Chapter 4- In the beginning

                                Hey! What's with the tin can? *yank* *snap* ARGH!

The next morning, I awoke to the sound of gunfire. It was distant so I figured Nightingale and I could stop by for a bit. Whatever it was, it was really causing a ruckus, so we decided on going by hoof since if we went by vehicle Civil Security reinforcements would see us.

Outside of the convoy.

“Whatever is going on over there must be a battle or something, ive never heard that much gunfire since the last time I had one” Nightingale said.

“I think we should head over there and stomp out that fire” I told him aloud.

“Yeah I agree but, I must tell you, there are four total factions in equestria right now” Nightingale told me as he put his helmet on.

“That’s The Black Watch, Civil Security, Usurpians, and two ponies that call themselves The Society” Nightingale informed me in a slightly robotic voice like mine.

“The Black Watch and The Society both fight for the good of equestria” Nightingale informed once more.

“Huh, why don’t they fight together?” I asked.

“Nopony knows, but we have never seen them fight against one another” Nightingale replied.

After we had a small meal, that all wastelanders called breakfast, Nightingale and I started on a road towards the battle. After about 15 seconds on the road, Nightingale started to wince.

“What’s wrong?” I asked.

“No its nothing, I sometimes hurt for a sec” He told me with a pain in his voice.

  I shrugged and kept trotting. Nightingale caught up eventually and told me to stop for a second.

“Civil Security Troops coming down this road, better watch your back. There is plenty of them” He said informed.

  Though Nightingale was my friend, I didn’t expect he would inform me like he was still in the Civil Security. This was a problem, if he kept acting like this then he would probably turn back over and forget our friendship.

“C-01Ts, get down” he whispered.

  This interrupted my thoughts and I jumped behind a rock to avoid being seen by the Civil Security. The Civil Security were on a vehicle called a slave ship. It had caterpillars like a tank and a two story house mixed together. This was a chance I could take to free a few more ponies from the Civil Security, but was it really worth it? To die for ponies I didn’t even know that could possibly be hostile to well being of Equestria? Well I’m pretty sure that whatever the enslaved ponies were thinking or hoping, number one would to be free. So I motioned Nightingale to attack it. He looked at me like I was mad. I wouldn’t blame him, after all that thing had turrets. As the thing rolled by, an indicator popped up on my visor.

“You can slow down time if you say S” it said.

“S” I said and everything slowed down.

Then I saw my energy bar decreasing. Then I had a plan as it built back up to 100. I slowed down time and galloped up to the vehicle, and jumped on one of its turrets. The others all turned and started firing at me. I switched to my G Blades and mirrored each shot that came towards me, and stabbed the turret I was on. It stopped working instantly after I did that. I pulled it off and used it as a shield to block the other turrets. Surprisingly, where the turret was, there was a hole leading into the vehicle. I jumped through it and saw a Civil Security Lite pony laying on the floor, dead. What could’ve caused that? There were no bullet holes and no slices. I looked at him for a bit more and trotted further into the vehicle. A few minutes had gone by and I rounded a corner and saw Nightingale. He was fighting a heavy, and winning. I decided to help him out anyways since I wanted to stop the dang vehicle before it got to Fort Hoof. I stabbed the heavy’s back hoof, causing him to drop. Then Nightingale ,who was ready to be done with him, sliced him through the heart. This caused him to face me, then one of Nightingale’s blades went through his neck, killing him instantly. Nightingale pulled it out and the heavy fell with a surprisingly loud thud. Nightingale and I looked at each other and took cover behind a few boxes at the back of the room we were in. A few seconds later, Civil Security busted through the door, armed with murder in their eyes.

“Quiet, I hear something” an earth lite said in a hushed voice.

“I know your in here! Ha! Pinkie Pie was the easiest to kill don’t you think?” Another lite Unicorn said.

  This made me burst with anger. I jumped from behind my cover and switched to my shotgun. I rolled to a lite, and while I was down on the ground I shot through his face sending blood and skull everywhere. The other lite looked down at me, frozen in fear. I could tell because he was shaking. I switched to my blades and jumped up to him, unfortunately he had regained courage and held me in place with telekinesis. He aimed his gun at me and shot twice.

“Dueahh!!” I yelled.

“Aww did that hurt? Ok heres some more!” he said in a sadistic voice.

  He shot me four times then stopped, and I dropped to the ground. He had a bullet hole in his visor, and blood was pouring out of it. I impaled his neck with both of my blades and picked him up.

“For Pinkie and the Mane Six” I said and pulled my blades out of his neck, decapitating him.

  His body fell to the floor and his head rolled to the corner of the room. I walked into the next room where the lites had came from and saw enslaved ponies. Some were in chains and some were nailed into the wall. I took off my helmet and pulled the nails out with my mouth. After I did that, I took my blades and cut the chains. Nightingale went into the other room while I finished up freeing the now free ponies. After I did this I trotted to the door to the room Nightingale was in.

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  The room was filled with guns, armor, and blades. This was an armory to the vehicle. In the back of the room however, there were stairs. Nightingale looked back at me through his visor and asked “Aren’t you gonna get some weapons? There is a lite rail gun there.”

I looked where he was pointing and saw a gun with a glowing bright blue clip. An indicator popped up as I looked at it.

“Lite Railgun CS-Hshot” it said.

“Interesting” I said.

Nightingale walked back to me as I picked it up and said “My favorite weapon too.”

  Nightingale trotted over to the other side of the armory and picked up a Civil Security assault rifle called the “CS-RC” and switched to it as it disappeared in his hooves. I looked down at my rail gun, but it wasn’t there anymore. A little number “four” was on my visor though. I said “four” and the railgun popped out of my armor. I looked at Nightingale to see if he was ready to go, he was as ready as I was. I trotted up the stairs first and saw a combination of both Lite and Heavy Civil Security soldiers in the room. But this room was different, it had more Civil Security than slaves. So I figured if I could draw them out of the room, Nightingale and I could pick them off as they came down the stairs. I took my shot at a heavy, it didn’t kill him but it sure did leave him with a few hooves missing. The other Civil Security soldiers saw this and looked to see where the shot came from. Eventually they were all looking at me, and they didn’t like it. All of them were galloping towards me. I jumped down the staircase and took my position at a corner. Nightingale did the same except at a different corner. Once a Civil Security Lite was in my line of sights, he was gone. There was a huge hole in his side where his ribcage was, and I noticed that I fired a lightning bolt. I switched to my shotgun because things were about to get close quarters. A lite with blades jumped down the stairs towards me, but while he was in the air, I bit down on my mouth piece preventing him from coming down the stairs anymore than he was.  He was dead after that, he wouldn’t move. I found that each Civil Security soldier I killed, the more I felt satisfied at what I was doing which was killing them. At first, I thought they weren’t that bad. But when the one lite admitted to killing one of the mane six, I knew that these ponies were only sadistic cowardly stallions. They especially didn’t deserve the rank of a soldier like me. These  were sadistic killers that didn’t care for the well being of Equestria.

   After the rather short battle between Civil Security and I, Nightingale stopped the slave ship and got everypony out. I, however, stayed on board for a few minutes longer. I trotted up to the head of the Civil Security Unicorn that I decapitated and looked at it in disgust.

“You “ponies” don’t deserve to live due to what your doing to Equestria, may nopony remember your names” I said blankly.

I stomped on his head causing it to shatter into oblivion. “I’ll see you in hell” I said once more and turned to trot out of the slave ship. I trotted through the door to see the once enslaved ponies and Nightingale all looking at me.

“What is it?” I asked.

“We all heard what you said and did” a unicorn mare said softly.

“Well said.” an earth Pegasus said.

“C-01Ts, I wish Luna was here to see that” Nightingale said in a excited tone.

“Yeah? Just doing my job” I replied.

          After the slave ponies left, Nightingale suggested to keep going towards where the gunfire was coming from. I agreed to his suggestion and continued to walk on the road towards Fort Hoof. After about an hour of trotting, Nightingale and I saw a U.F.O. It was crash landing, but in the opposite direction of Fort Hoof.

“Should we follow it? Or no?” I asked.

  Nightingale looked at me as if I was confused. I had never asked him a question before so he probably didn’t know what to say.

“What do you mean?” he asked.

“Don’t you think that you should get to decide on our little group too?” I asked nicely.

“Oh um, yeah sure” Nightingale said.

“I think we should go towards the battle first then go back for the crash site” Nightingale said.

“Ok, good idea” I said cheerfully.

  When we arrived at Fort Hoof, there were barely any guards. The ones that were actually up there didn’t even notice us, even though it was about 10:00 a.m. Nightingale and I looked up and saw a tower explode. This alerted the guards and they all scrambled to some random place out of sight.

“Out of sight out of mind?” I asked.

“Yeah you could say that” Nightingale replied as we trotted into Fort Hoof.

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Fort Hoof

  “This place looks like its been through a lot” I said.

“No kidding, by the looks of it this place has been the center of all the action.” Nightingale replied.

  Fort Hoof was the exact opposite of what I was used to. My Fort Hoof was always populated by both zebras and ponies, this Fort Hoof looked abandoned. As we walked further into the city I heard a loud bang, louder than the distant gunfire. I heard even more and turned around and saw Civil Security fighting some unseen pony or thing. The Civil Security soldiers were losing, they were getting picked off one by one. After the last one got shot, we saw a pegasus in a black hoody with a dark grey mane and tail with a lighter grey coat trot out into view. Behind him was a pony in wrappings, he was wrapped up from hoof to ear with his own little hoody that was blue, the only thing that wasn’t wrapped up was his tail. It was black.

“It’s The Society” Nightingale whispered as they looked at us.

  I zoomed in and saw a mark on the pony in the black hoody, it had my cutie mark on his shoulder, chest, and on the side of his hood. What the hay? That’s when I started to gallop towards him, while Nightingale followed quickly. I started to gallop faster and faster, then the pony in the black hoody held up his hoof and said “Requiescante in Pace“. He then shot me with an automatic hidden gun. I fell to the ground and rolled towards him and blacked out after I saw my health meter go under 10.

   I was looking up through my slightly red tinted visor, again. I looked to the side and saw a medic pony, looking and writng something down on her clip board. She looked up from it and asked “Oh good your awake”.

“How did you know?” I asked in a robotic voice.

“Your head has been that way since yesterday” she said in a soft voice.

“What? Who carried me in?” I asked in a lightly distorted and robotic voice.

“You wouldn’t know him but ill give a brief description of him, he has a light grey coat, a dark grey mane and tail, and wears a black hoody” she informed.

  This alerted me and I got up, I needed to talk to this pony and fast. But first, I had to find out where Nightingale was and to see if he was ok.

“Your Civil Security ally is in the other room” she said sweetly.

“Thank you!” I said as I got up.

“Oh, by the way. We couldn’t find a way to get your armor off, so you still have bullets inside of you.” The nurse said calmly.

“That’s ok, my armor can extract them out of my body” I said calmly as well.

  I trotted into the room and saw Nightingale without his civil security armor standing up on all four hooves looking out a window. The room was decorated with posters of a white unicorn stallion with a black mane with a symbol in the background. On the posters, they said “The Society Will Prevail”. By Celestia we were in a Society hospital!

“Well, now what?” I asked Nightingale.

“What? Oh, didn’t see you there” Nightingale said in a light tone.

  This was the first time I had seen Nightingale without his CS armor (CS stands for Civil Security). He had a grayish brown coat with two mane and tail colors, brown and lighter brown. At the bottom of his hooves, he had some of his coat missing. I suppose he was born to be a work pony. Then the war and invasion happened and ruined everything.

“You two, please follow me” we heard a pony say.

We looked over and saw a Pegasus in a factory suit  with transparent goggles on his head. We looked at each other and trotted towards him as he turned around to walk down an unseen hallway. As we trotted slowly down the hallway, I heard a voice that sounded bitalian, why was a pony from bitaly here. I know Equestria is in bad shape and all but I’ve always known Equestria to be independent. I guess that’s just one more luna forsaken change that Equestria has gone through. I looked to the side and saw the pony who was talking in the accent. It was the pegasus that shot me! I didn’t bother to run because he was coming down the hallway too from another hallway diagonal to this one. He was following us and eventually trotted to my speed.

“Why, did you do that?” I asked quietly.

“I am truly sorry for that my friend, I was the one who bought you here you know. And yes I saw your cutie mark, that was the only thing we could see” He said.

He was wearing a hood that covered his eyes while his mane made a shadow over his muzzle.

“spero saremo amici di nuovo” he spoke in his language.

“Why do we have the same cutie marks?” I asked eagerly.

“I don’t know honestly. Perhaps we can talk more about this later” he replied with a deep bitalian accent.

“Ciao my friend until we meet again” he added.

  As I saw the Pegasus trot off, a few mares were giggling at him and whispering about him.

“He’s sexy with that hood on” I heard one mare say in a whisper.

“I know, those flanks look good too” another said.

  I figured since everypony here meant no harm to me I calmed down. Once we got to our destination, the Pegasus put me back in an uncomfortable mood again. He asked me to take my helmet off. If we were in a space where nopony could see us, id have no problem with doing that, except we were on the balcony with hundreds of The Society’s members staring up at us. I looked at him, trying to ignore everypony else. I took off my helmet and saw everypony gasp, and one pony stood up. The Bitalian pony that shot me. And yes I will beat him over the head with that once I see him again. I popped my neck and looked at the crowd with an unimpressed expression.

“Autumn!” one said.

“What?!” I asked aloud.

“Father!” the Bitalian pony called.

“So good to see you again!!” I heard another pony say.

  At this point I was really confused and had no idea what to say except “what“. So I decided to put my helmet back on. This made the crowd scramble as I turned to walk out of the balcony. I had to get some air, I was really confused about this and I had to clear my head. But unfortunately the bitalian pony came up to me, and started following me.

“Father, I’m now depressed what should I do. I shot my own father” he said in a depressing voice.

“Have anywhere to talk about this?” I asked nicely.

“Yes father, this way” he said as he trotted down a hallway.

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Outside on another balcony, ponies are looking everywhere for me.

“Its safe out here” the bitalian pony said.

“So, why did you call me dad?” I asked simply.

“Let me tell you a story father, about a pony who helped a great deal in the war against Geomania” he paused and looked at me.

“That pony’s name was Autumn” he said blankly while looking at me.

“Oh? Because in my actual time I’m just a regular sergeant” I replied.

“Well throughout the war, he created a one-hundred-trillion ton nuke called “Lunar Sun”  that wiped out most of Geomania” he went on.

“The bomb was so big the mushroom could be seen from Canterlot. After that the Geomanians created and used a smaller nuke that destroyed Cloudsdale, Ponyville, Appaloosa, and Canterlot.” he explained.

“So, wait. Your telling me that I myself created a nuke that destroyed one whole country?” I asked eagerly.

“Yes, you did” he replied and continued his story.

“After the war ,and the wasteland became an everyday thing for you, a new spark of happiness rocked you to your very core.” he said.

“You had a son, named Winter Wind” he went on.

“But, unfortunately, your son had radiation sickness upon three months old” he explained.

“So by the time he had turned one, he was dying and fast. So your wife and my mom moved away to Bitaly to get away from the radiation. You however, stayed in Equestria. While in Equestria, you created a machine that if powered by the elements of harmony would bring Equestria and Geomania back to normal. But the elements were all dead and there were no ponies able to fit the job at the time. So you created another machine that could time travel. When the machine was nearly done, Usurpations came down on us with lasers and new technology. They didn’t use these for our well being though, they used it to destroy us even more than we were. The last time we saw you you were trying to defend the machine with your men at your side. You told them to go on while you, and only you, stayed back to defend our last hope. By the time we got out of the facility we all were in, a laser was coming down on it. The facility, however, was underground so it most likely just left the place exactly as it was. You or the Usurpation soldiers you were fighting, were never able to use the machine. Due to the fact that you hadn’t powered it up.” he said.

“So what should we do now?” I asked.

“Get you to that machine so you can get us out of this predicament here maybe?” he said.

  I nearly exploded when I heard this. That mother bucker teleported me to the wrong time period! So I had to go find this time machine that was who knows where in Equestria, seems legitimate.

“When do we leave?” I asked blankly.

“Whenever you want to father” he replied blankly.

“Ok then, we leave in the morning” I replied.

  As Winter Wind nodded, I turned to ask before he left the balcony “can I see my soon without his hood?” He smirked and took off his hood. Under his hood, I could see sky blue eyes and a short mane that covered one of his eyes.

“Alright then, that’s awesome” I said.

I had no experience in parenting, yet. So I treated my son as if he was my friend or brother. I had no brother though, so I chose the next best thing. A friend that’s part of the family. I remained outside for the night, and chose not to go to sleep. I just sat there and took off my helmet, looking up at the dark-blue sky that engulfed Equestria’s real skies all day every day.

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Dawn, still on the balcony

  I looked out over Equestria and could see nothing but a dark orange landmass that stretched for miles. Winter and Nightingale came up for me and asked in unison “Are you ready?” I looked over and put my helmet back on to show that I was ,indeed ready. While trotting inside, I noticed a pony in an orange theater mask and the pony in wrappings talking to each other. But when I got closer to them I found their voices barely audible. What I could hear however, were the ponies talking in seriously malfested voices.

“What’s our next mission?” the masked one asked.

“I dunno, I think it has to do with Autumn though” the wrapped one said.

The masked pony’s expression was “happiness”, while his cutie mark was a candle. That explained his name.

“That’s Flamebell” Winter said.

“Why do you wear a mask?” I asked Flambell.

“Because my parents committed foal abuse” he said in a malfested but calm tone.

“Ok then” I replied.

“We will be helping you on your journey to rewrite our current fate” the wrapped one said in a hysterical voice.

“The more the merrier” I replied.

  This was it, I was going to explore the wasteland righting wrongs and bringing Equestria back to normal once again. To be honest though, I cant wait to commence with these new operations with my son, my best friend, and these two malfested ponies here. This should be interesting.

Your earnings for your first few kills are:

Civil Security Lite: 450$

Civil Security Heavy: 200$

Civil Security Youth: 0$

Civil Security Boss: 0$

Civil Security Ghost: 0$

Usurpation Soldier: 0$

Advanced Usurpation Soldier: 0$

Usurpation Destroyer: 0$

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