//------------------------------// // Escape from Pegas // Story: Fallout Equestria Operation: RESTORATION // by PsychFE //------------------------------// Fallout Equestria Operation Restoration Chapter 2 : Escape from Pegas "Listen you faggots, you're going to die for treason, and I'll be laughing." I woke up the to the chatter of my friends. "He freed sex slaves huh? I'm not surprised." Aurora said talking to Hope and Archimedes."I'm just glad to have another Mare on our team,thought I was the only one. " Hope and Aurora laughed "You and me both." Hope said. I trotted into the room"Hey guys, what's up?" I asked looking around at everypony. "Nothing, just getting acquainted with our new friends. Aurora said. "And the fact that you're going to die because the head of slave trade knows about you, what the Fuck Atlas?" Aurora continued looking more and more irritated. "Why does everypony say I'm gonna die? " I asked."I'll be fine!" I said confidently. "Because the Crystal Empire is the second worst place in the wastes, only second to the Hoof." Archimedes said while focused on  mixing something."Gangs, Guerillas, streets swarming with feral ghouls and Sombra." Archimedes continued. "Sombra?" I asked "Didn't he get killed by the Crystal Heart?" "You can't kill Sombra, but you can banish him with the heart, its gone missing." Archimedes said grimly. "I am screwed" I said agreeing with the three. We went silent until we heard a knock on  the front door. "Open up." a voice said from the other side." I have business with an Archimedes regarding certain guests." the voice continued. "Hey Archimedes, you've got a guest at the door." I said quietly to Archimedes so the pony at the door didn't hear, "Someone you know?" I asked. "Not a chance." Archimedes replied."I just provide help for the sick and injured,  I normally keep to myself don't want to get involved with bad ponies." Archimedes said opening the door. "Hello,  may I help you sir?" Archimedes asked. "Are these stable ponies? " The armored pony in the door asked looking at Aurora and I. "Yeah they are, why?" Archimedes replied, his body becoming tense, like he was ready to pounce at any moment. "Because they are under arrest for causing the destruction of  New Pegas in the near future, I work for the Law Holders of the Wasteland and they are coming to serve time in Wasteland Penitentiary." The armored pony said as he stepped aside to reveal two men with guns way bigger than ours. "Hope, leave out the window and get to a weapons store, once there ask for parts for this, we'll find you on the outskirts of the city." I said quietly while handing her a busted up pre war penance. Hope nodded her head and slipped me something she called a flashbang and said " this will disorient the guards giving you time to run, good luck." I watched Hope climb out  of a broken window into the neon  light filled streets with surprisingly no one using them. The soldiers began to advance when I pulled out the stem and threw it. I grabbed Aurora and Archimedes and we ran out of the house into empty streets. A moment later I heard screaming coming from Archimedes house and decided not to look back. Shots began to fire again as they tried to hit us, their aim wasn't good enough to hit us. We ran around the street corner to find a hastily put together barricade my hooves began to lift off the ground as I looked up to see Aurora flying Archimedes and I over the barricade "I believe I can fly!" I shouted before Aurora dropped me and Archimedes off on the other side."No flight for unicorns." Aurora said jokingly to me. "Yeah well-" BOOM BOOM BOOM. My sentence was cut off by the sudden destruction of the barricade and the enforcers stepped through the rubble with smirks on their faces. "We got em" the enforcers said. The enforcers stepped forward. I didn't know what to do, if I ran, I got shot and if I didn't, I got shot as well."Lets tie up these assholes and make them wish they'd come peacefully. " one said. "Or we could shoot their hooves and make them walk on the Crystal mine floor. " said the one closest to us. I scanned the area for an escape route while the enforcers argued about the torture method they will use on us. I spotted a sewer drain cover and slowly lifted the cover off of the drain and threw it at the group of ponies and they snapped to focus on us as we jumped into the sewer below the streets." Slowly walk through the sewage, it'll make a sloshing noise and attract attention if we run." Archimedes said holding his hoof over his nose. "Screw that,  if I stay down here I'll throw up till they catch up, I'll meet you on the other side of the city and sewer, goodbye." Aurora said taking flight and flying out of sight. Archimedes simply huffed and kept walking quietly through the sewer. Whenever a creature  passed us one of us would step on it and keep walking. Eventually we came to a room with a ladder and sign that said Drainage Access exit, was this city actually built on top of an old city? No society from after war could build something so well . Archimedes climbed out first and I followed him . When I got back to the surface I saw Aurora laying on the ground staring up"Hey Aurora, what are you looking at?" I asked. Aurora pointed to the sky with a hoof. "Okay." I said looking up at the bright, endless sky. I must have stared at it for a while because Archimedes began waving his hoof in my face to get my attention. "We are right next to the gates, lets get out of here." Archimedes said moving to get Aurora up and moving again. "When we get to the exit we will knock out the guards and leave. Just like that." Archimedes said after he got us up. "Hope is probably already there." Archimedes continued hanging a right and leading us right to the barely armored guards. When they saw us one ran for a alarm, wanting to blow off some steam Aurora beat the guard to the alarm and snapped his neck."I really don't like being forced into sewers." she said tossing the body aside. "We don't want to look like problems, only knockouts on the innocent." Archimedes said smacking a guard upside the head with his rifle. I bucked two guards in the head. "Got all of em?" I asked. Aurora threw her guard to the ground and nodded, Archimedes did the same. I pushed the gates open with my  telekinesis and turned to get a hoof to the horn. "Target apprehended, encountering resistance, neutralizing other affiliates." The serious pony said calmly stepping over where I was lying. My head was spinning and my ears were ringing, I saw the guard attacking my friends and tried to move to help but just fell back to the ground. I felt a set of hooves drag me around a corner. The hooves belonged to Hope, except now she had a newer looking cloak and lightweight armor. She pushed something into my upper right front leg and my vision cleared itself.She passed me a machine gun and we sprinted into combat. Every time the pony died he just ignored death and kept walking forward with holes in his body where they shouldn't be. "If we can't shoot him blow him!" Aurora said looking at Hope expecting her to have a explosive to kill the freak. Hope didn't have anything to blow up the freak. I was out of ammo in the clip so I ran at him and beat him with my smg until his skull fractured and he stopped moving, go for the head, I thought making a mental note for future fights. Aurora freaked out at the blood and brain and began to throw up. Aurora walked away trying to not let us see. Aurora began to cry where she was sitting. I walked over to sit by Aurora and between sobs she said "I...I can't do this Atlas, the blood and the violence out here, I wish I hadn't left the stable yesterday, when I left the sewer I saw two foals, they were covered in scratches and had guns. Why would anypony want to bring a foal into this....place." Aurora finished still sobbing. "For a little while things will be easier." Hope said sitting down next to Aurora giving her a look of assurance." We have quite a long walk to Ponyville, at least four days, and once there we have about a day's worth walk to the Empire and then a day to prepare for war." Hope added drawing a look of pure relief from Aurora. "Really....that's going to be nice." Aurora said still upset,  but not crying. "And if your stallion hurts himself, I can fix him right up." Archimedes said trying to make a joke to cheer Aurora up. "I really hope that wasn't a joke." Aurora said laughing. "But nonetheless yeah, it cheered me up." Aurora finished standing up."Now if you'll excuse me I need to take that water of yours, and clean up." Aurora said taking Hope's water and dousing herself in it to get rid of the vomit. "Turn you on much, seeing her pour water on herself?" Hope asked with a teasing look on her face. To beat Hope at her own game I replied "Yeah, pretty sure I have it straightened out right now." Hope just sat there thinking after I said that. "Damn you Atlas." Hope said. "Ruining my taunts, prick." Hope said looking the other way. I punched her in the arm and snickered."Oh, I almost forgot, you have some armor in a sack over by the gate and your gun, we couldn't replace the firing mechanism, but I got you new sights and a barrel to fit in between the weird looking blades on front." Hope said with a little bit of resentment  and motioned to the sacks by the gate. I told Aurora about the new gear Hope got and we walked over to the sacks."Thanks for comforting me." Aurora said while we walked,"It really is a good thing to have good friends, like you." Aurora didn't normally act like this, something was wrong. "No problem,  now tell me what is wrong." I said stopping her halfway to the gate. "What did you see?" I asked seriously. "The foals Atlas, the foals and..... I can't imagine anyone even thinking about bringing a foal into the wastes, I just  can't." Aurora said honestly. "You might never bring a foal into the wastes, maybe you will I can't see the future but I know that I believe you will choose the right things to do in life, no matter what they are. So get those thoughts out of your head and focus on the things we will be doing." I was trying to give Aurora hope, and it was working. "Yeah Atlas I think you are right." Aurora said with a little more spunk than she had before."Life is for the problems, Life is for the hurtin' but it's hard to be sure if your mind isnt certain that you are on the right path right track!" Aurora said singing a song she heard from and old pony in stable C-1. "I guess you  could say that." I sighed . Aurora has major  mood swings, I thought to myself while we continued to walk to the sacks. When we got to the sacks I opened mine and saw a stealthbuck,an upgraded pre war penance and armor. I decided to try out  the armor. When I put the helmet on a visor came out from the sides of the mask and connected in the middle of the helmet. It showed vital signs and a map that I assumed came from my pipbuck. The body armor wasn't as good as the helmet but would keep me safe. I slung my saddle bag over top my armor and looked for Aurora. "Check me out!" Aurora said from above me. Aurora had no helmet but had light mobile armor that made her look slimmer and her flank look absolutely magnificent. "Sexy huh?" Aurora asked. "Oh you're drooling, must look pretty good." Aurora said. "Yeah, pretty uh, sexy...wow, for armor that's pretty good." I said wiping drool off my mouth. "You don't look too bad yourself, you look a whole lot bigger with all that on." Aurora complimented me. I smiled and we said in unison "We need to ask Hope how she could afford armor for all of us." "Maybe tomorrow, but I need shut eye." Aurora said. "One step ahead of you." Archimedes said appearing behind us. "Follow me." Aurora and I followed Archimedes to his where he had set up camp in a abandoned mine entrance."Welcome to where you will be staying tonight please enjoy." Archimedes said before walking to his spot next to the fire. "I brought our sacks." Aurora said. "Thank the goddesses, it's freezing!" I replied. "Sucks to be those two doesn't it Aurora?" "Yep, now I'm going to get shut eye. night." Aurora said. "Night." Hope, Archimedes and I replied.