The Power Armor Series: Tin Soldier

I awoke to the sound of birds chirping above me and the feeling of being surrounded by metal. That isn't an unpleasant thing to wake up to, but the headache is. I groaned and tried lifting my hand, but when I did it seized up and my eyes shot open.

"Ah!" I yelped in surprise at the unexpected pain. It hurt terribly, but I soon regained control of the muscles and they went back to normal. I flexed it a couple times to test it. It felt fine now.

But only now did I notice the what I was looking at. I could barely see the outlines of the visor because my eyes were so close to it. I could see the HUD at the bottom of my vision with its yellow color scheme. I looked at the multiple dials and indicators with intrigue, only to notice some were missing. I was about to scan each one and read out my stats, but before I could I saw a little indication at the top left of my vision and focused on it.

[Pip-boy 3000 Model A connected. 4D Storage Chip implanted. Transferring items...]

[10mm pistol added]

[Minigun added]

[Laser pistol added]

[Missile launcher added]

[Transfer complete]

'Wait, a Pip-boy? I don't remember making one of those for my cosplay.' I thought. Must be because of the merchant. What a nice guy! Going all out in the experience! I should repay him somehow. But right now, I'm still lying on my back looking up at the light blue sky that's dotted with clouds.

I sat up and turned my head to look around at my surroundings. I was in large field of tall golden grass with a forest off in the distance to the front-left of me and the minigun that I bought was beside be. The landscape was... amazing to say the least. I sat there for a minute to admire it and to contemplate what I was going to do now that I was in Equestria. Almost as if the universe heard my thoughts and decided to give me an objective, I heard the sound of fighting in the distance to the right of me.

Excited and nearly having a fan-gasm from actually being in Equestia, I stood up and grabbed the minigun with renewed vigor at my task. The suit was extremely bulky but didn't seem that heavy, like it was moving with me and the minigun felt like it was weightless. I looked towards the sound of fighting and I quickly looked at my HUD in excitement and read out the present dials and counters as such:

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[Health dial: 100]

[Rads Dial: 0]

[Compass: Facing W]

[Core Charge: 92%]

[Ammo: 500/---]'Infinite ammo!? NICE! But I still have to reload. Huh. Well, better than nothing.'

[Armor Pieces*]

*Yellow = No need for repair.

*Red = Needs repair.

*Clear = Piece broken or not present on power armor frame.

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After that quick check, I started running towards the fighting. Every step I made caused the ground to shake. I was gaining momentum while I ran and after a minute of running, I stopped at the bottom of a hill and I could hear the battle much more clearly. It sounded like it was on the other side of the hill. I made my way up the hill and peaked my head over the crest of the hill to see the battle.

What I saw was what looked like a one sided battle. There were anthropomorphic griffons in steel armor easily over taking the slightly less equipped anthropomorphic ponies in gold armor. I saw their height ratio with the tall grass, compared it to my height ratio with the tall grass and quickly deduced that I was fairly taller than them.

The griffons were slowly gaining ground on the ponies. Due to height difference among the ponies, I quickly spotted the two most iconic princesses in Equestria. Celestia and Luna, both anthropomorphic of course. Their height ratio seemed more similar to mine, but I was still bigger than them thanks to the power armor.

Celestia was decked in ornate golden armor and was fighting with a gold halberd as a weapon. When will she ever learn that gold is weak? Luna was fighting beside her in pale blue armor and was using a blue sword with a black blade. They were cutting down any griffons that charged them, but had to back up due to the tide of the battle.

"Looks like they need help from me and my little friend here." I said to myself with a hidden smirk as I adjusted my hands on the minigun. As if reading my mind, the minigun barrel started spinning on it's own, ready to gun down waves of enemies with it's lead rounds of bloody death. "Lets do this."

I finished my assent of the hill by standing on the crest of it and pointed my minigun towards the steel armored griffon soldiers. I positioned my finger on the trigger and braced myself for the recoil. A griffon seemed to notice me and pointed at me, just as I pulled the trigger and filled him with lead and reduced him to a hole fill corpse with that single burst of minigun firepower.

At this point, both sides looked at me in shock of what just happened. I pulled the trigger again, but I held it down this time. As I watched the counter on the ammo go down, the fire and lead spewed from my minigun and into the army of griffon soldiers, filling dozens of them with holes and making them into limp and lifeless bodies. Eventually, after way too long, they snapped out of their trance and began charging me while their archers shot arrows at me. I ignored the arrows because I know the armor would protect me and I focused on mowing down the charging griffons.

Their torn bodies fell into piles like rocks and the arrows being shot by the griffon archers just bounced off of my armor like they were pebbles. Just as the last charging griffon was gunned down by me, the minigun clicked empty so I checked my ammo counter.

[000/---]

The barrel of the minigun stopped spinning and I lowered the minigun so it was pointing downwards, smoke still coming from the barrel. The griffons archers and the the few griffons who didn't charge just stared at shock at the piles of bodies that used to be their comrades.

"Retreat!" Yell a large griffon in gold lined steel armor. The griffon archers and the remaining footmen took to the air and flew away. I breathed a sigh of relief that the battle was over. I stared at the piles of griffons trying to look at them with no emotion, because if my mind starts working on it I start to feel bad. I heard calm footsteps coming from my right, so I turned to see what it was. To my surprise, it was Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. When they got within 5 feet of me, they stopped. After a second, they spoke.

"Greetings. I am Princess Celestia and this is Princess Luna. We thank you for the help, but who are you?" She asked. I REALLY wanted to fan-girl right now, but I couldn't afford to do that. So, for a title, I decided to use the BoS ranking I had on my arm. I set the minigun down beside me to the left, reached up to my head with both hands and removed my T-60 helmet. They seemed shocked by my appearance.

"Greetings Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. I am Paladin Maxwell Greyson of the Brotherhood of Steel and no thanks is needed. I am always willing to help those who need it." I said to the wide eyed princesses. They looked at each other and then back at me. Luna spoke first.

"What... are you? You don't look like anything we've ever seen, besides a near hairless primate." She asked with confusion in her voice. It looked like Celestia was about to shun her for being so inadvertently rude, but I beat her to it with my response.

"I'm a human. If you want to be scientific about it, homo-sapiens. We are basically evolved apes, so you aren't far off with that comparison." I replied. They just looked at me in surprise, probably from my self-comparison with a hairless ape. They looked like they had more questions on their mind and what they said next confirmed that.

"Could you please come with us back to our capital to answer more questions?" She asked with a slight hint of hopefulness.

"Sure, I would be happy to." I said. I put my helmet back on, picked up my minigun and we set off on a path straight towards the capital city in the Everfree forest.