Two Wastelanders and A Pony

Everything happened at once. As soon as the four ponies and the reptile turned away from him, Zachary easily snapped the ropes binding him and removed the gag from his mouth, but they didn't immediately notice. When ponies saw the new human and the unicorn that had identified herself as 'Twilight Sparkle', they sprang into action. The white unicorn shrieked something about a bloody mane and ran towards the purple unicorn who ran to meet her. The yellow pegasus busied herself calming down Dogmeat, who had assumed an agressive stance upon the appearance of the human and unicorn. The orange pony with the hat dashed forward, spun around and kicked the new human with her hind legs before he could react, sending him flying backwards into a book shelf where he fell back to the ground and landed in a crouch. Siezing upon the confusion, Zachary sprang to his feet.

The first one to notice him stand up was the little reptile. Zachary backhanded the little thing, knocking it into a wall where it fell, unconcious. He looked around for his weapons but was interupted when the pink one spun around, but before it could do anything, Zachary launched foward and grabbed it by the mane and tail, lifting it into the air with its legs waving wildly. He held it above his head saw the orange one moving towards the new human. Faster than the orange pony could react, the man drew a pistol, but instead of immediately shooting the pony like Zachary had expected him to do, the man fired once at the cieling before aiming back at the pony and giving it a warning look. At the sound of the gun shot, everyone in the room stopped what they were doing and spun to look at the new human.

"All right, listen up!", he shouted, "Everyone that isn't human move to the other side of the room! You!", he pointed to Zachary, "Drop the pink one and get over here! Twilight, you stay right where you are!" Everyone did as he commanded. The ponies were reluctant, but they had seen the blast mark that Zachary's Gauss rifle had left on the floor. What he was holding appeared to be just a smaller version to them. Zachary lowered the pink pony to the floor and carefully made his way over to the other human. The purple unicorn stood in the middle of the room with an apprehensive look but remained silent an let the man continue. He stood up from his crouched position before continuing.

"Now, before we all kill each other, why don't we start with some introductions, shall we? My name is Darren Ross.", he looked at Zachary,  "And you are?"

"Zachary Morris. Though most people where I'm from call me the Wanderer. And that traiterous, shit eating, dog over by the yellow one is my dog, Dogmeat", Darren nodded at the answer.

"Figured as much.", he said, "The purple one kept blabbing about some 'Wanderer' she stuck in her basement. Anyways lets continue. You! Why don't you tell us your name first." he said, as he pointed his gun at the orange one that had kicked him.

Without flinching, she glared up at him and said, "Mah names Applejack."

"Very good.", Darren continued, "Now I know who I'm killing if you decide to kick me again.", the ponies shifted nervously when he said this. He gestured to the white and purple one, "How about you?"

"Rarity", she said haughtily. He pointed to the pink one who was currently scowling and growling at Zachary like a dog.

"Pinkie Pie", she reluctantly said. Darren turned to the winged yellow and pink one.

"And you would be?"  She hid behind her long mane and mumbled something that Darren couldn't quite catch.

"I'm sorry, what was that?" She mumbled something a little louder but he still couldn't catch it.

"Seriously, you're going to have to speak u-"

"I SAID, MY NAME IS FLUTTERSHY!", she finally shouted before cowering behind Dogmeat, who was now growling aggresively at Darren.

"Alrighty then", he said, slightly puzzled at the pony's outburst, "Now then, before we resume our little bout of chaos, why don't we get a few explanaitions from everybody so that I know exactly WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!", he ended with a shout. He turned back to Zachary, "The thing at the front of my mind, at the moment, is exactly how a man wearing what appears to be T-51b power armor let himself get tied up by a bunch of small and unimpressive female creatures."

"I don't want to talk about it" Zachary mumbled, trying not to look embaressed.

"Too bad, 'cause that's gunna keep buggin me until I know the answer and no one

is leaving this room or doing anything until I know. Got it?"

"Fine", Zachary grouched, "The pink one hit me with a pie, and knocked me out."

"Say what?"

Zachary sighed, "I said the pink one hit me with a pie." Darren simply stared at him when he said this and blinked a couple of times before speaking.

"The pink one?"

"Yes"

"She hit you?"

"Yes"

"With a pie?"

"You're a sharp one, aren't you...."

"So a tiny female named 'Pinkie Pie'...... hit you with a pie....."

"In the face......"

"And knocked you out......."

"Yep." There was silence for what seemed like an eternity. Then Darren broke the silence with a cackling laugh that could only come from a mad-man.

"It's not funny! The orange one hit me from behind and then she sucker punched me with a pie!", Zachary shouted at him, but Darren continued to laugh, "It hurt like hell." Darren finally stopped laughing and turned back to the ponies, who were now looking at him like he was crazy. He faced Twilight while keeping his gun focused on the other four ponies.

"Now the next thing I would like to know is just exactly what the hell you all are."

"We're ponies" she said blankly.

"And what the hell is a pony?"

"Well, a pony", Zachary said, sounding a little condecending, "is a small horse. But, more specificaly, Twilight and that white one are called unicorns and the yellow one with the wings is called a pegasus." Darren decided that, later, he was going to beat the hell out of the man for talking to him like a child, but for now he would play along.

"Now let's pretend that I have no idea what horses, unicorns, and pegasuses-"

"Pegasi."

"Whatever! Let's pretend I don't know a thing about them. So what exactly ar-". The yellow pegasus raised her hoof and Darren turned to her.

"Yes, Fluttershy?"

"Well, um, Mr. Darren sir, I was just wondering, well......"

"Spit it out girl, we haven't got all day!" At his outburst, the little pegasus squeaked and hid behind Dogmeat again.

"Hey!", Pinkie Pie shouted at Darren, "You can't talk to her like that!"

"Oh, come on! All I said was-" the front door of the library crashed open and in strode a light blue pegasus with a multi-colored mane.

"Sorry I'm late you guys. The weather patrol was-" she stopped and took in the scene before her. Spike was unconcious against one wall, Futtershy was hiding behind a strange dog, Twilight was covered in blood, and the rest of her friends were taking agressive stances towards two strange two-legged creatures, one of which was covered in metal and one was pointing a strange object at her friends. She sprang into action. She zoomed across the room, ramming into Darren, and all hell broke loose.