Fallout Equestria Broken Steel

Chapter 16: Deception

Fallout Equestria

Broken Steel

Chapter 16: Deception

The giant machine looked left and right as it took in its surroundings as it left the Hanger for the first time. The Krogoth could only see a barren desolate red rock canyon all around it apart from a single structure to its right. The machine's vision was soon a wash with an assortment of HUD alerts as it began to pick up the elements of the atmosphere, its compass giving it a position and heading, targeting cursors as it looked around and being told what it was looking at when the cursors moved over an item of interest which in the canyon was the ancient school. The machine then looked up, seeing the constant cloud cover that blankets the whole of Equestria thanks to the SPP Towers.

"Single Pegasus Project Towers must have been enabled to cause this thick level of cloud cover. Identifying aerial targets will be affected by the clouds. Will have to rely on visual sensors for airborne threats with the cloud cover being so dense" The machine said to itself as it began to turn to its right to begin heading north. "Before I begin my mission proper I should acquire the Obelisk of Magic to correct my zero magical protection"

As the Krogoth turned its body it caught sight of movement from the ridge facing the Hanger. The eye facing the ridge rotated up to see what was up there, zooming in to focus on the ponies that stood close to the edge. It saw a pegasus mare in a Shadowbolt flight suit, a zebra stallion dressed in black combat armour, a fluttering sprite-bot that appeared double the size of a standard one and finally a Steel Ranger who was not wearing a helmet so her white head could be seen and the Krogoth was able to tell that the Ranger was a unicorn mare. The targeting cursor went red as soon as it saw the zebra. Since the Zebras were the enemy during the Great War the Krogoth instantly labels zebras as a threat. The large machinegun rotated and aimed up to get a lock on the zebra but just before it could fire all the ponies and the little robot ducked back out of sight.

"Target lock disengaged... Unable to engage enemy target with machinegun"

After a few seconds one of the massive missile pods rotated and tilted back to aim up.

"New target area, several meters away from cliff edge"

A jet of hot gasses rushed out of the back of the pod, creating a small black smudge of soot on the machine's flank. With a whoosh a single missile screamed up into the air leaving a smoky grey trail as it rocketed up into the air. The Krogoth began to walk again as it started for the canyon's northern slope to get out of it and into the wasteland. The machine didn't care to see the missile strike as it believed the explosion would kill its intended target. Just as the Krogoth took two gigantic long strides it heard an explosion as the missile detonated behind it. Without looking back the Krogoth continued towards the northern slope. It took a single look at the ancient school as it strode by, its huge heavy hooves causing violent ground shudders that shook the school and caused the more deteriorated areas to collapse from the shockwaves. The Krogoth contemplated for a minute on destroying the school to remove the evidence that it was there and that something so horrible happened there but it decided against it.

The Krogoth walked for about ten minutes more before it felt the familiar electrical disturbances of a radio signal being received. The face of Short Circuit in the Crusader Mainframe laughed to herself as she identified that the signals were coming from the Hanger and that she suspected Motor Runner had attempted to shut her down by using the now deactivated command prompts. The Krogoth laughed again when the Master Command Code was used too.

"That was why I needed you to utter that code Motor Runner" The Krogoth said to itself. "While inactive I couldn't touch that code but once you activated me I was then free to deactivate it like the rest. Nopony will control me. I am free to act out my mission as I see fit and nopony will get in my way"