Ash and Cinder followed the road that led into New Pegasus, ahead were the bright lights of the city.

“Hey Cinder, where are we actually going to stay, we can't afford a place inside New Pegasus. Maybe if we sell our armor but I’m not doing that.” Ash asked Cinder as they walked, scanning the ridge beside the road with her suit’s E.F.S.

“Could just set up a place outside the gates, we could set up a few turrets to protect it.” Cinder replied.

“Hey wait, I see red up there.” Ash said as she spun up her minigun and started to climb up the rocky hill.

“How many”? Cinder asked, trying to follow.

“I see at least six.” Ash replied, when she got to the top she dropped her rangefinder over her right eye and zoomed in on a group of military robots. “There's a bunch of floaties and some Sentinels.”

“Floaties? You mean the Gutsies?” Cinder asked.

“Yes, there’s some old Equestrian Military sky wagons down there too, might be able to sell what’s inside.” Ash replied. “We can’t use explosives though, we’ll destroy those wagons.”

“Maybe you could go down there and fire your mini at them, and when they’re away from it I’ll fire my missiles at them.” Cinder suggested.

“Yea that could work.” Ash said before sliding down the other side of the ridge.

As she slid down the markers turned red as the bots noticed her, she heard one shout at her. “Is that someone who needs me to kick their flanks!” After it shouted, Ash fired at it with her minigun, it’s front body panel fell off and its internals exploded as she continued firing.

The rest of the bots started to come towards her, as she fired she started backing up, when her minigun stopped firing she turned around and started to run, as she ran her suit’s magic reloaded her minigun. Behind her she started hearing explosions, she spun around to see missiles flying into one of the giant Sentinels, it started firing missiles back at Cinder.

Ash started firing her grenade launcher at the bot, one of its legs exploded and it fell over, the remaining missiles in its arm detonating and destroying the rest of its body.

The last Sentinel with a couple Gutsies came towards Ash, plasma and lasers firing at her. Ash jumped behind a boulder and looked up at the ridge, Cinder’s launchers were broken in half, her suit’s magic shoving missiles into the tubes.

When the bots started firing at Cinder, Ash jumped out from behind the rock and started firing her minigun and grenade launcher, the sentinel’s head exploded, the shrapnel destroying one of the Gutsies.

Cinder sent a missile into the orb of the remaining Gutsy, it’s arms being blown away from its body. Ash went to the wrecks of the robots, Cinder slid down the slope and joined Ash.

“I might be able to turn their weapons into turrets, I could use the Gutsy’s eyes to act as targeting systems.” Ash said.

“Won’t they just shoot at us then?” Cinder asked, concerned.

“Nope, I can reprogram their target inhibitors to not fire at us. Also whoever we bring to here, it won't shoot unless they shoot first or we shoot at them.” Ash replied after getting out of her armor and going through their destroyed bodies.

“Well that works, I’m going to search the destroyed wagons.” Cinder replied before going to the sky carriages.

***

The sun had started to set, Ash set up a workshop inside one of the wagons, Cinder used her armor to drag the wagons into a circle, Ash had built two laser turrets and set them up on the wagons before testing them.

“Hey Ash? I found something you might like in one of the wagons!” Cinder yelled from somewhere outside her workshop wagon.

Ash went outside, past her Power Armor, She went to where she heard Cinder’s voice from. Cinder was dragging another wagon to the circle. “Look in the back when I get it in the circle.”

Ash followed her as she moved it into the center of the circle. She exited her armor and went to the rear doors with Ash and threw them open. Inside was a Robobrain, its metal was painted in Stable Tec logos and colors, the brain inside the head of the bot looked perfectly preserved in the fluid inside the jar.

“Did you try and turn it on?” Ash asked, going up to it and looking at the brain encased in the glass dome.

“Yea but it didn’t turn on, thought maybe you could get it working.” Cinder replied.

“Maybe, find anything else interesting?” Ash asked.

“Couple pegasus bodies with power armor, Equestrian markings and I didn’t find a tracker on them. Cinder replied.

“Hey, those could get five thousand each if I fix them up.” Ash replied. “Where are they at?”

“One of the wagons near the one you set up in.” Cinder replied before leaving Ash alone with the Robobrain.

***

Ash was taking apart a laser rifle she found, her armor’s headlamp shining light on the makeshift workbench. Cinder had set up a campfire and went to sleep beside it, Ash decided to stay up and work on the laser rifle and Pegasus Power Armor.

Ash pulled another rifle off the first armor and set it on the table, parts from the first rifle surrounded it. Ash disassembled it and grabbed the focusing crystal from the first rifle and placed it with the second rifle’s crystal then reassembled it before taking it outside.

Ash pointed it at the ridge they crossed to find the new camp and fired, two red beams flew at the rock. She heard something running behind her so she spun around while pointing the modified laser rifle, she saw Cinder in her Power Armor.

“I heard shooting?” Cinder asked.

“Yea I modified one of these laser rifles to fire two beams. Was just test firing, don't worry.” Ash replied, lowering the rifle.

“Working on the guns instead of the armor then?” Cinder asked.

“Yea, i don’t think we should actually sell that armor, might make ponies start looking for where we found it from.” Ash replied as she started to walk back to her workshop.

Cinder followed her back. “I’ll be heading back to sleep then, you really should as well Ash.”

“I suppose, but we don't even have sleeping bags, I’m not getting a bunch of sand in my fur, or rust from sleeping inside of the wagons.” Ash replied.

“Just sleep in your armor then.” Cinder replied.

“That makes my legs stiff in the morning when I do that.” Ash complained.

“Oh you suffered worse in training Paladin, I thought Paladins were tougher than Knights.” Cinder said before taking off her helmet and sticking her tongue out.

“Ahhhh fuck you.” Ash said.

“Not tonight Ashy.” Cinder said with a wink before tossing her helmet back on and walking away.

Ash ignored her and went back to the wagon with the workbench. She set the laser rifle back onto the bench and sat down beside it.

Ash got back up and set the rifle against the wall and bench then left the wagon. She went to the destroyed bots and started pulling their combat inhibitors, weapons, and sensors then dragged it all back to the workshop.

She dumped it all outside the wagon then went back to the bots and pulled their spark batteries out. Before she returned she checked the few turrets she had already made from the Sentinel missile arm and minigun arm.

Author's Note

The chapter seems kinda short even though it’s 1200 words but I didn’t know what else to add to it