The Power Armor Series: Tin Soldier

Me, the princesses and what what remained of their army (it can barely be called an army anymore) walked towards the dark trees of the Everfree forest. I heard a small *ping* and saw a small indication in the upper left of my vision:

[Gryphonia reputation: Hated]

[Equestria reputation: Accepted]

[New perk added: 100 meter (rainbow) dash]

[Nobody can catch you! Your the gingerbread man! You now sprint 200% faster.] 'Wait, perks? *Ohoho, you amazing merchant!*'

The sun was getting lower in the sky as we walked onward across the tall grass and the princesses were asking me questions. I was more than happy to tell them what we did, well, what Elder Lyons' chapter did. I associated my alignment with The Citadel from Fallout 3.

"So in the wasteland you hail from, you are part of an advanced organization that does it's best to help restore the wasteland to peace whilst also fighting another, even more advanced, organization called the 'Enclave' to prevent the death of hundreds?" Luna asked, skimming through everything I have told them about my 'duties' in the Capital Wasteland. But when I told them what me and the brotherhood did, it felt almost... natural.

I responded while nodding. "Yep. That's what the Brotherhood of Steel does on a regular basis." She was impressed, even though she tried her best to hide it.

"That is a most noble cause. But what did this 'Enclave' do exactly? If you don't mind me asking that is." Celestia said. It was easy to make a response to that.

"The Enclave were the remnants of the original american government. Many patriots trusted them, only to be proven that their trust was misplaced. They thought that anything mutated or irradiated was 'impure' and needed to exterminated from the wasteland. So they genetically engineered a water-born virus strain that kills anything that is irradiated or mutated. It's called the MFEV, or 'Modified Forced Evolutionary Virus'. They took the original FEV strain from a long abandoned underground blast shelter called a 'vault'. The original strain was meant to be a horrible experiment to make an advanced race of humans. But that ended up making the 'super mutants', but that's besides the point. When they got their hands on the FEV, they modified it into the water-born, mutant killing and extremely potent virus it was. But thanks to the lone wanderer, a powerful ally of the brotherhood who President Eden thought he could manipulate into releasing the virus [pfft, as if. They were responsible for the death of his dad!], we got the last remaining Enclave FEV strain and disposed of it properly. And when I say 'disposed', I mean we incinerated it so there was only ashes left." I replied. This whole explanation earned looks of shock from the sisters.

"Who would trust an organization like that!?" Luna half yelled. This was perfectly understandable.

"They didn't know about the Enclave's true goals. They just thought that the Enclave was the good ol' american government coming to save the day." I told them.

I could see Celestia looking at the minigun that I was carrying in my steel hands. I also found out how to reload it too. I just need to take the ammo cartridge out of the gun, the empty ammo cartridge disappears in a sort of digital effect and gets replaced the same way with a full ammo cartridge. Infinite ammo is awesome.

"What is that weapon your carrying? Some kind of cannon I presume?" Celestia asked.

"You aren't far off. It's like a rapid fire cannon and the cannon balls are about the size of your pinkie finger's nail. It's called a gun. This one is called a minigun, due to it being the smallest of the rotary cannons. This large cylinder on the bottom of it is called the 'magazine'. It's where all the ammo is stored. That's why it's so armored; if another bullet, which is what the ammo is called, were to pierce the magazine, it would set off the other bullets and possibly cause the gun to blow up." I explained. The sisters were still shocked.

"Wait, that thing can explode!?" Luna yelled, but not in the royal canterlot voice.

"ONLY if the magazine is pierced, and that is highly unlikely." I said. This seemed to calm Luna down.

"Also, what is that armor made of? Nothing except mythril can completely deflect an arrow." Celestia questioned. I was happy they asked.

"Two inch thick double reinforced steel." I answered. This left both of the princesses with gaping mouths.

"How are you still standing with that much weight on you!? At that weight, the armor would crush you!" Half-yelled Celestia. I found this amusing.

"The reason I'm not being crushed by this armor is because the armor isn't actually on ME." This just confused the princesses. "The armor is actually on a steel frame that surrounds me. The armor is attached to the frame so it doesn't crush me. I just need to step into the armor's frame and then bam, instant protection. The frame also increases my strength. But even though it doubles my strength, it halfs my speed. Even with that, the pros far outweigh the cons." I explained. The princesses let out an 'ohhhh' at my explanation of how power armor worked.

"But wait, wouldn't it still be really hard to move in the frame even without the armor on it?" Luna asked. Time to explain the fusion core.

"This armor is called 'power armor' for a reason. It has an energy source that's in the middle of the valve on my back." The princesses looked at my back to see the little grey top of the fusion core in the valve. "It's called a fusion core. It supplies power to the armor so I can move easier." I said intelligently, thanks to all that Fallout knowledge I picked up while playing.

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"Don't even think about touching the fusion core, Luna."

"Dang it."