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tom117z


A Twilight Sparkle fanboy who also likes to write. The author of the Change series.

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One small change can alter everything you know. One small change, no matter how seemingly insignificant, can change the entire course of history for the better or worse.

Enter Maripony, the Enclave soaring overhead as a monstrous entity screams its death throes, it and the Enclave force annihilated by the Stable Dweller. Very few Enclave escaped that day and lived to see their final fall.

But what if a single officer, in another timeline, had their sky carriage malfunction, thus causing them to miss the departure? Small, insignificant. An officer who had very little to add to the story of the Lightbringer, who was to die a meaningless death in a balefire blast. But if they survived...?

War Never Changes. But the world has.

And Littlepip is dead.

A collaboration with Twilight is the BEST and BioQuillFiction.
Fallout Equestria is by Kkat.
This story may include spoilers of Project Horizons, Pink Eyes, Murky Number Seven and War Does Change.
You can find the wiki page here.
Featured on: 28/01/2019

Prequel stories:
1) Divergence
2) Desolation
3) Oppression

Chapters (11)
Comments ( 91 )

I usually don't read FO:E fics other than the original, but decided to check this one out because of that art. Really glad I did, because this is the best fic I've read in a while. Genuinely feels like the original while keeping freshness to it. Looking forward to more!

Oh man, looks pretty good so far. But holy crap, that cover art, scared the heck out of me.

Footnote: Game Over.

Start new game?
Yes/No

YES Very Yes, I am Really Enjoying the Idea of this Story, I hope this Story will Continue :3

Also that Cover Art Seems abit Intense For the feel of this Story

Confident that I had, if not everything I needed, but everything I could take from here, I turned back around again. I then took one last breath of the musty air in my chamber, and then I stepped out into the unknown.

Once more unto the unknown, Littlepip.

The next question is, what will drive you next?

Comment posted by Pluto Daze deleted Aug 7th, 2019

The Zebra is Zenith from war does change. I can tell. Im so excited!!!

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I think you mean Xena. That's her name. Xenith is Pip's old friend.

And yes, it's her.

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Oh right Xena. There’s too many zebra characters that has a z sound in their name.

Damn man , you getting these out fast.

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Chapters 1-6 were written before publishing. After next week there's gonna be quite the gap between updates.

I'm getting a MGS: Phantom Pain vibe from this...

Comment posted by Marker deleted Feb 25th, 2019

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Me neither, but from what I understand there's a plot twist that the player character, Venom Snake, was actually a medic caught in the same explosion that injured the real Snake. While in the coma, they performed plastic surgery and hypnotherapy on him to turn him into a decoy/body double. He woke up from the coma years later looking like and believing he's actually Snake.

The scene outside the wall with the Enclave executing the wastelanders was intense. Littlepip had never once been able to turn her back on innocent ponies in need, so putting her in a position to either starting a fight she had no chance of winning or simply walking away from the atrocity was pretty brutal, and I was glad the Resistance intervened to save her from making that terrible choice.

The majority of Littlepip's inner thoughts and narrations closely resembles the original in tone and style that there are moments when I forget I'm not reading the original, however the chapter's dialogues can feel a bit weak and expository at times.

Finally there are some minor nitpicks where certain elements doesn't quite match the original. If these are intended divergences for the AU then please ignore them:

This, however, was nothing like my first venture into the Wasteland all those years ago.

Nothing save for the barren, dusty wasteland I had come to call my home throughout recent years

While there is no precise timeline, most estimate that Littlepip's adventure happened over the span of several months, certainly no more than a year.

“You’re my hero, Miss.”

I stood there for a time. Hero… Forty years, at least that hasn't changed about me.

Littlepip had always believed that she's undeserving of the titles other ponies had bestowed her. I think it's more likely for her to mentally comment on how that is something that's remained unchanged in forty years.

Granted, I didn’t have the slightest idea of where that was -or where I was to begin with- but if that pony was right and that… PegWing had something like a GPS integrated, I could simply let it guide me there.

The mapping function of the pipbuck was ever only described as a 'spell' in the main fic, and it's used to handwave away how the pipbuck have markers for locations that didn't exist pre-war.

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I'm glad you enjoy it. I sometimes worry I'm not doing Pip's inner characterisation justice, so to know I'm not so far off is gratifying. :twilightsmile:

As for those nitpicks, I have explanations...

While there is no precise timeline, most estimate that Littlepip's adventure happened over the span of several months, certainly no more than a year.

Her journey was two months before the Goddess died, then ten days after that until the SPP. The 'years' comments are due to the fact that, by this point, those events were forty years ago. She's in the future, remember?

Littlepip had always believed that she's undeserving of the titles other ponies had bestowed her. I think it's more likely for her to mentally comment on how that is something that's remained unchanged in forty years.

True. But here she's more referring to how others perceive her.

The mapping function of the pipbuck was ever only described as a 'spell' in the main fic, and it's used to handwave away how the pipbuck have markers for locations that didn't exist pre-war.

The PipBuck does use magic in its functions it is true, but so does most equivalent Equestrian tech to ours. The PipBuck also gets its info by accessing any and all computer terminals it can in a significant radius for geographical information to constantly update itself. The spell is intricate, but it does act as a bit of a GPS.

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Thanks for replying and addressing my concerns.

She's in the future, remember?

Considering her just-defrosted state, I wasn't sure whether that fact had fully sunk in for her when she made that statement. From her perspective, it had only been months after all. But if she had taken the forty years into account, the second quote "throughout recent years" probably isn't entirely accurate either.

But here she's more referring to how others perceive her.

Yes, you're right. It seems I may have misinterpreted that.

The spell is intricate, but it does act as a bit of a GPS.

No issue from me there, I just wanted to point out that the term 'GPS' wasn't used in the main fic and may seem a bit anachronistic for the world of FOE.

Edit: arrrgh! posted the comment to the wrong chapter, why do I keep doing this?!

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Edit: arrrgh! posted the comment to the wrong chapter, why do I keep doing this?!

If you reply to a comment on the main story page, it will appear in the comments of the most recently released chapter. In this case, 'The Factory'.

Well then. This chapter was a rollercoaster. Can't wait to see the rest -Though I wonder. Doesn't this future Enclave have access to their own PegWings, and thus access to their version of SATS?, and other death-tools and whatnot? It'd be very silly from their part to have so many shiny toys but never using them when they need to.
(Excluding of course the one they used on this chapter. Props for that!)

As soon as I finished chapter 6, chapter 7 is uploaded. Now that is good timing. Anyways keep up the good work.

Sweet, a new chapter!

The Nazi Germany vibe is strong here.

Hey tom117z, just wanted to know if this was a sequel story for the original Fallout Equestria and FE: Project Horizons or if its just an alternate sequel story following the same timeline, just curious cause i read through both stories and Project Horizons ended differently based on Morning Glory being dead, but in this story she's alive; love your stories by the way, awesome job

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Uh... the whole premise is that the timeline diverges at the Battle of New Appleoosa in the original, because the Enclave won. As a result, things happened very differently from that point on, Morning Glory never made it to the point of her death in PH, Blackjack was seemingly lost in the Hoofington Core alongside Boo when the Enclave brought the city crashing down. Cognitum is buried beneath the rubble, as is the Eater of Souls.

Enervation is still increasing in Hoofington, though, even if the Project Horizons plot has been unwittingly thwarted by the Enclave.

I remember seeing this, but forgot that it even existed for a while.
I'm assuming it's still being worked on?

Comment posted by tom117z deleted Aug 7th, 2019

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Yes, it's being worked on. Updates are far slower both due to chapter size and the fact that it's a side project.

So yeah, a lot of Manehatten was apparently also still rubble, just as I remembered it. I guess it takes more than forty years to rebuild a country in its entirety.

Reminds me of New Vegas somehow, we have to rebel against the bad guys because they are bad and not because they could rebuild the country in a few hundred years. never made sense to me.

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Huh? I'm not sure I follow.

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Just talking to myself I guess, I never liked the option of independent Vegas, even though siding with Mr House gives a vision of prosperity with questionable morals.

New chapter on my b-day? Yes!!!

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Good timing. Happy birthday! :twilightsmile:

Ah poor Spike, I had a sinking feeling something like that would happen... Losing a dear friend but at the same time bumping off your enemy's second-in-command. A tough but fair trade, I reckon.

Also surprising was the appearance of Dealer. Did Littlepip somehow came into possession of EC-1101?

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Also surprising was the appearance of Dealer. Did Littlepip somehow came into possession of EC-1101?

No. This isn't Echo's version of the Dealer. This is that other guy.

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I never actually managed to finish Project Horizon, think Imma need a little more help here...

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Okay, but spoilers.

There were two Dealers all along as a major plot twist. One was Echo, the comms expert for Macintosh's Marauders who was magically sealed inside EC-1101 to ensure whoever used it was worthy by Princess Luna. He was the more encouraging one, trying to advise and help Blackjack. The second Dealer was the one who appeared, unknown to Echo, whenever the Dealer appeared more malevolent and antagonising towards Blackjack. This one is a zebrican spirit, a magical entity that has decided to represent the wasteland and its decay. And since its the wasteland, it wants the heroes to fail, so taunts them and tries to nudge them towards either failing or giving up and going home.

Also, in the sequel Homelands, the Dealer starts to haunt Scotch Tape. When Maripony exploded she was still in possession of Blackjack's PipBuck with EC-1101 and was seeing Echo. However, in the flash of the nuke, she saw the second Dealer behind Echo. And the second Dealer saw her, acting all creepy and shit about it. He also taunts Thernody in the side-quel 'Speak'.

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Thanks for the explanation! So I take it there's a little more leeway as to who this Dealer can choose to pester?

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Anyone who catches his interest is fair game.

Not a bad first impression. BUT GODDAMN, DOES THAT COVER ART FALL INTO UNCANNY VALLEY TERRITORY!!!

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It is definitely terrifying. :rainbowlaugh:

I can’t tell you why that ‘Load previous save’ gets me so much.

This is really good.

It’s nice to see that this story has already met my expectations.

Also, I’m a little surprised that Calamity didn’t get executed, he would’ve probably been Enclave’s Public Enemy Number 2.

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The Enclave tried. But Calamity is... Calamity.

The Hard Cider scene, although LittlePip’s reasoning was probably erroneous, was so cute.

I would like to say that I have read almost none of the supplementary material, but I’m still understanding this pretty well.

When LittlePip freaked out about meeting Velvet Remedy, I felt that.

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