Fallout Equestria: Weak Wings

Chapter 5: Revenge of a sniper.

“Steve walks Warily down the street, with the brim pulled way down low Ain’t no sound but the sound of his feet machine guns ready to go.”

Los Pegasus, Outer Los Pegasus… A stinking slum, Great. I guessed this was where those whom lost it all now lived. The second taller wall to Los Pegasus proper was only a hundred metres or so away. There were so many alleyways and side streets it would be easy to accommodate thousands. The best way to describe that place? A massive shithole.

A filly knife in mouth ran past. Chasing a rat, Breakthrough got out his bat. The sight of it made my cringe. As the rat ran past he smashed it on the head. The sheer force caused the skull to crumple and the eyes to shoot out.

"Thanks Mister" came from the fillies mouth as the filly kneeled over the rat and began to eat. That made me cringe again.

"We should find a place for the night" Breakthrough whispered. We don’t want to be mugged in our sleep don't we?" I simply nodded.

Walking around the hardly lit streets was a less plesant experience and I was eager to find safe harbour from the dozens of ponies looking greedily upon my flanks we eventually found a crier.

"COME TO THE NEIGHTROPOLITAN BAR AND CASINO THE FOOD IS HOT THE TABLES ARE FRIENDLY AND THE MARES ARE LIKE THE FOOD"

Sounded interesting. We walked up to the crier. Breakthrough spoke first.

"How much a night?"

"Ten caps a head"  So my guess earlier in the slave camp was right. Bottle caps were a currency is the ghost of the once mighty equestria.

"Where?" Replied Breakthrough

"Down that street third on your left, It has the sign you cant miss it" Looking down the street the crier was talking about I saw the sign. "Neightropolitan Casino and Bar. Foods hot, Tables friendly and the Mares are like the food!" Oh so the crier was just rehearsing the motto.

"Come on Bittersweet, Guess this is where we sleep tonight." Ugh the place looked run down. Most of the windows were boarded up, The paint couldn’t get any worse than its current state. But I had to just take it like it is. Great

When we approached the door the guard simply looked up then opened the door, a small cloud of smoke came out. With… Smooth jazz in the background. And the sounds of an orgasms from more than two mares.

"Welcome in" said the guard in full combat armour.

As I walked in the thing that caught my attention first was a mare clad in quite… Sexy looking barding, massaging her… NO! now wasn’t the time. The second thing was  sitting on a barstool next to a table a dark blue maneless pony with a purple goatee in similar combat armour as the guard outside . But he was equipped with an expertly maintained hunting rifle plus a powerful looking scope. He looked up from his Vodka? No… Wine!.  He turned his head and shouted

"OI BOSS. BARMAT WE GOT CUSTOMERS" For a bald pony he sounded young. Another voice came back from behind the Bar door

"YOU FUCKING TAKE CARE OF IT!"

"BUT IM ON MY BREAK"

"DO I SOUND LIKE I GIVE A SHIT?"

Looking down at his wine the Blue pony took a deep Breath in, Got off his bar stool and came over to Me and Breakthrough.

"Hello and welcome to the Neightropolitan bar and casino. The win limit is six rounds of black jack and four games of Poker." He leaned close "Look ill cut out all the bullcrap, You're from Stable 34 and you escaped Slave Collar, Right?" Thank you Sargent No Shit. "Look you'll stick out like a sore hoof. And that’s something that isnt something you want especially since Slave Collar doesn't let go of his Slaves easy. And well I never met a Pegasus. That just means your in for trouble. You’re too easy to recognise. Given how my… Position on slavery is ill take you to the general store. Nick's and Nack's. They’ll set you two up and then ill escort you back here for the night. " The pony stopped for a second. "Not like I don’t mean you two cant handle yourselves"

"OI PINPOINT WHO IS IT?" Yelled the voice from behind the counter door well over the mares orgasms.

"Just wait a sec, ITS AN ESCAPEE FROM THAT STABLE. I WAS GOING TO SET THEM UP WITH NICK AND NACK THEN ILL RETURN"

"THINK THIS AS A EXTENDED BREAK, IT WILL COME OUT OF YOUR PAY"

"YEAH ILL LET THEM GO WHEN I COME BACK" This 'Pinpoint' Yelled back.

"Hello Pinpoint is it?" I asked "Im Bittersweet and this is Breakthrough"

This Pinpoint stallion replied in a softer tone. "Pleasure, Look my boss has no opinion on slavers although I am bound by a contract not to put in my two bits... Anyway Ill show you to Nick and Nacks bring you back then set you up with somepony who can give you lot some… Information"

"Sure, Whatever you can do" I replied.

Pinpoint opened the door and opened it, Softly smiling at the guard stationed outside. Breakthrough and I followed back into the cold night air.

As Breakthrough and I followed Pinpoint we saw more of the poor and barbaric. Looking up towards the higher second wall I could see a sniper training his sights on me. Before moving his rifle away. Then two loud cracks as I saw the sniper whom had just been following my movements fired his rifle out beyond the walls. Another shot just a second later. I turned my head to look back at Pinpoint

BLAM

The first thing I saw was a scruffy pony's head exploding like… Like somepony had just fallen head first from a thousand mile drop. Gore covered my face. I puked while trying to wipe from my eyes, When I finally wiped the gore of my face I saw Breakthrough brutalizing a dead body and Pinpoint looting another. I puked again.

"Come on Bittersweet, We cant get to Nick and Nacks if you just keep puking here." Pinpoint informed me

"Sure, I I I. Im okay" I said looking down

"Look Bittersweet, Take one of these" Breakthrough held a pill in front of me. "It will help you with a bit of your… Gore problem". I took the pill. Nope nothing meh

We continued to walk the broken asphalt for another few minutes.

BLAM

Another poor mare's head exploded and fell to the ground on the account of Pinpoints smoking gun. Yet my gag reflex remained calm. I just watched horrified.

We continued walking without incident until we were outside "Nick and Nacks"  And as we entered I saw what I expected, Shit everywhere, Terminal casings, empty bottles, and other assorted junk.

"Welcome to Nick and Nacks, I'm Nick and yeah what do you want?" Said a orange Unicorn behind a counter. "Oh Pinpoint, What do you want?" He said acknowledging Pinpoint.

"Armour for this Stable pony and… a few boxes of my ammo" Pinpoint replied

"Right, 130" Said Pinpoint as a bag full of something hit the counter, I was then taken behind a dressing screen as the Unicorn floated some leather Barding, Metal plates and some string behind it with me. In the distance as he was reinforcing the Barding I heard continuous automatic fire for about three minutes. May be some battle outside, None of my concern. It took another three minutes before my Barding was done, A perfect fit with extra armour around the neck and at the kneecaps along with a thick breastplate.

“Nick, Thanks. Its time for us to return to the Bar. Ill set you up with my contact in the morning" Pinpoint said as he opened the door. The cool night air filled the room.

"Thanks for the business and Good Luck" Nick said as I followed Pinpoint. With Breakthrough following suit. Then I smelt something. Smoke?. We continued to walk back to the bar. The smell got stronger and the stronger  Pinpoint started galloping faster towards the bar until we were in a full gallop. I looked up and saw a ploom of smoke rising from where the bar was. We got to the corner where the crier was. The crier was lying on the ground blood pooling underneath her head. Pinpoint ran around the corner. Breakthrough and I turned the corner and saw him simply watching the Bar in flames as three ponies in sharp suits with fedoras and menacing looking sub machineguns. I looked at Pinpoint his eyes wide as ash trays.

"You. Bastards… You Bastards…" He looked at me tears forming at the bottom of his eye lids

"HEY YOU! YOU'RE THE OTHER GUARD. KILL HIM" Said one of the sharp suited ponies.

Breakthrough shoved both Me and Pinpoint behind a wagon as a hail of bullets tore through his hind quarters as he pushed us. I immediately took out the Rangers Sequoia. Breakthrough took out some small bag of powder from his saddlebag. He scattered the contents all over his wound.

Pinpoint looked around the corner of the cart and fired his rifle, One of the Sub Machine guns fell silent. Yet that was not enough to stem the flow of hot lead flying towards our not so reliable cover. How was it not so reliable? Because of the bullets that flew through our cover like it was butter. Pinpoint turned around the corner again A hail of bullets greeted him. At that moment I moved out of cover and entered S.A.T.S. Time froze as it calculated the likelihood of hitting the closest assailent. Aiming at the head I pulled the trigger, The knockback sent my head flying yet I somehow was able to see the pony's head explode in a shower of gore.  My gun jammed and so I dived back into cover. I looked at Breakthrough as he tore the stalk from a metal apple and threw it towards our final assailant. A few seconds later the apple exploded and with a scream the last Sub Machine gun fell silent.

"Well that was quick" said Breakthrough

I looked at Pinpoint. Tears flowing down his face. Breakthrough and I fell silent.

"All I owned apart from my rifle and my armour is… Gone. Burned in the fires of whatever the fucking motive for this. All whom I cared for are dead. Anvil, Barmat, Poker chip. All gone." I placed my hoof on Pinpoints back hoping to convey sympathy. "Look, I know somepony who can help you. Shady guy who owes me a debt. He… Knows stuff he shouldn’t. If anypony can help you find your fellow Stable Ponies he will. I was going to set you two up with him tomorrow but. What’s the point not doing it now?"

HALF AN HOUR LATER

We trotted down an alleyway filled with old dumpsters and rat skeletons. Breakthrough was levitating his bat ready for an ambush. Pinpoint suddenly turned to face a metal door.

"We're here" He knocked on the door six times in a pattern. An eye slit opened and two eyes peered out.

"Who is it?" came from the door in a hush tone.

"It’s Pinpoint. Its time for that favour". The eye slit closed and the sound of a dozen bolts retracting came just before the door

opened. And a pony covered completely in black leather and a hood that hid all but his eyes and muzzle.

"Pinpoint, What services do you require?" Said this pony making sure to remain in a hush tone.

"This Pegasus here lived in that Stable Slave Collar just captured. She wants to where the enslaved Stable ponies are." Pinpoint replied.

The pony muttered to himself for a few minutes before finally speaking. "The Resources required to make such a request happen is beyond my level of debt I owe you. For this favour anyway. I can make it happen. It however will require some action on your half: The casinos feud for more profits. There is a Brewery not far from here. Destroy it. Fret not it is only in partial sniper cover, Fight or sneak your way into the main office and the basement where the fermentation vats are located and place these explosive devices." A saddlebag fill of explosives floated out of the door by a third party.

"These passes will allow you three to enter the casino district once. When the Brewery is destroyed enter the casino district and make your way to the Ravens Nest casino. Ask for a drink at ten thirty in the morning, Balefire cocktail on ice. You will be given the drink  plus a note of where the slaves may be and where to attack the slavers." With that three pieces of paper floated out of the building with the words DAY PASS in big friendly letters. Taking the saddlebag and the day passes Pinpoint loaded his rifle. With a satisfying crunch as the clip was locked into place.

Looking back at the door I was met with it locked. "Lets go" Said Pinpoint. At that moment I encountered a moral problem. I was going to kill my fellow pony for this one stallion. But then it would mean saving all I cared for.

Half an hour passed

I looked at my Pip-Buck 1:59AM…2:00 AM

"Pinpoint are you ready?" I said inside the opposite building to the Brewery

"Ready  as I'll ever be"

Pinpoint's rifle fired killing the first sentry. Before the second could react Breakthrough and I charged to the entrance as Pinpoint gave us covering fire from the opposite building. The second sentry fell to the ground but managed to get two shots off in the direction of Me and Breakthrough. Well there goes the option to sneak in as Immediately shouts inside the building of the alerted guards waking their comrades up from their slumber. Pinpoint claimed he saw about fifteen guards through his scope mere minutes ago.

It seemed like several minutes had passed during our five second run across the street. I was first to reach the door. Only a second later Breakthrough jumped into the door breaking the lock and allowing us to make our attack. We found ourselves in a storage area. Above us a spider web of catwalks loomed. On all sides of this area of the building were massive glass panes. The two that Pinpoint was facing shattered raining glass down upon a poor guard. The force of the glass falling in large chunks ontop of the guards head making him to stumble around dazed.  Not waiting for a second Breakthrough charged up to the stunned guard and caved his skull in with his titanium bat.

PINGK.

"THEY'RE IN HERE" a voice yelled just as six guards charged into the room via the catwalks with mean looking Shotguns and Sub Machine Guns. Not the first time tonight Breakthrough and I had to take cover this time behind massive steel shipping containers. But this time our cover kept the spray of lead from our flesh. I thanked Celestia there were no catwalks directly above us.

A crack could only just be herd over the roar of automatic weapon fire. A body fell to the ground. I turned to face one of the guards and entered S.A.T.S. Whispering to myself "Im so sorry" I fired at another guard. Hitting him in the front left leg. That pill Pinpoint gave me didn’t make me Puke but I still felt absolute guilt for killing these ponies. Another crack and another pony fell to the ground. I entered S.A.T.S again taking another shot square between the eyes of the previously wounded pony. By this time the guards had realised we had sniper support and ran out of the loading bay. Out of Pinpoints reach. Another crack and another pony bit the dust. Breakthrough and I waited for a minute waiting for Pinpoint to get into the brewery. Pinpoint came through the same entrance as Me and Breakthrough.

"Shall we continue?" He said.  Breakthrough and I nodded in agreement.

"Through there" Breakthrough said pointing towards a double door. I shrugged. Pinpoint gave a small nod. We walked towards the door when it opened and two guards with shotguns pointed their weapons at us. A few seconds passed as they yelled at us  as something produced a clink. A moment later an explosion ripped through their backsides.  They fell with short screams of agony as large chunks of flesh flew off in almost every direction. I looked at Breakthrough as a piece of metal that looked like a apple stalk hit the ground. Pinpoint looked saddened while I was simply horrified by the almost tribal like death of my fellow pony.

We were now in a tight corridor. The guards however had the advantage of knowing how this place was lain out. We turned another corner. Nopony. Just as we were going to turn the next a guard ran strait into Breakthrough whom promptly returned the favour by introducing the guards head to fast moving Titanium.

Turning the corner we saw two stairs: One leading up the other down. We chose to go up. Running up the staircase we found the main office. Quickly getting to work Breakthrough was trusted with actually setting the explosives. Attaching the bundles here and there.

"GET PSYCO OUT AND GIVE HIM STAMPEEDE" came from where I assumed the basement was located. Whatever Psyco was we knew he wouldn’t be offering a picnic.

"Lets move" said Breakthrough a he laid down the fifth bundle of explosives.

Cautiously Pinpoint took point as we walked down the stairs. When suddenly a massive pony with seemingly more muscle than actual skin with mane blood-stained while frothing at the mouth charged at Pinpoint. Charging him into a wall and started beating him and tearing massive gashes in his flesh. I slipped into S.A.T.S again. Only enough energy spell matrix thingy for one more shot. This time I took no hesitation to shoot. He was so hyped up on whatever drugs the guards had just administered he wasn’t worth mercy. The hammer in the firing mechanism of the Rangers Sequoia hit the firing cap of the bullet and it fired. The bullet burrowing through the skull and into this maniac's brain. I got out our last healing potion and gave it to Pinpoint as the beast fell to the ground.

"Many thanks Bittersweet. Only a few more left. I think we need to attach the rest of the explosives to the main brewing vat then we should get the fuck out of dodge." The tears in Pinpoints flesh through witch you could see to the bone slowly closed. As Pinpoint got up so did the drug hyped pony the wound in its head only seeming to infuriate it more. And so It charged Me and Pinpoint smashing us against the wall. My gun fell to the floor and fired in the direction of the pony’s gentles not like he would have any with all those Steroids.

BLAM

The mouth foaming pony screamed with pain and moved back a few steps. Just enough for Breakthrough to introduce the pony to a high speed bat to the face. At that time I had a thought: What was more frightening? Breakthroughs brutality or the conditions that… Animal went through?

“I hope you two still got some fight in you because if you two die then who can I start a jailhouse rock band with?” Pinpoint just facehooved. “Well coming?”

Getting up we continued to run down the stairs. Another massive hail of bullets met us as we reached the basement. I had no more charge in S.A.T.S and there was no way Pinpoint or I would survive an attempt to take a shot. Hiding behind a defunct Sparkle-Cola vending machine Breakthrough set all the charges to arm and mouthed 'run' to me and Pinpoint. I didn’t question as Pinpoint and I ran up the stairs. Turning the corner I saw Breakthrough throw the bag and running behind us. The detonator for the explosives wrapped in the soft glow of Breakthroughs telekinesis was set to detonate the explosives as we ran out of the loading bay.

Click. The detonator was activated. At first I thought something was wrong. Then the earth shattering explosion came as the alcohol exploded with the explosives consuming the brewery in a massive fireball. Rushing back inside the opposite building where we began our assault Pinpoint and I crashed on the quite dirty Mattresses we found inside .

Location: Unknown Time: 2:07

The screen displayed the last security footage from inside the brewery right up to the explosion. Leaning back the stallion with a greying mane simply smiled. "Looks like I have found my new plaything " He said in his pompous voice as he weakly levitated an inhaler of Dash up to his mouth. He took a Breath the red gas flowing into his lungs. "NOW PLAY" He yelled towards an orchestra with an excess of baritone saxophones. The conductor in a sharp Pre-War Suit and Bowtie yelled a number and made a cross motion in the air. The orchestra started playing one of the mysterious ponies own musical works he lovingly called Mars, The bringer of war. It started with the double base ,cello, Oboes, The bassoon and timpani’s with the Violins faintly playing. Then the Trombones. Then the strings and the first trumpets "inform Slave Collar the second stage begins". Slowly slouching back into his chair as THEN the whole orchestra began playing at full forte. the greying pony closed his eyes waving his hoof to the flow of the piece. The plan began.

Note added: Level up

New perk added: Awareness: While in S.A.T.S you can see what your opponents HP, DT, And ammo count.