The next morning, we managed to wake up without much of a hangover, but we were really hungry, so we went to Tenpony Tower for a breakfast, because I didn’t have any food in my home.

It was a bright and nice day. The sun was shining and it was warm. Not many clouds in the sky either. It seemed to be a perfect day to have revenge finally.

We brought some cooked radroach, but I just ran out of caps.

“Oh, fuck I’m outta caps,” I said.

“Oh, don’t worry, it’s on me,” said Viney and bought some for me as well.

I just smiled, took it and started to eat.

“Alright, let’s get over with this,” - said Skybright. - “We finish the last chapter of Cold’s ‘raider life’ today. For starters, where does Blueberry lives?”

“I have no idea, she had a blue jumpsuit, like the ones in Stables.” I replied.

“So, a Stable Dweller,” said Night Star.

“I suppose,” I said.

“Let’s ask around then, maybe somepony knows her,’ suggested Viney.

We finished our meal and started to ask ponies around town. Some didn’t know her, while others knew her, but didn’t know where does she live.

In the end we asked even Cheese Slice, the bartender in the bar.

“Hey, Cheese, do you know where does Blueberry lives?” asked Sky.

“You mean the one Cold Blood wants to kill?” he asked.

“The very one.”

“From what I’ve heard she lives where she was born, in stable 158, but I also heard that every pony who lived there got killed by raiders at one point, I have no idea how did she survive,” replied Cheese Slice.

“And where is this stable?” asked Viney.

“I don’t know, not far from here I suppose, because every story I heard about her was around this area,” replied Cheese.

“Alright, that’s enough, thanks Cheese,” said Sky.

“No problem.”

“So, what now?” I asked.

“We know where she lives, so that’s a lead already, we just have to find the stable,” said Sky.

“We could ask the overmare in stable 153, she might have some kind of database, or anything about stable 158,” said Night Star.

“That’s a good idea, and it isn’t that far from here either, and if we’re there we can even resupply,” said Viney.

“Where is it exactly?” I asked.

“Oh, it’ a bit north from manehatten, just after it’s borders,” explained Viney.

And so we went to where Night Star was born.

The way there was peaceful. Nothing attacked us, and we got there in about half an hour.

When we got there Star connected his Pipbuck to a computer, and after a few seconds a huge door started to open.

With a lot of noise the door started to rotate to the left and revealed a room with guard ponies. In the middle stood a mare and behind the guards stood excited and cheerful ponies.l in jumpsuits.

“Welcome back Star, Sky, Viney and… I’m sorry who are you?” asked the mare.

“She’s Cold Blood, our new team member,” said Viney before I could say anything.

“Is that so?” - she asked and I nodded back. - “Then you’re welcome here as well. My name is Daisy Doo. Just call me Daisy.”

“Daisy, could we ask you something? We have to find a stable, stable 158 to be exact. You have some kind of database of the stables, right?”

“That’s correct, but it’s kept as secret for everypony. Protecting other stables is a high priority in every stable,” explained Daisy.

“I know, but could you make an exception? It’s important, and we heard that the stable there is already empty, please, we need this for a friend,” said Night Star.

“Gah, alright, this one time, but just because you’ve been a huge help for us all this time.”

“Yay, thanks Daisy,” cheered Viney.

Daisy led us to the control room. While we were going there every pony welcomed us and looked at me with a lot of hope in their eyes. It felt really weird. They saw me as someone who will help them in the time of need whatever it takes, as if I was the Light Bringer.Sure they looked the same way at Sky and the others, but it still was weird. No one ever looked at me like that with a big smile.

The control room had a huge computer with several screens, a few microphones and monitors which showed different parts of the stable. One even showed where we came from, the stable door.

“Stable 158, was it?” asked Daisy while sitting down before one of the computer and started to type.

“Yes,” said Sky.

“It’s a bit north east from here, about 20 minutes on foot. It’s a stable which was made to test out what would happen to ponies if they didn’t have to do anything. Everypony lives there without having to do anything. The mainframe takes care of everything and they had a really strong nuclear reactor just to make sure they are able to do anything they want without a care.”

“And what’s the door override code? Do you know it?” asked Sky.

“I shouldn’t have tell you any of this so far, so don’t expect to…”

“Please Daisy, we need this.”

“Agh, it’s EZLF4ALL,” said Daisy.

“Thanks a lot! Again!” said Viney.

“Now we just need some weapons and potions for the road,” said Sky.

“Why? What happened to the ones we gave you?” asked Daisy.

“We got into a fight against a faction of the Brotherhood of Steel. They ambushed us and took most of what we had,” - explained Night Star. - “They even tried to make me tell them about the whereabouts of this stable, but I didn’t tell them anything.”

“Oh, thank celestia, you can find some of our remaining weapons in our storage room, but please try to not lose them. We don’t have that many.”

We thanked her one last time and went straight to that room.

It had armored jumpsuits and a few laser weapons and guns. We all took one-one weapon then headed to the nurse. She gave us some health potion and even a bit of food. In the meantime a technician pony came to us to check on our Pipbucks. She was a light green unicorn. When she saw that I didn’t have one she insisted on giving me one and started to explain how does one use it.

“You see it really is just a computer on your hoof with some nice feature. It can store items for you and you can get them back whenever you want. Just go to the inventory tab,” she said.

“Ehm, which one is that?” I asked.

“It’ written there, can’t you read.”

“No, I can’t actually,” I replied. She just facehoofed and gave me an orb.

“There hold this,” she said.

When I grabbed it with my magic, the whole world turned black and I found myself in the middle of a room with fillies around me wearing jumpsuits. I didn’t feel myself anymore. I was a little filly sitting in the middle.

“Alright class one more time,” said an older pony.

“A, B, C, D, E, F, G…” I began to say letters, what the fuck is happening. It wasn’t me, I wasn’t there.

We went through every letter over and over again. Sometimes even just a voice in my head said them.

At one time ‘I’ started to write them down, and just kept writing the letters each one fifty times, while still saying the sound they make.

After Celestia knows how much time of this torture everything started to fade.

“There, try now,” said the technician pony.

“Huh, what?” I asked.

“Try to find the inventory tab,” she said. Finally I realized that I was myself again and what I was doing. I looked at my Pipbuck and the letters started to make sense suddenly. I started to read them and found the ‘Inventory’ tab in no time.

“Holy fuck, what did you do?” I asked.

“Eh, no biggie, it’s just a memory orb of somepony learning to read and write in half an hour, she was really talented” she said.

“Wait, half an hour? It felt like eternity, you fuck,” I responded. She just let that comment pass.

Then she went on with explaining the things. How to hack terminals, a quick way to use health potions in battle and one thing really interested me. S.A.T.S. It meant Stable tec. Assisted Targeting System. When I tried it out the whole world stopped around me. I could see everything clearly and aim at anything without much of a problem. Pressing the button for it got me out of it.

“Shit, does every one of these things can do this?” I asked.

“Yep, it’s in them by default, awesome, right?” said the technician pony.

Oh fuck, that explains a LOT. That fucking Blueberry just used this thing to kill everyone in the camp.

After all of that we were ready.

We left the stable, while everypony was cheering for us to be successful on our journey, be careful and all kinds of well wishes as the stable door closed and separated them from the wasteland and we started to walk towards our destination.

As we were walking we got to a small settlement-like place. It was empty, but had a lot of long dead ponies. Their body didn’t deteriorate yet and most of them looked fat. They all wore jumpsuits. While a few had all kinds of junk armor.

“What happened here?” asked Viney in horror.

A bunch of stable dweller ponies dead. At first I thought it was Blueberry’s doing, but why would she kill these ponies. I found sprays on walls that remained still. The houses were looted or burned down. It felt somehow familiar.

Holy fucking celestia, could it be that raiders attacked this place? Those junk armored corpses have mane styles just like raiders do. I got called out for my mane back in the camp, because mine wasn’t like that.

“Hey, isn’t that a stable door?” asked Sky.

“It is! It’s stable 158, we’re here!” said Star.

After all this time, it’s finally time.The entrance was blocked by a huge Stable door. We approached the door when two turrets turned on and started to shoot at us. We quickly hid behind a small barrier in front of the stable.

“Oh fuck, how in hell would she know we’re here,” I said.

“She might sees us in the camera, but why would she attack random ponies. I think the turrets are just automated to attack anyone,” said Star.

When the turrets stopped shooting we looked out and started to shoot the turrets with our laser weapons and after a few shots they exploded.

“Alright, let’s open up this baby,” said Sky and ran to a terminal next to the door and typed in “EZLF4ALL”.

The door started to open the same way the other stable door opened.

“Who are you sweethearts, what do you want?” said a voice from somewhere. It was Blueberry's voice.

“Do you remember me?” I asked and looked into one of the camera.

“Hmm… Oh, aren’t you one of the raider leader, who I left barely alive to die slowly?” she said.

“I am, and now you’re fucked,” I replied.

“Ahahah, how cute, for real tho, just give up, go away and live whatever life a raider have,” said Blueberry.

“You’re not gonna get away with this!” I yelled back.

“Alright, don’t say I didn’t warn you, but then it… is… on!” she said.

Suddenly three turrets turned on inside the stable and started to lock on us.

“Oh, shit,” I said and ran to the right side of the door and hid to the entrance and so did the others.

The turrets began to shoot lasers at us. After a few second they stopped shooting just like the other ones and we could just get them one by one.

“Is that all you’ve got? A few turrets?” I yelled to Blueberry. I was sure she was watching us.

“Don’t celebrate yet, this whole Stable was made to take care of ponies in every way, I’m sure that includes some really good security as well,” said Night Star.

He was right, but fuck Blueberry. I wanted to annoy her.

We went inside the stable, there was an elevator leading underground and a terminator used to open the door from the inside.

We stepped into the elevator and I pressed a big red button with a black arrow pointing downward. The elevator’s door closed and started moving while playing a calm music.

Once the door opened we found ourselves in a dark room, only a few light were on. There was a corridor leading to a main area that was dark as well. The room was a small square, probably used to check if the ponies had any disease the moment they set hoof in the stable.

“Huh, I expected a lot of turrets just shooting at us the moment the door opens,” said Night Star and stepped outside.

PEW!

I saw a red light coming from the left of the elevator and leaving to the right.

“Star, no!” yelled out Viney and started crying as Star fell on his side. The shot went right through his head and left burned hole in it.

Night Star died instantly.

“Oh, fucking hell, she set up traps,” I said in anger.

Blueberry is at it again. Taking everything from everyone to bring ‘justice’. Fucking fuck in the fucking sun.

“Star, common, get up, don’t play jokes, you never do…” said Viney lying on the ground still crying. She could believe what just happened. Sky stood in one place, frozen.

“Common, guys…” - I said after a bit. - “Don’t let Night’s… death be in vain.”

“You’re… right,” - said Sky finally moving again. - “Viney… listen, we can’t stop now.”

“But… Star...” said Viney.

“Yes, I know… but there’s nothing we can do about it, but to finish what we started. If we leave now, Star died for nothing,” said Sky, trying to think realistically.

“... Al… alright,” said Viney still sobbing.

“Ahahaha, why so sad, did my trap killed one of your friend?” laughed Blueberry from a speaker in the room.

“Ugh, fuck you!” I yelled. I grabbed the first thing I could find, which was a small rock lying around and threw it to the speaker where the voice came from, and with a satisfying electric buzz we couldn’t hear her laughing anymore.

“Let’s get going but more carefully now,” I said after I calmed down.

I peeked outside and saw the laser gun that shot Star. Other than that the room seemed safe. I used my magic to disarm it, just to make sure it won’t shoot again and put it in my Pipbuck. It still was pretty weird, just how much stuff can this thing hold.

We started to move, one step at a time, looking around, making sure to not trigger any traps.

The corridor had a few locked doors and led to a hall. On the left side was the kitchen. Robo-ponies were standing there. There was a small display saying “Please make your order” in red. Probably it was the kitchen.

On the right side there were a lot of plants in a room, with all kinds of vegetables growing there.

The hall had two stairs leading upwards, a few tables with chairs and a door with the sign “Living quarters”.

“I think she’s upstairs, in the overmare’s room,” whispered Sky.

I nodded and we started walking upstairs with me in the front, Sky and Vines behind me.

Suddenly the lights turned on and I heard a huge noise behind me. I looked back and saw a lot of Robo-ponies with all kinds of weapon.

“What the fucking hell?” I screamed out.

The robots started to shoot us as we started to run upstairs. Right between the two stairs I saw a door, ran inside and hid.

“Over here!” I yelled and looked outside.

Sky Viney was sitting there crying, and I couldn’t ser Sky anywhere.

Oh, my fucking celestia, he didn’t… did he?

“Viney quick!” I yelled again, this time I even tried to grab her with levitation, but I wasn’t strong enough. She was frozen.

“Viney no!” I screamed out as one of the robots reached her and shot right through her head.

I closed the door and locked it.

“Oh, you fucking bitch I’ll kill you! I’ll kill you so bad you wish you were never born,” I screamed out.

I looked around and found myself around weird machines with all kinds of danger signs. One read “Nuclear Reactor, do not touch”

I saw a terminal on the other side of the room.

“Ahahaha, sweet heart,” - I heard the voice again. - “Start to regret attacking me, eh? What are you gonna do now?”

“Luna fuck you with the whole moon you fucking bitch, I’ll kill you!” I screamed and cried at the same time.

“I’ll kill you… I’ll kill you for sure,” I kept screaming as she kept laughing and mocking me.

Oh, fucking hell! I lost everything… again! Everypony around me is dead, and I need a plan.

With my mind still being blank I stood up and walked to the terminal.

I plugged in my pipbuck.

[===OVERRIDING SAFETY PROTOCOLS===]

HACKING IN PROGRESS…

15%...

58%...

97%...

99%...

100%... HACKING COMPLETED!

My Pipbuck’s display changed. A few options came up. It showed:

[Turn reactors On/Off] but it was greyed out and when I clicked on it it just said “Access Denied”

The second option was red.

[Overclock Reactor], when I clicked on it, it showed me a warning.

“Warning! Overclocking a reactor can cause an explosion, Are you sure you want to proceed? (y/n)”

I clicked the yes button without a thought.

I don’t know what was in my mind, but I knew I had no other choice. The terminal started to show warnings of ‘nuclear meltdown’, while my pipbuck just said ‘Locking System’.

“What did you do?” said Blueberry suddenly. I didn’t say anything, just lied down in despair and started to cry.

“Don’t think I don’t see what did you do, darling! Don’t play stupid! I can stop whatever you just did,” she said. I heard a voice saying ‘access denied’.

“What the fuck did you do? I’m locked out of that room!” she yelled.

I was still lying on the ground as I saw the reactors getting brighter and more red.

“I’ll see you in hell, bitch,” I said when the reactors started to be really hot and noise, while Blueberry was still screaming at me.

A huge explosion and everything went dark.

I died.

And so did Blueberry.

I had nothing more to lose in this fight, just my life, and so I made her lose everything as well.

I felt alone… in the eternal darkness.

“Is this pony hell, or there’s no such thing as afterlife,” I kept asking.

Throughout my whole life, I was alone, and when it finally changed, and I felt happy, everything got taken away from me. It’s funny, I never thought of making friends, and now I died for it in the end. Maybe they’re in heaven, and I got to hell. I was a raider after all, even though I still question it if I really was one, if I died as one, or maybe I changed, and died for something else than my needs and stupidity.

Suddenly I noticed a small light. Just a tiny one in the distance.

It started to grow, and take over the darkness. I heard voices that I knew from somewhere. They got louder and clearer.

“Hey, Cold Blood, we’re here!” said the voices.

I started to try and move towards where they came from, but didn’t know how.

Suddenly I opened my eyes, in a new world. I had no idea where I was, but I saw Viney, Skybright, Star and even Pink Wink around me. They were all happy to see me.

I sat up and hugged them.

I was happy.

Footnote: Game Over.

Your time in the living world ended, and even if you lived most of it as evil, you have been forgiven in the end, because you did your last actions for your friends. Welcome to afterlife.

The End.