Intro: Remembrance
Every day after work, spanner trotted through the gardens and inhaled to sweet smell of the flowers that reminded him that the wasteland was gone. Even though he was only a colt when it ended, he still had nightmares of his house being raided. Every Time he walked past the statue of the great liberator, Dead-eye Derpington he would see an old Pegasus mare sitting on the bench, looking at the statue. he had always wondered why she was never seen in town and why she always sat opposite the statue, but above all, why no pony seemed to know who she was. One day, he decided to find out, once and for all.
He felt nervous as he trotted up to the bench where the blue Pegasus sat.
“Um… Hello...” he said in a surprisingly confident voice
“hmm? Oh, hello there” she said, smiling. “What would you like, dearie?”
“I was just wondering... I come by here every day, and you're always sitting here” he replied, now stumbling over his words. “Who, exactly, are you?”
“Well, sir, that sure is biggen of a question” she laughed, “are you sure you want to hear the whole thing?”
“I… I think so” he stuttered, “ I've been curious about it for a while now”
“well then, take a seat, ‘cause this is gonna take a loooong while...”
Prologue: Foalshire
Derpy Derpington (yes... that’s her name...) had often wondered why she was so different, why she was the only one of her kind in the small town of Foalshire. No-one else here had wings... no one anyone here had ever seen here had wings. Well... except Derpy... when she was born the ‘doctor’ had said that her great great grandmother must have been a Pegasus or something along those lines, although that wasn't what she found odd. you see, if that is possible, and Pegasus genes could be passed down as such, then why was she the only one that had been born a Pegasus? Why was it that only one, out of the hundreds of thousands of ponies that had been born after the balefire bombs went off. Only one. It baffled her that she was the only one. There were unicorns born from two earth ponies and earth ponies from two unicorns, so why in Celestia’s name was she the only Pegasus? CRASH!
“Ouch!” said the currently disembodied voice of a stallion.
“Oh! I’m so sorry!” I exclaimed “let me help you up” this always happens when i think too much.
“Oh, Derpy, it’s you!” said A scarlet coated unicorn stallion, with long white hair and a book and quill cutie mark.
“Meadow! I haven't seen you in a while...” I replied, starting a conversation that carried all the way back to my house. You don’t need to know the details of it, just general chit chat.
“Well it’s been nice catching up Meadow, but I must hurry to the watering hole if I want to get back before dark” I said, ending the conversation with some goodbye’s and hugs. The watering hole, you see, was the only source of water for miles that wasn’t irradiated. So, I hurried inside my house to get my saddle bags on and packed with water bottles, and whilst in there grabbed a couple extra rounds for my pistol, weapons were mandatory, one for every household just in case raiders attacked. And, with that, set off.
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it was a long hour to the watering hole. Derpy, having had no one around to teach her to fly, wasn’t a strong flyer and so glided above the ground more than flying. She filled the water bottles as quickly as possible and re-packed her saddle bags. Out of nowhere, she heard a scream. A scream that just screamed trouble, and Derpy wasn’t about to leave someone in trouble. She dropped her saddlebags, grabbed her gun and dashed toward the direction if the screaming.
five... there were five raiders and what looked like a captive mare, bound and gagged, she did not recognise her but she had the look of a caravan trader. There was no way Derpy could take that many, not a chance on hell. Unless...
four hour passed and the sky had darkened considerably. Derpy had followed the raiders a considerable distance, and now they had stopped she had them right where she wanted them... asleep and defenceless in their beds. She crept up to the fire and saw the mare was no longer tied, perhaps they had thought she would not dare run away. Derpy pulled out her pistol and aimed it so that the bullet would hit two of the raiders. BOOM!
“AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!” the raiders screamed in unison as their friend’s brains splattered the ground. Did I mention Derpy nickname was ‘Dead-eye’ Derpington? She quickly unloaded a bullet two of the three remaining raider’s chests causing them to collapse into pools of their own blood. The final raider looked at her for a second before turning and running, no use wasting the ammo. She turned to the captive mare who ha woken in the commotion who was just staring in silent shock.
“it’s okay now... there gone” Derpy said, gently.
“YOU KILLED MY FRIEND YOU BITCH!!!” Yelled the ‘captive’ mare as she pulled up a gun and unloaded a clip into Derpy’s torso. Everything went black. One last thought went through her mind before she lost consciousness. ‘it was supposed to be a trap...’
(Huge thanks to the creator of Fallout Equestria for creating it and inspiring me to start this fanfic)
