Fallout Equestria: Stable 36

The recording crackles to life, the tired voice of a pony long since dead reaching out from the past.

“Hello Spitfire! This recording is for your ears only. You have been selected as Overmare of Stable Thirty Six for your loyalty and integrity even in the face of opposition and incredible odds. My name is Scootaloo, you know me as one of the founders of Stable-Tec, and one of the few ponies who is doing something to save our home.”

There was a pause, the pony on the other end letting out a long sigh. Scootaloo continued, her voice now heavy with great sadness.

“Stable-Tec’s primary mission is to save ponies, but the stables provide a secondary purpose. We need to fix what went wrong. We can’t survive, only for this crap to happen again. When the doors open, we need to be ready to revive Equestria as it should be, not as those bastards made it. Your stable has been selected for a very special experiment. Every single pony in your stable has been chosen because their flight genes run strong and unbroken back at least five generations. There’s not one flightless pony amongst them.

“Heh. I spent so long trying to learn to fly. Even founded the Red Racer so flightless ponies could feel the breeze in their manes. Yet here I am, locking up a stable of only the best fliers in Equestria, except Rainbow Dash. She’d never agree to go in a stable, no matter how it was built.”

The recording went quiet for a time, a silence filled with contemplation.

“Sometimes I wonder what we did to deserve this. Why didn’t we work harder to stop this war? Why did it have to be this way? Damn them all!” A hoof thumped against a table, her anger barely restrained. The recording crackled slightly, but continued.

“Sorry. Got sidetracked. Equestria was founded upon the friendship of the three tribes, and maybe that’s where it went wrong. Maybe the three tribes weren’t meant to live as equals, but meant to work with one tribe as a head. After all Princesses Luna and Celestia were meant to be the embodiment of the three tribes and look where they got us! Your stable holds ponies with a long and unbroken flight lineage and the layout is especially designed for ponies who can fly. Ponies without wings cannot thrive here and that’s the real purpose of this stable. This stable is meant to keep the lineage of pegasi pure and strong, no matter what. Your Stable-Tec computer is equipped with a state of the art genome matcher with samples from the entire stable population. Use it to keep making the best fliers in Equestria, then when it is time, open the doors and Equestria will be filled with strong, uncontaminated pegasi ready to fill the skies, a genetic reset back to a time before the wendigoes came.

“If, at any point the experiment threatens to collapse the stable, then terminate it. But this is a worst case scenario situation, keep it going as long as possible, no matter what. We need to figure out what went wrong, we need to do better.

“I just wish I was going to be there to see it.”

Silence ran through the speakers, before ending with a gentle click.