Stillness...There was nothing but stillness in the world. Things were just gone and left for dead. Three quarters of the entire population was wiped out by the war. Few survived. After many bombs were dropped, most nuclear, the land had been decimated to nothing. Hills and mountains were flattened, trees were obliterated and dead. Water almost everywhere seemed to be polluted with the blood of ponies or ashes and gunpowder of war.
In the midst of the stillness and silence, awoke a young ponepone. She was a neon green colored pegasus pony with a bright pink mane. She had lighter pink stripes in her mane and tail and orange bands of color on the tips of her feathers. She lifted her head up groggily, slightly wincing at a headache that pounded her head. She opened her eyes and looked around at the stillness around her. She saw trees - or what she assumed were trees - and a lake closeby. Fog surrounded everything and hung over the lake like a thick cloud, threatening to envelope anypony who dare walk to it into a blinding and confusing state.
Looking closer around her, she found dead leaves and twigs. The grass was crisp under her hooves and looked like a greyed down green. It sickened her a bit to see nature in such destruction and things so quiet and still. But in a way, the quiet and stillness seemed...almost peaceful. She quite enjoyed the silence, but it almost seemed unnatural. She shakily got up onto her hooves, the grass rustling a bit with crisp sounds. Those were the only sounds in the silence that she could detect.
Her head began to pound from standing up and the questions and thoughts began to fill her head. She pushed all the thoughts and questions away and began to focus on one question at a time.
'Okay...My name is...My name is...Neon...Yeah, that's right...I'm Neon Wheels...' she thought, struggling to think over the persistent headache. She moved onto the next question, 'Where am I?'
She had no clue where she was. She could tell it was a forest of some sorts, but not any forest she could identify by name or location. Frustrated with the headache and the lack of knowledge about where she was, she decided to think of any other questions that might be answerable.
Then, it hit her, 'What happened?', she asked herself. She thought long and hard about it. All she could get was that there were lots of explosions, gunfire, and the screams of ponies as they attempted to flee the chaos. She sighed and began walking, hoping it would clear her head and she would be able to remember more of what had happened before she blacked out.
Neon walked for what seemed to be an eternity and she began to feel the darkness, loneliness, and silence close in on her. She felt trapped in a small room with all of the fog surrounding her. She prayed the feeling would go away soon as she continued walking...