Fallout Equestria: A brother's sacrifice

Chapter 2

Weclome to the wasteland

The two brothers woke up in the wreckage of the vertibuck "Hey bro are you ok" Sabre said coughing as stood up and started walking toward the hole where the aircraft’s door used to be.

"Yeah I’m fine but I don't think we will be using the vertibuck anytime soon" lancer said looking into the cockpit through the cracked windows, the magical instruments were either offline or destroyed.

"Oh…You have to see this" Sabre said standing next to the wreckage of the vertibuck. Lancer trotted outside and saw it for the first time. The Equestrian Wasteland was scattered with baron plains with hills and mountains in the distance rising up into the grey sky. They could see a pink cloud surrounding some sort of city

"wow, umm shi-" Lancer said in shock he had never seen the wasteland before. The two brothers had some knowledge of the Great War but only the propaganda and lie infested Enclave version of it learned in school. Sabre had only seen some less devastated areas in combat but had no time to ‘admire’ the scenery. The area contained only a couple of ruined buildings and a long stretch of cracked road going leading over a nearby hill.

"Come on, let’s follow the road, there must be a town or settlement nearby" Sabre said taking flight and flying for the road. “Watch yourself down here, from what I have seen and heard from reconnaissance there are no laws, no hierarchy, most ponies become soulless raiders and all manner of unnatural creatures”.

"Ok so everything down here wants us dead or something? So… you mind telling me why you’re a Dashite?" Lancer said catching up to Sabre.

"They told me the base we were attacking was full of insane gryphons getting ready to attack us but when we arrived everything went to shit ,A group of gryphons tried to leave and we were told to shoot them so we did" sabre said in an angry tone, tears almost welling in his eyes. "we fired on them, killing them but when we got closer we got a good look at them" he then took a deep breath "the ones we shot were innocent Women and children just trying to escape from the fighting, there were so many, they had no chance, Heavy Weight v-vaporised a family w-with his battl… AND STARTED LAUGHING THE SICK BASTARD and when I radioed it in they told me something along the lines of “so what…they’re gryphons make sure they don't get away” so I told them to go fuck themselves and I made sure that the other gryphons got out by creating a diversion and sure I can be a plot sometimes but I will NEVER kill unarmed children”. Sabre had to land and sit down for a while.

"Shit Sabre, what kind of diversion?” Lancer asked. "I took a few pot-shots at the Raptor and started shooting at the others not to kill just to distract them, all I did was scorch the paint on the Raptor and burn the tails of some of the soldiers" Sabre hunched over.

"Damn, they brought in some heavy firepower then, why they didn't just kill you right there?" Lancer said sitting down next to Sabre.

"I think they wanted to make an example of me or something"

"Hey are you alright bro? I know it must be tough” Lancer questioned reassuringly.

"Tough that not the half of it, I have wanted to serve the Enclave all my life, my cutie mark even a shield which shows I was meant to serve as ‘a defender of the great Pegasus race’ and as soon as I try to protect some children they brand me a Dashite" Sabre said looking at his sore flank.

“That’s probably because they weren’t pegasi, heh, so much for ‘restoring the glory and beauty of Equestria’, sorry about your cutie mark” Lancer said looking at the clouds.

"It doesn't matter now, it's gone and it's been replace by a constant reminder of what we need to do" sabre said with a tear in his eye.

"What would that be" Lancer asked looking towards Sabre nervously.

"Now we get revenge on the bastards who branded us Dashites" the veins in sabres neck almost visible. They had set of trotting down the road at a brisk pace.

"We need to find a town or something and get some supplies like food, water and Ammunition before we do anything" Lancer said though his saddle bags. ”I was only able to get a few water bottles, healing potions and MREs, these vests I got only stop low velocity bullets from small firearms, I didn’t get much combat training, also my rifle only has three spare magazines with special ammunition but is completely silent. Your magical plasma rifle regenerates its supplies after a while but is susceptible to burnouts. These pistols have plenty of power cells”

"Please stop that high-tech gun talk, I think I see something up ahead it might be a settlement or at least it might have some supplies" Sabre said flying high in the air to get a better look. The two flew towards a small town surrounded by a damaged metal and concrete wall. The wall looked to be made out of everything from bits of other houses to scrap metal that has long since rusted but looked like had been in a fight, from what they could see the town was peppered with holes straight though it which looked like it had been made by some sort of explosion. As the two flew towards the town Sabre powered up his magical rifle and Lancer drew his sniper with his mouth as a precaution, they walked up to the gates two guards wearing some sort of armour that covered their entire bodies jumped out from behind a wall, one pointed a magazine fed shotgun at them, the other pointed an assault carbine

"What do you pegasi want? The guard on the right questioned in an aggressively, “we’ve done nothing to upset the Enclave now, so why don’t you take your business elsewhere?” the guard on the right said, “leave now or we will fire on you!” another guard wearing much more armour yelled in a feminine voice as she pointed a chain-gun at them.

"Whoa calm down! We’re not Enclave, we just need some supplies when we will be gone" Sabre said showing them his Dashite mark

"Oh, then you can come in but if you so much as look at your gun we will shoot you like the scum you pegasuses are" the guard on the left said. “Also to be safe remove the Enclave symbol from your clothing”.

“Yeah uhh, sure, by the way, it’s pegasi” Lancer said as the two walked through the gates they could enter the town the guard giving a frown under his helmet.. It had five buildings on each side and it was full of earth ponies and unicorns wearing makeshift armour and wielding old looking weapons. The two brothers had never seen so many ponies that weren’t pegasi. "What was all that about?" lancer asked.

"Apparently they hate for closing the sky a few hundred years ago and if we were wearing power armour they probably would have shot us on sight" Sabre said.

"Look mommy they have wings, can I have wings, can I go play with them” a small filly bearing a cardboard box as a cutie mark said to her mother.

"Yes they do, no you can't and I don't want you going near them" the mother said not missing a beat. She had good reason to fear Enclave and pegasi in general, especially ex-Enclave pegasi.

"Not everypony" Lancer said looking at the filly with a smile.

"There’s a general store over there" Sabre said. The two trotted up to the building. The building itself was a two story wooden shack-like building with burn marks around the windows.

"Can I help you dearie?" A female elderly green earth pony said from behind the counter. Evidently the wasteland isn’t all savage.

"We need some food and medical supplies" Lancer said She placed a bucket of strange looking apples on the counter

“how many do you need?” she asked, “uhh, all of them if you can, how much? “Lancer asked looking at the other items in the store, “Two caps each “she stated.

“Umm…caps, I have Enclave credits”,

“sorry, those have no value down here, I can’t sell you anything until you have caps”. Lancer walked outside to find his brother. “Sabre we need things called Caps, they’re the currency down here”.

“Oh, well we’ve been offered a job; we protect the town and we get money and a place to stay” Sabre said considering the guard’s offer.

"Why what happened here" Lancer asked

"We have been getting attacked by raiders, normally we can hold them off but as of late they have been using missile and grenade launchers.” The guard said removing his helmet. He was a stone coloured unicorn with a green mane. He offered a hoofshake “I’m Night Vision sort of a second in command of the town, I apologise for the encounter at the gate, last time the Enclave were here it turned ugly so you’ll have to earn the resident’s trust”,

“I’m Sabre and this is my brother Lancer, also what are caps?

"No offence but have you been living under a rock? You’re new to the wasteland aren’t you?" Night Vision said. “Caps are bottle caps found on unopened bottles of sunrise sarsaparilla or sparkle cola, they’re plentiful so we use them as money. If you two help us out with the raider problem you can have a shack an-“Night Vision’s sentence was interrupted by gunfire The two brothers ran out of the shop front and head toward the gate where guards were shooting over the wall.

“RAIDER ATTACK, GET DOWN!” somepony shouted. The brothers approached the assault carbine wielding guard from earlier.

"What are you two doing here? We don't need yo-" the guard was cut off by another guard; she was a dark grey earth pony wearing a sheriff badge. "We need all the help we can get, you two, the raiders are in cover in a ruined building and if you attack them from above they won’t expect that, we need you to attack them from the air" the guard said.

"Are we really about to do this for some fruit?" Sabre asked. "No we are doing this because it is the right thing to do, and we need some money and accommodation” Lancer said in a near frustrated tone. "That’s what my commander said" Sabre said in a low tone. The two took flight and straight away where shot at by the raiders, bullets rushing past them. "You remember the flying manoeuvre I taught you" Sabre said as they flew toward the ruined building.

"Most of them" lancer said nervously.

"Good because it will only take one missile or bullet to bring you to the ground" Sabre said flying up to doge a missile. As the two got closer to the building the gun fire got more extreme. "Trust me on this" Sabre said and without waiting for a response he flew into one of the windows on the first floor and tackle on of the raiders. After a small hesitation Lancer took a few missile launcher wielding raiders down with his magically supressed rife, holding it in his teeth he fired four times the rifle only making a small click. Three bullets hit traveling straight through the raider’s chests the fourth missing. The rifles scope had a targeting spell similar to that of a Pipbuck. Lancer stowed the rifle on his back drew his Magical pistol and flew into the building.

"You’re insane" Lancer said joining Sabre. As lancer flew through the window he saw Sabre shooting on of the raiders in the neck burning a hole straight through, then instantly turning toward the door and gunning down two more. "Where did you learn that?" lancer said in shock.

"While you learned to fix guns, now stay close and try not to shoot me”

"Come on there are upstairs" a voice shout from under them.

"Lancer stay back and try to shoot them, my gun is acting up" Sabre said. He hit the side of the gun ejecting a small hot cracked crystal, “Damn it, burnout”

“Stop firing so quickly then…" Lancer yelled as he ran out of the door shooting anything that moved taking cover in the alcoves at the sides of the corridor. Lancer took up position at the window and lined up his shoots at the last raider wielding a missile launcher. Sabre wasn't acting right he normally wouldn't dive into a building full of hostiles even if he were wearing power armour instead of a combat vest but lancer couldn't think about that now he had to concentrate on his shots, the first passed through the missile launcher and into the raider’s head. Meanwhile Sabre rushed downstairs stepping over the corpses and ash piles that remained of the raiders he had gunned down.

"Survive this shitstick" said a raider wielding double grenade launcher battle saddle pointing at Sabre.

"Shit" is all Sabre could say before the explosion blasted him through a wall narrowly missing him.

"what the hell was that" Lancer said before he saw that most of the building where staircase was now completely gone . "oh no, no no no" he flew down to the bottom floor and saw scorched remains on the floor to burnt to even tell it where the battle saddle ended and the pony began "Sabre" lancer shouted out.

"Over here" sabre said coughing and wheezing, he was in the floor in a small room which looked like it used to be a kitchen his armour was burnt and covered in shrapnel entry holes. As Lancer helped him get up he still had ringing in his ears and had grazed his hind legs. "Lancer I need to breath" Sabre said.

"Don’t do that again" Lancer said letting go of Sabre "I think the building coming down! Let’s get out of here" Lancer said as part of the roof collapsed. Sabre limped out of the building with Lancer’s help just as the building fell in on itself.

"Look at them run do you think they will be back?" Sabre said.

"I doubt it now let’s get back to the town" Lancer said then took fight. As the two got back they were greeted by the sheriff.

"Thanks for your help here take this as a reward" the sheriff handed over a bag containing a few hundred caps” And there is a saloon at the end of the street I’m sure they will give a room for the night"

The two brothers sat on the jury-rigged beds in a small room inside the saloon, the walls appeared to be welded and nailed together. Lancer was repairing Sabre’s armour, cleaning their weapons and Sabre was preening his rustled feathers. A knocking came a sound from the door then the sheriff walked through the door "uhh, Hey sheriff can we help you" Lancer asked looking up at her.

"Please call me Bronze Swirl, but anyway raiders aren’t normally this organised or this well-equipped and I want you two to go to their hide out north of here in and take out their leader, we believe they have raided a nearby armoury”.

“Armoury?” Lancer gasped

“we think so, you like guns or something?” said Bronze,

“Yes, I worked in an armoury back in the Enclave” Lancer replied,

“Could you fix some equipment of us then, we’ll pay you” Bronze offered, sabre took the offer without hesitation.

“Why can’t your guards do it?” Sabre questioned,

“Because you have special tactics and reconnaissance skills, and you can fly” she replied "And because all the guards I have are needed to repair the wall and the buildings” Bronze Swirl said.

"Sure we’ll help" Lancer said.

"Thanks I knew I could count of you two" Bronze said walking out of the rusted door.

"Don't you think we should talk about this before we head off to get are selves killed again" Sabre said.

“Well, yeah, I need a new gun too, this one uses rare ammunition, and there were only three bullets of the correct calibre in the shop “Lancer said sighing, “can’t you modify it?” Sabre asked.

“Nope, the magical suppression spell is on the barrel and the barrel is what I have to change” Lancer replied.

"egghead" Sabre said.

“It’s getting late so I’m going to sleep”. Lancer said turning off the light.