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// Not very familiar to Peace....or new Friends 
// Story: Desert Ranger of Equestria 
// by Alpha777 
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		Edward looked at his surroundings and felt a unfamiliar feeling in the air.  There were no Radroaches, no Deathclaws, nothing, just a lot of pure, organic trees and grass, even the sky is pure blue.  Is this what peace feels like?  Edward checked his Pipboy to check his worldmap and all it reads is 'ERROR:UNKNOWN LOCATION'.  He sighed, 'Well...this is just great, my Pipboy isn't working at all now....well...only the GPS system, but for unknown reason, I still have a signal to my favorite station, GNR.'  He pondered for a moment and thought, 'Maybe it's the satellite dish I installed a while back for ol' 3Dogg, it is from a spaceship..shuttle..thing, what's it called again?  Oh well, it doesn't matter, as long as I have some music, I shouldn't get too bored.'

Edward mumured, "Okay, which way is North?"  He stopped to feel where the wind is coming from and after he confirmed it, he went to the general direction, hoping to find a settlement, not knowing what dangers lay ahead, if he actually cared, that is.






The Mane 6 walked through the forest towards where Twilight seen the light at.  They reached the area and found nothing there.  Twilight sighed, "This is strange, what could have made that light last night?"

Twilight pondered until Fluttershy broke the silence and asked, "Uhm, g-girls, am I hearing music or is it just me?"

All 6 ponies listened and heard music and very faded as if it was nearby.  Rainbow Dash said, "Yeah, I do hear music, and it sounds like the peaceful country stuff that Applejack sometimes play with her guitar."

Applejack turned towards Dash's direction, nodded, and said, "That ain' country',RD, that there is the Blues but I have t' say, it has a very good rhythm to it."

"I think I hear singing too, and it sounds so beautiful and so sweet."  Fluttershy commented.

They again listened carefully while heading towards the music and heard whoever singed out, I've lost all ambition for wordly acclaim
I just want to be the one you'd love, And with your admission that you'd feel the same
I'll have reach the goal I'm dreaming of believe me, I don't want to set the world on fire, I just want to start a flame in your heart.... '

Applejack added, "If I don' know wha' a love song is, then I'don't know what is."

Fluttershy said, "Like I said, it sounds so beautiful and so sweet."

The Mane 6 came closer and closer and the music gets louder and louder.  What they found was a stallion in a trench coat of some kind and a weird-looking hat of some sort.  Twilight noticed that Rarity had an expression of shock.

"How can somepony wear something so...hideous... like that, it's so...so..horri...."  Rarity said as she fainted.  The mysterious figure, who heard Rarity, turned to face who said that.  The Mane 6, except Rarity for she had fainted, looked at the stallion with awe and fear mixed together as they gaze upon his appearance.  He wore a strange helmet with green eyes and a hard helmet with a carved description which reads 'FORGIVE ME MAMA'.  They noticed that he wore some sort of a metal chest plate with painted brown and tan camouflage.  The stallion stood there, looking at them in silence until Twilight stepped forward.

"H-hello?  A-are you lost, s-sir?"  Twilight ask the mysterious stallion.



 

Edward was walking through the forest, listening to his favorite tune on his Pipboy.  'I'm very fortunate that 3-Dogg was able to put on my favorite tune,  now I just need to focus on where would a settlement be at.'  He continued walking slowly through the bushes and came to an opening.  He stopped in the middle and looked around.  After a few moments, he heard someone behind him, and heard a female voice that talked about his outfit.  He turned around to see who spoke only to be greeted by 6 female ponies.  He noticed one of them was unconscious on the ground and figured that she was the one that spoke.  For a few moments, he stared at them, uneasily, until a lavender-colored pony with a horn steps up and asks, "H-hello?  A-are you lost, s-sir?"

He stood there for a second and finally replied, "I...guess you could say that.  I was wondering whe...."  He was interupted by the voice of 3-Dogg giving the news for the day.  The 5 ponies stood there looking around as if they were looking for someone.  

"Hey hey, this is 3-Dogg, bow wow, and our listening to GNR, Galaxy News Radio....."

The lavender pony asks, "W-who is talking?  Is somepony out there?"

Edward answered, "Sorry, it's coming from my Pipboy here." as he turned it off.

The ponies looked at his Pipboy in awe, except the yellow pony with pink mane and tail, who instead looked at it with a curious expression.  The lavender pony said, "Wow...I've never seen that before.  Did you invented this 'Pipboy'?"

Edward answerd, "No, I didn't.  A company by the name of 'Vault Tech' were the ones who invented this."

"The what tech?"  Asked a cyan-colored pony with rainbow-colored mane and tail.

He sighed and said, "Vault Tech, they are a company who invents and build things such as the bunkers known as 'Vaults', bobble heads,  and other sorts of stuff.  They mostly build things that would save people from a Nuclear Armageddon, which apparently happened 200 years ago."

The ponies' jaws dropped when they heard the Nuclear Armageddon, except the fainted pony and the pink pony.  The lavender asked, "Uhh...a Nuclear Armageddon, what's that?"

Shocked to hear that kind of question, but remembered that he isn't in the Wasteland anymore and sighed. "Well....lets just say...its was...uh..war...by using weapons of....mass...destruction."  He said as he he rubbed his hoof on the back of his head, not too happy about telling them.

Their faces had the expression of horror and sorrow.  The orange pony with a cowboy hat asks, 'Why n' Celestia's name woul' your people do that, an'why haven' we heard abou' this event?"

Edward knew that they wouldn't believe him, but it wouldn't hurt to try.  He answered, "Well...uhm...you see...I'm not from.....your dimension or world.  I'm from somewhere where a race known as 'humans', which I am er was, who survived this event while taking shelter in the 'Vaults' and is known as 'The Wasteland'."

Edward sighed but noticed they believed him.  The pink pony bounced over, "OHMYGOSH, THIS IS SO GREAT!!!  I'M GOING TO THROW YOU A 'WELCOME TO PONYVILLE PORTAL TRAVELLER' EVER!!!!"

Edward, not expecting the sudden burst of the pink pony, fell onto his rear and gave a surprised expression on his face, though his face was still hidden from them.

"That was unexpected, ouch." he said as he got up.

The lavender pony said, "Sorry about Pinkie, she can be a little crazy.  My name is Twilight Sparkle."

The cyan pony said, "My name is Rainbow Dash, fastest flyer of all of Equestria."

The pink pony said, "Hi, I'm Pinkie Pie, and your my new friend!"

Edward thought, 'Oh great, I'm making new friends.  Wonderful.'

The orange pony with the hat said, "Howdy, names Applejack, its'a pleasure ta meet ya."

Twilight said, "Oh, that there is Fluttershy and that there unconscious on the ground, is Rarity."  She stopped to point at the two ponies behind her and continued, "So...what's your name?"

He answered, "My name is Edward, and I am a Desert Ranger, at your service."


To be Continued.........