“Grenade out!” yells a pony before an explosion goes off. Two fillies stood in front of a ran down stable, fighting off Bullymongs. The unicorn used her gun, standing on her hind legs while the earth pony slung grenades and covered her flank. The two was in sync with each other, knowing exactly what was going on in the other’s mind.
A bullymong appeared behind them and i grab my gun, taking it out for them.
“Whew. That was a close one. Thanks for having my hind.” says the unicorn.
“Don’t i always?” the earth pony says, hip bumping the unicorn pony.
“Lyra! BonBon!” Derpy calls out, landing and trotting over to them.
“Hey, is our package here?”
“Yep!” she says, pulling out a box from out of her bag. Bon Bon grabs it quickly before heading inside the stable.
“Finally we can put the shield back up! We can call back some of our old sources and agents, maybe even establish the base again.” she says, zooming across the room. “Secret Agent Sweetie Drops is back at it again!”
“Don’t mind her.” Lyra says, trotting over to a couple jars. She dumps out a couple pieces of candy each and stach it in a bit bag before handing it to Derpy. “Thanks again for the help.”
I noticed that Lyra has been trying to walk on her back hooves instead of all fours. She’s actually kind of good at it. I bet that gives her an advantage during combat...interesting.
“Come back sometime, kay. Don’t be a stranger.”
“Lyra, the blueprints!” Sweetie Drops...i mean, BonBon calls out.
My stomach growls as we walked.
“How far are we from Sanctuary?” I ask.
“Well...sense you’ve never been there before, we have to go on hoof.” Battery inquired. “Which would be a decent trot.”
“Not too far.” Derpy says. “Just beyond these glaciers.”
I sigh, my legs getting tired and my body sore.
Beyond the glaciers was a boat...a ship more like it. It seems this wasteland was a place for ships to sink and die. A little blue box stood in from of the sunken ship. It had the words Police written on the side and top, but didn’t look like all the other transportation hubs that were used in Pandora.
“This is the TARDIS system.” Battery says.
“TARDIS?” i tilt my head, hoping that they would elaborate.
“Travel and Recovery Device In Service. If one of the TARDIS’ was to ever break, they are called Travel and Recover Device Outposted Service or TARDOS. Weird, huh? That’s the Doctor for you.”
“How does it work?”
“ The TARDIS functions under a strict command, that only working B4TT bots are able to administer, this way they are not to be overridden. I unlock the coordinates of our desired destination, the passcode key, and then we are transported.”
The door to the TARDIS opens, and we walk in. There was a white flash, and then there was silence.
When my sight clears, I find that we were transported to a tower. A bell tower?
“Home sweet home.” Derpy smiles. “Now what kind of muffins would you like, i can make blueberry, cinnamon chip, chocolate chip, i think i have bananas…”
The first room was lit up with all these strange gadgets and unfinished bots. There was blueprints for multiple devices and boards of equations, some finished while others wasn’t. Past that room was a large power source, warm, vibrate, alive. The other rooms was more like a house but messy and admittedly strange.
The kitchen had graduated cylinders, beakers, flasks, test tubes, and wash bottles. Yes, it had bowls and cups, but it seemed that Derpy didn’t discriminant with any of the gear as she cooked.
“Derpy?” calls out a voice.
“In here, Doctor!”
Not one but two sets of hooves entered the kitchen. Standing there was two stallions. The brown pony looked as if Derpy was an angel sent from above, running at her and hugging her. Derpy giggles with a “Doctor!” before hugging him back. The orange unicorn levitated the bowl she was holding and hugged her.
“Where have you been? It’s been days.”
“I got caught up in something. Oh, also Battery needs to be fixed.”She says.
“Are you making muffins?” the ginger unicorn asks, smelling the batter. Derpy pushes his face out of the bowl.
“Tick tock!” she giggles. “Yes, i'm making muffins. Several different kinds. For my friend here, so get out and wash up.”
“Are you sure you don’t want any help?” I ask.
“I’m sure.” Derpy says, rolling her eyes. She waves me off and i follow behind the stallions, reluctantly.
Doctor lead me into his lab, showing me some of his inventions.
He seemed to be trying to be create more animal bots, ones that will protect main cities and escort ponies when they walked around the badlands. He also was telling me about some prototypes he had made that he had looking over the badlands for vaults, ponies in need, potential places to settle, places to grow food, places to mine eridium. Anything really.
I realized that the Doctor was a pacifist by the way he talked, one that preferred not to fight but would if insured the safety of another. The doctor spoke of bandits and psycho as if they was just poor ponies that had lost their mentality living in the badlands, that they were still ponies, that they still had morals, that they could be saved. He told me of some bandits he had observed through his animal bots, some that weren’t hostile until shot at. Some that had families, would feed the bot animals, and lived peacefully.
A pang in my heart went off. Unwanted thoughts of my parents before they went ballistic flashed in my thoughts. They weren’t bad ponies, just paranoid.
I hadn’t realized that i had tears welling up in my eyes as i unconsciously sniffled.
Tick Tock was working on Battery. Battery was talking to him about Blood Beak’s now empty boat. Gasoline stained his coat as he changed Battery’s wings.
“So, you smashed him with a cage?” he says, cocking his eyebrow. “Poetic and Interesting.”
He changes the lens of Battery’s eye. “I would like to look over your footage, if you don’t mind.”
“No problem!” Battery chimes.
“Uhh…” I wince. Tick tock raised an ear. “ So..which one of you is Battery’s master?”
“Battery is the Doctor’s but it was my improvements and power core that brought him to life.” he says, not missing a beat.
“So...Derpy is your waifu?”
Tick Tock blushed, continuing his work.
“I wouldn’t say that. Derpy and the Doctor is as close as I am with her.” He justified. “We both have great respect for her. It was her who saved me. I was ready to die when her and the doctor saved me. She had convinced him to go back for me, and i've been grateful to be by her side ever since.”
The unicorn face was absent of emotion but i could feel the heart in what he was saying.
“The first batch is done!” Derpy calls out, which apparently was the signal to drop everything that they was doing and come and get a muffin. And to be honest, it was amazing. She decided to make a crunchy peanut butter muffin, which had little smashed peanuts and cinnamon sugar topping that was absolutely to die for.
“The next batch will be red velvet with a whipped cream cheese filling.” she announces. The doctor and tick tock both look at her with the most affectionate look i have ever seen. It pretty much declared their undying love for her and more.
I now understood why Battery had labeled her the “best waifu”.
“Oh, Vault Hunter! You don’t have anywhere to stay!” Derpy facehoof. The thought had slipped my mind, considering the mouthful of amazing pastry in my mouth.
“Well, that won’t be any problem, She can stay here for the night! That way we can contact Vernandi, alerting him of your arrival tomorrow so she can clean up a place for you.” Doctor smiles.
“Oh, i don’t want to impose.”
“Nonsense! You brought Derpy back to us, it’s the least we can do.”
Derpy lended me her bed, which was weird. She blushes and stutters when i asked where she would be sleeping before rushing off with a “Good Night.”
Congrats, Vault Hunter! You have reached LV.9
You have earned these previous abilities:
Chance to daze an opponent increased (+20%)
Fire rate increased in all weapons increased (+14%)
Critical damage rate increased (+10%)