Introduction

War. War never changes.

This is a mantra that has been repeated ad infinitum since conflict among the first fleeting tribes arose. It was a strange and dark time. A time when ponies were torn apart by hatred, a time when our ancestors first discovered the killing power of rock and bone. Blood was spilt in the name of everything: From religion, to justice, to simple, psychotic rage. The Fire of Friendship changed all that. Its discovery ushered in an age of harmony. Under the rule of our beloved princesses Celestia and Luna, ponies had all but forgotten war even existed. It was a thing of the past, a thing for less civilised races. Most didn’t even know the concept existed.

But war never changes.

The storm of world war had come again. In two brief hours, most of the planet was reduced to cinders, plunged into an abyss of balefire and magical radiation. Equis was nearly wiped clean of life. A great cleansing, a great magical spark struck by pony and zebra hooves, quickly raged out of control. Spears of spellfire rained from the skies. Continents were swallowed in flames and fell beneath the boiling oceans. Equinity was almost extinguished, their spirits becoming part of the background radiation blanketing the world.

But it was not, as some had predicted, the end of the world. Instead, the apocalypse was simply the prologue to another bloody chapter of pony history. For ponykind had succeeded in destroying the world - but war... War never changes.

In the early days, thousands were spared the horrors of the holocaust by taking refuge in enormous underground shelters, known as Stables. Except for Stable Epsilon. For on that fateful day, when spellfire rained from the sky and consumed the world, the giant steel door of Stable Epsilon had already been sealed for three years. Imprisoned safely behind the large Stable door, under a mountain of stone, as the world ended.

Author's Note

I hope you all enjoyed the chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it.

I would like to give a huge thanks to Kkat for creating Fallout: Equestria and making this story possible.

A huge thank you to Shutter Speed who co-wrote this with me.

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Happy Hunting everypony!