Fallout Equestria:The Bell Tolls

Xenlia worked for a group of Zebras the called themselves the Sun Rune. They lived in mining complex that had been owned by the Happy Sun Rune Mining Company. Most of her people knew the Company had originally only employed ponies, but when the war started it only took a few years before Zebras were the only ones working there and none by choice. Then the Cyber Dogs, known as Diamond Dog back then joined their group in the mines, abused by the ponies they worked for. Both despised ponies and joined together to take over the mine after years of abuse during the war, though it was for naught as it was the same day the Mega Spells fell.

Xenlia’s skills as a sniper were used by the Sun Rune’s leaders, a group of Cyber Dogs and Zebras lead by a ghoul named Jeterial. The ghoul could be nice when she wanted to be but at times she was downright mean to others, but she and the others were fair leaders. Though the council did need a target or two killed that a regular unit couldn’t get to and that is where she came in. Xenlia could sneak in to an area without being noticed and take out a target without anyone knowing she was there. It did help that only the council and her sister were the only ones that knew about who she was.

Looking for supplies before she made it to her next target, she entered a home near the demolished Nero hotels and almost immediately heard a foal crying. Walking into a room that appeared to be the sleeping area of ramshackle domicile she found what the obvious work of what was a group of raiders. Two victims killed, hacked a part and eaten or body parts used as decorations. The raider looked to be searching for the filly unable to find her hiding spot.

Xenlia had decided to do the right thing and kill the raiders before they could harm anypony else.  Forgoing her preferred weapon a sniper rifle with extended barrel and silencer, for a bolt action hunting rifle extended magazine which she had just bought from a group of traders earlier that day as she sneaked up to the raiders trying to stay out of sight.

She was happy they hadn't noticed her as she took aim on the first raider and pulled the trigger, noticed the kick had almost pushed out of her standing position as the raider’s head showed a new hole that entered from the back of his head and out his eye. Targeting the second raider as they took notice of her, Xenlia fired and was rewarded with another body dropping as bullet entered the mare’s skull before denting the wall behind her. Swing herself to the last target she smiled at the look of shock on the stallions face before shooting him in the left eye seeing it explode and the bullet embed itself in the wall behind the stallion.

She looked around, listening for more of the unpleasant raiders as she walked over to a hole in the floor were the filly lay, still crying. She guessed it had been her parents which were now decorations in she very room the two had sought to hide their foal. Morbid twist of fate she was sure. Looking down she guessed one of them had to have been a unicorn as the depth would have been hard to reach with just a pair hooves, and the foal would have been hurt if she had been just dropped down.

Xenlia didn't really share the same opinion of ponies her people did. She walked the wasteland more than most seeing how ponies killed, hindered, help, or loved each other throughout the wasteland. She didn't hate them for things done to her people 200 years ago. So she didn't have a problem with helping the filly other than her what the council would do.  She was about to leave not wanting to be marked by the council as a traitor when the image of a filly being eating by a group of dogs while she didn't do anything.

“FUCK!” Xenlia said as she stared from the door to the hole in the floor. She didn't want this filly on her mind like her sister’s daughter was. She leaned down and began the process of trying to get filly out from under the floor listening for hostiles so she didn't get caught off guard.

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Xenlia was roused out of dream by the sound of a filly coming to the house as she walked in with a rad-roach following her. Xenlia made note of the crumbs she saw behind the filly with a smile. Xenlia got of her bed and started to walk over to the filly smiling at her antics.

“My little bell, whom have you brought home today.” Xenlia asked with a bright motherly voice.

“I named him Steven. He lived in a factory and had some steel in side. Like kind carts are made of, but it looked unfinished.” Marry Belle said, showing intelligence as she always did.

Xenlia was intrigued about the factory her daughter described as it sounded like a steel mill. Her people could really use it if it was not claimed by the Mafia, The leader of the Bunny Ranch, the FFE, or those Steel Rangers. To control the mines and the steel mill would make the Sun Rune much stronger in the Nero region.

“Merry, where was this steel mill?” She asked.

“Over near the lake in the middle of a large rock formation nearby.” Merry Belle said with a smile. “I found some codes too, though I don’t know to what.” As she pulled out was looked like a recording mark ‘plant codes’.

“Very good my little Sun, let’s see if we can find some supplies there after lunch…” Xenlia began to say before she heard a gunshot rang out. Xenlia rushed to cover as she pulled out her rifle and used the new scope she had gotten a week ago for it to see who was shooting. Upon seeing a member of the Mafia she cussed. “How the hell would they know who, let alone where I was? I knew I should have let Rarchas take that council job. Marry Belle get back to the house.”

When Xenlia didn’t hear a door close behind her she looked back and saw it was closed. She looked to her side suspecting the filly was cowering next to her, but what she saw caused her blood to run cold. Marry Belle lying on the ground with a hole in her head. Xenlia’s mind just stopped as she stared at the dead body of her filly. She couldn’t believe the sight of her child, the same foul she saved from raiders just years before, dead as she still breath behind the fortifications they had build just the day before.

“So bitch, you going to come out and die nice and quite or are me and this savages suppose to come over there!” The Mafia member, a stallion yelled. “I’m sure my bother wouldn’t mind it if shot you in the head like you did him!”

Xenlia snapped out of her daze as she looked over the fortification and took aim at the first raider before she pulled the trigger. She saw the raider head snap back as she turned to the next while walking out of cover. She started to count as she fired round after round, barely feeling the bullets hitting her focused only on the stallion who had taken her little filly away from her. She wanted nothing more than to see his dead body before her.

“Five,” the raider jaw was blown off as a second bullet ripped his throat out, “six,” the round entered the mare’s heart as she tried stabbing the running zebra, “seven,” the stallion was backpedaling as Xenlia too her next shot hitting him in the temple and the round bounced around his skull.

“Kill Her, Celestia damn it! Can’t you savages do anything?” The mafia member yelled as he started to fire a custom 9mm wildly panic showing in his aim and eyes.

“Eleven,” Xenlia noticed the feel of a round graze her skull, but she kept firing, “Twelve,” She only had a few more till she reached her goal, she wouldn’t let the foul killer get away, “Thirteen,” She was getting closer to the stallion as he started running away pushing the raiders away from them.

“FUCK THIS! THIS CHICK IS CRAZY AND I’M NOT DIEING OUT HERE FOR SOME CHASE FROM THE MADAM. YOU FUCKING SAVAGES ARE ON YOUR OWN!” The stallion yelled not heeding the cries of outrage for the raiders as the still fought Xenlia.

“Fifteen,” He was getting away. NO, she couldn’t let the bastard get away for what he did, “Sixteen,” He had to die before she did. She couldn’t let Marry die in vain. “Seventeen,” Xenlia collapsed on her forelegs as she coughed up blood. She looked up at the stallion retreating as she tried to grab her rifle to fire to kill him, but as she tried her vision blurred she noticed a shadow drift over her.

“You fucking cunt! You just cost me a trip to the Bunny Ranch, now I’m not going to get any tail.” A raider said as he cut her right foreleg off with a machete.  She screamed as she felt the stallion moving over her. “Oh well, I can still fuck you while you die.”

It was about then that music that sounded like it was from a music bow started to play.

“What the fuck?” the raider said before a mechanical like scream echoed out and Xenlia saw blood splatter on the ground in front of her. She was confused by the sudden change of event. Who had just helped her and was it part of the group that had killed Marry Belle. She looked up at a stallion with a lot blood covering his coat and black eyes that seemed to star into her. This frightened her as few creatures in her people’s lore had eyes like that. But before she could dwell on it his eyes quickly turned to normal eyes with silver irises.

"Seems like you had quite the tumble little lady." a synthetic voice said as it drew close, "You're mighty lucky I came along, or else you goose would be definitely cooked right now.” Xenlia felt a potion pressed to her lips which she drank from greedily. “Hmm, I don’t think I have enough bandages what out your house.”

It was about then at an explosion could be heard in the back ground and Xenlia felt derbies hit her. she couldn’t really comprehend that her house was just blown up as she tried to tell the stallion about her filly, to see if it could help her but she couldn’t speak. “Well that option is eliminated. Let’s get you to the old doctor in Fire Water. I'm sure she'll be able to patch you up."