A Talk Among Friends
“I think maybe we should talk about a few things before we progress further,” Ocellus said, turning the screen in front of them on pause. “It kinda sounds like we should get a few things out before we decide to continue or not.”
The others all agreed. Save for their eight hours of sleep last night they had done nothing but watch these videos about the horrors of the Wasteland. It was still unbelievable to think that such a nightmare even existed despite it being from another world. Sandbar was the first to speak as he shook his head. “I think we can all agree that this world is beyond saving with friendship. That might not be what Professor Twilight wants to hear, but I can’t think of anything to help these humans.”
“I honestly feel bad for them,” Silversteam muttered, looking downward in near tears. “They had everything ripped from them and destroyed; forcing them to survive in the worst conditions against such horrible things like the Super Mutants or the Legion. Even if they did cause this to happen to themselves, I still wish they could be helped.”
“Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?” Smolder asked, leaning back against the wall. “If such a thing could happen in our world.”
“I can’t see it,” Sandbar said, shaking his head. “Equestria is a land of peace and harmony. Sure, we’re willing to defend ourselves but we don’t blow up other creatures to oblivion and ruin their lives for greedy reasons.”
“Sure, but what about in the future?” Smolder pointed out. “Every nation has gone through its problems. I mean, Ocellus just told us there was a time when you were persecuting bat ponies.” Sandbar closed his eyes in remembering that while Ocellus looked down in shame for having exposed that. “Who's to say that Equestria won’t go through some kind of disaster or change in leadership that will make it go a dark path? Even the Princesses won’t always rule forever. Or they could get corrupted like Luna did. I’m just saying that nothing is ever certain in the future. Look at the dragons? Biggest Empire in the world that lasted for thousands of years and then it crumbles.”
“Friend Smolder making it sound like humans and dragons similar,” Yona pointed out.
“Yeah, I kinda do see a lot of similarities between us,” Smolder said, shrugging her shoulders. “To lose so much and keep going despite all the hardship? Definitely dragon levels of respect. I like them.”
“I guess all we can say about humans is that they are just too complex to understand,” Ocellus said, writing down on her notes. “But our report is supposed to be how friendship can save this world. Surely, there has to be something that could be done.”
“Wiping out the Legion, Vault-Tec, and The Enclave sounds like a start,” Gallus muttered to which no creature disagreed with him. “Say what you will about Chrysalis, Cozy Glow, Tirek, and the rest, they got nothing on those guys.”
“I don’t think even the Princesses would find mercy for them,” Sandbar admitted, as deep down he wanted to buck them all in the face earth pony style.
“Still, there are good forces at work,” Ocellus pointed out. “The Followers are helping people. There was the Vault Dweller and The Chosen One who saved the Wasteland. And the NCR seems like the most reasonable faction out there.”
“Ocellus remember they take over lands they don't own, right?” Yona questioned, frowning. “Yak no like that part.”
“It does sound like there is corruption in the ranks of the NCR,” Ocellus agreed, writing more in her notes. “But aside from the Legion and Enclave, who clearly are evil, who else is there that could bring peace to the Wasteland?”
“The Brotherhood of Steel could do it if they were more like the Eastern Branch then the Western Branch,” Gallus said. He still wished he could have a power armor suit like that but could fly. “Maybe with the Western Branch in such a disarray the Eastern Branch could talk over and help things out like they are doing at the capitol?”
“There is also Mr. House,” Silverstream said, lighting up. “He seems like he wants to make things progress better. He made New Vegas, and saved a lot of people.”
“I don’t know,” Smolder said, folding her arms. “He seems a lot more like a dictator who manipulates everything in the shadows. Not to mention he hasn’t really done anything for others save for New Vegas itself.”
“I wish this place had their own Elements of Harmony. Heroes who could inspire others to do the same and make the world a better place,” Sandbar whispered. “Maybe if they had something like that, a group of heroic figures to lead them, they could change for the better.”
“Like the Vault Dweller and Chosen One? They saved the Wasteland,” Silverstream pointed out.
“Yeah, but they never really led people as far as we know,” Sandbar said, shaking his head. “Maybe we’ll find someone or some group later, but I think what they are really lacking is a savior.”
The others slowly looked at each other and agreed. It was clear that while there were good forces out there that were helping the Wasteland it didn’t seem to be enough. They needed more good people doing the right thing to make the world a better place even if it was a living hell. But could such a thing even be possible? Two heroes had come and still things seemed so bad. A nation of slavery and genocide. Monsters made of nightmares. Land that couldn’t be lived on with poisoned water. Greedy and murderous gangs and individuals who would do anything to survive. It was something only a miracle could fix.
“Well, enough about the Wasteland,” Silverstream said before floating over to an eyebrow raised Smolder. “Do you...want to talk about it?”
“About what?” Smolder asked.
“About how you are going to still be kicking a hundred or so years while the rest of us are pushing up daisies in our graves?” Gallus pointed out, seeing no point in beating around the bush. “I mean, I can understand if your feeling-”
“Guys, I’m fine,” Smolder said, shaking her head. “Look, I’ve had this conversation with my parents and even with Princess Twilight. When it became clear...that I was going to outlive you guys, especially when I was growing fond of you, I had to accept that one day you’ll be gone and I’ll still be around.”
“But... it's so sad,” Silverstream whispered, hugging her. “I don’t want to leave you here alone. I mean, there is the afterlife, but-”
“Silverstream, I don’t believe in an afterlife,” Smolder said, rolling her eyes as the others stared at her. “Dragons don’t have religion in their society. We don’t worship gods or goddesses. We don’t think there is some paradice when you die. Just nothing. You die and you're done. Game over. If we did believe in that stuff we gave it up a long time ago after our previous civilization failed. Where were the gods then when we needed them most? Nowhere.”
“Woah, so you’re all atheists?” Ocellus asked, writing it down. “I...I just assumed you were just unique.”
“Yona don't understand? How could one not believe in gods? Gods created everything and showed themselves in the world around us,” the yak asked, scratching his head.
“Some creatures don’t think the gods are real either because they don’t have enough proof to see them or they think that there are other ways to explain everything around them,” Gallus answered. “I mean, Griffins aren’t the most religious either but we still pray to Grandus and believe in him.”
“Fausticorn for us ponies,” Sandbar said, smiling
“Yak has many gods,” Yona proudly stated.
“And we worship the gods of the sea and air who made the world! Aeroda and Aquada!” Silverstream proclaimed.
“Changelings don’t believe in gods, but we do believe that we reincarnate after death. That way life never really ends,” Ocellus said.
“See, so many different beliefs, but they can’t all be right! One of them is either right or they’re all wrong!” Smolder said.
“Actually, most faiths accept the other gods in some form or another,” Sandbar said, raising his hoof. “That each of them all played a role in creating the world and then created us all in their own image.”
“Well, I don’t believe it’s real. Again, if gods were real then they’d be helping us dragons. Or at least whatever god for the humans exist would be helping them,” Smolder pointed out, but shook her head. “But listen. I’m fine guys, really. I’ve long accepted that I’ll outlive you all. If there is something after living that we can continue to be together then I’ll be happy...but for now I just want to make the most memories with you guys so that when you are gone...I’ll at least have that with me for the rest of my life.”
Spotting a tear dripping down Smolder’s eyes, Sandbar got up and hugged his scaly friend and soon the rest of them all did too. “Hey, let’s make a promise,” Sandbar said, ending the hug. “When one of us...passes on, we’ll come say our goodbyes and talk about all the good times we had. We’ll laugh, cry and smile despite the situation. Because I don’t want my friends to be sad at my funeral, I want them to smile knowing I’m at peace.”
“Kinda weird to be smiling at a funeral, but eh, I’m in,” Gallus said as everyone also agreed.
‘What about me? I’ll be the last one once you all kick the bucket,” Smolder said, pointing to herself. “And I have no intention of ending my life. I’ll miss you guys, but not that much.”
“Then I guess whatever friends you make after us will just have to do it for you,” Silverstream said.
“Other friends?”
“Yeah, I mean, you don’t want to be alone forever, right?” Ocellus.
“Yona not want Smolder to feel lonely after she passes on! Find new friends to be happy! We don’t mind!”
Smolder had never thought about having other friends then the ones she had in front of her right now. Then again, did she really want to just be a lonely dragon like so many in her homeland. No, I guess there is nothing wrong with finding new friends.
“Alright, but by the off chance I die first, none of you are getting my gem collection. That goes with me to my grave,” Smolder joked as the others nodded in agreement. They were about to sit down again when Silverstream held Smolder up a bit.
“Look...I know you don’t believe...but I do...and I want you to know that I think there is a heaven for dragons too,” Silverstream said, smiling.
“I find it hard to think some angel hanging out at the pearl gates is going to let my kind in due to all the greed and destruction we’ve done in the past,” Smolder snorted.
“Then try to be the first! You’d look so cute with angel wings and a halo! Oh, and a harp!” Silverstream said, sweetly.
Smolder thought of the image in her head and shivered. “Yeah, no. I think I’ll take oblivion over that.”
“Hey! You guys ready for the next one?!”
‘“Coming!” both girls said as they sat down as the screen played again.
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wait why do you hate the railroad
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The Railroad is a single minded group of people who only care about one thing: Saving Synths. They do not care about others like the many settlements who need protection from Raiders. Do not care about the consequences of their actions of mind wiping Synths like Gabriel. And there is no end goal. You destroy the institute and save synths. Okay. Now what? That doesn't solve the millions of other problems the commonwealth fucking have! At least the Brotherhood, Minutemen, and even the Institute have plans to do something about the starving, downtrotted, hopeless, broken, and suffering people. Granted some are better then others, but at least they have some sort of CARE. The Railroad is like the PETA of the Wasteland. Humans are suffering? Eh, who cares. Some poor synth is lost and confused?! FULL ON RESCUE SQUAD!
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damn you aint lying you actually hate there guts well thanks for explaining it to me
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Other than a small part where Deacon tells you the Railroad once considered helping the Wasteland and then chose not too, I completely agree with you.
Really I see the faction of the Railroad having no logical grounds in the Wasteland. The world goes to shit, there's no food, no clean water and raiders surround you. But NOPE let's go save some metal boys because the prosecution of machines is such a horrible thing. Hey, if they actually gave a crap about their fellow humans they would be trying to stand up for ghouls and super mutants because, oh I don't know, those actually used to BE people.
You don't think this conversation would've been better placed near the groups watching of E13 - Old Time Religion? Also, how far do you plan on going with this series? There are 4 seasons after all, and you've pretty much covered the major players of the Wasteland.
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For this and your prior rant.
Solid work with this chapter. It was a necessary conversation for the characters to have, I believe.
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i agree that there is no faction in the Wasteland that comes out at the end smelling like a rose in any of the games, they all have their dark sides. corruption, lies and deceit r the order of the day in the NCR; the Legion is a failed experiment lead by an idiot; the Brotherhood of Steel amounts to a techno fetishist cult under anyone but the Lyons; House is a petty dictator at the best of times; and while i havnt played Fallout 4 and thus am in no position to judge the factions found in the Commonwealth, ive not heard much good said about any, save for the Minutemen and even then...yes, he only hope for the Wasteland as a whole...well, perhaps the Ponies could be of aid, for they would give while expecting nothing...perhaps...
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I think the railroad would have fit fallout 4 more as a minor faction instead of one of the big factions to choose from. And it consisted almost entirely of synths and maybe one or two sympathetic humans.
The drug running wouldn't have bothered me if they hadn't been trading with the fiends. I maintain that even without the NCR or legion the khans tough guy schtick would have lead to there destruction anyways from house, the brotherhood or something else
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How are gonna handle the later seasons when Shoddycast started shoe-horning their fanfic subplot? Or is this gonna be just a season one and then done kinda thing?
Theres rumours going around the Capital wasteland about the lone wanderer, saying he befriended a talking Rainbow maned and blue coloured Pegasus from what you youngsters call "Equestria", but that is a story for another day.
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We’ll see
Understandable that you have negative feelings toward the Great Khans. Me personally, my only consolation is that in their best ending, they work with the Followers to turn their lives and livelihood for the better and putting behind all the bad things they committed.
Personally I save the Khan's and spare them because I hope to redeem them. Their is a ending in Fallout New Vegas where they can be redeemed (I saw a video on it but I cannot remember if it was part of a mod or not)
For the Railroad, I like the idea of them being in Fallout 4 and being around in general (In Fallout 3 they are referenced), but not in control of the Commonwealth, after all the people of the Commonwealth have shown great hatred for Synths so they do need someone to be their to protect them, but I repeat, THE RAILROAD SHOULDN'T BE IN CONTROL OF THE COMMONWEALTH. This though doesn't excuse them for being a bit careless with their synths after they get their minds wiped, and their somewhat pressuring for synths to get their minds wiped, but I do feel they are needed to at least be their to protect Synths while another faction, say the Minutemen, are in control of the rest of the Commonwealth
(Just to clarify, yes I am on a phone and that is why their may be some errors here as I am not used to typing with one)
i need moar
Yay, new chapter
I hate the Legion more than the Khans, but the latter doesn’t do me any favors because they sold drugs to the fiends. But the death and afterlife convo is really necessary.
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I despise the railroad. Their essentially Falouts version of PETA, except its PETR. That one douche that bad mouths you in Fallout 3 for searching for a commonwealth android usually either ends up a paradise falls slave or dead. The railroad in Falout 4 usually dies.
Im a monster.
I want to see them read about Fallout Equestria
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I mean that single minded isn't done right given them done stuff like aforementioned mind wipe and left the synths thinking they were normal citizens, which you know leaves them in pretty bad states once they are discovered.
Heh I wonder if they'll ever get to liberating those synth cows or are human synths the only ones worth the trouble to them?
....Now that I think about it among hated 'factions' I could actually imagine documentary entirely complaining about the Raiders given how they seem to show up everywhere.
I firmly believe that the Institute-Minuteman ending is the best choice for Fallout 4, with the SS acting as both the Director and the General. And the Children of Atom on the Island are the only faction there that isn't full of liars or spiteful hatemongers.
The Khans went through 3 iterations and their entire history in each was just being jackasses to the Shady Sands/NCR tribes. And they have the gall to cry foul the one time they get attacked by the group they've been harassing for over a century.
Poor Smolder, I props for actually putting that in the fic. Think I’ve said it before but I’ve wanted to see someone do that for a while and considering everyone had a hard on for writing sad fics about Twilight outliving her friends I’m surprised no one did it, atleast of what I e seen. But the fact that we got it in a fic about the young six watching fallout videos is pretty funny to me.
Can’t wait for the next chapter, I’m a little out of the loop atm since I didn’t actually play new vagas (don’t hate me), so it’s fun being along for the ride with them .
do about the storyteller and the ncr ranger
are you gonna do the whole fallout lore series because if so that would be the most impressive thing for a fic ever.
Thank you for the cahpter and happy to see you alive! Be safe!
I hope they talk about death claws.
If your struggling with canon
Why not include all the outcomes in the fallout games with something something starswirl used magic to gather what could happen if x wins?
That's assuming the fallout civilization is real and they are watching it
Or then the narrator starts talking about the possible outcomes and the students 6 just assume something
Well I found this fanfic 5 hours ago (Had to take breaks from reading this.) This got my interest, hope to see more and good luck.
That was a sweet tender moment. I LOVED it!!!
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Yes, please!
update soon please
Okay I can get the hate for the Legion, Institute, Enclave, and maybe the Children of Adam (but that depends on which branch) but the Railroad?
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The khan ending you mentioned is actually easy to get. Once you throw out the legion “ambassador” ask around and you’ll eventually be led of one of the followers of the apocalypse at the 188. Talk to him and get a book about the mongols and give it to papa khan. After that he declares the khans will evacuate the Mojave during the 2nd battle of Hover dam.
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The railroad is the fallout version of the retards of the crazy group called PETA.
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Ok but which faction do you loves mine is BOS, Minuteman and NCR
Can't wait till they get to the Minutemen.