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// Assault on 69 %2% 
// Story: Fallout Equestria Resources of War 
// by Pepsi Addict 
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Fallout Equestria


Resources of War


Assault on 69


Walking, we all do it it's just that most of us don't do it for hours on end so your can imagine how the rest of these knuckleheads felt after doing so 

we had arrived at this big enchantment, or factory, base maybe I don't know I can't read and because of this I had no clue what the map said, the stretch of waste we had crossed was a barren field filled with lakes of taint, nothing not even the usual ambient sounds of despair was heard but the occasional chatter of Lila to Stripes, or Stripes to Cool I even chimed in a bit but we didn't talk about anything too important, eventually we arrived at this area which Lila thankfully pointed out the name of

“Area 69 well that's certainly not a dirty joke” she said this with heavy sarcasm 

Looking at the big base type facility I noticed that area 69 was surrounded by a rusted down crumpled fence witch was pretty obvious so I didn't feel the need to say it aloud

Besides the fence there was the other obvious thing the train tracks running into the base, following the tracks they ran right through the fenced off area, it had its own little designated entrance even, looking inside the fenced off area there was some clear liquid up in the farthest right corner of the base as well as some to our left mostly outside the fence 

The first of us to say anything was cool “Well mares first” kindness and civility we're rare so it did take me off guard for a moment but I obliged his offer

“Thanks” that's all I said nothing more nothing less if you couldn't till tell now i'm not much of a talker

I walked in and instinctively I started looking around there were some buildings on all sides of me 

Off to the north-east there was as I already stated a glistening clear lake it didn't look like the taint lakes that we had been walking around on our way to area 69 no this lake was different it was clear unlike the rainbow tinted color of taint and so in my brief brilliance I thought about licking it but than I had the sudden realisation that if this is some weird poison that if by some miracle this could kill me which I didn't want obviously so I just touched it instead

nothing absolutely northi-oh sweet celestia, you no that feeling when you hit a nerve and it just, yeah imagine that through you entire body but only for a second, then it passed and nothing had changed about anything but wishing not to feel that again I turned back and went towards a building id had passed on my way all of my compatriots we're starting to congregate around it as well and soon the inevitable happened ponies started talking first was Lila 

“What do we have here some sort of defence robot?” she out of everyone seemed most intrigued and by everyone I mean her and cool because I didn't care and stripes well she tried sticking a fork in an electrical socket 

“interesting evidently this thing crashed hear, strange, keep your eyes peeled there may be more of these rolling around and I wouldn't like getting caught off guard by one” she had a decently serious tone to her,

at that I went westward along the in base road towards what remaining buildings we're in here, followed by Cool

Reaching the first building it was double the size of one of the two buildings it was facing, one of said buildings Cool was starting on it was the one closest to the gate, ,before I got started on my structure there was a noise it was a sort of faint rumbling I couldn't really make out exactly what it was but I knew where it was coming from, the largest building in sight it was like some sort of factory smoke stacks and all, after the noise faded I looked back to cool to see if he had heard it and he must have seeing as he was looking to the building as well

Ignoring it I started on my building. Inside there were some pristine desks 1 2 3 4 a lot and you wouldn't have ever guessed what wonderful things I found in my scrounging ammo, caps, happiness? no I found some fucking wonderglue as well as some other things of even less importance before leaving, on my way out I heard the wonderful sound of 

“Warning intruder detected” the voice like all pre war recorded voices was metallic and oh so annoying 

looking to Cool he had moved back to the road and was using his telekinesis to open the door to his building only to have it not open but instead trigger an alarm and open the door on it's own 

Robots, like the prior one began activating the only one in sight was the one behind Cools door but I knew one was to good to be true so there was bound to be more

Than just to prove my fears the wasteland responded by opening another door to the north coming from the factory there was another one along with Three and Lila plus the already mentioned Cool

looking around at the situation I found myself in I briefly considered running hell I even made a motion to but instead of running out the gates I ran straight to the robot to inspect it and see what I was up against before It finished booting

they didn't seem to have any weapons on their bodies, they were like robo brains but smaller without weapons and many more sensors and eyes than the usual and then 

“Bang bang” 

shots started ringing out if my memory was right it was the same sound as Lila’s pistol but who knows, then I heard a much more defining weapon the pew pew of Cools recharger rifle and than a robot exploding, looking back I noticed ice and snow flowing quickly from the doorway where the northern robot was 

turning back to my robot who had finally finished its programs and was flashing lights from all but two of its eyes kinda like a flashbang in purpose, it damn near blinded me well actually it did, I couldn't see anything not even the robot that came from the left and tried to hit me but I was blind so I didn't know

nonetheless in my haze I moved, i'm not really sure where I was going but eventually I got behind the corner, and from my cover I prepared to slice and dice the bastards then Lila came down from the road up north to aid me firing shots at the one robot that attacked me and I alerted her of the strobe light eyes 

“Hey Lila that robot has some sort of flash blinding light shit” to which she responded pretty out of breath and how should I put it, focused

“duly noted i'll be sure not to look at it“ yeah focused was the right word

then after her shots range out she backed back out of my area as I call it the cloud radius that is 

some time went bye permeated by the clanging of robots and shots of my companions until finally the one bot came rolling around the corner at which point I brought my scythe raining down upon it in an arc slicing through it's top half causing it to go wild spinning out of control before it's tracks bolted it back the way it came but it didn't turn instead it hit the corner smashing with a crash 

then the siren grew louder as it issued out more warnings

 Defcon 3 activated!

it cried as the robots marched and rolled around in various places one to my left and one to the north

slamming my scythe into the mechanical fuck on the left I damn near sliced him apart and upon my second swing his body was in two parts 

Before I got charged by another bot I ducked back behind the long building where I could see Lila and since we hadn't seen in a bit I waved and she returned the wave before bolting up north firing shots at one robot before doubling back and returning to her position on the other side of the gap between buildings taking a stance to shoot 

“Clang!, Crash!” There was a loud smack as one robot was thrown into the air and back to the ground with enough force to kill and finally a pew of Cools gun but no sounds of impact 

Looking towards the factory there we're a few robots but the one I was looking at what was the same one that was fighting with Cool and Three,Three took four shots at said robot blowing it up on the fourth shot and than visibly took stance to doge

“Deafcon four activated” again the senseless ringing of commands range off 

Looking back to the factory I saw the robots treading continuously in front of the factory

One such robot came around the corner in a skid to face to face with Three Stripes followed by two more in front of the factory along the road and behind them lasers from the west targeting and thankfully missing Three

She was out there without backup or aid against all that, I ran up to her open side smacking my scythe into the side of the robot it didn't exactly kill it as planned so I struck at it again, miss I slammed the point of my scythe right on a rock chipping it's perfect blade I knew I couldn't swing it again so instead I spun around to face Three’s plot, it was nice really nice plot

While I was intoxicated by zebra plot Lila ran up and started shooting at a bot out of my sight the only thing of worth in my sight was Three’s delicious looking plot 

Lila ran back to her prior position, Three started shooting the left most robots peppering them and then mid way through my decision to lick the zebra balls Three ran back with Lila, my plot armor was gone  

I was left there eyes closed tongue sticking out only to lick the air expecting succulence but instead getting lasers shot at me from the mid most robot thankfully they all missed me despite my stupor 

The rumbling tracks grew louder once more as the speakers announced yet another warning “Defcon 5”

Realizing the danger I faced, I followed suit with Three and Lila rushing back to the building with a destroyed wall from earlier 

“Guy's if you haven't noticed we're gonna get overrun soon” I was panicking witch was evident even through my ghoulish rasp  

“Ok uh” Lila paused for a moment before continuing “ok here's the plan we get enough explosives and we blow them up” she was so energetic and I tried to energetic but I was cut off “wait no we don't have enough explosives for that” there goes plan A

“Could we uh fight it out maybe decibel that blasted siren” Three was right about the concept we could fight it out but that would take time and we we're getting exhausted even i was exhausted and i'm a ghoul, I blame stress, I had tuned out the siren but at her mentioning of it, it became louder than any gunshot id ever heard 

“Well yes but there getting smarter or at least it seemed so when I fought them” an evolving robot it was a horrible thought 

“Even if so they seem to be very slow” that was true and admittedly i'm surprised Three noticed it more than anyone else

“And that's precisely why I have been staying back waiting for them to come to me”  Lila was a startlingly smart kirin or maybe all kirin we're like that and being as rare a sight as they are who knows 

“Could we perhaps go in” that was an obvious yet good plan that of course the fork in a socket zebra said, great Three was smarter than me and had a nice ass

“Yes we could do that I mean it's where the sirens are blaring from isn't it” what kind of question was that of course they were 

“Well yeah” said Three

“The sirens didn't trigger immediately so we must've done something to cause this, but what” Cool he must've triggered it when he opened the door to the one building 

“I think Cool might have caused it while we were scavenging” yes that had to be it he caused this it was his fault we were fighting but that didn't matter now, now we had a plan

“So we're going to storm the facility good to know” I sprinted to the factory going the entire distance of the facility in a mear instinct it seemed leaving me tired, no i'm a ghoul I didn’t get tired I pushed on and opened the door to the factory seeing a hall with yet another two robots behind it at the halls end

 “still booting perfect” with my remaining energy I ran up to the bot closest to the door slamming it with my scythe removing head from body, it started running around like that of a chicken with its head cut off 

I didn't have the strength to handle the other bot nor the living steal corpse of the one id decapitated only enough energy to move so I prepared to move upon attack 

Lila ran in behind me firing wildly at the bot “miss” and again she shot this time more sturdy “hit” the metal monster feel limp as her shot killed the beast

“Your welcome” well wasn't she cocky

“You do realize your might die if i'm hit?” I still don't now why they're following me don't they know i'm dangerous

“Pshh i'll be fine” well I can't fault her confidence she was smart enough to back her words, she fired a round of bullets into the other bot till it sparked and died

“Well thanks I owe ya one” why did I say that

“Don't mention it” she said with nice soft tone as usual

At that Three came running in and opening the door letting us see the long corridor full of both large and small boxes the right side was full of big crates bigger than ponies mostly and, hang on a second is that a tree, sure enough it was, a tree, it was growing out of a crate, in a factory, in the middle of a desert that just didn't make sense 

Three walked into the room and started shooting thing's like you do until eventually one of the sirens fell from the ceiling slamming against one of the larger crates this in turn dulled both the the sirens sound and red flashing lights in the room followed by a few more shots as Three silenced the sirens and darkened the red lights but it wasn't all peachy

“Defcon 6 activated” the monotony was louder now than ever going until three shot the last speaker out

Before going into the room with her I looked outside seeing where Cool had frozen some robots and blasted a few others before now coming back towards us, I went into the big room passing Three to round one of the bigger crates, a dead end at the hands of another even bigger crate and a bunch of smaller ones 

Turning back to the crate id just rounded the corner of it was bigger than me and looked like it could be opened maybe all these years without care loosened its hold together prying open the large box it was another robot that I just about slashed before realizing it was deactivated 

“hey uh Lila your know computer stuff right can your take a look at this” I wasn't sure what to make of it all I knew was it's different and not the same color but not much else

Lila came trotting to my side and examined the ancient machine “so what do you make of this thing“ I said blandly 

“Well this model seams very well preserved must've been but in hear on the last day besides that it isn't on this systems mainframe evidently it was supposed to be sent to manehattan but well it's safe to say I don't think it made the trip” she got all of that from looking at it no wait those are words written on it, must be nice knowing how to read

“Do you think you could make it work for us “ for a brief moment I was taken back, back to then

“Oh don't worry you head little whore you work for us now and will take real good care of you” work for us now those four words riverbed through my mind, the slaver like most was filthy and retched in tone not even trying to stay clean but with how I looked now I didn't have room to judge instead I just cried, cried for all the torment of the past three sleepless days i'm not sure who she was but her death in my mind was so strong it was all that kept me from going mad

Coming back to the present I was hyperventilating good thing my hood was up nopony noticed i tried to calm myself down

Three didn't know 4 calm down they aren't here to make you work for them their dead

Regaining myself i continued listening in on the conversation“I suppose we could but it would take some considerable time“ good I didn't miss anything

“Are you sure I mean do you even understand all this techno wired mumbo jumbo garbage”
The zebras skeptical tone was accompanied by patronizing hoof gestures

“Look zebra i'm the smart one here or as 4 calls it the computer pony of the group so I think I know what i'm talking about” I could tell she was getting, not pissed but annoyed by Three already also why'd she drag me into this

“Oh yeah well what happens if another one of it's friends comes in through the barrier Cool built and turns it back on ever think about that” wait what barrier 

Looking back toward the entrance I noticed that Cool like implied had put a bunch of boxes in and around the doorway to keep out our robotic pursuers meanwhile the argument raged on 

“well uh what to uh, I don't know”and with that Three won the dispute 

Turning back to where they were Lila had started looking at something in another part of the factory 

“Hey uh guy's we may have bigger problems than that too worry about” she was unnerved and looking to where her gaze was laying I understood why a conveyor belt full of robots all deactivated but still this was replicated in a pile to the side all a bunch of dead bots, I briefly wondered whether or not they'd ever been activated or were they assembled only to be left to rot like the one sealed in it's box 

“Whys everypony so quiet” Three broke our silence evidently not realizing how lucky we have been to not have locked ourselves in here with even more robots

Lila presumably in an act to make sure they we're dead took cover behind a different crate and shot at one of the bots in the pile “miss” she fired again this shot smacked the robots metal casing with a ping but nothing more the machine had long been dead if it ever was alive really

Following the confirmation of it being dead Three trotted up to the pile before looking around that half of the factory floor

“Hey guys we got more robots up hear and uh Lila there's some weird flashy screen thing” she had that worried tone to her and despite still being back near the pristine robot I could hear it a rumble 

“Where at” Lila was urgent in tone 

“in there” i'm not sure where she gestured but I could see some light shining out of one of the rooms in the main are so I assume that's where the computer screen was

Defcon Die! Defcon Die! Defcon Dieyeeeyeyee-! the voice of the speaker finally gave out beginning it's forever seasless monotone until it just stopped that or it's sounds were overshadowed by the new sound it was that of 50 treads combine moving as one both I and Three ran back to where Lila had set herself up and as I passed I noticed Cool hugging the big crates prepared for a fight from either directions

Looking back over to the place I was I could see over it the box wall that is behind it was the source of the deafening tracks and whatever it was it was big, big enough to see it's brain dome above the boxes which we're 15 to 18 feet tall so it was a big mother fucker

Than cool called out to us the other side of the room “anypony have some sort of heat source I think I have an idea“ “wait he's a DRAGON-pony why was he needing fire”

“Mind not thinking aloud i'm not a dragon pony i'm a dragon born just a pony with dragon blood in them ok, and i'm an ice dragonborn we don't have fire” oh shit I was thinking aloud, must be forgetting things again like not talking aloud

“If I had some heat I could teleport over there and flash freeze the fucker” it was a good plan problem was that even after all of us emptied out our bags we didn't have any heat sources just a taint canteen, some kitchen supplies and a bit of 9mm ammo among other things

“Hey uh 4 you think you could poor taint on it or something” poring taint on a nonliving creature didn't sound like it would work in all honesty but who knows this shit might be dangerous enough to do something

“I may be able to teleport in and freeze it but it will take longer without the heat source” 

All of our ideas were scrambling like mad and none of us had the slightest clue what do until I voiced this concern

“Every pony shut up we need to figure out what in zebra plot we're doing and throwing ideas around without solid ideas behind them isn't working!” I was panicking and not sure what to do 

“Well I mean if I can get to that terminal I may be able to shut them off but” that was all I needed to hear and I put plan distraction into motion spinning around grabbing my scythe in mouth and hooves only removing it to yell

“Distraction!!!” and with that I ran out catching full glory of the rainbow assault sentry as I shoved the scythe's mouthpiece back in and brought it down on the first robot “miss”

Out of the corner of my eye I noticed Lila running into the room getting the hint I was her cover and as cover I was gonna fight slashing and dodging the robots as she spoke 

“I need some log in credentials to get in, or I could try brute forcing it but” oh for Celestia's sake

“Than fucking brute force it i'll stall as long as you need”i'm insane I know 

“But”I could till she was concerned but I was pissed, tired, tired, and pissed off by they's robots and i'm never tired 

“Fucking do it!” I may have been a bit harsh but considering a robot just smacked my face hard enough for a slip of pink mist to seem out I wasn't happy 

Lila started looking around her desk just as Mr big rainbow assault sentinel bot pants finished charging up his arc welder and gatling laser opening up his fire he brutalizing all the smaller robots as he traced my darting body all around the room

“Oh shit oh fuck oh shit” ok look i may be immortal but i would like to keep my limbs attached not to mention i've heard of chanterlot ghouls dying by desinagration and i didn't want to test the theory 

Wall! that's a wall i'm gonna hit a wall, then the guns died down as Lila deactivated the facilities robots making the sentinel fall limp on his own barely supported mass I was going to examine it further but I was so tired and 

“"...Savages on approach from North East,”what was that “Rebels on hot West! It's going to be a fucked battle. Griblies comin to play as well! Fuckin Tartrus, mate!" it was a stallion speaking through the radio “...Squadron 3, you should be retreating from the fuckin' rebels! Squadron 5, Celestiaspeed... Squadron 1, hit the flightless scum from the north…” flightless scum oh no “Amazing, Squadron 4! LET THEM TASTE ENCLAVE STEEL!!"” 

with that the radio voice cut off and I looked to Lila she was wearing a pitbug and I was at this point confused, tired and done with this shit, I could till she was even worse off than me, they all were that much was evident and even despite not feeling like I needed it I new from experience this bag of bones needed rest and so rest I did we could figure this shit out tomorrow 

Footnote: Level up 
Level 3 
Feral Affinity Feral Ghouls will not attack you unless you attack first
Who knows it might come in hoofty later
Taint Mutation Poison Blood
Your blood is now TOXIC! However, your eyes are now a baleful pure pink color 
You suffer -1 CHA to anyone who can see your eyes. You can easily conceal this with a full helmet or sunglasses.
Unarmed 71,mealy 77, Alchemy, Survivalism & Traps 19, Lockpick 18, battle saddles 25, bluff & intimidation 30, sneak 56, athletics 22, and finally flight magic 18 everything else is same as before