"War. War never changes. Since the dawn of human kind, when our ancestors first discovered the killing power of rock and bone, blood has been spilled in the name of everything: from God to justice to simple, psychotic rage.

In the year 2077, after millenial of armed conflict, the destructive nature of man could sustain itself no longer. The world was plunged into an abyss of nuclear fire and radiation. But it was not, as some had predicted, the end of the world. Instead, the apocalypse was simply the prologue to another bloody chapter in human history. For man had succeeded in destroying the world - but war, war never changes.

In the early days, thousands were spared the horrors of the holocaust by taking refuge in enormous underground shelters, know as vaults. When they emerged, they had only the hell of the wastes to greet them. All except those in vault 101.

Because in vault 101, no one ever enters and no one ever leaves. But 200 years later, a scientist escaped vault 101, leaving behind his 19 year old son in confusion. After narrowly escaping the clutches of the overseers men, the lone wanderer pass though the giant doors of vault 101 and into the the godforsaken hell that was the capital wasteland. Little did he know that he would play a huge part in the future of the wasteland. But most importantly, he would meet a lost stranger who would become his greatest friend.

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The great metal door closed with a thunderous roar as Albert watched. "Well. No turning back now."

He gulped and turned towards the opposite end of the tunnel. It was dark and water dripped from the rocky ceiling. His foot hit something as he took a step.

"What did I-," He looked down to see a decomposed skeleton. He jumped away colliding with the hard wall behind him. "Jesus christ!"

He looked around and spotted at least two other skeletons, they laid on the floor with drops of dirty water hitting them. Minor bits of what must have been their clothes were still attached to the lifeless husks. Underneath them were signs that had demands of entry written on them.

'They must have been people who were trying to get into the vault. He knelt down to look closely at one. 'These skeletons look extremely old. Must have been here for decades.'

He side-stepped them and moved to the end of the tunnel. There was bright light seeping in though the small holes of the door. The door itself was a simple wooden creation, cracks could be seen all over it. It was a miracle that it was still standing.

As he stood by it, he began to have second thoughts as sweat dribbled down the back of his head. Fear had begun to spike and a knot formed in the pit of his stomach.

'What the hell am I doing?! I'm about to walk into the wasteland for christ sake!' He turned back around clenching his fists in anger. 'Maybe this was a mistake. I should have never left the vault. There's no way I would survive out there!'

He collapsed onto the floor on his knees. 'Death by the guards doesn't seem so bad now. Maybe if I beg real hard, the guards will let me back in.'

He looked down. His hand reached down and pulled up the Overseers pistol. Amata had stolen it from her father and had given it to him to aid him in escaping the vault.

'I killed those men. Kendall, Hannon and officer Mack.' These were people who were supposed to protecting him and everyone else in the vault. Instead they killed Jonas and tried to kill him and they threatened Amata. The Overseer had threatened his own daughter. Maybe they did deserve to die, all of them. But as he looked down at his pistol. 'I never would have thought I have to do it.'

He did an ammo count. He had at was down to at least twenty five bullets. 'Heh, not bad.'

He placed the clip back in and reloaded his gun, he placed his remaining bullets in a pocket of his jumpsuit. He then glanced at his weapon.

'I could end end it all right now. Just one shot and it will all be over.' He then looked up at the ceiling. 'I could see mom again. Tell her what happened.'

He clutched the pistol as tight as he could, and in one swift motion he placed it back in it's holster.

"What the hell am I thinking?! Suicide?!" He stood back up and faced the door. "Hell no! I ain't dying now. Not in a fucking cave and not before giving my dad punch to his skull for leaving me behind! He's out there and I gotta find him."

He raised his right leg and kicked the door open. It came off and hit the ground with a thud. "Well, here goes nothing!"

With that he stepped straight into the light and into the outside world, ready to face whatever the wasteland had to throw at him.

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Albert had only been outside the vault for less than thirty minutes and he was already in pain. Well, at least his eyes were.

He held up his hands to block some of the bright harsh sunlight until his eyes could adjust. "Should have brought some sunglasses."

As the pain subsided, he took in his surroundings. For a place that was called the wasteland, it sure lived up to it's name. Thats not to say that he didn't have a good view. Somewhat.

He was high on a plateau, everywhere he looked there was large and strange rock formations as well as dead trees as far as the eye could see. He could see the remnants of the past civilization as looked further down. He spotted a half destroyed road, the remains of what must have been a town nearby and a broken bridge in the distance. He then held up his pip-boy and checked the geiger counter. There was radiation, but the levels were extremely low that he could ignore them. "Little to no rads. Best news I've heard so far."

Before leaving the vault, he had hacked into the overseers computer and discovered some very peculiar files. But they were helpful in telling him what was out here. He lowered his pip-boy and began down the dirt path to the road when suddenly his pip-boy shook. He rose it up once more. "What the heck?"

His pip-boy had switched to the data display and showed that he had acquired five new radio signals. He looked at them with curiosity. "These look important. I should check them out and see what they are-"

He was then suddenly interrupted when a large explosion went off near-by, the ground shook causing him to lose his footing and fall down the hill.

"What the hell was that?!" He got back up and drew his pistol. On ground level he saw smoke rising up into the air from a source that was close by. "Okay Albert, go to the source of the explosion and find out what that was or walk away and find your way to Megaton?"

He had a choice to make. On one hand, if there was someone near that explosion he had to help them. Then on the other hand, he didn't know what did cause it, so chances were whatever did was near by and the last thing he wanted to do was get blown to bits. Actually scratch that, that was on his list of things never to do in life. But then again, someone could be hurt, but it could be trap and there may be an ambush waiting for him. He looked down at his lowly pistol and gave off a sign. "Ahh screw it."

He began to walk in the direction of the column of smoke.

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Twilight Sparkle awoke with a headache that felt as if a manticore had been chewing on it. She stood up, her legs wobbling a bit. She opened her eyes, she expected to find herself in her library with a huge mess to clean up. Instead she finds herself standing in the middle of nowhere.

" W-w-where am I?" She looked around, trying to get bearings. Suddenly her pip-boy started clicking. She held it up to her face and took a good look. The screen had switched, it then showed that she had acquired five new radio signals. And switched once more to display a map of where she was guessing she was now.

" What? Capital wasteland? What's that? Where am I?!" She began to look around frantically for anypony, yelling out random names.

"Spike! Spike where are you!?" She spotted her saddlebag and notepad over by a large boulder. She trotted over and picked them up.

" Just how did I end up here?" She cleared her thoughts and tried to remember what was the last thing she had been doing before . . . this happened. 'Let's see I went to the museum, saw my friends, had a great time over there and later returned back home to the library. When she got back she-

Her eyes widen. "That device! The device I was tampering with before I ended up here. It must have teleported me!" She quickly adjusted her saddle bag and thought it over. "It must have been some sort of teleportation device , when I pulled the trigger it-"

She looked around again and took in her surroundings. " Sent me here."

She was in a dry quick bed, in each distance she could see nothing but small rock formations and dirt. She also saw dead trees still standing, and a few other structures like a water tower and a wind mill. The sun was bright and and from the looks of it, begining to rise.

'The place looks like . . . . . . . . . a wasteland.' She thought to herself.

'I wonder if there was anypony nearby-' Her thoughts were interrupted by the sounds of heavy hoof steps. She quickly looked around for a place to hide, she spotted a large rock near by and galloped as fast as she could.

'What was that! Could it be some nearby natives? Maybe some civilized ponies that could tell me how to get home? No, as for as I know, there was no location in Equestria or on the planet called the Capital Wasteland!" She decided to peek over the rock to see what was coming.

Her eyes widened in shock. What she saw coming down a hill was something she had only seen once and it was nothing more than an artist representation. Coming down the hill was a tall pale skinned bipedal creature, It wore a blue jumpsuit with yellow stripes at the edges and the only sources of hair it possesed was on its head. It wore a Pip-boy on its right 'foreleg' and was carrying a strange looking device in its hands.

Twilight lowered her head back down and with her magic, levitated her notepad and a quill from her saddlebag and began to write down. 'No way. They're supposed to be extinct! But if what I'm seeing is true, I'm looking at an actual living alien!!'

She took a deep breath and took another peek over the rock at the human. She suddenly heard a loud bang as a small object zipped past her head but not before hitting the boulder she hid behind inches away from her head.

" Yikes!" Twilight took cover back down as another tiny projectile hit the side of the rock.

'Okay! Now we know that the device it's holding is a weapon. . . . . Oh Celestia, it's got a weapon!" Twilight panicked and began to look around herself for any way to defend herself.

" I know your out there! Show yourself!"

Twilight eyes widened in surprise. The alien could speak Equestrian! Or maybe Equestrian was an evolved form of language derived from their form of speaking and why was she thinking about this at a time where her life was in danger.

"I said come out! If you don't, I will come find you and shoot you!" The alien yelled.

'Ah oh.' She tried to think of a quick solution. 'Maybe if I stay absolutely still, it will go away.'

"I know your out there. My pip-boy shows me where you are."

' Ah pony feathers!' She looked at her pip-boy and saw that it was right. Near the bottom of the screen was a directional compass. On it, it painted the alien with a red mark.

" I'm going to count to three, if you don't come out, I'm coming after you!"

The threat sounded real. Twilight did not know what to do, she could try to talk to it, possibly negotiate a peaceful resolution.

". . . . One!"

The alien had begun to countdown. But what if she did come out and he still ended up 'shooting' her? She could tell by the voice, it was male.

" . . . . . Two!"

Twilight felt sweat coming down her face rapidly, she didn't had absolutely no idea what to do.

' Oh what would Rainbow Dash do in this sitution?" She asked herself.

". . . . . Three!"

" Okay! I'm coming out! Just don't hurt me!" She yelled.

There was no sound, so Twilight assumed that the alien was waiting. Having no other choice, she slowly rose out of cover and stepped out from behind the rock.

The alien stood there, only a few feet away with a look of shock on his face. Twilight had now had a better look at him. His face was young looking and his mane was short and a mix of black and brown. His eyes were hazel and he wore black boots, he kept his weapon pointed at her.

"Uhh. . . . Hello?" She smiled and tried her best to look as non hostile as possible. 'Genius Twilight! Your probably the first unicorn, let alone pony to make first contact with a alien and possible creator of all life on your planet and the first thing you can think to say is hello?'

Albert stood there dumbstruck. Before him stood a unicorn. A lavender colored unicorn that also had a big head. He had read about them in pre war books when he was still in the vault but as far as he knew, they were only myths. The unicorn smiled at him causing him to feel uneasy, he didn't know if this horse wanted to eat him or do some other strange insidious things to him.

" Umm. Hello." Both beings just stood there in silence, as if afraid that if the other made a sudden move, the other would turn hostile and retaliate. Twilight decided to break the stalemate.

" My name is Twilight Sparkle." Standing tall, she then pointed at him. "What's yours?"

Albert did not lower his pistol, but his look of worry had disseaperaed and he began to feel better. "Albert. My name is Albert."

"Fascinating!" Twilight levitated her note pad out of her bag and began to jolt down notes. She looked up, when she saw the Albert's expression change to anger she stopped.

"What! Did I do something wrong?!" She hid behind her note pad.

"How did the heck did you do that?" Albert had just watched the unicorn levitate a pencil and note pad out of its bag. 'Was it some form of telekinesis? Her horned glowed when she did it. What kind of tech was she using?'

Twilight looked at him with a puzzled look. "I just used a simple levitation spell. Wait, do you not have magic here?"

Albert shook his head in response, causing Twilight to look at him strangely.

'Wait, if he doesn't know what magic is, then how could his race have created all life on my planet?' She decided to take the direct approach. " How does your kind survive without magic?"

"We have a thing here called science. What your talking about just doesn't make sense. There is no such thing as magic." Albert had begun to lower his gun but kept a tight trigger finger.

"Of course there is. Everypony in Equestrian can use magic!" Twilight knew that there had to be magic in order for there to be life. Without it unicorns, pegasi and alicorns wouldn't exist!

Albert saw that he was getting only more confused each second he spent talking to this unicorn. Was he going insane? Maybe he was dreaming and all the events of today didn't happened. He was probably still in his bed snoring and his dad would soon be on him for not sleeping in late when he had work to do. He wish.

He signed and placed his pistol back in his holster. " All right, look. How you tell me all about who your are and where your from and in return, I'll answer any question you have."

Twilight Smiled. "Really! Okay. Well where do I start. . . "

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Albert was sitting down on a hard rock, he had his mind blown from everything the unicorn named Twilight Sparkle had told her. First, turns out she wasn't hostile, that was good for his first day out in the wasteland. Second, she was apparently an alien for she came from a world ruled by more pastel colored ponies alongside other creatures. Third, she believed that the human race had once visited her world and created all life on her planet, and that her proof was in the devices that her people found which she happily showed one on her foreleg. Now Albert didn't know everything about pre-war tech and the stuff that people did back then but he was pretty sure they didn't have to power to travel to the stars or create life on another planet. Either way,Twilight was still extremely interested in Albert and his species ways. And finally, she told him her life story and how she came to arrive here. From things like Equestria, pegasi, unicorns, earth ponies, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, Discord, Changlings and a bunch of other things that he would probably forget in a good night sleep. Though it all, there was much that Albert clearly did not understand, other stuff he just found weird and the rest some what interesting. Once again, it was suffice to say he had his mind blown.

"So you were fidgeting around with technology you never seen before and before you knew it , you were here?" Twilight nodded but at the same time looked down at having made a rookie mistake.

Albert stood back up, he checked his Pip-boy for the time. It was 12:57 PM. He needed to get to the settlement of 'Megaton' before it got dark. He began to leave when Twilight called out.

"Wait! Where are you going!" She put her stuff back in her saddlebag and quickly trotted up to him.

"Megaton. At least thats what the place is called on my Pip-boy map. I'm going there to look for my father."

"Well can I come?" She said with interested eyes.

"I don't know, where I'm going could be awefully dangerous and-" He stopped and saw Twilight was giving him a puppy eyed look. After such brief reasoning, he cracked under her cuteness. "Oh fine. Just stop giving me that look. As long as you stay close to me and do as I say, you can come along."

He was interuppted by Twilight hopping all around him saying yes. In a strange sort of way, she reminded her of little girl.

"Oh just come along will you. We got to get going." He said with a smile, despite this unicorn being from another world and acting mature just a second ago, when she acted childish it made him want to smile. Not that he never smiled of course, recent events had put a damper on his mood.

"Okay, but you still have to answer my questions." She said as she trotted along.

"I'll tell as we walk." He began to walk in Megatons direction, with Twilight trotting right beside him. "So what do you what to know?"

Twilight got sparkles in her eyes. "Absolutely everything."

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" And so it was, that the two wanderers, strangers in a world they never seen, headed out together towards the settlement of Megaton in the distance. Unknown to the two however, were the challenges that laid ahead, obstacles and trials that would test every single part of their soul. Their destines intertwined the Lone Wanderer, the young man from vault 101, and the Lost Stranger, a being from a land of peace and prosperity both headed out into the unknown.

Author's Note

Author's Notes: I pretty liked how this chapter went out. Let me know what you all think in the comments. Let me know if I should continue to highlight Twilight's and Albert's dialogue or if I should keep it the same. Ciao.

EDIT: Removed all the color after realizing how stupid it looked. Plus, I rewrote some of a lot of this chapter so that I may add more development to the characters and build a more better solid foundation for the story. Tell me what you think.