Fallout Equestria: Falling Ashes

As Rose stared up into the darkness of her room she ran her tongue over her sharp fangs, accidentally cutting her tongue, she had them since she was little. She believed it was from eating the rats that sometimes wandered around the old stable halls, oh hey there’s another one. Somepony knocked on her door, hard.

“Wake the fuck up and get to work.” Her father’s voice came through the door, he sounded annoyed, like every day.
“I’m on it.” She replied, trying to sound like she actually cared.

She stood up and felt her stable barding, making sure it was on right. Even though they were meant to fit everypony that wore them, her’s seemed to be too big. The door slid open, most going into the ceiling, some into the floor. She saw her mother still in bed, asleep, her father was putting his stained maintenance barding on. He pointed his hoof at the door which went out into the hall.

“Out.” He demanded without even looking at her.

She stepped out into the hallway and looked around, the hallway was barren, meaning she was late for her shift. She walked down the metal hall, the clopping of her hooves echoing around her, she could hear almost every sound that was made in the stable, her pipbuck had rated her “perception” to be 8, she didn’t actually know what it meant but she thought it had something to do with her hearing.

As she was thinking to herself she went muzzle first into the elevator door and fell over. She sat up and rubbed her muzzle before pressing the call button.

After a little bit it opened and she went in. Her stable had around 20 floors, she wasn’t exactly sure because she didn’t know what all the scribbles meant.

Rose pressed the only button she knew. The elevator lowered itself down, to the tropical level. The elevator’s door slid open and she stepped out and into another boring hallway, she followed it till getting to the underground orchard.

Rose pressed the button panel with her magic then went inside, the other fillies and colts that worked there were already working, the elder was there too, he wasn’t paying attention to anything, as usual.

The only filly that was nice to Rose waved at her when she noticed her, she had a bright pink coat with a green mane and tail, her tail has a little blue streak going through it. Rose went to her and started picking the apples they grew there.

“Heya Rose, you’re late again.” She said before pulling an apple off and dropping it into a basket.

“Yea whatever, I’d rather be asleep.” Rose replied as her horn lit up and some apples started falling.

The apples are as big as her head, she couldn’t actually lift them with her magic so she had to just let them fall after breaking the stem.

“You’re lucky the elder here doesn’t care.” The filly beside her said as she continued to work.

Rose glanced over at him, he got up and made his way out the door, probably out to smoke. How are there even some of those things left? Oh right they grow here.. wait we don’t make paper.

She felt something tap her shoulder, she looked over.

“You alright?.” Her friend asked, looking concerned.

“Just lost in thought.” Rose replied, getting back to work.

“You do that a lot more often now lately.” She replied as she tried to shake the tree they were picking.

Rose grabbed the tip of the tree with magic and shook it around, in return they both got pelted with the giant apples.

After they stopped falling Rose looked up and rubbed her head, her head felt oddly heavy. She pulled an apple off of her horn and threw it at the tree, it split in half when it hit the bark.

Rose and her friend started gathering the apples that didn’t make it into the basket. While she was collecting them she got an idea.

She stood up and yelled at all of them. “Hey everypony.”

She waited for them all to look at her before continuing. “I have an idea, what if we left the stable, then the elders can’t be mean to us anymore!”

One of the colts yelled back to her. “You’re just trying to get us in trouble, you’re almost one of them!”

Some of the others whispered to each other in agreement.

“Oh come ooon they still hit me too.” Rose said with a slight whine to her voice.

Her friend beside her spoke up next. “I think we should, it would be better than this.”

The same colt yelled at them again. “No she’s just trying to get them to like her!”

Rose’s horn lit up and she threw an apple at him. It hit him right in the nose and he teared up, he sat down and started to rub his nose.

“Pleeease if we all do then they won’t be able to hurt us anymore and we can go out into Equestria!” Rose started to beg.

One of the fillies started to talk. “But outside is full of radiation, we’ll die out there.”

“It would be better than this.” Rose replied.

All of their ears flicked towards the door as they heard the room’s door open and they all ran back to the trees they were supposed to be at.

Rose and her friend went back to gathering the apples as the door slid open and the elder who watches them work came back in and sat at his desk.

He started messing with his pipbuck and turned on the stable broadcast, music started to emit from his pipbuck, Rose recognized the voice of her mother. She was singing one of Sweetie Belle's songs from during the war.

While she did hate her, she did have a nice voice. She finished picking up the apples and picked up the basket in her magic and carried it to the storage room and set it inside, after doing so she went back to the tree and sat below it, her back resting against the bark.

Her friend did the same but moved so she wasn’t touching Rose.

Quietly she said to her. “How would we even leave? Only the Overmare knows how to open the door.”

“I dunno, toss her around with magic?” Rose replied sarcastically.

“Actually we probably could, She's kinda skinny.” She said while looking over at the elder.

The stable PA system made a crackling sound before the Overmare’s voice came through. “Work time is over, go back to your rooms.”

All the colts and fillies got up and went to the elevator, the elder stayed at his desk.

The walk back to her room wasn’t very eventful, when she came in her father and mother weren’t back yet, she went to her room and looked at her pip and started going through her things.

She had just gotten to the radio tab after going through every other tab when she heard the door slide open.

She heard the bed springs creak as someone laid on it, she ignored it and went to bed.