private Helping a stranger in need (FO:E)

[Gloomfury 243]

@@Cherry_Bloom,

 

 He grinned and let out a goofy chuckle as his sunglasses got a little lopsided. But before they could show his eyes he fixed them and went after her, with a light skip in his step. He pulled out the medical book and placed it inside her bag. "So worth the trade. I know it's kinda strange, but a really think a kiss from a very pretty mare is with worth far more then all the caps in the world. And believe it or not, I wasn't always this straightforward.

 

When I was kid I was the shyest kid in my town. I would always hide behind my ma's legs. Plus I was made fun of a lot because of...uh....well... Anyway. Soon I developed quite a bit of confidence, But please, know that I may like to chase mares. It doesn't mean I'm a player. When I see mare I really like, I want to get to know her, not just play around. Cause guys like that can't call themselves a stallion. They are just a scumdogs. 

 

I hope ya understand. My ma taught me right. If I acted like some of those stallions she wouldn't care if I am a full grown stallion, she would still put her hoof in my ass like I was still a kid." He chuckled and gave a sincere smile. "I just thought I should tell ya how I feel. I like being honest. Because I think honest really is the best policy. Even in the world we're in."

[Ranger22 179]

"hmm... never thought about that, I guess technically the Steel Rangers were around first... Also... what are Applejack's rangers? I have only seen Desert Rangers, Steel Rangers, and NCR Rangers..." Hazmat said. 'why does there have to be so many types of rangers...' He thought before looking at Chain. "You and Tin Can can turn in the ear and caps to Mr. Garret, I will take the helmet of the dead ranger to the Desert Ranger outpost near Westside. they cant really use the armor anymore..." He said.

"The story of the applejack rangers is a long one, so I'll give you a decently cut up version of it. Back in the east rangers are pretty much in every city, so they were quite large in size unlike the ones here. Due to the large amount of personnel you could expect there to be many opinions that conflict with each other. However no major incident sparked from these conflicts until the storming of stable 2. The fillydelphia elder wanted a new base so she decided to take over a stable with ponies still living inside. Half of the rangers disagreed with the plan a battle happened, and a civil war between every ranger in the east was instigated.

 

  "The rangers who preferred to protect wastelanders allied themselves with elder steelhooves and painted their armor red. We named ourselves the applejack rangers in honor of ministry mare applejack and we carry the duty that most rangers have forgotten. We halted the war to fight the enclave when they reared their heads from the clouds and then continued to kill each other after that till the steelrangers went into hiding, joined the applejack rangers, or fled west. Now we currently wipe out warlords and gangs who pose a problem to wastelanders out in the east. We're in a very healthy relationship with the NCR and we're also very popular with the wastelanders too."

 

  I dropped the desert ranger from my back and collected the ear from Nuclear. "Good luck carrying him around, I'll turn this in and we'll meet up later." I said before grabbing the associated products and heading off to the lucky wrangler. I nodded towards Chain for him to follow.

[Yoshikupo 302]

"yah I know I'm coming" he said walking over to Hazel and in no time they already completed the request and got the bits but right after the two left Chain heard a noise a noise that sounded like crying, the crying of a filly to be exact "Hazel if you want to follow me you can but I have to know what's up with that noise" he says before running off to the source of the noise  

[Nameless Knight 1,001]

Hazmat had left Freeside with the dead Ranger on his back. the Ranger wasn't that heavy, he was lighter then the large jugs of water he had to haul around before his home was destroyed. He had a long walk ahead of him through Fiend Territory. He sighed before hearing gun fire and laser fire. Hazmat quickly hid behind a pike of rubble and peaked over it. He saw a squad of NCR Troopers and a group of Fiend caught in a fire fight with each other. He kept his head down and got his revolver ready just in case one of the Fiends came to close, He was going to wait for the fight to end before continuing his trip to the Outpost.

[Ranger22 179]

The amount of caps we got for the job was pitiful, I hope nuclear got better luck turning the corpse over. After walking the streets of Freeside for a bit something got the attention of chain. He said he heard some crying close by. It hardly took him a second before he darted of towards the noise. I groaned before chasing off after him.

[Yoshikupo 302]

Chain reached the source of the crying and it was a filly with a stallion standing over her saying "Now you won't run will you? if you do I'll just have to chop off your little legs" Chain was shocked from what he said but quickly stepped in saying "if you touch that innocent Filly you will have to face me!" he said trying to get the stallions attention. his back legs...there injured, my target is set he thought levitating his gun a little and was ready to shot  

[Cherry_Bloom 165]

Rose looked over at him walking calmly next to him as he spoke. When he finished she smiled gently and shook her head. "I never thought you were a player crowbar. But I truly do admire your honesty. That is a very rare quality to find in any pony these days. " she looked around. "Do you hear that??" She turned running towards the source of the crying noise. She slid to a stop next to chain. " hey!! Don't hurt her! "

[Nameless Knight 1,001]

The gunfight continued. Hazmat heard some hoof steps and then a loud gunshot that sounded more like an explosion then gunshot and a couple more loud gunshots. Hazmat peaked over the pile of rubble and what he saw were 3 Desert Rangers firing at the group of Fiends. Two with Brush Guns and one with an anti-material rifle. One of them looked in the direction of Hazmat. Hazmat ducked down and he heard a voice. "Alright come out..." Hazmat stood up and one of the Desert Ranger was pointing his brush gun right at Hazmat. The Desert Ranger looked down at the corpse right next to Hazmat "Explain yourself and give me one reason that I shouldn't plow your fucking head off." He said to Hazmat. "this isn't what it looks like, It is the rogue ranger... Girder." Hazmat said. The Desert Ranger looked at the Ranger with the Anti-material rifle. The one with the rifle walked up to Hazmat and took the helmet off of the dead ranger. "That is Girder alright... you saved us a lot of work and a lot of ammo." He said. "Alright I'll be going then" Hazmat said before the Ranger stopped him. "Wait up... here take this" The ranger took out a pouch of caps and tossed it to Hazmat. "Thanks" Hazmat said before running back into Freeside. He had never talked to a Desert ranger before today...

 

(The Desert Ranger with the anti-material rifle was Long Shot, a stallion who becomes more important in Hazmat's early 20s)

[Yoshikupo 302]

Chain was kind of happy to see Rose beside him but now's not the time for a reunion "so this is another sorry pony how wants to mess with me, look I'm going to kick both your asses!" the Stallion said then got a scared expression "h...how the hell is that? screw the girl I am not facing a Ranger!" he says trying to run away but just went to a different side of the dead end "your in a corner and your not a unicorn, do the math you won't be getting out of here until you tell us about why your here and why your trying to attack this girl" he said trying to influents him "plus I bet you don't want to die slowly, I can see your legs got hurt shame if I happened to put a bullet in them and leave" he added trying to influents him even more "your move". Banner gave me this intimidation and I love her for it Chain thought

[Ranger22 179]

   In a secluded alleyway stood a confident looking stallion who was on top of a crying filly. The wasteland left no room for mercy as it has proved countless times. Many ponies develop sadistic characteristics in order to cope with the harshness of the waste, many of whom turn into raiders. This stallion however looked like the kind of drug addicted idiot that bragged to random ponies like he was talking to his alcoholic abusive father. He was the type of bottom feeder who stepped over defenseless folks when the bigger sharks in the pool were away. I've dealt with countless idiots like these before this one was no different, it would be a waste to spend a bullet on trash like him.

 

   However Chain and the newly arrived Gypse might complicate the issue with their inexperience in dealing with a possible hostage situation. One that I didn't gave a damned for, normally I'd be game to save an innocent but I've dealt with enough annoying shit today. Luckily I didn't have to do anything as the stallion turned tail and fled with all his crippled might. Unluckily for him however he ran straight into a dead, Chain found that quite amusing before threatening him for information. I walked over to Chain's side before speaking, "I highly suggest you don't waste my time. Otherwise I crush every bone in your body one by one, metal makes the process a whole lot easier by the way."

Edited July 5, 2015 by Ranger22

[Yoshikupo 302]

the stallion started to cry and his voice became muffled by it "I'm just a dead beat ok? I need her to survive in this wasteland, I have to eat and I have done worst things than doing it with her" Chain was disgusted by this information "what got you into cannibalism?" Chain asked "well I_" "actually I don't care because you don't look like any kind of gang member just like you said some dead beat" he said to him "now get away from here before I change my mind" the scared pony fled probably going to die from starvation soon "I didn't want to kill him in front of the girl that's why I ok? now time to talk to this girl" he said with a smile "by the way gypsy that was an act" I wish that was true Chain thought as he walked to the girl picking her up   

[Gloomfury 243]

Crowbar walked over next to Rose, with his  shot gun resting on his shoulder. He thought the stallion would try something so he wanted to be ready. Now he watched Chains attend to the little filly. "She looks about the same age as my sister." He said with an even mouth as he out his gun back on his back. "Is she alright, bud?" He asked Chains  

[Yoshikupo 302]

"yeah her body is slightly injured, she could probably sleep it off" he sighed "but I cant read minds so I don't know about her mental state" he gets close to the girl "I...I don't know what to say about any of this, its all so scary" "look kid I know the wasteland in a scary and messed up place but you have to keep going in your own way" she looked down "can that way be with you? I don't have a family" the girl paused "that cares about me that is" she looked sad and about to cry "everypony what do you think?"

[Gloomfury 243]

Crowbar bit his lip. He walked over and gave the filly a soft smile. "Hey, kiddo." He said wiping her tears. "I know that being alone is a really bad feeling. So why should you? You can come with us if ya want. I'll make sure that you wont be alone anymore. I promos. But what makes you think that your family don't care about ya?" 

[Yoshikupo 302]

"well they barely do anything with me and don't even care if I come home safe" she paused trying to clear her throat "they live in new Pegus but apparently they think 'playing with kids' means putting me in free side with all the bad things here" she was still crying a little "that would explain the condition of her coat, it looks like it was cleaned" Chain points out         

[Nameless Knight 1,001]

Hazmat pulled down his bandanna, and started to count the caps in the satchel. He came to a grand total of 748 bottle caps. He threw the satchel over his shoulder and left to go find Chain and Hazel. When he found them they were standing around an alleyway with Rose and Crowbar "What is going on?" He asked before looking over Chain's shoulder and saw the small crying filly. "Chain, what happened."

[Yoshikupo 302]

"well this little blue mane girl was going to be eaten by a cannibal until me, gypsy and hazel intimidated him enough to make him leave this girl alone" he smiled and looked at the girl "this girl came from a bad family and wants to join us" "my family lives in las pegus but they don't care about me" she said in a sad tone looking at hazel   

[Nameless Knight 1,001]

Hazmat froze at what Chain said. He pulled up his bandanna and whispered to Chain "Where did the Cannibal go..." He asked. He took his revolver out of his holster and turned the cylinder so that there was a round in the chamber. "I don't think she should come with us... the Wasteland is a dangerous place, what if she gets hurt."

[Gloomfury 243]

Crowbar had a frown now. "We can't just leave her. And I doubt the fort will have enough room for her. If we didn't help then who would? I ain't leaving her. " He pulled off his shotgun and cocked it. "I also want to have a little chat with her family. I'm sure they'll give their blessing. Maybe give her some caps so she can buy some food and water for herself." He gave her a soft smile ."Hey, kiddo. Can ya tell me whay your family looks like? Maybe where they might be."

[Yoshikupo 302]

"I don't know where the cannibal is ok? he will probably die of starvation before you can catch up anyway and I think we can protect her I mean its better than being alone in freeside" Chain said looking at Hazmat "well its a mare and a stallion the mare has a blue main like mine with a light blue coat. the Stallion has a red coat and a purple main and they live in the tops casino, I don't know there names because they said just to call them mom and dad" the filly said to Crowbar "my name is ever shine by the way"

 

(she doesn't have a cutie mark yet) 

[Gloomfury 243]

He kept smiling. "Well it's nice to meet ya Ever Shine. Now I'm gonna go have a talk with your ma and old man." He put his gun on his back and head for the strip. " Could someone come with me to make sure I wont do anything that might get me arrested." He stopped. "In fact why don't we all go? I'm sure the filly could use a good meal and a warm bed. I got enough bits to covered it as well."

[Yoshikupo 302]

"well I'm coming" Chain replied "Haz if you want to go chase a dead beat you can but I am sticking with the girl" Chain said picking the girl up and putting her on his back "Crowbar lets go find this cuties parents" Shine was a bit surprised to get put on Chains back but didn't say anything about it "I would like to eat something, I only get dinner when I go home and sometimes if I was bad they wouldn't even give me that"

[Gloomfury 243]

Crowbar grit his teeth.  He let out some air as he kept walking. He reached into his bag and pulled out a bottle sunset sarsaparilla And agave it to her. "I ain't got any food but I have this. It's sweet and it'll pick ya up." He faced Chains. "Hope ya got a passport. Cause I ain't paying for yours.  But I'll pay for Shine's."

[Nameless Knight 1,001]

"I am not giving a cannibal a change to kill anypony again, and I am not going to let somepony suffer from starvation. You should have just given the cannibal a quick death when you had the chance..." He said, holstering his revolver. "Alright if we take her, Chain, you are responsible for her. Also stop calling me Haz... my name is Nuclear. " Hazmat said before looking at the filly. "You wouldn't happen to have seen which direction the bad stallion went, would you miss?" He asked

 

(Hazmat believes that "Nopony deserves mercy, and nopony deserves to suffer.)

Edited July 5, 2015 by NCR Veteran Ranger

[Yoshikupo 302]

Shine felt good about all the attention given to her and then heard what Hazmat said "I don't know where that mean pony went and I have my passport right here" she replied to Hazmat and Crowbar holding her passport with her hooves "oh right how will I get in with this amount of bits?" he said looking at the 50 he got from the group pool "hmm.." Chain thought long for how he would get in "I have a plan that may or may not work, persuade the robot"