Fallout Equestria: Lone Mare Radio

"I'll be seeing you in all the old familiar places,", the song repeated over and over on the radio that was set up in her trailer. It reminder her of a better time before everything in her life and the world had gone to hell. All she could do was reminsce about the happier times in her life. She missed Bon Bon so much right now that it literally hurt her soul to think about her other half for too much longer. She levitated the whiskey bottle to her lips and took a swig before setting it back down. Somewhere out in the wastes another pony was sitting at their security desk doing the same thing. Not realizing that her own ancestor was alive and getting drunk.

"Why couldn't we have just died that day, we'd be together again,"the lone mare thought to herself. The radiation from the megaspells had made her immortal in the most unlikely sense. It was the last thing she was expecting. usually you had to become an alicorn or accomplish some worthy task in order to be ordained for that type of position. The fact that it could happen by accident was a new one to her. Some considered it to be a curse rather then a blessing. On one side you'd be able to survive almost anything dangerous. On the other you'd have to endure outliving everypony you cared about and becoming more and more isolated over time. But for her she tried to see the benefits. If she got shot her wounds would heal at an insane rate and her strength and endurance were now double what they used to be when she was just a normal unicorn.

It was days like these that she wanted to build a time machine just so she could travel to the past and warn her friends of what was to come. But at the same time she remembered how she had heard stories of another unicorn that tried to do just that and nearly destroyed their life. It was said that the mare in question had just vanished in a bright flash of white light and that there was another winged unicorn that had been chasing her. The more she thought about it the more she realized that the other mare's description matched that of her friend Twilight Sparkle. Could what they had seen been a version from another timeline? And if so did that mean that the other unicorn create this entire timeline on accident?

That was not something that Lyra wanted to focus on today. She had to keep working on this radio equipment. Since as far as she knew Vinyl and the others were long dead so it fell to her to being some semblance of talent to the wasteland. What better way then to create her own radion station. She had heard of a pony doing the same out of Tenpony Tower and decided to give that pony some competition. What she didn't know was that mare was related to a friend of hers. And if she ever really met her it would be like staring into a mirror image of Vinyl Scratch. Even Vinyl didn't know this, and she in fact was still alive thanks to the same magic contamination that had taken place with Lyra. In fact, She see her friends sooner then she'd pray to.

It felt like it had been forever since they had left the Stable. What Vinyl didn't realize was that they were almost 150 years old as of right now. The world had died while they had been stuck underground for the longest time. After they came across an abandoned bunker, that was when reality sank in. The reactor of the Stable they had been in had been leaking coolant into the air system.

If they hadn't left when they did, they might have died or worse. The worst being that they could have been changed into Ghouls. The radiation would have stripped them of their sanity and personality, leaving only a raving, hungering, sack of flesh with no higher brain functions at all. The radiation had an adverse effect on the lot of them, Lyra included. It had basically made them immortal when she really thought about it.

They could never die of old age, their reflexes were enhanced, and their bond was stronger then anything previously recorded. She knew there would be trying times ahead, and that if they stayed together they'd make it through this. It was a shame though that Twilight and her friends weren't around to see this. Or at least that's what Vinyl thought anyway. She didn't know that three of them had actually survived the end of the war.

Twilight's whereabouts had gone dark towards the end. She had last been seen fleeing into the basement of the Ministry of Arcane Sciences. reports had stated she had told somepony that there was something of importance that she had to see to in the basement of the compound before the alarms had started to sound. She disappeared down a maintenance shaft and was never seen from again when the evacuation was complete.

Vinyl had always though it rare for a mare like Twilight to just up and leave like that. Maybe the stress of the job had gotten to her back then, or the fact that her friends began to drift apart. Vinyl couldn't know that a few of Twilight's friends had found unnatural means to survive the apocalypse. Rarity had found a way to become immortal, but it meant doing the unthinkable. Spirit fission was not something to take lightly. It meant splitting one's soul into pieces and then using an object or more to maintain a connection to the world until the spirit could be reformed or placed into a new host body altogether.

Fluttershy ended up undergoing Cryogenic suspension. No one knows what happened to Applejack or Rainbow Dash. There were rumors that AJ had left her Ministry post to sign up with her own Steel Rangers division. Anything that helped her take her mind off of separating from her friends.

There was also the fact that at the same time the war was going on, the Changelings and Chrysalis had gone silent. There was no way to tell if they were still alive or had been wiped by the Megaspells. For a brief moment though, Vinyl heard a voice echoing through her mind, almost like a telepathic link had been formed with her.

All the voice said was ," We are coming to devour this land of its love, nothing can stop us, or me, now." Vinyl knew whose voice it was, and more so, what was about to grace the wasteland with its presence. And all she was could do was shutter at what was in store for them all.

On the way here, Vinyl thought she had seen movement in the ruins of Ponyville. She pulled out her binoculars to spot several crudely armored ponies dragging something behind them and then tossing it into a metal cage that they later hoisted up onto one of the branches of the Old library. Little did she know that the being in the cage was Derpy, and that she'd be saved another stable dweller a few nights from now.

"This terminal says that it was used to access Stable 21's mainframe through a remote connection."Bon Bon spoke as the others rummage through the containers that were still in the compound.

"Huh,"Vinyl muttered," Let me take a look," she said. It didnt take her long to gain remote access to some of the encrypted data that was still hosted on the terminal connection. What she read was enough to make her blood run cold. The Overmare of the Stable had received a coded message from a group masquerading as Stable Tec. The message ended with a logo that clearly didn't belong to them. It was a symbol that Vinyl had seen right before entering the Stable with Tavi and her friends.

It dawned on her like Celestia's warm sun rising over the horizon. The Symbol was that of the Enclave. She knew them all to well. She was one of the ex-officers. The Enclave were made up of all three races. Their goal was to reclaim Equestria from the ravages of the war that had turned it into a wasteland. But, Vinyl knew that was not their " primary" goal. They were searching all these decades for something called Project Pegasus. It was alleged that the entire project was designed to create the perfect super soldier. A being that was faster, stronger, and more agile then the typical foot soldier that the Royal Guard was equipped with.

Vinyl had put her old life behind her when they had gotten their spot in the local Stable. She wanted so desperately to bury it in the past. After she saw the message on that terminal she realized she could never escape it no matter how hard she tried to. She was going to have to tell the others at some point, she just wasn't sure how they'd take it. Or if they'd believe her at all.

While Bon Bon and her friends looked for Lyra, something was developing in the sister Stable of Stable 21. Life in Stable 22 had been uneventful after the Doors closed. At least that's what the residents were told. The Overmare had secretly been contacted by a group claiming to be from Stable-Tec. They asked her how the population was faring and she told them that everything was in the green.

"Good," The pony on the other terminal told the Overmare,"We'll be in contact with some additional updates in the following weeks, for now maintain your current lockdown until you hear back from us." After ending the conversation the pony turned to another sitting next across from her desk.

"So, you think she suspects we're playing her?" The pony asked their companion.

"No, She seems to believe fully that we're from Stable-Tec and that we'll give her the all clear signal." She was a pegasus with a greying rainbow colored mane. Just like her ancestor before her, she was steadfast, but unlike her namesake she was extremely loyal to her nation and the rebuilding of Equestria. She had to work her flank off to prove that she was nothing like the mare that shared the same blood as her.

The only thing the two of them had in common has the loyalty they showed to others. Unlike the one that came before her , this mare knew who she was truly loyal to, and had shown extreme dedication on more then one occasion. She was not going to repeat her descendants mistakes. At least that's was she had been told all her life. What she didn't realize was that she was in fact a clone of the original Rainbow Dash. There was one other like her, but that one had been engineered to look different. Unknownst to this one, the second clone was actually just a new body with Rainbow's consciousness downloaded into it by Twilight Sparkle during the war.

She had been put into Cryostasis just like her, but that process was monitored by a supercomputer and set to wake her when the time was right. This one was found by the Enclave and brainwashed into thinking she was just blood related, when it was so much more than that. Her world would shatter if the two of them ever met each other.

She was the best soldier that they had. And she was quick to advance through the ranks. She achieved the rank of Seargent in the span of 12 years. They knew that they had 3 Stables that had to be secured as of this moment. They had spent decades searching through some of the remaining stables in the hopes of finding something called " Project Pegasus". The records they had found from Pre-war Equestria had indicated that the Ministry of Arcane Sciences had been working on Augmenting pegasi and unicorns to be used as 'supersoldiers' in the war against the Zebrahan nation.

They had finally narrowed it down to Stables 22, 18, and 42. Now they just had to narrow the search down further until they had the correct one. Because in one of the Stables in question there was a Cryostasis unit secured near the CMC maincore of the structure. They had to get to it before somepony else found it and tampered with it.

Inside that chamber would be the key to securing the Wasteland and that restoration of the Equestria that they had always envisioned.

The mare's name was Rainbow Dash. First Seargent of the Grand Pegasus Enclave. And the last pony that two others would ever expect to see again.

Things were seeming to go from bad to worse.

It had been a week or so since Written Script had been outside of the Stable. He was having a hard time adjusting to being stuck in this thing for the rest of his life. He had managed to escape the outskirts of Ponyville before the Mega Spells had gone off. He wasn't sure if anypony else he had known had made it to the other Stables.

He was lucky to have made it to Stable 22 at all. It was the only one that had been built at the edge of the Everfree Forest.
No pony else understood Stable Tech's decision to build it there, but there had to be some reason. he just wouldn't be around to see it.

"How's the analysis Dr. Hooves?", Written asked the pony next to him in the lab. Dr. Hooves was an odd one, to say the least. He either kept to himself or was always obsessing over something he was working on. Written had heard rumors that Hooves had made it the edge of town right as the bombs went off. He had been seen with a filly unicorn on his back.

No pony mentioned where or not she had made it to the Stable before the door was sealed.

"It's going alright Written, those samples you brought are showing some interesting results, to say the least,", his voice betrayed the thoughts that were going through his mind though.

One month Later.

" Doctor, somethings wrong with Written Script,", The panic in the mare's voice got him off his flank immediately.

When he arrived at Written's quarters what he saw shocked him. Written was clutching his chest as he let out a horrible cough. The Doctor pulled out his sonic emitter and began scanning him right then and there. The emitter detected a number of spores coming not only from Written's coughing fit but from the air vents as well.

"What the hell is going on?", he thought to himself. He decided to go and ask the Overmare if she was aware of what was happening. To his surprise, not only was she aware, but she also put the entire Stable on Lockdown.

She then told him that anything they discussed further regarding this was to be deemed Classified as per Terminal instructions from Stable Tec.

Direct orders from not only the President of Stable Tec, Scootaloo, but also from another source. Hooves decided to wait until everypony was asleep before looking into this more. Something was going on here, something that seemed to betray the idea of the Magic of Friendship. He had seen something like this in a previous life. The more he thought about it, the more he realized that he had been to a dystopian wasteland at once in his life as a timelord.

That world had destroyed itself with Nuclear weapons and forced the survivors to escape to underground bunkers called vaults. he also remembered hearing a name of a scientist that had been rumored to be working some kind of case study.
He pushed that aside as he got back up to hear knocking on his door.

He opened it to see Stable Security standing in front of him.

" We need you to come with us quickly doc,", The guard sounded more worried then threatening. They escorted him to the infirmary, and what he saw would have broken the heart of the next stallion or mare.

The Infirmary was filled with sick ponies.

It was taking him everything he had to figrue what was making them all sick. That's when he looked up and saw a faint green mist coming through one of the ventilation ducts of the Stable. Something was being pumped into the room that was causing all of this.

Dr. Hooves took this to the Overmare, who already looked as if she had known about what was happening. She told him that what she was about to say could never leave this room. He acted like he agreed with her and allowed the Overmare to explain.

The gas was coming from an adjacent cavern system that she sent a team to explore. One of the security guards that had gone with them had come back covered in small bite marks, as well as being covered in some kind of pollen or muck. he could feel his conscience pushing him to confront the overmare, but he decided to wait until he had more evidence of what he was uncovering.

The look on Dr. Hooves face was a mix of emotions at that moment. He wanted to ball his left hoof up and smack the Overmare for what she had proposed, but he knew that would either get him killed or land his flank in the Stable's Brig. He told her that he'd think about the information she had just shared with him.

At the same time that was going on , he was unaware that there was a certain mailmare wandering the Wastes. And that her life would be out of his hooves to rescue, despite how much he cared for her. This mailmare would experience things that no pony should ever have to endure.

"Something isn't right," he thought to himself. Why was all of this medical info encrypted? He needed to get access to it so he could figure out why the air filtration was failing in the Stable, and so he could find out if the Overmare was aware of it all or just lying to cover her own flank. There were times he wished that Derpy was with him, she had her own way to keep him calm during times like this. It was too bad she was stranded out in the wastes. She'd have gone mad if she learned what had happened to her daughters.