Fallout Equestria: The Outcast

I was walking towards Fillydelphia when I met the last thing I wanted to meet in the wasteland: Raiders! Of course with my luck the first thing I found was a group of four raiders.

Problem: I didn’t have a battlesaddle what I had gotten used to in the army of the Enclave.

Solution: Ten Pony Tower had a shooting range to train in which I could test various forms of weapon handling and over my three and a half days there I had perfected my talent to use my wings on my leather action rifle one wing on the trigger the other one I lay the gun on as if it was a table.

I aimed for the first one and took him out easily, the second one was a bit harder as they looked around, the third one charged towards me in a straight line another easy headshot, the third one actually dodged my bullets but thanks to the fact that I killed the only one with a firearm first I could shoot the last one as he tried to grab it. Note to self, think of a better way to use the left wing to enable faster shots, waiting for the weapon to settle back down took a second or two, a second or two which could decide if I died or my enemy died.

As I walked past the corpses I picked up the assault rifle and flung it into the holding of my leather action, which I decided to hold in the right wing at all time for emergencies and overall other fights until I had a reasonable amount of bullets for the assault rifle, as I continued walking I saw a little café at the street attached to a motel. At this point red flags should have popped up all over my brain but after being used to the luxury of Ten Pony I wanted something to eat. Stupid me. As I walked through the main door a little bell chimed and as I walked towards the counter ten slavers with notably more advanced weaponry than raiders sprung out of the booths left and right to me and a black unicorn Stallion with crossed revolvers as cutie mark said:

“Hey look this one has a pip buck maybe it´s the one the boss wants!”,

“Either way he looks like he is gonna get us a good amount of caps if we bring him to Appleloosa!”, a mare hissed. The entrance bell chimed once more and in walked a white unicorn with hat and a big trench coat that reached back even over his tail.

“So, you didn’t take my last warning seriously?”, he said looking at the supposed leader:

“Why don´t you fuck off Bone?”, the black stallion shot back,

“Ok, let´s make a deal I don’t want to kill you and you don’t want to die so just give up on the slavery stuff and we all go our ways?”, the buck answered,

“Why that you are only one and we are ten. We take you both with us and sell you in Appleloosa, get them guys!”, the Slaver answered and all the slavers pointed their guns at the stallion with coat and hat. He just sight and I saw his horn glowing with white magic. The next thing I didn’t expect: He pulled out two pistols with extended magazines and filled the slavers with bullets before they could even react and soon it was only me and the other buck still alive and he floated out two new magazines for his guns and put the empty ones back under his trench coat.

“So”, he started, “Now to you. I know that you aren’t one of those slavers and since you have wings I don’t think you are from a stable, so a Dashite?”,

“More or less”, I answered, “I got kicked out but ain´t a Dashite.”,

“But you have a pip buck, didn’t acquire it in Ten Pony Tower by any chance?”, he asked,

“I did buy it in Ten pony.”, I said and his eyes lit up,

” Does it have an encrypted File on it?”, he asked still sounding like he wasn’t faced by what just happened at all,

“With a ridiculously heavy one even!”, I half answered, half complained.

“Good, I’m sorry”, he said and I looked at him and asked:

” For wha…”, nope he wouldn’t even let me finish, he just struck me with one of his pistols and everything went black. As I woke up I lied in a bed in a huge library, the buck from the café took of his hat and his coat revealing a professionally made mane and an equally nicely made tail and he had his two pistols plus what I guest had to be a two digit amount of magazines and a … no wait no cutie mark just a nasty scar where it should be.

“Oh good your awake”, he said, I wanted to shout and cuss at him for knocking me out but thanks to my head still throbbing the only thing I could put out of my mouth was a muttered:

“Where am I?”,

“You are in Ten Pony Tower, dear, the library of the hub of arcane sciences to be precise.”, Homage explained as she trotted into my line of sight and added, “Here drink this then you´ll fell better.”. She floated a bottle of Sparkle Cola towards me and I immediately grabbed it with my wing and gulped it down without thinking and as the coolness flew through my body my head stopped throbbing pretty quickly and I sat up looked Bones straight in the Eyes and asked:

“Why the fuck did you knock me out ?!”,

“Because you wouldn’t follow me here.”, the buck answered nonchalantly,

“Yeah because I got kicked out of here!”, I said angrily,

“And? I got kicked out too.”, Bone answered,

“But if you´re banned too how did we get in here?”, I asked now genuinely wondering about how I got here, Bones just made his horn glow. Right Unicorns can teleport, work you stupid brain! A green Earthpony mare poked her head in the door and said: “Homage, Bone I cracked it! We found it!”, I could see Bone smile, or rather show any emotions, for the first time, it looked weird seeing the emotionless face forming a big grin.

” Great! Is it all?”, Homage asked,

“No the important part is missing.”, the green mare said,

“Fuck, shit, fuck, SHIT!”, Homage exclaimed and Bone just sighed but his face had this "I am about to use profanities so bad they should be banned" look to it but he remained silent.

“Could somepony please explain to me what happened?”, I asked, now I really wanted to know what was going on. Bone started:

“You know how everypony says Raiders and Guls are the worst thing you can come across in the wasteland?”, I just nodded, “Well if that file you got on your pip buck gets into the hands of certain ponies, this wont be the case anymore.”, he added,

“And what would that be?”, I asked,

“Power Armor lighter and stronger than the one of the steel rangers and better weapons than anything you have ever seen plus Wings”, Homage explained, “Bone I need to go back broadcasting, look after our little guest here and watch out that he doesn’t tell anypony.”. She trotted out and I finally stood up and asked,

“So, Bone, is it?”,

“Yes and you are on most every kill list right under the stable dweller and Security, so let´s just skip the formalities.”, he said, well now I know what floor tasted like after my jaw hit said floor,

“How?”, I asked while picking my jaw back up,

“You are the owner of the pip buck they are after and since you are able to use a rifle they prefer you dead.”, he explained,

“Who are they?”, I asked,

“They are the three warlords and their respective Factions.”, he explained. Factions? Holy fuck this shit just went from press trigger to survive kind of simple to a lot of people with whole factions behind them want me dead for something I bought to have a map kind of complicated.

“Bone!”, the Green mare shouted from the door, “I think I found something that might help us!”, “On my way, dear!”, he shouted back and added, “Follow me.”. We walked through the library and into what I got to know as the wasteland radios broadcast station.

And now I had another sample of floor to compare the taste. I looked at a huge wall full of monitors which essentially showed the whole wasteland. At a table Homage sat with the green mare behind a terminal as we approached the earthpony said:

“So you two here’s the situation: We are missing the decoder for the self-destruction, the New Republic most likely knows we have the file and the only hint to the decoder is that it got lost somewhere in the Everfree forest.”,

“Hold on for just a second! Can somepony please explain to me what is going on here?”, I interjected before anypony else could say something,

“It´s simple”, the green mare explained, “In the wasteland there are three Factions: The New Republic, who think they are the leaders, the Wanderers, who want to control the wasteland and the Black Squad, who think they are the descendants of the Ministry of Awsome´s Black Ops and think to save Equestria they have to conquer the wasteland and eliminate everycreature who disagrees with them, all have secret hideouts somewhere in the wasteland and hire Raiders and slavers as mercenaries,

but because those people are stupid no one ever gets the upper hand and recently we and with the help of their spies they, discovered that the last project of the Ministry of Wartime Technology was a better Steel ranger armor but as the bombs fell the file with the plans was encrypted and a code for the complete destruction of said file, was created, encrypted and given to a pony who was told to run as fast as possible in any direction, same was done with the plans and the decoder was send to the CEO of stable tech,

we found the decoder and thanks to you we now have the plans now we only need the self-destruction code to prevent a new war.”,

“That´s a lot to take in when you say it all at once…”, I muttered as I looked at her,

“So let´s get you into some armor and get to the Everfree before they do!”, Bone ordered.

So, within two days I got myself shot, nearly bled out, nearly shot again and into a little squad trying to prevent a bunch of crazy lunatics to go to war with overpowered armor. Great!