Fallout Equestria: A New Hope (On Hiatus)

Chapter Two

As I drew farther and farther from the stable, the world grew more and more silent. I looked back. A farm in ruins. Tree stumps everywhere. "Who could have done this?" I asked myself. I looked ahead, and somepony was infront of me. I jumped. "You scared me." I said. "Good." The pony grinned. A mare with a scruffy mane. Out from behind her came three more ponies. One with a sawed off shotgun in his teeth, another with a bat, and the other with spiked shoes. I gulped. "Aww. We ain't scaring you too bad are we?" She asked. Mocking a mothers sweet tender tone. I nodded slowly. The mare looked to the stallions, and nodded. They all crept up toward me. "Oh shit. I'v gotta get out of here." I said to myself as I quickly looked over the land for an escape rout. I turned and began running the other way as fast as my hooves could carry me. "HELP!" I screamed. All the other ponies began chasing after me. I kept running, and did not look back. I then heard the crack of a rifle. This scared me even more. "And a sniper pony too?!" I asked myself as I kept running. "Shit!" The mare yelled. Another two shots were fired. I turned back around, and saw the three stallions lying on the grounds. Their brains across the dirt, and blood still pouring from the wholes in their skulls. I immediately felt sick. But I walked closer to the mare, and pulled out the 10mm pistol from Pallets locker. I still couldn't believe she had it in her locker. And nopony noticed. I cocked the gun, and this made her ear twitch. She gulped audibly. "Run." I said before I lowered the gun. She bolted off.
Before she was even twenty feet away, I took aim, and pulled the trigger. A loud 'Bang!' Erupted from the gun, and into the wastes. The mare fell on her face, and blood began to leak from the back of her head.  I held the gun out incase anypony else tried to kill me. "She was mine!" I heard a voice. It sounded like a complaint. "Oh yeah? Well, you should have shot first!" I shot back. Then, silence. I heard hoofsteps behind me. I turned around, and saw a unicorn with a sniper. Jet black with a scope. I pointed my pistol at him. "Wow! Hey! Is that any way to treat somepony who just saved your flank?!" He asked. "Take off your helmet." I instructed waving the gun around. "I take orders from nopony. And watch where you point that thing." He said. "I suppose you'r like them too? Hiding behind that helmet and waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike." I assumed. "No I am not. And besides, If I wanted you dead, I would have killed you by now." He said as his helmet took on the same red glow as his horn, and sniper. He removed his helmet. A stallion with a white coat, red eyes, and blond buzz cut mane stood there. "You are just be saying that." I said. He tossed his gun aside. "No. I. Am. Not." He said firmly. The stallion even went the extra mile, and stepped away from the sniper. I stepped in front of him. I even put my gun in my saddlebag. "Lead." The stallion said extending his hoof. I assumed that was his name. "Sketchy." I replied. The stallion lowered his hoof, but smiled and brought me into a hug. I did nothing but hug back.
"I know you'r afraid. And judging by that uniform, I'd say you'r not from around here." He guessed as he broke the hug. "I'm from Stable two." I said pointing to the farm I had came from only a few minutes ago. "A barn?" He chuckled. "No. The cellar. Inside is a massive underground bunker known as a stable." I replied. Lead levitated his sniper, and put it on his back. "A stable huh?" He said looking back to me. "Yeah. I left like ten minutes ago." I replied nodding. "And what's that thing you got?" He asked as he pointed to my foreleg. I lifted the leg in question, and my Pipbuck filled my vision. "This is what's known as a Pipbuck. It can do lots of things." I said as I tapped a button. The screen changed to my inventory. I showed him the screen. "This is everything thats in my saddlebags." I said as I scrolled through the items. Food, water, ammo, etc.. I then lowered my leg. "Thats so cool. Where can I get one of those?" He asked. "From the stable. But good luck trying to get in." I scoffed. "Oh?" He questioned. "Yeah. Before I left, I was told I would never be let back in." I said tearing up. "Hey. You alright?" He asked. I looked to him. The tears starting to fall down my face. I shook my head and hugged him tight crying into him armor. He ran his hoof through my mane, and down my back. This calmed me down quickly. "I- it was my home." I sniffled. "Well, you've got to move on. You win some you lose some right?" He said. I looked up to him. His eyes staring back into mine. I nodded and hugged him again.
He hugged back. "I know you'r afraid. And thats fine. Fear is good. It's apart of us. We all have our strengths and weaknesses." Lead said. They sat there for a good few minutes before I wiped my eyes, and stood back up. We began to walk together. We reached a tree which had one whole side missing. We walked up to the spot where the door must have been, and saw there were torsos and entrails of ponies festooned about the room like party decor. But this made me sick to my stomach. It made me even more sick as the smell of rotting bodies filled my nostrils. Lead walked inside, and heard a floorboard creak. The produced a knife from his back leg, and held it in a stabbing motion in his magic. I took my gun out, and held it in front of me. "Stay alert. These raider scum could be anywhere." He whispered as he looked around. "Who you callen' scum?" A voice called. A mare. We whipped around, and towards a cage. I did not hesitate. I fired, and the mare dropped dead. Lead walked over to the cage. A filly with a rag in its mouth lie there. Her eyes then opened. "She's alive?!" I said in shock. "Yeah. That's what these raider bastards do to poor fillies like her." He said taking the butt of his knife, and busting the lock off. He swung the door open and his red glow enveloped the filly. Her eyes said it all. Afraid. Wanting to go home. Wanting her mother. "Shhh. It's OK. I promise I won't hurt you. He said cradling the young filly and rocking her while taking the rag out of her mouth. "W- Wheres mommy?" She asked. Her voice sounded very afraid.
"Sweetie, I am so sorry. Your mother is dead." He said softly. The fillies eyes began to water. "M- mommy?" She said stammering out of pure shock. She began to cry. "Shhh." Lead tried his best to calm the cigar burned filly down. To some extant, it worked. "Its alright. I'll take good care of you. I promise." Lead smiled softly at the filly. Her expression she wore on her face was still that of pure terror. While Lead tended to the filly, I walked into an area with more 'decorations'. "This is fucking awful. Why would somepony do this?" I asked myself. I then saw a fridge. I opened it up, and a rotting head came into view. I jumped, and became sick again. I threw up next to the fridge. "You alright in there?" I heard Leads' voice. "Theres a head in the fridge." I replied. I closed the door to the fridge which wasn't working and walked back into the room Lead and the filly were stationed in. I looked over, and saw he still had the filly in her arms. He was singing a lullaby. "Hush now quiet now its time to lay your sleepy head. Hush now quiet now it's time to go to bed..." He sang. "His voice is angelic." I said to myself. The filly fell asleep soon after. "We should go." I said. Lead looked to my. "Why's that?" He asked slowly rocking the filly. I looked to the sun, and saw it was beginning to set. "One, it's getting late. Two, we wouldn't want to be caught by more of those freaks would we?" I asked. "Raiders." Lead said. "Huh?" I questioned. "They are called Raiders." Lead said enveloping the filly in his magic's red aura and standing. "Oh." I replied.
We soon found a small shack. We walked inside, and saw two mattresses. They both had stains on them. I suspected it was from sex they may have had with the raider mares. I flopped down on one not caring what the stains would have been. Lead lie on his side, and hold the filly close. I fell asleep instantly I was so tired. While lead ran his hoof through the fillies mane. He used his magic to close the door in case either raiders showed up, or there was a draft, and they got cold. But even I know this isn't home. Lead soon fell asleep holding the precious filly close. I awoke the next morning and looked to my Pipbuck for the time. '7:00am' it read. I looked ahead to see Lead still sleeping. I got up, and walked over to him. "Lead." I called in a whisper. His ear twitched and his eye opened. "Hm..?" He replied sleepily. "Wake up." I said. "He closed his eye. "Five more minutes." He groaned. I chuckled. "Fine." I said in defeat. I looked to the filly who was still asleep in his arms, and kissed her head. A smile spread across her lips and she snuggled deeper into Leads chest. I smiled in return. "Whats your name...?" I said to myself. I looked back to my Pipbuck. '7:02am'. "Its almost time, Lead. Three more minutes." I said. He groaned again. The filly giggled. Leads' eyes opened. He smiled. "OK. I'm up." He said releasing the filly. I lie down. "Come on." I smiled. The filly climbed up on my back, and giggled. I smiled as I slowly rose off the ground. Not wanting her to fall off. "What's your name, Sweetie?" I asked. "I don't know." She replied.
I looked back back to Lead. "What do you suggest we call her?" I asked. Lead brought a hoof to his chin in thought. "Hmm..." He thought. "Sweetie Drops?" He asked. I smiled. "I like it." I replied. "Ye!" He smiled and clapped his hooves on the wooden floor. I chuckled, then looked back to the filly. "Well, Sweetie Drops, are you hungry?" I asked. She nodded. "Yeah!" She exclaimed. "Alright." I gave her an apple and some water. "This should suffice right?" I asked myself. She ate the apple, and gulped down the water. I then found myself get thirsty, and levitate a bottle of purified water out of my saddlebag, unscrewed the cap, threw it on the floor, and gulped some water. I finished that bottle, and threw it on the floor too. "You ready?" I asked. Lead levitated his helmet and put it on. "Yeah. Let's go." He said. The filly held my neck tightly. "He's scary!" She cried. "Its OK, Sweetie. Its still him." I said. Lead took his helmet off, and smiled. "It's still me." He said. "O- oh." She said. Lead put his helmet back on, and continued walking. I caught up to him.
"So where do you want to go?" I asked. "Another of those Stable things. If we can find one of them, we can be safe. Provided the door works." He said. "There are more Stable?" I questioned. He nodded. "Yeah. I saw one the other day. It's in Canterlot." He said. "Great. We should get there by night." I said. "Or where ever it is." I added. Knowing I have never left the stable and don't know where any on the locations are made me feel dumb. I looked to my Pipbucks map, and saw a load of places and their locations. Sweet apple acres was behind us. That must have been where I came from.  I looked ahead, saw Canterlot. It looked very far. "Maybe two days." I said zooming out using the scroll wheel. I lowered my Pipbuck and continued walking. As we continued walking, I kept periodically checking my Pipbuck for the time and distance from Canterlot. "So whats in that Stable?" I asked. Lead shrugged. "Never been inside." He replied. "All the inhabitants are probably dead by now." I assumed. "HEY!" A voice called. It sounded far. I took my 10mm pistol out and stood ready.
We looked around but did not see anypony. I looked up in the sky. "There!" I called pointing my gun to the pegasus stallion hovering in the air. "This is our territory!" The pegasus shouted. "Oh yeah?! Why's that?!" Lead shot back. "We took over the Stable! It's pegasi territory now!" The pegasus replied. "We'll see about that!" I called back. Lead quickly drew his sniper, took aim and fired. But missed! The pegasus dodged the bullet! I had the chance. I fired my gun, and missed as well. "Damnit! He's too fast!" I said. Lead drew a combat knife from the holster on his back leg, and threw the knife at the stallion. He had no time to react. The knife was coming too fast. It lodged in his head and he fell to the ground dead. Lead walked up to the stallion, and picked his knife out of his skull. "Looks like we arrived sooner than we thought." I said as blood began to poor out of his head. "Yeah." Lead tossed his sniper to the ground, and picked up the saddle like device off of the stallions back, and put it on. "Whats that?" I asked. "A battle saddle. This one is equipped with twin mounted HMG's or heavy machine guns. I tend to aim for horns for unicorns so they dont have a fighting chance, or wings for pegasi so they can't get away, or, the center of mass for Earth." Lead explained. He levitated the sniper, and I noticed his aura was now black. "Why is you'r aura black now?" I asked. "That happens." He replied. "That is a little strange. I'v never seen that before." I began as I continued walking. "That was scary." Sweetie said. I looked back to her. "It's over now."
We soon made it to the large steel door of Stable 3. "Here it is. Now, if this panel works, we should be able to get inside." He said approaching the panel, and flipping the small switch. A loud buzzing sounded from an alarm. Pegasi came at us from all over. "Shit. We've got company!" I said as my horn lit up. Lead shot at them. The bullets began pouring out of the machine. Some of them stupidly staying in the same place, and being obliterated by the barrage of bullets. I formed a shield with my magic. But just before the shield was formed, a bullet slipped through, and lodged itself into my leg. I howled in pain. Lead heard it, but did not look as he was too busy killing pegasi. As the Stable door opened, pegasi were now all around us. I was slowly being drained of all my strength the more the shield was up. "A bullet is in my leg!" I shouted over the sounds of all the guns firing. "And I feel weak!" I added. Leads horn lit up red, and a ball of red surrounded us. My green glow faded, and I fell to my knees. From both the pain, and me feeling so weak. The sound of the bullet ricocheting off the shield, and coming from the the pegasis' guns, and Leads slowly faded into nothing as I blacked out. I awoke later to the soft ping of a heart monitor filling my ears. I groaned. "Sketch. It's OK. It's all over now." Lead looked down to me. "Wh- where's Sweetie?" I asked. Lead pointed with a hoof to his left. I looked in the direction, and saw she was placidly sleeping. I smiled, closed my eyes, and let out a sigh.