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Chapter 517: Bawler Brawler

After Dean unloads the rest of his bullets at the Super Mutant, Veronica is finally given a chance to get a good look at it... Its skin is blue, meaning it's a Nightkin and it's wrapped in many chains, as if it'd been restrained until now. Add the many brutal scars displayed across its body and the name 'DOG' written across its chest, Veronica was sure the creature didn't have a choice in its actions against them...

Regardless, this thing had just kicked and potentially killed Afton and Anja... For that, she wouldn't forgive it.

Dean quickly tries to reload his revolver as Dog walks towards him, "DOG NO BE CAGED AGAIN, NO BE HUNGRY! DOG EAT YOU!" the mutant roars as he goes to charge Dean, but is taken off-guard when Veronica appears behind it and viciously uppercuts it in the side, her shotgun fist weapon blowing flesh from its side.

*BANG!*

Despite the force of the attack, it looked only to be a flesh wound... Its skin was much thicker than she'd expected, fortunately, the stopping power of her attack knocks it off balance slightly. "Dog can go fuck itself!" she taunts, raising her fists in a boxer's stance.

Dean glances at her, "I do not think it's a good idea to insult it! You'll just make it angrier!" he says as he reloads and observes the beast regain its balance.

Veronica sneers under her helmet, "How else am I gonna get its attention? Unless you want to do it!?" she says as she runs towards it for round three.

Dean shakes his head and flips the wheel of the revolver back into the gun, "Ah, no, I think you've got it handled."

*BANG!*

Veronica slams her fist towards Dog's head, but it blocks with its arm and she ends up hitting its shoulder instead, blowing a hole into its muscle.

"DOG KILL YOU!" the Mutant roars as it grabs Veronica by the helmet and tries to break her neck. This would have been effective had Afton not taken this particular weakness into consideration.

Veronica deals a number of hits to its stomach in response, blowing yet more flesh from it... By now Dog was looking like a walking wound, but despite that, it continues moving and attacking, as if hadn't been hurt at all.

Dog unloads numerous punches on Veronica and only becomes angrier and more fierce at seeing her not taking any damage at all. He reals back from one of Dean's bullets bouncing off of his forehead and picks up a rock before smashing it into Veronica's head.

The rock smashes into her visor, doing no damage but blocking her vision as the rock turns to dust on impact. She makes a punch for Dog but misses as he's already moved, this time towards Dean.

"Now, now... Be a good Dog and go back to your master..." Dean offers while slowly backing away from the mutant, his gun ready to fire.

Dog growls in response, grabbing his head and thrashing around painfully for a moment, "M-Masters o-orders! SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP!!!" he screams as both he and Dean unconsciously approach the edge of the roof.

By this time Veronica had managed to dig the dust out of her visor and looks towards Dog, getting an idea... She breaks into a sprint while the creature is undergoing some kind of mental break, her heavy steps causing it to turn around. Dean, realising what was about to happen rapidly gets out of the way.

"This is payback!" she shouts as she crashes into Dog, carrying him for a moment, before finally throwing him off the edge of the building, gifting him with one shotgun punch to the face before it falls into the Cloud below.

She takes a couple of breaths after this, Dean steps beside her while looking down at where Dog had fallen. Both could see shadows in the Cloud, and it was easy to tell who was who due to the agonizing screams Dog was letting out.

Dean chuckles, "I believe this is the Golden Rule? 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.', you sure showed that blue bastard... A shame about your friends though." he offers, doing his best to seem sympathetic, even if his only regret that they wouldn't be able to help him escape the Sierra Madre now.

Veronica shakes her head, "If I know Afton, he's probably still alive down there, or inside the Police Station waiting for us... Trust me, he's survived worse things than this," she states confidently.

Dean shrugs, "Whatever you say. Honestly, I have half a mind to ditch your pretty behind and try find my own way out," he gestures at the collar, "But I suppose trust is a two-way street... Let's head to the Police Station and find your friend, shall we?" he says as Dog'd screams begin petering out, though strangely, they seem more angry than pained.

Veronica nods, "Alright... Got a plan?"

"Hop over the rooftops and climb in through a window, the cells should be on the ground floor and basement, which is a problem considering how many Ghosts are now wandering around." Dean explains.

"Alright... Let's go." she says, drawing her plasma pistol and following Dean as he starts making his way to the Police Station.

Elsewhere :

Elijah scowls at the monitor, he'd been watching the fight between his slave and the group from a streetside camera. He'd thought everyone was going well when the first two had fallen from the roof, but the next thing he knows his former apprentice kicks Dog to his death!

"I won't let years of work go to waste like thisss!" he hisses, quickly thinking over his other countermeasures... Dog was dead, he had no doubt about that, the Cloud was a vicious as it was efficient, and Dog was already wounded when he was kicked inside... But, Dog wasn't necessary for his plans, he only needed someone strong enough to hold the Switches for the Gala event... Perhaps someone in Power armour...?


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Chapter 518: Hopeless Sight

Afton had just caught Anja as she'd been kicked from the roof, and they both had plummeted into the Cloud below. He'd done his best to help Anja alleviate the impact from the fall, but they both still heavily hit the ground.

Afton didn't have time to be stunned however as he could immediately feel the Cloud beginning to fuck with his Power armour, that wasn't the more dire thing, however...

"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRGGGHHHHHH!!" Anja howls, her recon armour and Deathclaw leather duster only providing limited protection from the Cloud. She tears her mask from her face as her skin visibly begins to corrode and melt from her body.

Afton feels as if his heart is about to explode from his chest at the sight, his friend and companion was dying an agonizing and painful death right before his eyes, and there was almost nothing he could do about it!

Panicking, he quickly looks around for anyplace that might be free of the Cloud, but doesn't immediately spot one... Deciding that he had no other choice, he pushes material from his plant arm through the hole in his palm and quickly tries to form a protective shell around Anja... He picks her up, and in her fetal position, she's quickly covered by the wood-like substance.

*COUGH! COUGH! COUGH!* Afton splutters, beginning to feel the effects of the Cloud. "FUCK! I'm not getting infected by more fucking FOG!" he shouts, ignoring the burning in his mouth, throat, and chest.

He picks up the shell covering Anja and quickly runs down the street where the Police Station should be. Already, despite the shell having been created seconds ago, the Cloud was already corroding it, eating away at it as if it were paper to a flame.

AND! If things couldn't get worse, hundreds of Ghosts were rapidly approaching him from all directions, their stuttering and slow movements not making apparent how much shit Afton had just found himself in.

A Ghost charges him with some kind of spear, but with Afton's hands currently full with Anja he simply jumps over its attack, stamping on its face as if he were Mario against a Turtle. He kicks off and lands on another Ghost, its weapon skittering off of his armoured leg as he lands ontop of it, crushing its skull with his foot.

*Clang! Clang! Clank! Clang!*

More and more Ghosts begin speeding up as they approach, all of them making fierce yet ineffective attacks against Afton as his armour deflects all of them. He ignores them and pushes fast towards the Police Station... He could barely make out the lights through the Cloud, and after fighting off a few more Ghosts, eventually managed to reach the Station doors.

He kicks them open before slamming them shut again, dropping Anja at the side while grabbing all the nearby furniture and shoving it against the door as a makeshift barricade. The Ghosts, without a living target become slower, their attacks against the door seemingly as weak as a regular person...

They wouldn't be getting through the barricade anytime soon, and the amount of Cloud inside the building was far less than outside, meaning he and Anja were safe for the moment. Once he determines that they are safe, he tears apart the shell covering Anja so Afton could get a good look at her...

He stifles the gasp threatening to escape his mouth once he sees her... Her skin couldn't be classified as pretty even before this, her Ghoul nature making her look like a necrotising ballsack... But now? She looks as if someone had skinned a human alive, covered them in sulfuric acid, and finished them off with extensive blowtorch 'treatment'...

That wasn't the most horrific thing however... Her eyes were gone, her sockets vacant and empty, with heavy scarring. By the looks of it, any attempts at transplants would be useless, as the optical neves were too extensively damaged... Even Cybernetics might not work...

That wasn't all of the damage though, all her teeth had corroded and disappeared, her mouth and throat heavily scarred, so much that Afton was surprised she was able to breathe at all... Without waiting another moment, he applies two stimpacks to her and the effects are immediately apparent, though, somewhat disappointing.

Her skin begins healing slightly and the open wounds on her body stitch themselves closed. The damage to her eyes and throat weren't helped all that much however.

Afton looks around the room, it's a reception office of the Police Station, with cells nearby and doors leading to other rooms... He swipes an arm across the reception desk and places Anja on it, using a few stacks of paper as a makeshift pillow.

She's stable for now, but once she wakes up she'd be in terrible pain. Add her blindness and he was worried about how she'd react... To make everything a bit easy, he injects some Med X into her side, the painkiller hopefully helping her sleep better.

Once she was safe and secure, Afton releases a sigh and takes the chance to look himself over... The silver-bluish tint of his armour had seemingly rusted and begun deteriorating. He takes off his helmet and coughs into his hand, quickly realising the red he'd just spit out...

Further examination reveals that the air filtration systems of his armour had all become filled with some sort of red viscous fluid. It's like tar, but corrosive and slightly less sticky. He could still feel the faint burning in his chest, meaning that whatever damage had been done to him wasn't healing as quickly as he'd expect... His various regeneration Perks somehow unable to combat whatever the Cloud was trying to do to him.

He rubs his face and begins thinking over his various plans and contingencies when he could hear steps coming towards him from the next room... He pulls his Ultra Chainsword off of his belt and ignites it, just as a Ghost barrels through the door and thrusts a strange-looking knife at him.

He deflects it with the back of his fist and plunges the blade into its stomach, twisting it and forcing it upwards, bisecting the top-half of the creature... He then cuts off its arms, legs, and head, and places them at opposite sides of the room to prevent it from regenerating.


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