It was early Sunday morning when Zachary Morris, known better to those who listened to G.N.R as 'The Lone Wanderer', prepared to attend service at Saint Monica's Church in Rivet City. He made it a habit to attend every Sunday that he was in the area ever since he had made the decision to move out of his place in Megaton and take up residence in his father's old room in 'Project Purity'. Service today, however, was going to be a bit different than usual. After service, the week before, Zachary had gotten into a conversation with Father Clifford and somehow they had gotten around to the subject of what life had been like in Vault 101.
Zachary had mentioned that he had been selected to be trained as the new vault chaplain after taking the G.O.A.T. and Father Clifford had immediately insisted that he speak at the next service. After all, what better way to bring the people of the wasteland to God than to show them that their hero was a man of God as well? Zachary had been aprehensive at first, thinking about the fact that he had only realy had three years of training and in the years since his departure from the vault he had spent more time fighting than preaching.
In preperation for the service, he had polished his winterized T-51b power armor and cleaned all of his weapons. At first he had thought about dressing up nice and proper, but that wasn't him. He was a man of God but he was also a warrior and if he was going to share God's word with his fellow wastelanders then he would have to be honest. And that meant being himself, weapons and all. He donned his armor and made sure all of his weapons were in place.
There was a Gauss rifle strapped across his back, and he wore a special electrical sword, that had once belonged to a pre-war Chinese general named Jingwei, on his left hip along with a old trench knife. All of this gear had come from an old military storage facility that he had helped the 'Outcasts' break into. Besides these, all he had was a laser pistol on his right hip. These few weapons were all he needed, and he had plenty of ammo in his pack.
Zachary exited his room, whistling to the dog laying on his bed to follow as he did so.
"Come on, Dogmeat!" Zachary didn't go anywhere without his trusty canine companion. Dogmeat had saved Zachary's life more times than he could count. Together they made their way through 'Project Purity' to the surface, Zachary giving brief greetings to several 'Brotherhood of Steel' paladins and scribes as he passed them by in the facility. Out on the surface it was a nice, clear, morning. Zachary took a deep breath and let it out slowly. It felt good to be alive.
The Enclave was gone, he had driven off all the major slavers and raiders in the area, and the super mutants were slowly being pushed out of D.C.. For once in his life, Zachary felt truly at peace and life felt good. He and Dogmeat began their short march towards Rivet City and nothing exciting happened at first. The nearby super mutant camp had been cleared out and some scavengers had taken up residence there so they didn't need to worry about them.
No, what worried Zachary was that, half way to Rivet City, there was a blinding flash of light akin to that produced by a mini-nuke just ten feet ahead of them. The main difference between this and a mini-nuke going off was the lack of explosive force and the noticable silence from his Pip-Boy's gieger counter. When the light dimmed and his vision returned, standing there before Zachary was something right out of one of his Grognak comic books. It was a purple unicorn standing about four feet tall with oddly human facial features.
"Gaah!" shouted, just a bit startled. He readied his Gauss rifle and shouted "What in God's holy name are you?!... And why are you so fucking adorable?!" Dogmeat took an agressive stance and growled. Zachary was startled again when it actualy replied in a very femenine voice.
"My name is Twilight Sparkle, and I am a unicorn. Are you Zachary Morris, A.K.A 'The Lone Wanderer'?"
"You can talk!"
"Yes, I can." the unicorn stated with an irritated sigh "I repeat, are you Zachary Morris, A.K.A. 'The Lone Wanderer'"
"Well, yes. But wha-"
"Then I must ask you to come with me. The land of Equestria needs you." Her horn was encased in a purple aura and a few seconds later they all vanished in a flash of purple light. A single scavenger nearby, the only witness to the event, convinced himself that he was halucinating and forever swore off using jet.
When Twilight arrived back at the basement of her library with her two 'guests' in another flash of light. The human called Zachary stopped to rub his eyes a moment before his vision cleared again. He immediately pointed his weapon at Twilight again.
"What the hell is this?!" he shouted "Where the hell are we?! What do you want with me? I am not being probed again! First aliens and now unicorns. I am not being probed!" Dogmeat stood next to Zachary, barking viciously and waiting for the signal to attack.
"Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to calm down." Twilight replied calmly "I can explain everything if you could just-"
"Calm down?!" Zachary interupted "I will not calm down! I was going to have a nice, normal day and then I get kidnapped by a talking unicorn!" Zachary continued his rant for a few seconds before Twilight sighed and her horn began to glow.
"Hey, what are you-!" Before Zachary could finish that thought, he and Dogmeat fell to the floor with a thud. Twilight looked down at the two figures and let out another sigh. She had been hoping that the human's experience with the unexpected would allow him to remain calm, but obviously that was not the case. Twilight prepared to make another jump into the human's world and, as she did, she thought about hiding Zachary's weapons, but she was in a hurry. She had to complete her task, and with the sleeping spell she used, she sould be back long before he had a chance to wake up and cause trouble. She dissapeared in yet another flash of light.