Fallout Equestria: Fallen Fortress

Medic sat next to a fire roasting some rat meat. He was taking a break from walking and thanks to Sniper’s skills, it was easy to find the rats and prepare them to eat. Medic chomps down on the rat kabobs getting the familiar taste of roasted meat. Archimedes pecks at it and purrs in content when he’s able to eat the meat. Medic checks his Robo-Dove’s stats and smiles when the energy core converts the meat into power, giving the arcane energy a break. A few minutes later, Medic puts out his fire and returns to the railroad. He spots what looks like a checkpoint for trains farther down the road, with a lot of activity,

“I zink we’ve found our target, Archimedes.” Medic mumbled as he lifted the Robo-Dove off his back, “Go see vat’s going on, try not to get caught, und relay back to me vat jou can. I’ll try und get closer.” Archimedes nodded and took flight. The communication link on Medic’s Pip-Buck activated almost immediately. Medic grins as he continues to trot down the road toward the buildings. Closer up, it is clear to Medic that there are guards on watchtowers that surround the checkpoint. None of them notice him, hinting at their poor training at being snipers. Medic feels part of him growl at their unprofessionalism, which makes him worry about how much of an influence his teammate's souls have on him.

Medic points his head to the ground in hope to hide his horn’s magical aura, “OK Spy, jour up.” He whispers and the spark of energy once again appeared. Looking to his flank, Medic finds that a new symbol has manifested itself. It was Spy’s butterfly knife dripping with blood that was pointing down diagonally in front of the Dead-Ringer, “Odd… Spy didn’t have a tattoo according to vat I remember.” Medic just shrugs and activates a spell, on instinct, that makes him invisible. With new found confidence, Medic walks into the checkpoint, unnoticed.

Medic enters a building and turns off his cloak spell to check on Archimedes, who was in the rafters of another building. Medic covers his mouth to prevent himself from making a sound from what he saw. Ponies, dozens of them, all in cages, some of them badly wounded. Medic feels anger rise in his chest. Memories of the Nazi concentration camps, and of being forced into the war filled his head. Angry, Medic turns to the last Slaver he saw, and shouted, “Hey! Over here!” The Slaver turned, and shouts, “We’ve got a loose one!” Alarms sound over the camp, and Medic grins a sadistic smile. “Gut. Come to me…” As the slaver he called to runs towards him, he pulls out the bonesaw. The slaver swings, just missing the spot where medic’s head used to be. Medic pushes the slaver over and stabs him repeatedly. Now splattered with blood, Medic looks up to the rest of the slavers charging at him. “Oh ho ho! Vat a bloodbath!” Medic’s tattoo returned to its original design at those words.

What ensued could only be described as a dance of great precision and utter destruction. Bullets flew, blood spilled, and Medic… was a sadist. Bodies piled on the ground, old corpses, new corpses, flies gathered and a stench filled the air. Panting, Medic stopped to look at the utter destruction he had caused and smiled. Archimedes appeared with a set of keys in his beak during this time of relative peace, “Danke kamerad. Let’s go free zese poor ponies.” Archimedes leads Medic to one of the building and he enters. The ponies screamed when they saw him, and Medic frowned.

“Vat? I am here to save jou!” Medic looked at each of the caged and shuddering ponies, then looked back at himself. He was absolutely soaked, wet with the blood of his enemies. “Oh… no worries, kamerads. I vill not hurt you.” And with that, he unlocked the cages, much to the fear of each slave. Confused, each of the slaves takes a tentative step outside the cage. Then, in a single, unanimous roar, they practically push the door and surrounding walls down in the rush to freedom, knocking Medic down in the process. Archimedes seemed to laugh as Medic got trampled, much to Medic’s embarrassment.

When the stampede finally ends and Medic manages to stand he looks around and frowns, “Vhy? Even in zis vorld, no von bothers to zank me! *Sigh* Nothing changes don’t it, Archimedes?” He feels someone tap his back, he shrieks and whirls around just to see a rosy pink furred filly, with a blood red mane, who was cowering in fear. No tattoo was upon her flank, “OK, not a spy.” Medic loses his defensive stance and takes a deep breath, “Und vat can I do for jou little von?” The filly slowly walks up to Medic and gives him a hug. This startles Medic and he tenses up, but calmed down after a bit and returned the filly’s hug,

“Thank you for helping us Mister Unicorn.” She speaks softly, “I’m Bloody Ruby.” Medic’s heart melts and responds quietly,

“Nice to meet jou fraulein. I’m Medic or Healing Song, und zis is Archimedes.” Medic replied, said Robo- dove nods his head.

“Nice to meet you too, but I told you my name, why are you calling me Fraulein instead?”

“It’s German.” Medic replies,

“You mean Germane? That’s neat.” Ruby says,

“No, its- jou know vat? Never mind. So vere can I find jour parents?” Ruby’s smile faded with that, “Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t know.”

“It’s fine, I’m used to it. Orphaned foals are quite common in the Wasteland. That’s why the Cutie Mark Crusaders exist! We’re one big happy family.” Her smile returns while Medic cocks his head in confusion,

“Vat’s a Cutie-” An explosion outside interrupts Medic’s question and screaming follows,

“Scheisse! Zere must be a Slaver left.” Archimedes perches on Medic’s head and coos. Medic sighs in response, “Hop on Ruby.” Medic gets down low enough for the filly to climb on,

“What? Why?”

“Archimedes suggests that it vould be better for jou not to valk right now. Zat is until I can examine jour injuries properly.”

“O-OK…” Ruby carefully climbed up onto Medic’s back.

Medic dashed out of the warehouse just to come across a pony in a battle saddle, launching grenades in just about every direction. “COME OUT YOU COWARD!” He shouted, shooting another grenade. It exploded against a guard tower, toppling it to the ground. Ponies shouted in fear and confusion, running around searching for an escape from the explosive rain.

“I’m over here.” Medic replied calmly, “I’m guessing jou’re Magnus Blaze. Ze head of zis whole operation?” The pony aimed his guns at Medic, eyes filled with rage, “So are all of jou so far gone zat jour villing to kill a child?” Medic shakes his head in disgust, “I’ve seen vat jou have done here, but zat takes ze cake for ze worst!”

“Oh, you're one to talk!” Magnus retorted, “You just killed a whole band of ponies just trying to make a living!”

“Don’t make me ze enemy here!” Medic shouted, “Jou’re making jour so-called living by harming innocent civilians! Some of zem children!” Medic pulled out the shotgun from his saddlebags, “Now stand down und jour death vill be quick. Jou don’t vant me to get… Creative.” Medic grinned for emphasise on the word,

“Shut the buck up, man. Surrender yourself.” Medic felt Ruby slip off his back. Medic began to formulate a plan.

“Surely jou know of parley?” Medic stated rather abruptly.

“That old pirate rule? What about it?” Magnus snapped.

“I call parley.” Magnus snorted,

“Yer talking to me now, aren’t cha? So let’s discuss terms. You surrender and then I blow you up. Take it or leave it. If ya don’t…” Medic saw Ruby slide closer to Magnus, all he had to do was stall a little bit longer,

“Go on, finish zat sentence.” Magnus suddenly understood as Ruby clambered onto his back and slid the battle saddle off,

“Oh, you little mother bu-” He was cut off as Ruby began to choke him. The Stallion tried to buck her off but to no avail. Ruby, while keeping her front hooves on the stallion's throat, pulls a knife out of his armor, grabs it in her mouth, and stabs it into his neck causing the pony to fall. After a few more successful stabs the filly left the corpse of Magnus Blaze alone. Medic stood in shock and amazement,

“No vonder jour called Bloody Ruby!” Medic smiled with pride for the little filly he picked up. A notification beeped on Medic’s Pip-Buck marking the quest for Magnus Blaze complete. He smiled wider, “Vell zat’s von zing over vith, now come here. Let’s get jou cleaned and heal zose vounds.” Ruby nodded and followed Medic back into one of the buildings, some of the other freed slaves followed as well, despite the fact that they still feared him

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Level Up:

Mantis’ Perk: Cloak and Dagger: The magic ability to turn invisible. Doesn’t cost any magical energy when not moving. Spell only accessible under the influence of Spy’s soul.