Fallout Equestria: Cyber's Story

Cyber's Point of View

Holy shit was it freezing right now. We have only been walking for about half an hour now, and according to Loose Screw...we had a few more to go. I couldn't imagine how cols she was right now. Treble and I both had riot armor on with our Stable barding under that. All Loose Screw had was her Stable mechanic barding, and it was littered with holes.

"Hey Screw, is there anywhere closer we can go?" I asked.

"Why?" She responded.

"Well...where going to freeze to death soon. You said we had a few hours to go at the least. There has to be a closer place." I said, looking over at Treble. She was shivering more than any of us.

"Of course there's closer places, but the one were going to is the only place that I know is safe. So either we suck it up and go to the for sure safe place...or we take the risk of running into something that will definably kill us on sight...your pick." She said, turning to face Treble and I...I could tell she wanted to get to this so called safe place, but I don't think we were going to make it there without becoming pony-cicles, and I think she knew that as well.

"Look, we both know that we will not survive out here much longer. So lets just take our chances, at least that way we'll die quickly and not freeze to death." I said, Treble nodded in agreement.

There was a long pause. For a moment the only sound that we could here was heavy breathing and the heavy gust of wind that felt like it was going to freeze you instantaneously as it blew past you. Then Loose Screw let out a sigh.

"Fine...it does make sense. We'll try the closest location on our pipbucks. If it isn't safe and we live getting away, we go to my place. Deal?" She asked, again tilting her head to the side...and again more puss and blood leaked out of her eye socket. I tried not to gag, then looked over at Treble.

"That sound good to you?" I asked.

"Y...yea." She said, then shivered and leaned closer to me.

"Alright, where's the closest place from here?" I asked Loose Screw.

She lifted up her pipbuck and started looking through her map. I noticed that there where about five locations that were already discovered on her pipbuck's map.

"What about any of those locations?" I asked, I really didn't care that she has been outside the Stable before as I knew that it would help us...hell, it already did once. That didn't mean I wasn't asking questions later though.

"Well...one of them is the Stable, another is the place we'll be heading if this doesn't work out, and the others are pretty much deathtraps." She said, then looking back down at the glowing screen of her pipbuck.

"Simple enough...did you find a close place?" I asked.

"Three actually...just deciding which one is less likely to be infested with raiders or mutants." She said.

"Raiders?" Treble added in, it was a pretty good question.

"Yea...raiders, drugged up good for nothing ponies that would rather kill then rape you, in that order, than maybe stop and talk or trade. The only good raiders a dead one." Loose Screw said, this time never breaking eye contact from her pipbuck screen.

"Well...they sound pleasant." I said, then I remembered the pony I killed and got this shotgun off of. Was that a so called raider. It did try to kill me rather then let me pass or just try to talk it out. That did make me feel better about killing him...still wasn't thrilled about it though.

"Alright, this one here to the south is more up in the hills, that means it is less likely to be inhabited already. I guess we can try it, should only take about twenty minutes to get there. That the one we're heading to?" Loose Screw asked.

"Sounds good to me, Treble?" I asked.

She nodded in response, I think she was to cold to talk right now.

"Alright...lets head south." I said.

Loose Screw nodded and then turned to what I was assuming was south, and started walking, a thin trail of blood from her eye and probably a few other places throughout her burnt, slightly skinned body. It was probably a miracle that she was still walking.

We followed her, and it wasn't long until we were already walking up the hill to this location...and Loose Screw was quickly slowing down, and she was definably limping, every step she took seemed to make her cringe in pain...yet she still continued to go forward, nothing seemed to stop her.

"We need to get her help." Treble whispered.

"I know, but we can't help her unless we can sit down for the night. Even if we don't have medical supplies, she could at least use a good nights rest." I responded.

"Right...but what if there's other ponies here...one's that aren't friendly." Treble said.

"I'll fight if I have to...I want to try to run them off first. But if there are raiders up here...I have a feeling they can't be scared away." I said, levitating my shotgun out of my saddle bag, staring at it...I think I had a bad feeling that I was going to have to use this.

"Only if you have to..." Treble said, it took me a minute to figure out what she was talking about...but then I got what she was getting at.

"Promise." I responded, then stuck the shotgun back into the saddle bag.

We only had to walk through the freezing cold nuclear winter for about ten minutes until we reached the top of the hill. At the bottom sat a nearly destroyed looking house, a farm house at that. It had a dirt pathway leading to it with a sign that was half way up, half way destroyed and laying in splinters on the ground. The part of the sign that was still up read SWEET APPLE...it then cut off as the rest of the sign was what was in splinters on the ground.

"Is that the place?" I asked.

"Y...yeah." Loose Screw quietly responded.

"Think there are other ponies down there?" I said.

"You bet your ass there is!" A deeper voice responded behind us, it was then followed by laughter of another unknown pony.

My heart nearly dropped as I turned to see two, well armed yet barely clothed ponies, one unicorn, the other earth pony...both aiming loaded guns at us. They where both clothed of that to rival a barbarian like in the stories my dad told me as a colt, except these where nearly coated in dried up blood. The unicorns weapon looked to be like a single barreled, yet much longer version of my shotgun. The earth pony held a smaller gun in his mouth...not sure how that worked, but I guess they just figured it out.

"Raiders?" I asked Treble while I slowly backed up.

"Yep." She responded.

"Yea we raiders...and you can't do shit about it!" The unicorn said, his speech was fairly poor.

"Ha...I say we kill them two." The unicorn said, gesturing to Loose Screw and I. "Then we keep the other as a sex slave." He continued...this infuriated me beyond any belief. They wanted to use Treble for that. I looked at her, she was cowering behind me in fear. I wanted her to stay behind me anyway, so this worked out.

"You best back the fuck off her!" I responded to the two of them with all the rage I could put into my voice...but I was greeted with the unicorn's rifle stock directly to the side of my face, followed by Treble and Loose Screw yelping. This definably wrung my bells and knocked my over, but it didn't knock me out thanks to my riot helmet.

"Quiet you pathetic worm!" The unicorn yelled. "Pipeline, grab the mares. I'll drag the knocked out little bitch over here."

What the unicorn didn't realize was that while he was bragging and talking, I was levitating out my shotgun. I pressed it up against the unicorns stomach...then pulled the trigger.

Blood and guts painted the ground behind and under the unicorn, I quickly stood up while I used my magic to load two more shells into my shotgun, then unloaded them into the earth pony before he had a chance to react. More blood painted the ash filled snow. As I stood there in the snow with my heart pounding, everything started to come to me. I just realized what I did, and I wasn't that proud. I more took it as self defense and defending my friends then attacking, but I wasn't happy about it.

I looked at Treble and Screw Loose to see there reactions. Loose Screw didn't seemed phased, but Treble obviously didn't like what she just saw. You could tell by simply looking into her eyes. I didn't blame her either.

"Treble...I...I said if I had to, I would. Please...please understand." I said as I slowly put my shotgun back into the saddle bag.

There was a pause as Treble looked into my eyes, this seemed to almost pull the tears out of my eyes. But then she responded.

"You saved both of us...I think that's all that matters." She said, then ran in to hug me, I returned the favor.

"Um...this is nice and all, but were about to get swarmed." Loose Screw said as she pointed down the hill at the dozen ponies charging up the hill.

"Loose Screw, take this." I said as I levitated my shotgun over to her with all the shells I had left. Then I picked up the larger shotgun off the ground and looted any rounds I could find. Then I picked up the small gun off the ground I wiped off all the blood with the best of my ability and gave it to Treble. I noticed my pipbuck labeled it as 10mm pistol. I guess it was safe for earth pony use without the need of a battle saddle. She refused at first.

"Only if you have to?" I suggested.

"Promise." She responded as she grabbed the pistol in her mouth. We all then took cover on the larger rocks and prepared for the living hellstorm we were all about to go through.

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