After Equestria: Honest Hearts

200 years ago something happen. The world has changed. All the ponies of the surface know that it is very very cold. The surface is hell on Equestria. Again if we knew what caused all this pain. I'm known as Fancy Fleur. I don't understand why I have been given this name. It's something I have come to grown used to.

What is my job in this waste? What else is there to do but get rich and live. Meaning I'm a treasure hunter. I do what I can as a treasure hunter. But the only way to make it out here in the ruins of this city? It’s a good idea to have transportation or freeze to death. Now I got lucky as a treasure hunter. I found a magic-powered creation built before whatever happened.

The creation of the past is an old buggy made to run in an environment like this. It runs on gas and magic mostly magic. The gas is harder to come by in this land of ice.

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Time: 7:00 in the morning. Location: Manehatten ruins.

What makes a treasure hunter in this land? The sound of a drill a powerful magic drill that breaks through the ice. The ability to use your head. But it's not about only using your head. It's about having the gut's to see the past. I found the score at least that's how I feel.

An old museum would that be a score? A voice spoke to me over my com set. " Fancy your heart rate is spiking are you sure you want to keep going?" Ignoring the voice I kept drilling. I needed this score. I needed the food I needed for my money. The drill connected to my horn.

I had to use my magic since you had to teach yourself these days to use your magic it was ten times harder to make sure your body didn't fall apart. Again the voice spoke. " That's it I am coming to get you," I grunted finally broke through but there was a cave-in.

" AHHH!!" I screamed falling onto the ground below. Screaming in pain that a bone in my leg broke. Quickly I went into my bag. Grabbing some strange glowing pills swallowing them down. I felt the pain growing in me. As the pills worked their magic. These pills made to heal. But the thing about them.. your bowl's don't like it when you put these in your system.

"Damn it Fancy I told you to just take one!!. Your body can't handle too much!!" I panted hard as my bowl's released what I had to eat this morning. It glowed brightly and when it hit the floor it just hardened and burned. Lifting my com device to my ear with my TK.

" I am fine Sparks. I am going to need the winch but I found the motherload. So much here it's so amazing." Looking down at my suit that allows others to read my body. These suits are very hard to come by. I found this one in the treasure I found.

"No Fancy you aren't. Your heartbeat is really quick. Your blood presser is too high your pulse is too quick. I can't allow you to stay down there." Up above there are sounds of a car or something coming over the hole with a winch coming down. It falls to the ground. " I give you an hour to find something. If things get worse I will come down and get you myself."

Sighing softly shaking my head a bit. If I only had an hour I needed to find the best of the best. So I knew that places like this had old safes. Slowly walking through the museum looking for the basement. I didn't have the floor plans. But I knew where to go like something was calling me.

I was told stories by other treasure hunters that places like this have deadly creatures. Taking a staff from my belt and it formed into a pike. Holding it in my magic. Finally getting down to the full basement. But when I did I heard some dark evil growl's.

Looking around I saw what is known as a Timber wolf. But these timberwolves they’re different. They form in areas that are highly concentrated in wood and other things in buildings. I watched it as it formed its magic from objects such as a vase old photo frames and for the teeth pens.

It howled at me. " Fancy what is that sound?"

"It's a building remnant." The creature charged at me opening its mouth using old frozen pipes to try to smash into me like spears. Sparks had trained me but I still wasn't able to fight like a fighter in the remnants. I had to focus slowed my breathing down to watch the creature's eyes stare at me.

The pipes smashed behind me since it had a very lousy aim. I did what I could to fight this thing. it's not easy to fight one of these. They are made of the building themselves. You have to destroy the brain. Charging at the creature I clicked a button with my magic. To cause a small charge.

Smashing the pike into it causing the parts of the creature to fall off. I could see the brain this time the brain was an old pony skull. These creatures can be easy to take down. You just have to outsmart them. Smashing the staff hard into the brain making it shatter.

Then I had a reminder of what happens when you kill one of these things. They scream and then explode. Grabbing a table near me when it explodes the pens stabbed into the table along with the rest of the wood. But of course, I got hit by a part of the bone in my left leg.

" GAHH!!"

" Fancy what happen it says your suit has a cut in it"

" I am fine,” I said groaning in pain.

" No, I'm coming." Growling in anger she was so much like a mother to me it's starting to get on my nerves.

" No, I am fine. I will be up there soon." Sparks groaned in the com.

" I hate when you don't listen to me." A soft chuckle came from me. Slowly walking deeper into the basement. When I got down there. I found a locked door. But this door was too old for it to stop me. Breaking it open I went inside seeing preserved bodies thanks to the cold.

They died down here of hunger. They felt whatever happen that they could live down here. But what I wanted is locked behind a safe. I found the large metal door. Reaching into my bag bringing out one plastic bomb. These are hard to come by so I just need one for this.

Setting it up on the safe getting out of the way letting it blow off the door. The door falls with a metal sound. Slowly standing back up heading inside. But there is only one thing. A large chest with a cube sitting on it. The cube had a note on it. 'Watch and learn.'

Blinking I clicked the button of the cube this one worked without DNA some worked if you had the DNA or family member's DNA but some worked without that. You just needed to touch it. The cube opened up a little light formed in the middle of it and a screen formed allowing whatever to be shown to see.

Snow fell on the ground. The sound of coughing and hard breathing. "It happen.. So fast.. I had no idea...I" Cough " I did what Twilight asked. I got the element's out. But...I have no idea what happens to her." Cough. " I hid the rest as she asked."

Looking towards the pedestal that held the box. I saw the body of a mare I could make it out. But she looked strange she had a star cutie mark. I could see the fear in her eyes. Looking back up to the magic screen as the cube played on.

"I don't know....anymore. I don't see any other living pony. It's so so cold. I got one more element to hide." I could hear her shiver. Then a howl behind her. " NO NO!!" She started to run the cube turned off after she started running and it formed back into a full cube.

I took the cube in my magic. Placing it into my bag. Looking at the chest looking around the entire thing that held it. But I didn't see any traps or anything that would stop me from taking it. My magic wrapped around the chest. Slowly lifted it off its stand. Looking at the chest it said on it. 'Be Honest.'

Slowly walked out but I heard growling turning back seeing shadow's form along the wall's. Blinking I quickly ran out. The shadow's forming all over the walls. I heard hooves chasing me and the sounds of nightmarish creatures. It sounded like I was opening the gates of evil itself.

" Sparks I am coming in hot please be ready!!" There was nothing but static. "Sparks?!!" When I got into the mane room a medium-size red jewel-colored female dragon waited there for me. She breathed fire on the creature that chased me. The nightmarish creature's howled in pain.

"That won't hold them for long." She grabbed me in her claws and flew me out. Placing me in my magic buggy. She landed on the roof of it.

" GO GO!!" The creature came out like it was water. I turned on the magic and drove off as quickly as I can. The creature's hissed and cry as they chased us it got to the point they started to form. But they surrounded us and Sparks tried to use her fire to stop them from coming after us.

They pilled on us but the chest I had with me started to glow. It glowed brightly causing the creature to scream in pain and vanish from the light. But not all of the most. After the flash, the buggy had stopped dead. Sparks looked around but the Box just stat there in the seat.

" What was that Fancy what did you find?" Looking at the box then back at Sparks

" I don't know Sparks."

" I don't know about you Fancy but let’s go home and then see what we can get for it."

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We made it home after six hours. Getting through the town of ruin's and creature's willingness to kill you was harder then it looked. Our home was held up into an old bank. The building was pretty much intact. But we had it pretty much blocked off and some magic devices known as blockers to keep the creatures away.

The blockers were made after whatever caused this to happen. Of course one of them had to recharge. Sparks grabbed the battery for me and while I had a campfire going I had the battery connected to my horn to charge it. Taking the suit off. My body was smooth creamy white fur. With some frostbite burns on my body and many scars and some fresh wounds.

My cutie marks a chest. Sighing softly I placed the meat in the pot. The idea of a pony living up here they have to do some pretty unsavory things to live. Since it's hard to come across grass or other veggies. Only the ones in the Remnant can grow them. But since I wish to live out here it's the only way I can think of.

"Alright, we will be there tomorrow to let you check out the chest and see what is in it." Sparks was on the com talking to ever will give us our money or food rations. But mostly it's money for treasure hunter's Sparks set the com down so it could charge.

" Alright Fancy we will be meeting with our buyer tomorrow. They want to know what you found today." Giving a nod looking to the chest. I had no idea what was in it. Sparks even tried to open it but it refused to open for her.

I sighed nodding removing the battery from my horn offering it back to Sparks "It should be enough of a charge." Sparks nodded and walked out" Looking back at the Chest I felt I should say it out loud to myself.

"Be Honest" The words glowed on the chest. But nothing happen it didn't even open. But why would the words glow if I said it? Slowly put my hoof on it I could feel some magic coming from the chest. Pain as well the pain-filled my body. I cried I felt endless torment from whatever was in this chest.

It cried for something it cried for its friend's it felt like it cried for its world. " Why would it cry for its world?" I held my hoof there screaming in pain yelling loudly in pain. It felt like my brain was burning from the pain. Sparks rushed back in. She kicked the chest away from me I shook violently.

" Fancy that chest has a spell on it. A powerful old spell. The only way to open it is you break the spell. Don't touch it again." I nodded groaning in pain. My food is finally read setting it down on the dirty ground taking half and letting Sparks take the other half.

"After we eat. I am going to go back outside and take the rest of the batteries out and charge them." Sparks nodded taking the meat talking on the com to the buyer. heading deeper into the bank. I sighed softly I hated the fact that It was just me and her.

Well, friendship was hard to come by these days. To some friendship was just something that got in the way of what you needed to do survive. Surviving came first but of course, it always came second. to some are sex and breeding. Sex is only when you need to up the population no longer for just random fun.

Eating the food I brought the cube back out to make sure I could understand more about it. Turning the cube on. I watched it again. "It happen.. So fast.. I had no idea...I" Cough " I did what Twilight asked. I got the element's out. But...I have no idea what happens to her." Cough. " I hid the rest as she asked."

It went on "I don't know....anymore. I don't see any other living pony. It's so so cold. I got one more element to hide." I could hear her shiver. Then a howl behind her. " NO NO!!" She started to run. But this time it showed more. The pony turned around showing what was chasing her it was one of those shadow creatures.

" NO NO It's found me." She kept running and ran into the museum I got the chest from. She ran down to the basement. Ponies yelled.

" This way in here!!" The ponies allowed the one in. I just kept watching like it was all I could see.

" Lock the door." The mare screamed. But it didn't help the creature seeped through the room growling and hissing at them. The other ponies screamed they didn't look much like fighters to me. But the creature attacked them in one swoop murdering them but there was no blood no gore. This creature did it in a smooth movement.

The mare turned to another pony. " Open the safe lock me inside." The pony did what she was told letting the mare inside. She placed the chest on the pedestal. Turning to the safe door hearing the screams outside. But still, the creature seeped in. The cube dropped from her magic.

I could finally see what she looked like unfrozen. She cowered in the corner I could see the fear in her eyes. The creature I swear could speak. " St " The rest of the word was static

" No No...I don't want anything to do with you. I did what Twilight asked!!" She sobbed so much fear in her eye's " Let me go!!" The creature laughed softly forming inside her as she screamed in pain and fear. But it removed itself from her for a moment.

" Give in...to your darkness... again Static Become the nightmare..." The mare sobbed

"No.. I did what Twilight asked...I did what she asked."

"Then die...." The mare sobbed as the creature infused into her again she screamed in pain. With the look of fear, I saw her with when I saw her frozen body. I could see the fear left on her face. I felt oh what a poor mare. Then the creature seeped out of her body like it was blood

It then vanished the cube turned back into the cube glowing slightly like it was burning. Whats sad about these cubes if they used too much the core inside them overheats and then you can never get the info again. I had finally finished my food and stood up heading outside.

The blocker's glowed brightly allowing the creature to stay way. I went into the buggy grabbing the battery of the buggy connecting it to my horn and allowed to charge. I grabbed a magic orb placing it inside the buggy and turned it up loud music played.

These orbs were made to house music inside them. Hard to come by but their rare as well. Closing my eyes to slowly sleep. The buggy was warm despite me being outside. I had a big day tomorrow I had to bring my new treasure to the one that wishes to see what is inside.

But whatever was inside a pony was killed over it. I no longer know what happens it's starting to worry me. But I heard something over a PA system that the Remnants of Manehatten set up over town. " Hello, Ponies the Remnants are gathering ground from the beast. if you wish to join in the hunt. Come to our land if not die."

I sighed, closing my eyes to try to sleep.

Before sleep took me I heard the voice again.

"Remnants the beast has been pushed from...." Before the voice could finish sleep finally took me.