Fallout Equestria: Forgotten ones

by Blank-Page

Rating: teen
Tags: Tragedy, Profanity, Gore, Violence, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Death, Main 6, Other, Original Character, Adventure, Crossover
Length: 6796

In this story, you will join subject 12948 F and Doodle on their adventures through the wasteland 120 years before the Lightbringer left her stable. In this story, you will also witness their fall.

In this story, you will join subject 12948 F and Doodle on their adventures through the wasteland 120 years before the Lightbringer left her stable. In this story, you will also witness their fall.

This story is a rough cobbling together of Fallout 3, Fallout new vegas, Fallout 4, ponies, And a teenie bit of Mad Max just for fun. This is also notably my first story so don't expect it to be great. Oh and very roughly Fallout 76 because of how early it is the pony/changling duo are out of the stable albeit very loosely due to there being very little in the way of info on the new game.

If I were to choose songs for what I want this story to be it is these. (as time moves on)

numero uno: Verismo - Amoria The balefire Symphony (I couldn't think of anything else (will keep looking(Do my parentheses in my parentheses
in parentheses annoy you)

Number 2: Scissor Sisters - I Can't Decide

Number 3: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD SONG - ROAD RAGE By Miracle Of Sound

P.S. Plz don't kill me

Published 2018-02-26 18:40:11 UTC
Last updated 2018-06-09 16:35:28 UTC

Prologue

Before you start I want you to know this story... my story is not that of a hero bringing down a villain. This story does not have a happy ending. This is a story of a stable dwellers rise to heroism and fall to becoming a warlord. This is a story of how the wasteland corrupts even the best of us. This is the story of those who tried to make the wasteland a better place. This is a story of those whose actions were forgotten in the endless river of time. This is a story of... the forgotten ones.

Now how to start this... I am Ximen now you may be wondering 'How the fuck do you end up with a name like that?' Or 'dear Celestia, not another shitty Fallout Equestria spinoff.' Now you're wondering how in the name of Celestia's milky crotch tits does this random ass pony in a book know about a better book that I also read? Well, that is... complicated let's just say pinkies powers aren't all that unique. Rare, but not unique.

Now, where was I? Oh right um... so yea right names and crap. stable 42 well... was a sciencey stable where they did experiments on things like genetics. At one point they attempted to make changlings. Witch for the most part worked but few were actually capable of doing changling magic. Although they were capable of other odd forms of magic like some could inexplicably faze through walls. Others could create things out of nothing (which really pissed off the scientists due to the law of conservation of mass) some could even create things like fire, water, Random ass explosions... ya know stuff like that. while others could do weekend forms of both. I was one of those lucky sonsabitches who could do a little of both. I can do the fire Bullshit. I got my name because... well it's not a very good reason I honestly just thought it sounded cool and it stuck.

Life in stable 42 was mediocre and there wasn't much to do, Ya woke up ya nommed on some poor dudes feelings as he passed you. Ya reported to test labs and you did the same goddess damned tests all day every day. minus an hour of free time for our own sanity. In which evreyling went back to our wing of the stable and did anything from reading to rutting. It was very easy to tell witch as the walls separating the rooms were thin too which you could cut a hole in the wall in 30 min with a plastic spoon handle. I know this first hand as I've done it twice mostly to interact with the changling on the other side. Gets ya one hell of a beating if you get caught though sometimes it even gets you whipped.

After that little hour, you go to weapons training. Where they show you a gun show you how to reload show ya how to shoot and show you how to fix the gun. Then they throw you into the overrun portion of the stable for an hour. After that its dinner than curfew. That may not sound bad but when you do that, again and again, every day of your life it starts to get super boring. But I get the feeling I'm not gonna be here much longer.

FALLOUT EQUESTRIA: FORGOTTEN ONES

Footnote: Begin game? [Y/N] [Y]

Author's Note

I hope you enjoyed this prologue. Please excuse any improperly spelled words and when you find one, please point it out in the comments.

P.S. Thank you to Kkat for creating Fallout Equestria and being an inspiration to all of us writers.

P.P.S. Also thank you to Somber for creating Fallout: Equestria - Project horizons and for being an inspiration. When it comes to actually starting to write this story.

Chapter 1: Escape Pt 1

Fallout Equestria: Forgotten Ones

Beep Beep Beep I wake up to the high pitched slow beeping of my alarm clock. I begin to lean over and attempt to turn off the alarm, anndd fell out of bed flat on my face. "Aaahh fuck!... Ow" I reached up and slammed my hoof into my alarm clock multiple times until it turned off.

When I finally got the energy to stand up I walked over to my wardrobe to grab some barding. Hmm... let's see grey with blue, grey with grey, grey with red, grey with slightly darker grey. Wow, look at the options grey with slightly darker grey it is. I wonder if they have ever heard of fashion I honestly doubt it.

I stepped out of my room and was greeted with the lovely smell of unhealthy amounts of dust. Many other changlings were leaving their rooms as well as some entering their rooms. The hall at his point was full and getting jammed up. With the combination of the changlings coming and going. As I was walking through the commons I accidentally bumped into someling. He turned and looked down at me and said.

"Hey watch it, little runt"

I looked up at him and shrunk back a little

"Hey man I didn't mean to bump into ya"

He just glared at me and snorted

"well then let me teach you a lesson about watching where you're going"

With that, he picked me up with his magic and sent me sailing into the far wall. I slammed into the wall with a resounding THUD I dropped to the floor dazed and by the time I looked up, I saw him charging me. Time seemed to slow as I watched in bullet time his hoof moving straight for my face. Time went back to normal as I moved my head out of the way. The wall behind me cracked a little from the impact of his hoof. I'm pretty sure I heard the bone break from the impact he howled in pain and I unintentionally smirked. Wich seemed to just piss him off more.

"Oh, you think your clever huh?"

With that, he spun around and reared up for a double hoofed apple buck. I moved my head to the right to avoid his left hoof... SHIT. His right hoof slammed right into my nose and I felt it shatter. I immediately felt blood start to pour from my nose. At this point, I noticed the circle of changlings forming. Then one started to chant 'fight' and then so did the rest of them. Although I think I should thank them because he was distracted. I took my chance and gave him a double hoofed apple buck... Right to the balls. He collapsed and screamed in pain. I scrambled to my hooves facing him. He stood up ready to charge and got tased. As he collapsed three guards jumped on him and put him in hoofcuffs. Ow, wait what was that oh. I suddenly found myself face first on the floor being hoofcuffed by a guard. The guard looked up at the crowd.

"what happened here?"

A small changling with teal hair and green eyes the green eyes is to say for all of us but you know stepped up.

"That big brute attacked umm.. whats your name?" She said looking at me

"I'm subject 12948 F "

She looked at me as if I was stupid "No dear your name."

"12948 F is my name" Well I'm sorry you fucks don't give us names.

"Oh, I thought they named you all. Well, I suppose I'll have a chat with father about that."She looked sort of sad when she said that. Yet I get the feeling she really will.

"yes as I was saying that brute attacked because he accidentally bumped into him" she looked at him then added "Talk about anger issues That's the third one this week. The week started yesterday sigh."

"hmm", The guard looked at me to my attacker,"I'll let 12948 F go and get a nurse or doctor out here to fix his nose."
A few minutes later a nurse ran up to me as I was leaning on the wall trying to stop the bleeding

"my goodness what happened to you?" She said actually seeming quite shocked at the state of my muzzle.

"Got attacked by a dude who I accidentally bumped into" I groaned "ya know a really hate this place sometimes"

"don't talk like that, the stable is all that's left," she said beginning to use a healing spell to fix my muzzle. KRACK Ow...ow..ow.owow ow.

"I doubt that, where would we be getting air to purify from if there was nothing left?"

Do they seriously believe that nothing is left out there? That's crazy there must be something out there.If there isn't anything left than the zebras also killed themselves which would have been funny in a morbid way.

She looked at me with an expression that made me feel really stupid "The stable has an air purification talisman it takes in any gas that isn't oxygen and turns it into oxygen"

so 80-year-old air... huh, sorta gross and I don't know why. "So what your saying is we've all been breathing the same air for 80 years." Ya gross...

"Yup pretty much" She sighed and lowered her voice "Do you really want out that bad?"

"That would be cool but the door broke and even if it wasn't I cant faze through walls" I sometimes wish I could, that would make it easy to get around. Lucky bastards.

"Ok if you want out, talk to a pony named doodle she has wanted out for a while now but she doesn't want to go alone. I'll put in a word so they put you in room 24. She works there usually I can make sure she does, But when you get there show her this and say 'not alone' " She slipped small silver plate into my bardings pocket. Nodded her farewell and trotted away.

_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_

Once I arrived at the testing wing I was, as she said. directed to room 24 a small sterile white room with nothing but a projector a button and a small observation window in it. The test that was given was a basic test. (as its only been a month since I was pulled out of the growth vat) On the other side of the window stood a small light orange earth pony mare who is wearing glasses a lab coat and a small pink bow.

"Hello subject 12948 F Today we will be practicing your basic transformation into a pony. You will be shown various slides of different ponies, you can examine each one for as long as you need once you press the button the slide will turn off and you will have..." I cut her off there.

"Ya ya, this ain't my first rodeo lady" Seriously what does she think I am 1? Oh, wait... Crap.

"Very well then, you may begin"

I pressed the button on the wall and a little screen dropped down with a tall grey pegasus with blue eyes and a short scraggly dark grey mane with a somewhat messy tale wearing a light blue hoodie with a pair of aviator shades clipped on the front. I walked over to the button on the wall and pressed it. The pony was replaced by a timer reading 1:00. Ok, here we go... My hooves started to glow as I started to imagine myself as that pony. A green fire like glow began to creep up my legs above it I looked normal below the aura I had grey fur ugh that's itchy. The Aura continued to spread until from head to hoof I had grey fur. Ok now for the wings... A slight shimmer began to appear on my sides as I imagined myself with the wings of a pegasus. There was a resounding pop as my magic completely failed.

The speaker screeched as the intercom came on "That was a good try but when you try the wings don't pour so much magic into it. You still had 45 seconds left. That was the fastest you have been able to change color so good job."

I walked up to the observation window "Hey are you by any chance a pony named doodle?"

She looked at me a moment as if contemplating then a look of realization flashed across her face."Indeed I am why do you ask?"

I levitated out the small silver plate from my pocket which read 'not'. She grabbed a seemingly identical silver plate then she held it up against the window it read 'alone'. Huh "Not alone"

She nodded "we need to cut the training session short" she hastily grabbed a piece of paper and wrote 'Meet me at bottom of weapons training portion of the stable. At roughly 3:30' I nodded and she quickly shredded the piece of paper. Then opened the door for me and left. I turned and ran out the door checking the clock on the way out it read 2:52.

I ran all the way across the stable to the weapons training wing. Although I did slow so I didn't draw any attention to myself by running through the door at full speed. When I arrived the clock read 3:02. The teacher looked at me and motion for me to join the rest of the class.

"Hello class", He said regarding us,"Today in weapons training I will be teaching you about revolvers. But first, please grab a Pipbuck." Evreyling in the class stood up nearly in unison and got in a line to grab a pipbuck. I walked up to the table and grabbed a pipbuck.

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
[Health 99.9] [over all leg health 100] [torso health 100] [over all head health 99] [muzzle health 97]
[Lvl 1]
[STR 3]
[PER 10]
[END 2]
[CHR 2]
[INT 1]
[AGI 10]
[LUCK 1]
[Boot up and synchronization complete]
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Quest started: Escape

Quest started: First Lessons

"Ok everybody sit down and let's talk revolvers" He levitated a large revolver from a table behind him. "This is a large revolver called the raging buffalo as you could probably imagine from the name. It was made by the buffalo during the war it is a very powerful revolver" He turned towards a target aimed and BOOM the gun let out a mighty roar and punched right through the steel target and into the concrete wall behind it. "As you can see this is a very powerful gun none of you will be allowed to shoot this but I chose this gun because the parts on it are larger and easier to see."

Well, this is boring what time is it... oh crap it's 3:20 hurry up.

"When you press this forward it allows you to open the cylinder" As he said that he demonstrated by pushing forward the hoofpiece with his magic and pushing the cylinder out to the left. "after reloading makes sure not to shoot yourself in the leg as that hurts... a lot. When you're ready to fire you can fire in two ways you can fire single action or double action. In single, you must cock the hammer each time before you fire. Or double action where you fully press and hold the trigger back causing the hammer to fully cycle than release."

Ok, that seems oddly simple. Oh shit, it's 3:27 hurry your ass up I have much better things to do. Why do you need to teach us two ways to fire? Seriously noling is going to use both.

"Now I am going to teach all of you how to properly maintain a revolver" He regarded us and then rotated the revolver for us to see.Once he reached me he flipped the gun around and there was a small silver plate that read 'at 4:30 - D'

Well, that's a relief wait how many people are in on this. Eh might as well pay attention if I'm gonna get outside... and survive.

_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_

"-And that everyone is how you properly maintain a revolver" He looked at the clock "well now it is time for you all to go down there and train in an actual combat situation. So I will get everyone a revolver once you get one just go." He moved over to a container and pulled out some revolvers some ammo. Then began to pass them out to everyone.

[.357 Ironshod added]
[.357 rounds 100x added]

"Ok now get your asses down there and don't die" He looked at me and motioned for me to stay. Once everyone left he walked over to me "Hey I know you are going outside so can I ask you to do something if you ever come back. I would like you to try to find a gun called 'Fury' it's an old gun of my dads. If you find it I can give you its twin 'righteous'"

[quest added 'righteous fury']

"Ya, I can do that for you. Don't know if I'll get around to it Hell I don't know if I'm gonna last to the end of today. But if I find it ill bring it back to ya" And with that, I waved to him turned and headed through the door.

Footnote: 50% to next level
WARNING once you leave this area you can't return unless you have all items for a quest

Author's Note

I hope you enjoyed this first chapter. Please excuse any improperly spelled words and when you find one, please point it out in the comments.

P.S. Thank you to Kkat for creating Fallout Equestria and being an inspiration to all of us writers.

P.P.S. Also thank you to Somber for creating Fallout: Equestria - Project horizons and for being an inspiration. When it comes to actually starting to write this story.

P.P.P.S. This is my first story sorry if its crap.

Chapter 1 : Escape pt 2

Oh, that's a lot of red bars. As I stepped through the door I was greeted with a metric fuckton of red bars. Now, how do you get to the bottom? Oh, that's useful A marker to where I need to go not how to get there. Even more helpful a small indicator that the bottom is down... fuck you stabletec.

As I walked along the hall I heard gunshots echoing from somewhere in the stable. As I was walking along I found a stairway leading down and decided to take a look. Oh was that a bad decision the second I turned the corner I came face to face with three ponytrons. As I ran back to the wall I felt my shell heat up from the impacts of their laser guns. Ah, fuck that burns. I took my revolver from is holster peeked back around the corner and jumped into sats, (Stabletec Assisted Targeting System) Time slowed to a crawl I selected the ponytron and nearly screamed as I saw the hit chance form 5 feet away was only 50% I queued up 5 shots to its torso and fired. Two of the five shots hit two of them flew over its head and into the other two and one somehow hit the wall to my side. The two that hit slammed into its chest causing it to spark and one of its rear legs to lock up.

As time resumed the ponytrons fired a volley of lasers straight into my head the lasers charring my face and burning away holes in my mane. I quickly ducked my head back around the corner and reloaded. Why the fuck did they give us revolvers today out of all days. One of the ponytrons stepped around the corner and fired lasers randomly down the hall. Well, I guess that makes it hard to dodge. I fired three shots at the ponytron one of them flew into the wall behind it and the other two bored a hole in its faceplate. The ponytron now blinded began to spin around and shoot randomly taking out the damaged ponytron causing the partially ponytron to fire at it as it was now marked hostile.

Note to self, blind robots. I peek around the corner and yell. "OI ROBO CUNT. FUCK YOU!" That's probably gonna come back and bite me in the ass but fuck it who cares. Huh, the robot cares I think the robot just started shooting mor- "OW FUCK!" Yup definitely pissed off le robot bitch. Ok, first things first Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow... ow my face. Second I should probably shoot back. I peek around the corner and fire three more shots. Two hit home going straight into its face the other one hit the side of its left foreleg bounced off... and hit the wall an inch from my face. The ponytron somehow not dead took the chance that me almost getting killed gave it. Fired a volley of lasers at me. Still distracted took all of them to the chest. I cried out in pain and fell behind the wall shell cracked and bleeding.

"Ahh fuck me!" Oh fuck you to Mr. Robot I shakily stood up levitated up my revolver. peeked it around the corner. When I pulled the trigger it didn't fire and just clicked. I remembered that the gun only had six shots. I pulled the gun back to me reloaded peeked around the corner and jumped into sats. As time slowed to a crawl I lined up six shots to the ponytrons chest. I watched as the bullets soared through the air and all struck home. TIme resumed and I watched as the ponytron exploded. I looked at my EFS and saw it was clear than began to continue my way down to the bottom of the vault.

_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-

As I walked down the hall at the last level. "Fucking hell is this the bottom?! Am I done can I stop? It's been 4 hours."
Then from behind me, I heard a voice.

"Yes you can stop and yes you are here" Doodle chuckled.

I turned around surprised by the sudden voice. "Bah! waaa how... ok YAY!" I sat down.

"Yikes, that's a nasty wound you want me to check that out for you?" She motioned to the hole that was melted in the shell on my chest.

"No thanks it doesn't really hurt that much." That is somewhat concerning I think holes in your chest are meant to hurt but meh.

"Ok... well if that's the case we should get moving the exits just over here," She said this motioning down the hall right towards the wall.

"umm, that's a wall."

"no its a hidden door trust me, I have a map of the stable and all the hidden doors." she pulled out a map and pointed at the wall directly in front of us and a small symbol that looked like a door next to it.

"how do we open it?" I said looking for a terminal.

"tell me what is the most cliché way to open a hidden door in movies?" She said giving me a deadpan look.

"umm... I don't know we aren't really given movies just books."

"oh well this is awkward... well its the dumb hidden button thing. Stabletech wasn't the most original in hiding things."She walked over to the wall than placed her hoof on the floor right near the corner of the wall. there was a soft click She motioned for me to do the same in the other corner. I, of course, being the dumbass I am just sat there staring at my pipbuck trying to get the radio to work. "hey you over here" I look over and she motioned again for me to do what she was on the opposite side of the wall. So I walked over and put my hoof in the corner. There was another click and then the sound of a motor. The wall lifted into the ceiling.

We both stepped through the door that was now the wall into a small tunnel. The tunnel was covered in dust and garbage. "it should be this way these halls also connect to the armory so we might be able to grab some; armor, ammo, and guns" I simply nodded in response keeping an eye on my efs. Then I saw all of the red bars move behind us except one. Huh, that's weird. "I hope we get to that armory soon. It seems there is something down here that not even the robots want to fuck with."

"well let's hope it doesn't show up for the next 5 minutes because that's how long its gonna take to get there" She looked to her pipbuck and seemed to notice this as well. "In fact, it appears to be in the armory this could prove to be a problem"

"..."

"SON OF A BITCH"

"were here" she pointed to the armory door. I walked over to the door and put my ear to it... Silence.

"well, it seems to be empty let's go." I push open the door and get greeted by a giant sentry bot. I slowly scooted around the room looking around for a terminal. I eventually found a terminal and only barely stopped myself from screaming when I saw how difficult the terminal would be to hack. I sighed and snuck around to the back of it looking for the combat inhibitor. Ah ha, there it is I jumped into sats and targeted six shots to its combat inhibitor.

*BLAM*

*BLAM*

*BLAM*

*BLAM*

*BLAM*

*BLAM*

I was surprised when only 2 shots hit due to the fact I am only five or six feet away from it. Am I really that bad of a shot? The sentry bot activated and decided to target Doodle due to me not being directly in front of it. Doodle was fast to act and activated her stealth buck. Guess that explains how she appeared to me. I thought she was good until it wore off a couple seconds later. How long does it take for those things to recharge? Right friend getting shot now dumbass technology later. I to say the least was pissed as it should be shooting me. So I have two options here hide and see if she makes it. the selfish, easy, and smart option. Or run out yell at it shoot it till it dies and don't die in the process. The heroic, stupid, and difficult option...

I'm a complete and utter fucking idiot. I ran out and jumped onto its back. Oh, this is not a good ide- OW. The sentry slammed me into the ceiling. I in retaliation reloaded and shot six bullets into its torso hoping to hit something important. Hey, it worked the sentry slumped slightly then I realized it started to het up and glow red. I didn't know what was happening but all things considered, I'm getting off. I jumped off the sentry got behind the same table Doodle was behind, then. *BOOM* The sentry exploded bathing the room in fire and radiation. My pipbuck clicked rapidly than stopped. "so now what?" I said looking at her.

"so now what is that really all you have to say after killing that thing" She deadpanned.

"Ummm... Yea"

"... How did you know to shoot it there?"

"I get bored a lot."

"Ok well, that still shouldn't have died that fast how the he-"

"Shhhhh the author is a dumbass and wanted some form of conflict in this chapter."

"The author, what? ar- you know I'm not gonna ask."

I gave her a sheepish smile than looked around. "so this is an armory right. Where are the guns?"

Doodle looked at me like I was an idiot and said: "there probably in the gun racks."

I slowly look to the gun racks and lockers. There are a total of seven, three of which are racks the rest are lockers. I walk to one of the lockers and inspect the lock. "Yep, its a lock. Manual override!" With that, I pull out my revolver and shoot off the lock.

Doodle gives me a look that makes me feel like I should sleep with a knife tonight and I pull the remains of the lock off of the door, then pull it open the door lets out a small groan when I do. Inside of the locker, there's a picture of a turquoise unicorn on the door. The rest of the locker had mostly trash although there was some ammo for some sort of rifle. I took it just in case along with that there was some ammo for my revolvers a 10mm pistol I didn't have. I stepped away from the locker and saw Doodle looking through one. We checked all of the lockers and overall Doodle found some more ammo of various types probably need to look through that after a while. Some snack cakes and a sword... That seems a bit out of place but hey. Last but more than likely least she grabbed a bunch of bottlecaps. I'll ask about that later.

I found get this more random ass trash. Some assorted ammo most of the 10mm variety and a handful of shotgun shells, some dirty water a single beer which was cleverly hidden inside an ammo box under absolutely fucking nothing. The weirdest shotgun I have ever seen It looked like a double barrel shotgun had a child with a pump action. It was like a lever action but it loaded like a double barrel with one barrel its weird as hell but hey. (I later found out this was called a single shot shotgun which made me feel stupid because it was pretty obvious. But hey hindsight 20/20.) Last and definitely not least I fund some saddlebags with a spacial compression spell on them. I turn to Doodle and in a bad pirate voice say.

"So where to next captain?"

"Well if we keep going the way we were it will drop us right into the room with the door. Although I am slightly disappointed with the complete lack of anything armor related in this room."

I nod and begin to follow Doodle down the hall. The rest of the walk is completely uneventful which is good because if it was eventful that would mean more robots or we got caught. We reach the end of the hall which seems to be a dead end. But when Doodle pressed a button the wall slid down to reveal a completely empty room which looked like it hadn't been touched in a long time.

"Well, that's convenient its almost as if the author just wants this fucking chapter to be over already."

Doodle just gives me a look that walks over to a terminal and tries to hack it after backing out a couple of times she unlocks it and you know what it does... It opens the panel to the big red button that opens the door. I shit you not it is a big red button. amusing buttons aside I see Doodle walking over to the button and say.

"Stop!," Doodle looks over to me confused and I put on my most childlike grin, " Can I press the big red shiny button?"

Doodle sighs and says "Yes you can press the button"

I let out an excited squee run over and press the button. Once I do loud alarms start to blare and a massive arm swings down. The arm spins and disengages the massive locks on the door. Then with an ear piercing screech dislodges the door from its place revealing an elevator. I look at Doodle and we both begin to walk towards it once we get on I look for a button but it moves on its own a voice says.

"We hope you enjoyed your stay and thank you for choosing stable tec."

With that, the elevator reaches the top where we are met with... Pitch black.

Chapter 2: A new world

It was pitch black or seemingly so, once my eyes adjusted I found that in fact was not pitch black just really dark. Looking up I saw that the moon was missing. I saw that Doodle was seemingly having the same thoughts judging by the confusion coming off of her. 'Eugh confusion tastes like moldy bread. Actually, I wonder why that is I guess I'll ask Doodle and see if she knows.' Focusing back on my new surroundings I couldn't see much as it was indeed the night. But from what I could tell we were in a desert of sorts. But something was off it wasn't natural the way the sand dunes all seemed to be formed in one direction. How the sand was scorched black. Hell the place seemed to be speaking to me and it was saying one thing. 'You may be alive now but I'll get you eventually. One day maybe tomorrow or maybe in a thousand years, but I will KILL you.' It admittedly was sorta freaking me out. I looked to Doodle who seemed to notice my uneasiness and said.

"whats going on?," Doodle cocked her head to the side slightly, "You seem uneasy something wrong?"

I looked around before saying "Oh it's nothing really just this place seems to want to kill everything.'

"Is that not to be expected it is the wasteland after all.

"I know just makes me uneasy ya know."

Doodle just nodded before looking down to her pipbuck before saying. "Well, we appear to be in what once was a desert just north of Appaloosa. So I guess that is where we should head there aren't any roads near and we are only about a days trot to Appaloosa."

I nodded and turned to the south than said "Well let's go" Then we began to walk towards Appaloosa Completely unaware of what we were about to get ourselves into.

"So have you ever wondered what it's like to taste something wanting to kill you? No, well imagine the worst tasting thing you can imagine. Now multiply that by 10. There ya go, now imagine every time you inhale tasting that. Then on top of all of that, you can feel it looking at you even though nothing is there. Now you have what being out here is like for me every second." I made sure to put emphasis on "Every".

Doodle gave me a sideways glance as she absentmindedly looked at her pipbuck. "That doesn't sound pleasant in the slightest. You know I can't believe some ponies thought there was no outside. Empirically that makes no sense, for Celestia's sake do ponies never think!"

I laughed a little at her last remark "Sometimes I don't think they do. The idiot that kicked me in the face is example A. So how much further do we have to go?"

"Errr...", She squinted at the screen in mock contemplation before saying, " If my calculations are correct we started walking 5 minutes ago."

"Oh"

"Are we there yet?"

Doodle groaned "No"

"How about now?"

"No"

"Aaaarrreee we there... NOW?"

"NO we aren't there now could you shut the fuck up already!"

I laughed "Fine Moooommm"

Doodle and I could see the outline of Appaloosa in the distance. From this distance of roughly a half to 3/4 of a mile, they could see it was a small town with what appeared to be an apple orchard next to it. The town also had a large number of trains in it, the town also best of all from what they could see was untouched.

"My legs feel like swiss cheese and the holes aren't making that any better," I complained to her.

"Bah stop whining were almost there only like an hour more." Doodle said looking at me.

"What do you mean we're already here," I said pointing at the town which was now right in front of us.

"Wha... how WHAT?"

"No no calm down the author is bad at time progression so he just had us here because of reasons for the sake of the reader's brains," I said to Doodle in the least patronizing way I could.

"Readers... Author... Wha. You know what nope let's just explore the town."
I nodded and we began to look around the town was In fact just two roads with shops and buildings along the sides. The town was in surprisingly good shape with only the houses on the side of town the bombs were closest to being crumbled. There were shops down one of the roads and houses on another. The houses appeared to have mostly shielded things like the shops, barn, and the train station. The town was very clean all things considered. Although I'm not sure if the lack of enemies or other ponies out here should make me feel better or not.

The train station was full of train cars although oddly enough the train engine was missing I have no idea how that is possible but it's just gone. As Doodle and I walked around the town we found what appeared to be a sheriffs office of sorts.

"Soooo do you think we should go in?" I asked Doodle looking at her.

"I don't see why not, I mean it's not like anypony lives here."

"You just had to say that last part didn't you." I sighed and began to walk off while Doodle looked at me confused.

I walked up o the door and tried to open the door only to find it locked. Now I may not be an expert on locks but I do know one very good way to open a lock. I pulled out my revolver, aimed it at the lock than pulled the trigger. *BLAM* The doorknob was destroyed and I pushed the door open. I step into the building and am immediately greeted with a laser rifle point blank in my face.

"And this Doodle is why you never say things like that. Because you always Fucking JINX IT!" I say glaring at her.

I turn back to the pony that has a gun pointed at my face. "We don't want any trouble now."

"Well, that's funny because neither do we," I said simply.

"Than why may I ask did you shoot off the lock?" He said raising an eyebrow.

I go to speak but Doodle beats me to it. "We are very sorry about that." She says shooting me a look, " We were under the impression that nopony was living here."

He lets out a long sigh. "Well alright then I'll let you two stay for now but if you want to live here you gotta help us first."

'Oh, I love where this is going' I think sarcastically to myself before saying "What do you need help with?"

"Well, I know you two just got out of a stable but there's a group of ponies that have been threatening us for weeks now, and I would like you to take them out." The stallion says in a very businesslike tone.

"Hmm well... Wait How did you know about us being from a stable?" I say somewhat alarmed before I hear doodle facehoof and say.

"Look at what you're wearing." She says deadpanning.

I look down at my stable barding and pipbuck. "Oh right"

I clear my throat and continue saying "Well anyways sure I have three new toys and I wanna play with em."

"Wait! You're thinking about just going out and killing ponies!" Doodle yells in disbelief.

I just look at her and say "Well I don't like it either but they've been threatening a town for weeks I doubt that they are gonna be too friendly."

She huffs but says no more instead glaring at me. The stallion clears is throat and says "Well then we got a deal you deal with them and you are welcome here any time you like."

I look to my pipbuck as it dings and marks the location on my map as '(Unknown faction) basecamp' I nod and begin walking away with a slightly peeved Doodle in tow.

'Well, shit... This is my life now isn't it.'

Footnote: level up

Perk added Bluntness: Your general Bluntness about things can give you an advantage when talking to less friendly ponies and when trying to threaten. Although it can deture possible Ally's.

Quest started:frend/foe

Author's Note

Well sorry, it took so long end of school year crap.

But anyways here it is! What have they gotten into now?