Fallout Equestria: Atomic Shock

Chapter One: Alone In a dark place

It's dark

First thing to note coming out of a stasis pod. Not only that, but it's cold, and wet. The stasis pod must've been broken because I don't think I should be sleeping in water. Now I can worry about that later as I have more noticeable problems. Where am I? I'm in a place that I'm not familiar with. It's very dark with the only source of light being the pod I came out of. What happened to me as well? I have bandages all over my body from my head, wings, and legs. And where are my stuff? last I can remember, I would always wear a scarf and a sheath with a sword in it. I suppose if I try to search this place, I can find my stuff, and get out.

I should worry about myself first. I'm sorta stiff after being in that stasis pod for who knows how long. Stretching every limb I can, I couldn't stretch my wings due to the bandages. Who ever wrapped them did it tight, cause I can't free my wings. Not only that but I can barely move them in general! I think the cold can be the culprit, or lack of movement.

Now that the questions are done, I gotta find my way out of here. Unfortunately, I have forgotten how to walk. To bad I'm all alone because I have to teach myself how to walk again.

"One hoof, then the other, alternate and repeat."

It was something like that. Hopefully no one is here to make fun on how I walk.

Using the wall as a guide and support, I finally left the room. The atmosphere in this place is incredibly creepy. Continuing down the path, I came across an intersection. On the wall I could feel a sign on my shoulder, so while trying noy to fall over, I used my hoof to see what it says.

"A.R.M.O.R.Y" with an arrow pointing left. "K.I.T.C.H.E.N" with an arrow pointing right. and finally, "T.E.C.H.N.I.C.A.L S.U.P.P.O.R.T" with an arrow pointing up.

First stop. The Armory!

A trip, a fall, and a faceplant later, I made It to the armory. Only to be disappointed on my discovery. The place was in disarray. Broken guns and suits all over the place. Plus, an almost rotten smell filled the room. I still searched the room to find something, and I found a flashlight. Still intact and still worked. For a little bit before the battery ran out and It was useless. So once again there wasn't nothing good around here. Disappointment all over the place.

Except for one place. The room with the clothes and armor. Taking a look around I notice all the bardings had the same number on them, with "stable guard" on the back. Then It hit me, I was in an abandoned stable! More Questions start to flood my head but something had caught my eye. Under some Barding I saw it. My sheath for my sword. But no sword to be seen. What's even worse, the sheath was burnt. For a long while.

So missing sword and burnt sheath...Great.

I left the room since there was nothing useful for me there. At least I got my sheath back. Now for my scarf.

Hugging the wall again, I made my way back to the intersection and kept going straight. Straight for the kitchen. I was feeling kinda weak after not eating anything for, once again I don't know how many days. All I know is that I'm hungry and I need food. So weak in fact, That everytime my stomach growls, it creates an echo through the halls while I'm walking. Making me weaker every step of the way too.

Making it to the kitchen, There was a dim light coming from the ceiling. I don't know where in the ceiling but it helped me notice almost all the food was rotten or moldy. I got lucky on some apples being okay to eat. But something tells me I'm going to regret it later on. The food doesn't end though, there was canned goods I can enjoy, I didn't want to eat them yet. I don't know how long I'm going to be in here. If there is no exit, which gives me goosebumps just thinking about that. That's the last thing I need. Dying alone in a empty Stable.

With no way of holding all these canned goods, I just left them in the kitchen and walked out of the room. On the wall in front of me, there was an arrow pointing left to a corner. There was words on the wall that I could kinda make out? I think the letters I saw were something like "L.I.V.I.G Q.U.A.T.R". All the other ones were worn out. I guess this Stable has been through hell. Speaking of. I'm still curious on what happened here. I want to take some time to look around. But because it's so dark I can't. I have to kiss the wall just to see the words. I gotta keep going. There is no way I'm the only pony down here, that can't be the case. Well enough talking to myself. Time to move.

The hallway was kinda long. Once I turned the corner I noticed two rooms. The one to the left was the cafeteria. So I didn't bother going in. So turning to the right, I entered the living quarters...Dear God.

There are dead ponies everywhere.

The room was huge. Yet somehow in someway, there ponies lining up the walls, the floor, the rooms. It's a massacre. I don't know what did this...I couldn't stand anymore, Seeing this many dead ponies, I collapsed and passed out.

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I don't know how long I was out. But considering there are still ponies, dead, all over the place, It wasn't some nightmare. Out of all the things I couldn't see in this...Celestia forsaken place, why...why do I see this? I just can't. What happened here while I was in stasis? Who would do such thing? Please don't tell me they did this. Why was I spared...why.

I couldn't stand here any longer. I needed to search these rooms for a possible chance for survival. Even if these ponies are in the way. I can't stop.

I continued looking in each room, trying to find anything useful. Once again these rooms were empty. Nothing useful to be found in any of them. Back into death row, I noticed a room at the end of the, well...bigger room, and recognized it to be the storage room. entering the room, I saw a few bardings, satchels, equipment, and some dental hygiene items. As lucky would have it, there is was. Incredibly dusty and smelly, but still in one piece, my scarf! I needed to check one quick thing that was very important.

"A little gift for my little pony, Sword Dash"

A gift from my mom. when I was just a tiny filly. If I can remember correctly, this was after I got my cutie mark.

Heading out with all but one of my items, I saw an office desk, and behind it, a partially opened door with "Overmares office" written above it. walking over to it, the door was stuck in place unable to move. But I wasn't going to let that stop me. So as any smart pony would do, I repeatedly kicked the door until it moved just enough for me to squeeze through. entering the room, the first this i saw was her...The Overmare.

Her corpse a rotting mound of skeleton and flesh. On the table in front of her, lies a screwdriver, a terminal, and a revolver. Judging by the fact she still has some skin on her bones, this was recent. Plus, Judging by the entry and exit holes, it was a suicide. On her arm was a interesting looking wrist watch. I don't recognize it, but I saw ALOT of them on the other bodies. One of them was even still on showing a greenscreen. Yet, this one was different. This once looked sleeker, and the screen was yellow. I wanted to take a closer look, but I accidently ripped off her arm in the process. So, I unbuckled the wrist watch, and placed it on the table. On the buckle there were some words reading "PIPBUCK". Now I can put a name to these things.

I strapped the Pipbuck on my arm and immediately it lighted up. The words "Welcome back, OVERMARE" popped up before showing me a screen of...me. All my weak points are at full health. Strange on why a Pipbuck needs this stuff. But I continued to fool around with the Pipbuck trying to get used to it. I saw a tab called "Audio Files" and my ears perked. Looking through the latest audio file was "Audio File #52" and I gave It a listen. A mare with a somewhat soothing yet worried voice started speaking.

" This is the Overmare of Stable #40. I am making this message to say that Stable #40 is lost. All the residents here have been killed. Approximately ten days ago, A group of raiders had somehow manage to open the stable door. I still don't know how this was done. But the raiders came in and gunned down most of the guards, all of the medics, and most of the stable dwellers. Once the battle was over, everypony was wounded and or hungry. Some ponies started to resort to cannibalism to survive. They tried to break in to kill me...so I had to kill them...the rest of them. I left one in the chamber with full intension of ending my life. I can't live with what I've done, killing fellow ponies. But, just in case...I know about one pony that could still be alive. Sword Dash. If your still alive, If your awake to hear this, I'm going to reroute all power to the stable door and your stasis pod. I don't know if your still alive, but if you are, please get out of here. it's too dangerous here to live here. The wasteland out side looks safe to roam around, so your safe to leave the stable. I'm praying to celestia that you'll live on and rebuild equestria if there are other survivors out there. Please, continue fighting. This is the Overmare of stable #40 signing off...One last time.

Wow. I don't know what to say but...wow.

I continued looking through the files for more information that could help me and saw one that caught my eye. The door code!

"In the event of the stable no longer being safe to live in, or the outside land being safe to re colonize again, the stable door code is HI117"

It's time for me to leave. But I needed some essentials. Running to the Storage closet for a satchel, then the kitchen for the canned food, and finally running to find the door, I found it. I hesitated a bit though.

What if the wasteland isn't safe? what if everypony out there wants to kill you? But there is a higher chance at death staying here, then going out there. I don't want to die because I was too scared of a little land. That's one pathetic way to go in my books. I'm not going down that way.

So this is it. I input the code into the control panel hoping it would work. It did and the lights started flashing with a siren blaring loudly. A metal arm came from the ceiling and attached itself to the door and spinning something on it. The door finally started to open and light started to shine through. Before the door could fully open, It got stuck. No big deal as the space was big enough for me to fit through.

I took one last look at the stable before leaving. The light revealed a dead pony I didn't notice. Taking that as sign to get out of the stable and starting my new life in the wasteland. Then the door started to close behind me.

There is no turning back now.