fallout equestria: project communicate

It must have been some shifting rubble that re activated my spell matrix, because no pony would have ever been able to find me under all that.

At first I thought I was back in the supply closet, the grey was definitely a good indicator that I was still where I had shut down. All around me was a dull grey of rock's and rubble from the now collapsed Ministry of peace hub, and while I don't believe in luck, I must have still had some as I was relatively un damaged. I took a good look around and found that the floor I was on had actually collapsed and that if I wanted to get out I would need to move some of the rubble. Lucky me I'm a robot.

As I moved the rubble being careful not to buck any of the load bearing stuff, I looked through what data I had. It had apparently been 40 years since the mega spells hit, and the radiation in my general area was low enough to allow life for the time being.

It was an hour and 4 minutes before I could get to a part of the building that wasn't collapsed, logically the first thing I had to do was find the override for my combat features, I had no on board weapons, but I couldn't hurt a living creature even if I needed to without that override. The next thing I would have to do would be to head to the Ministry of arcane science hub in Canterlot to get the personality spell, as I would need that in order to be able to feel complex emotions such as love, fear, anger and the other needed parts of being alive.

So with those two tasks now on my list of to do's, the first thing I would need to do would be to find Lilly pad's terminal. From the map I had of the building it would be two floors below me on the ground floor and down the first hall on the second door to the left. As it was I was standing a grey room with two doors on either side of me and a large window in front of me. As I took a look out the window I was greeted with a cloud covered sky, it wasn't raining but the clouds looked bloated, below that was the ruined street of Mainehatten, and several ruined building, but what stood out to me was the still standing Ministry of arcane science hub, there where even lights inside! So my next objective, after getting the override would be to go investigate the Mainehatten Ministry Of Arcane science hub.

Turning on my on board radio I tuned into the emergency broadcast signal, the only one I knew so far. "-are still holding up in the clouds like cowards. In other news, we've got word that a caravan was found dead near Mainehatten, Celestia bless their souls," I turned it off. The signal was now being used as news station, of course that meant that the equestrian government had in fact not re built itself yet, witch meant that the outside world was going to be more broken then the inside of this building.

Putting that aside I made my way through the door to my left, I found myself in a hallway. On one wall there where a few posters depicting the various Ministries, and on the other was the elevator door. It was bust, but one of the many advantages of being an Equidriod is that I could find another way, no matter how long it took because I couldn't die of thirst or hunger.

So checking my map I found that there was a stairwell on the other side of the building, this, in theory, would allow me to walk two floors down, and follow my map to Lilly pads office. Then I just had to get out of the building.

Walking back up the hallway to the room with the window I made my way down the next hall, I say it's a room rather then a T junction in the hallway because it had doors. Big blue doors with pink butterfly's on them. So anyway, walking down that hall I came into another room, now what I should have done was loot it for anything useful, but as I didn't have the override I couldn't, so I made note to come back, that being said I was in what was most likely the only armory in the whole building. In the event that Mainehatten get invaded, it was important to be able to defend the hubs, so in this room there where racks of guns on the walls as well as several crates of ammunition. Not only that, but there was also a large rack lined with ballistic vests.

The next room I found myself in was an office, this one containing what must have been Lilac's belongings judging by the photo of her and what must have been her family hanging on the wall. While I can't say I like here, I didn't know her long enough to hate her, I didn't really know anypony long enough to hate.

I looked through the office for the terminal, being the head engineers assistant meant she might have the override in her office as well. The walls where a light shade of blue, close to the grey of the rest of the building, with a line of blue that cut through the middle of the wall. There was a no doubt locked safe on the right hoof side of the room and her terminal was on the left hoof side.

I went over to the terminal, It was, lucky for me, unlocked. As I went through it though it proved to not have what I was looking for, so I continued on my way out of the office. At last I was at the stairwell, it looked sturdy enough to hold my weight so I continued down 2 floors to ground level.

This level was painted like something out of one of the many posters that were made depicting the Ministry mares. It was a bright yellow with light pink stripes running the length of the walls, and had a nice granite tiled floor. This was the main lobby.

To my left was something I had never seen in my 6 days of activity and my brief 2 hours active now. It was a dead body, or at least what was left of a body. it's neck was bent at an impossible angle and the rest of its head was crushed by debris. It was almost all bone save for the few scraps of decaying flesh still on it.

For any other pony new to equestrian wasteland life, it would have been horrifying, to me, it made logical sense, I survived the blast due to being a machine, others would not have been so lucky. It was a sight I was just able to deal with.

The next thing I saw for the first time was the barrel of a gun level with my face, in an aura of magic. "Who are you?" Said the unicorn mare wielding the gun. She was wearing a red uniform with a logo stitched to the back of a sword and wings overlaid on gears. She was had a yellow coat and green main with a pink stripe down it. The gun was that of a combat shotgun with a drum magazine.

"I am Colton, Ministry Of peace communications and negotiations Equidriod, model number 1," I responded. This is what I would always say until I got that override, after that I would be able to decide what I wanted to say based on my situation. "Can I help you in any way?" I asked, it was after all my purpose, to help end strife, and to a lesser extent with anything else.

"Yeah you can help me, you can quite your bullshit and tell me who you really are, or I'll call Star paladin Hedge and have you arrested."

Footnote: Level two!
inquisitee: you have unlocked more dialogue options, specifically when it comes to questions