Fallout Equestria: In The Beginning

        Everything was dark and blurry, I couldn’t make out anything! I heard hundreds of voices, not happy voices, these voices were screaming for mercy and help. What was happening!

        I eventually managed to open one eyelid to see the world clearly, what I saw I couldn’t believe, there was fire everywhere, ponies were running around in terror, where was I? This wasn’t the bed I fell asleep in! I slowly got up and found that I had a terrible headache, I saw a pony in a standard military outfit, this wasn’t the Royal Guard.

        He looked in my direction and as soon as he did, his head exploded into a thousand bits and pieces. I need to get the hell out of here, and fast. I immediately had received a rush of adrenalin and started to dash randomly, I didn’t have a destination, I didn’t know where I was, all I knew is I wanted to get out of there.

        I eventually saw a deep ditch in front of me and jumped in, what I saw I couldn’t believe, there had been a line of ponies with grim faces and guns at hoof. They looked at me with no emotion but pain, to their left, a dead zebra.

        I tried to speak but I couldn’t, my voice didn’t want to work, they didn’t talk either, instead, one of them just threw their hoof in the air signalling the line of ponies to start a rush, towards the enemy line.

        One by one they jumped over the pit wall, I slowly stuck my head up to see that hundreds of bullets were flying in their direction already and the whole line fell in a matter of seconds, I looked back to see that another row of ponies had already lined up and were ready to rush again. Are they crazy! I tried to tell them to run but it happened again, one hoof thrown, a rush, then nothing.

        I was starting to get jittery, how did I end up here! I slowly navigated the pit only to find a small door heading into one of the walls, I slowly opened it and saw two ponies in their, one was a light blue pastel color with a rainbow mane, the scary part was that she was in a antagonizing suit of black armor, the second one, was a huge red pony, he had a large green apple with a cut in it as his cutie mark, he was highly decorated.

        The red pony yelled, “We can’t just send in troops by the dozens to die!”

        The blue pegasus replied harshly, “Big Mac, I know you don’t want to fight this war like this but we simply have no other way right now, we have to capture this city, it’s the mark for the war! This will be a huge mark!”

        The red ponies name was Big Mac? Big Mac slowly sighed and replied, “I know Rainbow, Ah just don’t like this one bit, we...” He continued to talk but I couldn’t make out the words anymore as an explosion had hit right next to me, the world started to quickly fade away.

        I jumped up and found myself awake on my bed, it was daytime and everypony had already left for class, wait, oh shit! I’m late for class! I jumped out of bed and immediately grabbed my saddle bags, dashed towards the door.

        I ran around the corner to see that the same two Royal Guard were guarding the exit, or at least I think it was the same two.

        I trotted up to them and gathered the nerve to ask them something, “What hour is it?”

        They both in unison replied, “Third hour.” I immediately started down the hallway, I had to get to the other side of the school. I noticed that even more guards were around the place, they were even positioned next to some of the escape hatches now. The hallways had a more grim mood than usual, I couldn’t place it.

        After a few minutes of running around I found my class, room 204, English, I enjoyed this class the most since it allowed me to express myself. As I entered the class everypony in the room looked in my direction, their looks told me that they didn’t care, the teacher, Mr. Royal, instantly had a smile over his face.

        He noticed I was tired, he jokingly said, “You just get out of the hay?”

        That was one of the most cheesiest jokes that I’ve heard from him yet, I replied, “Ya, had a bad dream.” He nodded and as his usual attitude, started to ask me what it was about, in front of the class.

        I slowly shuffled my hooves, it wasn’t something I wanted to talk about in front of the class. I spoke up after a few minutes of silence, “It’s nothing, trust me.”

        He simply shrugged and went back to the board, I sat down in the back of the class, it was the only desk available. I did my usual routine and pulled out a piece of paper, the difference in this class that was apart from all the other classes is the fact that I had the freedom to write what I wanted, I wasn’t bound by the common rules that the other classes enforced.

        As Mr. Royal gave a lecture to the class about old poetry, I sat down writing down my thoughts, I was trying to write down as much of the dream as I could remember, I didn’t want to forget a single thing, at the same time, I wanted to forget it all.

        I wrote down every detail to the last mark, as I finished the memory, I looked up to see something I really didn’t want to see, Mr. Royal had been reading my story the whole time! How could I have been so oblivious!

        He was only smiling, I put my hooves over my head trying to hide the shame. He picked up the paper and looked over it again with more thorough eyes.

        He looked at me and then said happily, “Where in the world did you get an idea to write a story that was so in depth on this subject! It’s purely amazing! The shear detail, the reality, it all seems so real!” I looked up at him and tried to smile, it looked more like an attempt to get out of the room, in reality, it was.

        “Now please tell me where you had the inspiration to write this masterpiece!” He happily said while walking around the room examining it, using his magic to levitate the paper at different angles.

        I replied with attitude, “It was nothing, can we please get off this subject now?” The class’s attention had been gathered on the paper.

        He started to read the paper out loud to the class, “As I awoke, the shouts and screams were overwhelming, the sheer power of the scene unfolded slowly in front of me, the ponies around me were dressed in standardized military uniforms, I had no idea where I was, what was happening, or why I’m even here, the damp cuts in the wall told me that it was freshly dug, this was chaos in its purest.” Some of the class looked mesmerized while others seemed to not care and tittered in their seat.

        I couldn’t believe what he was doing, he was reading the paper in front of the class! Why does this have to happen to me of all ponies! I simply shoved my head under my hooves even further to block out the world.

        As he finished the paper, everypony in the class had been listening, some had pencils still in their mouths, others just speechless. What has just happened? This of all things, why this!

        I was dwelling on my thoughts until I was snapped out of it, “Viren?” I looked up at Mr. Royal and he had a more confused look on his face than his usual happy self, “What did inspire you to write this anyways? This doesn't seem like your usual literature, nor any ponies if I am correct?”

        I sighed and gave in, “Well, I was just writing down my dream, that right there is the dream to the exact crack, can I please just be excused now?” He looked at me with a concerned look on his face now.

        He nodded his head to the excuse but said one last thing, “Viren, we should talk later after school, if you may, can we meet in the commons I dunno, say four?” I nodded back, grabbed my paper and left the class.

        I had thirty minutes to kill still so I decided to give the school another look through. Ok, so if there are guards at every exit and majority of the hatches, what would happen if they we were actually attacked? This whole thing is like a giant puzzle! Are we supposed to calmly walk down the ten mile tunnel while our school is burned to the ground? What keeps them from following us down the tunnels! How could we open the doors for certain ponies, would we leave the ones that could not make it to the tunnels fast enough behind?

        I slowly trotted towards one of the hatches and on top of one of them read “Stable Tech” in big bright letters, now where have I heard of that before? That makes no sense, why wouldn’t we be able to go down them now and just leave this place for good!

        As I trotted around I noticed a new door in one of the less traveled hallways, I slowly trotted up to it to hear voices in the room, shouting voices.

        A mare’s voice shouted out saying, “The stable is not going to hold everypony at this school! Its, its, its just too big of a number!”

        Another mare’s voice replied in a southern accent, “Now Scoots, you know we have to do what we can, if we can’t save them all, at least we save some. You know Luna wants this school’s inhabitants to be safe, let’s just hope we don’t even have to use it.”

        A third mare’s voice spoke out, “Well girls, we already have majority of it constructed, why don’t we just finish the job and go on to another place, we don’t have the budget to expand the stable size now.” That voice, it was, I could swear I heard it before, wait a minute, is that Sweetie Belle? The singer! What is she doing here!

        Scootaloo yelled out again, “Fine! We still have to be in Canterlot by next week, you know, the demonstration to see if we can install a stable within their grounds?”

        Sweetie Belle replied calmly, “Yes, I know, but this is a huge deal for us, it will help fund us build stables all over Equestria, if this succeeds, we could save millions!” After hearing that I started to fall back, I could not believe what I am hearing, the hatches are not an entrance to a tunnel, it’s the door to a stable!

        What does that even mean, why are stables even being built here, are they storing money? That couldn’t be it, they were talking about saving millions of ponies, what could possibly be so bad to lock away ponies? Do they really think the war could escalate that far?

        Why does Luna want stables  installed in this school then? Why does she need a stable here of all places? What are we being targeted by, this can’t just be Zebra Militia, this has to be some sort of bombing target!

        I ran as far away from the door as I could, I didn’t know where I was going but I just wanted to get away. As I neared my room, I started to forget about everything else, I was solely focused on that conversation.

        What is going to happen to this school, the students, the staff! Are we just toys to be messed with? A horrid game of chess? Does my dream have anything to do with what is happening at our school? Who exactly were the three ponies that I heard arguing? I should have stayed to listen to them.

        I really ju- *Ring Ring Ring Ring* Fourth period, I should really get going, who should I tell about this, should I just keep it a secret? I slowly started to trot out of the room and towards my locker, going to it I noticed that not just one of the hatches, but every single one of them had Stable Tech printed on them, so this is what we're supposed to live in?

        I grabbed my science book and shut the door, I slowly trotted to class as I dwelled on my thoughts again. They really are doing this, and I’m smack dab in the middle of it. What did they mean by install multiple stables? What kind of war are we getting into?

        I arrived to class early, Mr. Arthium was waiting with goggles, an apron, and some rubber gloves, he had a stack of them on the table next to him, as the students walked in, they put on the safety equipment and sat by their designated lab partner, I was stuck with Rift, the overly energetic pony. He had a happy look on his face, he looked straight at me with a beaming smile, I returned it with a distant look.

        As I sat down next to him Mr. Arthium had already begun the lesson, he started to mix two chemicals that I couldn’t make out together and they started to bubble over, he looked at it with a curious eye and then someone in the class yelled “Hit the floor!” and with that, he dropped the two test tubes into the sink and hit the floor, like everypony else in the room.

        He was a nice teacher and all, but he screws everything up, this was a regular routine with us, it was an odd day of class not to be ducking or keeping our eyes on alert. The class slowly got up and sat back in their seats, the front desk was covered in this dark green goop that seemed to solidify like jello as it cooled.

        He got up with a smile on his face looking at the goop, he got out one of his pencils with his magic and started to poke at it, as it jiggled he started to speak, I just ignored his phrases due to the fact that one of the pieces of goop landed on our desk and Rift was poking at it with his hoof.

        Why am I stuck with a bunch of idiots? As Rift pocked the blob for the hundredth time, I started to become even further irritated and knocked the blob onto the floor. He looked at me with questioning eyes but my return look was enough to tell him not to speak.

        I looked back at the front and noticed that Mr. Arthium had already pulled out another two vile’s of chemicals, “Ahh, thats were we went wrong! I mixed up the sulfur with the hydric acid! Oh boy, its a good thing I did too! If that acid were to react, we could be in some big trouble!

        He slowly put down the two vile’s into a tray, he looked at the class and started stating random facts, he always rambles on when he messes an experiment up. As time began to fade I noticed that the door had multiple Royal Guards in front of it, were they here because they heard an explosion? Whatever, it doesn't matter to me.

        As class ended I immediately left the room, I had an hour to kill before I was to meet with Mr. Royal in the commons. I started down the hallway as Shrew pulled up by my side, this time more careful than last time.

        “Hey whatcha doin?” I looked at him with an even more threatening stare than before, it didn’t faze him one bit.

        “Was wonderin what you have been up to, we haven't been able to talk since that incident with Luna!” He bumped into me trying to cheer me up, it only angered me more.

        “How many times do I have to say, get the hell away! I need to think right now!” With that he immediately stopped in his tracks, he didn’t follow me nor looked anywhere else, his stare locked on the wall where he was looking when I uttered the statement.

        I continued trotting down the hall, ignoring him. As I reached my room, I decided to just rest on the time that I had left. As I slowly pulled myself onto the bed and quickly fell asleep.

        As I slowly got up, I realized that I was hearing the loud shouting and screaming again, but I wasn’t in the same place as I was the last time, this time I was on the ground, holding a semi - auto rifle in my mouth, I was looking around and noticed the same big red pony from the last dream, what was his name? Big Mac!

        He was standing next to a soldier, what happened to him! That is terrible, how did it, forget it, he was blown in half, talking to the Big Mac, he was saying words I couldn’t understand at all. This was terrible, the blood had filled the trenches up to my hoof, I decided to look over the wall and noticed that there was little to no fighting going on right now, it seems as if the battle has already ended

As I saw a yellow pegasus walk into our trench, she started to order a group of unicorns around, what were they doing? She said something I couldn’t make out, wait, what? Are they glowing!

Slowly the illumination grew, it became so powerful that I had to look away, all of a sudden it vanished, I looked around and saw ponies getting up, everywhere, that rainbow pony from the last dream had been staring at her in complete awe, they started to say something but I didn’t pay attention.

Shouts were heard from both sides, all of a sudden, the stallion to my right fell down, a bullet had struck him in his head, what? This couldn’t be, the battle has started again! As if instincts, I pulled the rifle over the trench and shot randomly, I wasn’t in control of my body anymore!