Fallout Equestria: A Wastelander Tale

Fallout Equestria: A Wastelander Tale, Chapter Seventy Four

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With a slam and a click, the heavy metal door was securely locked, leaving us in a room filled with terminals and a few skeletons at them. It was eerily quiet in here, asides the sound of clicking from the machines, and the occasional buzzing.

I looked around to make sure everypony was here, counting five heads, including myself. Slowly, my eyes drifted to the older filly, Spur, who looked rather worried, but not scared. "Why did you run with us?" I asked the young raider.

Her eyes darted between the four of us, and nervously, she said, "ya fucks looked less likely to kill be then that burnt up bitch Bandsaw." She then forced a smile, showing off already yellowing teeth.

I face hoofed and sighed. "You might have jumped the gun there Spur."

The smile on the little raider dropped, and now she looked even more worried. "H… how'd ya know my name?"

Grizzly placed her hoof onto Spur's head, a vicious smile on the mare's face. "So your Spur, my darling Wiretap told me all about you."

Now horror formed on the fillies face. "Y… ya the bitch milf, that brat's mother!" Grizzly nodded. "I… ummm… I'm sorry…"

The insincere apology did not warm her up to Grizzly, instead getting a full force slap across the face by the adult mare. "You filly napped my little girl you peace of shit! You should be glad I don't beat you to death right here!"

Spur was on the ground, holding her cheek as she glared back at Grizzly. Taking in a deep breath, she was clearly going to say something stupid. But I stepped between them, and shoved my hoof over Sper's muzzle to keep her quiet. "How about this, we deal with this idiots punishments later, after we fuck over the Fiends."

An intense glare of anger came at me from Grizzly. "That's a mistake, Lottery."

"Maybe, but I don't feel right about killing a foal. Anyways, at least Cauterize should have a say in it," I explained.

An annoyed huff came from Spur as she freed her mouth to talk. "My piss ant uncle ain't going to do shit. And once my moms get back for me, your fucked!"

For the second time now, I became the bearer of bad news, something which was not going to be the last time, I was sure of. So looking over as Spur, I let her know the truth. "About that, Short Fuse died a few days ago. Your bitch of a mother got taken out by that piss ant uncle of yours."

There was shock in Spur's face, but not a hint of sorrow. "Oh, I see."

"That's all?" I asked her.

Spur shrugged. "It was going to happen, may the flames take her. And not like she did shit for me. Other then beating me when she was mad… and she was always mad. So does that mean the Smelters are over and dead?"

"Most of them were wiped out by both our side and by Tripwire's." Grizzly told her. "You clan is nothing but a pile of corpses now."

The filly rolled her eyes. "Typical, pops said we should have just left the region, but moms was like no, we must stay for the grate flame. If pops was still around, none of this would have happened." She then let out a long groan, and another huff in frustration. "Fine I let you take me to uncle Cauterize, not like I'll live long with the Bailfire fucks."

"No we are not." Grizzly protested.

"Were not abandoning or killing a kid! And that's final." I said with a stomp of my hoof. "Anyways, I'm sure Wiretap is going to want to say a few things to her old friend."

The intense look on Grizzly's face softened, and then she let out a long and annoyed sigh. "Alright, but if she trys anything, I will wring her damned neck, and enjoy it." Her eyes then glared down at Spur. "You understand."

Spur vigorously nodded, saying, "crystal fucking clear mama!"

With that all done, our attention turned to Plasma, who had already gotten to work on a terminal.

"Anything useful?" I asked.

"Lots of history here, all untouched." She then pointed at some stage box she had plugged into the terminal. "Downloading it to this external memory bank."

"The mission Plasma!" Grizzly growled out.

"No worry, I'm working on it." She said confidently as she tapped away. "It's just that the main system is protected by several layers of security. I had to use several back doors just to get in this far. So it may take a few more minutes. Luckily, those who stayed here left us some clues to getting into the system."

I looked over at one of the skeletons, the ragged dress and wide hips made it clear to me that it had been a mare. The hole in her skull and the rusty gun on the floor told me that she took the easy way out. Was it guilt, shame, or just cowardice that drove her to suicide, we may never know, but soon it will be time we end what they started.

A loud bang came from the door, along with muffled yelling from the other side. "Do you think they can get in?" I asked.

"It's a high security door, not even explosives can get through them." Plasma told us.

The walls on either side of the door then blasted open, shaking the building and sending dust all around us.

I propped my IF-64 at a desk and took aim, Grizzly joining me at another desk.

"MORE MEAT IS ON THE MENU!" A raider mare screamed as she charged in, only to get ventilated.

A few more rushed in, only to get cut down or disintegrated, before they wizened up. Annoyingly, the door still stood, providing cover for the raiders, allowing them to spray and pray the room while we could not hit them back.

*Tink* a firebomb landed near to me, and time slowed as I watched the glass bottle bounce off the ground and towards me. But before it could hit the ground again and break apart to engulf me in fire, it just stopped in mid air. Silver had grabbed it with her magic, and then tossed it back, setting a raider on fire.

"How the fuck ya get here Lottery! And oh, is that Plasma, did you miss me?" Bandsaw mocked.

There was a spray of bullets from Plasma and she unloaded her double rifle at the raiders.

"Temper temper." Bandsaw said with a laugh. "If you all just surrender now, we'll treat ya real nice."

"Not gonna happen, Bandsaw, so choke on a bag of dicks ya bitch!" I yelled back.

Bandsaw laughed, "Been there, done that, oh and so have you!" Then a spray of bullets filled the room, forcing all of our heads down.

Once the barrage of led ended, we resumed our suppressing fire, only to have several raiders rushing our position. With spiked hooves and a spiked covered muzzle a raider slammed into me, knocking me down. But it was not enough to take me out or slow me down. And as the raider jumped onto me to continue her assault, I racked a back hoof across her unarmored underbelly. Shoving her off me as she screamed, I then slammed my hoof into the side of her head to shut her up, permanently.

Another raider came diving at me, but this time I found Rime Frost in my hooves and swung, scoring an axe blade hit to her head, splitting it as she fell to my side. Not waiting for another attack, I pulled Rime Frost into a shooting stands, and began unloading everything she had at the other raiders, killing some and forcing the others back down.

Looking over to check on the others, Grizzly had a gash on her cheek, and held her pistol in her muzzle. Plasma's hat was missing, but she was fine. And Spur was hiding behind Silver, who used a heavy metal table to crush a raider.

There was then a loud click, and a door further back opened up. "Were in!" Plasma yelled as she unplugged her things from the terminal.

I glanced back at the raiders, and though a thick smoke of a growing fire, I saw that a few were still here with their heads down, I didn't see Bandsaw. Which worried me.

Falling back, Silver provided us cover with the metal table she held as we made our way to the next room. Several more fire bombs came flying out, smashing on and around the table Silver held before she made it through to us, the door then struggling to close shut due to rust.

"Wh… why do they ke… keep towing fire bombs! Are th… they trying to burn this place down?" Silver struggled to say between breaths.

The tip of Silver's tail had a small flame on it, much like a candle light, in which Grizzly quickly put out. "Their raiders, I doubt they do much thinking. Anyways, I doubt they expected to be fighting inside their own base."

"Shit!" Plasma then shouted as she tapped at what was the biggest terminal I had seen in my life, it having several screens attached to it. "The fucking fire is spreading, those fucking morons!"

Trotting over, I saw the room we were just in on one of the terminal screens, a fire was quickly growing, causing the raiders to fall back. "Isn't that good for us?" I asked.

Plasma gave me an annoyed look. "Only if we don't care about the hostages and other captives here."

Damnit, she's right. "Any way to stop it?"

"Lets pray to Celestia that the water tower isn't dry!" Plasma said as she typed on the terminal's keyboard.

Loud clunks came out all around us, as though the building itself had come alive, and then above us, from several mettle nozzles, black acrid fluid dripped out.

"Oh fuck!" Grizzly said as she dashed to a nearby desk and got under it.

The nozzles then spurted as bit by bit they began to spray more of that ungodly nasty fluid. Thankfully my hat and jacket protected me, but even through the thick leather and iron, the nasty water seemingly sucked all the heat out of me.

A now drenched Plasma breathed a sigh of relief as the fire on the screen began to die down. "Disaster averted. Now it's time to turn off their security, permanently." Attaching that strange box to it, several of the screen began scrolling zeros and ones before stopping, and allowing Plasma to begin typing. "Give me a few minutes, and then we can get the fuck out of here."

I looked up at the screen, seeing the raiders return, one with a fucking rocket launcher! Turning to the others, they had already taken defensive positions. Silver now had Plasma's dubble rifle, and Spur with some rusty 10mm SMG.

"Walls about to bow!" I wanted them as I too took a position, this time pulling out Last Dance.

Stupidly, and predicably, the raiders shot the door, but where the door held, the walls again, didn't.

"Hah! The ponies who built this place are idiots!" Spur shouted and then fired wildly. Despite it being muzzle fired, it barely recoiled. But it did make a loud ping sound when it stopped firing. "Fuck, it broke!"

Again the raiders charged in, and again we drove them back, but something was different. There were more of them, but most hung back, watching us. Then I saw her, Candy Corn, and braided around her neck like a trophy was my mane.

I took aim and fired, but the shots bounced off some magical barrier. That's all I needed to know as I then told Plasma, "get the bomb read!" I knew that Majestic must be nearby, invisible, but still under their control.

Then she stepped out… no, they stepped out?

Two green alicorns stepped into view, both sporting the spiked and colored mains of raiders.

Candy Corn cackled. "Surprised! Oh you didn't think we would have our own mutants did you! My dear Hooftack Treat and Razor Apple, returned to me after giving themselves to the Goddess." The raider boss nuzzled both raider alicorn. "Mama is so proud of you two."

Both alicorn then began slowly trotting forward, the acrid water getting displaced by their barrier. But then they stopped at the hole the raiders had made and parted. We got ready for the raiders to come charging through, yet none did. All the while Candy Corn kept smiling wide.

There was a rumbling, and the raiders parted as a metal monstrosity rolled in on tracks. A robot covered in rusty spiky armor, with two armed endings in spiked clubs. On its chest was a cracked screen that depicted a crazed eye, and most disturbingly, its head was a clear glass jar with a brain inside.

"Oh look, ponies have come to end our utopia!" The robot spoke, and I knew that voice, it was the mare from the video. Her digital eye twitching wildly before some strange substance puffed into the jar, and the eye relaxed. "Ohh mentats, aren't they the best! You should try them. And if you want a real rush, party-time mentats are better. Their Ministry mare Pinky Pie approved! HahahahHAHAHAhaHAha!"

"The fuck are we looking at! ?" I asked.

"A robo-brain," Plasma answered. "And from the looks of it, a Solaris Industries robo-brain. Meaning the worst kind of robo-brain."

"And It's a fair guess that the brain in that thing once belonged to the head of this place." Grizzly added.

Candy Corn's eyes flared wide open. "Grizzly Deal, is that you? It is, it is. Been too long, and you haven't thanked me for my help."

Grizzly grinded her teeth before shouting back. "I only wanted to be the successor, not for you to killed my family!"

Candy Corn tilted her head. "But that was the best way to do it. No way we would want some filthy stallion ever being in charge. You should thank me for it"

Firing a few shots, the beams feutaly bounced off the magical sheals. "My brother was far more worthy to lead Ursa's Rest then I am! You used me, used my jealousy to get to him, get to my parents and sister, and you think I would thank you for it!"

"How ungrateful." Candy Corn said in a disappointed tone. "Well, where you fail to understand, your daughter will succeed in aiding our utopia."

Pure rage vented off grizzly as the energy SMG trembled in her hooves. "You will never touch my daughter, not even a strand on her mane! I'll rip out your spine before you even try to get close to her!"

The cruel smile on Candy Corn's muzzle didn't fade, as though plastered on her aged face. "Ohhh… you poor ignorant fool. Here I was hoping you'd see reason, and talk like a civilized pony. But no, your kind only knows barbarity and violence. Well, once your out of the way, we will be sure to properly educate Wiretap in the proper way of thinking." The old mare then tapped on the robot. "Oh grate, grate, grate, grandmama. Those ponies over there are zebra spies, here to corrupt the foals."

"Spies! Corrupting the foals! I will not have any of that!" The robot bellowed, and from the ceiling several turrets descended. A bright pink light glowed from within them and they fired, shooting at each other and all blowing up.

"What!?" Candy shouted, the smile on her face finally gone.

Plasma let out a laugh, and from the outside chaos erupted. "Adjusted the FoF to make the security target itself."

Turrets in the room with the raider also descended and began to destroy each other.

I could see it, rage on Candy Corn's face. The raider boss then kicked the robot, and shouted. "They're going to destroy everything Grandmama, go do something about it!"

The lights on the robo-brain all turned red and the spiked maces began to spin. "Some foals need a spanking!" It rolled forward, the door opening for it, but getting stuck on the table in the way.

Another door clicked, and slowly opened, screeching from the rust. Spur bolting to it and squeezing through the crack in clear panic.

"Let's go! Unless you want to fight that thing!" Plasma said as she pulled her box from the large terminal and ran to the door.

Rushing to the door, I made sure everypony made it through before running in myself. The robo-brain with a mighty swing of its mace, shattered the heavy metal table and rolled in. Taking one last look before leaving, I looked at the brain in the jar, and somehow I knew it looked back at me.

I went flying back as some invisible force hit me, making my skull feel like hundreds of hammers had struck it. Everything felt like a blur as I realized I was being dragged up a flight of stairs. Then light I could feel light, and something being poured down my throat, and the dizziness came to an abrupt stop.

"The fuck was that!" I weekly said as I got up, finding myself on the roof.

"Some robo-brain have special abilities, or so the archives say." Plasma told me as she held her crossbow at the ready.

Looking up, the smoke flair for the signal was high in the sky, green smoke clear for all to see. "So it's done."

"Ya, except Silvers having trouble." Grizzly said. A loud bang then came from a door as the metal bent. "Any time now!"

"I'm trying, but I can't seem to cast it!" Silver said as her horn sparked but did nothing.

"YOUR GOING NOWHERE!" Boomed the voice of one of the green alicorns.

A green bubble surrounded us as the other then landed. "MOTHER MADAM WISHES FOR YOU TO STAY!"

The door burst open as the robo-brain rolled in, and behind it was Candy Corn and her raiders.

"You think you've done anything!" Candy snarled. "It's already too late, even if you've damaged our fortress, we will soon bring about our utopia. Even now Tripwire is neatly finished with his super mezmetron, and it will be ours!" Grizzly was then lifted off the ground, her legs dangling as she hoofed at her neck. "Fools like you will be but shit under our hooves, worthless and to be scraped off."

I drew Whisky Shot, and fired at Cany, but another green barrier formed around her, protecting her.

Grizzly began to gurgle in pain, the color of her face turning blue.

Gritting my teeth as I racked my brain on what to do, I then remembered the last time I was in this situation and how Rime Frost had an effect. Rushing forward I struck at the barrier with my Grizzly Gauntlets.

"What do you think that's going to do?" Candy Corn mocked.

The claws dug into the green barrier and it caught fire, bursting it, and causing the alicorn to fall back in pain.

I watched as the angered face of Candy quickly turned to panic as I glared at her with my one eye. Growling out at her I said, "you know the old saying, an eye for an eye. Well I'm going to collect on that, with interest!"

A hammer strike came down at me from the robot, in which I dogged by just a hoof space, and digging into the ground with my back claws, I burst back at the robot. It rolled back to avoid me, so I only managed to rake a claw across an armored shoulder, and ripped it off.

Landing, I didn't stand still this time, and as I rushed around it, the ground behind me exploded. Its invisible attack was strong, and if it hit me again I would be dead. So using the claws to grip the ground, again I bolted to the robot, this time going for its treads. The robot could not move fast enough to get away, instead it began to spin its body around, preventing me from getting close to it.

"You can't touch me, you can't me!" The robot said with an adult voice in a childish manner.

Her swinging prevented me from getting close, and my time for saving Grizzly was getting shorter. I could rush Candy Corn, but her raiders had gathered around her, and by the time it would take to get through them, the robot would be on me.

But maybe if I did something unpredictable. "Will-o-Wisp, " I called out, "blind that bot for me!"

The blue flame sparked to life and rushed the robo-brain, stopping in front of a single mechanical eye attached to the brain. The robot stopped its flailing and began attempting ot get the flame off of it.

"Danger, Danger!" It wailed.

With the robo-brain distracted, I rushed in and jumped onto its back, digging my claws in as I claimed up to the brain in the jar. back my hooves, I felt Rime Frost form in my grasp, and with a heavy swing, the spike of the axe pierced into the glass jar.

The robot figuratively froze as the cloudy fluids began to literally freeze. "ahh… Ahhh… AHHHHHHHH!" It began to scream, the robots movements becoming jerky and uncoordinated.

"Grandmama!" Candy Corn screamed, dropping Grizzly in shock. With a shrill voice she ordered the other raider, "kill her! Save Grandmama you pathetic cunts!"

The raiders charged, only to be hit with an explosion and a lead. Both Plasma and Silver had their weapons ready, decimating the group of raiders.

"I… I… I think I need to sleep…" the robot stated, and proceeded to go limp. The lights were still blinking, but had slowed down, going out one by one as the sound of the mechanics inside clunked less and less. Its jar, now covered in frost, then split in two, along with the brain. Both sides hitting the ground and shattering.

Candy Corn stumbled back, looking absolutely horrified. "You… you monsters, you psychotic monsters!" She accused us.

"Big words." Grizzly crocked out as she rubbed her neck. "From a raider boss."

"And a cannibal." I added.

Grizzly nodded. "One of hundreds of horrible things that can describe her. But… I'll settle for calling her dead."

A snarl came from Candy Corn as she shrieked, "Razor Apple, Hooftack Treat, kill them for mama!"

The two alicorns didn't move, looking more diss-interested than anything.

"Razor Apple, Hooftack Treat?" Candy Corn called out, sounding worried.

With a flash and a loud pop, I was knocked back, and then felt something hold me down.

"Well fuck, you Celestia damn cunts ruined this place!" Bandsaw bellowed out, sounding amused. "Oh, and ya killed that fucking robot, thanks by the way."

I managed to move my head, looking up to see the bandaged Bandsaw standing on the back of Majestic. The alicorn had dead looking eyes, and was still covered in those minds and magic restricting jewelry.

"Bandsaw, you finally showed up!" Candy Corn yelled up at the burnt raider. "I personally hold you responsible for all of this. It was you who pushed for that cunt to join us, and look at what has happened. Ya should have killed her long ago to save us the trouble. I don't even care she's carrying the foal of that pathetic loser you all insist is my son! I want her-"

*BANG!*

Blood and brain sprayed over the ground and doorway from the gaping hole that was now Candy Corn's head, her body standing there for a long and slow moment before collapsing to the ground.

"Finally!" Razor said in an annoyed tone.

"At least in Unity the Goddess didn't fucking nag us unendingly." Hooftack added.

I felt more pressure push down on us as Bandsaw hopped off Majestic, a wide grin on her bandaged face, giving me a peek at her burnt flesh underneath. "I have been waiting for this fucking day for so fucking long! Down to the minute when I could kill her and take over." Her one gemstone shaped eye glared at me, filled with madness and hate. "This place was meant to be my fortress… but looks like that's not meant to fucking be, all because of you cunts!"

She then hoofed at her dirty bandages, trotting closer to me as she scratched herself. "It won't stop hurting, ya know, not even the med-x helps any more. But hurting you will make everything feel better." As she got closer, I could smell rot coming off of her, and see yellowish fluid leak from under the bandages. It was not the usual filth and smell of an unwashed raider, but the smell of death, of a corps as it is decomposing.

Razor Apple stomped her hoof. "We do not have the time to be shoving bottles up a bitches cunt Bandsaw! I can see the enemy coming, and fast!"

Bandsaw eyed the alicorn raider. "Relax, we have the overseer alicorn. It will take but seconds for us to return to Naysayer Manor. So I want to savor this."

Hooftack Treat chuckled. "And what are they fucking going to do sister, knock on our barrier and ask us nicely to lower it. You know how long it has been since the last time I had a good show!"

Razor let out a long sigh. "I gave myself to the Goddess to get away from this stupidly family, so why did I ever rejoin? Oh, right, because I'm a fucking idiot."

"You can leave any time dear sister." Hooftack growled at the other alicorn.

Razor rolled her eyes. "I'd be a fool, so long as Majestic is under your control."

"Ya both shut the fuck up!" Bandsaw yelled, still scratching at her bandages. "I swear you two have gotten even worse! Did that Goddess bitch fuck up your heads too?" She then turned back to me, still grinning wide with her jagged yellow teeth on full display. "But Hooftack is right, they can't easily get through the barrier. Maybe we can stay, have them watch as I kill you one by one, ever so slowly. Oh, maybe I'll take one of you?"

She then poked me on the nose. "Well I can't just give up on you now, after all the work I went through on you, it be such a fucking waist. I mean, you would make such a good fuck toy for all my soon to be slaves!"

Her eye drifted to Plasma, and she let out a chuckle. "But I don't think I had so much fucking fun as when I had you as a toy, dear Plasma. The sounds you made, all the crying, and making you lap my cunt like the hungry bitch you are."

She gave Silver a disappointing glance. "You… I remember you, and no, you don't interest me at all…"

"But Grizzly Deal!" Bandsaw said with excitement as she clapped her fore hooves together rapidly. "There hasn't been a day I haven't wanted to cut you a Fillydelphia smile, and then sew that fucking muzzle up. Ya… you're coming with me. I know Tripwire will be happy to see you, not that I care, I just want to see how he reacts."

"Fuck off!" Grizzly struggled to yell.

Then I heard laughter, it coming from Plasma.

"Oh, what's so funny, bitch?" Bandsaw asked Plasma.

Taking a deep and labored breath, Plasma then gave her answer. "Because, I can say the same. Every time I close my eyes, you're there, and every day I want to kill you… and today! Today is that day!"

There was a loud click followed by a sharp ringing that quickly got louder and sharper.

Blue bolts of electricity bolted out in a wave, washing over all of us. Majestic's hold over us stopped, and I shoved myself up, and slammed my hoof into a surprised Bandsaw, the claws on my gauntlets cutting into her jaw.

I wanted to finish the raider off once and for all, but there was another pony I needed to save first. So digging the claws into the ground, I dashed at Majestic, jumping into her. With as much speed I could muster, I used the claws to cut or pull off the jewelry. As I worked as fast as I could, I could see the jewels slowly begin to shine with magic, and each time I touched one, I felt drained and dulled.

"That's as far as you go, Lottery!" Bandsaw growled at me as I felt magic grab hold of me, and pull me away from Majestic. "Thanks Hooftack, now hold her steady. I want to keep her head as a trophy."

Nearly at point blank range, Bandsaw pointed the sniper rifle, Desert Rose, at my neck. My friends were on the other side of a green barrier, unable to help me.

I should have killed the bitch first!

*BANG!*

I had shut my eyes, expecting the pain, but other than the ringing in my ears, there was none. Opening my eyes, I saw the bullet just floating in front of me, a dark blue aura wrapping around it.

"Thank you, Lottery, I'll take over from here." Majestic said calmly and coldly as she let the bullet drop to the ground. The deformed led projectile clattered, sounding far louder then it should, as nopony made a sound.

Feeling a tugging, Majestic magic overpowered the other alicorns holding on me, levitating me gently to my friends. It was awe inspiring as Majestic stepped towards Bandsaw, life retiring to her mane as it took on an ethereal visage. Looking into her mane was like looking at the night sky itself, filled with mystery and endless possibilities.

The muzzle of the sniper rifle pressed against Majestic's head, the alicorn overseer daring Bandsaw to fire.

*click… click, click, click*

Bandsaw pulled on the trigger of Deserted Rose vigorously as she glared at the alicorn. The rifle then was ripped from the raiders hooves, disassembling in mid air, and gently being placed on the ground in organized parts.

"Any other surprises, mongral?" Majestic asked, her voice was still calm, and still cold.

Bandsaw then, from her mouth, sprayed fluid in Majestic's face, causing the alicorn to flinch. "Ya, Knife!"

A large knife was drawn from Bandsaw's armor, and plunged down at Majestic. But then Bandsaw was knocked back by a wave of magic, sending her flying into some wires that hung just over the edge of the building. I watched as her good back hoof got tangled in the wires, the only thing keeping her from falling four stories down.

"I'll… kill… you… all… and… fuck… you… corpses!" Bandsaw struggled to say as blood dribbled from her leg and covered her face. She then pulled out a sawed off shotgun and aimed at her hoof. Laughing like the mad mare she was, she blasted off her own hoof and dropped.

Rushing over to the building's edge, I looked down to see the raider laid flat on the ground in a pool of blood. Seeing her dead filled me with nothing but relief, no rage or joy, just the relief that we were now free from her madness.

A scream drew my attention as Majestic had her hoof on Hooftack's neck, the raider alicorn struggling and foaming at the mouth like a feral ghoul. And with a loud snap, Hooftack went limp, her body twitching periodically.

Majestic then turned to Razor Apple, glaring at the raider. "Are you going to make this easy, or are you going to be difficult."

Razor Apple sighed. "I ain't going to do shit. Not like I can do shit even if I wanna. I know when I'm beat."

"Good, your not as stupid as the other one. So why shouldn't I kill you?" Majestic asked the raider.

"Fuck, I should be asking that about myself. I reckon there ain't no place I can go, I mean I was trying to get away from this mess by joining Unity. Unlike my sister, who wanted power." Razor explained, but then added. "Anyways, I much rather try to enjoy being a mare, since moms never let me become a stallion."

"W… wait what?" Majestic stammered out.

Razor looked a bit embarrassed. "Ya, moms castrated me as a colt. Always hated that I came out with Hooftack. She thought I raped her in the womb."

Majestic face hoofed and groaned. "Fucking raiders. Whatever, if you behave yourself, then I won't snap your neck like your sister."

"Understood!" Razor said loudly.

Turning her attention back to us, Majestic trotted over. The cold confidence on her face faded, and she became more tired, ragged, and drained of life. "Th… thank you for freeing me, Lottery." She then looked over at Plasma. "You too."

"For a second I thought I made a mistake by not finishing off Bandsaw first. But I'm glad I made the right choice in the end." I told her. "Anyways, I know how it feels to be under that spell."

Majestic nodded. "Yes, it is a terrible thing. At least in Unity you're not alone, at least your voice can reach another." She then looked up at an oncoming cloudship. "Is… Benday alright?"

"He's getting by. Worried sick about you, but he has been keeping your group together." I told her.

She finally let herself relax, practically melting onto the floor as she laid down onto the ground and yawned. "Good, wake me up when you get me to him."

"Ya, get some rest, you deserve it." I said as I sat back myself, watching as our reinforcement finally touched down.

There was gunfire and screaming, but it all quickly died down. It was over, the Bailfire Fiends were gone, and now there were only two ponies left to kill, and one place left to go to.

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