//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: The Places You Find Friends // Story: Fallout Equestria: The Forgotten // by Intel Wise //------------------------------// Fallout Equestria: The Forgotten Chapter 1: The places you find Friends Friends, you don't see them that often in the wasteland. Most ponies you meet ether want to kill you or they just ignore you, as they try and continue their life in the waste. Friendship is not dead though. The prewar ponies where all friends, before they lost their way to greed and cruelty, and killed their own world and left us to try and rebuild. If you can make a friend in the ravaged world we call the wasteland your life can greatly benefit from each other. I can't remember if I had friends, it kind of sucks not remembering if you where loved or you had parents that cared for you, but that is the forgotten past now. I have friends with me now, who would never leave my side and I would never leave them. The feeling they give me when they are around helps me take that next step, walk that next mile, and live tell the next day. I don't know where my journey will take me, or what I will find at the end of trail that I walk, but I know when I face whatever is at the end my friends will be at my side ready to help me. ********************************************************* The door of the pod came to a stop above my head as the cool blue gas inside drifted out and covered the floor. The pony inside was a buck, his coat was dark grey with a black main and tail. It looked like he had a pair of gold stripes running through his main, but strangely not through his tail. I looked down to his flank and looked at his Cutie Mark, It looked like a StealthBuck attachment that you would interface with a Pipbuck to make you invisible. "How do I know that?" I thought, and then I remembered I never really looked myself over, I didn't even know if I had a Cutie Mark. I was about to turn my head to check when a groan form the Cryo Tube made me look up to the bucks face. His eyes opened and he slowly scanned the room tell his gaze rested on me and he just stared. His eyes closed as he groaned one more time and raised a hoof up to the side of his head. "Where am I? And who are you?" He said, then his nostrils flared and his eyes jumped open. "And what is that Fucking stench?!" "Uhh? " Was all I could say as he pushed himself out of the tube and landed on the floor next to me. It was then that I noticed he was a Pegasus as he opened up his wings as he stretched. "I asked who you are?" The Pegasus stated as he turned to face me. "Uhhhh. I don't know who I am." I said, he just looked at me for a second before he spoke. "What do you mean you don't know who you are? What's your name?" He asked as the look on his face changed to one of interest. "Uh, I guess you can call me..." I stuttered as I tried to think up a name, and the most obvious came into my head and I said it. "Subject 12" I said with a shrug really unsure of what to tell him. He cocked his head at me. "What kind of a name is Subject 12?" "I don't know my name." I said as my ears lowered. "I only know that I was in pod 12 and the journal entry on this Pipbuck I found called me subject 12." "Huh. Well then." He said as he stood up taller. "My name is......... Uh..... my name....is." He tried to say as a worried look came across his face as he closed his eyes."I.....can't remember." His eyes clenched tight as he tried to think. "I can't remember anything." The bucks back legs slipped out from under him as he sat on his haunches in front of me. "Why can't I remember?" He said as his eyes opened and a pleading looked was on his face. "I don't know. They were doing some kind of test on the ponies in the cryo stasis pods." I said, he looked up at me and cocked his head again. "Here" I said as I raised my Pipbuck and played the journal entry for him to hear. He listened intently as the recoding came to an end. He just stared as the floor for a while before he said anything. "Well, I guess I'm 67 then. What do we do now?" He asked as he stood up. "Well, they probably have a file on all of the ponies that are in here. There could be a copy on the Overmares terminal in her office." I stated as I turned around in the hall and started to head to what looked like a door. "That would be our best shot as to figure out who we are and why we were in stasis." "Ok." 67 said as he walked beside me as we made our way down the hall. I looked down at him and he was a bit smaller than me, all Pegasus where a little smaller than other ponies. They were built for speed and maneuverability, not strength like an earth pony. At the end of the hall was indeed a door with a barley working sign above it saying Stairs/Elevator, but that's not what I was really looking at. Leaned against the door was the body of a unicorn, and like the rest he was rotting away in this tomb. There was a rifle holstered on his side along with a saddle bag. "uhhhh." I hear as looked to my right. "So that's what the smell is." 67 said as he looked at the body. I reached out with my telekinesis and pull out the rifle. I examined it, seemed almost like it has never been fired. I pullback on the action and let go as it slid forward and slammed into the other side with a *Snap*, It felt good holding the rifle in my magic, the gun also looked good in the red glow of my magic, it almost felt soothing. I went back to the rest of the body, and the saddle bags. Inside where two syringes of Med-X , four Healing Potions, and six empty magazines with two cases of 308. ammo for the rifle. I shrugged and pull the bags and the Holster of the body and fastened the bags onto my back and the holster on my right side. It was the first time I looked at the color of my coat and main, my coat was dark red and my main was a slivery white. My Cutie Mark was interesting, it looked like the crosshairs of a rifle scope where printed on my flank, I ignored it for the time being and I went back to my gun. I pulled out the magazine on the rifle and started to reload it. "What are you doing?" I heard 67 ask. "I already killed a ghoul down here, and if there's one there are bound to be more." I said as I pushed the magazine back into the rifle and pulled the action back loading a round into the chamber. I holstered it and pulled out an extra magazine and started to reload it. "Ghoul?" I heard him ask. "You know, Feral Ghoul, a pony exposed to too much radiation. It turns wild and hunts living things for food." I stated as I started reloading multiple magazines at once. "I have no idea what you are talking about." I heard him respond. I sighed and motioned with my head over to the one I killed. "There's one over there, just past the two bodies. Go look for yourself, and bring back anything that is on the bodies while I see if I can get this door open." He nodded and walked down the hall towards Mercury and the ghoul. I took one last look over the unicorn in the doorway and saw that it had a Pipbuck on its leg too. I pulled it off just as 67 was returning. He was carrying a gun holster in his mouth and a had a saddle bag resting on his back. He spat the leathery holster out of his mouth and spoke. "There's some 10mm ammo in the bags with some clips for a pistol, but I couldn't find the gun." "K, that's fine." I said. As I looked at 67. "You might as well strap up. I'm not carrying all of the weight." "What?" He said I opened up my saddle bag a pulled out the pistol I got form Mercury and levitated it to 67 and set in on the floor in front of him. "Ohh, so that's where it went." He said. I chuckled a little bit. "You put on the gear and load the clips while I finish getting the door. Ohh, and here, put this on as well." I said sliding the Pipbuck over to him with my hoof. I turned back to the door and the terminal to its right. I moved the body of the unicorn out of my way and into the hall so I could work. I used my Pipbuck to get try and get past the security on the door, but once I linked up my Pipbuck to the door terminal, a password automatically loaded into the door and it started to open. The door made a girding sound as it moved to open only to get stuck half way. I sighed and thanked Mercury's passwords for making my life slightly easier. I focused my magic on the two half's of the door and started to force it open. It fought me as I pushed, and I only managed to get it to open just enough for me to squeeze through. I stepped through the door and stood up on the other side. The hall was much better lit then the Cryo room but there was still a lot of missing lights on the ceiling. I heard 67 hooves on the floor as he stepped through the door and stood next to me. I saw something down the hall a little ways and on the right wall, it looked like the elevator. I started to walk down the hall when my Pipbuck started beeping. I looked at it and the E.F.S showed several red dots just down the hall and around the corner. I pullout my rifle out and heard 67 do the same thing with his pistol. I kept the 308. aimed down the hall as I heard the unmistakable howl of ghouls come from further away. I looked back to my E.F.S and the dots where on the move down the hall to us, and where going to be coming around the corner any second. I level my gun at the middle of the hall waiting for them to come around the corner, 67 stepped into my field of vision with the pistol in his mouth waiting for them to round the corner. The ghouls came around just as I predicted, at full speed and slamming into the opposite wall. I decide now was as good a time as any and activated S.A.T.S. The spell worked like charm as time slowed to a stop. I could see the faces of the ghouls in the middle of their charge, I lined up head shots into three of them and let the spell drop as my rifle fired. Two shots hit their mark dropping the targets to the floor, the third missed and struck the leg of a ghoul behind my target. I heard 67 open fire and hit the ghoul I missed several times before it fell to the floor with a thud as three more ghouls came around the corner. I aimed at one ghoul and fired three times, they made contact with the beast's head and chest. I fired the last two rounds at another one hitting in the shoulder and going wide with the last shot as the magazine ejected its self form my rifle. The ghoul didn't even slow down as the bullet tore through its shoulder. I pulled out a fresh magazine and jammed it into the action as the ghoul closed the distance. I knew I wouldn't have enough time to shoot the beast so I thought, and I thought fast. I used my telekinesis and grabbed an over turned desk in the hall a slid it at the creature. I missed as it jumped over the desk and landed on top of me making me lose my grip on my rifle. It bit down into my shoulder and I screamed in pain. I use my back legs and kicked the ghoul over my head and off me. I got up fast ignoring the pain in my right shoulder as looked for my gun. I found it and reached out with my magic pulling it back to my side, I looked up just in time to see the best getting back on its feet. I went back into S.A.T.S and quickly lined up three shots into the ghouls head. The spell dropped and my rifle made a loud *Crack* as the round left my gun and sped to the ghoul. It hit right between the eyes of the beast as its head explode showering gore over the walls. as it slumped to the ground. S.A.T.S. stopped me from wasting two more bullets on the dead beast. I turned around just in time to see 67 jump and flap his wings as a ghoul slid underneath him. I saw 67 freeze for a sec as he went into S.A.T.S. and then I watched him rain death on the ghoul beneath him. I looked back down the hall where the ghouls had come from. The only thing down the hall was the ghoul I hit in the leg, and it was slowly making its way to us. I leveled my rifle at it and fired, putting the last round into its chest as it fell over on its side and lay motionless. 67 came back to the ground as he folded his wings back up. The adrenalin wore off as I became aware of the pain in my shoulder. I open up my saddle bag and floated out a syringe of Med-X and a vile of Healing potion. I injected the Med-X into my side as it's numbing agent took hold and the pain in my shoulder left. I put the vile of potion up my lips and swallowed, it tingled on the way down but its affects where immediate as the hole in my shoulder stated healing before my eyes. I looked back at 67, he was doing the same thing with med-x and a potion, apparently he took a hit dunning the fight as well. I looked at my E.F.S. and it showed no more red dots, so I holstered my rifle and picked up my empty magazine off the floor, I reloaded it and stuffed it back into my saddle bag with the rest when 67 spoke. "Well that was bucking fun, wasn't it." He said sarcastically. I chuckled a little as we walked to the elevator, the light on it still glowing. I pressed the button on the wall to call the elevator. I heard gears move as the door slid open. Thankfully it was still working, it would save us a lot of walking. We stepped inside and looked at the glowing lights on wall of the elevator as they labeled the floors we could travel to. I knew the Overmares office would be on the commons floor, but a glowing button just below that caught my eye, the armory floor. I smiled as I pressed the button with my magic. The doors slid closed as the cables above us pulled us to our intended destination. We came to a stop and the doors slid open. We were facing a door on the opposite side of the hall with the glowing words ARMORY above it. I pulled out my rifle and peeked out into the hall, nothing was there that I could see and my E.F.S told the same story. I put my rifle away and walked across the hall with 67 right behind me. There was a terminal next to the huge door and I went to work to open the door, while 67 covered me. I linked my Pipbuck to the wall mounted terminal, and again Mercury's Pipbuck gave me access as a large thump of metal on metal came from inside as the large door swung inward reviling to us the cache of weapons inside. Ammo cans where still neatly places on their intended shelf's and a large steal cage which I recognized as the weapon locker. I looked back at 67 and saw his eyes grow wide as he sped past me and made a dash for the weapon lock up. I smiled at him as he ran past, he looked like a foal in a candy shop. He stopped in front of the cage and then looked quickly to his left then his right looking for something. He found whatever he was looking for as he dashed to his left picking something up in his mouth and ran back in front of the locker. I just shook my head and walked over to one of the many shelf's with ammo cans on it. I started to poke through them finding ammo for a wide variety of guns. I found a few grenades and some more ammo for me and 67 guns but not much that we could use, most of the cans where actually empty. I decide to go see what 67 was doing with the weapon cage, as I got closer I could hear the sound of metal taping on metal as 67 worked at trying to open the lock on the cage. I was actually impressed as I watched him work, holding a screwdriver and a bobby pin in his mouth at the same time as fiddled with the lock. I just sat down at one end of the cage as I watched him work, but then I started to get a little tired as I leaned against the cage. My eyes where just about to close when I heard a *Click* and the sound of the lock falling to the floor. "Yes!" I heard 67 exclaim as he dropped the screwdriver that was in his mouth as he stepped back from the cage. I got up and used my magic to slide the big heavy doors on the cage reveling a totally untouched cage of weapons. I stared at all the weapons on the inside wall of the cage and the ones laying on the floor. I looked to my right and saw 67 taking advantage of this as he started pulling a battle saddle off of a hook on the back wall of the cage. I looked back to my side of the cage and I almost looked past the prize that was hidden behind a few hanging battle saddles. I move them out of the way, and sitting on the back wall on its hooks, untouched, was a glorious black rife. I reached out with my magic and lifted it out of its place and brought it into the light. It was magnificent, it was the same style as my current rifle, but there was something different about it. I turned it over and read the inscription on the stock, Etched in silver was the word "Swift". I looked over the weapon even more bathing in its beauty. I heard a beep come from my Pipbuck and I raised my leg so I could read it. "Do you wish to download the Swift program" Was scrawled across the screen in green letters with "Yes" and "No" glowing on the screen. I pressed yes and the download started. 1% 30% 90% 100% Then a letter icon appeared on my screen indicating that I have a new message file to read. I opened it a read. Swift Hello Swift user, this is just a small letter informing you of all the things Swift is capable of. Swift is a Stable-Tec (prototype) attempt at a self reloading rifle. It was intend for use be a unicorn so that the reloading function can be activated. Swift is a standard Zebra 308. with an internal CPU that when linked with a PipBuck is able to redirect the magic that it gets from its user to automatically catch ejected cartages and magazines, reload another magazine into the action of the rifle, and reload any empty magazines. Swift will also (once linked to a PipBuck) help the user in S.A.T.S by counting wind trajectory and range of target to improve accuracy. Swift is a sturdy weapon and is able to handle the ruff conditions of any conflict that it may find its self in. Enjoy Swift to its full extent and have a pleasant day. From all of us here at Stable-Tec. I closed the file and looked back at my new toy as a grin crept onto my face. I decide to give it a test as I pulled out an empty magazine, and holding swift in my magic, I threw it past the gun. Just as the file said an orb of magic came from the center of swift as a soft red glow grabbed the magazine and quickly pulled a fresh one out of my saddle bag and jammed it into the action and pulled it back loading a round in the chamber as the empty magazine started to reload its self and then was placed back into my saddle bag. I smiled as pulled the old rifle out of its holster and put Swift in its place. I looked back at 67 for the first time in a while. he was already suited up, Battle saddle and all. He then pulled a Combat Shotgun out of the locker and clipped it to the right arm of his saddle. He smiled at me as he reached in and pulled out another one clipping it on left arm of the saddle. I sighed as he gave me this be smile, I turned back to the locker looking for anything else we could use. I pulled a holster out from the back and put it on my left side and slid an SMG inside, for when things get up close and personal. I looked around one last time. grabbing a few more boxes of ammo and any extra magazines that I saw. I was just about to close it up when a glint in the back of the cage caught my attention. I moved some of the Assault Rifles that where covering the back of the cage out my way looking for that glint, and sitting on a shelf was a small box. with a silver tag. I opened it up and resting inside was a black rifle scope. "Oh. My day just can't get any better." I thought as I pulled the scope out and looked through it. Turns out it could, a small switch on the side of it turned the scope to night vision mode. I smiled as I pulled Swift out and using the Screwdriver 67 used to get into the cage I attached the scope to Swift. The scope could also be move out of the way allowing me to use the iron sites. I re-holstered Swift and looked back to 67, he nodded at me and folded up the arms of his saddle so the shotguns rested on his back ready at any second to unfold and destroy any thing that presented its self as a threat. We walked out of the armory and back into the elevator, I pressed the glowing button that said commons, the doors closed and we slowly rose in the elevator to meet whatever was on the other side of its doors. ************************************************************** "OH FUCK" I thought as a bullet came flying towards me and grazed my right flank. I yelled as I returned fire and dove behind a makeshift barricade. I looked up and saw 67 crouched right beside me, he rose over the wall and I heard the sound of his shotguns firing and the yell from the other side of the room as the blasts hit their mark. He ducked back down as a wave of bullets flew over the barricade and slammed into the metal wall. 67 didn't move fast enough as a round made a hole in his right wing, the crimson blood flowing down his feathers and onto the cold floor as he gritted his teeth fighting through the pain. I looked down and saw the bleeding gash on my right flank and the bullet lodged in my left foreleg. I growled and pulled out one of the grenades that I got from the armory from my saddle bag, I pulled the pin and threw it over the wall. As the explosion echoed in the room my mind started to drift off as I thought about how the fuck me and 67 got into this mess. ((((((------------------------------------------)))))) We had just left the elevator and where walking onto the large balcony above the commons floor when my E.F.S. started beeping. I was in the middle of raising my leg when a blunt object slammed into the back of my head and I fell to the floor. I tried to get back up but the pain was too much and my legs wobbled underneath me as I fell back to the floor and blacked out. I woke up on my side in some dingy and poorly made prison cell. I looked around the room from my position on the floor when I felt the pain on the back of my skull. I reached up and felt the knot on the back of my head, didn't feel like anything was broken but it still hurt. I slowly got up and tried to figure out where I was, I looked around the rest of the cell and saw a black mass laying on the floor. I made my way over to it trying to figure out what it was but there wasn't that much light to tell. Once I got closer I realized what it was and ran over to it. It was 67, I could tell by what light there was reflecting off the gold streaks in his main. I couldn't tell if he was alive or not so I rested a hoof on his side, I could feel the rise and fall of his breath under my hoof but he was still out cold. I took a step back and looked around for anything we could use but I saw nothing until I looked at the floor, that's when I saw the soft green glow of my Pipbuck. I looked at it and smiled, whoever ambushed us didn't think to take our Pipbucks off. I opened up the map and looked at the outlines of the room we were in. It looked like we were in one of the many sleeping quarters of the stable but this one was converted into a holding cell of sorts. I put my leg down just as the door to our room open, I looked away from the bright light. I looked back and my eyes started to adjust as the form of a pony was clearly visible through the bars of the cage. Then a voice came from the pony. "Where going to let you out now, wake you friend and fallow me, and don't even think of trying anything." It sounded like a mare but I wasn't sure, I think there was something over her mouth to mask her voice. I saw a glow on top of the pony's head and then over a section of bars on the cage. Then the whole section slid to the right making a hole in the cage. I backed up to where 67 was laying keeping my eyes on the pony, I looked down at him pushed him with a hoof, he didn't respond, he was still unconscious. I sighed and grabbed him in my telekinesis and laid him over my back with his head laying on my left side. I looked back to the door, the mare was still standing there silhouetted in the bright light of the hall behind her. I walked out of the cage as the pony stepped into the bright hall and I fallowed. I stepped into the hall and bilked adjusting to the light. I looked around and there were two ponies standing at the sides of the door with rifles attached to their Battle Saddles. "Follow me." The a unicorn pony in a full suite of leather armor said and started to walk down the hall. One of the ponies pushed me on my side in the direction of the walking unicorn. I fallowed and watched as several other ponies in the same armor walked by, their faces covered by bandanas and goggles. 67 shifted on my back and I looked back to check on him. He was still out and was laying limp on my back as I walked. I looked back to the unicorn I was fallowing and stared. I could tell it was a mare by the way it walked but I couldn't see her coat or main, just her tail, a dark blue. I looked past the mare at a large door at the end of the hall, then something pinched my left side. I looked back at 67, he was still limp but then I looked at his face. One of his blue eyes were open and staring at me, and then his eye shut. I tuned back around and looked at the unicorn mare as we stopped in front of the large door. It opened up and I fallowed the mare inside. The ponies that where fallowing us stopped just sort of the door and took positions at each side. The door closed and I looked back into the large room. The unicorn mare walked up to a green unicorn buck that was sitting behind a desk in the middle of the room and whispered something in his ear. He was wearing the same armor as the rest but his face wasn't covered. The buck looked up and stared at me as the mare took a step back behind him. "So." The buck said as he got up from the chair. "You're the ones who came out of the elevator." He slowly walked in front of the desk, stopped and then faced me. "I guess I should thank you, you two made our job a hell of a lot easier." He said "But then I think. How did you get past us and make it to the elevator in the first place?" I stared at him trying to figure out what he was talking about. "But even that doesn't matter." His horn glowed and Swift floated into my vision. "We didn't even have to go to the armory, you brought what we were looking for and walked right into our camp." Swift floated away and I watched it as it was leaned against the wall next to the rest of our gear that was sitting by the wall. "Our contract with the Steel Rangers is done. Now all that's left is to pack up and move out." He walked back behind his desk and sat down. "Oh, one last thing." His horn glowed and I heard the sharp tick of a hammer on a pistol being pulled back. The pistol came from his right side and was aimed right at my head. My eyes opened wide and I felt 67 tensed up on my back. I felt his front hooves dig into my ribs and his wings brush past my head as he jumped from my back knocking me over just as the bullet past right between us and hit the door. I landed on my side and looked at the mare in the suite of armor drawing her pistol as well. I grabbed the desk with my magic and threw it at her knocking over the buck in his chair in the process. I heard a sickening *Crack* as the desk slammed into the mare with full force throwing her into the wall, she slid down to the floor and remained still. I started to get up but stopped when I saw the green buck levitating the pistol at me again. He had this sick grin across face as I closed my eyes waiting for death. I heard the sound of a gun going off but never felt the impact. I opened my eyes and saw the buck still holding the pistol. The green glow around the gun disappeared as it fell to the floor, the buck then toppled over on to his side. I looked to the left side of the room and saw 67 holding a smoking pistol in his mouth. He smiled at me through the mouth grip as I stood up. He kicked Swift over to me and I grabbed it. It was then that the door to the room opened, and the two guards outside ran in. They looked around the room and once seeing me and 67 one of them aimed the rifle on his battle saddle at me. He fired and I managed to jump out of the way. I ran at him and turning Swift around the hit the guard in the face with the butt of the rifle knocking him over. I swung around at the other guard and caught him in the neck and heard bones brake. I looked down at both of the guards nether of them moved. I turned around and saw 67 putting his saddle back on and I just looked at him. "Really? Had no intention of helping me there." I growled at him. He just shrugged as he pulled the last strap on his saddle tight. "What? I knew you could handle them." He said smiling at me. "Ha ha." I said as I pressed the button next to door closing it. "More will be coming, they would have heard the rifle going off. So we need to move." He nodded at me as I grabbed the rest of my gear and strapped it back onto my body. I loaded Swift, and the SMG and slid it into its holster as I kept Swift in my magic. We moved back to the door and opened it, nothing was down the long hall. We slowly stepped out and walked carefully listening for any sound. I opened my Pipbuck map and looked for the exit. It was just down the hall to the right and up the main stairs. I picked up the pace and started to run with 67 by my side. "The stable exit is just down this way." I said as we rounded the corner. "Let's just hope we don't run into any mor-" I stopped mid sentence and skidded to a stop. I looked out into a large group of ponies. Most of them were eating and stopped mid chew when they saw me and 67 come around the corner. "OH SHIT!" I yelled as they picked up their weapons and aimed them at us. ((((((------------------------------------------)))))) "12!12! We need to move or we're gonna die here!" 67 yelled bring me back to my senses and the world around me. The sound of gun fire was everywhere as I looked around. 67 was staring at me as he reloaded his shotguns. "Oh ya." I said as I looked around for anything that might help us when my eyes saw a glowing sigh above a door. OVERMARES OFFICE. "There!" I yelled pointing with my good leg at the open door. 67 nodded as he popped back over the wall firing again . I got up on my three good legs and using my magic pulled up a steel floor panel and ran to the open door of the office. Bullets hit and ricochet off the steel panel as I ran. I made it to the safety of the wall by the door and looked out at 67. He was still behind the barricade. "67!" I yelled as I brought Swift out and fired into the group of approaching ponies. Hitting one in the head and dropping him to the floor. 67 lined up to the door and started running, he used his wings to help him get a little more speed as bullets hit around him. He dove and slid into the room on his belly . I pressed the button closing the door and then hit the emergency lock button stopping the door form being opened from the outside. "There. That should hold them for a little bit." I said as I turned around. I then saw 67 laying on the ground. "Oh crap." I said as I ran to his side, looking him over for wounds. "Uhhhhh." He groaned. "I'm fine. I just slammed into the wall when I slid in." "Oh, ok, good. Because I really didn't want to waste my last potion on you." I said, smiling down at the Pegasus on the floor. He growled at me, I just laughed as I picked him up with my magic and set him back on the floor, I then sat down and looked at the painful wound on my left leg. Unfortunately the bullet didn't pass through my leg, it stopped half way through. I looked back at 67 he was downing his last potion as the hole in his wing patched its self up. "Ohhhh, this is going to hurt." I thought as I focused my magic on the wound. I felt around and found the obstruction and wrapped my magic around it. I took one last deep breath and pulled. The bullet tore through my flesh as it came free. I grunted and groaned in pain as pulling the bullet out caused it to start bleeding again and much more pain. I reach into my bag and pulled out my last healing potion and quickly drank it. The gash on my flank quickly healed and the hole in my leg started to fix its self as well, but as luck would have it there wasn't enough potion to heal it all the way leaving a small bullet hole on the side of my leg. It at least stopped the bleeding but it still hurt like hell. I got up and took my first look around the Overmare office. I saw the desk with the terminal on it a trotted over to it, it was still glowing. I took a seat in the old chair and started to hack the terminal. I hooked up my Pipbuck and it gave me a list of words that may be the password to login to the terminal. 67 meanwhile was looking through the rest of the office for anything we could use. Saw out of the corner of my eye him placing a laser pistol he found in a locked wall safe in his saddle bag. I kept typing away at the terminal but was starting to get frustrated. I was about to give up when I got lucky and picked a password at random and it logged in. Turns out the password was 'Stable". I looked at the options on the screen and the one called Test Subjects caught my eye, I was about to click on it when I heard a loud *Thump*. I looked up from the terminal and at the door as another *Thump* came from it. They were trying to get in and that door wasn't going to hold them back for long. I looked back at the screen and downloaded the Test Subjects file on to my Pipbuck. I was about to log off when an option labeled Emergency Exit showed up on the screen I clicked it. The desk and the terminal rose up on a pair of hydraulic arms as the floor fell away to a stair case. I looked over to the door and 67 was standing there, shotguns out waiting for them to come through. "67, I think we have our way out." I said to him as I started walking down the stairs. He quickly fallowed and was at the bottom with me. I looked at the wall terminal and logged on with the same password and clicked close emergency exit. The stairs rose to form the floor under the desk as I heard the door in the office finally give way to the ponies on the other side. I heard hooves above us as they filled the room. "Where did they go?" I heard a voice say. "I don't know, but search the whole stable. We can't let them get away." another voice said. I looked back down the hall and saw 67 already walking. I trotted to catch up and we continued to walk down the small hallway, steam pipes lined the walls. We walked for about five minutes before the hall opened up into a large room. I looked around and on the left was the blue glow of a stasis pod, I walked up to it with 67 on my tail. I opened up my Pipbuck and an option was on the screen. "Do You Wish To Open Camber 34?" I pressed the familiar "Yes" key as the pod door slowly opened. Inside was a beautiful, Blue Unicorn mare with a Pink and Red striped main and tail. She put a hoof on the side of the pod and pulled herself up, her eyes opened and she looked around and then down at us. Her eye grew wide as she stared at us. "Iron Site?" She said as her eyes closed and she fell forward. Chapter notes: New companion : Subject 67 S.P.E.I.C.A.L. S: unknown P: unknown E: unknown I: unknown C: unknown A: unknown L: unknown New Weapon: Dual Combat Shotguns. Subject 12 New Weapon: Swift, auto loading rifle. New Perk: Crack Shot: When in S.A.T.S. you are 40% more accurate, and when you miss your mark it's not by much.