Karl crept closer to the group while hiding his presence behind the nearby rubble. His goal wasn't to make an ambush or even to lay traps. No, it was to listen in on their conversation to get an idea on what they were planning.
The leader of the Fiends was currently speaking to one of the homeless-looking men, she wore a combat helmet that had a large goat-skull attached to the top of it. "-Are the supplies? I asked for them days ago and you still haven't gotten them!" Karl hears the woman say as he listens into the conversation.
The man holds up his hands and shows his palms pacifyingly, "We are trying, but the food shortages are making it difficult for us to feed ourselves, let alone get enough for you." he explains.
The woman scowls at the man, "If that's the case, then hand over your own supplies and I won't kill you." she spits, raising what looked like a Laser RCW toward the man.
"N-no come on Nutter, I'll get you your supplies, just, give me a day and I'll have it done. I promise!" he begs, not willing to put his pride over his life.
The woman growls at him, "You better, or I'm going to flay your skin and nail you to some ruins for the dogs and mosquitoes to eat. Oh, and before you leave." she points her weapon at one of the other homeless men, blasting him with a spray of lasers that causing his entire body to disintegrate. "You'll get the same if you try to run, got that Jamie?"
The man now called Jamie rapidly nods and briskly walks away, trying to get as far from that psychopath as possible.
Karl chews on his inner cheek while thinking over what he'd just heard. Obviously the Fiends were operating inside Freeside, but apparently they needed supplies? There'd only be a few reasons for this, one was the Fiends just weren't able to feed their own faction, which was unlikely. Second was that they were inside Freeside without a way out, requiring assistance from the residents...
He glances at the Fiends again and notices that they were on the move, he turns and tries to spot Boone but can't find the sniper... Instead, he just gestures towards himself with the usual NCR hand sign, if he didn't show up without a couple minutes then it was likely he was in trouble.
Fortunately Boone arrived not soon after he gave the hand sign, "Learn anything?"
Karl nods, "yeah but that can wait, we need to follow them and see where they're goin'." he states before following after the group as they walk through the alleyways.
Boone follows a good distance away from Karl, making sure to watch his back and give enough room for the more experienced man to sneak without having to drag him along. Boone was a sniper, not a dedicated scout-like Karl had been.
The Fiends were faster than the duo was, being forced to find hiding spots and avoiding any chance of discovery made them lose the group soon enough. Though, the duo was sure they'd be able to catch up.
Karl deftly snuck up to a corner and peeked into another alleyway to look for the Fiends... But, it was a dead-end... He'd watched the group walk into this place, so either they had a bunch of stealth-boys on them, were able to teleport, were planning a counter-ambush on Karl, or had slipped into a secret entrance somewhere... He was leaning towards the latter option due to how primitive the Fiends really were, using only what they managed to scavenge from the unfortunate travellers they'd come across.
Boone walks up beside him and glances into the alleyway, frowning as he does so. "Where'd they go?"
Karl shrugs, "No idea... I'm hesitant to take a look to be honest, never known what kinda shit the enemy might pull, 'specially if they knew we were tailing 'em... You sure they didn't notice us?"
Boone nods, "Yeah, their strides would've changed, and their heads would've turned at least a bit if they knew we were following them. They don't look like the trained sort either."
Karl hums to himself and continues staring at the alleyway... It was just a large clearing between buildings, there was a small pile of rotten cardboard boxes sitting on the floor in the middle of it, but otherwise, it was relatively clean... Shaking his head he decides to just take a look to see what was going on.
He creeps closer, making sure to check any and everything for traps... There were none. He reached the cardboard boxes and spotted where the Fiends may have went. A manhole leading to the sewers sat suspiciously on the floor.
Karl motions for Boone to come, once there both stare down at the sewer drain as if it were a puzzle to solve...
"I thought New Vegas and Freeside sewers had been disconnected from the outside?" Boone asks, having learned this back when he was working for the NCR... The sewers were a breeding place for crime and smuggling, so Mr. House just decided to disconnect all of it to prevent the annoyance from continuing.
"Well, we'll never know unless we take a look..." Karl mutters, "If the Fiends have managed to gain access through the sewer system then they could invade New Vegas with relative ease... I don't know their numbers but many people would die if that happened."
Karl leans down and glances around, fortunately the alleyway was dark due to the building either side of it, preventing light from reaching the floor... It'd be very difficult to sneak inside without being noticed if the underground was illuminated every time they opened the manhole. "Hmm... I'll go first I guess, I'm tempted to just drop a grenade down there and be done with it..."
He hands his Light Machine Gun to Boone as he lifts the cover as quietly as possible before climbing down the ladder.
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Karl slowly made his way down the dark, dank shaft by using the rusty metal handholds on the side. He cautiously made sure each was able to support his weight before using them, if one came off and clattered to the bottom the enemy would no doubt know of his intrusion.
Taking a glance below him he couldn't see any lights, meaning that the Fiends were in almost complete darkness, or the lights were further into the sewers. Regardless, he was going to take a look... Hopefully there wouldn't be an ambush waiting for him at the bottom, Boone would know if he was in trouble as he was watching from above.
As his foot reached the bottom of the shaft he was immediately hit with the stale scent of ancient faeces. True most of it had decomposed through the years, but somehow the smell still lingered... He tried not to notice the squelching nose his boots made against the floor as he warily looked around.
Currently he found himself within a dead-end, there were only two exits from where he currently was, one back up the shaft, and the other ahead. He signals up to Boone that he's alright for now, and that he'll be back in five minutes max, once Boone gives a thumbs up Karl looks at the hallway leading into almost abyssal like darkness...
Sighing to himself he pulls out his faithful .44 Magnum and starts sneaking inside, mentally blaming Afton for this unpleasant situation he'd found himself in.
Karl was very careful as he headed through the hallway of the sewer, he could barely see but still did his best to make sure he wasn't about to trigger any traps. It'd be entirely too easy to hide a tripwire down here, Karl was very aware of that fact.
As he progressed further he could hear the sound of flowing water... As sad as it was, it took a while for Karl to recognise it, the unfamiliar sound almost scaring the hell out of him. As his eyes adjusted themselves to the darkness he noticed he was within a large tunnel, a small change of sewer water going through the middle.
He could see that there were many entrances to other hallways across the channel, he wasn't willing to get his feet wet to check them out though. No, instead he focussed on the vague sound of talking he could hear... They weren't whispering, but it was so far away that he'd almost missed it. A couple moments later the talking was replaced was the sound of... Metal hitting stone?
The sound got clearer and clearer the closer he got, until he was just outside the entrance to the hallway the Fiends were presumably within. Faint light could be seen streaming from inside, Karl didn't dare take a glance inside, the illumination and apparent closeness would reveal his position almost immediately.
No, instead he headed straight back to Boone. Once he was back at the manhole he signals for Boone to come, taking his Light Machine Gun and Boone's two rifles to make it quieter and easier to get down the claustrophobic shaft.
"The Fiends seem to be digging for something, I couldn't hear much else, but I know where they're at... I have a couple idea's on how to deal with them, but if you got any plans then let 'em out now." Karl whispers as checks over his Light Machine Gun to make sure it's in proper condition to be used.
"Hmm, I remember some covert messaging techniques... Thought I'd never use them, but considering the Fiends are low on supplies, they might draw some out."
Karl raises a brow, "Show me."
Boone raises his hands to his face and inexplicably makes a squeaking sound, one that Karl recognised as coming from giant rats from their recent delve into Vault 11. The Fiends were probably hungry, so the sound of a potential tasty morsel might be all they need to drag someone away... His move morphs into a small grin, "That'll work."
Meanwhile :
Nutter had just returned to the site without the supplies she thought they'd have at this moment, she swore that if that damn gang tried that again tomorrow there'd be more than one corpse needing to be cleaned.
She watched as a few of her men continued to whack metal pipes, rebar, and other sturdy pieces of scrap against the wall. The wall itself seemed to be just a pile of dirt and stone that'd caved in and blocked off another path, in-fact that's exactly what it was.
Her stomach growled, she scowls and tosses a rock at the back of one of her men's head just to keep her mind preoccupied. She wasn't used to going this long without a pick-me-up, she'd found herself in this situation with only a few doses of Psycho and Jet, doses that quickly ran out.
Her ears twitched when she heard the vague sound of squeaking, she could barely notice it above the almost deafening sound of digging, but it was there. This wasn't the first time she'd heard that sound, Giant rats were the only other inhabitants of the tunnels, and thus the only food source they currently had available. "Oi, Shiv, sounds like there's prey outside, go grab it for me." she says to the nearest man trying to dig through the rubble.
The man just grumbled to himself, not dropping the rusty pipe he held in his hands as he began walking outside the room.
Shiv stepped out of the hallway and was shocked to find himself under assault! Soon enough he was pulled away from his allies without any of them noticing a thing.
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