Countless hours had passed since Fluttershy boarded the plane and left her home of Equestria, and the poor mare was somewhat terrified. She clutched her hooves onto her seat, her eyes staring out of the window above the clouds. Fluttershy heard from the pilot that they were flying at a comfortable thirty thousand feet... she hadn't expected the aircraft to fly so high up. She's flown to high altitudes before, but never this high up before.
It was terrifying, and doing a number on her poor fragile heart.
And the turbulence, don't get her started on the turbulence! Every now and then the plane would shake ever so slightly, and a small whine would escape her. She wanted out of this thing, and back on the ground, where it was safe and not prone to apparent mid-air explosions. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't understand how Samuel was so calm about this flight!
Any second now, this plane could explode! She whimpered, waiting for the inevitable explosion that would swallow her up and turn her into a cooked pegasus...
Only it never came, Sammy assured her of that.
"Plane crashes are rare, unless someone sabotages the engines, kills the pilot, or shoots at us with Anti-Air ordinance, we'll be fine!" He smiled brightly like a foal at Hearth's Warming Eve.
His optimism and explanation didn't help her any in regards to calming down.
If anything, it made it worse.
Please don't crash, please don't crash, please don't crash! The pegasus pleaded as the plane trembled, the sound of the steel creaking her lightheaded and she feared she'd pass out. Fluttershy, in hopes of passing the time and hopefully forgetting she was over thirty thousand feet in the air, decided to think about the United States. The country that she was going to be living in for the duration of the project, she really wished her friends had come with, but they had to stay in Equestria.
Samuel had only filled her in on a little of where she was going to be living, a small town called Springvale which was located near a city known as Washington D.C. She was told it was a modestly sized community with a very small population, and was said to be a friendly sort. Sammy informed the mare that she already had a house set up for her when she asked where she was staying, and the town was informed of the project before hand. He said nothing more then that, saying he wanted most of it to be a surprise.
Springvale, what little of it Sammy explained to her of it, was a nice community that was pretty accepting of the Project. She hoped that the people she was going to be living near were friendly, ponies were very easy to get along with at times, and so far the humans' she's met were very nice to her. One of them being Samuel, and another being a doctor that checked her at the airport in Appaloosa to make sure she wasn't going to be bringing any sort of disease over.
She was a teensy bit miffed, but understood why that was an issue. She didn't want to be the cause of someone getting hurt or sick, that would be bad.
I do hope nothing bad happens. She turned to look out of the window, seeing the clouds filling the skies. Fluttershy sighed to herself, relaxing her grip on the seat. Samuel was sitting in an aisle seat next to her, and was reading from a small magazine that had a picture of a symbol followed by the words Vault-Tec Corporation on the front. Vault-Tec? She wondered, as the plane shook once more, making the pegasus grip the seat again. I hope this ends soon...
"Estimated Time of Arrival to the Columbia Commonwealth is just a little over five hours, we're sorry for the inconvenience."
Fluttershy's eyes widened as she sunk into her seat... a tiny whimper escaping the mare.
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Back in Equestria - Twilight Sparkle
Twilight had left Appaloosa a few minutes after the aircraft left the small airfield, the princess of friendship was sitting in her castle in Ponyville, looking out a window and into the sky. She saw another one of those planes flying over the town, it was high up in the sky well above pegasi flying range. The princess sighed, turning back to her desk, several books were lying across it in alphabetical order, all of them gifts from the Vault-Tec President on behalf of the Friendship Project.
Most of the books were about Vault-Tec's history, the United States history, a Big Book of Science - something she was fascinated by - and various pamphlets about Vaults. She didn't know what Vaults were, but apparently they were being built across the United States due to the rising threats of nuclear war. Twilight couldn't understand why there was such a threat, but from what Princess Celestia told her, the entire human infrastructure and economy was run off of a precious resource... Oil. Oil was something humans used to power their vehicles, cities and towns, and their war machines, without it, they were about as powerful as Griffonia.
For years, there were wars in the other human countries, specifically the European Commonwealth, where it had dissolved into squabbling nation states that started fighting over what little resources remained. It was terrifying what had happened, she wasn't aware there were were any wars going on until she overheard a few classmates of hers talking about it. Europe and the Middle-East had become nothing more then a barren wasteland filled with people fighting over precious few resources.
It was sad to hear such a thing was going on, and now there was another war going on, one between two of the biggest human superpowers in the world. China and the United States, biological weapons, armed conflict and so on. Alaska was in the midst of a war, two of the superpowers fighting over the Oil fields beneath the snow. It was chaos over there, and she was glad Fluttershy wasn't anywhere near the fighting.
Sighing, she chanced a look at the Vault Pamphlet, a picture of a strange cartoonish human was on the front. Behind him was a large door with the numbers 101 on the front of it. She held it up in her magic, looking it over before flipping open the page, coming across a index. "I have nothing better to do." Twilight told herself, settling down and reading the pamphlet.
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Equestria - With Princess Luna
"Luna, sister?" Princess Celestia questioned her sister, who's angry face had worried her somewhat. The princess of the moon was staring down at the street in Canterlot, eyeing the United States Relations Building with a disdainful gaze. "Lulu?"
Luna snorted, turning to face her sister. "Yes, dear sister?" She asked, a tired look replacing her look of anger.
"Are you well?" The princess of the sun questioned, she had never seen her sister so angry before. She wasn't as angry as she was centuries ago, but she was still a good amount of angry. Like, don't touch my cookie jar, angry.
"I am fine, sister." Luna informed the mare beside her, turning back to glare at the building.
Sitting down beside Luna, Celestia tilted her head. "You don't look well, you're angry... why?"
"I am not angry." Luna protested weakly, brushing off what her sister was saying.
"Are you sure?" Celestia nudged her sister gently, "because you look like you're about to attack something..." Lowering her voice, she draped a wing around her younger sister and pulled her close. "What is the matter?"
Sighing heavily, Luna turned to face Celestia. "Those humans, and their violation of the moon during my absence! My moon!" She growled, the memory of what the humans accomplished still fresh in her mind. Several months after her return, she was updated on what had happened during her banishment, and one thing, out of all of the things that happened, stood out above them all... it was possibly one of the worse things she could ever imagine...
The humans, landed on her moon and stuck a flag on its surface.
She demanded the humans be exterminated for the atrocious desecration of her moon... Celestia managed to talk her out of it, but it was still something that peeved Luna to no end.
Celestia snorted softly, "I understand that, what they did is more or less an insult to you, but there was little I could do to stop them." Celestia explained, there truly was little she could do on the matter. The humans had gone to the moon several times, and if what she heard was true, they had several stations built in space, for what purpose, she was unsure. "I did not know they had the technology, let alone the capability to send humans into space, let alone land on the moon."
A scoff, followed by a hoof stomp. "The moon is mine, Celestia, and they planted a flag on it like they were claiming it for their own!" Luna scowled, the moon was hers, she claimed power over it, and the humans had the audacity to land on it several times. She knew because the moon had felt strange, she could feel the moon calling to its matron, informing her of what was happening. And now...
Her moon was silent...
"They did something, Celestia, they did something to it!" Luna cursed, shaking in anger. Ever since her moon stopped calling to her at night, she had grown worried, and now she knew why it had stopped... the humans that landed on it years ago did something to it. She knows they did!
She just lacked any viable evidence to present.
"I'm sure its nothing," Celestia assured her little sister, rubbing her back. She knew what that was like however, she had her own connection to the sun, and spoke with it on occasion, sometimes it didn't speak.
Crazy crazy magic.
"It can't be nothing!" Luna scowled further, teeth grinding against one another. "Why must we deal with these humans anyway?" She changed the subject, ever since the humans came to Equestria, they had been everywhere, building facilities and such on their ground and she wanted to know why. "Why have you allowed them to construct military facilities on our land?"
A closed mouthed sigh, She was bound to ask at some point. She thought before saying, "Trust," She looked out into the city of Canterlot, where her and Luna's little ponies lived and flourished. "And protection. The PLA have threatened Equestria in the past over our alliance with the United States, threats with nuclear weapons," She closed her eyes, thinking back to that day.
She was having a nice lunch with one of the American Diplomats, a man by the name of Richardson, when the first threat had come, in the form of a messenger. The man was allowed into the castle and brought before the princess because he was said to be an ambassador from China sent to Equestria to negotiate a trade deal.
However, the only thing the man said was that Equestria was now an enemy of China for siding with the treacherous American scum, and will pay dearly for it.
The next thing that followed was the man pulling a knife and tried to attack both the Diplomat and Celestia, he underestimated Celestia however. She managed to stop him with a simple spell, pulling the knife from the assassin's hands and disabling him with another spell. He was locked up and apologies were given by both parties.
The following week, Celestia heard the man had died in his cell, foaming at the mouth and writhing on the floor. An autopsy showed he was poisoned, and further investigation showed one of his teeth was cracked open, hollow on the inside containing remnants of a small capsule.
Suicide. She sighed, she hadn't expected that in the slightest. "The US decided to help us, while we remain a neutral party in this war, they have agreed to protect us. Hence the bases and fortifications built along the northern borders." She explained, recalling the many forms asking for certain building rights in locations across Equestria, most of which were in the north. So far, seven bases had been constructed, one of which housed some of the United States Navy forces. "While our own forces are fully capable of repelling many threats, the PLA are far more advanced then we are, and so we need the Americans help."
The princess of the night huffed, turning to look out into the city. It was true, she read the reports. Equestria's technology paled in comparison to the most primitive Chinese homeowner. Equestria still utilized spears, shields and swords, their griffon neighbors were more advanced then they were, having cannons and airships capable of war. Pathetic. She grumbled, back in her day, if she had been in control of the military R&D department centuries ago...
...
Hmm... Luna hummed in thought, an idea forming in her head.
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With Poor Fearful Fluttershy
"Now approaching Adams Air Force Base, we hope you enjoyed the flight." The pilot announced over the PA system.
Fluttershy nearly fainted from relief, this horrible flight is almost over with! She cheered mentally.
Samuel wasn't as excited as she was, after all, he enjoyed flying in planes.
Fluttershy called him crazy for that remark.
But now, now the flight was almost over! And she could finally rest, after all, gripping onto the arm rest for five hours straight really took it out of her. She was going to enjoy staying at her new home, specifically the bed part, she desperately needed a nap, post haste!
She could see the plane was descending, several large buildings coming into view on the far left side of the massive airfield. She saw even more planes sitting about, smaller ones then the one she was inside of. Massive buildings holding more of those aircraft were nearby, it was an entire base filled wit hangers, tall towers with strange dish like objects on the top of them. She could also make out several smaller aircraft flying around the base, she didn't know what those were.
Eventually the plane landed on the runway, bouncing slightly before steadying itself. Once the breaks were hit, Fluttershy was glad for the straps, they kept her from getting launched from her seat and into the one in front of her. The engines roared still on the outside, but eventually the sound was dying out, until the engines cut and the plane came to a stop screeching against the concrete of the runway. The pegasus stayed in her seat until it was safe to get up, and passed the time by looking out the window.
Fluttershy also spotted some small vehicles driving along the runway,, and one of them drove up to the plane. The mare wondered if that was going to take her to her home, she didn't know.
Samuel unbuckled himself form his seat and stood up, moving over to Fluttershy who waited as Samuel undid her straps. "Okay, now that we've landed, I should tell you-" He undid one of the straps, "-that we're not at your home yet, we're going to be taking a jeep to the front where a bus will be waiting, that will take us to Springvale." He explained to the mare, finishing so she could get up.
Fluttershy took the time to stretch out her wings and joints, her legs and back felt stiff from sitting for so long. She would have gotten up, but walking around the aircraft while it was flying, didn't sound like a good idea at the time. Shaking her head, she looked up to see Samuel grabbing her bag form the overhead compartment, "thank you for putting that away for me." She told him as he placed the bag on her back. "I don't think I would have been able to."
"Your wings are more then for show aren't they?" Samuel asked as he turned around to pick up his helmet from the seat he left it in. Putting it on, he added, "you can fly right?"
"Um... yes..."
"You could have flown in here, I guess to get up there... but eh, you're welcome." He smiled as he turned around to face her, with a nod from her he walked over to the door and began to open it.
Fluttershy trotted over to Samuel, watching as the door was slowly opened up. I'm here... She thought to herself as she was thrust out into a whole new world.
6659220 Fourth Wall's overrated.
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Story's been updated dudes~
I'm going to keep track of this, but I just can't help thinking of something from one of the more 'Racey' mods from New Vegas. Fluttershy, Queen of the Deathclaws is just too wrong/right of an image.
6659281 Ooohohoohoo... oooo that is a lovely image...
I like
Also thanks!
6659094 Peat swamps and radon swamps are both worse that quicksand. The first will devour you, and you'd have no hope of escape. The second will inflict you with severe radiation poisoning in a matter of minutes if you aren't prepared.
6659233 When it comes to blunt force, it is, but diamond has better pierce resistance and edge durability. Tungsten is better than titanium when doing heavy duty stuff, but I use both alongside leaden steel when making heavy-as-fuck armor for peeps.
6659443 Why do you think that the military uses titanium for their vehicles and such? Because it's strong but also very light weight.
6659520 Actually, we use a steel-aluminum alloy. Gives it the durability of steel with the weight leaning towards aluminum. Tanks also have a fair portion of tungsten in them, too. Too expensive to use titanium in everything.
6660094 the U.S. also uses Depleted Uranium in its M1A1 and M1A2 Abram's Composite Armor mix......
6670505 And its HE-AT shells.
6671116 they don't really use HEAT ammo anymore, what with everyone coated with ERA armor, which keeps the shells from even doing anything in the first place, but they do use APFSDSDU - Armor-Piercing Fin-Stabilized Discarding-Sabo Depleted Uranium shells.
Since DU is 1.67 times as dense as lead, shells having the same density can be smaller, which means they travel faster, and when it hits armor, instead of bunting over time, it actually vaporizes little bits of its outer layer continuously, which self-sharpens the sabot, and also acts as an incindiary property more potent than if you released an eighth of a kilogram of white phosphorous inside the vehicle.....
6671243 Aye, all true. But the HE-AT I was referring to were the mortars and artillery rather than tank shells.
Do any of you guys hate Obama? Because I do, although at first I didn't really care, but now after everything that has happen, including the part when Paris, France was bombed by a terrorist group named Isis and when France ask America to help them, considering that France is the sister country to the U.S. and who also gave us the Statue of Liberty, Obama declined and instead letting more Isis terrorists into America. Isis also mostly murders people who follows Christianity, now I do HATE him.
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6724703 ....... That was kinda outta left field there. I'm not getting into that one, because I'd be here arguing for days over the littlest things different politicians have done.
6724747 It's actually a big deal, cause the terrorist group is already here in the U.S. and that Obama is going to let them kill us, because he said he supports them. The reason I brought this up is because our government became corrupted from greed of wealth and power. In fact, I heard that Obama wanted to destroy the Declaration of Independence, and to take away our rights. There are also some U.S. military soldiers that made some videos online, talking about how corrupt our government are. They also said that when the U.S. goes into another civil war, they said they would help the rebellion of such against our government. Trust me,it is more bigger than a lot of people think.
6724703 Yes. Yes, I do.
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You forgot one thing: Your tin foil hat.
6727246 My skull is too thick for them to read my mind, and even if they do, why would I give a f**k. They are getting whats coming to them whether they know it or not. So f**k them, F**K THEM ALL TO HELL! DEATH TO ALL TYRANTS!
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Lol what happened to love and tolerate?
6727269 Those government assholes don't deserve it, they deserve a slow, painful death as they descend to HELL! Especially Obama!
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Your either trolling, or have a complete lack of governmental experience. So love and tolerate my friend lol
6727287 I do not troll and I do have experience about our goddamned government. Wealth and power is the key to corruption, which is the thing that makes tyrants. If you actually pay attention to not just America but the entire world, it is proof that our government had become corrupt. Did you know that the state of Texas tried to succeed from the U.S. a couple of years back just because of what the government were doing. The FEDS even have FEMA camps, which when you look it up, it comes up as FEMA Concentration Camps. No, I'm serious, look it up.
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So says the guy that says obama supports isis even though we blew up half their leadership with airstrikes. You lost all your credibility with that comment. If the feds are trying to take away our liberties, then they wouldve done it by now (wartime is good justification for that) . Would you think i should go to hell if i tell you i work for the government? You blame the government for all your problems but cant understand what they are trying to do. And Texas is being Texas, because there is always that group of radicals of every state trying to secede from the usa since 1845. You blame the government for being greedy and corrupt, how would you know you arent the same? Why dont you go read machiavelli if you stop wearing your tin foil hat for once? Why dont you try to understand why our government do what they do? What would you do differently ( youll still get hate)?
What happened to love and tolerate?
6727377 that is a different terrorist group called Al Qaeda. And Obama IS with the government. Obama wanted to make the Fema camps and the government approved it. Also they are taking our rights very slowly one by one like our 2nd amendment 'right to bear arms' by either trying to ban everyone from having a gun or taking them(not directly). I'm different from them because I don't abuse power and I don't give a fuck if I'm rich or not. If you made me a leader of a nation I would try to decline or lead the nation with actual promises of true freedom of religion, speech, etc and make sure that the government doesn't becomes greedy. It's either give me liberty or give me death. And I never wore a tin foil hat once in my life, that is stupid shit. And like I said, If I would become leader, I will make sure that true justice is committed, I will make sure everyone have their rights with religion, speech, etc, I would help the poor, I would make health insurance truly free just like Canada does, and make sure that I put other peoples needs before mine. George Washington became the 1st President not just because he was a veteran general, he actually bonds with his men, he actually gets his hands dirty. And when they won their independence, and when the congress wanted George to become president, George declined, or at least try to. Abraham Lincoln, when he first became president, the first thing he wanted to do was to abolish slavery, but wanted to avoid a civil war, but war is inevitable, unavoidable. And if he was given a choice to either abolish slavery and died or keep slavery and live besides of just getting killed out of nowhere, he would have sacrifice his life for true freedom for all. President Roosevelt, around the 1940's, he knew that the Nazis were killing innocent people over in Europe and tried to convince congress to go to war, but they declined because they quoted that they don't care, but when Pearl Harbor happened, that changed quickly, in the most stupidest way. Letting thousand of innocent people die overseas but when our people get attacked, we fight back? America was born not just to liberate and save not the people of the U.S., but the people who cries out for help. And the fact that the Nazis almost ruled all of the world until the U.S. came in. We fought against Communism, which is the opposite of Democracy and maybe Republic, just to defeat and destroy corruption. But give a man power and wealth, sooner or later, he or even she will abuse it, unless it is in the hands of an actual good soul, a good person who has no desires, no wants, no glory, only to help the people and bring true justice, then that person don't have to go to Hell, but since it is rare to find someone with that kind of heart nowadays, I would be surprise if any of them are good people.
And the thing of what happen to love and tolerate, it almost completely died when man found the killing power of rock and bone. The Human Race is not always a peaceful kind, for it is also a war-waging kind as well.
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Why the heck did you even randomly bring up "i hate obama" in a completely different conversation anyways? I have a feeling you watched a friggin video or read some bs news about obama. And stop bringing up concentration camps, the united states use them in every war so the people wont go "patriotic" about their homelands. Not every president is fully good if you have known. If you look at history, abraham lincoln didnt want to abolish slavery and actually supports it. He passed the emancipation proclamation in 1863 for propaganda value, he even made a quote that he doesnt care about slaves, as long as it saves the union. Fdr in ww2 did make internment camps ( or concentration camps to some) to send the japanese americans to. Because the "sneaky japanese" may be causing trouble. George washington wasnt the only general who fought in actual battles and elected president just so you know, theres the infamous andrew jackson, although i do understand jacksons reasoning. You should really understand the governments reason for their actions rather than accuse then of being greedy and corrupt. Make healthcare free? I underatand that but do you realise how much we are in debt? And regarding gun laws, you do realize that as long as we have guns, there will be people shooting at each other from savannah to detroit. Personally, i wouldve comprimise took the guns away and lock them in the local armory ( when built) for every town. But you got to realize that the second amendment or whatever is not just limited to guns? Just use a friggin frying pan if someone is trying to kill you ( despite violence will still go on but on a less dangerous scale and can be more contained). I understand why people hate the government so much, but they got to ubderstand and accept it if we want this country to work. Not go riot and rebel and rob stores and kill people. This is like thr "fuck the police" situation, we cant live without them. And no we should not go in revolutions either. Because most revolutions now a days results in dictatorships to containn the unstable country.look at iran, french revolution, and libya, etc. What we need is not a democratic leader, but a benevolent authoritarian leader that gets things done quicker, good luck getting through congress if your president. If the government is trying to take away your liberties then they wouldve done it by now.
And idc, i understsnd about human nature of "killing" because im a fallout fan, but this isnt an excuse for you to go liberal and accuse the government for human nature as well try running the country and see what happens, you may say all this now, but you will realize that not all of your ideas will be accepted in the public. Try to do it yourself would make you be accused of being a tyrant yourself. This would go the same way as woodrow wilson.
6728116 Of course you wouldn't understand me, cause you don't want to know the actual truth because you are afraid of what will happen.
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Because i pointed how the flaws or bad sides of presidents you think were good?
Doesnt that imply I already understand what the government does?, but
Id rather not cause anarchy and bloodshed over this. The government wont arrest me even if i think like u do. For now anyways.
Thr government do what they do for a reason and i already understand why they did it, but its very hypocritical that you dont if you keep threatening violence. You wouldnt understand how hard it is because you only look at it in one point of view
6731796 No because you don't accept the actual real world it really is. You think it is all good and happy when it is not.
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Did you even read what I said before that actually implies that your statement is hypocritical? You implied the world is Black and White with the "heroes" of Abraham Lincoln, FDR, George Washington when they obvious have flaws to them that does not make them entirely good. Your tinfoil Governmental Obama hating ideas also implied your low tolerance and understanding. You even called Obama a tyrant. FDR, Abraham Lincoln, and maybe George Washington (he put brutally put down rebellions in his country over, ironically, American taxes instead of British ones, like Whisky Rebellion) could be too depending on whos answering, I however, think the world is Grey.
I said "Abraham Lincoln passed the emancipation proclamation in 1863 for propaganda value, he even made a quote that he doesnt care about slaves, as long as it saves the union. Fdr in ww2 did make internment camps ( or concentration camps to some) to send the japanese americans to. "
You said, "Abraham Lincoln wanted to abolish the slaves" so it implied that you think he is a good guy, which he may be is in today's standards, you forget that he didn't want to initially abolish slavery.
Don't Friendship is Magic (or at least the brony fandom's diversity) teach you anything? Well technically, FIM teaches people the world is black and white as well kinda ._. (well except if you read the comics, Sombra I felt most bad about since he was portrayed as a neglected individual, even the princesses weren't the good guys when they knew they were hurting him as a child, but the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, if you are wondering)
For example, Bush did start heavily monitoring American citizens, and basically did other things people accused him of, but it's understandable because of the threat of terrorism, as long as you don't do bad, you have nothing to worry about.
I know Obama isn't the perfect president, but he is certainly not a bad guy, I know that you won't maintain your suggested policies forever without changing them or getting rid of them due to the democratic process, If you were president. If you want to get things done quicker, you need to subjugate congress and put executive orders, but even if you doing that for good people will accuse you of being a tyrant. I'm just being a realist here.
6732817 Whatever you say.
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Oh stop being such a child. Its just a flag.
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The moon is for everyone, NOT JUST YOU LUNA.