Fallout Equestria: The Ink, and The Cherry

      Five days had passed since we met Redemption. Those five days were pretty univentful we just trained, learned how to survive and maintain our gear, and I read The Wasteland Survival guide the part about the wastelands factions intrigued me. The only ones I bothered to read about were The Crusaders, The Reapers, The Steel Rangers, The Enclave,The Pecos, and the Talons. The Crusaders were a group of kids that worked together trying to survive only catch was if you had a cutiemark you weren't allowed in their little group. The Reapers were a brutal group of bandits that were insanely hard to kill from what the book said some could survive a shotgun blast point blank to the face. The Steel Rangers were the remnants of a group of the army before the war they mostly hoarded tech not much else. The Enclave were a  bunch of power armor wearing pegasi that kept claiming to want to help the surface, but from what the book said that was a load of hogwash.

      The Pecos didn't have much of a file other then being a rather decent slave driving group (don't know how slavers could be considered decent.) Lastly the Talon Company. They are a group of griffon only mercenaries that aren't afraid to get their claws dirty. They had big guns, big muscles, and no problem with helping slavers, bandits, and other fiendish groups so long as they had the caps (not sure who decided bottle caps should be currency but meh), and didn't stab them in the back.

      "Hey Redemption what's your story?" I asked our new companion whom was cleaning her rifle Brain Splitter with a oiled rag. She glared at me which caused me to jump, but she sighed.

"Don't see why I should keep my past a secret anymore." she stated placing her rifle on the table then the purple earth pony began her story. "I was born to a slave mother, and a doctor that just so happened to work for said slave group. By the age of ten I was forced to work as a slave. I had hit puberty so they deemed me old enough for it...the slavers also though this meant I was fare game. Two failed attempts and two gelded stallions later they stopped trying." she chuckled a bit then returned to the story.

      "When I reached 13 I was sick and tired of the slave life, and so I planned to escape...the slavers caught wind of my plan and so they got to me before I could put my plan into action" she was shaking now "They bound me, and held a rifle to my head so I wouldn't retaliate...they used me so many times..." tears were slowly running down her face now.

"You don't have to continue..." I told her.

      "Yes I do...can't leave things like this bottled up now can you?" she wiped the tears from her face with her foreleg and continued "I forced myself to miscarriage...I wasn't going to let another filly or colt be born a slave and be forced to live that kind of life...so when I escaped with a few of my fellow slaves I killed those men who raped me...and when I was done..." she grinned "I cut their dicks off and shoved them down their dead throats." she grabbed a bottle of scotch and took a sip "I then found Brain Splitter on one of their corpses, and a battle saddle in the armory. With these tools I freed twelve slaves, and escaped...seems like those ghouls had other intentions...thanks for avenging them you didn't even know them, but you fought those monsters just because." she smiled an actual smile. Not a smirk, not a grin, a honest to Celestia smile! In the past few days she's been with us she had never smiled. Just the occasional smirk, or grin if we did something stupid.

      "What was I supposed to do? Wait for those things to find another victim? No thank you." I responded "So what happened after that?"

"Well me and my group of slaves made it a mile from the slave camp. We were home free, but a fucking sniper shot my in the leg. I told my group to keep running and they did. I would've died if Minos hadn't found me." she sat there waiting. I rolled my eyes.

      "Who's Minos..." I asked halfheartedly. I really hated it when ponies basically force me to ask questions.

"He was a Minotaur. He scooped me up, and reunited me with my friends. A day before my group got to Ponyville Minos was abducted by slavers. They were after me, but he got in the way..." she took another sip of scotch "If he's alive I don't know how I'll find him."

      The moment she said that was the moment I started developing a plan to find, free, and recruit this Minos. Because I saw how his loss was tearing Redemption apart, and if there is one thing I hate more than feral ghouls...it's a sad friend.

      Our little rag tag group of rookies had been traveling the road for only a day, and we had been attacked by radgators, blood wings (mutated vampire bats the size of Celestia), a single radroach, and a...giant bannana slug? We scavenged some things from random corpses, buildings, and crates we found along our journey. Were are we going? Manehattan. Why? To meet DJ-Pon3, and try and find out were Minos was being held.

      Redemption was absolutely thrilled to hear my plan, and was willing to help at all costs. Cherry was also glad, but wouldn't assist if it involved fighting. Flaming was okay with it turns out he doesn't like killing he just does it to survive. As for me...I wasn't to keen on murder, but if what Redemption said these guys do is true...they forfeited the right to live...man am I already going full blown killer mode? Well since I wasn't killing my allies that's a no so I'm glad about that.

      We continued on the road barely resting except to eat, or drink. I wasn't a very durable pony you see so this was kinda straining, but it had to be done. We were a full days travel from Tenpony Tower were DJ-Pon3 resided, and we weren't stopping till we got there. I had saved up 257 caps through out our scavenging sessions. I had twice that amount in scrap (my Pip-buck said so).

      Just as we were on the verge of collapse my Pip-buck chirped as a message appeared it read 'Location Found Kind Hearts Road Side Hotel' "Well I think a little rest is in order..." I concluded my legs shaking from exhaustion. Nopony argued as I went and knocked on the main door. A bright green unicorn mare answered the door. Her mane was blood red, and her eyes were pink her cutiemark was a bleeding heart.

    "Hyia I'm Kind Heart welcome to my hotel!"

Footnote

Level up!

Perk gained Intense training (1) +1 Endurance