Tales by Balefirelight (a Fallout: Equestria Group Collab)

Technical Difficulties

by DerpyDaringDitzyDoo

“-ing... so-... –chnical diffi… -es!”

“Say again Grimes, I repeat there’s too much static say again!”

“We’re experiencing technical difficulties! The guns aren’t responding!”

Captain Sky slammed her hoof on the communications desk, nearly startling the lieutenant in charge of operating its controls out of his chair. “Well fix them damnit! I need those guns online that dragon is tearing the skies apart!”

“Captain as lead technician I have to recommend we fall back to make repairs! We don’t have the ponypower to fix these kinds of problems in such a-“

“That was an order lieutenant!” The captain again slammed her hoof on the desk for emphasis before walking back to the front of the bridge and viewing port. Beyond she could see the  chaos in the skies and ground below, Pegasi and raptors alike attacking the massive dragon in a futile attempt to defend the city far below. She knew the zebras had convinced many dragons to fight for them, but she never thought they would have convinced the mighty Brimstone as well.

One raptor flew barely a hundred feet in front of her ship. Flying as fast as its engines could go, it fired every weapon it had at the red scaled beast, the loud booms resonating throughout Captain Sky’s bridge. Of course this gained Brimstone’s ire rather quickly, and she had to shield her eyes as the dragon let out a massive wall of sickly green flame. When she looked back, the raptor that was once right before her ship was reduced to a smoldering wreck, crashing down on the unprepared town below.

“Damnit we need to help out there!” She shouted in frustration, but her blood ran cold when her eyes met those of the dragon. The moment seemed to last for an eternity, and her mind couldn’t stop thinking he must be asking her one question in his own mind: what does it feel like to be so helpless, unable to protect those around you or even yourself? Eventually he snorted in disgust and flew towards her raptor at a breakneck pace, causing the clouds of smoke from the city to swirl madly around him as if he was death incarnate and the fiery smoke was his display of power.

“Evasive maneuvers! I repeat evasive-“

“TOO LATE!”

Brimstone crashed into the Raptor and sent it spiraling like it was nothing more than a bath toy to him. He opened his massive jaws and bit deep into the Raptors mid-section, tearing wildly at it until the entire ship had split in two. He held the front half of the ship just long enough to get a good look into the command bridge, to see the fear in the eyes of its crew. But to his disgust Captain Sky remained steadfast, staring him down until he hurled the wreckage to the ground below.

Staring up through the burning debris, a lone survivor of the crash watched the dragon with hatred as he continued to wreak havoc on her home. The last thing Sky saw before she succumbed to the blood loss and fatal injuries, was the familiar trails of smoke left in the wake of the Shadowbolts. At the lead was ministry mare Rainbow Dash, the fiercest and bravest fighter in the air. Of course she’d have to be in order to fight such a monster alone as she was, the other shadowbolts leaving her wing to help drive off the smaller dragons that accompanied Brimstone.

“That Pegasus is the only thing keeping our military from falling apart. And I’ll be damned if they don’t worship her for centuries after this war is over…” The old captain closed her eyes with a small, pyrrhic smile on her face.