Fallout Equestria: Falling Ashes

Rose opened her eyes and sat up, she looked around the room of the farmhouse and after seeing nothing different she got up and put her barding on. After getting herself dressed she walked to the door, after stepping over the cattle farmer’s mostly eaten body Rose followed the road again, back to the Queen’s school.

After walking for a while she saw the walls of a settlement. “Ah, perfect.” Rose went to the gates and tried to open them, when it didn’t open she started shaking it as hard as she could.

“Who the fuck is out there!?” Rose heard a male voice from above her shout.

“Uh, me?” Rose backed up to see who was yelling. A brown stallion with a faded green helmet was pointing a rifle at her.

“The fuck do you want?” The pony kept the rifle pointed at her.

“Can I buy shit here?” Rose asked with an eye roll.

“Fine. Shadow open it!” The brown pony yelled at someone else, that was probably by the gate.

Rose heard something metal move on the other side of the gate, followed by the gate opening, Rose walked past the pony that opened it and looked around for a shop, after finding it she walked into it and tossed her old rifle and it’s ammunition onto the counter then waited as the mare behind the counter just started at her, confused.

“Well how much for it all?” Rose said with an annoyed tone.

“Oh, uh.. Two thousand alright?” The mare asked anxiously.

“Make it three.” Rose countered with.

“I uh.. Don’t have that much.” The mare rubbed the back of her neck.

“Fine, what do you have back there?” Rose looked around some shelves behind the mare.

“I have some leather pieces you could wear over your stable suit.” The mare said as she pulled them from a box in the corner of the room.

“That works I guess, that and those caps.” Rose started tapping the counter.

The mare put the armor onto the counter, as well as a bag of caps. “That’s.. all of my caps.

Rose took it all and left the shop, before leaving the town she put the armor pieces on over her Stable barding.

After getting it all on she left the town, after leaving she followed the road again, back to the Queen’s school. Ash checked her map as she walked to make sure the road led back to it.

***

Rose opened the gate of the small town the Queens stayed in, she followed the road towards a mare yelling. When she got to the mare she turned to Rose. “Hey miss, you should head to the bar just down the road, they’re even hiring mares. You might be able to afford better armor than that!”

“Sure I guess.” The mare pointed down the road behind her and Rose walked to it.

Rose looked up at the sign of what she guessed was the bar. “The Glowing Mare” was above the door, each letter looked to be from various signs, right below it was another sign “Guns & Ammo Inside” the sign was an intact one.

“Guess this is it then?” Rose said as she walked in, after entering she looked around to see a few tables and chairs to the left, when she looked to the right she saw a bar with a mare behind it.

“Here for alcohol or guns?” The mare behind the counter asked Rose when she looked over.

Rose tilted her head as she asked. “Actually, the mare yelling said you were hiring?”

“Yes we are, you might be perfect for it actually, come with me.” The mare walked out from behind the counter and up the stairs, Rose followed her up them.

“So we need another maid to bring drinks around to ponies, there are a few side things as well I can explain.” The mare said as she opened a door for Rose.

Rose entered the room and the mare followed, she closed the door behind her and Rose. “So what all would I do here?” Rose asked as she sat down.

“Well I don’t just serve drinks here, we also serve mares.” The mare sat down at a desk across from her.

“Like… slaves?” Rose tilted her head at the mare and got ready to draw her gun.

“No, that's not what I meant at all. Males come here and pay to fuck some of the mares here, they’re not all required to of course, the mares make their own prices, rules, and can say no whenever. We just get twenty percent of what they make per customer.” The mare replied.

“Oh, alright then. But what about drink delivering? What does that pay?” Rose asked as she relaxed.

“Ten caps a day, but you have to wear a uniform that you pay a two hundred cap deposit on in case it gets ruined while you’re working, those things are expensive and we are not paying for new ones.” The mare relaxed as well as Rose.

Rose tilted her head at the mare. “What’s a deposit?”

“You give me two hundred caps now, I give you the dress. If it gets ruined or lost. I keep those caps, if you stop working here you get the caps back and I get the dress back.” The mare says as she gets up and heads to a dresser behind her.

“Oh, yeah that works.” Rose said then started getting her caps out.

The mare tossed a maid dress onto the desk and took Rose’s caps when she gave them to the mare.

“Take your armor and that suit off and put the dress on, if you don't have a permanent place you’re staying you can have a room for five per night. For non-employees it’s twenty so you have a good deal.” The mare said as she sat back down.

“I guess I’ll take a room, place I’m staying at isn’t very private.” Rose said as she held the dress up in her magic field.

The mare pulled a key out of the desk and tossed it to her. Rose let it hit her so she wouldn’t drop the dress, she leaned down and picked it up with her teeth.

“You can work any day you choose, but if you do it’s morning to night and you only get paid for full days, if you don't work full you don't get paid for the day, pay for the rooms is just taken from your pay so you don’t have to worry about it. You can start now and you’ll be paid for the full day. Only this time.” The mare got back up. ”Now go to the bar room and wait to deliver drinks.”

“Yea sure.” Rose said through the key before leaving.

Rose dropped the key and looked at the number as the mare walked past and down to the bar, “200.” Rose walked around and looked for the room. After a bit of wandering she found it, she unlocked the door and entered. Inside was a single bed, a dresser, a desk with a chair, and a door that was probably a bathroom. “Guess this works.”

Rose closed the door and started taking her leather pieces off and tossed them by the bead, she then took off her barding and tossed it with it. She put the dress on and put the key inside an inside pocket before locking the room and leaving.

Rose walked back to the bar and leaned against it. “So I just wait?”

“Yes, till now. Take this tray to the two stallions, one is grey and the other is brown. Keep your magic steady or you pay for the drinks. Get the caps they owe and bring it back as well as the tray. If they touch your ass they’re required to give you a tip, you keep all of it and if they don't tell me. Now go.” The mare set a couple small glass cups onto a plastic tray and slid it towards Rose.

Rose took the tray in her magic and held it up then looked around, when she spotted the two she walked to their table, glancing at the tray every couple steps. When Rose got to the table she set the try down and pulled the drinks off and set them in the middle of the table and walked away with the tray.

When she got back to the counter she set the tray down. “That wasn’t as hard as I thought it’d be.”

“Yeah there’s not much to it, just have to deal with drunks sometimes. Another order for a table with a red mare that’s alone.” The bar mare said as she set a beer bottle with the cap removed onto the tray.

Rose took it and looked around, when she didn’t see the mare she headed to the backroom the other owner stayed in. After entering she saw the mare sitting in a corner watching all the ponies around her, Rose walked up to her and set the bottle down, the mare nodded at her and took it. Rose turned away and walked back to the counter.

Before she could leave the room she jumped as a pony touched her rear, she looked back to see a couple stallions laughing at her, one tossed some caps onto her tray as they walked past her, Rose’s nose was filled with the smell of alcohol as they walked past. She pocketed the caps and continued to the counter.

***

Rose flopped onto her bed after the bar mare said she could go to sleep, she pulled the caps from her pocket and started counting it all in her magic.”Only fifty?”

Rose tossed them onto a table beside the bed and started taking the dress off, when it was off she tossed it onto the table with the caps and covered herself with the blanket and fell asleep.