Capítulo 60: New Crew
Once inside the administration building they headed straight up to the second floor, a few guys wearing what looked like bulletproof vests eyed Afton suspiciously, but when they saw that Karl was with him they let him through.
They entered the main office where Eddie had his feet kicked up on the desk, and was shooting some jet. He had a relatively handsome, broad face, with hair that seemed to defy gravity while it stood in the air. He was paler than most of the other guys around here, though, whether that was because of his ethnicity or because he didn't leave this building much, Afton didn't know.
Behind the man was an ornate painting of some sort of NCR leader, perhaps a former president? He couldn't really tell due to two reasons... One because that Afton had never bothered to research much about the NCR, and second because the Powder Gangers had drawn graffiti all over it to make the man resemble a clown.
Eddie slouches into his chair and tosses the empty jet away, it skidded across the floor and joined many other discarded ones. "Karl? I see you've brought an outsider here, gonna give me a reason I shouldn't have them flayed and left out for the coyotes?" he says threateningly, Afton found it hard to take this guy seriously though, from his attitude to the small twitches he made probably due to the jet, he didn't seem much of a leader.
Karl just blankly looks at him, "I didn't bring the kid here to ask for permission, I'm telling you they're one of us. They've got history with the NCR, killed his folks, could use some more hands if the NCR does decide to attack us." he explains.
Eddie looks to Afton, "You know my name, yet I don't know yours."
"Afton Parker." he states.
"Afton Parker huh? Never heard of you. Where you from?" Eddie questions.
"California, travelled here with my parents before the NCR killed them. Karl helped me out as a Deathclaw was trying to tear me a new one." he explains.
Eddie's brows raise, "California? Know the Hub?" he asks curiously.
Afton shakes his head, "We tried to stay away from NCR territory... Not that it matter nows." he admits with a sorrowful look.
"Hm, whatever, you're one of us now. Also, some advice, try stay clear of Scrambler. One with the eyepatch, look at him wrong and he'll fuck your day up." Eddie says, but before they leave Karl looks at him.
"The trade route is dead Eddie, Deathclaws have stopped anyone from coming through, we gotta think about our options." Karl says.
"What options? There's fuck all East of here apart from that shitty town Goodsprings, south of here is miles of canyon passages that are invested with mutated creatures, and the NCR have set up outside Primm." he spits back, knowing full well that their situation was worsening every day.
Karl shrugs, "I'm just saying, lay off the jet and start thinking about our next moves. We start running outta food and people start fighting, there'd be nothing we can do." he says and leaves, Afton following after him.
"How bad do you think the situation is?" Afton asks as they leave the building.
"Bad. Doesn't matter how organised we are now, our group is still just a bunch of criminals and misfits. First problem appears and people'll be leaving like we're a sinking ship." Karl explains.
Afton nods at his answer, he couldn't imagine people were sticking around due to some sense of loyalty. "What now?"
"Now?... We'll get you a gun and go see if we can find any NCR caravans heading to Goodsprings, not much else there is to do besides that."
Afton ends up spending some time at the bar, he didn't have any caps so he just drank the slightly irradiated water he was given. Karl was going around to gather up his gang to look for caravans, most of their group as disturbed and gone to do their own thing, so it was pretty annoying to have them all reconvene.
Eventually though everyone was present, Karl, Tommy, Reggie, Louis, and Blank. Reggie and Louis were relatively normal guys, who'd been down on their luck and had resorted to stealing to make ends meet. Obviously, they got caught and were imprisoned in the NCR Correctional Facility.
With Blank? It wasn't his real name, but the man was so incredibly stupid that he'd just constantly give blank stares at people when they tried to explain something to him. Strange thing was he didn't try to correct anyone, instead just adopting the nickname as his own.
"So what's the plan?" Tommy asks as Karl approaches. The man walks by Afton and tosses a couple of things in front of him, one being a blue jacket with NCRCF on the back, and the other being a poorly maintained Laser pistol that looks just about ready to fall apart. Fortunately, he was given a couple of Energy cells to go with it.
Afton ties the NCRCF jacket around his waist as he didn't want to wear any more layers in this desert heat. It'd get the message across that he was one of them though. He grabbed a nearby cloth and started cleaning the gun aswell, as a member of the Brotherhood of Steel, it'd been ingrained into him to keep his weaponry well maintained.
He quickly took it apart and started cleaning the individual components, this stopped whatever Karl was going to say as the whole group watched him meticulously look at every part for damage or signs of stress.
"You some sort of mechanic newboy? Never seen someone take apart one of those like that before." Tommy finally breaks the tension.
Afton glances up having not understood they were talking to him, "Hm? Oh-er... I've been taking these things apart all my life, a business my parents used to own youknow?"
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Tommy sneers at his response, "Might need you to have a look at my own gun." he states, giving Afton a glimpse of his dirty, rusty .357 revolver.
"Now, now, we can talk on this later, right now we've got a job to do." Karl says, drawing everyone's attention to him. "No Caravans will be comin' through from New Vegas due to the Deathclaws, so we'll need to start getting creative. We'll set up camp near Sloan and wait for the NCR resupply team and ambush them. No point in keeping the Miners around if the NCR ain't gonna get rid of the pests." he explains.
"Sounds good to me." Tommy says, downing a shot of whisky in one go before sliding it back to the barman and standing up. "Well? We're not gonna sit here drinking all day, let's go kill some grunts."
Everyone nods and Afton's given a backpack with a small number of supplies to carry, he was new to the gang so he didn't argue against being given the load. They left the prison and headed back in the direction they came from, veering off the road and onto the taller rocky ledges at the side which gave them a good view of anyone who'd pass by.
Afton hadn't been paying attention while he was walking and ended up stamping on something that broke under his foot. Looking down, he could see the broken pieces of what looked like an eggshell, aswell as the blood-covered corpse of the eggs not-yet-formed inhabitant.
Karl looks over to see what was holding him and his eyes widened, "Shit, Gecko nest! Get your guns out, we're about to have guests." he says, pulling out his .44 magnum.
Afton could hear the thuds of many small feet, they were moving quickly and it was slightly unnerving to not know where they were coming from. He heard a growl behind him and rapidly turned, pointing his Laser pistol at the offending sound and shooting a red beam at the dog-sized lizard with red eyes and grey scales.
It'd been running at him on two legs with its forearms raised baring its claws, its mouth was wide open showing many sharp teeth. The red beam stuck it in the face and caused it to flinch in pain, it ended up leaping past Afton and off of the rocky ridge they were standing on.
He glanced down and saw it land heavily with a thud, its two legs bending at odd angles as it gave out enraged and pained snarls. While he was distracted with that though, another Gecko ran up and was about to clamp its jaws onto his leg.
Afton had heard it and tried to point his gun at it, but wasn't fast enough... His eyes focussed on the creature as its jaws slowly began to shut on his leg... When suddenly time seemed to freeze.
All sound ceased immediately as the attacking Gecko's head started flashing an amber colour, Afton glanced around and saw that everyone wasn't moving, Karl as just kicked a Gecko in the face while blowing another's head off, the blood splatter was frozen mid-air.
Suddenly a thought flashed through Afton's mind, he knew what this was... VATS!
The bottom right of his vision he could see the number of action points he had, and when he focussed on the Gecko in-front of him he could select particular things he wanted to target... Unlike in the game, he could choose very specific things like eyes, mouth, or throat.
He chooses to fire the maximum amount of shots into the Gecko's head, the chance was almost at one hundred percent success rate due to how close it was. With that he confirmed the selection and he felt his body start moving on its own.
Unfortunately, before he was able to get the first shot off the Gecko managed to clamp down on his leg, though, the pain he was dreading didn't appear. He simply stood there in a perfect shooting stance and shot two times into its skull, disintegrating a large portion of its head.
Once it was dead VATS released its grip on him and he could finally feel where the Gecko had bitten him. It'd bit down on one of the reinforced metal bits of his recon armour, so it hadn't breached his skin, but the pressure applied to his leg still hurt a good amount.
He ignored the pain though as there were more enemies still surrounding them. He focussed on an enemy again and dropped into VATS, allowing him to survey the scene while time was frozen. This wasn't its intended use, but it was still incredibly broken... Being able to freeze time and come up with a plan during combat would make him an incredibly hard person to fight.
He selects the nearest Gecko and uses the rest of his action points on it, unloaded three red beams into it. One misses but the rest strike true, burning a deep hole where one of its eyes used to be.
A smaller one charges him but Afton just kicks it under its jaws as hard as he can, his lessons with Veronica hadn't been in vain, and the satisfying *Crack* of the creature's neck-breaking had him grinning slightly.
The group continued to shoot the small colony of Gecko's until none remained. Reggie was the only person who'd gotten injured as one had come from behind and taken a bite out of his thigh, his jeans not giving much resistance against the Gecko's teeth.
Afton slowly walked over and was about to start looking at the wound when time froze yet again. He was about to start complaining but the sight before him had his mouth unconsciously closed...
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