Fallout Equestria: Wasteland Guardian
Chapter 59: The Date
Previous ChapterNext ChapterAt Grand Pegasus Enclave Aroura.
Critical Shot walked around to find the mare until he found her talking to somepony in the maintenance room talking to Lieutenant Honey Cake's father to work on her Novasurge rifle.
She then noticed Critical Shot so she got up and left and walked out.
"I thought you weren't going to make it," said the mare, "Thought Raiders were going to get you or some pony or creature would get you."
Critical replied, "Well you ready for our date?"
She replied, "Yup. Let's go."
***
The two were walking on the road.
"So?" said Critical Shot, "What's your name?"
The mare replied, "Master Chief Petty Officer S/N 94720421. Moonshadow Sprint. I had five sisters and still have three sisters alive. They're Staff Sergeant Velvet Trail, Gunnery Sergeant Ivory Charm, Master Sergeant Amber Pie, Master Gunnery Sergeant Sweetie Spice, Major Caramel Pie, Technical Sergeant Cinnamon Spice, Master Technical Sergeant Bubblegum Pearl Petunia."
Critical didn't respond and don't know what to think but he wondered how she has so many siblings if the GPE has strict population control to prevent having families from having a lot of foals so they don't overpopulate.
"Oh sorry for telling you about my sisters," said Moonshadow Sprint, "If you're wondering how I have a ton of older and baby sisters. Well, nothing like a little bribery can't fix. My mother bribed a lot of Councilponies and told them they can have nine foals. I'm the seventh out of nine. All eight are or were in the GPE Marines. I'm in the Army. My mother said, "You don't want to be in the GPE Army. It's the Marines you want to fuck with.". But they chose to be elite and I didn't."
Critical replied, "What's the role of the Grand Pegasus Enclave Marines?"
Moonshadow Sprint replied, "There the pegasi who are descendants of the Equestrian Marine Corps, they're rugged and diverse, not adding well-trained stallions and mares like their predecessors. But after the Balefire bombs hit. After a couple of decades, the marines were the first scouts looking at the wasteland. But they only travel in a pack of five and carry Missile Launchers. Well, one carries a Missile launcher while the other three fight, one is an armed medic and the one with the Missile Launcher has a primary gun. But they're tough and very hard to kill. They're only deployed for scouting, force recon, and expeditionary warfare. But they're scattered."
Critical replied, "Interesting. I don't want to sound impatient. But I wonder how Purple and Paladin Sapphire are doing? But besides that how are you?"
Moonshadow Sprint replied, "I've been fine."
***
Over at Fort Base Icy Flyer.
Purple Artist and Paladin Sapphire Heart were along a cliff edge where Purple remodified his 7.62mm Battle rifle back into a single shot with a Starlight Nightvision scope. Paladin Sapphire Heart has an H40 Bolt-action sniper rifle with a 3-9x scope and a suppressor.
"This is a fun date," said Paladin Sapphire, "No seriously this is fun."
Purple replied, "Well I thought we should do something "romantic" by wasteland standards. But I want to see what my brother is up to. Have you ever heard of the term called "Scouting" Sapphire Heart?"
Paladin Sapphire Heart replied, "Yes. Scouting is to find out enemy strengths and anything we can use. What we find we can rely on what we found and see and adjust to it. Also, Purple. How did you get away from your brother?"
Purple replied, "And that's a story for another day."
***
By a campfire Critical and Moonlight.
"Come on light damn it!" said Moonlight
As Moonlight kept striking the match but it didn't want to so Critical did his best and lit the match and they started a campfire.
"You know Raiders traverse this area right?" asked Critical
Moonlight replied, "Yup. Use the fire to attack their attention. And we shoot them, loot them and send a message to them. The message will tell them that they'll face justice."
The duo set up somewhere more concealed and good for them and there were some hills.
Their plan worked as soon Raiders came and the duo sniped them. Moonlight's Battle Saddle worked for a bit until it malfunctioned. So she had to take it off and had to do a homemade repair on it.
Critical didn't hold back where he just pulled the trigger and shot them and cycled the bolt back before the raiders could figure out what happened.
"That's five," said Critical, "Five to two."
Moonlight Sprint replied, "A challenge? That's how I like my stallions with a challenge. Like that old spy comic book when the spy would order his martini saying "Shaken not stirred". You want a challenge? I'll give you a challenge."
Moonlight was able to fix it and placed the sniper battle saddle back on and started shooting. She had an advantage over Critical and that is her battle saddle has nine rounds before reloading and it's semi-automatic over Critical's bolt-action and five rounds over her nines.
"That's a headshot," said Moonlight, "That's a groin shot."
Critical replied, "Double headshot! And a heart shot!"
Moonlight replied, "I'll go double or nothing! What do you say?"
Critical replied, "I don't have any bottle caps. But yeah I'm in."
The two kept sniping the raiders and the casings piled up and the Raider piles kept up and soon an hour passed.
"Let's count the casings," said Moonlight
They counted the bullet casings.
"I got seventy-seven," said Moonlight
Critical Shot replied, "I got one hundred and four."
Moonlight replied, "Alright. I'll give you two Enclave Bits per Raider. So that now I have to give you one hundred and fifty-four Enclave Bits. But due to the Double or nothing now I have to give you three hundred and eight."
Moonlight gave Critical Shot three hundred and eight bits and the two got up and brought their casings with them.
***
Back at Grand Pegasus Enclave Base Aroura.
"Thanks for the date," said Moonlight, "Haven't been on a fun date like that since. Well never."
Moonlight Sprint then gave Critical Shot a kiss on the cheek before trotting back inside and he stood there dumbfounded not knowing what to do because the last time he was kissed was the day before he was knocked out and his then-girlfriend joined the Foals of Radiation.
***
Over at Fort Base Icy Flyer, half an hour after Critical and Moonlight started shooting. Paladin Sapphire slid down the cliff carefully and walked by two guards.
"Maybe I shouldn't made Wasteland Chili for me and Purple," said Paladin Sapphire, "Not good for stealth. Doesn't sit well with my stomach."
Paladin Sapphire thought about finding her way in through stealth. But she decided to take on the two guards with her suppressed rifle and Purple was about to take them out only for Paladin Sapphire to fire her rifle and quickly cycled the bolt and took out the other.
"I guess not," Said Purple, "Well I better find my way in."
Paladin Sapphire just walked in and the gate wasn't even up and it was down.
No wonder Base is losing the war against his baby brother, Paladin Sapphire thought, Leaving the front gate wide open. And now I know why a lot of stallions are stupid.
Paladin Sapphire then walked right in and noticed the inside of the fort was abandoned or a ghost town but saw a lot of tents everywhere.
"Where is everypony?" Paladin Sapphire said quietly, "This place is a Luna damn ghost town."
Somepony walked up to her and tapped her on her side.
"What the?" said Paladin Sapphire, "You better not rape me or kill me."
Somepony used a shock weapon or some kind of non-lethal energy weapon and was knocked out.
***
On the wall, some pony walked up to Purple and hit him with the same thing as Paladin Sapphire Heart.
***
A couple of hours later
Purple and Paladin Sapphire woke and saw both Dictator Base Icy Flyer and Midnight Twister standing next to each other and they were both well dressed both wearing a grimy dark olive green jacket, white-collar shirt, a black tie, and a dark olive green service cap.
"Thank you Field Commander Twister." Said Dictator/Commander Base, "You're free to go now. It'll be a long monolog I have to do."
Purple replied, "Yeah monolog. It's not like those comic book villains. You know what happens to them Base. The Villains monolog and while under their noses the hero frees themself. And your the villain in this story and me and my wife and my allies are the heroes. You the villain and your faction are the villains."
Base replied, "I'm the villain? Don't make me laugh, No your the villain and I'm the hero."
Purple replied, "That's how the villains see it. They think what they're doing is good, not bad. You want to create a new world order in a dictatorship and want to impregnate every mare you come across! I want to reshape the wasteland with Liberty, Honor, and Freedom not worry in fear twenty-four seven. You just want an Autocracy and Order world where it's your word goes."
Base replied, "And I know you're trying to one-up me. You had more sex than me and I don't like a femboy sissy trying to dethrone me. And I sence you got a ton of mares pregnant. Well, I can't remove you from the genetic tree now because they're going to be more of you out there. Well, when they turn eighteen I'm going to sentence them to death when I shape the world in my image."
Purple replied, "Spoken like a true dictator."
There were some metallic clanking sounds and soon the four plain glass windows shattered where it was the Quick Reaction Force from Lieutenant Honey Cake where she had been more stealthy than Purple and Paladin Sapphire and radioed for them.
Base somewhat fled like a coward only for him to should while running away, "Fortunately, I always keep a few tricks up my sleeve."
It wasn't long until Base returned with Ponies even Zebra's wearing black combat uniforms, tan body armor, black balaclavas, with tactical goggles, and combat helmets armed with a lot of different variety of weapons.
The Grand Pegasus Enclave, Quick Reaction Force was quickly cut down and some were disincinagrated.
"Damn," said Paladin Sapphire, "Well this is the worst date ever."
Unknown to them Purple was freeing his hooves and he took Paladin Sapphire behind some sturdy cover he finished untied himself and united Paladin Sapphire and used his magic and retrieved their gear which was in the same room.
"These guys don't know when to give up!" said Purple Artist before throwing Paladin Sapphire her Novasurge rifle.
Paladin Sapphire replied, "We need to find a way to get out of here."
Purple Artist lit up his horn and created a shield where he walked out as the bullets bounced off he went over to Paladin Sapphire Heart.
"My lady, will you join me in getting the hell out of here?" said Purple
Paladin Sapphire joined him and he went over to a cellar door where he opened it and the two got down into it and he closed it.
***
In the dark tunnel.
"Follow me and keep your head up," said Purple
Damn Pipbuck won't give me the local map of the tunnel, Purple thought, Alright just got to keep walking and we'll find a way out.
It was pitch black dark so Purple turned on the flashlight on his Pipbuck so they could see. Paladin Sapphire was scared and she's lucky that Purple's tail isn't long or she would be stepping on it.
They could hear some water dropping or rats sounds. But the husband and wife duo just kept ongoing.
Soon they saw some iron bars and some ponies near it and the two kept just carefully approaching it until Paladin Sapphire just suddenly stopped and hid behind some boxes.
Purple only saw that it was Base, Midnight Twister standing there waiting with the same Ponies and Zebras in old black military clothing the same ones in the room that almost killed them.
"Like I said Purple," said Base, "I always have a trick up my sleeve. Unfortunately, you'll have to die. I would say I would miss you. But I won't."
"If I see your horn light up I won't hesitate to shock you again," said Midnight Twister
Purple quickly lit up his horn and like what Midnight Twister said he went to shock Purple only to see he placed an invisible shield.
"Son of a bitch," said Midnight Twister, "Fine I'll break through it."
Midnight Twister hit the shield for a while with his two frontal hooves for a bit until he decided to shoot some Dragon's Breath shotgun shells at Purple only for him to be unscathed.
"We can wait until he falls asleep," said annoyed Base, "It's only eight-thirty as my trusty Pip-Buck 3000 says. I can stay up all night and act like nothing tomorrow. But you Purple? You can't make it past ten PM."
Base started to sing a lullaby as if he was a parent trying to get his foal to sleep. Surprisingly it started to work on both Paladin Sapphire Heart and Purple Artist.
Purple tried to stay away but he kept nodding off and wanted to go to bed. He also thought he was seeing things but the lullaby was making his elite soldiers fall to sleep only to see Midnight then Base go to sleep.
There was a thud sound where it was Paladin Sapphire Heart where she passed out so Purple placed her on her back and teleported him and her back to the town of Crimson.
***
In the town of Crimson.
Critical Shot maintained his sniper rifle.
"Moonlight is a lovely mare," said Critical, "I wouldn't mind being with her. But the hole in my heart can't be fixed with the loss of Pink Lemonade and our unborn foal."
Critical then went to bed and slept with his sniper rifle and kept it within hoof's length.
***
Over in Paladin Sapphire's house.
Purple Artist put Paladin Sapphire into bed and gave her a kiss on the forehead before walking out of her house and went into his house to go to bed.
"It was a hell of a date night," said Purple Artist.
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