Fallout Equestria - Long Way Home

Chapter Five part one : Domestic Disturbance in Progress

After I uttered a polite greeting. The Creature still decided to start  firing an automatic grenade launcher at me. As  the first rounds from the grenade launcher exploded close to me. The sentry bot on my right decided that firing a missile at the hostile quadruped would be in our mutual best interests. The Rocket detonated against the Creature, Sending it backwards a couple feet and almost certainly killing it.

Running to the doors of the chamber. In the time I waited for my escorts to follow, I loaded a magazine of armor piercing rounds into Epilogue.  Before my wheeled compatriots reached the door, I heard the sound of gunfire and larger explosions in other parts of the building. The arrival of my escorts, with the eager rocketeer gave me the idea to just shoot first and ask questions later.

I kicked open the door and entered a long hallway. Making the arbitrary decision to pick right as the direction I would travel. This place was the antithesis of the previous facility. Hearing the sound of gunfire steadily crescendo as moved in my chosen direction down the hall. Happening upon four more of these armored ponies(?), watching a doorway and therefore aiming into that doorway.  I quickly crouched then entered Vats Targeting I locked three headshots on the closest two ponies.

While my fusillade of bullets were lancing towards their compatriots. A grenade bounced into the creatures position from the room they were aiming at a moment ago. The Ponies armored monstrosities I Fired on were dead of severe  bullet to the headitis. The remaining adversaries were turning to face me when the grenade that had landed in their midst a second earlier exploded.

Epilogue barked sharply five more times as I had switched to the enemy closest to me. My aim without vats wasn’t great but after three of the shots penetrated into it’s armor, the bar showing the hostile creatures position on my compass still stopped showing. The last enemy was bringing it’s weapons in my direction. It was luck that another armoured equine came through the doorway and fired a massive rifle into the last remaining enemy.

Then my saviour looked at me and screamed through it’s speakers. “What the buck are you”. It was now pointing the massive gun in my direction. “The guy who just saved your ass”. I hurriedly replied.

The mark indicating it stayed non-hostile on my eyes forward spotter. This saved it from being turned to paste by my lumbering escorts. “Ok I’m gonna move my gun away from you Understand?” In reply the creature nodded. “Totally independent of the fact that I gigantically outgun you. Can you please tell me who and what you are?” I said quickly.

“I’m, *stutters* I’m knight Icepick of the” she thinks for a second then says proudly “Applejacks rangers”.  I wait a couple of seconds to come up with a reply.

“Well i’m Jake Embry, Civilian Contractor.  I would’ve honestly rather met under different circumstances. But i’m pleased to meet you regardless.” I say with a light tone in my voice.

“Why are you here? Also why did you help me?” Icepick asks in an accusatory fashion.

“I’m here because the only way to escape from an aging prewar facility was to teleport here.” I state bluntly. “I helped you inadvertently, opening fire on the things in the hall was because the last time I encountered one of those guys it didn’t hesitate to shoot first.”

“Now what in the name of Celestia are you?” She asks me.

“A human, Homo sapiens sapiens !” I reply with an annoyed tone. “Now what the fuck are you?”

She says sounding confused. “I’m an Earth pony mare”

Then she says before I have time to reply. “ How do you not know that?”

“Lady this is like the second universe, that I have been transported to *pause* this week.”

“You have to be bucking kidding me !!” She practically screams at me.

"I wish that I was” I reply honestly.

Her voice does a 180 as she begins to pleads with me “Would you mind helping me take back control of this place?” I was getting really good at hearing the emotion in a voice that was projected through a loudspeaker.

“Would you give me a map?”  “Yeah”

“Replace the ammo I’m going to use?” “Yes”

“Repair my equipment?” “YES”

“Feed Me”  “YES”

After she almost blew my eardrums out with that last answer, I Replied quietly “Just point me in the direction of what you want dead”

“Are all humans this annoying” she says to herself.

“All the fun ones are. ” I say in a dejected tone of voice.

“THAT WAS RHETORICAL” She manages to scream slightly less loudly than the last time she went ballistic.

She then points a hoof in same direction I had been traveling before I had made her acquaintance. I considered it a beautiful coincidence.

She led the four of us ( Icepick,Me, Sentry bots 1 and 2) around the facility. Taking out every pony that we encountered, was actually pretty easy. But before I recant that I must tell you an observation I made. It turns out that creatures wearing heavy armor, carrying no weapon smaller than a light machine gun and having added difficulty of having to turn and face the thing they want to shoot. All these things together Made the steel rangers I was fighting really, really ineffective at close quarters combat.

Here is how we did it, first off I was in point position.  Second most of the time our group would encounter only two or three rangers at once, leaving them easy pickings for a salvo of vats aimed AP rounds.

A couple of times There would be four or five rangers, in those cases, I backed up and the sentry bots unloaded a barrage of  missiles on them.

All together we killed 30 or so steel rangers before Icepick told us to stop for a moment. “Okay Jake are the robots stopped here?”

“Yes” I say indignantly.

“Anyway this is the repair and research bay. The rest of my compatriots are probably defending the scribes loyal to the new order, which is most of them.”

"Are they the ones making the constant explosions?”

“No they’re probably only making half of the explosions” She states oblivious to the amount of sarcasm I had put into my previous question.

It was only then that the steel rangers made the first valid tactical move of the entire battle.  While Icepick and I were busy talking, the steel rangers were getting into a firing position down the  corridor opposite of our group. The hallway was ablaze as they opened fire on our position. I had time to push Icepick out of the way and hit the ground on my stomach before most of the shots fired. Unfortunately I wasn't quick enough and a bullet clipped my outer thigh causing me to cry out in pain. Fortunately what Icepick lacked in agility, she clearly made up in fire power.

She let out a accurate barrage of bullets from her sides (which I now know are called battle saddles). I, now back on my feet saw the only option for the squad at the end of the hall after that crushing blow was to close the distance. This proved mainly ineffective accept for part when one of my sentry bots  fired a missile at nearly point blank range. This once again threw me on the ground with crushing force. I would have been shot, but Icepick jumped out in front of me and ended the two Rangers lives quickly.

When the smoke cleared, Icepick was still in front of me, rump in my view making sure there were no survivors. She turned around with a smirk and said. “Enjoying the View?” Even with a lack of blood I blushed in my helmet.

End of chapter Five part one

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