Fallout Equestria: Memento Mori

"The only thing that sucks about a dog is the training phase."

    "You just had to fire on them didn't you genius," I grumble as Crimson, Boom Boom and I are pinned down inside a tin shack. We had flown to a small settlement called Rougeroute. When we got there Crimson spotted one of our targets and like a trigger happy idiot he decided to fire at him. Now we are stuck in the shack while the ponies outside take potshots at us.

"Shut up," Crimson grumbles with a hiss of pain. Oh and he took a bullet to the wing. So far things are going swimmingly.

"So why is he with us again?" Boom Boom asks. He is currently working on a mine that had ended up a dud.

    "Still trying to figure that out myself," I say as I  look out the window. A bullet clips my ear before I can pull my head back down. I hiss in pain and clutch my ear with a hoof. This fucking sucks. The shack is completely empty but has a hole large enough for a pony. I hoof over a potion to Crimson.

"Here, your no good to me wounded. Keep them occupied."

He takes it hesitantly," What are you gonna do?"

    Pulling my leather armor off I give him a smirk and pull the blowgun I had acquired the day before out of my bag," Gonna do some fishing."

    With that I pull my cowl down and duck under the hole. I activate my E.F.S. and move along the back of the buildings just as I hear Crimson start returning fire. I spot on of the towns ponies that are firing at the shack. He's ducked behind a crumbled wall with a sniper rifle. I quietly pull the blowgun out and slot a dart into it. With a puff of air it fires the dart and hits him in the flank. He jumps up with a yelp and turns on m.

    "You lit-" he stumbles and begins foaming at the mouth. After a few convulsions he goes still. Nice I'm liking this blowgun. I pick up the sniper rifle and look over the wall. Across from me there's a pegasus perched atop[ a water tower. Looking through the scope I aim at him and fire . The shot goes wide and I slot another bullet just as he turns his gun on me. The second shot rips through his chest and sends him flying off the tower.

One down.

    I throw the sniper rifle to the side and duck behind a building. I slot another dart in the blowgun and raise it as a unicorn comes into my field of vision. He's standing in front of a door with a shotgun in his grip. I shoot the dart at him and it hits him in the neck. I duck down just as he fires the shotgun in my direction. Three, two, one.

    I look back around the corner and find him in his death throes. I casually walk up to him as I secure my blowgun to a clip on my jumpsuit's belt and pick up the shotgun," Thank you dear."

    He glares up at me and tries to say something but goes limp before he can say it. Trotting up to the door I find it locked. Lucky me with a key. I shoot the door's knob and it swings open. Inside about six or seven foals are huddled in a corner with a mare glaring at me. To my right I catch a blur of movement. Acting on instinct I flick Memento out and ram the blade into my would be attacker. A pegasus mare with a sledgehammer held in her hooves stare at me in shock then at the blade halfway in her chest.

    That makes two. She slides off my blade with a whimper and bleeds out in a matter of seconds. The foals scream and start crying. The mare in the corner screams," Rose nooo!" She rushes to the pegasus's side and cradles her head, sobbing. I feel kinda torn right now. I mean I feel for her but I have a job to do. Suddenly she looks up at me and snarls," You monster!"

    No need for name calling. I feel what little remorse I felt get replaced by a coldness as I flick out Memento and press the blade to her throat," Now that I have your attention I-"

One of the foals runs at me and starts slamming his hooves against my side," Let us go!"

    I look at him with a bored stare before picking him up by the scruff and staring at him. He whimpers as my cat-like eyes bore into his. When I drop him, he runs back to the corner with the other foals with his tail between his legs. "As I was saying," I grunt before turning back to the mare," All of you behave and this will all be over pretty quickly."

"What do you want?" She hisses, her eyes narrowed.

    "You'll see," I say before slamming my hoof-blade bracer against the side of her skull, knocking her out cold. I pick up one of the whimpering foals and go to the front door. With a buck it opens and I walk outside.

    "Ok everypony your attention please!" I shout over the din of shots flying through the air," I have a colt here that would like very much not to decorate the ground with his brains." I press the muzzle of the gun to his temple," My companions and I are here for four pegasi that have been branded dashites. So if you don't want to see me kill seven foals you'll come here. Oh and any weapons you have toss em."

I    'm met with silence before a black furred pegasus lands before me, a scowl on his muzzle. Slowly the other four show themselves as well.

    "Hey Boom Boom, Crimson come on out!" I shout as I grin at the pegasi before me. A moment later Crimson lands beside me with Boom Boom on his back.

    "Crimson would you be a dear and guard the other foals for me please?" I ask him with all the sweetness I can muster. He rolls his eyes and goes inside. Boom sits down and yawns.

"You bitch," one of the dashites spits at the ground.

   Again with the name calling. "In my defense I wanted this operation to be simple and clean but nope," I raise my voice so Crimson can hear," Somepony had to go all trigger happy."

Fuck you," I hear from behind me.

    "Not if you were the last stallion on Equis," I yell back before looking at the dashites. I let the foal go and he runs off crying. One of the pegasi steps forward. I rush him and bury Memento in his neck. He falls to the ground with a strangled gurgle. The others turn on me but are stopped when they hear a scream from inside the building. Crimson is at the front door with the rest of the foals. One is sobbing directly in front of him.

"Don't try anything and they all die," he growls as he lowers his laser rifle at the crying filly.

    They all take a step back from me as I start cutting the dead stallion's cutie mark from his body. His cutie mark is a pair of silver coins with a lightning bolt carved into it. I shake off the blood and toss it to Boom Boom. He takes a step back and grimaces.

Ewww," he whines," Why do I have to carry it?"

"Because," I scoff," I'm the one that killed him and Crimson's busy."

"Fine," he groans as he picks up the severed cutie mark and places it in his bag.

    Without any further delay I dispatch the remaining pegasi as they try to defend themselves. When I have their cutie marks I trot over to the fallen body of the pegasus I had killed earlier, which had luckily landed not too far from where I am now, and did the same to him. Many of the towns ponies had come out of their hiding spots. Many are glaring at me but they dare not move.

    "Good job," I grin at him," Glad to see you can be trained." He scowls at me as I trot inside with Boom Boom following close behind. With the final cutie mark in my possession I go back out side."Thank you everypony for your cooperation," I shout," Now we will get out of your manes."

I look over my shoulder at Crimson," Grab one of them."

He complies and I let Boom Boom climb on my back.

"Oh yeah Crimson has your bag," Boom Boom chirps suddenly.

"Oh good thanks," I say as I extend my wings and take to the sky.

    Crimson follows after us with one of the foals clutched in his hooves. She whimpers and struggles in his grasp but to no avail. We fly a good distance away from the small settlement and land in a grove of burnt trees.

"Alright release her," I tell him as I grab my saddlebags from off his back.

He grunts and lets her go but she just stares at us, afraid to move.

I glare at her," Well what are you waiting for permission? Leave!"

    She scrambles to leave and manages to trip as she does. Boom Boom rolls on the ground in hysterics at her reaction and I can't help but chuckle too," Well that could have gone much better but at least the jobs done."

"Yeah," Crimson says then hesitates," Umm good job I guess."

"Do my ears deceive me is that a compliment?"

"Don't look too much into it," Crimson grumbles as he checks his wing. I snicker and turn to Boom Boom.

"Not bad for our first job hmmm?"

He looks up at me with a bored expression," I guess but I didn't get to blow anything up."

    "Next time you can I promise," I say as I ruffle his mane. Suddenly an earsplitting scream rips through the air. Boom Boom ducks under me and Crimson readies his laser rifle. I stand stock still, frozen in place as a chill runs up my spine.

"What the fuck was that?" I whisper to Crimson.

    He shakes his head and starts moving into further into the trees. Oh yeah good idea move toward the scream. Brilliant idea... again. Grumbling I follow him with Boom Boom managing to stay under me as I go. After about thirty minutes of walking we come across a cavern opening. Crimson goes in first and I follow. What is inside I did not expect to see.

"Holy shit."

    All around the cavern were the mutilated corpses of raiders. Blood stained the walls and gore littered the rock floor. Crimson lowered his rifle.

"Mon déesse," he mumbled.

    "You said it," I say, my mouth suddenly very dry. Glad to know he's not the only one shocked by this. I have to fight throwing up at the carnage here. I mean I've killed but this is on a different level. Not one body was in tact. Boom Boom isn't so lucky. He spews his lunch all over the floor. Crimson starts moving further into the cavern. I follow after him after I gain the ability to keep my own lunch down.

"Boom Boom stay here."

    He raises a hoof and opens his mouth to say something but stops to vomit again. Poor kid. I stay close to Crimson. Against the wall far in the back of the cavern there's the body of a small filly but this one isn't mutilated, apart from the dried blood on her. She's laying on her back and her eyes are closed. If I didn't know any better I'd think she was a sleep. Someone had laid out her body and I'm pretty sure it wasn't the raiders.

"Why would the killer lay out this body but mutilate the others?" I ask looking at Crimson.

He shakes his head," Killer with a conscious?"

    I roll my eyes at his joke and look to the tunnel to our left and start down it with Crimson following after me. Before long we come to an open Stable door. A few more mutilated corpses are in front of the massive steel door, as well another body was laid out. This one is a stallion with a slave collar around his neck. I pass over the body and start inside the Stable. Crimson stops me," We should leave and report this to the Colonel."

    "I want to figure out what happened here," I say with a glare," You can either follow me or stay here." I'm determined to find out what the hell happened here and my gut was telling me I'd find my answer inside.

Crimson holds my glare before growling," Fine. I'll cover your back."

    I nod and go up the flight of stairs. I take a look at my Pipbuck's automap. The Stable is fairly small with only a few rooms. Inside the main room there are a few skeletons here and there with a doorway leading into a hall. Tables and chairs are upturned as if a struggle happened here and from the looks of the skeletons on the floor there had been. I slowly go down the hall with my E.F.S. active. I come to a door in the hall but find it locked. Damn it. I decide to come back to it later and go to the door at the end of the hall with a cracked panel beside it. Over the door is a plaque reading, 'Cryo Chamber.'

"What the hells a Cryo Chamber?" I ask, raising an eyebrow at Crimson.

He shrugs," Something to do with ice I think." Well a lot of help you are. With a sigh I go up to the door and it slides open.

    "Fuck!" Startled I jump in the air and find myself in Crimson's forehooves. He gives me an annoyed look as our muzzles touch. I chuckle nervously," Hehe my bad."

He just dumps me on the floor. Some gentlecolt he is. "Get your shit together," he snorts and goes into the room.

    "Dick," I mumble before pulling myself off the ground and following him. The room is a decent size with five pods against the back wall and a pair of long metal tables running the length of the room against the walls. A single terminal is on the table to my right and is on. Curious I go toward it and click it on. It goes straight to a screen with three audio entries on it, all of them are dated over two hundred years ago. I click the first one.

"Log number sixty-two,

    We've made some headway on Project Raging Sun but we had to relocate here last week. Princess Luna has been feeling paranoid about the idea of a traitor in our midst and I don't blame her. Inkie says she has things covered but I don't know I can't shake the feeling that something bad's going to happen. Haha look at me I'm acting like Pinks besides my sixth sense is only with mechines. Anyway today I was able to successfully perform an atomic fusion. Thank Celestia for the creation of the Megaspells. Without them this wouldn't have been possible. With a few more tests I believe we can move the project along. Tomorrow I will start on the reactor design. Things are looking up. Blintel  Arcaya Pie signing off."

What the hell is Project Raging Sun? The voice is feminine meaning it was a mare talking. I click on the second entry.

"Log sxty-three,

    Today the reactor has worked and it was stable! All my hard work has finally paid off. We're a step closer to ending this damn war. The reactor will be taken to another facility. I will be going there in a few days once I am done here to. Then the real work begins."

I only received more questions from this one I can only hope the next one has my answers.

    "Pinks I'm"-sigh-" I'm sorry. We failed. We bloody failed. If only that bit"-Sigh-"No I won't slander her. She did what she thought was right. Pinks I'm sorry we weren't able to end this war before it was too late. I can't get ahold of Blinkie. I think she's dead. Goddess I hope she made it to one of the Stables. I made it into one of the labs they had made here in the Prench République. It's designed like a Stable so it can stand up to the bombs but I had to deal with some ponies. They were traitors Pinks I had to... Pinkie I need to tell you something. I have something inside me that's not normal. I'm-I-I have a darkness Pinks, an evil inside me. I like to kill, no need to kill. I've done it since I was young. I was thirteen the first time I killed. I never killed innocent ponies though, only bad ponies, evil ponies. I know it doesn't justify what I di or what I am. I'm a monster plain and simple. I wanted you to know before we... Before I'll never see you again. I love you little sister and I always will. I just hope that you can forgive me for lying to you all these years. I'm going to have to use one of these Cryopods and I hope I'll see you again."

    The voice was different this time but was still a mare's. The message had been set to go to one of the Ministry of Morale hubs in Equestria but the link had become corrupted. There's dent in the counter beside the terminal the shape of a hoof and some wet spots on the floor that are still fairly fresh.

"I think our killer was one of these pod's occupants," Crimson says walking up bedside me.

"Yeah and I bet she's the one who made this message," I say and play it for him.

     His expression stays blank as he listens to it. When it ends he takes a step back," I think your right and that would explain why we saw that carnage out there."

"But who would be able to kill that many ponies that are armed and crazy to boot?"

He grins slightly," I don't know but whoever they are I want to meet em."

    I do believe that is the first time I've seen him smile. He's kinda cute when he smiles. Bad brain don't think that. I push past him, fighting my blush and go to the other table. It's surface is littered with papers that are too degraded to read but there is a key on the table. I spot a card on the table and grab it. It's blank aside from the black swipe bar on it. I then remember the locked door had a card swipe beside it. On a hunch I go over to the door in the hall and slid the card. It flashes green and the door opens.

Bingo.

    Stepping inside I see a bunch of blue, black combat armor sets; the kind that police ponies wore before the war. I look through them trying to find one that will fit me and luckily enough I find one. It's even made for a pegasus! I put my saddle bags on the floor and slip it on over my jump suit. It's snug and padded just enough to stop a bullet but enough so I could still move freely. On its side just under my wing is the attachment for a rifle to be holstered.

    In the back of the small armory is a single case. On its top it reads 'Assassin Mk 1.' Inside is the parts for a grey rifle of some sort with a camouflage paint job. the parts are snugly held by a felt foam. Strangely enough the pieces aren't metal. They're smooth and really light.

"Hey what did you find?" Crimson walks into the small armory. He whistles when he sees my new armor," Nice find."

"Yeah even found this," I say showing him the dismantled rifle," Think you can reassemble it?"

    He looks at it and shrugs," Sure." He pulls the pieces out and assembles the rifle. When he's done it turns out to be a sleek sniper rifle. The end has a silencer attached to it. Its made so a pony can fire it easily with their hooves. This rifle was defiantly made with pegasi and earth ponies in mind. I picked it up and looked through the scope.

"Can you even fire that thing?" Crimson asks.

I look at him out of the corner of my eye," What's there to know you point and pull the trigger."

    He rolls his eyes at me," Well first you're going to need ammo." He looks around until he spots a single ammo box. It's locked but he shoots it with his laser rifle. I jump back startled. What the hell dumbass!?!

"Are you fucking insane!?!" I yell," What if that thing was full of grenades or something!?!"

    "That would have been illogical considering that is the only weapon in here," Crimson grunts and pulls out a couple of boxes of .50 caliber bullets and a few loaded magazines from the box," There's about sixteen boxes of ammo here. There must be well over two hundred bullets here."

    I swear to the Moon and Sun this bastard's psycho. With all my willpower I decide to let it roll off my back. "Good that means I don't have to be stingy with em," I say as I take one to the magazines, which holds about five bullets, and load the rifle. I spot a strap inside the gun case and grab it. After securing it to the rifle I string the rifle over my shoulders where it fits snuggly between my wings. Crimson helps me get the bullets into my saddle bags. On the armor I notice a few pouches where magazines can be placed for quick removal on the belt and I slip the three preloaded magazines into them. Feeling pretty badass I trot happily out of the room and into the room with the skeletons. Pulling the rifle off my back I pull the action back, loading a bullet and look through the scope. I aim at one of the skeleton's skull that is hunched against the farthest wall from me and fire. There is very little recoil and the shot was pretty quiet despite being in a metal room. I still miss though, horribly.

"Try exhaling slowly then pulling the trigger," I hear Crimson say behind me.

    I glare at him and load another round. I look through the scope again, aiming it at the skeleton I had missed. Fuck it. I take a breathe, exhale slowly and fire. The shot grazes the skull but still manages to obliterate half the old skeleton's skull. I smile brightly and look at Crimson, who is wearing an 'I told you so' look.

"Not bad but your still off," Crimson says before making his way toward the Stable's entrance.

    I follow grumbling. I thought it was a decent shot. When we track back through the cavern I see Boom Boom waiting by the entrance. He looks bored as hell as he tinkers with one of his mines. Beside him is a pile of grenades and mines that he more than likely scavenged the bodies for.

"You got over that pretty quick."

He looks up at me and grins," No amount of dead ponies will keep me from things that go boom."

   I chuckle while Crimson brushes past me. "Come on," he snorts," We need to get out of here and report what happened here."

"An' what happened here?"

    We all look up to see a trio of raiders walk out from behind the trees in front of the cavern. They're eyes are focused solely on Crimson considering he's the only one outside.

    "Alors dites-moi pourquoi vous êtes une jument et un poulain ici tout seul," one of the raiders asks, a sick grin on his face," Sortie en famille peut-être."

    "Oui la femme voulait tuer des voleurs," Crimson says with a dark grin as he quickly aims his rifle at the raider that spoke and fired a pink magic beam at him. The raider turned to ash on the spot. The other two raiders stare at the spot their comrade had occupied, shocked just long enough for Crimson to Rush the other. Boom Boom ducks behind me as I pull my sniper rifle out and load a round.

    Red electricity lances along Crimson's armored foreleg as he punches one of the raiders in the muzzle. With a scream his body locks up form the shock. The other raider curses and pulls a crude machete from its sheath. I take aim and fire. The shot rips through the raider's chest, lifts him off his hooves and sends him crashing into one of the burnt tree trunks. Crimson looks at me with a mildly impressed expression at my timing before wrapping his hooves around the paralyzed raiders neck. With a wet crack he snaps the raider's neck.

    "Shall we head back," he says as his expression turns bored. Huh so he smiles when he kills that is interesting. Why am I strangely turned on by that?

    "Yeah," I breathe. Is it hot in this armor or is it me? He nods and takes to the sky with a pump of his wings. With a shake of my head I let Boom Boom climb on and we follow after Crimson.

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