What r u doing up so early silly?

I just stared. There were simply no words.

Gahaha! Typical Dah!

Oh dear.

So, are manticores suppose to be the deathclaws of this universe? And if they are, why didn't LiitlePip just backpeddle away from it and into a rock wall while taking potshots at it. Cause that's what happens when you face deathclaws.

2979090 I believe Manticores are more akin to Yao Guai. No, Death Hounds, the mutated Diamond Dogs, are the Deathclaws of this universe. Believe me, the group find out just how deadly they can be later on in the story.

Ministry of Awesome. Should have won the war in ten seconds flat.

I still to this day wonder what happened to Rainbow Dash after she contacted Spike about what was happening. Blasted mysteries...

Little Pip, your home isn't Junction R-7...Its Calamity, Velvet ___________, _____________...

Oh come on! It's not like don't know the rest of her team by now!

Also, your other home is incoming.

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That's another thing I love about this fic...not everything is spelled out and leaves room for us to expand.

Great!! I know it's not what happens, but I can't help but hope for a Lil'Pip/Gawd ship.

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I don't know about that, but it definitely made Equestria at least 20% cooler.

why they give no more info on Dash

I don't know why, but that barter scene reminded me of this episode of The Twilight Zone
One of my favorites. You really hit me in a soft spot, and while you did not mean it, you did. And I am grateful.

2980184 6 words: Ain't nobody got time for that!

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Considering the poison tail, seems like they'd be a closer match to the Radscorpions, with the Radigators being a fair approximation of Geckos.

Which makes me want to see a Fire Radigator....

Interesting to see Velvet starting to take a more active role. And helping me mentally stat her out a bit more. Got the Repair/Sneak/Lockpick Int-monkey, the combat focused Small Guns Agility pegasus, and the Barter/First Aid/Doctor Charisma chick.

Sneak, Fight, and Talk. The three primary play styles.

Also, intriguing to see Dash viewed as a traitor, considering, you know... Yeah. Was wondering just what sort of role her ministry would play. Ministry of Loyalty seems like it'd be the one rooting out sedition, but Pinkie apparently snapped that up as part of Morale.

Which really leaves Rarity as the only Minister I don't have an idea for just yet. MiniTru seems to be weapons manufacturing (which seems like it'd have been a perfect fit for the Ministry of Awesome; Dash just can't catch a break when it comes to ponies jackin' her place), if perhaps limited to small arms.

SPOILERS
Snape kills Littlepip.

“Relinquish your rights to the contents of the vault, and she’s all yours,” Gawd explained as she pointed a wing at Junction R-7. “Do you accept?"

Not that you're going to use it, really. Tenpony Tower is a much more comfortable home.

Velvet Remedy caught my expression and sing-songed, "Don't think of it as years of piled-up ponypies, Littlepip. Think of it as free fertilizer. We could start a garden."

We! The word filled me with more warmth and joy than direct sunlight possibly could.

Yes, "we." As in "the three of us."

"Won't be raiders anymore." The voice of Gawd held a finality that was hard to question.

Calamity, being Calamity, did anyway. "Don't change the horrible things that some of 'em did." He shook his mane. "Ah still don't like it."

There is no better place to practice forgiveness than the apocalypse.
Assuming you practice it prudently.

And so what if she’s a griffin? There's nothing wrong with just looking.

. . . I had forgotten how much time Littlepip spends ogling. Ogle everything female.

DJ Pon3 didn’t mention my pegasus friend at all, and Calamity seemed unduly pleased by that.

Well, our favorite DJ doesn't have a crush on him. Why should she talk about him?

I had proven I could save individuals, but I wasn’t so arrogant as to believe I could actually change the course of armies and economies.

In time, you will come to believe. You will have to.

I knelt. Leaning forward, I touched my horn to the memory orb and focused ever so lightly.

And so the second addiction begins.
And Velvet's addiction, as well. Littlepip's hardly the only one to enjoy escape.

So Luna says the Ministry of Peace should work on a way to end the war, and bring everyone, pony and zebra alike, back to the table of diplomacy.

It's so sad, to see their foolishness. What would bring a nation to negotiate when it believes it is only possible for the war to end with the eradication of one side or the other?

“Manticores?” Calamity questioned. “What would forest creatures like those be doing in the ruins of a major pre-war city?”

Ghoul scientist, previously employed by Red Eye, lost in his unethical experiments.

From now on, Velvet Remedy would do all our bartering.

She probably can't wring as good a deal out of the average female merchant, though. 'Tis a shame.

According to my PipBuck, it was relatively healthy… at least as far as meat went.

Food is food. Better to eat meat now than starve later.

Calamity came back down to earth. “Yeah, Ah know. But jus’ think. If we did, then Ah could pull alla us, plus any equipment we wanted t’ carry, all over the Equestrian Wasteland. No more mutli-day trots across infested landscape.”

Velvet Remedy nickered. “Oh yes. Because your track record with vehicles has been stellar so far.”

Do you want to spend most of your time walking, though? Sure, small-time heroes can just wander around solving problems when they see them. But you're quickly gaining fame, and that means expectations. You have to be ready for the day somepony calls for help, and you are a week away on hoof. Ponies won't always wait.

I’ve been with you two for over a week now, and I still haven’t seen your cutie mark.

And you never will see his cutie mark. Which is a little strange, considering he's hardly ashamed of being branded a Dashite.
No pun intended.
Also, I've got a fortress in the Everfree I'd like to sell you.

Calamity shrugged. “As far as Ah know, nothing.”

And every last word of that sentence is true.

As we approached, my PipBuck ever-so-helpfully told me it was “SteelHooves Shack” and that I had found it.

And you'll find it just oh so pleasant a place to stop by.
But, hey. You'll get a friend out of it, just like you always do when you almost die.

“Invisibility spells?” Velvet Remedy complained, apparently beginning to join in my conviction that the wasteland simply hated us.

Don't take it personally. The Wasteland hates everything.

Am I the only one who has noticed all the Fallout 2 references?

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A fanction set in fallout?
Fallout references?
Really?

3088788 See, the traitor bit is subjective. She's loyal so long as you don't betray her loyalties first. The pegasi did just that, and she saw them as traitors, so she stuck with the rest of her loyalties. Her friends, and the common pony.

Those that don’t feel like they owe you at least have the good sense not t’ draw the ire of the local dragon slayer."

*Dragonborn song starts playing in the background, and starts to hum to the tune*

What is Calamity's cutie mark?
I MUST KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, she was so wrong about that memory orb...

2979090 i know that feeling.
*grumble grumble stupid BB gun grumble grumble*

dam this story it makes me wish I still had fallourt3 but I only have Vegas was so not worth the trade in hindsight

I never saw Dash as the type to run a government office. And to leave the sky like Rainbow Dash did and be called a traitor? I have hardly seen such a misuse of the word.

Velvet Remedy trotted up to me. “You’re the telekinetic expert -- try these.” She was levitating along with her a stack of sawblades from the hardware store.

...I love you.

All of that effort, and I’d salvaged an order to the local milk-buck? I’d promised myself I wouldn’t be bothered, but I kinda was.

What, can't have a milk-mare?

4065910 I feel like that should have been her actual reaction.

I feel bad for Calamity, he doesn't have a cutie mark :(

THREE alicorns? Well, this will be interesting.

So Twilight was in Manehatten when...oh geez.

3629563 a picture of a can o' whoopass

I don't care how long it would take or how much work it would be but SOMEONE needs to make a complete overhaul mod for either New Vegas or 3 that is this.

"Don't think of it as years of piled-up ponypies, Littlepip. Think of it as free fertilizer. We could start a garden."

If Voltaire existed in this universe, I'd say that Velvet had read Candide

And yes, she was sleek and powerful and very attractive for a non-pony. (And so what if she’s a griffin? There's nothing wrong with just looking.)

Chill out, Pip. You're mentally molesting a one-eyed griffin with scars, who's older than you...

The small line of corrupted flesh where the magical energy lance had touched my neck would be with me for the rest of my life.

Well, at least you have a sexy scar to talk about with Gawd...

“I’ll put the fear of Gawd into any who aren’t."

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Gawd when I lay my vengeance upon thee."

Just how much did Gawdyna know?

Gawd knows everything...

“Ah, and another customer. Welcome to…” he waved a hoof at the collapsed building around him, “…the Luna-Damned Shithole.”

Sounds like a fun place to live...

Oh yes, Trixie’s life is about to finally turn around!

You don't even know how much...

The Ministry of Awesome.....yep that sounds like Rainbow Dash 

4885741 how about making a new game from scratch

4885741 http://theovermare.com

“I’m a Dashite,” Calamity said. “To them it means ‘Traitor’.”

That knowledge fills me with an unnatural anger against those Pagasi.
Like, take their wings angry.

I know who the weird alicorns are! CHANGELINGS

I swear Velvet, if you ship off with Calamity and Littlepip doesn't...

Heil Chrysalix

5603683 these pseudo-Alicorns are the Super Mutant-Equivalent in this world.

6003425 more like the super mutant equivalent X10, just like everything else in the Equestrian waistland, take the fallout equivalent and multiply its deadlieness and hate of you by 10.

but most of that could be set to rights with a lot of hard work and a little TLC

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I read these earlier in the day I posted these comments, that's why I'm commenting one after another for two chapters a day as I couldn't comment prior. Anyway.

It just occurred to me, just how inhumane and criminal the Shattered hoof memory orbs are, I got that it was brutal during the previous chapter but in this one, Gawdyna's (hope I said it right) shady reasons to have them make me wonder. The Ministry Mares (I see no reason to call them Mane six during this story) must have lost their way really bad to resort to figuratively lobotomize suspected ponies, guilty or innocent. Might as well feed them to the Sharkticons (get the reference?)

I’ve been talking with Princess Luna, and.... I really, really want to do this project.

I knew what this was a long time ago, I used to read the wiki before I even got into this story, spoiled quite a bit. Though to comment as a first time reader, I must say that this "project" can only lead to ruin, considering how bad everything is.

“The Ministry of WHAT!?”

Must admit, I actually laughed at this, instead of laughing without a sound at most of the other jokes in the story, this one really brought the sound out.

The whole "Dashite" thing makes me want to rip my hair out and drop a quantum black hole bomb on the pegasi, traitorous, deserting sky-pigs. I understand they lost their home but they shredded up any honour they had by leaving Equestria to its doom. Probably too early in the story to be mad at them, but that doesn't matter.

And and now at the end, the three Alicorns. This surprised me, we went through so many chapters since the beasties introduction, to having them return here; just as we're about to be introduced to a popular character. Looking forward to seeing Steel Hooves destroy them. When they popped up I was thinking about those sisters from Hocus Pocus, funny that.

I am looking ever so forward to reading the next two chapters.

“And just look at its condition! Why, the gemstone alone is worth more than the meager medical supplies your delightful little Shithole has to offer.”

delightful little Shithole

Idk why but I laughed so hard at this

Uh oh, here comes the Pseudo Goddess again!

I continue to expect Pip will soon learn the about the fast-travel function of her Pip-Buck, or a spell that will allow her and companions to quickly visit friends.

6012284 actually the alicorns are the equivalent of Generation 1 Super mutants.

Feeble Radroaches- Check

"the fear of Gawd"
Did you... did you name her that for this reason?