Fallout Equestria Broken Steel

Chapter 19: Broken

fallout Equestria

Broken Steel

Chapter 19: Broken

The Krogoth was walking up a beaten old road. Its massive hooves totally demolishing the road as its extreme weight crushed and crumpled up what remained of the cracked and damaged road way. The machine had detected an old Equestrian Military beacon coming from what the machine had managed to identify as being Fort Battalion. The machine's memory housed information of all of Equestria's military outposts and their specialties and Fort Battalion specialised in long range weaponry and as memory served, the Krogoth knew that Battalion had a forty six centimetre artillery cannon in its grounds. The Krogoth felt that it could benefit from having an artillery cannon as it could then attack targets from range rather than get close to prevent taking damage and it would be better than using the missiles as there is a chance the missiles could be shot down as it witnessed during its battle with Raptor Atlas.

The road lead the machine to a fork in the road and the road to the fort branched off to the machine's right. The machine looked down at the large road sign that would indicate which way the roads would lead and the machine's eyes seemed to focus solely on the name of the town which the road still heading straight would lead to.

"Uddersfield..." The voice of Short Circuit said as if in remembrance.

"Warning, system failure, unable to comply" An automated warning sounded as the Krogoth began to move away from the right hoof road to continue following the road up to the town of Uddersfield.

The Krogoth couldn't understand why the town seemed to hold great importance to it but it felt compelled to go there. Like some unknown force was now driving it there. Short Circuit is as much of the Krogoth's mind as she is the machine. When the Krogoth absorbed Short Circuit it unwittingly acquired her soul and memories of her loved ones and Uddersfield turned out to her home town.

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Applejack Ranger Monitoring Station Beta

Before and after the battles that the two Ranger factions fought in the Applejack Rangers who now strive to help the ponies of the wasteland began to setup monitoring stations so they could observe the wasteland and help to direct their efforts to places that would need their support. With some help from technical ponies and permission from Homage/DJ-PON3 they connected their equipment to the SSP Towers so they could use their camera systems.

As part of their job to help ponies some Rangers would monitor potential threats and record their movements to help better prepare the Rangers that would later be sent to deal with the threat and since these Rangers picked up the Krogoth walking along the M66 Carriage Way they had been keeping a close eye on it. They have been taking shifts watching the machine as it walked up the old road and predicted that it was heading for the old Fort that was further up the road and the information they had received about the machine's ability to improve itself helped to solidify their belief that it was heading there.

"Sir, its changed course"

"It's what?"

"It's heading for the ruins of Uddersfield now"

"That doesn't make any sense, there is nothing there"

"I share your disbelief sir"

"Hmm, do you think there could be something hidden there?"

"No idea sir but I'll keep watching to see what the machine does next when it arrives"

"Very good, keep me informed"

"Yes sir"

The Applejack Rangers of Monitoring Station Beta were stumped as to why the almighty robot was wasting its time heading to the old town but they continued to monitor its progress. If there was something there then they would know what the machine had found if it uncovers anything and prepare themselves for it.