//------------------------------// // Prologue: Memeories // Story: Fallout Equestria: The Forgotten // by Intel Wise //------------------------------// Fallout Equestria: The Forgotten Prologue: Memories Memories, memories are what make us who we are. They tell the story of our lives and define us as ponies, but when that is taken away what is left? A husk of what they use to be? Or something entirely different? Do they still feel and act the same way they did when they had they memories, or dose a new life begin as they try and find out what they once where? I can't answer these questions, cause I don't remember. I don't know if I'm the same as I once was, but that doesn't matter anymore. I've made new memories and I cherish every one that Celestia has blessed me with, and I will never let them go again, bad or good, they will stay with me tell I take my last breath. ************************************************************ "Wake up. Wake up." A soft voice called to me "Wake up. You need to wake up." I opened my eyes and tried to focus them, trying take in the scene before me. I blinked a few times as I realized that I was laying slightly on my back in some sort of tube as looked out a window into a dimly lit room. I moved my hooves around feeling for anything that could help me. I pushed on one of the walls and felt it give a little under my hooves. I moved both of my forelegs over the wall and pushed. I heard the snapping of air seals as the door started to move, I stopped as horrible smell crept into the tube. I fought my way through it and pushed harder on the door. After 2 move tries it finally gave way under my legs as it flipped up and I went sprawling to the floor landing on my face. I pulled my face from the floor and sat on my haunches rubbing a hoof over the side of my face that had hit the metal floor. I took a deep breath as the bruise that was on my face was nothing serious, when it hit me. I recognized that stench, and a look down the hallway to my right confirmed it. It was the smell of rotting flesh in a confined room as I looked down at the decomposing bodies on the floor. I saw something on one of the body's as I got up to go see if it was anything worth wile. As I walked I looked around the room noticing other tubes that lined the wall. They where dark and offline, I could see some faces inside a few of them but could tell they were dead. I picked up the pace and trotted over to the body as the smell got worse. I stopped just short of the body examining it. Its lower half was almost completely gone showing bone and sinew. I looked down at face, completely unrecognizable, then something shined just below my vision. I looked down, and wrapped around its foreleg was a PipBuck, I reached out with a hoof for it when I froze. Clipped on the chest pocket of the body was and ID badge with a picture of a white buck and a name. "Mercury" Was written on the bottom of the badge. I just stood there with an outstretched hoof, as I tried hard to think. "What was my name?" Echoed through my head. I couldn't remember, I couldn't remember my name, and it scared me. I had no memories, I tried to think of anything but just drew a blank. I put a hoof too my head trying to think when it touched something, I felt up and the length of some long pointed thing on the top of my head, I then realized it my was horn. I put my hoof back to the floor as I sighed, but then a howl behind me brought me back to reality. I looked behind me, and down the dimly lit hall was the form of a pony, it stared at me, breathing heavily. I watched it for a second, and then It took a step toward me. "Oh Fuck!" I thought as it howled one more time and started running down the hall at me. I looked back to the body and saw a Pistol on its side. I focused and reached out with my magic and pulled the gun out of the holster and whorled around to face the best that was stampeding at me. I leveled the gun at its head and pulled the trigger as a loud *Crack* resonated down the hall, and then I heard bullet meet flesh and bone as the beast fell to the floor as slid closer to me. I kept my gun aimed at the beast as it laid motionless on the steel floor. I looked at the creature and recognized it as a Ghoul, it skin gone in places on its face and body reveling muscle tissue and in some places bone. I lowered my gun and turned back around to get the Pipbuck from Mercury's leg, but keeping my ears up to listen for any more of the creatures. I Looked back down at the poor soul and used my Telekinesis to unbuckled the Pipbuck off his leg and then clip it to my right leg. I turned it on and went to the map to see where I was. I was surprised that I knew how to find the map, it felt almost like I had used one of these before. I soon opened the map and it gave me a view of where I was, I appeared to be on the bottom level of Stable 50 . I then noticed the recent journal entries on the Pipbuck, I taped the screen pressing play on the most recent entry as a voice emitted from the Pipbuck which I assumed was Mercury's. " This is journal entry number 42. The subjects are responding well to the treatment inside the cryo chambers. Although 3 subjects we are having problems with, they don't seem to respond in the normal way when we introduce the test to them in their chambers." Mercury pause for a brief second before continuing. "They seem to fight the treatment once we start, we are only getting mild results from 2 of them but are getting 0 results from the subject in chamber 34. She is being moved the top floor for more analysis while subjects 12 and 67 will remain on the bottom floor with the rest for regular testing." Mercury said as the recoding came to an end. Number 12? I thought, and looking to my right I saw an 8 printed on the side of one of the chambers, and they kept climbing as I looked father down the wall. I got up moved down the hall counting as I walked. 10,11, and stopped in front of 12. I looked at the empty chamber, it was open unlike the others. then I realized, I was in this pod, I'm number 12. Then I remembered the recording, "They seem to fight the treatment." and " Subjects 12 and 67" ”Wait,67? Does that mean somepony else may still be alive? " I thought as I looked the other way down the hall on the opposite wall where I came from, 42 was the last pod on the wall before they turned around a corner. I trotted quickly down the hall and around the corner, my gun still held in my magic. As I rounded the corner my eyes where met with the soft blue glow of a still working chamber about halfway down the hall. I ran down and stopped in front of the pod. Still being powered, keeping the occupant the same way he was when he entered it. I just stared at it and put a hoof on the side of the chamber as I sat on my haunches thinking. "How am I suppose to get him out?" My ears perked up when I heard a soft beeping coming from my Pipbuck. I looked at it and read the words on the screen. "Do Wish To Open Pod 67?" With a yes and no button under the words. I pressed "Yes" with my other hoof, and as soon as I did I heard the hydraulics inside the chamber start to push open the door. I watched as the door opened reveling the sleeping pony inside. Chapter notes : Subject 12 S.P.E.C.I.A.L S: Unknown P: Unknown E: Unknown C: Unknown I: Unknown A: Unknown L: Unknown