Chapter 1: A new land
Chapter 1: A new land.
“Thanks for listening, chiiill-dren! This is Three Dog, OWWWWWW! And you're listening to Galaxy News Radio! We're Radio Free Wasteland! And we're here... for you." The radio on the Wanderer’s pipboy blurted out GNR as the small group walked through the city.
The group consisted of The Lone Wanderer who was sporting a minigun he’d picked up from a super mutant master and wearing T45d power armor. Fawkes, who was sporting his trademark gatling laser and last but definitely not least Dog Meat.
The unmistakable sound of a vertibird roared overhead. The vertibird landed in a small parking lot with a few ruined prewar cars in it.
Enclave troops poured out of the vertibird and began firing on the group. “For the President!” one of them shouted.
Fawkes began screaming and firing his gatling laser. Dog Meat began charging the Enclave troops. The Lone Wanderer fired his minigun as he slowly closed the distance between himself and the Enclave. VRRRBOOMBOOMBOOM
“Soo bongo, bongo, bongo I don’t wanta leave the Congo. Oh n-no n no no!”
VRRBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM. The minigun roared over the music which could barely be heard over the gunfire and energy weapons discharging. “Now you went and got me mad!” Fawkes bellowed over the battlefield.
“They have things like the “Atom bomb”. So I think I’ll stay where I am. Civilization, I’ll stay right here!”
One of the Enclave troops threw a pulse grenade towards the Wanderer “Crap!” he thought as the grenade went off, shutting down his power armor.
A bright light emanated from where the grenade had been and the Wanderer could feel his skin burn and his insides boil. It was as if his whole body had been hit with a mixer of a plasma rifle and a flamer. He let out a scream as the light engulfed him.
Twilight brought the brush gently down on the bever and carefully scrubbed it down until it was clean. “Thanks for helping me clean the animals Twilight.” Fluttershy said greatfully.
Twilight was about to deliver a response when a flash of light came from the next to the animal pins followed by a large POP and an unnatural scream. “What was that!?” Twilight called surprised.
The two went to find the source of the light. After Twilight got Fluttershy out of the tree she’d hidden in.
They saw a creature covered in metal and carrying a box with several spinning tubes sticking out of it. The creature leaned to one side and fell over dropping the box.
The two carefully made their way to the creature’s side “What is it?” Fluttershy asked. All Twilight could do is shake her head. Fluttershy poked it with a hoof, it gave no response.
They looked over the creature “Oh oh my.” Fluttershy started. Twilight went to her friend. “It’s bleeding.” she finished. Right under the creature’s arm was a pool of blood.
Fluttershy rushed off to get a first aid box while Twilight tried to get the metal off of the creature.
“Okay this screw goes to that, but then what’s that for?” Twilight said perplexed by the metal clothing. No, clothing wasn’t the right word, it was more like armor of some kind.
Eventually through enough tinkering and ‘trial and error’ logic she managed to get the creature out of the armor. Just as Fluttershy had returned with the first aid box. “It looks like a hairless monkey.” she internally noted as she took in its features.
Its skin was tanned though parts of it seemed paler than others, it's mane was black and came to behind it’s ears, and it had a rough beard.
Wrapping the bandages was difficult to say the least. Every time Twilight tried to use magic on the creature it only seemed to harm it more.
She had tried a simple telekinesis spell on the bandages but as soon as it touched the creature’s skin it writhed in pain and its flesh looked burned.
Once they got it bandaged they discussed what to do with it, “It needs to be taken to a hospital.” Fluttershy said, caring for this creature as she would any.
Twilight shook her head, “We can’t, if we try to move it with magic that’ll only hurt it more and I don’t think either of us can lift it.”
“Well we’re not leaving it!” Fluttershy cried stomping a hoof down.
Twilight shook her head “No, of course not,” this seemed to please Fluttershy “But you’re right it needs to be taken to a hospital. I’ll see if I can’t get some of the nurses to bring a stretcher.”
With that she rushed off, leaving Fluttershy to take care of the creature. “Please hurry Twilight. I’m not sure how long it’ll last.” Fluttershy called as Twilight ran.
Twilight burst into the PonyVille hospital “We need help now it’s an emergency!” the hospital staff were quick to respond.
“Who’s hurt?” Nurse Redheart asked as she followed Twilight with several other nurses behind them.
Twilight didn’t answer out right “I’m not entirely sure but he’s hurt really bad!” At this point she was fairly convinced it was a he.
When they arrived Fluttershy had already changed the bandages on him twice and the new ones were already soaked in blood “How is he?” Twilight asked. Fluttershy just shook her head “That bad huh.”
Most of the nurses paused a second to look at the creature but Redheart got them to focus on the job “It’s just another patient like everypony else. We do our job first THEN we can gossip about what it is.”
They put the creature on the stretcher and took it to the hospital. Twilight and Fluttershy following near by.
Along the way Twilight took a detour to her library “Spiiike!” she called. The little dragon appeared from the kitchen. “Spike I need you to send a letter to Celestia.” She told him about all that had transpired.
Celestia was sitting in the castle garden trying a new brand of tea that had arrived at Canterlot when a letter had appeared in front of her. “Oh what’s this, a letter from Twilight.” she picked up the letter as she sipped from her tea.
“Dear Princess Celestia. I was helping Fluttershy clean her animals when a strange flash of light appeared and so did a creature. It’s wounded and for some reason magic hurts it. I’m currently having it taken to the PonyVille hospital. I’m not sure how long it will survive but I think you’ll want to see it. Your faithful student Twilight Sparkle.”
When Twilight reached the hospital they already had the creature in the operating room. Fluttershy was sitting just outside the room, Twilight went up to her “How is he?”
Fluttershy just shrugged “Last thing they told me was that he’d gone into a coma and wasn’t responding to anything they tried.” Twilight sat down next to her friend and together they waited.
Three hours had passed before Redheart had come out of the operating room. “Well how is he, what is he, is it a he?” Both of the girls shot off a million questions to the nurse almost simultaneously.
She tried to answer their questions but they simply didn’t know. In fact they probably knew less than those two.
Celestia arrived at the PonyVille hospital and quickly found Twilight and her friend Fluttershy “Hello girls.” She called to the two.
The two seemed to perk up after hearing Celestia’s voice “Princess.” The two bowed as Celestia approached. They informed her on what they knew of the creature and they got nurse Redheart to describe the wounds for her.
“Can we see this creature?” Celestia asked. Redheart seemed uneasy but let them enter the room, after they had gone through a decontamination process.
The room was white and had only a table in the middle and some sinks on the left wall in it. Beside the table were several machines that hooked up to the creature through either tubes or wires, each was monitoring the creature’s body in some form or another.
The small group moved closer to examine the creature as it laid motionless on the table. Each of the ponies were fascinated by different parts of the creature, Twilight was examining its hands, Fluttershy the feet, and Celestia was starring at its face. Redheart drew the group’s attention “We’ve also removed the creatures belongings and put them in a safe place.”
Celestia asked if Redheart could show them the creature’s belonging and they were taken to a small room down the hallway.
The room was laid out bare except for the the creatures belongings. Each piece was laid neatly out on several tables. Each piece was strange to them but some of the things they recognized, a water bottle, some kinds of food packages, and a rather large knife. They didn’t know what to make of the of other thing the creature had, it had a tube at the end of it and what looked like a triggering mechanism but nopony knew what purpose it served.
“How long until we can safely move him?” Celestia asked in a caring tone.
Redheart thought a minute “If he stays like this we can move him in a day or so. If he gets worse then” she shrugged “I’m not sure, it would depend on how much worse he gets.”
Celestia nodded with a small smile “As soon as he’s ready I want him to be moved to Canterlot, we can get him better treatment there.”
Hours later:
The Wanderer woke up gasping for air, carefully he looked around the room. It didn’t look like any Enclave base he’d ever seen, too clean, too new, and lacked all the Enclave touches. None of the walls were metal and covered in the Enclaves propaganda and there were no armed guards anywhere in sight. The room was white, white walls, white tile floor, and a white ceiling. The only part of the room that wasn’t white was a red door that lead out of the room.
He tried to bring up his pipboy….it wasn’t there, he began to panic. He’d always had the pipboy, ever since he was ten. How the hell was he supposed to get out of this place if he didn’t have his pipboy. He took in a deep breath “Just calm down, it’ll be fine. I can make do without it.” He said quietly, reassuring himself.
He got out of the bed he was in and quietly made his way to the door. “Nothing, good.” he thought as he looked through the small window on the door.
A small white creature with pink hair and a pink tail started to walk towards the room, it was holding a board and seemed to be reading. “Shit!” he quickly got down and looked around for something to defend himself with.
He franticly looked around for something….anything to defend himself with. A table, no it’s bolted down…..A monitor, no too bulky and it’d be in the room by the time he got it….. “This’ll work.” he thought as he grabbed a bedpan, thankfully it was empty.
The creature came into the room not noticing the Wanderer…….THUNK …….He smashed the bedpan down on the creature’s head, it fell to the ground unconscious. Without wasting a second he began to search it’s body.
Pens, a lab coat, bobby pins ‘three in total’, a stethoscope, and lastly a clipboard. He took the clipboard and skeemed it over, he also took the bobby pins. “Patient unknown, species unknown, current condition comatose.” He dropped the clipboard and made his way out of the room. Locking it behind him.
Carefully and quietly he made his way through the hallway, avoiding as many of the creatures as he could. A light hit him in the eye, he covered it with his hand and looked for its source “Hello.” He smiled happily as he entered the small room.
He slapped the pipboy close around his forearm and pressed the ‘on’ button with a wide triumphant smile. He picked up the single 10mm pistol that was with the pipboy along with the rest of the gear. He sighed “Just like back in 101.” Using the pipboy’s heads up display he managed to get around most of the creatures without them detecting him.
He found his way out of the building “Oh shit….” looking at his compass he saw over fifteen different life signs. Neutral at the moment but slowly advancing towards him.
“THERE IT IS!!” five of the creatures came barreling around a corner and came charging after him.
The Wanderer quickly looked around for a way out but found only one. “Fuck it!” he thought. Popping into V.A.T.S. he shot three of the creatures, each in the leg then ran out the door before the last two could reach him.
He got out of the building only one of the creatures still chasing him but now there were slightly over fifteen more to deal with, most of them seemed to be in armor of some kind and were carrying spears, all but one. That one stuck out to him instantly, it was a dark blue with hair that mirrored a night sky and seemed to be blowing in a non existent breeze, it also had wings and a horn while the rest had either wings, a horn, nor neither.
Turning around quickly he fired a quick shot at the one still chasing him, the shot went into the creature’s neck and it fell to the ground bleeding and twitching. He now turned his attention to the fifteen other creatures.
Luna had come this far out into PonyVille to see this creature Celestia had told her about and now she found it, it had just attacked one of the hospitals nurses. It turned to face her again, that weapon pointed at her as her guards took defensive positions around her.
She could tell this creature would be very dangerous if it got away from them, it's already killed a pony maybe more. Something about the creature seemed off though, she couldn't tell what but something seemed off. She prepared an anesthetic spell.
The Wanderer looked at the blue one, it’s horn was glowing. A sudden burst of excruciating pain shot throughout his whole body but the worst of it was his head. He was nearly forced to the ground from the pain alone. He felt a cool sensation run down his face, he put his hand to the spot ‘keeping the pistol aimed at the blue one’ and when he pulled back he was bleeding. He felt the same sensation just below his eyes and in his ears. His hand began to shake violently and he fell to one knee, he was going to pass out. He took his one shot, then faded into oblivion.