Fallout Equestria: Wasteland Guardian
Chapter 92: The Frozen North
Previous ChapterNext ChapterPurple was lying down in bed and Rainy Night put her hooves onto Purple's back and gave him a deep tissue massage.
"This feels so good," said Purple, "Never had a massage before."
Rainy replied, "Well I can do a lot of things. But my specialty is in equipment and maintaining gear."
Rainy kept on giving Purple a massage. They heard Purple's spine crack a few times but that was normal.
Purple told Rainy Night to get on the bed so he could give her a massage. But Rainy was hesitant for a while until she got onto the bed and Purple gave her a massage, and like what happened with Purple her spine cracked.
***
In the gallery again it was breakfast time and what they have are eggs from mutated chickens and bacon from Radhogs.
The cook, for some reason she had a crush on Purple and gave him a little extra but he didn't notice and he went on his way and sat at a table to eat. The food was good too.
"I thought you pegasi were concerned for being the last batch of safe ponies not to have radiation?" asked Purple.
Honey Cake replied, "Yeah well that came and gone especially with a majority of the GPE broken up like a burp in the wind. Now we'll take anything to eat even if it alters our DNA."
They went back to eat in peace and quiet.
The breakfast was actually quite delicious and good.
"Can you tell me about your friend?" asked Purple, "More about Vigorous Orchestra."
Honey Cake replied, "She's friendly and cute. You'll like her."
***
A few more hours later.
The Dry Lighting arrived in the Frozen North.
Purple, Rocky, Critical, Rainy, Hailing, Paladin Sapphire, Honey Cake, Spring Charm, and Flared Blizzard got off the Dry Lighting and headed down to the surface.
On the surface, they met up with a Lieutenant Vigorous Orchestra and her friend who wasn't a pegasus at all but a Zebra mare named "Alchemist Harmony" and she worked as a scout for the GPE and she's an associate for them.
Lt Vigorous only talked with Colonel Honey Cake.
Lieutenant Orchestra is a hard-set mare. She has already been on forty trips throughout the Frozen North, a harsh and unbearable place. But she bore it and to her it's nothing.
***
A few more hours later and it's 3:30 PM.
"Ok the Grand Pony Enclave don't know that we're here," said Lieutenant Orchestra. "And let's keep it like that. They control a small town over ye yonder with them controlling the railroad as well. But we lost a drone that has vital info and we need to destroy it. But they have a response force twenty-five klicks out."
Rocky and Sapphire replied, "Klicks?"
"It's short for kilometers. Because they're twenty-five away it means they're fifteen miles away," said Purple. "Also, is there anything else you can tell us?"
Lt Orchestra replied, "Yeah our recovery team we need to rescue them they have been captured. Recon says they're being held in the nearby town. But first we got a prototype cloudship that was shot down and we need to destroy it before Arsen's forces get their hooves on it."
They walked on the snow which crunched under their hooves and power armor for some.
They saw a few Grand Pony Enclave soldiers walk by and they quickly took them out before they turned into a problem.
They approached the crashed prototype cloudship, but saw some old wartime-made anti-air guns that were manned and they took the crews out before they could react.
"Yes ma'am," said Lt Orchestra, "Command says we got to sit and wait until the engineers arrive to blow it."
Purple replied, "Would it be better to make the engines reach critical levels and make them blow?"
"Go to the surface," she said. "They're savage primitives who have rocks and we have
magical energy weapons, Novasurgre rifles and power armor."
``What could they ''possibly'' throw at us?" Lt Orchestra said, "You're the smartest wastelander I've met! And I'll admit I've seen a lot of dumb wastelanders but I've met a few intelligent ones!"
Only Purple and Lt Orchestra entered the crashed cloudship and went to the bridge.
Lt Orchestra tried to hack into it but got nothing so Purple tried to override it and it worked and he went over to a terminal and selected self-destruct.
Warning the Autumn Leaf will self-destruct. Select input Y/N
Purple typed Y
You selected Y. Do you mean N?
Purple typed N
Are you sure you want to self-destruct the Autumn Leaf? Y/N
Purple typed Y
You selected yes. Does your mother suck dicks in Tartarus? She must do it to have an ugly son of a bitch son or daughter like you!
Purple typed to have the ship self-destruct within seven minutes.
"Alright Lieutenant Orchestra," said Purple, "You ready to leave?"
Lt Orchestra pointed at the terminal.
Self-destruct aborted have a nice life in Tartarus and hope you suck a ton of cocks through eternity in Tartarus!
"What would it take to blow up the engines?" Purple asked.
Lt Orchestra replied, "A well-placed fragmentation grenade or a well-placed rocket or missile will but we'll need to do all four."
Lieutenant Orchestra led Purple to the armory and they found some GPE Mk 3 Assault Weapons and they loaded up on ammo.
***
In the engine room.
They met a lot of Grand Pegasus Enclave soldiers and the ship's crew, some of the ship's crew who were now Feral Ghouls. The problem was that the soldiers and few GPE Marines are still in their power armor.
"Maybe if we don't make any sound we won't draw their attention," said Lavender.
Lt Orchestra replied, "Copy that."
Lt Orchestra got hiccups and that alerted them to the duo's location.
"Go go go go go!" said Lavender, "Move faster, a foal can run faster than you!"
Both of them gallop to somewhere else but Purple used his magic and equipped all of his weapons and fired at the ghouls but Purple would use his hooves to close the doors.
On the second floor Lt Orchestra went over to a terminal and hacked into it and exposed engine number one and Purple fired a rocket into it. They repeated several times and had five minutes to escape, they made it and they ran fast and far as they could away. There was a huge explosion and the shockwave knocked them down.
***
In the snow.
"Is everypony alright?" asked Colonel Honey Cake, "Anypony needs medical attention?"
Everyone told Colonel Honey Cake that they were fine.
They headed to the town and the only residential buildings were eight twelve-story apartment buildings but they're home to Arsen's elite forces and for them to get a little down time.
"I think our captured force is in one of those buildings," said Lt Orchestra.
Col. Honey Cake replied, "We don't have enough soldiers here and don't have anypony else to do a search and rescue, and the Grand Pony Enclave has at least several hundred, and let's see it's me, you Lieutenant, the Zebra, Purple, Rainy, Hailing, the unicorn, the other unicorn, & the sniper."
Rocky replied, "We have names you know! I'm Rocky Road, that's Sapphire Heart, and the sniper is Critical Shot! And I'm not repeating our names again."
Lieutenant Orchestra pulled Col. Honey Cake to the side.
"Hey Honey Cake?" asked Lieutenant Orchestra, "Is that purple alicorn single?"
Col. Honey Cake replied, "Why are you having a crush on Purple?"
"Somewhat like that," said Lt Orchestra.
Col. Honey Cake replied, "Sorry he isn't on the market, he's taken by Sapphire Heart but if you want a foal he'll gladly donate his sperm. Or you could convince him to have sex with you."
"Maybe I might do that when I get older and want a foal," said Lt Orchestra, "But never know."
Col. Honey Cake used her microphone built into her power armor and radio up to the Dry Lighting and Snow Blue sent down three companies of Grand Pegasus Enclave infantry squads to assist them.
***
In the town.
"Aileraron Company follow me!" ordered Alieraron Company leader.
Alieraron company searched the first four apartment buildings while Camber company searched the other four while Col. Honey Cake, Lt Orchestra, Rocky, Sapphire Heart, Rainy, Critical, and Hailing stayed outside with Baseline company.
"Fuck they won't stop coming!" said Hailing Night.
Rainy replied, "Yeah well we're on their land! They're going to kill us before they give up!"
Rocky took out her last fragmentation grenade, pulled the pin with her teeth, and threw it with her magic.
They heard a thud. It was Purple who dropped his 7.62mm Battle Rifle because he ran out of ammo and switched over to his revolver and fired that.
"There must be a thousand apartments here!" said Lt Orchestra.
Col. Honey Cake replied, "Well the first floor I've seen twelve apartments so I guess there are twelve apartments per floor."
"There are 144 apartments per building," said Lavender, "There are 1152 apartments together."
***
An hour later both GPE companies came out and reported that all four of them are cleared but now they have to take the train station and move out. The train station was packed full of GPE soldiers and around it.
Lavender kicked the door in and he went in by himself. Inside of the two-story train station, Lavender drew his .45 Auto Pistol because his 7.62mm Battle rifle, IF-37, Super 45, .357 Royalton (Combination of Royal and Python), and AR were out of ammunition.
"It's better in here than being out there," said a Grand Pony Enclave soldier.
Another Grand Pony Enclave soldier replied, "Yeah at least in here you won't piss ice cubes. And we won't have to worry about mutated polar bears mawing you to death."
Lavender stayed against the wall and he fired and he'd killed two of them before they could know what hit them. He didn't know that he was fighting former GPE soldiers who didn't know how to fight. He'd made quick work of them but in a former break room, he found Grand Pony Enclave intelligence laying out on a table.
It said that after they conquer the Frozen North or Crystal Empire Wasteland they'll move on to conquer the Equestrian Wasteland, the Undiscovered West aka Unknown West, the Yak wasteland, Zebra wasteland, and the Griffon wasteland across the Celestial Ocean.
Not adding some of the intel said that they're going to bombard Friendship City, Tenpony Tower, and New Appleloosa into submission or until everypony's dead, and they'll move into those settlements and set them up their Forward Operating Base's.
One also said that they want to enslave the Twilight Society as well for their pre-war technology and all that. But after all, some notes said that the Twilight Society didn't exist because a ton of ponies never heard of them.
Lavender opened another door to go outside with his pistol ready and he heard gunfire and the sounds of Novasurge weapons firing.
He opened the door and ran over to his friends and the Grand Pegasus Enclave soldiers who were busy shooting at the Grand Pony Enclave soldiers.
"Hey Colonel!" said Lavender, "Give them suppression fire and me and my friends can flank them!"
Col. Honey Cake replied, "Lieutenant! Take your mares and stallions and flank right while my mares and stallions fix them with suppressive fire and you and Purple can finish them off!"
"Got it," said Lieutenant Orchestra, "Come on third platoon! Follow me!"
Lieutenant Orchestra and her platoon and Zebra guide went around to the right while Purple and his friends went around the left side of the Grand Pony Enclave. Colonel Honey Cake's forces keep them suppressed in the Grand Pony Enclave.
They got killed and the area was now secured.
***
Back inside the train station, they searched every room and closet.
Lt Orchestra found the missing recovery team but instead of four, it was only two.
"Where's Senior Airpegasus Autumn Rain?" asked Lt Orchestria, "And where's Chief Master Sergeant of the GPE Air Force Lighting Wing?"
GPE Pegasus replied, "Both got eaten. They were both tortured on two separate days for information. But knowing the Lighting Wing he refused so they shot him, and after removing the bullet they ate him in front of us. Yesterday they did the same with SrAp Autumn. If it wasn't for you then we would've been next."
Lieutenant Orchestria freed them and took them outside where a friendly V-8 Vertibuck was waiting.
***
Back on the Dry Lighting in Hangar bay 2 Lavender and everyone else including Honey Cake and Orchestria saw Grand Pegasus Enclave maintenance ponies working on the V-1, V-3, V-4, V-5, V-6, V-7, V-8, and V-9 Vertibucks.
They also noticed some leaving to go down to the surface for surface operations. Only Rocky, Sapphire Heart, Critical, and Double Tap noticed they were all different.
"Yeah they're all different," said Lavender. "The V-1/A-1 are transports but the A-1 is the gunship version. V-3 is a tandem rotor Vertibuck designed to carry and pick up heavy stuff."
Colonel Honey Cake replied, "The V-4s are attack Vertibucks with two pegasi crews, V-5s are gunships with four pony crews and can carry two squads into combat."
"V-7s are tiltrotor vetibucks and V-8s are air ambulances to get wounded out of combat and so they don't use up their energy to fly," said Lt Orchestria. "And finally the V-9s are only for reconnaissance and observation only, not for fighting. V-2's and they're used for Cargo transport, & gunships. But the V-2s are primarily used by the GPE Marines though."
They were educated about the different Vertibucks in the GPE service.
***
In the war room.
"Fort Arsen is wide opened now!" said a GPE Officer.
Colonel Honey Cake replied, "But not good enough. His fort out here sits on four major railroad lines and recon says he does have armored trains that do work. But it recently just took over the former city of the Crystal Empire. He might flee there."
"No he won't flee there," said Lavender. "He'll try and flee somewhere else."
A GPE officer replied, "Who the Tartarus are you?"
"I'm Lavender Purple Painting Silver Canvas Serenity Artist Astrology," said Lavender. "I used to hide behind a name that I mixed with passed relatives but you can call me Purple or Lavender. And we're going after Arsen who's a crafty bastard who believes mares are inferior and he wants to be called after three dead baseball players."
Another GPE officer replied, "Since you're his brother. How do you suggest we deal with him?"
"Deny him the chance to escape," said Lavender. "The railroads destroy them whiter down his army. Do what you want but that bastard is mine."
Col. Honey Cake replied, "Sounds like you're becoming Col. Autumn Leaf. He said and I quote, 'And if you find him, do not kill him. Just wound him. Excessively. But that bastard is mine!' End quote. That's what he said about Redeye and it killed him."
"Red Eye was just misguided," said Lavender. "He'd wanted to save Equestria through slavery, conquest, and murder but he wanted to rule as a god and guide ponies than help them do better. Arsen just wants to enslave mares to force them to have his foals and he doesn't want to save ponies he just wants to force them into his faction and rape every mare he comes across who turns down his advances. Not adding he forces stallions to fight in his cause and threatens them if they don't want to."
Lt Orchestria replied, "So what do you want us to do?"
"Sabotage his war industry or lack thereof," said Lavender. "We need to cut his main base from reinforcements and lure a majority of the defenders away including the Hellhounds."
Lt Orchestria replied, "We should pay you to be the brains of our operations. I think it might work."
"If no one will say it," said Colonel Honey Cake, "I fully support Purple's tactic."
Lieutenant Orchestria replied, "I second that order. Tell me where me and my rangers should be?"
"Hold it!" said a GPE Officer, "Are we seriously going to listen to a filthy wastelander?"
Another GPE officer replied, "Well he did kick our asses several times over without breaking a sweat. Not adding what Col. Honey Cake had him do and all that. But he did use effective tactics and all that."
"I'm also a Stable Dweller," said Lavender. "A smart one. Unlike my older brother I stayed out of bed and kept my head in books. Yeah I spent a lot of time in my Stable's library reading instead of trying to get laid."
***
In another room.
"Lieutenant Orchestria," said Lavender. "I want you and your rangers to go down to the surface and do hit and run and raids on my brother's forces position. But you and Rangers can keep whatever you and them find. Keep or sell up to you."
Lt Orchestria replied, "You can call me Vigorous Orchestria or Vigorous for short. You're a tactician at heart. Since you're an Alicorn what happened to your wings?"
"An evil artificial alicorn ripped them off," said Lavender, "Also you can call me Lavender or Purple."
***
In the hangar. Hangar Bay 1.
"Are they your Rangers?" asked Lavender.
Lt Orchestria replied, "Why don't you ask them?"
"Who are you?" asked Lavender.
The GPE soldiers replied while sprinting, "RANGERS!"
"How far?" asked Lavender.
Another group of fifteen rangers replied, "ALL THE WAY!"
"Healthy bunch of pegasi," said Lavender.
Lt Orchestria replied, "Us Rangers are a tough bunch sir! They're the best the Grand Pegasus Enclave could volunteer Sir! We always adapt to the missions and have different types of specialists and have deadly firepower Sir!"
"Next time don't act as if I'm your superior officer," said Lavender. "Just talk to me as if I was just a normal pony to you."
Lt Orchestria replied, "Ok Lavender. Sorry,"
"Don't be sorry," said Lavender, "It's fine."
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