>Outside.
Oh, don't you start with the single words there. That's the original's shtick. At least that word isn't all that's in the paragraph.
Well, on another plus side, Blackjack's initial reaction is different at the wasteland than Littlepip's due to the fact that country music sucks and is trying to kill him. And there needs to be a trope I can use for a pun for Deus's name because Deus ex Machina is the farthest thing from what Deus is and Diabolus ex Machina doesn't have the Deus in there.
So P-21 and Blackjack ran. They ran so far away. Half-heroic decides to stick with Missing Penis Attached To Pony until Watcher makes an appearance. What, already you're bringing him in? At least Murky Number Seven waited until somewhere around the middle of the story and didn't have him say anything. ...I think that was Watcher. Could've been Red Eye.
They've managed to avoid Deus and then Blackjack immediately freaks out over the sky. ...Inverse vertigo...? Ogitrev? Whatever. Don't think about it. Let's instead think about Watcher! He returns, having saved the duo.
>“Though she didn’t have raiders hunting her right out of the stable...”
So we at least know this story takes place sometime after Littlepip leaves the stable. I wonder if this is an unofficial sequel. I've been writing an unofficial sequel. I bet there are a lot of sequels to the original that contradict each other. I'd be interested in reading them if I don't already have them on my list.
Dear Prince Spike,
The Summer Sun Celebration has been cancelled for more than 200 years. How am I supposed to make friends if I don't have a Summer Sun Celebration?
From, Blackjack and P-21.
P-21 seems to have a low pain threshold. This is, like, the third time he needed painkillers in such a short amount of time. Aaaand now, I'm imagining him as Gregory House. My mind goes places. A small dispute happens and the two decide to go east again. Also maybe he wouldn't be as hostile toard you if... I don't know... YOU TREATED MALES AS PONIES. Anyway, the two manage to make their way over to Sweet Apple Acres.
>Inside, the place had been ransacked. Most of the furniture had been tossed about, the shelves were mostly bare, and the floors were covered with broken dishes and garbage.
Ah, the wonders of an insanely curious stable dweller. ...Wait, if that's Sweet Apple Acres, then Stable 2 and Stable 99 are really close together. Okay, yeah, this HAS to be Sweet Apple Acres. The picture has The Apple Family!
>“Don’t you get it?” He lifted the black and white photo of the calm buck in the uniform. “Males as soldiers. Husbands. Brothers. Not as breeding equipment.” I tilted my head to the side as I was now completely lost. “You see them, though, and... and... cute? That’s all you can say about them?”
THANK YOU, P-21.
Half-Dirty decides to give herself a bath. Or at least wash herself off.
>Returning to the living room with the terminal, I smiled. “So, am I glowing?”
>For the first time ever, a look of absolute, incredulous shock settled on his face. “You’re pregnant?!”
I'm laughing for real right now.
Anyways, looting commences and Half-Security confiscates a log file to read, which was written by a pony-turned-ghoul.
>Entry 5) World ended today.
Yeah, it's p obvious. The log mentions Velvet Remedy coming and going before the ghoul's typing skulls become as abhorrent as mine. You won't see it in this liveblog due to the power of editing.
Oh. OH. I forgot about the bomb Celestia blew up over Whitetail. That's probably what killed the ghoul. In the meantime, the duo decide to bury him next to Granny Smith. Half-Strong then finds an Applejack figurine and keeps it because she wants to remember Hoss and, well... to Be Strong. 1/6
They go to sleep and wake up and oh crap Blackjack has a PipBuck on so Deus can locate her if he takes the time to go back to the stable and look for her location tag. Judging by her and P-21 still being alive, Deus hasn't decided to do that yet. ...Maybe he doesn't even know? Serves him right for liking Country Music. Country Music sucks.
Red bars on her EFS?
>“I’m telling you, she’s here,” a vaguely familiar voice said. “I have her PipBuck tag.”
Oh, Crap!. Deus decided to do that. We're swiftly reminded that Ponyville is raider territory and Blackjack and P-21 are most likely screwed. Thanks, Brimstone Blitz. Another fight scene breaks out and Blackjack gets shot in the ass. I'm sure many more times will come when others try to turn her into a buffet of lead. Anyway, the fight ends with P-21 telling Blackjack not to kill U-21. Teammate gained?
Also, P-21 is delightfully snarky.
>Did he think I favored mares over bucks? That was just crazy.
Well, if you manage to find Homage, she could tell a different story to you.
P-21 seems like the Velvet of Half-Friendly's slowly-growing group as he refuse to take guns of any kind. Or it could be the fact that he was afraid of accidentally shooting Half-Dead again. Or a combination of the two.
>It’s like he hated me or something
It's like you treat males as sex toys or something.
They enter a town and another fight scene happens in some school. The gun thing comes up again.
>“I mean that, if I have a weapon, I might kill you.”
Meh, you'll get better at aiming at Not-Blackjacks. Or just imagine Blackjack's face on everyone else if you can't get better.
>Him shooting me in the farmhouse... and trying to fire again after I hit the safety... those had been accidents... right?
...Ooooor... just... imagine Blackjack's face on everyone else if you hate her that much.
The fight ends with Blackjack suddenly thinking about it and keeping the pin in a grenade so she could saunter up and shoot the last raider. And then... random explosion? Half-Swiss-Cheese wakes up and it turns out an escaping raider went for help. Mr. Ball Of Marehate thought about it and used the grenade to blow up the reinforcements. Then again he always seems to think about it. Probably why Blackjack didn't accidentally shoot herself in the head. P-21 thinks so Blackjack doesn't have to.
Half-Security decides to make some rounds in the ton of Withers. Withers is in Hoofington. Nice to see some more world-building. There's a ton of it for Fillydelphia for Fallout: Equestria - Murky Number Seven. Half-Blown-Up gets to meet Watcher again as she thinks about it and realizes that Spike put her in an unintentional trap just to point her towards ammo. Apparently, raider bases have a lot of it. I guess that's true. Really shouldn't be surprised. Also, Spike wanted The Crusaders, a group of orphaned fillies, to be saved.
>“I just wanted to point you in the right direction and hope it would work out.”
Or maybe everyone wants Blackjack dead. There's already quite a long list, considering this is only chapter 2. Deus, P-21, Raiders, Spike, U-21...
Oh. New perk. Well, that felt slightly abrupt, with Spike just cutting off like that. Welp. Next chapter, then, I guess. It didn't really feel like much happened in this one.
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