Fallout Equestria: Falling Ashes

Rose jumped awake to banging on her door, she then heard her father say “Get the fuck out here now bitch.” The banging continued. “Fucking wake up before I come in and push your fucking ribs in!”

She opened her door and looked up at him, she smelled Wild Pegasus, somehow the stable still had some even with how much he drank it.

Her nose wrinkled to the smell as she asked “What’s wrong?”

He wrapped a wing around her and tossed her towards the middle of their room. He followed her to where she landed. Rose looked up onto the bed to find her mother, she wasn’t paying attention and was reading a book. She looked back at her father who was standing over her now.

***

A young security mare was doing her rounds through the residential halls, honestly it’s boring.

As she walked, half asleep, she twirled a baton on her magic. Then she heard screaming, at first it was a young filly’s voice so she kept walking.

It soon started to sound like an older stallion’s voice, she started running towards the sound.

She found the room the sound was coming from and opened the door. She saw the stallion who had been screaming, he was that pegasus that worked in maintenance, he’s surrounded by blood, so much blood.

His wife was standing over him and looking towards a corner, the security mare followed her gaze to find a filly there, she was snarling and was showing off some fangs.

The fur around her mouth was soaked in crimson, a dark object was under her, one end was covered in it too. A shiver went up her spine when she realized it belonged to the stallion.

The filly jumped at her mother, the security mare swung her baton and connected with her ribs, sending her back to the corner. As she hit the metal wall the filly’s lungs let out all the air they held and she started gasping for breath.

She dropped the baton and pulled her 10mm service pistol from its holster, she wasn’t watching the filly when she was unholstering it.

Pain shot through her leg as four fangs sank into them, it felt like her security barding and skin offered no resistance to them.

She screamed and her magic failed, the gun dropping to the ground. The filly let go and tackled her mother, who was holding the dropped baton. She attempted to bat at the filly but missed.

The little filly had gone straight at her throat, and connected, a chunk of skin and fur being pulled with her as she went past the standing mare, who then joined her husband.

***

Rose looked up at the security mare who had tried to interfere, fear and shock on her face, she growled and ran at her.

The mare’s horn lit up but she wasn’t fast enough, the little white ball of anger bowled into the mare, sending them both out into the hallway.

The mare hit her head on the wall, hard, it didn’t look like she was moving for a while so Rose started running, she noticed a bunch of doors had opened and ponies were watching. A few yelled at their foals, who had started to follow Rose as they ran towards the Atrium of the stable.

When they all got to the Atrium she looked around at the other foals who had followed.

“Why are you all here? I thought you didn’t want to come with me?” Rose asked as she looked up at the Overmare window.

One of them replied, he sounded to be a year or two younger than Rose. “We heard the screaming so we thought you were going to try and leave now.”

Rose didn’t see the Overmare in the window so she looked down at who talked, the colt was bright blue, it was actually kinda blinding when he was in the light. “Let’s get to the door then and see if we can open it.”

Most of them nodded so Rose led them to the door. The giant yellow and grey cog was where it always was, the drill thingy that hung from the ceiling was as well, she went up to a terminal and started pressing things.

Most of it she didn’t understand, she had taught herself some of it so she could read her pip, but she couldn’t tell what the hell all this was.

She slammed her forehead on the desk out of frustration, her horn was too short to hit the desktop.

Behind her she heard hoofsteps, a lot of them. She jumped up and turned around just as the group of security flooded into the room, the Overmare was with them.

“Overmare Shining Horn, nice of ya to finally show up.” Rose said in a bitchy tone.

She looked pissed, a few of the older security elders did as well, was it for the tone? She was younger than them so they shouldn’t care, eh fuck it who cares.

“What do you think you’re doing? Attacking security and murdering your parents!? You and your followers should all be put to death for this.” Shining said, a growl coming from her throat.

“We are trying to leave this piece of rusty shit!” Rose yelled at her, some of the security ponies looked ready to start hitting her with their batons.

“You’ll die out there, actually you know what? Fine, go have fun with the radiation and all the other shit that will kill you out there.” The Overmare said as she went to the terminal Rose was messing with and typed on it.

Alarms filled the room as the drilly thingy came down and started to open the cog, it came out with a screech as it was pulled from where it sat for a hundred something years. The cog rolled off to the side and the alarms stopped.

Rose looked up at the Overmare confused. “Wait what?”

“Leave my stable and never come back, or I’ll have security line you up and shoot you all.” Shining said, still growling.

Rose shrugged and joined the group of colts and fillies who were watching, all their eyes fixed on the now opened door, their eyes giant.

Rose pushed the flanks of them, pushing them forward to the door, after some force they started walking through the door, it went into darkness so they all lit their pip lights.

They all heard the creek of the cog being slid back into place behind them, a couple of them looked back.

Rose followed the cave passage, it went around a bend and then there was light. Rose stepped out first, she covered her eyes with a hoof to block the blinding light.

After her eyes adjusted she looked around at the other foals, they had done the same and now they were looking around, the cave entrance was part way up a mountain, down below them was a forest.

She heard all the foals whispering to each other so she looked over to see them all huddled up, she just watched them.

When they were done a colt walked over to her, she remembered his name is Berry.

“Uh.. Rose.” He said, his voice shaky from being nervous.

“Yes?” Rose asked with her head slightly cocked to the side.

“Well we all decided that since you’re almost Elder you shouldn’t travel with us.” He said, his voice got quieter as he said the last words.

Rose’s mouth hung open at that, a lump forming in her throat. “You.. you what?” She asked as her ears went flat against her head.

“We don’t want you with us because you’re almost Elder.” The little colt said while looking back at the group.

Rose sat down and looked at the ground by her hooves, she heard them starting to walk away but ignored them.

After a while of staring at her hooves, trying not to cry she heard screaming, her head snapped to where the sound came from.

There was another scream and a loud thud. She got up and ran down the trail they had gone down. She found them with trees around them, trees that are moving.

She watched as one slammed its branch down, hitting a filly and a colt, as it lifted its branch she saw who it was.

One of the colts and Rain Bloom. The only friend she had in the stable.

Rose felt anger as it raised its branch back up to strike again, she wrapped her magic around it and pulled it further back causing the tree thing to fall over.

When another one started to go towards her she made the fallen one trip it. After it fell she ran to the other foals and started pushing them down the trail.

The younger ones were all crying, the older ones were trying not to, they got to the end of the forest, it opened up to a clearing, they could see a road with old rusted wagons. Ones that they had seen before in picture books.

***

After getting to the old wagons on the giant road they stopped, the younger ones were already asleep, the older foals were looting the old wagons.

Rose had asked to stay with them for the night then leave in the morning, they agreed so she was helping them loot.

Rose opened the trunk of a four door wagon and found a pair of saddle bags, she opened them to find nothing useful.

She dumped out the junk then put them on, they were worn but wouldn’t fall apart anytime soon.

She climbed onto an old bus and started going through the old bags of the long dead travelers. She found some bobby pins and some Bits. Rest was just old clothes that would fall apart if you look at it wrong.

She hopped off and looked at the others, the young ones were awake again, they had some canned food.

Rose sat down and looked up, above her was a massive grey cloud that didn’t look like it ended. She sighed and prayed for it to not rain.

Quest Perk added: Cannibal

During your escape you have discovered the taste of pony flesh, and crave more