Fallout Equestria: Days Gone

It was day one of my journey, I was born years after the Great War. I am an alicorn, but I also wonder if there’s more besides me. I was abandoned by my parents; I never saw them. I am born to Stable 02, said to be the ‘property’ of the overmare, I do not like this already. I was a curious foal, always looking to uncover the truth no matter what. I have turned 15, I was taken to some sort of training camp for new assets for the Steel Rangers. As a young teen, I had no say in this at all, all the guards that took me said that i was chosen. The first thing that went through my tiny mind was “I don’t think I ate breakfast this morning”, other than that, I couldn't think of anything else.

My training has started and a guard put a punching bag hanging in front of me, I was a bit scared and the guard knew I was scared and didn’t know what was going on, he tried to comfort me by telling me “it’s ok, the bag won't hurt you” or tried to show me how to punch. At this point I was determined, I looked at the punching bag and hit it so hard, it came off the rope it was hanging on and launched through the wall into the other room. The guard and everypony else stared at me. One of the vault guards were on their walkie-talkie, but I couldn't make out who was on the other end of the walkie-talkie. It turned out the conversation wasn’t about me, which I was glad, but I overheard that a pony by the name of ‘Littlepip’ is headed towards the stable 02 gates. I had wondered, “Is this the chance I am willing to take to escape? But I may never see anypony again… But I never had anypony to be friends with”. I took my chances and quickly raced towards the Stable 02 door, before I did that, I knew it would be dangerous out there, so I went at the speed of light towards the equipment and stole a top secret armor made of Sky Iron and designed for an Alicorn, conveniently it stretches out to the height and size of the wearer.

I heard the Stable 02 door open; I immediately ran out before it closed. It was dark and gloomy, I put on the Power Armor just to feel safer. I sat down talking to myself “what have I done? I’m all alone in the wastelands of equestria…”, while I was starting to go into depression, I heard a mare’s voice next to me saying the same thing. I turned to my right and saw the pony that escaped sitting there in fear, when I turned, the suit made a mechanical noise and the mare turned to her left and saw me, we both screamed. We calmed down about a minute later, the mare asked who I was, I said, “I don’t have a name, my number is SD-62” then I asked her what her name is, she replied “LittlePip”, she was wondering why I had no name, so she decided to give me a name, I did not have a cutie mark, so she tried making a name anyways. She settled on Xander, which meant 'to defend' and 'man, Warrior', though I wasn't really a man or warrior, I barely even knew how to defend, but I liked the name, so I was now on called ‘Xander’. I asked her, “What are you doing out here all alone?” she replied, “I'm looking for a friend of mine, she went missing, but she may be out here”.

I never showed my face, all she saw was a Power Armored pony. We started walking towards the remains of Ponyville. The Power Armor sent me a message…. It told me that I cannot interfere with LittlePip and I can’t go with her, it’s also saying that I'm unknown. I was questioning this reality, more rather mine. I told LittlePip i can’t go with her and I will meet her at the end, before she could say anything I have already left, feeling guilty that I've abandoned her all alone to the wastelands, but the Power Armor made me curiouser and curiouser about what I am or where I’m really from. I decided to go back to the stables, I must’ve taken a wrong turn because I ended up at Stable 99, I only realized when I walked in and did not recognize anypony in there (and saw a guard with the Stable 99 badge). I turned back and tried to run as quick as possible out of the Stable. But right as I reached the door, I was tackled by a mare with red and black mane with a white coat. She pointed a shotgun to my head and asked me to take off my helmet and state who I am and my business coming to Stable 99. I did what she told me, I took off my helmet and said, “I’m SD-62 from Stable 02” she ordered me to tell her my real name, so I said “Xander”. She looked at my face closer and realized I was a kid who escaped Stable 02.

She pulled away her shotgun and told me to get up, so I got up because I don’t want to lose my face because I didn’t listen. We went in the Stable, but everypony looked at me as if I made a mistake coming here, which I also thought I did. We went to an empty room where the mare told me I was going to stay from now on, on her way out of the room, I asked her for her name, she said “Go Fish, but I prefer Blackjack”, then she left the room. I was getting hot and sweaty in my Power Armor, I took it off and looked in the closet for clothes, all there was were Stable Dweller clothes, I put them on and decided to take a nap. I woke up to the noise of banging and breaking in my room, it turned out that some ponies entered my room and seemed to be looking for something. It clicked to me that my Power Armor was in the closet, I immediately got up and went to the closet, my Power Armor was missing! I had to find it, it seemed like these ponies knew something about it that I didn’t. I ran down to the cafeteria and started looking for any suspicious ponies.

I saw a mare with the Power Armor sitting at one of the tables. It was the Overmare of Stable 02 which was looking for me, I walked closer towards the mare and she told me to sit down, so I did. The mare said “you have broken the rules and will be executed, return to Stable 02 immediately”, I refused and she did not like that, one of the ponies sitting at a table behind was a guard wearing strong Power Armor for incase if I were to refuse. I quickly teleported my Power Armor on me and flew out of the Stable taking the guard outside to fight. Blackjack was on duty outside when we started to fight. The guard had a Power Hoof and an Overmare's Guardian, all I had was my armor. My Power Armor had words written inside saying “Say EDITH”, I said “EDITH” and a system turned on. I looked at weapons, but since I had no time I just said, “Choose Energy Sword” and a long Energy Sword came out of the suit’s hoof. The guard was shooting at me with all the fire he could, but only 5 of the 10 hit but did not damage me or the Power Armor, he ran up to me and tried to use the Power Hoof to hit my face but I used the Energy Sword to block and push his hoof away, he quickly regained speed and hit me on the side with the Power Hoof and launched me towards the Vault Door leaving a dent, I knew that this pony wasn’t messing around, I quickly got up and flew straight towards the guard, with my sword out it cut the guard’s head clean off.

I looked back at the vault door to realize that Blackjack was on duty and saw the whole thing go down. I walked inside and Blackjack followed me in, she started walking towards me in shock, but while walking, the P.A was on and it said “Stable 99 is now sold to the Raiders of Deus”, she told me to stay here, I waited for about 5 minutes until she came back with a pony named P-21. They said that we were going to bust out of here, and so we attempted to. They grabbed weapons and we started heading out, but the Overmare of Stable 99 knew what we were trying to do, so the Overmare ordered guards to go after us. The exit was blocked off by 20 guards, we knew we had to fight our way out. They both looked like they were going to enjoy the killing spree but they saw that I wouldn’t enjoy it, Blackjack looked at me and said, “I just watched you fight off a powerful guard and chopped his head clean off” I said, “I didn’t want to, I had to if I wanted to live”. I finally agreed to this and said “EDITH, choose Grognak's Axe”, and an axe dispensed out of the armor. We rushed towards the guards as they were shooting us, I was in front as the shield because of my armor and chopped the first guard n half, then Blackjack and P-21 started attacking, gunshots were so loud that it was deafening, blood splatter everywhere, bodies on the ground obliterated, it was a complete warzone.

One guard was still alive, with a half-grazed face. I looked at the guard and ordered him to tell me who I am, the guard said, “Canterlot...”, but before he could say anything else, Blackjack shot him in the head. We left Stable 99 and headed towards the ruins of Hoofington. The Power Armor sent me the same message saying that I can’t go with Blackjack and P-21, I told them what I did to Littlepip, “see you at the end”, and the same with Littlepip, before they could say anything, I was already gone. Canterlot was about 312 km away from hoofington, that would take me to walk 3 days…. I guess I had nothing to lose, except everything.