Fallout: Equestria Swift Tale

Chapter Three: On The Road To Nowhere

"Don't lose hope Swift...I love you."

I looked at the door controls. The one thing keeping me out of the Overmare's office. A high-pressure sealed steel door connected to the lock from the inside. After all, I could understand a ponies privacy but is locking your self in your office really a good idea? Oh well, I was going to get in that office one way or another. Nothing was going to stop me. Because in the Overmare's office she kept all the goodies. From guns, ammo, food, armor if I was the only pony left in the stable then it I would want to put everything I had left in there when I locked my self up. But of course, that was only a guess. (Not even a well educated guess more like I assumed that it was full of goodies). Well, how am I going to get in? You can't pick the lock on an electric door control because there was no lock to pick. I sat down and started to think deep and hard.

"Shit...okay what do I have on hoof."

I opened my saddlebags and dug through my stuff till I found the mints...(Worst mistake I have ever made).

"Why were these mints in the medical box?" It was a small rectangular box with a smiling zebra on it and it read.

Mint-als "Refresh your mind and your breath".

Zebras...I didn't seem to care anymore they are all dead and that's how I liked it. (I would soon be eating those words later).I smelt my breath (That I could kill someone with it) and opened the box to lift three mints into my mouth. They tasted not too bad for being really old and the minty goodness was pleasing. Then I felt the effects immediately like my mind started to get back on track. I felt strangely smarter like the gears in my head were in motion and I knew how to open this door. I was going to open the panel and hack the door open with "my" new PipBuck. As I lifted my machete (Which I named Lyra). and forced the panel open and plugged my PipBuck into the door but something caught my eye. A lone audio file in the deep in the code that I managed to open and listen.

“The override code for opening the door to Stable Two is… CMC3BFF.”

A country pony accent, it must have been around the country side before the war. (Duh even with an intelligence boost I couldn't be any dumber) And what if this stable was still in use? Would they take in an alicorn? I thought as I started to unlock the door. It was stuck for a bit it but it opened to show the Overmare' s office. It was a large room with a circular desk in the middle. On the desk was the box with the visor in it. Once opened it started to link up to VR's PipBuck. The visor it's self-was a clear red thing that could go over my face around the eyes. It attached to my head with these two black ear things. I didn't want to put it on because this could control me or something else very bad so I just pocketed it.

There were some terminals a lot of useless junk around but there was an ammo box with two 10-millimeter clips (Each with 12 bullets in it). And another 10-millimeter pistol that "My" PipBuck helped me disassemble to fix my other one. There was not any canned food or anything else of use but what I saw from the Overmare's room was quite a shock to see the least. There in her room was a cryo pod with the one and only...

"Doctor Aloe vera!"

I said as I walked up to the pod that was laying down on the ground like a bed or a coffin. It was decorated with a mural of a starry night with the window the moon. I looked at the sleeping psychopathic and sociopathic unicorn that was the reason that I was an alicorn. There was a hoof written note on the top of the door, the paper was faded and the ink was hard to read but it was legible.

Dear who ever is reading this.

I realized my mistake after it was too late, My team tried to bring me what I wanted and I killed them. I can't go a day with out knowing that I killed them with out reason. I was blinded by my lust to create the perfect killer that I turned into one! I am insane any pony that didn't want to follow my instructions were shot on the spot and used as a warning to the others! In my terminal, there is all my work and my logs and I hope you can put them to good use. Not like it matters anymore everypony is dead!

Now if by some how you are 0000007 and have managed to live for all these years I want to say...I'm sorry for hurting you for my own personal gain. I have to say you are wonderful and even if you have no reason to forgive me I ask that you leave me here to die. I have done horrible things that I will have to live with for the rest of my days. I ask that you make an audio log if you are ever lonely or just bored talk to your PipBuck and record. I can't offer you much but there is a box in the closet and a suit for you to wear as well as the control visor. I have upgraded it so you are able to control your self but you might have some problems but I trust you will take care of it.

-Doctor Aloe vera

I didn't know what to feel. She had killed most of her team and killed others for the project. I thought that I should just leave her to herself and make an audio log. Maybe it will help me keep my sanity.

"I'm not sure why I'm talking into this box computer arm thing I found, It's not like any pony is going to listen to this or care to listen to what I'm ranting about. Maybe it will comfort me when I'm dying alone or at least let some traveler have something to listen to as they walk a long road to where ever there walking too. Well if that is the case I thank you for listening to the ramblings of Swift McGlides traveler or my cause of death whatever comes first..."

After I finished I looked into the closet and saw the box and the suit. It was a lovely white jacket with a black shirt and a red tie. Nothing says Hello I'm friendly like a stallion in a nice jacket. (It meant "I have nice stuff come and rob me.") It was a shame that it might get dirty but I was still on the mint-als. I thought that it would be best If I hide my wings for now and play it unicorn. I put it on under my armor and looked in the box. There were some canned food, another pistol clip and a picture of her. I counted my loot and got ready to leave here. I plugged into the terminal and downloaded her work as she asked and made my way to the stable door. I wasn't sure what I would do with it but who knows it might prove useful.

Just as I was going to leave I felt drowsy and everything was starting to spin. I wasn't even close to the door. I felt my self-becoming stupid and my senses lowering. Everything was spinning and turning upside down. I was going to pass out I...

WACK

I hit the floor...hard.

I had a dream that me and Sarah were at the coast walking down the beach. It was like a painting I could smell the fresh sea air and feel the sand on my hooves during the summer months I would let my mane grow out with a small pony tail and a goatee. Sarah would shave on side of her mane and look bad ass. We were walking enjoying our time together watching the rest of the ponies enjoying the beach with their families. Everything was perfect till the sky turned purple as there was a green blast of a balefire bomb as to destroy every thing. I shut my eyes from the light of the blast and when I opened them It was me and Sarah all alone. There where skellingtons of the ponies around us and the ground started to crack open showing the fires of hell. And from out of the ground, the zebra's came! There black and white stripes to the evil smiles on their faces. We started running from them faster and faster but we when nowhere! millions of balefire bombs were going off each time the zebras would laugh. The ground burning with fire as we climbed a mountain as the fire started to come closer.

"We are all most there!"

"Swift help me!"

I looked over and I saw the monster a shadow zebra! His eyes red and his smile as this demon like arms grabbed her by the tail and was lifting her to his mouth. I saw some nearby power armor and jumped into it. I felt invincible and and stronger then ever!

"Get away from her you bitch!"

I lost it and picked up a sword I found and leaped at the monster and cut its arm off causing it to drop her on my back as I ran. We were surrounded I readied my guns and shot at anything that moved. The bullets penetrating their flesh but from their blood more zebras came! The armor melted off my body with a sharp pain. The world was crumbling behind us, each piece of land was being sent into the eternal darkness from which there is no escape, filled to the brim with the influence of evil. It was gaining on us closing in and all around there were islands that I had to jump too dodging bullets each time the islands would get smaller. I jumped to the last island and nuzzled Sarah good bye as it crumbled under our hooves. We fell down into the depths of hell an endless abyss of insanity forced to bear witness to. Growing farther into the darkness farther and farther, farther and farther and farther...

"SWIFT!"

"SARAH!"

I screamed as I woke up gun in my magic and shells on the ground. The smell of gun powder was strong and tears were running down my face. I had fallen down the stairs when I passed out. "My" PipBuck said I had used my two clips. My precious ammo wasted on a hallucination. A very bad high from the mint-als It was playing on my emotions and my mind. Something so small has caused me waste the only thing that could change the odds in battle. I found Lyra on the floor next to me.

"Okay, no more Luna damn Mint-als ever again!"

I packed everything up and angerly walked to the stable door. The controls were easy to use and I sat down waiting for the door to open. The flashing warning lights and the large bolt that would hook on to the door to roll it away was very loud. No matter I needed to get out of there, The stable was going to chew me up and spit me out. The door was open now, I saw some small train tracks and some rubble. The Light from the stable was dim and would flash bits of the out side. This was a perfect time to record and I activated the voice recorder spell.

"This is log two of Swift McGlides bringing you or my self a warning. Do not Overdose on Mint-als they make you smart but they play with your mind if you abuse them. This mistake had cost me two clips of ammo and a very bad dream that I might talk about later. Right now I met the doctor that turned me to an alicorn and I have a nice suit. (That made me feel flirty and kind of horny when I wear it). I am ready to leave the stable which was left unmarked. (Maybe because it was a secret stable?). I'm walking to the edge of the large door that separates the stable from the outside. I am not sure what I will find out there but I'm going to find out there. But I'm going to go out with open hooves and an open mind. (Note to self the Raiders are not friendly at all) This has been Swift signing off for now."

This was it once I left I was never coming back here. I hated this place so much that I just ran out the door nothing was going to stop me. I ran outside and heard the door shut behind me. No more safety of the stable I was in unknown territory. The rocky tunnel was dark and dank, kind of humid too. With a click of "My" PipBuck it flashed on the lamp spell and I saw that I was in a mine. The train tracks and some of the old mine carts were rusted to the track, and a pool of water was at my feet.

"I wondered whose mine this was because it wasn't mine" (That was a dumb joke)

I saw the light at the end of the tunnel and stepped forward only to be blinded by the little parts of the sun poking through the clouds. My eyes hurt but adjusted quickly and I took into my surroundings. "My" PipBuck started buzzing as the map maker was scanning the land before and beeped.

"Ghastly Gorge Gem Mining co, well that's a relief."

I felt the sun's warmth on my face and a small breeze ruffle through my mane as the PipBuck started to click a little. I was taking some dose radiation, not a lot to kill me but it was best that I get walking. I walked down the large gorge, the huge stone walls of the gorge boxed me in. My saddlebags were bouncing on each side of my wings as I walked along the road. There was some old mining equipment, and piles of large rocks. A small railroad was lined around the plot of land. From cranes to converter-belts and large hoppers of rock. Gemstones were abundant here, and when I say were I mean there are no more gemstones here. Even if there are any gemstones here, they would have been traded for coal or to make Talismans. (I Knew about this stuff some how). It was strangely relaxing and I felt I could let my guard down, and try to make the best of it. Like a weight was lifted off my shoulders and the stress leaving was helping my headache.

Then I stopped, I had no idea where I was going to go, or what I was going to do. I was so busy trying to get out of the stable that I haven't planned on what I was going to do once I was out. (The little things you that you overlook). I thought about it for awhile and replayed the events in my head. Something was odd about my experience, Like why were there raiders there Who wanted me dead and would pay some drug junkies to come and kill me. (Or at least try too). That guess that was my main quest them. I opened "My" PipBuck and typed it down.

Quest Name: Who wants me dead?
Quest Info: Find out who paid the raiders to kill me.

"Well...that's not much to go on at all"

I continued my walk and saw a large destroyed railroad bridge with a train car hanging from it. Some of the bridge was hanging from the still cables. From the looks of it, I could use it as a ramp to get out of here. Or I could fly... I was scared of flying to tell you the truth. (Oh the irony) The thought of falling from hundreds of feet in the air, only to splat on the ground with every bone in my body broken sent chills down my spine. But if I had the time and guts it wouldn't hurt to try and fly. How hard could it be I have already mastered a small jump and a glide with them. All I had to do open my wings and give them a flap.

Or I could use magic to levitate myself up there. But even then it's still flying and my head couldn't handle that. Not to forget that most unicorns couldn't/did't like to levitate them self. (Maybe because it looked awkward floating around in your own aura of magic). I got closer to the bridge and put some of my weight on it to make sure it could hold me. It looked stable enough and I started to climb up, my hooves were sliding on the rusted metal. I heard the metal creaked as it struggled to hold my weight and the bridge started to sway side to side.

"Oh shit!"

I stopped and didn't move a muscle or even blink. The bridge stopped shaking and I sighed with relief. I wondered if I should continue or find another way up out of this hole. This could be a mistake that would cost me my life...

Footnote: Level Up.
New Perk: Swift Learner --You are indeed a Swift and a Learner with this Perk, as each level gives you an additional +5% bonus whenever you earn experience points. This is best taken early.