Two Wastelanders and A Pony

by The Libertarian Brony

Waking up

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After a few minutes spent poking the creature with a stick failed to illicit some kind of reaction from it, Darren decided that it would be best to take it back to his camp. He picked the creature up and, with no real attempt at being gentle, slung it over his shoulder. He walked back to the base of the cliff he had been perched upon and looked up.

"How the hell did I survive jumping down that?" From what he could tell, there was no way he was going back up the way he came. He looked to his right and then to his left. The cliff face seemed to stretch for miles in either direction. He hung his head with a sigh.

"I'm going to have to walk all the way around to get back to camp, aren't I?" he said to the unconcious creature. Darren decided to go left, and began the journey to find a way around the cliff face to get back to his camp.


Twilight Sparkle was sitting in the middle of a forest enjoying a cup of tea. Sitting across her table from her was the monster that had been chasing her. Upon it's head was a top hat and in one claw it held a glass of wine.

"I'm so dreadfully glad that we cleared up that misunderstanding, Miss Sparkle" it said with a heavy Canterlot accent.

"Me to" she replied "I can't believe that I thought that you were going to eat me!"

"Oh, that would have been most dreadful!" the monster continued "I find it ever so amusing tha-..... Oh dear."

"What is it?" Twilight asked.

"I do believe you're waking up" With that the monster's upper body exploded. Twilight screamed.


Twilight woke up screaming and flailing. Or, at least, she was attempting to flail. She felt something soft slightly constricting her panicked movements which caused her to panick even further. Memories of what had happened flooded back to her. She continued to scream and flail until she felt two strong hands grab her shoulders and heard a soft, yet gravelly voice speaking to her in a reasuring tone.

"Hey. Hey, calm down. It's ok, you're safe now. Nothings going to hurt you." She stopped flailing and the hands released her. She looked  up and into the face of the one who had spoken. It was a human with short, blonde hair, dark blue eyes and a neatly trimmed beared that was slightly darker than the hair atop his head. He was wearing a red beret. The first words out of Twilight's mouth were, "Monster! Blood! Giant bugs!"

"Sshhh. It's alright" the human said "They're all gone. You're ok." Twilight calmed down just a bit and took note of her surroundings with eyes still wide from fright and a terrified look on her face. The thing that had been restricting her movements was a blanket. She and the human appeared to be seated next to a campfire, and off to the right, a little ways, there appeared to be the edge of a cliff.  The sun was high in the sky. Far higher than it had been when she had first arrived in the desert.

"How long was I out?!" she asked the human, eyes wide and voice shaking.

"About three to four hours" he said calmly "I was kind of surpris-"

"Four hours!" Twilight shouted "Oh no! The sleep spell I put on the Wanderer was only supposed to last for two!"

"The what on the who was what now?"


Zachary awoke in darkness. The first thing he noticed was Dogmeat stirring beside him. Zachary groaned and the sound was imitated by Dogmeat. He sat up and rubbed his head, which was hurting like hell.

"Ugh. What happened?" he said to no one in particular. He thought for a moment before remembering what had happened. A, admitidly adorable, creature that looked like and claimed to be a unicorn had appeared out of no where in a flash of light and then there was another flash of light and they were here. Wherever here was. With a bit of embaressment, he remembered how he had reacted. What had come over him? He was  the freaking 'Lone Wanderer' for God's sake! He had faced stranger and more dangerous things than a talking unicorn and kept his cool.... Hadn't he?Zachary stood up and looked around. He and Dogmeat appeared to be in some kind of basement. He located a flight of stairs leading up to a door with light shining beneath it. With Dogmeat at his heels, he walked up the stairs, Gauss rifle in hand. Without pause he kicked the door back and prepared to face whatever might be in the next room. The scene before him was nothing like what he had expected. The room beyond the door appeared to be the main room of a small library, and standing around a table in the center of the room with a unicorn head carving on it were a small white unicorn, a small pink horse with a fluffy mane, a small yellow horse with wings and a pink mane, and some kind of small purple reptile. All of them spun to face him the moment he flung the door open. All he said was, "Shit". The first of the creatures to speak was the white unicorn.

"Who in Equestria are you?!"

"Um........ My name is Zachary" he said "And I think I've gone insane"

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