Fallout Equestria: Fallen Fortress

*Hiss* *Whoosh* Fresh air filled Medic’s frozen lungs as he slowly awoke from Cryogenic Stasis, “Vhere-? Vere am I?” He asks as he slowly steps out on his legs, “Ow, mein head.” He raised a hoof to his head to try and quell the headache he was experiencing. Wait… Medic lowers his hoof, “A-a hoof? Vhat happened to mein hands?” He walks in circles examining his body then sits down on his rump, “I’m definitely a horse… But vhy am I a horse?” Again a hoof goes up only to bump into a horn on Medic’s head, “Not just any horse… I’m a unicorn! Heh, Pyro vould love zis!... Vait, ZHE TEAM!” Medic runs to the other stasis pods and reads the names. “Wind Runner? Patriot? Fire Fly? VHAT’S UP WITH ZESE NAMES!? ZESE AREN'T ZERE NAMES!... Aren’t zey? V-vhy can’t I remember zeir names? Or mein for zat matter?” Medic looks at his stasis pod, “Healing Song… Mein violin und mein ability to heal make up zhis name… But it doesn’t feel right, or like mein…” Medic looks around the chamber and realizes there’s a safe next to each stasis pod, “Personal belongings?” He goes to open the one next to his own pod and a password hint shows up, “How did Healing Song lose his medical license? Oh, zhat’s easy!” He types in stole a man’s skeleton. The safe then opened with a hiss and a pop, “Mein… Mein violin!” Medic felt himself start to cry with joy, “Und it’s still in perfect condition!” He hugs the case then notices the metal bird shaped robot and a note,

“Medic,

I know how much you love your dove Archimedes, but I fear with what’s happening he won’t survive long. I never told you what happened to him till now. His memories and personality have been downloaded into this robot version for you. The real one died in the process since his soul was transferred as well. Yes, I read about your work with souls. Don’t worry, I’m not mad… Though you may hate me for taking mine back. Oh well, by the time you read this, I’ll probably be long gone. The Pip-Buck here will have all the data you need to activate Robo-Archimedes. Just strap it to your arm and follow the instructions.

Signed,

Lucky Wrench/ Engineer”

“Pip-Buck?” Medic reaches a hoof in and brings out what was left in the safe. Out came a few golden coins, an empty book for writing, some pencils, a sharpener, healing supplies, a bone-saw, a syringe gun, saddlebags, and a portable computer marked Pip-Buck 3000, “So a Pip-Buck is a portable computer. Leave it to Engineer to make somezing like zis.” Medic carefully strapped it to his left forearm. Immediately the computer beeped to life.

“Hello! Welcome to the loading screen of your brand new Stable-Tec standard, Pip-Buck 3000l!”

“So Engineer didn’t make zis?

” “If this is your first time using a Pip-Buck, please run the tutorial. You can begin the tutorial by selecting the ‘Run Tutorial’ option!”

“OK…” Medic clicked the run tutorial option.

“Welcome to the Pip-Buck tutorial! Bringing the Eyes Forward Sparkle online now!” A sudden burst of letters and numbers filled Medic’s vision. He moved his head, watching the icons move with it. He then moves his eyes, looking at all the areas that displayed his heart rate, health, and even a compass. The Pipbuck chimed again. “E.F.S spell online and running at 100%! Your Eyes Forward Sparkle displays all vital information, even including a Friend or Foe indicator on your compass! This signals a neutral entity.” A yellow bar flashed in the center of Medic’s compass, stayed for a few seconds, then disappeared. “This indicator means that the entity is a foe.” A red bar flashed where the yellow one was earlier, then disappeared just the same. “And lastly, this indicates a friendly entity.” A green bar flashed in Medic’s vision before vanishing like the rest, “Whoa.” “E.F.S tutorial complete. Would you like to run the Stable-Tec Arcane Targeting Spell tutorial? (Y/N)”

“Never heard of it.” Medic selects yes.

“Welcome to the Stable-Tec Arcane Targeting Spell tutorial. S.A.T.S. is a special spell to assist when targeting with any weapon to increase accuracy and where you wish to hit. You can activate S.A.T.S. by pressing the button marked V on the left side of the operation screen. When active, time will slow down giving you time to psychically select what to hit and where. Activate S.A.T.S while wielding a gun please.” Medic complies by grabbing his syringe gun, after a few attempts, in a telekinetic grip then turns on S.A.T.S. He is amazed at the slowed down world. He can’t move more than his eyes but has a fun time watching dust particles move slower than usual. Spotting a rusty can of BONK, Medic takes aim and the can is surrounded in a green highlight with an 89% hovering next to it. Must be my chances of hitting it. Medic selects the can and exits the spell, feeling it guide his movements. The syringe gun fires and a syringe hits the can dead center, causing it to fall backward, “Congratulations! Be aware that S.A.T.S can’t stay active forever and has a limited range of about 3 meters. This concludes the S.A.T.S tutorial. Enjoy your Pip-Buck 3000!”

A moment of silence before an audio file starts playing, “Hey Doc, it’s me, Engineer! As the note stated, I’m gonna guide you through how to activate your Robo Archimedes! Press a hoof down on his chest and a hidden panel will open.” Medic follows the instructions without question, “Once the panel is open you should see an orange colored button. Press that and Archimedes should wake up from his slumber. More details on his robot form are in the blueprints saved to the Pip-Buck drive.” Robo-Archimedes opened his eyes after the button was pressed and watched with curiosity as Medic closed up the panel.

“Archimedes? Is it really jou?” Medic asks skeptically and the robot dove coos. Medic smiles since he could always understand what his doves were saying. The bird had said,

“Jou Dumkoff! Of course, it’s me!”

“It really is jou!” Medic hugs his precious dove and looks at the other stasis pods, “What do jou say ve vake up zhe team?”

“Coo, Vrr.”

“Vat!? I’m zhe von in need of a big bear hug! Not jou!”

“Coo?”

“Gah! Fine.” Medic trotted over to Scout’s stasis pod,

“Coo.” (“Jour doing vell being a horse.”) Archimedes cooed from Medic’s back as he booted up the computer,

“Ja, vhat’s veird is it feels natural.” Medic pressed confirm for opening the stasis pod and stands in front of it, smiling, waiting for the silly Boston to come out, fall on his face, and cry for a medic. Scout did fall on his face but didn’t say anything. Confused, Medic prodded him with a hoof. No response. Medic checks his pulse and is shocked to find he doesn’t have one. In fear, Medic starts to do CPR. After 10 minutes Medic gives up in tears, “Nein… I hated jou. Jou always annoyed me, but here I am und I miss jou… Zhe others..!”

Medic runs and checks each stasis pod, each one yielding the same result: A dead team member. When he finally gets to Heavy, Medic’s tears gain new vigor for his best, human, friend, but they were no longer human. They were all ponies now, even Pyro. Then why were there memories of walking on 2 legs? Being people, and now they were ponies? What was this place? How long had it been? What happened? “ENOUGH!” Medic suddenly shouted, startling his robot bird companion. “I must calm down and deal vith zis pressure!” Medic returns to his own stasis pod and checks it, “Mein was properly sealed and zere was adequate power coming to it… So minor design flaws killed mein friends… Vait, Engineer said he’d most likely be dead… Und he doesn’t have a stasis pod, Ms. Pauling took his… Zere’s still a chance he’s alive if he knows about mein studies on ze soul! Ja! I’ll leave zis place und find Engineer! He’ll have zhe answers I seek!” A beep and the Pip-Buck showed a new quest, Find Lucky Wrench/ Engineer, “Good… Now zen, I have some looting to do.”

After about two hours of looting his teammate's safes and exploring, Medic finds himself in front of a large door. “Hm… Zhe Pip-Buck marks zis as the entrance to Stable 2 - 4… OH! Two Fort! I get it! Now, how do I open zis door?” He spots a terminal, “Vell, zat might help…” Medic trots over to it and it asks for a password, “Great! Now how vill I get out!?” A hint pops up, “Who built zhe stable… How am I supposed to know-” “Coo!” “Vhat? How do jou know Archimedes?” “Coo, coo, vrr.” “... Engineer knew… Knew I vould survive so he fitted jou vith vhat I needed…” Medic typed in Dell Conagher, “Engineer’s real name… Vhy did I forget?” Medic pressed enter. Alarms went off and a big hand began to open the door, revealing… The wasteland.

Dear friends,

Oh, how I miss you. You're words, craziness, and so much more. I hope you’ll thank me for burying your bodies outside of Stable Two Fort or whatever that thing is. I made sure to include these pony names as well as your class name on the monument. Scout = Wind runner, Pyro = Firefly, Soldier = Patriot, Demo = Eyelander, Heavy = Big Bear, Spy, I have no idea what you are but your name is Mantis. You look like a unicorn crossed with a bug! Sniper = Crosshair, Ms. Pauling = Ink Well. So far Ms. Pauling and Engineer are the only ones whose real names I remember. This world calls him Lucky Wrench, while for us he’s Dell Conagher. Me? My Pony name is Healing Song… But I don’t even remember my real name. I sealed up the stable again, only I can open it with my Pip-Buck, so someday I may return. For now, Archimedes and I will try and find Engineer with what we have. I’m using some of Demo’s armor (Since he was the only other male unicorn. (Pyro’s a girl.) and borrowing some of your weapons. Couldn’t find your sword Demo, which I’m kinda glad for. Don’t need a curse on top of my other worries. I’ve taken Spy’s Diamondback revolver, Scout’s scattergun, and Heavy’s shotgun. I have no intention of taking Sasha. She is way too heavy and the bullets she requires will be next to near impossible to find outside of our home. My good old bone-saw will be my melee. I’m taking my violin too. I feel like I can’t be separated from it right now or Archimedes. I hope all of you are sleeping peacefully here and on the other side. Maybe, I’ll see you soon, but I doubt it… And kind of hope I won’t. I’m not ready to die yet. Now that I’m done writing to you… I’m going to play a final requiem before I set off.

-Healing Song/ Medic

Medic closed his journal that was in his safe and pulls out his violin. He stands up on his hind legs and plays the instrument like he used to. Out of the finely tuned strings, Medic plays a final requiem. I will write to my friends in letters as though their still alive. Medic promised himself, I refuse to truly accept their gone.

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New quest: True Names: Find out what your teammates real names are.

Find Lucky Wrench/ Engineer: There’s a chance he could be living. It couldn’t have been that long… Right?

Level 1

Perks: Wakey, Wakey. You Are temporarily 5% more resistant to fire.

S.P.E.C.I.A.L

Strength: 4

Perception: 4

Endurance: 4

Charisma: 3

Intelligence: 6

Agility: 5

Luck: 2