Fallout Equestria: Wasteland Guardian
Chapter 76: Outpost Raiding
Previous ChapterNext ChapterIt's early morning and it's been a while since they recruited Double Tap, a mare Earth pony raider into the group. Double Tap told them how the Grand Pony Enclave virtually destroyed her raider gang with her being the only one due to they 'wanted to teach her a lesson' thinking it would scare her and she would run off not pissing her off wanting revenge.
"I know where all twelve of their remaining outposts are," said Double Tap. "If you want to know where they are?"
They looked at her and they wanted to know the longer the Grand Pony Enclave is up and running then well they'll have a hard life. With mares serving as servants to stallions, cooking, cleaning, & bearing foals while the stallions did the fighting, hard working, farming, manufacturing, and teaching to colts and fillies. They'll have a sexist, misogynistic, and patriarchal blue pegasus who prefers to be called after three deceased baseball players.
"After you," said Purple. "You know where the outposts are."
Double Tap walked in front of Purple and she led them to a close-by Grand Pony Enclave outpost which it's small and had a ten-foot-tall tin or thin metal wall. But is usually has a squad of Grand Pony Enclave soldiers and an officer go around terrorizing the wasteland and kidnap mares for their 'pleasures.' Not adding forcing them into their faction for supportive roles and stallions are forced for combative and educational roles.
"I'd say your brother is misguided," said Paladin Sapphire. "His heart is in the right place but if he changes his ideology and helps instead of making others join him but have it volunteering like how you do. Then you two would've been an unstoppable force. Oh well, Arsen has it coming.
"I'm not defending him but I see goodness in his heart and eyes but he thinks mares enjoy being slaves. If some mares want to have foals and not do a lot then let them. But I know well I know a lot of mares who'll go down in a blaze of glory. Helping is what Honey Cake did by getting herself and two hundred and nine other Grand Pegasus Enclave mares pregnant with their foals Purple. She knew that Grand Pegasus Enclave would've lost Operation: Cauterize and a lot of soldiers.
"Heck somepony I know in Manehattan sent me a message with one of the last caravans and said that during the battle of 'Battle of Friendship City' that the Grand Pegasus Enclave fired upon one of their own Cloudships due to they were mostly firing upon non-combatants. The only reason they fired upon the city was that they wanted somepony but the settlement refused to hoof that pony over to them.
"Your brother is a Red Eye 2.0 but just more misguided. At least my source in Fillydelphia told me that Red Eye was talked to by somepony and she or he. I think it was because she can't remember the letter fully. But Red Eye was convinced by the mare that what he was doing was misguided what he was doing was good but misguided by using slaves."
They kept on keeping an eye on where they were going but Flared Blizzard was staring at Double Tap's small ponut. But lucky that Rocky Road couldn't see what his eyes were staring at. Purple was standing next to Double Tap with Paladin Sapphire riding on his back and he had to relocate his rucksack to his stomach.
They walked for an hour until they stopped and Purple served them breakfast which he gave them apples which are shipped from The Island. From the Lawponies as thanks for him and Rainy Night clearing the Raiders from the island. Part of the Wasteland Guardians as an ally and trades food and crafting material to them and vice versa. The Lawponies sent meat, apples, bread, cabbage, beans, canned corn, nuts, and maize while the Guardians sent them carrots, tatos, meat, leather, and alcohol.
They ate the apples and drank the purified water and they went on their way to the closest Grand Pony Enclave outpost.
***
On a hill, all of them laid down and looked down and saw nine Grand Pony Enclave soldiers walking around and one barking orders or just yelling his lungs out.
Purple teleported to the town of Crimson. He opened up a truck he had and got a .45-75 Lever-action rifle, .45 LC Single Action Revolver, a Double-action revolver, a Pump-action Shotgun, and bow and arrows. He teleported back and shot the Grand Pony Enclave officer right in the head with an arrow.
"Nice shot!" said Double Tap, "Wish that fucker seen it!"
Critical Shot replied, "I don't think he saw that."
A Grand Pony Enclave soldier walked over to the body and there was another hit. Purple launched a bow and arrow and it went through the eye protectors on the helmet of the pegasus power armor.
I guess they don't stop bow and arrows, Purple thought, Should've made them bullet and arrow proof unless that's on the Steel Ranger one.
Purple thought about shooting one of them again with a bow and arrow but didn't.
"Go get them," said Purple, "They're all yours."
They attacked them while he stayed back and started to think how chaotic it was at Maragirate harbor and what was going through his six-time great-grand uncles and aunts. Not Sonata Blues or Shocking Taser. Paladin Sapphire stayed behind with her adopted daughter.
Paladin Sapphire did her best to cover the filly up so she wouldn't witness the destruction and fighting going on down below. But the filly was curious about what was going on but Paladin Sapphire just shielded her ears and eyes.
They were kind enough to drag the corpses away before looting them and hid the corpses for the decency of a filly in their group.
***
Down in the camp well outpost, it was how Double Tap described it with a small building at the back end and a ten-foot-tall thin metal or tin wall.
Paladin Sapphire, Purple, and the filly went into the outpost's command building.
***
In the command building, there was a terminal and Purple went to it while he gave Paladin Sapphire some food and water so she could have the filly eat and drink some food and drink some purified water.
Purple worked in silence and wondered what something juicy he could find on it.
There was one file he opened and it said, "Us Grand Pony Enclave is going to win this war and take over the wasteland and build up the old Equestria as it was during the wartime days. But instead of a Monarchical nation, it'll be an Autocratic world. Soon we'll invade the rest of the radioactive world and rule the whole world. That Base is an intelligent pegasus. He always makes the right decisions. Not involving mares but yeah he does make decisions that usually give us total victories! Yeah, we've won a ton of battles against the Grand Pegasus Enclave who are the strongest enemy. Not adding we've been whipping their asses and taking their names."
"Aresn won't get away with this," said Purple. "Once he takes over what was Equestria or commonly called since The Last Day now as Equestrian Wasteland. Arsen wants to take over the world. Back then it was a semi-constitutional coregency monarchy. I think he's overcompensating for something. Or he thinks having an eight-inch dick makes him untouchable."
***
Outside.
Both Rocky Road and Private FIrst Class Flared Blizzard chatted up a storm but out of the blue he asked her if she would like to be his girlfriend. She didn't know what to think besides accepting his offer to be his girlfriend out of the blue.
Critical did his job and kept looking out for any sign of trouble or enemy reinforcements. But his scope was clear, but he saw Rocky Road and Flared Blizzard walk the perimeter of the place to do Critical's job as well but on a patrol.
Double Tap was doing normal Raider things and she was looting the dead Grand Pony Enclave soldiers mostly for stuff to sell for bottlecaps or for food, beverages or something useful. But she found a new type of currency on the bodies called, "Grand Pony Enclave Dollars."
There were three $5 Grand Pony Enclave dollars, two $20 Grand Pony Enclave dollars, 1 $100 Grand Pony Enclave dollar, and a $500 Grand Pony Enclave dollar. The five-dollar bills have a picture of Blue Watershed on the face of the bill and a landscape image of The Pyre, their first base.
The twenty-dollar bill has either Harp or Albatross on it it varies but on the back has a Stable door image on the back, the one hundred dollar bill has a picture of Lavender Purple Painting Silver Canvas Serenity Artist Astrology on the front and a landscape image of the town of Crimson, and the five hundred dollar bill has a picture of Arsen Nimrod Walnut Flier or commonly he's known as 'Base Icey Flier' with a landscape image of Fort Base.
Arsen only had money printed with the faces of his family on them due to the fact that on the outside he hates them but deep, deep, deep, deep down he shows love for them. But he does love his parents more than he loves his siblings. He's currently designing a $50 bill with the face of Overmare Harp on it due to the fact that he also loved his grandmother even if she favored Purple a lot more than the rest of them.
***
Still inside of the outpost command building.
Purple found a vanilla folder and opened it. He didn't believe it because it says that Arsen/Base actually wants a truce or to form an alliance with his baby brother. But he thinks everypony will think he's weak and try to kill him.
Purple also thought about who to leave behind to defend the outpost but he messed around with a radio and got a frequency from Stable 190. it's a mare singing and Purple knows who it is, it's a unicorn mare named Singing Pasta Heart.
Purple decided to leave Starry behind to stay at the outpost but he quickly came back and got her. They saw smoke and only PFC Flared Blizzard and Purple Artist went up and heard gunfire and they headed towards it,
They saw Grand Pony Enclave soldiers fighting Grand Pegasus Enclave soldiers and the latter was pinned down trying to defend their crashed Vertibuck and waiting for their evacuation flight because the crash hurt their wings so they couldn't fly without adding some have broken wings.
Unknown to them that the Grand Pony Enclave heard their distress beacon as the squad had to wait until 8:30 PM for their evacuation flight to arrive due to both the Grand Pegasus Enclave and Grand Pegasus Enclave Force Recon had daytime operations cease and desist.
Purple and Flared Blizzard flanked the Grand Pony Enclave soldiers and one officer & killed them and saved them.
"Thank goodness we got some help," replied a GPE soldier. "Thought we were gonners."
A GPE Soldier replied, "Are either of you two surgeons? Or have better medical experience?"
Purple went into the Vertibuck and saw two injured Grand Pegasus Enclave soldiers, a badly injured Grand Pegasus Enclave co-pilot, and an extremely critically injured Grand Pegasus Enclave pilot.
Purple did his best but he had two options and those were either save them or put them out of their misery and he did the former to save them even though he burned through a majority of his Healing Potions, bandages, and magical bandages.
Going to need to find a trade caravan and get some more supplies, Purple thought, Running low on medical supplies.
Purple stepped out of the crashed vertibuck.
"There's an outpost down the road," said Purple, "You'll be safe there."
The Grand Pegasus Enclave soldiers left with some containers with both Equestrian and Zebra markings from the war days but Purple and Flared Blizzard didn't ask because it wasn't their business. If it was Purple would and will go ask Honey Cake.
Flared Blizzard and Purple went their way and met up with Rocky, Paladin Sapphire, Critical Shot, Starry, and the filly who hadn't said her name yet. Paladin Sapphire tried to get her to say her name but Paladin Sapphire thinks she was scared because she doesn't know where her parents are, not knowing they were dead.
The only reason Purple or Paladin Sapphire haven't told her that her parents are dead yet is due to they don't know how to tell a four-year-old filly. But Purple every now and again kept giving the filly some apples and some sips of Purified Water.
They followed Double Tap again and they did the same Purple and Paladin Sapphire stayed back with the filly to protect her while Rocky, Critical, Starry, and Double Tap attacked it and looted it. They also would loot the dead Grand Pony Enclave soldiers and officers and go hide their bodies and would move on.
The third Grand Pony Enclave outpost was hidden more in a jungle and Flared Blizzard went ahead and snuck into the command building where they kept the ammo as well. He found several crates of ammo for their ballistic weapons and he found timed dynamite and he found timed dynamite and set it for an hour.
***
One hour passed and all of the Grand Pony Enclave soldiers and the squad officer went inside for lunch.
The door closed when the last soldier went inside and there was a huge explosion and the outpost was now decommissioned or out of commission for the Grand Pony Enclave.
***
Eleven hours later.
The final Grand Pony Enclave Outpost was well defended and in a strategic location with a hill on a one-eighty degree rotation. Not adding the wall is reinforced and has a wonderful Killzone for the defenders there's an incline with no cover. The machine guns and miniguns can tear apart anypony even the Steel Rangers within a matter of seconds if not a few minutes.
"They're reinforced and better armed," said Purple. "I see the everyday rank and file Grand Pony Enclave soldier, about ten officers, twelve machine gun heavies either carrying a .50 caliber heavy machine gun battle saddle or a minigun battle saddle or being carried by unicorns. There are twelve Grand Pony Enclave in reinforced pegasi power armor armed with flamethrower battle saddles.
"There are also fourteen scouts either with scoped Novasurge rifles, bolt-action, or semi-automatic rifles in their battle saddle variant. I see two buildings, probably the barracks, the command center, and a storage room. I got a plan but we'll be caught anyway because that place can make you be easily discovered more than trying to sneak out of the living quarters in the Stable. I'm thinking of a number. Between one and one hundred. What is the number?"
Rocky Road replied, "Twenty-Two."
Critical Shot Replied, "Twenty-Four."
Starry replied, "Seventy-Eight."
Paladin Sapphire Heart replied, "Fifty-Two."
PFC Flared Blizzard replied, "One hundred and one."
Double Tap replied, "One."
The four-year-old filly said, "Eighty-Five."
Purple replied, "Flared Blizzard and the filly are the closets. Well, the filly is closer. It's Eighty-Seven."
Due to the filly not knowing any military tactics or anything like that only Purple, Paladin Sapphire, and Private First Class Flared Blizzard had to discuss. Paladin Sapphire was ok with what Purple wanted to do. PFC Flared Blizzard wanted to gallop into the final outpost and drop all of the Grand Pony Enclave soldiers, officers, and anypony else who's allied with them.
They waited until the Grand Pony Enclave soldiers and officers went to bed. But they saw more Grand Pony Enclave officers and soldiers come out of the barracks after some time more came out to stand guard at night. But unknown to them that the ones in the outpost below are battle hardened deserters from the Grand Pegasus Enclave who fought during Operation: Cauterize and/or scouting missions in the past if not both.
PFC Flared Blizzard pointed out his brother-in-law in an officer's uniform. He pointed out that his brother always enjoyed taking it up the ass and that's probably how he probably became a lieutenant or a captain.
Purple, Flared Blizzard, Rocky Road, and Double Tap went down only Purple, Flared Blizzard, and Double Tap have sharp weapons, Purple with a combat knife, Flared Blizzard with a Bowie knife, and Double Tap with a paring knife, and a wooden spear that she made.
***
In the final outpost.
There was a Grand Pony Enclave officer walking and Double Tap placed her hoof over the officer's mouth and stabbed the mare pegasus officer in the side of the neck with her wooden spear.
A Grand Pony Enclave soldier walked by Flared Blizzard and he snapped his neck in a painful way and made him feel the pain before death while using his wing to cover his mouth so he wouldn't scream.
Purple used his magic to cover one mouth and beat one to death with the IF-37 shotgun with the trigger grip the final two blows when Purple hit the back of the neck and when Purple hit the top of the head with his shotgun.
They prefered stealth takedowns because if it was loud they would be up a creek without a paddle and with possible no escape and probably be torn to shreds or burnt alive by the ones with flamers.
One Grand Pony Enclave soldier had a suppressed 10mm Pistol. Purple took it with his magic and he shot the Grand Pony Enclave soldier in the back on the legs, turned him around and shot him right between the eyes.
***
Paladin Sapphire was staring up at the stars.
"They need to open up," said Paladin Sapphire. "Or soon there's going to be empty suits."
Critical replied, "What did you say?"
Paladin Sapphire replied, "The Steel Rangers out here. Isolationism and distrust is self-destructive in the long run. For communities and factions to prosper is to open up to the world to make friends and allies, trade and cooperate for a better tomorrow. But no they would rather stay locked up in their camp and be allied with Purple's dumbass brother. But they keep themselves locked up in their own base and kill anyone who comes close to their base not adding they harass farmers for half of their crops. Heck, on the way out here we forced a farmer to give us half of his crops but noticed he had a Magical Energy Rifle. What the Steel Rangers did was that they killed the farmer, killed his wife and they killed three fillies, two colts, one teenage mare, and a newborn colt."
***
Purple snuck into the command post.
Purple sabotaged the radio and booby trapped a couple of things such as the weapon's cabinet, front door, and backdoor and left out the front door not triggering the boobytrap.
He rejoined Flared Blizzard, and Double Tab who was stab happy.
"Lavender got bad news," said Rainy Night. "Your Stable. The water chip. The water purification chip broke and your Stable's maintenance ponies can't do a workaround so the Overmare. I mean your mother is sending somepony out with just their Stable Jumpsuit and a 2065 10mm pistol with hollow jacketed rounds. My bet she'll be some Raider's bitch by six in the morning."
Unknown to Rainy Night she screwed Purple, Flared Blizzard, and Double Tap and the three galloped back into the jungle hiding. It wasn't long until there were some huge explosions and that's from Purple from the booby traps he placed.
"Go Sapphire." said Purple, "Critical go with her to protect the filly. Go run far!"
Paladin Sapphire ran with the filly on her back with Critical Shot running with her to protect her if anypony was going to fight them.
Only Purple, Rocky Road, Flared Blizzard, and Double Tap stayed behind and fought them to keep Grand Pony Enclave at bay. Purple gave Double Tap his double-action .45 LC revolver. Both Rocky and Flared Blizzard thought it was a bad idea of giving a Raider a firearm but Purple does what Purple wants.
They kept them at bay and mostly performed headshots on them which put them down with ease and made them retreat into the forest and set up explosive booby traps for the ones with the battle saddles with miniguns, .50 Caliber machine guns or flamers.
The four played high and go seek with the Grand Pony Enclave soldiers which the latter couldn't find them and they moved so rapidly but sneaky as well which scared them.
The fight didn't last long but Private First Class Flared Blizzard said, "My hometown is nearby. It's called 'Clearwater Creek.' A nice trading town even if you don't want to trade you always could work in the hydroelectric dam or saw mill. We can stop there tonight, get some rest, do some trading and leave in the morning."
All of them were down with that due to their hooves being aching all day from all that walking.
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