//------------------------------// // MaelStorm's life // Story: Fallout Equestria : MaelStorm of The Wasteland // by Harb //------------------------------// "Sometimes withholding information is the road to death or exile." The little black unicorn colt with a silver mane and purple eyes followed his father down the stable corridor. "So where are we going dad?" The colt asked with excitement. "You'll see soon enough MaelStorm." The father, a muscular black unicorn pressed the door control. Lights flicked on, colts and fillies in party hats greeted him. "Happy birthday MaelStorm!" They all cried in unison. MaelStorm instantly knew what it was, it was his birthday where he would get his new Pip-Buck. Calypso, a brown pegasus filly in a party hat walked over to him in the parlor. "Hey MaelStorm, I know how you like computers, so I had my dad fish this out of our back room." She pushed a wrapped box toward him. He strained to use is magic, but after a few minutes he managed to unwrap the box. It was a thick book on computer hacking, a small footnote on the cover said there was also an article on energy weapons. "Well thanks Calypso, this was a very thoughtful gift." __________________________________________________________________________________________________ She gave me a nervous smile then walked off. She had seemed shy to me ever since I met her, perhaps it wasn't her shyness but more than that towards me. The Overmare walked towards me. She levitated a Pip-Buck towards me. My heart skipped a beat with excitement. All of the ponies in the party crowded around me. The Overmare looked down at me. "MaelStorm, I take it you know what this is?" I nodded with excitement. "Good, then on behalf of the government of Stable 16 I present to you your own Pip-Buck." My dad walked over beside me and took it from the Overmare, he manipulated it to fit it on me. He typed in some buttons with his hoof. The a hissing sound occurred and it clamped onto me. I felt a small amount of pain as needles from the device pricked my skin He leaned behind my ear. "Remember son, the release code is 34-54-64." "Got it, 34-54-64." He pulled back then smiled and patted me on the shoulder. __________________________________________________________ -7 years later- My dad stood over my bed in our apartment screaming for me to wake up. I got up with a shock. "What's going on?" "We have to leave, now, before they get here." He said frantically forcing hidden weapons and supplies into a satchel. I was scared, he was usually calm and collective, not hectic and scattershot. "Son, no time to explain, we need to leave the stable, if we can I'll explain later. Now grab a gun and get ready to run." He looked into my eyes and said this with fear filling his pupils. "Ok." So I grabbed a laser pistol, slammed in one of the magical cartridges and clipped it to my suit. "Dad, before we leave, do you mind if I get some things, and get some pony?" "Let me guess, Calypso?" "Well I think she would welcome a chance to leave here, seeing as how she has no family here "Hurry." With his approval I got a satchel of my own and put the computer book she had given me at my birthday party. I ran to the door, opened it and went to Calypso's apartment, her father had died years ago of cancer and she lived alone. I knocked on the door. There was a grumble and she opened the door. "What is it MaelStorm?" Her jumpsuit was wrinkled and hr long mane fell over parts of her eyes. "We have to leave, now." "Wait, what do you mean?" "I mean we have to leave the stable, my dad has been rambling that somethings coming. I asked if you could come with us." "So wait, you expect me to leave the place where my father died?'' I nodded. "Of course." A smile hit my face as soon as she said that. "Cmon, we don't have much time before they come." We walked back to the apartment with each other. We opened the door. My dad has two satchels full of supplies and weapons. We'll need these when we leave, now, follow me to the stable door." He made his way past us then we went to one of the stable elevators. The elevator stopped with a jolt. The door was massive. I got out of the elevator to look for the controls, a terminal with a wire link to the door motor was on a table with its back to the door. The elevator was going down.That meant that some pony was on the way to the door. We ducked into a large storage container near the entrance. "Why yes FallenWing, Stable 12 would be interested in joining the GPUC. But the earth ponies would have to 'weeded out'." A grim laugh of a stallion came from the elevator as it stopped. The Overmare and a black unicorn with a white mane where talking. He turned towards the container. He had an eye-patch on his left eye and a scar running down his face to his neck. His other eye was half blue and half red along the iris. "Now, my dear, if you could please open the door, my escort squad is waiting outside. The Overmare typed in a release door code in the terminal, a large motor began to spur and the door began to slowly peel back. FallenWind laughed then put a big ass magnum to the Overmare's head. "Why?" I watched in horror as he killed the Overmare with a large bullet to the head. Blood, bits of skull, and grey matter flew all over the room. He put the gun back in a concealed holster in his leather jacket then walked away to the door. "Well I guess that solves the door problem." FallenWing turned to our crate with a insane smile and a look of murder in his eye. He used his horn to open the crate we where in. This was it, I was going to die, all of my life, uncompleted, my genes unpassed. He gave a small chuckle. "Solstice, good to see you again." He looked at my dad. My mind was racing, how did this maniac remember him?" "The feeling is mutual FallenWing." My dad said sarcastically. We got out of the crate at gunpoint. He knocked out Calypso with the but of the gun. We walked behind me and reared the but of the gun to bring down on my neck. He hit me with it and my vision went black.