Fallout Equestria: A brother's sacrifice

chapter 3

Deep into raider territory

It was early in the morning, the sun was just starting ti rise bathing the whole town in a pink light. Sabre was waiting outside the saloon for Lancer "come on, Lancer we need to go" Sabre said quietly so not to wake the whole town.

"Yeah, yeah 'm coming" Lancer said with a yawn "how are you even awake it's like 5am?”

"After you go on a few morning patrols you get used to getting up at this hour" sabre said trotting to the gate “Now, let’s get going we should be able to get to the raider hideout by sunset". As they approached the gate they could see that there were a lot less guards on the gate than usual.

"You two leaving already it's a bit early" the guard posted at the gate said.

"We need all the light we can get it's going to be a long journey" Lancer said. The two walked out of the gate and took flight heading towards the Raider controlled territory.

The two had been flying for nearly an hour in silence just looking the ruins of Equestria  "So how are you holding up bro" Sabre said breaking the silence as if it were glass.

"Well I could use a break" Lancer said flying a few feet away from Sabre panting for air.

"No I mean like being a Dashite and everything it must be stressful. We weren’t pampered but down here its harsh"

“Oh well yeah I’m fine it's a bit weird knowing we'll never see the sky again and that most our friends want to kill us but at least I’m probably doing some good down here instead of being stuck in an armoury all day. Up there I had no one to impress"

"You know Lancer, you didn't have to come with me. I would have been fine and they wouldn’t of given a flying feather about you"

"You’re kidding you won't last ten minutes without me. You don't have any first aid training and you probably would have tried to shoot the vertibuck to get the engine running"

"Yeah I probably would have done that. Hey, how did you know how to fly that thing anyway?" Sabre inquired

“Oh, one pilot wanted some cool pattern painted on his vertibuck and in return he showed me the basics”

The two finally made it to the raider armoury and landed on a partially crumbled building a few hundred yards away. As soon as they landed Lancer collapsed to the floor exhausted. "Oh come on we have not been flying for that long" Sabre said flexing his wings.

"Hey it's not my fault that my job didn't include long distance flying" Lancer in defence getting up from the floor panting heavily. The two sat down on the concrete roof, Sabre pulled out a pair of binoculars from his saddlebags and Lancer looked through his rifle scope. The armoury was a small compound with a large concrete building in the centre surrounded by smaller buildings ranging from offices to storage sheds. One wall appeared to be used for executions; the concrete wall was full of bullet holes to the point where the internal rebar was visible and was covered in blood. The sight of it made Sabre gulp in worry and made Lancer very uncomfortable about what the Equestrian wasteland was really like. Judging by the size of the compound and the number of raiders the rest of the base was underground. Surrounding it where a dozen ruined buildings like the one they were sat on. Lancer used the SATS targeting spell in his rifle scope to count the raiders “There are about twenty raiders. There’s one wearing a funny hat that looks like the leader. I only have thirty bullets tops, so what’s the plan?" Lancer said looking at Sabre.

"Well it looks like most of the raiders are around that hangar-like building maybe if…I'll fly to the hanger you'll cover me" Sabre said Lancer pulled his sniper rifle scope to his eye and inserting the magazine into the weapon. Lancer nodded and Sabre flew to the ground. Sabre moved low through the concrete gravel ruins towards the hanger. As he got closer to could two raiders standing around a mutilated copse, too mutilated to even tell what it was. The smell made Sabre gag.

"What do you think of my masterpiece" the raider wearing tattered leather barding said to the other.

"Beautiful, now can I fuck him!" the other one said with a grin, the expression on his face looked like he meant it.

"The sick bastards what next killing kittens?" Sabre thought to himself. He moved up behind one and pointed at the other indicating to Lancer to shoot him. “Surprise motherbucker!” Sabre whispered as he stabbed the first guard in the throat, there was a loud splat as the bullet from Lancer’s rifle passed through the raider’s right eye, the blood dripped onto the floor coalescing into a puddle. No one had heard that but from the looks of the copse screams where normal around here.

As Sabre got closer to the hanger he could see the raider leader which was a huge earth pony seating on a seat made out of scrap metal, bones and unidentifiable body parts. Lancer had shot several more raiders with pin-point accuracy. There were five raiders around him which looked like they were moving equipment out of the hangar. Sabre took position behind a charred crate, aimed and fired a shot into the back of one the raiders carrying a large metal box on his back; the shot turned the raider to ash in a flash of bright green fire.

"Let's do this this" Lancer yelled to himself shooting one of the raiders near Sabre, splashing blood on him. The raider leader got out of his chair and charged into the crate smashing it throwing Sabre to the floor.

"Time to die birdy" the earth pony raider leader yelled. Sabre scrambled to his hooves and fired his plasma rifle at him at point blank, even though it was so close the shot only burned the raider’s barding and green coat, the only apparent effect was that his attacks became more aggressive. He charged towards Sabre, as the raider leader charged a bullet went through his leg causing him to collapse a few seconds before ramming into Sabre. Sabre trotted up to the leader and finished him off by shooting him in the chest turning half the body to ash. Lancer finished off the big hat wearing raider. Seeing the death of the apparently undefeatable leader caused the other raiders to flee in random directions. Lancer flew down to Sabre who was looking through a crate for loot "Hey nice shooting bro"

"Thanks, find anything good. Also pass me any scrap metal you come across"

"okay, all I found just pre-war Junk or weapons and barding" Sabre said with his head in a create "let’s not stay long I want to get as far away as possible from this place"

"But, but... there are so many weapons, amour and stuff we have to stay for a while" Lancer said pleading with wide eyes holding his hoofs together.

"Ok we can stay a while" Sabre said defeated. They both started going through the crates putting as much loot into their saddle packs as they could.

"Bro do you want this" Lancer said pulling an automatic shotgun out of a crate.

"Nice gun, want this one? Now we have got as much as we can carry so let’s get out of here" Sabre said putting the shotgun into his saddle pack and passing a sub machine gun to Lancer. The two got back to town near sunset, the clouds glowing orange. If they could see the sun from down here I would have been beautiful.

They walked up to the sheriff who was helping to repair the breach in the wall with scrap metal. "Sheriff we took out the raider leader and cleared all most of the raiders" Lancer claimed.

"You didn't tell us he was massive" Sabre said.

"Sorry it was rumoured he was big but I thought it was just that" the sheriff said "I have your reward in my office if you just follow me"

"I need information, sheriff like why were the enclave here" Lancer said following her.

"Well they wanted us to stop trading with the gryphons so when we refused they got pretty pissed and threatened to kill us"

"So why didn't they?" Sabre said.

"I don't know maybe they figured it wasn’t worth the firepower to wipe a small shanty town off the face of Equestria" the three stepped onto a porch and the sheriff levitated a key out of her overcoat.

“Do you know where the gryphons are?" Sabre asked.

"Yeah I shouldn't be telling you this but I guess I can trust you given what you did for us earlier. If I get attacked ill kick your asses” the sheriff gulped “there base is down south built inside a mountain; the tall one that breaches the clouds. Why do you want to know anyway?" The sheriff said stepping inside her office and handing a large paper bag of caps to Lancer.

"Because we are going to join them" Sabre said. The sheriff stepped back in shock.