Fallout Equestria: The Forgotten
Chapter 3: Red Fires and Red Rifles, Prt 1
Anger, it's something that resides in all of us. All the way down to our core. When you push all other emotions and feelings out of the way, two are always with you, Pain and Anger. They are a harmful thing if not controlled. Anger has a life of its own, it is a livening breathing thing. It's just like fire, and like fire it is unpredictable and can burn you at any moment.
Anger is one of the things I have let go of, but still use when I have to. What happened to me in my past is gone. Getting mad at what happened to me dose nothing. It won't bring back my memories, my family, or anything in my past. All I can do is look to the future, and do my best to make a better tomorrow.
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*BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP*
I barely opened my eyes as I took in the darkness of the room.
*BEEP BEEP BEEP*
I looked around for the annoying chirp as it dragged on. I saw a flash coming from my Pipbuck and looked down at it, and on further inspection I realized it was the source of the noise. I raised it to my face and read the time.
11:00 a.m.
I turned off the alarm and laid my foreleg back down. "When did I even set that" I thought as I looked up to the ceiling. I then felt the heat of something against my whole underside and the rise of its breath as it pushed my forelegs up. I looked at the body that was in my forelegs snuggled close to me as it slept. It then dawned on me that is was the mare, and I was holding her as she slept.
I laid there frozen, unsure of what to do. She was all the way under me and my right foreleg was resting over her side. I wasn't even sure when she had rolled over in her sleep, or how we got in this position. She was sleeping like she had yesterday and didn't seem any different. I nuzzled the back of her neck seeing if she would wake up. I looked at her but saw no response even when I talked to her. I sighed, she was still suffering from the stasis pod. I tried to roll over but my foreleg got caught. I looked back and the mare had my leg in a death grip, and she wasn't about to let it go. I pulled again but she wouldn't give it up. I focused my magic on her forelegs and successfully pried them off mine.
I rolled back over and saw Black Still sleeping, he at least rolled over and was sleeping on his side now. I got out of the bed and walked over to the window past Black. I opened it and sunlight flooded the dark room. The town was already more than awake. Ponies and zebras walked on main street as Pegasus and Griffins flew through the air above them. A groan behind me brought me gaze back into the room. I looked at the small bed as the sunlight shined right on Blacks face.
His eyes opened and looked right at me and the bright window. He closed them as he groaned again and rolled over away from the light. I rolled my eyes and hit the light switch from across the room. He flinched as more light hit him and slowly pulled a pillow over his head. I looked at him and decided I was done being nice. I grabbed the pillow and pulled it away from him, he then started pulling the covers over his head. I stopped him and grabbing him in my magic and pushed him off the bed.
His leg came up over the edge of the bed and he pulled himself from the floor. Once his head came up he gave me a death glare.
"I hate you." He said as he pulled the rest of him from the floor.
I gave him a grin as I walked past my bed, the mare was still fast asleep in it. I was just about to pick up my saddle bag when I heard a knock on the door. I walked over and opened it and on the other side was Midnight. I smiled at her and noticed that she was levitating several platters beside her. She saw me looking at them.
"There from Chief Wild. He thought you all might be hungry." She said. Her voice sounding as magnificent as before.
"Thank you." I said grabbing the three platters she presented to me. She was still holding one next to her.
"What's that one?" I asked gesturing to it with a nod.
"Oh." She said turning her head and looking at it. "This one's mine, I guess I picked it up with yours as well." She said with a weak smile.
"I leave you alone so you can eat." She said as she started to turn away down the hall.
"Midnight." I said stopping her. "You can eat with us. You don't have to walk all the way back down."
She smiled at me. "Thank you."
I stepped out of her way allowing her to walk into our room. I was right behind her and saw the look on Blacks face when she got to the middle of the room. I saw a glint in his eye as he looked at her.
"Good morning Midnight." Black said as he watched the alicorn walk across the room. She smiled at him as she set her food on the desk in the room.
"Here Black." I said floating one of the platters over and setting it on his bed.
He pulled the cover off as the steam trapped under it was let lose. I pulled the lid off mine as I set the mares off to the side. The same steam rolled out from under the lid along with the scent of fresh food. Under the lid was a fresh daffodil sandwich with a side of hay fries and steamed carrots.
"Wow." I said picking the sandwich up and taking a bite.
"Ya." Black said as he dove into the hay fries.
I swallowed my bite and relished the taste of it. The first food I have seen and tasted since the stasis, or any that I can remember
"Who made this Midnight, cause it's really good." I said taking another bite.
She giggled a little bit as she brought out her own sandwich.
"I made them." She said looking at us.
"Well." Black said finishing off the last of his hay fries. "The best food I've had in a long time."
I stopped eating and looked at him. "What, you mean since I woke you out of your stasis pod in the stable, yesterday."
He glared at me and I chuckled.
"Wait, what?"
I looked at Midnight, total confusion on her face.
"Oh, ya." I said putting the sandwich back on the plate. "We never told you where we came from." She just looked at me still confused.
"Ok, we'll tell you the story." I said, and started telling her.
How we got out of the stable, the Red Rifles, and the meeting with Wild. We ate as we talked, the food was to good for me to just let it sit there. Once me and Black where done telling the story the look on her face changed to interest as she looked at us unbelievingly.
"So, that means you two are Pre-War?" She asked
I looked at Black and he shrugged at me.
"Ya, we are I guess." I said looking at the alicorn next to Black. She migrated over the course of the story and was now laying down next to Black on his bed while I was on my bed next to the mare.
"So, you don't even know your name?" She said, her eyes now focused on me.
"No, I don't, I'm 12 for the time being." I said to her and then looked over my shoulder at the mare." I just really hope she has some answers."
I started to look back at the other two but a moan from the mare made me stare at her. She rolled over onto her back and her eyes fought to open.
"HEY!" I yelled as I stood on the bed. "She's waking up!"
I moved over to the side of the mare as I stood on the bed. The other two came around the other side of the bed and watched. Her eyes slowly opened and seeing them for the first time they where a glowing pink. She stared at the ceiling and slowly her eyes moved around the room as she blinked. She then stopped and looked right at me. I didn't realized I had leaned closer to her as she awoke. She raised a hoof to me and placed it on the side of my face, I stared at her even more intently. She then pulled me in closer and locked lips with me.
My eyes shot open as the mare kissed me. I didn't pull away, I was way to lost in what was happening to care as I closed my eyes. I don't know what caused me to do it, but it felt right as I kissed her back making it more intense. She wrapped both of her forelegs around my neck as we kissed passionately . I lost complete track of time and had no clue how long it happened but eventually she loosened her grip allowing me to pull away from the kiss.
I opened my eyes and when I did I was gazing into hers. I couldn't say anything, my mind was still racing from the kiss. All I could do was stare into those pink eyes and try and catch my breath.
"I missed you so much." She said as she pulled me down into a hug. "I never thought I would see you again Iron."
I blinked a few times trying to get control of myself. I looked around and saw Midnight and Black standing next to the bed staring at me. Midnights jaw was dropped and her eyes where as big as I had seen them as she stared at me. Black was staring at me to, the same big eyes. As I looked closer I could see a small grin on his face.
The mare let me go again as I pulled up and looked back into her pink eyes. She then looked around the room, I fallowed her line of site as she stopped and stared at Black.
"Iron, what is he doing here?" She said panic in her voice as she leaned up.
Black cocked his head in surprise as the mare stared at him intently. I sat down on the bed as she sat up and tried to hide behind me.
My mind finally came back to the problem. "Ok, wait." I said standing up and hopping off the bed. " Listen, We don't know who you are? We saved you from the stable and brought you with us hoping you could tell us something."
She stared at me with a bewildered look as she sat on the bed. "Iron, what are you talking about? We have known each other for years."
"Wait, why are you calling me Iron?" I asked.
"That's your name, Iron Site." The mare said as her eyes started to tear up. "Why are you trying to scare me?"
I stared at the mare unsure what to say as she stared back, as if she was pleading for me to do something.
"Ok, there is a mass of confusion here."
I looked at Midnight as she got up onto the bed with the mare and sat next to her.
"Look, you have been in stasis inside a stable for the last 200 years." Midnight explained to her, Midnights voice sounded so soothing it was like she was singing a lullaby. The mare looked up at her and took in the image of the large alicorn sitting next to her.
"What?" The mare said as a tear ran down her face.
"You where inside a Stable. These two got you out and brought you here." Midnight said. "They don't know who they are. They woke up in the stable to."
The mare looked away from Midnight and at me, all I could do was stare. I had no words for her.
"Is this true?" She said. She was on the verge of crying as she asked.
"Yes, I honestly don't know who you are." I said.
She got off the bed and walked up to me. She looked into my eyes as tears started to flow from hers. She leaned down and pushed her face into my chest and cried, I hesitated but eventually put a leg around her and pulled her close as her tears stained my coat.
"We should have never signed up for that test." The mare said between sobs. "But I pushed you into it, and now I've lost you."
The room was silent and only the sound was the mare's crying. I just ran my hoof through her mane as she cried herself out into my chest.
"It will all be ok." I said pulling the mare from my chest, she just looked at the ground. "We will figure it out, ok." I said putting a hoof under chin and gently made her look at me.
Her eyes were still filled with tears but she managed a nod as she stood in front of me.
"Ok, tell us your name." I said as I pushed her up onto the bed. Midnight got out of the way and off the bed as I laid down with the mare.
She Leaned against me as she dried the last of her tears.
"Ava, my names Ava Scroll."
"Ok, Ava. Tell us about yourself." I said. She looked at Black and Midnight as they passed us and laid down on the other bed across from us.
"Ok, I was the Goddess's Personal scribe. I was with them almost full time during the war." Ava said, taking a breath and calming down. "Taking notes and other things that needed to be remembered."
Ava paused and stared at Black again, Black just stared back.
"That's where I meet you Iron." She said looking up to me. "You where with us all the time to. Usually on the other side of the Goddess's coordinating your sniper team as we moved around Canterlot."
Ava continued her story and told us about how we had got to know each other over the course of the war. We also had plenty of "personal meetings" with each when we were off duty at the end of the day. Ava blushed as she told us that part, but that quickly passed as she got onto the Subject of Black. He was apparently a deserter of the MOW and started his own fanatical force called the Black Wings. It consisted of Pegasus's trained in stealth operation. They helped in the war against the Zebra Empire but plenty of times attacked the Equestrian army. Black listened intently as his past was reviled to him.
He terrorized the small towns on the border of Equestria and the Zebra Empire, and at one point he and his team tried to make a move on the princess in Canterlot. They got past the royal Canterlot guards but where stopped by me and my team before they even made it to the palace. The fight was bloody as my team and Blacks fought in the streets of Canterlot, we both lost men but my team was sent up in key locations around the city witch allowed us to shoot the Pegasus's if they tried to get into the air.
At one point me and Black faced each other on the roof top I was set up on. Ava didn't know what exactly happed but I managed to get the upper hoof and beat him. I also got a shot off as he was flying away, grazing his left side and bringing him to the ground where we captured him.
After hearing this, Black raised his left wing and looked under it at the scar across his ribs. He looked back at me and glared, I just snickered at him. But then Ava explained that Black had cut the hell out of me in our fight, putting me in the intensive care unit for three days. Black then snickered at me as I glared at him.
"What the hell are you laughing at?" I said to him. "I still won."
"Ya, but I messed you up. I say I won." He said still trying to control his laugh.
I rolled my eyes at him and looked to Ava letting her know she could continue. She then told us about the last few days before the stable. There was apparently some Equestrian wide test calling for ponies from all the military branches. Luna suggested that I go participate in it but failed to convince me. Ava was the one who did though, she persuaded me into it and we went to the Stable for the testing. She said that once we were inside they split us up and took her to a room filled with Stasis pods and other mares. The guards around the room pushed ponies into the pods and sealed them up.
Ava said she tried to explain to them that she was not signed up for the test but they forced her into one anyway. That was that last thing she remembered before waking up with us.
"I never thought I would see you again once that door closed." Ava said as she rested her head across my forelegs and started to cry again.
"Shhhh" I said as I laid my head over her neck. I then understood why I felt a connection to her when she was asleep.
"It's ok, I'm right here. I won't leave you again." I said as gently as I could trying to comfort her. I felt the connection between us, and even though I couldn't remember our past life I still loved her.
Ava's crying finally came to a stop and we raised our heads and looked back into each other's eyes. She nuzzled my neck and I returned the favor. I felt my body completely relax as we did this, I may not have remembered her but every muscles in my body did as I felt her breath and her touch against me for the first time in 200 years. Again I lost track of how long we did this but I guess it made the other two in the room uncomfortable.
"Ok." I heard Midnight say. "This has been one interesting morning, but I still have a job to do." She got up off of Blacks bed and walked across the room.
"I will make sure to come see you guys after I'm done practicing at the opera house for tonight's show." Midnight said as she opened the door.
"See you all later." She said leaving the room and closing the door. I pulled back from Ava and looked at her one last time before getting off the bed.
She followed me as I went over to my saddle bag and armor and started to get suited up. Ava just stood there and watched me as I put it on piece by piece.
"You just going to stand there and watch me?" I said with a grin.
"I've watched you do it a hundred times before." Ava said as she grabbed a piece of the armor and started to strap it on me.
I smiled at her as I fitted more of it on me. A few minutes later, and I was fully suited up. I looked back over to Black and saw him already dressed.
"Hay Black." I said getting his attention. "Give me all the extra guns you have. I want to go see how much we can get for them."
He nodded and opened his bags as I pulled them out. and put them in mine. I looked back at Ava who was waiting patiently by the door. I walked over and opened it up as we all walked out. I locked the door behind us and we started to walk down the many flights of stairs. Ava stayed right next to me the whole time as we made our way down to the lobby. Midnight wasn't there and in her place was a green Pegasus mare sitting behind the desk typing on the terminal. I walked up to her and paid for another night at the hotel.
Blacks stared at me with a questioning look. " Why are we staying another night?"
"With what Ava has told us I have to rethink out next move. We don't even know what is out there since we have been in stasis." I explained to him. "We don't know how things work now."
He looked forward knowing I was right as we walked out of the lobby and onto the main street. The place we bustling with ponies going every which way. We walked on and saw foals playing and plenty of market booths on each side of the street, there owners yelling to the passing ponies with catchphrases and slogans. I then saw the opera house at the corner of the street, I could even hear Midnight's voice come from the building and over the noise of the street.
"She has a pair of lungs on her." I thought as I looked around the rest of the street. I saw a booth with a earth pony lazily sitting behind it with guns on display on the other side of the street just past a massive crowed. I started to make my way through the crowd trying to get to his booth, Ava was pressed up against my right side as we pushed are way through. We made it to the other side and to the pony's booth. I looked back over my shoulder for Black. I saw him over the cowed as he walked into the opera house and out of sight. I smiled a little knowing exactly what he was doing.
I then turned around and back to the booth and Ava was standing there talking to the pony. She also had a group of guns sitting on the table as she talked. I opened up my bag and looked inside, no guns."How the hell did she do that?" I thought as I walked up to them, I heard them discussing a price.
"I'm not going any higher 50 caps for the 10mm pistols, and 200 for the 9mm SMG." I heard earth pony say.
"Ok, what about the laser pistol?" Ava asked.
"I'll give you 70 caps for it." He replied
"70?" Ava said in disbelief. "Look at again. It's in perfect condition. I bet it hasn't even been fired."
The orange buck behind the table just stared at Ava.
"Fine, 200." He said.
"Three." Ava said staring back at the buck. The bucks face didn't even change as he considered it.
"230" he said
"270" Ava said. I saw the buck take a quick glance at the pistol and then looked back to Ava. I could tell he wanted it.
"How about 250 and you throw in that old plasma rifle on the wall with its holster." Ava said
The buck looked back at the rifle and then back to Ava. He just stared at her for a long time and said nothing.
"Fine. Deal?" The buck said raising a hoof to Ava.
"Deal." She said shaking his hoof.
The buck took all the weapons off the table and turned around. Ava then looked up at me with a grin of satisfaction. The buck turned back around and set the rifle on the table along with the 600 Caps. Ava picked up the rifle in her magic and floated the caps to me. I grabbed them and put them in my saddle bag. Ava smiled with glee s she put on the holster and put the rifle in its place. We left the booth and made our way down the street. I gave the plasma rifle a few quick glances, it was in need of some serious repair. I stopped as I passed another booth and looked at what it had. Ava just walked on not noticing me as I stopped, she was to happy with her gun.
The pony was selling a mixture of things. From ammo to random scrap. It was ether on the wall or on the table. I saw a saddle bag on a hook on the side of the stall, I picked it up and looked it over. It was in great condition, no holes and all the straps where there. I paid the pony behind the booth for it and a Pipbuck that was sitting out on the table. I turned around and saw Ava walking at me from across the street. I walked to her and she stopped in front of me.
"Where did you go?" She asked
"No where." I said floating the saddle bag and the Pipbuck out from behind my back.
She smiled at me as I floated the bag onto her back and fastened the strap around her. I then lifted up her left foreleg with my hoof and placed the Pipbuck on it.
"There." I said as it clipped perfectly around and looked in her eyes. "Now I will never lose you again."
She blushed at my comment as she stared back at me. I kissed her on the cheek making her blush even bigger. I looked into those pink eyes of hers and didn't want to look away, but out of my peripheral I saw something run behind a booth and down an alley. I looked past her at the alley that the thing ran down. I walked past Ava and she stared at me as followed me. walked between two booths and into the alley, it was dark and hard to see as we walked. I felt Ava press up against me as we walked down the alley. I heard a metal door open and I froze, I looked around and heard the door slam close a little further down the alley. I picked up the pace as we moved to where I thought the door was.
I stopped as I passed a set of stairs and looked down at the metal door being illuminated by the weak glow of the light above it. I made my way down the stone steps with Ava right behind me. I slowly and as quietly as I could opened the door. I stepped through it and into a cement hallway going horizontally to the door. The florescent lights hummed above me as they filled the hall with light adding a creepy feeling to the whole thing. I tried to listen down both halls for any sound but the hum of the lights was too much for me to hear anything. I heard Ava steep up next to me as I looked down the longest hall way.
"Why are we down here?" I heard her ask
"I saw something run down the alley." I said. My ears jumped as I heard a sound come from down the hall, differentiating its self from the lights.
I started walking down the hall where the noise came from with Ava right by my side. We turned a corner and I could hear the voices coming down the hall. They grew louder as we turned another corner and where meet with another steel door. I walked up to it and heard the voices coming through it. I turned my head and put my ear to the door, but it was too thick to hear anything but a few words out of every sentence. I looked back at Ava and she stared at me, I looked back and slowly opened the door.
Voices filled my ears as the door swung outward. I looked through the open door but saw no one. I took a step through it and looked around, and saw a metal banister on the left. I walked over to it as it looked out into a large room. I looked over the banister and then dropped to the floor when I saw the ponies in the middle of the room. Ava walked up and I pulled her down so she wouldn't reveal us. I crawled up and looked through the bars and down to the floor below us. I saw some of the Town Guard yelling at the group on the other side of the room and I looked more closely and saw that the other's were Red Rifles.
The Town Guard was standing behind Wild and the Red Rifles where rallied behind a pony who I guessed is there leader. Wild raised a hoof stopping the yelling from his team.
"Ok, we let you in here because you said you wanted to talk peace." Wild said to the Red Rifle pony.
The R&R pony laughed along with the rest of his group.
"You think we would ever talk peace with your town. Sooner or later we will take it." The R&R leader said as he laughed again. Wild pinned his ears back and glared at him.
"We just wanted to give you a chance to save your town from destruction." The R&R leader said.
"What are you talking about?" Wild growled
"We are willing to exchange the safety of your town, for a little while. If you turn over the two ponies you let in last night." The R&R leader said with an evil grin.
I looked at the R&R pony who was talking and froze when I realized who it was. It was the green buck, the one Black shot in the stable. I stared at him trying to figure out how he survived and counted the ponies in the room at the same time. There was eight R&R's and only six Town Guards.
"Why would we even think about giving you them. This town is a sanctuary form you bastards." Wild said trying to keep his anger down.
"Two very good reasons." The R&R pony said. "One, if you don't we'll call the boys outside your walls to burn this town down as they look for them."
Wild scoffed at him."You know as well as I do that the Town Guard might be small, but every pony, zebra, and griffin, in town would fight you to keep their home safe. You don't have enough men to take our town." Wild said with a grin
The green buck looked over his shoulder and motioned with his hoof to another R&R and then looked back as the other pony walked through an open door to his right.
"The second reason." The buck said with a grin as the other one came back with somepony over his back with a bag over his head and stepped up next to his leader.
The green buck used his magic and floated the small pony off the other's back and stood the pony up beside him. He pulled the bag off his head and revealed a young colt. My heart stopped as I saw Spring standing there next to the green buck with a cloth gag in his mouth.
I saw Wild start running at the green buck and his son.
"Ah ah ah" The buck said floating a blade up and pressing it against Spring's throat. "We wouldn't want any harm to come to him, now would we." The green buck said with a sick grin that made my stomach turn.
Wild stopped running and stared at his son, Spring was crying and tears ran down his face and stained the gag.
"Now that I have you attention." The Buck said as he pushed Spring over to the other R&R unicorn as the knife floated over and was wrapped in his orange glow and put it back up to Spring's neck.
"How about we talk about you handing over the two ponies again." He said
Wild just stared at his son and glared back to the green buck. I slowly pulled out Swift and lined it up onto the purple unicorn holing Spring.
"If you hurt him in any way, I will fucking cut you head off!" Wild yelled at the buck.
"You're in no position to make threats." The green buck said as the purple unicorn pressed the knife into Spring's neck.
Spring winced in pain as the blade cut and drew blood. That was the last straw as I pulled the trigger. The *Crack* from my rifle echoed in the cement room as the bullet hit the purple unicorn in the side of the head and dropped him like a stone. Every pony in the room jumped and looked up to where I was. Wild strained to see who it was but as soon as I stood up and he saw me he turn back around on the R&R group.
"There up there!" The green buck yelled as two R&R raiders turned around and ran for the door on the left side of the room.
I turned Swift and fired again putting a round in the flank of one of them. The pony fell and slammed into the wall next to the door and didn't move. I looked up just in time to see the door on the other side of the balcony open up as the other raider charged at me with a pistol in his magic. I felt something tug my left side and then I went deaf as my SMG fired right next to my ear. I watched as round after round hit the R&R in the chest and fell to the floor. I looked over my shoulder, Ava was holding my SMG as smoke come from its barrel. I jumped back from the balcony as a bullet hit my shoulder, and more ricocheted off the steel bars and hit the ceiling.
My hearing came back as the sound of gun fire was everywhere. I looked at my shoulder, the bullet was imbedded in the leather but never got to me. I peeked back over the bars and saw the Red Rifles running back through a door and shooting at the Town Guards, one of them was dragging Spring with him. As the last R&R got through the door it closed and I heard the sound of a large lock come from it. I looked over the rest of the recent battle ground at the few bodies that lay on the floor. I turned and ran to the door that the one R&R came from, I moved down the stairs as fast as I could and out the door into the large room. I looked around and saw Wild and his group at the other side.
I stated running and heard Ava right behind me, but we stopped half way as I heard several explosions above us as they shook the room. I looked at Wild and it dawned on us at the same time. I started running again to his group and stopped just before I got to them.
"How do we got out here?" I asked Wild
"Follow us." He said as him and his team started running.
We followed them through a door and up a flight of stairs and down a hall, I could see the door at the end. All of us picked up into a full sprint as Wild opened the door and we ran outside.
We were in an alley way and I could hear gun fire and screams everywhere. I followed wild right down the alley as we entered the main street. Ponies where running in every direction, it was chaos as our group ran down main street. We passed the corner when an explosion tore the building to our right apart throwing us into the middle of the street.
I started to get my legs back under me as my ears where ringing, I looked around and saw Ava getting up along with Wild. Two of the other Guards got up but the third was too close to the explosion to have survived it, I could see the pool of blood forming around him. I looked back to the building, it was burning but I saw a pegasus flying over us. I watched as it dropped something, it was sparkling as it fell to the ground. I watched it, then hit me as to what is was.
"Move Move!" I yelled as I got up and putting my magic around the other four and threw them farther down the street into the junction as another explosion lifted me off my hooves.
I flew through the air and hit the ground next to Wild, hard. I struggled to get back up as the second explosion disoriented me. I looked back into the sky as the pegasus was turning around for another pass. I raised Swift and put the crosshairs right on its chest. The pegasus lit another stick of dynamite and I fired. I hit him in the wing and he started his fall to the earth. He threw the stick at me as he fell, I quickly grabbed it with my magic and threw it back into the sky where it exploded. I looked back to our group and they were just getting up off the ground.
"What do we do now?" Ava asked looking at me.
"I'm going after my son." Wild said as he started to runoff.
"Wild." I said stopping him with a hoof. "I know they have Spring, but this whole town needs you right now. We will get him back but right now we need to deal with the problem at hoof."
He was about to say something but the sound of gunfire from our left got all of our attention. I watch as two ponies came around the corner a few blocks away shooting down the street they came from. They both jumped in the air and started to fly our way, I then realized it was Black and Midnight. I smiled as they came at us and then they both dove into an upper floor of a building on our left.
I coked my head and then looked back down the street. As a huge group of RR started running down the street at us. My eyes grew big as I watched the hoard approach us.
"Oh for the love of Celestia, Black, what the fuck did you do?" I Yelled at him as bullet whizzed right past my face.
"Get to cover!" Wild yelled as the R&R group fired at us.
Me and Ava dove behind an overturned wagon in on the side of the street. I heard the bullets slam into the cart relentlessly, Thank god the cart had a steel bottom or me and Ava would have been dead. The bullets stopped hitting the cart, I risked a peek around one side and saw Wild and the two other guards taking cover behind the corner of the building on the opposite side of the street. I leaned further out and looked down the street. The R&R group was slowly making their way to us, A few of them where lighting Molotov's and throwing them into the sounding buildings. I took my chance and raised Swift, I took aim at one of the ponies holding a burning Molotov in his hoof. I took my time and waited for him to raise it over his head, I took in a slow breath and left half of it out. The pony raised the makeshift incendiary bomb and I fired. The round hit its mark, the bottle exploded sending burning liquid all over the left side of the group.
Then all hell broke loose, the street erupted into gun fire again as all of traded fire with the R&R group. Black and Midnight Fired from the window and Me, Ava, Wild, and the guards hit them from the street. They were so bunched together that even a missed shot hit the one behind them. We must have killed twenty, as they laid in the street, but the fight continued. The smart ones ran to cover and where still shooting. I had my crosshairs on the top of a pile of rubble as I waited for one to pop up over it, he looked over it and I put a round right between his eyes. I ducked back down as the other five fired at me. The bullets hit the steel cart again, but I then noticed a bullet hit right at my side. I looked into the sky and saw three pegasus's circling around me and Ava.
Another bullet hit right beside me as they fired again. I quickly rolled the cart over onto of us as a few more hit the cart. I thought how I was going to get us out of this, but them in dawned on me. I raised part of the cart.
"Hey Black." I yelled out.
Nothing came back, but then I heard the explosion of a grenade and the scream of a pony
"What? I'm busy." I heard Black yell back.
"We got company in the sky." I yelled out as another bullet hit the cart.
"I got them." I heard come from the same direction but it wasn't Black voice.
I heard a lot of gun fire above us and then a something heavy landed on the cart.
"You're good Iron." I heard come from up above us.
I rolled the cart back over and one of the R&R pegasus's was laying beside the me. I looked up into the sky, Midnight was hovering there. I looked back over the cart and saw everyone gathering in the street. Me and Ava walked over to them as Midnight and Black joined us.
"What the hell was that?" Wild asked. Everyone turned and looked at Black and Midnight.
"Hey, we came running out of the opera house when we heard the explosions and that group was walking through the main gate." Black said.
"Ya, there was way more of them then." Midnight said. "You guys only fought half of them."
"Where did the others go?" I asked
"They split up and went to the other side of town. That group was chasing us." Black said "We managed to keep their attention, so they didn't destroy too much."
At that moment I heard the flap of wings behind me and whirled around with Swift.
"Town Guard! Town Guard!" The intruder yelled.
I looked at the cowering form on the ground, it was a griffin. I lowered my weapon and Wild stepped up to him.
"What's going on?" Wild said in a authoritative voice.
The griffin immediately stood up and saluted Wild.
"Sir, The last group of Red Rifle's is trying to escape through the south side of the city. There leader is with them." The griffin said with his claw still on his forehead.
"We need to move fast." Wild said as he turned around and into a dead sprint.
The rest of us kept pace with him but he was not going to slow down for anything. We followed him around corners and down alley ways as we moved. Even when we were getting shot at Wild didn't slow down. We turned down one last street and the scene before me made my blood run cold.
Bodies of the towns foke lay strewn throughout the street. Many of them still holding the guns that they died with, there blood staining the street and concrete. I lost it when I saw three foals laying in a line on the wall with holes in their heads as their blood pooled around them. My blood boiled with rage as I looked down the street and saw the Red Rifles lining up more on the wall of a shop. I pulled out Swift and fired at them, every shot I fired made contact with the Foul murdering bastards as I dropped one right after the next. I heard the sound of another gun going off and the pain in my chest.
I looked out of my scope and felt the pain surge through my body as I fell on my forelegs and dropped Swift. I felt my blood run out of the hole in my chest as looked back up. Ava was standing in front of me turned away as she shot her Plasma rifle. My vision started to fade and I felt cold as I heard Wilds voice. I only heard one word of it, but that's all I needed.
"............ Spring................"
My anger rose again and my adrenalin kicked in as I stood up and grabbed Swift in my magic. I pushed Ava out of my way and looked down the street, the green buck was standing there with his group as they all fired at us, he was holding Spring as a shield. I raised Swift and put the cross hairs on the bucks head, I could see his evil smile through the scope. I took a deep breath and stopped my rifle form shaking as pain radiated through my body. I slowly pulled the trigger, then I took another hit my right shoulder. *Crack* was all I heard as I dropped to my knee, I looked back up as the green buck dropped Spring and ran off to the back the group. I smiled as my vision faded and I fell on my side. I looked up, and Ava stepped into my sight yelling something as the world went white.
Chapter Notes:
Level Up: Iron Site
New Perk: Lost Love: As long as Ava is by your side you do10% more damage.
New Perk: Rage of Life: The site of the Towns foke of Tricross fuels your anger. If your health drops below 15% you gain a 40% chance to critical hit and 30% to accuracy.
Level Up: Black Water
New Companion: Ava
S: 4
P: 6
E: 7
C: 8
I: 6
A: 3
L: 6
level Up: Ava
New Perk: Lost Love: As long as Iron Site is by your side you do10% more damage.
New Perk: Energy Freak: You are crazy over energy weapons. Therefore you do 20% more damage with them.
New Perk: Silver Tongue: You can talk you way out of a steel box. When bartering or making a deal with someone you can talk you way into getting a little extra something. A 20 extra points to Speech and Bartering