Fallout Equestria: Return Of The King

Myself and a group of steel rangers where told that, to the north, in an ancient and ruined church there was a fresh stable, it's door was never opened, and all sorts of undiscovered technologies await. It was a ten day trip from Manehattan, but the promise of what could be found inside was too much to stay, even if the trip was dangerous, the prize was too good.

The trip was long but mostly quiet, but we found the ruined church in morning, it was on the top of a hill and dead trees surrounded said hill, the radiation levels in the forest was far too high for most creatures too live there without medical help. The church it's self was shockingly radiation-free, and there where even pools of relatively clean water.

The church was filled with ruined tapestries and destroyed furniture, the tapestries where red and gold, and had the image of the sun on them. Broken gold and silver objects where lying around and cluttering the floor.

I walked down the hill and scoured the surrounding area, I found a small cliff on the northern side of the hill, then I saw something that filled me with awe, a giant golden stable door with the symbol of the sun painted on the front. The door was shiny and polished despite it being closed for two hundred years.

“I found it!” I screamed to my fellow steel rangers, ten steel rangers came running over the hill, one of them our leader, Black Lily.

The steel rangers stared at the single most beautiful thing we had ever seen, the door shined and glittered in the light. “Get that thing open,” Black lily said.

We spent the entire day trying to break down the door, the gold door seemed indestructible and after evening came to come we gave up on breaking our way through the door. There was no terminal on the outside, so we couldn't hack our way in either.

The night was quiet, something strange was going on, we had never encountered any raiders, slavers, or radioactive / tainted creatures, what ever was going on here, everything avoided it. I could not blame them, I was walking through the church ruins, despite me being an earth pony my entire body was shivering, I could feel magic energy emanating from the ground. It had to be coming from the stable, what ever was causing this was powerful and more than likely in the hooves of the stable dwellers down beneath.

No pony got a good night sleep, we could all feel the magic force, and it got stronger when we approached the stable door.

It was early morning when i went to check on the stable door, it was big and golden, the same as yesterday. Then i noticed something strange, the entire door began to glow around the edges, “The door!” I cried to the rest of the team, the glowing around the door became almost blinding, it looked like those images from old school books, about nightmare moon's rebellion, about the sun and the moon being right on top of each other.

“What's going on!” Black lily screamed as she ran towards me, she gasped as she looked up at the blinding door. The door started to open, the entire hill shook as the great gold door started to shift out of place, that uncomfortable feeling of magic pressure suddenly waved over all of us, a few fell over from the overpowering feeling of magic, I wondered if this is how it felt to be hit with a magical energy weapon.

The door was open, and the magic pressure gone. but light was still poring out from the hole in the hill, we could see a blurry silhouette of a unicorn with a big spiky disk just behind his head, standing in the door way.

I could hear singing coming from the stable and it was in a language i couldn't begin to understand.

Then the light began to fade and we could see the pony standing in front of us, he was a stallion unicorn, unlike many of the other stables we had found he was not wearing any kind of uniform, instead he was wearing a red suit that covered his entire torso, it had golden trim around the hooves and around his neck, over the suit he had a long white robe with the same gold trim, where his cutie mark should be there was an image of the sun stitched to the robes. But the strangest thing of all about this pony was the giant golden ring hovering just behind his head, it was spiked and had rubies embedded into it, he also had golden shoes that also had rubies in them.

The unicorn stared at us, not with fear, innocent optimism, or even anger, like we have seen in most other stables. The unicorn stared at us with a cold condescending glare with a hint of pity in his eyes.

The light had completely faded away, revealing an army of similarly robed ponies, just with white suits and red robes. Then when we saw what they had mounted to their sides we all took a step back, most of them had giant sub-machineguns, and a few even had flamethrowers. Black lily started to point her minigun at the unicorn with the halo, and we all brought up our weapons, fearing that they won't just let us take their technology willingly.

“So... you point your little guns at me, how cute, you think that you can kill us,” The unicorn said in a strange accent I had only ever heard on old recordings from pre-war Canterlot, and from the citizens of Tenpony tower.

Black lily was angered by the unicorn's challenge, “This little gun can!” Black lily screamed as she shot her minigun at the unicorn. The bullets had no effect, they stopped once they came close to the unicorn, dropping to the ground in a pile of flattened and shattered bullets. I realized that the unicorn must have some kind of invisible magic shield.

Black lily was infuriated, she ordered all steel rangers to open fire, the bullets just bounced off of the unicorn's shield, and even the robed mass behind him where immune to our weapons. Then the army of robed ponies turned their SMGs towards us, I had been attacked by sub-machineguns before and our power armor proved stronger, but these SMGs where diffrent, one pony infront of me was ripped apart by a hail of bullets, they broke right through her armor and exploded inside, blood came flowing out from any holes in the armor.

“Shit!” I dove behind a rock, then I looked up and saw the battle, steel rangers where falling like flies, the robed ponies suffered no causalities other than a few robed ponies who where injured, it looked like their shield had a range and you could get inside of it. Black lily charged at the unicorn, then a robed pony with a flamethrower jumped in her way and turned Black lily into a pile of molten metal and burning flesh.

From behind the rock I saw the unicorn look up to the sky, translucent wings made of light appeared at the unicorn's side, they where giant and luminescent, shining a brilliant gold light, similar to the light that erupted from the stable when it's door opened.

The winged unicorn flew into the sky high above the church, the unicorn's voice echoed across the hill “All whom survived the battle, all whom wish to live, arise from hiding and show yourselves, surrender and you shal be spared!” The unicorn said.

I came out from the rock, my weapons where turned off and pointed to the ground, I bowed in surrender to the robed ponies, the unicorn descended from the sky and looked around at the few ponies that where still alive.

I was walked into the stable, it's interior was made of polished gold, silver, and marble, the air was fresher than anything I had ever breathed in my life, the stable was lit by golden lanterns that gave off what felt like warm sunlight. I sat at the end of a beautifully crafted marble table with gold around the edges, the unicorn siting on the other side of the the table, with two ponies beside him, one a dark green pegasus stallion with a black mane, the other a black unicorn mare with a red mane, both in the same white suits and red robes.

“I have a few questions for you, but before that let me introduce myself, I am Edward blaze, loyal servant to her majesty the queen Celestia. what is your name?” The unicorn said. Now that i wasn't fighting I could get a better look at the unicorn, his mane was orange and his coat a shiny white, his eyes where a deep red and he had a small necklace that had an I shape with the same sun symbol in it's center.

“My name is Firefly, i'm a steel ranger crusader. I hope that's good enough of an introduction?” I said quietly. Looking around my surroundings I saw ponies of all colors, all with the same robes, some where carrying boxes of material, some where tending to their weapons, some where talking to others. However one pony stood out from the rest, he was a slightly older stallion, he had a rusty red coat and an orange mane, his eyes where blue but one, was mechanical and glowing a brightly, he was inspecting some steel ranger armor, from the way he was walking I could tell that most of his body must have been mechanical. “I have a question for you Edward, how did this stable get so technologically advanced.”

“Well, as you might have guessed, we are not a normal stable, we ... or more precisely they, are the descendants of the Priesthood of Flutterwest. A religious and military order dedicated to princess Celestia.”

“Wait... you said that they are the descendants of the priesthood, does that mean that you are not one,” I asked

“Well, yes and no, I am a priest, and I am the leader of the priesthood. But I am no descendant of any one here, not a single pony in this stable is related to me genetically, my parents died a long, long, long time ago, longer than you can comprehend,” He said, a slight smile forming on his face. “Anyway back on topic, I want to know three things, what is the state of the outside, what is the state of Canterlot, and finally where is princess Celestia?“ he asked me.

“For the first question, Equestria is in absolute ruin, raiders, slavers, and bandits roam the wastelands, there are a few surviving areas of life, namely us the steel rangers, some pegasus enclave in the sky somewhere, and a few settlements lying around the wasteland, there's also a place called Tenpony tower in Manehattan. Secondly, Canterlot is the worst ruin of them all, it has a deadly pink mist surrounding it, I don't know much about it myself. And Celestia is dead, has been for centuries, she was in Canterlot when the mega-spells hit.“

The unicorn sat there quietly for a few moments, “So it's not too different from what i expected, good,“ He said. Then three more ponies ran up to Edward, one was the cyborg pony I was looking at before, the other two where wearing armor strapped to their robes, one of those two was wearing a gas mask and the other had what looked like a pre-war officers cap on.

“Dark angel and Martyred, you two are coming with me,“ Edward said to the two original robed ponies next to him. “Skitarii you continue to research the armor the steel rangers where wearing, Cadia and Krieg, go patrol the outside, and try to arrange a militia from any ponies you can find to help with our conquest of Equestria,“ Edward said before walking away.

I was left alone at the table when a young mare with a red coat and black mane walked up to me, she looked like a sister to one of the ponies with Edward, “My name is Bloody rose, I have been told by lord Edward to either escort you out or to offer you a place in the priesthood.“

“What?“ I said confused

“Either join us, or I will escort you to the nearest pony settlement.“

I was going to let her escort me out, so I could go back to Manehattan and tell the other steel rangers about this, but the would just attack this place, and if they do, i doubt any of them would survive, and the chances of me surviving the trip back are slim. “I will join you,“ I said.

“Good, follow me,“ Bloody rose said as she led me away into the stable.