Child's Play - Fallout: Equestria [Reserved, PM to join]

[Imagination]

Pops just kept going. She didn't really have a plan. Nope.

"I dunno. Blowing up stuff would be neat. But we should save those grenades for stuff... and stuff" excellent. Great plan.

"Well... Lets see what we can run into! I mean... We gotta find something eventually, right?" Of course! The Wasteland wasn't empty! not by any means! No Sir! An abandoned house, an old crate, even some of the rare plant life! There were plenty of things they could do for food and supplies. It was water that was going to be a big concern for Pops. She had always had the luxury of Chapel's merchants able to get purified water for everypony. She had never had to drink irradiated stuff before. Sure the food was irradiated, and 200 years old, but you got used ot the taste after awhile. A long while.

"Well... We'll find something. Don't worry, Sprite!"

In fact, there was the silhouette of some blown-out houses on the horizon. A decent walk, but probably with some promise. Looked like an old village, or maybe what's left standing of a town. Trading post? Didn't matter. It was buildings! If they hadn't been picked clean, there was hope of finding something.

[AsthmaticPegasus]

Okay, they had a plan, sort of. Water and food were tip top priority, with grenades coming in a very close (debatably first) second. They could do this no sweat, and look, they were already approaching some buildings! It could be some nice ponies willing to offer charity... okay, probably not but they could at least offer shelter? That is, if they didn't try and kill the two of them first. Maybe they could sell the empty pistol and meat for something? Sprite was really desperate at this point.

"What are those buildings over there...?" Sprite pointed out, being the captain obvious of the two. After a couple of seconds of looking she couldn't seem to spot anypony moving around down there, but she was still nervous. "Should we check it out? What if there are raiders or bad ponies?"

[Imagination]

"Heck yes we should! That's what we do now! We're explorers! Weeee!" She used her wings to propel herself forward in mid-run, giving her an impromptu sprint. But, then she realized her little friend would probably have trouble catching up. So she went back and grabbed her, using herself as a filly jetpack for the unicorn filly to use while she ran! "WEE!!"

Wee indeed, Pop Rocks. Wee indeed.

They were coming up on the building, that seemed vacant... And Pops showed no signs of stopping, too excited to see what old world treasures this broken dwelling may hold. "Sprite! We're gonna crash!" she cried out in a way too excited manner. Is that what ponies did? Get excited about crashing?! "We're gonna find so much stuff and it's gonna be so cool I bet we might fight some weapons on some old bits which are kinda shiny and maybe some SUNRISE SARSAPARILLA!" While she went on with her dribble, they were getting closer and closer to impact... and then she started to SING!

"[colour=#444444]♫Sunshiiine, you'll be miiine~! Sunrise Sarsaparilla![/colour][colour=#444444]♫" [/colour]

[colour=#444444]She must've heard the old pre-war tune on a radio somewhere... But boy, was it catchy, and leave you feeling swell![/colour]

[AsthmaticPegasus]

OHDEARCHRYSALIS Sprite was not used to going this fast! It was like... well, she couldn't really draw any accurate comparisons to having an adrenaline powered filly clinging to her back! This was not the caution and fear she usually approached situations, what if there were awful ponies ready and waiting for them because of the yelling? Wait, was she singing!? Ohdear ohdear ohdear Sprite needed to stop this before it got out of control... or at least more out of control.

Sprite slammed her hooves into the ground, dragging them and kicking up a cloud of dust. She effectively halted herself, and before Pops could zip off like a rocket propelled hummingbird Sprite grabbed onto her hooves and brought her down, maaaybe accidentally slamming her face into the dirt. Just a little bit though!

Ready to hop to her friends side with apologies and explanations for the screeching halt Sprite heard something... the faint sound of two ponies grumbling at one another. Hopping up in the air the changeling spotted somepony approaching the house, which the two girls were now surprisingly close to. Now, two ponies out in the wastes talking to one another wasn't the worst thing to run into, but with a spiky, bloody getup with what Sprite could only assume were pony bones strapped to their armor, these were raiders. And if theres one thing that Sprite did not want to see right now, that's raiders. And mutants, and slavers, but mostly raiders (since she was looking at two of them right now, mostly)

"Pops, shush! There're two raiders, with guns and armor and everything!" Sprite whispered to her downed friend, obviously frightened. "What're we gonna do!?"

[Imagination]

Pops saw them! She saw raiders all the time in the ruins though, so she wasn't as worried. It seemed like it was just two of them though, a mare and a stallion. They were just as nasty-looking as any other raiders the two would see in the wasteland, and she couldn't quite make out what they were saying but she was sure it probably wasn't anything nice.

Not nice for fillies to hear anyway.

Pops got an idea. These raiders didn't care about Pops and Sprite! In fact, if they saw them they would probably just as soon shoot them as they would sell them to slavery... So why not beat them to the punch? "Hey... Sprite... Lets blow em up! Come on it'll be so cool! Raiders aren't real ponies it's totally okay!" Wow, that's kinda mean, Pops. Actually, no, it's not kinda mean. It is mean. Very mean.

Buuuuut... She does have a point. Blowing up raiders is pretty awesome.

[AsthmaticPegasus]

Blowing ponies up? Wouldn't that make her more of a monster than she already was? She was too young to make these moral decisions! But weren't these horrible ponies worse than her? They murdered and did bad things to ponies everywhere, and they'd surely attack the fillies if they saw them. So perhaps it was for the best, blowing them up before they had a chance to scream at and mangle the intrepid duo. There would be no sound sleeping either with these evildoers in the area.

"Okay... okay... it seems like our only option..." She muttered, still quiet. "How many grenades do we have?"

[Imagination]

Se checked her bag to see. "Uhmm... 4."

That's not very many at all! Was that enough?! "It's okay, I have a plan!" she said, opening the breech of the rifle and loading a grenade. Loading it, she aimed it toward the raiders and started to speak. "We can wound em and separate, that way, you can get their attention, and I can get them from behind if the grenade doesn't kill 'em!" Then a pause, looking to their targets. The two were still bickering about something, but the two wouldn't be able to make out what was being said.

"Okay... On the count of three-" *FWOOMPH*

Whoops! Pops sent the grenade forth, which burst at the raiders' hooves and knocked them away from eachother. Pained groans and then loud threats filled with all sorts of nasty expletives were being shouted in the direction of where the grenade came from. "Whoops! Time to go now!" Pops ran off to the right, trying ot take cover in some rubble and reload. Would Sprite rise to the occasion, and become bait?

[AsthmaticPegasus]

Okay, so this shouldn't be too hard, right? Just some simple distract and explode tactics, right? It's not like the big mean scary raiders would come looking for them and kill them to death, eat them, and then sew their skin into their clothing or anything, right!? Sprite started panicking, she knew it was a VERY bad time to panic but she couldn't help herself, what was a little filly to do? At least she had three seconds to prepa-nevermind this was happening now.

"ohdearohdearohdear...." Sprite muttered to herself, hopping around in place. Pops ran away to hide and reload and in the mean time the little changeling was left to think of a way to distract them and live. Wait she was a changeling! She could do something with that, right? Pops wasn't looking, this could still be a secret for awhile, she just had to remember one of those raiders from earlier, change into one of them. Maybe it'd work... and maybe it wouldn't, but other than insult them and hope they couldn't kill her before Pop could kill them she didn't really have any options.

Bounding off as stealthily and quickly as she could Sprite moved to the other side of the house, changing into the best raider disguise she could muster. Step 1 complete. Now what to do to get their attention... ugh, her brain did not work well in full fledged panic mode.

"Hey, you two, what's going on over here!" She shouted, her voice surprisingly gruff and haggard. Maybe this would distract them for long enough...