Fallout: Equestria Swift Tale

Chapter Five: A pony possessed by an evil sprit.

”Mister swift...are you okay?”

We continued our journey from the station house to new appaloosa. My front leg was feeling a little better like it was healing faster than a normal ponies would. Stardust walking beside me looking around the barren landscape a tad bored like. There wasn’t much for her to do as we walked and we just kept to our selfs till she broke the silences.

“Mister Swift?”

“Yes, Stardust?”

“Could you turn on the radio please?”

I had forgotten all about the radio on “My” PipBuck and I gladly turned it on for her. The sound of music from the old world filled our ears as we strolled along. The previous song just ended and a news report played.

“Hello, Equestrian wasteland! This is Dj-pon3 coming to you loud and proud over the airwaves. News reports of an another pony coming out of the stables. Damn what is going on in those underground shelters? First stable 2 now this? Anyway turns out this stallion is one crazy dude and to top it off he is that an alicorn. That’s right ladies a Male alicorn but don’t get too excited he has a taste for pony flesh. We will bring you more updates later when it comes. Now back to music.”

I stopped dead in my tracks. It didn’t take long for Stardust to figure out who Dj-pon3 was talking about. I looked at her and saw she was pointing her rifle at me with a scared and confused look.

“Uh...Mister Swift....you aren’t going to eat me...are you?”

I face hooved and tried to tell her about what had gone down in the stable. She kept her rifle on me at all times but gave up after I told her that I don’t want to eat ponies...I just did out of extreme hunger...and I wasn’t my self. I sighed sadly and continued walking forward with Stardust right behind me. We must have walked for miles because in the distance I could see ponyville. (Or what was left of it.)

“Well...Home sweet home.”

We were walking down an old cobblestone path when I turned to Stardust and told her to stay behind to stay safe. I looked around to find a place for her to hide when I saw an old stone bridge up ahead with a drainage pipe under it.

“You go hide in that drainage pipe and I will come back later if I don’t come back...”

She interrupted me with her optimistic filly enthusiasm.

“No pony can’t kill you mister Swift, You go there and kick their flanks!”

I smiled as she ran to the drainpipe under the bridge, Only for her to scream from what she saw. I quickly limped over and saw what she had seen. There was the mutilated body of a small gray unicorn with a PipBuck as her cutie mark. Her stable tech jumpsuit was ripped and bloody as she was nailed to the underside of the bridge. I lifted pushed stardust away from it and covered her eyes. I looked closer to her jumpsuit and realized it was indeed that this must be the pony that came out from stable 2. Stardust when into the drainage pipe and made sure it was safe before she gives me the all clear. I continued to look at the unicorn and as an act of respect I dug through my saddle bag and lifted out the smashed PipBuck.

“Well...I guess this is all I can do for you now.”

I removed her from the wall and laid her down on the far side of the bridge. After that, I wrapped her up with the tarp I used to cover my wings. With a sigh a placed the broken Pipbuck on the body. I must have bumped something inside it as it flashed on. The outer screen was cracked but the inner was just fine. Carefully I looked through it and saw that there was a recording that read.

“If you are somehow are listening to this I have failed to find Velvet remedy and I am most likely dead. The wasteland was too hard on me and it was my undoing. I have no regrets as It was my choice to leave stable 2. I hope that no other pony will have to suffer the same fate as I have...whatever that may be.”

~ Little Pip

Stardust looked at me from her hiding spot wondering what we should do with the body. Maybe I should take it to the stable or maybe just be on my way. I carefully looked at the map and saw that she came from around Sweet apple acres. It wasn’t that far and I guess we could make a stop there. I didn’t know what to do with her and I just sat there. After a lot of thinking and pacing around, I thought that if we went to the stable it would give me more time to plan out how I was going to enter ponyville. Stardust was a tad bit tired of walking so I lifted her on my back and held the body in my telekinetic aura. Apon doing that my bound leg hit the ground and didn’t hurt at all and that meant it had healed. After undoing it we began to backtrack.

An hour of walking later we arrived at the farm. The whole place looked abandoned and a field of dead trees dotted the area some had strange apples. I gently woke up Stardust from my back and asked her if she knew anything about this place that would help me understand what to do here. She slid down my wing and walked around looking at the farm.

“Well...this farm has these apples that make you sick from what I heard.”

“So don’t eat the apples got it anything else?”

“Nope, that is all sorry.”

“Thank you for the help.”

She smiled and trotted around the farm but stayed somewhat close to me as I took it all in. To think this place used to be so busy and lush with apples everywhere. Sometimes the whole damn town was here for cider season and by Luna’s horn, it was a madhouse. Some ponies would camp here for the night just to be first in line. The memories filled my mind the more I thought about how tasty the cider was and how juicy the apples where. Maybe It was best that I didn’t think of that right now as I was really hungry and thirsty (That’s what happens when you have to fight and walk everywhere.)

I was around the back of the farmhouse and saw the apple cellar door. (That’s where the good stuff was kept.) Curiously I opened the cellar doors and walked inside as Stardust followed. The light from outside faded into the darkness and I clicked “My” PipBuck lamp spell on only to be greeted with more skeletons and a large stable door with the number two painted on it. There was an outside control panel on the left side of the door a little light was blinking from it. From the looks of it, it was functioning and powered on. I told Stardust to stay close and I pulled out the strange suit.

I wanted to look presentable so I put on the suit I was given in the unmarked stable then I walked over to read the instructions on the control panel. Step one insert PipBuck cord. Step two enter code. Step three pull lever. With a snap and a click, I plugged the Pipbuck into the socket and entered the code. A voice shot out from an intercom above the panel.

“Velvet remedy you chose to leave stable two and by doing so you chose never to return. If you have anything to say then say it. Because the whole stable is listening.”

“Uh...hello?...I think you are mistaking me for somepony else ma’am.”

“What?...how did you get ahold of Velvet remedy’s PipBuck?”

“It’s a long story ma’am uh if I may could you please let a stallion and his daughter into the sta...”

“Nope sorry but I can’t be having more ponies leaving and new ponies entering the stable how did you find out about this place?”

I thought about what to say and how I was going to say that I found a PipBuck had a map that leads me to here.

“I found the corpse of this mare...Littlepip I think her name was?”

There was a gasp from the intercom and some mumbling from the mare over it.

“I have the body with me... I thought she would like to be taken home after getting raped and killed by raiders.”

The mare on the intercom sighed and said something to her self that I couldn’t hear.

“Stand back I am opening the door.”

With a loud clang from the inside, the bolt latched onto the door. As it rolled opened the light from inside the stable creeped out into the darkness. Me and Stardust were met with two earth pony guards and a mare over the intercom. (That was the over-mare.) I walked forward with stardust under my wing hiding. They were surprised about seeing my wings and they bowed.

“Your majesty.”

The over-mare said. It took me awhile to figure out why they were doing that then stardust called it out...well...almost.

“He isn’t a princess you dummies he is a swift.”

I blushed hard and stood there awkwardly from what she had said. First off I am a male alicorn. Secondly, I’m no princess or part of any royal family. Thirdly thank you Stardust for making our first impression to some normal ponies an awkward one. The stable ponies stood up and let us both into the stable along with the body. I think we were getting a somewhat warm welcome as we both followed the over-mare as the two earth pony guards took the body someplace. Stardust wasn’t too comfortable with everypony looking us like some sort of circus freak show. The stable its self-was nothing compared to what I have seen in Aloe vera’s stable.

Everything was spotless and in order. There were some colts and fillys late for school running down the hall. I was impressed that a stable could last this long and still be used. The over-mare walked us up a flight of stairs and opened her door to the office. She sat down and I pulled up a chair as Stardust found some crayons and some paper to draw with at the coffee table.

“So Mister?”

“Swift McGlilds Frontline for the equestrian army ma’am...It’s just a meaningless title now.”

“So are military stallion huh well If I may ask how are you in possession of not one but two PipBucks?”

I didn’t want to tell her I had killed and eaten a bunch of raiders and these were in the hooves of them.

“I found both of them next to the body of LittlePip.” I lied.

“Well, I guess that explains it, damn it first velvet remedy then Littlepip leave then now you and your daughter show up.”

“Do you want them back?”

“I have no use for them at all.”

She sighed and went to her terminal to type some things in as Stardust drew me a wonderful picture of that time back at the station house. As I was waiting my stomach growled and I felt the hunger pains. I didn’t want to ask the over-mare if we could get something to eat as that was rude...But so is eating her face off. I asked her anyway and as gentlestallionly as I could. She stopped typing and looked over at me and to stardust and back to me with a concerned look.

“Sweetie could you step outside for a bit thank you.” The over-mare said.

The filly hopped out and the door shut behind her. The over-mare looked at her terminal and said.

“What happened to the filly?” She said in a low and serious tone “Why does she have all those brushes and cuts?”

I told her about how I saved her from the raiders and that I had adopted her.The over-mare had some other questions about the outside that I answered the best I could. After that, she went back to typing. I sighed in relief and relaxed a little till she somehow managed to pull up my army medical file from 200 years ago.

“Well, this is new...It says here you were discharged from crazy diamond because of depression from a lost love.”

Let’s just say I had a really bad flashback and that mixed in with being super hungry. Made me kind of freaked out upon hearing her say my story out loud. It played in my head and it was so real that I was screaming Sarah’s name...or I think I was that’s what they told me after I woke up in the medical bay when the doctors had tied me down. Luckily nopony wasn’t hurt. I was hooked up to machines and other useless medical stuff as I tried to get out. There were tubes down my throat and some sort of yellow mush was being pumped into my stomach.

“Hold on we are almost finished Mr. McGlides” One of the doctors said.

“You had a bad flashback a sort of PTSD and from lack of food It made it worse.” A nurse said in a soft tone.

“You will be out of her in a minute after we make sure everything is all right with you.”

She injected me with a strange needle then I was gassed and I fell asleep it was strange that I lashed out like that. It had never happened before and I was left in a dark empty space of my mind. I was alone and confused as this wasn’t like the other times or anytime I would “talk” to Sarah.

This time it was different.

Something about this place made me think that maybe I shouldn’t be here.

I felt an evil presence with me.

“Hello? Anypony here?” I called into the darkness.

There was no answer but someone or something was there I knew it. I ran without knowing where or if I was going anywhere. Everything looked the same. But that evil presence was following me and I turned around and yelled with anger and fear.

“Come out you bastard!”

Upon doing that there was a red glow in the distance and the sound of hooves followed as it got closer. I tried to stand my ground if there was any at all as a cold sweat ran down my face.

“You are capable of so much more Swift McGlides.” A voice that sounded like my own but deeper.

The walking stopped and the voice continued to talk to me as I was speechless. Everything was numb as if it was my first day in the army I froze up not even blinking.

“Oh allow me to introduce my self...I am you...a much better you and this place...is your insanity.”

I tried to speak but nothing I would say would change the fact that this going to break down. The fact that once the red glow came closer my mouth hit the floor to see...me...But it wasn’t me...

“I am so disappointed in you swift after all If it was me I would have saved Sarah on that day.”

“No...I-It...Why...y-you.” I struggled.

“Oh sorry I was just thinking about how no pony cares about you and how you let her die a painful death.”

He was walking around me as I stood in the middle. His hoof steps echoed in the darkness as the glowing eye was, in fact, the visor that was given to me. With a deep breath, I managed to say something.

“You are nothing...I may be going crazy but I’m sure as hell...not going to be like you!”

The other Swift just sighed and walked off into the nothingness leaving me alone. This didn’t seem like having a mental illness. No this was something different and if this wasn’t kept in check then this could be very dangerous. Not just to me but to Stardust and others that I meet.

When I woke up again I was in a bedroom in the stable. It was your average bedroom. The far right had a bed and on the left, there was a dresser with a small rectangle window looking out to the hall with some curtains. My saddlebags and Stardust’s belongings were on the side of the wall. From the looks of it, somepony dug through our stuff. (They took the weapons because the guards didn’t want anyone shot.) I was dressed in a stable-tech jumpsuit and Velvet remedy’s Pipbuck was gone. I looked around the room and saw that Stardust was asleep on a small bed of her own wearing her own jumpsuit as well. She snored softly and was out like a light. My head hurt a little as I got up. I needed a drink something to take any mind if had left off what I had just witnessed.

I walked out of the room hoping not to wake her up. I thought about how I said she was my Daughter. Like it was a normal everyday thing. I did promise to protect her and protect her I shall. With a smile, I opened the door only to be greeted by some children. (About Stardust’s age.) One was an earth pony. And the two other ones where pegasus twins. They looked at me with amazement and asked if Stardust could play with them. I told them she was sleeping and they ran off. I tried to find my way around the place as it was much bigger than the last stable I was in. But I managed to find the diner part and sat down at the bar.

“Do you have anything cold and with a kick?”

The bartender looked at me and poured up a glass of hard apple cider. When I asked how much I owe him he said they have no use for the wasteland currency and just gave me the caps from the last couple of drinks. After thanking him I sipped my dink quietly. I was expecting this place being so busy as these ponies have lived in here for centuries. After finishing my drink a walked around once again to enjoy being safe for once. I had all the time to plan out who me and Stardust were going to go through ponyville. I made it to my room and Stardust was in the bathroom wondering how to turn on the shower.

“Mister Swift can you help me?”

“Yes, sweetie what do you need?”

“The thingy won’t turn on.”

I opened the door and she moved to the side as I stepped in. I tried to turn on the shower but the hoof activated leaver was stuck in place in the water off mode. After a few more tries of me banging the leaver down to the water on mode, it worked as water splashed down on my face soaking me and Stardust. She giggled as she waited for the water to heat up and I left to dry my self off. I hung the jump-suit out to dry and I sat on the bed to see velvet remedy’s PipBuck on the table. I flopped on the bed and started the recording spell to log what has been happing for the last...hell I didn’t know what day it was. I didn’t really care as much as I thought about what to say.

“This is log four of Swift McGlides, bringing you or my self some advice or random chatter. So I am a father now after saving and adopting the cutest little filly you have ever seen. At first, I didn’t know if it was a good Idea to bring a child with me but she is a big girl and knows how to take care of her self. I hope I can be a good father to for her...thats what Sarah would have wanted. Speaking of her she knows about the stable incident thanks to a news broadcast over “My” Pipbuck. Great now everyone knows about it and are getting the wrong Idea. Anyway, we went to the outside of ponyville only to be greeted with the body of LittlePip. The mare that the other PipBuck belonged to and It lead us here in stable two which we are staying for the night...”

I thought about more to say. Maybe about the other Swift? Was it true could I have been about to save her? I thought hard as Stardust came out of the shower and hopped on the bed as she cuddled into my fluff. She was clean and smelt nice like a fruit basket you give your boss if you worked at the cloud factory. The PipBuck still was recording.

“Mister Swift what are you doing?”

“I am recording an audio log want to say something?”

“Oh yes please."

She put her face next to the PipBuck and started to talk into it like someone was listening. It was cute and I chuckled a bit. Stardust would talk about her experience in the stable and other parts of her life and ask questions to the Pipbuck. After she was finished I clicked it off and set it on the table as I got up to go take a shower my self. As I walked in and turned the water on. It felt good to get clean again after everything even though nothing could wash the gilt I had. But whatever Stardust had used made my mane soft and bouncy was close enough. The water was warm and it dripped off my wings as I scrubbed I had missed the hot water and it was amazing to think we take it for granted.

After relaxing I dried off and walked out to see Stardust listening to the other logs on my bed. She looked at me and asked about Sarah and a lot of other questions I didn't want to answer right now I just wanted to sleep and leave tomorrow. She sighed as I laid down next to her and told her the plan of action. About how we will sneak into ponyville late at night and quickly move through it. She thought about it and asked about what if I used my wings. I forgot I could fly as I was still getting used to them. After thinking about it more if we started to fly over the town it would leave us with less cover and more likely to get shot. (That and Stardust couldn't fly.) She started to nod off as I wrapped my wing around her as a blanket and fell asleep my self.

"Mister Swift!" Stardust hissed quietly as she was literally punching me.

I was asleep for about a five hours and stardust looked like she was going to explode. I could hear automatic gunfire and the clanking of metal. There were screams and smoke as well as fire. (Great I must be the most unlucky stallion in the world.) Stardust was freaking out trying to stay calm as whatever was happening outside sounded dangerous and we needed to go now. I shot up and made sure the door was locked as I got our stuff. I slowly looked out the window and saw some sort of scary looking robot like pegasus outside mowing down the stable dwellers with a minigun battle saddle. No wonder Stardust was scared this was something crazy. Alarms were going off and I was struggling to keep cool.

"Oh Sarah, Princesses, anyone help us please!"

Stardust looked at me but didn't question it as the walking and shooting continued.

"All you have to do was ask."

Her soft voice said in my head and told me that there was a vent up above. With no time to waste I opened it and lifted Stardust into it as the robot pegasus outside started to try to break down our door. I jumped in after her and grabbed the saddlebags and the visor that I put on. (Our weapons were in the armory and they couldn't do jack to the robots if I could even try.) I just managed to shut the vent just in time as the robot pegasus bust the metal door like it was nothing.I covered Stardust mouth as she was going to cry. The E.F.S labeled the robot pegasus as hostile. (No shit.) I looked down at the vent and saw him dig through everything till he found the drawing Stardust made me.

"This confirms it he was here, Sweep the stable and find them." It said in a robotic voice changer.

"Yes, sir over and out." Another robotic voice replied.

The robot pegasus took all of the drawings and placed them in a folder. What was amazing is that they wanted the drawings in the first place maybe as evidence? The robot pegasus left the room and the two of us started to make our way to the armory using the vents and the help of the PipBuck. We had some close calls but we managed to make our way to the armory. Stardust stopped and beckoned me to stop as well as I looked down the vent. There were the two pegasus twins and the earth pony. They were cornered by another robot pegasus their parents dead on the floor from trying to protect them.

"Sir there are children here awaiting official instructions."

"Sir...they are just children...they..." That robot pegasus seemed to hesitate.

"Understood..."

The children cried as the robot pegasus revved up their minigun battle saddle. I covered Stardust's face and looked away as they killed them. There was nothing I could do and I was thinking of bust down there and killing him with my own hoofs. But Sarah told me she would take care of it. (Great as if a ghost could do anything about it.) We hopped down and got our weapons. The armory was somewhat equipped for the guards to only have batons. There were 10mm pistols and some stable-tech guard armor that I put on and fitted the other one on Stardust. We packed our stuff and took as much stuff as we could carry only for the door to open.

"I found him armory!" The robot pegasus yelled as he revved up his minigun battle saddle.

"Stardust behind me!"

I screamed as I started the old shield spell I learned in school as a storm of bullets hit a wall of white powerful magical energy. Stardust was screaming and crying as the bullets were bouncing off my shield. I was getting weaker and other swift's power grew as each bullet was fired. I was going to turn in front of her and she might get hurt. I was about to give way to the power of the minigun battle saddle. I thought we were done for but he stopped. I saw that his gun was jammed as he slowly backed away. This was my chance and I lifted stardust into the vent and shut it closed. I let my self-lose if it meant that we get out of here alive and we could avenge the innocent ponies of stable two.

"YOU FUCKED WITH THE WRONG ALICORN!"

I ran at the robot pegasus and grabbed the minigun ripping it off caused it to un-jam as I bashed the robot pegasus down like a freight train. The bigger they are the harder they fall. He struggled to get up as I revved the minigun and started to rip his face off with the remaining bullets. His head exploded in a red mist as the bullets flew through it. I could sense more of his friends coming fast and I quickly reloaded the gun. "Other" swift was talking to me like he knew where more robot pegasus would be attacking.

"Two on your left straight ahead."

His voice echoed as I turned the corner to see the two of them. They had these weird green laser weapons as I started to fire at them. The goop that they were shooting was slow but had the power to disintegrate a pony into a pile of green goo. Bullets weren't going to cut it and I wasn't here to kill them all. I needed to get Stardust and my self out of here. With no other option and no more ammo, I chucked the minigun at one of them disarming one and distracting the other for enough time to kill them both. Even if their armor was bullet resistance in some places they couldn't stop a dive bombing alicorn forcefully landing on their heads with all four hooves. Their heads squirted out like a can of fruit ran over by a bus. Their armor was different like a scorpion tail with a blade at the end.

Without thinking I looted both bodies and lifted both of the green laser guns in my magical aura. I ran back to the vent and jumped up to look for Stardust. She was nowhere in sight and I started to panic. The thumping of my hooves in the vent where attracting more of them trying to shoot me through the vent.

"Stardust where are you?!"

I screamed as "other" Swift was losing his grasp on my mind. I was tired and all this fighting was not good for my body. (I needed to do some training or something.) I was lucky not to get hurt this time but getting hurt was the least of my worries. Finding that filly was on the top of the list. She was my only friend and companion I had in this world and I be damned if something happened to her. The vent ended at a large fan and I jumped out. The PipBuck Map said I was almost out of the stable. All I had to do was get out the front door and hope that my filly made it out safely.

With all my might I pushed to the entrance and was about to leave and fly out of here. Well, I was when I found my self-surrounded from the front and the back with no way out. The door was blocked and they were everywhere pointing weapons at me. I tried to stand my ground and I opened my large wings as to make my self-bigger then I was. They were all pegasi in this robot armor. It was power armor that you could fly in so it wasn't that heavy armored but still protected the wearer to let them fly. I thought to my self what did I do to anger these guys? They just stood there waiting for anything to happen. I was holding each goo gun and but if I did shoot one of them I would be dead from the rest.

"By the Grand Pegasus Enclave Drop your weapons and get on the ground." One of them said angrily.

The Grand Pegasus Enclave? What the hell? I had no beef with these guys and I had no Idea who they were. I didn't really have a choice here so I dropped both of the goo guns to the side and laid on the ground. I had to surrender here and take my fate like a stallion. They walked up to where about to hold me down when somepony threw a fire extinguisher at us and shot it as the fire extinguisher exploded causing a huge mess of the powder all over the place. A smoke screen that is what they did as I quickly and sneakily ran out the door. I needed to do something fast and shutting the door came to my mind as I ran and hit the emergency stable door closing cycle and bolted out of the stable and up the stairs.

It was storming and raining hard with the wind blowing. I tried to fly up to the farmhouse and hide on the roof. It was hard in this wind and I crashed through the roof in front of an unarmored Pegasus. He was surprised and was about to call for backup. I got my bearing straight and I covered his mouth with my hoofs and held him down with my magic.

"So this is how it's going to play out motherfucker" I harshly whispered in his ear.

He nodded and waited for instructions.

"Why the hell did you ponies attack and purge a whole stable and what does this have to do with me?"

I let his mouth open and levitated Lyra to his neck. I needed to do this quick, find Stardust and get the fuck out of there. If he tried anything I would slit his throat open. When I asked him my question he hesitated and started muttering. He said they heard about me and we're going to kill me because I was a "Dangerous threat to Equestria that needed to be put down" and some other crap. They didn't purge the stable they were dealing with some mild resistance (I don't recall shooting three unarmed stable dwellers who came to greet them with a smile "Mild Resistance".)

I sighed and let him go, there was no use to adding more deaths to my name. I flew out the hole in the roof before he tried to call the rest of his enclave buddies. I needed to find stardust but it was pitch black outside the rain and thunder was making it too dangerous to fly. I landed somewhere and opened "My" Pipbucks lamp spell and my visor lit up. Night vision! what a wonderful thing to have at this very moment. I kept running but I felt my body slowly stopping me. Sarah was there walking with me.

"Hold on swift...You can do it..."

"Sarah...If you are more than...A hallucination...Help me find Stardust..."

She sighed sadly and couldn't give me an answer as she slowly disappeared into the mist of my mind. My muscles ached and exhausted. My hooves dragging through the mud as I forced my self to walk hoping that Stardust made it out okay and would be waiting for me at the bridge in the drain pipe. I couldn't take it anymore I passed out in the mud. The stress and exhaustion took its toll on my body and I just laid there like I was dead.

It was hearts warming eve, I was with family and friends at the house. I Just came home from training. It was perfect all of us together mom, dad, and some other family all flying around laughing. The fillys and colts wondering when they could open their presents. It was perfect and I relaxed. Dad walked up to me and wanted to talk outside in private. I got up and followed him to the snow-covered balcony. The cool winter breeze tickled my nose as I stepped outside. Dad was smoking and watching the snow fall to the ground. He offered me one and I kindly refused.

"Swift my boy, I'm sure you know why I wanted to talk to you." He said in his comforting voice.

"I am not sure what is it?"

"You know me and your mother aren't going to be around here forever you know."

"I understand."

"Me and your mother are very proud of you Swift, you have grown up to be a Stong yet kind-hearted pony."

"Thank you, dad It means a lot to me."

He smiled and wrapped a wing around me he put the cigarette out and looked out and then he sighed sadly.

"They ship you out soon...right swift?"

"Yes in about a month...I think."

"Promise us that you will come back to us soon."

"I promise that as soon as this is over...you and mom will be grandparents."

Me and dad laughed together and started to talk about If Me and Sarah ever will have kids and Dad started talking about if he was younger he would steal her from under my muzzle in a heartbeat. (He was drunk off the eggnog.) We sat there watching the snow lightly falling to the ground. It was nice and quiet with the two of us bonding.

Then It ended.

Just like that.

I woke up and was covered in dried mud. The rain had stopped and the sun was shining through the clouds. With a groan, I got up and tried to clean my self up the best I could. The visor had shut its self off other the night as I slowly started walking to ponyville in hopes that Stardust was there in the drain pipe or close by. I needed to take my mind off what happened so I clicked on the PipBuck, but something was off as in really wrong. I clicked to the notes and noticed that they were accessed recently. I realized three things...

All of Doctor Aloe vera's research or some of it was copied to the stable 2's mainframe.

The robot pegasus enclave assholes are in stable 2 with the research to make alicorns.

I was fucked.

Great now the ponies with the power armor and magical energy weapons had a reason to hunt me down. Anypony with the technical know-how to maintain power armor and weapons and be able to kill a whole stable with ease. Can now build up an alicorn army and its game over for everypony else. And thanks to that bitch that had the bright Idea to make alicorns in the first place. And I was the Celestia damn courier being played like a damn fiddle. I tried to delete the files but it wouldn't let me even if they managed to find the files that were downloaded it would take ages to decode. Hell, I might have caught a break and they don't know about it anyway.

I switched to my radio as I walked to the bridge and who do you know came on but Dj pon3 back at it again with the fake news. I wonder what other bull shit they had to say about me this time.

“Hello, Equestrian wasteland! This is Dj-pon3 coming to you loud and proud over the airwaves. So remember when I told you about that one alicorn. Swift? that the guy, so I may have accidentally have made his life much worse. But more on that later turns out he isn't who you think he is. Sure he is a bit rough around the edges, but after his heroics at the station-house, he has shown that maybe there is some good in this crazy crazy world. Keep up the good work Swift, this song goes out to you and your new daughter. Ta ta."

I was shocked and didn't know what to say. How does this Dj pon3 know what is going on so fast? And how did she make my life worse? I was getting close to ponyville and I saw Stardust up in the distance. I started to run to her at full speed as I called her name. She saw me and began to run back and we met in the middle as she tackle-hugged me to the ground. I wrapped her in my wings and hooves and gave her the biggest and tightest hug I could as I nuzzled her. Tears of pure joy were running down my face as I cuddled the little filly giggling as my feathers tickled her body.

"Oh, Stardust I thought you were dead or lost!"

"Pa I missed you, I didn't know where to go but here."

"You did good sweetie you did amazing!"

I kissed her head and she blushed awkwardly. (A bit much?) She laid on my chest humming to her self as I cuddled her. (For about three minutes.) I lifted her up and we both walked back to the bridge. When I asked her how she found her way back to the drainage pipe she said that she couldn't remember only waking up wrapped in a blanket with 3 boxes of cake in her hooves. It was weird almost like somepony had put her there. I was too hungry to think and we made a small fire and using a pot Stardust had and some canteen water we were cooking in no time. Just me and my daughter together, even with we were dirty and hungry both of us were happy to enjoy each others company. We both ate the persevered cake mush and I went through our supplies to check if we got everything.

Swift and Stardust's supplies.

1. Hunting sniper rifle.
   
2. 2 boxes of cake. (chocolate.)
   
3. 1 box of hunting rifle ammo. ( 5 bullets per clip. 5 clips =25 shots.)
   
4. Machete.
   
5. Some random medical supplies. (Stardust stole.)
   
6. The strange suit that I armored with the security vest and the visor. (Called it Dr. Love.)
   
7. 2x Almost dead green goo guns. (Had 18 shots left each.)
   
8. Half full canteen.
   
9. 50 caps.
   
10. A 10mm pistol. (with two clips of 12 for 24 shots)
    
11. The machine gun. No ammo.

It wasn't much at all but I'm sure we can make it. After all, we could all ways go hunting for something to eat. The PipBuck sorted everything and stardust cleaned and packed up as I told her the plan to go through ponyville. I would lift her up to a high point in town and she would watch my back or hide. I would make sure it was safe to go through town by flying up to her and fly low to the ground as fast as I could. If It was safe would make a personal stop to my house. Then it was off to New Appleoosa. Stardust went over the plan again and got ready cleaning her gun off and making sure it wouldn't jam. To think I was putting my life in the hooves of a child but I knew she was a big girl now. She already showed she wouldn't hesitate to kill another pony. (Even if no little filly should be killing, it was her choice to do it.)

"Ready Stardust?"

"Ready mister swift, don't get to hurt."

I smiled as I lifted her in my magical aura and started to walk into the town. We stuck to the shadows and we were close to the mane street. (Yes that is a pun.) Up ahead, I saw the old boutique down the street. From my knowledge, It was the second largest building in town the first being the town hall. That was the perfect place to see everything the only problem was that there were raiders walking in and out of it. Stardust was getting mixed emotions but we made it to the back of the building and landed on the roof without being caught. As I turned the corner there was, in fact, a raider sniper already there. He hadn't noticed us as he was too busy napping on the job. What Stardust did was scary even for me. She slowly went up and slit his throat with the raider's own combat knife then spit on his corpse. (She didn't fuck around and maybe I should not cheese her off.) The raider died without any trouble and Stardust looted him took his place. I just stood there in awe of what I just witnessed.

"What are you going to piss on his corpse next?"

I should not have said that as Stardust smiled evilly and told me to turn around and shut my eyes. I told her that was the grossest thing she had ever tried to do and I stopped her before anything happened. We were hidden from the top as Stardust took the old rifle and with the help of the PipBuck savaged it to repair hers and I opened the roof access door and left a chair outside for her to jam the door shut. And I slowly made my way downstairs to a bedroom nothing was really interesting just some mattresses soaked in every bodily fluid you could think of. The wallpaper was peeling off the wall and there were some empty boxes to some broken mannequins. Some had holes carved behind them that where for... Anyway, as I made my way down to the next room (kitchen and living room.) I overheard two raiders in a heated debate about if ghouls could get pregnant? (I had no Idea what a ghoul was.)

"Dude the more you talk about pregnant ghouls makes it sound like you want to fuck the one in the tree."

"We already cut her tongue out...I think I am Ghoulsexual?"

"What the fuck?!"

"Well she hasn't turned feral yet, and I will use some RadAways after."

I had enough of this and I just snuck by them. (I was curious myself.) The next floor was the store floor and there was an old sign on the wall that read carousel boutique. Windows were boarded up and it was just empty with some mattresses and a broken terminal somepony had taken and smashed to bits. I was just about to make my way out when I heard the two raiders coming down the stairs. quickly I snuck to the counter and hide under it as the two came down. I was starting to get annoyed as they wouldn't leave and I was cramped. After about 10 minutes of listening to them talk about their day they fucked off.

Quickly I opened the door and slipped outside and walked to an alley behind some old houses. I could see a back door to the library teen house. (Yes another one of ponyville's weird buildings.) I was about to go when I saw some ponies in cages next to the tree house. They didn't look like raiders...In fact looked like slaves. I hid behind a rubbish bin. I didn't know what else to do and just sneaking by wasn't going to cut it. They were being guarded and blocking the door. I could just leave them to their fate but that is what "other" Swift wanted as I felt him breathing down my neck. I wasn't much of a hero and I just wanted to scout out and run as fast as I could out of here with stardust. But this was not the time nor the place for heroics.

I was just about to move when I heard a gunshot and felt something wet on my back. The guards were on high alert as I turned around to see a headless raider behind me. That bastard was going to sneak up on me and Stardust killed them. I readied my pistol and looted the body for more ammo as I moved to the raider guarding the cages. They were surprised and I shot at them as they tried to fight back. The caged ponies outside watched what was happing. After taking care of those two I gave the keys to the caged ponies and told them to get out of here fast. The once caged ponies thanked me by screaming as they were running.

Stardust shot another raider this time in the leg as she tripped and fell. I made my way into the library were more of them were geared up and ready to fire. The library was a pigsty as there was shit smeared on the walls and ripped up books. I got into cover and reloaded. I could hear Stardust shooting anypony that had exited or tried to enter the building.

"Guys it's him that alicorn bastard!"

One of them screamed as they shot at me. I shot back and ran to flank them and I saw a zombie. Her skin all wrinkly and her derpy eyes glowing. I jumped back in disgust and apparently tackled one of the raiders. I used him as a meat shield as the rest of his buddies shot him. After they were reloading I chucked the body at her and used it to get the jump on them. (Throwing stuff at ponies is an awesome strategy.) I shot her chest and he died instantly almost too easily. (They were having sex and they didn't have their armor.) I looked out a crack in the window to see that Stardust had killed three of them at the door. After that, I took a second to catch my breath. There were more of them upstairs and I could hear them. The library was in ruins, tables broken and rotting bodies like streamers on the walls. There was thumping upstairs and they were coming from both sides. I quickly changed to the goo guns and turned them on.

"Any pony that enters my kill zone will be nothing but a pile of green goop!"

That pissed them off as the PipBuck's E.F.S was showing red dots moving fast. They ran in fast and saw their doom armed with duel green goo guns. I fired at them but missed the few times even if my sights were perfect. Then it hit me you aim at where they are going to be not at where there are. With this in mind and the help of the targeting spell, I maimed one raider and with a flash of green light turned another one into green jello as his flash disintegrated. They started to retreat knowing they couldn't win this fight. It was fine till one of them threw a grande, killing one of the caged ponies and splattering their guts on my face as well as a shower of splinters from a table. Throwing me back to the cage with the ghoul pony. I was wounded and they started shooting me. My armor was talking most of the damage but the splinters on my back hurt. I was lucky that none of them got my face or eyes. I was backed outside as I tried to get out of there but there was a blast of a shotgun fired into my flank. The pain burnt like fire as I fell over onto the main street. I saw that Stardust was being held over the edge of the boutique by one of the raiders I have overheard.

"Stay where you are or the filly gets it!" He screamed as some other raiders me.

"Mister Swift HELP!"

"Quiet you!"

That was at least a 30 or 20 hooves drop from a three-story building. Even if I managed to do anything Stardust would be dead before I could do it. I laid on the ground with blood leaking out of my wound and sprinters up and down my back. Stardust was endangered and I couldn't do anything about it. He was holding her by the mane with his magic aura adding to the pain stardust was experiencing.

"You want her back? Do as you are told!"

I limped up but was only shot at again this time in the other side of my flank. I screamed in pain as I flopped down And I could see Stardust crying as the raider licked his lips in lust. He whistled and one of the raiders brought out the ghoul pony and threw her down next to me. Even if she was all wrinkly and rotting her cutie mark didn't lie. The bubbles were still visible on her flank and her eyes were still out of place.

"Oh my...Ditzy doo the mail mare?!"

Her ears perked up as she looked at me. Not many ponies knew about her past life as she looked surprised and confused.

"It's me Swift from floor 4 room 20 Canterlot collage for gifted unicorns!" I smiled as I tried to make her remember me.

"I invited you for tea after you gave me the wrong package for the third time in a row."

she gasped and smiled weakly. I would have continued talking to her if we had time but this wasn't the place or time to do so. The unicorn was tieing up Stardust and had hung her upside down over the side of the building. The pain in my flank was healing slowly for some reason. (Alicorn healing is slow unless with rads are there.) Stardust was struggling and scared as the unicorn raider brought out a knife and began to talk again.

"Sorry to ruin the reunion but I have no time for chit-chat."

"What do you want!."

He smiled and looked at Ditzy doo and to me. Then well this was a first for me and I never want to talk about it ever again. Nopony should ever have to do the thing I had to do to Ditzy doo to get all of us out of ponyville safe.

"I want you to fuck the ghoul!"

My mouth dropped as I heard that. Ditzy doo blushed and pushed away from he only to be pushed closer to me. Stardust was going to be sick not only form hanging upsidedown be she had to watch the whole thing unfold. I looked at her and sighed as I turned to her.

"I will find another..."

She kissed me before I had a chance to finish my sentence. It wasn't that bad for a ghoul pony as she didn't hesitate at all. I was being kissed by a two-hundred-year-old mail mare as Stardust was hanging right there.I broke the kiss off and blushed.

"Uh...you are okay with...me and...you."

She nodded her head yes and bent over awaiting the first pony to enter her for 200 years.

"Stardust shut your eyes!"

I think Stardust shut her eyes (She didn't at all.) as I slowly got behind ditzy doo. I know I did as I took this nice and slow as not to hurt her as we spent the next ten or 20 minutes in the middle of the street grunting, moaning and growling.(I can only imagine how I was supposed to breed with other alicorns thanks to Doctor Aloe vera.) And well she was a 200-year-old virgin and the more I continued it didn't feel that bad, to be honest. (I wouldn't recommend it though.) As soon as we both climaxed the raider was pleased and let us go after giving me time to heal. This had to be the luckiest and disgusting thing that had happened to me.

All three of us go the fuck out of there and ran together down the road. Stardust was asleep on my back and Ditzy doo was in front of me. Stardust was hugging me tightly as we went anywhere. I didn't have the goo guns as I left them in the library and most of the splinters were gone. I was just following ditzy doo the ghoul pony I just fucked in the middle of the street to save Stardust. (Not awkward at all.) We stopped at a crossroads and I asked her if she knew where new appaloosa was. She just nodded and started walking. It wasn't a response as well she couldn't talk but it was like she wanted us to follow her.

I continued to replay the whole sex with a ghoul in my head.I couldn't stop thinking about it. But It was my first taste of what the equestrian wasteland had under its belt. And I was never going to forget that at all as it was burned deep into my memory. I turned on some music to focus on it and stardust woke up.

"Are we there yet?" She asked sleepily.

"Not yet we have a guild."

Stardust looked at Ditzy doo and smiled before asking me a question. (She was high as in the raider drugged her.)

"Do you like me mister swift?" She giggled.

"I do like you Stardust you are funny and a cute little filly." I replied as I took a drink of my canteen.

"Do you want to love me like the ghoul." She said in a flirty voice as I spit out the water and almost coughed up a lung.

Ditzy doo blushed and kept walking.

"Stardust I like you...just not like that...Don't even say stuff like that." I carefully and clearly said it to her. "What is going on with you?"

She was giggling and blushing and I was going to lose my mind. I stopped and set her down to have a very VERY long talk. Ditzy doo wasn't helping as she couldn't talk and she would be acting like we have been dating for ages. After our talk, she sighed as she walked with me. This was voice log worthy so I stopped the music and clicked it on once more.

"This is log five of Swift McGlides, bringing you or my self some advice or random chatter. So after getting attacked by the "great" Pegasus enclave at stable 2 when they were purging it or something, I was separated from Stardust after turning. Over some sort of miracle, I met her back in ponyville and we made our way through. Stardust was a creak shot and helped out with fighting but she was in trouble after getting caught. I was injured but my body can heal slowly? (Thank you, Doctor!) I was going to save her but to do that I had to fuck the gorgeous 200-year-old mail mare. (I didn't want to hurt her feelings.) And they let us go...Just like that. Anyway, I think they drugged Stardust she is acting weird..."

"Mister Swift LOVE ME!"

"WHAT! did we JUST TALK about!"

"Log end."

We sat down and rested for awhile, It gave me a chance to talk a quick nap. Stardust cuddled up to me under my wing and I told her if she tried anything there would be no cake at all forever and she was going to be grounded. (That got her.) Ditzy doo was laying down on her back enjoying a well-deserved break. Ponyville was out of sight and somewhat out of mind. We weren't there for long when Ditzy doo started to write in the dirt with a stick.

"Swift I know our meeting was awkward but I wanted to thank you for saving the other ponies...even if you couldn't save them all." She wrote.

"Uh...your welcome it's nice to see an old friend"

She started to write again after cleaning her slate.

"I have a confession." She wrote.

"What is it?"

She blushed and wrote it down.

"You were the only pony to give me a tip even if your package was in the wrong place. I was a young mare back then and sometimes I did it on purpose just to see you again." She wrote down.

"Well, I could see that Ditzy doo."

We had a laugh and we hugged it out. To think that she has seen 200 years of torment and pain. She was still the same mail mare I knew from the past even with her zombie-like appearance it was her. Well, I wasn't planning to stick around with her and well date. Then the question I had learned about earlier rolled off my tongue.

"Can ghouls get pregnant with foals and colts?, after all, It was burning a hole in my soul if I didn't ask you."

She smiles and laid on my chest as Stardust moved out of the way. Ditzy doo smiled and shrugged her shoulders and kissed my cheek before taking a nap. (It was awkward but we were awkward together.) I took watch as I felt the warmth of the two mares in my wings pressing against my body. The sun shined through the clouds and I was scanning for any signs of danger.

Then something flew up in the distance.

Footnote: Level Up.
New Perk: Tough bastard -- You have been shot, stabbed, punched and you are still kicking! Pain doesn't effect you as much anymore. you Instantly gain +10 Damage Resistance.