Fallout Equestria: Cyber's Story

Cyber's P.O.V

I collapsed to the ground as the pain shot through my whole entire chest and stomach area, my shotgun completely falling out of my levitation spell in the process. I could feel myself getting weaker by the second. I went and looked around, seeing Treble and Loose Screw standing over me talking...except I couldn't hear anything they were saying. There lips were moving, just nothing was heard...that's when I realized that I couldn't hear anything either. I was starting to black out, my vision was getting blurry, I was coughing up blood, yet worst of all of this was seeing Treble crying over me whenever I could see. I couldn't do anything about it either. I kept trying to move, to talk, to at least make a damned sound. But still, nothing would work, all I could do was lay there and semi-watch as Treble and Loose Screw tried to figure out what to do. I moved my head so I could at least see what I was just shot with. On the ground was yet another gun I have never seen before. It was around the size of my shotgun, yet it seemed to have an external box that the bullets went that was sticking out of the bottom of the gun. It also had, what looked to be, something that resembled a small telescope on the top of it. I'm sure all these things had names and some sort of gun nut would call me out on it, but that doesn't matter now.

I tried standing...nothing. Then at least tried to talk...still nothing. I was starting to think that the bullet pierced something vital, and that thought alone just made everything worse. I was literally useless right now. And every time I looked at Treble, she was laying next to me...weeping. Yet another unsettling thought. I knew that if I died out here, Treble and Loose Screw would to. However, that thought also fueled a fire inside me. It forced me to do something instead of just lye here and bleed out. I used what magic energy I had left to levitate over the needle I had found earlier. This alone seemed to drain everything I had. I noticed that Treble and Loose Screw were now sitting back, watching.

The needle was now up to my eyes, from what I could tell, it was labeled a STIMPACK. I had no clue what it did, but I knew it was medical. So this could be a number of things. It could kill me, it could give me energy, it could simply fix everything. I had no clue, but I had to take a chance. It was either that, or die. I levitated the needle down to the hole in my riot gear, then shoved it into the wound. This probably would have stung like a bitch, but I was already to numb to feel anything. I used my magic to push the plunger on the needle down, all it's liquid going into the wound, then I removed it, and relaxed as I waited for something to take affect...and it didn't take long.

I felt sudden energy and feeling start to return to my body. My vision started going back to normal. My hearing suddenly wasn't as muted like before. I could breath normally now. I guess these things helped. I used my new energy to roll from my side to my stomach, then sitting up, pain shooting through my side where the bullet entered. Treble and Loose Screw rushed to my side to keep my upright.

"Cyber!" I heard Treble scream. "Your okay!"

"I...I guess you could say that." I responded, my speech still kindove slurred due to me being out of breath.

"You can do stuff now, but you sure as hell aren't okay. The bullet didn't pass through completely, it's still in you." Loose Screw said.

"Great...I'm assuming it can't stay there either?" I responded.

"Afraid not, we need to get you to a doctor." Loose Screw said.

"We should hold off until tomorrow though, it's dark out." Treble said.

"What, you afraid of the dark." Loose Screw responded.

"No, it's freezing out there. You said it yourself, we wouldn't make it out here at night." Treble quickly responded.

"I don't recall ever saying that!" Loose Screw said.

"You said something similar!" Treble responded.

"DID NOT!" Loose Screw yelled, her loud voice seeming to return.

"Look...I'm agreeing with Treble here. We stay here tonight, go to your place tomorrow. Okay?" I say.

"Good." Treble says.

"Fine." Loose Screw adds in, she sounded annoyed.

"Now, can we all just find a place to lay?" I said. "I really want to lay down right now."

"Yea, come on. I saw a room over here before you...you know..." Treble said, stopping mid sentence.

"Got shot?" I said, finishing it for her.

"Yea." She said, blushing slightly.

Loose Screw walked off to a room next to the one that I got shot in and laid down on a pile of straw that was neatly placed in the corner of the room. Treble and I went into the one next to it. It was pretty much the same as the one Loose Screw went in. A small, rectangular room that had a pile of straw in the corner. The only difference being that this room had a dresser with a cracked, dusty mirror in it. I limped over to the dresser and opened it, seeing a tan winter duster neatly folded inside. I pulled it out with my teeth then levitated it up with my magic so I could unfold it. It was way to small for me, but then I remembered saying I would get Treble something that wasn't drenched in blood.

"Hey Treble." I said.

"Yea." She responded from the makeshift straw bed.

"It's not blood soaked, think this will work for you?" I asked.

"You know...it's perfect." She responded.

"Come here then, I'll help you get in on." I said.

"No, I can do it. You need to rest." She responded.

"I'm fine. Now come here, lets get you out of that nasty thing." I said.

Treble smiled, then stood up and lightly trotted over to me in probably the cutest way I have seen.

"What was that?" I jokingly asked.

"My happy walk." She responded.

"Your what?" I chuckled as I started undoing all the straps on her riot gear.

"Shut up." She responded, nudging my shoulder with her hoof.

"Just messing with you...it was cute though." I said.

"That's what I was going for." She said, holding her head up with some weird sense of pride...which was even cuter.

"Well it worked." I responded as I started sliding off all the gear.

I started with the helmet, then the leg and hoof guards, then the chest piece. Then I slid the duster on her.

"How is it?" I asked.

"A little loose, but I think it will work. It's warm though." She said, smiling ear to ear.

"Good. It's a winter duster, if it wasn't warm then theirs a problem" I said, but then I thought about protection. That thing was just leather with a thick lining on the inside for winter. It probably didn't protect against anything.

"Wait here, I'm going to get something." I said.

"Be quick." She responded as she walked back to the straw bed.

I walked out of the room and into the room where I got shot. Once inside I walked over to the mare's corpse, the same one who shot me. I looked at her armor. It was a finely crafted leather chest piece and front hoof guards. I figured that would be light, and at least protect against small weapons fire, plus it somehow had nearly zero blood on it. I removed the gear from the corpse and started heading back to the room, but then I remembered the weapon that I was previously curious about. I turned and levitated the weapon off the ground, a note popped up on my pipbuck.

AK47 ASSAULT RIFLE ADDED TO INVINTORY

Well, now I knew what it was called. An AK47. I started to observe it so I could see how it worked. It had a trigger, obviously, a safety switch, a bullet box release, it was pretty much the same as the 10mm pistol, just much bigger. I released the bullet box to see what kind of rounds it took. Once I took it out I saw a vary familiar type of round. I removed one out of the bullet box and levitated out one of the 7.62 NATO ROUNDS that a found earlier so I could compare them. They were exactly the same.

"Well I'll be damned." I said to my self as I levitated out the rest of the 7.62 bullets and put them into the bullet box, then slapped it into the AK47. My pipbuck said I had a total of 26 7.62 bullets, and unless I was right on the money, the AK47's bullet box could hold even more bullets then that. I walked over to the corpse to see if I could find more 7.62 bullets, and I did. But instead of just finding some spare bullets here and there, I found two full bullet boxes for the gun!

"Hell yea." I said, but then I realized that when I picked them up, my pipbuck labeled the bullet boxes as AK47 MAGAZINES. Now I felt stupid, this whole time I have been calling these things bullet boxes, they were actually called magazines...good job Cyber, dad would be proud. I also saw that the magazines could hold up to 30 rounds each. I removed the magazine I had in the gun and then put in a full one for safe measures. Then a slid the two magazines into my right saddle bag. I think I figured how I was going to organize my saddle bags from now on. I will use the right one for magazines and bullets, and the left for pretty much anything else. I guess I had three guns now, an AK47, a 12g pump shotgun, and a 10mm pistol. I had to say that it did way me down a bit, but not enough for me to want to get rid of one. I was built like an Earth pony thanks to my dad, and had the magic skill of my mother. I guess I got lucky when it came to the gene pool.

I hung the AK47 right next to my shotgun and 10mm pistol, then walked back into the room Treble was in.

"Got something to help with protection." I said.

"What's that?" She said from the straw bed.

"My pipbuck says it's called a leather tunic, I figured it would be better bullet protection if you wore it under the duster." I said. "It's up to you if you want to wear it though."

"Is it blood soaked?" She asked.

"No." I responded "It actually looks pretty clean."

"Then put it on." She said. "I guess it wouldn't be smart to go around without any sort of armor at all."

"That was my logic behind it." I said as she walked over, slipping off the duster.

I put the leather tunic and fore hoof guards on her, it actually looked like it was all meant to be worn like that as it all had the same leathery brown color. Once it was all strapped down I slid the duster over it all. Now it really looked like a complete outfit.

"What do you think?" Treble said.

"Well...you actually look pretty badass." I said, we both chuckled.

"Alright...I guess we should get to sleep." Treble said.

"Agreed." I responded.

"But don't think I'm letting you in this straw bed with all those guns hanging off you." She said.

"I didn't plan on it." I responded as I took all the weapons off of my riot gear, including my riot shield battle saddle. I was probably going to ditch the riot shield anyway. With all the damage it took before, it was pretty much useless. I then took off the riot helmet and walked over to lay with Treble.

I laid down beside her, we faced each other and simply stared into each other's eyes.

"I guess that's day one." Treble quietly said.

"I guess so...you think it might get any worse then this." I asked.

"More then likely." She responded. "But lets just deal with that once we face it."

"Agreed." I said. "Well...good night babe, love you."

"Forgetting something?" She asked, it didn't take long for me to get the memo.

We both shut our eyes as we leaned in for a kiss...the first one in a while, we made it last as long as possible. We finally released.

"Love you too." She said as we both closed our eyes and drifted off into a deep sleep.

Footnote: Level Up

New Perk: Every last Round

You are more likely to find bullets and magazines on fallen foes and in containers.