Fallout Equestria: Falling Ashes

Rose slowly opened her eyes to the light pouring in through the broken windows across the room, she draped her hoof over her eyes and groaned.

She heard springs somewhere beside her. “Sorry about the light, one of the girls was drunk and broke the curtains. And they aren’t exactly common anymore.” One of the Queen’s mares was in the bunk room with her, she guessed the rest of them were off clearing those ruins to set up in.

“Yeah and it’s annoying.” Rose sat up and looked around, all but one of the rusty beds were empty.

“If you want to complain you can go fetch us some new ones.” The Queen’s Mare beside her stuck her tongue out at Rose.

“Uhhh no. Fuck you.” Rose stuck her tongue out back at her,

“And that’s why it’s not fixed yet.” The Queen’s Mare laid back onto the bed.

“Because fuck you?” Rose tilted her head at the mare.

The Queen’s Mare rubbed her face with a hoof before responding. “Not what I meant dumbass. No one wants to go and find one. There’s addicts around here that’ll stab you for drugs but it’s a whole lot safer in here than out there in the Wasteland.”

Rose exhaled through her nostrils before grabbing her rifle and tossing it over her back and just leaving. In the hallway was another mare, smoking something that didn't smell like what the stallion in her stable smoked. She ignored her and went downstairs then left.

Looking down the street she could still see the bodies of the ponies that had tried to rob her. She shrugged and walked to the gate she had entered the walled off town and went through it. On the other side was more of the Queen Mares standing around doing nothing. Rose started walking down the road, her pistol in a holster on her chest that one of the mares had given her, the strap going around her chest and neck, her rifle slung over her back by the strap she had found it with.

***

After what felt like hours of walking Rose heard her Pipbuck making noise so she looked at it. The Stable Tec pony was in the middle of her screen with a thing in his mouth that was expanding and contracting, confetti was going down the screen as well. In bubble letters across the top was “Happy Birthday!”
“Yaaaaay..” Rose closed the notification before continuing. “And that’s why they left me.. Happy eighteen..” Rose sighed and walked on with her head down.

Rose looked up when she heard hoofsteps ahead of her. A couple loaded down brahmin and some ponies were following the road towards her. Rose continued walking while watching them, the guards were watching her as well.

The group stopped and a stallion walked towards her. “Hey! Need some guns? Could replace that old rifle with one of ours.”

Rose walked to the brahmin and saw a rifle strapped to one that caught her eye, a large rifle as long as the brahmin.

“I'm not sure you can afford that, or its ammunition. Doubt you could even carry it, it’s bigger than you.” The trader said as he started opening boxes and setting guns onto a tap a guard had laid out.

“How much is it?” Rose started going through her Pip to see what she could sell and how many caps she had.

“Five thousand, and the rounds are five each.” The trader stopped grabbing guns and sat down beside the mat.

“Could you do two and some stuff?” Rose asked, smiling up at the trader.

“Know what? I’ll do four if you can get enough things to sell.” He said, looking down at Rose.

Rose started pulling items from her bag using her magic and Pipbuck to bring them to the tops of her bags, it was mostly junk the Pip claimed was worth a cap or two.

“Hmm.. I’ll give four hundred for all that.” He said as he started counting the caps out.

“Actually my Pip says it’s worth six.” Rose smirked at him while waving the Pipbuck at him.

“Fine. Six, now let me concentrate.” He went back to counting.

***

After Rose got her caps she bought binoculars, rounds for the rifle and pistol, and a suppressor for the pistol before continuing down the road.

When she left the group’s view she started following them, using her new binoculars to watch them, while waiting for him to count out the caps the sun had started to get low in the sky. The group left the road and started walking into the desert, Rose started to go around them instead of just following them to where they’re going.

The group stopped walking and setting up a fire, Rose looked back and could barely see the road. She sat down and continued watching them through the binoculars. The merchant and all but one of the guards laid out mats and laid down

Rose sat down and waited for the sun to fully go down. She opened her Pipbuck and started listening to Sweetie Belle songs that were downloaded onto it.

***

Rose’s eyes started to slowly close, as they closed she started leaning forward. She fell forward and went nose first into a rock, Rose jumped up and held her nose, her eyes filling with tears. A whine came from her throat, while holding her nose she looked at the group with her binoculars.

All but one of the guards were asleep, Rose tossed her binoculars into her bag and started crawling towards the brahmin. She felt something warm going down her nose as she crawled. Rose ignored it, as well as the sand going down her Stable Jumpsuit.

When she got to the brahmin she started opening the boxes, she grabbed some ammunition that fit her rifle and grabbed the large one in her magic and slowly slid it out from under the straps holding it against the brahmin. She removed the magazine and started going back through the boxes looking for its giant rounds, she found an entire box of rounds and started crawling back away. Behind her she heard the guard waking up another so he could sleep.

Rose stopped and looked back at the camp with her binoculars, when she saw the guard wasn't facing her she started running back the easy she came. The rifles on her back jumped around and started coming off, Rose pulled them off and held them in her magic, the large rifle’s barrel stayed on her back so she could actually lift it in her magic.

After getting to where she could barely see the camp without her binoculars she started walking back to the road. While walking she unzipped her suit and shook the sand out. Rose placed the rifles over her back again.

Rose stopped and looked around with her binoculars until she saw a rooftop and started walking towards it.

***

Rose opened the door to the small house with her pistol out, she hit the bottom of the gun against the door and waited, when nothing happened she walked in and closed the door and started looking around. Inside were four rooms, a bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, and living room. Rose started pulling the nightstand to the door after searching it and put it in front of the door.

She went back to the bedroom and started pulling the bed to the door inside the kitchen and tossed it in front of it, as well as a shelf in the kitchen.

Rose walked to the living room and set her things on the floor beside the couch then went into the bathroom and took her jumpsuit off and started shaking it around with her magic. She turned on the sink and plugged the drain, immediately her Pip started clicking from the radiation.

Rose pulled a ball of water out with her magic and poured it onto her chest then started rubbing the sand out of her fur, she grabbed an old rag and started rubbing her chest furiously.

When she got most of the sand off she tossed her suit into the sink and turned it off before flopping over onto the couch and going to sleep.

***

Rose sat up and looked around, when she didn't see anything different she got up and went to her jumpsuit and pulled it out of the sink then shook it around as hard as she could with her magic before going and putting her saddlebags on. She put the rifles on her back then draped her jumpsuit over her bags to dry.

Rose pulled the dresser away from the door and opened it. She poked her head out and looked around before walking out and heading down the road again, she looked back as she followed the road and saw a few more houses around the one she slept in.

Rose checked the map on her Pip, north of her is Stable 100. South is New Pegasus, she could see a ton of small roads branching off the highway she was heading towards, on the road she was following was a split ahead of her, left going back to the highway and right going off to the east.

Rose stopped looking at her map and started following the road and when it split she started heading east.

After a while of walking she saw a barn and a house, Rose pulled her binoculars out of her bag and looked at it through her binoculars. Near the barn she saw a fence surrounding the barn, inside the fenced area are some brahmin.

Rose tossed her binoculars into her bag and followed the road to the barn and farmhouse, as she got to the road connecting the farm the brahmin watched her.

Rose ignored them and walked to the house and opened the door and walked inside. As she started looking around she felt something cold against the back of her head.

“The fuck are you doing in here?” A stallion behind her said with a growl, his voice was muffled behind a mouth bit of a gun.

“Didn’t think anyone would be here since all the houses near here are empty.” Rose kept her body still as she spoke.

“Leave my farm now and I won’t shoot your dumbass.” Rose felt the barrel move from her neck as he talked.

Rose turned around and saw an older buck, his blue mane had started to fade, his light grey coat was mostly covered by leather armor with rused strips of metal covering his chest..

Rose left the house and walked back to the road, behind her she heard the door shut. Rose kept walking past the road and up a hill. After a bit of walking she layed on top of a rock and pulled the stolen rifle off her back and loaded it, she then held it in front of her in her magic, she looked through the scope at the farm.

After what felt like hours the front door of the house opened and he walked out. Rose put the plus of the scope onto his head and pulled the trigger.

The rifle jumped from her magic, the stock slammed into her chest, the rifle swung up and the scope slammed into her muzzle before falling onto the rock.

Rose flopped onto her back and held her face while kicking her rear legs into the air. She tried to scream but nothing came out, she struggled to breathe through her hooves as she held her nose and mouth.

Rose tried to pull a healing potion from her bag but her horn wouldn’t do anything, tears made everything blurry as she started digging through her bag for the bottle of pink fluid.

When she finally got one she bit the cork and dropped it onto the rock and downed the bottle.

The pain in her nose started to stop and she felt her chest move. She was finally able to breathe right. Rose screamed as she felt her sternum start moving.

She looked down to see her chest indented where the stock had slammed into her chest. It popped fully back into place causing everything to go black from the pain.

***

Rose sat up and looked around, her chest was still sore from the stock hitting her. She looked for her rifle and found it partway down the hill. She pulled it to her with her magic and looked through the scope at the farm, the farmer she shot was laying in the doorway, it looked like she wasn’t out long.

Rose slid down the hill to the body, when she got to him she started pulling his leather armor off. When his chest was exposed she bit into him, the warm taste of iron coated her tongue.