Fallout Equestria: Fallen Fortress

Death of a Man

Now that Medic had finished burying his teammates, he was able to truly assess his surroundings. The air outside the Stable burned, scorching Medic’s lungs. Despite it not being very bright, he covered his eyes. As his eyes adjusted, he started truly to see the barren landscape. He was in a town, or what used to be one. Buildings still crumbled, ash floated in the air, filling his mouth with a foul taste. He couldn’t tell whether what he was seeing was real life, or maybe he was still in the stable and under some hypnosis or hallucination. But as he blinked away the last of the ice from the cryogenic stasis, he could truly perceive the devastation before him. There was nothing here for him. Nothing. Nothing but a wasteland.

Medic looked up to see an unnatural cloud-covered sky. The atmosphere didn’t show any signs of a storm, and yet, the clouds remained. “Vat a strange world ve have awakened in, Archimedes.” Medic muttered and the robo-dove nodded in agreement, “I vonder if zis is Two Fort’s town proper.” Medic starts walking down the empty streets, Archimedes resting on his back.

Medic vaguely hears some gunfire at the fringes of the town. He walks on what he believes to be the main street, for there were no more signs. He bit his lip as he saw the devastation up close. Shop windows were smashed in, houses looted, and bodies littered the road, some fresh while some were ages old. The stench of rotting flesh made Medic gag.

As Medic continued to examine his surroundings, something gleaming in the distance caught his attention. A glint of light, just down the street. It disappeared almost immediately after as he looked at it, but it was just enough. Medic ran after it, and as he came to the place where he saw it, he saw another glint behind an alley. It disappeared as well. “Vat is zis trickery?” Medic asked out loud as he continued to follow the flashing lights.

Medic heard something crumble behind him. He looked back just as something swung behind him. Old memories of Spies triggered a reflex movement, his hind legs lashed out, connected hoof with flesh. Someone… Somepony gasped, the air rushing from their lungs. They began to wheeze, having their throats hit, possibly even collapsed. Lashing out again, Medic finally does in his assailant, his punches aiming directly for the throat. They collapse, a corpse of dead weight.

Medic keeps his eyes on the pile of rubble on the building above. He surely wasn’t alone, even after killing the pony behind him. Memories of Spies filled his head, mostly about noise distraction. Medic then began looking around for a ladder, a fire escape chute, something, to get to the top of the building. “Archimedes, be my eyes.” The robo-dove nods and flies up. Something beeps on the Pip-Buck giving Medic a screen of what Archimedes sees, “Convenient.” He mutters.

Medic witnesses a pony dashing across buildings, huffing as he jumps over the alleyways. Medic dashes back out into the street, trying his best to follow the pony. “Archimedes! Attack!” The bird dives and reaches out its talons on the offending pony. Its talons viciously scratch the pony just as it attempts to jump to the next building, causing it to fall off the rooftop and into the streets below, “I’m not normally allowed to attack civilians, but jou my friend… Are not von if jou attack me!” The pony gets pinned down by Medic and a bone saw is pressed against its neck, “Any last vords?” The pony squeaks, sounding more like a mouse than anything else.

“J-just following o-orders!” He whispers, trembling against the cold blade.

“Vat orders!? Whose orders!?” Medic shouts, slamming the pony against the floor.

“M-Malgus Blaze’s! H-he ordered us to d-draw out wanderers! A-and…” He stops. “Don’t h- hurt me please.”

“Zhat all depends. I’ve been to Hell and back und I could easily send jou zere if jou don’t finish zat sentence!”

“... We were t-told to murder them.” The pony seems to shrink in on himself, scared out of his mind,

“Anyzhing else?” The pony shakes his head no,

“Malgus d-doesn’t trust us to follow more t-than one order at a time.” At this close of a distance, the pony’s green eyes seem to shrink, not just the iris.

“Alvight. Scram, before I change mein mind.” The pony ran like his tail was on fire. Archimedes landed on Medic’s back and cooed in approval while Medic just frowned, “Vat happened to zis world, Archimedes?” He asks, “Somezing must’ve happened for it to be like zis.” Archimedes cocks his head to the side and coos, “Ja… I need to know.” *Beep*

New Quest: What happened here?: Find information as to what led the world to such an awful state.

Medic nods, “Maybe also add ze fact of zis Malgus Blaze… Perhaps ve should pay him a visit.” *Beep*

New Quest: Malgus Blaze: Who is he? What does he want? Where is he?

An arrow pops up on Medic’s compass pointing in the direction the pony had run, “Vell zis zing seems to vant me to follow zhat pony back to its base. Vhat do jou say ve follow it, Archimedes?” The robo-dove coos and Medic starts walking.

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Level Up:

New Perks:

Memories: Your past has taught you many things. You get a 10% Perception bonus.

Wastelander: Experiences in the wasteland have taught you no one can be trusted. 5% critical rate increase when fighting other ponies.