Fallout Equestria: Sins of Retribution

"Rise and shine everypony!" Juniper called out, stomping her hoff against the concrete floor. Scarlet gave a groggy groan and clutched her head as she slowly woke from her slumber.

"Five more minutes Roulette, please?" Scarlet was still getting over that morning hangover while i sat up in my bed within the medical ward. All around us were various posters with the face of a yellow pegasus pony and a little whit bunny holding a carrot in his paws. I couldnt stand to see a pegasus, regardless of how many bunnies were scattered around them. They were the reason i was even out here to begin with afterall. They were the reason I was having to sleep with one eye open and a bullet in the chamber beneath my pillow, if i was lucky enough to sleep on an actual bed. They were the reason that my mother was dead...

The goddess can give you the strength to destroy them. The strange purple alicorns words floated around in my head as I sat there loathing the world I lived in. The goddess, whoever that was, was will to help me find and destroy an entire military faction? Normally I would pass that off as just another crazy dream from lack of sleep in almost two days. I must have been giving a death glare like no other at the poor Pegasai on the poster that it had drawn Scarlet's attention.

"You alright Shamrock? You look like you've seen a ghost. No pun intended." Scarlet gave a concerned glance to me as I put a hoof to my forehead, feeling the numerous beads of sweat begin trickling down my head. I was still lost in my own little world of jumbled up thoughts, delusions and various voices. We were up to our necks in so many different jobs that even i was starting to lose track. Currently, we were trying to find an Enclave sniper that had stolen water talismans in order to free the daughter of a zebra chieftan. Next up was the case of travelling to Tenpony towers in order to find out why/how I was still alive and bleached white. Finally and a much more personal agenda, was finding this so called "Goddess" and speak with her on getting revenge on an entire nation of pegasai. This is of course not counting the numerous shootouts and other fights to the death, that we would most likely experience along the way.

"Y-yeah, I'm just a little lightheaded right now. What time are we heading out?" I gave a small murmur as Juniper was already sliding her saddlebags on.

"Well i'm ready whenever you two are." Juniper glanced over at Scarlet as she slipped on a barret that I only remembered as the one that Blue Roullette wore. Even though I didn't like Roullette personally, I couldnt help but feel a little sorry for Scarlet Blaze. We had been on this journey for sometime now, yet I never even thought about what was going on in Scarlet's Mind while we went through all of this. Scarlet and Roulette spent who knows how long together, when he wasn't harassing me of course. Now the love of her life was dead.

I got about two steps out of the ward before the voice began to chime in my head.

It was official, I'm going insane.

You honestly think that a pony like Deadeyes is actually going to stay true to his word? She gave a snide laugh that made my entire body shudder. Deadeyes has no reason to not betray you, he'll have everything he needs and more. Meanwhile there would be nothing that you could do to stop him. I gritted my teeth as her voice continued buzzing in my brain.

"You sure you're okay Shamrock? Ever since you got nuked in that reactor room, you've been a little off." Scarlet trotted in front of me with a concerned stare.

"Look, I'll explain it to you later...lets just find those talismans alright?" My head felt like it was going to crack open and spill the mush that was my brain, out onto the floor.

You waste your time here Shamrock. Listen to the words of your mother. You must find tranquility, you must be made better. Real or not, she was really starting to strike quite a few nerves. I had been so caught up with the voice that I failed to notice the door right in front of me as I plowed face first into it.

"And you're positive you are ready for this Shamrock?" Juniper suppressed a laugh as I got to my hoofs and kicked the door open angrily.

"For Celestia's sake, yes! I am fine A-OK, locked and loaded, now can we just get this damn job out of the way?" I snapped as we trotted out of the facility and onto the dirt road. I began to run through the plan we had thought of in order to complete this entire ordeal. Somehow we were suppose to evade a trained snipers gunfire long enough to flush him out of a cave that we had no idea how to access. Even if we managed all of that, what would we do about the sniper?

Kill him of course. He is no better than any raider. Joy, we had managed to get about two hours into our walk with a voice free head before she decided to rear her ugly mental head. He and his comrades are the cause of your mothers death, think about that. Raiders have no morals. They are simply driven mad by the wasteland, what reasoning does the Enclave have? None. They callously murdered your mother and destroyed your home in nothing more than cold blood.

Okay, now I was really starting to hate this voice. Not because it kept preventing me from having the slightest bit of privacy or sense of normality. But because of the fact that the voice was right. What reason did the Enclave have for attacking New Hope? They only seemed to try and capture my mother...

Ah Doctor Cloverfield, how little she told you. All the more reason to find Tranquility, so that you may discover the truth behind your dear mothers final words. How did she know about that? How did she even know any of this?

Finally, Juniper interrupted my train of thought as we arrived at a large valley. The ridges were lined with numerous little pockets that would be perfect for anypony to lay in wait to ambush somepony. "This was the last known place we saw him. Keep a careful eye out."

A knot the size of a boulder formed in my stomach. I had the chilling feeling that we were all being watched.

Then came the first shot.