armstrong from fullmetal right?

Oh yeah, that tank. VVVVRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMM!

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Ofcourse :D And wondefully accurate too. Just grate!

Screaming walls. Yep, it's "fuck this shit" time.

The alicorn screamed as white tatters and motes began to be drawn out of her eyes and mouth. The wisps were being pulled down through the ring, like the dancing firefly motes in the ruins deep beneath the earth.

Holy crap, I don't remember this happening last time, but there it is.

He stepped free, rising up and flexing his legs, making his abdomen pulse with every potent twitch of his body. “But now you directly face the physique that has been passed down the Stronghoof line for generations!”

...
........an armstrong reference.
.....yes. so much yes

Tanks! 8D Beautiful~

‘Higher! Higher!’

I wonder if I'm the only one who thought of Pac Man 2 for Sega?

Awesome job... I see the chapter Black...
I'm so fucked.
SCREAMING WALLS!

A section of wall was blown in, showing us with rubble

showering us ?

as Steel Rain pointed his guns right the blue pony

at the

Oh that Steel Ranger, Paladin Sugar Apple Bombs Stronghoof, he's just great.

Hell, that was a big battle very much so.

This song was in the back of my mind as the battle escalated, seemed fitting.

Glory is definitely not the world's most boring pony to be around.

And now back to labs and tunnels, oh gawd what did they stumble upon now?

“DROP A BOXCAR ON US, WILL YOU? TRAP US IN A MEMORY ORB? TOSS A BALEFIRE EGG IN OUR FACE?”

Little Pip is helping out everywhere I see.

The alicorn screamed as white tatters and motes began to be drawn out of her eyes and mouth.

So she starts hemorrhaging memories?

he’d make a wonderful secretary to my chancellor.

If Pinkie's rendition is to be trusted, Puddinghead was a loon too.

Well, that is a freaky thing. So much leftover tech and I really just want to learn how it worked...

This story is way darker than Kkat's story.

Glory, you are most certainly NOT a boring pony. Anypony into bdsm isn't vanilla at all.

The Stronghoof family

Is that a fullmetal alchemist reference

my vision filled with flexing images of a sparkling, beautiful stallion beefcake before I shook it off.

hahahaha

Footnote: Level Up.

so where's the perk.

Stronghoof.... sounds strangely familiar......
What was that Fullmetal guys name......Strongarm?

“Harmony, huh?” I looked in the direction of all the smoke. “Somehow, Hoofington doesn’t seem to know how to play along.”

Wait a second, where the hell is Discord in all of this? Could he be dead too?

Battle!
You wanna win it!
Let's have a battle!
Battle of the... gangs! XD

6742831 YES :3

what a baby drake saved Scotch AND BREATHS FIRE!

I'm starting to think I am irreconcilably biased in favor of this story. Case in point, the instant Paladin Bombs's face was revealed, I got the joke immediately. There was no nuance to it whatsoever as you continued to reveal him. And yet I didn't care. :B I mean, I complained about show-quoting during the scene with Blackjack's mom in the last chapter, and yet the fully-ponified character-from-another-show? "The greatest thing ever." I'm a fraud. D:

So yeah, this chapter has just the biggest fucking fight scene ever. c.c Geez. Usually, I'll try to reach the end of a scene before continuing with my day, but that was a mistake this time oh boy good thing I had nothing important to do yesterday :B Also, they make zero sense in this setting, but I'm glad you made bumper swords a thing. :D

Given this gang war is being called Equestria-wide, I wonder what stage of her story Littlepip is at WAIT I CAN PROBABLY JUST CHECK ICY SHAKE'S POST HAVE I MENTIONED THAT GUY IS GREAT seems FoE had finished up by the time you published this chapter, so I'm gonna guess this was during the Enclave incursion against Red Eye, or else shortly before it. That seems to make the most sense. Speaking of LP, I can't help but think that if she had been on this side of the Wasteland, she might have had an easier time of things. I mean, knowing Rampage and Lacunae answers a lot of questions in FoE, for sure.

Speaking of, I'm very glad Rampage is back, although I'm sorry we had to lose Mallet and Radishes to get her. :( Also geez, an hour after rejoining the party and she's already having an existential crisis and crying? I'm glad they took the time to question the silly-name Doctor, at least.

Oh yes, and let me not forget I am very glad the manticore pony is Brass and I cannot WAIT for her to die even though I would scold BJ for being so eager to kill her. :B I mean, c'mon, at least pretend to be heroic. And I'm guessing the exploding pony was a phoenix and the filly is a dragon.

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Actually, I think you forgot to complain about that. :B I noticed it while looking for what you were talking about with Lighthooves, and was surprised you didn't call that one out.
So, has Somber infected you with brainworms, and you're now like a character in an Alien Shipping Syndrome fic? :V

In Alien Shipping Syndrome, one or both characters in the ship act as if some presence has forced its way into their mind, and is tearing down the wallpaper of their memories and personalities and repainting it with something different. Thoughts that had never occurred to them pulse into the forefront of their brains and refuse to leave. The very logic of their worldview seems to shift, a schizophrenic delusion where everything suddenly makes sense.

But more seriously, my reaction to the Paladin has been a strange one. On my first read, I disliked his presence and found it distracting. More than that, it was probably my most hated inclusion to that point, possibly at any point. But later on, whether because of other changes in the story or myself or simply time to get used to the idea, I became invested in him. And that included being excited for his over-the-top unsubtle initial appearance. Part might be how much of a contrast his presentation makes to the general setting and feel of FoE and PH, such that he seems like she shouldn't belong, but somehow does. It's weird. I'm still glad that the editors apparently talked Somber out of having expies of a big chunk of the FMA cast, though. Even if Crumpets does remind me a bit of Hawkeye.

On Brass and heroism: One of the things that's a bit uncomfortable, especially in the early going of the story, is that Blackjack pretty clearly likes/liked the experience of fighting and killing. Not only is she very good at it, but you have things like her suggesting to Glory that they take out some raiders for fun and to get Glory's mind off her trauma, or the time in the museum. (Also I think sometimes when robots are involved, in part because there isn't the countervailing guilt.) It's situation-dependent, of course, but it really isn't the case that, like she said after the mine, that she just doesn't like killing, full stop, at least at that point. And even absent that, it's something she has to do all the time, and so often has problems with afterward (when they were actual characters, anyway). So, even if it's kind of a betrayal of her principles*, I can sort of get the impulse to want a situation where there is no hope, she can't save them, and so doesn't even have to try, and can instead just enjoy the whole thing. It's a prospect for a momentary reprieve from trying to live up to a standard she could never possibly achieve, and where failure (even when success was implausible to impossible) doesn't just mean that she's not a perfect hero, but all too often that's she sees herself as scum. Is gleefully running with it, in public, not even trying to hide that emotion, a good thing? No. But then, for better or worse, that isn't who she is, since she tends not to hide emotions (and not well), and when she does, they're usually negative.

*Especially I'm thinking of when Scalpel said “Because you want to save ‘em. You want them to be good ponies again. But ponies ain’t good or bad. Ponies is ponies, and the sooner you realize that, the easier it’ll be,” the first two sentences of which I tend to consider a good summary of one aspect of who Blackjack is. Also, a case where telling, supporting a lot of showing that had already been done, can help to crystallize an impression of a character.

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We'll call it Alien Project Horizons Syndrome. APHS. :B

You're right that he doesn't fit, but even before I figured out who he was supposed to be, I loved the fuck out of him. His every word and every action were pure brilliance. Good on the editors for doing that, however. c.c

As for Brass, I can honestly sympathize with BJ's reaction. I mean, I want Brass to die. I was super-glad to find out she was still alive, because I know Blackjack's going to kill her eventually. :D And BJ was just sort of celebrating the existence of an inevitable kill without the guilt. I don't think she's actually going to be celebrating once Brass is dead. Or at least, not as much as she thinks. I was mostly just finger-wagging over it anyway. :V

6830979 Maybe not having most of them is for the best. But still I'd love to have seen a variation of Alex's sister Olivia Mira Armstrong. Seriously, Damn she is awesome.

And for those who want nightmares regarding the next chapter, here's a good look.

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6831024 Can we call it the Alan Parsons Project instead?

Favourite chapter until now! So much fighting!!

That last part... Shiver...
Also, I found out how to summarize what P-21 says to Blackjack.

Seriously though. What the fuck.

so we have a Landkruiser armstrong lil pip the goddess the enclave red eye the brotherhood. a butt ton of raiders, and now we have Pinkeyes as well as discord. Oh yeah huffington is bucked

Well... after reading this chapter I feel more confident about comparing Rampage to a FMA homunculus. I mean, sure, the whole Project Chimera thing also felt like a nod, but now... Stronghoof? ...That... was... awesome. I also loved Blackjack's reaction to Brass. Something I feel gets left out a bit in all the angst is that this is a Fallout crossover... Fallout, despite all the post-apocalyptic mess, is fun. Any character who can't occasionally get into the crazy of it is going to be nothing but a shivering wreck waiting to die in a hole somewhere. Half the dialogue options in the last few installments are pure snark and it's not just video game logic; humor is a coping mechanism. Granted, any character who gets too into it becomes part of the mess: raider, slaver, what have you, but I think Blackjack's found a pretty good mix. Loved this chapter.

So.. there was a level up but nothing was added? That's odd..

Well... this chapter just took a turn that is a few levels of creepy that I didn't want. I mean... it's cool as hell to see the true nature and power and stuff of what makes those silver bullets, but damn that's creepy. Well, I guess it's time for the next leg of the nightmare to begin.

~SolidFire

*facehoofs*, good god they ponified Alex Armstrong...the strong arm alchemist.

*slow claps.* Bravo...bravo...such an exemplary show! *smacks Alex*

wonder who's worse stronghoof or armstrong?

7617539 you mean.. better? ^-^

you know, when an entire lab starts screaming but there is only one visible pony other than you and your friends, you should start booking it the hell outta fricking dodge asap.

I don't get the reference, but Stronghoof is a riot! What a silly character, but he works really well.

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Anime called Full Metal Alchemist
he is base on this character
https://i.stack.imgur.com/GAYeP.jpg

Alex Louis Armstrong - Dude was funny as hell and Somber captured his personality perfectly.

All we needed now was the Enclave to sweep in, and I’d wave the white flag. It couldn’t get any worse than this…

Huehuehueh, they totally aren't coming.

*pinches nose and sighs* Armstrong, you got lost there, buddy. Knowing the FoE universe, he'll probably die a senseless death, so I'm not even gonna try to like him or get attached too much...

“Hug me and I’ll put enough C-4 in your bed to launch you to the moon.”

6537433 this story requires you to prove your 18 but kkat's story doesn't which is odd but it is darker

8052601 Both are marked mature so it should be required for each (and is for me), but that only applies to whichever you go to first--the site remembers if you say you're over 18 and want to see mature fics, so once you say you are, you're good to go with whatever else you click on. Until you log out or clear your cookies, anyway.

6527758 lol I was about to say
gee I wonder where he found the inspiration for this guy XD

Wow. And I thought the Canterlot Invasion in Platinum Crown was a battle.
This takes the cake.
An aperture industrial grade cake, stuffed with balefire and ostentaciousness.

And that tank, man...OP

I just noticed something.
THE FOOTNOTE DOES NOT HAVE A LEVEL-UP PERK!

“DROP A BOXCAR ON US, WILL YOU? TRAP US IN A MEMORY ORB? TOSS A BALEFIRE EGG IN OUR FACE?”

Someone's holding a grudge

Major Alex Louis Armstrom of the mighty Armstrong family approves of this Stronghoof fellow! *shirtless, posing, with floaty pink sparkles*

Instantly, he rolled over, wailing. “Oh no! You’ve struck my spleenic ganglion nerve cluster, a Stronghoof vulnerability that’s been passed down for generations! Oh the agony! The injury! Oh, I must yield!” He lifted his legs to protect the spot I’d thumped. Glory was mouthing the words “spleenic ganglion…” and looking confused. “Release this noble fighter’s friends.”

reminds me of Pegasus in Yu-GI-Oh: "OH! NO! what EVER! shall I DO?"

If the party ever runs into a Sig Curtis pony who has to have a respect gaining flex off with Stronghoof I seriously fear for P-21's life. A pony's heart can only take so much!

Man, that escalated quickly.

I mean that really got out of hand fast.

I barely had time to drink a healing potion before two hooves slammed through the slab, pulverizing it atop me and hauling me up through the rubble! “Don’t feel bad! This is a part of the legendary Stronghoof combat technique, passed down for generations!” he said as he lifted me high in his hooves. Somehow, I doubted he planned to hug me again.

And suddenly I can no longer think of him as only a jackass. Damn it, Fullmetal Alchemist.

He looked down… way way down… at me. For a moment, I had a horrible image of those massive piston hooves dropping and turning me into a round black-and-red-maned pancake. And then, faster than I could believe possible, he moved. But rather than smearing me into pony jelly, he swept me up in a massive hug, his speaker booming, “Oh what nobility! What courage! What heroism! Fighting a battle of impossible odds against a vastly superior foe for the safety and wellbeing of her comrades!” Holding me easily in one foreleg he thrust his hoof towards the sky. “This is the embodiment of all things the Rangers should strive for!” He tossed me above the ground, catching me once more in his hooves and shaking me like a doll. “I shall not decline your glorious sacrifice! Truly, this shall be a duel for the ages!”

Why does this guy remind me of Armstrong?

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Because you've watched or read FMA(B)?

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I still wanted Star Paladin Mustang...

HIS NAME IS ALREADY PONIFIED!!!

...Hawkeye and Havoc aren't far off either...

::Pouts::

Now i am renembering A weird garfield comic that he was soo hungry and ate the kitchen and became the kitchen.

I bet that rampage did not have big daddy's mission to kill blackjack, but a way to persuade her in the confession

Morning glory is interesting because she is "normal" in the middle of the wasteland.

The pony had amtitank rifles on both sides... Just make him waste ammo, he cannot walk with a lot of it because of the weight and space.

P21 knew blackjack was dry and stared at her withh the gunbarrel there becaus e in the crazy moment she shoot every round on the weapon already and was hearing the gunshots from the other ponies