near Rambling Rock Ridge the stable 83 have been open 2 time. The first person get out for explore and the other for save his daughter.
After a devastating war between the zebras and the ponies 150 ago the civilization are gone and all the ponies and unicorns are living in stables build by Stable-Tec before the bombs blow. But then a girl named Glowing Star in Stable-83 go outside for no apparent reason and his father go outside also for know if she’s safe and bring her back to the house. But sadly the wastelands don’t care about safe and laugh about it.
I really recommend you to go check before Fallout Equestria by Kkat for a understand a little the back story and the why the war and who are the ministeries.
Life is monotonous in Stable-83. The walls look all the same with the same dazzling white colors and threads and pipe that come to change the monotony of these walls similar to becoming sleepy. Being the head of security gives me a lot of free time when the only thing that breaks the routine is when you find Cider Party still vomiting on the halls and that me and my teams have to return her to the infirmary or his room. The alcohol is supposed to be reserved for the section of the bar but she always manages to slip some outside. Like yesterday:
"Hey Cider Party where do you go with this bottle of Whisky? We are in the obligate to ask you to give it to us fastly or it will have consequence."
"Me giving you my alcohol? Never! I will drink it where and when I will want to."
"Well you'll have to stop or we will have the duty to arrested you."
After the fourth time that she was drinking alcohol outside of the bar I was not that gent with her. We have to pass the good image for the youngs. She will have a long time for think how to have a better behaviour during her detention time.
The best day was always Sunday because Melody Divine was giving a concert in the auditorium, and everyone was present and we could listen to her sweet and soothing melody. Her music was always resonating in the speakers of Stable-83 that was allowing us to entertain us every day but I think it’s always better when we are listening to the person during a concert. His music was always enchanting us and help breaks the monotony of the Stable with some differents songs. We could have probably become mad without that.
But there was nothing better to go back to my neighborhoods to spend time with my daughter Glowing Star. For me she was representing the most precious thing I have in the world. She was the world for me because since the death of my wife in a accident she have becoming more distant with me and she was avoids me cause she was taking me of responsible of his dead and I was not wanting her to run away from me. She was really close to her before and even after sevens years of separation she was mourning.
She was making and makes me again so proud, however, that she’s goes beyond every day in her studies in pre-war history to learns as much as possible about our old nation called Equestria. According to what she taught me zebras and ponies would have fought a great war 150 years ago that would have lasted more than 10 years and whose outcome would be the complete destruction of our country and the destruction of our capital Canterlot. The zebras would have used a powerful weapon known as the Balefire which is a sort of equestrian over powering missile.Most of the people are according to say that the zebra's have stole it and they have reproduct more or it's a pony traitor have give them.
My daughter as daughter of the chief of security was having certain privilege like being the personal secretary of our Overmare who is a kind of leader for us taking her power directly from the fallen princess. It’s a mother-daughter position since the Stable creation 150 years ago. I don't know why but my daughter often was staying very late in the Overmare office. Maybe they were talking about history or politics but it's not my very strong subjects, for me who wants to live a simple life. My daughter Glowing Star, told me they were on a secret project they were working on but if all was going well I know all earlier than what expected.
4 days pass after have she told me that I may know what is the project she worked on with the Overmare after my patrol. I was on my ordinary schedule when suddenly a alarm sounded through the speakers over all the stable. Then the voice of the Overmare was warning me through my Pipbuck that the door to the outside have been open and that I will have to go immediately closing it before a habitant can go out or worst if something can go in. Then when I was running for the stable-83 door I thought of a disaster scenario as an attack or worse. When I was younger, there were horror story nights where stories were told and one that have particularly fearing me was the one with the iron demons ponies armed with powerful fire-spitting weapons had managed to enter in my stable to kill all those who I loved there.
When I got there the door was closed behind the or the fugitives and I saw the bodies of my two service guards unconscious near the opening console. The rest of my team informed me that one of the habitants had fled and we were still trying to find out who it was. With the radio from my Pipbuck I called the rest of the team to help me find out what happened and also to said to the other ponies that all was under our control. Thanks to the surveillance cameras but it was a big surprise to find my own daughter was the one who run away from the stable that was been closed since the last 150 years . The Ovemare after I have revealed this information, she have asked me immediately in his office for giving it my feelings and maybes I may have some information to know the reason of the escape..
“So you have no idea why your own daughter come out of a closed stable since now 150 years?"
"I thought like the majority that the door was sealed and I think you owe me an explanation on this secret project that you have shared with my daughter. She spoke very vaguely and I think there is maybe a connection between today's events and this secret".
"I admit there is a connection. I asked him to help me decipher as a secretary a message encrypt assuming it was a commanding from the first Overmare Precious Ruby on the main management console. In appearance the message was not dangerous just a little guide on a PDA that youre girl was keeping for continue his research on our past. she probably find the code for open the Stable door. I don’t know how it’s upposed that’s only the Overmare can open it. But this not explain the why.’’
‘’Well this if you’re agreing this be my job,’’ I was determined and nothing will come between me and my daugter, ’’ I will try to find her outside and know why she have ran away and I will bring her back”. I have declared courageously to the Overmare.
‘’ I love your devotion to your daughter and I am sorry to have keep the PDA secret but it was one of her condition to help. I will ask now that we start your package cause I think you will need it. Good luck Rainy Day
“I think I will need if I go outside and probably a good weapon and a lot of food if it takes too long even with the Pipbuck tracker.
“I will give you my own weapon ”, the Overmare have get out a box inside his office. Inside there was a Colt with is graved name in ruby.” it’s name is Blood of Ruby and it have appartned to the first Overmareof Stable-83 and I give now to you for pay my debt of my mistake. And if the legend is true she can enchant the bullets for making them more powerful and can be able to pass through a armor of power.”
“ I can’t accept it it’s too much and I’m sure my service weapon will be enough for what I will encountered outside but I will maybe take a assault rifle and a armor and I think it will be enough with some bags of food.”
"Okay if you thinks so, but I will escorted you with your squad to the door for seing what is to the other side of the Stable and checking your Pipbuck one last time and give you the identification number of Glowing Star".
After I have pass through all the Stable and say goodbye to all my friends I was ready to go search my daughter. It could not be that hard with a marker tracker of where she's.
When the door have been open I finally see what was attnending me outside, a desert of rock in every direction I was looking. Nothing was alive probably in 5 miles outside of the Stable. With the hardnest of the task I was facing I was already close to abandon but I couldn't done this to my Glowing Star so I have start to walk in this desert of ashes, dead tree and rock. The marker was pointing the South so it will be this direction.
"My Glowing Star I arrive for you anywhere you could be."
I was out since only some few hours and I was already encountered a pony. He was like burn and very aggressive so I have kill it with a shot of my revolver in the head. After this meet I was more careful and I was listening to all the sound around me when I was following the track of my daughter.
But it have not prevent me to find a big ossuary with a lot of bone and dead poney. this place was very silencious and bothered me a lot cause of the phenomal numbers of pony dead here. In the ossuary there was also some carts full of supplies and even a military convoy with probably some ammo and equipments like grenades or heavy guns. it could be a good thing to grab the most of what I can when I will come back for increase the armory of Stable-83 who have only some IF-38 police revolver, IF-64 Assault rifles and IF-80 Pump shotgun and some riot stick.
I have see pretty away from me something like a flying boat, like we have see on books when I was looking the books my daughter was studying, but with 4 big cannon under it and on each side and he was way more bigger. On the back there was painted the mark of the Equestrian Flight Army.
I was walking to go check the military truck the most near from me for verify the states of the suplies when suddenly I have crush a bone who have break the quiets. At this moments a leg next to me have tried to catch me by surprise but I have dodge him. This sudden sound have been follow by a lot of creatures trying to get out of a piles of bones. Understanding I was in dangers I have start running to find a way out of this frightening place when I was follow by a number of dead poney who was increasing each time I was in this place of horrors. The dead ponies were breaking down and their skin was ugly with a lot of missing part and some have no legs or jaws.
When I have found a way to get out of the ossuary I was followed by at least 1000 dead poney and they were pretty fast for a person who was supposed to be dead 150 ago. After running since 5 minutes my endurence was low and I already be catch up by the pack right behind me. A bridge have appear to me the saffest way to get out of here. the bridge was making a really unsure noise when I was walking on it and he start to crack under me and the giant horde behind me. When I finally travel to the other way the bridge have collapsed and the dead ponies have falling down in the ravine. And I have seen a pictures that will forever be graved in my head of the destruction of at least 1000 of dead ponies. At the deep of the ravine it was a real carnage of bone, rotten flesh and blood. The smells of dead was disgusting me and I almost threw up my dinner.
- Well I will have to find a new way to return home. And if someone listen to me can he say what the hay was that!
After I have recup my mind of the recents events with the group of dead pony I was bothered of what I could see in this lands of devastation. I was only here since 5 hours and I have already been close to die 2 time.
The mark of my daughter was South so this mean I have to continue to a place call Dodge Junction by my Pipbuck. This place was supposed to be a city specialise on the cherry now the cherry tree are probably dead like all the trees I see around me. The city was again to 5 hours of my position, the night was near and I would not take the risk to be outside when the night will rise. I could see a building at the horizon that I was planning can be in at the sunset.
More I was near to the building and more I was finding him strange. The complex was really big even if he was not high. On the front door a logo of a new enterprise called Cyber Tek. I don't know what they were doing in the complex but it should be precious cause at the front there's 2 line of sandbags with 10 heavy machine guns behind and some rockets launchers. Fortunaly the doors was open even if it was from a big explosion evidences by the traces of soot around the holes. But when I come in the buildings I have been spot by a dizaines of dead ponies. They have all turned their heads for faced me and they have cried by running to me. I have fastly take my weapon to shoots their heads but they were too many. My loader have also be empty fastly and the dead ponies were really close so instinctively I take one of the heavy machine gu next to me and I have literaly destroy the heads of the dead ponies in front of me.
-Well I think I will keeps you my little darling. I think I will named you Pony Tomb.
After the lobby was cleaned of all the deads ponies I have started to check for see where could be the most importants zones with like the weapons or other importants stuff to keep in the wasteland and maybe a zone for sleep safely, cause after all these event in simply one days I was starting to become sleepy. The best thing I have found for sleep was a sofa in the rest room and it was just perfect after all these dead ponies.
After I have wake up I put a markers on this place to visit her a other time cause It was urgent for me to find my daughter after I have find all this danger in the wastelands. hopefully or not she was still at the same point at Dodge Junction at only 5 hours of here and if I walk fastly I could get to this point before noon. After make's a breakfast of apple in can and drinks a water in bottle I have quit this grim complex. The road for the city was damage and obstruct so I have arrive to the iconic cherry field approximately around at noon.
Even if It would be supposed we are in summer today the day's was fresh with a big cloud layer likes the pegasus was not apperently doing again this job or they were holding the cloud layer expres. Well I think I will know soon this information. But this was questionning me what have became the pegasus after the fall.
My questions have been ended by the wailing of a pony near of me and the sound of someone beating a other ponies. I have fastly go see what was happenings to see a unicorn beating to death a others poney down to the ground with a strange collars with some cable in and a box and a red and green button attached to it.
" Hey you stop right now or I'm gonna shot you down with this!" And while I was talkng I have get out my Heavy machine gun "Pony Tomb" and have threat him with.
"You are not in position to negociate because if you threating me my friends will hunt you down." The unicorn have respond.
"Well I don't see your friends and it's me who threaten you so if you want to survive you should probably go". At this moments a bullet have whistle to my ear and have obligate me to go covering and the collar of the slave have explodes with the heads. Knowing I was now in position of weakness I have killed the unicorn with my Pony Tomb and makes a cover shoots with my heavy machine gun for escape from the slavers. I was running with approximately 5 slavers well armed followings me on my hooves. Suddenly like a Deus Ex Machina a rocket have pass near of me and have makes explodes the majorities of the slavers and makes the rest run away. When I have getting out of the cherry fields I have seen my saviors, a earth pony with the famous rocket launcher and a pegasus with a IF-33 rifle.
"Hey thanks for having save me."
"Well now can we know who are you and why were you going to Dodge Junction."
"My name is Rainy Time and I was going to see my daughter for save her. Can I know what is you're name and why you are here, now please."
"My name is Ashes Rain," have reply the pegasus", and here it's Steel Plated." by talking about the earth pony."We try to save all the slaves we can from these slavers but it's hard cause they have these explosives collars and it's hard to remove them without being treath or even killed. We will not trust you until we know by certitude your story but if you help us it could change some things.
" I understand why you can't trust me but I can help you cause I know a place called Cyber Tek with a lot of ammunitions for your friend and probably a lot of loots in the complex if we go check."
"Well Rainy Times if it's a ambush you're dead but I think it could be a good place to start checking equipments, so when do we go."
The road for the complex was more easy with my 2 companions but I was also getting a eyes on them if they were making any move to betray me I will not hesitates to kill them even if they have save my life. Even if I was in the Wasteland since only a few hours I was knowing already that the world was not a rainbows but only ashes.
It was in afternoon when we have finally finds the complex in the same state I was leaving him this morning. Outsides there was still the heavies machines guns, the rockets launchers and the big quantities of ammunition I had let, what had makes the pleasure of my companions especially Steel Plated for looting a whole box of new rockets for his rocket launcher. Ashes Rain have started to loot the rest of weapons even if they were damage. When I have asked him why he was taking even these weapons he have respond me that we could repair them or use parts in good states for repair others weapons or sell them with other survivors in exchange of caps. I have agreing cause have some equipments for trade is always useful even in a world of death and horrors.
After we have looted all we could in the lobby and outside we have check on a map next to the entry for places with a chance of being profitable in loot. A place that could be succesfull was a studying area and one of prototype. But the place was probably dangerous with a lot of these deads that my friends have call ghouls. But before we could acceed to the intersting area we had to cross the cafeteria and a lot of offices.
When we have enter in the cafeteria all the ghouls have turned there heads on us and have screamed before they had started to run on us. We had immediately turn of side and running when the ghouls was just behinds us and they was making a lot of noise. My friend Steel Plated have stoped a moments for shoots a rocket on the pack of ghouls but this have only kill only the firsts and behind but in there was still a lot more. I have took out my heavy machine gun and start to shoots for covering Steel Plated when he was recharging his weapon and Ashes Rain was using his IF-33 modified for enchant the bullets and makes explosives damages. And finally we have seen the end of the attack after we have used 2 loaders complete of 20 mm for the heavy machine gun, 3 rockets and 4 loaders of 10 bullets of 12.7 mm for the IF-33 rifle.
At this moments the exploration was not profitables but we were thinkings we should have kill the most of the ghouls in the complex and if not they were deaf for have not listen to our noise. We were walking with more energy after have defeat all these ghouls and we were looking for finding all the possible loot. It's with this that we have found the guards room and in there was a incredible Steelpony armor on a piedstal.
"I want it!" had said Steel Plated " She seem to have my size and look at this equipments it will doe a lot of damage." And he was right on the armor there was a IF-100 howitzer on the left shoulder and a machine gun on the right and only with this protection and with the good state it was a wonderful piece.
"This will be incredible."
After he have tried it he said "I Think I'm born to have this armor she his perfectly my size."
During the time I was helping Steel Plated to enter in the power armor, Ashes was looting all there was in the guards room and he have found some pieces and things that could be trade for a good price like modifications for weapons and a lot of cans of food. We have gain probably the double of what we have lost against the ghouls in the canteen only with the armor.
We have decided to continue the exploration in this grim complex. Even if we have found a good armor and weapon it was again dangerous cause the complex was only light by the torch of the armor. More we were advancing in the complex and more we we questionning on the reason of all the people dead in the canteen and why here there was no corpse or any trash. We were really cautious of the noise, we were making when we were going to the protoype area, cause we should clearly don't wanted to disturb any more creatures mostly if we don't know what could be more here. But at the top of all that there was the apperance clean of this place that was disturbing me the most cause it was like home.
We were searching the Prototype in this giant place when we have suddenly meet a sort of robot pony. Ashes have instantly kill him with a bullet but the bad was made and a big alarm have started in the complex. We wereh going fastly lock ourself in the first office on our left before a troup of robot have pass just in front.
"What do we do now?" I have asked the most quietly I was able.
"We wait until the troops come back and then we follow them for see where is theirs checkpoint and we destoy it with the bomb we have found outside" have answered me Ashes.
"Seem is a good plan but if they find us when we follow them?"
"We will improvise."
Follow them was easy but the doors in the checkpoint was lock and reinforced so we could not pass in. So we were putting stuff in front of there like offices and even a broken generator transported Steel Plated and me with my magic. But after we have place all the things we have Steel Plated have walks on a wire and the doors have suddenly open and a big giant robotics tank have get out. He was scaring with a freaking machine gun tht shoots rainbows magics rays that was desintagrating everything he was touching and a magic rocket launchers. On his flanks there was rainbows lines and a big robotic head that was turning for chose who he will kill in first. When he have go out he have destroy our barrier like it was made in cardboard.
We have fastly trying runnig away but he have catch us quickly and we have face him with unload with all we had got but this was not enough. his armor was just too strong even against the howitzer and the IF-33 with explosives bullets and his weapons was really powerful and we had a lot of difficulties to dodge his hits. His rockets launchers was a big pain and the walls around us was damage and a lot of magic impact was encrust in. When we have dodge him the hit have completely destroy the wall behind us and have revealed a big open area with a exit doors close and a others tanks but them could be probably command by somepony with the computer next to the door
"Hey Ashes you think you could hack these things", I have ask by talking loud for covering the sound of the bullets and rockets the robot was lounching on us, " I think I can try but you have to cover me" he have respond.
I had fastly shoots with my Heavy Machine gun and the old rocket launcher of Steel Plated when he was shoots with is howitzer on his head. The armor was even resisting to all these fire power when suddenly he have simply explodes and I have been repulse on the wall. And before I close my eyes I have seen Ashes came out of the room for fly to go in my direction.
When I finally wake up I was on a bed in a sort of infirmary. Ashes and Steel was not in my vision but I have hear them outside.
" Do you think we could take him with us, he could useful and I don't think he saw his power even for a unicorn." Ashes have said to Steel." I have heard Steel talked but the voice was too much low to understand." Yes I know he could betray us but he have miss a lot of opportunities to do it and I thinks it's a good guy. I think he will wake up soon so we shoul end these conversation."
I have quickly go lay down on the bed I was and fake of sleeping. Ashes and Steel have arrived just after I was good and have came to wake me up. They have makes me drank a purple healing potion for heal my damages from the last fight against the Ultra-Sentinel. Steel Plated have said we have got a lot of luck to win this fight cause this was supposed to be the most deadly things we could find in the Wasteland. But badly we could not take with us the sentinel have been hack by Ashe cause it will be deactivated if he go too away from the complex.
"Well can you explain me how you have done to explodes the Ultra-Sentinel.
"I have activate a self-destruction with the control panel in the control room. The password was complicated but finally it was DE10. But I was not expecting that it would be that strong and I'm sorry but I think I have saves you."
"thanks" I have said with Steel Plated.
" I think we know where is the important thing in the complex. The prototype area. " Have say Ashes.
"We should probably takes some rest cause it's almost the night and I don't know for you but this battle have takes all my energy." I have suggested.