//------------------------------// // Escape // Story: Fallout Equestria : Steel Rain // by Midnight_Rain //------------------------------// Escape Sometimes the only thing you can do is run away but that is the hardest part. As we ran down the hallways trying to figure our way out of this goddess forsaken facility. Turn after turn, hallway after hallway. It was like one big maze. "Wait down there." I huffed out of breath. "Finally a damn elevator now i don't have to find the damn steps." "Gunner your so damn lazy." Longeye huffed. "Hey fighting zebras doesn't make me this tired and out of breath." "Being frozen for 200 years might have something to do with it." Backblast stated. "Ey last time I checked we weren't wearing power armor to help carry ourselves." I shot back sticking my tongue out at him. "Can we please go now." ghost whispered. "Ugh fine" I said defeated "Your so melodramatic. lets go" they deadpanned from the elevator. After what seemed like forever the elevator pinged and opened to the hallway to the armory. "Ha what luck." I said stepping out of the elevator and ran in to something invisible. "Ouch shit what was that." As soon as I said that a blue alicorn uncloaked . I had walked head first in to her flank that might have pissed her off. "HOW DARE YOU TOUCH THE GODDESS PREPARE TO BE DESTROYED." She screamed into my head . Um fuck... what to do, what to do AH HA I got it. I whipped around to Backblast while the alicorn just stared at us. I slapped the firing arm on his missile launcher and it shot a missile at the alicorn just barely missing my head. Then nothing but black as the missile detonated knocking us out while the alicorn was promptly turn to bits and pieces. "Ugh that could have gone better" I moaned pushing Backblast off me. Damn he was heavy. guess somepony needs to lay of the fancybuck cakes "WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT FUCKING TOUCHING MY WEAPONS GUNNER." A still pissed backblast yelled in my face. "Shaddup its dead aint it." I grunted shaking the shell shock away " Quick question does anypony want to tell me why a blue Celestia wanted to kill me." "Probably because you stuck your nose in her ass." "Fuck you backblast" "No thanks my door don't swing that way" "That's enough Ill kill both of you if you don't stop this right now." Longeye shouted "What was that she said about a goddess." Ghost asked from behind Longeye " I don't know." I finished lamely Just great I managed to piss off a deity can this day get any worse. I was confused little did we know we were being watched by more of the alicorns. After we got squared away I took a good look at the hallway just your average hallway with a couple of doors on either side and a giant blast door with Armory marked above it. "At least something is going for us" I said while walking to the door to the left of the armory "See nothing is trying to kill us... yet. I smirked opening the door. Lets see what we got here small office plain walls, a worn desk, a safe and a blown terminal. "I thought those were indestructible." I walked straight to the desk and started going through the drawers and found a locked box.Welp it's just going to wait till later. I decided it was a good time to check my inventory. "Five belts for my Saw, a few clips for Punishment, the medical supplies, four hundred and fifty caps from Stonewall, the Box and map. With that taken care of lets see to that safe, as I was working on trying to get it to unlock I heard someone else enter the room. when I looked the was nothing there just empty space and a shimmer in the corner wait shimmer in the corner. I whipped around with Punishment and told it to show itself before I ventilated it. the shimmer turned into a deep blue alicorn. "Oh shit not this again." i groaned " Stay thy weapon sergeant ." it said with a strangely soothing voice. I lowered Punishment just a bit her horn glowed a deep azure and the door slid down and clicked Great thinking Gunner you got yourself locked in a room with a alicorn. "how do you know im in the military." i asked through the bit of my saddle. " We have been watching thou since thy were awakened." "Ok who are you and why are you speaking in old equestrian." "we are ..... Nightingale and we hast always spoke like this. now it is thy turn to introduce thy self. " "Ok 'Nightingale' I am Midnight 'Gunner' Rain, i am a sergeant of the Second Lunar Marine battalion . her ears perked up when I spoke of the Marines "I remember the Marines alas they have mostly fallen to zebra hooves ." she said mournfully "How do you know that." I challenged "Forgive me but I must take leave." with that she winked out of existence as my squad entered the room. "Yo Gunner who you talking to." Longeye smirked sitting by the door "Nopony just talking to myself .... as usual. I replied coldly "Woah what happened to you there man, why so cold she just asked a question." Backblast said defensively "Its just nothing you need to concern yourself with blast that's final." I stated while walking out the door towards the armory with my conversation with Nightingale replaying in my head. ======================In the Armory======================== "What the actual fuck" Backblast yelled at the vast emptiness of the armory. "Where is all the ammo and weapons at" I said surveying the the room. It was a decent sized room with weapon lockers along the left side. Directly across from that a door with a terminal and a suspiciously empty wall with what looked like a seam in the middle. "Ghost check the terminal,Longeye you and Backblast check the weapon lockers to find any that's useful." I inspected the wall with a seam in it after a few moments of knocking on the wall I hit a hallow spot. I then took a piece of chalk out of my harness and continued to trace the hollow spot revealing a small blast door about three ponies wide. "Gunner why are you drawing on the wall." Ghost asked looking like a mother scolding her foal . "There's a door here,I just have to figure out how to open it. " I explained while tapping on the wall looking for a button or something. When my search turned up nothing I asked Ghost about the terminal. She told me it asked for a Keycard of a senior fire team leader. Then my HUD displayed a message saying I had one in my inventory. Now I remember Greenway lent me his card to get my paperwork out of his office but I forgot to give it back. I handed her Greenways card. She then proceeded to swipe the card resulting in the door opening revealing a small office with a desk adorned in papers and oddly shaped piles of what looked like wood on top of a terminal . Sitting at the desk was the skeleton in a tattered equestrian military uniform I gently moved the remains to the side and accessed the terminal and found several reports on minor things from along time ago but one option had caught my it read ~Open door to Ammunition storage~ "HA found you". I said as I selected the option. meanwhile the doorIi had chalked out started to open. At about halfway the door sparked and died. I almost jumped for joy at the marvelous sight. Most if not all the ammo was still here but that is not the only thing inside. Along the back wall was a suit of recon armor and a suit of custom power armor. The armor was painted in a urban camouflage with a minigun and a 40mm cannon. Backblast almost died of a heart attack when he seen the suit. He proceeded to strip out of his suit and ran straight for the other suit. On the suits flank was a inscription with a few names on it. the names belonged to the 4th lunar special forces. On the breastplate was the words Luna Nos Custodit. Longeye went to the task of sorting out ammo for the rest of us, Ghost was putting the recon armor on when she turned invisible. "Holy Celestia wheres Ghost" Longeye said "Im...Im here" Ghost replied as she reappeared . Sweet a stealth suit that is so awesome. With the suits and ammo sorted we preceded to collect what we could and stuff Backblasts old suits saddlebags with what ever was left. =========The Hallway========= As we were leaving the armory I stopped to inspect the remains of the Blue alicorn discovering that she had no cutiemark it struck me as odd. As we were entering the elevator I swore I heard some thing say "They would be perfect for Unity' in the back of my mind. "Did anypony else hear that" i asked nopony in particular "No we didn't " they replied I must be losing my damn mind. No thou aren't losing thy mind. "What who said that...goddesses this place is fucking with me. I groaned Ghost tapped me on the shoulder "I..is something wrong Gunner you look spooked." " Just hearing voices in my head thats normal right heheh....right... damn." They all continued to just look at me. do ist thou not listen to us when we speak. Shut up brain I swear this has to be some kind of side effect of cryosleep Thou ist wrong "THATS IT I QUIT" I smacked my head off the wall of the elevator repeatedly until Longeye grabbed me and proceeded to slap the shit out of me telling me to calm the hell down after the little episode no one said anything by the way the ride up to the motor pool was boring and the music sucked. =========Motor Pool========== I stepped out of the elevator into the hanger that was the motor pool (albeit slightly concussed). all around us were various vehicles in different states of repair and decay. some if not half of our LAV's were completely destroyed. A few looked to be in working order. "Holy mother of Celestia what happened here." When we spotted Wellington which was easy since the LAV with him in it was painted all black with two red stripes down the side. we approached it and a little hologram of a fancy looking pony addressed us "Good evening Gunner and Co. time certainly was fair to you." "Thanks Welly can you tell us where we are ." I asked the A.I "We are currently in the MOA hub in Tronto." "and the Location of Echo Squad and the 5th armored Div." "MOA hubs in Chiacolt and Ponyville." "damn that's along way from either place." I deadpanned With us finally reunited with wellington. we were off to meet up with some very important allies.