Fallout: Equestria- Arcane Division

The twelve foot blade [Keep in mind that ponies are about average four feet.] mashes over Puzzler’s head popping his red juices out of his armor. The Steel Rangers under his command stood in shock as the giant centaur wearing a rusty bull’s mask pulls his blade away.

“What the heck is it?”

“I don’t know? Looks like a centaur but I never heard of one so big?”

“What I care about the most is where did it come from? The bomb went off and then boom here he was.”

“We should be firing!”

The Steel Rangers fire their weapons. The centaur monster holds its blade as a shield and turned its flank leaving the creature’s ginormous battle saddle to take the brunt of the hits. Then with a swift swing of his blade, the beast hit the three Rangers.

The first was sliced in half. [The long way] The second stuck to the blade allowing him to crash into the third, who’s spine snaps with in his armor.

Troja watched from her hiding spot as the centaur marched to the larger township where the Steel Rangers were based. The glowing rift in space that the creature had walked out of closes.

It took an hour for Melissa to show up at the farm again. The griffon finds Troja by the pings she was sending off.

Melissa looks at the massacred Steel Rangers. “What happened here?”

“The bomb did indeed have an effect on all the Discord matter,” Troja kicks at an oddly decayed pipbuck on the ground, “It ripped it from these things very DNA. But attacking the Discord matter somehow allowed the creature to break through into this world.”

“That doesn’t make sense,” Melissa points out.

“It kind of does,” Troja answers, “What if the stuff we call Discord matter is something leaked from another world. Attacking directly with bypass magic could have dislodged it from this world and sending it back to where it came.”

“I see,” The griffon shakes her head.

“Where is Max and Sioux Falls?” Troja asks.

“Unlike these creatures, Sioux Falls is made almost completely out of Discord matter,” Convoy points out from within Melissa, “So the impact of the bomb had on her was equal. Nothing that a healing potion can’t fix. Max’s pipbuck heated up and burned his arm. We left him and Sioux Falls at an abandon house to recover.”

“What was your read of this creature?” Melissa asks Troja.

“Its helmet was blocking my abilities,” Troja shook her head.

Melissa walks to the Steel Ranger’s armor.

“You’re going to need something bigger then that,” Troja warns.

The griffon walks up to the Steel Ranger’s transport and breathes the Cybertronian’s life into it. The machine turns red and transforms into a robot pony.

“What do you want to do about the Bypass Pulse Bomb?” Troja points at the antennaed device, “It appears to be able to fire more than one shot. We can’t change settings without proper data to upload.”

“We leave it for now,” Melissa tells her as she saddles Convoy. She turns back to Troja. “Coming along?”

Troja shakes her head. “I’m not going to be a help against that monster.”

The battle saddle charges with a whine before firing. Wood splinters and body parts flies through the air.

A Steel Ranger fires upon the rusty bull. The bullets spark off the centaur’s helmet.

“Fuck it,” A Ranger spat, “That thing’s metal is spelled to attract bullets.

The centaur was about to swing it’s blade down when a red and blue robot slams into it. The beast spins around with its blade.

Convoy blocks with a serrated blade of his own. Gears start up in the robot's weapon causing the spines to spin. The centaur’s weapon was flung aside.

The chain saw blade sparks against the centaur creature’s battle saddle. The thing replied by head butting Convoy. The robot was put off balance and stumbles back. Having the room the masked centaur fires onto Convoy with its battle saddle.

In the battle Melissa dismounts from Convoy’s back. She circles around the centaur beast waiting to find a good shot. She targets the eye holes of the mask. But as she aimed, a red light peering out of one of the holes stunned her brain a moment.

A missile from one of the Steel Rangers strikes the giant beast sending it crashing into a nearby building. Convoy moves in for a hoof stomp but only to get his back legs kicked out from under him. The centaur giant grabs Convoy by the neck then swings him through a wall.

In the spare moment the centaur creature reaches for the Steel Ranger who had shot him. The lucky buck got away.

Melissa opens fire from the sky. She was aiming for the spine at the base of the neck but her bullets kept hitting the creature’s mask. The centaur swats her out of the air with the flat side of its blade. Melissa hears her bones crack as she crashed to the ground.

Convoy pops a gun torrent out his side showering the rusty bull with bullets. These bullets actually hit the centaur’s flank, But the horse hide was too tough. The centaur bucks the robot smashing his side.

The creature walks back out into the street. Suddenly another round of bullets hits the beast in the flank. This time they pierced it’s flesh causing the thing to yell out in pain.

“It looks like I’m going to have to take off the kid shoes if I’m going to stop you,” Convoy shouts.

The Cybertronian’s damaged body buckles and pops as he charges the larger centaur creature. At the last moment he rears up and head buts the monster’s mask as hard as he could. There was a loud ring as Convoy’s face casing falls apart and the centaur's mask split into two.

Melissa wincing and limping from her injuries stared up in shock at the face. Even though he had a human face. The red robotic eye on one side gave him away. The centaur creature was Red Eye. The former leader of the Unity cult. This abomination had his mouth seal shut with metal wire.

Well Convoy was still stunned, The centaur stables himself with his blade and fire’s his battle saddle. The Cybertronian was ripped to shreds. His soul returned to Melissa racking her body with more pain as she passed out.

Melissa awoke in a triage. Her bones had been reset and she could feel the after effects of a healing potion. Max was in the room watching from the corner. This would give her the estimate that she was out for at least over an hour.

“How’s the battle going?” The griffon moans.

“Not well,” Max sighs, “The beast is super strong and heals as if it’s filled with healing potions.”

“Not shocked,” Convoy answers, “Compared to monsters of the wasteland most wouldn’t be able to stand up against me at full power.”

“Yes, in the past it took a super charged alicorn to take you down,” Max smirked.

“We designated the thing Casta Torus meaning ‘Rusty Bull’,” Sioux Falls states as she walks in with Troja.

“Is that thing Red Eye?” The griffon asks Troja.

“With the helmet gone I can read his thoughts,” Troja nods, “He thinks he is Red Eye, He thinks he’s dead and some force is driving him to seek out Littlepip and kill her. I believed this force is what’s protecting him.”

“We think the BPB can send him back to where he came from,” Max adds, “Unfortunately any Ranger with the ability to reprogram the thing are now dead.”

“There is also the issue of the wave being too wide,” Sioux Falls points out, “We need to modify it to be more focused.”

“I can certainly do that with anything I fuse with,” Convoy adds in.

“There is an issue with that,” Melissa intersects, “Convoy transformered a Steel Ranger transport vehicle and he could barely stand to toe with that thing. The BPB device is smaller and if Convoy is destroyed that device is destroyed.”

“Back when, I used to have a trailer I would take into battle with me,” Convoy explains, “I’d be able to fuse with it to increase my size and power.”

“You’re saying I might be able to fuse you with more than one machine?” Melissa asks.

“It’s possible,” Convoy answers.

(I’m not sure I can,) Melissa sighs.

(I have faith in you,) Convoy replied.

“Okay, Make preparations,” Melissa ordered.

Sioux Falls, Troja, and Max turn to leave the room.

“Max a word with you,” Melissa stops the buck.

The others leave the room letting Melissa and Max be alone.

“How do you feel about the events that has happen?” Melissa asks.

“I’m not sure what you’re getting at?” Max replied.

“The Steel Rangers were once your people,” Melissa points out, “You were with me well I was knocked out. I’m pretty sure you’re avoiding something.”

“I’m not too keen on them knowing I used to be a Steel Ranger,” Max answers, “I’d rather not have them catch onto my past because of my history.”

“Very well,” Melissa nods her head, “You are dismissed.”

After gearing up, Melissa walks out side. The transport vehicle was waiting for her with the BPB inside.

Melissa breathes out the blue energy. She starts wrapping it around her fingers making two balls around each claw. One claw touched the Bypass Bomb. The other claw touched the vehicle. There was a flash.

Before them stood a robotic centaur. But Melissa had disappeared.

“Where did Melissa go?” Sioux Falls shouts as she looks around.

“She’s in the robot,” Troja answers sensing the air with her horn.

“Yes! I’m in here!” Melissa shouts.

“H-how did that happen?” Max notes.

“When I had my own body, I used my matrix as an anchor when fusing,” Convoy explains, “Since my matrix is in the lady she fused along with the two machines. Unfortunately I think this means when this body is destroyed we are too.”

“Great,” Melissa metaphorically rolls her eyes.

“Well nothing we can do about this now,” Sioux Falls tells the two. “Into battle!”

Steel Rangers fire upon the Casta Torus slowing its progress down. The creature retaliated by firing on them with its battle saddle then swipes the leftovers with its blade.

Blam!

A humongous shot gun blast hits the Casta Torus in the shoulder. It turns to see a centaur Convoy holding a Cybertronian shotgun.

“Ugly, Dance with someone your own size,” Melissa says in Convoy’s voice.

The Casta Torus laughs at the challenge and fires his battle saddle. Convoy pulls a shield from his back that blocked the gun fire.

“We need to take out those torrents,” Melissa notes.

“Hang on then,” Convoy replied.

The robot charges bashing into Casta Torus. With his hands Convoy grabs the beast’s torrents. They resisted at first but he managed to snap the torrents off.

Casta Torus swings his blade. With a swack of his shield, Convoy caused the creature to drop the weapon.

Now with the opportunity, Convoy drops his shield and pulls two speared spikes from his back. He spins around behind the Casta Torus and stabs him in the shoulders of the horse part.

“Activating bypass magic field,” Convoy announces.

Casta Torus screams as it is ripped from the world taking the spears with it. What was left was a glowing rift that quickly sealed.

“You did it!” Sioux Falls cheers giving Convoy a hug, “I can’t wait to get back to Tenpony and do some experiments with Discord matter to find out just what the heck happened here!”

“You’re kidding me right?” Convoy raised an eye.

“Ponies,” Melissa replied.

With a sigh of relief and a flash of light, the machines, Convoy and Melissa split. Melissa takes a few steps then swerves and passes out.
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“Sometimes I wonder as new science opens to us again, do we stare down at the gates of hell? DJ Pon3 Homage signing out.”