I Could Make You Care

by Frank DuFresne (Doc)


Chapter 2: My Favorite Subject (Extended...Again)

Author's Notes
So after reading this chapter over and over again, I decided to add some extra stuff that I should have written earlier. Oh, and he first person to tell me where I got the cat from gets a cookie.

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Dear Princess Celestia,
Today I learned that (A letter that I was never going to write)
Your faithful student,
Twilight Sparkle
P.S: We found two creatures near the Everfree forest who call themselves 'humans'. They look dangerous but say they won't hurt anypony without a good reason.

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Dear God, she's worst that Cass! Questions, questions, and questions. Oh did I forget to mention all the fucking questions?

"What's that in your hand? Why do you dress like that? Who's the NCR? Who's Caesars Legion? I don't think 'jerkwads' is a word. What do you eat? Would you eat ponies? Who's Mr. House? What's the Gomorrah? How did you survive getting shot in the head? You beat someone to death with their own skull? That doesn't seem physically possible. Who's Boo-"

"SHUT UP! JESUS CHRIST, JUST SHUT UP FOR ONE GODDAMN MINUTE!!! YOU'RE WORST THAN CASS!!!"

"Who's Jesus, who's God, and who's Cass?"

"I hate my life." I muttered to myself. "Hundreds of years ago, much of human society was influenced by religion. The effects of religion on society ranged from people of a specific faith not being able to eat certain foods to being the cause of many wars. Three of these religions, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity all worshiped the same God. They also all acknowledged Jesus Christ, but in different ways. Christians believe that Jesus is the son of God, Muslims believe he was an important prophet, but not the son of God, and Jews only believe that he was a real person, but had no religious significance."

"Don't forget to breath!" Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed Veronica grinning smugly. I will have my revenge.

"OK, so who's Cass?"

"Can we talk about this at a bar? I don't want common sense getting in my way."

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Back in the Mojave, a scavenger happened upon the place where Six and Veronica had been teleported to Equestria. As he looked around, he saw a cat wearing a hat. What he didn't know was that the cat had 4 fusion bombs in his stomach. As he approached the cat, it barked and the scavenger started to slowly back away. The bombs went off, killing the scavenger and sending his body flying. The body flew for several miles before landing on Fantastic, killing him. The scavenger was given a military funeral and Fantastic's body was used as Deathclaw bait.

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"I guess I'll stop asking you questions...for now." Twilight replied. "But I am going to ask her some questions." She said, pointing at Veronica, who had suddenly stopped grinning. I love being such a good person. "So, tell me about yourself. What's your name?"

"Veronica Santangelo"

"What are you wearing? It looks like some kind of metal armor."

"It's T-51b power armor. It's made of a poly-laminate composite, the outer shell of the T-51b is lightweight and capable of absorbing over 2500 Joules of kinetic impact. The 10-micron-thick silver ablative coating can reflect laser and other radiation emissions without damaging the composite subsurface, and the eye slit for the helmet is made of bullet proof glass to protect the wearer from any projectiles. It's fitted with a back-mounted TX-28 Microfusion Pack which generates an output power of 60,000 Watts to power the HiFlo hydraulic systems built into the frame of the suit, and it usually carries enough fuel to last for ten thousand years."

It took about a minute for Twilight to respond. "What's that on your right arm? it doesn't look like a part of your armor."

"Oh, that's a ballistic fist." Veronica calmly responded. "When something hits the plate on my knuckles, two shotgun shells are fired from these two barrels."

"That sounds painful." Twilight said with a concerned look on her face. Even though she didn't know what a shotgun shell was, she could tell that it wasn't something nice.

"No, most of the time it causes a persons head to explode." Veronica responded, a little too enthusiastically.

"That's horrible! Why would anyone make something that does that?!?" A shocked and disgusted Twilight asked.

"War. War never changes. Humans have fought and killed each other for thousands of years." I stated.

"Why would people kill each other? Why not talk to each other instead of fighting?"

"People try, sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. But, when words don't work, it's always good to have the best weapons available." I explained. For the rest of the walk to the library me and Veronica explained war and all the evil and fighting back in the Mojave. We also had to explain how I support the NCR but travel with Veronica, who was a BoS scribe.

"So the Brotherhood of Steel protects people from technology?' Twilight asked, who was somewhat confused by the idea.

"You see, we...THEY-" Veronica began to explain, only to be interrupted by Twilight.

"Why do you keep switching from 'we' to 'they' when talking about the Brotherhood?" Twilight looked up at Veronica and stopped walking. By this time I had already finished 2 bottles of Sunset Sarsaparilla, and had started on a third, when I noticed a regal looking pony with both a horn and wings.

"Twilight, who's that?" I asked, gesturing at the pony in question.

"Princess Celestia!" Twilight exclaimed as she ran towards Celestia. "Did you get my letter?"

"Yes. I'm taking these creatures to Canterlot " As she said this, a yellow orb encased me and Veronica.

"WE HAVE A NAME, BITCH!" I yelled. She's going on the list. Wow. I never thought I'd have so many enemies that I'd need a list. "Hey, things can't get any worst, right?" I turned and looked at Veronica with a look that says 'You probably should have been nicer to me'.

"I still fucking hate you."