Fallout Equestria The Onyx Note

I slowly looked around, blinking as my eyes adjusted to the light. I was back in Onyx’s world, laying down in her bed as the TV blared at the end of the bed. Wait, hadn’t the TV not been working yesterday? Immediately awake, I sat up quickly, staring as the TV faded from static, to the usual shows that would be on this channel. Whenever it was not on static, it was playing… was that a distress signal? I sat a second longer, listening as it went back to the message for a few seconds.

“Please, if anyone hears this come down to the radio center, we need some help down here!”

“What the tartarus is going on?” I mumbled, checking my magnum and magazines. I had wasted about one magazine, and I stared, partly annoyed at the other two. I had quickly learned yesterday that the magazines did not actually go into the gun. Instead, I had to take the bullets out of the magazine and put them into the magazine by hoof, which had been difficult.

My stare turned into a glare, and I half wanted to smash the magazines like I had the radroaches. I knew, annoyingly that that would just decrease my ammo, but taking the ammo out to be loose in my bag was even worse than having them in a hard to use magazine. That had probably been why Golden had them in a magazine, for the exact same reason. I pulled the magnum onto my bed, and checked the loading mechanism. As I remembered there was a small button on the side of the gun, which when pushed pushed the gun-loady-place out to put bullets in.

I pushed the button and it indeed did this, exposing the empty barrel. Oh wait, its called a revolver, not a barrel. At Least I think it is. That or it is called a chamber. Oh whatever it was called, it came out the side on a hinge, exposing the empty thingy. I took a close look at it, removing the casing around the mechanisms to make it fire, and saw the hinge actually wasn’t attached at all to the hammer, trigger or springs inside that allowed the whole thing too work.

“So if i remove the hing and instead make the button release the thingy, I could make multiple thingys so I could just load it quickly!” I exclaimed, probably a bit too loud. Wait, I had no idea how to make a thingy. Okay I had to stop calling this thing a thingy. I quickly checked the book I had seen, and saw one of the characters call it a “chamber”. Okay, well even so I had no idea how to make a chamber. Atleast not on my own. But maybe there was something around I could use to help me with this?

Looking around slowly, I spotted a small bench leaning against the wall of my room. It had a strange symbol on the front and the sides had cloth running off it, looking like an ancient table that was used way back in the day. Smiling sadly, I remembered it had infact been made back in the day, during the war. I remember getting it as a birthday present from one of my friends as a filly. She had no idea what it did so she gave it to me, and I had put it there because it simply looked pretty.

Bringing my Magnum, I walked over and touched the symbol in the middle, which was a blue circle with seemingly alchemic symbols placed inside it. As soon as my hoof came in contact with it, it began to glow a dull, light blue. Well this wasn’t creepy at all. A few magical tendrils began to run up my hoof slowly, circling it in an almost serpent like fashion, trailing up my forehoof and leg. Oh Celestia please don’t let this be a tentacle th- my thought was cut off as it hit my breast, traveling across it to get to my other leg.

It felt.. cool, as it began to travel down my other forehoof, and i realized it was going for the magnum. As if to prove my thought as soon as it touched the magnum the magnum began to glow, the same eerie light blue as the symbol, before floating out of my hoof to hover above the symbol. Wow, that was just plain awesome. The tendrils on my hoofs didn’t go away, and after a second I touched the chamber of the gun, slowly realizing how this weird magic bench might work.

As I expected the chamber glowed a brighter blue, and I did a drawing back motion with both my hoofs, which in turn dragged the chamber and hinge off the gun, letting out a faint metallic screeching sound as the metal was forced to come apart. I smiled, and did another motion of the hinge and chamber coming apart, and after a second it did so, a faint click emanating from it. After a couple seconds of trying to figure out how the button links to the hinge, I reformed the hinge so instead it just held the chamber in, and after a quick dry fire and eject I was happy with the results. Now then, I just had to find some metal to use to make more chambers.

Another couple seconds later I came back with scrap metal, and managed to forge it into more chambers. I sighed, wiping the sweat from my brow as I finally finished my adjustments, the last thing I needed to do was load each chamber. After a few second I made a little whooping noise, and held up my gun as if it were the best thing ever. Which in my personal opinion it was, besides Riptide and Cloud.

Oh right, I made this gun to go help the ponies at the radio area. Putting a chamber in, I began to head for it, wondering what the problem might be. I wonder if it would be another radroach problem. I suspected that was probably the case, considering what had happened the day before. But maybe it was just some mixed signals that needed sorting out, and I would have no need for this adjustment to my gun. I shrugged, picking up my pace a bit just incase it was the former.

The map on my pipboy said that to get the the radio place it was going to be too rights then straight, which seemed pretty simple. I had also found a new system I hadn’t noticed before, called eyes forward sparkle, or EFS. It highlighted all detected lifeforms in my vicinity, and if they were harmful or not. To be perfectly honest I wanted to bang my head against a wall for not finding it out sooner so I could have seen how many radroaches there had actually been.

Everyone was unhostile from what I could see, which is what I expected. Wait, did I take a left or a right just now? Checking my map, I groaned loudly, turned around, and went the right way. Why was my sense of direction so terrible!? I was worse at going the right way than Cloud, and he tended to go to the actual bathroom then the litterbox we had set up for him, which was still better then what I tended to do. I tended to wander into the garage instead of the actual bathroom.

A couple minutes later I found myself infront of the door that led into the radio room, which gave power and tv to everyone in the stable. The lights inside were green, and I didn’t see any red to indicate radroaches, thank Celestia. Wait, what if some creatures were naturally hidden from EFS? I hoped not, because that would just be unfair. I knocked on the door, and watched as one of the green lights moved towards me, coming for the door. After a second it opened, revealing the pony who had opened it.

He was fairly simple looking, a brown buck with light sawdust colored hair and blue eyes, his cutiemark showing a radio antenna. He had a construction hat on, and he waved me in, his eyes shimmering with relief. “Hello miss Onyx, we were hoping you would be the one to show up,” a steel colored mare said from the middle of a room, her black mane neatly cut to fall just below her ears but no further. “Really?” I said surprised. Why would they be expecting me? Was it because I was the assistant of the overmare?

“Mhm, we have been recently having a bit of a radroach problem, plus the power has been fluctuating a bit,” the buck explained from behind me.

“We’ve had to spend more time killing the pests and keep the power going, so the radio has had to go down to do so,” the mare added, and I nodded. It seemed to make sense, considering my run in with some of them earlier I could understand how they would make work harder. “How have you been dealing with them?” I questioned.

“By killing them,” the buck said simply.

“I mean how are you killing them?” I added, and he levitated a gun out of its holster from his side, nodding his head towards it. I reached forward and my hoof brushed against the side, my eyes widening in surprise. It was one of those cool guns from the comic, if I was correct called a shotgun. It had a simple pump action at the bottom, and a nice black finish, barrel pointed at the ceiling for safety reasons. “Is it loaded?” I asked, and he nodded, opening a slider at the side to reveal 2 shots ready.

“Alright, so how do you want me to help?” I questioned, and they both looked at each other for a split second. It almost look like they communicated with just their eyes, before they looked back to me and said simultaneously “ Disinfectant and wonderglue, ”

“For what reasons?” I said, slightly bewildered. I could guess what the “wonderglue” was for, but why would they need disinfectant? I soon got my answer as the mare showed her back hoof to me and the buck stretched out his left forehoof. They both had bite marks on their hooves. The radroaches had actually managed to bite them. “They have been coming out of the walls, at one point they managed to jump us and get a bite off, the damn bugs,” the mare explained, a not of disgust leaking into her voice. I could understand why, and without another word I nodded and headed out the door.

It had been fairly easy to get the wonderglue. It seemed to be all over, and I began to suspect it was the duct tape of this world. I wondered why the radio ponies couldn’t just grab some, considering it was all over. A second later though I answered my own question, realizing that if one of them left to get some it would leave the other undefended as they worked on keeping power running all alone. With all the radroaches running around, I wasn’t surprised they wanted to stick together.

The disinfectant was harder to come by though, located in the clinic. The person running the clinic seemed to consider a radroach bite little use to use disinfectant on. “The bite does have bacteria, but their teeth, or pinchers are so small it can’t actually penetrate flesh,” He had said, waving it off like it was nothing. I highly doubted that though, based on how well it had been able to latch onto my tail, or for that matter how there were actual bite marks on the two worker ponies.

Plus even if it only scratched it could still bleed, but he was the doc so I didn’t question him. What I did do though is take some disinfectant while he wasn’t looking. Sometimes knowing how to take things unnoticed actually benefits good. Just counts on who and what your taking. This, to my happiness, was actually a time I could use this skill for good. Yay for thiefy skills.

Soon I was heading back to the two ponies, hoping the supplies that were now in my saddlebags would help. It didn’t take long to get back to the door, it actually took less time now that I knew where I was heading for sure, and I knocked on the door just like before. This time though there was no Immediate answer, in fact I didn’t get answered at all. This of course concerned me, and trying to use pure strength I managed to push open the doors.

I revolted at the sudden smell of fresh blood that assaulted my nose, and I looked around wide eyed to find the mare’s body, lying in a puddle of her own blood. Her side was torn open from what seemed to be a widespread gunshot, and her face was stuck in a look of surprised horror. “I.. I think I got the radroach,” a slightly insane voice said from across the room, and I slowly turned my head to find the buck staring at her body, a small trail of smoke coming out of the gun. Shit, the radroach had made him go insane.

I slowly slid out my revolver, hiding it behind my back as I walked in, trying not to shake. “Hey, I have that disinfectant and wonderglue you need,” I said, only the slightest quiver evident in my voice. His head snapped towards me, his eyes wild and deranged and I took a step back, startled. “Oh good, I helped my her get a radroach off, they came out again,” he said, nodding his head towards the corpse that used to be his friend. “I had to make sure my colt would be alright after all,”

“O-oh.. I see,” I stuttered, horrified. Sweet celestia he had killed his marefriend in an attempt to save her from his own illusion. And in the process he had also… I had to blink back tears, knowing if he saw he wouldn’t understand. That or he would think they were radroach eggs coming out of my eyes or something.

His eyes widened as he looked at me, stretching into a look of horror and disgust. “Careful, there is a radroach crawling up your leg, let me help get that off,”

“U-uhm no i’m good,” I half screamed, moving my left forehoof from behind me and placing the magnum into my mouth. This wasn’t going to end well. He pointed the shotgun at me, a deranged smile stretching across his face “No no I insist, allow me miss Onyx,”

“NO!” I tried to shout from behind the gun in my mouth, but I saw the trigger began to magically pull and dove behind a crate. With a loud bang, I heard a shell clatter to the ground and the sound of metal being hit by something, a loud ringing that filled the room. Suddenly I felt a searing pain in my flank, and yelled out in pain, the magnum dropping from my mouth. I looked down at my flank, feeling tears touch my eyes as I saw a small hole in my flank right above my cutiemark, dribbling blood down and partially covering it.

Damnit one of the shots had ricocheted off the ground and hit me. The entire left side of my flank felt like it was on fire, red, hot, searing fire. A fire I couldn’t blow out, and I knew was going to suck to deal with. If I survived to deal with it that is. No don’t think that, I was going to survive.

I peaked over the top of the crate too see what the buck was doing. He was looking around the room, his eyes wide as if staring at an entire army of radroaches. Damnit he wasn’t in his right mind, but maybe I could snap him out of it. “Oh thanks, y-you got the radroach off me!” I said, trying to sound cheery but failing a bit. Celestia that wound hurt. “Oh I did? Good,” the buck said, and I could see his eyes become a bit more normal.

I limped out from behind the crates, gun in mouth incase he snapped again, and groaned loudly. “Owwwww, I think it bit me,” I faked, the pain evident in my voice as I showed the bullet wound. “Oh really? I know what could really help fix that up!” he responded, a happy smile forming as he pointed the shotgun at me once again.

What the hell was with this guy and shooting things as helping!? I tried to leap for the same crate I had before, but as I sprung my flank burst with pain, making me scream and land short. Infact, not even my head was out of his firing range. He gave a concerned look, and I tried to grab the gun with my mouth as I stopped, seeing the trigger slowly being pulled back as his load of “help” got ready to be given. I sighed, looking up at him with pleading eyes hoping the look would snap him out of it. It didn’t.

The trigger pulled all the way back and I scrunched my eyes together tight, expecting to feel the same fiery hot pain in my chest as I had in my flank. It never did though. I opened my eyes slowly, to see him reloading his gun. Thank Celestia he had only two shots in the gun when he showed me. I quickly aimed with my magnum, activated SATS, and shot. The red dot on my EFS blinked out.

I slowly got to my hooves again, flinching at the still present pain in my flank, and hoped the bullet had bounced off the inside of my flesh like it had the ground. I slowly walked over to the buck’s body, and after a second too mourn, I took his shotgun and the 10 shells he had on him. Checking the inside of the gun, I also saw he had managed to put another three shells in before I had got him. I was going to have to report this too Crystal.

Wait a minute, what if Crystal was bitten? Or Golden? Or for that matter the rest of the stable? The entire stable would be a bloodbath. I knew if I stayed here, in this very stable stable 72, I would die.

Okay, so I had to get a code, a healing potion and bandages, then make a break for it. Luckily I already knew the code, the overmare had told me it incase of emergencies. CMC3BFF, which would open the vault door. I would also need healing supplies incase of emergencies though.

I sprinted, or trotted as fast as possible with my wound, to the clinic. The doctor shot a surprised look at me, and his eyes wandered down to the bullet hole in my flank, still slightly bleeding? In an instant he was by my side, shoving a healing potion at me. “What happened?” he asked briskly, checking the wound so he could double check my answer.

“Bullet wound, the radroach bite I told you about? It has something that makes ponies hallucinate,” I told him, and he cursed under his breath.

“I think we are dealing with hissing radroaches,” he suggested, and I nodded, remembering the distinct hissing they had made when I first met them. “Are you bitten?”

“No, and don’t say that it makes me think of those zombie apocalypse movies,” I replied, and he gave a solemn smile.

“Sadly it is probably going to be something like that outside, so your going to need a couple potions,” he quickly said, grabbing a couple healing potions and shoving them into my saddlebags. “Alright, how did you know I was going to go outside?”

“You have everything you need to do so, and you’re forgetting i’m your father, I know your way of thinking,” He said, and I blinked. Oh yah, he had been my, or I should say Onyx’s, father.

“Well thanks dad, are you coming with me?” I asked hopefully, but he shook his head. “I know this place won’t go long before breaking down, but i’m going to try and help it last,” he explained sadly, and I quickly hugged him.

He hugged back, then I broke away, charging full speed to the vault door, my wound healed from the potion. It was the farthest part away from the vault, so it took a good couple minutes before I finally reached it. I came skidding to a stop, actually falling onto my side with how fast I was going and made a faint “oophf” before getting up. I walked to the terminal that opened and closed the door, looking down at it.

This was it, the think that would let me get out of here. The thing that would let me leave my home. My soon to be dead home. I shot a sad look back at the hallway which lead to the rest of the stable, wishing it didn’t go like this. Even this far away from the main area I could hear gunshots and screams of “Radroaches!”, although I didn’t know who actually saw real radroaches and how many saw illusions.

I looked back down at the terminal, and slowly put in the code, hearing the hiss as the pistons in the door released. I checked my pipbuck inventory sorter, and was surprised to see something called “???” in it. Opening my saddlebags I saw a small board, with the same symbol as the bench had. How did it - magic, okay it was magic. I knew this, but I still wondered what it was.

The giant stable door rolled to the side, revealing a small glimpse of the world outside. From what I could see it looked… dark, but hopefully not lonely. Shooting a final look back at the now screamed filled stable, before turning back. With my head low, I began to slowly walk into the outside world. Right into my new home.

Level up, new perk added. Smooth talker: you now have a higher chance too convince others to assist you in your needs.