Chapters Author's Note
Hello everypony, this is a story idea I have wanted to do for awhile, long before I actually decided to write my story 'A New Empire' and I wanted to say, this is not a sequel to that story! this is kinda just...a somewhat alternate universe, its not actually related to that story in any way aside from the fallout 4 themed items, I have decided to post this early, and see what you all think, I may pull it down after 4 or so hours so I can continue working on the story, I want to post it when I have 4 or so chapters ready
Chapter 1
I grinned as I destroyed another camp of raiders, I was pretty fucking bored at the moment however, since I had beat the game every way possible, with every faction you can join that has a major impact on the end of the game.
This play through I had decided to do a hero style character, I named em Maxwell Silver, since at the earliest level I could I got the Silver Shrouds costume, and did the quest that came with it, my main weapons I had used console commands to give them the 'never ending' affect, as reloading was a bitch mid combat, to me at least, I had an ALR, also known as an automatic laser rifle, a never ending ten mm pistol, those where my two main weapons, the ones I used the most, I had almost every weapon in the game, aside from ones you needed to side with certain factions in the end of the game to get, all stores in my inventory.
If you are wondering how I was able to carry all those weapons? It's simple, console commands are a wonderful thing, I just made my maximum carry weight over nine thousand, and for anyone out there who says its cheating, your right! but who the hell wants to make ten trips from one area to their storage area, just because the crap they are hauling is heavy as hell?
I had every DLC installed, and completed, Far Harbor, Automatron, liked that one the best, Vault-Tec Workshop, and then I had quite a few mods installed to make the game even better, like the Alien Assault rifle mod, I loved the beam barrel and the fusion core ammo converter, place everywhere, Nuka factory, working cars, plasma turrets, the ammo factory mod, and the Fallout 3 style stealth boy mod, cause Fallout 4 style stealth boys where complete shit and lasted only thirty seconds, added to the fact no matter how many points you invested into sneak, enemies could see you while invisible and target you regardless of how close or far you where, yet you could never take down a gunner using a stealth boy in vats, complete bullshit that I would never put up with so long as I had that mod.
I closed my game after saving it and took a look at the time, nearly 1 AM, maybe it was time to go to sleep, just as I was about to close my computer, I got a notification from discord, from someone I didn't know, the name I saw on screen was MR.D, strange name, must be a sexual joke or something.
MR.D today at 1:02 AM
Now this was already sketchy to begin with, but in my half asleep state I didn't care enough to use reason and think that this might be a scam, or someone trying to infect my computer with a virus and steal my information n shit.
Shadowflame today at 1:04 AM
MR.D today at 1:07 AM
Shadowflame today at 1:09 AM
MR.D today at 1:11 AM
He sent me a file that contained the mod, and I downloaded it, the name was ZOMBIEWINRAR, and I shut my computer down and walked up to my room, and went to sleep inside my nice plush bed.
An unknown amount of time later, I woke up, however, everything felt off, for one I was wearing clothes, I never wear any clothes when I sleep, sitting up in bed, I realized I had sunglasses on, I took them off, and looked at myself in the lenses of them, and holy shit, this had to be some weird dream, as I didn't have a beard before this, nor did I look like the Silver Shroud himself. "Alright, so I am dreaming?...I don't normally know when I am dreaming so this actually can't be a dream, so this is real....what the fuck happened? why am I dressed like this? why do I have a pipboy, and a HUD, what the hell?" I said to myself, without really thinking about it, I just did so out of habit as I normally spoke to myself with no one was around.
I had just now noticed, this was not my bedroom, this was a plain white room with a white bed, white sheets and walls, and a grey door. Standing up, I felt something materialize into my hands, looking down I grinned, it was my main rifle, my never ending ALR, opening the door I stepped outside to see it was about midday, looking back to my surprise the entire room was gone, now I was in the middle of a road that from what I could see, had no end to it.
I wanted to test something, so I tried to open the creation club kit menu, and I was able to do so, thinking of the console command I summoned a mint green corvega sedan, how I was doing all this you may wonder? Instinct, I somehow knew what to do on a fundamental level, I just thought of doing what I would in game and it just sorta happened, might be a bullshit explanation I know, but its all I've got, as I have no fucking clue how I got here, so don't expect me to fucking know everything in the damned world.
I opened the door to the sedan and sat inside the drivers seat, closing the door I saw there was a button to turn the car on, pressing it got the hum of a nuclear engine, and I started to drive down the road, I most likely was not flipping out, cause I was hoping this was a dream I'd wake up any minute from. With that thought in mind I drove off down the road, awaiting what was to come, be it me waking up, or be it something completely different.
The road I was on was a dirt road, and what I saw next surprise the hell out of me, ponies, to be specific, Lyra, Bonbon, and Vinyl Scratch, but, they where anthro, hooves for feet, that kinda thing, by what seemed to be a model T style truck, while Bonbon was under the hood trying to fixed the damned engine, I drove up and rolled down a window. "Ya'll need a ride to town?" I nearly died at the site of them, I loved ponies, I watched the show all the way up to the season 8 finale episode, despite the show goin to shit in the past few years.
The ponies seemed surprised, and only then did I realize, they looked ragged, like they had not eaten in a few days, they where dirty, their clothes had small splatters of blood and where lightly torn in areas, and all three of em had a gun, and right now they where pointed at me. Vinyl had what looked to be a Howdah pistol, judging by the size of the four barrels, it was in .50 cal, Lyra had a MLE 1903 pistol, and Bonbon had fedorov avtomat, they looked like they had gone through hell, came back, then went through it again for the hell of it, but all of em where armed and looked ready to kill.
Bonbon was the one to speak up. "Just who the Fuck are you, and what do you want? we don't have anything you could steal aside from our guns and some water, so just leave us alone and keep moving along, and why would we want to go to a town? those are death traps now." She kept her fedorov avtomat aimed at my face.
I chuckled. "I ain't here to hurt ya, I offered to help ya get a lift to someplace you can get your ride fixed, seemingly however you just wanna be hostile, why is that?" I asked raising an eyebrow.
Bonbon narrowed her eyes. "How can you be so calm, with whats been happening lately? have you been living under a rock or something?"
At this point I heard a few groans, and moans, and no not sexual kinds, the hollow undead kind, I saw nine or so zombified looking ponies shambling towards us, I pulled out my ten millimeter pistol and took aim. "Oi look out." Bonbon turned around and shot, so did the other two, I myself put 4 of the bastards down.
I looked at Bonbon. "So, a zombie apocalypse?" I looked at the freshly killed undead.
Bonbon gave me a deadpan look. "Yes, its been going on for ten bucking days, how can you not know this?"
"Would you believe me if I told you I was an alien?" I heard more groans, this time it was a herd of them, 60 or so. "Look, we can continue this conversation in the car, get in now before those things tear us apart." I for one did not want to die to a zombie, maybe this is what that mod did? was it some weird fucking spell or something?
Bonbon sighed and shrugged. "Agreed, however try anything funny and I blow your brains out." Her tone completely serious.
Bonbon, Scratch, and Lyra hopped into the car, Bonbon sitting in the front passenger seat, while the other two sat in the back as I started driving again.
"Any destination in mind?" I asked Bonbon, as I had no idea where we were at the moment, I had neglected to check my pipboys map.
"Ponyville, its one of the few towns not overrun, me and my friends here where out for one of Vinyls music gigs in Manehatten when this all went down, we almost didn't make it out, that was 7 days ago, we ran out of food three days ago, and now we have no water since we had to ditch the shitty car."
I grinned and looked back at them. "Don't worry about water, or food, I got that covered, for now at least, how are you all on ammo? and just where did you get those guns to begin with?"
Lyra was the one to speak up this time. "Actually these belonged to some of Vinyls body guards, to prevent angry fans from grouping up on her, also...are you a human?"
Bonbon rolled her eyes. "Lyra how many times do I have to tell you? humans do not exis-" I cut her off.
"Why yes, yes I am a human, how did you know that?" The amusement in my voice clear as I spoke.
Bonbon went pale, while Lyra giggled. "I have dreams about humans sometimes, most are fuzzy however."
I hummed at that, that was certainly something to think about. "Good to know, so where is Ponyville from here?"
Bonbon took a deep breath, and spoke up again. "It should be just another two miles down the road, the only reason it was not overrun was due to the Princesses funding a wall to be built around the town since monsters kept trying to attack it, and sent armed guards after the Trixie incident to prevent some mad pony from taking over the town again, and just close the gate and its a prefect defense against the undead."
"I get that, nothin works better against zombies than a tall wall and some guns, other than maybe grenades." We continues driving and Ponyville came into view, a few undead around the wall being picked off by royal guards in gold colored armor, smart, plate armor would defend against teeth, it can't defend against a bullet, but a sword? or rotting teeth? it was the perfect armor for a zombie outbreak, as I drove up the guards pointed their guns at us.
Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter. 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.
Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter. I groaned and woke up to someone lightly shaking me, I yawned and sat up, looking at who woke me. I saw it was Aloe, however her sister was nowhere in sight, she chuckled and spoke. "I would have woken you, but you looked like you needed some rest, so we simply let you be, however now it is closing time, 6 pm to be exact, so you shall have to leave, but remember you are free to come back anytime, full service, free of charge." She handed me my clothes, that I put on, and tipped my hat at her.
I nodded in thanks. "Thank you for the offer, and thank you for the massage, even if you didn't get to complete it, was still amazing." I checked my pipboy as I left the spa, and as she had said, it was 6pm, to be exact, 6:05 pm,looking up at the sky I saw the sun was still shining bright in the sky.
Checking the map on my pipboy, I took a look at the towns for a minute, before I decided what one I was going to visit next, and selected it on my map, marking it, but I was NOT going to just go in without defenses like I did last time, so I was going to modify my car a bit, also, I had replaced my ALR with a beam rifle, it was another mod I had forgotten I downloaded, it replaced the crappy alien blaster with a bad ass powerful alien assault rifle. I called it a beam rifle cause I used the beam barrel, and the fusion core converter, meaning fusion cores could be used as ammo, and since I never used power armor, ever, I had a fuckton of those, so I wouldn't even need to use console commands to spawn myself ammo.
Walking to my car, I attached some laser turrets to it, on the top on the four corners, on the front hood by the headlights, on the back by the tail lights, and to make sure they'd stay on, I drove my car around a bit, before parking again, I noticed a plane flying over the town, and crates being dropped out of it, they had parachutes attached to the crates, so it reminded me of a video I had watched of how the USA dropped large amounts of MRE's into the battlefield for their soldiers, ah, gotta love the good ol US of A, may sound weird but hey, a guy can love his country eh? Anyways, the crates landed all around the town, where royal guards rushed and collected them, dragging them to the center of town.
I watched as the guards took 20 weird metal trays to each home, before one guard walked up to me. "Where is your current residence." He asked while holding a box of some sort.
Giving him a confused look, I pointed to my car, and to my surprise 20 of those metal trays where placed into the back of the car. "Just what are you placing into my car exactly?" I asked him.
He gave me a confused and spoke as if I should have known this, since its been going on the past week. "We are required to give everypony 20 PMM's per home, per family."
Still confused, I continued with my questions. "What is a PMM? I have no idea what that stands for dude, remember I am new here."
His face lit up like a fucking nuke, with a smile he grinned and spoke, now cheerful. "Oh your THAT fellow, well anyway, PMM stands for Pre Made Meal, its contained in a metal tray with a tinfoil covering, and kept frozen using an enchantment, press the red gem on the side of the tray and wait 5 minutes and your meal will be done, just pull back the foil covering the top and enjoy, everypony knows what these are, as each kingdom makes their own versions."
Now it made sense, these WHERE like MRE's! just, frozen and heated using magic....taking a closer look, they looked like old fashioned TV dinners, even with the pictures of whats in them on the foil, the guard had walked off while I looked at one of the PMM's, so I just stored them into my inventory and just as I was about to get into my car, I heard a snobbish 'AHEM' so I turned around and saw to my surprise, Diamond Tiara.
The second I turned around she started speaking, seemingly she was still snobbish so I had to be here before that one CMC episode where they turned her nice. "What is an ugly pony like you owning a nice car like that? you don't deserve it, I demand you give me the keys now." She held her hand out, as if actually expecting me to do what she wanted.
I gave her a deadpan look. "Hell no, while I COULD just spawn another car, I don't feel like it, nor do I feel like giving an entitled little shitstain a NUCLEAR powered car, as you'd most likely just fucking blow the damned thing up, let alone the fact you where rude to me the minute you spoke, what in the name of all that is kind and decent made you think you can just come up to me, demand something and insult me, and actually think you'll get it?"
Her face, it puffed up and she turned red. "How DARE you speak to me like that you abomination!? Do you know who I am! who my daddy is!? He will get you kicked out of this town!" She screeched, for how high her voice was she may as well have been reeeing.
I rolled my eyes, and took out my beam rifle. "He can try, and he can die, listen here, I give zero fucks who you, or your little daddy is, so fuck off lil runt, before I decide today is the day I shoot a kid." She paled, and ran for it like the damned road runner from Loony Toons. ha, I decided, that before I go I'd explore the town a bit more, see what I could buy or trade, as they still used bits, and I didn't have bits, just items I could trade, like low grade weapons, ammo, scrap, those kinda things, as I walked ponies stared at my beam rifle as it glowed slowly spinning, yeah, it never stopped spinning unless it had no ammo inside it, cool in my opinion, the creator of that mod really out did himself.
As I was looking at a stall that sold fish, I was surprised, and it was explained to me that while ponies are omnivores, meat is hard to come by aside from fish, so seafood was very present here, I kept walking and saw a weird vending machine, it looked like an old fashioned soda vending machine, It had options that reminded me somewhat of soda from home, like Hyper Cola, that one gave me weird vibes as I remembered listening to creepy pastas by CreepsMcPasta, and CreepypastaJr, I loved those guys, they posted the best scary stories, as I continued on walking, I saw a dinner, and my stomach decided to make itself known.
Taking a look at the sign I almost laughed, it was called the Leaping Pony Dinner, I decided, eh fuck it, and walked inside, it looked like an old fashioned dinner from like the 50's, or the 60's, taking a seat at one of the booths a orange mare, no not Applejack, came up and handed me a menu, and asked if I would like anything to drink, thinking about it, I quicksaved and decided to take a risk, and order the Hyper Cola, I had no idea if it would be like it was in the creepypasta so I was taking a huge risk, hopefully not however.
I looked at the menu, and surprise surprise, rarely any options had meat in them, I decided on an order of fried codfish, fries, I had to specify I wanted potato ones and not hay ones, and a side of mashed potatoes and gravy, and I was handed a glass bottle, that MUCH to my surprise, looked like a glass coke bottle, with the 'Hyper Cola' label looking almost exactly like the coke label, wavy letters colored in white, on a red background, cracking it open and taking a sip I perked right up, it tasted like classic Coca Cola, my favorite soda, another ten minutes later the mare walked up to me with my food and said. "Here ya go darlin, enjoy your food, ya need anythin jus call me over." Before walking back into the kitchen.
As I ate my food, AFTER pouring ketchup onto the fries, and cod, cause I love ketchup, I ate and drank slowly, it took me about 30 minutes to finish, of which when I was done I payed for the meal, by giving the dinner some defenses outside its doors, two laser turrets to be exact.
I was just walking past that weird vending machine again when Diamond Tiara and two buff looking stallions in black suits and sunglasses walked up. "Ha! ugly pony! now what are you gonna do that I have my body guards with me? Now, you can hand over the car, or this can get ugly." Her two goons pulled out MLE pistols, and aimed at me threateningly, causing the other ponies around us to gasp, while Diamond smirked.
I started chuckling, which turned into a light laugh, that turned into psychotic laughter that would make the joker piss himself, I stopped suddenly and spoke, in a cold, emotionless voice. "People like you make it sick, you think you own the entire fucking world, because you have a little more money then everyone else, you think you can just have your little goons point a gun at me? I cleared out an entire town of psychopaths, you think I can't take on two little earth ponies with pistols?"
I pulled out my beam rifle and revved it up, causing it to spin rapidly. "Try me, and see what happens." I pretty much dared.
Seemingly she was unaffected, as I was able to tell by what she said next. "You know the drill colts, get em." Her two goons started to shoot at me, only for me to enter vats and vaporize them using my beam rifle, they turned into glowing blue ash piles on the ground, leaving not even a skeleton, while Diamond Tiara almost pissed herself and tried to run, only for two royal guards to swoop in and cuff her, they'd have cuffed me to, but other ponies had explained to them that I acted in self defense, and even warned them I'd defend myself if I needed to, but I was questioned about my rifle, and they did in fact try, and fail, to take it for testing, they can't exactly take something stored in my inventory, or if its pressed under their chin glowing hot with heat waiting to be released.
I grinned as I was finally allowed to leave the town in peace, and started to drive on the empty highway, yeah they had highways but only the really rich drove nice cars, the more normal ponies, drove Model T style cars and trucks, so the cars aside from those where like the 50's and 60's version of cars from the pictures I've seen, but all of them ran on a Crystal Sugar engine, they used a sugar in liquid form for fuel, like gas but it won't explode if you set it near a fire, I turned and drove over a zombie eating what looked like a dog, and kept an eye on the road signs, I was close to a ocean by this time, evident by the seagulls, before I noticed something weird, you know those large metal shipping containers ocean liners used to transport goods? seemingly they had the same thing here, except I was seeing what looked like a wall constructed out of them, the size of a football stadium from what I could see, and ponies where defending it against zombies.
I drove up to see what looked like an MK2 50 cal heavy machine gun placed in a section on the second story of the wall, on a platform made to shoot from the inside at anything outside the walls, and the pony using it was mowing down a rather large hoard of zombies, I had expected large hoards now, that it had been 14 days since zombies started attacking cities, from what I had heard on the radio Baltimare had fallen, and so had Trottingham, but it surprised me that someone, or a lot of someones had made a city or town, out of large shipping containers, I got out of my car and climbed onto the roof, and watched as 70 or so zombies where taken out by a the 50 cal, if they where not killed they had all their limbs missing, not much of a threat to anyone if they had no arms or legs, and just as I was about to get down, a large gate opened, two sections of one of the shipping containers moved to the sides as ponies in makeshift armor rushed out as the gate closed, and began to kill any zombies that had not been completely killed by the 50 cal, and one of them noticed me, and yelled something, I was to far to hear it, and they all aimed their weapons at me, from rifles, shotguns, pistols, and even a few swords, before I just waved and one of the pegasi flew over.
He was a light brown stallion, he had on bits of metal armor, he had a long bolt action rifle with him. "What are you doing here?"
I shrugged. "I was driving by, and noticed a large wall made of metal crates, I wanted to get a closer look to see what it was, but to many zombies prevented me from getting to close." While that was true, I could have taken out those zombies if I had wanted to, but honestly I just didn't feel like doin so, a waste of my almost unlimited ammo, I'd rather just watch these ponies fight zombies as it was fun to watch how they did so, now if one was about to die, then sure I'd pitch in and help, but otherwise unless it was to defend myself not very likely, its why I left Bonbon and Lyra back at the town, I could tell they where not fit for a life on the road in a zombie pandemic.
He gave me a look, narrowing his eyes before he shrugged and motioned for me to follow him, I did so in my car, and along with him, I was let in, I was told the other ponies had already gone back inside the walls, and it looked a lot like diamond city, but cleaner, and less rust and blood, the small town did in fact have power, it was explained to me that the town was powered my enchanted gems that had an electric enchantment, outdated technology I was told, but it worked well enough with a few unicorns to recharge the gems every week or so.
Looking around, I noticed makeshift homes out of other shipping crates, small stores made out of them, pretty much everything here was made out of those large yellow, orange, blue, and red crates, and to my surprise they had anti air guns, like the ones you'd see in world war one, I decided I would ask whomever decided to run this place, about how exactly this was built so quickly, I found the 'mayors' office, which was rather just five crates welded together with sections of walls taken out with doors placed into them, when I walked inside I saw griffons in makeshift metal plate armor, iron or tin, as it was grey, and I finally found the mayor of this football stadium sized town, it was a mint green unicorn stallion with a purple mane and green eyes, he was sitting at a wooden desk looking over some papers, seemingly parts of the town that could possibly reinforced for better defense against zombies, I coughed and he looked up from his papers.
"Well, I don't think I've seen you around here before, I am Leaping Hoof, the mayor and creator of this little town, what can I do for you?" He asked, his voice sounded kinda posh, snooty, like a rich guy would talk.
"I had some questions as to just how this place was built, and so fast as well, as its only been 14 or so days since the outbreak of zombies began, from what I was told." I sat down on a chair, gotta hand it to these guys for a town built in so little time, they had a lot of commodities needed for a comfy life, running water, electricity, heating and cooling systems, defenses, anti air defense, for fucks sake what should they need that for!?
He chuckled. "Ah, that would mostly be my doing, well me and the 30 or so workers I had payed to help, once I heard news of the outbreak, the shipping boats where turned into shelters,, till those where overrun, using the crane on the ship some workers moved the shipping crates into a rather large pile, and 60 or so unicorns helped move them all into place, where welders welded the crates together and placed quick dry cement in the cracks, soon we had a town that could be called a home, and since the crates needed to be empty, we had shipments for weapons to the royal guard, ammo, armor, weapons, food, clothing, and a lot of other items, so, I designed this town from the ground up after 3 days into the outbreak, now we are well defended, well supplied, and are able to defend ourselves, shipments of PMM's also arrive via air, we have radio stations here that can all override every channel on a radio near here and give a warning if we are about to be attacked, or overrun, the law is strictly enforced, just as it would be before the outbreak."
Holy crap that was a long explanation, I just sat for a minute, before I grinned. "Well, what do you call this little town?"
He grinned back at me, chuckling slightly. "We call it NewHope, since it offers shelter and food, for those who need it and have nowhere else to go, or just no way to get anywhere."
"I like that name, it suits this place, but if I where you, I'd expect larger hoards of zombies in the future."
He tilted his head and raised an eyebrow. "And why is that?"
"Because, the longer this outbreak goes on? the more zombies will be around, the longer zombies are able to infect other ponies and turn them? the more zombies you'll have to fight one day."
He looked like he had chewed on a lemon, before he nodded and jotted down what I had said on a new piece of paper, before thanking me, but told me I had to leave the office while he jotted down new defense plans, and plans to reinforce the town even more, with metal and concrete, so I just started to explore the town, it was almost the size of Ponyville, so there would be a lot to explore, but that will be for next time I suppose.
Author's Note
I have decided to up the tech in the story, as since the ponies are anthro....they can use more complicated weapons and cars, since before I had been accounting for hooves, as I don't think a pone can shoot a bereta 9mm pistol even without a pistol grip, and model t style cars are simple, and easy for somepony with hooves to use, so since they have hands now, I will be introducing some more advanced technology, I will TRY to keep it from before 2000 but the highest I am willing to go in terms of tech is 2008, for guns, not cars, cars will be from 40's style, to 60's style, only, so they kind of match the fallout car Max has, and also, I have come up with a BUNCH of product ideas, just looking around in walmart while shopping, and watching a creepy pasta called Hyper Cola, by CreepsMcPasta, go check em out, good stories, if you want to see the product ideas, just ask and I will post a blog about it, and as one last side note, I have decided to remove Lyra and Bonbon as main characters, as I feel it weird to write for three characters at a time, often I forget they are with max and have to re write entire sections of a chapter, also, I am VERY sorry for the short chapters, I try to make them as long as I can with the time I have, keep in mind, I write when I FEEL like it, and when I have TIME for it, so sorry for those who want me to write a ten thousand page novel, but it ain't gonna happen, I just don't have the time for it, other than this message, hope ya enjoy the story, and no, I haven't forgotten about Your human and you giant, I am just trying new ideas , coming up with a plot for it like I am while writing this story, plus I am just addicted to zombies atm for some stupid reasons I don't know lol, and wow! 97 followers!? never thought I'd get more than one or two, I am surprised to know others actually LIKE what I write, half the time at least, and ONE LAST SIDE NOTE the reason this is so long, as I took 8 days to make it, not all at once keep in mind! but combined its about 8 days of work put into this damned chapter
and for those who wonder what a beam rifle looks like, here it is
Author's Note
Hello all! tell me what ya think so far, did ya see the picture of max on my latest blog? if not go check it out
Chapter 6
I had left the little makeshift town of Newhope, left it a week ago, now I was on my way across the land once again, more zombies, more raiders and morons, but what seemed weird to me, was the fact the zombies while they did decay, had started to turn black, their skin, fur, mane, tail, anything on them aside from their yellowish eyes, and what tattered clothing they had on, had begun to turn black, normally this would mean they where in the advanced stages of decay, but that should have taken at least two more weeks, taking the weather and conditions like that into account, another week at most.
Strangest part of them turning black, was the fact they didn't slow down, fall down unable to get back up, or anything like that, they got faster, not Rainbow Dash fast mind you, but some started to run when seeing me, if there was anything I hated more than a zombie, it was a zombie that could out fucking run me, thankfully I had my car still, abit some dents and dings from where I had run infected ponies over, but as I was driving I saw Canterlot, and had decided, that was where I was going to go next, as who the fuck knows, maybe they need help?
Turning my car onto another small highway, I slammed the breaks and forced the car to halt to a stop as I had realized how they kept infected ponies out of the city, they had blown up the only ways in and out of the city aside from air travel, just how the hell was I supposed to get into Canterlot now? Thinking for a few minutes, I thought of an idea, I could build like in game, and the gap in the highway was only twenty or so feet, I should be able to make a bridge, drive across it, then destroy it again, so I did just that.
I chuckled as I destroyed the concrete bridge I had made, then got back in my car, just as I had closed the car door a zombie slammed into my car door causing me to yelp, the fucker started punching my window causing it to crack, nothing had been able to crack that so far, not even when it took a shotgun blast from a raider pony, thankfully the laser turrets I had placed onto my car took it out before it could do TO much damage, getting back outside of my car I looked down at the zombified pony.
As I had said before, the zombies had begun to turn a blackish hue, like coal, and I poked it with my boot, the black sections of it started to glow a light red, before .....flowers, made of rotted flesh, sprang up from the black sections, and opened up before spraying a purple mist into the air, I quickly hopped back into my car and slammed the door shut, I still had no idea if I could be infected or not, and I sure as fuck did not want to find out the hard way.
I continued on my way to Canterlot, only to find the gates closed, but no guards manning the walls, I tuned into the military radio station that had been broadcasting since the beginning of the outbreak, what I heard kinda surprised me.
"To anypony listening to this, the Princesses, along with what little royal guard, and remaining towns that managed to not be overrun, have been evacuated to the Crystal Empire, that explains why I had seen little to no pony that did't have rotting flesh in their mouth, the living, most of them at least, had vacated the premises to go to a safer place, it was lonely out here, no one to talk to, just music to listen to and zombies to kill.
I sighed and started to turn around, before something that horrified me banged on the gate to Canterlot, on the other side of the gate banging with rotting hands trying to get through the bars to me, was Rarity, but...she had turned, her white fur matted with blood, tears in her flesh, and rotting green flesh, her fur just beginning to dull and turn black, they must have evacuated once infected had gotten inside, and I was once again surprised as a large metal golem shambled up to the gate and smashed Rarity into paste against the gate, its eyes glowing red as it kept going around and from what I could see, killing any zombies it could find by turning them into pudding.
That must have been the 'automated' defenses I was told had been protecting Canterlot in the first few days, I turned the car around and drove out of there, this time I had built a ramp and jumped it in the car to get back across that gap made on the road, I had to get to the Crystal Empire, see what the absolute fuck was going on with the zombies, and how one of the mane 6 had been turned, as far as I knew, she had been guarded heavily, as had the other ponies from the mane 6.
Checking a map I had taken from a gas station, and checked, it would take me a day to get to the Crystal Empire by car, assuming I didn't run into any...problems, on my way there, and so my short trip began, as I was driving down another highway about to take the turn off, had to steer around a few busted up cars, I was flagged down by a Fancy Pants, he and Fleur De Lis, where next to a fancy car that seemed to have broken down.
I pulled over, knowing these two from the show, they'd still be sane enough to not try and eat my liver like that other hitch hiker I had picked up did, that was a story for another time however, I rolled my cracked window down, and Fancy started talking. "I am terribly sorry to bother you, but as you can see my cars radiator is broken, we ran out of fluid for it and for the past ten miles have been driving, the engine just stopped working as we got to the turn off, its only another 50 miles to the Empire, do you think you'd be able to give me and my friend Fleur a ride?"
Looking a bit closer at them, they seemed to be mostly alright, aside from a few tufts of ripped fabric from Fleur's dress, but I wanted to be sure of something. "Alright, but if either of you are bitten, I will shoot you the second I find out, I am not taking chances like that, if you are infected, let me know now, and I can just drive off, if your not, get in the car."
Fancy and Fleur looked relived and got into the car, the back of it after grabbing two small suitcases from Fancy's car, and he spoke up again. "I am able to assure you neither of us are infected, thankfully enough, and we are very thankful you had given us a ride, as I don't think we could have made it through the night, cigar?" He held out a fat cigar, I'm not one to smoke normally, aside from the one time I did weed, but there is a first for everything.
"Sure, I could use a smoke I guess." I took the cigar and was about to pull out a flip lighter before Fleur pulled out a blue one and lit my cigar, then Fancy's, and I took a look at the time, it was almost sunset, I had been driving all day, and it was rare to get sleep or rest while on the road, more so now with the mutated zombies, so I took a hit of X-cell, it acted like an energy drink for me, and continued to drive in silence.
Fleur tapped my shoulder. "Would you happen to have any water or food? we where unable to take any with us while we fled Canterlot."
"Why did you guys have to flee from Canterlot? I thought it was one of the safest places left in Equestria, or the world." As I said this, I gave them both a bottle of water, and a bag of cookies, they where about the size of a chips ahoy cookie, but the bag had like 50 of the things, snacks here where awesome, after Fancy ate a few he spoke up.
"Somehow infected ponies had gotten through, seemingly some ponies that had fled to Canterlot for safety had been bitten , once the guard found out they had them put into cells, but as a maid went to take them water she was bit, and seemingly didn't tell anypony, from there thats all we know, as it was announced on the radio that a maid had been infected, we left two days ago, we had to stop a few times for fuel, but where unable to fund radiator fluid for my car, how was Canterlot? last we checked everything was going slightly bumpy but otherwise alright."
I sighed. "Canterlot is gone, everyone that I assume was not infected was evacuated via airship or something to the Crystal Empire, the barrier there from what I have been told, keeps the zombies away since they are made using dark magic, the barrier the crystal heart produces naturally repels and destroys dark magic, hence why we are going there, so long as the crystal heart has power the Empire will be safe."
The Crystal Empire had come into sight by now, it had been another two hours while I had talked with Fancy, damn...time moves fast when your not looking at the clock waiting for every minute to go by, good thing to because my X-cell was wearing off and soon enough I would be unable to go any longer without sleep, I had been taking X-cell the past two days, two days without sleep, or rest, my own damned fault for not stopping somewhere safe like a small town that still had ponies in it.
We watched infected ponies turning to dust as they touched the barrier, there where not to many, just about 5 or so, small groups of them all turning to dust as they tried to force their way through the barrier, I just drove past them and into the barrier, and strait into a military tent with royal guards inside it, I slammed the breaks just in time to avoid crushing more than a pole on the tent, and got out, as did Fancy and Fleur, before turning to Fancy, the cigar I had been smoking was tossed to the ground and stepped on. "Welp, we're here, I'm gonna just pass out now, since I have not slept for two days." The look of horror on Fancy's face as I fell backwards and blacked out, oooo if only I had a camera.
Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter. I simply waited, and waited, and waited, before I finally got tired of waiting for Princess Celestia to stop staring at me in terror, so I pulled what some would say is a suicidal move, I bitch slapped her. "OI! Snap the fuck out of it all fucking ready! I ain't gonna sit on my ass here all day and wait for you to speak!" I screeched.
This seemed to snap her out of it, as she held her hand up to her cheek in what looked like shock for a few moments, before she just stared at me, sadness in her eyes. "How have you not gone insane from witnessing such horrors?" This damn near made me laugh, but I kept a straight face.
Shrugging I spoke. "Rather simple really, horror amuses me, just as a joke or prank would amuse you, horror amuses me, you can see the shit I've seen, done, had to do, and it was all amusing to me, this whole situation is amusing to me." That was honest, I did enjoy horror games moreso than I think someone normally would, however she didn't know what she saw was all games, movies, random internet shit, and I didn't think telling her could end well, so I wasn't going to.
I expected her to ask how, or some shit like that, what I didn't expect was suddenly being pulled into a hug with those large wings being wrapped around me, what she said next however really confused the hell out of me. "Poor stallion....you must have gone through some sort of mental trauma to make this happen."
With a flat expression on my face I broke the hug. "No, Like I said, I just enjoy horror, its fun, also please don't hug me again." I absolutely hated physical contact unless it was something like a hand shake, don't know why I just did.
Princess Celestia gave me a hurt expression, before she went back to being her normal self, abit as normal as a thousand year old alicorn dealing with a zombie pandemic could be, and spoke again. "Alright...I'll try not to hug you again, now, onto an important topic."
Raising an eyebrow I motioned for her to go on, which she did so. "I have seen the reports and first hand accounts of just what your able to do from seemingly nothing, do you have any way to combat the undead without the need to put more ponies at risk than there already are? Like some advanced golems or some super weapon we can use to destroy large chunks of the undead at once."
I grinned like a madman. "Advances Golems you say? I have something like that, they make yours look like trash in comparison, yes." I cackled internally, one of the ideas I had was likely about to be put to use. At least, I thought so at any rate.
Celestia gave me what to me, looked like a hopeful stare as she once again spoke. "I am willing to pay whatever price you deem needed if what your able to do can rid Equestria of the undead threat which it finds itself struggling under, anything, name it, and if this works, even if what you ask for is....less than morally acceptable in the eyes of most."
Nodding I went on. "Alright, I'll need to find a structure thats rather high, the top of a sky scraper for instance, for what I intend to do, I'm going to create a central control and command center for the golems I plan to make, and I need a large empty area to create em, as for what I want? We can talk about that after and if this works."
Princess Celestia nodded and stood up. "Hold on, this may be a tad...disorienting if you haven't experienced it before." I tried to ask what she meant before her horn lit up with a golden colored light and it felt like I had been flash banged.
With a wet splatting noise I flopped onto a hard crystal floor, breaking my nose in the process and causing me to swear, Celestia tried to help using her magic put I held a hand up, and injected myself with a stimpack, the instant healing seemed to startle her more than my blood splattering on the floor did. "How did you heal so quickly? What was in that syringe?" She snagged the used syringe off the ground, I had tossed it on instinct, and tried to scan it with her magic, and seemed to frown when she couldn't detect any trace of what had once been inside it.
Laughing I explained. "That was a stimpack, a common pre-war chem used to heal wounds instantly, broken bones, damaged organs, all healed within seconds, I also have chems which slow down your perception of time because of how fast your going, chems which can send you into a psychotic rage and can't feel pain, and chems which let you see shit behind walls, I got a chem for everythin." The chem which let you see behind walls was Daddy-O, it showed you a sort of purple mist behind objects, showing an enemy was there, VERY fucking useful for when I had to clear out a building to stay the night if I didn't feel like sleeping in my car.
Princess Celestia's eyebrow rose. "Pre war? What do you mean by pre war?" She asked as she sat down in a chair made of crystal.
I coughed. "On October Third 2077 the world was plunged into atomic fire as the United States of America and the People's Republic of China exchanged nuclear weapons, destroying not only one another but also sparking further nuclear retaliation across the worlds various nuclear powers, now the year when I arrived here was 2295, two hundred and eighteen years after the bombs fell and humanity, my species, still hasn't recovered fully." Hey, I was my Fallout 4 character, may as well hold up to the legacy of Fallout eh?
Celestia's eyes widened, which I still found creepy, but in a neat sort of way. "What are atomic bombs?" She asked, her tone indicating she didn't know if she'd like my answer or not.
As I spoke I let no emotion into my voice, this was good shit, to me anyways. "It's a weapon so powerful and destructive, that it becomes as hot as the core of a star for a brief moment, and that moment is all it takes to destroy miles upon miles of entire cities, towns, countryside, anything hit by it will die, and if you don't die from the heat or the blast, the radiation will kill ya, radiation rips apart your cells at the atomic level, fucks with em, either mutates em to the point you get cancer of some sort, or flat out kills you, its not a pretty process, and hundreds of these, if not thousands, got used across the world." I paused for a minute to take a drink. "Oceans burned, and the planets surface was forever altered by radioactive flame."
Celestia once again looked horrified. "You don't have any 'atomic bombs' on you do you?"
Shaking my head I said. "No, I do not, now, where are we exactly?" This was of course a lie, I did have an M45 Tactical Nuclear Launcher, or a Fatman as the uneducated would call it, along with several dozen M45 Tactical Nuclear Warheads, or, mini nukes.
She let out a sigh of what sounded like relief. "Alright, we're at the top of the Crystal Palace, its the tallest building in the Crystal Empire, unless told you won't be bothered here, to conduct whatever it is you need to do, as for a large flat space, I can have that arranged."
"Alright, feel free to check by in about an hour." I said with a grin, already getting ready for the task at hand, this building being so tall would be a huge advantage. Princess Celestia nodded and teleported away with a flash, and I set to work, first thing I did? Climb to the absolute top of the tower which was easy since there was a ladder built into the crystal, and slapped an antenna dish onto the top, set down a fusion generator like those you'd see in a pre war basement, and then hook up a terminal to it. Then I took thirty minutes hooking star cores into the terminal and the extra electronic systems which I hooked INTO that main terminal, about seven of them, and pressed a button which activated protocols within the terminal, now all I had to do was the last step, it was about that time that Celestia teleported back again and looked around in surprise.
"The large flat area you require is ready for whatever it is your going to do, if you'll close your eyes I can teleport us there now." Celestia said still looking around the room, before with a flash I could STILL see behind my eyes went off and we where in an empty field outside, I could see the Crystal Palace in the distance, and about another mile away was what seemed to be a wall being built just inside the edge of the barrier. "Will this do?" Celestia asked looking down at me, seeing as she was a good foot and a half taller than me.
Looking around for a few moments, I looked back at Celestia and nodded. "Yep, this should do, so stand back, I don't feel like having to replace this things several times." With a thought I opened the workshop and began to place robot work benches, two dozen of em, and the fusion generators to power em, auto defense turrets, and a terminal which I hooked another antenna into, and the programming from the one at the top of the Crystal Palace took effect. The moment the terminal came online and was hooked into the robot work benches, it began to produce robots of pre set combinations, such as assaultrons with Mr.Handy buzz saws for hands, sentry bots with duel mini gun arms and mortar launchers in their backs, and several random combinations of robots that would mostly just use blades against zombies, while others would use long ranged weapons such as rockets.
Princess Celestia looked on in awe as sentry bots, assaultrons, and robobrains stepped or rolled out of the work benches and began to take up formation awaiting orders from either the central command terminal, which I had locked, or my pipboy. I grinned at Celestia, who's jaw was on the floor. "Ready to retake your kingdom?" I said, excited.
Celestia looked down at me again. "Are you sure these golems of yours will be effective against the undead?" She asked, her voice skeptical.
I nodded. "If these combat robots can deal with living soldiers who can shoot back, I think they can deal with a few undead morons who can't even hold a knife." That was true, I had yet to see a zombie even pick up so much as a rock, let alone an actual useful weapon or tool, they just grabbed at the living with their rotting hands and sunk their teeth into flesh and ate, despite the fact they couldn't digest what they ripped from the living they attacked.
Celestia, for the first time since I had seen her, grinned, an impossibly wide grin at that. "Oh Faust yes, it's time to retake my Kingdom, then, to show the other kingdoms and empires how we rose up without their help to defeat the undead, and how without them we became much, much stronger than they, these golems look centuries ahead of anything we have at the moment, even the advanced ones I was forced to leave in Canterlot."
I chuckled and pressed a button on my pipboy, and each robot received orders, and set to carry them out until they could no longer do so. "Let's start this party." I said as robots began to check their weapons and internal systems, before rolling or walking off to accomplish their tasks.
Author's Note
hiya all, this is the last chapter of Biohazard, this leaves room for a sequel if I decide to write one, but don't count on it lol, hope ya enjoyed
