> Fallout Equestria: Violet's Adventure > by Fluttershy_MoP > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chapter 1: A rude awakening > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- My eyes snapped open in a moment’s notice. I’m not sure as to what has happened, but I may have been lying unconscious within this very maintenance room. As I looked up at the ceiling, I noticed that, by one of the pipes which were connected with the ventilation systems, a few bolts snapped in half. Looking closely at the pipe that was dislocated, I thought, “I’m not sure if it’s just red paint or if it’s blood, but either way, I have to get somepony to fix it.” What? I may have a horn, but I definitely won’t be maintaining things like this. So, I walked towards the door of the room I was in. The door opened itself and I noticed that something was strange – why are the emergency lights on? “Are some of the generators broken again or what’s going on?” After asking myself that, I heard noises upstairs. Those noises were loud, something I don’t quite hear too often. It could be a security pony shooting up those pesky radroaches – which I’m thankful for, because you have no idea just how disgusting these creatures are! But… something was off, because after that, a few screams followed. That didn’t make much sense to me. “Why would they scream after killing radroaches?” I asked myself as I started to slowly walk up the stairs, towards the living quarters. ‏ I froze in place yet again by the sight of horror. Splat and a few others lay on the floor, each of their bodies covered in blood, some were stripped off of their uniform and a few looked like they got… I… it was a gruesome sight for me, which led to me emptying the contents of my stomach on the floor right in front of myself. My ears twitched as I heard one of the weird new ponies, “Did you hear that? Sounds like one can’t handle this shit,”  they shared a small chuckle. “May and Skull, you two check the northern and east side,” a dark purple unicorn and a mint green earth pony nodded as they walked towards the said direction. “Dark, you search the west side,” a turquoise unicorn nodded and trotted off, then the pony in charge turned in my direction, and, despite the dirty ground, I jumped in cover, so I wouldn’t be spotted immediately. This was something I never expected to happen! But more importantly, “How did they even get in... the door is shut-” I covered my mouth as I heard the hoofsteps from the pony getting closer – bit by bit I could hear the steps, which sounded like something wet was underneath them. Honestly, I was freaking out, but if I screamed then they would catch me and do… things that I don’t even want to start thinking about. So, I just have to be quiet and- I let out a loud scream as a radroach crawled around my hoof! “Get that thing off of me!” I screamed in horror as I started to gallop away, not paying attention towards what direction I was headed, until I bumped into something heavy. As I looked up, my ears went down and my eyes widened. “E-eep,” was all I could say the moment my eyes met the eyes of a large, dark green stallion, his deep purple eyes fixated on mine. It took me a moment to realize what just happened, and I was about to scream out again as some sort of napkin was placed around my muzzle and I felt extremely… tired… ‏ My eyes slowly opened up again. Was I dreaming? Why is the ceiling all so light? And the ground was weird. I started to look around, but something pulled on my throat and I fell flat on my muzzle – okay, that was just rude! And painful… “Get up bitch, we got a long way t’go,” said – ugh… what was it again… oh right – May, the purple unicorn. “Wait… where are we going? Where even are we? This doesn’t look like the stable…” She let out a laugh, “You didn’t catch up yet? Your home is now a death hole and you are our bitch now, we’ll sell you for a few caps.” Selling me? “Why would anyone sell… um… ponies?” I asked. She rolled her eyes, “Shut up, don’t ask questions and follow, otherwise you will be punished like those security shits from your stable,” May said as she pulled on my neck again. It was only then when I noticed I had a collar around my neck, and my magic instantly surrounded it. “Don’t try that, unless you want that head of yours blown to pieces.” “Why would my head…” I started to ask as she threw something towards a nearby rock. I looked at it and within five seconds, my eyes shrinked and ears flopped down, the whole rock exploded! “Now, shut up and follow already!” She pulled on my collar again and I followed, asking myself, “What did I do to deserve this…?” > Chapter 2: Outside > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- We continued to walk, and if I'm being honest, my hooves are hurting! If it weren't for the fact that I had some kind of explosive collar on my neck and that they were armed, and if I knew how to fight, then they would see what wrong they did! I guess…? “Fucking hell, another one there,” said Dark as he shot a… is that a pony? Nonono, I mean, it does look like a pony, but not as much… Skull replied, “I know right? Fucking ghouls everywhere, I swear if they paid for ghoul heads then we would be mil…mi…milonas.” “Millionaires,” corrected May with a snort. “Shut up, I know what I'm talkin’ about, smar… smat…” “Smartass,” she corrected again and let out a loud audible laugh, while Skull blushed in embarrassment and one of the ponies they took let out a soft chuckle as well. The moment the stallion did though, his head got blown to pieces with such a force, that it scared the living hell out of me and probably the others. “God damn it Skull, that one goes on your paycheck,” said dark purple mare, and he just turned his head around and continued walking, so did we. My hooves were hurting and my stomach was so empty, that even a book had more weight than me… I guess that makes sense somehow? Maybe. “We're setting a camp up for the night,” said their leader and the three ponies nodded. The pony with the anger issues, Skull, was watching over us as the other two began to build up… uh, I have no idea, a portable house? “Bet these stable ponies don't even know what tents are,” said May with a snort. “Ain’t that right, you slut!?” she had her hoof pointed towards me, and with a bit of hesitation, I nodded my head quickly and they both laughed. After a few minutes, they finished building up some weird homes. “Y’all go in that tiny tent there,” said Skull as he pointed towards a small tent. We did as we were told, because no one wants to end up like that pony who laughed at them. “Aaand you watch them, Skully,” said May with a chuckle. “Fuck that, I already watched those little shits while you two were building those fucking tents!” “Well maybe you could've done so too, but oh well – ” she tapped his head “– you got no fucking horn, dipshit!” she laughed. “That doesn’t mean I can’t blow your head off, you whore!” with a swift and quick motion he held a gun against her head. “Enough. Skull watches them the first three hours, then May and then Dark, got it?” said the dark green unicorn. In unison, the three of them replied, “Yes, sir!” *** How much time has already passed is what I wonder. I took a look around to see who else had the same misery of being taken from their home like myself. There were two ponies – one mare and one stallion. The mare, who was a pegasus, had a pretty mane. Despite being the color of black, the fact that it was designed to be curly at the end, and straight at the beginning and in the middle, made it very cute. Then there was the stallion, whose coat kinda reminded me of one of my old stallion friends from the stable, Longhorn. Kinda funny, given that he was an earth pony, and this one's a unicorn. There was something weird about him though, he was coughing quite a lot and his skin had some weird pinkish stripes all over. They both sat silently there and so did I. A bit more time has passed and it seems the guards have swapped, now it was May who was looking after us. I honestly hate the silence, so… “So… what are your names?” I asked them. The mare just spread her wings which were cut at various places, and covered her face with them. That's when I saw her cutie mark, it was a dark thunderbolt with a cloud on top and a weird small circle was around the mark. “Name’s Flaming Beat, yours?” replied the stallion dryly. “Violet Dawn,” I replied. …And back to the awkward silence, which occasionally was interrupted by his cough or by silent whimpers coming from the pegasus. And another few hours have passed. Honestly, at this point it felt like days. There was nothing in here, no food, no water, no one who really talks… wait, I think I heard the pegasus say something. I carefully inched closer, to not frighten the pegasus. All I could make out from it was: “Dash…” What was that supposed to mean? Do we have to dash, or was it someone named Dash, or…? That was just confusing me, so I sat back down and let out a soft sigh. “I just want to go back home…” I sighed and hung my head low. We all just sat in silence again and the only thing keeping us from going mad was the occasional cough from Flaming. When May walked away to get the next guard, no one came back, literally no one – did they have a meeting, or was it a test to see whoever will try to escape first, and that one will be killed? Honestly, it could be both options. I looked at the stallion, but he smiled – why the hell was he smiling at a time like this! He motioned his left hoof towards the entrance of the tent and there stood a mare. “Am I late to the party?” the yellow mare asked. > Chapter 3: First Experiences > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The mysterious unicorn grinned as she trotted inside, her magic carrying the dead body of May- wait what, dead body!? How did she… but… okay I'm getting a headache from thinking… "Glad you're here after all," said Flaming Beat. "Who… are you?" I asked the mare and she looked at me. It felt like her golden eyes stared deep into my soul before she replied. "You don't have to know it, got it? Now if you excuse me, I need to bring my friend to safety." She levitated a small needle kind of thing out of her mane and went close to the stallion's neck. Within a few seconds his collar broke off. "Please, help me too," I asked as my eyes were wide from what I just saw. "No. I only want my friend out of here, not you nor that dashite in the corner." She pointed at the pegasus laying curled up in her wings. "Pleasepleaseplease help me- I mean us, pleasepleasepleaseplease." I probably said "please" for a few minutes, before she replied, "Fine. Just stop the begging, it really gets on my nerves," and I smiled. As soon as my collar got off, the unicorn went towards the pegasus. "We don't have time, get up so I can remove the collar," she said, but the pegasus stayed curled up in a ball. "Flaming, hold her still please," she said, and the stallion's horn started to surround the pegasus with his magic. After a lot of whimpers and attempts to flail around, her collar got taken off. "Good, now let's get out of here." We got out of the tent, the pegasus only slowly walking after us. So far so good, nothing bad happened yet and I really hoped it would stay that way. We slowly made our way past the second tent, where the raiders were probably hiding in. "Ah fuck!" screamed Flaming Beat as he fell to the ground. ‏ "You really thought we wouldn't have noticed that May hasn't come back yet?" said Dark with a smirk which I honestly wanted to kick out of his face. "However, we didn't expect to find a ghoul saving these ponies," he laughed a little. Flaming was still on the ground, holding the part of his chest where presumably a bullet was inside. "Awe, did we hurt that cunt?" asked Skull sarcastically. "Ah'm oh so so sorry," he rolled his eyes. That seemed to make the unicorn mare mad. She levitated two small needles, jumped up and slammed the needles into one of his eyes with full force! "You- Argh!" Skull held his left eye as it began to get swollen and blood slowly came pouring out of it. I nearly had to throw up, but my thoughts went towards the earth pony who came racing at us with a knife between his teeth, screaming some things, which I didn't understand. First, he slashed for the unicorn, but she kneeled down, and in a smooth move, she leapt over the pony and landed behind him. That, however, didn't stop his raging assault on us – he went to attack me next and, well, the best I could do was scream in terror. His grin widened as he was about to stab me in the chest. I held my left hoof above my chest, but for some reason, I didn't feel anything. It was then when I noticed that I still had a pipbuck around it. With all my magical abilities, I pushed him away from myself, but then he targeted the pegasus, who was curled up in a ball again. This shouldn't be how things end for her! And since the unicorn was taking care of Flaming, oh goddesses… please protect me. He came running to the pegasus, but before he was able to slice at her body, I made the dumb decision and jumped in front of the knife – meaning the knife cut deeply into my hide and I simply fell flat on my face. ‏ I screamed in pain as the knife got pulled out of my hide. "Luna damn it…" sighed the unicorn as she pulled out a tiny thread from one of the tents and wrapped it around the earth pony's neck. "Since you won't be quiet, I'll make you quiet." The small thread began to cut into his neck. "Wh- what the hell-" was all he could muster before the thread cut deep inside and his neck snapped in half, his head practically hanging down from behind. Once she'd dealt with Skull, she went back to helping Flaming Beat, and I wrapped myself up and got up. "T-this hurts like hell," I said. "Don't worry, hell hasn't come yet," said the turquoise unicorn as he trotted towards us. A double barrel shotgun levitated next to him as he pointed it towards me and the pegasus. I stood silently in place as I looked at the business end of the shotgun, and he was grinning from ear to ear. Just as he was about to pull the trigger, my eyes widened in horror. A few lasers struck his head, pulverizing it before my eyes, and the shotgun fell to the ground. I looked at where the shots came from and noticed the pegasus holding something that looked similar to a gun in her hooves. "So, you killed all three of my ponies, eh?" said the dark green unicorn, watching the scene. ‏ "Unicorn, grab the barrel!" said the yellow unicorn to me and I instantly levitated it and pointed the shotgun at him, at least I think I did. "You know you're pointing the barrel at yourself, right?" she said. I blushed in embarrassment and rotated the weapon around so that the barrel was pointing at the leader of those three ponies. With a small light of magic, he disappeared. "What the- how did he?" I asked, and I heard a 'pop' behind me. The yellow unicorn threw a needle towards me. "H-hey, watch where you throw these!" I jumped the side. "Shoot now!" screamed the unicorn. Without thinking, I shut my eyes, turned around and pulled the trigger of the shotgun with my magic. There was a small 'thump' sound, and as I opened my eyes, I almost vomited. Right in front of me lay a headless dark green unicorn… well, he wasn't headless, there still were part of his head on his body, but… oh Luna… this is… wow. "Nice job," said the unicorn as I kept on staring at the dead body in front of me, my magic grip of the weapon fading away. "You good?" she asked as I began to slowly stumble, and in a quick moment, everything went dark. Footnote: Level Up. New Perk: Wasteland Newbie - You had your first experience with the Wastelands, you won't be startled by little creatures like radroaches anymore.