Author's Note

Now, you may wonder why I turned this story into an anthro one? simple, it felt off to have ponies walking around on two legs shooting guns, with no damned hands, also at the end of this authors note, I will show you what kind of anthro I have decided to make the ponies, since there are quite a few types, and also, the reason I am using real world gun names and not ponified ones, is because one, I am lazy as fuck, and two, it makes it easy for you all to know what exactly the ponies I describe are using, after all if I said they where using a celestial rifle, unless I explained what it was in the authors notes, you'd have no fucking clue what type of gun it was other than 'rifle' , but let me know what ya think of this story so far, as I have had this idea in mind for a LONG ass time, like, since I first posted a story here

and this is the type of anthro they are, hands, hooves for feet, normal styled humanish bodies, pony heads, lel, this is my oc steel colt btw, I might have him in the story, might not, we shall see, hell he might appear in this very chapter XD ....I have 43 characters, more so if you count the ones I am having drawn, but most of them are hybirds, like cyrus slipscale the naga, but I may include a few here, hence the oc tag, plus any background character named here is most likely an oc of mine, keep that in mind

Chapter 3

I chuckled, once again, sitting inside Bonbon's Sweeties, being given chocolate as thanks for saving them, along with Lyra bombarding me about questions involving humans, I decided to speak up. "I think that is enough questions for one day, maybe tomorrow if I am still here."

Lyra tilted her head confused. "What do you mean still here? your not leaving are you?!" Lyra looked like she was about to cry.

I nodded my head. "I am leaving later today, to explore this world, and kill zombies, mostly killing and exploring, if you want to, you can come with me, same for Bonbon, but you two will need some light armor, and a better weapon than the ones you have now, since compared to my weapons, yours are very old and crappy."

Bonbon rolled her eyes. "The weapons we have are perfectly fine." She said indignantly.

I pulled out an automatic pipe rifle, a ten millimeter pistol, and some heavy leather armor, and showed them that compared to their gear, this stuff would never wear down, break, rust more than it already had in some places, and that the armor would last forever, due to the game mechanics of Fallout 4.

Lyra squealed and took the items, put the armor on, put the pistol on her hip, and held the rifle in her arms. "I love this! We can explore and I can find out more about the human world!" She actually SQUEED.

Bonbon sighed and did the same, before she went to the back of the store and came out with a box labeled '16 ounce chocolate bars' and sat it on a table. "These can be rations in case we ever run out of food I guess, but where are we going exactly?" She asked raising one of her eyebrows.

I shrugged. "Hell if I know, I was just going to follow the roads, see where that takes us, help some ponies along the way, that sorta thing, ya'know?"

Lyra squeed again while Bonbon just rolled her eyes at her, and they followed me to my car, and I got in, just as last time Bonbon sat in the front. After putting the chocolate in the back seat, and Lyra sat in the back, and the gate opened as I drove through, the moment the car was clear of the gate it slammed shut again, taking a closer look at the dashboard of the car, I realized it had something I not seen before, it had a bluetooth option for music, looking at my pipboy I realized it also had the option for that so turning it on it connected to the car, and I played some ZAYDE WOLF- Army, as I started driving I noticed a few zombies, who had once been royal guards, if the plate armor meant anything.

Driving past them I looked back to Lyra, who was looking at me cutely, with a smile on her muzzle wide enough to give Pinkie a run for her bits, so I spoke up. "You two have any questions you wanna ask while we are driving, and not fighting to not be eaten by zombies?"

Bonbon was the one to speak up first. "Yes actually, just how the absolute fuck are you making things out of nothing? I saw you make that weird generator you connected to the grid, before everything lit back up like a flashlight with new batteries, what exactly was that generator?"

I nodded. "Ah, that was a Vault-Tec super reactor, a nuclear power plant without worry of meltdown, since its all contained and compact, four of those can power a city comparable in size to Manehattan, or Las Pegasus, most of the time they are used to power Vaults." I explained without much interest.

Bonbon raised an eyebrow, the car jumped slightly as I ran a zombie over. "Vault? what is a Vault? like a safe?"

Nodding again I went on. "If a safe meant to save thousands of people after a nuclear atomic war can be called a safe, then yes, they where large underground cities pretty much, places for food, water recycling systems, waste management systems, pretty much a fancy bunker with more than 5 people inside it." As I finished explaining, we came to what looked like a stallion running from a zombie nurse, most likely he had gotten out of the truck that was parked on the side of the road, I rolled my window down and took a shot at her, using VATS I hit her in the head and she went down, dead.

The stallion looked down at the dead zombie, and sighed sadly before walking up to my window and saying. "Thanks...she had the gun before she turned, and I didn't exactly feel like grabbing my wife's head and bashing it into the ground till she stopped moving, she tried to help an infected pony and got bit in the shoulder." He grabbed a revolver from his wife's body, and got back into his truck. "Thanks for the help again....I'ma jus keep movin like me and her had planned." He had hauled her body into the back of the truck by now, setting it in the bed of the truck, before he drove off.

"That was strange...." I looked at the trail of dust the truck left as it drove off.

Bonbon looked at me, one of her ears flopping down as she did so. "Not really, when you consider who that zombie was before she turned, she was his wife, he most likely took her body to bury her when he feels safe enough to do so, so in hindsight that's not really that weird." Bonbon said, looking at the blood splatter that had been left by the hole in the mares head once she had fallen.

I shrugged. "I guess, come on, lets continue on our way." I turned the music off, and rolled my window up before I continued driving. We drove for a few more hours before coming up to a town that seemed to still have normal ponies in it, judging by the ponies walking around in makeshift armor carrying rifles and other weapons, however they did not look very friendly, some had bits of royal guard armor on while others had makeshift armor with spikes and chains in some places. They looked like raiders to me, if Fallout's raiders where any indication, they'd start shooting the moment we didn't do what they wanted, or just plain shoot the moment they saw us, so I just kept driving.

Another hour later we where on some kind of highway, before Lyra spoke up. "Um....Max....I have to pee...can we stop somewhere?" Lyra blushed when she spoke, most likely embarrassed about it.

I shrugged. "Sure, I see a gas station, or whatever you call those here, up ahead, and it looks like its abandoned, however, always keep your guard up! You never know who or what may be in there, so stay together, and use the bathroom, while I check out what might be inside the main body of the building, like snacks and such, supplies." I pulled into the station and parked the car. "Remember, get in, clear the bathroom if any zombies are there, go to the bathroom, get back into the car." They nodded and walked to the bathroom, it was on the outside of the building built in so others from the outside could go in and use it.

I walked into the main section of the station, just like any other gas station it had snacks and drinks, other supplies, the clerk was still behind the counter, however he was a zombie so I shot him in the head, before loading up every snack and drink into my inventory, along with some basic meds and other supplies from the station, by the time I headed back to the car Lyra and Bonbon where already inside waiting, I got inside and grinned as I gave them both a crapton of snacks, some drinks, and a bottle of booze. "Jackpot!~" I said in a singsong voice as I started driving off, I decided the next place we would go, judging by the road signs, was Appleoosa, might be some fun to be had there.