บท 429: Not the only Merc
Not far south of Novac was a group of four people, the one leading them was a man in full heavy combat armour, he was 6.4ft and heavily muscled, with a large strange rifle on his back. His name was only known to be Drake, one of the most infamous Bounty Hunters around California.
Besides Drake was his lover and teammate, Madeleine. She was skinny, with a gaunt face and wore grey leather armour. Her blonde hair was cut short, and she stood at around 6ft, though, the sniper on her back was so large that it almost touched the floor... On her hip was a scoped .44 Magnum, a countermeasure should anyone get up close and personal.
Behind them were two men... Or to be more specific, one man and one boy. The man had dark skin and wore black painted leather armour, he had a pistol on his hip but also a large sword that looked fit to cut through flesh and bone. Stasus was the name people gave him, only because he never told anyone his real one.
Last but certainly not least was Hunter, a fourteen-year-old boy who'd been saved and raised by Drake and Madeleine... The fact that he'd survived so long was a testament to his luck, skill, and perhaps the protectiveness of his foster parents... He only had a 9mm pistol at his side, but on his back was a large backpack filled to the brim... On his chest were numerous grenades, all held up by their pins for easy use. He didn't wear any armour, only a green hoody and some jeans.
The four of them together made the mercenary group called Dissuade, a group famous for its efficiency and brutal tactics.
"Heh, wonder who's causing so much trouble that both sides want them gone?" Drake mutters as he walks, individually cracking each finger in preparation.
"Drake, I've read about this 'Parker' guy, and I don't think we should be taking it easy... If both sides know where he is but hires us instead, doesn't that mean they aren't able to do it themselves?" Madeleine says.
"Stop bitching, we'll get to Novac, cut off his head, and get our reward from both factions... Heh, it's like two for the price of one, easy peasy!" Drake laughs.
"Earlier at the Outpost, I heard that someone detonated some nukes nearby... Can I have them if we find some?" Hunter asks with a giddy, greedy look.
"No. You almost blew your arms off with those grenades of yours, I'm not gonna see what happens if you get a nuke!" Madeleine scolds.
"Guys, shut the fuck up... We're almost there." Drake says, pointing at the fortress city in the distance.
The group head west of Novac towards the mountainous area to get a better view into the city without having to sneak or force their way inside. By the time they get there it's already dusk, and the desert is wreathed in an orange glow of the dimming sun.
Madeleine looks through her weapons scope at the city and is listing off the various defences it has to the rest of her group. Though, there were a few things she wasn't so sure about... Regardless, she notes them anyway to prevent any mishaps from occurring.
When the next group of guards appear and start patrolling, she notes down their routes and timings, giving each of her team pieces of paper with the information written on it. Once is all said and done, it's time to move.
"Alright guys, you know the drill. Distraction, sneak in, capture the target, and get out. Let's try not to alert the whole place this time, Hunter..."
"Aww, come on! That was fun!" he complains but is forced silent under Madeleine's glare.
Drake thefts his rifle and starts headed down the mountain, followed by the rest of his group as he does so. Madeleine doesn't plan to enter the location, instead setting up a bit south of Novac to make it easier to retreat... Though, she will start making herself known if shit hits the fan.
Drake and Stasus hide behind some rocks close to the western wall of Novac as Hunter goes north. Once there he takes off his backpack and recovers a good amount of decoy grenades and shiny shards of glass.
It takes a couple minutes to set up, but before long he has everything interconnected behind various bits of cover. Once done he sits behind cover and waits for the signal, hopefully Drake wouldn't be able to capture the target too quickly... He was really looking forward to blowing something up.
With everything set up Drake and Stasus sneak towards the wall after a patrol walks past, due to how the wall was constructed, there are more than enough handholds for the duo to scale it. Once up, they drop into Novac without anyone the wiser.
Most of the town was sleeping at this point, but it didn't hurt to be careful, especially when you're life is at stake. They walk around Novac and eventually find a lone soldier who's currently taking a piss in between two buildings.
Drake nods at Stasus who silently charges at the man, kicking their slung rifle away before picking them up by their throat.
*Guhk!*
The guard chokes as he's literally lifted off of the floor by the large man, he attempts to struggle and free himself but it's no use... He knows his pistol is in his waistband but if he tried to draw it now he'd be defenceless... The fact that he hadn't been killed yet meant that these two needed something from him.
"Alright Stase, put him down." Drake says, and the large man drops the man into the puddle of his own piss.
Drake nods, "Alright, this is how this is gonna go, boy. You tell us what we want to know, or I'll do something horrible to you... Cool?"
The guard snorts and spits at Drake, the phlegm landing on his cheek and slowly dripping off.
Drake wipes it off and nods, "Alright, don't say I didn't warn ya."
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บท 430: Bark back hitting bark
Drake draws his silenced pistol and is about to shoot it into the guard's kneecap when Stasus suddenly bursts into movement. His arm zips forwards and traps the guards arm as the man attempts to grab the pistol in his waistband.
If the unfortunate guardsman didn't look scared before, he did now...
"Tsk Tsk, that wasn't very nice." Drake smirks and fires his gun into the man's knee as Stasus holds their victim's mouth closed.
*Pew!*
"MMMMMMRRRGGHHH!!!!" The guard gives a muffled scream as his kneecap is shattered, this is a life-changing injury, the sort of injury that would make a man in the wasteland kill himself... The type that'd give such a man no other choice.
Stasus holds the man's mouth closed as he cries and continues moaning, once his sobs go silent he lets go and Drake kneels next to him again.
"Now that you understand your situation... Where is Afton Parker?"
...
"P-Parker? I-I don't know! He disappears at random and almost never shows his face in town!" the man quickly says, clutching his ruined leg.
Drake shakes his head and points his gun at the man's other knee, "Now, now. That's not what I want to hear..." he states, tapping the barrel on his knee cap.
"I-I... H-he lives in the apartments, I-I don't know what room... J-just please don't shoot me again... Please!"
Drake turns his eyes to Stasus and continues asking questions, where the apartments are, whether or not there are guards, who else lives there, etc. Once done Stasus grabs the man by his neck and brutally twists his head, instantly killing them.
"Heh, serves the fucker right for spitting on me." Drake mutters before turning in the direction of the apartments. "Now... How the hell are we going to find Parker's room?"
Stasus shrugs and gestures at the dead man.
Drake nods, "You're right, let's just go room to room interrogating folks... We have to get one right eventually..." he says, the duo quickly heading off.
Unfortunately for the duo though, their choice of heading behind the building to scout it out first was their undoing... Dirt-Hog just so happened to be parked nearby, and unbeknownst to them, the K9000 was always active.
*Woof!*
A robotic simulacrum of a dog's bark enters the duo's ears, and both turn towards its location. Drake raises a brow at the large armoured truck with the relatively small gun on the roof of it... The gun that was currently pointing towards them.
*Bangbangbangbang!*
Drake's confused as Stasus throws both of them out of the way, sparks jumping off of the large man's metal armour as the bullets do their best to burrow through the reinforced plates. They barely manage to get away from the strange truck before the lights in the town all begin turning on.
"Fuck! They're on to us!" Drake growls, but turns his head north as Hunter puts his own plan in to place.
Hunter had just heard gunfire and seen the lights inside Novac turning on, this probably meant Drake had fucked up and needed assistance... Fortunately, they'd planned for this occurrence. He pulls the string that was connecting the pins to the decoy grenades and causes uproarious gunfire to sound out from behind the cover.
To add effect, Hunter himself began firing his pistol at the wall, drawing the attention of the patols within Novac, most of which charge to the north side of the wall to defend against what sounded like a substantial force.
Guards atop the wall shine down their relatively weak flashlights at where the gunfire was heard, and immediately spot flickers of light behind cover... Thinking this to be an enemy, they fire at it, not realise they were seeing light reflected from glass shards.
Of course, if it weren't for Hunter shooting his own weapon they might've realised it was a distraction. For now though, they were completely unaware.
It wasn't just the guardsman who were awakened however, Karl, Boone, Anja, Josie, Veronica, and Tamia were all up, Dogmeat getting up and ED-E turning on.
"Fuck was that?" Karl asks after he puts on his equipment and meets the rest of the group on the motel veranda.
"No idea. Isn't hard to guess we're being attacked though." Boone states as he hefts his Hunting Rifle, he'd left his Anti-Material rifle as it was too heavy to run around with and properly use.
"Shit, Afton took the best time to be fuckin' around somewhere else, didn't he?" Veronica says as she comes out of her room. already putting on her Deathclaw leather duster.
Tamia smirks at Veronica's incredibly messy bedhead, "Nice hair."
Veronica scowls, "I just got outta bed, what do you expect?"
"Doesn't it always look like that though-" she's cut off by Karl who slams his fist into the metal bannister.
"Both of you bitches shut up, we're under attack! Boone, Anja, Josie go north to the wall. Me Veronica and Tamia will scout the town to see if anyone got through." Karl orders as he gestures for ED-E and Dogmeat to follow him.
Elsewhere :
Drake and Stasus were having an incredibly hard time staying hidden, guards seem to sprout from every single building in Novac, each wielding proper weaponry and running north to help repell the 'attack' Hunter had set up.
Though, by the sound of distant gunfire, Madeleine had started shooting too, drawing the attention of some of the guards within the town... All in all, it was a shitshow, there was no proper order to the soldiers movements, them seemingly choosing where to go on their own without address a commander themselves.
The two start to move in a lull, but they are interrupted as they hear a bark behind them...
"Not agai-" Drake says but is launched clear off of his feet, spinning in the air and hitting the wall of a nearby building hard. Stasus isn't doing much better, having to pull his head out of a shack wall after landing...
Drake looks over at what'd flung them and spots a Cyberdog sprinting towards them with a vicious look.
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