AN: Still taking one companion oc until the 20th of June, 2012

After we left Prim, we headed down the road on our way to Nelliton to see if anypony there had seen the Benny, the confirmed name of the pony who killed me. We ended up ambushed by a few raiders near a rest stop towards the night, but we cleared them out and made camp for the night. After we set up camp, Hawkens used the rest of the materials that I got from Overwatch to make the Pyremagic clip. I then downloaded the memory orbs that Hawkens and Shiara found but I have yet to see what was on them. The next day was pretty uneventful, that is, until we got near to Nelliton.

"OOOOOHH YEAAAAAAH! WHOOOOOO HOOOOO! I WON THE LOTTERY!" A pony dressed as a Ganger yelled at us.

"What lottery?" Hawkens asks.

"It doesn't matter. I WON! YEAAAH!"

"Are you a Ganger?" Twilight asks.

"I used to be, but then I WON! YEAAAAAH!"

With that, he runs off into the wasteland.

"Well that was weird." I say

"You can say that again." Hawkens responds

"Well that was weird."

"I didn't mean that LITTERALY!"

"I know, I just felt like messing with you."

Hawkens faceclaws as we enter the town. We all stare in horror at what we see. Ponies crucified everywhere. I look right and see a group of nearly 50 zebras in some sort of a uniform based off of pre-war armor standing outside what looks like the town hall. They each have some sort of mutant hound with them.

"Why hello young Pegasus and friends, and hello to you comrade." A zebra with the same armor as the others except he had an Ursa hide hat and mask.

"Hello fellow zebra who may not be such a good friend. What have the ponies of this town done to offend?"

"I see you have some blood of the legendary one in you. Not many can still speak in a constant rhyme. To answer your question, this was a town of whores. They did whatever any creature asked of them if they had the money. They needed to be punished for their crimes, so, we laid a trap with the aid of the townsponies. It was only when the realized that they were caught in the trap that it was too late. We rounded them up, and gave them all lottery tickets. The first one's we called were executed quickly. No pain, I assure you. Then came the hangings, then the mutilations, and finally, the crucifixions. We took some to be our slaves, but the last pony remaining was set free to spread the word about what we did here. To strike fear into the hearts of the NCR. Most importantly, to tell the world that the Legion is not to be trifled with."

"What you did here was a MASACRE. You need to be punished for what you did." Hawkens threatens.

"Let him go Hawkens, we wouldn't stand a chance against him. He has 50 well trained zebras with him, whereas we have us. It's 10 of them for each of us. We would be dead before we killed even 5 of them."

"I would listen to your Pegasus friend griffin. He speaks strategically. We would simply focus all of our fire on each of you one at a time. Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!" He says pointing to each of us. "You know, it's a good thing you came along when you did. You can spread the word of what we did here, especially to the NCR. Now go, we have a town to level."

We leave wishing that there was something that we could do.

"Dear Celestia the Legion is evil." Hawkens says.

"Yeah, but there is nothing we could have done." I say to him

"I know, but still."

"Vengeance, I am sure you will take, but more improvement, we will all have to make."

"I know, but let's just get going. Hey Flare, what are you looking at?"

"At the terminal at the NCRCF that I hacked that gave me the video footage; I also found coordinates for a Protostable that is near here. It's actually only 30 minutes trot off the route we are taking."

"I am guessing that you want to check it out." Twilight says to me.

"Eeyup. It shouldn't take too long. I mean, when Hawkens and I rescued you, it only took us 5 hours to get through the whole place and that place was crawling with supermutants because some insane pony decided to use Taint to cure disease."

"Well wherever you decide to go Flare, I will be with you there."

"Same for me." Twilight says.

"Well than it's settled. We are going to the next Protostable.

On our way there, we get ambushed by 6 raiders, but they are easy pickings. I decide to use Spike's Rage to take them out, but before I can take out a second raider, the weapon breaks. Luckily I get Hawkens to repair it with the spare 10mm pistols that I picked up earlier. After that, we head off the beaten path and on our 30 minute trot to the next Protostable. After a few geckos and Taint scorpions, we reach the location of where the Protostable is supposed to be. But all we find is a small shack. I open the shack and find a slot that sign over a small hole in the ground that says "Insert Party Cannon and Fire."

"HEY TWILIGHT, YOU NEED TO COME IN HERE."

"What's up?" She asks.

"Read the sign."

"Well then. I suppose I had better do what it says then get the f*ck out. You go outside and tell everyone else to back up a good 50 feet. Think to me when you're good. I will fire the Party Cannon and teleport out to you."

"Will do."

I go outside and tell everyone the plan. We get back 50 feet from the shed and I think to Twilight the plan. We leave, and I think to her that everyone is far enough away. We hear a THUNK! and then she teleports with the Party Cannon right next to me.

"Well, any second now should be an explosion." She says

We end up waiting for a good 10 minutes before the explosion happens, and let me tell you, it was a doozy. It was so big that we felt the ground shift below our feet, and then a giant crater just opened in the ground.

"THE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" Hawkens yelled when we all started to fall into the newly made nearly 75 foot wide crater.

After all of the dust had settled nearly 5 minutes later.

"Ah sh*t, I my wing is broken."

"What, did you forget you could fly and land on it in the fall?" Twilight asks. "Flare was able to at least glide down on his wings. Let me take a look at you wing. It's only a minor sprain, should take more than a stimpack to heal this one."

"Thanks Twilight." Hawkens says

"Hawkens, can you fly up and see if the Protostable door is visible." I ask him

"Yeah, just give me a few seconds."

"Ya see anything up there?" I ask him after about 5 minutes.

"Yeah, I see a Giant Blue Balloon in the side of a wall."

"Well I am sure that the owner of this Protostable was quite spry, after all, a balloon belongs to Pinkie Pie."

"Lead the way Hawkens." I tell him after he lands while Shiara is speaking.

Turns out, the door he saw, was on the other side of the crater. When we reach the door, I notice a terminal in the shape and color of a yellow balloon. I access the terminal and it asks for an access code. I remember at the Flutterstable that I downloaded an access code to another stable so I decided to test it out here. I input the code, which was a very long password, okiedokielokie, which is so obscure that nopony would ever even think that that would work, and the stable door just drops through the floor. We walk in and all of the lights are out, but the minute we are all in and the door closes again, the lights turn on and confetti cannons shoot at us. It's only a split second after I see that the confetti cannons are actually Party Cannon turrets that I yell.

"THOSE ARE PARTY CANNON TURRETS, JUST LIKE TWILIGHT'S GUN!"

All of us duck to the side as the grenades that the turrets launched go off. Surprisingly, the room doesn't vanish when the grenades go off.

"Twilight, link our thoughts, would you kindly." I ask her.

'Done.' She responds.

"Good." 'Hawkens, could you lob a grenade or something down to those turrets?' I ask him

'With pleasure.' He thinks while pulling off a pair of grenades and lobbing them at the turrets from behind our wall of protection. Three seconds later, an explosion goes off that wrecks the turrets.

'Well, I am going to go scavenge some ammo for my Party Cannon from those turrets.' Twilight thinks before teleporting off to get the ammo while the rest of us walk out from behind the wall like normal ponies and non ponies would. I look at where the turrets were and find that there is just a huge hole in the wall that they had been in. Now that I can finally be not targeted by interdimensional teleportation grenade launching turrets, I can get a good look at this place. The first thing that catches my eyes is that the walls are overly painted. It seriously looks like a rainbow vomited in this entire stable. The second is that the floor is littered with old balloons long deflated and party streamers. I look into the hole in the wall and notice that a pipe had been broken clean through and a strange pink liquid was flowing down through the gap in the pipe. Twilight notices it to and says.

"I think that that may be the same substance in these grenades."

"Daf*q? You mean to say that that pink substance has the power to teleport anything to anywhere?" Hawkens asks

"I do believe that is exactly what she implies, though at first glance it looks innocent, what a disguise."

"Well, whatever it is, it is probably a good idea to avoid it, since those grenades teleport ponies to the old MoM building in Old Canterlot which was destroyed by the enclave nearly 150 years ago." I say

"I wonder what it is." Hawkens ponders.

"Well, judging by my Pip-Buck, it's some form of highly concentrated Taint. The rate of Taint exposure is much higher right now than it was in the basement of the Flutterstable."

"Well then I say we avoid this stuff as much we can, get to the Overmares' office as soon as we can, get the info Flare's looking for off of her terminal, and get the buck out of here." Hawkens insists

"Agreed, let me look at the map of this place to see how to get there. Well f*ck, the Overmares' office is on the bottom floor. Though, the elevator is straight to the left. If we are lucky, it will still be working."

We get to the elevator and just my luck, it's out. Luckily though, Hawkens is able to jury-rig it so it can get us to the bottom. No elevator music so that's a plus. When we get to the bottom floor, the elevator doors open but then stop about halfway open.

"Well I guess that this means we are not going to be riding the elevator back up." Hawkens says.

"Ya don't say." Twilight responds sarcastically.

"Hey, the Overmares' office is straight ahead, unfortunately, either there was an earthquake or the explosion that let us in hear knocked the ceiling in." I say.

"Well then let's get started, and please let there be no mutts." Hawkens begs.

Fortunately, on this level, there were no real enemies, just a few taintroaches. We get to the Overmares' office and it's locked. Luckily it's just a lock an amateur could pick, so I could. Inside we find that there was a veritable treasure trove of technology. The computer itself took up a good quarter of the room. I go over to the computer while the rest of the gang looks around to find anything worth something. I get to the computer and start hacking away. It's a relatively easy password at only 5 letters. I look through the screen at the available passwords and I have to wonder, 'What is it with ponies from back then and using entirely obvious passwords.' Now I input the password that caught my eye, party. The monitor lights up and the menu options read

Deactivate Security Systems

Download Access Key for Protovault 6

Download Memory Banks

Messages

I activate all of the above options.

'The downloads are going to take a while so I may as well read over the messages.'

I click the messages button and the following messages appear.

Project Pinkie Update 1

Project Pinkie Update 2

Project Pinkie Warning

To Flare.

'Wait whaaa. There is a message to me on here. How the hell is that even possible. I was not even alive when this Protostable went under. Then again, who else would have put the Party Cannon shed over the stable so we could get to it through decades and maybe even centuries of sand?"

I select the message to me and open it.

Flare,

First, I know you are reading this because my Pinkie Sense has been tingling for the past week. It's the one that tells me that you are hacking into my computers mainframe in the future. You need to know that these stables hold the key to the survival of all life. The Megaspell at the center of Protostable 6 is not one of destruction, but of resurrection. You will need the elements to use it. Not your Elements of Harmony but much older set of Elements, from which the Elements of Harmony are closely related. They are Integrity, Determination, Wisdom, Empathy, Judgment, and Responsibility. Each of our Protostables hides one of these Elements, which is why we made them so hard to find. My stable held the Element of Integrity before I teleported it off to the SPP tower that Littlepip is now integrated in. I have had all of the other Overmares do the same with their elements to further protect them. Now, you need to gather these Elements and use them to activate the Megaspell. Applejacks Protostable will help you out big time so I have put the coordinates in the memory banks. One more thing, our robots and turrets Party Cannons only teleport those caught in the blast radius to the jail in my office. I left a key inside one of the beds so you can get out if you get caught. I can't hold it in, I have to start laughing soon or I am going to explode. So until next time.

PS

Don't tell anyone about this message; it could ruin the time space continuum.

Pinkie Pie IV

'Well that was weird. Better read up on the other messages and then look up any info on these other elements.'

I select Pinkie Project Update 1

Pinkie Pie IV,

Testing with the Pink Taint has so far been successful. We have successfully doused a radroach with Pink Taint and thusly teleported it to the lab 3 levels above us. This may be how the original Pinkie Pie was able to "teleport" everywhere. What her friends thought was just her being her, was actually a result of Pink Taint, which means that somepony from the future went back in time and doused her in enough Pink Taint to give her teleportation powers. We may have just discovered something huge here.

Head Scientist Smarty Pants.

Now for Pinkie Project Update 2

It seems that when a robot is doused in Pink Taint, it becomes more lifelike, no more monotone voice, it gains emotion, etc. We have only had this happen once, when a pipe containing the Pink Taint burst and sprayed everywhere hitting one of the guard bots. Head Scientist Smarty Pants is still missing. Is it possible that he left for the outside world? He had been acting weird since he sent one of his friends at Fluttershys' Protostable the Party Cannon prototype. Nothing else is new.

Head Scientist Assistant Smart Alec

And lastly is Pinkie Project Warning

Pinkie Pie IV

We now know what happened to Smarty Pants. He was absorbed into the robot that had the Pink Taint splattered on it. We tested a radroach and a smaller robot and they both fused when they came in contact. This is very bad. Add this to the fact that Pink Taint pipes are bursting everywhere; pretty soon, the entire stable will be Robot/Pony Hybrids. Smart Alec was recently fused and since none of the other scientists want to do anything more with the Pink Taint because they're scared, I am the only pony working on it now. I need more help down here or I may never find a cure for this fusing, if there even is one. If there is not, we need to shut down the production of Pink Taint immediately.

Only Scientist Midnight Shadow

"Hey Twilight, you may want to link our thoughts soon." I say

'What's up?" She asks.

'We need to get our asses out of here yesterday. The Pink Taint, it has the ability to not only teleport organic life, but also to fuse it with machines. That is why there are no other ponies anywhere. They were all fused with their robots less than 150 years ago.'

'This is quite disturbing. I agree with Flare, we must be departing.' Shiara thinks.

'Well, how do we get out of here?'Hawkens asks.

'Since the elevator is broken, Hawkens could fly to the top, with my grapples, hook them up somewhere, I could pull myself up, and then I could pull one of you up. Only problem is that it would leave one of you on the ground, so that won't work. I guess we are walking up the stairs.' I think to them as I equip my Magic Rifle with the Pyremagic clips.

With both of my Pyremagic containers at my sides and full of magic, we set off. The bottom floor was pretty uneventful as it was before. Only a radroach that could be taken out with my grapples. Now on the next floor it got interesting. A pair of Robot/Pony hybrids were wandering outside the door when we come up. They start shooting at us with their own Party Cannons. We dodge them and I fire back with two bursts of Pyremagic.

SHWOOOOM!

They burst into fire and their circuits instantly fry and their organic parts become deep fried.

'Done like dinner.' Hawkens thinks.

'Yeah, but remember, these were once real ponies. It makes me feel better that we are putting them out of their misery.' Twilight thinks.

We go through this floor with few other problems. It turns out that this is the medical floor so Twilight gets some more stimpacks and other supplies. It's once we get to the fourth floor that things really get interesting. When I open the door to the floor, I see Pink taint everywhere.

'Twilight, do you have a bubble shield spell in your little arsenal?' I ask her.

She puts up a dark blue, translucent bubble around us that repels the pink taint as we near it. All is still going well until we open the door to the kitchen on his level and we end up surrounded by Robot/Pony hybrids. The fire on us and the shield goes down, allowing for the pink taint to start flowing towards us. All of my palls jump onto the table near them and I have to use my wings to jump to a farther away table. The time it takes for me to jump is just enough for some of the pink taint to get on my wings. It burned like a son of a gun.

'Wait a minute, how are my cyber wings hurting.'

I then remember the message that I read. Pink taint has the ability to fuse flesh and metal.

'Well I guess these things are never coming off.'

Level Up-Lv.10

Perk Added – Neural Interface Lv.2

Your Pip-Buck's neural interface is now accustomed to your cyber implants. You can operate any cyber part as though it were a normal part of your body. You can now pick locks with a 50% less chance of cracking your grapples. You are 10% more accurate outside of S.A.T.S.

Perk Added-Flare's Taint Rank 3

You now do 20% more damage with Pyremagic than normal and take 20% less damage from Pyremagic than normal. You gain 2 health per second for every 100 rads you have.

Permanent Condition-Pink Taint Fusion

Your Cyber Wings are now part of your body you feel pain when they are broken. They are now healable with both medicine and repair.

Stat Update-Guns 50%, Magic Weapons 50%, Science 50%, Lockpicking 25%.