Fallout New Vegas: Lyra's quest.

Chapter 1: The first step takes the most courage, Part 1.

Lyra was a normal unicorn living her best life in Ponyville, but if you ask any other pony they would say she had an odd obsession with humans. A race the ponies only knew in folklore and legends, the mention of humans had fallen from popularity after Nightmaremoon's banishment. Only in the rare conversations did the myth of humans were mentioned, and most of the time they were short.

Lyra was looking at her reflection in a stained window at Canterlot wondering if what was happening was real, she managed to get a meeting with all four princesses. Getting to see one princess was hard in itself, if everything went right not only would she be able to show humans are not a myth but prove to everypony she was not crazy.

"Ok Lyra, you got this, it's only the most important moment of your life. Just calm down, everything will be fine," Lyra said to herself feeling nervous.

Bon Bon feeling Lyra's nervous mood walked over and nuzzled her neck, "Hey, everything is going to be ok, I promise."

After a minute Lyra calmed down, the earth pony knew this day was stressful, and Lyra had tried from every place she could to present her proposal. Bon Bon found the concept of human civilization to be nonsensical, having highly advanced technology without magic, made no sense to her, but she still supported Lyra and her efforts.

The door to the throne room opened and a guard announced that the princesses were ready.

"Do you want me to come in?" Bon Bon asked her love.

"No, I think I can do this... I need to try, let's just hope everything goes right," Lyra answered though some nervousness still lingered.

Picking up everything Lyra brought for the proposal she made her way into the throne room.

"Good luck Lyra, I know you will knock it out of the park," Bon Bon said as the doors closed.

Though she was not with her marefriend, she was glad that she was in the hall and not the throne room. Bon Bon didn't need any stress from meeting her old boss after the agency was disbanded.

The last thing Lyra heard was Bon Bon giving her words of encouragement, setting up everything she had, Lyra turned to give the hardest speech she had given. Giving a bow at the five in the room Lyra didn't notice that there was a fifth member in the meeting.

Princess Celestia raising her hoof said, "You may rise, I do apologize for not informing you that Shining armor would be here."

Lyra was caught off guard and was speechless at what Celestia said, a silence had settled in the room and before it could grow Twilight broke it, "Please can you show us what you have."

"I am interested in what you have to show us," Luna stated.

Lyra studdered but managed to start, "First off, I’d like to thank all of you for taking the time to hear my proposal. Now, we’ve all heard of the legends of humanity, a species somewhere in the far-forgotten part of our world that was an advanced civilization possessing technology far beyond our own."

Lyra felt small droplets of sweat form on her head but continued, "Thanks to Starswirl the bearded, he discovered some sort of cataclysmic event that caused their downfall. Now some of you might ask, why humanity? They're just a myth, right? pure fantasy, well that's where you'd be wrong. At least 10,000 years before the pyramids, humans had the power of electricity, advanced medicine, and even the power of flight, all with no magic. Impossible you say, well no, no not for them, it said that they managed to unlock the power of the sun and use it to push their tech to the limit and do things we could only dream of-."

Twilight stopped Lyra before she continued, "I'm sorry but, this sounds like science fiction, what you are saying is impossible. Every Civilisation on Equis needed the power of magic to grow. I do admit it would be inspiring to see that, but it is impossible."

"I'm sorry, but... I have to agree with Twilight on this, even the griffins needed some magic to grow," Celestia agreed though she sounded somewhat saddened.

Luna added her say as well, "I too must agree, We have tried to find these humans and came with nothing."

Lyra started feeling dread crawl up her spine, "B-but I have proof Humans did exist, if you wo-"

Lyra was once cut off again by Celestia, "I am deeply sorry, but what you speak... Does not exist. I think it would be best if we stop before you are disappointed by what you find."

Holding back tears, Lyra responded, "T-thanks, f-for your t-t-time, I'll make my way o-out."

Grabbing her things she walked quickly to the door, once on the other side she ran down the hall tears running down her face.

"Don't you think we could have at least heard her out?" Cadence asked worried for the mint-green unicorn.

"Cadence, many ponies have tried looking for humans, but they all came back empty hooved," Celestia answered.

"But, she seemed that she was on to something," Cadence pointed out trying to find an excuse for Lyra.

Bon Bon felt nervous, she was wondering what was going on, but when the doors opened and Lyra ran out crying the earth pony knew it went bad. Running after the unicorn she was hoping she could calm Lyra down. Sweetie drops felt anger at the princesses for making Lyra cry.

"Why? she worked so hard to get here, why was she being punished for this?" Bon Bon thought angered.

She had reached the hotel the two were staying at and Lyra's stuff was piled in a corner half Harley placed. And Lyra was on her bed crying, it broke Bon Bon's heart to see the mare she loved crying. Walking over and getting on the bed she wrapped Lyra in a hug.

"Do you wanna talk about it?" Bon Bon asked in a loving tone.

Sniffing Lyra responded, "T-they didn't even let me finish m-my presentation, I-I-I just don't know what I'm doing wrong?!"

Lyra continued to cry, Bon Bon thought it would be best to go back to Ponyville in the morning, in the meantime, she was thinking about what to have for dinner.

"Lyra, would you like to get a hayburger?" Bon Bon asked hoping to cheer her friend up.

Lyra calmed down a bit and responded, "O-ok, let me get ready."

After an hour of getting Lyra ready, both mare's made their way to the local fast-food place, having dinner in the city of Canterlot was amazing, the sights and food were wonderful. After eating the two went home and got in bed, ready to sleep the bad day off. As Lyra slipped into Luna's realm of dreams she started to fidget in bed.

Lyra knew she was not in Ponyville, or anywhere she knew, what was before the unicorn was a desert, and in the distance was a city, it looked like las pegasus. She didn't know who built them, they didn't look like they were made by ponies, but before she could do anything the odd city disappeared in a flash of light. The light was so bright Lyra had to cover her eyes with her front leg, when the light was gone there was a massive mushroom cloud in its place. In a matter of seconds, Lyra was hit by a wave of scorching fire, the pain was unbearable, nothing felt worse than that moment feeling like her entire body was falling apart. The only thing going through her mind was pain, then it stopped, and everything went dark.

Lyra woke up in a cold sweat, the phantom pain disappearing like it was never there. Getting out of bed, Lyra thought of taking a late-night walk, after making her way to the door as quietly as she could she made her way outside. Unknown that Bon Bon was a light sleeper, she wanted to follow but thought that Lyra needed some space.

~~One hour later~~

Lyra was sitting on a bench in the park looking up at the sky, she reminisced about the past years on what led her to this point. Studying history, mythology, and legends she wanted to be like her grandfather, who believed humans existed.

"Grandpa, what am I doing wrong? I thought if I tried hard and never gave up I would be able to achieve my goals," Lyra asked nopony.

She waited for any type of response, but, it seemed none would come. When out of nowhere came a shooting star, Lyra used that moment to make a wish and after five minutes of waiting, nothing happened. Lyra thought of just going back to the hotel when a second shooting star appeared, this one was brighter and seemed to get bigger. Lyra realized it was headed straight for her, after running faster than she had before in her life just in time. The star crashed into the ground where she once was making a large boom.

Looking at the object she saw it was not a rock, but something made of metal, there was writing on the side, but Lyra didn't know what it was. Walking over she saw a body of some sort, Fearing aliens she tried to hide but slid down the crater the crash made. When she got closer she saw, the alien was dead. Taking a closer look she noticed the alien was human and her excitement grew tenfold. Becoming bold she walked into the U.F.O. the inside was dark, with little light from the moon she saw nothing.

"Wow... It's so dark," Lyra said disappointed.

Using a light spell on the inside of the U.F.O. there was technology too advanced for anypony to have created. looking around she saw a slowly pulsing red light. Having the urge to press the button she did with hesitation, but when nothing happened, Lyra was disappointed. In a flash of light, the lights came on frightening the mare, seeing only the lights turned on, she turned around only to see a small room inside with odd-looking panels.

"Ok, you need to bring something back, this time you will prove you are right. And remind everypony (minus Bon Bon and those who supported her) that they were all a bunch of butts" Lyra said to herself with a smile.

Making her way to the chamber, she looked around hoping to find something. She only found an odd lever on the floor but nothing else, and Lyra made her way out disappointed. Shouts from the royal guard were outside, out of shock she backed into the other room pushing the lever. A door slid closed, cutting the unicorn from the outside, out of fear she tried to teleport out but found something was not letting her. The walls started to light up and five rings of blue energy formed and started to spin around her with an odd humming sound that came from everywhere.

Lyra could hear the guard outside the door, and in a panic started to hit the door.

"Oh no, no nonononono! Somepony! anypony! LET ME OUT!" Lyra called out in fear.

On the other side were royal guards pounding at the door trying to let her out, once the humming became louder the rings of light became brighter. The pain of the humming and feeling of power pressing on her horn made Lyra fall to the ground crying out in pain. While the unicorn was not paying attention, something was clamped on her left front leg, then the sound of a large crack of teleportation was heard and everything went dark.

[Lyra fell unconscious]

[Lyra discovered the Mojave Drive-in]

[End of part 1]