Fallout: Equestria Swift Tale

Chapter Two: Broken Mind

"Well...you look very...tasty."

I'm not sure what happened to me...

One moment I was my self, But then I was not even a pony...

I couldn't think straight or think at all...

All I wanted to do was feed...

...Even if I didn't know where I was I knew every nook and cranny of this stable. I was in the clinic and next door down a small hall was the classroom. (Which was turned into the Cyro pod room.) Up a flight of stairs on the left was the entrance to the lower part of the Atrium. My prey was on the top of the atrium where the Overmare's office was located. Now where to hide my self so I can pounce. I could hide anywhere but I believe that should hide in plain sight. I ran and with a little flap of my wings hopped into the chair and pretended to be a sleep. All I could think was how tasty they were going to be as I eat their flesh off their bones. How would it taste in a soup or roasted or...fresh off the bone?

Meanwhile on the other side.

"Okay, guys we do this nice a quick no fuck ups." One voice said.

"We got this buck-shot shut up and get moving." A voice that sounded female said.

"Look we got pre-paid for this job 50 caps each and you saw what she did to Wing-nut."

This BuckShot said as they were getting closer to me. I was surprised how small this stable really was and the fact that the ponies weren't trying to be quiet at all. My mouth was drooling but I had to hold my self back. I could smell them. (They didn't take a bath in years).

"Wing-nut that horny bastard, She ripped him apart with that mini gun battle saddle when he tried to lay a hoof on her."

"And that's why I don't need that crazy bitch following us if we don't do this okay Wooden ladle?"

"Fine you think there is anything to loot here?"

"Maybe just after we do this job."

They walked down the stairs and entered the medical lab. I heard some shifting of the skeletons as they walked down the Cryo pod hall down to my pod. I was already thinking of my plan of attack and how I would deal with their friends if they had the guts to fight me. The stopped in front of my pod and I could feel their eyes staring through the window.

"You think this is the pony she wanted us to kill?"

"No, it's not the pony we are looking for, It's the mail mare." I heard the sarcasm in his voice as he went to the door controls and put a hoof on the switch.

"Ugh, I'm not sure we should let him out this seems like it's better if we leave him sleeping."

"Oh look who is the scared filly now!"

"Shut the fuck up and open the door."

Time to put on a show for Mr. BuckShot and Miss Wooden Ladle. As the door opened I fell on propose with the same thump as before. I laid there motionless making sure to show off my wings. I felt that they were surprised just as I was when they found out that what they had just released. What they said was not what I thought.

"That's...that's......It's...is one of those...things."

"Fuck...okay maybe it hasn't heard us..."

"They get into your head buckshot...Just one is able to kill a whole group."

"Let's just get this over with." I heard the sound of a gun cocking as they were in my kill zone and I was ready.

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My eyes opened as I jumped to my feet and I violently opened my wings pushing the ponies to the ground. In surprised one fired a shot that hit the ceiling as I hissed showing my fangs. (Some how I grew fangs). And ran at the one with the gun. Shot after shot she had missed her target as I jumped on her and pinned her down causing the gun to slide under the pod. The other pony was running at me from the back with a machete. Buckshot was a male unicorn with a shaved mane and was dusty brown with a shotgun shell on his cutie mark. (I was confused as much as you). And wooden ladle was a female earth pony with a light green and dirty coat and with a wooden spoon as her mark. I used my magic to lift buckshot up and slam him against the wall causing him to drop the machete with a loud clang as it hit the floor. I looked back at the earth pony and licked my lips. She was scared and her heart was beating very fast.

"So you're going to make a tasty treat cutie." (That sounded kind a rapey even for me).

"Do your worst you monster!"

"Gladly!" I headbutted her causing her to black out as I tied her up with a rope she had on hoof. She was going to be for dessert. (Okay that sounded well...anyway!)

Then I walked to the wounded raider as there was a gash in his head. His blood dripping out on to the floor as I picked up the machete and let it drag on the floor letting it scrape and scratch the tile. He tried to get up but I stabbed him in the haunch and I pushed it deep into his cutie mark as he cried in pain. I laughed as I twisted the machete and ripped it out and held him down with my magic. The blood was pouring out of his wound and I loved it. No matter how much he screamed for help I didn't stop. There were more coming to aid my dinner there hoof steps running to the noise.

"More fun for Swifty!"

I screamed as I stamped on the Raiders skull crushing it under my hoof with a satisfying crunch! I pulled the gun out from under the pod and held both the machete and pistol in my aura. The Smell of blood was empowering and I decided to help my self to some drink. The taste was iron with a slight alcohol mixed with some strange taste I lapped it up like a dog. My muzzle was bloody like my hooves as I was standing in a pool of his blood. The others were getting closer and closer.

I flew up into the vent. (It was a pretty damn big vent.) and I crawled through it just as they found their friend dead on the floor with his pancaked skull. When they were in range I busted out of the vent behind on raider and slit his throat and used his body as a meat shield as the other pony fired an automatic weapon bullets into the body. I fired back and hit him twice in the chest and once in the head. (I was surprised that my aim was not that bad after being frozen for years). I chucked the meat shield at him as another one had been running at me. So with all my strength, I lifted the machete and with a stroke of luck I fired the blade with my magic and hit him right between the eyes. His skull splitting into two parts as his eyes flew out onto the floor. His brain started to melt out from his head like a waterfall. The last one started to run away but with my magic, I lifted him up and held him in place and smiled as I watched him struggle. I could smell the adrenaline in his body as I started to torture him. Cutting his belly open with my new favorite weapon as I watched his guts fall to the floor. All of them were dead.

"I win you fools! hahaha!"

As yelled madly as walked to the first pony and started to feed. The flesh was chewy even a bit salty as I dug into my meal. Ripping at the meat with my new found fangs not caring about the mess I was creating. It tasted great like this was the meal I had needed all my life to satisfy my hunger. (About his whole leg was almost gone) After I had my fill I decided to take a nap curling up into a ball of feathers and swift.

About 20 minutes later.

I was woken to the sounds of muffled mare screams in the corner of the room. I was sleeping in a pool of blood and stepped back I was a mess. I felt like a had a really bad hangover after one too many apple jack Daniels. (The best drink that could make you forget your problems and then some). I stood up to looked at the mare, She was scared like someone was going to rape her. I undid her gag and I asked if she was okay.

"Pardon me ma'am are you okay?"

"Get away from me you motherfucker!"

"Ma'am I'm trying to help you can you tell me what happened?"

"You fucking tied me up and killed ate them!"

"WHAT!"

I stepped back and looked over my work. Then it struck me like a bolt of lightning of what I did.

I had killed four ponies (And tied one up) without asking or checking if they were friend or foe at all...

I had killed them based on an instinct like I had too...

I was feared as a monster, not as a normal pony...

I ate one's leg...

...Now I saw what I did and what they truly turned me into...a killing machine. I mindless monster! I sat on a medical bed and thought to my self.

"This is not how Sarah would have wanted me to become,"

I said as I lifted the gun to my head. I'm going to kill my self it would be the best for everyone. No pony would forgive me for what I have done here. I felt the cold metal of the barrel of the gun tap the side of my head. I'm going to do every pony a favor and end it all right here and right now! I shut my eyes ready to pull the trigger. Then I heard her soft voice echoed through my head.

"Swift...please...don't do this..." Her silky voice flowed like a waterfall.

"Why shouldn't I Sarah...I'm a monster...Look at what I have done!"

I opened my eyes to see the ghost of the mare I loved sitting with me with one hoof on my shoulder. Her face had a scared and worried look to it. (I was hallucinating). I think this is what happens when you use bond magic. Funny thing bond magic is when two unicorns can share their magic. It is used to make spells stronger but it did have some side effects such as this on.

"You are better than this Swift...Please...Do it for me...Stay strong...Remember don't lose hope."

"Sarah I...I...I"

"Shhhhhh...I know...I love you too...and I'm all ways with you."

The ghost mare gently kissed me as I felt the trigger pull...

...Click...Click...Click...I snapped back to reality and saw that the gun was empty.

"Okay, Sarah...you got me this time."...

...I trotted back to the first raider that I killed and looked at the body. He was wearing strange clothes but upon closer inspection, I found out it was some sort of shoddy looking armor. Not knowing what the fuck was outside I looted his corpse after all he wasn't going to need. One machete, some crappy looking armor. (That I could upgrade if I had more of the same armor.) Some bottle caps, a half-full canteen, and two strange looking arm boxes. (On his hoof and the other in his saddlebags.) I looked at the first one on his arm. It had taken me some time to figure out what it was.

It was a Pipbuck one of those box things that you would wear on a foreleg just above the hoof. (as shown on the dead raider). This was a very magical piece of tech I had found a could prove its self-useful outside. It kept track of everything from your health and heal you if you were hurt to organizing whatever you had in your saddlebags. It could be a map and make them. Even play decrypt radio broadcasts and assist in repairing. Hell, I have heard stories that these little buggers had a feature that could tell you if something or someone was hostile and some sort of targeting system that could help you aim your shots up and sometimes if you were lucky you would get a critical hit.

And yes it can glow like a lamp.

This PipBuck was in the worse repair I have ever seen. There were scratches on the paint from knives the screen was smashed like someone hit it with a sledgehammer. So this PipBuck was just as useful as a paper boat. Then I looked at the other one. It was in mint condition with the initials VR and cutie mark (It looked like a songbird). It looked like the owner of this PipBuck was very proud to own such a piece of magical equipment that it didn't look a day over 200. I decided to try it on for size. It fit like a glove. (at least the glove part did) It was a little tight but snug and with a little snap of the latch, it sparked to life. As it rebooted a small smiling pony with was giving me the okay and the interface snapped to a screen. It showed a diagram of an alicorn as it scanned my body, Everything was a hundred percent and all green.

I booped the button and switched to my saddlebags to make sure it was organizing everything. Then I started to loot the bodies till I had some nice pile of stuff which included. (Not to forget the stuff I had already had).

Some scraps of raider meat.

Some bottle caps. (That I later found out that was the currency around these parts.)

An SMG in such poor condition that I was surprised that it fired at all.

Some health potions and a syringe with a purple liquid in it.

The 10-millimeter pistol that I had tried to kill my self with but with no bullets.

Four raider armors (That my new PipBuck turned all four of them into one better piece or armor with the repair spell).

3 bobby pins and a screwdriver.

And one bloody but still sharp machete.

"What are you going to do to me!"

Wooden ladle screamed as I got closer with the machete still trying to get my barrings on straight. She flinched when I lifted it up in my aura.

"Cutting you lose...you have no business here...get out."

I said in a serious tone as I cut her bindings off her hoofs. She jumped up and cornered her self. "Tell whoever sent you that Swift McGlides is a force not to be reckoned with!" I lifted my wings up for more of a dramatic effect to show that I had no time for games and I was giving her 10 seconds to get the fuck out of my stable. And she didn't waste one second of it and ran out of my sight so fast like her tail was on fire.

I packed up the rest of my things and walked to the terminal to read what it what it had to say before I left here for good.

Subject: Swift McGlides Code Name Swiftlestia.
Status: Activated.
Pod ID: 0000007.
Race: Alicorn (was our only perfect unicorn test subject)
Sex: Stallion.
Doctor: Aloe vera.

...It's been months and I'm the only one left in the stable. I didn't know you could work ponies to death, after all, I was the Overmare. Anyone that wanted to stop the project was to be forced into the tests or killed. I have the whole stable to my self and all the time in the world. I finally did it number 0000007 is the first alicorn! At first, he was weak so it was easy to install the control visor on his head. But I Doctor Aloe Vera had made this scientific discovery!...and no one was going to know about me...Oh well...Anyway, I'm running tests now and he had some interesting results. For starters, they are highly aggressive. (Good thing I put the control visor on him before hoof) And not to forget their strength and speed as well as enhanced physical and mental capabilities. Once they get past their boiling point they will violently and actively seek their target. Once spotted they will attack using weapons of their own raw physical power and sometimes use magic. They are neutral and can engage in everyday activities and are mostly harmless if left alone. The control visor is up in my office and is linked to any PipBuck through radio waves. 0000007 had to be kept on suicide watch after trying to drink some unmarked liquid. The test was really painful for him and he expected him to die. But anyway he is in the cryo pod room ready and waiting for the world above ground to be habitable. This is Head Doctor Aloe Vera signing off...and I'm going to get drunk in my office maybe even have a roll in the hay with 0000007...

"She was one crazy bitch!" I said not knowing what else to say. From what I just read was...well I was lost for words.

...I needed a shower. I picked up my loot and booked it to the showers. They were in good shape for 200 years a bit rusty. They had a stall with a shower in each one some of the doors had rusted off the hinges onto the floor. I was hoping that one worked so I could clean up. I got out of my armor and hanged it on a rusty hook next to a dusty lab coat. I tried all the showers and only one of them worked. I Filled my canteens and washed my body. The water was red with Buckshot's blood as it trickled down the drain. The water was cold (No shit the heater hasn't been turned on or was it broken?) And I washed under my wings. (Trust me you do not want wing rash I hear it causes blisters). I also plucked some of my loose feathers and kept them on me. Maybe I could use it as a quill or something.

After I finished my shower I dried off using the lab coat. (That I also pocketed because I felt smarter if I wore it) and armored up. I passed the medical box and got an idea. I don't need to lockpick it I could bust the door open. I slid the machete into the box and I used it as a crowbar to bust it open. Just like that, it popped open inside was some health potions and some bandages as well as a small box of mints.

After that I headed to the Overmare's office it was up to the stairs on the top part of the atrium. I passed rooms that didn't have much to loot so I just left. Well time to open this office and get whatever was in there. I tapped on the latch and it didn't budge. (Locked) Well...shit.

Footnote: Level Up.
New Perk: Bloody Mess --With the Bloody Mess perk, ponies, and creatures you kill will often explode into a red, gut-ridden, eyeball-strewn paste. Fun! Oh, and you'll do 5% more damage with all weapons.