So here I am sitting in front of Ten Pony Tower and before you ask, no I am not planning to get in, no I have just gotten myself kicked out.

“How?”, you ask? Well it all started when I arrived here my first day I more or less got kicked out of the Enclave because i said something that didn’t completely agree with what they said. Still lucky me I only got kicked out, folks in my hometown said pegasi who disagree with the Enclave get taken away at night and executed in some secret facility.

So I flew down here and low in behold it didn’t start very good, I flew down and circled around as I saw what looked like a caravan of traders and I flew down to trade, only I might have forgotten the fact that every non Dashite Pegasus was about as friendly treated as a raider trying to rape fillies.

Oh well I flew down and out of the corner of my eye I saw a Pegasus with a desperado hat flying towards me, I only later realized that he wore a battlesaddle, later meaning after a bullet went clean through my ass. I flew as fast as I could in some direction, I had better things to do than get shot in my first minute down here and after what felt like hours, I saw a huge building in the distance. You guest right if you said it´s Ten Pony Tower!

So I flew towards it up high in the air trying to avoid any anti Enclave gunfire and my Eyes lit up as I saw that I could land on the roof, well about as much landing as I could do with a bullet hole in my ass, let´s just say I fell more than I landed. As I impacted and gave a loud thud the door leading down opened and a grey unicorn mare stepped out and ran towards me. She asked worried:

“Are you okay?” and I just gave a annoyed “Do you think I am?!” look and pointed with one of my wings at my ass,

“Oh no! let´s get you inside and heal you!”, she said extending a hoof. I of course took it, anything is better than getting shot and then bleeding out on a roof on my first day down here. We walked in and she introduced herself as Homage, the assistant of some guy named Dj-Pony. We walked past a nice statue and she brought me into a clinic.

“Doc I need your help here!”, she shouted, a stallion approached us and introduced himself as Doctor Helping Hoof,

“He landed on the roof looks like someone shot him.”, she explained and the doc pulled out a little glass bottle and explained: “Give him that and some rest he should be fine soon”. So we walked back to what I’ve learned is Dj-Pony´s broadcast station in a pre-war hub according to Homage it belonged to the Ministry of Arcane Sciences which had a emergency broadcast station he used for his wasteland radio.

First day after my rest: I stepped out of the walls to collect metall and trade it inside of the city, I walked about 3 meters before i found a bunch of scrap metal that looked like it could actually be still used for something so I collected it and walked back in.

Day two of my new life: I once more stepped out this time i had to search a little bit longer before I found a passable piece of metall but only one small piece wouldn´t get me all to far so I continued and after easily three hours or even more I walked back in once more earning myself a little bit of money or rather currency since they used bottlecaps for some reason which wasn´t exactly the money I was used to.

Day three of me actually gaining quite a reputation in the tower and enjoying my life with a clean bed and a shower everyday: I trotted throught the ruins once more and while gaining a bit of scrap metal I found something else, a weird looking machine that looked like the motors we used for the ships but older, still it was worth bringing it with me because the local Historians were about to fight about it as I said:

"Whoever bids the most get´s it", 15 minutes later one histotian gave me three thousand bottlecaps and took it with him.

After those three days I had not only acquired the good sum of five hundred bottlecaps but also thanks to a small bit of pre war tech a leather action rifle, a lot of ammunition for said rifle, a saddlebag and something called a pip buck, no idea what it is but it had a map and a radio and some other stuff I didn’t bother to look at, all that strapped around my forehoof.

There was only one problem: I was a Pegasus without a Dashite symbol on my flank which meant for the residents I was Enclave, which led to the unfortunate circumstances I’m in right now. On the fourth day a bunch of security ponies approached me and told me I had to leave because neither they nor the citizens where very fond of me being here and or the Enclave marching into Ten Pony Tower to collect me.

So now I sit in the ruins of a city my pip buck named Manehatten, contemplating my next move but I didn’t know what to do so I scrolled through the pip buck.

“Oh fuck!”, I shouted as I read through the data files, there was a heavily encrypted file on there and even I who decrypted files while sleeping had never seen a encryption this strong, which meant it was important, which meant whomever this file belonged to would now hunt me.

“Oh great”, I mumbled as I stood up and looked at my map: In the distance a town called Fillydelphia was marked, “maybe this one isn´t in ruins” I thought and started trotting in the direction the pip buck said the city was in.

Author's Note

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