Fallout Equestria: Return Of The King

The voice of the ever enigmatic DJ Pon3 came over the radio, however unlike many of her speeches this one was not about an event on the other side of the wasteland nor about the equally mysterious hero of the wasteland whom the tech-priests soon got tired of hearing about “Well, now I have some interesting news for you children, remember that old church on the hill, just north of Canterlot,” with this the tech-priests soon jumped to their feet and started to listen intently, “Well it appears that those ruins are not so abandoned after all, there's a group of red cloaked ponies living up there, calling themselves the Priesthood of Flutterwest, now I don't know who these ponies are, or what they are doing, but they have been hunting the raiders up in the north, and from what we know about raiders, i'd say that's a good thing.”

The speech of DJ Pon3 surprised the tech-priests, they did not expect word of the priesthood's existence to travel so quickly, but they knew that they must tell lord Edward about this, “Just be careful when going up north, we don't know what the priesthood is, neither do we know what they want, we just know that there up there, and they have a lot of powerful tech.”

The tech priests soon started to relay this information to Edward, and started to work harder on the projects that skitarii and mechanica had them working on, they had almost finished a functional suit of flutterwest power armor, and could soon start work on the multitude of other projects they had.

...

I was put in charge of expanding the base, the tech-priests under my command where working all night and now all morning in getting the first manufactorum constructed, we had the outside of the building almost complete, and we even had some of the machinery working, Edward was going to be so pleased with my work, even just being near him was heavenly, and this would impress him, it had to impress him.

“Mechanica, how's the manufactorum, almost done?” Skitarii asked me

“Yes father it should be done by the evening if we continue at the same rate,” I said “And I thank you for the rad-away you gave me yesterday, but I don't need it, I've used a radium carbine many times before, and do you think I'd ever invent a weapon that would kill the user.”

“True, imagine how stupid somepony would half to be to use a weapon that would actually do that, ha!” Skitarii laughed. “These manufactorums will be useful for my current project.”

“I have no doubt that they will father, and I hope that lord Edward is happy with my progress.”

“I've known Edward since I was born, and I can assure you that he will be quite pleased with how efficiently you've assembled the building.”

Upon hearing this I couldn't prevent a giant smile from appearing across my face, I was in pure joy from the promise that Edward would be happy with my success.

“You there, tech-priest, that need's to be aligned vertically, not horizontally,” I shouted to a tech-priest attempting to weld a sheet of titanium to the floor, when he heard my orders, he removed the piece of metal and put it on the correct way.

From the other side of the hill I could hear the marching of hooves and the sounds of lasguns. Krieg was training his soldiers to be more disciplined and better with their weapons.

Blood angel was overseeing the construction, wandering around and checking for any problems that could occur, as well as inspecting the construction and delivery of materials from the mines.

Dark angel was watching from what remains of Flutterwest tower, scanning the area for anything approaching the base. Yesterday I had taken the skull of one of the dead raiders and filled it with machinery to act as a scanner to assist Dark angel in his scouting, the skull could even spot invisible things.

Martyred and Sacred rose where discussing combat tactics, Cadia was assisting Krieg with training, Bloody rose was helping the tech-priests with moving resources for construction. and Grey knight was sanctifying the area to remove any radiation from the land so we could grow more crops. It was impressive to think that only two days ago we opened the stable door, and that we had progressed so fast in those two days.

...

“You, solder come over here!” I shouted to one of the militia ponies.

“Yes Krieg sir,” the militia pony said as he walked over to me.

“This is rather informal but, I was impressed by how well you fought in the last battle and impressed by your bravery to be the first pony in your village to raise your hoof and join the militia, so in honor of your minor but still notable achievements I will promote you to a commissar, you will be in charge of improving morale and ensuring that the militia does it's job and fights at full power, I will also leave punishment of insubordinate ponies up to you.”

“Thank you sir, I don't know what to say, i'm honored and I hope I don't disappoint,” The militia pony said “You did save my village and for that we all owe you our lives.”

“Good, I hope you do a good job at leading your fellow militia, ugh... what was your name?” I paused remembering that I haven't asked his name yet.

“Radray sir, I was named that after my mother died of radiation sickness.”

I nodded understanding the rather grim ways to die without the magic of our sanctification talismans protecting us from such things as radiation.

I was about to go and check on the training but then a shout coming from the tower caught my attention “We have steel rangers approaching the base, there coming form the south east,” Dark angel shouted down to me and Radray.

Myself, the newly appointed commissar and two more militia ran to the south east border of the camp, there where seven steel rangers approaching, one was wearing no helmet.

“Who goes there, this is Flutterwest cathedral,” I said to the small group of armored ponies.

“My name is crusader Midnight I was going to accompany the rest of the steel rangers from Manehattan in the pursuit of a stable somewhere near Ponyville, but our leader had sent me here to see if I can't discuss some kind of deal with you.”

But before I could respond to the armored mare in front of me, Blood angel shouted to me, “Let them in, i'll discuss this with them myself.”

The Group of steel rangers trotted into the base, they looked around for the source of the voice that let them enter, but when they looked up and saw the red pegasus flying just above them, they all took a few steps back, with a notable look of shock on the face of Midnight who had clearly never seen a pegasus before.

...

“So... why are you here again,” I asked to the leader of the group of steel rangers.

“We have come to see if we can't discuss some kind of deal with you,” Midnight replied.

“Come follow me,” I said as i began to walk off to the ruins of Flutterwest.

I brought the steel ranger group to a large titanium and gold table we had placed in the ruins of Flutterwest to act as a basic diplomatic chamber until we had actually built a dedicated diplomacy room.

“So let's get this started, what do you want and why are you here,” I said to Midnight.

“I want to speak to your leader,” Midnight replied with a hint of anger in her voice.

“Lord Edward blaze is unavailable at the moment, he has left me in charge,” I said truthfully but it appeared that the steel rangers did not believe me.

Midnight sighed but then soon said “Ok then, I will talk to you instead.”

“Good now, what do you want.”

“Even though it is below me to reason with primitives, you have some impressive weapons and tech, and I, or rather my leader, would like to try to bargain with you for some of you lovely technology, in exchange we will grant you information about anywhere and anything in the wasteland, and as much as I despise telling you this, he has ordered that we grant you resources and assistance for what ever you need.”

I looked at the clearly angered mare in front of me, “these are requests we are not keen in meeting but, your assistance may prove useful,” I said while staring at Midnight “And I can assure you, that we are not primitive in the least.”

“I don't like this deal either, I would rather steal the tech from you myself, but I've been ordered to solve this non-violently if possible,” She Replied with contempt, “The specific tech I would like is your sub-machine guns, your anti-tank flamethrowers and the magic shields that protect y-”

“NO!” I would not let these ponies get a hold on our most useful tech, I was wary of giving them bolters and meltaguns, but our sanctification talismans are too powerful to fall into the wrong hooves.

“What?” Midnight shrieked with anger, “I demand to speak with your leader!” Midnight shouted.

“As I said, lord Edward blaze is unavailable at the moment,” I shouted “And I am sure he would say the same thing, our bolters and meltaguns are ok, but we cannot let you have our talismans, they are far more than just simple shields and are too powerful for simple-minded beings such as yourselves,” I said as Ii pulled out my talisman, it was in the shape of a gothic I with a circle in the center, on that circle was the image of the sun engraved into the shiny gold pendant.

She stared at the pendant with a look of determination, she wanted it but did not know it's awesome power, “You don't know how powerful this simple pendant is, and because of that i cannot let you have it,” I said as I lifted the necklace into the air with my wing. An otherworldly holy light shone around the I, in a flash one steel ranger burst into flames and screamed for a few seconds before dying.

The flames went away when the subject died, but when Midnight turned around to face me, she looked at the talisman with desire in her eyes, I feared that I had only made the situation worse, I had killed one of the steel rangers, and now Midnight saw the power of the talisman.

“As I said, you cannot have it, is too powerful.”

“I won't leave without it!” she screamed

“Do I need to repeat myself, you cannot have it!” I screamed back as I carefully put the talisman back into my robes.

“Damn you, that tech belongs to us, and if you don't give it to us we will take it from you!” she screamed as she galloped up to me and with a loud smack she slapped me across the face.

I stared at her with a fury in my eyes, she began to back away when I screamed to her and to all the steel rangers in the room, “You come here, and try to lie your way to getting filthy hooves on our sacred tech, then you threaten our holy order, and hit an arbiter!” a look of fear shot across Midnight's face as I spoke “If we did give you what you demanded then you would have only used it to betray the ones who gave you it in the first place, and as long as I live I will never let your unworthy hooves touch even a single one of the sacred bolters or lasguns our goddess Celestia has given us!” I screamed in rage.

It was only a few minutes into diplomacy and it has gone downhill very quickly, although I did expect this to happen given what we know about the steel rangers. Seeing as shit hit the fan so quick I shouted “Enough of this!” and before Midnight could react I already was pulling something out of a hidden holster underneath my cloak.

Midnight jumped back at the sight of what i pulled out of my cloak, a chainsaw, half the size of a pony, with the handle and body of a sword. Midnight tried to get her weapons running but she was distracted by the sound of ripping metal and the whir of my chainsword, she looked down and all she could see before dying is my chainsword ripping through her chest and armor with ease.

With their leader falling limply to the ground, blood poring from her chest, the steel rangers began to back away, they ran as far as they could, the militia firing at them with their lasguns, the bolts of their relatively weak lasguns harmlessly bounced off of the steel rangers power armor with ease, surely we had now made one new enemy.

...

I was trotting around the war room, going over what knowledge we have on Equestria and trying to decide how to conquer Equestria most efficiently when a beeping sound emanated from a large communicator lying on the center of the table

The voice of Skitarii came from the device, “Edward, some steel rangers came up to the base and started a fight, blood angel killed their leader but it looks like we might have a new enemy... Oh and also I've finished one of the projects you requested.“