THe Story Of Lights and Fire

-Chapter 3-

Beeps, that was all that I heard. I opened my eyes a little and a blinding light hung over me. I was on a hard metal table yet again. “Well hello there, welcome back.” Doctor Fire stuck his head into my line of sight. I smiled from ear to ear. I managed to mumble out “Hi Doc.”. He laughed “I’m glad to see you alive and getting well. We didn’t think that you would make it. That turret tore holes in you pretty big and they were hollow points.". I burst out laughing but stopped when I got a bad pain in my side “I’ve been through worse.”. “Oh, so are we still on for tonight?”. “Yes sir.”. He blushed a little bit and smiled as much as I did. “So what now?”. “Well for now ill help you to a more comfortable bed.”. “Okey Dokey”. He bent down and helped me up, I grunted and grabbed my tubes and such to bring along. “Now you may feel dizzy and light headed, but it’s all normal.”. “I can’t thank you enough Doc.”. “Diner at your place tonight will be thanks enough.”. I smiled “I can’t wait.”. We arrived at a bunk bed with a radio next to it. “Okay now just lay down nice and slow, and listen to some nice music.”. I laid down very slow to avoid hurting myself. Once I was laying down comfortably the Doc covered me with a wool blanket, and then turned on a radio. The first thing that I heard from that radio was a male voice “Heloooooo capital wasteland, this is your dear friend Penny Royal up here in the one, the only, Equestrian Tower, the last building in this shit hole we call a home that has not been vomited on by radiation. Now for the news. There was some commotion in a slaver camp close by New Ponyvile. It seems there was a group of wanderers that were tryin to sneak in and save some captives. They were met with death, but one of em was takin hostage and escaped. Now im not sure this mare-o-mysterious wants her name blarin across the wastlend. So for now ill call her Mare of mystery. Now this mare of mystery is one tough lady. She has been shot up by two turrets and still ran away while an Alicorn shot a 50. Cal at her. That is all for the news, now its time for some music. Then his voice was replaced by the song “Easy Living”. I started huming along with the song when the Doc walked in. “How are you feeling?” “Ill live, like I said ive been through worse.” “Just remember that if you ever want to talk about anything my ears are open.” As the Doc said that he sat down next to me and brushed my cheek. My face turned a light red. He smiled warmly and giggled a little. “whats so funny?” he looked into my eyes and said “You are just the most adorable little thing I have ever seen.”. “Wow flirting already? Weve barely met each other.”. “I know its just, when you find something good and pure in this shit storm you want to hold onto it with all you got, and you are the nicest most pure thing in existence.”. “That’s very sweet of you but I would still like to get to know you better before I make decisions.”. “I understand, but either way its about time we got you home. I got part of the mayor’s message. It only said you were going to stay, and then it ended. Im going to guess your staying with her?”. “You are correct.”. “Ok well lets not waste time ill get you a wheel chair and well be off.”. “Ok but im gonna need some help getting up and into it.”. “I would expect nothing less.”. I slowly sat up, but then fell back down as the room started to spin. The Doc put his leg around me and then helped me up very slowly. He put a leg all the way around me and slowly put me in the wheel chair. “Thanks I doubt I could even sit up by myself.” “No problem that’s why I had my superiors assign me a house call to you, just to make sure you are ok throughout the night.” He winked at me then started to push me through the halls to the front door. Just as he pushed me out of the door the front gates at the front of the town exploded inward. And now a whole bunch of soldiers in black bat like power armor walked in, and started shooting laser weapons everywhere. The Doc yelled “FUCK” and pushed me down an alley way. “It’s the Enclave. A little while ago we found a few dead soldiers and took their armor.”.  “Oh well I would sugest we hurry this up and get to some weapons.” “What!? You want to fight them?”. “Well da, im not about to let them attack innocents for fun.” “Ahhhh fine the weapons are this way. But you can barely walk, first we need to get you some adrenaline.”. “Don’t you have some on you?”. “No not at the moment, but there is some in my house. Don’t worry its right next to the armory.” “Well what are we waiting for? Push!!”. The Doc rolled his eyes, grabbed the handle to my chair in his mouth, and started to gallop to his house. We had just turned a corner around a house, and gues what? There were three Enclave soldiers standing there. “Hold it right there or we melt you.” His voice sounded mechanical through all of his armor. The Doc turned me around and started galloping the other way. As he was running he cast a spell on us to prevent us from being melted, but the shots could still put holes in us. Just as the Doc was turning the corner one of the soldiers shot at us. It hit the Doc in the flack right where his cutie mark was. The bolt shot straight through and exploded on a nearby building. The Doc screamed as the bolt tore a hold the size of an apple straight through him. The laser was hot enough that it cauterized the wound and left a hole that didn’t bleed. We were fucked. “DOCTOR!!!” I turned my chair around just as the soldiers turned the corner and looked at us. One of them took aim with his Plasma Rifle battle saddle. “Do you surrender?” “ Do I have a choice?”. Good then you will not die. Get the stallion medical attention now!!”. Two of the soldiers rushed to the Doc and carried him away. I tried to roll after him but the final one stopped me. “Where are you taking him?” I asked while giveng the man an evil glare through his armored helmet. He remained indecisive. “We are taking him back to the base for questioning” “Well than I sure as hell hope you plan on taking me in to.”. “And mow what reason would we have to so that. He is suspected of holding valuable information, and we must get that at all costs.”. I tried my last resort. I cast a spell on him to make him more gullible. “Now you will take me with you and make sure me and Doctor Fire over there are not separated. Am I understood?”. “Yes ma’am.”. he came up behind me and started to push me to the Doc. They put me and the Doc into the back of a wagon and blind folded us. “Hey Doc.”. “Lights is that you!?”. “Da do I sound like someone else.” It was more of a statement than a question. “Oh Lights im so happy to see you, well hear your voice.”. Then the Doc leaned over and hugged me. I smiled and laughed a little “Whoa its nice to hear you to, but I had to use a spell to convince the guy to bring me with you.”. The Doc face hoofed. “Wow”, I punched him on the arm. “What I wasn’t just about to let my only friend out here be taken away by force.”. He smiled or at least I think he did, I couldn’t see a thing. “Friend? But I got you in this situation.”. “Yes you did.” I said calmly “But the one thing you must remember is love and tolerate, and right now Im on tolerate.”. “Well either way im happy that I have you to lean on when things get tough.”. Then the soldier driving the wagon but in to the conversation “Hey quiet back there or ill put you both down.”. We both shut up. When it got dark we set up camp. Me and the Doc were of course put in separate tents. I lay there listening to the heavy foot steps of the patrols in their power armor, and trying to sleep. For some reason I had a feeling that if I slept I would die. So I got up and started to sneak over to the Docs tent. His tent was heavily guarded. Shit. I went back to my tent which for some reason had a surprising lack of guards. I went to the locked footlocker in the back of it and strated to do my work. I didn’t have any bobby pins or a screwdriver. So I used a little magic to move the tumblers into the right place. The lock clicked with a satisfyingly and popped open a little. I slowly opened the lid, cringing at the noise. If they found me still awake I would be toast. I pulled out a pipshod-1200 and started to record a message. The message was quiet and hurried, I needed to get out of there asap. The message was to tell the Doc that I had to leave, it just wasn’t right that I stayed there. Although not to worry because I would return with help, and lots of it. I snuck back out to his tent and slipped the device under the fabric of his tent. I accidentally pushed it into is head and he woke up. “Wha-what whose there?” he whispered quietly. “Ssssshhhhh its Lights. Just don’t move and listen to this as soon as you can.” I felt him grab the pipshod and pull it away, I let go quickly. “Im sorry but I must go.” I whispered to him through the fabric.” Ok ill see ya tomorrow.”, and with that he went back to sleep. “Shit, I really hope he doesn’t get hurt or over react when he gets the message.” I slowly snuck back to my tent. I reached in and grabbed my sleeping bag and pillow, I might need that later. I strapped that to my back using an extra tent rope. I really hoped my paralyzing spell would work on their armor. I started to sneak around the camp past a few OD green cloth tents. The I got to the edge of our camp, and there was one just sitting there looking off into the distance. I crouched as low to the ground as possible, and started to slowly and cautiously walk to the back of the sodier. I came up to his or her back (It was imposible to tell through their armor) and taped her shoulder. She turned quickly and was just about to yell something when my spell hit him/her and temporarily disabled her armor. I then went up to her and stood there looking at him/her. The eyes of their armor now black instead of glowing red. I started to slowly take apart her armor, much to her dislike. I had gotten all but the helmet off and she(For the voice was a girl) Started trying to yell for help. The helmet still muffled her voice, but I had no doubt that it was loud enough to attract attention. I grabbed the helmet between my hooves and jerked it to the side. I heard her neck snap like a  wet twig. I took off the helmet, and then unstrapped my sleeping gear from my back. I mean how hard could this armor be to use. Right? I put the armor on just in time for it to reactivate. I saw a bunch of system check progress bars appear on, what I latter learnt was my eyes forward warning system. But I just call it my eyes forward sparkle, but that’s not the point. After that I started to walk forward and my front leg shot forward and almost broke my foreleg. Ok so it’s a little harder than I thought. But it did have its own plasma rifles built in, but id have to figure those out latter. For now my biggest problem was getting to the Doc. I know I told him I was leaving, but now that I was most likely noticed, I couldn’t leave him behind to be tortured or questioned for answers as to where I went. So I grabbed the dead mare with telekinesis, which miraculously there was a hole to put your horn through in this armor, given you had one. Anyway I hid the body behind a rock, and then started walking to the Doc’s tent. I was falling and stumbling constantly. So when I crossed paths with another Enclave soldier he knew I was up to something. “You!! Stop right there or ill melt you into a puddle.” “What are you talking about, I am walking to our supply shed. My armor needs some repairs.”. “Ya likely story considering these suits of armor repair themselves.”. Shit. “My armor has run out of scrap meatal to use for repairs.” “Oh continue on then.”. He walked away into the darkness. I sighed and continued to walk onward at a moderate pace. I finaly got to the Doc’s tent, and confronted the two pony’s who were gurding it. “Sir’s I have been commanded by the president to relieve you of your duty.”. One of them looked at me “And why is that?” “Our leader feels as if you two have become power hungry and wishes you to be removed of suty. He has given you two options, you can obey, or die.”. The two soldiers looked at each other, and then ran away. I walked into the tent. “Hey Doc wake up.” I nuged him with my hoof. He stired and looked at me. A look of surprise came over his face “What so you want?” “Its me Lights we need to get out of here.” “Lights!? How.. what are you wearing?”. “It’s a long story, and ill explain it when we are out of here.” “Yes ma’am.”. He got up and started to follow me as I walked out of the tent and off into the darkness.