What happens, when a guy with a love for Fallout, and My Little Pony, ends up being sent to a world were zombies roam the land? with weapons his character from Fallout 4 has?
What happens, when a guy with a love for Fallout, and My Little Pony, ends up being sent to a world were zombies roam the land? with weapons his character from Fallout 4 has? and all the perks that came with them? Maybe next time someone offers you a brand new untested mod to try out, say no.
I grinned as I destroyed another camp of raiders, I was pretty fucking bored at the moment however, since I had beat the game every way possible, with every faction you can join that has a major impact on the end of the game.
This play through I had decided to do a hero style character, I named em Maxwell Silver, since at the earliest level I could I got the Silver Shrouds costume, and did the quest that came with it, my main weapons I had used console commands to give them the 'never ending' affect, as reloading was a bitch mid combat, to me at least, I had an ALR, also known as an automatic laser rifle, a never ending ten mm pistol, those where my two main weapons, the ones I used the most, I had almost every weapon in the game, aside from ones you needed to side with certain factions in the end of the game to get, all stores in my inventory.
If you are wondering how I was able to carry all those weapons? It's simple, console commands are a wonderful thing, I just made my maximum carry weight over nine thousand, and for anyone out there who says its cheating, your right! but who the hell wants to make ten trips from one area to their storage area, just because the crap they are hauling is heavy as hell?
I had every DLC installed, and completed, Far Harbor, Automatron, liked that one the best, Vault-Tec Workshop, and then I had quite a few mods installed to make the game even better, like the Alien Assault rifle mod, I loved the beam barrel and the fusion core ammo converter, place everywhere, Nuka factory, working cars, plasma turrets, the ammo factory mod, and the Fallout 3 style stealth boy mod, cause Fallout 4 style stealth boys where complete shit and lasted only thirty seconds, added to the fact no matter how many points you invested into sneak, enemies could see you while invisible and target you regardless of how close or far you where, yet you could never take down a gunner using a stealth boy in vats, complete bullshit that I would never put up with so long as I had that mod.
I closed my game after saving it and took a look at the time, nearly 1 AM, maybe it was time to go to sleep, just as I was about to close my computer, I got a notification from discord, from someone I didn't know, the name I saw on screen was MR.D, strange name, must be a sexual joke or something.
MR.D today at 1:02 AM Hello! I saw you loved fallout as much as I do, and wanted to ask if you would be willing to test out a mod I created, I have not released it to the public as of yet, as I have been looking for someone to test it for me.
Now this was already sketchy to begin with, but in my half asleep state I didn't care enough to use reason and think that this might be a scam, or someone trying to infect my computer with a virus and steal my information n shit.
Shadowflame today at 1:04 AM Uhhhh, sure I guess, I love mods for the game so long as it does not break the game, what does the mod do exactly?
MR.D today at 1:07 AM That is a surprise! but I will tell you, it CERTAINLY will make your game more interesting! for any player, old or new to the game, I am sure by now you've played the game a bunch of times right? it must get boring after awhile, the same thing over, and over, and over again, am I right? this mod will fix that!
Shadowflame today at 1:09 AM Alright I guess, sure send the files over for me to download and I will give it a look in the morning, I'll download it before I go to sleep.
MR.D today at 1:11 AM Alright! sleep well! your in for a treat when you wake up!
He sent me a file that contained the mod, and I downloaded it, the name was ZOMBIEWINRAR, and I shut my computer down and walked up to my room, and went to sleep inside my nice plush bed.
An unknown amount of time later, I woke up, however, everything felt off, for one I was wearing clothes, I never wear any clothes when I sleep, sitting up in bed, I realized I had sunglasses on, I took them off, and looked at myself in the lenses of them, and holy shit, this had to be some weird dream, as I didn't have a beard before this, nor did I look like the Silver Shroud himself. "Alright, so I am dreaming?...I don't normally know when I am dreaming so this actually can't be a dream, so this is real....what the fuck happened? why am I dressed like this? why do I have a pipboy, and a HUD, what the hell?" I said to myself, without really thinking about it, I just did so out of habit as I normally spoke to myself with no one was around.
I had just now noticed, this was not my bedroom, this was a plain white room with a white bed, white sheets and walls, and a grey door. Standing up, I felt something materialize into my hands, looking down I grinned, it was my main rifle, my never ending ALR, opening the door I stepped outside to see it was about midday, looking back to my surprise the entire room was gone, now I was in the middle of a road that from what I could see, had no end to it.
I wanted to test something, so I tried to open the creation club kit menu, and I was able to do so, thinking of the console command I summoned a mint green corvega sedan, how I was doing all this you may wonder? Instinct, I somehow knew what to do on a fundamental level, I just thought of doing what I would in game and it just sorta happened, might be a bullshit explanation I know, but its all I've got, as I have no fucking clue how I got here, so don't expect me to fucking know everything in the damned world.
I opened the door to the sedan and sat inside the drivers seat, closing the door I saw there was a button to turn the car on, pressing it got the hum of a nuclear engine, and I started to drive down the road, I most likely was not flipping out, cause I was hoping this was a dream I'd wake up any minute from. With that thought in mind I drove off down the road, awaiting what was to come, be it me waking up, or be it something completely different.
The road I was on was a dirt road, and what I saw next surprise the hell out of me, ponies, to be specific, Lyra, Bonbon, and Vinyl Scratch, but, they where anthro, hooves for feet, that kinda thing, by what seemed to be a model T style truck, while Bonbon was under the hood trying to fixed the damned engine, I drove up and rolled down a window. "Ya'll need a ride to town?" I nearly died at the site of them, I loved ponies, I watched the show all the way up to the season 8 finale episode, despite the show goin to shit in the past few years.
The ponies seemed surprised, and only then did I realize, they looked ragged, like they had not eaten in a few days, they where dirty, their clothes had small splatters of blood and where lightly torn in areas, and all three of em had a gun, and right now they where pointed at me. Vinyl had what looked to be a Howdah pistol, judging by the size of the four barrels, it was in .50 cal, Lyra had a MLE 1903 pistol, and Bonbon had fedorov avtomat, they looked like they had gone through hell, came back, then went through it again for the hell of it, but all of em where armed and looked ready to kill.
Bonbon was the one to speak up. "Just who the Fuck are you, and what do you want? we don't have anything you could steal aside from our guns and some water, so just leave us alone and keep moving along, and why would we want to go to a town? those are death traps now." She kept her fedorov avtomat aimed at my face.
I chuckled. "I ain't here to hurt ya, I offered to help ya get a lift to someplace you can get your ride fixed, seemingly however you just wanna be hostile, why is that?" I asked raising an eyebrow.
Bonbon narrowed her eyes. "How can you be so calm, with whats been happening lately? have you been living under a rock or something?"
At this point I heard a few groans, and moans, and no not sexual kinds, the hollow undead kind, I saw nine or so zombified looking ponies shambling towards us, I pulled out my ten millimeter pistol and took aim. "Oi look out." Bonbon turned around and shot, so did the other two, I myself put 4 of the bastards down.
I looked at Bonbon. "So, a zombie apocalypse?" I looked at the freshly killed undead.
Bonbon gave me a deadpan look. "Yes, its been going on for ten bucking days, how can you not know this?"
"Would you believe me if I told you I was an alien?" I heard more groans, this time it was a herd of them, 60 or so. "Look, we can continue this conversation in the car, get in now before those things tear us apart." I for one did not want to die to a zombie, maybe this is what that mod did? was it some weird fucking spell or something?
Bonbon sighed and shrugged. "Agreed, however try anything funny and I blow your brains out." Her tone completely serious.
Bonbon, Scratch, and Lyra hopped into the car, Bonbon sitting in the front passenger seat, while the other two sat in the back as I started driving again.
"Any destination in mind?" I asked Bonbon, as I had no idea where we were at the moment, I had neglected to check my pipboys map.
"Ponyville, its one of the few towns not overrun, me and my friends here where out for one of Vinyls music gigs in Manehatten when this all went down, we almost didn't make it out, that was 7 days ago, we ran out of food three days ago, and now we have no water since we had to ditch the shitty car."
I grinned and looked back at them. "Don't worry about water, or food, I got that covered, for now at least, how are you all on ammo? and just where did you get those guns to begin with?"
Lyra was the one to speak up this time. "Actually these belonged to some of Vinyls body guards, to prevent angry fans from grouping up on her, also...are you a human?"
Bonbon rolled her eyes. "Lyra how many times do I have to tell you? humans do not exis-" I cut her off.
"Why yes, yes I am a human, how did you know that?" The amusement in my voice clear as I spoke.
Bonbon went pale, while Lyra giggled. "I have dreams about humans sometimes, most are fuzzy however."
I hummed at that, that was certainly something to think about. "Good to know, so where is Ponyville from here?"
Bonbon took a deep breath, and spoke up again. "It should be just another two miles down the road, the only reason it was not overrun was due to the Princesses funding a wall to be built around the town since monsters kept trying to attack it, and sent armed guards after the Trixie incident to prevent some mad pony from taking over the town again, and just close the gate and its a prefect defense against the undead."
"I get that, nothin works better against zombies than a tall wall and some guns, other than maybe grenades." We continues driving and Ponyville came into view, a few undead around the wall being picked off by royal guards in gold colored armor, smart, plate armor would defend against teeth, it can't defend against a bullet, but a sword? or rotting teeth? it was the perfect armor for a zombie outbreak, as I drove up the guards pointed their guns at us.
Bonbon poked her head out of the window, shooting her gun at a few undead near the car, before she turned and spoke to the guards. "Let us in, we live here, to prove that I own a sweets shop here, called Bonbon's Sweeties."
A guard checked some paperwork before he nodded and the gate opened, I drove through and it closed behind us, however once we where inside, guards aimed their weapons at us, mainly they seemed to carry MP 18's, pump action shotguns, and Huot automatic rifles, I am glad I was a gun nut for world war weapons, but as any normal person, I don't like guns being pointed at me, so I stepped out of the car and took out my ALR and aimed it at them.
I let my face go completely blank, my tone cold. "Alright, here's how its going to work, everyone that points a gun at me, dies, every. last. one." This caused some guards to back down, before Bonbon got out of the car and smacked me upside the head.
Bonbon glared at me. "Moron they just want to make sure we are not infected, if we are they will just shoot us and toss us over the wall, harsh I know but you can't take that risk with these bucking zombies around eating everypony."
I chuckled and lowered my rifle, and a unicorn with a red cross hat and a nurse outfit on scanned us with some kind of weird yellow beam. "They're clean, and the three over there seem malnourished, somepony get them some rations and water, the diamond dog however seems to be completely fine."
Like I said before, I was dressed as the Silver Shroud, with a beard and sunglasses, I had forgotten to mention, my skin was white, my hair black, and my eyes a nice green color, same as my character in fallout, so most of my body was covered by the outfit I had on. "Miss, I am not a diamond dog, I am a human." I took my hat and sunglasses off to show my face to the nurse, who gasped and wrote down some information onto a clip bored.
She looked at me with eyes so wide it was...admittedly creepy, and I enjoyed creepy shit. "Amazing, I have never seen your species before , tell me, so I can jot it down for future medical reasons, where does your species hail from? across the north sea? or?"
I laughed, putting my hat and glasses back on. "Lady I think I am the only one of my species on this entire fuckup of a planet, after all one does not wake up on a new planet every day."
Everypony froze at that, before the nurse spoke up again. "So what your saying is that your an alien? could you explain to me how that is possible?"
I shrugged. "Lady fuck if I know, I woke up here with no idea how I got here, went to sleep in my home, woke up here, simple as that."
A guard rushed up, since most of the guards where near us. "There is a massive herd of those things coming this way, we need to block off and reinforce the main metal gate." He screeched like a hen in a coop with a fox inside.
I grinned at hearing this and walked up to him. "No need, I can take care of those nasty little bastards, you can all just sit down and watch the show."
The guards had a look of disbelief as I climbed up the wall, it had stairs up to the top, and placed down some laser turrets, a few rocket turrets, and some shotgun turrets, except the laser and rocket turrets had a fusion core hot wired into them, they automatically set to shooting any undead they could detect and I just walked back down the stairs to the guards, Bonbon, and Lyra seemed to be shocked, however Scratch was nowhere to be seen.
I walked up to Bonbon and the Minty Mare known as Lyra Heartstrings. "So what exactly is going on? last I knew this planet didn't have zombies running around eating the living."
A guard walked up and took a seat on a bench. "It happened about ten days ago, from the reports I've gotten, some moron went behind the backs of all his co workers and introduced the equine flu to dark magic, somewhere in that madponies mind dark magic would help cure the illness, all it did was mutate it beyond belief and make it even more deadly, now almost the entire world is infected with it, Canterlot, Ponyville, Appleoosa, and the Crystal Empire being some of the few places not infected, from what I know."
I nodded and took a look at my pipboy, and to my surprise the map and other systems worked, and damn this town, it wasn't large, but not small either, it had its own small airport for fucks sake, I turned back to the guard. "And where are the elements?" One question, how the fuck did maps work when I was reasonably sure this world didn't have satellites?
The guard spoke openly, rather stupid for someone supposed to be in a military, but then again a lot of shit was lacking here. "They where escorted to Canterlot in an armed plane, and are in Canterlots castle, which at the moment next to the Crystal Empire, is the safest place on the planet, automated security and defense systems in place make it that no zombies will ever get into the city." I nodded in thanks and walked off.
I saw some guards looked, tired, checking their weapons for ammo and such, while one seemed worried, walking up to him I spoke up. "Whats wrong? you seem stressed, more so than the others here, and that says something."
He looked at me. "Ponyville has no power plant to power anything, just a grid that connects everything to a coal power plant about 50 miles away, and from the reports over the radio that we are getting, its being over run, once that happens Ponyville, and other towns will run out of power and we will be left in the dark, planes can't land here without lights on the runway to guide them, then we'd be stuck here with no new supplies, no ammo, water, or medical supplies."
I thought about that for a minute, before I grinned. "Mind showin me where the grid is? I may have a solution to your little power problem, for this town at least." Inside I was cackling like a madman.
He looked at me with what had to have been a 'your fucking with me right now look' and spoke up. "Just how do you plan to do such a thing? this town eats up a quarter of the power that the power plant supplies." The doubt clear in his voice.
I chuckled and patted him on the back. "Just trust me and take me to the grid, you will see my plan."
We walked to a corner of the town, it had one of those electrical grids you sometimes see on the side of roads, and it was flickering on and off every few seconds, most likely due to the power plant being infested with zombies, so I went into my workshop, and opened the vault menu, then I plopped a Vault-Tec super reactor right next to the damned grid, and hooked it up using some cables and high tension wires, the affect was instant as the flickering lights stopped and shined brightly with their new source of power, and the guard looked amazed, that I had quite literally pulled that reactor out of thin air, and powered the entire town with it.
His eyes widened, which once again was creepy. "How the Fuck did you do that!?" He all but screamed at me.
I just chuckled and did jazz hands as I said. "Magic." This caused him to loose his damned mind as he tried to speak, yet nothing but gibberish would come out, before he strait up passed out and fell to the floor like a sac of potatoes, funny.
I think I might leave this town after exploring for a bit, go off and adventure through the zombie filled lands, saving ponies and others as such, who knows, I might even be the end of this whole zombie virus bizz, never know what may happen, but for now I was gonna look for a place to get something sweet.
I chuckled, once again, sitting inside Bonbon's Sweeties, being given chocolate as thanks for saving them, along with Lyra bombarding me about questions involving humans, I decided to speak up. "I think that is enough questions for one day, maybe tomorrow if I am still here."
Lyra tilted her head confused. "What do you mean still here? your not leaving are you?!" Lyra looked like she was about to cry.
I nodded my head. "I am leaving later today, to explore this world, and kill zombies, mostly killing and exploring, if you want to, you can come with me, same for Bonbon, but you two will need some light armor, and a better weapon than the ones you have now, since compared to my weapons, yours are very old and crappy."
Bonbon rolled her eyes. "The weapons we have are perfectly fine." She said indignantly.
I pulled out an automatic pipe rifle, a ten millimeter pistol, and some heavy leather armor, and showed them that compared to their gear, this stuff would never wear down, break, rust more than it already had in some places, and that the armor would last forever, due to the game mechanics of Fallout 4.
Lyra squealed and took the items, put the armor on, put the pistol on her hip, and held the rifle in her arms. "I love this! We can explore and I can find out more about the human world!" She actually SQUEED.
Bonbon sighed and did the same, before she went to the back of the store and came out with a box labeled '16 ounce chocolate bars' and sat it on a table. "These can be rations in case we ever run out of food I guess, but where are we going exactly?" She asked raising one of her eyebrows.
I shrugged. "Hell if I know, I was just going to follow the roads, see where that takes us, help some ponies along the way, that sorta thing, ya'know?"
Lyra squeed again while Bonbon just rolled her eyes at her, and they followed me to my car, and I got in, just as last time Bonbon sat in the front. After putting the chocolate in the back seat, and Lyra sat in the back, and the gate opened as I drove through, the moment the car was clear of the gate it slammed shut again, taking a closer look at the dashboard of the car, I realized it had something I not seen before, it had a bluetooth option for music, looking at my pipboy I realized it also had the option for that so turning it on it connected to the car, and I played some ZAYDE WOLF- Army, as I started driving I noticed a few zombies, who had once been royal guards, if the plate armor meant anything.
Driving past them I looked back to Lyra, who was looking at me cutely, with a smile on her muzzle wide enough to give Pinkie a run for her bits, so I spoke up. "You two have any questions you wanna ask while we are driving, and not fighting to not be eaten by zombies?"
Bonbon was the one to speak up first. "Yes actually, just how the absolute fuck are you making things out of nothing? I saw you make that weird generator you connected to the grid, before everything lit back up like a flashlight with new batteries, what exactly was that generator?"
I nodded. "Ah, that was a Vault-Tec super reactor, a nuclear power plant without worry of meltdown, since its all contained and compact, four of those can power a city comparable in size to Manehattan, or Las Pegasus, most of the time they are used to power Vaults." I explained without much interest.
Bonbon raised an eyebrow, the car jumped slightly as I ran a zombie over. "Vault? what is a Vault? like a safe?"
Nodding again I went on. "If a safe meant to save thousands of people after a nuclear atomic war can be called a safe, then yes, they where large underground cities pretty much, places for food, water recycling systems, waste management systems, pretty much a fancy bunker with more than 5 people inside it." As I finished explaining, we came to what looked like a stallion running from a zombie nurse, most likely he had gotten out of the truck that was parked on the side of the road, I rolled my window down and took a shot at her, using VATS I hit her in the head and she went down, dead.
The stallion looked down at the dead zombie, and sighed sadly before walking up to my window and saying. "Thanks...she had the gun before she turned, and I didn't exactly feel like grabbing my wife's head and bashing it into the ground till she stopped moving, she tried to help an infected pony and got bit in the shoulder." He grabbed a revolver from his wife's body, and got back into his truck. "Thanks for the help again....I'ma jus keep movin like me and her had planned." He had hauled her body into the back of the truck by now, setting it in the bed of the truck, before he drove off.
"That was strange...." I looked at the trail of dust the truck left as it drove off.
Bonbon looked at me, one of her ears flopping down as she did so. "Not really, when you consider who that zombie was before she turned, she was his wife, he most likely took her body to bury her when he feels safe enough to do so, so in hindsight that's not really that weird." Bonbon said, looking at the blood splatter that had been left by the hole in the mares head once she had fallen.
I shrugged. "I guess, come on, lets continue on our way." I turned the music off, and rolled my window up before I continued driving. We drove for a few more hours before coming up to a town that seemed to still have normal ponies in it, judging by the ponies walking around in makeshift armor carrying rifles and other weapons, however they did not look very friendly, some had bits of royal guard armor on while others had makeshift armor with spikes and chains in some places. They looked like raiders to me, if Fallout's raiders where any indication, they'd start shooting the moment we didn't do what they wanted, or just plain shoot the moment they saw us, so I just kept driving.
Another hour later we where on some kind of highway, before Lyra spoke up. "Um....Max....I have to pee...can we stop somewhere?" Lyra blushed when she spoke, most likely embarrassed about it.
I shrugged. "Sure, I see a gas station, or whatever you call those here, up ahead, and it looks like its abandoned, however, always keep your guard up! You never know who or what may be in there, so stay together, and use the bathroom, while I check out what might be inside the main body of the building, like snacks and such, supplies." I pulled into the station and parked the car. "Remember, get in, clear the bathroom if any zombies are there, go to the bathroom, get back into the car." They nodded and walked to the bathroom, it was on the outside of the building built in so others from the outside could go in and use it.
I walked into the main section of the station, just like any other gas station it had snacks and drinks, other supplies, the clerk was still behind the counter, however he was a zombie so I shot him in the head, before loading up every snack and drink into my inventory, along with some basic meds and other supplies from the station, by the time I headed back to the car Lyra and Bonbon where already inside waiting, I got inside and grinned as I gave them both a crapton of snacks, some drinks, and a bottle of booze. "Jackpot!~" I said in a singsong voice as I started driving off, I decided the next place we would go, judging by the road signs, was Appleoosa, might be some fun to be had there.
We had passed a few zombies on the way to Appleoosa, like 30 or so, I was surprised at at the same time, not, I knew not to expect to see to many zombies, since the infection started only eleven days ago, give it a few more days I am sure I would see a LOT more zombies, for now however I was coming up to an exit for Appleoosa, but something felt off, for one, maybe it was the large wall with spikes on it, with zombies stuck onto it like someone would stick a knife into an apple to cut it.
My eyes widened behind my shades as I looked at the wall of flesh, metal, blood, bone, and wood. "The hell is up with the wall?" I looked back to Lyra and Bonbon. "You two stay in the car, anything tries to get in besides me, shoot to kill." They nodded, and I stepped out of the car, and walked up to the wall, only to be met with a lot of shotguns and lever action rifles pointed at me.
To my surprise, Cherry Jubilee was the one who seemed to be in charge as she spoke up, abit something was off with her eyes, and her voice, she was still the same pony on the outside, but something seemed off about the look in her eyes, till I knew what it was when she spoke up. "Look colts! fresh food just walked straight up to our walls! ya'll know what that means! the pony to kill em gets the first cut!"
Holy. Fucking. Shit. this entire town had turned into cannibals!? from only eleven days in the apocalypse!? MY GOD HOW CAN SOMEONE GO THAT CRAZY THAT FUCKING QUICKLY! I had no time to ponder that however as I had to roll to the side to doge a shotgun blast to the the face, I knew I'd need more than my ALR to deal with these crazies, so hiding behind a dried up and dead apple tree, I took out my pride and joy, a gatling laser. I revved it up and started shooting, Cherry Jubilee had hidden at some point, I climbed the wall carefully shooting, it was at an angle like a hill, and was careful to shoot any zombies stuck into the wall as well.
I looked around, some walls had gore and blood on them, others had meat hooks, and some, some had ponies hooked into the meat hooks, by their wings, or straight through their back, hanging there alive, in pain, some where dead, and had slices taken out of them, like a fucking ham, and not any of them looked like townsfolk. Now I knew why no reports about the situation in Appleoosa had been coming out, Appleoosa had been deemed a safe zone, ponies fled here for safety once reports of zombies had started coming in, and the townsfolk just slaughtered them, killed them, and ate most of them, most likely the ones that where alive had not been there to long, but I had no way to help them, they had lost to much blood, and some had missing legs or arms, so doing the humane thing, I shot them in the head, each and every one of them, with each one I mercy killed, my rage only grew, by the end of that, I was seeing red, I was going to make the pony who decided to turn the town into this nightmare, pay dearly.
I hunted for Cherry Jubilee, before I found her hold up in the sheriffs office, she was there with a revolver in her hands, and the second I walked through the door she shot the entire thing into me, I didn't flinch, I had taken every chem I had on me, one of each, jet, day tripper, med-x, psycho, X-cell, everything, so for me the world was in slow motion as I ran up to her and took a combat blade out of my inventory and placed it into my right hand as my left held her up by the throat.
She had the audacity to try and beg for mercy. "Plea-glk" I was having none of it, and tightened my grip on her throat, she could see her reflection in the sunglasses I had on, before I decided to speak up.
My tone was filled with rage, so much so that anyone who knew me on Earth, would piss themselves if they saw me now, as it took a lot to make me angry, like 'you have to spit on my grandmothers grave and try to shit on it' to make me angry.
I glared into her very soul, my eyes hidden behind my sunglasses, but that made the glare no less effective. "No, I do not care about your pleas for mercy, I won't even let you speak them, how many have begged for mercy to you? before you slaughtered them and ate them, your no better than the zombies you had stuck to the outside of your gate, your a waste of life, and so was everyone in this town." I spat in her face, growling.
"hence why I killed them all, you turned a peaceful town into a nightmare, for that your going to suffer, I will make sure to it." I stabbed her hand against the wall causing her to scream in pain as I let go of her, causing the knife to slice through her hand, I then grabbed a ripper from my inventory, and revved it up, before I sawed off one of her arms, the entire time she had been screaming in agony, begging for mercy, swearing that she would do anything for me to let her live, I heard none of it, all I saw was red, before finally after half an hour of carving her like a Thanksgiving turkey, I shot her in the head with my pistol, I should have left her to die, to bleed out, but that left the possibility she might somehow survive, and I was not going to allow that to happen. I had to make sure she was dead, 15 bullets to the brain assured me she would never harm anyone again. I made my way out of the town, making sure to mercy kill any of the poor fucks being hung up on meat hooks that I had missed....oh god they even did that to a pregnant pegasus....I did the world a favor by ridding it of these fucking scumbags. As a last fuck you to the town, I set it ablaze, it wasn't hard seeing as the buildings had been wood, and I owned plasma grenades, a few timed to go off as I exited the town would be plenty to set the town aflame.
I walked slowly back to the car, covered in Cherry Jubilee's blood, the town burning brightly behind me, I didn't care at the moment, I got into the car and started up the engine, while Lyra and Bonbon stared at me with looks of shock, Bonbon was the one to speak up.
Bonbon looked at me. "What exactly happened in the town? We saw you climbing up the wall with your weird weapon, and killing everypony, you where gone for almost over and hour, and now the town is on fire."
I drove the car back onto the highway and spoke. "The town had been killing ponies who fled to them for safety, then once they arrived there killing them in horrible manners and eating them, the townsfolk where no better than the zombies, and in my opinion, killing them quickly was a mercy, compared to what I wanted to do once I saw a little colt hung on a wall like a slab of meat, with hooks into his back to keep him there, or a pregnant pegasus mare, I couldn't save anypony, not even her unborn foal, all of them had lost to much blood from what had been done to them, I had to mercy kill them, then, I killed the bitch to turned the town into that nightmare, I made her suffer for what she did, what she had caused." My tone cold.
Lyra offered me a chocolate bar with a sad smile, and I accepted, opening it and taking a bite, feeling slightly better as I drove past the crystal sugar station, as I learned that's what their gas stations where called, and after a few more hours drove strait back into Ponyville, zombies had been cleared from around the town, I drove the two up to the shop Bonbon owned and got out of the car, and locked it once they got out. "You two go rest, I'm going to do a bit of exploring around the town, see if I can find something to relax me." They walked into Bonbon's shop, which I had forgotten to mention was also their home, the apartment they lived in was on the second flood of the shop.
I get some stares by ponies as I walk past them, being covered in blood I can see why, I was walking past what looked like a spa, before I was pulled in by a blue mare with a pink mane and tail, I let out a yelp as I was dragged in, then to a front desk, where a pink mare with a blue mane and tail spoke up. "Hello, I am Aloe, and the mare that dragged you in here is my sister, we wanted to offer you something for saving the town from a power outage, and protecting it from that herd of zombies." She had a slight accent, however what kind it was I could not tell, I was not good with things like that.
I raised one of my eyebrows. "Okay, and that offer was what exactly?" This was kind of shady, if they wanted to offer me something why not outright ask and not drag me into a building?
Aloe spoke up again, while her sister had walked off to do something. "We want to offer you a free full body massage, along with full service here, as without your help this town would be powerless right now, and the gate would have automatically opened once the power went out."
I thought this over for a few moments, before I nodded my head. "Alright I guess, never had a massage before..I was actually looking for something to relax me when I was dragged into here, I was just going to look for a food joint." While I had food on me, it was all boxed, canned, or dried, nothing fresh, or hot, I was going to see if I could find a taco joint or something along those lines.
Aloe smiled, then took a closer look at my clothes and said. "You will have to remove your clothes, I can have my sister wash them for you, as from what I can see you have been very...busy, dealing with zombies, so we shall have them washed for you, and by the time they are done and dried your service should be over, but do remember that this service is for life, you can come anytime for any of the services we offer, free of charge."
I sighed. "Fine, but I'm keeping my boxers on, since unlike your stallions, I don't have a sheath."
Aloe nodded. "That is fine, please follow me." She walked over to a changing room, it was a unisex one, meaning both males and females could change in it, for those out there to dimwitted to know what that meant, stepping inside I took my clothes off, except a pair of black boxers, and unlike normal boxers these had no hole in the front, had to buy these offline for that, but it was worth it. Setting my clothes into a basket, I stepped out of the changing room.
Aloe guided me to a pool of water, with weird petals floating around inside it and incense lit nearby, giving the room the smell of apples and pine, I liked that, I stepped into the pool and instantly started to relax, it had been two days since I had touched hot water, I'd have to make a base sometime like a vault, to call home, I could build a damned empire if I wanted to and rule with an iron fist and a army of robots, but I didn't feel like doing that, for now anyways, never know what I will do later on.
Lotus walked up, carrying a small basket of what looked like soaps, all liquid, none of the bar stuff thankfully, I hated that stuff, and I reached to take it before she pulled the basket back. "Ah ah ah, no no, I will be washing you today, this is normal around here for the workers to clean guests using this pool, all you have to do is sit down and relax, once this is done you will dry off and lay on one of the many massage tables."
I gave her a look, as I did not believe the whole 'we wash costumers' thing for a minute, but hey, I didn't care, I was to tired and sore to give enough of a fuck to ask questions, and simply set my sunglasses to the side, so they wouldn't be damaged, and she immediately got to work, lathering my hair with a weird smelling shampoo, it smelled like apples, and something else I could not identify, while I was washed like a damned kid, I just sat there with my eyes closed, my pipboy still firmly on my right arm however, when she noticed this she spoke up.
Lotus stopped washing me for a moment to speak."Um...sir? could you perhaps take off you...watch?" She sounded uncertain at what it was, understandable however.
I shook my head. "No sorry, I am afraid it will never come off, once you close the lock on this it will never open." Complete bullshit, it was a simple padlock, but I had no key for it, nor did I want to take it off, cause who knew what would happen if I did so?
She tilted her head. "Oh alright then, is it alright for it to get wet at all? or will that ruin it?" Lotus asked.
I chuckled. "It can withstand a mini nuke blast, I am sure a little H20 won't hurt it none." To prove my point, I dunked my right arm into the water, swished it around, and lifted it back up to show the pipboy just fine and dandy, on the home screen.
She just chuckled and went back to work, by this time her sister Aloe had returned and was prepping a massage table, about 15 minutes in the pool of water, the water had turned a murky brownish red, and I got out, being handed a town I dried off and walked over to the massage table. "So what exactly do I do? I've never had a massage before." I turned to Aloe.
"You just lay on your stomach, then on your back once we finish with your back." Aloe said, grabbing a bottle of what looked like massage oil, I laid on the table and they began to work, I let out a grunt, as said before, never having had a massage I was not used to it, after a minute however I started to relax, my muscles started to relax, I felt one of them applying the oil I saw before, it was warm, I was to relaxed, within minutes of the massage I had started to doze off, and without warning, I fell asleep on the massage table, out cold.
I groaned and woke up to someone lightly shaking me, I yawned and sat up, looking at who woke me. I saw it was Aloe, however her sister was nowhere in sight, she chuckled and spoke. "I would have woken you, but you looked like you needed some rest, so we simply let you be, however now it is closing time, 6 pm to be exact, so you shall have to leave, but remember you are free to come back anytime, full service, free of charge." She handed me my clothes, that I put on, and tipped my hat at her.
I nodded in thanks. "Thank you for the offer, and thank you for the massage, even if you didn't get to complete it, was still amazing." I checked my pipboy as I left the spa, and as she had said, it was 6pm, to be exact, 6:05 pm,looking up at the sky I saw the sun was still shining bright in the sky.
Checking the map on my pipboy, I took a look at the towns for a minute, before I decided what one I was going to visit next, and selected it on my map, marking it, but I was NOT going to just go in without defenses like I did last time, so I was going to modify my car a bit, also, I had replaced my ALR with a beam rifle, it was another mod I had forgotten I downloaded, it replaced the crappy alien blaster with a bad ass powerful alien assault rifle. I called it a beam rifle cause I used the beam barrel, and the fusion core converter, meaning fusion cores could be used as ammo, and since I never used power armor, ever, I had a fuckton of those, so I wouldn't even need to use console commands to spawn myself ammo.
Walking to my car, I attached some laser turrets to it, on the top on the four corners, on the front hood by the headlights, on the back by the tail lights, and to make sure they'd stay on, I drove my car around a bit, before parking again, I noticed a plane flying over the town, and crates being dropped out of it, they had parachutes attached to the crates, so it reminded me of a video I had watched of how the USA dropped large amounts of MRE's into the battlefield for their soldiers, ah, gotta love the good ol US of A, may sound weird but hey, a guy can love his country eh? Anyways, the crates landed all around the town, where royal guards rushed and collected them, dragging them to the center of town.
I watched as the guards took 20 weird metal trays to each home, before one guard walked up to me. "Where is your current residence." He asked while holding a box of some sort.
Giving him a confused look, I pointed to my car, and to my surprise 20 of those metal trays where placed into the back of the car. "Just what are you placing into my car exactly?" I asked him.
He gave me a confused and spoke as if I should have known this, since its been going on the past week. "We are required to give everypony 20 PMM's per home, per family."
Still confused, I continued with my questions. "What is a PMM? I have no idea what that stands for dude, remember I am new here."
His face lit up like a fucking nuke, with a smile he grinned and spoke, now cheerful. "Oh your THAT fellow, well anyway, PMM stands for Pre Made Meal, its contained in a metal tray with a tinfoil covering, and kept frozen using an enchantment, press the red gem on the side of the tray and wait 5 minutes and your meal will be done, just pull back the foil covering the top and enjoy, everypony knows what these are, as each kingdom makes their own versions."
Now it made sense, these WHERE like MRE's! just, frozen and heated using magic....taking a closer look, they looked like old fashioned TV dinners, even with the pictures of whats in them on the foil, the guard had walked off while I looked at one of the PMM's, so I just stored them into my inventory and just as I was about to get into my car, I heard a snobbish 'AHEM' so I turned around and saw to my surprise, Diamond Tiara.
The second I turned around she started speaking, seemingly she was still snobbish so I had to be here before that one CMC episode where they turned her nice. "What is an ugly pony like you owning a nice car like that? you don't deserve it, I demand you give me the keys now." She held her hand out, as if actually expecting me to do what she wanted.
I gave her a deadpan look. "Hell no, while I COULD just spawn another car, I don't feel like it, nor do I feel like giving an entitled little shitstain a NUCLEAR powered car, as you'd most likely just fucking blow the damned thing up, let alone the fact you where rude to me the minute you spoke, what in the name of all that is kind and decent made you think you can just come up to me, demand something and insult me, and actually think you'll get it?"
Her face, it puffed up and she turned red. "How DARE you speak to me like that you abomination!? Do you know who I am! who my daddy is!? He will get you kicked out of this town!" She screeched, for how high her voice was she may as well have been reeeing.
I rolled my eyes, and took out my beam rifle. "He can try, and he can die, listen here, I give zero fucks who you, or your little daddy is, so fuck off lil runt, before I decide today is the day I shoot a kid." She paled, and ran for it like the damned road runner from Loony Toons. ha, I decided, that before I go I'd explore the town a bit more, see what I could buy or trade, as they still used bits, and I didn't have bits, just items I could trade, like low grade weapons, ammo, scrap, those kinda things, as I walked ponies stared at my beam rifle as it glowed slowly spinning, yeah, it never stopped spinning unless it had no ammo inside it, cool in my opinion, the creator of that mod really out did himself.
As I was looking at a stall that sold fish, I was surprised, and it was explained to me that while ponies are omnivores, meat is hard to come by aside from fish, so seafood was very present here, I kept walking and saw a weird vending machine, it looked like an old fashioned soda vending machine, It had options that reminded me somewhat of soda from home, like Hyper Cola, that one gave me weird vibes as I remembered listening to creepy pastas by CreepsMcPasta, and CreepypastaJr, I loved those guys, they posted the best scary stories, as I continued on walking, I saw a dinner, and my stomach decided to make itself known.
Taking a look at the sign I almost laughed, it was called the Leaping Pony Dinner, I decided, eh fuck it, and walked inside, it looked like an old fashioned dinner from like the 50's, or the 60's, taking a seat at one of the booths a orange mare, no not Applejack, came up and handed me a menu, and asked if I would like anything to drink, thinking about it, I quicksaved and decided to take a risk, and order the Hyper Cola, I had no idea if it would be like it was in the creepypasta so I was taking a huge risk, hopefully not however.
I looked at the menu, and surprise surprise, rarely any options had meat in them, I decided on an order of fried codfish, fries, I had to specify I wanted potato ones and not hay ones, and a side of mashed potatoes and gravy, and I was handed a glass bottle, that MUCH to my surprise, looked like a glass coke bottle, with the 'Hyper Cola' label looking almost exactly like the coke label, wavy letters colored in white, on a red background, cracking it open and taking a sip I perked right up, it tasted like classic Coca Cola, my favorite soda, another ten minutes later the mare walked up to me with my food and said. "Here ya go darlin, enjoy your food, ya need anythin jus call me over." Before walking back into the kitchen.
As I ate my food, AFTER pouring ketchup onto the fries, and cod, cause I love ketchup, I ate and drank slowly, it took me about 30 minutes to finish, of which when I was done I payed for the meal, by giving the dinner some defenses outside its doors, two laser turrets to be exact.
I was just walking past that weird vending machine again when Diamond Tiara and two buff looking stallions in black suits and sunglasses walked up. "Ha! ugly pony! now what are you gonna do that I have my body guards with me? Now, you can hand over the car, or this can get ugly." Her two goons pulled out MLE pistols, and aimed at me threateningly, causing the other ponies around us to gasp, while Diamond smirked.
I started chuckling, which turned into a light laugh, that turned into psychotic laughter that would make the joker piss himself, I stopped suddenly and spoke, in a cold, emotionless voice. "People like you make it sick, you think you own the entire fucking world, because you have a little more money then everyone else, you think you can just have your little goons point a gun at me? I cleared out an entire town of psychopaths, you think I can't take on two little earth ponies with pistols?"
I pulled out my beam rifle and revved it up, causing it to spin rapidly. "Try me, and see what happens." I pretty much dared.
Seemingly she was unaffected, as I was able to tell by what she said next. "You know the drill colts, get em." Her two goons started to shoot at me, only for me to enter vats and vaporize them using my beam rifle, they turned into glowing blue ash piles on the ground, leaving not even a skeleton, while Diamond Tiara almost pissed herself and tried to run, only for two royal guards to swoop in and cuff her, they'd have cuffed me to, but other ponies had explained to them that I acted in self defense, and even warned them I'd defend myself if I needed to, but I was questioned about my rifle, and they did in fact try, and fail, to take it for testing, they can't exactly take something stored in my inventory, or if its pressed under their chin glowing hot with heat waiting to be released.
I grinned as I was finally allowed to leave the town in peace, and started to drive on the empty highway, yeah they had highways but only the really rich drove nice cars, the more normal ponies, drove Model T style cars and trucks, so the cars aside from those where like the 50's and 60's version of cars from the pictures I've seen, but all of them ran on a Crystal Sugar engine, they used a sugar in liquid form for fuel, like gas but it won't explode if you set it near a fire, I turned and drove over a zombie eating what looked like a dog, and kept an eye on the road signs, I was close to a ocean by this time, evident by the seagulls, before I noticed something weird, you know those large metal shipping containers ocean liners used to transport goods? seemingly they had the same thing here, except I was seeing what looked like a wall constructed out of them, the size of a football stadium from what I could see, and ponies where defending it against zombies.
I drove up to see what looked like an MK2 50 cal heavy machine gun placed in a section on the second story of the wall, on a platform made to shoot from the inside at anything outside the walls, and the pony using it was mowing down a rather large hoard of zombies, I had expected large hoards now, that it had been 14 days since zombies started attacking cities, from what I had heard on the radio Baltimare had fallen, and so had Trottingham, but it surprised me that someone, or a lot of someones had made a city or town, out of large shipping containers, I got out of my car and climbed onto the roof, and watched as 70 or so zombies where taken out by a the 50 cal, if they where not killed they had all their limbs missing, not much of a threat to anyone if they had no arms or legs, and just as I was about to get down, a large gate opened, two sections of one of the shipping containers moved to the sides as ponies in makeshift armor rushed out as the gate closed, and began to kill any zombies that had not been completely killed by the 50 cal, and one of them noticed me, and yelled something, I was to far to hear it, and they all aimed their weapons at me, from rifles, shotguns, pistols, and even a few swords, before I just waved and one of the pegasi flew over.
He was a light brown stallion, he had on bits of metal armor, he had a long bolt action rifle with him. "What are you doing here?"
I shrugged. "I was driving by, and noticed a large wall made of metal crates, I wanted to get a closer look to see what it was, but to many zombies prevented me from getting to close." While that was true, I could have taken out those zombies if I had wanted to, but honestly I just didn't feel like doin so, a waste of my almost unlimited ammo, I'd rather just watch these ponies fight zombies as it was fun to watch how they did so, now if one was about to die, then sure I'd pitch in and help, but otherwise unless it was to defend myself not very likely, its why I left Bonbon and Lyra back at the town, I could tell they where not fit for a life on the road in a zombie pandemic.
He gave me a look, narrowing his eyes before he shrugged and motioned for me to follow him, I did so in my car, and along with him, I was let in, I was told the other ponies had already gone back inside the walls, and it looked a lot like diamond city, but cleaner, and less rust and blood, the small town did in fact have power, it was explained to me that the town was powered my enchanted gems that had an electric enchantment, outdated technology I was told, but it worked well enough with a few unicorns to recharge the gems every week or so.
Looking around, I noticed makeshift homes out of other shipping crates, small stores made out of them, pretty much everything here was made out of those large yellow, orange, blue, and red crates, and to my surprise they had anti air guns, like the ones you'd see in world war one, I decided I would ask whomever decided to run this place, about how exactly this was built so quickly, I found the 'mayors' office, which was rather just five crates welded together with sections of walls taken out with doors placed into them, when I walked inside I saw griffons in makeshift metal plate armor, iron or tin, as it was grey, and I finally found the mayor of this football stadium sized town, it was a mint green unicorn stallion with a purple mane and green eyes, he was sitting at a wooden desk looking over some papers, seemingly parts of the town that could possibly reinforced for better defense against zombies, I coughed and he looked up from his papers.
"Well, I don't think I've seen you around here before, I am Leaping Hoof, the mayor and creator of this little town, what can I do for you?" He asked, his voice sounded kinda posh, snooty, like a rich guy would talk.
"I had some questions as to just how this place was built, and so fast as well, as its only been 14 or so days since the outbreak of zombies began, from what I was told." I sat down on a chair, gotta hand it to these guys for a town built in so little time, they had a lot of commodities needed for a comfy life, running water, electricity, heating and cooling systems, defenses, anti air defense, for fucks sake what should they need that for!?
He chuckled. "Ah, that would mostly be my doing, well me and the 30 or so workers I had payed to help, once I heard news of the outbreak, the shipping boats where turned into shelters,, till those where overrun, using the crane on the ship some workers moved the shipping crates into a rather large pile, and 60 or so unicorns helped move them all into place, where welders welded the crates together and placed quick dry cement in the cracks, soon we had a town that could be called a home, and since the crates needed to be empty, we had shipments for weapons to the royal guard, ammo, armor, weapons, food, clothing, and a lot of other items, so, I designed this town from the ground up after 3 days into the outbreak, now we are well defended, well supplied, and are able to defend ourselves, shipments of PMM's also arrive via air, we have radio stations here that can all override every channel on a radio near here and give a warning if we are about to be attacked, or overrun, the law is strictly enforced, just as it would be before the outbreak."
Holy crap that was a long explanation, I just sat for a minute, before I grinned. "Well, what do you call this little town?"
He grinned back at me, chuckling slightly. "We call it NewHope, since it offers shelter and food, for those who need it and have nowhere else to go, or just no way to get anywhere."
"I like that name, it suits this place, but if I where you, I'd expect larger hoards of zombies in the future."
He tilted his head and raised an eyebrow. "And why is that?"
"Because, the longer this outbreak goes on? the more zombies will be around, the longer zombies are able to infect other ponies and turn them? the more zombies you'll have to fight one day."
He looked like he had chewed on a lemon, before he nodded and jotted down what I had said on a new piece of paper, before thanking me, but told me I had to leave the office while he jotted down new defense plans, and plans to reinforce the town even more, with metal and concrete, so I just started to explore the town, it was almost the size of Ponyville, so there would be a lot to explore, but that will be for next time I suppose.
I had left the little makeshift town of Newhope, left it a week ago, now I was on my way across the land once again, more zombies, more raiders and morons, but what seemed weird to me, was the fact the zombies while they did decay, had started to turn black, their skin, fur, mane, tail, anything on them aside from their yellowish eyes, and what tattered clothing they had on, had begun to turn black, normally this would mean they where in the advanced stages of decay, but that should have taken at least two more weeks, taking the weather and conditions like that into account, another week at most.
Strangest part of them turning black, was the fact they didn't slow down, fall down unable to get back up, or anything like that, they got faster, not Rainbow Dash fast mind you, but some started to run when seeing me, if there was anything I hated more than a zombie, it was a zombie that could out fucking run me, thankfully I had my car still, abit some dents and dings from where I had run infected ponies over, but as I was driving I saw Canterlot, and had decided, that was where I was going to go next, as who the fuck knows, maybe they need help?
Turning my car onto another small highway, I slammed the breaks and forced the car to halt to a stop as I had realized how they kept infected ponies out of the city, they had blown up the only ways in and out of the city aside from air travel, just how the hell was I supposed to get into Canterlot now? Thinking for a few minutes, I thought of an idea, I could build like in game, and the gap in the highway was only twenty or so feet, I should be able to make a bridge, drive across it, then destroy it again, so I did just that.
I chuckled as I destroyed the concrete bridge I had made, then got back in my car, just as I had closed the car door a zombie slammed into my car door causing me to yelp, the fucker started punching my window causing it to crack, nothing had been able to crack that so far, not even when it took a shotgun blast from a raider pony, thankfully the laser turrets I had placed onto my car took it out before it could do TO much damage, getting back outside of my car I looked down at the zombified pony.
As I had said before, the zombies had begun to turn a blackish hue, like coal, and I poked it with my boot, the black sections of it started to glow a light red, before .....flowers, made of rotted flesh, sprang up from the black sections, and opened up before spraying a purple mist into the air, I quickly hopped back into my car and slammed the door shut, I still had no idea if I could be infected or not, and I sure as fuck did not want to find out the hard way.
I continued on my way to Canterlot, only to find the gates closed, but no guards manning the walls, I tuned into the military radio station that had been broadcasting since the beginning of the outbreak, what I heard kinda surprised me.
"To anypony listening to this, the Princesses, along with what little royal guard, and remaining towns that managed to not be overrun, have been evacuated to the Crystal Empire, that explains why I had seen little to no pony that did't have rotting flesh in their mouth, the living, most of them at least, had vacated the premises to go to a safer place, it was lonely out here, no one to talk to, just music to listen to and zombies to kill.
I sighed and started to turn around, before something that horrified me banged on the gate to Canterlot, on the other side of the gate banging with rotting hands trying to get through the bars to me, was Rarity, but...she had turned, her white fur matted with blood, tears in her flesh, and rotting green flesh, her fur just beginning to dull and turn black, they must have evacuated once infected had gotten inside, and I was once again surprised as a large metal golem shambled up to the gate and smashed Rarity into paste against the gate, its eyes glowing red as it kept going around and from what I could see, killing any zombies it could find by turning them into pudding.
That must have been the 'automated' defenses I was told had been protecting Canterlot in the first few days, I turned the car around and drove out of there, this time I had built a ramp and jumped it in the car to get back across that gap made on the road, I had to get to the Crystal Empire, see what the absolute fuck was going on with the zombies, and how one of the mane 6 had been turned, as far as I knew, she had been guarded heavily, as had the other ponies from the mane 6.
Checking a map I had taken from a gas station, and checked, it would take me a day to get to the Crystal Empire by car, assuming I didn't run into any...problems, on my way there, and so my short trip began, as I was driving down another highway about to take the turn off, had to steer around a few busted up cars, I was flagged down by a Fancy Pants, he and Fleur De Lis, where next to a fancy car that seemed to have broken down.
I pulled over, knowing these two from the show, they'd still be sane enough to not try and eat my liver like that other hitch hiker I had picked up did, that was a story for another time however, I rolled my cracked window down, and Fancy started talking. "I am terribly sorry to bother you, but as you can see my cars radiator is broken, we ran out of fluid for it and for the past ten miles have been driving, the engine just stopped working as we got to the turn off, its only another 50 miles to the Empire, do you think you'd be able to give me and my friend Fleur a ride?"
Looking a bit closer at them, they seemed to be mostly alright, aside from a few tufts of ripped fabric from Fleur's dress, but I wanted to be sure of something. "Alright, but if either of you are bitten, I will shoot you the second I find out, I am not taking chances like that, if you are infected, let me know now, and I can just drive off, if your not, get in the car."
Fancy and Fleur looked relived and got into the car, the back of it after grabbing two small suitcases from Fancy's car, and he spoke up again. "I am able to assure you neither of us are infected, thankfully enough, and we are very thankful you had given us a ride, as I don't think we could have made it through the night, cigar?" He held out a fat cigar, I'm not one to smoke normally, aside from the one time I did weed, but there is a first for everything.
"Sure, I could use a smoke I guess." I took the cigar and was about to pull out a flip lighter before Fleur pulled out a blue one and lit my cigar, then Fancy's, and I took a look at the time, it was almost sunset, I had been driving all day, and it was rare to get sleep or rest while on the road, more so now with the mutated zombies, so I took a hit of X-cell, it acted like an energy drink for me, and continued to drive in silence.
Fleur tapped my shoulder. "Would you happen to have any water or food? we where unable to take any with us while we fled Canterlot."
"Why did you guys have to flee from Canterlot? I thought it was one of the safest places left in Equestria, or the world." As I said this, I gave them both a bottle of water, and a bag of cookies, they where about the size of a chips ahoy cookie, but the bag had like 50 of the things, snacks here where awesome, after Fancy ate a few he spoke up.
"Somehow infected ponies had gotten through, seemingly some ponies that had fled to Canterlot for safety had been bitten , once the guard found out they had them put into cells, but as a maid went to take them water she was bit, and seemingly didn't tell anypony, from there thats all we know, as it was announced on the radio that a maid had been infected, we left two days ago, we had to stop a few times for fuel, but where unable to fund radiator fluid for my car, how was Canterlot? last we checked everything was going slightly bumpy but otherwise alright."
I sighed. "Canterlot is gone, everyone that I assume was not infected was evacuated via airship or something to the Crystal Empire, the barrier there from what I have been told, keeps the zombies away since they are made using dark magic, the barrier the crystal heart produces naturally repels and destroys dark magic, hence why we are going there, so long as the crystal heart has power the Empire will be safe."
The Crystal Empire had come into sight by now, it had been another two hours while I had talked with Fancy, damn...time moves fast when your not looking at the clock waiting for every minute to go by, good thing to because my X-cell was wearing off and soon enough I would be unable to go any longer without sleep, I had been taking X-cell the past two days, two days without sleep, or rest, my own damned fault for not stopping somewhere safe like a small town that still had ponies in it.
We watched infected ponies turning to dust as they touched the barrier, there where not to many, just about 5 or so, small groups of them all turning to dust as they tried to force their way through the barrier, I just drove past them and into the barrier, and strait into a military tent with royal guards inside it, I slammed the breaks just in time to avoid crushing more than a pole on the tent, and got out, as did Fancy and Fleur, before turning to Fancy, the cigar I had been smoking was tossed to the ground and stepped on. "Welp, we're here, I'm gonna just pass out now, since I have not slept for two days." The look of horror on Fancy's face as I fell backwards and blacked out, oooo if only I had a camera.
I didn't know what time it was when I woke up, however I did notice a few things, one, my clothes except for my underwear, thank god I still had those on, was gone, and two, I was in a hospital bed, if the constant beep beep beep of a heart monitor was anything to go by. So I sat up with little to no effort, as I actually did that when I got out of my bed back on Earth, those who had watched me wake up in my house told me I looked creepy as fuck when I just sat up like that, with no visible effort.
I heard someone gasp next to me, so out of instinct I summoned a ten millimeter pistol from my inventory and pointed it at the one who had gasped, my vision was blurry at the moment so I blinked a few times, once my eyes were clear of whatever the fuck was in them, I don't know whats it called, I realized something, I was holding a gun to Princess Celestia, who looked completely mortified, I just simply kept a calm face, and put the gun away, hoping she would not turn me into ash.
Princess Celestia as I said before, looked horrified that a gun was suddenly pointed at her, before it vanished in green pixels back into the wrist mounted thing known as a pipboy, of course she didn't know that however, as far as she knew it was a bomb. "Sorry about that, thought you were a raider or somethin, or another zombie." I almost laughed as it dawned on her that maybe she should have had some protection with her before coming into the room of a creature who's abilities she knew nothing about.
She collected herself, I had forgotten to mention she was in a golden colored dress with her normal crown and metal things, I don't know what they are called, sorry, before she spoke up. "I am sorry for the scare, however I have some questions that I think it would be best for you to answer." Her tone serious, yet curious at the same time, a strange combination in my opinion.
I shrugged. "Not like I have anything better to do, so shoot and ask away." Unless she pulled a gun on me, I decided I'd comply, for now at least.
She smiled and one of her ears flopped to the side. "Well, first question is, what exactly are you?" Her horn glowed as she pulled out....a fucking tape recorder? Wow those are so out of date that I feel insulted she's using that.
I grinned as I spoke. "I am a human, I actually came from another planet but I just sorta, woke up here." It wasn't really a lie, in my opinion at least.
She tilted her head. "Alright then, and what exactly do you plan to do here? From what I've heard of the Ponyville guards that evacuated the town to the Crystal Empire, that you fixed the towns power problems, and if you had not done so they would have been left without running water or power for heat, just how did you do such a thing?"
I chuckled as I equipped my silver shroud outfit from my inventory. "Quite simple, I just placed down a Vault-Tec Super reactor, it can power a vault so I was sure it could power a small town." I saw my HUD flicker back into existence, seems it poofs away when I black out, otherwise I'd see it in my dreams.
Princess Celestia gave me a confused look. "What is a 'Vault-Tec Super reactor?" She asked me, confusion clear in her voice.
I rolled my head, cracking my neck causing a loud popping noise which seemed to startle Celestia. "It is a giant generator, powered by nuclear fusion to produce energy, as for what exactly nuclear fusion is, I can't explain that part as I actually don't know much about it other than it needs uranium." This was a lie of course, I knew the basics about this sorta shit, fusion reactors didn't need fissile material to produce energy, fission reactors however did, but I wasn't going to give these Equines nuclear energy or the potential to make a damned bomb.
Princess Celestia's eyebrow rose as she looked at me, it was clear she didn't completely trust what I said, seeing as she was over a thousand years old she could likely tell I was flatly lying to her face, let her think or know whatever she wants, I wasn't going to give these ponies nuclear shit. She spoke up. "Alright...aside from that, as asked before, what are your plans here?"
I stood up and equipped my sunglasses. "I have no plans, I got tons of ideas, and tons of time to do em, but nothin that would be violent to your ponies, jus zombies." That was indeed true, I had so many wonderful little ideas just bursting and awaiting use, each one I logged into my pipboy like a terminal, so I could later read them.
Celestia sighed. "It's good to know you don't have hostile intentions for my ponies, I just wish other kingdoms would offer aid to us in these harsh times." The venom within her voice was clear, she was pissed about something.
Taking a chance I decided to ask. "What do you mean offer aid? Are other nations not suffering outbreaks like you are?"
Celestia shook her head and let out a very horsy sounding snort. "No, this virus only effects ponies, even if another species was to be bit, it can't latch onto them and use them as a host, it only effects ponies, whether by design or simple coincidence I do not know, regardless of knowing this the Griffon Empire or Minotaur Kingdom, Equestrias two main allies, refuse to send so much as food and water to help ease the burden on our strained farms and water purification plants."
I frowned. "Thats....kind of a dick move, but I do somewhat see where their coming from, even if its not clear to most."
Celestia once again raised one of her eyebrows at me. "How so?"
Shrugging I went on. "They won't risk it. They can't be infected, true, but who wants to see their soldiers chewed into hamburger by the undead? It's horrifying to even think about, let alone witness, and this is comin from a guy who's seen quite a bit of fucked up shit, moreso than whats happening now."
The Solar Princess gave me a deadpan look. "I highly doubt anything you have seen could beat this, or any of the horrors I have seen and faced within my long life."
My face went flat. "Test me. Use a spell or some shit to see into my own head, and you'll see I'm not fucking with you." My tone was flat as well. This would be hilarious, to me anyways.
Princess Celestia smirked and her horn began to glow yellow, before she touched it to my forehead, and suddenly she was within my mind, and I decided to show her exactly what she wanted. What I showed her was my memories of playing DeadSpace VR. She didn't know it was a video game, so I didn't fucking tell her. I grinned as she screamed in horror at the necromorphs, rapidly going through all types of them within the first two games, I showed her things from the SCP universe as well, the contagious crystal, the Flesh That Hates, as well as many other little horrors I had witnessed on the internet and simply laughed off, because I fucking enjoyed horror.
Within 15 minutes, Princess Celestia, the Solar Princess, collapsed back into the chair she had been sitting in prior, looking up at me in pure terror at the things I had shown her, I just grinned. "Next time someone says something, think before you try and talk smack cakebutt."
I simply waited, and waited, and waited, before I finally got tired of waiting for Princess Celestia to stop staring at me in terror, so I pulled what some would say is a suicidal move, I bitch slapped her. "OI! Snap the fuck out of it all fucking ready! I ain't gonna sit on my ass here all day and wait for you to speak!" I screeched.
This seemed to snap her out of it, as she held her hand up to her cheek in what looked like shock for a few moments, before she just stared at me, sadness in her eyes. "How have you not gone insane from witnessing such horrors?" This damn near made me laugh, but I kept a straight face.
Shrugging I spoke. "Rather simple really, horror amuses me, just as a joke or prank would amuse you, horror amuses me, you can see the shit I've seen, done, had to do, and it was all amusing to me, this whole situation is amusing to me." That was honest, I did enjoy horror games moreso than I think someone normally would, however she didn't know what she saw was all games, movies, random internet shit, and I didn't think telling her could end well, so I wasn't going to.
I expected her to ask how, or some shit like that, what I didn't expect was suddenly being pulled into a hug with those large wings being wrapped around me, what she said next however really confused the hell out of me. "Poor stallion....you must have gone through some sort of mental trauma to make this happen."
With a flat expression on my face I broke the hug. "No, Like I said, I just enjoy horror, its fun, also please don't hug me again." I absolutely hated physical contact unless it was something like a hand shake, don't know why I just did.
Princess Celestia gave me a hurt expression, before she went back to being her normal self, abit as normal as a thousand year old alicorn dealing with a zombie pandemic could be, and spoke again. "Alright...I'll try not to hug you again, now, onto an important topic."
Raising an eyebrow I motioned for her to go on, which she did so. "I have seen the reports and first hand accounts of just what your able to do from seemingly nothing, do you have any way to combat the undead without the need to put more ponies at risk than there already are? Like some advanced golems or some super weapon we can use to destroy large chunks of the undead at once."
I grinned like a madman. "Advances Golems you say? I have something like that, they make yours look like trash in comparison, yes." I cackled internally, one of the ideas I had was likely about to be put to use. At least, I thought so at any rate.
Celestia gave me what to me, looked like a hopeful stare as she once again spoke. "I am willing to pay whatever price you deem needed if what your able to do can rid Equestria of the undead threat which it finds itself struggling under, anything, name it, and if this works, even if what you ask for is....less than morally acceptable in the eyes of most."
Nodding I went on. "Alright, I'll need to find a structure thats rather high, the top of a sky scraper for instance, for what I intend to do, I'm going to create a central control and command center for the golems I plan to make, and I need a large empty area to create em, as for what I want? We can talk about that after and if this works."
Princess Celestia nodded and stood up. "Hold on, this may be a tad...disorienting if you haven't experienced it before." I tried to ask what she meant before her horn lit up with a golden colored light and it felt like I had been flash banged.
With a wet splatting noise I flopped onto a hard crystal floor, breaking my nose in the process and causing me to swear, Celestia tried to help using her magic put I held a hand up, and injected myself with a stimpack, the instant healing seemed to startle her more than my blood splattering on the floor did. "How did you heal so quickly? What was in that syringe?" She snagged the used syringe off the ground, I had tossed it on instinct, and tried to scan it with her magic, and seemed to frown when she couldn't detect any trace of what had once been inside it.
Laughing I explained. "That was a stimpack, a common pre-war chem used to heal wounds instantly, broken bones, damaged organs, all healed within seconds, I also have chems which slow down your perception of time because of how fast your going, chems which can send you into a psychotic rage and can't feel pain, and chems which let you see shit behind walls, I got a chem for everythin." The chem which let you see behind walls was Daddy-O, it showed you a sort of purple mist behind objects, showing an enemy was there, VERY fucking useful for when I had to clear out a building to stay the night if I didn't feel like sleeping in my car.
Princess Celestia's eyebrow rose. "Pre war? What do you mean by pre war?" She asked as she sat down in a chair made of crystal.
I coughed. "On October Third 2077 the world was plunged into atomic fire as the United States of America and the People's Republic of China exchanged nuclear weapons, destroying not only one another but also sparking further nuclear retaliation across the worlds various nuclear powers, now the year when I arrived here was 2295, two hundred and eighteen years after the bombs fell and humanity, my species, still hasn't recovered fully." Hey, I was my Fallout 4 character, may as well hold up to the legacy of Fallout eh?
Celestia's eyes widened, which I still found creepy, but in a neat sort of way. "What are atomic bombs?" She asked, her tone indicating she didn't know if she'd like my answer or not.
As I spoke I let no emotion into my voice, this was good shit, to me anyways. "It's a weapon so powerful and destructive, that it becomes as hot as the core of a star for a brief moment, and that moment is all it takes to destroy miles upon miles of entire cities, towns, countryside, anything hit by it will die, and if you don't die from the heat or the blast, the radiation will kill ya, radiation rips apart your cells at the atomic level, fucks with em, either mutates em to the point you get cancer of some sort, or flat out kills you, its not a pretty process, and hundreds of these, if not thousands, got used across the world." I paused for a minute to take a drink. "Oceans burned, and the planets surface was forever altered by radioactive flame."
Celestia once again looked horrified. "You don't have any 'atomic bombs' on you do you?"
Shaking my head I said. "No, I do not, now, where are we exactly?" This was of course a lie, I did have an M45 Tactical Nuclear Launcher, or a Fatman as the uneducated would call it, along with several dozen M45 Tactical Nuclear Warheads, or, mini nukes.
She let out a sigh of what sounded like relief. "Alright, we're at the top of the Crystal Palace, its the tallest building in the Crystal Empire, unless told you won't be bothered here, to conduct whatever it is you need to do, as for a large flat space, I can have that arranged."
"Alright, feel free to check by in about an hour." I said with a grin, already getting ready for the task at hand, this building being so tall would be a huge advantage. Princess Celestia nodded and teleported away with a flash, and I set to work, first thing I did? Climb to the absolute top of the tower which was easy since there was a ladder built into the crystal, and slapped an antenna dish onto the top, set down a fusion generator like those you'd see in a pre war basement, and then hook up a terminal to it. Then I took thirty minutes hooking star cores into the terminal and the extra electronic systems which I hooked INTO that main terminal, about seven of them, and pressed a button which activated protocols within the terminal, now all I had to do was the last step, it was about that time that Celestia teleported back again and looked around in surprise.
"The large flat area you require is ready for whatever it is your going to do, if you'll close your eyes I can teleport us there now." Celestia said still looking around the room, before with a flash I could STILL see behind my eyes went off and we where in an empty field outside, I could see the Crystal Palace in the distance, and about another mile away was what seemed to be a wall being built just inside the edge of the barrier. "Will this do?" Celestia asked looking down at me, seeing as she was a good foot and a half taller than me.
Looking around for a few moments, I looked back at Celestia and nodded. "Yep, this should do, so stand back, I don't feel like having to replace this things several times." With a thought I opened the workshop and began to place robot work benches, two dozen of em, and the fusion generators to power em, auto defense turrets, and a terminal which I hooked another antenna into, and the programming from the one at the top of the Crystal Palace took effect. The moment the terminal came online and was hooked into the robot work benches, it began to produce robots of pre set combinations, such as assaultrons with Mr.Handy buzz saws for hands, sentry bots with duel mini gun arms and mortar launchers in their backs, and several random combinations of robots that would mostly just use blades against zombies, while others would use long ranged weapons such as rockets.
Princess Celestia looked on in awe as sentry bots, assaultrons, and robobrains stepped or rolled out of the work benches and began to take up formation awaiting orders from either the central command terminal, which I had locked, or my pipboy. I grinned at Celestia, who's jaw was on the floor. "Ready to retake your kingdom?" I said, excited.
Celestia looked down at me again. "Are you sure these golems of yours will be effective against the undead?" She asked, her voice skeptical.
I nodded. "If these combat robots can deal with living soldiers who can shoot back, I think they can deal with a few undead morons who can't even hold a knife." That was true, I had yet to see a zombie even pick up so much as a rock, let alone an actual useful weapon or tool, they just grabbed at the living with their rotting hands and sunk their teeth into flesh and ate, despite the fact they couldn't digest what they ripped from the living they attacked.
Celestia, for the first time since I had seen her, grinned, an impossibly wide grin at that. "Oh Faust yes, it's time to retake my Kingdom, then, to show the other kingdoms and empires how we rose up without their help to defeat the undead, and how without them we became much, much stronger than they, these golems look centuries ahead of anything we have at the moment, even the advanced ones I was forced to leave in Canterlot."
I chuckled and pressed a button on my pipboy, and each robot received orders, and set to carry them out until they could no longer do so. "Let's start this party." I said as robots began to check their weapons and internal systems, before rolling or walking off to accomplish their tasks.
