Chapters Fallout Equestria: The Standing Stones
The stable life of mystic
Chapter 1:
"What is my purpose here?"
"Wake up!" "Wake up!" " Mystic,How have you been?"
A very familiar voice calls out to me. It was from my dear friend Cherry Blossom. She is a young mare with a scarlet coat and blossoming pink mane. Her cutie mark is a cherry blossom tree. It is unfortunate that I can't see her and see how pretty she is. I was born with a rare blindness, that the old world had cured before the war. I is not going to make it kill me. I live just like every pony else. Oh, what do I look like? Well, from what he hear from every pony, that I am a purple unicorn with blue hair, with green and red streaks. I also have foggy gray eyes. That tends to bring attention to myself, every time I leave my room.
Ponies would come up to me and ask, "You can't really see can you?".
These tendencies would bring thoughts that I am nothing more than an experiment to them. To research and make an analysis. But, Cherry Blossom is different, she has treated me just normal. Just like every pony else. That is one thing I loved about her. I still remember how she got her cutie mark. The first thing she did after telling her parents was to tell me after. Which tells him that she cherishes our times together. The stable dwellers gathered together to decide what to do for her. They decided since the cutie mark was a plant/tree, that she will be working on the agriculture group on keeping our orchard going with food supply. With her new job and pip-buck, that was a great day for every pony. I use telekinesis to pick up the walking stick, I had laying on the side of my bed.
With the purple aura of Mystic's horn vanished, he went up to Cherry Blossom and said, "I have been well. And you?" As a smile show his shiny white teeth. he could hear her sighing saying how work has been stressing her. the information he just gathered from her astounded him, the orchard is not having luck growing as it once had.
"I don't know what could be the problem with it. My best guess that the artificial sun lights is not providing enough gamma rays." said Cherry Blossom with great importance. With this I thought,
"How can we fix this problem at hoof." "Have you told anyone else of your theory?" he asked Cherry.
Mysticrunes and Cherry Blossom, decided to head to the overmare's office to discuss further on this matter of importance. As they left my stable room, the ponies around notice, the quick pace they had going to the office. The stable is a bleak and colorless place. It's no wonder that some ponies think about the outside. The only thing they heard during our trip there was the overmare's voice echoing. Her voice sounded really melancholy, which brings me, with some concerns. With walls gray and floors, its Like, always the blindness questions pop-up, just to be ignored. With the rush, I almost lost my walking stick, my thought went to where some colts and fillies would take and hide from me. Which made me realize how others see me as a toy or monster to them. As they went up to the overmare's office door, he heard whispers outside saying, "What could be so important to have him go to her office?" said the whispers. Withholding his tears from what he heard.
"Why must they question everything I do? I don't ever questioned any pony on what they do or don't do. Why am I the exception of this?" thought to Myself.
"Welcome!" "Welcome!" said the overmare The tapping of the overmare's hooves, showed that her concerns have been overwhelming her. "This has been stressing me since our last overseer passed away." But, enough about myself, what have you found out about the orchard?" asked the overmare. As the overmare asked the questions she looked into my direction, "Why is he in here?". The overmare has white coat with a gray mane. The aging is showing very well on her, the bags in her eyes and sagging of skin.
"I decided to bring him along with me." said Cherry.
"I don't see why, you like the company of this bumbling idiot." said the overmare.
I had a thought of telling her off, of how he can be very useful. But, for time sake he left it be.
" Just tell her why were here." Mystic said with slight of anger towards his voice.
"The lights over the orchard are not giving enough gamma rays. I have no idea how to fix them other than entirely replacing them. I checked the supply room for any kind to work with, but there is no replacement." said Cherry.
"Well I guess we are all doom, because I am not going to send any pony outside to find this replacement. Its not worth exposing us to the outside world." said the overmare.
"But, you will kill us all, just for your fear. You are a coward in a power position, they don't know that you are dooming them. The ponies deserve life after the stable. Was that not the goal of the stable tech. The world could be brimming with life and we are stuck in here walling ourselves off." said Cherry.
"How dare you question your leader like this? I hope that the outside world is like you said it is. Guards! Guards! Take Mystics and Cherry to the stable door."
The guards came barging in to help the overmare with her plans. They had dark padded armor that is unstoppable for a normal pony to pierce through. "This is not right. To let every pony to die for fears. Please don't do this." I pleaded.
The stable door is enormous, it had the numbers 007.
"Put in the code in the terminal." said the overmare.
"but that would be a death wish to these two." said guard one.
"Just do what she said. Or I do it myself!" said guard two.
The guard put the code in.
Boop! Beep! Boop! Beep!
The guards stepped back as the stable door opens. The sirens in the room is ringing to the top of its lungs. As a drill start to pull the door open. It locks and slide the door open. The guards held Cherry and Mystic and put them outside the stable door. The guards ran back inside. While the overmare press the button to close the door. While the door sliding back to the way it was before. At the last minute the overmare wave goodbye to them with a big grin. "Goodbye you two see you in the next life." said the overmare.
Clank!
went the door forever from them to open. They were in a dark and musty cave. The cool breeze came in from the entrance, which I felt with a twitch of my ears. What came to be two stable dwellers from stable 7? Now outcasts from their home. They thought at the same time.
"What to do next?".
Fallout Equestria: The Standing Stones
Chapter 2:
"On the edge!"
"No!" "No!" "No!" Screamed Cherry. Knocking on the door begging to come back in. After moments of this she sat and thought awhile of the situation at hoof. I sat while still feeling the wind on me.
"They won't let us back in you know." I said with a deep sadness. "We will have to move on to this new world." The wind was gaining on the cave walls. With the sound of scraping surrounds us.
"Wow I did not realize till I turned around. It is very dark in here." She said while illuminating the cave with a pink layer of light from her horn.
"I would not know that." I said with a chuckle to bring joy to her.
She laughed out loud for the first time since we were bucked out of our home. "I guess you would not." still laughing about it. With the light illuminating the cave, searching for an exit became much easier to find now. She found the exit of the cave with eagerness, as she walked the ticking of her pip-buck started to go off. What we learned while in the stable was that it means that radiation was in the air.
I told her to stay with me until the rain will pass. We were bewildered by the whole event with the rain. The cracks of thunder rips through our thoughts. "Was the world suppose to be to be clean and safe to walk in by now?" We thought as we shiver in the cave. Holding our hooves together and laying our heads on one to another. The last thing we remember before passing out of sleepiness was how hard and wet the floor was. As we drifted off to dreams of comfy beds that we have departed from.
By the time we woke up the storm had long passed. During the night we woke up now and then from a loud thunder. I can feel the heat from an unknown source to me. "What is this feeling? Cherry, what can you see?" As I asked, trying to feel for my walking stick. It was missing. I panicked at the very moment, its the only reminder of my mother in the stable. May Luna bless her. She is probably scared with every ounce of her soul. She is a firm believer of Luna and Celestia being our goddesses protecting us. But, me I don't believe. How would they made me the way I am with no sight and no cutie mark? My mother made the stick with special care, its in fact from the orchard itself. It's a staff with a carving of a mare and colt together, with the words I love you carved on it. I always handled it with care for that reason only, except of course for guiding me around. It took her a year just to perfect the carvings and level of it. As these thoughts occurred to me. I realize that Cherry had not responded with my questions from before.
"Cherry, where the hell are you?" I screamed at the top of my lungs.
No response!
No eye sight, no walking stick. What to do? As I paced back and forth from where I once was standing. I heard noises at the very back of cave. As I headed the direction, almost tripping over corpses of the once living. Thoughts came to mind of how they got there or what they did in their lives. They were just like me at one point. Tears running down my cheeks as these thoughts came to me.
Shuffle! Shuffle!
I stopped at that very spot. Pure silence have overtaken the area. The sudden shuffling started to move to my direction.
"What or who are you?" I asked with the hesitation of a pony who might die.
The shuffling just continued on to my direction. The tapping was closer and closer. As it got closer, I could hear the growls of what sounded like a pony.
"Why are you not talking to me?" I asked while walking backwards to the direction where I came from.
The suddenness of it all caught me off guard. As this mysterious pony jumped on me with such a feral force. My own hooves almost gave way to the surprising attack. It was trying to gnaw off my face or anywhere it could bite off. The saliva was hitting the tip of my nose. It kept on dripping till it hit my mouth. That moment I, let my guard down by spitting that disgusting taste. But, as I did this. A sudden realization hit, whatever was trying to eat me was rotting. The horrid smell consumed my sense of smell.
This is all I needed to make my day even better. Losing my friend and stick. Now a crazy pony trying to kill me for a meal out of me. I don't know what happen. One minute the pony that was almost close to eating me, was chomping his teeth to bite off my nose. Next minute I felt a strong force knocking it over my body. It must have been killed from the impact of the striking blow. The leakage of blood landed on my face, the breathing of my enemy ceased. I lied there exhausted with the strength fading from me. With the exhaustion and shock of the situation I passed out. With the fear that whatever killed that thing will exterminate me next.
"Hello!" "Hello!" Said a sudden a voice with a droll to it. "Stranger you still with me, or did you die of a heart attack?"
I shook myself with a stir that made the stranger jumped right up in the air. "Who in pre tell I am having the honor to know?" I asked with a much politeness of a pony who has never met this other presence. With that thought, my survival was the first thing I was concerned with. "Wait have you seen a mare where you came from?" I ask with great fear in the stranger of killing her.
"I am the one and only explorer of the wasteland. Or a scholar of the knowledge of the world before." "But you can call Arch scroll." "No, but I did find this particular stick outside this cave." "Now that I told you who I am, who are you?"
My eyes went wide that he found the very thing I was looking for. But, sudden sadness hit that the news that my friend was no where to be found. Deduction say that she went out with my stick to get an early glimpse of the world. Something happen during the process of this to end with her missing. "What were you doing here, I might ask you?" I said with quick action and judgement. As I took back my staff with magic, from his hooves.
"Just like I told you buddy exploring." he said with slight offense. "I thought that there might be some artifacts here for me to find. But, I only found you here." "Only thing intriguing thing in here is the stable behind you." "Can you by chance open the door for me from this side." "I'm curious, I have never been in one of those things before."
The shocked expression on my face showed that the comment blew me off. Then I thought this over to get this proposition in progress. "They kicked me and my friend out for a different point of view." I said with a sly smile of confidence. If you help me find my friend out there. Help us find a certain technological device, they might let us back in there." "What do you say deal or not?" I said with the only hope I have of getting out there without dying.
He thought it over some time. "Hmmm!" "What if I don't take your deal at all?" he said with concern.
"Then you leave a blind stallion with a quest that he can't fulfill by himself." I said with mild concern, and confidence under my breath.
"Wait your blind!" with a shocked voice.
"Yes!" "Do we have a deal or not?"
"Deal!"
"Deal!"
We both said with the widest smiles in our faces of what we compromise with each other. This might end up being the best or worst partnership. I have no idea but, I have a start to lead me saving my friend and possibly the stable.
Fallout Equestria: The Standing Stones
Chapter 3
"I don't know about this, but I'm doing it."
As we walk out the entrance of the cave. I felt the rays of the sun hit my skin for the first time. It felt very exhilarating to that I was out of that cave. But, I smelt that pungent air. "What the hay is that awful smell?" I said with my mouth gaging at it and covering my snout.
"That my blind friend would be the decaying bodies. That lie right next to the entrance. It looks like somepony was planning to burn them." He said with great sadden tone. "I wondered how the old world was before it was set a blaze. This is why I am looking around equestria for more information." He said avoiding the sadden onslaught of ponies.
"You think that we should finish the job. Or give them a proper burial." I said with interest of the matter.
"Well, since we're on top of a mountain. They had it already up here, lets finish their job." He said with a purpose to get done.
Lucky for us we had a decaying tree lying next to the corpses. With my magic, I started to rip the tree bit by bit.
"How is your magic so good Mystic?" He said with a questioning stare. "I might ask since your blind and all."
"Well, since I am blind. No one wanted me to do anything in the stable. Thinking that I was too much of a reliability to everyone. So, while I was stuck in my stable room. My mom would teach everything that I know now, including magic. I have always wondered if I ever needed them since no one wanted me. But, here we are now." I said with a laughter that also got to my newly friend and partner. "So, I got the wood. How are you going to start the fire anyway?" I questioned with concern of the fire.
"That my friend is the easy part. I just get two rocks and clack them together till they give out a good spark." saying happily for giving knowledge to another pony.
"Oh if it that easy then give me the rocks." He gave me the rocks at ease. "While we are talking about the past. What brought you to look for the equestrian history anyway."
"Are you sure you want to know about it, it is tragic." He said while lowering his head.
"Yes, I am sure. Since I told you about my past. Now it is your turn." I said with enthusiasm, while trying to clack the rocks together to start the fire.
"I used to be in a town in the clouds."
"Clouds?"
"Oh yeah, that right you can't see." He said with frustration.
"Do you know the feeling of fluffiness?" he said with interest. "Think of that but, in the sky."
"Wow!" I said with more intrigue with his story.
"Anyway back to the story. We hid ourselves from the world, because of what happen to the old one. I used to be part evaluation team that would fly in to investigate, if the world was safe to come back."
"Flying? Do we have devices to fly or have unicorns learn a new levitation spell while we all been cooped up in the stables." I said with more excitement than ever before.
"No, in fact we can fly naturally. You would know if you could see me, but I have wings. I know in the stable that their are just unicorns and earth ponies. We are called Pegasus and we hid in the clouds while the world died."
"That is amazing that I get to meet you." I said with utter bewilderment of the situation.
"Yeah I know it is. Back to my story anyway. This was my first trip since I finally had the experiences at the class we had of analysis. So, we went out of the clouds to see what has happen since then. They told me my whole life that there was no life to be found. But as we left the atmosphere, gun shots could be heard from a distance. I always did wondered why they brought guns with them when there was no life on the surface. As the gun shots got closer, the group leader told us to go back up."
"This is a interesting story you have so far." I said with me stopping the clacking of the rocks. With the pause I started up again on the rocks to tell him to continue.
"The three of us left, were trying to fly back. But one of us got shot down by a sniper. While the others left. I decided to go back to save our fallen comrade. By the time I got there to help. His eyes looked at me and he raised his hoof to me to grab. He grabbed the collar of my power suit and said to me."
"Scroll why did you come back you know what it means to disobey an order?."
"I am not leaving you behind sir, I am not a coward like them."
"I am done for Scroll go back before it is too late. Ugh!"
"But as he passes on, the perpetrators that killed him came to me with their guns. They had them pointed at me for ill intent on killing me. I asked them."
"Why are you doing this to us, we meant you no harm. I did not know that you were down here."
"Every time your kind come down here, more of us dies. We don't want you coming down here anymore."
"As they were distracted by talking to me, I managed to grab the gun my comrade had."
"Look my back up arrived behind you, I told them to look back."
"I ended up shooting all three of them in the back of the heads for killing my friend. The red mist that came after scared me to hell. Their brains were on the ground scrambled. As I looked at their dead bodies noticing they were dirty and had horrid scars and looks. I dropped the gun afraid of what I had done. It was what I had to do because they were not to be reasoned with and would of shot me anyway. I buried all of them in honor of their lives that were taken. I decided that day to search to what happen to this land and help as much as I can. I would never go back to the city I came from for they are cowards and liars to what happen here. So, I flew off to find a place to rest a bit and ended up finding you up here with a stable door." He said all this with ever coming tears in his eyes.
As he finished his tale, I managed to start the fire. "That is a tragic tale you told me my friend. I hope that I can help you on that journey of yours. But lets get going I am tired of being in front of this cave. By chance did you see my friend in that pile." As the flames started to set and rise to bring black smoke.
"I saw no pony of your description in that pile. But, I do see set of prints heading down the slope of the mountain. It also looks like it heading midday with the suns direction right now."
"What are we waiting for then lets go and follow those prints. She is probably half a day ahead of us by now. We have no time to waste then." Tapping my staff to find the footing to go down the path. I think my friend questions how I charge up to everything so fast, for being someone like me. I just am determined to show everypony that I am not as weak as they think that I am.
"Well I will lead the way. I will just fly over you to keep you from not falling or keeping up." He said with great concerned for my health.
"I will greatly appreciate that if you don't mind at all. Lead me the way to where my friend direction please." I said with sarcasm and frustration. I just hate that no one could believe in me but, I did need him to help. I just need to learn to let ponies help me or ill lose everything.
But, as we head on we left the fire a blaze for anyone to see. I hope that we don't get the attention of something out here that would cause us any harm or worst.
