Re: Fallout Equestria: The Kingdom

[Guest]

"It's also kinda fun ta be the only one ta be able ta use magic that hasn't been around since before the great war."He smirks

[Tytan]

"Wha- oh... Oh! Okay. I can see how this would be slightly more awkward."

[Orm]

"Yeah, just make sure that fun doesn't get anyone killed."

[Guest]

"It won't, well unless they're my contract. Then my hooves are tied on matter."

[XT Vengeance]

"Yeah...I...I have a hard time talking to a mare like you..."

[Tytan]

"Oh... well... um... I suppose... I could... maybe... help you with that too." Clock blushes a little.

[XT Vengeance]

Scorch flies off to give the two stuttering ponies some space.

"It's just that...you're pretty and most mares I've met don't want to talk to the freak. Let alone date him."

[Tytan]

"Freak? What, because you kill raiders? That's not that weird."

[XT Vengeance]

"The fact that I spend almost all my time with Scorch and have a mechanical hoof?"

[Tytan]

"...That's all?"

[XT Vengeance]

"Clock. There's also the fact that I throw myself into danger all the time. And no-one wants to associate with someone who got his village killed." Charcoals eyes shot wide as he realizes what he just let slip. He hangs his head once more.

[Tytan]

"Hun, I hang out with a giant, mildly homicidal cyborg dog, and ponies pay me to cut them open. We're all a kinda weird..."

Then the last part registered, "...Your village?"

[XT Vengeance]

"It was burned to the ground...everyone was killed or captured...and it was all my fault."

[Guest]

Cherry starts to shiver on his back

"Gettin' cold huh?"He gently sets her down, takes off his coat, and puts it on Cherry. He looks up at the sky."Hopefully, we can get back 'fore it gets too bright out..."He then places her on his back, then continues walking.

She stops shivering and nuzzles into Shadow's neck

"Cast, how much longer 'till we're back in town?"

[Tytan]

Clock doesn't want to say anything, but she feels she needs to ask, "How?"

[XT Vengeance]

Charcoal is silent for a moment. "Because I fought back," he says quietly.

[Ironmonger]

"Not sure!" he says stongly, his sense of pride a bit more revived after speaking with the others. "Ve-I mean I usually have a navigator for zis, along vith range-finding equipment. My best guess is...three to five hours. I am a sharpshooter, not a scout."

[Tytan]

The familiarity of his situation hits Clock right in her heart, and her face shows it, "I-I'm sorry. No one deserves to have that on their shoulders."

[Guest]

"...Right, ah'll keep that in mind fer next time."He looks back up at sky"Three ta five hours huh? Sun'll be up by then.*He thinks*Ah can probably last a little bit out in sun, maybe an hour, if ah want ta avoid burn out..."He says to no one in particular.

[XT Vengeance]

"I know. It's just...sometimes I think I deserve it. The price I paid for revenge...they may not have wanted me anymore, but...i still cared about them. That place." Charcoal sighs. "Look, Clock...you don't have to help me. I really don't deserve it. I'd understand if you didn't want me around."

[Ironmonger]

"Your magic is a two-edged sword, I take it? Zat vich gives you strength vill be your end?" he says to Shadow.

[Guest]

"Pretty much, but ah don't mind. As long as ah'm covered up ah'm fine. Just can't stay that way tonight, is all."He motions to Cherry, sleeping on his back curled up in his coat.

[Tytan]

Clock doesn't talk for a long time. She gathers the courage to say what she says, "My... mother died a few years ago. After she passed my father was inconsolable. He started drinking, he stopped seeing patients, *eyes tear up* he couldn't look at me anymore.

One day he just up and left.

He left me alone with the caravan. I was depressed for a while, but I picked up where he left off. We started traveling again. I saw my dads old patients. It was good.

Then one day some bandits came up to us. Their boss'd been shot in the jaw. They threatened me, told me to help him.

I refused.

The guards fought them off, and we didn't see them again... for awhile. We were leaving the Hoofington area when we were ambushed. We never saw them coming. In seconds my caravan... my family was gone.

I ran.

I ran into the forest. I tried to hide in a tree, but they found me. They were just gonna kill me, but they decided to get creative. They kept me in the tree. No food. No water. If I tried to escape they'd stab me in the flank with a spear.

Three days later I was nearly dead. I was starving, dehydrated, and bleeding.

Then Vik came.

He stomped out of the woods like some kind of monster. The bandits freaked out and attacked him.

It was a slaughter. But some of them got some lucky shots in. I managed to get his attention. He took me out of the tree and I led him back to my caravan. I patched him up and passed out.

When I woke up he'd carried me to town and had the doctor there help me.

Since then we've been traveling together...

I don't care what you think you've done. I think you're a good pony."

[Ironmonger]

He nods to Shadow. "Understood." He turns his head to the rest of the group. "Let us pick up zeh pace!" he shouts. His hydraulics whine as he shifts into high-gear and walks faster.

[Guest]

Shadow trots a little quicker to keep up"Ya know, that wasn't necessary, right? But uh, thanks, ah guess."He says a little uneasy.

[Ironmonger]

"Different culture, different mindset."

[Guest]

"Good point..."

[XT Vengeance]

"Clock...I'm sorry. I...I know what it is like to lose your family like that...it happened to me. That's why I have this hoof. That's why my left eye glows in the dark. It was raiders."

"After what they did to my parents...what they did to me...I wanted to make them pay. As soon as I could walk again I left Tenpony and went looking for the biggest group of raiders I could find. I would have died if Scorch hadn't swooped in."

"Not long after that I ended up heading back to my old village, but they didn't want me. So I left. I checked back every so often for eight years until the day I found the ruins...and the sign..." Charcoal trails off.

"I'm sorry. It's just too soon. Three months is not enough time," he says shaking his head. "I...can we talk about something else?"

[Tytan]

Clock puts her hoof around his neck and rests her head on his shoulder. She speaks softly, "We're both hurting. It helps to have someone who understands...

What did you wanna talk about?"

[XT Vengeance]

Charcoal thinks silently for a moment, and then he lets out a low whistle.

Scorch lands on Charcoals back with a squawk.

"Alright Scorch, what do you think we should talk about?"

The large bird looks back and forth at the two ponies for a moment. "Squawk!" And with that he takes off into the sky.

Charcoal blushes at his friends suggestion. "I...I think not. Um...so is Viktor always trying to get you into trouble like Scorch does with me?"

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