Project Neptune

Chapter 1

I couldn't open my eyes or move but I could hear the ponies moving around me, one of them was close enough to me that I could feel his breath on my body. "He'll do just fine"

"I for one don't think he will last a few days out there, look at this body. We would be better off sending a type 1"

"Damn synths, one of these days one of these bastards may replace us doctors."

"Gentlestallions, the CEO has chosen this one and this one will be the one we send. Prepare his hard drive for memory and protocol construction."

"His sensor have spiked, it's seems he is awake"

"See what you can do about wiping this from his memory storage and shut him off, can't do for him to hear and remember any of this."

I woke with a start, looking around I could see everything was in order in my room. Of the few items we were allowed mine were all carefully organized as they had been my entire life. I glanced down at my pipbuck, already 10:34. I swung my legs off of the bed and made my way to the public shower. The lights were brighter today than they usually were, the walls also seemed more vivid than they did in my memories. I had lived in this vault my entire life but today was the day that I would be sent to the surface, the first vault 107 resident to see the surface since before the bombs. Everything including the showers seemed a bit strange, the water was cold no matter what I did with the knobs but all I could remember was proper hot showers. I couldn't quite place my hoof on it but everything seemed off. After a quick shower and lunch I made my way down to the vault armory. Upon entry the armory security systems trained several heavy weapons on my before scanning my I.D. badge and letting me enter. My old friend from school was now the head of the armory and I laid my requisition papers on the desk.

"Hey, H.Q. said I could have anything."

Don't clean me out, hey you would be interested to know that I just got a new laser rifle in and I know how much you love energy weapons."

He went into one of the many back rooms and came out with the most beautiful weapon I had ever seen.

"Newest generation laser rifles, LR-31-1 or Laser Rifle generation 31 type 1. I want you to have this one because I want you to live long enough to return and tell me all about the horrors of the surface."

"I'll keep that in mind thanks." I took the rifle and went through a side door to the security locker room. Punching my code into the lock system my locker popped open with a soft click. Inside laid my scouting power armor, it's colors had faded from it's age but it was better than anything I might find topside. I polished it as fast as I could then I moved to the mirror for an inspection of myself. My grey fur almost blended in with the drab grey of the walls, my jet black mane and tail was the only thing that didn't match the walls. I suited up and locked the rifle into its brackets on my side. The suit I noticed still fit me perfectly even after a decade of its initial tailoring to my body size. My going away ceremony was the first the vault had ever had. It was short and to the point but my parents and all of my friends watched as I walked into the room in my power armor, the overseer gave a short speech and gave me a holotape and assorted supplies for my mission. As soon as the ceremony was over I was rushed into the vault door room, guards were posted everywhere but when the door opened all that awaited us was a dark tunnel and a jumble of skeletons. As soon as I was out of the vault, and with a flurry of sparks the door sealed behind me, the skeletons crunched under my weight, I reached the end of the tunnel and a decrepit door was the last thing before me and the wasteland. I grabbed the handle with my magic but as always my magic failed to open it (my magic has always been extremely weak). I reached my trembling hoof out and grasped the door, opening it took all of my courage. I am Icarus, I am the first vault 107 resident to see the surface in 200 years.