I felt a cool breeze brush over my face. A pleseant smell flodded my nostrils. I felt the sunlight warming up my face.

I opened my eyes to a beautiful bright blue sky. There were a few clouds here and there, but it was mostly blue.

I found myself lying in a patch of flowers. I stood up on all fours to observe them. Their colors were vibrant, and the scent they were releasing eased my mind.

I looked up to a seemlessly endless blue ocean. To the right of the ocean was a beach. There were ponies there playing in the water, or simply sun bathing on towels.

I turned the opposite direction to look down a hill. At the bottom there was a playground. On this playground there was little colts and fillies with one young griffion playing around. Some played tag, some swung on the swings, others just simply ran around laughing and enjoying their time.

Off to the side of the playground were some benches. On these benches were more ponies. I presumed these were the parents or guardians to the foals on the playground. One mare was looking at her smart phone, a stallion was watching his foal play, and what appeared to be a couple was tending to a baby foal in a baby carriage. On the last bench sat a male griffion taking a nap.

I turned once again to shield my eyes with a hoof from the suns rays. I walked forth underneath a tree. Looking past the tree I saw a city. There seemed to be a lot of construction happening. I could only imagine what was going there. Busy streets full of cars, tucks, buses, and semis. Ponies walking about going to work or simply just going for an outting.

I returned to the flower patch and stood on my hind legs. I closed my eyes and relaxed myself. I took in a deep breath and exhaled. I felt happy and warm inside. I continued to inhale and exhale. After about a minute or so I notice something strange. There was a weird smell in the air, almost the smell of ash. I reopened my eyes only to feel the happiness wash away.

I gazed apon the ocean now filled with warships fighting it out in naval warfare. Acompaning the warships were smaller attack boats.

I turned to the playground only to have my soul crushed. On the playground lay the dead bodies of the foals and older ponies. I could tell even from up here that they were shot dead. One of the stallions was beheaded and his head was lying near his corpse.

I turned to the tree to see a mare hanging from a noose. Nearby on the floor was a note indcating to me that she killed herself.

I looked to the city only for it to be full of fires and explosions. Above the city were starships fire their lazers down onto it. I could see flak guns shooting up into the sky at them.

The sky was heavily darkend by clouds and smoke. I heard a loud rumble and looked back down at the city. One of the skyscrapers was collapsing leaving a large dust cloud at the base.

I felt tears start to stream down my cheeks as I fell to my knees. When my knees made contact there was a squish sound. I looked down to see I was no longer on a flower patch, but a mound of dead bodies. I then saw my hooves, they were covered in blood. I was no longer naked, but wearing full combat gear.

I couldn't take what was happening. The tears began to stream out even faster. I didn't need to see the end of this. I looked to my right hindleg. There was a pistol hostler with a pistol. I unhostlered it. It was a colt m1911 with beautiful engravings. The gun it self was black while the engravings were red with a few white details.

I undid the safety and pulled back the slide, cocking the gun. Knowing a round was chambered I slowly lifted it towards my head. I placed it underneath my chin and closed my eyes one last time... and then... I pulled the trigger. The last thing I felt was the round piercing skin and my brains being blown out before everything went black.

I screamed sitting up in my bed. I felt sweat stream down my face as my rapid breaths began to slow down. I wiped the sweat from my face and began to talk to myself.

"Everything is fine, everything is fine Reap," I said to myself as I turned my head to the right. I move the curtain of the window out of the way to the miles and miles of stars and empty space.

I remove the bed sheets and dangle my hind legs off the side of the bed. I looked at the metal night stand next to my bed. On it were several bottles of alcohol, a knife with a blood stain, and three epi pen like syringes, two which had been used.

At this point I started to note how awful I really felt. My head was aching, I felt weak, tired, and... well... depressed.

A sudden pain in my left foreleg cause me to flinch. I lifted it in hopes of finding what has caused the pain. Apon my foreleg were two cuts... that I presumed I did to myself last night. Speaking of last night, what did I do last night?

Suddenly I felt a liquid quickly make its way up my throat. I stood and rushed to my room's bathroom. I dumped my stomach's contents in to the toilet and then some. After finishing I walked over to the mirror. I looked myself in it, not only did I feel awful, I looked awful too.

My mane was messy, my coat was ruffled, my eyes were bloodshot, and they were tear stains on my cheeks. I looked at my horn. My horn was basicly a knife sticking out of my head. On its side were red and white engravings. It was jet black matching the color of my coat. My mane and tail were red with black stripe outlined with white stripes. I really didn't consided myself an alicorn because first, my horn was a knife, second, I wasn't imortal, and third, I have pegasus wings. I unfurled them noticed a few feathers out of place. I looked at my eyes again, but this time a little closer. My irises were blood red with a slight red glow. I turned a little bit to look at my cutie mark, it was the Mutebear, the national animal of my empire. Next to it was the number sixty-six in cursive. My nicknames were Sixty-Six or Reap.

"I need a shower, but first I need to clean up my roo-" I was interupted by a metallic knock at my door. I rushed over to night stand, "Hold on a minute."

I quickly put the bottles and the two used syringes into the trash. I then put the unused syringe and knife into the drawer. I somewhat tried to fix my mane, but to no avail.

I walked over to the door and hit the panel next to it to unlock it. I heard a metallic hiss as the door opened.

There stood Karen, my marefriend. Karen was a unicorn with a burgundy coat and black mane. In her mane was a dark blue stripe with matching blue eyes. Apon her flank was a microphone with a few musical notes around it. She got her cutie mark when we started our own little band back in middle school.

"Hey," She said to me with a smile on her face.

"Hey," I responded as I tried to muster up a fake smile.

"Did you sleep well?"

"No, not really... I kind of had a nightmare."

"Oh, what was it about?"

"Umm, it was about my dad," I lied trying to make it sound like noting special. I saw her smile fade, she saw straight through my lie.

"Are you sure that's what your nightmare was about, Reaper?" She asked me with a hint of concern in her voice.

"Yeah, I'm sure Karen," I said. She gave a sigh and hugged me. I returned the hug and gave her a soft kiss on the forehead. Her smile returned.

"And one more Karen, was I drunk last night?"

"No."

"Thats good to hear-"

"You were wasted," she said her smile vanishing once again.

"Oh, alright then thats all I needed to hear."

"Okay then, I'll be in my room, and by the way are you-"

"Yeah, I'm gonna take a shower," I said as I let her go.

"Alright, come see me if you need anything, and I mean anything," she said as she put a hoof on my chest.

I blushed a little bit impiling what she said. I watched as she slowly walked down the corridoor and making a left. I went back in my room and locked the door.

I walked to the bathroom again and started the shower. I hopped in and stood on my hind legs feeling the warm shower water make its way down my body. My mane fell flat on the side of my face and neck.

"Ahh, this is what I needed."

After my shower, I decided to head to the ship's mess hall for breakfeat. I stepped out of my room and into the darkend halls of the Silencer.

The Silencer was my flag ship in the galactic navy of the Mute Empire. The Silencer was also concidered as a dreadnought as it was the largest galactic ship to ever be used in warfare.

I continued walking down the hall and past a few engineer ponies. I got a bunch of 'Hey sirs' and some bowed down even though I tell them not to. I opened a door into a large hanger. The hanger had ponies, griffions, and diamond dogs going about their daily jobs.

I saw all the vehicles we had in the ship. We had jets, vtols, Mraps, heavy assault robots, and some techicals. What did you call them again, autonomous something something?

By no means was I a smart pony. I considered myself quite stupid actually. Everytime I walk to the bridge I always run into the same low hanging pipe. I could bearly remember the names of the equipment and vehicles we used.

I continued down the over head catwalk into the second crew quarters.

"I should probably tell Karen to go to breakfast with our other friends."

I walked towards Karen's room down the hall. I stopped at the door and sighed. I gave two good knocks.

"Come in," I heard Karen's voice from the other side of the door. I then pressed the button next to the door. The door gave a hiss and opened.

I saw Karen sitting in a chair and looking out the window onto the planets surface. She turned to look at me.

"Oh, hey Reaper," she said turning her head to continue looking out the window.

"Hey, wanna go to the mess hall to find the others?"

"Umm, yeah you go on ahead I join you in a second," she said with a hint of saddness.

"Hey, whats wrong Karen," I said pulling a chair up next to hers.

"Do you think there's anyone alive down there?"

I looked out the window, "I hope so Karen, I hope so."

"I read the rad readings... there is a lot down there."

"Yeah, but the rad levels should be safe enough now."

"Alright, lets go to the mess hall."

We stood up and headed to the mess hall.

We reached the mess hall. Upon entering we saw our friends sitting in the back of the room. First we got our food then sat with them.

"Hey Reap, Karen," they said in unison except the earth pony mare in the back.

"Hey Stiles," I said with a smile.

Stiles was a earth pony stallion with a light brown coat and grey mane, also he had green eyes. Apon his flank was a game controller. Before he joined the millitary he was a serious gamer. After he joined the army he became a field medic.

Next was Catrine. Catrine was a earth pony mare with a dark red coat and dark orange mane, also she had matching orange eyes. We'd met her in high school during a religous festival called 'Dia De Los huesos.' She was the scout sinper of our squad. She was deadly accurate with a sniper rifle. Because of her percision and kill count with snipers, she earned the nickname La Catrina. Her cutie mark was a black mask with a pony skull design on it. She had got it when she made mask for ponies during festivals.

Next was Cyclone. Cyclone or Cyclone Dash as his full name, but we just called him Cy. Cy was a pegasus stallion with light blue coat and gray mane with multiple shades. It was like rainbow mane only grey. He also had a pair of purple eyes. His cutie mark was a cyclone with a lighting bolt coming out the bottom with colors similar to his mane. He was just a standard infantry in our squad just like Karen.

Finally came Helena. Helena was Stiles's marefriend. She is an earth pony with a cream yellow coat and a chocolate brown mane. She also had brown eyes. Her cutie mark was a circuit board; she can almost repair any combat robot on the field, so therefore she became an engineer.

"Where were you two at, what testing the bed springs," Stiles said with a playfull voice.

"Uh, no I was just freshening up for the day," I said as blush rapidly formed on my face.

"O ho, yeah sure you were."

"I'm being serious," I said with my blush turning an even deeper shade of red.

"O let's just finish eating and why don't we head up to bridge to plan tomorrow's mission, we are after all seeing whats on the surface."

"Yeah, let's hope there's still something alive down there."

We continued to walk through the halls of the Silencer. Our goal was to get to the service elevator. Getting closer and getting a few greets from some engineers, we turned a sharp corner. The second I turned the corner I hit that pipe. The same pipe I've been hitting since I started walking these halls.

A loud bang and clang was heard as my face and horn hit the low hanging pipe.

"UGHH, that stupid pipe," I said rubbing my head.

"Here let me see," Karen said moving my leg out of the way,"Your fine Reaper."

"My head doesn't tell me I'm fine." Yeah probably from all that alcohol yesterday.

"It will never get old no matter how many times you hit that pipe," Stiles said with a laugh.

Just pass it of Reap, just pass it off, I thought as we kept walking. We got in the elevator and ascended. We walked into the large bridge with a throne like chair in the middle.

"Captains on deck," a stallion said as he knocked twice.

"Good morning sir," another stallion said walking up to me.

"I assume everything is in order?"

"Yes sir, we are just finishing up our early morning routines."

"Any progress on the Mars ship yard?"

"Yes sir, repairs have already begun."

"Good, what about the base on Europa, Jupiter's moon?"

"It's already up and running."

"Excellent, and the base on Titan, Saturn's moon?"

"Fully operational sir."

"Okay, are there any signs of Imperial Coalition ships?

"Yeah, there are some on the northern part of the planet."

"Okay, so what is the game plan for tomorrows touch down."

"It's just your squad sir, everbody else is staying out of atmosphere."

"Alright so where are we goin-"

"Why don't we send the whole army down there," Cy asked.

"This isn't a planetary invasion Cy," I responded.

"Oh, alright then... continue on."

"So... as I was saying where are we landing and where are we being picked up of we don't find anything?"

"Okay sir your squad is being dropped of here and you are to move towards the small town of Ponyville.. and also sir there apears to be a large energy source undergroung by the town."

"So anything else we need to know?"

"Nothing else sir, everything is in order, radiation levels are safe and you'll have all the gear needed for the mission."

"Speaking of gear, why don't we head to the armory and see what Chop has for us?"

"Yeah I agree," Stiles said with a smile.

"Well then, lets get going."

With that said we made our way back to the elevator. Something inside of me was telling me tomorrow was going be a bad day... and my headache is back... dammit...

Author's Note

Please know that Fallout Equestria does not belong to me, it belongs to Khat.