Fallout Equestria: Return Of The King

I stepped into the war room, most of the stable's more important ponies where here but Skitarri and Krieg where noticeably absent. There was an argument going on when I entered, but once every pony saw me the entire room went silent.

“Whats the situation,” I said. Then a tall stallion with a vibrant red coat and blonde mane sat up.

“Sir Edward, From Cadia's scouting parties, we can surmise that the outside is mostly in ruin, the few places that are in somewhat decent condition are the major cities," The red pony said. A holographic map of Equestria appeared from the the center of the table. “Those surviving cities are marked in red on the map, they are, Manehattan, Fillydelphia, Griffonstone, and Canterlot."

“Good, Blood angel, you will continue your reconnaissance,“ I said. Then after a few seconds of silence, a mare with a white coat and black mane stood up as well.

“Currently the flutterwest stable is functioning at thirty percent capacity, the water talisman is at forty two percent capacity, manufacotorums are at five percent capacity, arcane generators at fifty percent capacity, mining system at twenty three percent capacity, and twenty two other sub-systems functioning at less then forty percent capacity. “

“Good, we have room to expand, Sacred rose, tell Skitarii to get the manufacotorums working and to start the production of more ammo, weapons, and sanctification talismans,“ I said to the white and black mare, she then bowed to me and left the room.

“Krieg is out recruiting any pony from the surrounding villages, to serve in the militia, he will return by morning, he has also taken the former steel ranger with him to act as a guide,“ A pale blue mare with a grey mane said.

Then a large silver unicorn stallion with a white mane shouted “Why do we even need this militia, we are powerful enough as it is, we don't need to rely on the primitive masses to help us.“

“You forget Grey knight, that we are just one thousand ponies, even if we had all of the technology in the world, it still takes more than just an order of one thousand to conquer a land the size of Equestria, even if that land is a collection of minor waring states,“ I said to Grey knight “And I would like it if you did not interrupt Valhallan next time.“

“Yes lord Edward, it will not happen again.“

“Any other news?“ I questioned the room of ponies.

“Yes sir, myself and a few others where checking the radio, and we came across two different channels that still broadcast signals, one was a local factions propaganda, the other was a news network, but this one was rather strange. We detected arcane interference in the sound waves, our machines removed the magic from the radio and discovered that, the mare on the other side was using some kind of spell to change her voice, for what reason we cannot say,“ A hooded cyborg mare replied.

“I will have a full report on this later, for now continue to analyse the radio waves,“ I said.

Blood angel stood back up, and the map zoomed into an area of northern Equestria, “This is Flutterwest and the area around it, we are here, and the steel rangers say that there are raider tribes, here, here, and here, there's also a ring of heavily irradiated land around the hill, but were working on clearing out the radiation. Just outside this ring, are several non-raider villages that Krieg is currently trying to recruit from.“ The red pegasus said as he pointed at the map.

“Blood raven!“ I said as a dark red earth pony with a dark grey mane stood up and looked at me, “I will put you in charge of dealing with these barbarians, do what ever you think necessary, after Blood raven clears the area of raiders, we should start expanding our base, I will put you in charge of that,“ I said pointing at the hooded cyborg mare.

After the meeting in the war room many of the ponies who where not assigned jobs went to the chapel to pray, I unfortunately did not have the time, I needed to plan our attack, with what information we have.

...

I wandered into a small village, the ponies looked worn and dirty. I wasn't wearing my gas mask, nor was my guide Firefly here to help me, he had to go on ahead to scout the surrounding area. I figured that my gas mask would frighten the ponies in the village, but even my presence was enough to scare these villagers. I asked one young mare on the street, “Who are you ponies,“ But she did not reply, only ran away from me.

For about an hour I explored the ghost town, ponies clearly lived in the buildings, but they where too frightened by me to come out, eventually I found an older stallion who did talk to me “You shouldn't be here, this town is plagued by bad luck, our plants die a few days before we harvest them, animals stay away from this place, and raiders attack us every goddamn week,“ The stallion shouted at me, he was sick and malnourished, if I did not do something, most of these villagers would die within the month.

“I come from the church on the hill just west of here, we have medicine and food, we can help this village.“ I said my voice full of hope. The stallion looked up at me in awe of what I just promised.

“Yo... you would actually help us?... but... but wait how do I know that your aren't a bandit trying to lure us into a trap!“ He shouted, “You are, iv'e been to that ruin, there's nothing there.“

“I can assure you, I am no such thing. I am an arbiter of the Priesthood of Flutterwest, my name is krieg. I understand if you don't trust me, and if you say for me to leave, I will“ I said trying to calm the clearly paranoid stallion.

Then I heard a scream from somewhere in the village “RAIDERS!!“ I then grabbed my meltagun and bolt pistol. The raiders where fast, they wore poorly kept leather and iron armor, they had an insane look in their eyes, and to most normal ponies, a very dangerous foe, but I was no normal pony

My meltagun turned one raider into ash before he even knew what happened, a second raider turned around when he saw his friend was gone, he shot his assault rifle at me but to no effect, the bullets breaking upon contact with my shield. I floated my bolt pistol and with a loud BOOM his head was now a red mist, but the boom of my bolt pistol attracted more.

Five raiders where circling me, they now knew that my shield protected me from their bullets, one charged at me screaming “WAAAGH!“ as he tried to get behind my shield, but a bolt round to the head said otherwise, but while I shot one another attacked from behind, anticipating the distraction I leveled my meltagun and burned the ambush.

There where now three raiders left, all three attacked at once, my bolt pistol and meltagun killed two of them but the third got behind my shield, at this close range my shield would not protect me. The raider lifted his pistol to my head but before he could shoot me i heard a shot from somewhere to my side,the raider jumped away outside my shield, the raider had a hole in his leg but was still alive, I fixed that with my meltagun.

The pony who saved me was the young mare who ran away from me earlier, she had a revolver in her teeth and was clearly shaking from the fear of both me and the raider attack. “Thank you, now let's finish this battle.“

The battle was over, there where fourteen raiders in total, all where now dead. The ponies of the village where now crowding around their new hero... me, I stood atop the tallest thing I could find other that the decrepit shacks, “Ponies of this village, I come from the church on the hill, we are hiring soldiers for a militia that will be in charge of protecting this area, all whom wish to join step up, you will be offered free medicine, food, water, and shelter. All whom wish to join raise your hoof!“ The group looked hesitant at first but then one pony raised their hoof, then another, and another, before long the entire village had their hooves raised. We now had fifty ponies in the militia, I made sure to remember to reward the pony who raised their hoof first.

The militia corp and I then started to march back to base.