Chapters Fallout: Equestria - .50 Caliber
Steel Pipes and Stable Raid
Author's Note
Original story by Kkat.
This (Fo:E) Fallout: Equestria Spin off Side-Story is more focused on the Narrative side, so no level up prompts, I know that it makes the story less exciting, I write stories that suck so bear with me here.
Steel Pipes and Stable Raid
The low buzzing of the stable lights in Stable X50 fills Blue Buckler’s Ears as he twists a leaking pipe at the Overmare’s office, high pitched squeaks from the twisted pipe fill the room when a Click of a Pipe signaled that blue buckler is finished with his Pipework.
“And with that, your leaky pipe is fixed miss Overmare”
“Thank you Blue Buckler, if that pipe were to burst then this office would turn into a Sauna”
“Who would be stupid enough to think that a High class stable overmare like her would be interested in a measly plumber like me? Me! The idiot that's talking to himself, That's who”
When he arrived, the first thing he spotted was his roommate Snoozing away on the top bunk, he let out a big sigh as he grabbed his book called ‘Expert Pipework Volume 5’ and Plopped down on the lower bunk.
Its true that stable X-fifty was not the ideal place to live in, but it's certainly better than the rumored 'land of radioactivity and balefire' that the first overmare had told the first generation of stable dwellers.
The rule is that; when a colt or filly get their cutie mark, the overmare will have to take a look and decide in what will they do to assist the stable once they reach the right age.
Buckler was still confused of why he was put in plumbing duty and not in security duty when his cutie mark is an image of the second part of his name, a 'buckler', which is made for defense, a miniature shield if you will.
* * *
A loudspeaker shat out some Static before Speaking into a more clear sound with actual Understandable Words.
“Hey Rustbucket”
“Plumber unit 3: Rustbucket reporting for duty”
“Hey Rustbucket, they said they need you to fix some pressure decrease on the stable Door”
“Oh really now?”
* * *
The Loudspeaker once again shat out a bunch of Static before Speaking clearly.
“What is it now Rustbucket?”
“Get a move on Blue Buckler”
“Alright i’m coming”
* * *
“Alright baby-Dee what seems to be the problem?”
“You see.. " he scratched his cheek "when I opened the valve to let any remaining air out I found that the pressure was already out. and rather than pushing air out, the air kept on going
in
the pipes”
“So basically you're saying that something from outside is sucking air out of these security valves? You know that would Make it easier for the stable door to be blown down right?”
“That’s exactly what i’m saying”
"and considering that this door is made of Steel, I'm starting to get worried"
“Then let’s get this damn door fixed!” Iron bolt drops her toolbox making a loud Sound and taking out some tools after.
Just as Rustbucket was about to operate on the door, the gear shaped door made a Loud hiss startling the three pipe workers, slided towards them just for a little bit before rolling left to reveal the relatively bright outside, sand dunes was the first view of the outside, a silhouette walking in the way of the view after.
“Woah, is the outside world safe to travel Now?”
A loud boom sounded out with Rustbucket’s Head Blowing up into a juicy splatter, the sound was like a high speed rock hitting a watermelon, and the sight of it was horrifying, Buckler freezed in place before getting snapped back to reality by the shooter.
“To answer you're question little Ma'am. No, the outside world is not safe to travel, it is a dead almost dry, irradiated literal wasteland”
Two figures trot to the side of the voice owner and kicking the objects strapped to their sides
“Bucking Hell”
“Miss Overmare: Waving flag”
* * *
“Miss Overmare!!”
“What is it Blue Buckler?”
“Outside invaders are in the stable! Put the stable on Lockdown”
“Warning to all residents of stable X-Fifty, invaders from outside have entered the stable and is Proceeding to Raid and Take every resource we have, it is advised to stay in your Quarters and Wait out the trouble while the security handles it. May Celestia Guard you all” he sent out a warning that Could be heard on every speaker in Stable X-fifty
Blue Buckler was panting when the overmare trots up to him and raises her voice
a loud bang was heard at the locked door. when the overmare checked the Cameras to see what it was, her pink face turned from rose pink to Pale pink
“What is it” Buckler asked to which waving flag responded with
“Battering Ram”
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“Wait a fucking second, Where did they get a fucking Battering Ram?”
The overmare fumbles around in an Iron cabinet nearby.
The door was starting to succumb to the repeated banging of the Battering Ram, the constant hard knocks has caused the door to bend to a Curved shape, much like a bowl only bigger and more crooked.
The overmare pulls out a shotgun from her metal cabinet along with Three Shells for the shotgun.
“So how is that Modified?”
She gave a look saying that she doesn’t know and looks at the beefy shotgun in her hooves (Probably taller than her)
The door Finally Broke down with one of the stallion intruders Coming in the room with Revolver in his magic and shouted
Before he could fire, the overmare smacked his face with the butt-stock of the unloaded shotgun knocking him unconcious
She proceeded to load the shotgun, Buckler ran to a steel pipe on the wall and forcefully tries to Yank the hot pipe off lt.
“Blue Buckler what are you doing?!” She asked him slightly worried he would get badly burned as she hears the slight hiss of hot metal touching flesh
He answered her with determination and the sound of resisting the urge to pull away from the hot pipe in his voice.
More intruders flooded the room and pointed all guns at the struggling stallion at the pipes, they all shot and missed because of the overmare kicking up a steel table and blocking the bullets, during that short time she managed to pull blue buckler down behind the cover of the table.
“What are you doing?” Buckler asked with Burned lips and tongue.
“Saving your rump dip-shit”
“At least let me do this for you!” He Tried to reason with her
“Blue buckler!! This table is the only thing between us and a rain if bullets, do you really want to risk your life for a hot pipe?” waving flag yelled at the plumber pulling him down closer to the floor
“I’m not risking my life for the pipe!! I’m risking my life for you”
“We need some backup”
The pipe gives in to the force of the pull and bends just enough for Buckler to finally yank it out. After that, buckler runs to the door grabbing waving flag by the hoof and Tossing her on his back.
Buckler jumps out the door, wall flips off a wall and smacks the female intruder in her muzzle making the sizzling sound of Buckler’s Lips touching the hot metal when her face made contact with the pipe, leaving her with a Red Line crossing her face
“We need to get out of this stable”
"And leave the only home I've even known? Hell no"
"Even if we survive this, everypony is still going to be dead" she replied
"You don't know that!-"
"YES. I. DO. Blue Buckler, please, just trust me, on this. Get us out of here" silence was between them, then buckler complies and gallops toward the exit, having a few encounters with a lot of corpses and the intruders but quickly getting Smacked with Blue Buckler’s pipe and pummeled by Waving flag’s Shotgun leaving her with one shell left.
* * *
“I think I see the Exit”
A sniper shoots Blue buckler’s right foreleg going through it and hitting the Screen of Buckler’s Pip-Buck, Damaging it beyond (Basic) repair, toppling him over and sending the overmare on his back Flying, stopping three feet away.
With blue Buckler unable to stand up and the overmare refusing to run away, she runs to the direction of where the shot came from and empties her last shell on a Sniper Rifle and Getting Punched by the sniper who dodged her attack rendering her unable to move because of the pain
* * *
A Splash of cold liquid wakes Blue Buckler up from his Passed out state. all he remembered was running out of the stable door, hearing a loud bang and passing out.
“Hey hey hey! guess who decided to wake up; the Lord of Bullshittery”
He looks at his surroundings and Realizes that he is in the stable (the front door to be exact), He also Realizes that the comrades (or possibly underlings) of the female intruder was holding him up, keeping him from falling down
“You think you could easily get away with what you did to my face? well bad luck to you buckeroo. you can’t” she said to the blood-drained plumber in front of her.
“well to be honest, I did”
The female intruder rolls her eyes and mumbles something along the lines of: ‘you're a future carcass’ and ‘this guy’s a dumbass’, probably, most likely, definitely the latter
“Since you're about to die anyway i’ll let you have a heart-to-heart talk with each other.. we’ll give you ten minutes”
A long silence takes on the area, the atmosphere was so thick that you could cut it with a knife. then the now former overmare decided to break the crushing pressure of the silence.
“Sure, can I tell you mine after?”
“Waving flag isn’t my real name, its a name that I chose to sound intimidating to counter the pathetic look of my height”
“You look pretty tall to me”
“Buckler i’m just an inch taller than a filly!”
“So what’s the real name?”
She hesitates at first fearing that he would make fun of her. but since they’re about to die, she told him.
A silence fills the room before once again getting broken by Waving flag
“I.... uhh.. how do I put this”
“Time’s up Foals”
“Any last words?” She asked now pointing the gun at Rosebud Citrus' Back.
“I like you, since I met you on the day you got your cutie mark, I had a huge crush on you.. I... love you”
Rosebud shed her own tears and nodded to him with a smile
The female intruder rolls her eyes
She finally shot Rosebud in the back earning a devastated sob from the plumber.
“Don’t worry colteo, you're next”
Blue Buckler felt himself being let go and Falling on his back with everything going black. Cliche, but true. but before he finally rested and draws what he believes to be his final breath, he heard clashes of metal against metal along with gunshots.
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“Hello?”
“Why Buckler?”
“Why did you let me die?”
Rosebud Citrus started to slowly walk towards Buckler mumbling something, gradually getting louder
Buckler woke up with sweat dripping down his cheek and chin.
He took a good look around as an Unknown pony wearing a face mask came into view.
“Oh Good, you're awake”
“Where am I?”
“You're in crater-town medical building” the mare answered crushing up some charred wood and mixing it with juices of a plant to make some makeshift ink.
“Hold up.. Crater-town?”
“Yes Crater town, you don’t know what crater-town is?”
“To simplify, crater-town is a city built inside of a megaspell crater, rumor has it that this crater we are in was a misfired megaspell.. well what I know is somepony lost thier job” she said to him laughing with a snort on the end
“i’m outside the stable?”
“Yes Now tell me your name”
“Blue Buckler”
“Okay patient one-eleven, you rest up while I check on your buddy okay?” She hung the paper on the foot of buckler’s bed and taking her leave after.
“Wait!”
“What’s her name?”
“I think her name was Rosebutt Circus” she scratched her dusty forehead
“Do you mean Rosebud Citrus?”
“Yeah! Thats the name!”
“I’m glad she’s safe”
* * *
Buckler was on his improvised hospital bed looking at his destroyed pip-buck’s screen wondering how the sniper got his hoof dead-center, when a sound catches his attention.
“Buckler?” A familiar voice comes from the door. Buckler had no time to look when a pink and orange blur tackles buckler and wraps its hooves around him, accidentally applying pressure on his abdominal bullet wound (which somehow, someway changed it's location on his abdomen). His eyes widened from the pain and rapidly exclaimed as an instinct
“Careful now, we don’t want any reopening bullet wounds now, do we?”
“I’m so happy you're awake! I've been waiting for six months just to see you, welcome to crater-town by the way”
“Six months... I've been out for six months?”
“How did we get here?”
“One of our scavenging squads called ‘wasteland blades’ found you in the stable with the front door wide open, good thing they were nice enough to rescue you and carry you guys here”
“You should go thank them after you make a full recovery”
“Yeah... maybe I will”
* * *
A week has passed since the awakening of blue buckler who was now roaming around in the metallic concrete city surrounded by a three meter thick and five meter high wall of sacks filled with dirt and rubble. not the optimal protection against high energy explosives but protects well against most high caliber rounds like anti-machine rifles.
He was told that the scavenging groups are stationed at the improvised barracks made of whats left of a big diner's walls, windows and door. He goes there and got stopped by an armored pony with weird looking guns strapped to his fore hooves.
“How can I help you?”
Buckler answers with nervousness mostly because of the guarding stallion being taller than him by five inches.
The guarding stallion’s face made a look saying ‘why those guys?’ And answered
“I wanted to thank them for rescuing Rosebud and I”
“So you're the stable dweller they rescued? I didn't even notice that you were one. Probably because you don’t have the stable barding. You look much taller than their description of you, damn, six months really did a difference”
“Okay. I guess i’ll be on my way now”
“Sure, good luck”
* * *
After a minute trot down the wooden hallways, he finally found a wooden sign bearing the image of two swords forming an ‘X’ hanging by chains nailed to the ceiling (kind of), he followed the sign until he stopped at an Wooden edged sheet-Metal door with the same ‘X-swords’ image.
He knocked and the door opened with a loud squeak revealing A stallion that has a shoulder-length brown mane, a thin beard along his jawline, and gray eyes. He is a very tall and slim stallion who appears to be well-built. He has the appearance of a middle-aged buck with wrinkles around his eyes, which are small and piercing. He wears a simple white shirt , along with a fedora hat, he also has the same weird guns strapped to his hooves.
“It’s you”
“..the stable dweller of X50”
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Buckler was let in and decided to take a seat on a hay bale, not smooth and bouncy like the mattresses in stable X50, but not as cold as one.
“You found us in the stable?”
“Well. Not found per say.. we had to fight off some sons o’ bitches to get ya”
The mare had exotic looks, she was a fairly tall (Slightly shorter than Buckler), physically fit, and very muscular teenage female with long coal-black hair, with a pale yellow coat and woozy maroon eyes, which may not look woozy if she wasn't drunk.
“Under-aged drinking at its finest everypony, give her a round of applause. The award for the most drunken sixteen year old goes to.. Shell Shock” a sarcastic tone came from a colt with a short, straight black hair styled in an undercut, as well as narrow, intimidating dull gray eyes with dark circles under them complemented by his dark brown coat and a deceptively youthful face. He is quite short, but his physique is well-developed.
“Hey! You do you, and I do me. So me drinking nine bottles of liquor a day is none of your business mud flash”
Mud opened his mouth to answer but got cut off by the sound of a siren reminiscent of the ‘severe leakage alarm’ back in stable 50.
“Attackers on the outside of the wall! The Defense section needs help! Everypony get your battle saddles and report to the wall”
The room was immediately emptied and the alarm was finally silenced, he followed after the group and never had the chance to ask what were those guns for, but he was going to find out.
The loud sounds had filled buckler’s senses the moment he set foot on the outside of the former diner, he spotted mud flash, shell shock and canyon using the weird guns on their hooves, but he found that they don’t function as weapons, rather they were minature harpoons shooting out of the guns and cables attached to the said harpoons.
His prevously punctured gut told him to follow the trio, and indeed he followed. On the way, he passed by a pony being carried to the nearest medical bay and with his left foreleg severed by something with a ton of punch. The mere sight of this had caused buckler to feel woozy and his stomach to gurgle which had caused him to run to an alleyway and spill his lunch out his stomach.
Despite this, he pushed forward through the pain remembering what his mother said to him when he was a blank flanked colt.
* * *
With the battle won (again apparently), Shell shock, Mud flash and canyon had met the exhausted blue buckler on their way back and had agreed to tell buckler what was the purpose of the wierd guns strapped to their hooves.
They made it to the barracks and went to the main armory where they show a blueprint of the contraption. Apparently its called a grappling harpoon, a tool that helps the user to fly through the air. It uses a compressed air cansiter strapped to the sides of the wearer to launch the harpoon, and once the harpoon sticks to something, the anchors activate and pull the wearer of the contraption towards the hooked harpoon. once the wearer wants to move on to another position, the wearer just pulls the bottom trigger and the harpoons release and get stored back into the gun via spring pulley which gets disbled when the harpoon is fired using the top trigger.
Now that buckler had a good Idea of what those guns are (apparently named Grappling harpoon), he was now thinking of some improvements that could be made to improve the quality of use, but since buckler had no Idea what it feels to use it, he brushed off the ideas, storing them in his mental archives.
“Also next week, we’ll be going on a scavenging expedition with your wife” Canyon rolled up the blueprint and stored it in one of the lockers.
The word ‘wife’ has buckler surprised and confused at the same time which resulted in him correcting canyon
Buckler could have sworn canyon had a devious grin when he left the room saying:
In curiosity buckler had moved his pipbuck aside only to find scar cut to look like the cutie mark of the princess of love: cadence, buckler slightly gasps to see that the scar was a few months old. He needed to talk to Rosebud when he gets home.
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3-DAYS LATER
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after days of living with Rosebud, he had been used to the daily life of crater-town. He also found that the currency in the wasteland are crowns of glass soda bottles they call 'caps'. With all this information, he could finally survive the wasteland (inside cratertown at least). Although one small thing had been bugging buckler for a quite some time now.if this city was built in and on top of a missile crater, then how were they able to get rid of the radiation?
buckler thinks about one of the posibilities while sitting on an old and rusted office chair, staring at the dirty ceiling as Buckler fiddles with the buttons and dials of his bullet holed pipbuck. As he sits there, the squeak of the wooden door catches his attention, taking him out of his trance.
“Buckler i’m home”
“Let me cook dinner tonight”
“aww radhog? I hate meat.. A~nd i’m pretty sure rosebud does too”
“I’ll call you when it’s ready okay?”
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Three days before the scheduled scavenging run of wasteland blades which apparently rosebud citrus is a part of.
“Hey rosebud”
With radhog meat still stuffed in her mouth, rosebud responds with a muffled
“I was meaning to ask you about... this” the hesitation in buckler’s voice had caused rosebud to expect a near unanswerable question. and in deed it was.
“Remember when you said loved be back in the stable? Well I sort of had feeling for you back”
“That’s not related to my question, could you at least add just a weee bit of details?”
“When we almost died in the stable, We were rescued and carried here. But you already know that. The thing is.. a week after the attack on stable 50, I woke up and got out of the cratertown medical building they call a hospital. I asked if I could see you, they let me in your cubicle and they said you were in a coma. They said that you only had a few weeks left because your brain activity was going coo coo and would soon enough, plummet, then stopping your heartbeats.. so before that happens I asked Canyon of what their version of an eternal bond of love between lovers is. Canyon said that identical scars is their version of wedding rings. So I decided what other way to symbolize love than the cutie mark of the princess of love?”
Before buckler couldn't even respond, they heard a zipping sound just outside their household. The zipping sound stops just before the door of their home got opened in a rather violent manner, the pony who busted down their door showed itself. It was wearing full battle gear along with the grappling harpoons at their hooves and Metal canisters at their sides. It was shell shock, not drunk and ready for a big fight.
"Hey citrus, we need your help. Raiders with Raider-Made steel ranger armor outside the wall. They look like they're carrying a Fuck-ton of explosives that might just Blow down the wall"
Rosebud's eyes widened then looked at buckler. She ran to the back room while shouting at buckler.
Buckler nodded, running outside, past shell shock and towards the wall after saying
He ran to the wall, never stopping even though his body was not built for long distance running.
“I have just found a new home and already! I have to flee. Again?”
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Buckler had finally had a view of the wall and has climbed to a higher position to get a better view of the commotion (on top of a roof to be precise).
The gunshots rage off while buckler just looks and waits as ponies and steel-raiders die and get replaced. There was the occasional explosion that were sometimes disturbingly close to the wall that the wall would wiggle but would immediately rearrange itself.
While all that chaos happens, buckler’s friend, Shell shock and his “Wife” have finally arrived wearing their gear and ready for a head-to-head fight.
“What’s the condition bucky?”
“We never agreed on that nickname.. The condition is getting pretty out of hoof, I wonder why they haven't called for backup yet”
“Because the wall defense sector has an ego the size of manehattan and Fillydelphia combined. maybe put Detrot in the mix. Last attack, the town guards were smart enough to call the scavenging squads” Canyon answered behind his metal mask. Canyon and mud flash were now wearing full battle gear also ready for a fight.
“Don’t fool around. These steel-raiders are not your average raider. These guys have heavy automatic battle saddles and some armor to go with that. But a disadvantage to having automatic battle saddles, is the battle saddle is prone to jams”
“When things get tough. Release the blood-ghouls. Let’s go rosebud” Shell shock shouted as she put on her own headwear. Hers was a replica of the front of a steel ranger helmet.
Rosebud nodded and put on an iron helmet that covers her head but not covering her whole face and a hole in the back for her mane. They all attached the attachments on their gear which were shotgun battle saddles that canyon handed out. After they've prepared, they all jumped off the roof and zipped towards the wall, expecting the worst, but hoping for the best.
"Is Bucky going to be fine with us leaving him up there?"
"Don't worry about him, he got himself up there, he can get his ass down"
"Besides; he's trained with us for six months right?" She'll shock asked
"Remember that he can't remember that, and he doesn't want to remember anything after that, it's his wish"
"Oh yeah, sorry"
"No prob"
Mud flash, stayed silent throughout the whole trip to the battlefield. A stun grenade shoots up from between the alleyways and explodes in the middle of the squad, they fall down and get separated, after a few seconds, canyon and mud flash find her and pull her close to them.
"Where did that come from?" She asked them
"Either from the raiders or one of our own who thought we were raiders"
"No raider knows how to operate one of these" Canyon reminded him
"Where's Shell shock"
"Shit"
"Canyon!" Mud shouted, grappling around the corner to shoot
"Get the G.H.A.M.R.B.S."
Mud flash leaves to call the said division and grapples away, around an alleyway across the road from rosebud, shell shock pops out and comes back in to avoid getting shot at. When it was safe and the enemies were reloading, some were jammed, shell grapples over to rosebud then taking canyon along with her.
"There's no use in fighting them, our slugs just bounce right off their armor, they got refined metal, leave me and Go!"
"NoIWillNot"
"I'll try to hold off for as long as I can, mud flash already called for backup, GO!"
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Buckler is waiting at the roof of the building, just standing there, waiting for the return of the scavenging squad which was apparently a semi-Defense squad. What do you know, You DO learn something new everyday.
as he was just starting to get his hopes up, the gunshots get uncomfortably louder, then followed by a large explosion that rumbled like thunder. Then, he hears it. those two very dreadful words.Fall Back !"
all his hopes just crashed down into oblivion. The thought of losing rosebud overcomes him.
“Don’t bother galloping to her, Stable Colt. She’s practically gone”
Those words had hit buckler hard. When he looked up to answer, he stops in surprise and sees Shell shock wearing canyon’s fedora with a pained expression with tears streaming down her face trying to grapple straight and properly trying to aim the hook with the blurry vision of having tears in her eyes.
He pauses to decode what shell shock said. ‘She’s practically gone’
Two drops of tears roll down from shell shock’s eyes, momentarily clearing her vision as she answered after a sniffle.
“The G.H.A.M.R.B.S?”
“The ‘Grappling Harpoon Anti Machine Rifle Battle Saddle’, Pretty stupid name if you ask me. Since it isn't a Real Anti Machine Rifle”
“Okay. 1; what is a rifle? and 2; what is a battle-saddle?”
Shell Shock Landed on the busier side of Cratertown, ponies have gathered around helping however they could. She continued to explain once they were back on solid ground.
“One; a rifle is a weapon like a pistol but deadlier, has more range and has different calibers and sometimes are bolt-action. Two; a battle saddle is a kind of weapon that the wearer mounts on themselves to hold some PRETTY big and buff guns. Kind of like these little colts”
He pretended to understand by nodding his head, after he followed up his response with a question.
Shell shock's eyes began to water again as she answered.
“Oh” he said. He tried to say something after that but got cut off by the calling of his name in the distance.
“Buckler!” it was rosebud. With cuts and bruises and also having an arrow in the knee of her hind leg (More precisely a Crossbow bolt).
Buckler ran as fast as he could towards rosebud before wrapping his hooves around her as she cried at his chest. Rosebud soon also gave buckler the hug.
“I thought you were dead”
“It's gonna be hard to kill this little Orange”
Buckler broke away from the bone crushing hug and asked his lover
Rosebud touched the cold metal of the grappling harpoon barrel to buckler's cheek. Buckler flinched at the unexpected feeling, when buckler looked down to see rosebud, she had a smug lookeven in great pain she can still give a smug face
* * *
After the big fight against the steel raiders, almost half of cratertown was taken under the control of the steel raiders. While in between the steel raiders and Cratertown's forces (The GHAMRBS and the Blood Ghouls) raged a battle that would last for days.
Meanwhile in the Cratertown medical building, rosebud was all patched up inside the infirmary, she rested in one of the rooms that lined the walls, out of the nurses orders along with other injured Crater-Soldiers. Buckler was outside while shell Shock and Rosebud talked inside.
Everything came Crashing down again at the sight of Shell Shock coming out of Rosebud's room, tears streaming down her cheeks again.
“Blood Loss, Blood Clot and Blunt hits to the head”
“What do you mean?”
“She's Dead Blue Buckler!”
All buckler could do was just sit down on the floor repeating a single word of denial
“first my dad and now by best friend”
“Wait, Dad?”
Shell shock gave the fakest smile in the wasteland and wiped the tears off her face and eyes
“Excuse me, I'm looking for Blue Buckler”
“i'm blue buckler”
“missus rosebud asked us to give you this”
It was her final words written in code, the paper says:
--. --- - --- --- ..- .-. .... --- ..- ... . .- -. -.. -... .-. . .- -.- - .... . ..-. .-.. --- --- .-. -... --- .- .-. -.. ..- -. -.. . .-. - .... . .-. ..- --. .- -. -.. - .- -.- . ... .... . .-.. .-.. ... .... --- -.-. -.- .-- .. - .... -.-- --- ..-
“Let's move”
“What?”
“it's a code that was taught in the Stable, and it's probably unique to the stables with a letter instead of a third number, it’s a good thing I learned it, and apparently she learned it too, but being the overmare she probably had to learn it”
* * *
CRACK
The sounds of broken floor boards was uncomfortably loud in the eerie silence of the abandoned residential district. A screen of something had been filling the said district which gave Buckler a hard time differentiating between if the ‘something’ was a smokescreen, some fog or Tear gas residue. judging from the color of the smoke, buckler could have guessed that it was a smokescreen but the smell says otherwise.
“what could she be telling us to make us go all the way behind enemy lines?”
“I don't know what it is but By the time we find it we need to immediately dash outta this place”
A fake grin spread on shell shock's face when she spoke
“I guess I'm just that hardened by continuous emotional devastation”
Shell shock looked at him with the look that says ‘There is no way’ “Really? Nopony can get emotionally hardened that quickly”
..Silence.. Eerie and uncomfortable silence
“This is getting us nowhere!”
“Ow!”
“Found something?”
“I Think so”
The thing was reeled out using The grappling harpoon shell shock was wearing, attaching it to a convenient hook. Turns out, the wooden thing was a small crate containing Celestia Knows what. they soon got out of the area and back to safety
* * *
The Duo have now reached the safety of the Cratertown defense and had looked inside of the crate only to find Rosebud's pip-Buck set to play an audio recording once a certain button was pressed.
”Hello Bucky, if you're hearing this then I'm probably, most likely, Definitely Dead, and as a last message, I will be spilling every ounce or gram of beans I have.
Number one: Blue Buckler, I'm mad at you because the first time you got laid wasn't with me. Shell shock, please slap him.”
Silence.
“Number two: I have weapons and armor stashed with Mud Flash, you also should be training cause you won't survive an hour out in the Equestrian Wasteland
Three: Shell Shock, if you Really did slap Buckler, That was so unnecessary, you could have just ignored the request
Four: if you want something more Technological like magical-energy weapons kind of like those things I saw in the wasteland, feel free to go to W.E.L.C.O.M.E.
Five: Mud Flash and ‘The Doctor’ are Working on a Suit of Power Armor called the K-1R. The armor's full name is supposed to be K-1R-15H-1M4, The armor was solely good at hard punches, but they realized that one on one punch battles are rare out there so, they lowered the punching power to bear two miniguns on both sides, guns are essential in the wasteland”.
Six: I want you to ask 'The Doctor' for memory or number 889 and tell her to test out the M.O.F.
The Audio recording cuts off
"The M.O.F?"
"'The Doctor' calls it the "Memory Orb Flash" it puts the entire contents of a memory orb and shoot that memory into your brain, Rosebud calls it Ponies' mind blowers" Shell shock gestured an answer
“And what's W.E.L.C.O.M.E.?”
“it's the ‘Whooves Equestrian Labs of Cryopods, Organics, Mutations and Engineering' At least a branch of it, That place is Packed with tech”
