“Should be easy” Spring replied. “But obviously, the risk of getting caught by those raiders is bad. Once night falls, I believe it should be an easy trip straight to the armory.” The ghoul then sat onto the ground as she kept herself calm throughout the day until the sun began to set. A few minutes after midnight, Spring got back up and alerted Sunlit.
Sunlit smirked and chuckled at Spring's comment, her being obviously unaware he had spent the previous night sleeping there and was never discovered, before trying to find ways of passing the time. *** Sunlit looked down from the top of the dead tree he was in to Spring, saying she was ready to go. Smiling, he expertly swung his way down from the tree and next to Spring, where he grabbed his assault rifle, slipping out a scope and attaching it to the top of it, quickly explaining, "It's a night-vision scope. Found it in Canterlot in the ministry of technology. Has saved my butt more than once..." he muttered before motioning Spring to follow as he set off towards the dimly lit complex, "Stay absolutely quiet, and follow my lead. If you must speak, keep it short, quiet, and sweet. And no, I don't have any stealthbucks, I don't trust them. I've seen them drive ponies insane, mainly the heavily mutated..."
Spring simply nodded as she equipped the silencer on her 10mm pistol. Hopefully, she could find a much more suitable weapon in the armory. As she got herself ready, she awaited for Sunlit to give the signal to head off.
Sunlit looked back to Spring, "You coming?" he asked before continuing to stroll towards the building, knowing that by now, they would be swapping out watches in the raider camp, and their disorganization meant it took well over a half hour to switch out, giving them ample time to sneak in, "Oh. And don't use any guns, silencers don't really do much for the close quarters we're going to be in. With the concrete walls and ceilings, it'll sound like an unsilenced gunshot and be able to be heard throughout the building. Only use it if we are caught and they have already begun shooting at us."
Spring placed her silenced pistol away back into it's holster, and instead pulled out a long combat knife with a blackened blade to prevent glare from the lights. If she got into the worst case scenario, she had steel spiked unarmed knuckles she could use if her knife broke. She then cracked her stiff neck and started to head down.
(Why don't we just begin inside of the camp, while being undetected, nearby the armory. Just fill in the gaps, I guess. Although, we could just start at being at the Armory itself.)
(Alright. Here I go.) After some sneaking across a Raider camp completely undetected, Sunlit and Spring eventually made it to the armory without any problems. They found themselves in a long steel hallway devoid of life other than a few pieces of rubbish. At the end was a huge steel door, and a terminal connected to the wall. Nearby the door was a drill and various pieces of machinery, indicating that the raiders had tried to break into the armory before and ended up with nothing. The drill itself snapped in half and was discarded like trash. Spring then stood at the terminal, speaking in a barely audible tone. "Looks like a standard Stable-Tec terminal. This might not be difficult for me to activate, but this would be time consuming. I need you to watch my back while I get this blasted thing open. About a few minutes.”
Sunlit nodded, "Got it." He whispered back, sneaking to a nearby corner in the hallway, drawing out his knife and staying completely still at the corner, ready to pounce on any raider that came around the corner and kill them as quickly and quietly as possible.
Spring simply stood at the terminal while decrypting the files with easy. The terminal was surprisingly not that hard to decode, gaining access into the main database within thirty seconds. As she came close to opening the door, she heard a sound outside. Knowing what was about to happen, she got the armory door open two seconds later. "It's open, and it sounds like one of them has noticed something strange. We should make it into the armory before they notice it's open." She said, quickly shutting down the terminal and running into the armory.
Sunlit ignored Spring, instead waiting until two raiders came aroun the corner, in a flash and blue or orange and dark green, he punched on he closest raider to him, driving his knife through the raider, killing him instantly, before jumping over the falling body and on top of the second one, putting a foreleg tight around the raider's neck and pulling back hard, collapsing the trachea, and suffocating the raider with little more noise than a small scuffle that could easily be mistaken for a small slip even to those close by. Quietly dragging the bodies into the armory with him and panting, Sunlit gave Spring a small look, "I hate it when I have to do that..." He muttered before looking around the armory, which was packed with advanced weaponry and ammo and armor, "Ah, perfect!" He exclaimed quietly
Spring looked around the armory in a trance, she seen rifles and armors that she remembered seeing on soldiers on military parades from before the war. There was also power armor, where the image of it's once fearsome appearance was now contaminated by the Steel Rangers on their crusades. Weapons, old and seemingly brand new were scattered everywhere. She soon snapped out of the trance and looked around at the breathtaking weaponry. "So much potential from a bygone generation. It's scary to understand Raider's packing this much weaponry." She muttered before looking at Sunlit. "Anything that appeals to you here?"
Sunlit browsed the inventory of the armory, "Well. This is all tech the raiders couldn't get to." He said simply, "So it wasn't really theirs. And I think..." He muttered as he came across an old book, a manual, "How to Wear Powered Armor", "Hm." He muttered then picked it up then motioned to Spring, "Come on, we got a lot to learn, and once we're done, we're blasting our way out.
After a few hours and the door remaining sealed on the inside, Raiders soon discovered that something was wrong in the compound after discovering two of their dead members. Soon, roughly fifty raiders stood outside of the door. Completely unaware of what was inside, they only understood that two intruders had found their way in. Spring had equipped trained herself to use power armor through the manual, and wore the fearsome steel armor as she took the biggest single pony holdable weapon in the room, a Gatling laser. Without the armor, she had no chance on picking the weapon up, but it seemed the suit assisted her. Once she took her weapon and armor, alongside all the weaponry she could carry after placing it on the back of the suit's compartments. As the raiders started to believe that there was really nobody there, and that the other raiders killed each-other in a brawl over chems, the steel door opened as a smoke grenade was lobbed across the ground. When they looked back up, they were mowed down in laser fire. Those standing nearby the exit of the building seen the silhouette of a pony, and a red death cutting down their friends. When they tried to run out the door, the gattling laser performed it's job and wiped the raiders from existence. Although the suit prevented her from moving quickly, she was a waking tank. As she soon went out into the open and began to kill every raider she could see.
Sunlit had used the distraction Spring created to quickly climb to the highest point in the base, firing a flare into the sky, then using the anti-material rifle he found to fire down at the dozen or so raiders left hiding behind cover from Spring's Gatling laser.
Spring started to make her way east towards the remainder of the much more populated section of the camp, mowing down anything that moved with incredible accuracy for a weapon of that size. Although the Gatling Laser served its purpose well, she did take a few of her own personal weapons from the armoury. Once the ghoul got some covering ground, she took down twenty five within thirty seconds and emptied all the raiders nearby the entrance. Whatever guns the raiders had, the small peashooters they had did absolutely nothing to the power armour. She had to admit, Spring was impressed about the armour. Now she knew why the Steel Rangers used them to inspire fear in their enemies and the wastelander's who found themselves on the wrong end.
Sunlit put away the anti material rifle as the last of the 75 raiders that lived in the base was gunned down, turning on his hooves, he brought a pair of binoculars to his eyes and looked out to the wastes to see a caravan incoming, just as planned. With a small smile, he quickly made his way down to Spring, his new reinforced Mark2 Combat Armor in dark contrast with her power armor, "Whelp, everything went exactly to plan! I've got a caravan incoming who agreed to buy the weapons and armor in the armory at a very good price to me, over a 100,000 bits for the whole thing! And I'm sure once they see what's inside, they'll at least go up 50% with some bartering!" He said very, very happily, "That means ov-" he suddenly stopped as his ears twitched, "Get inside." He said quickly and full of fear, "I hear power armor suits just ou-" as just like that, there was a bright flash from a flash bang that blinded as deafened them as both of them were quickly knocked out by Steel Rangers who had caught wind or his deal with the huge Gun Gallopers caravan company.
By the time Spring awoke, she found herself in a cold steel room tied to a chair stripped to her underwear and tied up. Nearby her was Sunlit, who seemed to be still unconscious. Between the clearing of the camp and her currant situation, she believed that the Steel Rangers had knocked her out and taken them to who knows where. The only thing on her mind was the safety of her own town, who had absolutely nothing do to have interfered with this deal. Upon finding herself tied up, she seen the Ranger's Elder herself walk inside of the room surrounded by two Paladins. Whatever happened, it was bigger than she thought. "Speak." The Elder spoke. "Speak or we'll kill both of you." "Is that how you treat all your prisoners?" "Your are a Prisoner because of breaking into an Armory holding extremely high technology capable of interfering with the progress of Ponydom." "Progress? You can kill innocents, strip them unto nothing, massacre entire towns for your own selfish desires. And you think you are making Progress?" The Elder remained silent until speaking once more. "Ghoul, the town that you reside in has been spared due to having no previous involvement, plus they have shown no hostile intentions and are currently allied with us." As soon as she was finished with the statement, Spring and the Elder noticed Sunlit starting to wake up.
Sunlit groaned as he woke, quickly freezing up as he came to and caught sight of the Elder, "Oh Goddesses...You're going to kill me this time, aren't you?" He said sadly as he squirmed slightly against the restraints, quietly muttering curses against himself for being so stupid.
