• Fallout Equestria: Sins Unforgiven
    Written by: Musica (my pen name on FIMFiction)
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    Chapter 1: Sweet Rose


    It was just another day in Stable 6. The Overmare’s jingle came over the Stable PA system. “Sunshine, Sunshine, Butterflies awake. Clap your hooves and give a little shake.” Oh how this pony rolled her eyes at it. The Overmare then came over to give the daily announcements. Not much new was happening. She gave the usual announcements: Birthdays, weddings that were coming up, anniversaries, births, Cutie Mark Celebrations (Cutiebrations for short) coming up, the same ole boring announcements that rarely seem to change. But there was something different today that ended the announcements. Something that this Stable hadn’t heard about for a few years, well since this pony’s father’s, which happened 19 years prior. A death happened.

    It was one of the Elder ponies. Their Elders were now living longer lives, so it was rare for one to pass away. This pony would know. She visits the Elder wing quite often and they are still getting around like they were still young mares and stallions. The oldest stallion, which had passed away that morning, had lived long enough to see his great grandfoals. It was more common that the Elders live to see two or three generations pass their kids. The most common was two generations. But the Overmare family had the tendency to see three, along with a few others. Of course there are always exceptions. Some of these said exceptions are her great and great, great grandmothers. They passed before they should have. But thinking about this made this pony sad. She only had just met her great great grandmother who passed away a few days after (made her think that it was her fault for a few years.) She did have a chance to get to know her great grandmother before she passed away. This mare doesn’t like to think about those deaths though. They all happened before her father’s.

    This pony listened as the Overmare had the stable take a moment of silence in respect for the family and announced the time of the funeral. It was tomorrow, as usual. But funerals aren’t sad here. Never had been. It has always been a party of sorts. And this pony was looking forward to one….that is if she wasn’t the Overmare’s own daughter who was already announced that she would take over the Overmare position when she came to age. So she had to sit there and look all proper and make sure that the family left behind had a good time.

    The little jingle of the Overmare faded after the announcement was over, the mare left her room. She had a few things going on today to prepare for the funeral. She was, of course, one of the first to know about this death and her mother had told her that she would give the Overmare speech during the Funeral. But first she had some friends to meet. They always met in the morning for breakfast. Each wing had their own cafeteria. It helped because the Stable used to be so big. But they all still intermingled with each other during activities. She couldn’t wait to complain to her friends about this one though. But there was one other reason why she couldn’t wait to get there…there was a special stallion that she has been having feeling for recently. The mare ran into the cafeteria that she thought they were meeting in that morning, but they weren’t there. She saw the mom of one of the group members and ran over.

    “Ms. Finish! Where is Jewel?” The mare asked. She must have startled her because she dropped the tray that she had in her mouth.

    “Oh, Sweetie. Jewel said she was going to meet Lightning Dash and head over to meet the others at Lucky Star’s. To pay their respects to him and his family about their loss.” Ms. Finish said. “Jewel said she was going to message you on your Pipbuck about it.”

    “I didn’t receive a message. Oh well. Thanks. Have a nice breakfast!” The mare said and ran off. Lucky Star was in their class when they were in school. It makes sense that they wanted to go give them their respects first thing in the morning. She saw the group outside of the family’s quarters and ran up. “Hey guys.” She greeted her friends before moving her way to the front. Lucky Star had answered the door.

    “Hey Rosie. Thanks for what you did for gramps. He said he always did enjoy when you came to see him.” Lucky Star hoofed the metal floor with a slight blush of embarrassment. Lucky Star always blushed when it came to her. She noticed that about him. But he knew, as well as the mare, that an Earth Pony couldn’t be with the Overmare. But it didn’t stop him from crushing on her. “It means a lot that you came here. Well, I better go back to my family. We are trying to decide who gets his things.” And with that the door slid shut.

    “Jewel, thanks for the message. It was awesome finding out that you weren’t at the cafeteria.” She shouldered her friend.

    “Sorry. I thought you would have just came here to pay respects and thought we would see you here.” Jewel said. “Besides Sweet Rose, you wouldn’t shrug off your Overmare duties just for some food.”

    “Psh. When my stomach calls, I have to answer to it.” The mare, now named Sweet Rose, laughed with the rest of the group.

    “Come on Rose. Let’s get food. I’m starving.” Lightning Dash said as he led the group back towards the cafeteria that they had planned on meeting in. “Maybe after this we can head down a few floors and go to the obstacle course and time ourselves again.”

    “Oh, I don’t know. I might not be as fast as some of you all.” A shy Pegasus said next to Sweet Rose.

    “Oh, Flutter, the only thing you need to do is beat your last time. We aren’t trying to beat each other. Right Riot?” Rose asked the unicorn male walking next to her.

    “Eeyup.” He said. “All you need to do is do your best Flutter Shy and give it your all.” Riot Shield gave the shy Pegasus a smile and that seemed to calm her down. The group walked into the cafeteria and saw that there were still some spots for them. “Aw man Lightning, you are so lucky there are still spots left. I’m so hungry.” Riot smiled before trotting off towards the line. Sweet Rose let out a sigh, a dreamy one, as Riot Shield left.

    “Uh oh, someone is in complete dreamy state.” Jewel said.

    “Oh hush. Riot Shield is like the most popular unicorn in all of Stable 6. He is like the best security pony we have here. I doubt he thinks anything of me. But now isn’t the time. I’m hungry.” Sweet Rose trotted after Riot Shield and the others followed.

    “Hey isn’t your little brother having his Cutiebration soon?” Meadow Lark asked Sweet Rose.

    “Yep. Aren’t you heading up the party? He wanted to make sure that you had 200 balloons. Think you are up to the task?” Sweet Rose smiled at Meadow Lark.

    “You bet. There hasn’t been a party that I have not been able to host successfully.” He said as they got their food. Meadow Lark and Jewel were about to take their trays in their mouths when Sweet Rose got them in her magic.

    “Come on, the others are already at the table.” Sweet Rose took off in a mild trot. She sat their trays down in their normal spots.

    “So what is everyone planning on doing today after the gym?” Lightning Dash asked. “I for one have to teach gym today to the young ones.”

    “I’m helping the farmers with the planting.” Flutter Shy spoke quietly.

    “The usual for me.” Riot Shield said. “A security pony never rests.” He said with determination.

    “I’m working on the party details for the party after the Funeral tomorrow with Jewel.” Meadow Lark informed.

    “Yep, I’ll also be working on the barding for your brother to wear for his Cutiebration in a few days.” Jewel said. “And what are you doing?”

    “Working on my first speech….as Overmare in training.” Sweet Rose spoke softly.

    “What did you say?” Lightning Dust asked.

    “I said…..working on my first speech.” She said normally before quieting the last part.

    “You know you don’t have to hide it from us.” Riot said putting a hoof on her shoulder.

    “I’m working on my first speech as Overmare-in-training!” She kind of shouted. The whole cafeteria had gotten quiet before her friends started laughing to break the silence.

    “Oh silly, you know you don’t have to hide the fact that you are the Overmare’s daughter with us.” Jewel said. “We tell you that all the time. We are your friends after all.”

    “We don’t care what your job or title is in this Stable. You are Sweet Rose after all. We became your friends for who you are.” Meadow Lark said.

    “You were nice to me, when all the other ponies kind of ignored me. That is the Sweet Rose I know.” Flutter Shy added.

    “Any time you need help, we are always here for you.” Riot Shield said.

    “Yeah. Thanks guys.” Sweet Rose said. “Now let’s eat! I’m starving!”

    “LET’S EAT!” The rest of the group replied.

    Sweet rose ate her food in silence while she listened to the others talk. But the fact didn’t change. She was still the Overmare’s daughter and her mother expected her to have that speech done by lunch so she could look it over. A lot of responsibilities were being placed on her since her coming of age ceremony was only a few years away and she already didn’t have much time for her friends anymore. Plus her mother was expecting to hear from her all the candidates that she had in mind for possible Stallions for her to marry. But all Sweet Rose really wanted to have was a normal life, a life that only her little brother will ever get to see.

    Sweet Rose jumped when Jewel placed a hoof on hers. That is when she realized that Lightning Dash was trying to get her attention. “Rose, you ok? You seem a bit spacy right now.”

    “Yeah. Just everything my mom is expecting of me is starting to get to me.” Sweet Rose said. “I’m gonna go ahead and head on over to the gym. I’ll see you guys there.” She floated her tray over to the recycle chutes and dropped the appropriate items in their places. She then floated over her leftover food to the Compost chute and dropped them in it before leaving. Everypony was in the cafeterias so the halls were empty. She knew that she could speak into her Pipbuck without much disturbance.
    She punched a few buttons and it started to record.

    “Here is my speech for Mr. Shooting Star’s Funeral.”