The stallion slowly bobbed his head side to side. "Well, we were a couple for a few months. Buut, it didn't happen."
"How so?"
"Let just say that, we don't have a 'thing' with each-other. And Sunny noticed it too, so we both decided to be just friends. And that's it" Unknown to him, Sunset sighed in relief. Chris took a peek at his Pip-boy before looking back at her, "Anyways, let's get going." he then continues on with Sunset at his side and his brother sleeping on his back while Rex and Ripper trailing behind.
While they're continue walking to Goodsprings. Sunset starts to feel an odd feeling inside of her 'Why did I let out a relieved sigh when he said he broke up with her?' she mentally questioned herself 'Maybe it's my pony self getting the stallion's scent after being in a human world for a long time and it's started to making me feel funny doing so.' she subtly slumps her shoulders '*Sigh* Get a hold of yourself, Sunset. You've met him yesterday but now's not the time to-'
"Sunset?"
Chris' voice snaps Sunset back to the reality as she quickly blinks and looks at Chris who is looking at her with a raised eyebrow, "What is it?" she asked.
Chris bit his cheek while glancing away before looking back at her. "Earlier at the cave. I've never get to say this but... what is the story of your world?"
Sunset lightly smiled. "Well, since you told me the story of the Great War." she trailed off with a frown but quickly shakes her head. "Anyway, let me tell you the story of the unification of the pony tribes."
Equestria
Crystal Empire- Hallways
Princess Celestia is still sitting nearby the window, watching the crystal ponies doing their daily activities with a saddened expression on her face. Her cheeks stained with dried tears as she lets out a small sniffle every few seconds. She then closed her eyes, remembering the days she and little Sunset play with eachother, teaching the small unicorn of her ways and lastly... Their seperation from Sunset's hunger for power as her heart still aches from it. She opened her eyes again as she starts to wipe her face. Until she paused as she has realized something. Quickly clearing her face of any tears, she trots back to the mirror room with haste.
Opening the doors, she was met with her fellow ponies who are already getting themselves together as they're almost clearing up the room. They stopped at what they're doing as they heard the doors opened and turned their attention to it and saw their Sun Princess entered the room as she's trotting towards Twilight's book. Celestia's horn glows a golden hue and the book is now covered in the same aura as her horn as she brings it closer to her. Opening the book and summoning a quill she removed the last message she wrote and instead writes a new one. After writing a new message, she closed the book and placed it back down on the table as she then turns her attention to her ponies and before she opened her mouth to speak. A sudden explosion was heard, surprising them.
"What was that!?" exclaimed the rainbow pegasus.
Not having the time to explain. Everypony quickly galloped out of the room and make their way to the entrance and towards the source. Arriving at the main hall, they're met with an armored white stallion with blue two toned mane and tail, and beside him is an armored pretty pink alicorn mare. The stallion and the mare noticed them and with a force of habit from the stallion, salutes at Celestia.
"There's no time for formalities, Shining. Now, report." she asked with an authorative tone.
Shining nods as he brought his hoof back down to the floor. "Yes Princess. Earlier, I've sent one of my scouts and arrived minutes ago and... well from what I have heard from his report. it's" he then rubs the bridge of his muzzle and sighed, "it's worst..." he said with a low tone.
Celestia raised her eyebrow. "How so?"
The PPPP steps in. "Auntie... it's them."
Celestia's expression turned into shock. She didn't think it was this time that they have... came back. And a scowl has been formed on her face as her horn lit up. Seconds later, her golden armor appeared from existence and it's now covering the Sun princess from head to barrel with protection and then a halberd was found itself strapped at Celestia's side. Fully armored, Celestia marches through the front door and opens it up. And she saw them, gathering outside of the Empire's shield. Are the Caribou, they're prodding the empire's magical shield with green bolts launched from their mages. Only for the shield to deflect it with a ripple but not for long.
"Celestia?" the Sun Princess heard her former student's voice as she looks back and saw the lavender alicorn's fearful expression. "What should we do?" she asked.
Celestia looks away "If I fall, Twilight. I place my position to you." a shock expression has been formed on Twilight's face. And before the lavender alicorn opens her mouth, Celestia brought up her hoof, "I know this is a burden but please listen, I know you can do this without me." she looks outside with a frown and sent a faint magical signal to a certain moon princess, " Because I've been sitting idly for way too long now of doing nothing. Now it's the time that nopony will ever fall under my watch again." not giving Twilight any chance to speak, Celestia exit the palace. Leaving the stunned Princess of Friendship to let Celestia's words sink into her mind.
Trotting through the road towards the edge of the Empire's bubble, Celestia watched as the crystal ponies galloping passed her, heading towards the palace for shelter from the invaders. Seeing their faces filled with fear enraged the Sun Princess to no end that her hooves start stomping on the road, causing cracks on the pavement.
Then, a bright flash appeared near her. Glancing at her side, Celestia sees her sister adorned in her own set of armor with a scabbard strapped to her side containing her saber. Luna glanced at her and nods as Celestia returns the gesture while they're heading to the edge of the Crystal Empire's boundaries. They stopped behind the empire's shield as they saw the Caribou watching them with predatory gaze from the other side of the shield.
Then, The Caribou's front-lines at the middle start spreading out and to the Princesses' surprise. A familiar being emerged from the group who appears to be a large, overly muscled buck with huge antlers. When the buck looks at the princesses, he sneered at them. "Well, if it isn't the Sun bitch and the Moon bitch." he said with obvious hint of disdain.
"Dainn..." the princesses scowled.
Dainn grit his teeth as he stomped the ground. Causing an electrical discharge around him as well as having the ground cracks from his stomp. His eyes glowed bright green, "THAT"S KING DAINN FOR YOU, YOU SLUTS!" he shouts as he points his hoof at them. "When I'm done with you, I'll make both of you as my personal bitches while I let you watch as I free the stallions from your grip and take revenge on the mares who caused their pain." his antlers glow green as he points it at the barrier and strikes it with a powerful green blast, causing the entire barrier to shatter from the force.
Taking a few steps into the Empire's boundaries, Dainn smugly smiled. "Now, where were we 1000 years ago?"
Mojave Wasteland
GoodSprings- Night Time
Chris' house
Sunset instantly sits up from her sleep as she lets out a gasp. Breathing fast, she quickly dart her eyes around the room until realized that she's still in Chris' bedroom as she then lets out a relaxed sigh. Slowly rubbing her eyes of any developing crust while letting out a long yawn, she looks around and sees her clothes neatly folded at her side as she then turns her head at the bed and saw that Chris wasn't on it. She starts to wonder where he is only for her to notice that her mouth felt dry.
Slowly getting up from her bedroll, she quietly trot towards the door and slowly opened it. Peeking out, she turned her head left and right and saw no one. Slinking out of the room, the golden unicorn slowly make her way towards the kitchen.
Entering the kitchen, Sunset slowly makes a beeline towards the sink while magically grabbing a nearby glass as she then fill the said glass with water from the sink and drinks it. Feeling hydrated, she puts the empty glass down on the sink and before she was starting to head back to the room, she heard a soft clank. Slowly looking at the source she was met with a certain Courier wearing nothing except for his Pip-boy and the same gloves back from the cave as he is sitting on the chair behind the dining table, calmly cleaning his disassembled .223 pistol on the said table.
And that's when Sunsets brain went into overdrive. Jumping back in surprise and before she let out a surprised scream. She accidentally hit her head against the wall, cutting off her scream and instead lets out a pained hiss while earning an amused chuckle from the Courier as Sunset rubs the back of her head before glaring at him.
"Not funny..." Sunset says with a low tone as she's busy rubbing the back of her head.
Chris stops chuckling and he brought up his hoof but his smile never left his face, "Sorry about that, Sunset. Here, lemme get a seat for you." he apologized as he then get off from his chair and brings out the other chair and motioned her to sit and she silently accept his offer. Returning back to his seat, he continues working on his pistol, "So," he starts up the conversation, "bad sleep?" he asked while tinkering with the pistol's bore.
Propping her elbows on the table and resting her head onto her hooves, Sunset let out a tired sigh, "Yeah..." she replied.
The stallion slowly puts his weapon and tool down on the table, "Me too..." his eyes trailed down to the floor, not noticing the dried blood on his right hoof.
She raised her head and turns towards him, "How so?" she asked with her eyebrow raised. Until she noticed something red on the table, focusing her eyes on it they started trailing up to where it came from and then they widened in shock as she slowly points her hoof at his bloodied, gloved hoof. "Chris, you're bleeding."
Chris instantly raised his head up, wide eyed in realization, "Shit..." he cursed as he removed the gloves and sees his bandaged hoof already stained in dry blood. Removing the now dirty bandages he slightly cringed from the painful sting. With the bandage removed, Chris looks at the state of his hoof and saw tiny bits of lead that Thorne overlooked poking out of it.
He then quickly turns his head at Sunset who is staring at his hoof in shock, "Sunset." he said, snapping her out of her shock as she looks back at him, "First, upper shelf at the cupboard near the door, there's a small, metal box containing my medical equipment. Can you get it, please?" she slowly and rapidly nods her head as she quickly get off from her seat and rushed towards the nearby cupboard and opened it up.
Looking at the shelf he mentioned, the unicorn spots the metal box he described as she magically grabbed from the said shelf and quickly rushed back to the stallion who is staring at his hoof with a pained expression. She carefully placed the box down on the table and opened it up, revealing what looks to be usual medical equipment she saw at every hospital she has visited before.
Chris picks up a disposable tray and a tweezer from the box as Sunset returns back to her seat and looks at him in concern. She then opens her mouth to speak until she realized that medical procedures requires patience and no sense of distraction so she decides to close her mouth and be quiet. while visibly cringing every time she watched him painfully removing the lead out of his wound and into the tray.
After a few minutes of painful lead removing, Chris examines his hoof to make sure there's no longer any lead still stuck inside of it. He then took a glance at Sunset and saw her still looking at him with a worried expression, "You know that you don't have to watch, right?" he said.
Sunset Shimmer's cyan eyes darted back and forth between the stallions face and his hoof as she hesitantly opens her mouth, "H-how did it happen?" she asks.
Chris looks at his hoof and back to Sunset, "It- it all happened 3 weeks ago. That time when-" flashes of the massacre and being buried alive again appeared which caused him to close his eyes and puts his intact hoof on his forehead and lets out a grunt of displeasure as a single tear start trailing down his cheeks, "When the Frosthill massacre occurred." Sunsets eyes widen in shock and she lets out a gasp as her hoof was found on her muzzle. His right hoof starts trembling as he opened his eyes and looks back at the unicorn, "Sunset. Everyone I've met at Frosthill are innocent, good-hearted people, even the kids. Have been butchered and mutilated infront of me like animals. And you know what do I do there?" he asks with a blank look as Sunset silently replies by shaking her head. "Nothing."
Chris brings his wounded hoof infront of his face. "Because all it takes, are a face full of gas and two bullets to both of my hooves to incapacitate me as I watched those ungrateful bastards enjoy doing the cowards way. With them finished relishing their unfair kills, one man comes up to me, mocking me, taunting me that he 'resolved' his way out through dominance. And then he... buried me alive. Before I lost consciousness, I heard him saying something that makes me question myself."
Sunset placed her hoof on his shoulder. "What makes you question yourself?"
He looks back at her. "Am I really an anonymous stiff, Sunset?"
Sunset took aback as she looks at him wide eyed. "What do you mean?"
Chris tries to explain, only for him to grunt in discomfort as his wound is still open. He quickly looks inside the box and grabs a needle attached with a thread from the box. He then placed his right hoof down on the table and turns it to expose his frog and before he starts suturing the wound. A familiar, cyan glow surround the needle as he looks back at Sunset confused until he realized what she was doing as he silently nods and let go of the needle.
Inching the needle closer to his frog, she paused as she looks back at Chris. "Uh, do you have something that can numb the pain?"
Chris nods as he then puts his hoof in the box and pulls out a Med-X. He pulls out the cap and shoved the hollowed needle into his hip and pressed the plunger down to inject the drug into his system. He quickly shakes his head from the effects as he looks back at Sunset and nods as she then starts suturing his wound while he puts away the used needle. He observes her treating his wound and a look of wonder appeared on his face. "Since when did you know how to treat these kind of wounds?"
Sunset glanced at him before focusing back at his hoof and a small smile appeared. "Spending a few days at Camp Everfree will teach you something useful."
He flashed a grin. "Lemme guess, someone stole their sweetroll and got into a fight?"
She chuckles and shrugs her shoulders, "Something like that." she carefully tighten the wound closed and cutting off the thread, Sunset leans back against the chair. "And there, now-"
"Take time for it to heal. Don't stress it to hard. And lastly, don't touch the door to the Atomic Wrangler." he interrupts her with a smile and she looks at him with an unamused look. He quickly look at the lower left of his peripheral vision and noticed another dot on his compass and his smile instantly fades away as he then looks at the doorway behind Sunset Shimmer. "Jake, I know you're listening. Please come here."
Slowly entering the kitchen with disbelieving look on his face, is his brother. He looks at the stallion trying not to shed a tear, "Is- is it true?" he asks with a low tone and Chris silently nods as the stallion closed his eyes and waits for his brother to give him an earful. Instead, he felt a weight pressing against him with arms wrapped around him.
Chris looks at Jake with a surprised look on his face. "You- you're not mad?"
Jake shook his head as he breaks away from the embrace and face him, "Alot. But, I am glad you're still alive. And that's what matters to me." he says as he then hugs back his brother. Chris sits there, stunned, until he decides to return the embrace. "You don't need to put yourself in danger to make me happy, Chris. You raised me for 10 years without mom and dad and that's enough for me." Jake whispered and Chris hugs him tighter, as for Sunset.
Seeing this makes her heart warm at the sight as she warmly smiled. She unknowingly shed a single tear remembering about her time with her former mentor/adoptive mother as a filly and then their- she quickly snaps out of it as she remembers that the past will stay in the past.
The brothers break off from the embrace as they're smiling at each-other with wet eyes. Chris ruffles his little brothers hair. "Alright, young man, it's already past your bedtime. Now go back to sleep."
Jake swats his hoof away and slowly shakes his head, "But I don't wanna... go... back... to..." the boy fell asleep as a familiar glow appear around his head before fading away. Chris grabs his brother in time before he fell to the floor as he looks at Sunset with a 'really?' look and she replied with a innocent look.
Placing his hooves down on the floor Chris picks up his snoring brother and hoist him up onto his back. Making sure his brother isn't going to slip off his back, he looks back at Sunset and motions his head at the door. "Lets get some shut eye and call it a night." he says and Sunset nods as they go back to beds for a good night rest.
The Next Day
A sudden intrusion of the sun irritates the sleeping unicorn causing her to frown as she grabs the pillow under her head and covers her face with it, letting out a tired groan. Moving the pillow away from her face she cracks open her eyes and glares at the sun, mentally cursing it as she then moves the sheets away from her and gets up on her hooves. She lets out a soft yawn as she opens the bedroom door, when she opens it she was met with a scent which caused her stomach to grumble.
Patting her belly Sunset trots towards the kitchen and when she peeks out the doorway she saw an interesting sight. It's not a hair net which covers the stallions mane nor a frilly pink apron strapped behind his back, it was him standing up with his hind hooves without any support like a human as he cooks what looks like to be an omelette. Looking at him like that causes Sunset to stare at him with a confused expression.
Sensing that the omelette's well cooked, Chris holds the pan with his left hoof and walk towards the kitchen table which have Jake opening up a 200 years old box and pours its content of bomb molded sugar cereal into the bowl of brahmin milk as he then grabs a nearby spoon and shoveled them into his mouth. Which causes the stallion to look at his brother with a raised eyebrow and the boy sheepishly smiled before eating his cereal in a slow manner while Chris shakes his head and placed the omelette with the others.
Sunset then hears a cough which caused her to jump back in surprise as she looks back and sees Little Ripper in his smaller size, which reach below Sunset's head. The Deathclaw tilts his head up to see her face before nodding, "Beta." he softly greets as he walks pass her.
Chris glances at the doorway and smiled, "Morning Sunset, morning Little Rip." he waves at them as he took his seat and materialized 12 boxes of Fancy Lad Snack Cakes in a column as he then opened them up one by one on his plate. While Jake also waves and greets the same word as his brother before continuing munching on his cereal.
"Alpha, Delta." Ripper greets back and he stops dead as he saw piles of bighorner steak on his plate. Pausing for a moment, he patiently waits for his Alpha to make him grow and Chris noticed this as he then rolls his eyes and brings out the device and press the trigger. Which causes Little Ripper to be taller than a average man as the Deathclaw gleefully snatches the plate away and puts it down on the floor before he ferociously gobbles down his food.
Sunset looks unnerved by Ripper's carnivorous habits as she then trots to an open seat and sits down on it, "Morning guys." she greets as her horn glows and one of the omelettes have an aura appeared around it as she brings it to her empty plate. Levitating a fork and knife she cuts a small piece of the omelette and eats it which causes her expression to go blank. A few seconds later of looking like a statue, she suddenly empties her plate in a second.
Chris, still holding the seventh cake, gives Sunset a teasing smile, "I take it you like it then?" he asks, which Sunset blushes with an embarrassed smile as she nods.
"Yup. What kind of an omelette is this?" she asks as she grabs 2 more omelettes.
The stallion shoves down his 11th cake before swallowing it, "Deatchlaw omelette." he casually replied as he scarf down the last cake while Sunset looks surprised as she leans from her seat and looks at the deathclaw with a nervous look. Little Ripper realized that he's being watched as he looks back and saw the unicorn as she nervously stares at him and he shrugs.
"They're not mine, I'm not a chicken."
Sunset dart her eyes between him and the omelettes before returning back to her seat and slowly eats her food and she's gotta admit they're pretty good.
Meanwhile, at the Think Tank
Dr. O's screen slowly moves forward to the terminal screen as he tries to find the culprit who launched the most expensive, most advanced and very bulky satellite which costs 400,000 dollars to make. He then froze as he saw who is the culprit, bringing a microphone he hovers towards Dr. Klein.
"Um, Dr.Klein?"
Kleins eye screens slowly turn towards Dr. O, "YES, DR.O?" he replied as Dr. O's arm claw hands him the microphone which confuses the head researcher as he slowly grabs it. "AND WHY DID YOU GIVE ME THIS MICROPHONE?" he asks.
Dr. O nervously moves his eye screens "Well, I've found out who launched the satellite."
"AND?"
"It's... Dr.Mobius."
Dr.Klein's arm claw that is holding the microphone starts shaking as he then brings it to his mouth screen.
"MOBIUS! MOBIUS!" his voice of anger was heard throughout the crater of Big MT.
Author's Note
Slams hands against desk
Finally! After many re-writes, being lazy and re-playing Fallout 4 for 10 days straight. Here’s Chapter 4.
I hope it was good because I still think it’s not.
