//------------------------------// // Crafting // Story: The Sole Survivor Needs Friendship. // by CommonDash //------------------------------// Steel Gem had unequipped her vault suit. The clothing item has taken a bit too much damage for her taste. And considering she was covered in fur. She only really needed the armor. “So, I got a place to base at… it’s pretty far from town.” Steel says wondering around the cave the massive crystal tree lighting up the dwelling. “I have a feeling I shouldn’t touch that. However I think I should get to work.” Steel says A chemistry station is the first thing to be placed down quickly followed by an armor worm bench and a Power Armor station. The first thing Steel did was to summon her old brotherhood knight armor followed by her Paladin and Sentinel armor. “Those were pony-fied too.” Steel murmurs as the a power armor jet pack clatters to the ground much bigger than the armor. Steel stares at the jet pack her idea for prosthetic wings going through her head again. “I mean, it should be possible.” Steel says gabbing the Jetpack. == ================== Luna and Celestia are riding the chariot back to Canterlot. “Sister? Who was that pony?” Luna asks “I don’t know, though her eyes were interesting.” Celestia says with some amusement. “They were glowing blue sister. Eyes don’t normally glow. On top of that she kept turning invisible.” Luna says “Enchantment magic has improved a lot over the years.” Celestia admits nonchalantly. In truth the sun goddess has no clue what was happening either. “I trust my student to become friends with her.” Celestia says smugly Twilight had this. “Sister she hit me with a miniature sun.” Luna whispers. The sound of a record scratching is heard as Celestia turns to look at Luna. “T-that’s a joke right? I mean an earth pony using solar magic?” Celestia says uncertainly. “She might be a Pegasus I mean she was wearing that weird blue jumpsuit and goggles.” Luna says “Luna, you didn’t say you were joking.” Celestia says Luna just looks up at Celestia before shaking her head. “I’ll send some guards to search for her then…” Celestia says now wishing to talk to the mysterious pony. “So sister who is the silver shroud?” Luna asks “The Who?” Celestia asks “The silver shroud?” Luna asks unsure of what is going on. ================ Steel was looking at her makeshift prosthetic Thestral wings. The jet engines fire off some flames producing an asymmetrical amount of thrust for their size. Max armor Smith, max robotics expert, and max Science! allowed her to make something amazing. The prosthetic bat like wings had very fine control and generated sufficient lift. Not to mention they matched her fur. “Is it time to go to town?” Steel mutters throwing on a minute man hat. “Actually I should probably plant my plants first.” Steel mutters hoping to have the materials to produce her chems and stimpacks not so far in the future. Could she start making ammunition for her guns. Yes she found the contraptions workshop magazine and could build the ammunition plant. In truth this player home was a temporary base. She planned on building a hidden vault. On her way out to the fields she trips over a secret hatch. “Ooohh!? Secret tunnel!” Steel sings ========================== Applejack and Twilight were carrying baskets of apples on their backs having just harvested them. “We missed lunch.” Spike says digging through the Apple baskets. “Spike, you can’t just BOOM!” Twilight was interrupted by a loud boom in the distance. What followed was most of the windows in Ponyville shattering. Twilight looks up to see a dark grey Pegasus flying away on fire? “What in Tarnation!” Applejack shouts her hat knocked off by the wind. “What?!” spike asks A few ear drums may have been blown. “Who is that?” Twilight asks Spike promptly burps out green flames and a letter. ====================== Meanwhile up above Steel was having a fun time. Breaking the sound barrier it was an experience. Though the handling of the wings left much to be desired. It was worse than an SB2C on take off without proper flap settings. “I can always try to fix it later.” Steel mutters lightly flaring her wings to slow down. It took a full lap of the town to slow down to a safe landing speed and even then she risked stalling on final approach. The rainbow maned pegasus didn’t go unnoticed however Steel needed to focus on hitting the ground running. ================== Rainbow Dash was half asleep half awake resting. Sure there was a storm scheduled for later in the day but as the fastest flier in Ponyville she could handle the weather easily. That was until her cloud was evaporated by a sound wave. “W-what the Hay? Bat pony?” Dash says utterly confused Dash looks over and see’s the clouds had been pushed away much like they did during her sonic rainboom. “Is she? Yeah she’s shaking like she’s hitting some major turbulence. I should probably go help.” Dash says ignoring the fact that the air around the pony was glowing orange. The bat pony hits the ground skidding for a while before backfliping and stoping right in front of sugar cube corner. It was a maneuver which could put ditzy to shame. “I knew my Twitchy tail meant something?” Rainbow lands not far behind the panting pony. “You okay there miss???” Rainbow Dash asks “Ah, it’s Steel Gem.” Steel says smiling. “Y-you have fangs!” Dash shouts a little scared. “Fangs? Pfft sure I do!” Steel says sarcastically before laughing. Because who calls K9 teeth fangs. “Is everyone okay!” Is shouted from the distance. As lavender runs up with applejack behind her. “… my hat! Has anyone seen my hat?” Steel asks looking around for her minutemen hat. “Is this your hat?” A pink pony asks before gasping and pronking several feet in the air before disappearing. The hat floating a bit before it slowly falls to the ground. “… my laws of physics…” Steel says completely dumbfounded. “It’s best not to question Pinkie.” Twilight says helping steel up. The hat is held in purple magic and out onto Steel’s head.