Fallout Equestria: A brother's sacrifice

**chapter 4

we're freindly I swear**

“What?!" Lancer said, shocked.

"Well the way I see it, us two attacking the enclave base is suicide but with an army of gryphons we can!

"Wait who said we were attacking the base, I Thought we were just going to set the records straight or something, I’m still not sure why you have such a grudge and what makes you think they will want our help?” Lancer protested.

"Come on bro, The Enclave won’t listen to a Dashite and why would they even care! They have lied to us our whole lives and they said the air down here was poisonous" Sabre stated.

"I know but we need to try to stop them one way or another, I know they were our friends"

"I don't know if they'll help you, they will probably have you executed for being pegasi but you can try" the sheriff said showing an extreme level of concern.

"Uhh…Thanks for the information sheriff” Sabre said.

“We don't have to go just yet do we? I think there is a cafe around he somewhere" Lancer said looking around trying to shake off his anxiety.

"There is one just down the street there, the sparkle cola is pretty good there too" the sheriff said pointing a hoof down the street to a simple two floor shack like building.

The two brothers silently trotted down the dirt street dreading the future to come.

"This place rebuilds fast! I thought it would take weeks to get the place looking better. I guess that’s and advantage of it being built from scrap metal; if it's damaged they can just put more scrap over it and you can't tell the difference" Sabre said trying to lighten the mood as they arrived at the café, it had tables and chairs around the entrance stretching out onto the street that had obviously been scavenged from different places since none matched. It had a cracked flickering neon sign atop the entrance.

"Welcome to my cafe" said a blue unicorn wearing stained ragged clothes that covered most of his body walked out of a storage room meet them "what can I get you two"

"Errr… I have no idea, what do you suggest" Lancer asked.

“How about a squirrel on a stick? They are pretty popular” the unicorn stated assuming his position behind the counter.

“What’s a squirrel?” Lancer asked Sabre quietly.

“It’s a small furry thing that runs up buildings” the unicorn interrupted

"What? You can't be serious! It’s an animal" Lancer protested giving an uncomfortable look to his brother.

"Just eat it you…flutterfluff" is all sabre said before being given it and taking a bite seeming to love its warm fleshy taste.

"Do you have any kind of fruit or vegetables?" Lancer asked.

"Yeah if you want irradiated ones or two hundred year old canned ones or two hundred year old irradiated ones” The unicorn snickered.

"Canned I guess" lancer said. The two brothers sat down and ate even though lancer couldn't look at Sabre eating meat without gagging.

“At least the Enclave has nice-ish food” Lancer said staring at the unappetizing paste remnants floating in the can.

“DON’T MENTION THE ENCLAVE!” Sabre shouted hitting the table.

“shhhhh you are drawing attention, sorry, I know you hate them…allot, I’m not sure why you hate them so much but wherever you go I’m still with you…unless it’s a place where I have to eat squirrels” Lancer reassured Sabre.

“I-I’ll tell you why when we get home” Sabre sighed.

"I am never eating there again" Lancer said walking away from cafe towards the saloon with Sabre.

"Well you choose to have two hundred year old food"

As they entered the room Sabre dropped off his saddle bags, and sat down on the bed next to his beloved brother. “I’ll tell you what happened, Lancer. When I saw them firing on the innocent something inside of me awakened…i-I, I don’t know what but…I filled with rage…wanted to kill them…wanted to see the blood pour out of their eyes!” Lancer shivered, he had never seen this side his brother before.

“Sabre... You need help” Lancer said, worried.

“Every time I see that black Carapace armour I want to pull the trigger and not let go…L-Lancer help me”

“I-I don’t know how…” Lancer collapsed, a tear dripping down his face. The reality had hit him, he could never return to the cloudy plains he once called home. “I’m gonna die and I know it, if the shitty raiders don’t do it, the enclave certainly will. How are TWO PEGASI supposed to take down the most powerful military to ever exist?” Lancer curled up on his bed facing the rusty metal wall.

“Lancer, I don’t know…”a bolt of hopelessness shot through his soul. Sabre picked up his plasma rifle and pointed it at himself “we could…you know”

Lancer rolled over, leapt across the room and knocked the glowing gun on to the floor.

“I WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO DO THAT” he then slapped Sabre across the face. “That lets them win” Lancer looked into his distressed brothers eyes “we are not killing ourselves, but if we have to we’re gonna take those fuckers with us”

"I...I need some air" Sabre said as he brushed himself off and left the room. Lancer just sat back down on his bed with tears in his eyes.

The next day the two brothers where walking out of the general store after selling some spare equipment and scrap from the armoury. The sky was still crammed with ominous clouds and the sun was nearly impossible to locate behind them. The two had not mentioned what had happened the night before or when Sabre stumbled home clearly drunk. "Okay, we are done putting this off, we have to go now" Sabre said.

"Are you sure it's a really long flight" Lancer protested. He wanted to stall as long as possible but to no avail. Sabre could make out the worry stabbing into the back of his brother’s voice.

"Yes now" Sabre said taking flight into the dull sky, Lancer forced to follow.

"Why does everything important have to be so far away" Lancer complained.

The two had been flying for the best part of a day, it was early in the morning when they left and it was dark now. There had been no resistance since everything else in the wasteland never usually needed to look up. When they finally made it too the foot of the mountain they could see what appeared to be the Gryphon base which looked like it was nothing more than a blast door sticking out of the solid grey rock. “Do you think this is the right place?" Sabre asked looking at Lancer.

“I don’t know, maybe we should knock” Lancer replied jokingly. Just as two gryphons jumped out of the clouds and pointed there battle saddle’s at them "I'll take that as a yes"

"Stop right there enclave pig" one of the gryphons yelled, his battle saddle mounted minigun spinning ready to fire.

"We aren’t Enclave" Lancer yelled back. Sabre had advised him to put his front hooves in the air so he did so.

"Sure you’re not" the other gryphon argued. Another gryphon descended to see what was going on

"You! That black one, bring him here” the newly arrived gryphon demanded. ”What is your name, pony? “He asked as the minigun gryphon pulled him higher into the air. The new Gryphon seemed calm of the situation. Lancer remained silent as sweat poured from his brow.

“S-sabre, no last name” Sabre had abandoned his family name after the incident with his father.

”Sabre, you were the rouge Enclave pony from the massacre who assisted us, are you not?" Sabre nodded.

“Ha, he went batpony shit crazy, or so I’ve heard” one of the gryphons said to the other.

“Bring him, and the white one, but keep an eye on them, the do anything suspicious drop em” the gryphon said, the two gun wielding gryphons grabbed Sabre and Lancer by the back of the neck with their claws and escorted them to the entrance to the main part of the base. The huge steel door began to open, creaking and groaning with strain. The two brothers where blind folded and striped of their guns for security purposes and taken inside, the door sealing behind them. As they were walking forwards they could here sounds of mumbling and a few boo's, evidently Pegasus ponies were not very popular. After about five minutes of walking through what seemed like concrete and steel corridors the blind fold was taken off. they were in a small concrete room.

"And just like that we’re prisoners" Sabre said.

"Being in this room is either really good or really bad" Lancer said to Sabre as the door slammed shut.

"Well at least they didn't shoot us on sight, or stab us, or hang our corpses on the walls…yet" Sabre said.

"So, what now?”  Lancer was anxious of the intentions of the gryphons.

"Well they’ll probably want to interrogate us to see if what we say is true" Sabre said. Lancer knew allot but he didn't know much when it came to war time situations or combat. Just then the metal door opened and a sapphire blue Pegasus mare walked in.

"Ahh, Sabre and Lancer. It’s good to finally meet you two" holding out her hoof.

"And you are?" Sabre asked. Both of them wondered what another Pegasus was doing here, Lancer’s wings awkwardly sprung out causing him to blush.

"Sapphire” she stated “I'm the reason you were able to escape from the enclave, I stopped them from hunting you down after you landed"

“uhh… nice to meet you?” Lancer said trying not to stare at her flank.

"Sorry for being putting you in this in a cell but they don't get many visitors, especially EX Enclave Pegasi, you must see my concern. I never thought I’d see another Dashite after me, never mind two!” She said having noticed Sabres scar.

"It's alright it has happened allot recently" Sabre said.

“How do you know us” the brothers said simultaneously.

“The Enclave isn’t as secure as it thinks it is, walk with me” Sapphire said as she left the room. The Brothers followed. “I want to know how you even found us" Sapphire asked as she started to walk down the corridor into a room with a large map showing most of the Equestrian wasteland.

"We asked…it’s a mountain full of Gryphons! Sompony’s gonna see it!" Sabre said.

"So why did you come here anyway?" Sapphire inquired.

"To join you and maybe see if you can help us destroy enclave bases or give us a chance to damage the Enclave government…or something” Sabre said trying not to look insane.

"Yeah you and every gryphon in this base" a black and white gryphon said.

“Artemis, I'd like you to meet the pony who saved your life" Sapphire said pointing towards Sabre.

“I’m Sabre and this is my brother lancer" Sabre said, holding out a hoof which Artemis shook with a claw.

“So you’re the one who went crazy and attacked his own team well thanks it helped us allot" Artemis said gratefully.

Multiple Gryphon voices could be heard in the background. They seemed to be monitoring multiple terminals each, some occasionally called out. The map in the centre showed locations of some Enclave cloudships, mostly raptors.

“ma’am, Raptor designation: 45- Nacreous” is on patrol, it will come within three miles of the base” one of the gryphons called out to Sapphire.

"Leave it be, call back all outside forces, we don’t want to piss it off” once she had given the order the Gryphons returned to their workstations.

"Why don't you attack them?" Sabre asked.

"We want to but we don't have the equipment to take the base on" Sapphire said, “We can’t even drop a Raptor”

"We could help you out there, there was a raider base in an armoury they might still have some equipment left, I’m sure there was a missile launcher” Sabre said.

"Ok we'll send a team to the armoury in the morning, right now you are guests for the help you gave us" Artemis said. “We will send messages down so you don’t get, you know, murdered" Artemis said awkwardly.