Twi, why are you making me record holo-tapes?..But what if no one gives a shit!?..Hey! Put that down!..Fine, if it calms you down I'll record my life in a fucking holo-tape.
Greeting and welcome to Vault-Tech-
Who left that on? Anyway yeah, I may have been a victim to being a displaced, sue me, not like it'll do good if all you want is caps-What? We don't use caps anymore? Fuck. I've been sent to equestrias past, where everything went to shit. Capital Wasteland was it's name but that soon changed in a millennia with the help of a pony that's been infected with the F.E.V virus, making him turn into a tree and while he spent an entire millenia spreading the tree growth and what not, Nightmare moon locked me up in Vault 101 and I've been stuck in there until six mares opened up the door. Nyx, I told you to wait with your sister...Fine you can stay but be quiet. Now pull out a chair, grab some Ice Cold Nuka-Cola and listen in on my fucked up life. Daddy, you promised you wouldn't swear. I know I did but I have the right to do so because your mother is making me do this. Dogmeat, come here boy!
Power armor will be like in Fallout 4, mech suits Takes place after the attack the attack of Tirek This is a little side project for when I can't do anything for any of the other fics, so don't expect frequent updates. I'll probably do one chapter every two days, three tops.
I do not own Mlp, Fallout or anything else referencing other franchises.
Nyx is Pen Strokes OC from Past Sins, so if you don't know what that story is then get your ass over to his fic and read it.
PoV: ??? Location: Vault 101 Vault door hasn't opened in one millennia
I know what you're thinking, 'why the fuck am I here?' Well I'm in the vault for two reasons, I'm an earth-pony, meaning I don't live forever so I had a stasis pod built by my buddy, Andy. If you're wondering why I'm in this realm of existence, I might have been a victim of inter-dimansional displacement by buying an oddly realistic Tesla cannon while in a convention as the wanderer wearing the merc-adventurer outfit and a plasma pistol.
So, like the idiot that I was, I bought the canon and got sucked in some wormhole.
I woke up later and found out that I turned into an anthropomorphic earth-pony wanderer. I would have celebrated in finding out that I got turn into an Equestrian Pony if it weren't for the wasteland. Long story short, I found two Alicorn fillies only two months after my arrival. They were out looking for their father who left the Vault without saying goodbye. I decided to help them find their father through the wastes. The only good thing about being here is that the asshole that scent me here gave me a Pip-boy that could listen to any song of my choosing.
Ugh, why did Luna had to lock me up here? I just hope everythings fine out there.
PoV: Twilight Location: Castle of the two sisters, sub-basement
"Twilight, remind us why we need to be in this horrid place?" I heard Rarity ask as we went down a few more steps.
"Celestia said that ever since Luna came back, she felt guilty for imprisoning somepony a long time ago and want us to see if we could help by finding the pony." I said as I stopped in front of a wall.
"Odd, the princess told me it would be through here." I said as I looked at the dead end.
"Silly, this wall isn't real." Pinkie said as she bounced towards the wall and went through it. I looked back at the girls with a confused look before following Pinkie inside.
Once I got to the other side, I looked around and saw that it was a tunnel. I squinted to see if I could see anything through the dark and saw something shine from the light of my magic. I walked closer to it with the girls following behind.
I got a closer look at what it was and it was a large metal vault-like door with the numbers 101 written in the middle. I looked at what looked like some sort of panel and pressed the button that said open. Alarms soon started blaring while lights were flashing around the door. I could here something the other side as the door began sliding back and moving away, giving us a clear view of what supposedly would be ancient technology but I'm pretty sure this even more advanced than ours.
"Greeting and Welcome to Vault 101 were-" A voice said but was cut off by a loud buzzing.
"Finally got rid of that blasted thing." We heard a voice say as a squid like thing came hovering in. It turned to look at us and waved an arm.
"So, you six opened the vault and for what?" It asked us. I gulped as I saw that it had a saw blade in another arm.
"We came here looking for somepony, he was imprisoned here by Nightmare moon." I said to it.
"Oh, you mean the master? He'll be delighted to see other living beings. Come, I'll lead you to him." It said as we passed by a Timberwolf body.
"Why is there a dead timberwolf in here?" AppleJack asked the robot.
"He's not dead. Dogmeat, we're going to wake him up now." He said. The eye sockets of the timberwolf glowed back to life and got up. It looked at us and cocked his head in confusion. "They're here to get us out of here, so be nice." It said, gaining a happy bark from the wolf.
We continued walking through corridors, until we stopped at a room that said Research and Development.
"Now, don't touch anything at all, if you value your hands." It said, turning on the saw as a threat. We went inside and what we saw could very well be called things from the future but what really got our attention is the large pod in the middle of the room.
"By the way, I'm Andy." Andy said as he got close to the pod and started typing in the panel attached to it. While he was doing that, we all introduced ourselves.
"This is Dogmeat, the masters best friend. Harm him and prepare to suffer." Andy said, casually as he hovered back while the pod slowly opened, letting loose some steam. Andy picked up something on the counter and hovered back. Once the steam was gone, we saw fully naked earth pony stallion inside, sleeping. Andy the attached something on the stallions wrist. The sound of flesh being pierced could be heard as Andy hovered back.
"Oww!" The stallion said as he opened his eyes. We all blushed at the sight of him. He saw us and saw his lack of clothing but Andy through some clothes for him.
"You know, I don't like re-attaching the Pip-boy, it hurts like a hell." The stallion said as he finished putting on his clothes. He looked like some sort of adventurer in that outfit, a sexy..snap out of Twilight! You just meet the guy.
"Well how else was I going to get your sleepy arse up." Andy said, opening the door for the timberwolf as it ran towards the stallion and tackled him to the ground, happily licking his face.
"Ha ha! Stop it boy, I missed you too." He said as he managed to calm the wolf down. He got back up and looked at us.
"You are?" He asked, waiting for us to introduce ourselves. One by one we introduced ourselves.
"So what's yours?" Rainbow asked.
"My names Steel Breaker, The Lone Wanderer." He said.
PoV: Steel Breaker
"Sir, we are able to leave at any time now, I managed to fix the inside panel while you were talking." Andy said, hovering back inside.
"Alright, let's go see if my little project worked after all these years." I said as I checked if I had everything I need and began walking out.
Don't let the name 'Paradise Falls' fool you like it did many others.
Pip-boy 3000 activated PoV: Steel Breaker A.K.A The Lone wanderer Location: Outside of the castle Time: Still re-adjusting time zone Status: Relaxed Damage: None
"Finally." I said as the Pip-boy finished it's status report. After getting some of my stuff and putting them in the Pip-boy storage, we finally headed out.
"What's that on your wrist?" I heard Twilight ask. I turned to look at her and finally noticed that she's an Alicorn, making me confused on why and how.
"It's a Pip-boy, a device that helps you with a lot of things, like storage, checking your vitals and even see if your coming down with something." I said as we walked out of the castle. Never understood why they built the castle above the Vault.
"Is it okay if I see it when we get back to my castle?" She asked.
"Alright, but don't take it apart, its rigged to blow up if it was." I said, warning her about the fail safe.
"Why would anypony want to do that?" She asked.
"The assholes at Vault-tech, they say it's for your safety but I've been around other Vaults and saw that each had a sinister purpose." I said with much venom at the name Vault-tech.
"What did they do that was so sinister?" I heard Dash ask.
"Couldn't be worse than Tirek." She said said afterwards.
"Vault 87, it's purpose was to see the effects of The F.E.V, the Forced Evolutionary Virus on ponies." I said, in a deadly serious tone.
"The goal was to create super soldiers but managed to create a form of genetically mutated super pony. They were aggressive on anything that wasn't a Super Mutant and even used the F.E.V to make more, resulting in Vault 87's purpose to fall way out of reach as it was overrun with them." I said, stepping into the forest. I smiled at the sight of lush green trees.
"Harold, you magnificent bastard." I said to myself with as i breathed in some actual fresh air and smelled the forest.
"Who's Harold?" I heard Rarity ask.
"A friend." I said as we continued our trek through the woods. I heard Dogmeat growl at a near by Bush. I walked towards the bush and was pounced by a wild Timberwolf. I held held it's mouth away as it tried to bite. Dogmeat taclked the wild timberwolf and pinned it down as he bit it's neck off.
I got up and looked over to the dead wolf and back to Dogmeat as he sat and waggled his tail at his kill. I smiled as I began to pet him.
"Good boy, Dogmeat." I said to him, earning a happy bark from him. I stopped petting him as I heard more growling and timberwolves pouncing towards me and the girls. I activated the V.A.T.S, making my eyes glow green and aimed with my plasma pistol at each one, then fired, not missing any a shot. The wolves dropped on the floor, lifeless and with plasma oozing out of the side of their heads.
PoV: Twilight Few minutes earlier
"Who's Harold?" Rarity asked Lone.
"A friend." Steel simply said as Dogmeat started barking at a bush. Lone got closer but was soon tackled by a wild timberwolf. We were about to go and help but stopped as we all saw Dogmeat tackle the the timberwolf and tore it's neck off. He then sat down and waggled his tail as if he was happy to do it. Steel got and started petting him but stopped as ten more Timberwolves showed up.
Three went for him and the rest tried to pounce on us but was hit by a green ball of magic? I looked over to Steel and saw his eyes glowing green as he aimed a metal stick with green pods at us.
"Wam bam, super slam." He said as spun the weapon around and holstered it on his thigh.
"What was that!?" Dash shouted.
"You big Monster!" I heard Fluttershy shout as she flew up to him.
"You killed them!" She shouted at him, giving him the stare. We were going to stop Fluttershy from making Steel fear her stare but what we saw, surprised all of us. Fluttershy started trembling and Steel was just staring blankly at her.
"Yeah, I can see that. If you're mad that I did, I can't blame you but you need to see it this way, it was either them or you and your friends." Steel said, as he turned around headed to the direction of the tree of harmony.
"Hey, no one scares Fluttershy and gets away with it!" Dash said as she was about deliver a punch but was tackled by Dogmeat. Dogmeat stood above Rainbow, growling at her.
"Down boy." Steel said, making Dogmeat follow his command.
"You want answeres, I want to see my project." He said as he started walking towards a cliff. We all followed behind him as he started walking down the steps to the tree of harmony.
PoV: Steel Breaker (The Lone wanderer)
I walked down the steps and was soon greeted by a large crystal tree in Harolds place. I smacked the crystal and made it hum.
"Thank God. Harold, it's me Steel Breaker!" I said as I kept knocking in the crystal. I looked back and saw the mane six looking at me as if I've gone insane. I rolled my eyes as I looked back at the tree.
"Harold, if you don't answer me, I will pull out the Fat Man!" I yelled out.
"Oh dear Gods above, please dont do that man!" I heard Harolds voice as i smirked.
"What happen to you? Last time I saw you was, what one in a half millenia and you were still a tree." I said to him as he projected his face on the surface of the tree.
"Herbert thought it would be good to become like this. Personally, this is an improvement. Ever since tree started to grow around the world, I could see all of it. I felt as if I was normal again while traveling through the trees." He said before noticing the girls.
"Ah, if it isn't the bearers of the elements. What do you need from little ol' me?" Harold greeted them. The girls were too shocked to answer back. I kept on talking with Harold for a bit, then said my goodbyes.
"Now, where's the town?" I asked as I was blinded by a bright light. Once I got my sight back, I noticed I was inside a crystal throne room. Dogmeat went and laid down near the door.
"Welcome to my castle. Let me just send a letter to the princesses before I show you around town." Twilight said while her friends said their goodbyes and left. I grabbed Fluttershys arm.
"Just so you know, I hate killing. I hate it but I had to do it." I said as I let her go. She apologized for shouting at me and left. I looked at my Pip-boy and saw that the clock was fixed.
Time: 12:00 P.M
So that's why I'm hungry. I went the music section of my Pip-boy and typed in the name of a song.
I smiled at the nostalgic feeling as I listened to the song.
"Mom?" I heard a filly say.
"I heard the sound of somepony teleporting." The same voice said.
"Yes sweetie, I'm in the throne room!" Twilight yelled. The doors soon opened as a dark midnight blue alicorn filly come in.
"So, I'm in that type of universe." I thought as I listened to the song. The filly saw me and walked towards me.
"Hi mister, my names Nyx. What's yours?" She asked with a bright smile and her hand out. I looked at her with a smile.
"My name's Steel Breaker." I said as I shook her hand. I picked her up, surprising her and walked towards Twilight.
"I didn't know you had a daughter, Twilight. So, who's the lucky stallion?" I asked her, gaining a sad sigh from her. I put Nyx back down, letting her comfort her mother.
"Don't be sad, Mom. You'll find your special somepony one day, I just know it." Nyx said as she hugged Twilight.
"Is it because of Nyx being Nightmare moon?" I asked, making her look at me in surprise that I knew.
"How di-" I interrupted her.
"The similarities are spot on. Also, I know things that might happen but that's for you to find out." I said as I sat down on AppleJacks throne.
"And to be honest, even if she was the one that locked me up, I can't be mad at cute filly like her!" I said, smiling at Nyx. I got up and was about to leave, I stopped and looked at Twilight.
"The stallions are a bunch of idiots, they can't see true beauty even if it ran at them like a deathclaw." I said, loud enough for Twilight to hear and left the room with Dogmeat following behind. Once I got outside, I was greeted by a familiar pony.
"How's it been, Tia?" I asked the alicorn princess in front of me.
"It's been so long, Steel. I've missed you." She said as she pulled me into a hug. She stopped hugging as she heard a bark next to her. She turn to look at Dogmeat.
"Doggy, your okay!" She said as she embraced him, gaining some licks to the face. She stood up and wiped her face.
"Luna will be here soon, she wants to apologize for what she did." She said, making me sigh as I took out an Ice cold Nuka-Cola out of the Pip-boy and drank it.
"Let's get this over with. I'm not good in emotional talks." I said to her as we began to walk through town as a familiar song played on my Pip-boy.
Remember, Ghouls are people too, their hearts, their souls, their tears are all human, so leave your pistol in your holster, unless they're the feral kind of Ghouls
PoV: Steel Breaker (The Lone Wanderer) 1,500 years ago, 600 years before stasis Location: Somewhere in the Capital Wasteland Time: Error, reconfiguring time zone
'Ugh, why did I had to buy that canon from the shadiest looking person.' I thought as I regained all feeling to my body.
'Dirt? But I was at a convention.' I thought as I opened my eyes and saw that it was dirt. I got up and looked around, seeing broken buildings, burnt trees and wasted cars. I clutched my head in pain, it lasted only for ten seconds.
As I lowered my hands, I noticed they had grey fur. I rolled up the sleeve of my shirt and saw more grey fur.
"What the fuck?" I said to myself. I felt around my face and felt it being different and my ears being on top of my head. I had ears and a muzzle of a pony. I looked around any of the cars for side view mirror and saw one completely intact, allowing me to fully view the reflection of my new face.
"I'm a pony." I said as I saw the color of my eyes being an electric blue. I also saw the color of my mane being a darker shade of grey than my coat. I looked back at the spot I woke up in and saw the Tesla cannon, a plasma pistol and a Pip-boy surrounded by ten stimpacks.
I picked up the Pip-boy and put on my wrist and soon after felt an extreme amount of pain on my arm as I heard the sound of flesh being pierced. The pain subsided a few minuted later, leaving me gasping for air.
I looked back at the cannon and pistol and picked them both up. The Pip-boy lit up and an option showed up on the screen.
Store Tesla cannon on Pip-boy Yes. No.
I stared at the screen for what felt like hours, trying to understand how the hell is this going to work. I sighed as I thought 'Why the fuck not?' and pressed yes, resulting in the Pip-boy to scan the cannon and digitize it.
I stood wide eyed and looked at the inventory section of the Pip-boy and saw the words
Tesla cannon, 1/99999 Electron packs.
I looked at the plasma pistol and did the same. When I saw the ammo, I swear my jaw hit the floor.
Plasma Pistol, 16/Inf Small Energy Cell
"How the fuck?" I said to myself, then shook my head. I pressed equip on the pistol, making it appear on my holster. I looked around for anyone nearby and saw nothing for miles.
I sighed as I started heading north. The Pip-boy then lit up again, making me look at it. It read that this version of the Vault-tech Pip-boy allows you to play any song of your choosing, just type the name and the artist, and enjoy your tunes.
"Cool." I said as I typed in a song and the artist.
I smiled as it started to play and continued to search for a safe building to camp out in.
Three weeks later Location: Old Olney, North of the City ruins
This the third time I had to scavenge around Old Olney without being killed by a Deathclaw, those nasty bogers look terrifying in real life. I think I need to head south east of here, I heard some Raiders say that there's a settlement located next to Springville. It sure beats hiding from these overgrown chameleons.
I packed some food, water, rad-aways and stimpacks and started heading Southeast.
I've been walking for about an hour, I've passed by the waste disposal site and found some more food and a raider to kill. I've noticed that the raiders aren't only ponies, there are times where it was only a group of ponies but the majority are groups of Ponies, Griffins and Minotaurs working together.
Now, I have killed a lot in the past few weeks and with each day that passes, I've grown used to it. The only ones that deserve my undying rage are the Slavers.
I shook my head trying to clear my thoughts as I looked over the hill I was on and saw a shop, a mechanic and I think a hospital. I walked into the little town and heard the sound of a mine, making me run back as it blew up. I landed hard on the floor but got up with no serious injuries.
"I heard a mine go off this way!" I heard a voice shout from the town. I ran and hid behind a boulder with a clear view of two raiders coming around the corner. One of them was a griffin holding a hunting rifle and the other a pegasus holding a combat Shotgun.
"You sure it wasn't a Mole-Rat again?" The griffin asked.
"Yes, I'm fucking sure. The Mole-Rats are at the east of town, this the west side." The pegasus answered back as he kept looking around. I pulled out my Tesla Cannon and aimed. I squinted to get a better view, resulting in my eyes turning green and my vision was turning into a light shade of green and the words V.A.T.S on the left corner of my eyes. I looked back at the two raiders and saw that they were moving very slowly. I aimed the cannon at the pegasus, making the words pop out.
Raider Blastmaster: Head, 98%
I fired the cannon, hitting the raider in the head, causing it to explode. The griffin looked at me and aimed. I pulled out my plasma pistol and focused on his legs, making the V.A.T.S activate, then fired.
The shot crippled his leg, making him hold his knee in pain. I ran down and grabbed him by the neck.
"Where do you keep all your shit?" I asked him in a calm tone
"Why the hell should I tell you?" He choked out as I tightened my grip.
"Well, let's see, I just killed your buddy and now you're grabbed by the neck, slowly choking to death. So tell me, why should you?" I asked with a psychotic grin. He tapped my arm, ready to tell me where they keep the loot.
"In the hospital but it's guarded by ten of our guys, now can you please let me live?" He said while on the floor. I put a finger on my chin in deep thought.
"Nah!" I said as I quickly shot him in the head, killing him instantly. I searched their corpses and found eighty seven caps on each of them and a key to their loot room. I turned around, about to walk to the town but saw something next to a folding chair.
"It's official, they are so~ fucked." I said as I grabbed the weapon and the ammo for it, then digitized it.
Flamer: 60/100 flamer ammo
I equipped the Flamer and walked into town with a manic grin.
'Maybe starting a new life isn't such a bad thing after all.' I thought as the hospital was in sight with two raiders posted at the door, both holding assault rifles. I turned on the flamer and did a familiar Russian battle cry
What secrets does Vault-Tech hide under those lies of safety?
PoV: Steel Breaker Location: Ponyville, Equestria (Formally known as The Capital Wasteland) Time: 1:00 P.M
Tia, Dogmeat and I have been walking through ponyville to meet with Luna, while the residents seem afraid of Dogmeat he doesn’t pay them any mind. We soon heard the sounds of flapping wings, looking up I saw it was Luna and her guards. She landed gracefully as the crowd of ponies were bowing at her and Celestia.
Luna walked timidly towards me, trying to avoid eye-contact. She got closer to me, earning her a threatening growl from Dogmeat, resulting me and Dogmeat being surrounded by spear points.
"Spears, really?" I asked as I turned to Celestia and gaining a shrug from her.
"Do you even know who you're talking to!? She's the princess, show some respect you filthy dirt pony!" A unicorn guard said as he jammed me with his spear. I focused on all the guards, my eyes turning green as I activated V.A.T.S. and targeted all of them for a sweep kick. I quickly got on the floor and sweep kicked all of the guards, making them fall on the ground. I got up and dusted my hands as I walked towards the unicorn guard with a straight face.
"Pathetic." I growled as I turned to Luna.
"And you have some explaining to do!" I shouted at her, earning a calming nuzzle from Dogmeat, calming me down.
"Start with why you locked me up." I sneered as I sat on the floor, petting dogmeat as he laid on top of my lap.
"While I was Nightmare moon and before going to fight my sister, I had remembered that you could easily have fought me and won without even trying, so I had only one option, smash the vault control panel inside and close the door, leaving you trapped inside." She said, looking down in shame.
Dogmeat let out a small whimper as he looked at Luna. I remembered that he and Luna were the best of friends and the night when she locked us up broke his heart. Luna started to tear up and got on her knees.
"I'm sorry Doggy, I'm s-so s-sorry." She sobbed, a few tears making their way down her face. Dogmeat got up, walked towards her and began to nuzzle her. She quickly embraced Dogmeat as she started to cry.
"You could've talked it out or create some festivals celebrating the night for the nights but you chose to forcefully take the throne and almost destroy the world." I said, still angry at her but sighed as I looked at her.
"I may not be the best influence on you two but I know I had taught the both of you how to talk your way out of a fight." I said to her.
"And finally, What would your father think if he was here?" I said.
"He would be disappointed in me." Luna whimpered, still hugging Dogmeat.
"No, he wouldn't be disappointed, just heartbroken." I spoke softly as I offered my hand to her. She grabbed it as she used to pick herself up.
"How's your arm doing?" Celestia asked as she healed her guards. I looked at my right arm and flexed it a bit, resulting in to move awkwardly as it emitted a mechanical grinding to emit from it. I sighed as I realized I need to get it repaired.
"I need to get Andy." I said as I began to walk but stopped as the Pip-boy showed an incoming projectile. I leaned back easily as a spear flew by and planted itself in a wall. I stood back up and saw that it was the racist unicorn that threw the spear.
"Stand down, Lieutenant!" Celestia shouted as she grabbed him with her magic. I flipped him off as I began walking back to the Vault to get my arm fixed. I stopped and looked at Dogmeat. "If you need me boy, I'll be back at the Vault for a bit, but I'll be back." I said, gaining a nod from him.
I was visited by my old mentor and her sister an hour ago to discuss Steels living arrangements, while in the middle of conversing, I've noticed that Luna seems strongly attached to Dogmeat. I asked where Steel went and they informed me he went back to the Vault to get something done. That was an hour ago and he still isn't back. I needed to find him, as the Everfree is a dangerous place no matter who you are.
"Twilight, where are you going?" asked Spike interrupting my teleport.
"I need to find the stallion we found today. He's been out in the forest for about an hour and a half." I said to him.
"So? He could take care of himself, right?" Spike said.
That made me remember earlier today, when he took down the pack of timberwolves without even breaking a sweat.
"Maybe, but it wouldn't hurt to make sure he's alright." I said, earning a sigh.
"Fine but I'm coming too." He said as he stood next to me. I cast the spell and appeared in front of the Vault door in a flash of lavender light.
"What is this place?" Spike said as he walked through the door.
"From what Steel said, this is a Vault, a place where it was safe but he didnt tell me from what." I said leading Spike to the R & D section of the Vault. I heard screaming coming from inside the room.
"Only a little bit longer, Sir and it'll be good as new." I could hear Andy's voice over the screams of agony. I opened the door and went inside. What I saw shocked me, Steel was laying down on an operating table while shirtless and his right arm was gone, blood could be seen dripping out.
Andy then turned around holding Steels arm, though it wasn't a regular arm and started reattaching it.
The sound of flesh being pierced could be heard as it slowly reattached to his body. Looking next to me and Spike staring horrified at the gory mess.
"There we go, see if it’s good now." Andy told Steel as his arm started to move sitting up and moving his arm, he started flexing his fingers and wrist, then proceeded to move his hand.
"How long have you two been standing there?" He asked out loud, not even looking at us as he started to use what looked like magic on his arm, making it look inconspicuous.
"We got here when Andy started putting your arm back, speaking of which, what happened to it?" I asked him levitating a bucket over to Spike, just in case.
"Long story but It has Celestia and Luna's father making the arm." He said as he put on his shirt and Jacket.
"So, you want me to keep this a secret?" I asked him.
"Nah, let them judge all they want, I dont give a flying fuck about discrimination." He said as he began walking out.
PoV: Steel Breaker (The Lone Wanderer)
"How can you use magic if you're an Earth-pony?" Twilight asked me.
"I ain't a normal Earth-pony, that's for sure." I said as she prepared to teleport back to her castle. I was blinded by the flash created by the spell and regaining my sight in Twilight’s castle. I looked at my Synthetic arm sighing as I recalled the events leading to it.
"Come with me Steel, I want to study the thing on your wrist." Twilight said grabbing me with her magic and dragging me off to Gods know where.
“So you walked towards the hospital with a, what was it called again?” Twilight asked as she looked up from her notes. She put on a lab coat and safety goggles while she dragged me here.
“A flamethrower." I said to her. She wrote it down as as I sat there, tied up against my will.
“You know, back where I'm from, this is punishable by death.” I said to her, making her realize she's gone too far.
“Sorry, it's just, the thing on your wrist could help with our society's technology to advance.” She said as her magic dispersed, letting me go.
“Bad idea, if those notes go out to the public, scientist will start to develop weapons, and then other countries are going to start a political riot on something, resulting in the creation of the Atomic bombs, thus repeating the cycle of the great war, and I for one, do not want to live in the wasteland again." I said as I rubbed my wrists.
“What do you mean by repeat the cycle?” She asked.
“It's best if I show you.” I said as I casted a spell to let her see my memories of my time in the wastes.
Memory#1 Location: Springvale 1,500 years ago
I opened my eyes and saw a familiar rocket sign. I sat up and looked next to me and saw Twilight. I checked my Pip-boy and read that this was the time I met Celestia and Luna.
“What happened?” I heard Twilight say as she sat up. She was also wearing the merc-adventurer outfit and had her own Pip-boy.
“Welcome to my memories.” I said as I held out a hand for her. She grabbed hold and I pulled her up.
“Where are we?” She asked as she looked at her clothing.
“Believe it or not, this Equestria’s past. Right now, we're in Springvale, a small town located near the settlement of Megaton.” I said as I looked around a little. Burnt out cars, broken down buildings and an Elementary School were the only things noticeable.
“Come on, I'll show you how I know your princesses.” I said as I started walking to the location of Vault 101 with Twilight following behind.
“Why was Equestria like this?” She asked me.
“Aftermath of the Great war. You know what a bomb is, right?” I asked her, gaining a nod from her as we climbed the hill.
“Well imagine a bomb strong enough to wipe a whole city.” I said to her as we made it up the hill. I could tell she was shocked that there was such thing that could kill an entire city existed.
“Now, imagine hundreds if not thousands of those bombs being launched all over the world.” I said, earning a gasp from her.
“Everyone, as in ponies, griffons, Minotaurs, Diamond dogs and etc, called the bombings the Nuclear Holocaust which lead Vault-tech make a hundred and twenty Vaults. I know, not enough to save the world, but that was their plan.” I said as I sat on a rock.
“The Vaults true purposes was to see the effects of living in an enclosed environments with different settings, like 101 for instance, it was made to see how the Vault population would live in a Dictatorship.” I said as my Pip-boy’s memory screen lit up, signifying that my past self is nearby.
PoV: Steel Breaker (memory) Location: Springvale Time: 2:00 P.M Two months since arrival
‘Finally, I'm here.’ I thought as I got a view of SpringVale and saw Megaton over a hill. It's been two months since I first got here and improved my survivalist skills, I even got some combat armor and a few new guns.
‘Alright, buy some Radaway and Rad-X. How many Caps do I have?’ I thought as I started to walk towards Megaton.
Inventory: Caps: 160
I stopped in the middle of the road to see an Enclave Eyebot hover around.
I took notice of my surroundings and realized that there might be some good shit around here. I started to Scavenge around the broken down buildings and found about Sixty caps, a baseball bat, some hunting rifle ammo and a bottle of dirty water. I packed all of those things in the Pip-boy and took out the baseball bat, to see if it's in fighting conditions.
After checking the bat, I took out my hunting rifle and started walking to Megaton. I stopped as I heard a screeching sound coming from the hill of SpringVale.
I decided to check what was the noise and found two fillies, battered and bruised in front of a wooden door wearing Vault 101 jumpsuits. The pearl white filly looked to be around the age of sixteen and the midnight blue filly looked to be at least fourteen or fifteen.
I looked around and saw some things being carried away by the wind. I climbed up to see if I'm mistaken but saw a huge irradiated sandstorm heading this way.
I cursed to myself as I picked up the two fillies, put them over my shoulders and ran towards Megaton as fast as possible as the storm was closing in.
I got to the town gates and saw a protectron next to the gates.
“Please stand clear of the gates.” The protectron said as the gates opened. I ran inside, opened the gate and entered the town.
Once I closed the gate, I looked at the two fillies on my shoulders and sighed to myself as I heard someone walking towards me.
“Another new face in town? Hell, Welcome to Megaton, stranger.” I looked up and saw a tan colored earth pony wearing a coat and a cowboy hat.
“I ain’t got time for this. I need to get these two to a doctor, now.” I said, gesturing to the two unconscious fillies in the jumpsuits.
“Doc Church will help you with them, for a price of course. Just head down hill and take a right as soon as you a see a Brahmin.” The stallion said as he moved out of the way for me. I ran down the hill and found the clinic. I went inside and saw a brown unicorn stallion sitting near a console.
“I never seen you ‘round here before, so let me give you the rules. Number one, do not bother me with minor cuts and number two, if you have the supplies then don’t come in here.” The stallion said as he looked at me.
“Asshole, this isn’t about me, it’s about these two.” I said as put the two fillies each down on separate beds.
“Do you have the caps?” He asked, crossing his arms.
“I have two hundred and twenty caps, is that enough?” I asked him as I gave him the caps.
“As a matter of fact it is. Now, let see what I’m dealing with here.” He said as he started to check their injuries.
“Not too bad but not too good either, they seem to have been beaten and badly. They both have have a few broken ribs, a dislocated arm and wing. I’ll need about an hour to fix them up.” He said, making me sigh as I walked out the clinic.
“So, how it go?” I heard the stallion from earlier ask.
“They’ll make it. Name’s Steel Breaker.” I said as I put hand out for him.
“Sheriff Simms, I’m the mayor of this here town and Sheriff when the need to be.” He said as he took my hand and started shaking it.
PoV: Steel Breaker (Present) Location: Megaton, Capital Wasteland (Memory)
“And that’s one of the reasons you should keep the notes to yourself.” I said to Twilight. We followed around my memory to Megaton and now looking down at him from above one of the catwalks.
“I guess so.” Twilight said, looking at the clinic.
“Don’t worry about them, they ended up with an arm cast for a few days only. Now, come on, we’ve been here long enough.” I said, deactivating the spell and sending us back to reality.
Reality
I opened my eyes and was greeted with Lavender mane. I shook my head as I gently pushed Twilight off of me and stood up.
I looked at my synthetic arm and disengaged the disguise spell, revealing it. I heard Twilight mumble out something as she opened her eyes.
“Wakey, wakey, sleepy head.” I said as I held out a hand for her. She grabbed my hand, allowing me to pull her up.
“So, that wasn’t a dream?” She asked, not believing in what she saw.
“If you don’t believe me, then ask Celestia and Luna, in the meantime, I’ll be around town if you need me.” I said as I opened the door and walked out. I saw Dogmeat sleeping next to the door.
“Come on boy, let’s go for a walk.” I said, walking him up. He opened his eyes and let out a loud yawn as he stretched. He stood up and followed me out the door.
Before the door completely closed, I could see Twilight looking at me, wondering how I’m sane after living in the Wasteland for so long. As the door fully closed, I headed out to explore the town.
"Catastrophic... system... failure... Initiating core shutdown as per emergency initiative 2682209... I die, so that democracy may... live..." Liberty Prime, Fallout 3
I've been wandering aimlessly around town, trying to know it's layout and useful shops. The townsfolk still weary around Dogmeat but he doesn't really mind, as long as they don't threaten him or me.
Now I'm just enjoying the outside, sitting in a park bench and with Dogmeat sitting by my side.
There were a few fillies and colts brave enough to walk up to him, even fewer dared to pet him but once a colt by the name of Pipsqueak started petting him, all the other children saw this and walked up to him, and I could see that Dogmeat was enjoying himself as he happily licked Pipsqueaks face.
“Hey mister?” I heard a child ask me. I looked down and saw three little fillies, one orange pegasus with a purpe mane and tail, another a bright yellow earth pony with red mane and tail, and the last one was a snow white unicorn with a magenta mane and tail.
They were all wearing shirts with the words CMC written on them.
“What can I help you three with?” I asked them.
“We were just wondering.” The earth pony started.
“If that timberwolf was your pet dog?” The pegasus continued.
“Because we've never seen a tamed Timberwolf before.” The unicorn finished.
“I wouldn't describe him as a pet, I prefer the term ‘Best Friend’.” I said to them.
“What are your names?” I asked them.
“My names Applebloom!” The earth pony introduced herself.
“I'm Sweetie Belle!” The snow white unicorn said.
“And I'm Scootaloo, and together we are-” The pegasus said.
“THE CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS!!” They shouted in unison, making me block my ears by the sheer volume of their voice.
“Sorry.” They said afterwards.
“Enthusiastic much?” I said, lowering my hands as they gave me a sheepish smile.
“So how did you get him?” Scootaloo asked me.
“Yeah, tell us!” Sweetie and Bloom said as they sat on the bench with me. I couldn't tell then how I really found him, due to them being children and my tales of the wastes are everything but child friendly, so I had to lie. Thank the Gods for my charisma.
“Well, about eight years ago, I was traveling through the Everfree on the way to the dragon empire during a storm and I stumbled upon a Timber Wolf den, but all I found in there was the bodies of the owners of the den and a sleeping pup, shivering from the cold.” I said as I looked over to Dogmeat. The story isn't entirely a lie, I did find him like that but not in a forest or a den.
“I knew it needed some warmth, so I gave him my jacket as a blanket. He obviously thought I was going to hurt him, so he tried to run away, only to find out that he had a broken knee. So I covered him with my jacket, and looked at his knee. He only sprained it, so it was nothing serious. All I did was grab some pain reducing medicine and gave to him, after he saw that I helped him, he started barking happily at me. So I told him if he wanted to come with me, so he wouldn't be alone anymore and seconds after I said that, he pounced me and began to lick my face.” I said, earning a happy bark from Dogmeat as he walked towards me .
“And we've been friends ever since.” I said as I started to pet him, making him stick out his tongue and wiggle his tail.
“Hey girls!” I heard another filly shout, I looked over to where the voice came from and saw little Nyx walking over here.
“Hey Nyx, this guy tamed a timber wolf!” Scootaloo shouted at her. Nyx arrived here and gained a happy bark from Dogmeat.
“Hi Mr.Breaker!” She greeted.
“Hey! I'm not that old and you don't have to be formal with me, you can just call me Steel.” I said, ruffling her mane, earning a few giggles from her.
“So girls, are you ready for some crusading today?” Scootaloo asked her friends.
“Actually Scoots, I have get back to the farm, tomorrow's applebucking season and I have to tl go to bed early.” Applebloom said as she walked away.
“And I have to help Rarity model some clothing for fillies.” Sweetie said as she walked towards the Carousel looking building.
“What about you, Nyx?” Scootaloo asked.
“I have to go study a new spell I found.” Nyx said as she flew away, leaving Scootaloo alone.
“You okay?” I asked her. She looked at me and answered.
“Yeah, I'm fine.” She said as she walked away. I looked over to Dogmeat and motioned him to follow her without getting caught.
‘She's definitely not okay.’ I thought as I walked back to Twilight's castle. On the way, some pegasi were moving some clouds to make it rain. I sighed as it soon began to pour down rain, soaking my clothes but continued walking anyway.
I turned on the Pip-boy flash light as it got darker and harder to see through the rain.
I could see a little alley way with a roof above it, so I went in there to wait out the storm a little while sitting down. I could see Dogmeat walking around the street lost by the rain, I called out to him, allowing him to know my location and walked towards me.
Once he went in the alley, he shook himself dry, soaking me up in the process. I glared at him, earning a lick to the face.
“Ew, gross. Really?” I said as playfully shoved him, making him bark at me with a smile.
I decided to wait out the storm while listening to music, so I typed in the song and artist in my Pip-boy and began to play it.
As the song was starting, I decided to sing along with it.
"In the searing streets In the dead of night Under the prying eyes Of the parasites
In the raging gaze of the midnight hives In the fading haze I will come alive As million network nobodies collide
But we won't suffer for nothing
Kick back! We're breaking through the cages Breakin through the cages hard Code crack we're tearing out the pages Breaking through the cages hard oh-whoa-oh Keep running Keep kicking back!
We're asphalt slaves Move in one motion We're all just waves In one big ocean
So take a good hard look at the life we've led All the abuse you took buried in your head On the memory of a dying time we ride
But we won't suffer for nothing
Kick back! We're breaking through the cages Breakin through the cages hard Code crack we're tearing out the pages Breaking through the cages hard oh-whoa-oh Keep running Keep kicking back!
We won't be told!! Won't be controlled!!
Kick back! We're breaking through the cages Breakin through the cages hard Code crack we're tearing out the pages Breaking through the cages hard oh-whoa-oh Keep running Keep kicking back!”
As the song ended, I heard a few trash cans tumble and a loud thud. I got up and walked over to the source of the noise and saw a few cardboard boxes laid out like a makeshift home.
I saw the box move a bit, so I crouched down to see who was in there and saw Scootaloo.
“Kid, what are you doing out here? Shouldn't you be with your parents?” I asked her, she looked at me then turned her back to me.
“I'd rather live out here than to go back to them.” She said, without looking at me.
“Why? What could possibly be wr-” I was interrupted by Scootaloo as she began to shout.
“Because they don't love me!!” She shouted out, then looked down on sadness.
“They treat me like garbage, they beat me if I don't do what I'm told and they don't feed me, I have to go out and find some food.” She said as a few tears dropped to the floor.
“Didn't you try to tell anypony?” I asked her as I felt my knees starting to hurt for being crouched this long.
“Yeah I have but ponies always think that I had a small disagreement with them.” She said sitting up.
“How long have you been living like this?” I asked her as I sat down with Dogmeat laying his head on my lap, looking at Scootaloo.
“A few months, I don't know.” She said, crawling out of the box and sitting down in front of it.
“Do any of your friends know?” I asked as she shook her head no.
“Welp, what you want to do now?” I said, clapping my hands.
“What?” She asked.
“Well I can't just leave out here, that'll make me a total dick.” I said, earning a slap from Dogmeats tail.
“Sorry, what I meant to say that if I left you out here, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night.” I said, looking at Dogmeat and saw him smirking.
“I'm staying at Twilight's castle till I get the money for my own house, I can ask Twilight in letting you stay.” I said to Scootaloo.
“But why help me? You barely even know me.” She said.
“It's what I do. I help ponies in need, it's sorta of a hobby of mine.” I said, noticing Dogmeat facepawing.
“You know it's true.” I said with a grin at him while poking him in the nose.
“So, what do you say?” I said as I stood up and held out my hand for her.
“And if you're wondering, this will be our little secret unless you tell your friends.” I said as she grabbed my hand, allowing me to pull her up and place her on top of Dogmeat.
“You carry her.” I said to him as he grumbled out something.
I looked out the alley and saw that the storm has passed. I walked out with Dogmeat following behind.
“Why is your arm like that?” I heard Scootaloo ask beside me. I forgot I had taking down the spell.
“I lost my arm a long time ago and a friend built me a new one.” I said to her, not going into detail.
She stayed silent, knowing that it's a touchy subject and tried to apologize. I told her she didn't need to because she didn't know.
We kept walking through the muddy street towards Twilight's castle in the distance while getting to know each other a little more.
Once we arrived to the front door, we made our way inside. I decided to look for Twilight in the library first and on the way, we passed by what looked like a tiny purple baby deathclaw.
‘This must be Spike, Twilight's number one dragon assistant. He looks more like a baby deathclaw than a dragon.’ I thought to myself.
“Um, can I help you, Sir?” He asked.
“Yeah, I'm looking for Twilight.” I said to him.
‘Wasn't he with Twilight when she found out about my arm?’ I thought as I had one thing in mind to answer that question.
“She's in the throne room with her friends. By the way, I'm Spike.” He said, holding his hand out.
“Steel Breaker, nice to formally meet you.” I said as I took hold of his hand and shook it. After the handshake was done, We started to head towards the throne room and felt a small earthquake as we kept walking.
We arrived at the throne room and saw a large map in the middle of the six thrones. As I got closer, I could see that the map was holographic.
I could feel something burning on my left shoulder as I got closer, so I quickly rolled up the sleeve and saw something I had thought would never happen. I was getting my mark, and it hurts like hell.
I screamed in pain and fell to the floor while clutching my shoulder, gaining everyone's attention. Twilight quickly teleported next to me as the rest of the girls ran to see what's going on.
“Steel, what's wrong!?” Twilight shouted as the pain started to fade.
“You know when you discover your talent, you get a ‘cutie mark’. Well, I think l just got mine.” I said as I let go of my arm, getting a clear view of my mark. “What does it mean?” She asked.
“It means that I'm a guardian of the innocent.” I said as I stood up and looked over to Scootaloo.
“Twilight, I need to talk to you for a-” I was interrupted by the map as it began to glow in a certain area.
“Sorry Steel but I think the map is telling us to go here.” Twilight said as she walked back to the map. I sighed, knowing what's going to happen.
I walked towards Scootaloo and Dogmeat.
“Scootaloo, you can stay in my room, I think me, Twilight and her friends need to go somewhere. Dogmeat can take you there.” I said to her, earning a faint thank you as Dogmeat carried her to my room.
“Great, a town run by a communist.” I said to myself as the girls were talking to each other on what to do.
“Easy, you go to this town and check it there's any problems.” I said to them.
They began to pack their own bags to take some food with them, minus Rarity, who tried to take six suitcases filled with clothing but stopped when everyone was looking at her with bemused looks.
I packed my guns and ammo and we started our journey.
‘Long live the Brotherhood.’ I thought as we left Ponyville.
“Embrace democracy, or you will be eradicated.” Liberty Prime
PoV: Steel Breaker Location: on top of the cliff, overlooking a town Time: 5:00 P.M
We've been journeying for about two hours and we've experienced random weather change for some reason. At least I had music to listen to when Pinkie, Rainbow or Rarity started talking and I made sure to keep my distance from them.
We walked up to the edge of a cliff and saw what looked like a copy of Andale, just thinking about the name made me shiver.
We went down hill and into the town. The townsfolk greeted us with big toothy smiles, reminding me even more about Andale.
“Those smiles are fake.” Pinkie said.
“What do you mean? I'm sure you can't fake a smile this big.” Dash said as she flew over to a random stallion.
“She's right, they're faking it, really badly I might add.” I said to them.
“Welcome!” A random mare said, followed by more ponies saying the same thing over and over again.
We kept walking around a bit, asking anypony if there's any trouble they need help with. Somepony told us to go talk to the mayor.
We walked towards, what we guessed was the mayor's house and saw Starlight Glimmer talking with somepony.
“Ah, visitors! Welcome to my little town, I'm Starlight Glimmer. What do owe the pleasure of a princess being here?” She asked, bowing at Twilight.
“You don't need to bow, ma'am. We just came here to see if there's anything that might be giving you any troubles.” Twilight said.
“Yeah, if you need some things butt to be kicked, we'll do it!” Dash said, punching the air.
“Or an animal problem. I can help you with that.” Fluttershy said in her usual quiet tone.
“Or maybe some decor for this town, no offense but I almost threw up a little when I first looked at it.” Rarity said, looking around.
Starlight turned to look at me, earning a threatening growl from me, making back away a bit.
“What's wrong with him?” She asked Twilight as I turned around and walked away.
While walking around aimlessly through this settlement, my Pip-boy lit up with a message on the screen.
I tried to read it but it was in morse code and I don't know much, meaning I'm going to have spend the next half hour decrypting it.
PoV: Twilight
After Steel left to wander around, me and the girls had been talking to the Mayor. She said that they have been having trouble with some bandits near town, located in a nearby cave and wants us to check it out later.
She gave us a tour and made a weird remark towards our cutie marks. They invited us for a feast before we leave to the cave.
three hours later
It's been three hours since Steel left and I began wondering what he might be doing. After eating we set out for the nearby cave to stop their bandit problem. Once at the cave entrance, we went inside to look for the bandits.
“Twilight, I don't think there are any bandits.” AppleJack said.
“Right you are.” We heard the mayor's voice. We turned around and saw her and a few stallions with ropes.
“What's going on?” Fluttershy asked as we backed up towards the exit but bumped into another stallion.
“You see, once I heard that you were heading here, I knew I had to come up with something to keep those nosy princesses off my flanks, so I had to take you in and convert you to one of us.” She said as she snapped her fingers, making the stallions walked towards us as they readied their ropes.
We tried to fight them but to no avail and got tied up.
“Now you'll be one of us!” She said as one of the stallions gave her a staff. She grabbed it and casted a spell at ue. At first we thought it was a dud but that was before we saw our cutie marks fly off our shoulders and was replaced by an equal sign.
“Welcome to our little Family.” Starlight said as she bottled them up. I noticed we were starting to lose some of our color as the equal mark gave out a pulse.
“COMMUNIST DETECTED!!” a loud voice rang out through the cave as a large light turned on, blinding all of us.
PoV: Steel Breaker Thirty minutes earlier
‘Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!’ I mentally repeated as I hauled ass looking for the girls.
‘I thought the Brotherhood took him away to rebuild him and fight the institute!’ I thought as I turned through a corner.
Flashback, half an hour ago
“Come on, got it.” I said as I finished decrypting the message.
Activation of liberty prime rebooting: 95%, remaining time 30 minutes status: in need of repairs power: 74% weapons: online, ready to kick ass location: error objective:eliminate all communist invaders and liberate anchorage
I read once, then again and again.
“Fuck me.” I said as I tried to locate the signal and found it inside a cave through my Pip-boy map.
Flashback end
I stopped to catch my breath and I saw the mountain start trembling as two words boomed out the cave entrance.
“COMMUNISM DETECTED!!” I heard him shout out as a bright light was emitting from the inside of the cave. The girls, Starlight and a couple of Stallions ran out as the mountain collapsed and a huge figure overshadowed us all.
“Liberty Prime is online. All systems nominal. Weapons hot. Mission: the destruction of any and all invading communists.” He said, looking around. I looked at my Pip-boy and started to hack into his systems.
“Voice module online. Audio functionality test initialized. Designation: Liberty Prime. Mission: the liberation of Anchorage.” He said as he looked down at Starlight. I got through his system defenses and saw that I needed voice recognition.
I coughed a bit, readying myself to impersonate somepony.
“This is General Constantine Chase, Liberty I order you to stand down!” I shouted through my Pip-boy as Liberty prepared to stomp on Starlight. He had his foot in the air for two minutes.
“Voice recognition verified.” He said as he moved his foot back.
“Awaiting your orders, Sir.” He said as he saluted. I sighed in relief as I looked over to Starlight.
“Now that I have your attention, I suggest you give them back their marks and tell the truth to your town.” I said as I glared at her. She looked at me, then at Liberty and sighed in defeat.
She opened the bottles and gave them back their cutie marks. Then walked back into town while removing the fake mark.
“What the hay just happened!?” All the girls shouted as they ran behind me, cowering from Liberty Prime.
“Girls, I'd like you to meet Liberty Prime, Patriot of Equestria!” I shouted, pointing at Liberty. “Patriot of Equestria?” Everypony asked minus Twilight.
“Equestria wasn't as peaceful as it is now.” Twilight said.
“I'll show you what we mean when we get back.” I said, raising my Pip-boy again.
“Liberty!” I shouted, making him salute again.
“Take us to the town of Springvale.” I said. He crouched down and lowered his hand. We got on, then he stood up and started walking to Ponyville.
PoV: Steel Breaker Location: Vault 101, Everfree forest Time: 10:00 A.M Two days after finding Liberty Prime
After arriving back to Ponyville, I had to calm the citizens down as Celestia and Luna came in tl see what was going on.
I told them that Liberty was near a settlement, buried deep inside a mountain and woke up by an act of communism. They weren't to pleased to hear about that but they helped me with Liberty. They casted a spell that makes him exactly as tall as me, making it easier for me to store him somewhere.After that was done, I told Twilight about Scootaloo's situation and agreed to let her stay.
Now, I'm working on trying to fix up my old X-01 power armor while listening to some music, wearing the Communist spec ops outfit. It's in working condition but I'd rather not take the risk of a malfunction in the middle of a firefight. It's a standard armor except for the headlights and flamethrowers in the wrists of the arms, I had the headlights custom made and painted them red.
"Sir, I've detected a few Radroaches in the Auditorium." I heard Andy say behind me.
"Go nuts, just make sure not to burn any beds or crates." I said to him as I removed the arm from the power armor and started to calibrate it.
Andy gave me a mock salute as he he flouted towards the Auditorium while readying his flamethrower. After calibrating the arm, I reattached it back on the Power armor. I made sure the other arm was also calibrated correctly.
While trying to find a wrench to use for the helmet, I could hear the sound of fire and dying roaches, followed by maniacal laughter.
I shook my head at that, I never did find out what made him a Pyromaniac. Once I found the wrench, I took the helmet and started checking the headlights and the HUD. After that was done, I put the helmet back and grabbed a fusion battery. I put the battery in the suit, turned the valve, making the suit open up and entered it.
Once the suit closed the helmets 'HUD' activated and showed me the status of the suit. Not to bad, could be used for a few fights. I flicked the wrists, turning on the flamethrowers. I looked to my left at a crate of useless shit I don't need and raised my hand at it, making the flamethrower shoot at it with a torrent of flames.
As I watched the crate burn, I thought about the stallion who made these customizations. I never knew his name, only knew what they called him, 'The Lone Survivor'.
I chuckled as I remembered how we met. I shook my head at the memory with a smile. I decided to help out Andy with the roach problem, so I grabbed my railway rifle, loaded some railspikes and walked to the Auditorium.
It's been two days since we've found the giant metal golem and the ponies have been scared out of there minds when we arrived but they've calmed down a lot once the princesses shrunk it down.
Now, I'm just doing some paper work, mostly denying the banishment of Steel from Ponyville. I started thinking about Steel.
'How did Steel ever stay sane after living so long like that? Has he already gone insane but had no sanity left to lose?' I thought as I put my hands on my forehead.
'What did you go through, Steel?' I asked myself as I saw Spike, Nyx and Scootaloo playing with Dogmeat.
I sighed as I stood up, gaining Nyx's attention.
"Is something wrong, Mom?" She asked me.
"No sweetie, I'm was just thinking." I said to her, I noticed Dogmeat giving me a weird look.
"Does it have something to do with Mister Breaker?" She asked as she stood up and walked towards me, leaving Scootaloo with Dogmeat.
"A little. He told me about himself a few days ago and well, I just don't know how he lived through it." I said to her.
"Where did he live?" Scootaloo asked, wanting to know more about her 'Guardian'.
"Not where, when. He's older than the princesses themselves and he used to live in an apocalyptic Equestria.
"Is that why he has a robot arm?" Spike asked me.
"Yes, I think. He never told me why he had that or how he got that." I said to him.
"Should we go see him? Maybe he would like some friends?" Nyx suggested.
"Do you want to go?" I asked them, gaining nods from all three of them as Dogmeat let out a happy bark to see his friend.
I smiled as I charged the spell to take us there. Once fulky charged, I surrounded all of us in a bright lavender light and teleported us to the Vault.
After the light faded away, we saw the large Vault opening and walked in. As we walked through the hallways, we could hear some sort of peppy song playing not to far from us.
As we got closer to a door labeled Auditorium, the music got louder and we heard what sounded like a fire spell being casted, and the sound of nails hitting something hard.
I told them to wait there as I went to check what the noise was and opened the door. Once the door was open, I was greeted with the sight of giant cockroaches, Andy and a large metal golem with red eyes holding one of Steel's weapons and firing and the roaches.
The golem pulled the trigger again, only to receive a loud click. It threw the weapon back and flicked his wrists, he then aimed at the largest roach and launched a torrent of flames at it, ultimately killing it.
"Stupid fucking Radroaches, annoying as hell. Anyway, good job Andy." The golem said to Andy. It turned to the door but stopped as it noticed me.
"Twilight? What are you doing here?" It asked me. I just stood there in fear as it tilted its head.
"Oh right, my armor." It said as steam came out of its back. Once the steam cleared I saw Steel walking out of it.
"Pretty sweet huh? Got it from a pony I knew." He said as he gave it a pat.
"What is that?" I asked him.
"This, my beautiful alicorn friend, is the X-01 Power Armor with a few custom equipment attached to it." Steel said, making me blush as he rasied the arm and showed me a little tube coming out of the wrist.
"Built in flamethrower, it was tricky putting it in but We managed." Steel said as he climbed back in.
"Why are going in again?" I askee him as he turned a large valve.
"Well, I intended to just walk around with it, so I could see if there was anything wrong with anything." He said as the back opened up. As he climbed back in, I walked out the door to wait outside for him with Spike, Nyx and Scootaloo.
Once I told them we had to wait out the door, Scootaloo asked why and I told her that he was having an insect problem.
We waited outside with Dogmeat laying down on the stone as we heard the stomps of Steels armor.
As he walked out, Nyx and Scootaloo stared in awe as Spike hid behind Dogmeat. Dogmeat barked out what sounded like the words 'Really?' at Spike as he stood up and walked towards Steel.
Steel grabbed the head of the suit and pulled it off.
"Much better." He said as he helmet under his arm.
"Cool~." We heard Nyx and Scootaloo say simultaneously as they looked at Steel.
"Yeah, I know. So what did you ponies want with little ol' me?" He asked with a smile as we started walking towards the castles surface.
PoV: Steal Breaker Location: Everfree
We finally walked out into the daylight and into the forest. On the way, I told them a little about the Lone Survivor.
I noticed some Timberwolves following behind us, but back off as me and Dogmeat gave them death glares. As we got closer to Ponyville, I could smell fire coming from the towns direction.
We sped up and ran out the forest and saw some armored Griffins and Ponies attacking Ponyville.
Their armor made my blood boil and my vision go red as I looked up my Pip-boy inventory and took out my hand cannon.
"Steel, what's going on?" I heard Twilight ask beside me. The only thing going through my head were three words, Kill the Enclave. I turned to look at Twilight and the rest of the group.
"Stay here, it's going to get messy." I said to them as I loaded up my revolver.
I started running up towards them while reattaching my helmet and as I got closer, I could hear one of them shout out.
"Bring the princess and her filly to us, you have ten minutes to comply, failure to do so will result in your deaths." I heard one of them shout at everypony.
I focused my V.A.T.S on the nearest troop, aiming straight to the head with a fifty percent chance, then targeted his left arm with a nightie percent chance of hitting it, then pulled the trigger.
The first shot missed him, making him look and aim at me with a plasma rifle but the second shot crippled his arm, making him drop the plasma rifle. I quickly holstered my revolver and delivered a strong punch to the chest, sending him to the wall. The rest of the Enclave turned to look at me in surprise as I cracked my knuckles, ready to fight.
One of the schock armor soldiers ran towards me as he got ready to hit me with the Ripper. Has he hit the armor, the rippers blades broke and I grabbed his arm, then crushed it. The soldier screamed in agony as I ripped off his arm, making blood come out like a fountain, I then took out my revolver and started to hit him with it.
I turned to the others and ran up to them as they started to shoot at with everything they've got. I ran up to the one with a missile launcher and pushed up as be pulled the trigger, launching a rocket at the air. I took out my hand cannon as I kept fighting for the launcher, then aimed at him and fired in point blank to the chest.
"He's got rockets!" A griffin soldier shouted before being smacked with the back of the rocket launcher. I then dropped the launcher and stomped on it as I aimed my hand cannon with the V.A.T.S activated.
I aimed at four of them in the head and fired, not missing a shot. I heard the sound of a Gatlin laser being prepped. I turned around in time to see the officer holding a Gatlin laser, aiming at me.
"I didn't know you assholes still existed." He said with a smirk, thinking that he had one. I holstered my hand cannon as I looked over to him.
"Feelings mutual. Mind telling me why you're attacking this town?" I asked him as I crossed my arms.
"Easy, we need to get this country back to the way it was before the great war. And what way to do that, than with one of it's current rulers and if she doesn't cooperate, we'll take her filly and make her rethink her decision." He said as he put his finger on the trigger. I casually flicked my wrist while flipping him off.
"Well, let's celebrate the Enclaves return with a little fire." I said as I quickly raised my hand at him, shooting flames at him. I flicked my other wrist and did a complete three hundred and sixty degree spin, burning all the Enclave troops surrounding me.
I heard Twilight scream as I saw one of the Enclave soldiers took her and Nyx, then flew away with a jet pack. I ran back to where I left them and saw that Scootaloo was holding a bruised Spike.
I looked through my Pip-boy and took out a stimpack and a Med-X. I injected the Med-X, then the stimpack in Spike.
"He'll be fine, but take him to the hospital just to be sure." I said to her, gaining a nod from her as she picked Spike up and ran towards the hospital. Iooked back and saw Dogmeat.unconscious on the ground, I bent over and shook him up.
"You know what to do, boy." I said to him as he got up. He sniffed around and picked up Twilights scent. He ran towards the direction of her scent and I followed behind.
PoV: Twilight Location: Enclave facility, holding cell Two hours later
It's been two hours since they took us and I don't even know who they are. All they kept saying is that they're the ones who will bring Equestria back to it's rightful state. They put magic inhibitors on me and Nyx, then left us in a dark cell. I've been holding on to Nyx as she cried.
"I see that they have actually done it, cowards. They will do anything for power, even foalnapping, murder, political assassinations, anything for power." I heard a gruff stallions voice say in the cell next to ours.
"W-who's t-t-there?" I asked, scared of who it might be.
"You do not have anything to fear, I am a captive as well. I've been longer that I could keep up." The same voice said.
"Who might you and that adorable little filly be?" He asked me.
"I'm Princess Twilight Sparkle and this is my daughter, Nyx." I said to him, I tried to see through the darkness but all i could see was his silhouette from the little light coming in, he looked ripped.
"I've never met royalty before, then again I've been stuck down here for far to long. Sometimes, I just remember my travels around with a close friend." He said.
"Travels?" Nyx asked him as she finally calmed down.
"Yes little one, I've traveled around along with the one I could call brother. Me and him were the greatest duo known throughout the Capital Wasteland." He said. I could feel my eyes grew to the fact that he's Steels past.
"How did you two meet?" I asked.
"We met inside of Vault eighty seven, I was locked in a room by my own kind. They thought that I didn't embraced the path that everyone else chose, so they locked me up. I've spent there my entire life until he came along, guns blazing, not missing a single one of them and he found me. He needed something and I wanted my freedom, so we came to an agreement. After I got him the device he needed, he was soon captured by the same organization that captured you, The Enclave." He said with much venom to the name.
"Oh how terribly rude of me, I never introduced myself." He said as I saw his silhouette walked closer to our cell.
"My name is Fawkes, pleasure to meet you." He said as he held his hand out for a friendly handshake. I looked at his hand and saw that he was a sickly green with missing fur spots. I took his hand and shook it.
"Hey, Mister Fawkes, what happened to your hand?" Nyx asked him.
"Do you not know what I am?" He asked as he pulled his hand back.
"What do you mean? You're not a pony?" I asked him.
"I think I was but now, I'm a Super Mutant." He said as we shouts could be heard down the hall.
'Steel, please save us.' I thought as I sat on the only bed with Nyx sitting next to me.
PoV: Steel Breaker Location: Enclave facility, edge of the forest Half an hour earlier
I've been following Dogmeat, trying to find where they took Twilight and Nyx. We finally found a large factory turned Enclave base. I saw that it was heavily guarded, meaning Power armor is a no. I got out of the power armor and used my V.A.T.S to check how many guards there are and counted over fifty.
"Dogmeat, stay here and guard my armor." I said as I put on the spec ops helmet. I turned on the cloak and ran straight to the wall of the facility. I managed to slip passed the first few guards.
I crouched down as I sneaked towards one of the patrolling guards. Once up close, I grabbed his knife and quickly stabbing him in the kneck as I covered his mouth to muffle his screams. Once dead, I dragged the body towards a bush and hid it there.
I sneaked out of the bush, and followed another guard as he entered the building. Once inside, I saw two more patrols and three guards posted in front of a door upstairs. I walked under the office with three guards in front of the door and planted a Proximity charge Andy built with the Enclave shit I've scavenged throughout my time in the wastes.
I set the charge up and linked to the remote detonator. I then heard one of the guards talk about two alicorn captives locked up next to a Super Mutant.
I walked up to them and bashed their heads together, knocking them both out and walked in to the holding cells. I walked by a generator, probably powering half the building. I set up another Proximity charge and continued onwards.
After a few minutes of snooping around and planting more charges, I finally arrived at the holding cells through a vent and saw Twilight and Nyx sleeping in one bed.
I carefully got out of the vent, I noticed a napping guard. I sneaked towards him with the trench knife out and stabbed his throught while I put my other hand on his mouth to muffle his scream.
After he stopped squirming and fell lifeless back on the chair. I grabbed his keys and walked towards the cells.
Before opening their cell, I looked to the one next to them and turned on my Pip-boy light. I could only see someone wearing a blue jump suit with the numbers eighty seven written in the back.
"Fawkes?" I asked myself as I turned back to Twilight and Nyx. I found the key and opened the door, waking them up.
"Who's there?" Twilight asked with fear. I turned off the cloak of my suit.
"Miss me?" I asked as I took off my helmet.
"Steel? How did you find us?" Twilight asked as she hugged me, making me blush from the embrace. I slowly and awkwardly returned the embrace.
"I-I couldn't just let them take you." I said with a blush still evident on my cheeks.
"But how did you get in here? The whole place is heavily guarded." Twilight asked as she pulled away from the hug.
"l walked in." I answered her. She looked at me with a straight face while Nyx found my answer funny.
I looked to the cell next to this one and decided to let him out.
"Hey buddy, you awake." I said as I got closer to him.
"It's been awhile, old friend." He said as he sat up on his bed and looked at me.
"Too long." I said as he stood up and cracked his knuckles.
"How many?" He simply asked.
"Fifty guards in total, forty outside and the other ten in here. I've taken out two on the way here, I've also set up a few bombs in some critical looking areas." I said as I showed him the detonator.
"What about the storage room, they put my stuff there when they captured me." He said as Twilight and Nyx just stood there looking at us.
"Armory is a few doors to the south, two guards posted at the door." I said to him as we all walked towards the door, passing by the corpse of the guard.
"How's the wasteland doing after my capture?" Fawkes asked us.
"The wasteland isn't a wasteland anymore. Trees grew, allowing more plant life to grow around." I said as I opened the door and saw the two knocked out guards in front.
We walked over them and continued on south of the hallway. We stopped as we saw the two guards in front of the storage room doors.
I took out my old deathclaw gauntlet and activated the cloak as I walked towards them. Once I was close enough, I stabbed one of them in the face with the gauntlet as I took his knife to stab the other one.
I looked back at Fawkes and signaled them over. We went inside the storage room and let me tell you, it looks more like an armory except there's food crates here and there.
Fawkes found his Gatlin Laser and Charge pack. He made sure that it was fully loaded and walked out. I looked through a few boxes, finding some Nuka-Cola, five scrap metal, three fission batteries and twenty .44 caliber revolver rounds.
I could tell that Twilight and Nyx are still shocked from seeing somepony get killed. I sighed as I felt guilty for making them witness it. After I finished looting, we left the storage room and made our way towards the main room for the exit. As we arrived at the main door, I looked over to Twilight and Nyx.
"You two hide somewhere, me and Fawkes will clear the area." I said to Twilight, gaining a nod as she found a closet and hid in there.
I looked at Fawkes as I took out the detonator.
"Ready for a fight?" I asked him, gaining half a smirk due to half of his lips are gone. I pressed the button, making the charges go off and the power to go out.
"Always." He said as he kicked the door off it's hinges and ran to cover as the Enclave started firing. I took cover behind a large crate and loaded up my hand cannon. I leaned out of cover as I activated the V.A.T.S and targeted six Hellfire Troopers. I pulled the triggers and I could see my Pip-boy light up with a message reading, 'Bloody Mess'. As the bullets hit each of them, they exploded in a mess of blood, limbs and organs. I ran up to one of the remains of the hellfire troops and picked up the heavy flamer, then started shooting at the rest.
"Imprison me will you?!" Fawkes shouted in rage as he mowed then down with ease. I could feel my Jaw drop as he walked through their gun fire like nothing as he kept firing, killing thirty of them. The remaining six tied to shoot him with Plasma rifles but only made Fawkes shout at them.
"Don't make me laugh!" He shouted as he fired and killed the remaining troops. I ran back towards Twilight and Nyx, telling them that we could leave now. I asked Twilight to cover Nyx's eyes as we walked through the bodies of the Enclave.
Fawkes waited by the door and kicked it open. He was greeted by the clear blue sky and the forest.
"Freedom!" He shouted in pure joy as he dropped his gun and raised his arms in celebration as he kept shouting.
Two hours later Location: Ponyville, outskirts of town
After finding Dogmeat guarding my power amor, I got in the armor and began our trek back to Ponyville. On the way Fawkes has been so enthralled with the plant life and animals in the forest, Twilight told him everything she knew about the plants of the forest.
We finally arrived back in Ponyville and was greeted by Celestia and Luna.
"Steel, what happened?" Celestia asked, knowing that it was me in the armor. I took off my helmet and looked at her.
"The Enclave remainings attacked, but they're no longer a threat to anyone anymore." I said as I looked over to Fawkes. Luna saw Fawkes and gasped in surprise.
"Fawkes?" Luna said, gaining his attention.
"Do my eyes deceive me? Little Luna, is that you?" He said with half a smile.
"Yes it's me, Fawkes." Luna said, giving him hug.
"First Liberty and now Fawkes." Celestia said as she walked over to Fawkes and joined her sister in the hug.
I looked over to Nyx and saw her standing by herself. I walked over to her and knelt down to her eye level.
"Are you okay, Nyx?" I asked her, worried that I might have scarred her.
"I was scared, that they were going to keep us there. Why would they do that?" She asked as she started to tear up. I stood up and got out of the power armor.
I knelt back down and gave her a hug to calm her down.
"You don't need to be scared, as long as I'm here, I'll keep you, your mother and everypony in this town safe, even it mean that I have to sacrifice myself." I said to her in a soft tone as I held her. I could feel my Spec op top getting wet in her tears. I picked her up and stood up.
I looked over to Celestia as she was talking with Fawkes.
"Celestia?" I said, gaining her attention.
"I need you to take my power armor back to the Vault, I need to go to the hospital." I said, she nodded and grabbed the power armor with her magic and walked to the Vault with Luna and Fawkes.
I walked to the hospital with Nyx in my arms as she cried. I sighed at my predicament, who knew the Wanderer would be comforting a filly.
PoV: Steel Breaker (The Lone Wanderer) Karma: Neutral Location: Megaton, Springvale, Capital Wasteland Time: 1:00 P.M
After leaving the two fillies at the clinic and talking with Sheriff, I started studying the bomb in the center of town.
"You best not be touching that." I heard Simms say behind me.
"I can disarm it, for two hundred caps that is." I said turning to look at him. I saw the look of surprise he had when I said I could disarm it.
"Alright but you get your pay afterwards." He said as i turned to look back at the bomb. I looked around for a panel but remembered that this is a communist bomb, so I kicked the bomb as hard as I could, earning a shout from Sheriff but I ignored him as I looked at my Pip-boy and saw the message that said 'Bomb Disarmed'.
"Done." I said as took a step back. Simms looked at the bomb, then at me, then back to the bomb and back to me, fortunately I'm not the bomb, that would've been weird.
"How did you-" I held a hand up to stop him from asking.
"I really don't want to try to explain how I did that." I said to him, gaining a nod from him as he took out a bag of two hundred caps and gave it to me.
"Hell, I'll even give the house up on the hill as a gift." He said, throwing me a key.
I put away the bag and key, then went back to the clinic to check on them. Once their, I saw that the both of them are finally awake.
"You're awake good." I said, gaining their attention.
"Who're you?" The older one asked as she got into a defensive position.
"The stallion who saved you from being carried away by the sand storm and brought you two here." I said, crossing my arms as I looked at them.
"You're the one the doctor was talking about?" The younger one asked me.
"Yeah, I paid him with all my caps to help you two. Just don't make me regret it." I said to them.
"So, what were two young fillies doing out in the wastes?" I asked them. They both looked at each other and the younger one motioned for her sister to explain.
"We're looking for our father. He left the Vault without telling us why and caused everypony in the Vault to riot. We barely made it out before they caught us." The older one said.
"Have you seen our Dad? Or know where he might be?" The younger one asked. I put a finger to my chin in deep thought and snapped my finger as I remembered the prick in the bar.
"No but there's a griffin named Moriarty, he owns the saloon here. I'll take ya to him." I said to them. They both got up and walked out the door behind me.
I guided them to Moriarty's and went in. Once inside, I took notice of a pony Ghoul smacking a radio while repeating the words 'Work, piece of shit.'
"I heard Three dog mention that the Super Mutants shot down the antenna while I was in Canterlot." I said, gaining his attention. The Ghoul sighed as he stopped hitting the radio and stood in front of me behind the counter.
"What can I get you?" He asked with fear in his voice.
"I don't need a drink, I came here for info." I said to him, he gave me a surprise look.
"Wait... you're not going to hit me? Yell at me? Not even berate me a little bit?" He asked me as the two fillies were waiting behind me.
"I'm not a racist, but that doesn't mean I'm friendly with the feral kind." I said to him.
"Well now. That's a surprise! I'm used to every asshole smoothskin in this town giving me shit just because I look like a corpse." He said with joy evident in his tone.
"Listen Moriarty'd have my head if he caught me selling at a discount, but for you, I'll risk it." He whispered to me as he took out a dirty glass cup and began to clean it.
"Speaking of him, I need to talk to him." I said to him.
"He's in the back. By the way, my name's Gob." He said as I lead the two fillies to the back room. I turned to Gob and gave him a two finger salute.
After entering the back room, I saw Moriarty sitting in front of his terminal, typing something in. I knocked on the wall, gaining his attention. He looked at us and stood up.
"Colin Moriarty, at your service! Welcome to Moriarty's! My saloon, my home, little slice of heaven in this backwoods little burg." He said with a small bow. I looked at the older filly and motioned her to ask him.
"We're looking for our Father and we heard that he passed by here." She said. Moriarty stood there, looking at the two of them.
"Well look at you two, you've grown so much." He said to them, earning confused looks.
"What? We never met you and we were born in the Vault." The younger one said.
"Is that what your father told you? That both of you were born in that hole? That HE was born there as well?" He said as he started to laugh. After he finished his laughter, he looked at the two fillies with a serious look.
"Your father brought the both of you to the Vault right after you were born. To keep you two safe, you see. I remember it well you stayed in my saloon, after all." He said, crossing his arms and sitting back down. The fillies had a face of pure shock due to what he said.
"You look shocked. You didn't think you were born in that hole, did you? Ah, Lords.... Know the truth, and it will set you free!" He shouted at the ceiling as he raised his arms up.
"Do you or do you not know where he went?" I asked him, he looked over to me.
"And who might you be, lad?" He asked me.
"My name doesn't matter right now. Answer the question, these caps should cover it." I said as I gave him all my caps. He opened the bag and smirked. He then looked back at the fillies.
"Your dad came through here, all right. Didn't stay long, though. Said he had some important business to attend to, and headed off to the city." Moriarty said as he leaned back on his chair.
"Something to do with Galaxy News Radio. Guess that'd be the place for you to start. Good hunting, and thanks for the caps." He said, turning his chair towards his terminal. He looked back at us with an annoyed look.
"You're still standing here, and I can't think why. You know where your father went. Seems to me you ought to be out searching the Wastes." He said to us.
After we left Moriarty's, I took the two of them to the front of Megaton.
"So, I guess this is goodbye." The younger one said. I shook my head at her and gave them a smirk.
"I'm not going to let you two head out there with out a proper guide. Plus, I was leaving anyway and I wouldn't mind helping out." I said to them.
"By the way, my name's Steel Breaker." I said to them.
"I'm Celestia and this is my sister, Luna." Celestia said.
"Tell me, have you killed before?" I asked them. They both gave me shaky nods.
"Good, then I don't have to show you how to." I said as I gave both of them a ten millimeter pistol.
We then started heading southeast towards the City ruins. We passed by the Super Duper Mart and I told both of then to stay put while I cleared the inside.
It didn't take long to get rid of all the Raiders inside and all I used was a kitchen knife. I activated the protectron just in case and grabbed some food, drinks and some guns for the girls.
I walked out the supermarket and saw Celestia and Luna sitting on top of a burnt down car. I walked towards them and gave them the purified water and some food with minor rads. They thanked me for the food and we continued on.
Me and Nyx have been waiting for the Nurse to signal us that it was fine to go see Spike. Nyx fell asleep in my arms, I didn't want to wake her up so I held on to her as she slept.
"Sir?" I heard a mare say in front of me, I looked up and saw an Earth Pony nurse.
"Allow me to escort you to Spikes room." She said, gaining a nod from me as I stood up carefully, trying not to wake up Nyx.
The nurse then lead me through a few hallways until we stopped in front of a door. She opened it and allowed me to go in.
Once I was inside, I saw Twilight holding on to an unconscious Spike. I walked up to her and moved Nyx a bit to carry her in one arm, then put a hand on Twilights shoulder.
"He'll be fine in a few hours or so, but I feel horrible. I didn't do anything to help, I was just to shocked to do anything." She said with a few tears flowing down her cheeks.
"Someponies would say what he did was stupid but I say what he tried to do was brave." I said to her. I found a few seats in the corner of the room, I grabbed one and sat down with Nyx still sleeping.
Spike started to stir, he soon opened his eyes and sat up with a loud yawn.
"Feeling better?" I asked him, making him look at me just before Twilight smothered him in a hug. I could hear Nyx was having some sort of Nigtmare, so I raised my hand and placed in on her forehead. I used a spell to change her dream to a better one and I could see that it work with the small smile she had.
After a while, a Nurse came in and gave Twilight a few papers to sign to release Spike and go home. After she was done, we made our way towards the castle and on the way, I could feel this new emotion. I feel like I should know what it is but I can't recall anything and I only feel when I'm around Twilight.
'I've lost the knowledge of my emotions and how they feel, maybe this is a good feeling.' I thought to myself as we arrived at the castle.
I held out Nyx for Twilight to pick her up and take her to her room, so she can sleep better. I then turned to look at Spike as he tried to scratch his arm inside the cast.
"Once you're fully healed up, I can teach you how to fight, if you want to that is." I said to him, he put a finger to his chin.
"If it means helping Twilight and Nyx when they need help, then count me in." He said as he held out his fist. I did the same and brofisted.
I heard the snoring of Dogmeat above me, I looked up and saw that Dogmeat has somehow climbed on to the roof and fell asleep on one of the pillars. Me and Spike looked at Dogmeat in pure confusion.
Dogmeat opened one eye and looked down at us. He laughed a little, making him slide to the side and fall down on top of me.
I glared up at him as he licked my face. I smiled as I started to pet him.
The nightmare, the talk and the wish of a survivor
"It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life." Revelation 21 6
PoV: Steel Breaker Karma: Good Location: <%=÷> Time: <eRroR>
I opened my eyes and was greeted by a blinding light.
"So, you're awake." I heard someone say to me. I knew it was, it was the fucker that took the purifier.
I stayed silent as Colonel Autumn shut off the light and moved out of the way, letting me see two tables with a variety of saws, shock baton, metal pipes etc.
"Let's keep this nice and simple. You're going to tell me the code for that Purifier, and you're going to tell me now." He said to me as he grabbed a metal pipe. I spat at him, making him back away in disgust. He then gripped the pipe, walked back to me and swung the pipe at my knee, breaking it.
I screamed in pain as he swung and it my other knee, he then threw the pipe away and looked at me. Even through the pain I managed to smirk at him.
"If that's all you got, then I got bad news for you." I said to him.
"I can't say I'm surprised. You and your ilk seem hell-bent on destroying everything our government has worked to achieve." He said, crossing his arms.
"Worked!? You government bastards didn't do shit to help. I know why you made the Vaults, I know their true purpose. You used the dwellers as Guinea pigs, testing them in enclosed environments." I sneered at him.
"I'll be honest. I'm running out of patience here, and I'm not looking to play games with you." He said, grabbing a shock baton.
"Who's playing?" I said with a smirk.
Autumn then shocked me, all I could do was scream in pain as he kept shocking me for five minutes.
"Tell me the code NOW!" He shouted as he put the baton back.
"Fuck you!" I shouted at him. I saw him grab a sword like machine. I recognizes it as he turned it on, making the blade spin.
"You tell me that code, or it's going to cost you." He said as he hovered the ripper over my right arm. My breathing started to rapidly increase as he lowered the ripper.
"Fuck. You." I said. Autumn looked at me and shook his head. He then brought down the ripper on my arm.
I woke up in cold sweat. I sat up and buried my face in my hands as I shook my head.
I lowered my hands and looked at my synthetic arm, giving it a few flexes. I sighed as I stood up and walked up to the balcony.
I sat down on the railings and looked over Ponyville. I sat there, looking at the night by myself, but turned around as I heard a dog whimper. I looked behind me to see Dogmeat looking worried at me. I gave him a small smile as I scratched behind his ears, earning his bark of approval.
"What do you think, boy? Is it time for me to end my suffering or is there more to be done in my life?" I asked him, earning a sad whine from him.
"I just wish things could've gone a little differntly, you know? Like Celestia and Luna still having a father to look after then, or if I could've convinced the Enclave to help restoring the wasteland without killing anyone." I said to him as I looked back out the distance.
"I never wanted to be like this, I wanted to live a normal life with my family but that dream is long fucking gone." I said, earning another whimper from Dogmeat.
"Don't get me wrong, you're family. It's just, I wish I had at least some time to tell them goodbye." I said as I felt a single tear go down my cheek. I wiped the tear away with my thumb and stared at it.
"Really, what I want the most right now, is a normal life or at least a normal-ish." I said as I flicked the tear off my thumb. I looked back at Dogmeat with a sad smile.
"You're staying here, aren't you?" I asked him, gaining what sounded like a duh from him.
"That's what I love about you, you're loyal, silly and all kinds of fun." I said as I got off the railing, bent down and hugged him. I could feel him nuzzling me as I held on to him. I let go and sat down next to him, allowing him lay down my lap. Throughout the whole thing, Me and Dogmeat were unaware of a certain lavender alicorn looking through the door of my room.
PoV: Twilight
I've been awake, trying to finish some of my paper work but stopped when I saw that I needed more ink. While heading to get more, I walked by Steels door and saw it open by a few inches. I could hear Dogmeat whimper along with Steel talking with him.
I know peeking in on somepony is not a princess thing to do, but I need to know what's going on. I walked up to the door and peeked through. I saw Steel and Dogmeat out on the balcony, I could faintly hear what Steel was saying but I heard something about 'ending his suffering'. I thought a little on what he meant and came up with one thing.
'Steel was thinking on commiting suicide.' I thought as I took a step back in shock. He really did lose his sanity.
I kept listening in and heard him talk about his family and how he never got to say goodbye. I could feel my eyes start to sting due to the tears forming in them.
I decided that was enough and hurried along to find some ink, to send the princesses a letter regarding Steel.
After finding out about Steel thinking about committing suicide, I sent a letter to the princesses about it and received a reply saying they'll check up on him the next time he sleeps.
Once the sun rose up, signaling me that it was morning, I tried to close the curtains with my magic but was to tired to do it. I sat up while rubbing the sleep out of my eyes.
I stood up and stretched, then went to put on some clothes before leaving to eat.
After putting on a lavender vest and some jeans, I went to the dining hall for breakfast. Once I arrived, I saw Steel, Nyx, Scootaloo, Spike and Dogmeat sitting in a circle on the floor, eating breakfast together. I saw Dogmeat sneak up on Steel's cereal while he wasn't looking.
Steel turned around and picked up his bowl with a grin.
"Not again, this is mine!" He shouted but was soon tackled to the floor by Dogmeat, making him spill the cereal. Dogmeat then started eating the cereal from the floor.
"Wow, he got you good." Spike said, laughing at Steel.
"Ow." Steel mumbled out. Dogmeat turned to look at him and walked closer to his face. He then started licking Steels face, much to Steels dismay.
"Ew, get off!" Steel shouted as he held Dogmeat up. Dogmeat then got back on the floor and sat between Nyx and Scootaloo. I looked back at Steel and saw him taking off his shirt and proceeded to wipe his face.
"Alright, enough playing around, you two need to get ready for school." Steel said, hanging the shirt on his left shoulder. I couldn't help but blush at the sight.
I knew Steel was fit and all, but..wow. He looks like some sort of super soldier I've seen in one of Spike's comic books.
Steel then turned over to Dogmeat, glaring daggers at him.
"Not cool." Steel said, earning a chuckle from Dogmeat. He then noticed me and gave me a smile.
"Morning, Sleepy head. Worke all night?" He said, earning a nod from me. I don't think he noticed the blush, that or he sees it and wont say anything.
"Morning, Steel." I said, acting calm and collected.
"You'll have to eat without me, I'm going to get another shirt and go to the forest." He said as he looked over to Dogmeat.
"You stay here, just in case." He said to the wolf. Dogmeat laid down and closed his eyes.
Steel then turned to the door and proceeded to walk out. Once the door closed, I heard Dogmeat growl. I turned over and saw him growling at me.
"W-w-what's wrong?" I asked, afraid that he might attack. He narrowed his eyes at me, giving me a look that said 'I know you that you know about something you shouldn't know.'
"Last night?" I asked him, earning a nod from him. I sighed sadly while placing a hand on my forehead.
"It wasn't on purpose, I walked by your room and saw the door open, so I let my curiosity get the best of me and try to see or hear anything." I said to him as he sat down.
"Is he really that depressed?" I asked him, earning a kinda motion from his paw.
He then pointed at the door and then at me. I looked at him in confusion, earning a sigh of annoyance from him. He walked up behind me and nudged me closer to the door.
"Talk to him? Wouldn't he be mad at me for knowing?" I asked him, now knowing what he meant.
I looked back at Dogmeat and saw him nod as he kept nudging me.
"Alright, if you think it'll help." I said as I opened the doors and went out, leaving Dogmeat in the dining hall.
I've managed to catch up with Steel but I'm still trying to find think of a way to talk to him. He walked through the entrance to the Everfree and walked towards the direction of the castle.
'Maybe he's going back to the Vault.' As soon as I thought that, he turned left and went off the dirt trail. I followed behind as he passed another line of trees.
I saw him turn right and I looked towards that direction, seeing a large lake. I wonder how I've never seen that.
I saw Steel look down on the river and sighed to himself. I got as close as I could without being noticed and I could see that he looked at his own reflection in sadness.
'Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence
Steel then laid down on the ground, facing the sky as he kept singing.
In restless dreams I walked alone Narrow streets of cobblestone 'Neath the halo of a street lamp I turned my collar to the cold and damp When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light That split the night And touched the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more People talking without speaking People hearing without listening People writing songs that voices never share And no one dared Disturb the sound of silence
He then sat up and looked towards the horizon, a few tears could be noticeable with the Sun light.
"Fools", said I, "You do not know Silence like a cancer grows Hear my words that I might teach you Take my arms that I might reach you" But my words, like silent raindrops fell And echoed In the wells of silence
He stood back up and looked toward my direction, smiling a little. He knew I was there, so I steeped out and heard him sing.
And the people bowed and prayed To the neon god they made And the sign flashed out its warning In the words that it was forming And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls And tenement halls" And whispered in the sounds of silence'
Once He was done, he wiped away his tears. He then turned to look at me and gave me a sad smile.
"Well now you know. The wanderer, the one who has made the world as green as it is today, the one who fights to protect anyone, has a suicide problem." He said, looking back at the lake.
"Why though? Why would you want to end yourself?" I asked, walking closer to him.
"I never wanted to live like this, I never wanted to leave my friends and family but nothing ever goes my way for anything." He said, not looking back.
I stood next to him and looked at his expression. He looked out the horizon with no emotion.
"I mean, I'm glad that I can finally live happily but it won't be the same for me. I've lived to long a life of violence, carnage and murder. Sometimes, I wish that I never came to Equestria in the first place, but then stopped because if I didn't, then nopony and no one would be here this day. So I learned to deal with the pain, but it kept coming back no matter how hard I tried." He said, letting loose a few tears.
"Then let me help you, please." I said to him.
"No one can help me, believe me." He said.
"Steel, let me help you, please." I begged him as I cupped his cheeks in my hands and turning his gaze to me.
"Please." I begged again. He closed his eyes and then nodded. I let go of his face and pulled him into a hug.
PoV: Steel Breaker Location: Vault 101, Everfree forest Time: 12:00 P.M Three days since deep depression
Well, my week could've been weirder than it was, thank the gods it wasn't. Twilight actually managed to convinced me in letting her help me and to be honest, I didn't regret it. She's managed to help me see that there are things left for me to do, a lot of things.
Lately I've been feeling weird whenever I'm around her though, it's not a bad kinda weird mind you. I feel, I guess the only word I could describe it, is amazing.
Andy suggest that I might be falling for her, of course I try to deny it but the more he explained it to me, the more I started to believe I was.
Enough about that, you want to know about the three days that have gone by. The day after Twilight got me to talk, she asked me to go get a few things from the market and I obliged, bringing Dogmeat along with me.
Little did I know that I was going to be pulled into a different world and finding out that the fucker who sent me here also made a token, just to piss me off. What was even creepier is that the voice in the token and the token itself was made by Vault-Tech. It was a bobble head and had the Vault-Tech recorded message.
After returning back, Twilight asked why I took so long and all I told her is that she wouldn't want to try to know.
The next day, Fawkes came to visit from Canterlot. He said the city looked great and all but the nobles were acting as of they had a stick straight up their asses, but Fawkes said that he did meet at least two nobles who weren't like the other and had become quick friends.
He came to talk about my 'problem' and I told him that Twilight has already started helping me with it. He was relieved that I had trusted someone else with my problems. Andy told him about me falling for Twilight, making Fawkes start telling me how it is completely normal to feel love but not know it.
I tried to ignore them as I worked around the Vault trying to fix a few things. I've also had Nyx and Scootaloo visit me a few hours after Fawkes arrived and I had asked them why they were here, to which they answered because.
I've gotten to know more about Nyx and Scootaloo, like for instance, Nyx is much like Twilight minus the whole studying is more important than friendship. Scootaloo is almost exactly like Rainbow in almost every aspect, except she...well, she couldn't fly.
She had thought that it was that she didn't knew but a quick trip to the hospital changed that. She had suffered severe damage to her wings, not allowing them to grow to the amount of damage.
She cried for hours as I held her to comfort her and I knew I had to fix this for her in anyway I could, via by magic or technology, even medicine. So I've been trying to come up with a solution but to no avail.
Even today I've been in the Vault looking for something, anything that might help. The room I've been occupying was covered in notes of some of the things that would go horribly wrong.
I've crumbled up another piece of paper and buried my face into my hands. I sighed in defeat, knowing that I wouldn't be able to help her.
I heard the door open behind me. I looked back and saw Twilight with a worried look.
"Steel, you've been in here for almost two days! You need to take a break." She said, earning a sigh from me.
"I know I can help her, but I don't know how." I said to her.
"I know you mean well but working for two days straight without rest could end up horribly." She said as she walked up to me and placed a hand on my synthetic shoulder. I placed my left hand on top of hers as I sighed.
"I know, but I get the feeling I had something for this, but I can't remember." I said to her. She looked at me in confusion.
"It was something I had came up with when Luna had crippled her wings in an incident." I said to her.
"Then maybe we should look in your memories?" She asked, taking a chair and setting it up next to mine.
"Are you sure? The Wasteland was a cruel place, do you really want to see that just to help me?" I asked her.
"Well, I get to help two ponies by doing this. The first is that I get to know what you went through and the second is that we get to help Scootaloo in the process." She said with a bright smile.
"Alright, hold my hand to activate the spell." I said, holding out hand for her. She did so and placed hers on top of mine and took hold of it. I blushed a little, barely noticeable thank you sneak!
I then activated the spell, sending us both to The Capital Wasteland through my memories.
Memory#2: Metro tunel to GNR Time: 6:00 P.M A few hours after The Lone wanderer left Megaton with Celestia and Luna Follow in his Hoofsteps
I opened my eyes and took notice of my surroundings, seeing a broken down train, the tracks blown off or buried under the rubble and a few clicking noises ahead of me.
I looked next to me and saw Twilight wearing the Merc adventurer outfit. She looked around and then back to me.
“Where are we now?” She asked.
“Old Canterlot Metro tunnels, if I recall correctly, I made it here with Celestia and Luna in tow after leaving Megaton.” I said, looking at my Pip-boy.
I searched through the inventory and took out a shiskabob. I flicked a small switch and caused the blade to erupted in flames.
“Pretty cool, huh.” I said to Twilight as I walked ahead.
“Also a little warning, this may be my memory but with the Pip-boy connected it makes it a simulation for the both of us, meaning when there's danger stay behind me at all cost.” I said to her, earning a fearful nod from her.
“Don't worry, I'm not going to let anything happen to you.” I said, looking around the corner.
Around the corner, the central station could be seen and few Raider bodies littered the floors with Feral Ghouls eating from them.
“The simulation stops once the memory begins, so we have to get out of here.” I whispered to Twilight.
“Okay.” She whispered back. I told Twilight to stay put as I handled the Ghouls and ran towards them, sword blazing.
One of the few Ghouls let out a screech and attracted the rest, only making me smirk at the fun that I'll have.
The Ghouls charged at me, only to get set on fire or stabbed by the sword. As I kept slicing the Ghouls in front of me, I heard more behind.
I quickly took out a 10mm pistol as I held the sword in my right hand. I focused at the Ghouls behind me and saw six of them, I targeted all of them and fired, killing them. I looked back at the ones in front of me and pistol whipped the nearest one, making bone crushing sound with each hit.
I looked over to the last one and pointed the sword at it. The sword fired a torrent of fire at it, consuming the Ghoul in the flames.
After that was done, I put away the sword back into the Pip-boy and walked back to Twilight.
Once I got to her, I saw that she was frightened by the Ghouls or by what they looked like. I looked at the corpses and saw the majority of them were ponies but there was at least three Griffins, Minotaurs and Zebras.
“What happened to all of them? What made them this?” She asked.
“This was a result of large exposure to radiation. Most common effects are death and being turned into them.” I said to her.
“There are some who keep their reasoning and sanity but are always outcast for being a Ghoul.” I said as I walked up the broken escalators with Twilight following behind.
“Do you do the same to them?” She asked me, making me stop and look at her.
“I may be the stallion who's gone through hell and back, the one who has killed an entire town full of slavers but one thing I'm not is a bigot.” I said to her.
“Slavery is legal?” She asked.
“Out here, everything is legal.” I said to her as we walked up to the gate of the surface. My Pip-boy lit up, signaling the memory begins outside. I opened the gate and held it open for Twilight to go through.
Once outside, the my Pip-boy emitted a pulse of some sort. I shook my head as I saw Celestia and Luna.
PoV: Steel Breaker (Lone Wanderer) Time: 6:00 P.M
“Are we nearly there yet?” I heard Luna ask for the tenth time.
“No, so keep walking.” I said with an annoyed tone. It's five hours since we left Megaton and had to go through the Metro but luckily the walk through the metro wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.
“Steel?” I heard Celestia ask as she walked up beside me. I looked at her as we rounded up a corner.
“How old are you? You seem to know a lot about the wastes yet you don't even look like you're in your thirties.” She said.
“I'm eighteen, is that a problem?” I said to her.
“No it's just, you look and act older than your actual age.” She said, earning a sigh from me.
“I wasn't alway like this really, I used to be energetic guy but that was a long time ago.” I said as I faintly see the sunlight reflecting off of something. The closer we got the more I could see what it was.
It was a Brotherhood of Steel Paladin wearing the Power armor. I could see that he was talking to someone else and saw that it was another member, a blonde colored mare wearing Power armor and holding the helmet under her arm.
“Hey! Stop right there, civilian!” I heard someone followed by the Luna screaming. I quickly turned around and saw who it was but grabbed the arm of his armor anyway. I pulled him towards me and headbutted him as hard as I could.
He soon dropped to the floor like a ton of bricks, knocked out cold. I felt something wet go down my forehead. I put my hand up and touched it, then lowered my hand to look at it. It was blood, damn.
“What the fuck did you to him!?” I heard a mare ask as I turned around.
“Self defense, you don't just force civies to move out of the way against their will. I taught him a lesson to not fuck with me and so should you.” I said to her.
“Strong words from a stallion with no armor.” She said, crossing her arms.
“Who needs armor? I've went in the Deathclaw nest and came out fine.” I said, taking out a few Deathclaw hands as proof.
“You all rely on your armor. Take way your armor and what are you? Sitting fucking ducks.” I said to her, making her back away a bit.
“So you're the pony Three Dog’s been talking about, ‘The Lone Wanderer’.” She said as the rest of her squad surrounded the knocked out one and picked him up.
“It's wanderer for now on.” I said, gesturing behind me.
“I'm helping these two find their dad. Moriarty said we could find him at Galaxy News Radio, so that's where we're heading.” I said.
“Sorry but no can do-” I interrupted her.
“You're getting your asses handed to you by the Super Mutants surrounding the building, you need my help.” I said to her. She sighed in defeat.
“Fine but you also have to keep an eye on those two.” She said as she took the lead and walked around a building towards GNR.
“How did you do that?” I heard Luna ask.
“Do what?” I asked, turning to look at her.
“You knocked the one guy out in one go and convincing the lady to help us.” She said.
“The first is that sometime you have to know when to use your head and for the second question, I can talk my way out of a fight if needed to.” I said, following the Mare. Celestia and Luna took out their assault rifle I got them from the Super Duper Mart.
Once we caught up with them, we saw that they were taking heavy fire from the Mutants.
I quickly took out a tin can filled with Nuka-Cola Quantum, Abraxo cleaner and turpentine, pulled the pin and chucked it at the group of mutants.
Once it landed between them, they look down at it and one of them picked it up, but blew up along with the rest of them.
“And that's how you get shit done!” I shouted as the Mare from earlier glared at me.
We went through the broken building and saw a large building with the letters GNR on the side. I saw some Paladins shooting at the Super Mutants, who where oblivious to us being behind them.
I took out my palsma pistol and focused at the two Mutants at the door. My eyes then glowed green as I saw a heads up display of the V.A.T.S
Super Mutant Head: 50% Torso: 98% Both arms and legs: 43%
I targeted the torso as it had a higher chance in melting him then focused at the other.
Super Mutant Gunner Head: 60% helmet -30% Torso: 79% Both arms and legs: 88%
I targeted both it's legs and fired at the both of them. The first Mutant had a hole through his chest and was bleeding out like a broken pipe.
The second Mutant was crippled and fell to the floor as he screamed in pain. I walked up to him and shot another plasma round at him, killing him.
The Paladins soon stormed out the building and provided support to the GNR building.
It didn't take long to kill them all, due to catching them by surprise. Once over, I walked up to Celestia and Luna.
“Good shooting you two.” I said to them.
“Thanks.” Luna said, reloading her assault rifle.
“How did you get them without missing?” Celestia asked.
“I have this ability that acts like the Pip-boy's V.A.T.S but it's my eyes that does it.” I said, pointing at my eyes.
I heard someone walk up behind me.
“That was some nice shooting, sir.” I heard the mare from earlier say.
“Yeah..thanks.” I said, still angry at the way she acted earlier.
“I'm Sentinel Lyons, squad Leader of the Brotherhood Sentinels.” She said with a salute. She waited for me to introduce myself.
“Earn my respect and then I'll tell you my name.” I said, walking past her and heading towards the door to the building.
I passed by an enthusiastic Paladin rookie who was sent to check around the bus. I was at the door when I heard a loud roar.
“BEHEMOTH!!” A Paladin shouted as the bus was sent flying, killing a few Paladins, including one with a fat man. I ran up to the Fat man, grabbed and aimed but was smacked to the nearest wall by the Behemoth.
I screamed in pain as I saw a iron bar sticking out of my side. I looked around and saw that the Fat man was sent flying and landed near Luna.
Luna decided to run up to the Fat man and grab it while the Behemoth was fighting other Paladins. Luna aimed the launcher but the Behemoth saw this and ran up to her as she fired.
The Nuke hit the Behemoth straight in the torso, creating a small mushroom cloud of blood and gore. I saw that Luna was sent back to the wall and hit it hard, I could swear I heard some of her bones breaking.
I grabbed the pipe and ripped it out of my side, then stood up. I then ran up to Luna as Celestia did the same.
“Luna!” We both shouted as we got to her.
I used the V.A.T.S to see if she had crippled anything and saw that she had severely crippled her wings. Celestia saw this and held her sister close as she cried in pain.
“What happened!?” I heard Sentinel say as she ran up to me.
“Do you have any medicine to help her!?” I shouted, wanting to help Luna. Sentinel crouched down and took a look at her wings. She looked at me and shook her head.
“No, her wings are damaged beyond repair.” She said as she stood up.
“No, there's one way but it's a stupid idea.” I heard a stallion say behind me as I heard the stomping of Power armor.
I looked back to see a fully armored stallion holding his helmet under his arm.
“What?” I asked him.
“Timberwolf saliva, it has an extreme healing factor when applied to anything, wounds, crippled limbs even bullet holes. But the catch is that the wolf has to give it to you for it to work.” He said. I stood up with a look of determination.
"Then that's my next thing to do.” I said as I turned to look at Celestia.
"You stay here in the building until I get back. I'm not letting Luna stay like this.” I said to her. I knew what I had to do, I had to somehow find and convince a Timberwolf to help.
PoV: Steel Breaker (Present) Memory#2
As my past self walked by us, I looked at Twilight and saw that she also knew what to do.
"Dogmeat.” We said simultaneously as I disengaged the spell and sending us back to reality.
I opened my eyes and was blinded by the rooms light. I rubbed my eyes, then looked at Twilight who was doing the same.
"Dogmeat is at the Castle. Hold on.” She said as she teleported us in a flash of light.
Once I got rid of my temporary blindness again, I went to look for Dogmeat in the throne room.
Once there, I saw Dogmeat sleeping in a corner with Nyx and Scootaloo beside him.
I walked up to him as he opened his left eye and looked at me.
“I need your help.” I said to him, earning a loud yawn from him as he carefully stood up.
I heard someone run up behind me, so I turned to see who it was and saw Twilight holding a small plastic cup. She gave me the cup and I turned back to look at Dogmeat.
“I need some of your saliva, this is really important.” I said, holding out the cup for him. He spat in the cup once, then spat again, making the spit glow amber yellow as it turned into a gel like substance.
I walked up to Scootaloo and shook her awake.
“Huh?” She said as she opened her eyes.
“I got something to help you.” I said, holding out the cup.
“For what?” She said in a tired tone.
“You'll see.” I said with a smile. I motioned her to turn around and raised her shirt up to look at her wings.
I took a bit of the gel in me hands and started to apply it to the center of her back, in the area the wings are connected to.
“What is that? It feels cold and sticky.” She said, complaining about the gel.
“You don't want to know.” I heard Twilight answer. After applying the gel, I put her shirt over her wings and stood up.
“Done, it should finish up in half an hour, then you can clean it off.” I said, earning a confused look from her.
“Scoots, it's for your wings, the gel can heal your wings.” I said, earning a wide eyed stare of disbelief.
“You mean-” She didn't get to finish as I crouched down.
“Let's see first, then we'll find a flight teacher for you.” I said. She tackled me in a hug on to the floor amd cried in tears of joy.
I smiled as I put my arms around her and hugged her back. For the first time in my life, I swore I felt the love of a father for her.
War. War never changes. Since the dawn of humankind, when our ancestors first discovered the killing power of rock and bone, blood has been spilled in the name of everything: from God to justice to simple, psychotic rage.
PoV: Steel Breaker (Lone Wanderer Location: Outskirts of Canterlot City ruins Time: 8:00 P.M Quest Following: An Unexpected Friendship Quests Put on Hold: Following in his hoofsteps
After leaving Celestia back at GNR with Luna and the Brotherhood, I headed out the city and to the Scrap yard, hoping that it would be like the game.
On the way, I've passed by a few Raiders and engaged in a firefight with all of them. I knew I was losing time with the fights, so I decided to shoot any and every single Raider I come across before they have a chance.
Though looting some of them was worth the time wasted. I've taking a double barrel shotgun with incendiary rounds, an assault rifle with a rapid fire and makeshift grip, a Rock-et launcher with the words ‘FUCK YOU!’ written down on the side and a hundred caps.
After fighting, more like slaughtering, more Raiders I had sped up to get to the Scrap yard.
I had passed under a broken highway and two Brotherhood outcasts, I then arrived at my destination and I noticed that it had been getting darker.
I looked up and saw dark storm clouds covering the moon and heard thunder claps. I felt a raindrop on my muzzle and I had expected to feel the cold feeling of rain but got a few rads instead.
I ran towards the gates and kicked it open. I then noticed a small makeshift shack and kicked open the door, allowing me to take shelter.
Once inside, I closed the door and looked around the small room, seeing burnt books, scrap metal scattered through the floor and an overturned bed were the only this I could see in the dark, so I turned on the Pip-boy light.
What I saw was something out of a cell that belonged to an inmate in Alcatraz. A cabinet was hanging from the ceiling with two dead timberwolves hanging via rope.
I don't know or even want to know what kind sick fuck does this to a timberwolf.
I was taken out of my thoughts when I heard a small whine coming from the other side of the overturned bed.
I walked up to it and looked, finding a small Timberwolf pup shivering. I looked back at the hanging wolves then back to the pup, I had realized that this must be the child of the two dead ones.
It looked up at me with a fearful look as it carefully got and tried to back away.
I couldn't help but feel sad for the little guy, he lost his parents and know he's all alone and afraid. I knew how it felt to lose your family.
I crouched down and looked at him as his back was up against the wall. I could see that he hasn't eaten in a while and he was freezing.
Upon further inspection, I could see that he either broke his front leg or sprained it with the way he was standing. He had his left front leg up the entire time.
I took off my jacket and slowly moved towards him, but stopped as he gave another whine of fear.
“It's okay little guy, I'm not going to hurt you.” I said as I took out my holstered Plasma pistol and tossed it to the other side of the room. I looked back at the pup as he tilted his head in confusion.
I then began to walk slowly to him, he lowered his head as if expecting me to attack him and gave him my jacket as a blanket for him. He saw this and walked on it, spun a few time before laying down. He poked his head up at me as I smiled at him.
I looked through my inventory and took out a squirrel on a stick, then took the stick out of the squirrel and gave it to the pup.
I saw him lick his muzzle as he began to dig in. I noticed that he tried to put his left front paw down but kept pulling back up.
I took out a stimpak and some bandage wraps. He looked at me as I got closer.
“Your leg, I could help you with it.” I said softly as I held out a hand for him. He hesitated at first but placed his injured paw on my hand.
“This might sting a little.” I said as I carefully injected the stimpack, then wrapped the bandages around his leg after taking out the needle.
“You should be good in the morning.” I said as I began to pet him. He rubbed his head against my hand as I scratched behind his ears.
“I know how you feel.” I said, making him look at me in confusion.
“I know how you feel, losing your family and knowing you'll never see them again.” I said as I saw him look down as he started to tear up.
“I may not have lost them like you did, but I know I can't see them again, they probably think I'm dead.” I said as I wiped his tears away.
“So trust me when I say this, I know how it feel to know you'll never see them again.” I said as I embraced the pup. He nuzzled my neck and felt it getting wet. I let him go and got up, looking for a spot to sleep in.
I decided to use the mattress and took it out of the bed frame. I then placed it on the floor and laid down on it.
I closed my eyes ready to sleep but then heard the sound of something being dragged. I opened my eyes and saw the pup dragging his blanket closer to me.
I smiled as I grabbed the jacket and pulled it closer to help him. Once it was next to me he laid down on it and fell asleep as I kept petting him. I could faintly see a smile on his muzzle as I closed my eyes.
It's been an hour since me and Twilight came back and applied the gel to Scootaloos wings. After the half an hour was up, Scootaloo wasted no time in going to the nearest bathroom to wash it off.
Once she came back, I told her if she could spread her wings without feeling anything. She had said no and gave it a few flaps, resulting in her to slowly get her feet off the ground.
She saw this and cheered but feel once she did.
Twilight had gotten a letter a few minutes ago. Celestia had invited her and her friends over to Canterlot, to give Twilight’s friends the explanation they needed to know about me, she even gave is the tickets for the trip.
So without wasting anymore time we packed some snacks for the trip and left to gather the rest of the girls.
After gathering the rest of the girls, we finally arrived at the station and boarded the train. We then took our seats as the train departed the station.
“What was it that the Princess calles us for?” I heard Applejack ask.
“Hopefully for nothing dangerous.” Fluttershy said as I turned to look at them to my left.
“Celestia called us so she can explain more about me to you. She figured since Ponyville was attacked by the Enclave and the return of Liberty Prime, that you five need to know what the hell is going on.” I said to them.
“Speaking of which, what did you do to the giant robot?” R.D asked me as she poked her head from the chair infront of me.
“In the Vault, so don't worry.” I said to her. I looked at the chairs behind me, seeing Nyx and Scootaloo playing with Dogmeat.
I turned back to look at the view outside as it zoomed passed us. I closed my eyes, wanting to get some shut eyes before we arrive.
PoV: Steel Breaker Location: Canterlot Train Station Time: 2:00 P.M.
After taking a short nap, I was rudely woken up by the train stopping at the station. I gotten off and took a look at what I could see of Canterlot.
“It's weird seeing a remake of the City.” I said to myself. I felt someone putting a hand on my shoulder.
“Trust me, now that I've seen what it used to be, you're not the only one.” I heard Twilight said as the rest of her friends got off the train.
“Where to?” I asked them. Twilight smiled and led the way to our destination. On the way few guards were giving me questioning looks.
We finally arrived at the gate and the guards let the girls through but crossed their spears when I was about to go.
“Halt! State your business.” One of them said.
“Let him through, he's with us.” Rainbow said. The guards looked at the girls then at me as they raised their spears.
After passing the gate and entering the castle, we made our way to the throne room. On the way, we passed by a few nobles who had been giving us glares as the had their heads up high.
I groaned in annoyance as we walked up to a set of large double doors and opened them. We walked inside and I was blinded by the light of the sun which shone through the window. I looked through my inventory and pulled out a set of shades.
“Why wear those inside?” Rarity asked me.
“My eyes are a little too sensitive to the light when it's applied directly at them.” I said, gesturing my eyes.
After answering her question, I looked to the front and saw Celestia and Luna sitting on their thrones.
“It's good to see you again, Twilight.” Celestia said as she stood up and walked down.
“It's good to see you too.” Twilight replied with a smile as she gave a small bow while her friends were bowing at the Princesses.
“Dude, show some respect.” Dash said as she turned to look at me.
“I am.” I said to her, making her groan as she looked back to Celestia.
“Good to see you again, my little ponies.” Celestia greeted as she stood up.
“I'm older than you, Tia.” I said to her, gaining a small laugh from her.
“Yes, you are indeed. Anyway onto why I've called you all here.” Celestia said as I looked over to Luna, who was playing in her old Pip-boy ‘The Red Menace’.
I looked at her in confusion and decided not to ask as I felt a tap on my shoulder. I looked behind me and saw that it was a guard.
“All we know is that she's been trying to beat a high score.” The guard said as he turned back to his post. I remembered the time I played that game while stuck in the infirmary for two weeks and I managed to get the score of 10,000,001 points. I guess Luna took it as a challenge.
“You said it was time for us to know the truth about Equestrias past.” Twilight said as she looked over to me, making me smile a little at her.
“Twilight and Steel said it was a real shitfest.” Rainbow mentioned, earning a gasp from Pinkie.
“Profanity!” Pinkie shouted in outrage. I groaned in annoyance at the Fourth wall breaking mare.
“Pinkie, enough please. Or do I have to take out the Shock baton again?” I said as I crossed my arms at her. She looked at me with wide eyes and walked backwards as she slowly raised her hands.
“Thought so.” I said, knowing the last time she bugged me to the point I had taken out the Shock baton. I looked back at Celestia as she looked at me with a bemused look.
“As I was saying, it was about time me and my sister told you the truth about Equestrias past. The first being that their wasn't any unification, the pony tribes already lived together but the part on slavery was legit.” Celestia said, using the word I use to say a lot. I took out a small cap and flicked it at her.
“Legit my fur covered ass!” I shouted at her as she picked up the cap. She then placed the cap in between her cleavage, making me facepalm at that.
“Go on.” I groaned as I moved my hands down my muzzle.
“The slavery was real except it was the kind of slavery of kidnapping first and torture the poor soul.” Celestia continued as if nothing happened.
“Or hypnotized with the Mesmotron.” I mentioned out, gaining a nod from Celestia.
“Yes. There is also the fact that the land wasn't always as green and healthy as it is now.” Celestia said as some of her servants brought chairs for all of us.
“It still technically isn't.” I pointed out. The fact that all the plant life is made with the F.E.V and some of the serum I found in Vault twenty two with a friend of mine, made that very clear.
“The fact that it the plants around the world are have my own version of the Forced Evolutionary Virus infused in it, allowing the plants to live in an irradiated environment along with the inhabitants, who grew some sort of an immune system to the radiation.” I said in a matter of fact tone.
“Yes, I suppose that's true. Anyway, Equestria was a wasteland, with the first city ruins of Canterlot being named Wasteland Capital City while Equestria was infamously known as The Capital Wasteland.” She continued on with her explanation. I decided to look for an old recording crom Vault Tech.
I took out of my inventory and placed the tape in the slot of the Pip-boy.
“For those wondering, was there friendship, did it mean something? Watch this to see your answer.” I said as I moved my arm for them to see the screen.
After showing them a Vault-Tech presentation on friendship, the mane six minus Twilight, looked at me in shock.
“How can somepony treat anypony like that?” Rainbow asked me, earning a shrug as an answer from me.
“I've had a few real friends, a mare named Dead eye, known for her record of never missing a single shot. We had a couple of weird and wacky adventures, except for the Sierra Madre incident.” I said the last part mostly to myself.
“The Wasteland known as the Mojave--” I was interrupted by Rarity.
“Where Las Pegasus is loca-”
“INTERRUPT MY STORY AGAIN, RARITY! SEE WHAT HAPPENS!” I shouted at her, making her sit straight with a pale face.
“Anyway, the Mojave was a cruel and unforgiving wasteland filled with abominations. I needed something from the Mojave and she needed help, so we became partners. We've been through thick and thin, I just hope she got what she wanted.” I said, noticing a sad look from Twilight as I kept mentioning me and Dead Eye’s close relationship. It hurt seeing her like this. Heh, funny, I care about her, I'm beginning to think Fawkes and Andy are right.
“After I had finished my travels with Dead Eye and had heard about a large scale Civil war happening north of Canterlot, there I met a Griffin known as the Sole Survivor.” I began telling them a little bit about the Sole Survivor.
“You see, he was from Equestria before it went to tartarus. He was one of the lucky ones to gain entry to a Vault, unfortunately that Vault had gotten the orders to freeze all its inhabitants in Cryogenic stasis for the next two hundred years. I think, if I remember correctly, he and his wife and child were taken out of cryo stasis, but they only opened his wifes pod and tried taking their infant son. He saw his wife get murdered and his son foalnapped.” I said to them, earning gasps from the girls. Celestia and Luna looked down in sadness, already knowing his tragic tale.
“He awoke some time later and swore vengeance for his wife. After he got out of his Vault and headed down the main road, that's where he and I met. Guns pointed at each other, waiting for a single slip of the finger but nothing happened, no bullets, no rockets just us and a single tumbleweed passing by.” I said to them, earning a laugh from Pinkie.
“After holstering our weapons, I had asked him about his business out in the Commonwealth, the wasteland that took the city of Boston. He had told me that he was searching for the man that killed his wife and took his infant son, a Minatour Mercenary named Kellog.” I continued on with the explanation.
“In the end, not only he did find the Minatour responsible for the murder of his wife and overcame his rage, but he also found his son, not in the way he intended to to though.” I finished the summery of my adventures in the Commonwealth.
“In conclusion, The Wasteland is more of a fight or die place, I'm just glad I managed to make it a better place with their help and others.” I said with a smile as I gestured to Celestia and Luna.
“No one told me that we were having a guests over.” I heard someone say. I looked around and saw nothing, then something out of a jigsaw puzzle appeared.
“Discord.” Luna said with hate in her voice. Discord? The supposed God of Chaos?
Didn't matter as I took out Dead Eye’s Anti-Material Rifle and aimed it at him, causing him to yelp and hide behind Celestia.
“Point it away, Point it away! I'm too beautiful and pretty to die!” He pleaded behind Celestia as the latter stepped aside.
“You look like an abomination created by the F.E.V I need more info on why not pull the trigger.” I said in a calm tone as the girls just sat there with wide eyed stares and shocked looks.
“Because I am! You wouldn't know me but the other guy did, they called him the Vault Dweller! The Master created me!” Discord said as he hid behind a wall of sandbags.
“The Master? And his F.E.V? Then I guess you're good, I met a Super Mutant named Marcus created by the Master.” I said lowering the rifle.
“Yes, though it's a shame how he died but it had to be done.” Discord said as he appeared next to me wearing a black dress and blowing his nose in a tissue.
“Walking on thin line here, friend.” I growled at him, causing him appear near Celestia again as he placed the black dress in a floating trash bin. Once he placed the lid, the trash bin caught on fire.
“Right.” He coughed into his hand as he waved the ashes away with his other hand.
“Aunty!” A snobbish voice could be heard followed by the doors to the throne open.
I groaned in annoyance as the girls did the same, knowing who the voice belonged to. Me, because I have to explain everything again.
I've been ignoring everyone for the past half hour ever since this asshole showed up. He started rambling on about how we shouldn't even be here, that only royalty and servants were allowed in.
I've been sitting here, patiently and quitly while being in my happy place. Discord put on noise cancelling headphones and gave both Celestia and Luna two Advil pills.
“Can I just put a bullet between his eyes?” I asked out loud, gaining everyone's attention.
“No, Steel. You can't just shoot however you find annoying.” Celestia said while Luna stood behind her nodding towards my question. Celestia looked back and saw Luna whistling nonchalantly.
I knew the guy was a prick by the way Rarity made him sound like but this is much worse. I was pretty sure he directed his insults at me as I walked towards the door.
“Don't ignore, you peasant!” I heard shout as I felt an immense pain course through my back and was launched towards the wall.
I opened my eyes and was facing at an angry prince.
“You will listen to me, when I talk, you and your filthy friends don't belong in the castle.” He said, holding me up with his magic. I looked over to the girls as they got ready to help me but stopped as they saw my smirk.
“Really?” I said to him.
“Really.” He answered with hatred.
“Really!?” I shouted with maniac grin.
“Yes really!” He shouted back.
“Alright then.” I said before breaking his hold on me, shocking him as he staggered backwards. I didn't give a chance to recover as I grabbed him by the shoulder, pushed him down, making him bend over as I knee kicked his stomach, earning a loud caugh from him.
While he held his stomach in pain, I elbowed him to the ground, making him hit said ground with a very loud thud. Everyone including the guards wore shocked that I've struck royalty.
“Really? Because I don't think so.” I said, crossing my arms at him. He shakingly stood up and looked over to me with a heated glare.
“I will not be humiliated by the like of you.” He said, taking a sword from a nearby guard who he knocked down. He pointed the sword at me, making me chuckle as I took out my own.
It was Jingwei's shocksword, a griffin communist general from the Great war. As the name implies, it has electricity going through the blade, meaning depending on how weak the enemy is, the shock caused from the sword is enough to kill them.
I flipped the switch, earning a sudden buzz of electricity. Blueblood stared in awe, shock, fear and disbelief at the sword. He shook his head as he swung his at me, very uncoordinated I might add. I tilted the sword, allowing me to block his strike. The sword electrified his, scaring the hell out of him and making him pull back.
“What's the matter, afraid of a little lighting?” I said, placing my synthetic hand on the blade, causing the electricity to flow through my arm.
He looked at me with wide eyes but charged anyway, only to miss completely as I stepped to the right. I poked him with the sword, shocking him and earning a scream from him.
He swung the sword backwards but it stopped halfway as I used mine to block it. Luckily, my sword was positioned near the hilt of his, so I jabbed him again and swung my sword upwards, making let go of his as it flew upwards. I caught the sword with a bored expression.
I squeezed the hilt of it with the same strength I hold mine, causing it to break. I looked back at the Prince and took out a shock collar, placed it around his neck and set the voltage to the same amount as my sword. Once that was done, I crouched down at him as he looked at me.
“Behave, or else.” I said, about to earn a shout from him but the collar emitted a loud beep before shocking him.
“There's more where that came from, and it's magic proof.” I said with grin as I stood up and turned to look at the mane six staring at me in shock while Celestia sat silently with very unnoticeable smile of satisfaction and Luna was, well cheering out my name. I frowned as I had received a headache and proceeded to walk back to the door.
“If anyone needs me, I'll be somewhere quiet.” I said as I opened the door and walked out.
Twilight Sparkle
Only a few minutes after Steel left for some peace, Rainbow shouted on how awesome that was.
“And the sword! I need to get one of those!” Rainbow said, still gushing over the sword Steel used against Blueblood. Speaking of which, He had pleaded Celestia and Luna to lock him up and force him to release the collar.
“Enough! I will not imprison Steel Breaker for the act of Self Defense and I for one think that collar might be the only way to change your attitude.” Celestia said to her nephew.
“But but--” Blueblood stuttered.
“Shut up! You will wear that collar until I see that you act like a true prince, then the collar will be taken off.” Luna shouted at him. Celestia casted a spell at the collar, turning it invisible. Blueblood muttered a load of insults towards Celestia and Luna, resulting in Luna making a magical manifestation of a boot and kick him in the flanks.
During their discussion with Blueblood, I stared at the door the entire time, thinking if I should talk to him. I did noticed Celestia looking at me with a knowing smirk and walked towards me.
“Is there something between you and Steel? Or you're worried about him as a friend?” She asked me. I opened my mouth to answer but couldn't say my answer, I wanted to say that I cared as a friend but it felt...wrong.
‘But he's my friend, right?’ I mentally asked myself.
‘You are, but it seems like you want to be something more.’ I heard my other half mentally.
‘Do I really feel this way?’ I mentally asked again, earning another reply from the other half of my thoughts.
‘I'm apart of you Numbnuts, ask yourself that, not me.’ my other half said. I looked back to Celestia and saw her with a questioning look.
“Is something wrong, Twilight?” She asked me.
“I don't know.” I said in a low voice.
“What was that?” She asked me, raising an eyebrow.
“I said, I don't know.” I said to her, earning another confused look from her.
“Can we talk in private? I don't feel comfortable talking about this with everypony.” I said to her, earning a nod from her as she turned towards my friends.
“We'll be right back, Twilight and I must converse in private.” She said before teleporting us to her private study.
She grabbed two seats via magic and set them down behind us. We sat down and Celestia waited for me to talk.
“I...I feel like I want to be more than friends with him. It's just what if, what if he doesn't feel the same?” I said, feeling nervous and awkward with this conversation.
“How long have you felt like this? He hasn't been out for a month, yet he had managed to steal someone's heart.” She said the last part as a statement.
“I know, but-” I was interrupted when she placed a finger in my lips, making me quiet.
“I didn't mean it as a bad thing, in fact, I'm happy for you. You finally found somepony.” Celestia said as she pulled back her finger.
“But I've only felt like this for two days. How could I know of this isn't just some school filly crush?” I asked.
“Easy, just follow what your heart tells you.” She answered with a smile. I closed my eyes in deep thought and stayed like that for at least an hour or so.
5:57 P.M
I opened my eyes, knowing how I truly felt. But there's the part of what if he didn't feel the same.
‘What did Steel say? Worth a try.’ I thought as I looked around the study but didn't see Celestia. I found a note on her chair though, so I picked it up and began to read it.
“When you're reading this, Twilight, you'll notice that I'm gone. I can't just sit and wait for answer, so I went back to the throne room and told your friends that you needed to be alone for a while. Hope it turns out good for you!”
I sighed with a smile as I crumbled up the paper and remembered what Steel did a couple of days ago with my useless notes. I saw the trash bin next to Celestia’s desk.
I raised my arms up like if I was holding a ball and launched the ball of paper, making it hit the side of the bin before landing inside.
I smirked at my little victory and walked out the door. I casted a locater spell to find Steel and found him on a balcony. I walked towards his location.
Steel Breaker
After leaving the throne room for some alone time, I had walked through countless corridors and found a in the garden. Not going to lie, it bad quite the view of the nearby mountains, forests and Ponyville. I placed my arms on the railing as I leaned on them.
“What the hell.” I said to my recent feelings. I can't just fall in love with someone in the same month of my awakening, can I?
I pulled out a set of built in earphones from my Pip-boy and began listening to some music as I began to think on how I should feel.
I knew just the song to play as I watched the sunset. It looked like The Sky was on Fire. I banged my head to the beat of the drums.
‘How do I feel about this? This is the first time in a very long timeI've felt this way. The first being with Dead Eye, weren't friends forever, at one point we decided to test the watersso to speak.’ I thought as the singing began.
‘It was amazing, but I had to go back to the Capital wasteland, ending our short but amazing relationship.’ I then began to do some air drumming.
‘I feel like a dick.’ I stopped with a sigh as I wiped my muzzle of the sweat from the heat.
I heard the distant sound of the doors opening and closing afterwards.
‘Why? Why does everything have to be so difficult!?’ I mentally shouted as I pounded my fist at the stone railing. I the buried my face in my hands.
“Steel?” I heard Twilight’s angelic voice. I lowered my hands, taking the earphones along with them and turned to look at her.
“Yeah?” I asked in a quiet tone. I noticed that she had looked nervous and...is she blushing?
“I wanted to check if you're alright, you know, after the fight.” She said as she walked a little bit closer and stood beside me.
“I'm fine, though it wasn't the fight that made me go out here.” I mentioned, blushing a little myself from being this close to her.
“Oh, then what was it?” She asked, curious to know.
“...It's nothing.” I said, to nervous to say why.
“You can tell me anything, Steel, like I said a few days ago.” She said, putting her hand on my shoulder.
“It's nothing like that, just…” I tried to continue but to no avail.
“Remember Dead eye?” I asked, earning a nod from Twilight.
“I wasn't completely truthful. She and I were in a relationship for a few months.” I said, noticing the sad look Twilight had with the mention Dead Eye and me being in a relationship.
“W-what h-h-happened?” She stuttered out, trying to act like she's okay.
“I couldn't stay in the Mojave, I had to go back to the Capital. So, on the day of my departure, we broke up. She wasn't fond of the idea of me leaving.” I said with a sad chuckle.
“She tried crippling my legs for me to be forced to stay.” I said, recalling her tantrum.
“After that, I guess I felt like I've failed her. So, if me being in love with someone means breaking their hearts, I wasn't going to find love.” I said to her.
“But recently, I broke that promise with myself.” I said to her, earning her full attention.
“I've been wanting to deny it, but I..couldn't. It felt amazing, I couldn't just straight up deny and forget.” I said to her.
“Can I ask who it is?” She said in a hurt tone. I closed my eyes, thinking if I should tell her.
‘Fuck it.’ I thought as I kissed her. Her eyes grew to the size of dinner plates but kissed back. I wrapped my arms around her as she wrapped hers around my head.
I pulled away, taking a few breaths of air as I looked at her beautiful lavender eyes.
“It's you.” I answered her question. She teared up as she smiled at me. She put a hand over her mouth in surprise to the revelation and tackled me, sending us both to the floor as we began to kiss again
??? Location: Unknown
“Sister, I know you mean well but war isn't the answer. We need to make amends to the ponies.” I said to my older sister.
“Shut up, Chrysalis! You have failed in taking control over Equestria. Now, I'm going to show you how it's done.” She said at me as she began to assume control over my hive.
“War won't help my changelings in their time of need!” I shouted in outrage towards her.
“Your changelings? You're not a queen, queens don't fail, they don't try to make amends with the enemy!” She shouted as she snapped her fingers, signaling two guards to arrive.
“Take her away, she has failed you all.” My sister said to them.
“You can't catch what's not here!” I said before being engulfed in green light and teleporting myself to the town near Canterlot.
I appeared only a few feet in the air and dropped to the ground hard. I shakily stood up in pain and began walking towards the town.
‘Please, please help us.’ I thought as I walked through the forest.
You know how it feels to be complete? To feel as if the emptiness inside of you to just vanish? Because that's how I felt the entire time.
After confessing my feeling to Twilight, we've spent watching the rest of the sunset, enjoying each others company. Once the sun was gone, leaving the starry night sky to appear, it was time for us to head back to Ponyville.
While walking back to the throne room to get the rest of the girls, Twilight had asked me if it was okay to tell them. I wasn't too keen on telling anyone about my life but I had to accept that my way of living isn't compatible with the world and told Twilight it was fine if she did.
As we arrived at the throne room doors, I opened one of the large doors and held it open while Twilight walked in. I waited out of the room, trying to wrap my head on the fact that I had confessed my feelings to her.
I waited for only five minutes and the girls walked out of the throne room. Then we started walking back to the train station and on the way, Applejack and Rainbow have been giving me threats such as if you hurt her, we'll find you and teach you a lessonand so forth. I kept replying with the same sentence of Then I'll gun you down before you even have a chance.
I said it as a joke but those two took it seriously and backed away. I had to tell them it was a joke.
Once we arrived, we boarded the train to Ponyville immediately and waited for our stop.
Half an hour of sitting and doing doing nothing had been taking a toll on everyone, they all fell asleep only five minutes into the ride.
I looked over to Twilight and sighed, knowing that I've lied to her for the longest time.
‘Just wait another day, then come clean. For her.’ I thought as I stood up and walked out of the cabin and climbed to the roof of.
I sat down, enjoying the cool night breeze as the train kept going at its normal velocity.
‘I‘m not like the rest.’ I thought as I looked up at the night sky.
2,000 years ago Capital Wasteland, Canterlot City scrap yard 10:00 A.M.
I woke up with sunlight shining in my eyes, which hurts early in the morning and sat up with a loud yawn. I took notice of my surroundings and remembered the timberwolf pup I found.
“Speaking of which..” I said, trailing off as I saw the pup in question, sleeping happily next to the old mattress. I began to pet him to wake up.
I earned a dog's equivalent of a purr as I scratched behind his ears. He opened his eyes and started pounding his back leg onto the ground rapidly, meaning that he was enjoying the attention I was giving him.
After I stopped petting the pup, he stood on all fours and shook his head, probably to make sure he stays awake. Once he stood off my jacker, I picked it up and dusted it a bit.
After putting my Jacket on, I took out a Brahmin steak for the pup and a fresh apple for me.
“Hey?” I said, gaining the pups attention.
“You want to come along with me? I don't feel right leaving you here and you're just too cute.” I said as he tilted his head and blinked a couple of times.
“So, what you say, friends?” I said as I held a my hand out for him. He looked at my hand then back to me and placed bandaged paw on my hand while letting out a happy bark.
“You're smart, you know that?” I asked to which he nodded back and finished eating his breakfast. Once I was packed and ready to go, I picked up my plasma pistol and holstered it.
I then carefully picked up the pup and walked out. As I walked outside, my vision was obscured by green letters saying Level up, 19.
I stood still for a bit and checked my Pip-boy without disturbing the pup. I had sixteen unspent skill point for my S.P.E.C.I.A.L. list and placed it in Science, now giving me a total of seventy science. I had the rest of my skills on fifty, I was more focused on the science.
I was then sent to the perk screen and looked through a large selection of perks. One of the perks caught my eye, Adamantium Skeleton.
Adamantium Skeleton: Damage taken by limbs reduced by 50%
I chose the perk and already felt tougher. I then headed back to the Canterlot ruins, back to G.N.R.
I had typed it a song I had heard a few months ago back home.
Is it weird that on the way back to Canterlot, I found a building with the letters Bethesda Offices? No, okay then.
“Do do do do, banana bus.” I sang to myself and the pup as I walked pass a Raider camp full of the corpses of the occupants.
I stopped as I found a sword, a fucking sword. I took it, not giving two shits if it needed repair, it's a fucking sword.
“Does pony know how to use sword?” A super mutant said as he stood next to his buddy. I had placed the pup inside a broken car, for safety.
“Pfft, what part of swish swish stab do you not understand? It's a fucking sword, dude, not a fighter jet.” I said as I charged at them.
11:16 A.M
Me and the pup were sitting in front of a small campfire I set up to cook some food in and made some Radrouche meat for the pup and a brahmin steak for myself.
I know what you may be asking, why do you eat meat if you're a pony? Well, I found out that I can still eat meat, I had both canines and molars.
“Hey boy, I think I have a name for you.” I said to the pup as he let out a burp and looked at me.
“How does Dogmeat sound?” I asked him. He looked down, in deep thought then gave a bark of agreement.
Finally entering the city after an hour of walking. We had to stop for lunch of course but that was just a quick ten minute break.
We entered one of the many metro tunnels and proceeded to walk the metro, killing Feral Ghouls on the way.
I was tackled to the ground by a Feral Ghoul Ravager and I had to push him off me as it tried to bite me. It was only a few inches away before I heard the sound of flesh being ripped open.
I opened my eyes and saw that Dogmeat, a little Timberwolf pup, had bit the neck of the feral Ghoul and tore it off, killing it almost instantly.
I pushed the corpse aside and looked at the now blood covered pup and smiled at him.
“Thanks, Dogmeat.” I said, giving him a pat on the head as I sat up. I looked around and saw a maintenance exit.
Another had gone by as I walked up steps towards the surface after getting passed Raiders, wondering Ferals and patrolling Super mutants.
Now, I'm in need of a resupply of ammo and some water. After a few turns and alley ways, I finally got back to Galaxy News Radio station and walked in.
Once inside, I was greeted by a barrel of a Gauss Rifle by Sentinal Lyons herself. Dogmeat growled at her, ready to attack.
“Is this the way you're going to treat me?” I asked but didn't wait for an answer.
“Where is she?” I asked her.
“Come with me.” She said, leading me towards a makeshift medical room with Luna resting on of the two beds while Celestia sat on the other.
Dogmeat walked in and saw them, though he looked at Luna the most. I think he knew why she was there.
Lyons was going to say something but I kept her quiet and pointed at Dogmeat as he found a way to climb up to the bed. Celestia saw this and was about to pull him away but I signaled to not do anything.
Dogmeat sniffed at the sleeping filly and noticed her crippled wing, then began to lick it. I chuckled at this but stopped as his saliva was starting to glow on her wing.
It then started to change, I saw that it wasn't bent the opposite way anymore and that she had her wing popped back into place.
I walked up to Dogmeat and picked him up. I turned him to look at me.
“You knew what you were doing, didn't you?” I asked with a grin. Dogmeat barked, making Luna wake up with the sudden noise.
“Hmmm, huh...why do my wings feel, sticky?” Luna said in a tired voice.
“Allow me to explain, my dear filly.” I said to her, earning a wide eyed stare from the filly.
I sat on the bed and began to tell them what happened while I was out. During the explanation my vision was soon covered in green words.
Quest: An unexpected friendship complete
The Present Ponyville
I had sat on the train car through the whole ride back. Once the train came to a full stop, I got back in before anypony noticed I was gone.
I entered the cabin as they started to wake up.
“Get your butts up, we're here.” I said, shaking their seats. Twilight was more trouble as she slept through the shake. I shrugged and carefully picked her up bridal style.
“Steel?” I heard Rarity ask.
“I'm taking her back to the castle, it's late, she's asleep and I'm tired as all hell.” I said as I walked out with Twilight in my arms.
The girls and I went our separate ways, obviously to their homes, me on the other hand, I was carrying Twilight back to her castle.
On the way, I swore I saw someone following us through the shadows. So I turned on the Pip-boy flashlight and saw who it was.
“Steel?” Her voice hasn't changed, she looks exactly like she did back at New Vegas. You may not know her but I do, she wore a royal like dress, only that it looked torn in some areas. Her chitin was like everyone else's, an ash grey color and her mane was a very light blue. She still wore the crown I found for her.
It felt like hours, staring at the woman in front of me. I didn't know how to feel. Happy to see an old friend or worried about my new relationship with Twilight.
Pushing those thoughts to the back of my mind, I shook my head and looked back at Dead Eye. I could tell she still could only look through one eye, seeing that her left eye has more pigmentation that the right.
“What are you doing here?” I asked her. She looked at me and then at Twilight.
“I was just about to ask you the same thing.” She said, crossing her arms.
“I live here. Now you answer.” I said. She sighed and looked down.
“I've lost control of them, Steel.” She said. My blood ran cold from hearing those words. How could she..
“My/Your sister.” We both said. Gods fucking damnit, the bitch doesn't stay dead, doesn't she!?
“Come on, we'll speak more inside.” I said as I carried Twilight inside the castle with Dead Eye following behind.
“Why is that you look like you haven't aged?” Dead asked me as we turned through a corner.
“Cryo stasis.” I answered. She got the hint and stayed quiet throughout the entire walk.
Placing Twilight in her bed, tucking her in and leaving the room quietly, didn't stop me from worrying.
Closing the door behind me and letting a torrent of blue fire consume me, I saw my fur change into chitin. The chitin around my body look like as if I was wearing armor under my clothes.
Once the fire dispersed, I looked at the changeling in front of me.
“Start from the beginning.” I said to her, earning a nod from her.
Morning
Morning came around rather quickly, that or I might've just stayed up all night repeatedly hitting myself on the wall. I can't remember but I'm sure it was the latter.
Chrysalis, that's what Dead eye goes by nowadays, had an older sister but a trip down the Long fifteen, separated them. And I'm sure being shot in the head and losing almost all of her memory didn't help the case.
When we finally found her, she didn't go by her old name but by Ulysses. Of course I pointed out that it was a stallion's name, only to get shot in the arm.
We scoured Big M.T, Sierra Madre and Zion canyon to look for her. We've suffered hell going through each and every one of them.
Big M.T was no exception. Not only did they stole some of our organs and replaced them with robot ones, but they had also mutated us into Changelings or as they liked to call us, Lobotomites.
Because of their massive amount of failures, they had treated us like mindless animals. Until I killed one of them.
Sierra Madre, a hell on Terra. The place was covered in a deadly red fog, breath too much of it and you can kiss your ass goodbye.
Getting off track, Me and Chris finally caught up with Ulysses as she was about to launch two nuclear warheads on New Vegas.
Killing her was like killing any other raider for me, but for Chrysalis, she was heartbroken. Seeing her sister die was hard for her but it had to be done.
Now here's where the Big M.T comes in. Apparently Ulysses knew that she would die and had transferred her self conscious into a Lobotomite.
“When is she going to strike?” I asked, feeling rage build up inside me. I can't live normally can't I!?
“Today, and in large numbers.” Chrysalis answered as she brought me a stimpack.
I took the stimpack and injected it, feeling the pain fade away in a matter of seconds. I was then covered in the blue flames again, this time leaving me like I was all those years ago.
I sighed as I saw the steel grey fur on my arm.
“You know, I never meant for it to be this way.” I heard Chrysalis say behind me. Turning my head slightly, waiting for her to elaborate.
“All this I mean.” She gestured at me and herself.
“I know, yet you kept blaming yourself.” I said to her.
“You know if I never found out about Ulysses, none of this would've happened and we would still be normal.” She said. I snorted at that.
“Normal? When has anything been normal?” I asked. She stayed silent.
I then heard the sound of hoof steps heading to the throne room. I looked at Chrysalis and saw her nod with a hint of fear. The doors opened and Twilight came through.
“Good morning, Twilight.” I said her with a small smile. She was still very tired from the look of her eyes. That soon changed after looking at Chrysalis for five minutes.
“W-w-what is she doing here!?” Twilight shouted with a bit of a slur at the start. She charged up her magic but stopped as she saw Chrysalis flinch.
“She's not here with ill-intentions. She need help and I'll gladly help an old friend.” I said to her.
“You're friends with her?” She said. I nodded at her.
“We've been friends since the Mojave.” Chrysalis said. I sighed as Twilight began to think a little before looking back at me with the face realization.
“She's…” She said, not able to finish her sentence.
“Yes, I am but I go by Chrysalis now. First, I want to apologize for what I did to Cadenza and your brother, along with the attack on Canterlot.” Chrysalis said, bowing at Twilight.
“And the second?” Twilight asked.
“I need help. My sister has taken over the hive and is now marching this way as we speak.” Chrys said as I walked out of the room.
Passing by Dogmeat through the hallway, he started following me, knowing that it's time for work. I needed to get to the Vault and get my things before anything else happens.
Twilight Sparkle
I heard the large doors open and close as I listened to Chrysalis. I didn't feel right, here I am standing in front of Chrysalis as she was requesting help from me, just knowing that she's Dead Eye worries me.
What if she still loved Steel Breaker? What if Steel still loved her!? I was taken out of my thoughts as I felt somepony shake me around.
“Sparkle!” Chrysalis shouted as she shook me around. I shook my head as she let go of my shoulders.
“Sorry, I-”
“Was thinking about Steel and me weren't you?” She asked. I nodded, shamefully. Her reaction was not one that I expected from her.
She laughed as if I told the most funniest joke ever for three minutes. She stopped and looked at me again before bursting out laughing again.
I spent the next ten minutes waiting in my throne for her to stop. When she did, she wiped a tear away from her eye.
“Hehe, I'm not interested in being with him anymore. As handsome and smart he is, we went our separate ways and through a week of thinking, maybe we weren't meant for each other.” She said, still laughing.
“So, you're sister holds a grudge against Steel?” I asked her. She nodded, finally calmed down.
“Yes, in fact these whole changeling thing was her fault.” She said, muttering the last part to herself.
“What do you mean by that?” I asked. She looked at me, realizing her mistake. She then sighed.
“The reason we are even here in this world is because of Steel and my sister, Ulysses. My sister always thought that by allowing another bombing with the few warheads would heal the world just as it destroyed it. Steel wanted to heal the world but in his way, bringing a new world along with it while my sister still believed that the Old World will prevail.” She explained. I was confused by this, what did all this have to do with changelings.
“We-we weren't born Changelings, we were mutated.” She stated in a darker tone.
“Before Chrysalis, I was Dead Eye, a pegasus courier of the Mojave. It was normal day, receiving a package I needed delivered and then get paid.”
Mojave Wasteland
I was supposed to deliver a very important package, a poker chip made of platinum. I had stopped by a small settlement named Good Springs for the night.
So I had rented a room for the night in the local bar, it did cost me almost all my caps but a bed is a bed right? Anyway, I was then kidnapped-
“Don't you mean Foalnapped?” I asked her, interrupting her.
“No, I mean kidnapped. Unlike you ponies, I'm not discriminating others.” She answered with a glare. I chuckled awkwardly, knowing Steel does it too.
“Can I continue?” She asked. I nodded to her.
Mojave Wasteland
As I was saying, I was Kidnapped and dragged to the nearby cemetery with a sack over my head.
When I regained consciousness, I had overheard a conversation from my captors.
“You got what you were after, so pay up.” A gruff voice said.
“You're crying in the rain, pally.” A suave voice said. Just by his voice, I knew that man was a prick.
By this time, one of them took off the bag from my head. I shook my head as I regained my vision.
“Guess who's waking up over here?” I looked over to the owner and saw that he was a minotaur.
I looked at the rest of them, seeing a stallion in Khan armor and a griffin with a checkered jacket.
“Time to cash out.” The griffin said as he threw his cigarette on the floor and put it out with his foot.
“Would you get it over with?” The Minotaur said.
“Maybe Khans kill people without looking them in the face, but I ain't a fink, dig?” The griffin said to me as he pulled out the same platinum chip I had to deliver.
“You've made your last delivery kid.” The griffin said with a smug look. He then placed the chip in his pocket and pulled out a weapon.
“Sorry you got twisted up in this scene.” I growled at him as he pointed his 9mm pistol at me.
“From where you're kneeling it must seem like an 18-carat run of bad luck. Truth is...the game was rigged from the start.” With that said, he pulled the trigger and the world went dark.
“And that's how I lost my memories. The only thing I could remember was my job and the griffin that shot me.” Chrysalis finished explaining.
“But...how did you become a changeling?” I asked her.
“Someone did this to me, I-I don't like to talk about it.” She said, now avoiding eye contact.
I was about to apologize but a loud explosion was heard and the ground shook with great intensity.
Me and Chrysalis ran outside as well as other ponies around town and saw a mushroom cloud the size of the Everfree castle coming from the forest.
I could see that Chrysalis was afraid, she took a step back as she muttered out incoherently.
Me and Dogmeat arrived at the Vault in only five minutes by running. Opening the large steel Vault door, hearing the alarm go off as the door screeched open.
Once the door was fully opened, Andy was waiting on the other side waiting.
“Good morning, Sir!” Andy greeted. I walked passed him, not wanting to waste time. Andy followed behind along with Dogmeat.
“Sir?” Andy said with worry in his tone.
“No time, someone I thought dead came back, again.” I said, sneering the word again.
“Ulysses? She's alive!?” Andy said with shock. I nodded as I punched the button for the elevator. Only seconds later, the doors opened with a loud ding and I stepped inside.
I pressed the sub-basement, that's where all my weapons and armor are, along with a few things that I found over the years.
The elevator dropped, I felt myself start floating up as if there was no gravity. Dogmeat, prone onto the floor, digging his claws onto the floor as the elevator continued while Andy wasn't affected.
Then without any warning, we stopped. I dropped back onto my feet as the door opened. Dogmeat pulled his claws out of the floor and ran out.
I flipped the switch for the lights, turning them on through the entire room that could be classified as a warehouse. Shelves upon shelves of loot, I had collected over the years around the Wastes.
But those weren't the reason I was here. Walking through the seemingly endless room until the shelves changed into weapon racks and armor stands.
I looked at the old T-51b Power armor and moved it out of the way and found my customized X-01 Power Armor. I had painted red with white stripes.
I saw something glimmer inside one the left shoulder pad.
Sticking my hand in and trying to feel the object inside. Feeling something that doesn't belong in there, I took hold of it and yanked it out.
I opened my hand and saw a talisman. I about to throw it away but stopped as I heard a familiar voice.
“My name is Jace Beleren, Master of the Five Colour manas, Caller of the elements, The Summoner if you wish for my help in a fight, or just a friend to talk to I will come and help.” I blinked and stared at the talisman.
“I'll make this simple Jace. Someone wants me dead and to bring back the Old World, this is bad for everyone, including the entire planet.” I said to the talisman. It then shone before it hovered off my hand and embedded itself on the wall.
It then started spinning and slowly, a portal emerged from the Talisman.
Ulysses
“What is he doing?” I asked the lobotomite next to me.
“I don't know.” it answered. I grabbed it by the neck and made eye contact with it.
“Then find out! And take this with you. If I know that idiot, he'll probably have an armed warhead inside.” I said, throwing it onto the floor and gave it the Laser Detonator. It nodded as it scattered towards the castle.
‘Once this insect is out of the way, I'll be able to finally revive The Old World.’ I thought as I took hold of my newly remade Old Glory.
“The World will burn in the atomic fires of creation.” I growled out.
Jace, up in the mountains.
“THIS ISN’T HOW I WANTED TO SPEND MY WEEKEND DOING!!!” I yelled as I killed a wurm. I sensed some monster up in the mountains and Tia asked me to see what's up. I went up there and found a cave with a nest of wurms in it.
I donned my armor and pulled out my sword and fate and went to work. About a few hours later I cleared all but one. It charged at me and I aimed my gun at it and fired. The shot went into it’s mouth and then it exploded. I sighed and looked around.
“Well, that’s done with now I can get back and-” I stopped as I heard a voice.
“I'll make this simple Jace. Someone wants me dead and to bring back the Old World, this is bad for everyone, including the entire planet.” I blinked a bit and looked as the portal opened. I laughed a bit and looked at it.
“No rest for the wicked huh.” I said as I walked into the portal.
Steel Breaker
While finishing up in putting my armor, seeing the H.U.D activate, I saw that the armor was in good condition.
Flicking my wrist, seeing my built in flamethrower activate. Smirking, I flicked my wrist again, deactivating the flamethrower.
I looked back at the portal and saw someone emerge through it.
“Intruder detected!” Andy shouted, activating his buzzsaw. The man in armor pointed a gun at him.
“Try it and see what will happen.” He said.
“Andy, stand down. He's with me.” I said, looking at Andy. He wasn't looking at the man in armor. Following his gaze, I saw a changeling near a warhead.
“The hell?” Jace said.
My eyes grew wide as I saw the changeling pull out a Laser Detonator. It was aiming at the warhead and almost pulled the trigger but Dogmeat tackled the Changeling to the ground and bit its arm.
It dropped the Detonator as it screamed in pain. I ran towards them as the changeling pulled out a knife and stabbed Dogmeats right front leg.
Dogmeat let out a howl of pain before he was pushed away by the changeling. It then grabbed the Detonator and pulled the trigger.
It armed the warhead, giving us only a few seconds before detonation. I ran up to the changeling and grabbed a metal pipe from the floor.
I bashed him on the side of its head. As he was on the floor and looked at me, I embedded the pipe in its throat.
I saw Jace preparing a shield with Andy hovering behind him. I grabbed Dogmeat and ran up to Jace.
I entered the shield as it closed.
“Don't look at the explosion!” I said as I covered Dogmeats eyes and closed mine. All of a sudden, everything went white and silent.
The silence was soon shattered as a loud explosion was heard.
Now
I opened my eyes and was greeted with rubble over the shield. I activated another feature of my armor, making the gauntlets of the armor start vibrating violently.
“Open the shield a bit.” I said to Jace. He nodded and opened it a bit.
I placed my hands on the rubble, pulverizing the rubble.
“This may take a few minutes.” I sighed out as my headlights turned on.
Twilight Sparkle
To say that the town was in panic was putting it lightly. Everything soon went into pure chaos.
Some ponies were screaming about the end of life while others couldn't do anything but look at the forest in fear and shock.
The girls had arrived asking about the explosion and as soon as they saw Chrysalis, their moods only worsen.
I had to explain to them on the way to the forest but throughout it all, the only thing I could think was if Steel was in the explosion which only worsen my worries.
Even more so when I saw the state of the Everfree Castle, scratch that, Everfree Crater. We walked up to the edge and saw rubble on the bottom.
I felt some magic that I never felt before. Soon the rubble started to violently shake before being pulverized.
Seeing the arm of Steel’s armor through the dust only relieved me slightly. I spread open my wings and flew down with Chrysalis following behind.
Landing beside the large pile, I started moving it out of the way with magic with the help of Chrysalis.
Steel Breaker
Finally breaking through, I could hear someone outside digging us out.
“You're good to move this shit out of the way.” I said to Jace.
“Well you better move.” He said. I moved out of the way and saw his hand glow. The rubble glowed and vibrate a bit. I heard someone yell something. Then after a minute the rocks shot out like bullets. I saw Jace look at me. I saw a red glow under the helmet.
“After you.” He said to me. I walked out of the newly made hole and looked around.
I took hold of my helmet and twisted it to the left, causing a loud click and I took it off.
“Steel!” I heard Twilight's voice. I looked to my left and saw Twilight and Chrysalis.
Twilight ran up to me and hugged me.
“Twilight, what are you doing here? It's dangerous, especially now.” I said to her as she pulled back. Before she could say anything I heard someone whistled behind me.
“Damn, thank the Maker that I spent five years perfecting my shield spells.” Jace said. Twilight saw Jace then looked at me.
“I'll explain later back at the castle, where you're supposed to be.” I said to her.
“I couldn't sit around while I saw that explosion and I can fight, so do my friends.” She said. I looked at Jace for some help. He put his hands up and shook his head.
“Don’t look at me, lover boy.” I stared at him some more. I looked back at Twilight, knowing that she would stay even if I said no.
“Fine, but the first sight of a firefight, run.” I said as I took out a familiar chrome 9mm pistol.
“Chrys, catch!” I shouted as I tossed the pistol at her. She caught it with ease and cocked it.
Soon, the sound of fighting could be heard above. I readied the jet-pack but stopped as the edges of the crater was soon surrounded by Changelings.
I could see that they had the same weapons, a survivalist single shot rifle with grips.
“Fuck.” I growled out.
“Friends or yours?” Jace said. He pulled out his gun and lighting course around his hand.
“I wouldn't do that if I were you!” A familiar voice shouted. I looked up and saw the bitch.
She wore the same sleeveless Duster with the Old World flag on the back.
“Ulysses.” I growled.
“You can't kill me, Wanderer. I was born to bring back The Old World and I intend to do so, one way..” She said as she pushed Pinkie in front of her and pulled out a 12.7mm pistol.
“Or another.” She finished as she pointed the gun at Pinkie. Twilight saw this and was immediately worried and scared.
“Can I?” Jace asked me. I saw a faint glow around him.
“You can try.” I whispered. Jace put his gun away and looked at Ulysses.
“HEY YOU!” He yelled. She looked at him. “Sur-!” A flash came and he was gone. Replaced was Pinkie. I looked back at Ulysses and saw Jace was there. I saw his fist glowed green.
Jace
“-Prise!!” I yelled as I punched her in the face. She took a step backwards. I blinked in surprise. She tough.
“One of the perks of being a Lobotomite, I don't feel anything.” She said as she returned the punch. I didn’t even move.
“One of the perks of being over forty thousand years old, I felt worst.” I remarked.
“Really? Then how about..” She trailed off as she took out a large sniper rifle.
She smirked as a loud boom was heard, I suddenly felt massive amount of pain. She then pulled trigger and I felt pain on my torso.
“Ow.” I said and looked at her. I saw her smirking. I pulled my gun and pointed at her. She laughed at me.
“Try it.” She said with a smirk. I could hear shouts from Steel to not fire. I stared at her for a minute and chuckled.
“Your name is Ulysses?” I asked her.
“Yes.” She answered. I smiled under my helmet.
“Nice name, for a guy.” I said as I slammed her gun, breaking it and ported back to the group. I kneeled down to catch my breath.
“Send in the Lobotomites.” I heard Ulysses say in an emotionless voice. Soon a few cages were dropped down the crater.
Chrysalis knew what was happening and made sure to have enough ammo. Steel took out an assault rifle with an ACOG sight. I looked back at the rest of them.
Fluttershy took deep breaths and took a fighting stance. Rainbow and AppleJack picked up rebars.
Rarity, surprisingly had taken the same fighting stance as Fluttershy. Twilight readied her magic as her eyes shone in a lavender light.
The cages crashed onto the floor, I counted ten cages.
The doors were ripped open as a swarm of mutilated Changelings poured out of the cages.
“Don't hold back, their mindless beasts with only the need to kill and eat anything they find.” Steel said before he ran towards the swarm. I smiled and pulled my gun and sword.
“Mindless beasts? It feels like I never left home.” I then charged into the swarm.
The first one ran at me. It tried to swipe at me but I dodge out of the way and cut it’s arm off. It snarled at me and kept coming. I took it’s head off and watched it twitched. I turned and saw two more coming after me. I pointed fate at them and shot twice and watched them exploded. A group of them jumped on me but I blinked away and shot at the group. The group exploded and left some burt body parts. I turned to see Chrysalis shooting them with deadly accuracy, each shot hitting them in the head. Dash and Applejack were holding their own while Fluttershy and Rarity were surprisingly doing the same. I saw Twilight holding off ten of them as she shot magic bolt at them. They didn’t seemed to mind unless she hit them in the head, which turned into dust. I saw one of them run around and was going to attack her from behind.
“Oh no you don’t.” I felt red mana all over my body and I sprinted forward. In a second I was at it and grabbed its head and slammed it on the ground. It’s head popped like a grape. I turned and slammed my fist on the ground and poured green mana into it. The ground shot up and impaled the others that twilight was fighting. Twilight looked at me wide eyed as I just waved her off.
“Tell you later.” I said and blurred towards another group. I cut down about ten more and now I was back to back with Chrysalis. She reloaded as I shot a flaming spear at one of them, burning it to a crisp.
“That’s forty one for me, how many you got?” I asked her. She shot two more and snorted.
“Forty six, looks like I’m winning.” I turned and saw her smirking at me. I aimed Fate and shot six times, hitting six of them.
“Forty seven, now I’m winning.” She rolled her eyes and shot a few more. The fight went on and I saw Steel fighting Ulysses. I turned and saw the changelings aiming their guns at Steel. I smiled at a thought. I twisted around and whipped my gun and firing. I used my mana to control where it went. I hit one of them and the bullet kept going. Each One got hit and disintegrated at it. It went around until it headed to Ulysses but that’s bitch dodge out of the way at the last second.
“I ALWAYS WANTED TO DO THAT!!!” I yelled as a group of them dog pile on me. I felt about twenty on me and clawing on me. I focus the rad mana and fired a fireball, I knew that I was going to be fine but the rest. Ashes. I looked up and counted the ones I killed with the bullet and the ones that are ash.
“That’s eighty three for me!!!” I yelled.
“DAMN IT!” Chrysalis yelled. I heard a string of shots and clicks then more shots. I saw three groups of them fell. I chuckled and ran after some more of them.
Steel Breaker
Welp, I can kiss my armor good bye. Ulysses has improved in her fighting and speed, judging from the bullet that took out the changelings.
I moved my leg up from the armor and waited till she got close again. When she took out a brand new Old Glory staff and ran up to me, I smirked as I reeled back my leg as far as the armor let me and kicked the chest peice open.
The chestplate hit her, no doubt about that. I climbed out of the armor through the hole and took out Old Glory. Once she stood back up and saw me, we walked around in a circle.
She got impatient and attacked first, allowing me to not only block her, but also jab her knee with my staff. She grunted as her knee bent the wrong way before snapping it back into place.
“Die, insect!” She yelled, taking out a .44 caliber revolver and firing. The bullet pierced through me and I'm pretty sure it hit a lung.
“You know as well as I do, I'm impossible to kill.” I said as I felt the wound heal. When the punctured lung healed, I felt a burning sensation.
“Gaah!!” She shouted, charging at me. She jumped and tried to smash me with the staff. I dropped mine and took hold of hers, then spun it around before throwing her and the spear to a tree.
While she was dazed, I ran up to her and knee kicked her head, earning a sickening crunch. I grabbed her by the neck of her duster and threw her near the edge.
I walked up to her, knowing she won't get up from that. Placing a hoof on her chest to be sure, I heard someone run up behind me but I grabbed my assailant's arm, twisted it and then threw him down the cliff.
“The Old World is dead, so is the Wasteland, the N.C.R, The Legion, every single faction throughout the years, dead. You're stuck in the past, allow me to remedy that.” I said, placing my hoof on her neck and applied force to it.
I was about to stomp her neck but was soon tackled by a Lobotomite, sending me and the Rabid Changeling down the cliff.
As we fell down, it tried to bite and claw me like a zombie. I pushed its head up to the wall, making it scrape his face as well.
I didn't have time to do anything else and crash onto the ground. The crash knocked me out but before losing consciousness, I saw that my body was being engulfed by blue flame.
‘The jig is up.’ Were my thoughts before everything went dark.
Jace
I brought my sword down on the last changeling. I looked around to see if there was anymore but didn’t see any. I turned to see Steel on fire with blue flame. I began to panic as I ran to him I saw Ulysses got up and limped away(Maybe?) but I didn’t have time for her. I got to where Steel is and looked at him. I knew that some creatures are affected by flames differently back home but this isn’t my home and I had no idea what to do. I leaned in to get a closer look at Steel.
“Don’t touch him!” I jumped at the shout. I turned to Chrysalis as she walked up beside me. I saw the rest of the mane six standing behind her. Twilight was crying. I looked at Chrysalis as I dropped my armor. She raised an eyebrow at me.
“Don’t ask.” I said to her. I then pointed at Steel. “What the hell is going on?” She looked at Steel and I couldn’t read her face.
“How much do you know about Steel.” I looked at her for a minute.
“Not a lot, he didn’t talk about himself a lot and I never asked, but I did know that the first time I met him he was really depressed.” I looked at the now burning Steel. I couldn’t smell anything burning. Odd. “He sure as hell didn’t say anything about him burning blue.”
“He's not burning, he's...changing.” Chrysalis said. I narrowed my eyes at her and looked at Steel. I saw the flames die down and I saw what turned into.
“A changeling?” I said, confusion clouded my mind. What laid in front of me was a changeling. I heard gasps behind me. I kneeled down and put two fingers on his neck to check if he’s alive. I felt a pulse and nodded. I looked around to the rest of them then looked at Chrysalis.
“We need to get to some place safe, can you all stand close together.” They all did and with the help of Chrysalis got Steel up. As soon as we got close I ported everyone to Twilight’s castle.
As soon as we got there we found a room with a bed and put him on it. I turned to the rest of the mane six and asked that Twilight stayed while the rest go and try to calm the town and for Fluttershy to take care of Dogmeat. They argued but I simply put a seal on the door to make sure that no one can enter. I turned and saw Twilight sitting near Steel on one side of the bed as Chrysalis stood at the end. I walked up to her and crossed my arms.
“I want to know what’s going on, who’s Ulysses, why does she want to destroy the world and why Steel is a changeling. Don’t leave anything out.” I said to her.
“Ulysses is my sister and she thinks that the world before The Great War can be restored with the same things that made the Wastelands. We weren't always Changelings, Steel and I were normal ponies, as normal as it gets back then.” She started.
“I used to work at a post office known as the Mojave Express. I joined to be like my sister, she used to make a difference when out to deliver but all of a sudden, she vanished. I was then assigned her position as Courier Six and had been given something important to deliver but that's for another time.” She stopped to drink a bit of water.
“Anyway, I lost my memories and found Steel on the way to find the guy who shot me. When I got all my memories back, I followed my sister's hoofsteps and it got us to a place known as Big M.T.” She said.
“We were then drugged and hauled off to a medical area, then took out some of our organs and replaced them but that wasn't enough for them, no they had to inject us with a Modified Virus that should've left us as wild savages, like the ones we fought. It changed us and the pain, it wouldn't stop.” Her voice was cracking a little.
“When we finally got to see what happened, well you can guess the rest.” She finished her explanation. As I was listening I took out Fate and started to clean her. Chrysalis looked at me but I motion that I was still listening. As she finished I clicked Fate back together and holster her then looked at Steel. Both of them went through hell and back. Something I knew very well.
“So how is she going to do it? You said that she’s going to try to change the world back before The Great War.” I asked her.
“With Atomic Warheads.” She answered. I looked at her wide eyed.
“Seriously…” I asked as she nodded. I rubbed my eyes. “Now that’s a scary thought.” I looked at Steel and started thinking. If she's going to use Atomic Warheads then I don’t know what will happen. I’ve seen some shit but seeing an atomic blast isn’t one of them.
“Any idea where they are?”
“No, but she has a detonator, all she needs to do is point, click and watch the fireworks.” Chrysalis said. I groaned and started to pace. She has a detonator for them. She can set them off anytime she wants. The question is…
“Why doesn’t she just detonate them now?” I asked.
“Because, the detonator needs to be facing the warhead. I'm sure you saw it too.” She said. I nodded and stopped pacing. We have time, that’s good. Right now she's injured from the fight with Steel. That means we have time but if she’s like Steel that means she can heal fast. A thought went through my head that didn’t make sense.
“When I was facing her, after she shot me twice I pointed my gun at her and Steel said don’t shoot her, Why.” I faced Chrysalis.
“Because she'll either move out of the way or flick it back at you.” She answered. I thought about it for a moment. When I took out all of her gunners she did move out of the way. So she’s tough, fast and strong. Also bat shit insane as well.
“What are our options.” I asked her.
“We wait.” A gruff voice behind me said. I turned and saw what looked like an orc that been dragged over a rocky road. I blinked at him.
“Hello.” I said.
“Greetings.” He said.
“It's good to see you, Fawkes.” I heard Chrysalis say.
“It is good to see you as well, after all these years, Dead Eye.” Fawkes said.
“It's Chrysalis nowadays.” Chrysalis said. I snorted at that, now it made sense with her crazy aim. As they talked I was sitting in a chair thinking. ‘We wait’ I frowned at that. I hate waiting, it means that they are moving around and we aren’t. I began to vibrate as I thought. Why here. Why is she here. The only answers I came up with are either she is looking for something, the warheads are somewhere near here or she knew that Steel was here and wanted to kill her.
“Why, why here.” I said out loud. I looked over to Twilight and stared at her.
“What makes Ponyville so important?” I asked her. She blinked at me.
“I don't know.” She answered. I looked down a bit then looked at both Chrysalis and Fawkes.
“What is her relationship with Steel, I get the impression that he pissed her off.” I asked.
“She is, for an idiotic reason.” Fawkes answered.
“And what might that be?” I asked him, only to receive an answer from Chrysalis.
“She was close to launching the bombs but Steel and I managed to make it before she did. We fought, she lost and Steel killed her.” She answered. I knew she was leaving something out. Narrowing my eyes at her, waiting for her to tell everything.
“We couldn't stop the warheads from launching, so Steel redirected their coordinates and bombed The N.C.R and The Legion. I knew it had to be done for the sake of the people of the Mojave but Steel took it personally.” She said.
“How so?” I asked her.
“The N.C.R or The New Canterlot Republic had promised safety to the people and at the time, we've accepted but only a decade later they have been focusing only on Hoover Dam and ignoring all calls for help. While the N.C.R were busy getting electricity, Caesar's Legion were busy taking settlements and crucifying the innocent.” She said. I looked over to Steel.
‘Why bomb them?’ I thought. I was able to see a small twitch from his left hand. It kept twitching for two full minutes before closing into a fist a couple of times.
“Ugh.” I heard him groan as he placed his synthetic hand on his forehead. Twilight looked at him, expecting something horrible to happen.
“Steel?” I heard Twilight whisper. Steel didn't answer but sat up with a blank expression, his eyes were grey, almost lifeless. Twilight cupped Steels cheeks and moved his gaze towards her.
“Steel, it's me, Twilight.” She said, only receiving the blank stare in return. Twilight started to tear up from this.
“Please, say something.” She begged, tears streaming down her muzzle. Steel looked back at Twilight, then raised his left hand and cupped her cheek with it.
He proceeded to wipe her tears away.
“Don't cry, Twilight. You shouldn't cry.” I heard him say. Twilight looked at him as he did this.
His eyes slowly regained their color.
“I'm sorry, for not telling you about...this.” Steel said as he gestured at himself.
“Why?” I asked him. Steels ears flatten onto his head.
“I was afraid.” He answered. I felt that this was going to be an emotional moment for the two of them. Sad to say but I’m a giant asshole.
“You were afraid that she wouldn’t like you if she knew that you look like a giant bug? HA! I met different versions of Twilight and a couple of them fell in love and got married with a demon.” I told them. They all turned to me and glared at me. I felt uncomfortable.
“... I think I’m going to go to the library, maybe I can find something there.” And with that I ported out of the room.
Steel
“Fuck you too, buddy.” I said as I buried my face in my hands.
“Is it true?” I heard Twilight ask me.
“Yeah.” I said, my voice muffled through my hands. I felt a pair of arms wrap around me.
“Steel, it doesn't matter what you're, I'll always love you.” I raised my head and saw Twilight holding me in loving embrace.
Slowly but surely, I returned the embrace. A small smile formed on my lips as I did this.
“You don't know how much that means to me.” I said to her.
Jace
Back on earth and even my world I will always be a bookworm. I was sitting in Twilight's library reading through book after book. Each of them have something to do with Ponyville and anything and everything around the place. I even have a book of the history of Equestria. Each book I go through I could only find stuff that I already knew of., I knew that there’s wasn’t going to be a page that say where the warheads are going to be. I cared a book over to another table with maps and paper. I got a map of Ponyville out and saw different points that could help if Ulysses decided to attack the place.
“I can put a barrier up around the town to keep them out but it would take time to make one big enough, so if I can summoned some groups to defend the place while I make the barrier.” I scratch my head. I hate sitting still and waiting. I prefer doing something, even if we’re waiting if I knew something is going on that would help us I would be fine.
I sighed and looked over some plans I made. I know that I would have enough mana to make a army of my own to hold of Ulysses army as long as I can.
I frowned and went over to the books and grabbed one that I didn’t read yet. I skimmed through it until I came to a page that caught my eye. I saids that Ponyville wasn’t the first city that was built. There was a town called Springvale that was here before. I stared at that name for a few minutes.
“Springvale, why does that name sound important.” I muttered to myself. I looked up and ported to the room Steel was in. I knocked on the door and waited. As I waited I looked at the page again and re-read it again. I heard the door open and saw Chrysalis in front of me.
“Hey, how is he?” I asked her.
“He's been through worse but he's already out of bed.” She answered. I nodded at her.
“So can I come in or am I going to get punched in the face?” She blinked at me.
“He won't punch you, he said it himself.” She said. She moved out of the way and I walked in. I saw Steel. Then I felt pain in my foot.
“GOD DAMN IT, NOT AGAIN!!!” I yelled and was holding my foot. I hopped around and fell to the floor.
“Didn't say anything about shooting you though.” I heard Chrysalis say as she walked by. I glared at her for a minute and felt my mana healing my foot. I got up and tested my foot. It still was sore but liveable.
“I deserve that.” I bent down and picked up the book. I dusted it a bit and turned to the page I had it on. I looked up to see Steel glaring at me. “What?”
“I missed.” He said. I looked at the barrel of his gun and followed to its intended target.
“You fucker!” I shouted. He snorted a bit. He holset his gun and I grumbled a bit.
“Anyway, I went through some books in the library and made some plans on defending the town.” I lift the book I had with me. “I also found this, one of the pages said that there was a town here that goes by the name Springvale, I don’t know about you but I have a feeling that there’s something important about it.” I told them all.
“Apples, anyone feeling for apples?” Steel asked. We all looked at him for a moment.
“Uhh did you hit your head?” I asked him.
“No, he's right. I'm also feeling for apples.” Fawkes said
“Good, Jace you can dig, right?” Steel asked. I was still lost with the whole apples thing.
“Uhh I’m not from around here so I have no idea what the hell you are talking about.” Steel just stared at me then left the room with the other three.
“AM I MISSING SOMETHING!”
Steel
Why didn't I ever get rid of the bomb, why!? I had the Brotherhood on my back, I could've asked them.
Whatever, I need to dig up Megaton for it, I got Fawkes and Chrysalis. We didn't waste time and hurried to the Apple Farm.
“She is planning to detonate a fifty eight megaton bomb, how original though didn't you disarm it?” Fawkes asked as we stepped out of the castle.
“Yes but I didn't remove the Disarm and rearm switch.” I said.
“Why is there a switch for that?” Chrysalis asked.
“The Commies didn't expect the bomb to be a dud and just crash without exploding.” I explained to her.
With that said we ran all the way to Sweet Apple Acres. I looked back and I didn’t see Jace at all.
Shaking my head I continued on.
We arrived at the farm and I turned to look at my Pip-boy and accessed the map, showing me that we right above Megaton.
“We're here.” I said to the two behind me.
My left ear twitch as I felt someone else.
“Nice try, Jace but you need to try harder.” I said outloud.
“About time you all got here.” I turned to see him leaning up on a tree. “By the way, did you know there’s a town under the farm, kinda cool.”
“I give you my thanks, Captain Obvious.” Fawkes said with an un-amused tone.
“Your welcome, also I would of offered to port you all here but you left before I could say anything.” He pushed himself off the tree. “So what’s the plan?”
“Can you extract the bomb, you're literally standing above it's location.” I said. Jace looked at me for a moment.
“I can but I need some time to set up, I don’t think it’s the size of a tin can.” He said as a cane appeared and he started to carve out a circle. After a few minutes he was finish. It was two large circles with runes in them. I saw Twilight stare in awe at them. I couldn’t help but chuckled.
“Alright, everyone stand back.” Jace said. He stood in the circles and put his hands on them. The outer ring glowed white as the inner ring glowed blue. The air shimmered as I saw the outlines of the bomb.
“Amazing…” I heard Twilight said beside me. “I never felt magic on this scale before.”
“I've seen a few.” I said to her. I looked at the outlines and saw the bomb coming through.
“What’s also amazing is that he has two powerful spells going off at the same time.” I frowned at her.
“What do you mean?” I asked.
“Those rings they are both different spells, the blue one is getting the bomb and the white one is… well I don’t know about that one.” She answered. I looked at Jace for a moment.
“What are you planing?” I said to myself. I watched as the blue ring dimmed down and I saw that bomb was sitting on the ground in front of Jace. He looked at me.
“One giant ass bomb as ordered.” He bowed to me.
“Good. Now..” I said as I walked towards it and ripped off the switch.
“We get rid of this.” I said as. i crushed it in my hands. I turned to look at the bomb.
“Now, what are we going to do with the Fat Man Lookalike?” I asked. Jace looked at the bomb.
“Well destroying it might be a bad idea, it could blow up if we tried.” He said.
“Anything else?” I asked him.
“I don’t know, sure you disarmed it but what stopping someone else building an rearmed switch and using it, all I got is destroying it which is out, moving it or finding someone to take it apart.” Jace rubbed his head a bit. “I know one person who can take it apart but she’s in my world and finding her is another issue and I can move it anywhere I want but that’s just delay it.”
“Chrysalis, do you want to get rid of Ulysses?” I asked the Changeling.
“Yes, even if it means the destruction of the Hive.” She said, causing me to snort a bit.
“Cut the act, you know you, me and your sister are the only Changelings in existence.” I said, arms crossed and eyes narrowed at her.
“Steel, what do you mean?” Twilight asked me.
“The ones you fought at the crater were mutants, Lobotomites. The ones you saw surrounding the crater-” I was cut off by Chrys.
“Are Synths.” She admitted.
Everyone stood in silence, Twilight was the most confused of the group.
“I'll explain another time.” I looked over to Jace with a thought in mind.
“Hey, is Megaton completely buried or is it inside a cavern?” I asked Jace. He stared at me for a moment and put one finger up and kneeled down. He put his left hand and I saw the green gem glow. I heard a soft *thump!* as the glow went into the ground like a wave. He then looked at me.
“It’s weird, it’s not buried. I sense tunnels underneath with what I can guess is Megaton in the middle, so yes it’s inside a cavern. I think it’s the main hub of a network of tunnels that travel in every direction for I guess miles.” He looked down to the ground. “It’s like a Sliver hive down there.”
“A Sliver?” I asked. He looked at me and snapped his fingers. An image appeared in front of us.
It looked like a weird bug thing.
“Nasty ass buggers aren’t they, they have a sorta hive mind and they are tough. Tougher than those Synths and Lobo-what you call them.” He dashed the images away.”
“All I need's a few things from things from Megaton, little knick knacks I had collected over the years.” I said with a smirk, earning a dark chuckle from Fawkes. He knows what's up. Jace nodded and snapped his fingers and some gems appeared. He handed a few to me.
“Transport gems, instantly takes you wherever you want and it’s a one way trip. Always a good idea to have a few on hand.” He said as he handed some to Fawkes and Chrysalis.
“What about me?” I heard Twilight ask. Jace looked at her and back to his bag. He looked up and saw me.
“Ummm, sorry fresh out.” Twilight crossed her arms.
“I'm going to try something stupid.” I said as I put my hands together, closing the gems inside and focused.
My hand shone blue for a split second, followed by a small headache. I don't use magic, it'll kill me if I do.
Opening my hands, I was greeted with double the amount of Transport Gems. I heard Jace whistled at me.
“You know for an untrained person making transport gems will have negative side effects.” He said.
“That's why..I'm using the copies.” I said as I placed the copied gems in my pocket. I turned to Twilight and gave her the original gems.
“Thank you.” She said with a smile. For a second, I could feel the pain fade away. I saw Jace look at me and narrowed his eyes.
I asked everyone if they were ready and I was the first to use one. The gem shone and consumed me in the light.
Appearing on the other side, meaning Megaton, I felt as if I was on fire. I've been on fire many times before, this isn't any different.
Looking around, I could see a plant overgrown Megaton. I was interrupted from my sight seeing as I heard a loud spit noise.
I ducked without another thought, dodging the spore. I picked up a rusted pipe and looked around and found the Flytrap.
Using the V.A.T.S I had a hundred percent chance for a hit. So readying the pipe as if it was a spear, I threw it.
The pipe pierced through the lower jaw and embedded itself on the scrap wall behind it.
Sighing, I straightened up from my previous stance. I could see a light flicker behind me.
Turning around, I faced the source and I couldn't help but grin.
Moriarty’ Saloon.
I chuckled a bit to myself as a couple of bright flashes filled the area. I looked behind me and saw that the rest of the group followed. It took a few minutes for Chrysalis and Twilight to get used to the dark while Jace and Fawkes were fine.
“Watch your step and Twilight..” I said as I looked over to as she was about to touch the Flytrap.
“Don't touch that.” I finished as I walked up a familiar hill. Fawkes went ahead and entered the Clinic for anything while Chrysalis went to Craterside supplies store.
Finally on top of the hill, I turned left through the corner and saw the door to my old home.
Trying to open the door, only to find out that's stuck. Pushing harder on the door, opening slowly.
I stopped and took a step back, then kicked the door fully open. The sound echoed throughout the caverns.
I stepped inside and the first thing I did was turn on my Pip-boy light. I was surprised to find the place clean, no plant had came through, no Flytraps just a clean room.
Walking to the back of the house, I saw the old refrigerator and pried it open. I smirked at what I found and they were in good condition too.
Jace
I watched as the other three headed off and I looked over to the sign and saw the saloon part. I looked over to Twilight and crossed my arms.
“Go on, ask them.” I said to her. She blinked at me.
“Ask you what?” She answered. I rolled my eyes.
“I know that look of yours, you probably have about a million questions to ask about me, right?” I moved over to the door of the place. I saw that the plant life over grow the door and I saw two flytraps over the door. I made short work of them and used fire to burn them away. I pushed at the door and saw that is was stuck. I was about to kick open the door when I heard a sound from inside. I stepped back and decided to wait for the rest. I looked back at Twilight and waved her off.
“Don’t ask, now then your questions.” I told her. She blinked at me as I stood beside her. “We have time now and after this trip I don’t think you have any other time to ask.”
“R-right, umm where to start,” ‘Oh boy’ I thought. “Your magic, I never felt anything like it before.” I tilted my head a bit.
“What your talking about is something called Mana. In my world mana is basically the life force of the land, it’s intertwined with everyone not just unicorns.” I lift my hand up and made five orbs appear. One for each colour. Twilight looked at them in awe.
“Everything, from the smallest animal to the biggest of mountains there’s mana. Over time creatures found a way to control it’s power.” I lifted my hand and made one of the vines come out and made a flower bloom. “There’s are some who uses it to bring life and protection to lands, while others…” I twisted my hand and saw the plant wither and die. “Death and destruction.” I crossed my arms and looked over to Twilight.
“Any other questions.” I asked her.
“Umm you said your world, what do you mean by that?” I snorted at her.
“Do you think I’m from here do you, no I’m not from this world I’m from another.” I tilted my head a bit. “You know the Multiverse theory, that’s my answer.” I smiled at her and she blinked a few time.
“I have one more question.” I nodded to her. She shifted a bit.
“Are you, lonely?” I looked at her. That… that’s something different.
“What do you mean?” I asked her.
“Well I didn’t know it at first but when I was talking to my friend Fluttershy, she said that your eyes are that of one that’s lonely, is it true?” I looked at her for a bit and sighed.
“I’m old Twilight, I’m older than most then I know of. Hell I’m older than the princesses.” She gasped at that. I closed my eyes. “But I’m old and I’m tired, tired of fighting, tired of runnin, I’m tired of seeing my friends get hurt, seeing blood shed and so much more and all I want is to stop being tired. So no Twilight I’m not lonely, just very tired.”
“Then why don’t you stop?” She asked. I looked at her and gave her a sad smile.
“Because Twilight, if I stop who will be there to help those that are needed.” I told her. I saw Chrysalis walking back with a big bag of supplies and Fawkes with a small bag. When I say small I mean small to him. I waved at them.
“To think that the Doctor would leave without all these Stimpacks and pain killing chems.” Fawkes said to Chrysalis.
“At least you found something good, I found some Jet, a shit load of Med-X and a large metal thing.” Chrysalis said as they both arrived. I looked at the thing she got and, well it’s a thing alright. I heard someone walking up to us. I looked up and saw an armored person.
“Alright I got everything I needed, what did you guys fou- Is that a Rock-it launcher!” The armored person said.
“Ummm…” Me and Twilight said to him.
He stood up on the walkway near the hill. He had a very large bag over his shoulder.
He then jumped off and landed perfectly on the ground.
“Seriously, where did you get that?” He asked Chrysalis.
“In the Craterside general store.” Chrysalis answered.
“Right, now I know this might be bad but…” I jerked my thumb towards the saloon. “I heard something in there.”
“Fine, I'll go check it out.” He said as he went up to the saloon. As he walked up the ramps, I could hear weird sounds coming from one of the tunnels.
“Err, I think we overstayed our welcome.” I said out loud.
Steel Breaker
Walking up to the old saloon sure brought back some memories of this place, mostly the drunk fights but hey, a guy needs to earn his caps, right?
Anyway, I arrived at the front door and leaned towards the door, waiting to hear something. I could hear the sound of banging followed by a scratchy voice.
“Come on, I just fixed this piece of shit.*Bang* Finally.” The voice said as a song started playing.
I took hold of the door and started pulling it, causing the hinges to bust open. Once the door was fully torn apart, I shone my Pip boy light at the inside of the saloon and saw a familiar face.
“Gob.” I said, gaining his attention. His eyes grew wide as he saw me.
“Oh God, are you real or did I finally gone off the deep end?” He asked.
“How long have you been down here?” I asked him. He walked up to me and gave me a quick look.
“I've been here since the Capital wasteland grew plants, I guess I must've been knocked out because when I woke up, I saw that Megaton had been buried and full of Killer plants. I think that was like, two years ago.” He explained.
“Well, I think it's time to bring you back out. Also, what's with the music?” I asked him.
“The Spores don't like music, I think it slowly kill them but as long as I got the radio working I can walk around the caverns if I wanted to.” He said. I told him to wait outside while I did something.
Walking to the back room and busting open the door, I was greeted with the sight of a griffin skeleton with familiar clothing surrounded by caps and Whisky bottles.
Smirking, I crouched down.
“Tsk, tsk, died a drunk. Guess I owe Celestia and Luna after all.” I said to no one in particular as I picked up the caps. I counted two hundred, since caps aren't the currency it'll be perfect ammunition for the Rock-it Launcher.
Opening the large bag I'm carrying, seeing a few Mini-Nukes and a Fat Man. I had always wondered why did they call it a Fat Man in this world.
Moving the Nukes aside, I found a pouch full of caps and added the two hundred from the corpse.
Straightening up, I looked down at Moriarty’s remains.
“I always thought you were always a drunk son of a bitch, this just proves it.” I said before walking out of the room.
I passed the counter but stopped just a few inches away from the doorway out. I looked back.
Seeing something reflect the light of my Pip-boy back at the counter. I walked back and blew some air at the counter, sending the dust into the air.
I was then greeted by four Plasma Grenades. I took them without a second thought.
As I stood on the exit, I looked back at the saloon and nodded before walking back down the ramp back to the group.
Jace
When I first saw him I almost threw a fireball at him. But after seeing both Fawkes and Chrysalis didn’t react to him I didn’t. Don’t look at me like that, I fought ghouls before and they were mostly mindless and wanted to eat me. Twilight on the other hand hid behind me. I heard the ghoul sighed.
“You alright Gob?” Chrysalis asked. Gob just shrugged.
“Spent most of my time down here and I still make people jump at me, oh well.” He said. I saw Steel walk out of the saloon.
“I guess we got everything?” I asked him.
“Sort of, I couldn't find my musket.” Steel said to me with a shrug. I looked at him then down the cavens.
“As much as I want to find your musket, I think we overstayed our welcome.” I said to him. We all heard a clicking sound coming from the caverns.
“You guys go on ahead, I'm going to leave a parting gift.” Steel said as took out something from the bag but it was too dark to see but I could see its silhouette.
“Right, see you up there.” I said and putting a hand on Twilight's shoulder and porting back up. I wince as we came up. Damn it. I rubbed my eyes a bit and looked at Twilight. I saw her doing the same. I heard some pops and saw that Fawkes, Chrysalis and Gob. Gob didn’t look so good.
“Uggg what was that about, it made me want to puke.” I shrugged at him.
“Teleporting will do that to you, so what is Steel-” I got cut off when I heard a thump from down below. “Nevermind.” A few minutes later Steel came up by flying through the warp.
“OH-GOD-NOT-AGAIN!” I heard him shout something in ludicrous speed as his back hit a tree, he held a strange catapult like thing as he fell onto the ground. I stared at him.
“Not going to ask.” I said to them. Fawkes went to help him up.
“That is the fourth time you get injured by using that.” Fawkes said as he pulled Steel’s arm and helped him onto his hooves.
“Shit happens all the time, I just make them happen more often.” Steel replied as he took hold of the large device and the bag behind him. Fawkes just shook his head.
“So now that’s out of the way, two questions one, what are we going to do with that,” I pointed at the warhead. “And two, are we ready for the group we are going to fight?”
Steel took off his helmet, revealing a maniac grin.
“I got an idea for the bomb.” He said. Fawke looked at him along with the rest of us.
“You guys go back to town, I'll go get something for my idea.” I said, my grin never left. Jace looked at me with narrowed eyes, until I gave the face that said ‘I will shoot your balls off if you don't listen’.
His eyes grew and walked towards town with Fawkes and Chrysalis opted to guard the bomb and no one had any objections.
I looked to my left and saw that Twilight never left. I felt guilty, even though she said she still liked me but I feel like betrayed her trust.
“Twi, I-” I was silenced as my lips were sealed by her own. Surprised but not paralysed, I returned the kiss.
She pulled back, allowing me to see her beautiful violet eyes.
“I know what you were going to say, but let's talk about after all of this is over.” She said with a smile. I nodded with a smile of my own.
“Mom/Twilight!” We heard four little voices behind us. I noticed I was still out of my disguise and was about to place it back on but Twilight stopped me.
“You need to let Scootaloo know, she looks up to you like isaw u were her father.” She whispered to me.
I took a glance behind me and saw the pegasus filly. ‘She thinks of me as…’ with that single thought in mind, I nodded to her.
I turned around to face the filly, causing them to stop in their tracks.
“Twilight, who's that?” Scootaloo asked, trying to hide her fear. I crouched on one knee and got to her eye level.
“Hey, Scootaloo.” I greeted her. She looked at me with her her tilted, until she finally recognized my voice.
“S-Steel?” She stuttered out, surprised from the revelation.
“Yeah, it's me.” I said. She walked up to me and tackled me in a hug.
Of course, this wasn't the reaction I expected but I'm not complaining.
“I thought the worst when I saw the big mushroom cloud in the forest. I thought you died.” I heard her say as I started to stroke her mane.
“I'm not planning on dying, Scoots.” I said to her.
I stayed like this for only five minutes before Scootaloo got up.
I had explained to them to get to town. That something bad is coming this way.
Nyx and Scootaloo had opted to help us but I told them that it was too dangerous. They understood and left but I called out for Applebloom and told her to get her family to town as well.
With that done, me and Twilight headed towards the now know Everfree Crater.
Jace
“If it wasn’t for the fact that he has good aim I would kick his ass into the next plane.” I grumbled as I kneeled over making runes on the ground. Fawkes when into town to set up defences and I would do the same here. I wrote a shield spell in the ground. It was a small one but what I had in mind should work.
As I finished I looked at the rune and check to see if I did everything right. I stood up and rubbed my hands together. I poured white mana into the rune and made it expanded a bit. It did a little bit and stopped. I frowned but as I got near it the rune shot out and expanded at an alarming rate. I blinked a bit and saw the mana covering the sky. I smiled as the shield is now up.
“Now let’s see Ulysses try and bust this.” I looked around a bit and nodded to myself.
“Life..all..lies.” I spun around and saw one of those synths things. It looked like it took a blast it the face. Half of its skin was gone. I pulled out my gun and aimed it at it.
“Trying to sneak up on me, well you shouldn’t, start talking.” I clicked hammer back and aimed. I looked at it and saw that it looked familiar. Then it clicked. “You're that one guy that blew us up in that place I came into.”
“Accusation, acceptable...Yes.” It said with a loud buzz between its sentence. I tilted my head. Odd.
“Why are you here?” I asked it not lowering my gun.
“Data not recognized...I don't know.” I paused at that. He dosen’t know? Did the blast knocked its circuit board loose?
“Do you know why you are here?” I asked.
“Data found...Wondered here...Processing.” It answered. I looked around to see if there’s was more. Call me paranoid but sometimes it can save ya.
“Status: Paranoid...Acceptable... I am alone...I know.” It continued. It’s alone? What does it mean by that?
“What do you mean you're alone?” I asked it.
“Data verified...I alone know...truth.” It answers in a cryptic manner.
“You alone know the truth? What do you mean.” I said to it. I started sending Steel a message.
“Life...meaningless...Drone...I mean...nothing.” I stared at it. This drone, he thinks it’s life is meaningless. I tighten my grip of my gun as I sent my message. ‘Steel, get your insect ass over here. This is important.’
“Why do you say that? What do you mean that your life is meaningless?” I asked.
“I am... not me...just another drone...for war...Hive is...cl0n1n9 facility.” I narrowed my eyes at it. He glitched at the last part but I think I knew what he said.
“Clone facility. That’s what you said right?” I waited for a reply.
“Yes...millions made...you only faced...fraction...more to come...bigger numbers...Sky Fortress...Danger.” it said. I didn’t like the fact it said that there’s more to come, sure I knew that what we faced was a small group but I just didn’t how big her army it. The Sky fortress didn’t sit well with me ether.
“Why are you telling me this? What do you want out of this?” I asked it.
“Answers.” It answered with one word.
“You want answers?” I asked it. Answers?
“Seeking...answers...must know what...truly...am.” It answered. I stared at it as I heard footsteps coming behind me. I didn’t turn.
“I heard your plea, synth.” I heard a gruff voice behind me. I turned my head and saw who it was in the corner of my eye. It was Fawkes.
“Nice to see you Fawkes.” I said to him. I only earned a grunt as a greeting from him.
“Designation...Fawkes...elaborate.” The Synth (Synthling?) asked.
“You are confused from being free of all that holds back your will. I may not be able to answer the meaning of your life but I don't have to.” Fawkes said, causing the Synthling to tilt his head.
“Elaborate.” It repeated.
“You need to answer that yourself, live life as if you had meaning. Live a life of freedom, away from Protocols and Orders. Once you have lived a life, then you'll know your meaning.” Fawkes said.
“In short, do what you wish is right, learn, live, fight.” Fawkes added. The Synthling looked down onto the ground as it contemplated.
“Direct- No...No more computing...Freedom...wish more...knew.” The synthling said in a quiet tone before looking at Fawkes.
“New Designation: Liberty...I am Liberty...I am Free.” it declared, excitement could be heard in his tone. I lowered my gun and looked at Fawkes.
“You have a way with words.” I told him.
“I know his pain.” He said to me. I frowned and looked… Umm Liberty?
“So we call you Liberty?” I asked him… or is it a her? I don’t like call it a ‘it’.
“Yes...Ugh...System has suffered immense damage, repairs needed....” He said. I heard a loud beep from him only seconds later.
“Mechanic detected...Description: Pink mare, curly hair.” He said afterwards. My jaw dropped at that as I watched him walk off.
“She’s a mechanic here, Pinkie is a mechanic…..” I felt my brain did a reboot. As it did I realize something. “OH SHIT!”
“What?” Fawkes asked.
“He’s heading to Ponyville and if he does there going to be a panic about it!” I started to run. Only to be stopped by Fawkes.
“They have seen Prime, The Enclave and me, I doubt a synthetic being would cause anything though those Flower trio always exaggerate.” He said as he followed behind.
I stared at him for a bit. I remember those flower trio. I made their plants come alive once.
“So, how are the defences in town?” I asked him.
“I didn't have time but I gave the medical supplies to the Hospital and told them that it was for serious injuries only after explaining what'll happen. Now come, we might need to keep those trio from causing a riot.” He said to me. I chuckled a bit and we headed to town.
I saw Fawkes stop as He saw the Synthling look back.
“Warning, major sizement activity...I believe... that is the cause.” He said as he pointed behind all of us.
I looked back as Fawkes did the same. I felt my eyes grow at what I saw.
“Please tell me that’s on our side…” I asked Fawkes.
“Oh, most definitely. Meet Liberty Prime, the bane of The Enclave.” He said.
“Well if it’s on our side I’m happy.” I looked at Liberty.
“Scanners show twenty primed nuclear warheads and two life forms...I believe...it...help against your...enemy.” Liberty said.
“Voice module online. Audio functionality test... initialized. Designation: Liberty Prime. Mission: Protection of Ponyville and Canterlot.” I heard a voice boom through my ears.
“Damn, Twenty primed nukes, what is Steel planing.” I looked at Fawkes as he stared at me. “Ohhh…” He nodded to me.
Afterwards we continued to follow Liberty through town in search for Pinke.
Steel Breaker
Yup, I had doubted that the explosion took Liberty Prime. Before activating him, I had tweaked a bit of his programming and with Twilight's help, he got back to his normal size.
Ordering him to pick up the Bomb and place it on his back with the rest then telling Chrysalis to go back to town, I had then told Prime to walk towards Ponyville with me and Twilight on his shoulder.
He's slow but he gets the job done. On the way, I could see a couple chariots heading to Ponyville. I could also see something else amongst the chariots.
Focussing my sight, I couldn't help but laugh. A Verti-bird with Celestia and Luna’s cutie mark was flying between a load of chariots.
I felt my stomach rumble, signaling me that it was time for me to eat something. I looked through my Pip-boy and took out a fresh apple.
Before I did anything else, I looked over to Twilight as she was staring off into the horizon. I split the apple in two and gained her attention.
“You want one?” I asked, offering her the other half as I took a bite out of mine. She took it with a smile and took a large chomp on the apple.
We both sat and leaned on each other, enjoying the view as it went by.
Thirty minutes of Liberty Prime walking, we finally made it to the outskirts of town and Prime stood still. He then raised his right hand to us, allowing us to use it as a lift.
Once on the ground, I had ordered Liberty to stay and keep an eye out.
Turning to look at the town, I could see the chariots and Verti-bird land in town.
“A Verti-bird, where the hell did they get one?” I asked myself as me and Twilight walked into town
Walking through town, I could see that a few ponies have been giving me the stink eye while others didn't seem to mind. I felt really uncomfortable with the stares.
Twilight saw this and took hold of my hand. I looked at her as she gave me a comforting smile.
“Thanks.” I said to her, earning a nod from her. We passed by Sugarcube Corner and stopped as we saw a closed sign that looked like it was written by a five year old with crayons.
We walked closer to the door and I slowly opened it. I was greeted with the sounds of someone using a wrench.
I walked in and held the door for Twilight, then headed towards the source of the noise, upstairs.
Walking up the stairs and standing in front of what I thought was Pinkie's room, I could hear the sound was emitting from inside.
I opened the door and saw Pinkie covered in oil, wearing what looked like mechanic clothing. I saw Fawkes inside as well.
I walked in, making Pinkie turn to look at us with a serious face.
“Tell anypony I'm doing this and I quit.” She said. I nodded, not expecting her serious behavior. Walking in and closing the door behind us, I then realized that she looks exactly like someone I knew in Megaton. Crazy bitch, funny and helpful but still crazy.
Walking up beside Pinkie, I saw that she was working on a synth. I looked over to Fawkes with a questionable look and he began to explain.
While Fawkes explained the reason for why there's a synth here, Twilight helped Pinkie by giving her the thing she needed.
“Sensor module.” Pinkie said and Twilight gave her something else. Pinkie noticed this and looked at Twilight.
“That ain't a Sensor module, hon.” Pinkie said, placing a hand on her hip. Twilight apologized and gave her the right item.
It took almost an hour for her to finish and calibrate the synth known as Liberty. But once It was all done, Pinkie yelled out.
“There we go, a few broken modules replaced and new sensors along with voice module, the Synthling is okay and can speak without any trouble.” Pinkie explained as she wiped the oil off her forehead.
“You're exactly like Surprise.” I muttered to myself, but apparently she heard it anyway.
“I know! Now out, out, out, out,!” Pinkie shouted, pushing everyone out of her room.
Once everyone was out, she slammed the door shut, only to open it a few seconds later with a new set of clothes.
Jace
I said it once and I will say it again, there’s nothing wrong being paranoid. Sure being jumpy may look weird but I been through about A fuck ton of wars, assassination attempts, and everything in between you're allowed to be paranoid. Case of point right now I’m making runes that when one of Ulysses soldiers step on one they will go up higher than kingdom come.
As I made my rune for my landmines I went over my plans for defending the town.
Big protection bubble around Ponyville: Check.
Creatures to summon to fight army: Fire Servants and elementals, maybe Slivers. Check.
Way to take down Sky fortress: Working on it. Lighting? Dragons? Big fuck off storm?
Fully loaded gun and Cane sword at the ready: Double check.
Landmine runes:...
I place my left hand on the rune I made and poured red mana into it. I looked up and cast the spell I wanted. Across the large field I saw red glows started popping up. I smiled at the landmines. Check.
I looked up at Liberty Prime. I know that it’s on our side but I still feel uneasy about it. The fact that it has enough explosive in it to level the land maybe the reason for it. I looked straight ahead and sighed. One thing I never liked is people or ponies watching me as if they know that I don’t know. Who ever it is they been there for about half an hour.
“I know you are there.” I said out loud. I heard nothing at first but I heard a sigh from behind me.
“How did you know I was here?” The voice asked. I snorted at that.
“You hide your magic scent poorly.” I told her. I saw her and her sister come in on a copter thing.
“Are you saying I smell?” She asked me. I chuckled and turned around.
“No, I’m just saying that if you want to sneak up on someone with some idea of using magic it’s better to hide it.” Luna rolled her eyes. She wore...strange clothing for a princess.
“That’s good to know, also we never met before,” She put out her hand. “I’m Luna, Princess of the night and professional assassin.”
I chuckled a bit and took her hand. It’s funny to be greeted but the same pony that calls you uncle in another world. Though, assassin?
“Hello there I’m Jace, I’m a friend of Steel’s.” I told her. She raised a brow at me.
“Really, he never mention of you before.” Luna said. I smiled a bit.
“Oh we met not to long ago, you can say that he dropped in.” She nodded slowly.
“Well since I’m done with my paranoia, let’s go find Steel. I believe that he’s at Sugarcube corner.” I told her.
“I believe so, my sister was on her way over there as well.” She told me. I smiled at her.
“Well let’s head there, I think your sister would like to see me.”
Walking to Sugarcube corner with Luna from another world is interesting.. Sure I knew her pretty well but seeing another version of her and talking to her is nice. I saw Steel, Twilight, Fawkes, and Pinkie talking to Tia. As we got there Tia looked over at me and blinked. I just smiled at her and look at Steel.
“Well my paranoia is sated.” I told him. He stared at me.
“Meaning?” He asked. I pointed up to the sky.
“The bubble around Ponyville with make sure that no long range shots will hit the place, not even a warhead can get through and trust me someone tried. The only problem is that they can get in, so I placed some ‘landmines’ for them.” I air quoted the word landmines.
“Well, the cloning Facility that Liberty mentioned to you, I know where it is.” He said. I could feel that he was uneased by the location and I could swear I heard him mutter Gary.
“What?” I asked.
“Nothing!” He yelled back. We all blinked at him.
“Ok geez no need to yell.” I told him. I crossed my arms together. “So I guess we head off to this Facility.”
“Correction: Vault 108.” Liberty said, drawing gasps from Luna, Celestia and Chrysalis while Steel kept muttering Gary. I looked at him for a minute and look back at Liberty.
“Looks like you're all fixed up.” I told him.
“Correct, I have also been installed several new combat protocols. Thanks to this settlements mechanic.” Liberty said. A thought came to mind.
“Do you have laser cannons?” I asked.
“No, but I can break your skull six ways from Sunday.” Liberty said. I nodded.
“Damn it Sam, you and your cannons.” I muttered to myself.
“Liberty.” I heard Steel call out. We both turned to look at him.
“You said you can get us inside the Prydwen, how are we going to be able to do that?” Steel asked, only for Liberty to point at the weird looking V-tol. “Discard the marks and put the mark of the bull. Ulysses had mentioned that we would replace Caesar’s Legion with our numbers. We cut off half of the army in the Vault, the rest will be difficult but not impossible.” Liberty explained.
“So we go in, shut the place down and kill anything that shoot at us.” I said with a grin.
“It won't be easy, we are divided by Power, Perception, Stealth and Elite. Once inside, we find the Reactor and Mark it for your Little Friend over there.” He said, pointing behind towards Liberty Prime.
“So what’s the plan on getting inside? Try to sneak in or fight our way in?” I asked.
“No, I'll go. They wouldn't suspect me of treason and I know the ins and outs of the Vault.” Liberty said. Steel placed a hand on his shoulder.
“I'll go as well, I'm able sneak past Machines with ease...no offence.” Steel said.
“Some taken.” Liberty replied.
“So what do you want me to do?” I asked. I looked around a bit. “Want me to stay here and sure up the defenses?”
“Evacuate the settlement, the town needs to look desolated in case of a fight while we fly over to Infiltrate the Prydwen. All residents must leave this place until further notice.” Liberty said to Fawkes, Chrysalis, Luna and Celestia.
“Hey Jace?” I heard Steel say.
“Yeah?” I asked and was soon greeted by a green rifle.
“How good are you at shooting plasma?” He asked with a grin. I blinked at the rifle and took it.
“I'm a good shot, why?” I asked as I looked down the sights.
“Good, you'll need these as well. You'll be able to go invisible, I'll need another guy to watch my ass while in the Vault.” He hinted as he handed me a similar set of clothing to Luna’s.
“Right.” I said.
“The Gun has about fifty microfusion cells in case things gets dicey.” He said. I nodded to him.
“I'll keep that in mind, if things get really dicey I still got Fate here.” I patted my gun. Luna snorted.
“And what would that thing good for, it looks like it belongs in a museum.” I flashed her a smile.
“Trust me, she does wonders.” I told her. Then frowned. “ Also don't dis Fate, she's sensitive.” everyone stared at me.
“Your gun has.... feelings.” Tia deadpan. I frowned at her.
“Yes she does, now if you excuse me I have to go and put on my ninja suit.” I said as I walked off.
Steel
“Yes but we need silenced weapons for now, so take it.” He said, handing me instead a silenced pistol.
“We head-” Liberty was cut off by Steel.
“East of Old Canterlot, Near an old settlement I knew.” Steel said as he walked towards the forest.
“Old Canterlot?” I asked Liberty as he looked at me.
“Capital of Equestria before the Great War, those ruins could contain death. So as your friend said, East from the ruins.” Liberty said as he followed behind Steel. I looked at the suit Steel handed me and snapped my fingers, causing my clothes to switch for the suit.
Steel Breaker Two hours later
Turns out we had to go through the ruins in order to get to Vault 108.
So seeing the city I fought in, raided in and lived in kinda gave me the sense of nostalgia.
I was taken out of my thoughts as I was pulled onto the floor and shushed. I looked and saw that it was Liberty that did that and pointed forwards.
I didn't have to look at what he was pointing at, because as soon as I heard rapid clicking sounds followed by growls, I knew we needed to think of something quick.
Guns blazing is out of the question, I don't need a horde of fifty of these things.
I looked at the source seeing only one Lobotomite moving ecstatically. I got a good look at it and it seems that it the lobotomite used to be a male business griffin judging by the torn suit and tie it wore.
Half its face was either there or not. The half that had skin was a grey color and eyes were a glowing yellow. Its skin had bubbles along the cheeks and it had its tongue out. It was a spiked tongue.
I looked at that jaw of its beak, judging by the wrinkles that it could stretch four times its normal size. Yup, screamer.
“Why does that guy look like shit?” I heard Jace whisper.
“Creature known as Screamer, it's self explanatory.” I heard Liberty say. I decided to try my luck, stealth suits and stealth boys are useless against these things, they smell to find you.
I walked towards a nearby lobotomite corpse and saw it still seeping blood out. Covering my arms and face with its blood, to my dismay.
That done, I sneaked up behind it and was about to snap its neck but it turned around and looked at me. It gave a few clicks before staggering away.
Taking out a combat Knife, I jammed it in its throat. It tried to let out an ear piercing scream but found it impossible as its lungs began to drown in blood.
As soon as the yellow eye turned pitch black, I let it go and took the knife out. Quickly taking out a bottle of purified water, I used it to wash out the smell.
While I did this, I could hear Jace laughing his ass off before getting hit by something metal.
Liberty walked passed me and stopped to look at me. I could tell that he was smiling.
“Eight point five out of ten.” was all he said.
“That was at least a nine out of ten.” I said as I followed behind as Jace did the same.
On the way, we managed to pass by Bethesda Offices. Of course, I laughed at that even though I got stares from both Jace and Liberty.
We arrived at our destination and, well it's changed. Ulysses apparently dug up the Vault, only showing the door that was guarded by two Power armor wearing Synthlings.
Putting the Stealth boy on my wrist and activating it, causing me to turn invisible. I turned to see Jace waved his hand and went invisible as well.
“Never liked invisibility, always prefer indifference spells but I think robot soldiers can see through that.” I heard Jace whispered.
I heard Liberty growl at Jace.
“Sorry.” Jace said as we followed Liberty towards the Vault door. He was stopped by one of the guards while the other emitted a bright red beam that shone up and down at Liberty.
“Designation: Elite Drone 67553. You were presumed to be destroyed, explain this error with our data.” The guard on the left said while the one on the right stopped its scan.
“You try getting away from an explosion that almost killed me. I am here to get a new synthetic skin, this time more resistant to explosions.” Liberty said. The guards looked at each other then back at Liberty.
“Enter.” They both said as the Vault door screeched open. I've gotten used to the loud sound of the door but I can't say the same thing about Jace.
Sneaking behind Liberty, entering the Vault. The door closed behind us as we continued inside.
Traversing through hallways of the Vault, I could see that they had remodeled it completely. The cloning bay was changed into a production facility of clones, the common area was turned into a large docking bay, though it was empty from what it's supposed to be in there, I could see Verti-birds with The Legion’s mark of the bull.
On the way towards our objective, a few drones had been staring at Liberty like if he was a ghost. There was a was another hallway that had the sign R&D.
“I must get a new skin layer, you two go to the reactor a few floors down.” Liberty said as he headed to Research and Development. Jace and I continued to the Reactor without any troubles.
We arrived at the Reactor and saw that there were a few drones posted around the room with some unarmed drones working on the terminals.
I had signaled Jace to take the two guards on the left while I took the two on the right. I had taken out an infiltrator rifle and aimed at the farthest.
Jace killed the farthest on his side while I did the same and we simultaneously killed the nearest ones before they had a chance to do anything.
With that done, I walked up to the drone on the terminal and slit his throat, cutting the wires behind the layer of fake skin. He held his throat to keep the fluid from flowing out but only for said fluid to flow through its circuits and fry them.
Moving the dead Synthling away from the terminal, I then took out a tracker for Liberty Prime to target. Once I placed it on the terminal, it activated for a second before shutting down.
I frowned at this, sure it was expected but now, really? Anyway, I took hold of the tracker again and opened it up and began to tweak it.
“What's going on?” Jace asked me.
“Piece of shit broke on me, I'm trying to see what's the problem.” I said, carefully moving a few wires.
I was then pulled to the other side of the Reactor by Jace.
“Someone’s coming.” He whispered as I heard the door slide open.
“Show yourselves you two, It's me.” We heard Liberty’s voice. Getting up and walking back towards the tracker, I began my search for the problem, again.
Liberty
Frowning as I looked at the one known as Steel Breaker. I walked up to him, took the tracker from his hands, much to his dismay, and shocked it with enough electricity to power another clone.
The tracker beeped as it activated and gave it to Steel. He then placed it on the terminal but as soon as he did that, the alarms were activated.
“Security breached! Eliminate the infiltrators and the traitor amongst them!” I heard the voice of our enemy through the coms. I ran up to the doors panel and smashed it, causing the door to seal up, not able to open without force.
“How the hell did they find out!?” Jace shouted as he took out a gun and checked if he had ammo.
“No, I'll handle them just find a way out.” I said to both of them. “Prime is set to throw the bomb in thirty minutes. Make sure you get out of this alive.” Steel said as he jumped and grabbed hold of the vent. He entered the vent with ease.
“Wait, throw!” I heard Jace say.
“Yes. I'll explain when we're out of here!” Steels voice echoed through the vent. Jace muttered something and followed.
I looked at the door as the enemy was cutting through it. As the two laser cutters met, the door busted open.
Two elites drones and five power drones in armor swarmed the room.
Without delay, I took hold of the first elite wearing a stealth suit by the arm then spun him around, making him crash into the other elite. The Power drones saw this and began to open fire, their bullets had no effect.
Then one Power Drone shot the right side of my face with a laser rifle, melting the new skin, revealing half my skull.
As the other opened fire again, I grabbed an elite, using it as a bullet shield. The elite died during the bulletstorm and I tossed his corpse at the Power Drones.
I ran up to them and slid under them, allowing me to grab a hold of a plasma grenade from one of them. I pulled the pin and dropped it as I slid under them the rest.
I quickly got to my feet and ran, only hearing the explosion of the grenade. Running through the hallways, I had passed a few patrols with ease but was ambushed by three more elites holding Plasma Casters.
My eyes grew in surprise, knowing that it could kill me. As they were about to pull the trigger, the earth shook a couple of times.
The elites were distracted by this and it have a chance to use something I had been recently installed.
Raising my hand, firing a laser out of my palm. I managed to kill one before they noticed.
They looked at me and got ready to fire as did I but couldn't as I felt a click on my hand.
“Uh oh.” I said to myself but I quickly silenced myself as two plasma shots were fired from the vents, killing the remaining two elites.
Not questioning anything, I continued my escape only to get cut off by a Stealth class near the docking bay window.
We were sent through the window, falling fifty stories down onto a Verti-bird.
Due to my reinforced exoskeleton, I had survived the fall. I can't say the same for my assailant.
The Verti bird took damage to its right wing from our descent. Getting off the wing, I looked around finding the area empty.
My gaze focused on a fully repaired Verti-bird. I ran towards it, grabbing a wrench on the way. I looked over to the button for the giant bay doors and threw the wrench before entering the Verti-bird.
Knowing how to fly one can come in handy from time to time, so without further delay, I had activated the ship.
The propellers began to spin and in a few seconds it spun in its maximum velocity. The bay doors fully opened, allowing me to fly up.
As I flew farther up, a few dozen drones came out and opened fire. I wasn't worried, Verti-birds can't be damaged by normal ammunition.
I quickly drew the thought out as the left propeller bursted into flames.
“Chance of escape: 40%.” I said to myself. I didn't stop flying and finally flew out the docking bay.
While I was still in the air, I saw a large bomb spinning through the air and landed right where we left the tracker.
Jace
We got out of the place after a bit. Following Steel as we made our escape out of the place. On the way we took out more guards. It took us a bit but we got to a place that was a bit more quieter. I reach forward and grabbed Steel and ported us away of the place. Steel turned to look at me.
“Why didn’t you do that before?” He asked me.
“You try concentrating while an alarm is blaring in your ear.” I replied. I crossed my arms at him. “If I did we would of been inside a tree or something.”
“Whatever.” Steel said as he took out a small case and opened it, revealing a small console.
“Boom!” He shouted as he flipped a switch. A second later there was an explosion coming from where we were at. I had to cover my eyes from the light of it.
“Well, you do know how to leave a lasting impression.” I told Steel. I looked up at the sky and saw something coming towards us. It looks like…
“OH SHIT, MOVE!” I yelled and grabbed Steel and moved him away from where we were standing. A copter crashed down on the ground and kept going. The wings got torn off as it went.
“Do you think-” I started but Steel ran after the copter and I followed after him. We got to the crashed site and saw that the copter banged up. I heard some explosions coming from behind us. I turned and blinked in front of Steel, grabbed him and blinked back.
“What are you-”
BOOM!
We turned and saw the copter exploded. After a minute we walk over to the wreckage. We stared at it until a piece of it flew off and we saw something climb out of it. It looked like a scene from Terminator. I saw the thing climb out and looked around. It saw us and waved.
“Damn, first a warhead and now this, you just don’t know how to stay down.” I told Liberty.
“I was designed to kill him.” He said pointing at Steel.
“The only thing I can be killed is plasma.” He said afterwards. I nodded.
“Yup, definitely Terminator.” Liberty tilted his head at this. Steel got it.
“Which one, Arnold or the other one?” Steel asked me. I looked at Liberty for a bit.
“Arnold.” I said. I clap my hands together and looked at them.
“Well! Since that done I guess we head back to town.” I said. I put my hand on Steel and on Liberty. Good thing I had gloves on or doing that would hurt. And I ported us back to town.
We popped back in the middle of town during the evacuation of the place. I double over and groaned a bit.
“Are you ok?” Liberty asked me. I did the so-so geaster.
“Teleporting long distances gives me a massive headache and it doesn’t help with the fact that I had two others with me.” I told him. I snapped my fingers and my clothes changed back to normal and I stood up. I looked around and saw the mane six and the two princesses coming over to us. Twilight ran up and hugged Steel.
“We saw the explosion, I thought, I thought…” Twilight started but Steel hugged her a bit more. He whispered something to her to calm her down. I looked to see the others.
“WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU!” I jumped as Pinkie yelled Liberty. She didn’t look happy at all.
“Uhhh, I crashed down in a Verti-bird and it exploded.” He told her. For the first time in my long life I saw Pinkie eye twitched. I put my hand on my head as a throb of pain started again.
“Ya alright there sugarcube?” Applejack asked. I looked at her for a moment.
“I’ll be fine, how’s the evacuation coming?” I asked her.
“It's almost finished, the remaining ponies are still shaken up by the explosion.” Luna said while Celestia glared at Steel.
“You know the radiation will just get snuffed out by the F.E.V.” Steel said in his defense.
“Right.” Celestia said, crossing her arms together.
“Just wish I could've seen it up close.” I heard her mutter to herself. I just stared at her.
“How long do you think until the evacuation is finished?” I asked them.
“In a few seconds, the last train is now being boarded.” Celestia said. I saw Steel look over to the distance and Liberty did the same.
“Hurry, we don't have much time.” As Liberty said that I caught a glimpse of a griffin standing in the distance.
He turned and walked away before I could call out to him. I turned back to the griffin.
“Who’s he?” I asked outloud.
“Who?” Steel asked. I nodded towards the griffin. He look where I was looking.
“There's nobody there, man.” Steel said. I blinked at him. What?
“I must of used more mana then I thought.” I looked back and saw the griffin. I was getting a bad feeling. “I’ll be right back.”
Steel was about to say something but I ported closer to the griffin. I got ten feet from him and stopped and looked at him. He wore a brown overcoat and fedora. He looked at me for a second before vanishing.
“What the..” I said to myself. I looked around and saw nothing. I shook my head. “Am I seeing ghosts again?”
Steel
We don't have much time, I feel it and it's getting closer by the second. I looked around the station, seeing ponies still boarding the train.
The mane six had offered help for the fight but I told them it's extremely dangerous, that it won't be like it was in the crater.
Before they had taken off, I had promised to come back for her. I knew that was a lie, Ulysses isn't like most of my enemies.
Seeing her enter the chariot and take off, I muttered sorry. I felt someone tap my shoulder, I turned and saw that it was Chrysalis holding a paint brush.
“You're lucky I remember the flag of the Legion.” She said as she gestured to look at the Verti-bird, seeing the mark on the side.
“We were in the legion for a few days before killing Caesar.” I said to her as I took a look at the Verti-bird.
Seeing that Celestia had taken good care of it over the years, though I still want to know where she got one in the first place.
“Estimated time: Now.” I heard Liberty say as we all looked up at the clouds as a large zeppelin came out of them. “Holly shit.” I heard Chrysalis say in awe. Liberty climbed board of the Verti-bird and sat down on the pilot seat. I followed behind him and sat on next to next to him.
We turned on the rotors of the ship. The Ship was starting to hover.
The ship tilted a bit but Liberty fixed it in time before the rotors came into contact with anything.
I looked to the side and saw Fawkes, Chrysalis and Jace hoping in.
“Everyone secured!?” Liberty shouted out back, receiving a few taps from the floor.
With that said we took off towards the Prydwen.
Soon Verti-birds were despatched from the Prydwen and flew towards Ponyville.
“That’s not good!” I heard Jace yelled.
I was about to say something but seeing a few of those Verti-birds explode. I looked at the source and saw a few sentry drones placed around Ponyville.
“Are they yours?” Liberty asked me.
“No.” I answered and I caught a glimpse of someone wearing a brown overcoat and fedora on the roof of Carousel boutique before hopping off the building.
“What?” I said to myself. Jace yelled yelled and pointed at me.
“You saw him to! You saw the griffin guy!” I blinked at him.
“All I saw was the coat, that's all but...he seems familiar.” I said as I handed Stealth boys to everyone. Jace looked at it.
“You know I can go stealth on my own right?” I just stared at him.
“Yes, and I recall you saying that you used too much mana, this is a mana free way to go invisible.” I stated. He stared at me and then nodded and took the Stealth boy.
“Cloak now, we're in range of their scanners.” Liberty said. Soon everyone placed their stealth boys onto their wrists and activated them.
“Try not to move.” Was the last thing I said before turning mine on.
“Survivor of the Cloning factory. Designation: Elite 67553.” We heard Liberty say through the intercom.
“You are free to dock.” We heard a drone say. With that out of the way, Liberty docked on the nearest platform.
The doors opened and I jumped off first.
“You guys go fuck the engines, destroy their guns. Ulysses is mine.” I said as I began my side of the plan.
Jace
As Steel went off doing his part the rest of us split up. I remember Liberty said something about stealth, but as I walked off and decided to find the guns and blow them up. I’m not one for stealth as you can tell. I walked around until I found a row of turrets. I smiled and pointed my sword at them.
“Kaboom.” I said as I shot out a bolt that went through the turrets that made them explode. I heard an alarm go off and saw something that looked like a security camera. I turned the Stealth boy off and looked at the camera. (Optional) “Come on you jackasses! Come and get me!” I yelled and swung my sword, sending a slash that cut the camera in half. I smiled and continued on. That should get them to come after me.
Sure enough I looked down the corridor and saw a group of them running after me. I smiled and donned my armor and pulled up my shield. As they fired I felt their shots hit my shield. Luckily I dropped my big dome shield and landmines back in Ponyville so I can have my shield up better. I grunted as one of them shot what I can guess a shotgun at me. I charge my sword and slash them, cutting them down in a swipe. I made my sword disappear and made Fate appear and ran down the hallway.
As I went down one hallway to another hallway, I fired at groups of them and some turrets on the way. I even found a place for guns. I thought of destroying it but thought of something better. I went in and found all their guns. I grabbed some more microfusion cells and some other guns that I think would be useful. I even found a weird looking minigun and a 50 cal sniper. After sending them to my personal plane and a lot of ammo I made a orb of red mana and dropped it in the room and left. Ten seconds later I heard a explosion.
Some time destroying everything in sight
“AHAHAHAHA! This is fun!” I yelled as I shot one of them in the head and threw the gun at one of them. They are sending I think everything, even those mindless monster ones. I just shot them down. I used a bit of red mana so I used fate and the plasma rifle Steel gave me. The rifle didn’t do as much damage as Fate but it did it’s job nicely. As I went I found more of those supply rooms, I duck into those rooms and grabbed more ammo, guns and other stuff. I even found those needle things Steel uses. Slimpack or something. After blowing the supply rooms up I continued on.
I rounded a corner and saw a big door. I pushed the button and made it open. I found a big room that seemed to be turned into a warzone since gun fires was going off. I saw both Chrysalis and Fawkes pinned down by a group of enemies. I put Fate in her holster and pulled out a catapult looking this that I found that Steel uses. I grunted by the weight and used a spell just for me to hold the damn thing. Made sure it was loaded I aimed for the other group and pulled what I think is the trigger.
Wumph!
I heard the rocket thing shot out and saw it exploded. All I saw after was a big ass hole. I put the thing away and blinked over to the other two. I grabbed them and blinked over to an open door on the other side. Once there I press a button to close the door.
“So how’s things?” I asked them, they looked at me.
“Well things are going good, we didn’t really run into resistance but I’m guessing that was you.” Chrysalis said. I smiled at her and saw Fawkes shake his head.
“Why did you go and do something like that?” He asked.
“Well if I get them to chase me then you all don’t have to worry about them coming after you.” I told them. “Also I think you might want these.”
I snapped my fingers and the weird looking minigun and an assault rifle appeared. Also a bag of needle things.
“I think these will help?” I asked them. Chrysalis took the rifle and smiled.
“Oh yeah, this will do.” I also saw Fawkes put on the minigun.
“Well I don’t know about you but there’s still stuff to blow up so see yeah.” I tuned to run but I saw Steel ran by us.
“The Prydwen is heading to Canterlot! Go!” He yelled at us. We stared at him for the most part. Holy hell what happened to his arm?
“Get your asses in gear and get the fuck out of here!” He shouted at us. I saw one of those copters and head towards it. I saw Liberty getting in.
“When did you-” I began but he glared at me.
“Just get in!” He yelled. I got in as the other two got in as well. Just as they did and sat down the copter dropped.
Steel Minutes Earlier
(Optional) “I will cut you to pieces for that.” Ulysses shouted as we ended up in the engine room. I've been using magic to reinforce my chitin and had gave me a strength boost.
I tried punching her only to hit the wall behind her as she dodged. She took the chance to grab my synthetic arm and rip it off, causing me to scream in pain.
I held on to the open wound, allowing her to kick me away. I landed on the floor. Not wanting to let her win, I took hold of my infinity Plasma pistol and fired at her.
As the shot hit her chest, I swore I could see our surroundings change to a familiar underground missile silo.
I looked back at Ulysses and saw that she looked exactly like she did back then with her duster. I grabbed hold of a hammer next to me and lunged at her despite the pain.
Catching her by surprise, I striked her arm, crippling it with a sickening crunch. As she held her arm, I could help but smirk.
“Can't feel pain my ass.” I said to her as the wall behind me blew open. I could hear the screeching of air behind me and Ulysses saw this, then charged at me. It knocked us both outside and landed on one of the turbine engines.
Unfortunately, I was the one on the floor near the turbine exhaust. I couldn't get up, having only one arm does this to ya.
I felt Ulysses’ hoof stomped on my chest, making me cough out blood as the result.
“You lose.” She said to me as she got ready to drop me in.
“Au contraire mon ami.” I said, taking hold of her foot and pushed it up with all I got left. Holding her up and balancing her, my lips formed a grin.
“You lose. Au Revoir!” I said as I spun her around and dropped her in the turbine. The turbine exploded in flames soon after, causing the zeppelin to rumble.
I looked at the horizon, seeing Canterlot closing in fast. I stood up and ran back in.
I met up with the group at the docking area. I ran past them, heading to the bridge.
“The Prydwen is heading to Canterlot! Go!” I shouted as I climbed up the stairs. I looked back at them as they just stared at me.
“Get your asses in gear and get the fuck out of here!” I shouted. They boarded the Verti-bird and I pressed the button, dropping the Verti-bird.
Shaking my head, I continued my sprint to the bridge.
Jace
As the copter fell only one thought went through my mind. Normally it would be something funny or a plan of some sorts. No, I was thinking the samething as I was saying.
“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!” I screamed. I saw Liberty press some buttons, trying to get the it to start. I saw things light up and loud beeping was going off.
“We’re going down to fast, we need to slow down!” Fawkes yelled. Chrysalis grabbed by my coat.
“YOU HAVE MAGIC, DO SOMETHING!” She screamed. I blinked at her and well I panicked. I used a spell at random and I hoped that I didn’t kill us. The sound went down to the point that I could hear myself think. I opened one of my eyes and saw that a bubble surrounds us. No one talked as we just floated there.
“Liberty, can you get this thing airborne?” Fawkes asked. Liberty nodded and soon I hear the rotors start up. I dropped the bubble and we dropped about a foot until we headed to Canterlot. After the danger of falling passed I had time to think what just happened in the blimp.
“I guess that Steel beat Ulysses.” I said as I watched the blimp as it head for Canterlot. Smoke trails followed behind it.
“I don’t know, Steel killed her a long time ago and she still came back.” Chrysalis said. I looked at her for a moment then at the blimp. I could see Canterlot from here.
“Liberty, how long do you think that blimp has until it gets to Canterlot?” I asked him.
“I don't think that's important.” Liberty answered as he pointed out side towards the blimp. I saw that one of the turbines was gone and it slowly turning to the right and dropping.
The blimp crashed through one of the towers of the palace and crashed behind Canterlot, plowing through the forest behind the mountain before exploding. I watched that happened and blinked once.
“I think he’s fine.” I said out loud.
“Negative, chances of survival zero.” Liberty said as he flew us down to Canterlot.
“What are the chances of surviving a warhead blast at ten feet away?” I asked him.
“One.” He answered. I grinned at him.
“And look I’m still here, now come on let’s see if we can find him.” I told him.
Steel Breaker
(Optional) Pain is all I felt, I think. I don't know anymore, I couldn't feel my left leg while my others was burning under a large metal beam.
Soon my vision was blurring through the intense feeling. I could hear someone coming closer.
I looked to my left and saw two black leather boots inches away from my face. Looking up, I could see blue and brown.
Squinting, I could see a little better, allowing me to see a blue jumpsuit and a brown overcoat.
Finding the face of the person above me, I couldn't help but smirk.
“You got a lot of nerve showing up.” I coughed out as he took hold of me by the shirt and started dragging me away from the wreckage.
Looking down onto my legs, I saw that my left leg was blown off. Chuckling at this was the last thing I did before darkness took me.
Jace
As we landed I got out to look around at the wreckage. I frowned and looked at the others.
“Let’s split up, cover more ground.” I said to them. Fawkes and Chrysalis nodded but Liberty just crossed his arms.
“I’m telling you, there’s a zero chance that he survived.” I rolled my eyes at him.
“And I’m telling you that he did, you need to put more faith in him” I said as I went off.
I looked around the wreckage. I frowned at the sight. The place was a mess. I decided to use something that will make me have headaches. I place my hand on the ground and used some black mana. I cast something I like to call a life sense.
I felt my sense expanded a bit and I felt some sources which I knew was Fawkes and Chrysalis. But I didn’t sense Steel. I frowned and opened my eyes and kept looking.
After looking I came to a bit of a clearing and saw what looked like drag marks. I followed them and found a body.
“Steel!” I ran over and saw that he has lost his left leg. I kneeled down and put my ear on his chest. Nothing.
“Oh hell no, don’t you go and fucking die on me you asshole.” I said as I summoned a bag of those needles. Stimpaks as the others call them. I took three and used them on him. Again nothing.
“Fuck!” I yelled out for the rest of them that I found him and looked back on him. ‘Come on, come on think! There has to be something!’ I looked down at my left arm and saw the black gem. A spell popped into my head.
“Steel you so~ owe me after this.” I place my hand on him and focus on my black mana. If the life sense is going to give me a headache this is going to give me nightmares. One of the things that kept me alive over the years is that I some know how life and death works. Black mana is just that, death but it can also be life. I knew that this will be a pain since I had to pay a price for this but I can shave off a few years of my life. I did it once and man that was weird. I started to hear voices around me as I charge my spell and I felt tired quickly. I didn’t know how much of my life I’m pouring in but I knew that it could be around a few thousand. What I fit and healthy and magic.
I was finish with my spell and I fell on my ass. I looked at him and put my fingers on his neck.
Nothing… Nothing… Nothing…
“Come on lover boy, I don’t want to tell Twilight that you died, I think she would kill me.” I don’t know if it was her name but I felt it.
Ba-dum, Ba-dum, Ba-dum.
I smiled as I heard him groan a bit.
“Decided to take a dirt nap, Steel?” I asked him. He turned his head at me.
“Fuck you too.” He said with a cough at the end. I laughed and looked behind and saw the rest of the group coming toward us. I waved as they came closer.
“Impossible…” I heard Liberty said. I chuckled as I got up. I stumbled a bit but Chrysalis caught me.
“Thanks.” I told her. She nodded and she helped me back to the copter. Fawkes got Steel and carried him. Liberty walked up beside us.
“How is it possible?” He asked. I stared at him and gave him a mad grin.
“Magic, I don’t have to say shit.”
Steel Breaker One day later
The annoying sounds of beeping were the first things I was greeted with when I regained consciousness. Without opening my eyes, I smashed the source of the sound.
“Good morning to you too, Steel.” I heard Jace said. I opened my eyes and turned to see Jace in a hospital bed. I looked around and saw I was in one to.
“I'm not a morning person without food.” I said. He shrugged.
“Well lucky you didn’t hurt your guest.” I stared at him as he pointed. I looked and saw Twilight sleeping beside me.
“Thanks to Salvador, you were able to find me.” I muttered to myself as wrapped my only arm around her.
“I have to say you gave me a scare there Steel, if I didn’t know some death magic you wouldn't be here.” I turned to Jace a frowned.
“Funny, because magic was the same thing that killed me.” I said with a chuckle.
“Magic has a weird way of doing things, anyway just to let you know that you might have some nightmares, shaving a bit of my life can do that to you” He told me.
“Good thing Luna taught me the way of Lucid Dreams.” I said. He nodded and went back to his book.
I raised my arm up and looked at my wrist.
“Pip, search Dream of the sky by Miracle of Sound.” I said, causing the pip boy to glow a bright green and started playing the song.
I heard Jace hum along as he read. I saw him raised his eyebrow as the song picked up.
“Just wait till you hear a Scatman John song.” I said to him.
“I’ll keep that in mind.” He said as he started to cough violently a bit. He sat back and groaned. “I hate black mana sometimes.”
“And I hate fighting, but we don't always get what we want.” I said to him. He snorted at that.
“You have no idea how right you are, but meh just roll with the punches… or uhh bullets” Jace said. I heard Twilight groan and sat up. She looked up and rubbed the sleep out of her eyes. She looked at me.
“Steel?” She asked.
“That's my name, don't wear it out.” I said with a smirk. I saw tears form at the corners of her eyes. I moved my hand to wipe them away.
“What did I say about crying, hmm?” I asked her. Her reply was a passionate kiss.
“Kid you're not supposed to be back here!” I heard someone shout, a nurse maybe.
“I don't care, I need to see him!” Scootaloo? I pulled back from Twilights kiss, allowing me to shout.
“Scootaloo!” I shouted and the doors soon opened the filly in question ran in while being chased by a nurse.
“You! Leave her alone.” I shouted at the nurse.
“She isn't supposed to be here, visiting hours are-” She was interrupted by a loud click. I held in my hand a .44 magnum and aimed at her.
“Finish that sentence, I dare you.” I sneered at her.
“Oh would you look at that, visiting hours have started up again.” She said before running out the door.
“Was that necessary?” Twilight asked.
“Hey, no one lays a finger on her without my okay, okay?” I said to her as I placed the gun on the table behind Twilight.
I coughed out as I felt pressure on my chest. Looking at source, I saw that was Scoots.
“I knew you'd make it, I just knew you would.” She said. I unwrapped my arm from Twilight and wrapped it around Scoots.
“I promised, didn't I?” I asked as I stroked her mane.
“Oh don't mind me, just going to sit here and read my book.” I heard Jace say. I saw Twilight look over to him.
Five minutes later, Nyx had arrived and hugged her mother like if she hasn't seen her in days.
‘How long was I out anyway and why can't I...oh, right.’ I thought as I looked at the remains of my left leg.
“Well, I can't walk this off.” I said to myself.
“Well you can’t walk it off but you can sure hop it off.” I heard Jace said. I glared at him and he just gave you an annoying smile.
“Your an ass you know that.” I told him. He’d moved as if he was proud of it.
“I know.” He said before returning to his book.
Jace
I left the hospital to leave the four of them alone. I know I shouldn’t leave since I’m a patient there but other than the coughing I’m find. I appeared in the middle of town. Luckily the place didn’t get destroyed and everyone returned and going on with their lives.
I walked to Sugarcube Corner and walked in. I saw both Chrysalis and Fawkes sitting in a booth. I went and got some coffee and a muffin. After paying for it I went and grabbed a chair and sat at the end of the table.
“So is he..” Chrysalis began but I stopped her with a look.
“Other than having no arm and leg he’s fine, he’s with Twilight, Nyx, and Scootaloo.” I took a sip of coffee.
“That’s good to hear.” Fewkes said. I nodded and looked out the window.
“So what happens now?” I asked. They both looked at me and at each other.
“Don't know, I only had a synth army in case of emergencies and to attack Canterlot so I could keep my sister from taking over before we even had a chance.” Chrysalis said.
“I will be returning to Canterlot so I may continue my studies on the art of war and peace.” Fawkes said. I nodded to him and looked out a bit.
“So… what about the changeling race? What’s going to happen them that?” I asked. Chrysalis looked down at the table.
“Don't you get it, there isn't a changeling race. Me and Steel are the only ones.” Chrysalis said, a bit of anger in her tone. I frowned and looked away.
“What are you going to do?” Fawkes asked me. I shrugged.
“Well here I don’t know, Steel needs to send me back home and there I don’t know, live out my life until something happens.” I told them.
Taking another sip of my coffee, I looked out the window behind Chrysalis and spotted a griffin in a blue jumpsuit walking by. Normally I wouldn't judge people by what they wear but the numbers on his back made me rethink that.
In fact, I think it's the same griffin I saw from before, from when Ponyville was getting evacuated and when I was on the copter yesterday.
“I’ll be right back.” I said as I left the table. I got out of the store and looked around. I saw him walk into an alleyway. I followed him into the alleyway.
*Click*
“Not. another. step.” I heard someone say behind me. I blinked at the voice. How the hell did he get behind me.
“You're the guy that I saw yesterday, first I thought you were a ghost since no one could see you.” I told him.
“Trade secret, now explain why you're following me. I already helped Steel, so I owe him jack shit.” I shrugged.
“Well when Steel said that he saw your coat I knew that he saw you, and I was curious about you. Nice aim by the way.” I told him.
“Curiosity can kill, you know.” He said. I snorted.
“If you can’t be curious how will you learn?” I said.
“Oh I learned alright.” He said sarcastically.
“And it only cost me a few organs and limbs.” He said. I raised an eyebrow.
“So what now?”
“Now, you take these to Steel and tell him Salvador sent his get well gifts.” He said followed by another click and a large sack with something really heavy hitting my back.
“Hey, what the-” I turned and saw that he disappeared. I looked around and then at the sack.
“Now I know how everyone else feels like when I port out.”
Steel Breaker
I talked to Twilight, Nyx, and Scoots for a bit. They were all worried about me the whole time. I was going to say something but I heard yelling outside of my door.
“Sir! Your should be still in bed!” A nurse yelled.
“And I told you that I’m fine! Now go tend to others that need it.” Jace said as he opened the door. I saw that he had a large sack on his back. I frowned at him. He saw me and blinked.
“What?”
“Nothing, just can’t believe that you left the hospital just to get back into it.” I said to him. He rolled his eyes.
“Well I’m weird, anyway,” He slung off the sack and placed it by the group. I heard something heavy in it. “Delivery!”
We all looked at the sack and eyed it. Jace stranded near it and was inches from it.
“What is it?” I asked.
“Don’t know, all I was told is to take it to you and say that ‘Salvador sent his get well gifts’.” He told me. I groaned at this.
“If he thinks that by dragging me out of the wreckage and giving whatever is in there will wipe out his debt. He owes six thousand caps, I know they're not currency but come on!” I said as I opened the bag. I took out the first thing I touched inside and saw that was another arm.
Giving it a look around, seeing that it was made with reinforced Plasteel. Without any hesitation, I placed it on the stump of my right shoulder and felt something pinch it.
I tried moving the fingers and succeeded.
“What else is in there?” I heard Twilight ask. I pulled out the last item inside and was surprised by what it was. It was a synthetic leg and fortunately looked to be the height it needed to be. I looked over to Twilight, Nyx and Scoots, seeing them look at the leg in awe.
I found a note attached to it and read it.
“Six thousand caps worth of material, told you that you needed back up synthetics.” I read out. I sighed as I crumbled the note.
“Could you all wait outside, I need a minute to put this on.” I said to everyone. Jace walked out without a word, Scootaloo hugged me before leaving, Nyx did the same but longer and Twilight gave me a peck on the lips.
Once the door closed, I held onto the bed frame as I stood up. I looked to the side of my bed and saw two crutches, I bent over and picked them up.
Using the crutches, I made my way towards a mirror. As I stood in front of the mirror, I couldn't help but frown at the sight.
A Wastelander out of his element, a broken stallion turned changeling. That's what I sawnthrough the mirror but I knew it wasn't true. The Wasteland never left, just changed and I'm happy, for the first time since I arrived in this world, I was proud to be what I am now.
I released some air I didn't know I was holding and made my way back to the bed.
“Maybe it's a sign for me to stop.” I said to myself as I looked at the synthetic leg.
“That’s the question we all asked ourselves.” I looked up and saw Jace standing beside me.
“Didn’t you leave.” I asked him. He shrugged and hold up his book.
“Forgot this.” He looked at the mirror. “You know Twilight asked me if I was lonely down in Megaton.”
“Yeah, so?” I asked.
“I told her that it wasn’t that I’m lonely, it’s that I’m tired.” I looked at me and crossed his arms. “And I can see it in you, you're also tired”
“I'm not tired...I'm exhausted, sick and tired of all the shit I've been through. I think...I think it's time for me to stop, to stop being The Wanderer.” I said.
“You have a nice thing you got here, wish I got something like that back at home.” Jace sighed. I looked at him for a moment.
“What do you mean?” I asked. He looked at me with a serious face.
“Do you know how old I am.” I blinked at him. That came out of left field.
“No, neither do I want to know.” I said to him. He snorted at that.
“Well let’s say that I’m really old, I seen so much of the land and history in my world,” His face darkened a bit. “And I seen too much fighting, and I did things that I regret, I seen close friends die in front of me, I seen the depths of hell and then some and every time I asked myself one thing, Why.” He looked at the mirror.
“Yes but look at you, you're not slowly turning into a machine. I pay for my mistakes and I'm running out of things to pay them.” I said to him. He looked at me and I saw something that I never saw about him. I remember that he was some happy crazy asshole that blows stuff up with a snappe of his fingers. Now I see him much differently. I see scars that aren’t there, brushes that are overshadowed by something. He looks like someone that’s body is barely holding on with loose thread.
“I may not be turning into a machine but you have something that I would never have.” He said.
“And that is?” I asked him. He nodded to the door.
“A place to stop.” I looked at him and he continued. “I have no place to stop, I no one to care about deeply, sure I have friends but they just don’t know how much I been through, you may not believe it but I payed so much of me that it’s stupid, so back to the question of why? Why don’t I stop, and for me it’s two things.”
“And those are?” I asked him. He walked up to me and stared.
“If I stop walking, who will? If I stop paying the price, who will pay?” He said and disappeared. I stared at the spot he was standing.
I sighed knowing my answer. Looking over to my Pip-boy and typed a few things, resulting in the Pip-boy to shut down.
Removing it from my wrist without any problems, I then placed it in the bag I got the synth limbs from. I then began to put on the synthetic leg.
Jace
We all waited for Steel to come out. As we waited some of the doctors came and tried to do some check ups on me. I started to get annoyed that they keep on coming.
“I told you that I’m fine, now leave me alone!” I yelled at one of them.
“But we had to make sure that you’re in good condition to move around.” One of the doctors said. I angrily rolled my eyes and glared at him.
“If I wasn’t fine then I wouldn’t be moving around that much but as you can see I’m moving so that means that I’m fine.”
“But-” I glared at him and pointed.
“I’m fine, you have other patients to deal with.” He blinked at me and turned and walked away.
“You don’t have to be mean to him, he was just doing his job.” I heard Twilight say. I cross my arms over my chest.
“Then he shoulda taken the hint then.” I told her. I looked and saw Chrysalis staring at me. Before she could say anything the door opened and Steel walked out. He didn’t look like a merc, he looked like a normal stallion that lives here. Twilight walked over and hugged him.
“So you made your choice?” I asked him. Everyone looked at me and at him confused.
“Yeah, I did.” He said. I walked up to him and put out my hand. He took it and shook it. I turned and looked at Twilight.
“You are probably the most luckiest mare in this world, and you should know that.” She looked confused and looked between the two of us.
“What happened with all that talk in room before?” Steel asked. I smiled.
“You should also know that I’m the biggest ass and that’s never going to be taken.” He stared at me and started to laugh.
“Yes you are.” I smiled at him and looked around. I nodded and looked back.
“So you have anything else planned or we’re done here, I don’t know how time works between world but if it’s the same then I need to head back, unless there’s something else you need help with.” I asked. Steel placed a hand under his chin then snapped his fingers.
“There's one thing you could help me with.” He said with a grin. I raised a brow.
“And that would be?” I asked.
“How good are you finding some ponies?”
I knocked on the door of the place that I found. After Steel told me why I was more than happy to be helpful. I waited and looked down at myself. Yup look like I been through a warzone. The door opened and I saw a pegasus stallion with purple mane and dark green fur. He eyed me.
“Who are you?” He asked. I smiled at him and looked behind him. I saw a pegasus mare with orange fur and a yellow mane.
“Sorry to bother you but is that your wife behind you?” I asked him. He crossed his arms and glared at me.
“Yea, why do you want to know?” He asked.
“Just wondering, now I have to asked about a filly named Scootaloo.” I watched his face turn angry. I also saw his wife did the same thing.
“What about her? She was a brat that never listened.” She called out. I tilted my head and looked at the stallion.
“If you’re here to say that you found her then I say you can keep her.” I was about to say something until he cut me off.
“Should of been done with her before, nopony even cared.” Yup two assholes right here. I dropped my smile.
“Wrong answer.” I said as I kicked him in the stomach and sent him flying. I walked in and saw that he was at his wife's feet. She looked at me with fear.
“Now, you two are coming with me.” I said as I grabbed them and ported back to Ponyville.
I appeared outside of Ponyville with the two in hand. I started dragging them through town. I saw the townsfolk watching us come through. The two in hand started to claw at my hands.
“Let me go you bastard! You have no right!”
“Please help us! This thing is crazy!” I rolled my eyes a bit and kept going. I got to Twilight's castle and kicked open the doors and walked in. I continued until I found the doors to the throne/ map room as I call it. Again I kicked it open and walked in. I saw Twilight sitting with Tia and Luna standing at her left. To her right was Steel, Nyx and Scoots. I also saw the rest of them, even Chrysalis, Fawkes and Liberty. They all looked unhappy, other then Scoots she looked shocked.
“Well you asked and here they are.” I throwed them in front of them. Steel nodded at me and I walked back and closed the doors. I saw my boot print on the door. Whoops.
“Thank you, now Mr and Miss. Chaser.” Tia said. I raised an eyebrow at that. Scoots last name is Chaser here? Huh.
“We have been told that you have been treating a filly named Scootaloo harshly by both beating and keeping food from her when she was under your care.” She continued. Mr. Chaser looked up at her with fear. Miss. Chaser looked around at all of us.
“W-W-W-We never done anything like that Princess, she just a child and she has a wild imagination.” Mr.Chaser said. I’m going to start calling him Jackass and Miss. Chaser Jackass two.
“Subject heart rate is higher than normal and is both sweating and hands are shaking.” Liberty said. Applejack looked at Jackass with anger.
“He’s lying.” She said. The stallion looked at her and back at the Princesses.
“Do not lie to us, it’s not a good idea.” Luna said. Twilight looked at them with sadness.
“I just want to know why? Why would you do that to a filly, to your own child.” Jackass two looked at her with fear and made herself smaller. Jackass on the other hand stood up with anger.
“Why you ask. I’ll tell you why. She’s a mistake!” He pointed at Scoots who looked at him in fear. “She nothing but worthless to us, she never listens to us so we tried to teach her the hard way, but that didn’t help. She just an eyesore and nopony would want her.” Silence. No one said anything. I saw Steel glared at Jackass with so much rage that I could feel it from here. Surprisingly so did Chrysalis, she had the same look on her. I remember what Jackass said in the house and I guess I should bring that up.
“And if she stayed you would of killed her.” I said out loud. He turned to me and glared. The wife on the other hand was still making herself small.
“If she did then I woul-” He started but got cut off when Steel punched him in the face.
“Puto Cállate!” He yelled. Even though he said in some other language, I was sure it didn't mean anything nice. The wife looked at him in fear and back up. Steel looked like he wasn’t finished.
“Scootaloo is not a fucking mistake. A mistake is letting you two keep her since birth, a mistake is missing a shot and a mistake always bites you in the ass in more ways than one.” He said. I looked at the other and heard her repeating the words ‘I’m sorry’ over and over again.
“Steel enough, we can take it from here.” Tia said. It looked like Steel was going to argue but didn’t. She then looked at Jackass.
“You two are lucky for one thing. Back then crimes of such magnitude are punishable by death.” Tia said. I heard Chrysalis mutter something about crucifying them. Wow.
“And for the fact you aren’t from where I belong, you would have to worry with something more than death.” I said to them. Jackass glared at me and Jackass two just kept saying those two words. I thought of something that I remember a kingdom did to people like this, and Jackass pissed me off. Jackass two, not so much.
“I don’t know about Jack- errm Miss. Chaser but I got something for Mr. Chaser and it doesn’t involve death.” I said. Steel looked at me for a moment. Twilight whispered something to Tia and she looked at me. Then nodded. I walked up to Jackass and snapped my fingers. Blue chains shot up and brought him to kneel in front of me. My hand glowed Black and red as I place my hand on him. He started to scream as runes began to appear on him. The wife looked at him wide eyed. When I was done runes covered his body. He tried to speak but couldn’t.
“This is called the Punishment of Memory or as a old kingdom called it, The Walk of the Darkened Mind. It goes as follows, the one who has been marked are tasked to walk for the rest of their lives with the memory of their crime. They can’t speak to anyone for help or take anything that’s they can get on their own, not even to buy anything. Here’s the kicker, every day those memories get worse as time goes on.” I looked at the stallion and grabbed him by the throat.
“But for you there’s one more thing, on today of next year you will be killed by that your memories had made, it’s an older version of the spell but I think you deserve it.” I whispered to him. I threw him on the ground and stood over him. “Now walk.”
With that the runes glowed and he stood up and started to walk out of the room. I turned to see the rest of them. My sight caught the other as she looked at me with fear. I looked Tia.
“Her punishment is yours to place.” I said to her as I stood by the door and crossed my arms.
“Very well, Miss Chaser you are hereby sentenced to life in prison, maybe there you will understand the wrong you have done.” She said. Two guards walked up to her and picked her up. She had her head hung low as they took her away.
I looked back at Steel and saw Scootaloo hugging and crying in Steel arms. I walked over to him. He looked a me.
“Thanks, for the help. So, how do I send you back?”He asked.
“Just say ‘You service is no longer needed.’ And the portal will open.” I told him. I felt someone grab my leg. I looked down and saw Scoots hugging my leg.
“Thank you.” She said. I smiled and rubbed her head.
“Anytime.” I looked at Steel and raised an eyebrow.
“Alright, your services are no longer required.” Steel said. As he said that the portal opened behind me. I looked back and shook Steel’s hand.
“Now I know that you're done with the whole thing but don’t be a stranger!” I said to him and walked through the portal.
As I walked through the portal I saw that I was in the cave I was in. I looked at the bodys of the wurms I killed and saw that something was eating them. I guess that I was gone a day and sighed. I began to walk out but I saw something sparkle out of the corner of my eye. I looked over and saw something in the wall.
“Hello, what’s this?” I said as I walked over. I saw that there was a tunnel that leads down. I walked for about five minutes and came to a room that had weird goo on the walls. In the center of the room was something that made my eyes widen.
“You gotta be kidding me.” I said as I pulled out a pen and paper.
Steel Breaker.
I watched as the mane six walked out of the room with Fawkes following them. I stood by Twilight and Chrysalis.
“So what are you going to do now Steel?” Chrysalis asked me.
“Live a normal life, something I've always wanted to do.” I answered her. She nodded. I felt Twilight nuzzle up to me. Before she could say anything I heard a popping sound and a letter appeared in front of me. I grabbed it and saw it was from Jace.
“What is it Steel?” Twilight asked me.
“I don’t know, but it’s from Jace.” I answered her as I opened the letter and read it.
‘Dear Steel and comp.
I don’t know if this is a bad time but… QUICK HISTORY LESSON!’ I frowned at that. What are you doing Jace.
‘Slivers: Hive mind creatures that adapt to anything and can share those abilities with others to their hive. Alone they are nothing more than a pain, but as a swarm. Things of nightmares.’
“Okay so why are you-” I said out loud but stopped as I read the next part.
‘Interesting fact, a group of them went out and evolved a bit and got the ability to shapeshift, these sub-race of Slivers are know in my world as Changelings.’
“Steel what’s going on?” Chrysalis asked me. I looked at her and before I could speak I was a flash of light. I covered my eyes at it. When it died I looked and saw them.
“What are they?” Twilight asked me. I shook my head and looked at the letter.
‘Those are know as proto-queen changeling eggs, they are unaltered, unfucked up, pure changeling eggs. I have no use for them and I can’t take care of them and well I think that with Chrysalis and you are the only two Changelings around I decided to change that.’
“Eggs, changeling eggs.” I said. Chrysalis looked at me in shock.
“But that can’t be, we’re the last two left.” She said. I shook my head.
“Multiverse.” Was my answer. I then started to hear something cracking. I looked at one egg as it started to crack.
The top popped off and I saw a female baby changeling. I guess that they are all are since Jace said that they are proto-queen eggs. The baby climbed out and fell. It looked around and set her eyes on Chrysalis and began to get closer to her. She stepped back and fell. Soon the baby got to her and started to nuzzle her.
“W-what is it doing?!” She said. She looked shocked at the baby.
“If these are changeling eggs then they would look for their mother and well you’re the only female changeling here.” Twilight said. We watched as the rest of the eggs hatched and the other’s did the same thing. What surprised me is that they have different colours eyes and manes. It goes from blue, red, purple, and orange. Chrysalis looked at them as they nuzzle her. I chuckled a bit.
“What’s so funny?” Chrysalis asked me.
“They see you as their mother.” I said to her. She looked at them for a moment.
“Why, why would he do this.” She said. I see tears falling from her face. One of the changelings looked sad and got closer to her.
“It’s like he said in the letter, I guess he wanted to help rebuild the changeling race.” She looked at me and then at the four little changelings. She hugged them all and started crying.
“Thank you Jace, thank you.” She sobbed.
“We'll leave you with your new foals.” Twilight said with a smile. With that said, Twilight, Scoots and I left the room.
Once out of the throne room, I closed the doors behind me.
“Steel, what happened to your-” Twilight started but I cut her off.
“I don't need it anymore.” I said to her and felt someone took hold of my right hand. I looked down to see Scootaloo.
“You okay, kiddo?” I asked her. She slowly nodded at me.
“Yeah. Just a little shaken up but I think I can manage.” She said. I frowned at her answer, I knew this might happen but pretending to be fine is something no on- noPONY should do.
“Whoa!” Scoots yelled as I held her up. I then carefully placed her on my shoulder.
When she looked at me ready to ask why I did that, I smiled at her. Nyx walked beside me and took hold of mine and Twilight's hands.
“Hey Twi?” I called out. She looked at me, tilting her head as I opened the doors.
“Now that I'm done, you want to go out on a date Friday?” I asked her with a smirk.
“I’d love to.” She answered. I smiled as I looked up at the clear blue sky. I closed my eyes as I began to think.
‘From just another guy in a convention to a hero of the wastes. I've made many mistakes in my life, I felt as if I would end a hollow shell of my former self but turned out I just needed encouragement to go on. I may have given up something that could lead me towards adventure but I had enough, my Wandering days are done and now starts a new chapter in my life. I was The Wanderer.’ I smiled as the sunlight of a new life greeted me outside.
“Tag! You're it!” Scoots yelled as she tapped my snout and flew away. I looked towards Nyx and grinned.
“No, No, No.” She said as she ran as fast as her legs could before flying away with Scootaloo.
“Hey! No fair!” I shouted as I tapped Twilight.
“You're it.” I said before breaking into a full sprint into the town, hearing the shouting of Twilight behind me.
I can't believe it's been this long since the day I renounced my Wandering days. The first few days were awkward to say the least.
I had to wear my Vault jumpsuit the first day while I went to ask Rarity if she could make me some clothes. She had accepted in a heart beat and dragged me towards her work area to take measurements, though during all this I could tell that Rarity still felt a little uneasy with me being a Changeling.
I couldn't blame her, though her depictions of Changelings wasn't accurate to the truth at all. Saying that we feed on love, bullshit. Mindless and loyal to one, Fuck that.
I had to explain that there weren't many to begin with and that the ones she saw at the wedding of Twilight's brother were synths. Then I had to explain what a synth was to her.
After she had finished taking my measurements, She quickly whipped up a plain black shirt and some navy blue jeans. Afterwards she told me to come by the next day for new wardrobe.
After that was done, I needed a source of income and it just so happens that the Apple Family were hiring at the time, plus I do owe them for the Megaton business that Applejack coaxed out of me.
Then there's Rainbow and Pinkie, who've been pestering me on teaching them how to use guns. I saw Pinkie handle one with ease, she just wants the secret to perfect aim while Rainbow’s reason was that it's cool. After finally giving up, I had decided to teach them but to be on the safe side I had given Rainbow a BB gun. Pinkie brought her own, a very bright Pink point forty four magnum with Armor piercing.
After teaching Pinkie the way to get the perfect aim and seeing Rainbow get knocked onto her ass each time she fired for thirty minutes, I went to check on Dogmeat.
Arriving at Fluttershy’s cottage, I saw Fluttershy feeding a few forest animals such as Rabbits, Foxes and a large bear. Dogmeat followed behind her with a large salmon in his teeth.
He walked up to the bear and poked him, earning a growl from the bear as it turned around with a scowl. The bears scowl was soon replaced with a grin as Dogmeat threw the salmon up in the air and the bear looked at it as he moved back a bit.
The salmon ultimately landed in the bear's mouth and he celebrated raising both his front legs in the air. As the bear did that I could've sworn I heard a whistle.
Dogmeat had looked around and spotted me. I didn't have a chance before getting a face full of Timberwolf saliva. Fluttershy had helped me up and I thanked her, not for helping me but for nursing my best friend back to health.
Fluttershy had blushed furiously as I had hugged her to show my gratitude. Dogmeat means a lot to me and I don't what I'd do without him.
After I had picked up Dogmeat, I had noticed that I still had time before the Scootaloo and Nyx get out of School. The town had been hesitant at first, letting a member of a race that just tried to destroy their way of living can do that.
I had arrived at the School just as the bell rang. I saw Fillies and colts walking out but no sign of the girls. I had the heard the sounds of wings flapping, so looking up I saw that Nyx was flying next to Scootaloo as she held on to Sweetie Belle while Scootaloo held onto Apple Bloom as they flew down.
They had landed on Dogmeat, much to the wolf's dismay. I had to take them back to the castle, the girls planned sleepover days prior to the attack and were about to cancel it but I told them that it was fine.
Anyway, in a nutshell that was the first day. The next was my date with Twilight and I think it went smoothly, if you exclude the part were Twilight's friends were spying on us the entire evening.
From that day forwards we had decided to keep our dates a secret.
Throughout the week, I spent more and more of my time with Nyx and Scoot. I felt like I needed to get to know them better, hell even Twilight joins from time to time.
As for Chrysalis and her four newborns, Twilight had offered her a room in the castle seeing that Chrysalis didn't have a home anymore and it was the least she could do.
Speaking of the newborns, Liberty had offered to be their guardian and the look on Chrysalis’ face was priceless. I guess she thought Liberty wanted nothing to do with her for keeping the secret of what he really was away from him.
At the start of my second month, things started getting weird. From time to time, I could see Salvador walking by. I told him back at the Commonwealth I wanted nothing to do with him.
Twilight had noticed my change of behaviour and had talked it out of me. I told almost everything about me and Sal, leaving only one detail that I prefer nopony to know.
After the talk, I felt remarkably better and continued with my daily life.
I think the fourth day of my second month was Hearts and Hooves day, I don't know, I can't tell the days anymore.
During Hearts and Hooves day, me and Twilight spent it by ourselves, no spies, no Nyx or Scootaloo just me and Twilight.
The next day, I woke up like any other day except for one crucial detail. I was naked in Twilight's bed with Twilight still sleeping next to me also lacking clothes.
It took me a bit to recall what happened but I'll spare you the details and just say we made love, I'll leave it at that.
Now, fast forward to today. Ever since heart's and Hooves day, I slept with Twi. Today I had to take the girls to school, help the Apple family with the harvest, teach Spike some hand to hand fighting and continue Rainbows shooting lessons.
Finishing my morning routines and donning a blue shirt with Vault 101 on the back and some dark blue jeans, I had waited for Nyx and Scoots at the throne room.
I normally spend this time doing Lord knows what but today was different, someone's with me.
My ears twitched at the sounds of foreign footsteps behind me and quickly reacted by quickly turning to look at the intruder. The sight before me was quite shocking to say the least.
“C-Cyrus?” I asked in shocked. Standing just a few feet in front of me was griffon I knew well. His attire consisted of a torn and bloodied riot gear, similar to what I wore when I fought Ulysses. On his left hip was a holstered magnum and on his right was a large knife covered in dried blood. Looking up, my jaw dropped at the sight of something missing. His left arm. “How-”
“I've gone through a lot to get here and I'd rather not talk about it now.” He said, cutting me off from asking. He frowned, eyes narrowing at me. “I need your help. I've started something… something big and I intend to finish it… I have to finish it.” He said, his voice taking a somber tone. His right hand held something faintly metallic, it looked like a locket.
“I'm sorry but I… I’m done. I've had enough of the life threatening misadventures, if you can call them that.” I told him, looking down at my prosthetics. Eyes widening at my words, the Griffin replied.
“I can't do this alone!” He exclaimed suddenly, sounding distressed. “The Enclave are looking for me as we speak, who knows when they'll find me!?” He continued to shout. My pupils dilated at the mention of this but I shook my head and asked.
“The Enclave? They're aren't-”
“Not to Equestria.” He cut me off, intriguing me with his statement before adding. This isn't the end, isn't it? It was the beginning of something more… something beyond my own comprehension. If what he says is anything to go by, then the Enclave never died back at the capital. “I've traveled the Great Wastes for answers and in the end, I've lost someone dear to me.” Cyrus, the Griffin, said sadly. Hearing this, I pondered on my decision.
After a while, I looked at him with my decision being made. My answer, surprised the both of us but then again if the Enclave were truly a threat once again, it really shouldn't of.
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