open Fallout Equestria: Endeavor

[Midnight_Aurora 571]

Dashia gathers the items and moves over to the workbench. She sets the items down and reaches into her saddlebags. She pulls out her tools and says, "Thanks for the complement. I hope this doesn't take all night or we may be late to catch up to them."

 

(Science Check: 46)

She starts working on making the armor.

Edited March 17, 2015 by Midnight_Aurora

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

While the mare made herself at home at Chip's workbench he continued working on the ghoul's weapon. He levitated the hammer off the floor bringing it up to his grinding wheel. He turned on the wheel running the sledge hammers face on it. While grinding the sledge hammer he couldn't help but not watch the mare as she worked on her armor out of curiosity. 

[Midnight_Aurora 571]

Dashia is heavy into her work unaware of her surroundings as she is putting this armor together. There are reinforced plates on each of the limbs. There is enough space between plates for free movement, while retaining defensive integrity.

 

After a few hours she is working on the wing plates. She pulls out an armor mod that looks to be a mana shield generator. She attaches it to the underside leather of the right wing plate.

 

A few hours later, she steps back and says, "Finally done."

 

Before her is what looks like an extremely light version of power armor.

 

It has a leather base with plates on top. For the head peace, she has what looks to be a head visor. The wing plates look like they will cover and protect the wings only when the user is not flying. For any non-winged race the wing plates look like part of the armor. The right wing plate completely conceals the armor mod under it.

 

She asks, "What do you think, good or failure?"

Edited March 18, 2015 by Midnight_Aurora

[KlutsyDraconequus 120]

I went up to Crackshot then, "Hey, so when are we going out to pursue them? We only have 48 hours until we lose all trace of their whereabouts." I turned to the store then, "We should check up on chip and Dash  to see their own progress. Let's go shall we?" I offered.

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A raiding party noticed the same squad in the nearby town as they were spewing the same disease to the local populace. They maintained their post keeping an eye on the squad in the town from their concealed position radioing the outpost at Ponyville of the new update.

- meanwhile -

Ricto knocked on the shop stepping over the smashed door. "Chip, we have reports of the damned squad in the neighboring town killing them off as we speak, what's the status of your parties departure?"

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The runner had made it to Appleloosa with a steady stream of sweat approaching the garrison guard. "We have a message from Ricto from the Ponyville Outpost. The message within should explain everything that happened.

- Sometime later -

The runner had a decent heated meal and water as a detachment of raiders were sent to reinforce the outpost as long as it was necessary. It would take a day of traveling or so but help would arrive soon enough. One could only hope it was in time. 

[Unicorncob 5,681]

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Crackshot nodded to Chronos, glancing toward the store. "If they're not ready by now then we go off without them. They can catch up when they're set."

 

The two ponies walked toward the store, where they spotted Ricto had also entered. Probably wanting to check the team's progress himself.

[Midnight_Aurora 571]

Aurora looks to those who entered and says, "With my new armor now complete, I can leave at any time."

Aurora walks up to them in her armor and she salutes them.

 

Aurora's figure is now visable without that heavy armor she once was wareing. She definitely looks like a descendant of the legend herself, Rainbow Dash.

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

Chip finished sharpening one of the sledgehammer's faces down to a sharp point and set the hammer on the floor next to the grinding stone. He turned to Ricto who was looking rather impatient waiting for an answer from Chip, Chip slid his goggles up on his forehead. "As to everyone chasing down that tank, we should be just about ready to depart since everyone is outfitted. We will try our best to take out those brotherhood goons, since I know none of your raiders are even close to being skilled or brave enough." Chip taunted still angry over Ricto destroying the door of his shop. 

 

As Chip glanced out through the barred window beside him and saw the ghoul and crackshot returning. He picked up the sledgehammer with his magic and leaned it against the counter so it was ready to present to the ghoul.

[Defender of Tomorrow 323]

Once the virus had thoroughly infested the town and it's inhabitants the commander signaled his group to mobilize to their safe house, the tank rolled out of the small town, half of the ponies dead in their houses with the virus infesting the structures and harvesting their remains. The unfortunate ponies that were still "alive" roamed around the town, most of their humane components gone and all that was left was the plant to control their bodies. 

 

Aile woke up in a sweat, her nightmare having repeated for a second time within a week. She held onto the pendant for some odd reason, the cold vial immediately cooled and relaxed her hoof and she rested back on her sleeping roll. "Something's not right.." she muttered to herself, biting her lip and thinking about the marking on the tank and the demeanor of the rangers, were they really rangers? She shook her head and closed her eyes trying to get back to sleep.

[Midnight_Aurora 571]

Aurora says to the three, "To be honest with you, their actions didn't sound like the brotherhood dad always told me about. They would have tried to destroy my power armor, when they saw it. They acted strange in my eyes. I also know that the brotherhood wouldn't attack helpless or innocent ponies. These ones didn't even hesitate to release that virus on innocent ponies. If you catch my drift. Ready when you are."

 

Aurora packs quickly her bag. She then goes over to Chip and says, "Later if you want I can make more of these armors for you to sell."

Edited March 23, 2015 by Midnight_Aurora

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

Chip looks at the mare as she makes her offer, he looks over the armor that she has on her. He considers her offer and speaks up "It wouldn't be fair for your labor to benefit myself or my shop. I mean if you want to become mechanical partners that's different and we will split profits. Otherwise honestly I have similar armor upstairs, granted I didn't make as much use of the power armor along with mods. Another note being that I saw how you made and now looked over it, i could probably make it myself. Since I'm usually firing from the roofs sturdy armor had never been my primary focus." He stated as he looked down at the large sledge hammer beside him waiting for the ghoul to come retrieve his weapon. 

 

While Chip had nothing else to do he ran up stairs to equip his armor, being primarily leather with power armor scraps over vital areas. The metal pieces on his armor have obviously seen better days. There was even some newer marks on the armor suggesting that Chip had recently used the armor in combat. He came back down stairs looking at everyone in his shop. He returned to his counter and brought up the explosives looking at the mare "Actually I'll let you handle these since you're the only one that can fly and get the best shot with them." He slid the bag across the counter to the mare. "There is also one smoke grenade in there as well, if you can drop it by the tank's vent ports then the smoke may cause them to open the hatch of the tank if it is closed. In turn you'll have the chance to drop the explosives inside." 

[Midnight_Aurora 571]

Dashia smiles and says, "They harm the innocent. It would be my honor to return the favor on their behalf."

 

Dashia claims the explosives. (explosives check.) She makes sure they won't activate while she puts them away in her bags.

 

(Battlesaddles check.) She then fasteneds her Battlesaddle with Recharger Rifle over it so she can easily get to them. She says, with the look of a well trained Enclave warrior, "All set and ready to kick some much needing to be kicked flank."

Edited March 24, 2015 by Midnight_Aurora

[Unicorncob 5,681]

Crackshot entered the shop with the ghoul, and the mare walked up to them and announced her readiness, complete with a salute. Her eagerness was certainly a rare thing to see in the wasteland.

He spotted the modified sledgehammer on the counter, one end sharpened to a fine point. Not bad.

 

He watched as Chip passed the bag of explosives to the pegasus, explaining his plan. It made sense; the fastest flyer they had should be the one to bomb the tank.

 

But suddenly, a thought came to him, and he looked over to the mare, though it was mostly meant for everyone present. "Make sure to take proper cover when the bombs are dropped, that gas might be flammable."

[Midnight_Aurora 571]

Dashia says, "I will be making two flybys. One for the smoke grenade and one for the others. I will hit so fast they won't know what hit them until I am at a safe distance to detinate. My mom's pipbuck has been tuned to detinate them remotely. However in the event I am unable to, They are equipped with a 10 second Timer. It will blow them 10 seconds after I drop them. Easy as baking a pie." She seams confident but not arrogantly so.

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

Chip grins listening to the mare's enthusiasm, Chip was even starting to look forward to dealing with these goons. Originally his interest in this venture was over the tank, wanting to get his hooves on that kind of tech. "Well nice to you're eager since you'll be flying in close, I'll try my best to cover you with my long range energy rifle." Chip said as his attention was diverted to the ghoul who decided to return to the shop.

 

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"Hey! how's this for a sharp blunt weapon?" Chip inquired levitating the hammer toward him and set it on the floor in front of him. "Sorry for how basic it is, I wanted to put an impact mod on it but yea... haven't had any mods come in let alone no supplies to create them." 

 

Chip spoke up once more "Hey one more thing, what are all your names so I know what to call you all?" 

[Midnight_Aurora 571]

Dashia say to Chip her new partner, "Well partner, my name is Cloudia Dashia, descendant of Rainbow Dash and fastest flyer in my family. But please call me Dashia."

 

She brims with pride knowing of her heritage and what she has to live up to. She then says, "I will never leave my friends or those I care for hanging."

Edited March 24, 2015 by Midnight_Aurora

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

Chip cocks his head back looking at her still "A descendant of rainbow Dash huh? I've heard tales of her and her friends from way back," Chip said, he looked away from the ponies in his shop with a tear in his eye "My father used to share those stories with me when I was young, he used to tell me with knowledge you can be just as great as those in the stories." 

 

Chip turned forward again with a smile on his face, he was covering his pain but at the same time was happy thinking of his father. 

[SteamyPancakes 29]

Arial Flame looks through a window at what appears to be some ponies talking. He hears one say their name is Dashia.

"Hello??" He knocks on the window to try and get their attention. "Can somepony let me in? Its kinda cool out here!"

He pushes up on the window to open it but to no avail.

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

Chip looks over at the barred window at what a appears to be a rather dull pegasus trying to open the window. He points his hoof in the direction of the doorway where the door is still lying on the ground "I don't think I left the door locked, you can come in!" he yelled so the pegasus could hear him.

[Defender of Tomorrow 323]

The tank caused the earth to rumble as it rolled down a somewhat paved path towards their safe house, the tank was closed completely except for the commander who was on the mounted machine gun, he vigilantly watched the wasteland, his eyes scanning further than your average pony and occasionally gunning down critters that were brave enough to make an advance on the hulking machine. His squad mates were keeping chatter down to a minimum as they also watches the wasteland cautiously, this time of the night(or morning) was the most dangerous out of all the hours as the Zaphyrian army was known to patrol their new trade routes before sending their caravans out. 

 

Aile attempted to go back to sleep, her ears perking up to the sounds of various creatures howling and moving about in the distance, she knew that even someone of her capability was not safe out there at this hour. "I wonder why they're so riled up all of a sudden.." she wondered aloud, biting her lip as she listened to the sounds of the creatures and wasteland, both of which were oblivious to her existence

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Edited March 25, 2015 by Defender of Tomorrow

[SteamyPancakes 29]

"Oh!" Flame ran into the building through the doorway the pony told him to. "Hello! I'm Arial Flame, its nice to meet you!" He walked towards the unicorn and looked up at him. "What's your name?" He asked in a curious yet confident voice. He was always a bit too outgoing and didn't know when to stop talking.

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

Chip reared his head back looking at this over charismatic Pegasus, "I'm Chip Circuit, mechanical and gun technician as well as the owner of this shop. Unfortunately we'll have to make your business short I was just about to close down for a while." Chip stated while thinking to himself I feel this 'arial flame' and that peculiar unicorn would get along well. 

 

"So what is it you need?" Chip asked Arial.

[SteamyPancakes 29]

Arial flame smiled "well first of all I need my pistol fixed, its got a bullet stuck inside of the cocking mechanism and I can't get it out, second of all I was wondering if you had any place I could stay? I don't have anyone and its boring being alone all the time..." Flame folded his ears back and stared at the ground with a sad expression.

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

Chip took the gun with his magic quickly disassembling it as he talked "unfortunately this is not an inn, just a gun shop. There is an inn at the center of town where you can find lodging." he said as the gun was completely disassembled, he laid all the parts out on the counter except the firing chamber.

 

He looked closely at the chamber and forced the bullet out noticing the bullet damaged the chamber's cylinder when it jammed. He walked into his back room rummaging through a crate filled with gun parts. He found the part he was looking for walking back up to the counter. Chip removed the cylinder from the chamber and inserted the new one. He spoke up again as he also applied some gun grease to the gun's mechanics "I will warn you though if you go to the inn, the last half of the menu is poisoned. So stay away from that." Chip warned as the he had the pistol fully reassembled handing it back over to the Pegasus "I'm feeling generous so the gun repair is on the house"

[Unicorncob 5,681]

Crackshot loaded some new shells into Persuasion before glancing up to Chip.

"Crackshot," he muttered.

 

His eyes drifted toward the window, where a pegasus seemed to be trying to open the window, despite the busted door.

Once he'd gotten himself inside he began talking Chip's ears off about a busted gun or whatever.

 

He mentally snarked that this 'Arial Flame' and Caliber would get along quite well. And then the realisation that he potentially had two Calibers to deal with dawned on him, and he took a few seconds to close his eyes tight and scream internally before returning Persuasion to his back.

Edited March 24, 2015 by Unicorncob

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

As Arial turned his head away from Chip for a second, Chip shook his head putting his hoof to his face. With an exasperated look on his face he caught Crackshot's eyes and saw he was feeling the same way about having two overly charismatic ponies around.

 

Chip lowered his hoof as Arial turned back toward him.