Kapitel 450: Regrouped and Recouped
Karl and the group of women follow Carlos as he leads them. He'd hoped that the Assassins would be attracted towards Afton who was still causing mayhem, but they instead continued to follow them.
He couldn't think of a single reason why they'd be so concerned about them when bigger threats were around, whatever it was, Karl disliked it.
The group ducked and weaved through the Legion tents, occasionally ducking and dodging to avoid gunfire from their enemies... Unfortunately, a few women and even children had gone down from a stray bullet. Of course, this only sped up the rest of them who were fearing for their lives.
Karl upon seeing a young boy's head explode from a high calibre bullet growls and whips around, ignoring the sharp pain from the injury under his arm and firing.
*BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG!*
He sprays lead at the group of assassins through tents, thin cover, and other obstacles. His accuracy is pretty shit, but the sheer amount of bullets he fires is enough to hit a few of them.
*Bang!*
Karl has the air knocked out of him when a heavy bullet strikes him in his right shoulder. His grip weakens and he accidentally drops his LMG, all the while more bullets strike him in the front. There's only so much his Deathclaw Duster can take, it was looking quite ragged by now, but Karl was thankful that by whatever god's grace he'd avoided having his head blown off.
He falls backwards but follows the momentum and rolls into a crouch, he's about to attempt to grab his gun when someone else does it for him.
"DON'T TOUCH MY DAD YOU PIECES OF SHIT!" Caroline roars as she barely manages to heft up the LMG and starts firing. Her aim is worse than even Karl's was, but the random shots somehow manage to hit a few Assassins.
Of course, this doesn't last long before the enemy retaliates...
*Bangbangbang!*
Karl throws himself at her as bullets start flying in her direction... A couple actually manages to hit her, however... Karl panics as he spots blood pools from her stomach, arms and shoulders. "No, baby are you okay?" he quickly asks while checking her wounds.
"I-I'm fine, j-lets keep moving." she coughs out, stumbling as she gets up by doing so nonetheless. The injured duo leaves the LMG behind as it's too heavy to carry in their current states and follow Carlos who had been waiting for them with worried eyes.
Their low, climbing posture protects them slightly from further fire from the enemy, but their speed was lacklustre... They would have never made it if it weren't for their unexpected saviour.
*Beepbeeep!*
*Pewpewpewpew!*
ED-E floats towards them while firing its laser at the Assassins, the projectiles actually managing to ignite a couple of the tents they were hiding behind.
"Eddie, you magnificent bastard!" Karl exclaims as he spots the robot, "Quick, get to the bunker!" he urges everyone as they continue, eventually spotting a rundown-looking shack in the corner of the Fort. It looked hastily constructed and functionless, not even worthy of storing garden tools...
Yet, it looked like the perfect place you'd want to hide something. The doors of the shack were already wide open, meaning Tamia and the rest of the group had already found it. Karl only hoped shit wasn't looking as dire as it was up here.
Inside the shack the group is greeted by numerous deactivated boobytraps. Some seem to have activated, but the rest were disarmed by a relatively skilful hand, in Karl's honest opinion... The room was almost empty aside from the traps, but in the corner, the floor seems to have opened up to reveal a metal staircase, one reminiscent of the bunker the Brotherhood of Steel had been hiding in or the Vaults he'd been inside.
At the bottom they're greeted by metal double doors with the Lucky 38 logo printed on them... Karl stumbles forwards with Caroline and tries to open it but hears shuffling from the other side. "It's Karl, don't shoot me you bastards!" he shouts as the doors open, revealing Tamia, Josie, Boone, Anja, and Dogmeat... With the addition of the tied up Caesar in the corner.
"Karl?" Tamia asks, walking over and helping support the man, "You're injured!"
"No shit!" he grunts out, forcing himself forwards before resting against the wall. Boone walks over and starts tending to his wounds, "Guessing you found what you were looking for?" he asks, glancing over at the group of women and children that were fearfully shuffling into the room.
Karl nods and smiles despite the pain he was in, "Fix me up after looking at my kid," he gestures at Caroline, "She took more shots than I did." says.
Boone nods and starts looking over Caroline. He frowns when he sees just how bad her injuries are, she'd been shot in the gut, and was bleeding pretty heavily from her arms. She'd probably need surgery to live through this.
"Will Ma be okay?" a young boy asks him from the side, he raises a brow and sends a glance to Karl who just solemnly nods. Boone gives a sigh, and looks at the boy, "If we can get her to safety soon, then yeah." he states, not willing to sugarcoat it. That said, he wasn't a doctor, maybe Afton could do something without needing invasive surgery.
"Traitor's, the lot of you." Caesar spits from the corner, but almost immediately receives a boot to the face courtesy of Anja.
"Be quiet, prisoner." she states in her usual dull tone.
Caesar just growls at them, he was already black and blue from interrogating him on the location of the bunker. The only threats he seemed to respond to were the ones threatening his manhood... It seems that even the most wilful people would bend over backwards to save that part. Tamia took great joy making the man sweat though.
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Kapitel 451: Home of House
Karl looks around the room as Boone tends to Caroline, the place looks clean and clinical, and the only thing of interest was the huge set of monitors at one side... "Tamia, you figure out what you're supposed to be doing here yet?"
Tamia shrugs and bites her lip, "To get into this place I had to use the Platinum Chip on a console upstairs... It spat it back out but there doesn't seem to be a way to get deeper into the facility..." she mutters.
"Maybe that's what House wanted?" Karl reasons but Tamia just shakes her head.
"No... I really doubt that. House spoke of the chip as if it were more than just some grandiose key... I must be missing something-"
"*Bzzztch!* That you are my dear," Houses voice says from the large monitors at the side of the room, his face appearing on the screen and causing everyone to jump from his sudden entrance. "I must admit, you are quite ahead of schedule, which is sometimes a bad thing... But not in this case. Indeed, I hadn't expected you to make such a spectacle out of it. Almost everyone in the Mojave is aware of what is happening in Legion territory, and a large portion is seeking to take advantage of it." House explains.
Tamia raises a brow, "That seems quick... Didn't think information travelled so fast..."
House chuckles, "It usually doesn't, but when two countries are scrambling to communicate with their own forces, things aren't as covert as they should be... Even an idiot with a radio would be able to pick up bits and pieces of radio chatter. But that's enough of that, let's speak on what you are actually here to do." he states and Tamia nods.
"Yeah, about that. I think your facility is broke, the damn doors won't open!" she gesticulates at the door.
"Of course the doors won't open, I have the controls to them!"
...
"What!? If you have access to the doors, why wouldn't you just activate the facility yourself! Seems like you already have everything handled!" Tamia accuses, wondering if she'd just been sent here to die.
"Ah, well. I wanted to make sure everything was protected... This way any would-be intruders would have to aqcuire the Platinum Chip and also hack into my systems, something that is not so easily done. The facility to rigged to self destruct should anyone attempt to breach the doors, which protects the secrets of this place... Indeed, I think you will find yourself shocked and amused by what I am keeping down there."
Tamia crosses her arms, "Alright... Well tell me what you need us to do, open the doors, and we'll get to work."
"Not quite so fast. I will have to request that only you enter the facility, I am not insulting your judge of character, but anyone here could be a spy. My secrets should be kept just so, secret. It may be troublesome for you, as the security systems will attack anyone and everything, but I am sure you can handle yourself."
Caesar upon hearing House snorts and begins quietly chuckling. "Hehehe, you'd be right about spies being here, House."
A camera attached to the computer system slowly rotates to get Caesar in its view, and if House were able to express himself through the computer he'd show bafflement, confusion, and pride. "Hm, so you managed to capture Caesar himself... You're proving yourself more and more capable as time goes on, Tamia."
Tamia nods but walks over to Caesar and gives him a fierce kick in the face, stopping him from revealing that she was potentially a spy sent by the Legion... She'd rather House not find out about that until she was fully in his confidence.
Caesar slumps to the floor unconscious as Tamia brushes her hands and turns back to House. "So you want me to singlehandedly fight my way through your facility, and then what?"
"You will need to install the Platinum Chip in a console, I will upload the data to your Pipboy... Ah, before you go off shooting everything in sight, I will remind you that there are delicate components and machinery that are still operable... That said, the reactors have started to leak radiation, so I would suggest you make preparations against that or live with a third arm, ear, or whatever extremity you are unlucky enough to grow... That or massive cancer." he trails off, ignoring the furrowed brows of Tamia and the rest of the group.
*Bangbangbang!*
The sound of something banging against the metal doors leading outside sounds out, it seems the Legion assassins had followed the group down here...
"Sounds as if you have company... I will be watching your progress Tamia, do not fail me." House states before the monitor turns off. As this happens, the doors leading deeper inside the facility open up, revealing a dimly lit hallway.
Tamia looks at the others and takes a Rad X pill that Afton had thankfully provided in their supplies, "Looks like I'm doing this part alone... It think it's best that way anyway, you guys defend the place until I get back. Boone, I'm trusting you to see everyone out alive." she says, clapping him on the shoulder and going to leave.
"I got this, go." he quietly says as he raises his Hunting Rifle towards the doors the Legion was banging on. He gets the noncombatants and injured to shuffle to one side of the room, he was honestly expecting the Assassins to punch a hole into the door and toss a grenade inside, he doubted they would because Caesar was in here, but he wasn't going to take any chances... For that reason he was getting ready to take the fight to them instead.
"Anja, you're the only unhurt gun we have right now... You got my back?" he asks and she nods. With that, he punches the switch that opens the doors.
On the other side he's greeted by a couple Assassins standing on the staircase, they seemed to have been contemplating on a way to open the doors, and were caught completely off-guard by their sudden attack.
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