Fallout Equestria: The Outcast
Chapter 5: Attack in the mountains
Previous ChapterNext ChapterAs I woke up I had about eight rifles of three different kinds shoved in my face.
” So, finally awake, Enclave?”, a brown buck said, it took me a second to notice that all eight were Pegasi.
“I’m not Enclave, I know I still have my mark but that’s because my parents kicked me through the clouds before the Enclave could!”, answered back,
“Likely story you cunt!”, a mare with what could only be a high caliber bolt action hissed, “What do you think Spy or is he here to scout out an attack?”,
“The more important question is should we kill him here or outside to send a signal?”, a yellow buck answered.
“The answer is you let him go before I send my bullets into you!”, Bone said with his pistols pointed at the Pegasi, he must have come in. They all starred at him and at the same time I heard magazines drop and the rifles ejected the one bullet left in their chambers as they were touched by red magic. Diamond stepped in behind Bone and said:
“Go now or I can’t guarantee that my friend here will let you live.”. She knew exactly that she would stop Bone before he pressed the trigger but they didn’t, so they squeezed out the door and Bone said:
“You wouldn’t have let me kill them, would you?”,
“No of course not!”, Diamond answered seeming a bit offended that he even considered otherwise,” They were innocent they thought our little friend here would mean danger.”,
“I am not little!”, I said falling straight of my bed while jumping up,
“Oh I know but that was the best way to get you out of bed.”, she said with a giggle as she helped me up from the floor. Suddenly an alarm rang and we ran down to the reception after I jumped into my armor and I asked a very worried receptionist:
“What is happening?”, she took some time to stop screaming profanities about Celestia raping her with her horn earning her some disgusted looks from Diamond and said:
” The alarm means those Wanderer bastards are attacking again from the Cloudsdale plains!”.
” Cloudsdale plains?”, I asked with a confused look,
“The big open space to the east were Cloudsdale was before it got obliterated and now if you excuse me I´m gonna get my ass to safety in the underground bunker, you should do the same!”. We all ran outside, the reception mare ran to a small building in the middle of the village but I didn’t want to just hide, I wanted , as cliché as it might sound, to help, so I ran to what looked like the town hall and as I ran into the rather small building and a mare in obvious mayor attire approached us and said:
“The Bunker isn’t here it´s three houses to the west!”, I simply answered:
“We want to help I saw some turrets on the City wall don’t they work?”,
“They are part of an old Enclave help project but the code never got finished!”, my eyes lit up and I asked:
“Where is the code?”,
“Can you fix it?”, the mare asked,
“I can improve it”, I said and pointed to my mark, a bit of code, at least what a normal pony would imagen as code, the mayor pointed to an office. As I entered the office I jumped behind the terminal and began coding. The code was, as it seemed, programmed by somepony who knew their stuff and in the end all that was left was making slight changes to the Enemy-Detection-Matrix of the gun and program an auto reload function.
“Got it, it should work now!”, I shouted to the mayor,
“Good we need it running now!”, she shouted with urgency in her voice, I just pressed the run program button and heard the old miniguns and artillery humming back to life. I ran outside and saw Bone and Diamond sitting on the wall next to one of the miniguns looking down at the battlefield, as I joined them I saw that they were all wearing armor, these were no mercenaries, these were their main army,
“He is really pissed that I punched him in the face.”, I said with a chuckle,
“No they are after me.”, Bone said and as I and Diamond looked at him with no idea what he meant he added, “You ever wondered why that motherfucker has an iron hoof?”, we nodded, “As I met him the first time I was just a simple salvager and met him as he wanted to sell me to slavers, but I scooped up a pistol and shot some of his henchmen to escape, turns out one of them was his only son, so when we met the next time he sliced of my cutie mark, but I once again got my hands on weapons and as he tried to stop me from escaping I shot his hoof of.”. We both looked at him in shock,
“Well then we better defend this place!”, I said and he answered with a grin:
“Well we have to defend this place, don’t we?”, and pulled out his pistols out. I looked at my pip buck as it said: “Warning Enemies detected view Eyes-Forward-Sparkle for more information.”, I did so and was greeted by not only a zoomed in version of my map but a ton of red bars on the plains but also a few yellow ones two sitting next to me the rest all over the city walls and in one edge it said "SATS ready" next to a little button, I pressed the button and the time slowed down as I pressed it again the time resumed at normal speed and a little bar recharged the few bits it lost.
“Guys good news my pip buck has a Battle mode I can slow down time so I can aim better!”, Bone smiled at me and gave a small not to the plains and I just nodded and looked at the EFS, about twenty contacts close to the wall. We jumped down and I rolled a bit until I jumped up pulled out my rifle and slipped straight into SATS, the time slowed down and I raised my rifle shooting at the heads of three, SATS ended and I quickly realized that a few shots with 9mm ammunition were rather ineffective against steel helmets. So back to my god old Winchester I go, as I slipped back into SATS I aimed for five of them two for each one, SATS ended itself again and I could see the five ponies falling down dead. Note to self, two Winchester bullets can kill you even through a helmet. Bone was having his fun killing one after the others, no matter how good your armor was there was a maximum of bullets it can take and Bone was an expert at overshooting this maximum.
After everything was finished, we salvaged the dead soldiers and found a lot of ammunition and some Battlesaddles and as we returned, we were greeted with glee and admiration.
“Thank you so much!”, the mayor said as she hugged each of us, well me and Diamond as she approached Bone he whispered:
“If you try to hug me, I will shoot you.”, and she quickly backed up again,
“What are you going to do with all the salvage?”, she asked and I got to thinking, we could equip me and Bone with Battlesaddles and had a lot of weapons and even more stuff to sell but those folk needed it way more,
“It´s all yours.”, I said,
“Really?”, the mayor asked surprised,
“Really?”, Bone asked, Diamond gave him a little shove and I said: “
Yes really you need it way more than we do.”, the mayor looked at me with glee and handed me a bag of Bottlecaps with 5000 written on it and said:
“Then at least take this.”. We trotted back into the Rocky Mountain Inn and were greeted by a smiling receptionist,
“Staying another night?”, she asked,
“Yes three rooms again.”, I said as I tried to give her 250 caps but she just said:
“This one’s for free as thanks for saving our flanks out there!”,
“Thanks”, I said with a smile as we trotted towards our rooms. After such a long day I just wanted to sleep. As I woke back up, I was once more on the field of flowers with the plaza, but this time there was not only Pinkie but also a white unicorn looking at me than at her. As I approached Pinkie said:
“Told you he´d be here soon Rarity!”, I just looked stunned at the both of them for a while. Rarity finally decided to break the silence and said:
“I liked how you gave all those weapons to the village other than just selling them, really generous of you!”, then I finally took a look at the socket she was on before, “BE GENOURUS”, it read and so I asked:
“And because of the generosity I displayed you are here now?”,
“Yes Darling.”, she answered,
“But you have no idea why either, do you?”, I asked,
“Sadly not Darling but I don’t mind sitting in this divine flower field.”,
“I…”, I started but Pinkie cut me off:
“You´re about to wake up, Oh and good luck with Diamond!”, she said with a smile. I wanted to ask how she knew about Diamond but I woke up. This time I thankfully wasn’t circled by Dashites who were about to kill me instead I woke up with Diamond sitting in front of my bed.
” Oh, good you´re awake I was just about to wake you up to tell you that lunch’s ready.”, she said with a smile. I made my bed and then trotted back down to see that Diamond made what looked like Hayburgers in the Inn´s kitchen, which had no staff. I ate two of the surprisingly tasty burgers.
“Mmm where did you learn to cook that good?”, I asked after I finished the second one,
“Well while you two learned how to shoot I used my time in the wasteland wandering from restaurant to restaurant trying to learn some prewar recipes.”, she explained. Well I actually never thought about that.
“We have to go you two Lovebirds.”, Bone said. I wanted to shoot him just put a bullet in his head for that comment and he just chuckled as we looked at each other blushing like mad. We trotted out of the Inn and out of the City,
“Guys my pip buck marks something called Sweet Apple Acres between the Everfree and us about a one-day march from here.”, I said as I looked at the little thing, “We can rest there the next night.”,
“Well then let’s go!”, Bone said, “We should better get there before its dark!”. So, we followed the way my pip buck indicated and came across a bunch of slavers as always they were no problem and thanks to SATS I could kill more than one as Bone killed five, we quickly made it to Sweet Apple Acres, quickly meaning a good time before sunset. Diamond and I looked into the main house and found three Bedrooms, we all went to sleep after bone armed some traps made with grenades and some wire he found.
I thought about asking Pinkie how she knew all this stuff and then I fell asleep.
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