> Fallout Equestria: New Pegasus > by Zeddak > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chapter 1: Recovery > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ringing ears and blurring vision was a common occurrence with a job like a courier, at least these days when there's raiders, various creatures, and more roaming across the Equestrian Wasteland, however this time it was different, as the eyes of one Pegasus opened gently, his blurry vision saw rows of wood like he was in a building, wondering what brought him to this situation, his thoughts were interrupted by a soft voice "Huh, you're awake, how about that..." The Pegasus was quickly turned to the voice, seeing a yellow Earth Pony wearing what seemed to be a cowboys hat and a leather coat, his emerald green eyes and golden/brown mane being the most notable features, next to the red apple on his flank, stepping back slightly his voice spoke once again "Whoa whoa there buddy, I'm surprised you managed to wake up, you've been out cold for a couple days now... look just relax, get your bearings a little, I'm here." Soft groaning escaped the Pegasus' lips as he rubbed his head softly, slightly covered with bandages from what he assumed was an operation or two this Pony did on him, not remembering what brought him here he just sat there, looking at the Pony with a curious expression. "Let's just start slow alright? I'm Braeburn, you're in New Appleloosa." "New Appleloosa? What the..?" The Pegasus managed to speak for the first time in a while, making Braeburn softly chuckle as he proceeded to grab a FoalCon Reflectron as he looked back. "Good thing my surgery didn't affect your speech, however I did my best to pull out all that lead from your head, just lemme know how I did alright." The Pony handed the winged Pony the Reflectron which he held with one of his wings. "Whatever you did to me, I don't care, I'm just happy I'm alive, by the way uhh, my name's Bronze Barrel, just call me Bronze." Then Bronze pulled the bandage off his head, now that he was finally free of the bandage he looked at the mirror, he saw himself, the grey Pegasus with dark orange colored eyes, complemented by his mane which was a darkened bronze, at further examination the operation seemed to heal just fine, only a lightly faded scar on his forehead. "You did well, the operation didn't do too much really, thanks for helping me out Braeburn." He laid down the Reflection, the yellow Pony let out a soft smile as he cleared his throat and adjusted his hat, walking up to Bronze and looking at him. "Well, it doesn't make sense to keep you in bed anymore, here, let me help you get back on your hooves." He proceeded to help him get out of the bed, the movements making Bronzes eyes blur slightly as he shook his head, Braeburn could clearly see the Cutie Mark on his flank, what seemed to be a Hunting Revolver. "Well the surgery healed just fine, but that doesn't mean I didn't make effect you in the head, walk over to the Vigor Tester and see what you do." Bronze was co-operative, walking up to the small machine as he cleared his throat, wondering what this would do as he eventually did the test, eventually reaching the conclusive results of his "stats" S.P.E.C.I.A.L Strength - 4 Perception - 5 Endurance - 6 Charisma - 5 Intelligence - 6 Agility - 4 Luck - 3 Finishing the test, Bronze turned to Braeburn who let out an approving smile, walking away as he chuckled. "Well you did good for your test, I'm confident you're well, come with me and we'll do some final testing." The two went to another room, and after some standard questions that Bronze didn't see much of a point in, but regardless answered, Braeburn looked at him with a soft sigh and stood up. "Well, let's get going, I'll take you to the door." TRAITS Trigger Discipline - While using Guns and Magic Weapons, you fire 20% more slowly but are 20% more accurate. Wild Wasteland - Wild Wasteland unleashes the most bizarre and silly elements of post-apocalyptic Equestria. Not for the faint of heart or the serious of temperament. TAG SKILLS Guns Medicine Repair And so the two Ponies were at the door to the clinic, Braeburn turned around and looked at Bronze as he cleared his throat. "Well, that's all there is to it, I took the liberty of containing your stuff in that there footlocker to your left." Bronze nodded, grabbing everything from the footlocker, things such as his revolver, around 100 bottlecaps, a leather suit and his own cowboy hat, and various medical things, mostly a couple Stimpaks, and a hit of Rage, once he managed to slip everything on, he looked at Braeburn with a soft smile and sighed. "I heavily appreciate you taking care of everything, I owe you for saving my life." The yellow Pony let out a soft smile as he stood aside by the door, however before Bronze can leave, Braeburn decided to speak for the last time. "Before you go, I got a gift for ya, I don't need it anymore so here, take my PipBuck." Bronze was surprised to hear this, Braeburn being from a Stable? "Huh, thanks, I appreciate it." He proceeded to take it, fastening it around one of his legs and looking at it configurating and turning on, seeing a notification. Activated Eyes Forward Sparkle? (EFS) Y/N? Confused, he decided to turn it on, suddenly he was taken aback by images and texts popping up in his eyes, seeing his overall health, ammo for his revolver, a compass dial, and even a graph for his own goals. "What the shit? This is awesome! Hold on another one?" Activate Stable Assised Targeting System (SATS)? Y/N? Already amazed by the first choice, he decided to accept it, wondering it does he looks to Braeburn, who seemed to be moving in slow motion, he could see all of his "vulnerable points", all at a 95% chance of his hits connecting, but he didn't want to do anything because why would he hurt the Pony who saved his life? Before he could do anything else, the world went back in normal motion, the Pegasus shook his head as he was taken aback by what just happened. "SATS surprised ya huh, well you'll get used to it, if you were to use it more often, but anyway I'll see you out, and if you get hurt or irradiated, feel free to come back here, just don't get yourself killed now." With that, Bronze opened the door and left the clinic after saying his goodbye, his eyes being slightly burnt by the glowing sun, after rapid blinking and covering his head with one of his legs, his eyes quickly adjusted, looking at the desert of New Appleloosa, with a gentle smirk he knew what he wanted to do, proceeding to add an objective to his PipBuck, that's when he saw the objective appear on his upper left from the Pipbuck. GET EVEN Kill the bastard who shot you and left you for dead Level 2 Perk: Mare Killer - +10% damage to the opposite sex and unique dialogue options with certain characters