Fallout Equestria: Moon's Blood

I walked to the motel, exhausted by a night of  work... When I entered the building, I went to the stairs and entered my room, laying myself on the bed. I was alone, Windigo and Killstreak were gone.

I was tired and almost sleeping when Windigo entered, trotting to the water room. He stopped at the room's door and looked... I feinted to sleep.

"Skyyyy?" he asked with a kind tone. "I know you're not sleeping..."

"Dammit!"

"Oooh... Come on... Don't you wanna play?"

I was tired, but interested.

"Is Killstreak around?" I asked.

"Nope..."

"Maybe I could play..."

"Yeah, but first... I want you at the old sparring building..."

A old sparring building? To play?

"I'm to tired to move out the bed..." I moaned.

He exited the bathroom, the mane half-wet, and went near to the bed and laid on it.

"You're sure?"

His gauntlet posed on my chine and began to caress slowly. The cold metal on my skin made me shivera bit.

"Well, maybe I would..."

He put is hoof on my muzzle, silencing me.

"Sssh... At the sparring, in twenty minutes... no retard..."

"Ok..." I moaned of exasperation.

He got up and went to the door, exiting the room. I took my jumpsuit and wore it... I walked to the door to and continued to outside.

Two heavy armored soldiers passed at each of my sides, ignoring me.

"Have you seen the new mutant in town?" asked the first to his fellow.

"Yeah, but he said he was not a mutant... I don't trust it, a pegasus like that must be a mutant... but that could be worst..." The second answered." It could be an alicorn, .. or Pegasus Enclave..."

"AHAHA! It's just a story of a crazy pegasus! You can be very funny when you want!"

"Maybe..."

I don't knew who were these guys... But they were everywhere in the city. After several minutes, I finally arrived at the boxing building. A tawny gryphon was waiting, standing against the wall with a heavy incinerator at his legs.

"Hi... Is it the sparring?" I demanded to the gryphon.

" Yeah... It is... Your bat friend is inside... Don't make troubles, call if problems and discuss with Tyr', not me... " He dropped with a unamical tone.

"Huum... Thanks..."

I entered the building. Windigo was punching a sandbag with energy and a black gryffin was next to the entrance.

"Hey, Stable Mare..." said the gryphon.

"Hum... yes?"

His upper beak was a piece of metal and he was covered of scars.

"You're here for training?" he asked me.

"Yes, that's it... Tyr?"

"You can call me Tyrael... Your friend's waiting you..."

Windigo was boxing a sandbag hooked to the roof. He was literally letting his hoof and his gauntlet talk for him. I thanked the gryphon and walked in the bat boy's direction. He was on his back legs, punching the bag like hell.

"So, you wanted to see me?" I asked him.

"Yeah..."

He was still punching the bag.

"But why?"

He stopped and went back on his four legs.

"Because Killstreak heard about reapers and asked the inhabitants... They fight at hooves to hooves to know who's going to kill each other... So, you need a training..."

"A training? Me? For fight? No no no no, you're wrong!" I said. " I don't need a training."

"That's not what I've seen in the arena..." he mocked.

He was right, I haven't been great at the arena, against raiders...

"Yeeeaah... But that's something else!" I stammered.

"That's something else .. I agree... Because raiders were... small fry compared to Blade Beast..."

"I tell you I don't need a training..." I continued

He stood back from the sandbag and showed a smile.

"Hit me..." he said.

"What? Windigo, I'm not going to hurt y-"

"HIT ME!" he roared. "If I tell you to hit me, you do it!"

"Ok... ok..."

I prepared the most powerful hoof I've ever done and knocked Windigo... Or instead tried...

My hoof dashed in his face's direction, but the bat pony avoided it without problem and things became worse. He grabbed my foreleg with his gauntlet and turned, throwing me on the ground, back against the concrete. In first step, I didn't understood what just happened.

"OH FUCK! I'm sorry!!" apologized Windigo. " I didn't .. I mean... I didn't wanted to hurt you like that... I-I... How do you feel?!"

"It hurts..." I answered. "It fucking hurts..."

He rose me on my legs again, inspecting almost every part of me. Now, My back was hurting me like hell. I felt like a block of stone, a block of stone with a horrible backache...

"Maybe we should begin by basics..." Said Windigo.

"Agreed…"

Killstreak entered and walked to us.

"Well well... Can I come in this "training"?" asked the tall unicorn mare.

"Maybe, if you're bad as Red Sky..." answered Windigo.

"Shut up!" I growled.

"I think I can have a test." mocked Killstreak. "On the ring"

Windigo looked surprised.

"Why not!" he said.

They mounted on the ring, facing each other. Windigo thrown his hoof to Killstreak, she took it and made the bat pony hitting the ground. He rose quickly.

"Ahh... Let see what you're made of!" he smiled.

Killstreak smote Windigo's china with her right back leg. He answered by a uppercut, sending the mare in the ropes. I used a med-X on my back and went knock Killstreak hoof and took her place.

"Alright, let's do this, bat-boy!" I yelled, jumping on the ring.

I ran at Windigo and jumped, hitting him with a dropkick. I felt my blood becoming hot and my hearth speed up. I didn't felt the backache anymore and I didn't care about it...

He fell on the ground, then rose again.

"Last time, it was warm-up!" I cried happily.

He looked at me and get up on his back legs. He wasn't kidding... he wasn't kidding anymore. He draw his gauntlet to me and I avoid it before activating my S.A.T.S. and hitting him at many times, but he didn't looked affected at all...

"I stop playing games with you..." he growled between his teeth.

He grabbed me and threw me in the ropes, then jumped and prepared to hit me with his gauntlet. I jumped at right, dodging the hit. I mounted the pole and jumped from up the third string, landing in Windigo's head. The thestral fell in a loud noise.

"Windigo? Are you ok?" asked Killstreak.

"My head hurts... "

I sat near to Windigo and breathed. My backache was slowly coming back... with a lot of grudge. I looked at the bat pony laying on the ground with satisfaction.

"It seems you don't need a training after all..." he sighed. " Can you levitate me a drink, please..."

"Incoming!" I said happily with a giant smile as I levitated three Sunrise Sarsaparilla to us.

"Health!" I continued.

"Health!"

"Health... ouuuuh... my head..."

XXXXXX

A hour of checking my stuff… weapons, medicine, food... Maybe not enough for more than six days, but we would be able to found something. My package finished, I walked to the exit of the town.

Windigo took a leather flight jacket with fur inside and a moon with a vertical pupils blue unicorn's head as badge on each shoulder.

"Where did you found this?" I asked.

"In the Mansion's strongbox... " he answered."I've a weapon, but I don't know if you'll be able to use it..."

"What kind of weapon?" asked Killstreak with surprise.

The bat pony took a sword. The ebony blade was incredibly brilliant and

"It's a "katana" as say the pipbuck..." he continued. "Extremely dangerous, sharp... My father called it "Half Moon"... The grip is very good balanced, the blade is perfect... It's a real jewel..." he said as he stored the sword in the protective sheath.

"Direction east?" asked Killstreak, her battle saddle armed.

I looked at her and Windigo. We were ready...

"Direction east!" I answered.

We began to trot in our usual formation: Windigo at my right, Killstreak at my left, me between these giants... after some time, a forest began to appear at the horizon.

My Pipbuck showed the name of this place when we arrived at the border of the forest. - Everfree Forest -

This was a dark dead forest... A damn forest again... I looked at my pipbuck for the objective, hoping I could found a way to go at Hoofington without pass inside the forest.

"We should follow the forest to the north and continue east when we'll arrive at a lake..." I said slowly as my eyes were focussing on the screen.

"Why? We just have to walk into the forest and go right to Hoofington!" replied Killstreak.

"Forest means beasts, and beasts mean predators... And remember what I told you about it..." answered Windigo has he took the flare gun.

So we walked north for a long time... too long and too calm... I saw Windigo was a bit stressed, looking always at the forest or behind him. I decided to ignore it and focused on our road. At right, it was a flat dusty desert and at left, the forest made of grim black trees and strange plants.

We finally arrived at a place full of scrap metal from the old world and... Skeletons...

"It's freaky..." said Killstreak." Really freaky..."

Something took my attention, a dead body half eaten, literally, but differently from the slaver camp.

"What kind of pony can do this?" I asked, looking at the corpse.

"It's not a pony who have done this, it's big, very big..." answered Windigo. "Bigger than a timberwolf..."

The sound of a metal thing falling on a pile of steel behind us alerted me. I turned to see and frozen in fear. A giant beast with two head was facing us from the pile of wastes. A head and forelegs of tiger with sabertooth, another head and back legs of goat.

"Windig?" I murmured. "What is that big big beast "

He turned and looked at it calmly.

"Oh .. Just a Chimera... wait." He said. "A chimera?"

He instantly froze.

"Look, sisters, the lunch is ready!" said the tiger head.

"Three? It's like birthday!" replied the goat head. "Time to eat!"

The monster roared as she jump at us, landing in front of us, then she rushed on us. Killstreak and I jumped to avoid the beast, arriving behind the monster.

"Where do you thhhhink you are going?" asked a female voice.

I bet it was the tail which just told this... and it was the tail... A snake head...

The beast turned to attack us, Killstreak rose and began to fire at the chimera who roared as the bullets began to hurt her skin. I took my magnum an ran around the predator, firing at it. Her leather was too resistant, and bullet were inefficient against her... This "Chimera" was a a fucking creepy creature. I changed .375 magnum to Hydra, jumped the closer possible and shooted at the animal stomach with the three barrels at the same time. The shot splashed me with hot blood and entrails parts. The monster didn't liked it and roared to say it.

I rolled at right, avoiding the claws of the beast.

"WE WILL CRUSH YOU LIKE BUGS!" roared the chimera.

Windigo jumped on the multi-animal creature, grabbing her with his gauntlet and knocking the tiger face with his hoof.

"Then I'll crush your face until it looks like pudding!" he said with a smile.

The monster threw the bat poy away and I ran to help him.

"Windigo? Are you alright?" I asked.

"Yeah .. just... hurt a little .."

He got the katana at his side. I don't know why but I really wanted to use it... So I levitated it and turned to the chimera. Killstreak was jumping right then left to survive. I took a pill of something my pipbuck called "Buck" and suddenly felt somepony different.

"GUTS AND GLORY LADS!" I roared as I was charging the beast.

"YOU INSOLENT!" answered the Chimera as she turned.

The monster swing his claws at me an I jumped at right, levitating a old pre-war vehicle's door to have a shield.

I ran to the monster, my pseudo-shield before me and the blade at my side. The chimera tried to catch me with her teeth. I closed her big mouth with a shield hit and jumped on the beast back. The Goat head tried to hit me and I replied with a single swing of my sword, cutting the head as I was paper.

The snakehead dashed to bite me but knocked on the car's door and I did the same thing than with the goat head. The last hed was the only master of the body now. I jumped to the ground. The beast threw Killstreak on Windigo who just began to rose. Now the monster was in front of me...

"THERE COULD BE ONLY ONE!!!" I roared again as I charged the monster.

The chimera jumped, landing before me, mouth opened with sharp teeth. I threw my scrap shield, blocking her jaws and mounted on her head. I draw a powerful swing with my katana and planted the blade between the monster's eyes who fell on the ground. I levitated the sword at my side and walked at Windigo and Killstreak.

"What do you think about that?" I asked with an arrogant smile.

"Can do better" answered Windigo as he rose.

I took the blade's sheath and store it, then took it and tied it at my Stable jumpsuit's belt.

Killstreak rose too.

"Well, it was a real monster..." She said.

"Let's continue... we have wasted enough time..." I sighed at the reaction of my teammates about my performance.

We walked a little like three minutes and I stopped. Something just catched my attention.

"What's that?" I asked.

"It's just a car..." answered Windigo.

"No, what's just behind the car?" In asked again.

It looked like something I knew but I wasn't sure. Windigo got on his back legs and pushed the car out the way. A bunker door appeared behind the pile of scrap metal and wastes.

"Do you think you can open this?" I demanded at Windigo.

"Pfft... easy peasy!" he replied with a arrogant gaze.

He touched the door and in place to be opened with some difficulties, the door opened easily. Windigo looked uncertain about this door.

"What's wrong?" asked Killstreak

"It was too easy to a bunker door..." he answered."almost easy as a pub door a friday night..."

"Pub?" I questionned.

"Sort of saloon in town from before the war..." he said.

"Well, resolution number one, when Windigo talk about something I don't understand, that's because it come from before the war." I through to myself.

I used my magic to light before us. The hall of concrete was covered of numberous scratches.

"Hum... that's a beast?" I asked, uncertain.

"It could be... but it's minimum pony size..." he continued as he took Savage Beast in his gauntlet. "Use your shotguns... short range...I go first."

Yeah, Closed space, possibly monsters at each corner. Looks like a old film...

"How do you know how to do?" asked Killstreak. "We have both lived in a stable, Red Sky and I."

"I know it was a cliché at my time, but I've seen a film when I was young... And as I remember, we don't have flamethrower…"

I made a amused sigh.

The principal bunker door appeared before us, opened by a huge tear big enough to let Windigo, who was the bigger of us, pass. We entered slowly. It seems something big with claw has been jailed in this underground facility. We looked inside, saw robotic carcasses lying on the ground, disemboweled, beheaded or dismembered into electronics pieces. A battle happened here, and robots tried to stop it and unfortunately, they didn't win…

We continued a little and finally arrived at the rooms. I saw scientist coats on some beds, others research stuff were in the rest of the piece.

"Ok, It seems we don't need to worry about security here." I said. "Just look inside rooms and pick useful stuff... see you here in twenty minutes…"

I began the harvest and looked into a locker. Some Med-X, clothes and a strange .. orb... I took it with my telekinesis and shook the orb.

"What kind of thing is this?"

I felt strange for a moment and saw only darknesses.

<-=======ooO Ooo=======->

I woke up and my first surprise was to be handcuffed in front of a table, a giant glass behind it. My second surprise was I wasn't yellow anymore, but grey and I felt somepony else.

As I looked into the glass, only a part of my muzzle and my forelegs were under the light.

A unicorn mare in a scientist coat came in the room with some papers. She sat on a chair and put her papers on the table, she adjust her glasses and looked at me.

"Subject S-zero-zero-nine-nine-nine..." She said as she put a first sheet of paper before me with a S00-999 written on the dossier. "You have said you agreed to become the fist subject for Project Reaper?"

"Yes, I have." I answered with a calm male voice.

It was strange .. like I was somepony, but I haven't the control, like in a dream or a memory.

"And Why?" asked the mare before me.

"Because I have nothing to lose anymore..."

"Even your Equinity?" continued the unicorn.

"I know how your kind works, day-mare... You've already read my court record, my background... Everything the Ministry of Morale has gave you about me..."

The unicorn looked anguished and under heavy stress.

"Yes, I've saw it" she answered before she swallow her own saliva and put another paper with pictures before me. "I saw... war crimes... torturer... murderer... insubordination... betrayer..."

She was having a growing fear at each words, I was able to feel it... to smell it...

"You're right, Doc..." I calmly said, accentuating ont he "Doc" word.

"And why have you done this?" she questioned.

"The answer is simple, Doc... Zebras took me everything... My wife, my son... My only reasons to still sane in all this masquerade... Have you lost somepony you loved because of them, Doc?"

The unicorn looked at me and a tear flowed slowly on her cheek.

"Sorry, I..." She tried to say.

"You don't have to, I know how that feel... explain me, it's better outside than inside..."

"My little daughter..." cried the mare" These fucking zebras have killed my little daughter at the Luna’s Academy .."

"So, Doc... We're here for the same thing" I said.

She rose her face and looked me in the eyes. I saw anger and hatred in her eyes.

"The Project Reaper will give you a new life, a new chance... Princess Luna has personally asked for you to become the subject..." the mare continued. "We will upgrade you with a part of Project Steelpony and will adapt it to your morphology and the fact you're a pegasus... after your complete upgrade,  we'll continue to the second part of the project if you survive... like the first real Steelpony, "Deus" Ex Machina"..."

"I will survive… I always survive... " I said with a toothy smile.

My vision went fuzzy and became darknesses.

<-=======ooO Ooo=======->

I looked around in the room. So there was a facility for Project Reaper, interesting. I looked inside more lockers and found a metal briefcase full of these orbs. 'Subject S00-999's memory' was written on the box. I closed it and took it in my inventory...

"It would be interessant to see it if I don't want to sleep..." I thought.

After this, I exited the room, continued to walk and arrived at the security room, Windigo was inside, so I entered.

"So? What did you found?" I asked him as I sat at his left side.

"Some things which used to be at somepony important in this bunker..." He answered as he shook his head at the wall.

The glass has been broken, and everything which was inside has disappeared, probably stolen. I looked at him again and put my shoulder against his, so his gaze went at me. His amber eyes were fixing mine and sometimes browsing my face.

"Windigo?" I demanded to the bat pony as I sticked my hoof against his own.

"Yes?" he said, visibly with a bit of bother."You want something?"

"I-I wanted to know..." I began. "When I kissed you... at the motel..."

"Yes?"

"I'm- I'm sorry for... you know .. after, when I tryed to... well..."

"Wonderful, Red Sky, you're not even able to tell a stallion you're sorry because you kissed him and tried to have your fun time with him!" I thought as I tried to speak normaly.

Windigo rose his gauntlet and put it on my cheek, then I stopped to talk and looked each other. We both slowly approached our muzzles of each other. I closed my eyes and put my lips on his. The sensation of his gauntlet on my cheek disappeared as I felt the metallic thing lowering himself on my right shoulder then on my ribs.

I introduced my tongue into his mouth and repeat as at the motel without pushing him. I passed my hooves around his neck, putting my body against his muscular chest. His left hoof began to caress my chine which shuddered at the contact. I stopped and put my muzzle near to his left ear.

"Maybe we should close the door first... You know, In a Stable or a bunker, sounds are going very far." I sensually mattered to him.

"Why? You can't just enjoy the present moment?" He asked with a slow voice .

"No .. it just I- " I stuttered. "I just want to do more than enjoying this moment."

He slowly put his muzzle at my ear, close enough that I felt his hot breath in my neck.

"Are you in heat or something?" he demanded with a voice that made me literally melt.

"I-I don't know..." I answered as I heavily blushed.

It may be this... or a very big lack of love or affection.

Windigo slightly bit my ear's lobe with the tip of his fore teeth, licking the part of my ear in his mouth with a very slow movement. I dropped a moan of surprise then retake control on myself. I looked the bat pony in the eyes and blushed even more.

"Windigo?" I asked the thestral. "About when you kissed me, some minutes ago... was it- was it a serious kiss?"

He looked disturbed and inside me, I felt embarrassed too.

"I-I don't know... "He answered. "I was going to ask you the same thing about at the motel..."

I looked at him, then at the stuff in the room.

"And what did you found?" I questioned him.

He took a metallic box and gave it to me.

"Only this." He said with a sad tone.

"What's wrong?" I demanded. "A problem?"

"I just expected better from a bunker like this."

I expected more about the stuff too, but only from the stuff.

"Have you an idea where is Killstreak?" I asked.

"She is collecting data on the server. " answered the bat pony as he grabbed a old military magazine.

"Well,see you later..."

"Ok then..." He said as he was turning a page.

I slowly trotted in the corridors, looking at the metal walls covered of scratches. Something big should have unleashed his or her wrath...

I looked at the panels and followed the way to the server room, stopped at the door and took a look inside. Killstreak was on a terminal, typing on the keyboard. I advanced me to her and sat at her side.

"Found something?" she asked me without leave the monitor with her eyes.

"Just some usual stuff, Windigo have found a metal box, but I can't unlock it..."

"Nothing interessant, so." she continued.

I levitated a cigarette and lighted it, then took a breath.

"Yeah, that's it..." I answered.

"Well, on my side I've found some data..." Killstreak said. "But something bothers me…"

"Bother you?" I demanded with a raised eyebrow.

Just a bit have bothered Killstreak since I knew her... at the time we were together, the fact to have to confess to her mother that she was lesbian... when she got her cutie mark of varmint killing instead of a informatic technician like her mother... despite that for this time, her mother was happy for her...

Killstreak's mother was a good mare... a bit anarchist on the edges... but a good mare. She was the best computer specialist of our Stable-village, with a punk style and a crude humor that my mother liked.

In contrario of Killstreak, I was having a cutie mark looking like my mother's one.

A cutie mark of electrician mare... Building a wire circuit between the reactor, the stable and houses outside the stable was her main job when she wasn't checking it.

Killstreak mother and mine were friends since childhood as Killstreak and I were and it was always nice when our mothers were inviting each other to discuss around a glass of aperitif after a day of work, letting their daughters playing and chat.

"Yeah, the security has been disactivated a certain time ago, like somepony came here before..." said the albino unicorn.

"Prospectors? Raider? treasure hunters? or Blade Beast?" I questioned.

"Maybe, but why didn't they haven't just "cut an paste" all the data?" she answered.

I looked over her shoulder to watch the screen.

"All data are still here... and there is a strange thing into the server... like... ghost files..."

"Whatever, your mother told me there was frequently ghost files in computers..."

"Not a ghost file like usually said in informatician language, Sky... that like... this file was haunting the server, trying to come over all current applications... I've not stopped to close it to continue... "

"What is the file type?" I asked, blowing my cigarette smoke and frowning.

"A audio record... or a video... " told my friend.

"Then let it run..."

"Are you sure? It could destroy all data if it was programmed to do so..."

"Let it run... If it destroys the data, it would be files that Blade Beast will never have..."

"Ok then..." sighed Killstreak.

She typed a key and a window appeared on the screen.

- DO YOU WANT TO RUN THIS FILE?-

- YES? -

- NO?-

-YES-

-LOADING-

A crackling noise came from two speakers.

"To the stallion or the mare who was able to open this file... " began the audio record with a deep voice. "If you want to know why this file is trying to come over all others, it because I programmed it for this... All the files about Project Reaper on this server are falses... I've already took it... anypony who have downloaded it are exposing their informatic systems to viruses. These files are not allowed to be used once more... Equestria and Zebra empire has done too much atrocities like this one..."

"Ok... I see... Thankfully I haven't downloaded the files from Project Reaper..." said Killstreak with a relieved tone.

"So? You've downloaded something?" I asked while I took a breath on my cigarette.

"Yes... but there are only some journal entries..."

"Can I have it?" I demanded.

"Of course you can..." replied the unicorn as she gave me an USB key. "I didn't want it anyway..."

I took it an downloaded on my Pipbuck... more reading for the night...

"Sky? Can I ask you about something?" demanded the unicorn.

"It depend..." I mocked her.

"About Windigo... "

"Well... ask me..." I answered as I breathed my smoke.

"I think there something between you and him..." she said. "And I wanted to know if I was right..."

I looked at her with a bit of surprise.

"Well... I'm not sure that..." I told. "And whatever? Must I deduce you got a crush on him?"

She blushed and lowered her ears.

"No no no! I... I just..." she stammered. "Well... yeah I do... but just a bit."

I laughed at this sentence.

"Killstreak... You'll never change" I sneered. "Did you remember our first date? I've asked you if you loved me... and you answered the same thing..."

"Yes, but you were my first date of my life..." She replied. "And Windigo is a stallion, you weren't..."

"I'm not a buck, indeed... but who was always making initiatives? And who was moaning when we were playing?" I mocked even more.

"Stop talking about that! He could hear us..." she said as her face turned red as her eyes.

"You got a question, I got one..." I said. "Are you still having feelings for me and having a crush on him at the same time?"

"I... I..."

I cutted her by kissing the top of her nose then put my forehooves on her shoulders.

"Oh... Killstreak... you should know I'm still having you in my hearth..." I muttered slowly.

"Are you really thinking it?" she demanded. "I mean... We've broke and... If you..."

"If I what? If I'm with Windigo? I'm not with him for the moment... So I'm free if it's what you want to know..." I answered."But first, we need to exit this bunker, a cool place and then talk about this... ok?"

"Yes, I see..." she replied with a smile.

We both rose and exited the room in a slow walk, climbing stairs and calmly going to the armory.

When we arrived, Killstreak and me stopped at the door. I looked by the door. Windigo was here, the back leaning against the wall, still reading the weapon magazine.

"Windigo?" I asked by the entrance. "We're going outside..."

He looked up from the book and turned to us.

"I'm coming, ladies..." he answered as he got up.

Our group ready, we exited the bunker and walked outside, going out of the landfill.

We walked several minutes at the edge of the forest when two shadows passed on us.

"What was that?" I demanded to Windigo.

He looked uncertain, trying to locate and see these things.

"I don't know... and I don't like this..." he growled.

I took a look to the cloudy sky... two forms appeared, made circles above us and landed twenty meters in front of our group.

These .. things .. were like ponies by the form, with strange metal gears, no doubt it was an armor... They were visibly talking to each other, sometimes taking a look at us. Windigo drew a slow movement with his gauntlet to the butt of Savage Beast, preparing to draw his shotgun. I put my hoove on his metal claw and slowly shook my head in a negative move. If these guys hadn't attacked us yet, maybe they would talk or something. Windigo put his foreleg to the ground and stood showing an inimical gaze.

I pricked up my ears to ear what were saying these ponies.

"I'm sure, it's a bad idea..." said the first with a mare voice.

"We're just going to ask these inhabitants, there's nothing bad..." answered the other in a deep voice.

"IT's something bad! What if they are radioactive? If their bodies are full of horrible germs? " asked the mare. "Have you any idea?"

"Come on... don't tell me you trust these stupidities that parents use to afraid foals..." The buck replied.

"Hum... Excuse-me... We aren't radioactive!" I yelled shyly at them. "And we don't have deadly germs inside our bodies!"

"You're sure?" murmured Windigo.

"If we were, you body who is adapted to pre-war viruses would be dead..." I replied with a bored tone.

"Oh .. I almost forgot this..." he said.

The ponies in front of us stopped talking and looked at us.

"I think this one try to communicate with us..." said the stallion.

"Don't be stupid... How could they even understand us?" replied the mare. "Look... Hey! You! The strange and illiterate surface inhabitant next to the mutant and the with thing? Can you understand me?"

"Yes, I guess..." I answered.

"See, they don't underst-"began the mare. "Wait... they understand us?"

"It seems that yes..." moaned the second armored pony. "So let me ask and shut up... last time, they attacked us because you said they were stupids..."

"Oh come on..." growled the other.

The buck made some steps and stopped ten meters from us.

"Excuse me, creatures from the surface..." he asked."Have you seen a vertibuck's squad out there?"

I looked at my fellows. Windigo should have never heard of this, showing a grimace at the name. Killstreak and I never heard of this too.

I shook my shoulder to indicate my interlocutor we didn't know this "vertibuck". The stallion facehoofed and dropped a heavy desperate sigh.

"Have you seen an orange coated pegasus mare with a black uniform?" he asked again. "Or even a white pegasus mare with a blond mane, a feather for cutie mark and a black uniform too?"

Windigo and Killstreak shook their heads negatively.

"Sorry sir, we are formals... We haven't seen anypony like this..." I said to the buck.

The pony turned to his fellow, then put this hoof on his headgear.

"Reconnaissance unit Beta-five here, we've raked all the perimeter at five kilometers around the crash site... we've found no clues about the reconnaissance unit delta-four after the crash... We found some corpses... but we don't have idea about what happened to the dashite or the missing corpses... we are going back to the base... Over..." The buck muttered before opening his wing protected under metal wing armor like thing.

"Thanks for you collaboration..." He said before flying off.

The mare followed him and they disappeared at the horizon.

"Strange people... " Killstreak said.

"After seeing Windigo, I don't expect things more weird." I answered with a mocking smile.

Windigo growled at me and began to sulk.

"Oh! Come on, big boy, I'm kidding..." I conforted him before kissing his cheek but he continued."Killstreak? I need a hoof here..."

"Oh no! You're big enough to fend for yourself with this kind of problem..." she mocked me.

"Gaaaah..." I sighed heavily. "Alright then... Come on, we've got a long road to do…"

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Footnote: Level Up.

New Perk: Adrenaline junky - When you are fighting in a face to face, you gain +1 at strengh, stamina and luck. Bonus of strengh, stamina and S.A.T.S. precision by consumables are also multiplied by 20 %.