Excerpt from 'Fallout Equestria: Letters to Celestia'

'Chapter Four: Dear Princess Celestia, Is Greed All We Know?' (UPDATED)

I moved to the next corner. It was clear. I turned back to the others to tell them to be quiet as we moved forward, only to stumble and press my back to a wall as my eyes widened in horror. The wall had a mouth! The wall was cracking and stretching and groaning before it began to shake, rubble began to fall around me and I saw the wall crack wide open with teeth of concrete, drooling with offal and blood. I felt something crawling on my skin, I looked down at my left hoof, I watched as the prosthetic metal snapped and the scar of my stump bursts open with blood and mucus, a tendril erupting from the stub and extending out as a new slimy part of my limb, moving of its own free will. I think I started screaming.

“Mister-Master—Tome-Sir?!”

I suddenly realised I was being shaken and shouted out. I could hear gunshots and see the flash of them lighting up the nearby walls. I looked up and the tendril was gone, so was the face in the wall...Lucky was firing at something that I could hear screeching. I looked down into the panicked eyes of Sonnet as she screamed at me. I could see the danger and her terror, but it seemed muted somehow...distant...OW!

Sonnet had finally given up screaming at me and decided to clobber me round the face with her PipBuck instead.

The world rushed back to me, and the gunshots immediately became deafening to my ears. I pulled out my gun, feeling my teeth chattering against the bit, moved up beside Lucky and looked down the corridor. I was shaking, sweat clung my coat to my body in a clammy way, and every breath I took felt strained as my blood continued to pound in my ears.

For the love of Luna. Hundreds of them. Packed so tightly together they rubbed shoulders with each other as they clambered and fought to be the first to tear us apart. We were going to die here.

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