Fallout Equestria: Blood of The Hero

Chapter 5: New and Old Friends

"Failure is another stepping stone to greatness." ― Oprah Winfrey

50 years after the bombs fell

I do not know why I came to Hoofington, but I did, and I am walking along a highway in the middle of what looks like a fucking graveyard! “Jesus…what happened here?” I asked, expecting a reply, but I never got one. Come to think of it, I have been in the hoof for two months now, and I have not gotten anything from Luna, but I almost feel the presence of something else.

“Why did I decide to come here? I mean, like none of my…AUG!” of course, I was not paying attention! I managed to trip on a bone in the middle of the road. However, I refused to let this deter me. I quickly got back up and flung the bone into one of the hundreds, if not thousands, of bone piles strewed about.

Dusting myself off, I heard something equivalent to a zombie groan a few seconds before over two hundred red bars appeared on EFS. Without saying a word, I pulled out Final Stand and my combat knife and prepared myself for a fight. A few seconds later, a pony-like creature dragged itself out of one of the bone piles before lunging at me. Narrowly dodging it, I kicked it into the side, sending it flying as another appeared behind my back. Seeing it over my shoulder, I elbowed it, causing the skull to collapse on itself.

“HOW FUCKING MANY OF THESE THINGS ARE THERE!” I shouted after shooting the 42nd one and kicking in the head of another as my combat knife found the head of a third. After reloading, I felt something grab onto my leg. I thought I was one of those feral fuckers and was about ready to kick it off, but luckily I looked down a saw a filly clinging to my leg with a look in her… glowing eyes that said, “Please help me.”

“Hang on” was all that I said to her as I was about ready to teleport. Understanding my message, she clung on tightly as one of those feral…things bit me on the arm, causing me to lash out with a punch, caving in its face right before we teleported away.

Now there were two things that I hated most, fighting on low power/burnout or fucking blind teleporting. Landing hard on the ground with an oof, I felt the filly’s grip slip a bit as we hit the ground hard. Pushing myself off the ground with a groan, I looked around, not recognizing our location, until I saw something I never wanted to see: the core. Staring at it for a few seconds, I pretty soon heard what sounded like screaming until it reached a fevered pitch and began to hurt me. Picking up the filly once again, I made a break for it. After running for a few minutes, the screaming stopped, allowing me to catch my breath.

“What the fuck was that?” I asked myself as I looked at the unconscious filly in my arms. Finding an empty bag around me, I stuck her in gently and decided to keep moving.

After walking for 5 minutes, I noticed some ruffling in the bag I had put the filly in. Reaching in and pulling her out, I noticed that she looked terrified as she stared up at my face.

“Are you okay?” After I asked that, she simply nodded. “Can you speak?” another nod. “Too terrified?” one last nod. “What is your name?” Unsurprisingly, I got no response. “Do you mind if I call you kid?” she shakes her head. Putting her down, I pointed next to me, and she nodded, standing next to me. “Ok, Kid, we are Oscar Mike,” I said as we began to move once again.

“What are you?” the filly asked after 10 minutes of walking, staring up at me.

“I am a human,” was my response.

“I’ve never seen anything like you before. Where are you from?”

“Not from Equestria.” As soon as I said that, she gave me a flat look. “Fine,” I exclaimed, rolling my eyes. “I am originally from the United States of America but now from the United Relm Republic.”

“I never heard of the country… Are you even from this planet?”

I stared at her for a few seconds, thinking ‘shit’ before finally being honest. “No, you are correct. The U.R.R. is not from Equis.”

“Why are you here?” she asked accusingly.

“You will learn in due time,” was my response, putting a hallowed look over my eyes that she must have noticed because she nodded.

“So… what is your name?”

“Atom Travis, just call me Atom… what is yours?”

“You will learn in due time,” she responded with a smirk.

I chuckled lightly before saying, “Touche, I am serious, though.”

“Just call me…” she said, interrupted by flapping as we both turned around. She got into a defensive stance, and I pulled out my pistol until I saw a very familiar pegasus.

“DERPY!” I shouted to her as she got closer and bowled right into me with a massive hug. “I missed you too, old friend.”

“You to know each other?”

“We met during the war and became fast friends.”

“WHAT! YOU ARE PRE WAR!?!”

“Yes,” I responded with a shrug, putting Derpy down. She looked away before she made a head gesture, which I understood, and then I nodded. As soon as I did that, she flew off once again. “Ok, do you mind if I just call you kid? I am tired right now.”

“I do not.”

“Good, because we are Oscar Mike,” I said before I… no, we began to walk once again.

Footnote
12% to the next level

New perk added
Foal at heart
You gain plus 5% to all dialogue to all foals.

Author's Note

IM BACK!!!
Anyway, I need a name for Kid; if you have an idea, DM me, and I will hopefully have a new chapter out soon. till we meet again