Fallout Equestria: Injustice

After apart an hour of walking I arrived at the town of Knife's edge and not to my surprise there was a group of raiders outside the main gate holding very crude weapons, but what surprised me the most was that they had hostages.
"So, Sprinkles have you got my payment yet or do we have to convince you again?" said the lead pony who wore what seemed like heavy combat armour, he was also flanked by five other ponies wearing basic raider armour

"Please just let my daughter go" Sprinkles pleaded, I looked up and saw a beige mare earth pony with a brown coloured mane staring at the raider with fear in her eyes, also there were four guard ponies flanking by her side with rifles and combat armour and they all had their rifles pointed down and trained on the first raider pony, they were stood on top of what seemed to be the main gate of the town which had a very basic scrap door and walls.

“I’m afraid I can’t do that, you know how it works I need payment, then I will return her” I looked down back towards the group of raiders and saw another pony in the middle of all the other raiders, she looked nearly exactly like her mother just had a darker mane

“Listen I can’t pay you right now I just need more time” Sprinkles begged

“Sorry, can’t do that, give her here” he motioned to one of his fellow ponies and they pushed her down to her haunches then put a knife to her throat “Last chance mayor, give us the money or it's your daughter’s life” I couldn’t let this happen, so I quickly ran towards the raiders and unholstered my revolver then I fired away hitting one in the head and taking them down instantly, then the rest of the raiders spun round to face me, but before they could open fire I hit another one with War and knocked them aside, without waiting for me to recover the next two raiders ran at me with knives, but they didn’t get far as I grabbed of them with my magic and threw them into the other, while they were dazed I took my hammer and swing it into their heads using the blade side to kill them, now only the leader was left and as I spun around to face him, he was using the daughter as a shield

“Who the fuck are you?” He asked, panicking as he held a pistol to the daughter’s head

“I’m the pony they hired to deal with a little raider problem and it seems like I found you, now I’m going to give you one chance to let the hostage go and I won’t kill you” the lead raider hesitated, then he pushed the daughter towards me and ran, but he didn’t get far as he was shot in the legs by one of the guards onto of the main gate, I walked over to the raider and looked down at him

“I thought you said I could live” he groaned, I just smiled sadistically

“Yeah, I said I wouldn’t kill you, but I don’t speak for the townsfolk” I looked up as the mayor and two guards came towards me.

“Thanks stranger we can take him from here, guards take him to the cells” then the guards grabbed the raider and dragged him away, while the Mayor turned to me “So you must be that bounty hunter we hired”

“Yep, that’s me, the names Hammer”

“Mayor Sprinkles, nice to meet you, please follow me so we can discuss your job” I nodded then followed her into the town, the town itself was very ramshackle, there weren’t many buildings, from what I could see there was an armoury of some sort and a clinic with three pink butterflies on the front of the door, various different ponies were walking around just going on with their days

“So, where’s your daughter?” I asked

“She’s getting a check-up in the clinic, to look for any injuries and to give the guards any info on the raider base” this caught
me off guard

“What do you mean information, how many times has she been sent in there?”

“That isn’t important right now” I quickly walked in front of sprinkles and stopped her in her tracks

“How is this not important, that’s your daughter, aren’t you worried something might go wrong?” Sprinkles pushed me aside and carried on walking

“She knows the risk, now if we can continue” As we continued walking we entered a building marked Mayor’s office and on the inside was a table that held two maps, one showed the outside of what seemed to be a factory with two red crosses near the main entrance, and the other map seemed to show the inside of the factory with a red line going through multiple hallways and eventually leading to one big room with another X marked in one of the corners

“Oh, this info,” I said while looking back and forth between the two maps, Sprinkles then pointed to the first map

“This here is the outside of the raider base, and these two red marks are the sentries and in between them is the main entrance” She then moved over to the next map “This red line is the path you will have to follow to find the boss, deal with them and that should hopefully stop our raider troubles”

“How many raiders are in the factory?”

“Don’t know”

“Well, is it alright if I have a word with your daughter then since she was the last pony there?” Sprinkles stared at me

“Why does that matter, don’t you have enough info here?”

“Yes, but I need to know how many so I can know when to leave” Sprinkles looked like she was trying to think of an excuse, but eventually she just sighed

“Fine, guard take him to the clinic, you have one minute then head straight to the factory” I nodded then left with the guard, after walking in silence for about a minute, we came outside of the building with the three pink butterflies on it

“You have one minute” the guard repeated, I nodded then headed inside, there wasn’t much to the building, only four beds, various tables with medical supplies on them and filing cabinets on the walls, but in the bed in the far-left corner held the pony I was looking for, when I walked over to her, she noticeably looked more uncomfortable

“Oh, it’s you…thanks for saving me,” She said without looking up at me, I just smiled

“No problem, I’ve always hated raiders, so what’s your name?”

“I’m…Candy”

“Nice to meet you, I’m Hammer, so I’ve just come to ask a quick question, how many raiders are in that factory?” suddenly she quickly shot her head up and looked around the clinic, then turned to look at me

“It’s not real?”

“What’s not real?”

“All this, everyone here is also a raider, all of this is a setup to kill you”

“I don’t understand, why would they want me dead?” Candy quickly looked around again

“I heard them talking a couple of days ago, they got a message from somepony and they said to kill you and take your hammer” I just stood there confused, who in Luna’s name could want my hammer

“Ok, but what about the Deadshot, I was told that they had one leading them?”

“Yes, there is a Deadshot in there, but they are hostages, I think they captured them to try and lure you in”

“But I thought you were the Mayor’s daughter, why are you telling me this?”

“Because I’m not actually her daughter, I got captured a week ago and they just fitted me into the plan by using me as a fake hostage” I signed

“I had a feeling this wasn’t going to be easy”

“If you want my opinion Hammer, you should just run, they’ll probably let me, and the other hostages go if you just leave”

“That’s the problem, I can’t, there raiders you can’t trust them, so listen here’s the plan, I’ll go into the factory, deal with the raiders and save the hostages, then ill come back and help you, I promise” Candy just smiled, after that the guard appeared in the doorway and told me it was time to go so, I said goodbye to Candy and started my journey towards the factory.

The factory wasn’t to far from the town and it was really showing its age with rust showing from its chimneys to its supports, but as I walked towards where the main entrance is, I started thinking maybe this is a bad idea, maybe I should rethink this, but I ignored those thoughts and as the plan had stated, there were two guards in front of the entrance, I was thinking I should go sneaky, but if they want me dead then they might as well stare death in the face as well, so I ran towards the two guards and without them getting a chance to shoot, I struck both of them with War, both of their heads slowly rolling away from the entrance as I pushed the door open and went inside, looking around it seemed like some sort of reception area with a main desk with a terminal atop it, there were also chairs and tables with magazines and papers with articles from before the bombs, but the main thing that I noticed was the lack of blood and guts, usually raiders love filling their bases with things like and they usually don’t put tripwires like the one I just stepped in, and with that an alarm started to blare and two automatic turrets appeared from the ceiling, joined by four other raiders who all opened fire, I managed to jump behind a table that had been flipped over with only a few scraps on my armour, now I had to think of something quick since this table wasn’t going to last long, I couldn’t pop my head up to aim since ill be torn apart by those turrets and I couldn’t reach with my Hammer, so I was slowly running out of options, but out of nowhere, for some reason the turrets stopped firing and went back into the ceiling and while the raiders were distracted by the confusion, I quickly popped up and used my revolver to take all four of down, and as I walked around their corpses, I said a prayer to Luna and carried on following the path that was on the map, well I think I was going the right way, I didn’t take the map with me so was practically guessing at this point, after walking around various hallways, I eventually got attacked by two more raiders both holding knives in between their teeth, I raised up my revolver to fire, but it clicked and it wasn’t till they were right on top of me that I realised I forgot to reload, so I hit one of the raiders with the revolver, but the second one managed to stab me in the shoulder, I recoiled back from the pain and dropped my revolver, but before I knew it the raider was charging again with his friend’s knife, so as he ran towards me I quickly pulled the knife out of my shoulder and used my magic to throw it at him and I managed to hit him square in the head and down he went, I looked at the wound, it definitely hurt but it will heal just had to wait a bit, as I carried on walking I finally arrived at a door which led into a massive room with conveyor belts, various bits of machinery and what looked like big buckets of molten metal, there was also a catwalk that led round into what seemed to be a main office.
“Well, look who’s finally arrived” then I heard some pony speak, I looked up and on one of the catwalks was a raider wearing very heavy combat armour, she had two more raiders to her sides and when I looked to my left and right I saw four more, the raider boss continued “we’ve been waiting for you for a while now”

“Sorry to keep you waiting, but you didn’t have the best welcoming party” the raider boss smirked

“Well let’s get this over and done with, RAIDERS, OPEN FIRE” and with that shout the boss walked away and the other six ponies opened fire, I quickly ran behind cover and reloaded my revolver, then used my magic to aim and fire at the two to my left, I managed to hit one, but the other ducked, so I used this opportunity to run to my right and go under the catwalk making it harder for them to shoot me, even though I managed to avoid most of the bullets some still hit, when I was under the catwalk I ran towards the stairs, firing at the one raider that ducked and managing to hit him, as I reached the top of the stairs I pulled out War and charged at two of the raiders, crushing one with War and hitting the other over the edge into one of the vats of molten metal, now I ran towards the last two, but they had set up a barricade which I wouldn’t be able to get past, so as I was being riddled with bullets I looked around and saw one of the raiders that I had just killed had a grenade, so with my magic I grabbed the grenade, pulled the pin and threw it towards the raiders and before they could notice, the grenade went off taking out a bit of the catwalk as well, now the boss, I turned and walked towards the main office and there she was typing on a terminal and in the corner were two ponies tied up and gagged, both mares, one unicorn with blue hide and a black mane, and the other was a pegasus with orange hide and a red mane, while I was looking at the hostages the raider boss turned to face me and used her magic to pull out a sledgehammer and without a word she ran at me and tried to bring the sledgehammer down on my head but I managed to block it with War, I then pushed her back and hit her in the side of the head with War which broke her magic and knocked her down, and without a second to hesitate I took War and cleaved her head straight off, after I had returned War to my back I walked over to the hostages

“Don’t worry I’m here to help you” their expressions went from calm to shock in seconds but before I could ask why I felt a sharp pain in the back of my head, then everything went black.