"The nukes may have been launched, the nukes may have been tracked, and the nukes may have exploded, But with their bloodshed and triumph, everyone's got a story to tell, of heroes in the face of the darkness of eternal war." - Forgone. Z

Flashbacks [TIME:PRE-MEGASPELLS] 6:Mouths 5:Days Before First Strike (M.B.F.S)

I was drinking at a bar that the local medics set up called the 4077th M.A.S.H. The bar is nothing much just a place that the military personal on the front lines can just sit back and relax, it has a dart board, piano, the occasional game of cards, and best of all, a jukebox! Heck back then i would love to play some old blues on that thing. Anyway, i was drinking some wild pegasus when a do you all Private comes up to me.

the Private said "hoo look it is a jungle donkey, no wonder why your losing all your bits."

"You would be mistaken, that word is a deadly insult to any zebra even on the other side of those trenches." I calmly say to them, after i say that they look at my rank and he started to make fun of me and made rude gestures.

"That jungle donkey is a lieutenant, ha, he must be a spy for that little empire of there's." They said in a rude and inclusive way. Then they spot my golden dog tags. "HA, this zebra is trusted by princess Luna, how could she trust a zebra that has stripes and will back stab us the first chance he gets!" he said heckling me.

I get up and i pull out my combat knife from its sheath, Next i grab him by the throat and pin him against the bar's counter then i put my knife up to his throat and i say in a low serious tune with a hint of murder in my eyes. "You will never call me that again and also you will never question my loyalty to the Equestrian cause, as well as the next time i see you i will not hesitate to shoot you if you make fun of me again, IS THAT CLEAR PRIVATE!" I grab my custom built gun i named the Ytick (Glock) 17 and shoot one shot into the roof and he is scared straight.

Right as i was about to release him my commander comes up to me and puts a hoof on my shoulder. "ok that's enough Forgone, And this goes for all of you, you will NOT question Forgones loyalty to the cause, and if you do i will let him rip a new hole in you, UNDERSTOOD."

everyone in the room shook in their hooves and nodded. Everything dissolves in a white flash and i wake up in the New Appaloosa medical ward.

Cybernetic Sweet Cybernetics [TIME:POST-WAR] 200:Years 3:Months 3:Weeks 1:Days after the war (A.F.S.)

When i wake up i find that i can't see through my other eye, i feel it is there but it is heavier than normal, But my rear hoof i felt something there but more heavier and colder.

"He should be up by n-, Ho he is, Doctor come quick." I hear a mares voice shout as i wake up from my slumber.

"What is it, Is are friend finally awake." i hear the Doctors voice say as i blink my eye that i can see out of a couple of times.

At his point i just wanted to Bucking move or at least roll over to where it was more comfortable. "CAN SOME PONY FUCKING ROLL MY BODY OVER!" I scream in anger, after i say that a i hear a couple of gasps in the room and i know i let out my non filtered side of me. Once I yell that I get rolled over, then all of a suddenly I see a green flash in my eye that i couldn't see out of, As I question what happened I see terminal lines and code, And then i could see out of my other eye, but at the edges of my eye was a green hue and also some E.F.S. stuff from the normal stuff and with my cybernetics it added a hole new E.F.S. element that showed my rear hoof and actions i could do with it.

"So what do you think of my hoof work, it took me hours to git the code right since i'm not hoofs on with it much." the doctor said as i take a look at my new enhancements.

The cybernetics had a dark green hue in them like they were meant for woodlands and forests. As i kept looking at my hoof i started to feel a cozy feeling of, Happyness? I don't know why i felt this way but maybe it was comforting that i would be able to live longer if i had replaced my heart with cybernetics. But i don't want to go down that route yet. "There great thanks doc, and i hope i could repay you." I say to him as i start walking out he stops me.

"Wait i believe you need these." He hoofs over my custom made weapons that look like they been through Tartarus and back but they are in peach perfect condition other then the body is all scraped up.

The paint job i did was kinda unique for being a stealth rifle, the back stock was done with black and white stripes covering until the ram bar then on the side of the chamber it had tallys on how many times it had been broken on the right side, it was at 8 times so far, on the ram i put two feathers on it. one blue, one green with a black stripe going down the middle. I named this rifle the Dina (AR) 15 it is suppressed, extended mag, angled hoof grip, with laser dot and flashlight, and all so has a halo point scope. Dina (AR) 15 is in 5.56 what you can find in the Equestrian Spec ops stock piles from the great war. I make sure the chamber is loaded with a round, Yep it is and then i rack it on my back witch at this point is strong enough to carry a hole pony no matter how hurt i was. "Thank you doc, i really need to get on the dusty trail again." i said to him giving him a hoof shake with my hoof.

"You don't need to thank me Forgone, just thank your friend for keeping you alive. The internal bleeding in your rear hoof would have killed you in a week or two." he said shaking my hoof back.

I release his hoof and i walk out of the door of the medical center. As i walk out i feel a gust of wasteland air hit my main and then it hits me i'm in a wild world. I start walking about the town looking for any vender or even the temporary companion but he is nowhere to be seen, probably started on the his trip again, i thought to myself as i was looking around as i did so a couple of vendors caught my eye.

As i walk up the earth pony started to talk to me, " Ah a zebra haven't seen one of you in a long time in new appaloosa, anyway looking to buy some top of the line firearms that the wasteland can offer.

"well do have any specialty ammo like for example, 5.56 im kinda low from my gun." I put my Dina 15 on the counter and looks at it in shock on how much of looks like it came out of a factory, for being a custom weapon it looks like it was milled like a pro did it.

"m- my i hold it?" he saids to me and i nod to him. "How did you come across this gun in the wastes it looks like it was made pre war." he said to me looking at my Dina (ar) 15 at all angles.

"well i woke up like, i don't know how long ago it was but i made this gun myself." I said to the vender witch had a look of utter shock on his face.

"H-here take it you need this more than me and also have it on the house." he said from the shock of me being a zebra and being able to make custom guns, Also being a pre war zebra that survive the mega spells.

As i pack the bullets up i feel a hoof on my shoulder, i look over to see somepony starting to give me issues.

"You lost, Zebratown is that way."he said in low tone pointing and a direction in the distance, And his voice suggest him as a threat to me and my surrounding populess.

I put my hoof on my knife sheath ready to pull it out a strike him,"I'm not here to cause trouble ok im just here to git healed and resupply and i'll be on my way." i say to him in a low voice while backing up slowly.

"You zebras cause nothing but trouble to this entire wasteland heck we should of exterminated your race when we had the chance, you are nothing but striped backstabbing race that don't know how to fucking live like us, YOU JUNGLE DONKEY!" he said screaming at me then full on charging into me.

"That is your one mistake" I said as i grab him by his forhooves and then jumped up with him, did a flip mid air, And then slammed him on his back hiting ground breaking his spine.

"hooouuuuu" he weezed as i got on top of him and knocked him out.

"THAT IS WHY YOU DON'T MESS WITH ZEBRAS!" i screamed into his face, after that i stood up and took a combative stance on two hooves. "whos next come on who has other things to say to me!" i screamed into the crowd that formed around me.

I start hearing whispers from the crowd. "did that zebra just take down Sequels" i heard one say

Then another "Ya i- i thinks s-so, that stailion was a jerk anyway."

I felt a hoof on my shoulder and i could see i was not welcomed back to this place, so i grabbed my belongings and started leaving town to a hill that was 5 miles away that looked like to had a building on it

Dash's HOUSE? [TIME:POST-WAR] 200:Years 3:Months 3:Weeks 1:Days 4: Hours after the war (A.F.S.)

As i walked in the barren wasteland that used to be equestria i felt something spiritual following me through the hell scapes i used call home, but sense i can see dead spirits and talk to them i turned around to see who or what it was, As i turned around i saw a rainbow tail of a familiar pony only known to me as the head of the M.O.A. "Well i'm going to say i was not expecting one of the mystery mares herself to visit me, even though you don't physically exist on this plane of existence anymore." I say to the ghostly Rainbow Dash that is now standing in front of me.

As she was standing there she nodded at me then pointed at the house on the hill.

"you want me to go there? What for Mis Dash." I said to her but she kept pointing and then vanished.
"Well ok then i'll go there." i said to the area around me thinking that Rainbow Dash was still there.
Hours later after walking almost half the day, I got to the house on the hill, It looked like it had been abandoned for years but someone has been in there for a bit, sense some stuff looked like it was not meant to be there, as i walked to the front door i opened it to see somepony has been there at some point sense i can see some blood, i pull out the Dina 15 and turn on the flashlight pointing it around the place to make sure it was clear for me to go in. As i look around i see something orange and cream white on the desk in the corner. "Holotapes?" I say to myself looking at it from the door, I walk over to the desk and turn on my flashlight on the pipbuck, i pick one of the tapes up out of the 10 that are there and look at the title of it but it was worn away with 200+ years of being there.

All of a suddenly my cybernetic eye started tracing the outlines of the faded letters and popped up in text *RAINBOW DASH'S PERSONAL LOG: RUNNING A ARMY FOR THE FUTURE*. I turn around and look at a broken mirror looking at my cybernetic eye in bewilderment and shock. "hickma nicktriga." ("This eye was worth it.")
I say in zebrican, soon after i turn around grab all the holotapes and start pocketing them in my saddle bag and with what is left of food, Ammo for my custom guns, And some caps.

END OF CHAPTER. Pip-Buck Status (footnotes)

Pip-Buck OS V.8.9.5.0

BOOTING OS

BOOTED

Status: Traveling The Wastes. (WARNING: UNKNOWN PIPBUCK ATTACHMENTS DETECTED)
Name: Forgone Zinke.
Level: 19.
!New Perk!
Cyborg, Cyborg, EVERYTHING Cyborg.
With your new fangled rear hoof and eyeset you are kinda liking the idea of being a cyborg.
+Body Part Replacements.
Well since your a cyborg a bit at the moment you are able to more agile and also can see a lot more things
then the normal pony or zebra can.
+2 to perception.
+4 to Endurance.
+1 to Agility.
!New Perk!
The Spirit of Loyalty.
Well this is surprising what is left of the magic of friendship and also the tree of harmony has chosen you to pass on the element of Loyalty.
+The Spirit of Rainbow Dash.
Looks like Rainbow Dash is your new friend that can offer advice at certain times when you need it the most, At least your not a wide eyed pegasus.
!New Perk!
A Field Learning General.
Since your the general of the NOW defunct equestrian military and want to rebuild it, The tapes you found will be helpful for that and more.
+Dash's holotapes of running a military.

S.P.E.C.I.A.L.
Strength: 10.
Perception: 8 (+2).
Endurance: 5 (+4).
Charisma : 4.
Intelligence: 9.
Agility: 10 (+1).
Luck: 4.

END OF CHAPTER.

Author's Note

if you get the 4077 MASH reference great job you watched MASH the tv show on METV most likely also ill cover the part how forgone got the pipbuck in the next chapter. (muhahhahah) >:) CLIFFHANGER

(also if your wondering why i do this "hickma nicktriga." ("This eye was worth it.") it is for translation of what zebra charters are saying.)