Fallout Equestria: The Metal Ring.

There is an old rumor we might have a hero of the past in our community. Some believe the hero is the one known as Topaz. The reason Melody was with her, including many other heroes. But I know full well there are many Magic Eaters now in Equestria. I wish I could send more to you my friend. I know you’re searching for your friend. But I think you’re going to have to accept she is dead.

Written by unknown to another Unknown.

I open my eyes getting out of the bed. I felt like I slept so hard. I head into the front room of the house we have been given. I look around seeing the other two I came here with already long gone. I hear a knock on the door. I open the door and standing there is Miss Topaz.

“Ah about the time you’re awake. Like I told you if you want this town to help you. You need to help them. So I am going to say this and say this once. Your friends or whatever you call them since they didn’t care about calling you, friend.”

I look away feeling anger in my heart forming. I knew full well they didn’t consider me a friend. We just came here together to find the instructions to start up the ships again to get them back to shore. I am starting to wonder if it’s even worth it. This world is too willing to force their view on you. Of course, it could be that I have been living on the metal ring most of my life and I haven’t opened my mind to others’ thoughts.

“Is there something you wish to say? Or are you going to keep acting like you’re getting a bad break here?”

I glance down at the large bug shrugging my shoulders.

“What do I need to do to prove to this city I am worth helping hmm? '' How about this I do nothing and you help me find it and I will get out of your face.”

The bug just stares at me and her eyes glow brightly. How can green eyes glow like that? I can’t tell her emotions. I am sure she is not happy with me at all for what I just said. She turns to head to walk out.

“Fine, keep acting like a child. If you don’t help I will make sure you and your friends are tossed out of town and you will have to find another city to help you or you will die. I could go deeper into guilt for you Sprocket but there is no need for it. You will help or you will be tossed out got it?”

I took a deep breath staring down at the bug.

“You done?”

The bug stares up at me again.

“Oh, you’re just saying, am I right?”

I nod

“Forgive me, I may have been married to a pony for years and lived around ponies. But I still don’t understand your sense of humor or whatever you call it.”

I take a deep breath again.

“Do you blame me for acting like this Miss Topaz? I have been living on the Metal Rings for most of my life. We never even thought of becoming friends with the others in the community. All I did was repair the core and then I would be forced to marry a stallion then teach how to repair the core then die.”

Miss Topaz stares up at me, her eyes wide open this time. She didn’t say a word.

“So what the others said is true, you're just there to build whatever your job is. Then breed the next generation why?”

I shrug my shoulders.

“I don’t know it’s been that way for as long as I can remember. I am too young still to give birth to a colt or a filly. It’s something I expect to happen if I don’t return with the instructions to turn the ships back on.”

Miss Topaz sighs, shaking her head.

“Alright I was told by the others you’re an Engineer am I correct?”

I shrug my shoulders, nodding.

“I may not be able to repair most of what I see on the shore. But I could try my best to do so. Is there something around here that needs to be repaired?”

Topaz leads me outside the house. I look back at the house noticing the house is connected to a larger building. The building is getting worked on. I notice the building is being taken apart and some parts are being repaired and added on.

“Well our normal engineer needs some help and she is a bit upset. We haven't been able to find others to help her over the last few months. It’s the issue with this land: the so-called vault dweller brought back the rain and many other things. But she could have seen this coming to the world not wishing to change.”

I nod.

“I am not fond of heroes, I don't even see myself becoming one. Even if my path leads me to do what I can. I refuse to become a hero and just think the idea of a hero is the best way to get backstabbed.”

Topaz laughs while she leads me to a large building. I look around the building before I am brought in. I see an old sign that saids research water center. I have a feeling this was an old research center to do something to the water.

“Hey, Amber you here?!”

I hear heavy wings and heavy landing. I turn around, staring at a large female dragon as she folds her arms. I stare at the pure white female dragon. Her red eyes glow brightly while she looks at me. Then she comes out of the darkness to look at Topaz smiling.

“Well is this the one that is going to help me Topaz?”

She nods.

“Well then is she stronger than your wife?”

Topaz chuckles

“I highly doubt she has the guts of my wife.”

Amber laughs as she stares down at me looking over my body. She grabs my left back leg lifting my leg. To look between my legs. I am confused why in the world is she looking between my legs and she laughs loudly after she lets my leg down.

“You haven’t even been taken by a stallion girl, you don’t know the best parts of life.”

My cheeks turn bright red.

“Please I am just here to help you so I can get the instructions and head back home. I am very tired of dealing with this wasteland. I am not enjoying this at all. I will never enjoy this community.”

Amber laughs letting go of my leg.

“Oh come on kid I am just kidding around. Anyway, what do I need help with? Our security defenses are kind of down after constant attacks by raiders. Our water supply is having issues. I think something is gumming up the pipes. Also, a trade path needs some more turrets put up. So we will be very busy.”

I take a deep breath. I am unsure what to think of all this. I am willing to do what I can to help.

“What are the others doing?”

Topaz chuckles.

“I got Root Beer making potions with the other zebras and your griffin sending letters to other communities in this city.”

I am unsure what to do with Amber. Topaz left after a while and Amber led me to her workshop. From the looks of it, she lives down in this water research plant. I look around seeing she has so many tools, a very old bed, and a nest full of eggs.

“Wonderful place to raise little ones.”

Amber chuckles.

“Eh not really but I got drunk, slept with a male, and laid eggs oh well. I forced the male to marry me and told him if he didn't I would remove his balls.”

I shrug my shoulders.

“I am sure it’s normal for other dragons to mate like this.”

She tilts her head.

“Dragon he’s a zebra hon. I know it's a strange pony and dragon-making hatchlings. It’s not very normal but it can happen extremely rare though. Thankfully we have a good doctor here to keep an eye on them.”

I stare at the eggs. A mixed-species other species can have sex together and create hatchlings or children in my case? I wonder how rare this is. Looking back at Amber who grabs her tools and I look at the eggs closer I see a heater keeping them warm. I wonder when they will hatch.

“Alright come with me. Take some tools and we will work on the pipe system first. A little warning there are creatures called ghouls that find their way down here. It’s why I have the defenses as I do set around my place.”

I nod using my wings to pull another set of tools with the tools I already had. We walk towards a set of stairs leading us down farther into the sewers and there is an iron door with weapons on the wall.

“I am going to give you a weapon for you to keep. I will teach you how to repair them and how to make ammo for them. Now I promise you it will be something I am sure you can upgrade when you find pieces for it.”

Amber looks through the weapons she has on the walls. She grabs a strange gun that shoots large spikes. It connects to a strange helm that goes over my head. It looks like it was created for a dragon and a pony. She puts it on my head and when it goes on my head a hud forms and I feel armor form over my body.

“Allow it to get used to your body. It’s an armor I found in a research station years ago. It was not only connected to a weapon it had an old Ai inside it. The Ai died years ago but the hud stayed. I am going to let you keep it Sprocket and name it.”

I felt the last pit of the armor form over my feathers. It's light enough to let me fly. I flap my wings just a bit. I look to my sides seeing the ammo for the weapon attached to it and with a wing, I arm the spike thrower or whatever it was called at the time. I watch Amber put on dragon-made armor. It’s made from various parts since I never heard of armor made for dragons during the war.

“Can you hear me?”

I hear her voice in my new helmet weapon. It was strange hearing her come over the mic.

“Yes, I do. Are we doing this because it’s nasty down there?”

She laughs.

“Not it’s more you’re new to this land Sprocket and I feel you needed a bone, my friend.”

A smile forms Amber has at least been kind to me. She opens the door and I see many bodies of what are called ghouls. Some have been here while some are newly dead. She looks up at the security she has. There are many sentry guns on the walls smoking. I am thinking they just shot up a group.

“Alright follow close the room full of pipe that connects to the entire community will be this way. Pray that is the only thing that is needed. If it’s not, we will have to go through this entire sewer to fix it.”

Oh, I am not looking forward to it if that is true. We go through the tunnels of the old sewers. Amber explains to me she has been down here ever since the war. She is older than she looks and she came here to hide after coming out she helped form the community.

She explains to me she hid because she refused to join the war. I don’t blame her. I explain to her while we walk through these tunnels of old pony work. About how we are born and then given the job of our life. Then we watch while our parents slowly become nothing but an empty husk. Then we either kill them or feed them to the sharks.

“For my mother and father. I had to poison them and then I gave them a burial at sea. I wasn’t happy with what I had to do to them but I had no choice on the matter. I wish I could have not done it but I had no choice.”

Amber sighs and we work on opening an old locked room that leads us to the pipes. I wonder what is to come. I don’t know but I know truthfully what is to come will come with my soul and heart.

To be continued.