Fallout Equestria: The Roaring Inferno

The wastes of Baltimare are a harsh place with crime, drugs and conflict at every corner growing up can be a painful experience, some colts and fillies don't make it out there in the wasteland and if they do they change inside, it can change their mind and corrupt them and they will no longer be able to tell right from wrong, I was one of those colts, at 15 I lost both my parents and I was lost without them and I was scared.

I was walking along the outer streets of Baltimare we had just left the park which was an old hoofball stadium which had been rebuilt to act as a society we were on our way back to the safety of our house when we got mugged, first he asked for any Meds we had so we handed our med-x and stimpacks over and they noticed we were not carrying weapons so I heard laughter I was crying because I had seen muggings happened before and they never ended pretty so when he started firing bullets I used my parents almost as a shield and I fell to the ground and played dead covered by the warm corpse of my mother and father. After a hour I couldn't hear any hoofsteps nearby so I got up and nearly vomited when I saw what remained of my parents; their faces were like Swiss cheese and I could see insects starting to feast on the foul smelling corpses.

I took my chance and I ran I hoped and dreamed I wouldn't run into those bandits again and I made it home I was crying and Sweating at the fact that I had lost all of my family in a blink of an eye and I went to sleep that night crying myself to sleep I mean what would any other colt or filly do. I awoke in the middle of the night to the sound of the front door squeaking open and my heart hit my chest was it the raiders coming to finish the job I hid under the bed with the 10mm pistol that I took to bed with me that night, my heart was racing as I heard them going through my stuff hoping that they would not ascend the stairs, I heard the creaking of old wooden floorboards and I wished they would break but I would have no such luck. The hoofsteps slowly creaked towards my door so I took aim with the pistol but I didn't fire incase it was just another pony trying to get some supplies, the door opened and in stepped a green unicorn she had a yellow mane and I couldn't see her cutie mark because she was wearing some type of armour over her flank.

She stepped in and took notice of me but didn't raise her gun because she saw my tear soaked pillow and my shaky grip of the gun and she put her hoofs up I said in between sniffles "W-W-WHAT do you want p-please don't hurt me." She flinched when she saw me aiming the gun at her but she also saw the gun shaking and slowly took a step forward. I flinched and dropped the gun but she still kept her hoofs up she must have been surrendering but I was confused to why she was surrendering because I had dropped my weapon, "Are you alright" she said with a voice that was so sweet it must have been dipped in honey, she moved closer now she knew I had dropped my gun she proceeded at quicker pace and when she reached me and she nuzzled me I stopped crying and I was sniffling and she said to me "what's your name." she said with a tone of a nice kind mother so from the voice of this mare I would of guessed she had been a parent before I tried to answer in a straight voice "flashing light" I did not deter from her touch as she was calming me down.

This mare sat with me for what must have been a hour of her stroking my mane as she managed to coax me to sleep but I would not stay that way for long as I kept getting nightmares of the tragedy, but after the second time I decided to stay awake as it must have been about 4 am so I stayed up and I wanted to ask this mare some questions, "excuse me miss, but what is your name" she quickly answered "Happy Trees" I found that name ironic as the concept of happy trees to me as a child was silly and because the trees around me would not even be slightly happy with the weather especially the radiation storms.

When the sun rose the horror of the night remained as I was still shaking as I had only got a few hours sleep because of constant nightmares, Happy Trees came and sat down beside me as I drank a nuka cola and ate a box of sugar bombs "Light we cannot stay here we are in a obvious place for raiders to come and look for loot and I am surprised you and your parents lasted this long." I expression didn't change for the better after hearing the news so I ran upstairs and quickly grabbed to 2 things I would need while moving out of the city my 10mm pistol which I called Pistal as I spelt it like that from a young age and a picture of the wall off my family and are old dog who disappeared one night and we haven't seen since. I came down and Happy Trees was packing the last of the food, water and Meds into her pack and she gave me one and I was carrying little bits of the supply because she did not want to overencumber me for a long journey.

We walked for what felt like years it was never ending and when we found a nice town to stay in we would buy food, water and Meds and then we would leave and not come back and I was sad as I made a few friends in these towns. We were walking past a small town and we heard someone shouting for some help and when we looked to see who it was it was a yellow earth pony mare with a orange mane wearing some pipes over her chest was trying to get in a building to helped what sounded like crying.

As soon as I heard the crying I immediately went and tried to help by trying to smother the flames with as cloth I had took out of my saddlebags and by trying to smother it i set it on fire as it could not extinguish the flames, I sighed and an idea popped into my head as I spread my wings and took a running leap and dove into the burning wreckage and as I searched it was proving to be quite tricky because of the smoke from the flames I could feel the feathers on my wings start to burn but I powered through until I found a room and I tripped over a toy or at least it sounded like that the squeak it made, sitting I the corner wrapped in hooves and blankets was a little blue earth pony with a midnight blue mane crying on the corner. I grabbed them and ran for the door and dove out my wings ablaze and the adrenaline coursing through my veins I let out a giggle as before I extinguish my wings I notice how it doesn't hurt but I still fill a dull tingling sensation and it turns out that I am alive this gives me a rush of energy,

I start giggling madly that I fly back to the house and let the fire touch me with its warm embrace and I want to feel it all over my body so I set fire to my hoof and the burning sensation is a nice sensation all over my body I then spread the flame to my other hoof and then my back hooves and I walk back to Happy Trees and as I leave smouldering hoofprints a bandit jumps out armed with a long metal stick and he is carrying a backpack that is connected to the long stick and he is twitching he must have been the one who did this and as he looks set to set me ablaze I leap forward and use a blazing hoof and plant him right in the jaw and as it makes connection it starts sizzling like an onion in and hot Frying pan and when he is down i start to move closer towards his weapon and as I remove him from it I remember that he nearly committed murder on an innocent filly so my blood runs cold which was ironic because of the surroundings, I think about how to end this as many horrible images go through my skull as I hear a voice shouting out stop and I shake my head and notice happy trees with the filly and their parent hiding the filly from view as I realise what was going on and the pain hits me all at once, I collapse as I still hear the flames and the last thing I hear is happy trees coming to my aid as I fade off into unconsciousness.