Fallout Equestria: Chumming Waters

Chapter 4 - Feeding Frenzy

Can you not see what she is doing, what she has done. Everything she has touched twists into corrupted form of itself, every word she speaks is woven with lies, and her love of the fleet, that does not exist for she loves nothing! Not even herself! Pleases here my words, do not let her damn us any further. don't let her pervert the memory of the princesses more then she has. If you let her make us forget who we realy are, she will remake us into her own twisted image. She is no saint, only a monster, can you not see!

• (Redacted) Last words, crime treason and blasphemy, year seventeen of the new area.

I didn't know why I didn't think about it before, it was obliviously the best way two to do all this. Also the reward, the filling my stomach up reward. Prism Paint's ability to turn herself, and me invisible, was exactly what I needed to get in and out. But before I could plant the bombs, I needed to eat, and so Prism had taken me to the cafeteria. My stomach would have protested otherwise.

These assholes had everything and more. More food then I could eat in a year. At fist I just shoved what I could find into my mouth, not even tasting anything I ate. But after a wave of releaf came over me, I finally slowed down to even look at what I was throwing into me. I expected the apples, dry fruit, seaweed, and fish. But their was a bunch I didn't recognize at all.

A bunch of yellow stick like stuff levitated in Prism's magic. "so they even have hay out here... it even looks like it's fresh, not hundreds of years old." she lifted some red squishy thing. "never seen this before." taking a bight out of it, it squirted out, hitting me in the face. taking a lick from the stuff, it was not bad. swallowing the weird red fruit, Prism smiled. "I like it."

Looking around, I found my own jackpot, Coconut water, and pineapples! If I could get this stuff out to cargo town, I would be fucking rich. But I was still realy hungry, so I Used my sword to slice and pineapple, and eat it. The coconut water helped push everything down. "Hay Prism, let's take a bunch of this stuff with us."

She nodded and levitated a nearby saddlebags. It was nothing much, an old and re-patched bag, but it also looked strong. Into the saddlebags she put a bunch of bottles of coconut water, the dried fruit, and a few of the fresh fruit.

My stomach grumbled again, though I had eaten all that fruit, it was not enough. Biting into a raw fish, I don't know why I, but I was already chewing before I realized I was easting a fish head. It was not that bad, crunchy, but I had worse to eat, so I ate the rest, spitting out scales and bones. Looking for more, I fond a box with the fish parts already cut up. So I dug in.

"What are you doing?" Prism's voice came from behind me. Looking back at her I smiled, some of the fish parts were sticking to me. She looked shocked again, but this time it made me want to giggle. "Stay still, your face is covers in blood." She levitated a rag, and used it to cover my face, pushing it agent me. "Now if your feeling better enough to be fooling around, then we both must go."

"Okay, but let's plant the bombs first!"

She raised any eyebrow at me. "A young mare sould not be playing with bombs."

I huffed. "oh, you get to brake a pony in half, but I can't blow them up." Cunt.

"That's was different, we was protecting you!"

Right, this shit again, dose she have some sort of save the fillies complex. I heard of a mare like that once, turned out she just wanted to sleep with them, and touch them. Crossing my hooves, it was a long shot but if I used her save ponies agents her, I think I can get Prism to work with me, so I smirked. "And I'm protecting the ponies of this city."

"How so? Buy committing murder.

"You think that one guard is the only pony who likes little foals. For them, were all free game, and every pony looks the other way out of fear." This was of coarse a lie, well more of a half truth. No pony wanted to mess with the security, but I had her tales of guards getting gutted for trying to extort money from some of the ponies of Cargo Town. As for Hull Town, the guards know to never go down there, even in groups. But now to sell Prism on the truth. "Victoria has a plan, and the respect of the ponies of this city. If I do this, I'm helping her make the city better."

Prism Paint scrunched her face a little, but quickly regained her composer. "Fine, but if she ask you to do any more dangerous things, I... I'll not let that happen." She levitated the explosives over to me.

Arming each of them, I placed them in the back of the cabinets that were along the floor. I didn't know how powerful the pipe-bombs were, but I knew it sould be big enough to wreck the kitchen. If there was one place that we could hit and get the guards running out for vengeance, it would be blowing up their food.

I grabbed a strand of seaweed right as we turned invisible, slurping it down before stepping out of the kitchen.

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This hole invisibility thing was awesome, allowing me to simply walk passed rooms filled with guards without being seen. There was just one problem, Victoria needed to see me leave the security tower. So standing at the door to the outside, and once open, it would be a strait run to Cargo Town. I new what my next move had to be.

"Prism Paint?"

Yes Star Charter.

"We need to split up from here. Victoria needs to see me leave her so she will knows to set the bombs off. After that, I need to run to Hull Town. We can meet up there."

I don't like this.

"This is the easy part, all I have to do is run away, that's all."

I heard Prism sigh. Fine, but I'll keep an eye on you.

Creepy much. "Okay. But can you go first, knock over any guard out there for me."

Certainly With a wave of magic, the heavy metal door flew open, and I saw a guard on the other side be knocked off his hooves by an invisible force. Now run, and stay safe.

Becoming visible, I readied myself to run, getting low to the ground, and goal in sight. With a burst of speed, I galloped out of the tower, only jumping so to get over the guard pony on the ground, using his face as a spring board to get more momentum. Cargo Town was not far away, but I was going over a large open space with no cover. If the guard ponies at the top of the tower just decided to...

*Bang-Ping*

Fucking shit, they are already firing at me. Typical assholes.

*Bang-Ping*

That shot nearly got my head. The sound of the speaking bullet passing right by my ear.

The sound of a low pop, and a rumbling came from behind me. But no more gunshots. My best guess was that Victoria had set off the explosives, and the guards were confused to what had just happened. This was good for me, as it gave me the time to get to Cargo Town.

*Bang-Crack*

I slid into Cargo Town with a scream. One of them had gotten me in the back right leg. Getting myself back up, I limped into the cover of Cargo Town. The Cloth covering my not protect ageist bullets, but it did keep the tower ponies from observing everything ponies did in Cargo Town. So it was not much, but at least they would not be able to snipe at me here, but they would come after me.

Quickly I used my bandana to wrap around the bullet hole to stop the beading, it going from a light red, to a deep dark red. The pain was bad, but in truth, not much worse then being beaten, stabbed, or dropped into icy cold water. So I sucked it up, and began walking to Hull Town. Sadly the pain in my leg was to much for me to use it, so it was more of a slow limping away, leaving a trail of blood behind me.

The ponies of Cargo Town had all gotten out of the streets, and were now just watching me from the safety of their cargo homes. It was so quiet I could hear them whispering to themselves, locking doors, and readying weapons. Mostly the ponies were making bet's on how I was going to be executed, their voices just loud enough for me to hear. Assholes.

A siren went off from behind me, loud enough that it echoed threw Cargo Town. The siren meant that the security was going in for a raid, which meant I realy pissed them off, and they were coming to kill me, and have fun doing it.

Pushing myself further, I could see the edge of Cargo town just in sight. Each step hurt as I did my best to hold up my back right leg, but even the act of keeping it off the ground was painful.

*Bang-Ping*

A bullet ricocheted next to my hooves. Turning around, I saw a pony in power armor, flanked by five, no, ten guard ponies. "Go no further ship rat."

I didn't know much about the power armor, but I could see that it had an intimidating visage to it; the armor color had a dull gray and rust color to it, cables and tubes connected from one peace of the armor to the next, poking out on the pony's shoulders and hips were large light bulbs that small bolts of lighting jumped from inside, and from one light bulb to the next. The helmet covered the pony's head completely, giving the pony an almost dragon like face, and it even had a horn for were a unicorns horn would go in. A small bolt of lighting jumped from the light bulbs and to the horn, then back again.

The ten guards quickly surrounded me, cutting of any exit that I could run to. Not that I could run away even is I wanted to, so it was an unnecessary action for them to do. The power armored pony walked up to me, each step thudding on the ground. "Tell me were Victoria Rosary is! And don't play dumb, that stun you pulled has relation all over it. Now tell me were that half dead mare is hiding. Or sould I put a bullet through your neck Like I did to her." The power armored pony lifted a large rifle in his magic, and rested the end of the barrel on my neck. "Give me an excuses to kill you ship rat."

This asshole thinks Victoria's in hiding, and that the bombs were just payback. I couldn't help but laugh at that. The power armor pony answered my laughter by pistol wiping me with a 10mm pistol, knocking me to the ground. This time, the rife didn't rest on my neck, he using it to hold me down by the neck.

"Thank you." I heard a switch be pulled on the rifle. I closed my eyes.

*Bang-Ping*

my ears rang louder then they ever had before, but I was alive. Did Prism Paint save me again. No that be bad, taking out one guard maybe, but there was ten of them, and a pony in power armor!

"SHOW NO MERCY AND KILL EM ALL!"

Opening my eyes I saw Carving Doll hovering above the power armored pony, who had been knocked to his side. Gunfire erupted all around me as Corps Brigade rushed out from their hiding spots guns blazing. Blood started flying almost as soon as the first gunshot had gone off, and three of the guards were dead withing the fist few seconds, the rest of them ducked for cover. The Corps Brigade had taken higher positions, shooting led down at the guards every time they tried to counter attack.

Carving Doll swooped over to me, and carried me to cover. In cover, she produced a healing potion, and I greedily drank it down. "I did good right?"

She smiled. "Kid, I want you to be my little sister."

"But I want to be Victoria's little sister!"

She ruffled my main. "Let's just settle that were one big family." I giggled.

*Bang-Ping*

I stopped giggling. The fucking power armor pony was walking through the rain of gunfire like it was simple water drops. His gun pointed at us as he reloaded it. A Corps Brigade Granger jumped him, but he quickly pulled out His 10mm, and added a new hole in the pony's head. "Not bad. But not good enough to take me down."

*Bang-Ping*

I had ducked just in time for the bullet to miss me. "I have already call for reinforcements. Your little temper tantrum has only sealed all of your fate. A good day for hunting indeed."

Carving Doll waved for me to back up to a new position. Falling back, she shot back at the power armored pony, the small rounds only bouncing off his armor. In the new position, we had joined another pony, who was holding a trigger in her magic. Her left eye was bleeding as she nervously shivered.

"Fate is wale shit, and you know it! Were going to carve our own future, and your just going to be shark shit!"

*Bang-Ping*

Carving Dolls face was cut by the bullet, it going up her right cheek, and made a hole through her right ear. "I was thinking of ending you quickly. But now I feel like I want to be a surgeon, and my rifle, well it's the best scalpel a surgeon could have."

More rifle fire erupted further in Cargo Town, the reinforcements had arrived. Gunshots and screaming was all I could hear outside of Carving Doll and the asshole in power armor.

Laughing, Carving Doll pulled out an odd looking grenade. "You know shit about cutting a pony up. Why don't you come over here and I'll teach you a thing or two." She smirked, leaned into me, and whispered. "This is how you kill an asshole in power armor."

*Bang-Ping*

That shot got to close, bending a peace of metal right next to my head. "So be it, I'll enjoy messing around with your insides. Maybe see how long you can live without a ribcage. Last one didn't last a minute, but you might." He continued to close in, unfazed by any stray shot that hit him.

"NOW!" Carving Doll yelled, and the other mare pressed the trigger she was holding, giggling when she did.

With a loud pop, A cargo home came crashing down onto the armored pony. The sound of it was deafening, and dust clouded all around us. I had to used Carving Doll's Jacket to cover my mouth so to not breath in the dust.

When the dust had cleared, the cargo container was floating in mid air. The power armored pony had caught it in his magic, the light bulbs on his armor now with a solid ark of lighting crackling between each of them. "The Goddesses have blessed me with true strength, and with it I will crush you, with it I will desecrate your copses." he laughed with a deep bellowing mechanical laugh.

Carving Doll threw the grenade, it bounced to the power armored pony's hooves, and the power armored pony became silent.

*Boomfizzz*

The cargo home fell onto the power armor pony with a thud. Crushed underneath, his head was the only thing sticking out.

Walked up to him, Carving Doll took the lead, and the unicorn mare held a dagger out in her magic. "Your true strength is looking quite pathetic right now. Not that I care, you were just a nuisance that needed to be taken care of." the unicorn placed the daggers tip under the helmet, and pushed it upward into the pony's head. Pulling the dagger out let free a stream of blood that quickly pooled on the floor.

Taking a quick look behind the cargo home, the battle was still going on fiercely. But the guard ponies had not made any ground from were they were, most of them now were dead. If their enforcements were coming, they were coming too late.

Carving Doll was laughing as she sat on top of the the power armored ponies head. Calling over the unicorn mare, who was now chewing on her own leg, the whites of Carving Dolls own eyes had turned bloodshot red. "Signal for the others to stop playing around, and mop up the stragglers. Were joining Puppet Strings on the next battleground."

Getting up, she walked over to were I was, and looked around the cargo home. "Wonderful isn't it." I saw one of the guard ponies get tackled by a pegasus Corps Brigade, and a Unicorn ran in to gut the Guard. A few other Corps Brigade ponies were shaking of a few bullet wounds, and gathering the rifles of the guard ponies. "Victoria promised war." Carving Doll looked at me, blood coming from her eyes like tears. "And we have war!"

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Over the dead speakers that littered the ship, white noise erupted loudly. I had thought they had all broken down and crumbled to uselessness, but like all the other ponies that had told me they no longer work, I was proven wrong.

"Good day everypony!" It was Victoria, her cheerful voice echoed throughout the city. "As you can without a doubt see and hear, violence has broken out in are dear city on the water. I assure you that this will pass, and you will all be able to return to your daily lives. All we seek is Blackpowder Blast's death, and the slaughter of all those loyal to her. If you are loyal to her and wish not to die, you can prove yourself worthy of living by killing another loyalist. The more you kill the more likely we will spare your life, and possibly the life of your family. So remember there is always a way out, with the exception of Blackpowder Blast. Have a nice day.

The speakers returned to wight noise for a few seconds before the voice of a mare came one, it was the voice of a one of the sister from the chapel. "This mutiny is approved by the Followers of Thorn, for the weak must be purged so that the fleet can remain strong."

A melody replaced the sister voice, along with humming. The Followers of Thorn were playing a song that they had Victoria sing over a year back. It was a rare treat when I heard it, and now it was like a gift for a job well done.

I am not a pirate, but I long to be,
Sailing by the stars across the seven seas,
Living with no earthly cares, my mates and me—
The envy of all worldly ponies, who are not free.

A song to sing for beggars, a song to sing for saints,
A song to sing for wealthy ponies all wrapped and bound in chains!
Our treasure's not in gold, or in our piety.
Our wealth is in an answered call, the longing of the sea!

Stormy oceans carry us to lands we've never known,
To mysteries and buried secrets from the tales of old.
So hoist the sail and raise the flag, we do not stop for night.
We'll ride the wild winds and waves until the morning's light!

In smuggler's caves and tavern halls, we live by no pony's rules.
We fly the colors of the living, free and proud and true!
We set out on the ocean blue to escape tyranny.
We'll keep our merry hearts alive so long we roam the sea.

A pony once walked along the shore, and called he out to me,
"I see you are a fishermare, a lover of the sea.
I know this world's a wretched place, but if you'll follow me
I'll take all of your burdens... and pirates we shall be!"

Yo-ho, yo-ho!

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Author's Note

Song of the chapter is "The Pirate Shanty"