Fallout Equestria: Hologram Memory Recall

I heard the sounds of ruffling and groaning as the sun crests the horizon. shining along the old buildings along the road and glinting off of old glass. sparkling as if it were welcoming others to stare at it and remember the past. The old concrete and rebar creaking and groaning in the wind as if to speak of the past to those who walk by. The old roads telling their own story with various skeletons from ages long passed now become a part of the ground itself much like the dinosaurs of old. Crumbled old lampposts shattered on the ground; the contents inside scattered and leaving oil marks on the old road. Our group walks single file down the road with glass crunching against our hooves; I keep my head on a swivel to make sure their are no potential ambushes on the horizon. My keen eyes move like a hawk marking down various potential hiding points such as the outcroppings of rocks or old houses which sway in the breeze and the old wood creaks. eventually Aloe pipes up and says to me with a smile. showing off her slightly yellowed teeth and her slightly crooked muzzle due to an injury she sustained in a fight with a radscorpion. "hey so miss. Can I ask you some questions if you don't mind?"

The mare towers over me due to my small size. I never grew up to be the size of a normal pony. Growing to the great size of 2 foot . Barely taller then your average teenage pony and mistaken for a child many a time. The only response I give to Aloe is a grunt and Aloe lets out a sigh. "well I will take that grunt as a yes. I assume you were born pre-war by the fact your eyes glow behind that visor. Since you must be a ghoul what was life like before the war?" Aloe then looks at me with a wide smile and her eyes filled with curiosity. The sun hitting her eyes just right to emphasis the fact her eyes are a bit different in terms of shade. I then look over at her and say to her "that is quite the loaded question and it would take a super long time to explain to you.". Aloe just sighs and falls back to being behind her friend. Wanting to stay behind her male companion as she is clearly annoyed by my lack of answering her question. Though that serves her right for asking her such a loaded question of me.

"Well somepony is quite the spoilsport. Guess we will have to work harder to break that barrier you have set up. Isn't that right my dear Aloe?" The stallion gives a smile as he bounces around like a kid in a candy store. clearly he has quite the energy even though from what I have just now noticed he seems to have a wooden peg for a right backleg. I start to wonder on how he could have possibly got that before suddenly a loud BANG breaks the dawn.

I scream out to them as a barrage of bullets rips the concrete where I was with a constant rattling of a machine gun. "Fuck! Get to cover! Its a Celestia damn ambush!" my voice is barely able to be heard over the RATRATA of the machine gun. Clearly in my deep pondering I had lost sight of what was around us. Though due to them having clearly set this up it couldn't be a raider band. Aloe and her stallion friend jump behind a couple knocked over trees and are quickly pinned down by the machine gun on their side. the bullets flying around them like bees trying to sting someone who had invaded their nest. My brain races at a million miles per hour as I try to form a plan before my compatriots are mowed down as those logs wont hold for long.

Pieces of the poor logs fly every which way as the machine gun relentlessly pounds it with fire only stopping to reload after several moments of unceasing fire before starting up again. Aloe and her stallion friend try their best to fire in the approximate direction of where the fire is coming from with Aloe wielding a 10mm pistol and her stallion having a hunting rifle. As the chaos unfolds I see several ponies moving around to flank the pinned down ponies and ready to pounce at any moment. That's when I decided to snap out of my thoughts and act now. A loud Bang interrupts my movements though as a 306 round slams into the half destroyed concrete as I try to move. I let out an expletive realizing I am also in a sticky situation as several ponies are moving towards my position in several types of armor. The lead pony is clearly identifiable by the old centurion helm they are wearing with the red plume flying in the light wind. The pony barks orders to his allies as they close in on me like a couple of hunters on a lone deer.

This lone deer wont go down with a fight though as I take action. jumping over the low wall and hearing another gunshot as I cast a micro teleport spell making it so the bullet missed me by millimeters before then tackling the nearest pony and cracking his neck with a swift kick. My training in Fallen Caesar's style kicking in as I move from pony to pony killing them all by cracking necks and breaking bones with ease. Eventually I close with the lead pony and his bodyguards who open fire on me with their battle saddles forcing me to duck behind a small hole in the ground. I smile as I see the single frag grenade I have and then pull the stem off it. Throwing the grenade towards them and hearing expletives as they jump away from the grenade as it detonates. A cloud of sand flying into the air and stinging my eyes as I run through it and pull out my two improvised ice climbing picks.

The picks being made of metal pipes which are tied to the claws of a Deathhound. The claws easily cutting through the metal armor of the two ponies protecting the leader of this group. Red blood spraying into the air as they are slashed across the chest with a horrendous Slunk and then Slik as the blades are pulled out by my magic. Then with a backflip off the back of one of the dying bodyguards I land on the back of the leader. Implanting my picks directly through his eyes and with a sickening crunch along with a death scream; The leader falls to the ground missing his eyes as I then look over to my two allies who seem to have dealt with the threats on their own. Aloe having taken a shot to the leg which is being tended to by her stallion friend who had taken a couple scrapes and cuts. I shake the blood off of my picks as the machine guns seemed to have stopped firing. The enemy had retreated away for now but for how long. We will just have to find out later on down the line.

Blood had covered the road as several bodies lay there from the fight. Many of them wearing uniforms which clearly indicate some rank system as they have rank insignia from pre war on the side of the metal armor they wear. All of these ponies seem to have some sort of metal armor on wither it just be random pieces of metal bolted together or full fledged legionnaire armor. These were clearly not a raider clan but something more then that as they had some level of organization amongst the chaos. I trot over to the two ponies who make up our little gang and then see Aloe yelp in pain as her stallion uses tweezers to pull out the bullet embedded in her leg. Aloe then puts the medical bandage laying beside her around the injury on her leg. The magic within the bandage doing quick work to stop the bleeding from the bullet wound. I sit beside the two and then say to them with a sigh "clearly we are being watched by whoever that was. I mean they clearly had set up that ambush at the perfect time. keep your eyes out and we need to be ready to fight at any moment. There is no way we can talk our way out of this now." I say with a glare towards the stallion. Trying to get the seriousness of the situation into his thick skull.

Aloe gives me a glare as she then says though gritted teeth "No shit sherlock. How the hell did you find that out? clearly we aren't dealing with ordinary raiders as they aren't that smart. Also raiders would never retreat like that even after taking such casualties. That means that stable must hold some important shit if it is so well protected." Aloe then gives a smile and slowly stands up with a hiss. Kissing the stallion on the cheek who goes bright red like a tomato before shaking his head like a wet dog. After several moments of silence the stallion then says into the silence after the storm of battle. "We should keep moving then and not stop. Cant allow them to get the drop on us like that again. We are an intruder within these lands now and they know we are here." The stallion then nods and starts to search the bodies. checking to see if they have anything useful for the group. Finding only some jerky and some bullets for the 10mm gun Aloe wields and some bullets for his own rifle he then puffs out his chest. Looking up at the sun and then saying aloud. "C'mon then and lets not overstay our welcome." Aloe and I both look at each other and nod in mutual agreement before joining him with walking down the road some more. Walking over the bodies of the fallen towards what the future holds for the group.