History NightmareFuel / FalloutEquestria

* Mixed with Tearjerker, but the simple fact that all the pain and suffering that the worlds' been going through for two centuries [[ForWantOfANail was the result of Princess Celestia when she was deciding the location for Luna's School.]] There were three potential locations that were perfect for Lunas' School to be built at, but Celestia settled on having the school built at Littlehorn due to there being a Canyon nearby to the school that was shaped like a Crescent Moon, and that Celestia wanted to make a joke to Luna when she revealed the School as a gift by beginning with a joke that she's going to ''[[InsideJoke "Send Lunas' Students To The Moon"]]''. Then the DisasterDominoes began to fall when the Littlehorn Massacre happened, spiraling out-of-control to the point where Equestria wound up getting bombed out by the Zebras, [[AfterTheEnd and the survivors spending the next 200 years]] fighting and killing one-another in order to survive.

** Then, there is Stable 29. It lacked an Overmare but was instead monitored by a Crusader Mainframe supercomputer. Unfortunately, AIIsACrapshoot. When the Stable's water talisman is damaged and cannot be fixed, the Crusader Mainframe followed protocol and "preserved pony life", by systematically killing all of the residents to balance out the amount of water. The Stable lasted three months, with a last hurrah in the form of a party hosted by Vinyl Scratch. Among the victims was a whole classroom of children who are gassed to death, two ponies are burnt to death by a cleaning robot, a father and son die in an elevator crash, and the final residents all dying in the Stable's atrium, with a noticeboard marked with the [[CouldntFindAPen blood-written message "STOP KILLING US!"]]

* Diamond Tiara's suicide. Trapped in the Shattered Hoof Rehabilitation Clinic with an army of cannibalistic inmates, Diamond went mad and slashed her arms to avoid being eaten.

* The undead MadScientist who kidnapped the population of Gutterville to use them as guinea pigs in his attempt to find a cure for Taint. Those he tested it on died, and those who survived live long enough for their bodies to be twisted into horrible shapes.

* Hellhounds are considered the most dangerous creatures in the wasteland and prove it with their great strength, claws, and ability to use weapons. They are used as [[AngryGuardDog angry guard dogs]] by Red Eye and the Enclave using mind control helmets.

* Chapter 28 involves Littlepip's group returning to Stable 2 to wage war on the invading Steel Rangers. It is a long, drawn out battle that drags Littlepip through her former home and seeing many familiar faces murdered in cold blood. The biggest casualties include the welcoming committee sent to greet the Steel Rangers, and a party of fillies who had just gained their Cutie Mark.

* The [[BodyHorror fleshy]] [[EldritchAbomination hospital horrors]] Littlepip and Xenith encounter, based on the Centaurs from ''Fallout 3''. They are horrible masses of flesh with tentacles for tongues and sunken eyes. They can paralyze victims using the [[DeathGlare Stare]], then rape and impregnate them. Their offspring then force their way out of the body and control it. The original victim, Peachy Pie, was turned into a monster two days after exposure to Taint. She had to be dissected alive by her best friend Sunny Days to put her out of her misery since the monster she became was immune to lethal injections. This ended up being a cautionary tale for Twilight (and the Goddess) to carefully reconfigure the [=IMP=].

* Arbu – “[[BlatantLies friendliest town in the wasteland]]” – or really a town made up of [[IAmAHumanitarian cannibals]], who kill and eat all those who die in their town, and only those who eat their first hearts are marked as a member of the town and allowed to vote. The only one who knows the truth and tries to warn outsiders is a crazed old stallion, [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight Grandpa Rattle]], who is often kept locked up. Littlepip discovers the truth and goes on a [[MoralEventHorizon full-scale rampage]], executing everyone who has the town mark, aside from young children and Grandpa Rattle.

* Rarity used the Black Book to split her soul into forty-three pieces and placed forty-two pieces in statuettes of her friends. The procedure used to do it is described as redefining torture.

* The Everfree Forest is twice as dangerous after two-hundred years to grow into a place where [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything wants to either eat, kill, or hurt you.]] There are Hellhounds, Cockatrices, sentient mushrooms that chase victims and transform into their victims, and the plant equivalent of an anti-air rifle. And then there is Killing Joke, a variation of Poison Joke that can perform instant transformation on a victim's body or mind, with the end results that double as cruel jokes based on off-hand comments they may have made ages ago. The plant's modus operandi is basically DeathByIrony. For example, a Hellhound is transformed into a pony and instantly killed by his fellow Hellhounds.

* The finale. Littlepip travels to the Single Pegasus Project, ready to put herself into what's essentially an AndIMustScream state, in order to finally move the clouds. It comes across more of a TearJerker mixed with SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, but the buildup is scary - Littlepip never outright says, or even thinks via internal monologue, what she's planning to do. Just hints, so even the readers aren't sure what's going on; the way she thinks it, it can be interpreted as anything from just another mission to a suicide attempt (her occasional remarks to herself that, soon, she can rest for a long time, don't make it any less scary). It isn't until Calamity figures it out that the readers are finally treated to the truth...and then they have to watch Littlepip send herself to a lifetime of just being trapped like Princess Celestia, albeit with more control over the weather. Sure, it's mostly TearJerker, but the NightmareFuel is still there.

* The NuclearNasty byproducts of the radiation and Taint (actually the Impelled Metamorphosis Potion created by Twilight Sparkle to turn ponies into alicorns). While Taint does have its quirks, such as being able to regrow lost limbs, its penalties are more severe. Taint has created such beasts as bloatsprites, bloodwing bats, balefire phoenixes, etc.

* The NuclearNasty byproducts of the radiation and Taint ([[spoiler: actually the Impelled Metamorphosis Potion created by Twilight Sparkle to turn ponies into alicorns.]]) While Taint does have its quirks, such as being able to regrow lost limbs, its penalties are more severe. Taint has created such beasts as bloatsprites, bloodwing bats, balefire phoenixes, etc.
* The alicorns are one of the major threats in the wasteland, standing in for the Super Mutants from ''Fallout 3''. They are all part of a HiveMind commanded by the Goddess, whose goal is to [[TheAssimilator assimilate all creatures under her control.]] The Goddess herself was [[GoneHorriblyRight created accidentally]] from Twilight's attempt to artifically create alicorns during the war. [[spoiler: She, or at least at the centre of her conscience is Trixie, who was to be the first test subject of the experiments.]]

* [[spoiler: Diamond Tiara's suicide. Trapped in the Shattered Hoof Rehabilitation Clinic with an army of cannibalistic inmates, Diamond went mad and slashed her arms to avoid being eaten.]]

* [[spoiler: Pinkie's death is never seen, but it is implied she was killed by the Manehattan balefire bomb and all Littlepip finds is her skeleton.]]

* [[spoiler: The revelation that Fluttershy of all people was inadvertantly responsible for the megaspell holocaust of Equestria.]]

* [[spoiler: Apple Bloom dies of radiation poisoning minutes after the balefire bombing of Fillydelphia. She might have survived if the door for Stable 0 had been put on.]]

* [[spoiler: Twilight Sparkle's death is terrifying. She is trapped in an inescapable room for three days, going mad from dehydration and thinking she is seeing hallucinations of Trixie. It actually is Trixie, who has become the Goddess, and intends on making Twilight immortal. She then uses telekinetic tentacles to grab Twilight and drag her kicking and screaming into a vat of [=IMP=].]]
* The [[BodyHorror fleshy]] [[EldritchAbomination hospital horrors]] Littlepip and Xenith encounter, based on the Centaurs from ''Fallout 3''. They are horrible masses of flesh with tentacles for tongues and sunken eyes. They can paralyze victims using the [[DeathGlare Stare]], then rape and impregnate them. Their offspring then force their way out of the body and control it. The original victim, Peachy Pie, was turned into a monster two days after exposure to Taint. She had to be dissected alive by her best friend Sunny Days to put her out of her misery since the monster she became was immune to lethal injections. This ended up being a cautionary tale for Twilight ([[spoiler: and the Goddess]]) to carefully reconfigure the [=IMP=].

* Arbu – “[[BlatantLies friendliest town in the wasteland]]” – or really a town made up [[spoiler: of [[IAmAHumanitarian cannibals]], who kill and eat all those who die in their town and those who eat their first hearts are marked as a member of the town and allowed to vote.]] The only one who knows the truth and tries to warn outsiders is a crazed old stallion, [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight Grandpa Rattle]], who is often kept locked up. Littlepip discovers the truth and goes on a [[MoralEventHorizon full-scale rampage]], executing everyone who has the town mark, aside from young children and Grandpa Rattle.
* The Pink Cloud is perhaps the most nightmarish element of the wasteland. Appearing as a pink-coloured mist, it is actually necromancy magic that acts as a DeadlyGas, sucking the lifeforce out of everything it consumes. Those who are unlucky to be caught in it will likely die in minutes, their bodies fusing with whatever items they are touching, and their bones dyed pink. Those who survive it become Canterlot ghouls like Steelhooves and Star Sparkle, but are permanently fused to whatever item they are touching. Known victims are [[spoiler: Twilight's mother, Princess Luna, Lyra Heartstrings, and Rarity.]]

* The skeleton in Fluttershy's office hanging from the window. Just another nameless victim of the Pink Cloud. Nope. [[spoiler: This is actually Rarity's corpse. The unicorn sacrificed herself to save Fluttershy and Angel, sticking her forehoof through a hole in a magically regenerating window to prevent the Pink Cloud from entering. She then used the last of her energy to teleport Fluttershy to safety, then recorded a memory orb message for Twilight using Angel as a host.]]

* [[spoiler: Rarity used the Black Book to split her soul into forty-three pieces and placed forty-two pieces in statuettes of her friends. The procedure used to do it is described as redefining torture.]]
* Chapter 39 is used filled with traumatic events. [[spoiler: Steelhooves is unceremoniously killed by a Hellhound, the Grand Pegasus Enclave descend from the clouds to "save" it via Operation Cauterize. They then proceed to blast Canterlot off the face of the earth, killing all the harmless ghouls there including Twilight's mother, and then destroy Friendship City just to eliminate one elderly Dashite.]]
* The filly who is terrified of Littlepip, calling her "Hellmare" for what she did in Arbu, runs into the path of an Enclave soldier's disintegration gun and is vapourised. Littlepip carries her ashes around in a bottle as a TragicKeepsake.

* [[spoiler: Fluttershy was transformed into a yellow and pink willow tree by the Killing Joke and placed on a hill able to see Equestria's destruction.]]
* [[spoiler: Princess Celestia's final fate. After Luna died, she abandoned Canterlot and destroyed the remaining balefire bombs, but unintentionally irradiated Whitetail Woods and the reservoir of Equestria's main river. She then went to the Single Pegasus Project to control the weather, but due to Rainbow Dash's tamperings with the Crusader Mainframe within, she became trapped in the computer systems unable to do anything but observe her subjects over two-hundred years.]]
* [[spoiler: The finale. Littlepip travels to the Single Pegasus Project, ready to put herself into what's essentially an AndIMustScream state, in order to finally move the clouds. It comes across more of a TearJerker mixed with SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, but the buildup is scary - Littlepip never outright says, or even thinks via internal monologue, what she's planning to do. Just hints, so even the readers aren't sure what's going on; the way she thinks it, it can be interpreted as anything from just another mission to a suicide attempt (her occasional remarks to herself that, soon, she can rest for a long time, don't make it any less scary). It isn't until Calamity figures it out that the readers are finally treated to the truth...and then they have to watch Littlepip send herself to a lifetime of just being trapped like Princess Celestia, albeit with more control over the weather. Sure, it's mostly TearJerker, but the nightmare fuel is still there.]]

* Canterlot's final fate. Princess Celestia and Luna created a forcefield to keep out the balefire bombs, only for zebra agents to have installed the Pink Cloud inside Canterlot's treasury dragon. The residents of Canterlot were in an inescapable death trap.

* The Everfree Forest is twice as dangerous after two-hundred years to grow into a place where [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything wants to either eat, kill, or hurt you.]] There are Hellhounds, Cockatrices, sentient mushrooms that chase victims and transform into their victims, and the plant equivalent of an anti-air rifle. And then there is Killing Joke, a blue-coloured ivy-like plant that can perform instant transformation on a victim's body or mind, with the end results that double as cruel jokes based on off-hand comments they may have made ages ago. The plant's modus operandi is basically DeathByIrony. For example, a Hellhound is transformed into a pony and instantly killed by his fellow Hellhounds.

** Stable 1, 2 and 3 all did quite well, though Scootaloo designed the first to never open until all of its original occupants (the Princesses and Mane Six) died as a TakeThat for what they had done to Equestria; Stable 2 was never meant to open; and Stable 3 lasted a century before Pink Cloud infiltrated it.

* [[spoiler: The finale. Littlepip travels to the Single Pegasus Project, ready to put herself into what's essentially an AndIMustScream state, in order to finally move the clouds. It comes across more of a TearJerker mixed with CrowningMomentOfAwesome, but the buildup is scary - Littlepip never outright says, or even thinks via internal monologue, what she's planning to do. Just hints, so even the readers aren't sure what's going on; the way she thinks it, it can be interpreted as anything from just another mission to a suicide attempt (her occasional remarks to herself that, soon, she can rest for a long time, don't make it any less scary). It isn't until Calamity figures it out that the readers are finally treated to the truth...and then they have to watch Littlepip send herself to a lifetime of just being trapped like Princess Celestia, albeit with more control over the weather. Sure, it's mostly TearJerker, but the nightmare fuel is still there.]]

** Vault 101, Red Eye's home, was turned into a mass laboratory to replicate the alicorn transformation process, with all of the residents poisoned for Red Eye to begin his goal to become Equestria's new god.

* The Pink Cloud is perhaps the most nightmarish element of the wasteland. Appearing as a pink-coloured mist, it is actually necromancy magic that acts as a DeadlyGas, sucking the lifeforce out of everything it consumes. Those who are unlucky to be caught in it will likely die in minutes, their bodies fusing with whatever items they are touching, and their bones dyed pink. Those who survive it become Canterlot ghouls like Steelhooves and Star Sparkle, but are permanently fused to whatever item they are touching. Known victims are [[spoiler: Twilight's father, Princess Luna, Lyra Heartstrings, and Rarity.]]

* The alicorns are one of the major threats in the wasteland, standing in for the Super Mutants from ''Fallout 3''. They are all part of a HiveMind commanded by the Goddess, whose goal is to [[YouWillBeAssimilated assimilate all creatures under her control.]] The Goddess herself was [[GoneHorriblyRight created accidentally]] from Twilight's attempt to artifically create alicorns during the war. [[spoiler: She, or at least at the centre of her conscience is Trixie, who was to be the first test subject of the experiments.]]

* Ponyville has become a WretchedHive for raiders, with the Carousel Boutique empty and abandoned, and the town's library turned into a horrific den and is decorated with the corpses of dead ponies and animals. One poor mare gets a CrucifiedHeroShot, nailed to a bookcase by railroad spikes.

* The very thought that characters of ''My Little Pony'' participated in a violent, bloody war that involved religious annihilation, an assassination attempt on Princess Celestia, the mass murder of an entire school, the Mane Six forming ministries with questionable motives and practices, and the war ending with nuclear holocaust.

** An undead filly has been mutated by the cloud so much that her Cutie Mark is the Pink Cloud.

* [[spoiler: Princess Celestia's final fate. After Luna died, she abandoned Canterlot and destroyed the remaining balefire bombs, but unintentionally irradiated Whitetail Woods and the reservoir of Equestria's main river. She then went to the Single Pegasus Project to control the weather, but due to Rainbow Dash's tamperings with the Crusader Mainframe within, she became trapped in the computer systems unable to do anything but observe her subjects over two-hundred years.]]

* [[spoiler: Twilight Sparkle's death is terrifying. She is trapped in an inescapable room for three days, going mad from dehydration and thinking she is seeing hallucinations of Trixie. It actually is Trixie, who has become the Goddess, and intends on making Twilight immortal. She then uses telekinetic tentacles to grab Twilight and drag her kicking and screaming into a vat of [=IMP=].]]

* Chapter 28 involves Littlepip'a group returning to Stable 2 to wage war on the invading Steel Rangers. It is a long, drawn out battle that drags Littlepip through her former home and seeing many familiar faces murdered in cold blood. The biggest casualties include the welcoming committee sent to greet the Steel Rangers, and a party of fillies who had just gained their Cutie Mark.

* "PINKIE PIE IS WATCHING YOU FOREVER!"

* The alicorns are one of the major threats in the wasteland, standing in for the Super Mutants from ''Fallout 3''. They are all part of a HiveMind commanded by the Goddess, whose goal is to [[YouWillBeAssimilated assimilate all creatures under her control.]] The Goddess herself was [[GoneHorribleRight created accidentally]] from Twilight's attempt to artifically create alicorns during the war. [[spoiler: She, or at least at the centre of her conscience is Trixie, who was to be the first test subject of the experiments.]]