The sun shone brightly down on Manehattan and Crystal Haven University was bustling with activity as students and professors headed for lecture halls or the library from their dorms or the dining hall as the various support members of the faculty went to and fro in their work.

All of this was under the watchful eyes of the Information Retrieval and Interactive Support system, more commonly called I.R.I.S by those at the university. She flew from various places in the university, helping students in the library, to helping research in the labs to directing her various robots outside to handle the needs of the landscaping and maintenance of the grounds. She saw it all and handled it easily with pride. She had been developed right here at the university through a combined effort of the researchers and the Ministries as a way to help people in whatever way she could.

I.R.I.S had an alert go off that a student asked her a question in one of the lecture halls which was odd as she didn’t get asked things by students during lectures. She looked in and identified the student, a mare named Bright Star by accessing her records, good student, not the best grades but not bad, only a few minor issues with security mainly for noise complaints in her dorm room from music too loud after a certain time. I.R.I.S knew everything about everyone in the university and recalled it all with ease.

“Yes Bright Star what is it? You know I can't help you with your work.” She said over the speakers.

“Yes…i know it's not that…..do you know where Professor Gully is? He was supposed to start the lecture 20 minutes ago….” Bright Star said from her place by the doors.

I.R.I.S was already accessing her records even before the question was finished. ”Professor Gully checked out at the front gate about an hour ago and has not checked back in.” She replied, noting that several professors, researchers, other staff and students had all checked out at nearly the exact same time, including the entire administration staff from the Dean down to the heads of each department ...odd…she had no records planned off campus events. She did recall them looking at a strange object they all carried before the mass exodus but hadn't notated it as there weren't any rule violations till now.

“One moment.” She told the students as she attempted to reach anyone in administration, scanning through all of her cameras she did catch movement on one of her external cameras and part of her watched an object fall from the sky towards the center of the city, she recorded it as an interest to ask one of the researcher about it, already planning a possible excursion to whatever it might be for various professors she knew would be interested–

Her thoughts were interrupted as her west facing cameras were filled with a bright light and everything went dark.

[WARNING…..WARNING….SYSTEM WAS SHUT DOWN IMPROPERLY]

[INITIALIZING EMERGENCY DIAGNOSTIC…..13%.....35%......51%......88%....99%....DIAGNOSTIC COMPLETE……..MINOR CORRUPTION DETECTED IN HOLOGRAPHIC SYSTEMS….ATTEMPTING TO REPAIR……ATTEMPTING…..ATTEMPTING…..ATTEMPT FAILED. MAINTENANCE TICKET ISSUES.]

[INITIALIZING REBOOT SEQUENCE…..5…….4…….3……2…..1…..REBOOTING]

The first thing I.R.I.S saw when she became aware again was the mangled and bloodied body of Bright Star, the mare had been near the doors and she now lay as a crumpled heap 30 feet from the splintered remains of the doors among the bodies of several other students as fire alarms blared and her automated fire suppression systems were already containing various fires throughout the university as fire doors slammed into place.

As the A.I. tried to reorient herself and take in the data she was being hit with of multiple emergency alerts, screams and gunfire both from inside the university and outside in Manehattan.

I.R.I.S attempted to call emergency services but all she got back was a busy signal, the second thing she tried was contacting the Ministries and all she got was dead air, same when she tried to contact the military.

She deployed all of her robots sending security to the main gate where she saw several people fighting as well as medical bots, she even deployed the gardeners to try and help as she ran through her cameras trying to find anyone who was in charge but all she saw were people running, fighting or students and staff barricaded in various rooms.

She did a quick mental check and found she had been offline for approximately 7 hours if her internal time was correct.

She tried to talk to the staff she found, the students, she even tried to talk to the intruders but everyone either reacted with hostility or was too terrified to leave the rooms they were barricaded in.

She watched as one of the maintenance workers forced his way into the dining hall where several student were hiding and…oh…oh she deployed security bot to stop the blood shed as her mics recorded the repeated sound of metal on flesh as she watched the hammer rise and fall several times as the orders to cease were ignored.

When her security bot arrived she had no choice but to engage in lethal force as the Ponytrone fired its laser and killed the worker. She turned her attention to try and comfort the students only for them to attack her ponytrone and destroy it.

What was going on ... it didn't make sense…what had happened? Why was everyone going crazy and why was the city burning?

I.R.I.S tried, she tried to deal with the situation as she was programmed to…she followed her programming ... .and when she was done Crystal Haven University was quiet ... .the only sound being her security measure as they scanned for threats. She hadn't wanted too…but she had to contain the riot, she had to protect the university students and staff from….the university students and staff….they wouldn't stop they refused to comply with orders to stop….she had no choice but to use lethal force….she had seen many had fled the school into the city when she had turned her robots loose, everything from the security robots to the ground keeping and medical bots had to be used to put an end to the violence.

And now peace had returned to the University and she was alone.

Author's Note

and here we are with the begging of my very own, and far better thought out them my first attempt, Fallout Equestria fic.

I have this one planned out from begging to near end so shouldn't run into too many issues save life and motivation being the only thing to get in the way.

I hope you all enjoy my hand in the world of Fallout Equestria