She paused for a moment. She supposed there was no harm in telling him... "Max." She said. "My name is Max." She sighed. "I don't have the equipment here to test your brain more thoroughly, so I can't tell you whether this memory loss is permanent. You don't know if there are any hospitals around, do you?"
"Well that makes two of us..." She said, a little disappointed. Her Pipbuck had maps, but they only showed roads and the landscape, no place names. The only icons on there were her old Stable, and 'Bloody Gorge', which seemed to be where they were now. "Well, do you want to travel together?" She asked. "You seem to be able to shoot, and I can help patch you up..."
ace smiled "sure....i have nothing better to do" he joked as he stood up and reloaded his sniper "and you might want to pull back the slide so you can fire your gun" he said as he loaded the magazine
Max frowned and took the pistol back out of it's holster. "Like this?" She asked, slowly pulling back the slide and loading a round.
he nodded "just dont aim it at anypony you dont plan on shooting" he said pulling the slide back on his sniper and putting it away
"Yeah... that makes sense..." She said, putting it back in it's holster. "Ok, well I've already been that way," She said, looking back down the gorge. "So I guess we're headed that way." She headed on down the gorge, leaving the dead ponies behind.
After a while the gorge ended, and the land opened out; Max had only been a filly before the bombs fell, but she still had memories of the outside world, and they looked nothing like this; the land was brown and barren, no vegetation left alive as far as the eye could see. As bleak as it looked, it did at least make buildings easy to spot, and a surprising number of them seemed to still be standing... Max spotted a likely cluster of buildings, the remains of a medium sized town, by the looks of things, off in the distance; perhaps there would be friendly ponies there? At the very least, there might be a hospital... "I think that looks like our best bet," She said, looking at Ace.
Max looked at him in surprise. "You really don't remember the bombs? Do you remember anything? Anything at all from before today?"
Max nodded sympathetically. "Well, I'm sorry to say we lost the war. Both sides did; we destroyed each other." She thought back on her Stable history lessons. "They dropped balefire bombs, and we retaliated in kind. I'm not really sure what happened since then though." She looked around warily, then glanced back at the gorge. "I guess some ponies survived out here..."
"dang.....that...thats sucks......" he said looking down (i wonder if i had any family that died in the bombing) he thought before looking at her she was about his age.....maybe 7 years younger but it was hard to tell without knowing his own age "so is it just you out here?" he asked as he looked to the wasteland
She looked at him for a moment and picked her words carefully. "I'm the only one from my Stable out here, yes."
"so theyre still alive.....whyd they send only you out and not a group?" he asked at least remembering that there was safety in numbers
"Come on," Max said, starting to walk towards the buildings, deliberately avoiding the question. "We don't want to be caught out in the open after dark. Who knows what else might be out there..." Sleeping outside in Equestria could be dangerous even before the bombs, and judging by the ponies they had already encountered, the wildlife wouldn't have been made any friendlier by the bombs.
"No, I didn't." She agreed; she believed this pony had lost his memory, but that didn't mean she trusted him; in fact, if anything, it made her more wary. She certainly wasn't going to go spilling her deepest, darkest secrets to him.
ace sighed "well we should talk about something" he said trying not to think about a family he may or may not have and how they may or may not be dead
