FALLOUT EQUESTRIA: BROTHERHOOD PROLOGUE

Adam bucked open the rusted boarded up door to the old rest stop along the road. It was dark and musty, and it smelled of rotting flesh. Adam levitated his laser pistol in front of him as he looked at the inside of the old building.

"You find anything Adam?" Neo said from behind him.

"No, but it looks like this place might have some stuff in it." Adam said putting the rag over his face tighter to hold back the smell.

Neo noticed his brother putting the rag on. "That’s probably a good idea, Celestia knows what kind of stuffs in there." He said getting his own rag out of his saddle bag and placed it over his mouth and nose.

Neo levitated his combat shotgun off his back and put it to his side. "Is anypony in home?" He called into the dark room.

Adam took a step inside. "I think its safe." He stated before moving into the building.

Neo followed him into the old prewar building. The building had small blackened shelves that covered the inside of the only room. Small papers and rusted cans littered the floor, only the sound of the wind outside could be heard from the inside of the dark building.

The two brothers looked around the room for a moment to see if there might be anything they could loot. In the room there were only two things that looked interesting, one was a semi-operational Sparkle Cola machine, and a safe that looked untouched on a wall behind a counter.

Neo turned to his little brother. "Look around for food, I'd like to see if there's anything to eat, I'm starving." He said keeping his voice low.

Adam nodded back to him. "Yeah I could really go for an apple right about now." He mumbled rubbing his empty stomach.

Neo made his way to the counter, and Adam started to look down each row of the old shelves, but there were only cans and dust.

"Ah shoot." He swore as he turned back to his brother. "There's no food over here, or anything for that matter." He called to him.

Neo looked back at Adam before going over the counter. "Right, lets check the safe over here and see if there's anything worth taking."

Adam nodded at him and started to make his way to the counter. Neo hopped over the top of the counter only to step right onto a decomposing corpse.

"Ah!" He yelped as he jumped back at the sight of the dead pony.

It was an earth pony, she had a yellow mane and a tattered blood soaked coat. She looked like she had been dead for two days at least. She had a large laceration across her neck, the old pool of blood that surrounded her had mostly dried up.

Neo stepped over the body and knelt down to it. "Oh no..." He sighed sadly as he closed her eyes with his right metal hoof.

Adam came up to the counter to see what his brother was doing. "Brother, did you find-" He stopped talking when he saw his brother hovering over the dead body.

"She looks a little older than me." Neo said mournfully. "Poor thing, she didn't need to die this way." He continued.

"How did she die?" Adam asked sounding just as sad as his brother was.

He pointed to the large gashing scar on her neck. "She got her neck sliced. I'm guessing she used to run this place. Then somepony thought it was a good idea to kill this poor thing."

he body once again. "How do you know that?"

He looked up at Adam. "I don't. I'm just assuming what happened." Neo said before getting up and patting himself down.

Little puffs of dust came off him as he cleaned off his duster with his hoof. "You can put your gun away." He said putting his own on his back.

"Yeah, its probably best if we put our guns away." Adam chuckled.

Neo turned around to the safe behind him on the wall with a bobby pin ready. "Hey Adam, do you your screwdriver with you?"

"Yeah, I didn’t want to leave it behind." He said cheerfully as he gave Neo his blue screwdriver.

"Thanks Adam." He said as he took the screwdriver and started to work on the lock.

He jiggled the screwdriver around in the lock a bit, the first bobby pin broke. "Damn it!" He swore before getting a new one and trying again.

Adam had decided that he should check out the old Sparkle Cola machine and see if it still had something in it. On his way to the machine he heard a loud snap, followed by a "Damn it" from his brother. He chuckled a bit as his brother continued to struggle with the safe. Once he had made it to the Sparkle Cola machine he started to inspect the the large machine. Its lights that advertised the beverage flicked on and off frantically.

"At least it still works." Adam said as he pulled up his Pipbuck to look through his inventory.

Luckily for him he still had four bits from the last place they looted which was the old factory with the predators. So, he took all four bits and slid them into the coin slot. Then, he pressed the button for the Cola and just like that within seconds he heard two loud thunks come from the bottom of the machine.

There, at the bottom lay two Sparkle Cola's neatly inside the dispenser box at the bottom of the machine. "Brother! I got Sparkle Cola's!" Adam called back to his brother.

Neo didn’t hear his statement and continued working on the safe. "Yes!" He cheered as he opened the safe with his two hooves. His eyes were glistening at the thought of what treasures the black safe might hold. His good expression was killed when he opened it only to find a few notes and three bottle caps.

"Really Celestia? Really?" He said pointing his head to the ceiling.

Adam creeped up behind him with the Sparkle Cola's. "What's the matter?" He asked standing at the counter.

Neo turned sharply forgetting about the safes contents. "I give up! You win Celestia, are you happy now?" He yelled looking up at the ceiling.

Ignoring his big brothers behavior Adam smiled at his brother and shook the bottles around. "Look, I got two bottles out of the machine."

Neo looked at his brother with a bland facial expression which wasn't noticeable under his face mask. "How is that supposed to fix our food problem?"

Adam shrugged. "It won't, but at least we can drink something."

Neo hopped over the counter. "I'll have to admit, it at least fixes out thirst problem." He said trying to look on the positive side.

Together both brothers went outside and sat down at a old wooden bench outside the front of the rest stop. The brothers both took off their masks as they stared into a small pair of depressing rocky hills. Neo was slouching back on the bench lousily as he sipped the carroty sparkling cola. His hooves felt relieved as they pain had slowly died away from the endless amount of walking they had done.

"You know Adam, just behind those hills in front of us is the town of Arkcannon. Our destination."

He took another sip of the Sparkle Cola before continuing. "Just think about it for a second. Its been two days since we've seen real civilization, and two days since we've had a proper meal that isn't crap... I miss those beans Lavender made..."

Adam smiled at the thought of a nice meal. "I miss them too, and if you don't stop talking about food you're going to make me more hungry than I already am!" He said nudging his older brother playfully.

He returned the chuckle. "Yeah, I'm gonna make myself more hungry than I already am too."

"Yeah..." He said calming down.

Neo blinked at him. "Something on your mind?"

He shook his head as he looked at the almost empty Sparkle Cola in deep thought. "It's just..."

"Just what?"

"What if mom isn't there... and what that Zebra said... it bothers me a bit."

Neo shrugged at him. "Meh, don't listen to him. He was just speaking crap, he doesn't know anything about us."

Adam was about to respond till he caught a whiff of burning smoke in the air. The smell was followed by faint sound of loud gunshots in the distance. "Do you smell that?" He asked getting off the old bench.

"Smell what?" Neo said getting up from the bench.

Neo smelled the wind for a second, the smell of burning timber and gunpowder faintly crossed his nose. "Yeah I smell it too."

"Do you think it's-"

Neo finished his sentence with a worried tone, "Arkcannon."

"Yeah."

"It could be. I hope it isn't though."

Neo pulled up his Pipbuck to look at a map of the area. "I have the town marked, and yes its just a few miles beyond those hills."

"Should we check it out?"

"It wouldn't be the worst thing to do, plus, from up on top of those hills, we should be able to see the town."

Adam nodded sternly at him before they both galloped up the nearby hillside. After maneuvering their way through the rough twisted hillside. They slowly approached the top, but once they got to the top they were completely taken by the horrific sight before them. In front of them was a large flat plain, and at its center was small town made up of tiny metal shacks.

The small town was surrounded by a tiny metal wall, the towns gate was busted down and its walls were filled with large gashing holes. The large stacks of smoke coming from the settlement added to the dark gruesome scene. But the one thing that bothered the two the most, was the large green flag with a black horse shoe in the middle waving in the center of the town.

Both of them were completely shocked. When they told them there was a war between the Ironhoof Legion and the Steelhoof Coalition but they never thought they would actually get caught up in it.

"They said this was a Coalition controlled settlement! They said the war was in the north!" Adam yelled as he was looked down at the burning town.

Neo was still shocked, his face was baffled by the scene. "Adam, somethings happening. This place wasn't supposed to be touched, it was supposed to be safe."

Adam looked up to his older brother for answers. "What are we going to do?"

"Hope Adam. Hope they haven't killed everypony yet. Because right now, thats all we can do."

Adam frowned and looked down at the town with panic in his eyes, "What if mom is there? What if they're doing something to her!"

Neo didn't turn to him and looked at the town with a glare of determination as he gazed at the burning down. "Like I said, let's hope that isn't the case. It's probably best we get down there and see just what the hell is happening. Hopefully, we're not too late..."

Noakwolf presents...

Fallout: Equestria...

Brotherhood.

I should probably start for the beginning, my name's Neo. This is my little brother Adam, and this is our story, our hardships, our quest for the one thing we hold dear. Our family, and how we find peace in this hell of a world.

(They are both earth ponies. Their ability to levitate items comes up in chapter 8. Please I've made it to where all will be answered. That is something you should note in this story, everything will be answered at some point.)

Author's Note

Please note that there are still some mistakes here and there. I am going to fix as many of them as I can, in the meantime please read chapter 1 and find out how it all began, and follow the epic adventure I have created. Credit goes to Kkat for creating such a rich and beautiful world which has inspired me to write my story. Once again thank you for reading.

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