> A Story's End > by dash446 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Finding history. (Edited) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edited by: BlackJack22 ---------------------------------------- "EDNA!" A voice yells as it echoes through the tunnels "Dammit EDNA! Wait up!" The noise of power armoured feet are heard clanking against the steel railroad tracks. The hissing of hydraulics are also heard as the man runs after his runaway eye-bot *Beeb Bleep Beep!* the eye-bot EDNA sounds out as she buzzes along the tracks, stopping at a large collapsed segment of the metro tunnels, just hovering there waiting for her companion, who arrives later, a man clad in T-49 power armor wielding a tri-beam laser rifle in his hands, his light on his helmet glows emitting light so he can see. This man being the Storyteller, a man with no name who is part of the brotherhood. He comes up to the Eye-bot and speaks, panting a little. "EDNA girl.. why'd you run off like that?" She beeps in response "Project: Phenix? You found it?" He asks a little surprised as he looks at the heap of rubble that is blocking their way "Only some explosives or pre-war machinery can clear that away." He says offhandedly. Behind him, a raider who followed them for some time, catches them by surprise "Time to die, Tin can!" She yells firing the weapon, missing them by a hair hitting the rubble, destroying it clearing a way for the man and his Eye-bot. The Storyteller getting knocked to the ground onto his knees from the shockwave grunts and shakes his head gaining a small headache in the process remarks "Damn Raiders." as EDNA turns to the raider firing her red fiery lasers at the raider. One beam hitting its target in the left arm, burning and melting through the flesh and bone causing her to scream in agony. "Fuck!" She yells in rage as tears well up in her eyes "Your fucking dead!" She yells pulling out a plasma pistol opening fire at the two as she's crying in pain. Storyteller stands back up aiming his gun firing a scattered shot of fiery hot laser beams at the woman "Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!" She yells In agony and pain as the string of flesh holding her arm in place snaps and her now severed arm falls to the ground "Fuck you! I'll be back later!" She yells in rage as she shudders in pain as she runs off. EDNA then lets out a series of beeps. "Well at least we have our passage cleared." He says to his companion who then stops her beeping then nods and beeps "Yes EDNA, we can proceed. So anyway I informed you about the history of this place right?" He asks EDNA, who once again beeps and nods. "Good, I wasn't expecting it to be hidden in a place so obvious, But let's get going." Him and EDNA proceed forward walking (EDNA hovering) into a surprisingly clean and intact part of the subway. Several trains sit still in the tunnels, dormant and functional as well as a military post set up in front of the entrance with all the necessities, but the strange thing is the absence of any skeletal remains "Strange, I figured that someone would have died here." He asks as he walks over to a steel door behind the post with a terminal and a card reader on it "Hmm.. lucky I found this card up in the ruins of the White House." He inserts the card allowing the machine to read it, once it's done several doors open, the first being a maintenance like door but the others being like mini vault doors, 10 to be exact. "Ahh high security doors, must have been extremely well protected." He says before stepping in and walking down into the main entrance area which has a security checkpoint. EDNA hovers past the system scanning the place. The Storyteller walks over to the window to see a few pristine guns, one of those being a Watts 2000 laser rifle "I haven't seen one of those in a while, Watts was the original creators of the laser rifle but..." he trails off about the the lore of the the gun to no one as EDNA explores. she stops and lets out a loud beep attracting the Storyteller "EDNA what's up girl?" He asks walking away from the window and down the hall to an intersection. He turns right to see EDNA hovering over nothing "Um EDNA...?" He asks her. *Beep!* she then shakes and hovers down the hallway to an elevator with Storyteller in tow. She stops as well as him as he speaks "It's surprising that the place stayed intact for all this time, so much history is held here." He comments as he presses the down button and the elevator opens up and they board. _____________________________________ Ten minutes later the elevator stops, letting them off into an observation room crowded with terminals, desks, paperwork and whatnot. "looks as if the war never even happened." He remarks stepping forward past a desk decorated with miniature giddyup buttercups "Seems someone was obsessed with them, that brings me back to that one vault." He says as he passes the desks and stops at the window overlooking Project: Phenix "Wow.. she's beautiful." This comment gets an angry beep from EDNA "What?" He asks as she hovers off to collect the data from the terminals for later reading. "EDNA, I'm going to look further into the teleporter, see how it works." He says walking out into a large chamber under several large wires connected to the large teleporter. In the center of the catwalk is a stairway leading down to a platform underneath Project: Phenix, he takes a left and walks down it soon reaching the platform underneath the large array of machinery that makes up the teleporter. He walks up to a terminal and logs into it, humming as he goes to hit the manual, but little does he know that what caused the disappearance of the team was a simple mislabeling and presses it. The walkway retracts causing alarm in the Storyteller's mind "Shit! EDNA!" He exclames to EDNA who comes bolting towards him instead of trying to shut it down "EDNA no, try and shut down the machine!" He yells as the terminal descends into the base and EDNA not listing. "Goddamnit!" He yells as the device sparks and discharges materializing him and EDNA taking them to God only knows where. ------------------------------------------------------- Meanwhile Twilight Sparkle the Princess of friendship sits in the Canterlot archives, studying a long lost spell "No, that's not it." She says as her horn flickers with magic. She looks at the scroll once more reading up on how to cast the particular spell that starswirl created. "Yes.. ok hmm. Do I focus on this particular thing." She says to herself but gets cut off by a loud crash and and shelf falling right behind her "Ahhhhhh!" She screams and teleports away on instinct. She appears up on a balcony overlooking the large room to see the domino effect being played out with shelves housing ancient history and lost spells. "No! No! No!" She yells in shock and disbelief "This is not good!" She looks all around at the piles of books and scrolls littering the ground. She just stands there hyperventilating and pacing around for Minutes on end, just pacing around until she stops ana head over to walks over to the railing and looks over the catastrophe that played out in that very room to spot a bipedal figure clad in all black armor and a strange spiracle object laying on the ground limply and her eye twitches with rage and she teleports down and stands over the figure "You..." She grits her teeth as smoke rises from her ears "YOU BUCKED UP ALL THESE BOOKS!!!" > Chapter 2 (Edit) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It has been a pretty rough day for Celestia, having to listen to the usual rabble of the nobles and plus there's the problem of a small town getting ransacked by a group of rogue griffins on the borders. Celestia sits silently to herself enjoying the only good thing to come on this day, a nice big slice of chocolate cake with strawberry cream cheese frosting. She gently cuts into the cake with a silver fork bringing it to her mouth and eating it. She let's out a pleased hum as she chews but at that exact moment one of her guards comes barging in startling Celestia causing her to drop the cake "Princess... sorry to intrude like this but there's a problem, a big problem. while Princess Twilight was studying, something came smashing through the window knocking every shelf down in the archives, and resulting in Twilight going berserk." The guard finishes as he pants and Celestia just sits there feeling her stress levels increase at this information. "What was this object that wrecked the archives?" She asks as she takes some deep breaths to calm herself 'Stay calm Tia, stay calm, you don't need to blow a gasket over this.' she mentality says to herself as the guard calls out to her. "Princess are you alright?" The guard asks as he ruffles his wings. "Yes, my little pony, I'm fine, just a little stressed is all, so what was this object." She once again asks him as she leans back to get a bit of comfort in this day. "Well it was two objects, both Metal. One is a miniature like thing clad in extremely heavy black armor which we can't get off of him and the other being is a metal ball that hovers around and was beeping at us whenever we got too close, I believe he's it's owner." he finishes up explaining to Celestia as she stands up. Celestia looks at him curiously "How do you know it's a him? You said that you couldn't get the armor off?" She leans back.. "From the armor structure and an access slot in the nether region we found, upon opening we saw the male genitalia and the most foulest stench I ever smelled..." He mentions as he cringes. Celestia nods, the last part she didn't need to know but at least she knows not to open the slot. "So... can I see him?" She asks the guard as she walks down the stairs leading up to her throne as her hooves clop, echoing through the throne room. "Well he's asleep and he's being held in the dungeon for the time being, we don't want to risk having him running around the castle if he's going to be a threat." He tells Celestia who nods once more, then picks up the fallen piece of cake. "So that's a no then?" "Well no not exactly it's more like we better wait un-" just at that moment another guard teleports into the the throne room. "Princess! He's awake, and he won't shut up!" This causing Celestia to raise an eyebrow. /////*\\\\\ Meanwhile in the dungeons the Storyteller stands behind the iron bars as two unicorn guards just stand there ignoring him "Dammit, can he shut up? He hasn't been awake ten minutes and he won't shut his mouth." One guard says to her companion another mare who then nods to her humming a song "... And that's a story for another day." He finishes up his story about the founding of Megaton but then a question or, well to comes to his mind "Hey, what's your names, and where's EDNA?" He asks them and they sigh in relief at the fact that he's done blabing for now. The mare on the left, a tall, slim, mare who is built like a model you would find in pre-war magazines, she flicks her long messy hair out of her face and speaks "Well, I'm Sliver lines, and that over there is my marefriend Glory Nights." she says pointing to the other mare with a prosthetic leg. Her coat being a dark blue and mane short and messy. "And who? You’re talking about that floating ball? it's being held in containment, nearly killed somepony." She says as she flicks her tail. Just at that moment Celestia walks in and speaks "I'd like to speak to him alone." She says simply to Glory and Silver who sigh in relief once more, glad that they no longer needed to be in the same room with him. They quickly trot out of the room and outside clearing the room for Celestia "So, who and what are you?" She asks him with the slightest amount of annoyance in her voice to the Storyteller who answers her. "Well I'm the Storyteller, as of my name I like to keep that private. And I take it you're the ruler of this place? and where exactly is here?" He asks Celestia who just glares at him. "Well, yes I'm Princess Celestia, Co-ruler of equestria along side my younger sister Luna." She informs him as she summons a chair with her magic and sits in it. The Storyteller looks on with curiosity at the alicorn. "Interesting. You run a monarchy right? There is small government organizations that formed different types of governments throughout the past 212 years. That brings something to mind, during my travels I came across a city in the ruins of Wliksbury, PA a year ago after scoring the place, to find a pretty well organized settlement underground there..." As he kept talking Princess Celestia clacks her hooves on the iron bars to gain his attention. "Sorry to interrupt as much as I'd like to know where you come from, that's not relevant at this moment, but I do have another question, what exactly are you?" Celestia asks him curiously as she leans back in her chair. "Oh, well I'm a human or homosapien if you want to get technical, it's latin translating to wise man." He tells her taking a seat on the somewhat comfortable bed residing within the cell. Celestia nods at the new information that she gains from him but then an important question comes to mind "What was your purpose of coming here? You don't seem like the violent type?" She asks him "And what was the purpose of destroying the Royal Archives and thousands of years of history?" She tasks slightly angered when that came to mind. At this information the Storyteller freezes in shock and disbelief at what he did upon his arrival. "I-I did what?" He asks shocked "Princess Twilight was in the Royal Archives studying a spell that starswirl the bearded created hundreds of years ago when you came flying through one of the windows, hitting the shelf directly in line with the the window causing a chain reaction, and well... Twilight blew a gasket." She finishes up. All he can simply say at the new found information is something he rarely says "Fuck me..." and sighs "I'm very sorry about that. I came here using a highly unpredictable machine that can teleport you to any random location. I accidentally activated it while talking to EDNA." He informs, not too happy with what he did. "You-" just as Celestia goes to respond, a message from Twilight appears in front of her in a green flash of light, she unrolls it and starts to read then urgently gets up, "Sorry to cut this short but I got to tend to some business." but before she can go the Storyteller speaks up. "Can you let me go I'd like to be reunited wi-" just before he could finish that Celestia smerks and teleports leaving him alone. "Figures. Well at least I got some time to think though." He lays back on the bed as he lifts a power armoured arm up behind his head and stairs up at the ceiling, thinking, but slowly drifts off to sleep. > Chapter 2 1/2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meanwhile in ponyville Twilight stands over another human along with her friend Applejack, the human sits slumped to the side snoring against a tree. Her long red hair falling over face as he wreck of a duster sits halfway off of her. "Um.. Twi? What in tarnation is this thing?" Applejack asks Twilight as she looks at it closely "It looks like a Hairless ape miniature thing." She says as she prods her with a hoof and she grunts swiping her hoof away. "I don't know exactly what it is but I sent a message to Celestia notifying her of another appearance of a creature, she should send a repl-" just then Celestia appears in a bright blinding flash of light startling the the Two element bearers "Princess!?" Twi says as she jumps in surprise "I wasn't expecting you to immediately come here." "Yah. Mh' too." Applejack only can agree with her alicorn friend Twilight. "Twilight I believe that you said that... Oh... She looks like Luna when she first got ahold of your cider Applejack." She says with a giggle at the memory of her younger sister that night. "Sorry but this is strange. Another human appears here. Why?" She asks as the human groans. "Well. I don't know Princess." Twilight says as she comes up close to her face and gets a whiff of her foul breath, backing away as her face Tues a bit green "It smells like something crawled in her mouth and died. And that's saying something Applejack." she looks at the Apple farmer. "Hey, Ah' don't have time to brush mh' teeth, busy with the farm and ah' dont like the taste of toothpaste." She tells Twilight. Celestia giggles at thair antics. "We should wait for her to awaken to speak with her, meanwhile ill take her back to the castle and-" but just before she can finish her sentence the human blurts out "Woo That's a nice view! Ah' would like to have all your sexy asses for a night!" This is the first thing the human says to them, causing them all to look behind them and a mix of emotions are reseved from them "Umm.. Yah... Uhh.." is all Twilight is able to say and when she looks at the human. Celestia giggles and responds jokingly "Maybe, I don't know you but later alot later." She says with a smerk and and a laugh. This causing a glance from bolth the ponies. "What, I was just joking." She says before changing her horn "Well I better take her with, ask her a few questions." Celestia says teleporting away taking the human with her "Ah' have no idea what just happened.." is all Applejack can say as a confused Twilight stands next to her.