open Fallout Equestria: Endeavor

[KlutsyDraconequus 120]

Ricto then approached the commander his size comparable. "I appologize for my earlier...absense. However, I am inclined to agree with these fellow ponies. I could care less about what you have on you or what your armed with. Turn your tank off now or I will evict you. I am not standing for this insubordination while your on my territory," he replied sternly. "I am willing to let you stay as the ghoul said before. However, no one here sees any reason to leave your tank running without a just purpose. Don't mistake my lifestyle for a lack of intelligence." He warned as more agitated Raiders looking for a fight gathered behind him now. They laughed menacingly toward the soldiers. They already accepted death, and dying for their leader was not something they were afraid of. 

Edited March 15, 2015 by Sriracha

[Defender of Tomorrow 323]

"Cut the engines" He commanded as he saw the raiders funnel out of the woodworks, he smirked under his helmet as a handful of them looked very sickly, soon enough they would be in for a surprise. "Actually, time to pack up boys, these fellas don't know how to keep word on their end of the bargain." With that all the squad scrambled to pick up most of their gear and hauled it away on the tank and in the tank. The commander returned to the tank's machine gun and the engines went back on, they exited through the rear without saying another word, whatever they been up to was done.

 

The infected Raiders were groaning "I-I don't feel too good.." Another raider joined in "I-I feel like my eyes are gonna explode.." Soon enough all the infected raiders were screaming in agony, their bodies no longer in their control, but in the virus' control. Their bodies contorted unnaturally, bloody tears ran down their face and they drew their weapons on their comrades and began firing, unnaccurately at first but it began to stabilize. "D-don't shoot, I-I can't control myself!" the raiders protested as the main herd scrambled behind cover and firing back.

Edited March 15, 2015 by Defender of Tomorrow

[Unicorncob 5,714]

Crackshot watched stoically as the engines ceased and the Rangers began gathering their gear. His cold expression softened as he watched rather sickly-looking raiders trudging out of the surrounding houses, groaning in pain.

 

As the Rangers made their leave, the sick ponies began twitching and contorting in an unnatural way, blood running down from their eyes as they began opening fire on the uninfected and crying that they couldn't control themselves.

 

As Crackshot dodged the crossfire and got into cover, he looked over at the carnage, his breathing shortening. This is exactly what he wanted to avoid. He swallowed and put a hoof to the pendant around his neck, the pain in his chest slowly spreading through his body and transforming into a wave of pure anger.

 

Snarling through his teeth, he dashed back for the weapon shop, and sure enough, Pain in the Ass was sitting on the floor, sharpening his sword and looking into the distance.

 

He walked over and effectively dope-slapped him into consciousness.

"You," he growled, "you still want to take out those soldiers?"

[P-Jay 1,987]

caliber picked up his gallon of gasoline. "ill do it alone, ya prick." they dashed outside together. caliber looked at him. "ok, you draw their attention away from me, i'll chuck this into the tank, hopefully they have shells in there. then," he quickly made a Molotov cocktail, "ill throw this in. ready?" he said.

Edited March 15, 2015 by Peytonjay

[Unicorncob 5,714]

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"Shut up for a second," Crackshot snarled, putting a hoof against Pain in the Ass's chest to stop him, "they just left town, so we need to track them. Before we do, we're going to need more than just some fire to take out that tank. It's laced with some kind of virus that's effected the ponies around here. That's why they kept the engines running."

 

He nodded toward the scene of pure chaos outside the shop window, encouraging the other unicorn to do the same.

 

"We need to track them until they stop to sleep for the night. Chances are they won't keep the engine running this time."

 

@@Chip Circuit

 

With that, he walked up to Chip and told him directly, "I need explosives. Land mines, grenades, I don't care what."

[P-Jay 1,987]

caliber looked at him. "fine..." he muttered. he walked up to chip as well. "and i need my sword sharpened to a scalpel edge." he was still furious at the rangers. angry enough to work with this prick. he glared at crackshot. he was so angry-

 

"caliber? is that you?" he heard a mare say. he turned to find none other than violet walking towards him. "its been months!" she said, and hugged him. "oh, hello!" she said, noticing crackshot. "im violet, a friend to caliber, friend to all, really."

 

caliber looked at her. "violet! what are ya doin' in ponyville?" violet looked at him. "hoping to get a drink, really. but someone already bought their best bottle."

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

As Chip inspected the armor he begun to speak up "Now i dont have much experience cybernetic parts, but i can still throw in my opinio. with as much energy that these parts seem to require you'll need to find a way to mount a power core to it. On top of that the magic channels would best be upgraded to a heavier gauge channel as well as to avoid an over clocking issue you'll need a heavy mana redistribution processor, something which is very rare to find," he said as he heard gun fire coming from outside.

 

Suddenly the unicorn colt came bursting back into his shop and ran up to the peculiar unicorn.They both ran out of the shop leaving just Chip and the Pegasus mare. "Shit what the hell is going on now," Chip groaned as he locked the door to his shop, locking one lock with a key.

 

Chip turned around grabbing his long range energy rifle he had finished building. He walked up to a door opening it, it revealed a staircase that headed upward. "You're welcome to follow, otherwise the store is locked so don't try anything," he said heading up the stairs. The stairs ended in a small room on the second story. Behind the opening of the stairs was another stair case that went up further. Chip continued up the stairs soon coming up on the roof of his shop. From this height he was able to look through the scope on his rifle and see a few dozen ponies who were bleeding from the eyes shooting irratically in every direction. Chip steadied his gun getting ready to take a shot.

As Chip was about to compress the trigger of his rifle he saw the pony in his sight suddenly drop dead. He took his eye from his scope and looked back through it looking at another pony who fell over as well. Confused he turned the safety on his rifle on aND headed back downstairs. Once back inside he saw the Pegasus mare was halfway through with putting her armor on. "Don't bother it's over," he said a little disappointed that he didn't get to shoot one of the shit head raiders before they bleed out.

 

Chip unlocked the door and as soon as it was the two unicorns burst in making demands of what they needed. "Well I have some mines and grenades in stock, I usually try to keep those for my personal use but I guess I can help ya oUT," he said while taking the sword beginning to sharpen it.

[Midnight_Aurora 571]

Dashia asks, "May I Ask, what are the signs of this virus?"

 

Dashia draws her Recharger Rifle and gets back into her armor. The suit seals up the hazard warnings going off in its systems. 'Class 2 Virus detected. Initiating counter environment sealing process.'

 

Dashia's suit is a standard enclave grade dragoon class environmentally sealed power armor. Effects up to taint grade 2 are blocked. From the voice system of her suit she says, "class beta virus. Not bad of them but to harm innocence is not something I take likely."

 

She steps up to crackshot and asks, "May I help with the virus problem? Two options kill or capture. Which do you prefer?"

[Unicorncob 5,714]

Crackshot barely acknowledged the mare's presence, watching in horror as the infected ponies literally dropped dead where they stood. He swallowed and shook his head, returning to his normal stoic expression, and nodding to the shop owner.

 

"Any you can spare will help," he added, "take the money from my cut of the job later."

 

He glanced back to the mare from before, who obviously was related to this...'Caliber', was it? He snorted as he internally snarked about how dumb that name was.

 

"Crackshot." He finally grunted to her.

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

Chip set down the sword he was sharpening and walked into his back room for a second and came out with a small wooden crate floating in front of him setting it on the counter. "I have 4 land mines left and 7 grenades. So feel free, i will say though mines mat not be too effective against a brotherhood tank," Chip stopped mid-sentence pondering for a second "Although i'll hold onto these, i'll join you all. While I could care less about what happened to the raiders here in Ponyville, using biochemical warfare like that is inhumane. So i'd like to help you all put a stop to it, plus i could only imagine the scraps I could get from a piece of machinery like that" he said as he picked up the sword again and did finishing sharpening on the sword using a fine grained sharpening belt. 

Edited March 15, 2015 by Chip Circuit

[Unicorncob 5,714]

Crackshot nodded, subtly appreciating the extra help. As much as he preferred working alone, he knew it'd take more than one pony to take out a heavily armoured battalion with a functioning tank. And from seeing this pony's repair skill, he obviously knew how to use a weapon.

 

Even with that jumpy little gnat Caliber working with him, he had a good chance of winning.

Speaking of which, what was with that 'Violet' mare? Obviously she knows him, but he secretly prayed they shared weapon skills instead of personality traits. She'd better have a decent gun...and a sound mind.

[KlutsyDraconequus 120]

Ricto was beyond angry, but he knew it would be suicide to attempt anything with his forces decimated the way they were. The remaining infected were killed and their bodies burned in the center of town for extra protection. The stench wafted spreading throughout the camp. The remaining raiders who were healthy were stationed at the perimeter watching for any threats. He entered the shop with Chronos behind him. The door was locked, as annoyed as he was. He busted the door down making his own entrance. "Chip! Everyone is dying outside and your hiding inside your pitiful weapon shop?" He yelled angry with just everything that just happened. "Calm down Ric, I'm sure it was a precautionary action nothing more. Besides, what else could he have done on such short notice? No one was privy into their intentions until it was far too late. You know that," I told him sternly. "Fine," he said taking a deep breath now. "You join them Chronos, I will hold the fort here with what we have left. I will be sending a message to our brothers in Appaloosa. This means war," He said still trying to hold back his rage that would quite literally destroy the whole building. He left to send a messenger to spread the word for aid. In the mean time, he would have to hold his position here as precarious as it was. Chronos entered the room now as the group finished their discussion. "I hope we have a contingency plan for this act of war. Anyone have options?" Asked Chronos crisply looking at the three ponies in middiscussion. 

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

Before Chip could muster a response for Ricto, he was already out the door. Chip put his hoof up to the side of his head, murmuring to himself clearly angered by the situation while chronos begun stating something "the door was unlocked, why did he do that. Besides I'm a shop keeper, did he really expect me to run up to a tank like a neanderthal. Besides if I did i'd have an equal share of whatever killed those ponies, leaving Ponyville without a gunsmith. I don't know why I bother trying to help out from the rooftops when I still get labeled as coward, everyone in this town could burn for all i care," Chip looked up and saw all the ponies looking at him after Chronos finished speaking. 

 

Chip figured they were looking at him because of his murmuring and that they may want his input. He begun using his magic to pull apart his rifle to calm down. "uhh... all I can say as for plans is to stop that tank and kill that general before everything escalates to full scale war. It will end up being several dozen raiders against an army of well trained, well armed Brotherhood soldiers. Unfortunately I don't have any heavy weapons capable of damaging a tank, only other way to stop it is with an M.E.D blast (Magical energy disruption). Which for me to create a portable device I need several mana cores, a small transmission relay, and a mana converter," he stated putting his rifle back together.

[Unicorncob 5,714]

"That'll take too much time," Crackshot spoke up, throwing his two caps into the conversation, "they're on the move right this second, and every second we waste here means their trail gets colder."

 

He glanced to the explosives Chip had presented. "Besides, we can't focus on the tank itself; it's the drivers we need to take out. We can get them separated with a few good frag shots and put the mongrels down, then we can worry about the tank."

 

He glanced over to Chronos. "Are there still any snipers around here?"

 

Normally, these days he wouldn't be so upfront about statistics, especially to strangers, but these raiders did nothing to deserve their fate. Nopony deserves it. Those Rangers went too far, and they had to be stopped before they could claim more victims.

 

He glanced down to his pendant.

He knew in his heart that this is what she would want him to do.

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

Chip raised his hoof at the question about snipers "I haven't actually seen actual combat besides some of the small attacks that happen here. I generally setup on the roofs when something goes on in town. Actually during that ranger incident once the gunfire started I was up on the roof, the rangers were out of range and the infected ponies were already dying," he said as he set his long range energy rifle on his side.

Edited March 17, 2015 by Chip Circuit

[P-Jay 1,987]

caliber looked at crackshot. "couldn't have said it better myself." he turned back to the group. "and i think we can take out the tank by throwing a grenade or two into the top hatchet. killing anyone inside." he looked at violet. "you wanna join?" 

"hell ya!"she replied.

"great, now we gotta go! like he said, the trail gets colder every passing second! now, we gotta decide right now, whos the distraction, and whos gonna kill em'"

violet looked at him. "from what i've heard, they hate you." she said, "i think you should be the rabbit. right, flare?" the phoenix cawed in agreement.

[KlutsyDraconequus 120]

Upon hearing their discussion, I spoke then. "I have a another way to get their attention, although I might have to risk myself in a suicide mission. Anyone ever hear of a Shoopuf? They are extremely rare creatures, i managed to find one on the verge of death and had it converted into a Ghoul Shoopuf with some help." As I said this, a dilapidated looking dinosaur-elephant creature came walking into full view of the group. "They are also very useful in transporting goods, with one exception, you need a ghoul driver. Unless you guys know another ghoul around here who can drive." I asked them curiously. "Oh, and her name is Rosey May if your wondering," I said with a smirk.

Edited March 17, 2015 by Sriracha

[Midnight_Aurora 571]

Dashia says, "in this power armor my speed is nearly cut in half. If yall know of a good defense armor that is light, I could do a flyby on the tank and drop the devices on it to lure the drivers out. If a timer could be put on the land mines I might be able, with some difficulty, drop it on the lid to the cab for the tank. My body build isn't just for looks, ya know."

 

Dashia gets out of the armor again knowing it was Safe to do so. She then places the caps for a light armor on the counter. "May I leave my armor in your shop, shopkeep?" She asks chip.

 

(Don't know if she knows your name, Chip.)

Edited March 17, 2015 by Midnight_Aurora

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

Chip looks at the armor and back at the mare. "While I am more then comfortable to let your armor stay in my shop, I honestly would trust it if I'm leaving. Being the fact that my front door was destroyed by that blow hard ricto. As to light armor I have a few sets of basic gear that the Raiders around here wear," he said as he begun levitating a lot his stock up stairs into the room on the second floor.

 

"If you really want to leave your armor I can set it upstairs with rest of my merchandise, but this door is just a solid metal door. It's not reinforced like my front door."

[Unicorncob 5,714]

Crackshot glanced over to Chip. "So basically you're the closest thing we've got."

 

He looked over to the ghoul to listen to his plan, his eyes slowly looking toward Caliber as soon as the words 'suicide mission' came up.

Just as he was beginning to wonder just what the hell a 'Shoopuf' is,  that...thing came marching up to them. Many questions began to run through his brain as soon as he laid eyes on it.

 

He shook his head, discarding the questions, and went back to the task at hoof as he looked toward Dashia. "You can set the mines and drop them over the tank. Maybe do the same with some frags to ferret them out."

[Midnight_Aurora 571]

She says proudly, "I am the fastest mare in my family, next to Rainbow Dash my ancestor."

 

Dashia stands flexing her athletic mussels.

 

She looks to chip And says, "The suit is voice and dna printed to my family. They wouldn't be able to use it even if they could get it. It is also just about on its last legs anyways. It has maybe one or two more full repairs left before it falls appart. My father told me to use it wisely. It was his Dashite armor before he passed it on to me. You can put it up stairs. Let's see those armors."

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

Chip carried much of his merchandise upstairs along with the mare's power armor. Once everything was upstairs Chip came back down going straight into his back room. Soon the sound of a large crate being drug across the floor could be heard followed by a crash of metal pipes hitting the floor. He emerged from the back room with a crate sliding across the floor behind him. "This is all the armor I have, feel free to find anything that fits you," he said opening the lid of the crate.

 

The crate was filled mainly with leather armor, along with scaps of power armor that was re-purposed into pieces of armor that protect limbs.

[Defender of Tomorrow 323]

Aile had finished her meal and immediately went to bed, the cave wasn't exactly a hotel room but it was better than whatever sleeping arrangement they had in raider town. She rolled around a little in the sleeping bag, she was being plagued by an early childhood nightmare once more. "Nm..n-no.." she groaned in her sleep, it was gonna be a long night for her.

 

The commander and his squad had taken refuge in a small town that they had used the same tactics to enter, the townsfolk had no real weapons to pierce power armor nor destroy a tank, they all grunted as the tank rolled into the center of town. The tank was left to idle, the rear end of it spewing out the virus spores into the air, soon enough the entire town would have been infected with the deadly disease. 

[Midnight_Aurora 571]

Dashia starts sifting through the box of armors and parts. She gathers what looks to be a leather armor and a bunch of power armor scrap parts. She then asks, "Seeing this gives me an idea for a new armor. It contains the protectiveness of power armor without the restrictions of it. So those who are fast can be fast. May I use a workbench to make it?" She looks to chip for a response.

Edited March 17, 2015 by Midnight_Aurora

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

Chip looks at the mare considering her question "Well seeing how my workbench on that side of the counter is destroyed," he said looking back at his work bench behind the counter which he keeps in top working order "I'll let you use it since since you're my favorite pony in this town so far." He let her being the counter so she could begin working.