The Sun Over The Charred Horizon

Atticus, the blue yoshi, still donning his Vault 101 jumpsuit, his baseball bat which was safely attached to the back of the jumpsuit, and his 10mm MushCorp pistol in his pocket, stepped through the now open entrance of the Vault. You took a very deep breath as you did it, because you knew you would never walk back inside, there was no turning back, not after what happened. Your father left, and the Overseer went insane, and tried to have you killed. All those guards, the Overseer himself, you can't undo what you've done. Funny, your father always told you not to run away from your problems, but face them head on, but he ran out of the Vault too, and so are you.

Following in his footsteps, maybe it's just meant to be like this. Your head is still filled with thoughts of the outside, how are you going to survive, where are you going to go, and similar questions bounced around the inside of your skull. There's only one way to find out all these questions, you knew this, but you just couldn't get yourself to step any further into the cave towards the dust covered wooden door, that led outside. Sunlight was coming through the peeks and cracks of the door, and it seemed so welcoming, but you know that the world out there is anything but welcoming. Though at least the unbearable blasts of radiation that they wouldn't shut up about was a lie, because if it wasn't, you'd be dead right now just for being in the cave.

You almost felt tempted to look back when you heard the sounds of the large metal Vault Door, closing behind you, but you resisted the urge and only stepped forwards. The door to the outside, you never expected once in your life that you would even look at it, let alone do what you were about to do. You wiped off all the accumulated dust on the door, and pushed it all the way open. The greeting sunlight blinded you for a good minute until your eyes could adjust. You scanned the entire area with your curious eyes, it was all... all...

Dead. All of it was dead... no grass, no trees, no flowers, just dirt. You looked on the pre-war maps saved on your Pep-Boy 3000, this was the area once known as Petal Meadows. There were stories about this place in the Vault, well, at least the pre-war version. Flowers everywhere, it was truly a beautiful place... but now, it was reduced to nothing at all. You climb onto a nearby hill to get a better look around. You use the sun's position in the sky to determine the compass directions.

You look South, but all you see is endless plains.

You look over to the East, where Petalburg should roughly be located. You can't be sure, but you think you see something on the horizon that may or may not be buildings.

To the North, you see a pillar of smoke rising to the sky, surprisingly close. The pre-war map on your pep-boy showed no town or civilization in that direction.

You gaze out to the West, hoping to catch a glimpse of Rougeport, but it must be too far away to see. Or it might not even be there anymore. Who knows.

You decide you are going to head North to investigate the pillar of smoke. Mistake, as you quickly find out. Turns out that the smoke pillar's source is a rather large fire, and there's a large ring of tribal koopas dancing around it, and you can see yoshi bones poking out of the fire. Not good for you, but these insane koopas were probably going to build up their little campfire even more with your bones. Well, if you didn't realize they hadn't seen you yet. You quickly retrace your steps and head back south to the starting point. You didn't feel like taking on a whole tribe of koopas that obviously hated yoshis by yourself in a torn old vault jumpsuit with a baseball bat and a single 10mm Mush Corp pistol.

This time you decided to go East... maybe, just maybe, something friendly is there? I mean it is the ruins of Petalburg... at least, you think. When you got there, it was clear that the town was completely abandoned. You walked into the center of the town and made your first mistake. You attracted attention by yelling.

Atticus:"Hello! Anybody here?"

Okay, obviously you had a lot to learn about the outside world. First of all, you do not walk into what appears to be an abandoned ruin, and yell, trying to get attention of something, as you don't know what's lurking around the next corner. You paid for it this time, as one of your first wasteland encounters stepped outside of the Petalburg Shop.

It was a koopa, but it had no skin. It wasn't a dry bones, it was something in between. The thought made you shudder in horror. It especially made you shudder in horror as you quickly realized this thing was feral, and wasn't going to listen to you at all. The only option is violence, the second time you had to use it in your life.

The feral skinless koopa ran at you as you desperately pulled your baseball bat off of your back, and swung right for it's ribs. You swung the bat so hard you could actually hear the crack of it's ribs, but you didn't have time to celebrate, as this crazy thing was now clawing for your face, but you were capable of swiftly dodging every swing. You swung again, hard, but this time for the face. Let's just say it's definitely dead, as that snapping sound didn't come from you. You were shameful of what you were about to do, but you began to search through the dead feral koopa's pockets of it's rags of clothes. You found some 10mm ammo, at least... which would no doubt come in handy, because now, their were similar koopas to the one you just killed all around you. When did THAT happen? No matter, you only had one option, either shoot your way the hell out of there, or you'd be the meal of these creepy ass abominations.

You shoot two that were coming towards you from the front right in the face, and you quickly turned around to pistol whip one that was going to get you from behind in the face. There were so many of them, you couldn't kill all of them by yourself. Was this really going to be the end before it even started? Well, turns out it isn't, as you suddenly hear a scream come from above on one of the buildings' roofs.

?:"HEY! LOOK AT ME YOU DROOLING MONSTERS! COME GET ME!"

It was what looked like a dark koopatrol that had wrist blades extending off of his arms, and a green capped toad holding a lute standing next to him.

Green Toad With A Lute:"Uh... Mynos, I think getting their attention is bad. We should just go while we can."

Mynos the Dark Koopatrol:"And what, just leave that guy down there with all those feral shell ghouls? Where's your sense of heroism, Rast the Bastard?"

Rast the Bastard:"My name is Rast the Bard! Just because you can rearrange my name into bastard if you remove one R doesn't make me a bastard..."

Mynos the Dark Koopatrol:"Oh you know I'm just teasing, now settle down. We're going to help that poor confused looking yoshi down there. Anyhow, back to what I was doing... *ahem*... HEY, YOU ABOMINATIONS DOWN THERE! Wouldn't you like some koopatrol meat? You know how chewy Yoshi is, don't you? Come on, I know you want to eat me. It's fine. It's natural. Well, not really natural, as you're hellish creatures that were once people but now you're twisted by radiation, but hey, you can't control who you are."

The "Shell Ghouls" as the Dark Koopatrol called them, turned their attention from you to them. Obviously, you didn't mind, but you still wanted to stick around to help them if they needed it considering they helped you out, plus... they were the first two not insane or feral beings you met out here. If you could help it, you would try to stick with them as long as needed, or at least until the next settlement.

The Sun Over The Charred Horizon

It's come to this. A crossover!

*GASP*

Though I expect it will be awesome.

Adios.

~TGG333