บท 432: Bound to hurt
Drake upon spotting their pursuers were not returning fire, glances at Stasus and quickly lays out their situation, "They're tryin' to draw this shit out. We gotta get' before they realise Hunter's distraction!" they stand while he fires off a couple more bolts of lightning before hopping off of the roof and running towards the southern wall.
Already they could see the firefight happening between the soldiers and Madeleine. There were a couple corpses that'd had their heads blown through piled up below the wall, showing that Madeleine definitely wasn't showing mercy...
Usually, the group would do their best to avoid needless killing as it only breeds more problems, but the situation had apparently become untenable.
*Bang bang!*
Drake gets hit yet again in the back, his armour barely absorbing the bullet as he ducks to avoid the next. He unclips another flashbang and tosses it behind him to get some space from their pursuers and charge towards the makeshift steps that lead to the top of the wall.
As they run the soldiers on the wall notice their presence, forcing Drake to fire a bolt of lightning into the nearest, the bolt cuts through his flash with ease and crippling the person behind him. Stasus charges in front and severs the hand of one man as they attempt to shoot, afterwards kicking the man off of the wall as they give a Wilhelm scream as they fall.
Unfortunately for the duo, there were far more soldiers on the wall than they'd initially anticipated. Drake was barely holding them back with his rifle as Stasus did his best to block any bullets heading his way with his armour.
Madeleine of course was assisting them, but there was only so much a sniper as powerful as hers could do against light armoured units... It was made for single heavy targets, not groups.
By this time Karl, Veronica, and Tamia had caught up and gotten rid of the effects of the flashback. Veronica charges up the stairs with a silent roar and punches Drake in the back while he's busy focused on other enemies.
*BANG!*
Her shot-gun powerfist fires into his side as she hits him, his armour not doing anything against the stopping power of the strike. A spray of blood follows a part of his side being obliterated, the force of the hit knocks him forwards, sending him sprawling over and accidentally off of the wall.
Stasus attempts to retaliate with a strike, slicing at her shoulder and managing to hit... Unfortunately, her combat armour combined with the Deathclaw leather duster makes it almost impossible for his blade to harm her, it instead bites into the metal-polymer of armour and lodges itself there.
Veronica uses this opportunity to punch Stasus in the face, but the man dodges backwards, eventually backing up against the side of the wall.
"There's a sniper about! Get your head down!" Karl manages to shout, allowing Veronica to duck in time as a heavy bullet goes past her head, skimming her hair and taking a few strands with it... Not that Veronica would mind, she hates her hair...
Tamia peeks over the stairway and fires a couple more shots at Stasus as the man blocks his face with his arms, most of them do nothing to his metal armour, but she does manage to find purchase in the gaps at his joints.
Karl arrives and is about to unload his LMG on the man, but Stasus seems to take his chances by throwing himself off of the wall...
The wall itself isn't actually that tall, so once the group look over, they spot Stasus carrying away a heavily injured Drake.
*BANG!*
The head of a soldier beside them explodes into red mist, forcing everyone else to duck behind cover, seemingly unable to give chase of fire at the retreating duo.
"Fuck, fuck, FUCK! We can't let those pieces of shit get away! How many people did they kill!?" Veronica shouts, but Tamia and Karl force her down to prevent her from doing something stupid.
"You got a death wish or somethin'!? Keep fucking down or you'll get another eye socket!" Karl loudly retorts, using the sword lodged in her shoulder as leverage to keep her still. "Atleast we aren't empty-handed... They left some gifts for us." he states, gesturing at the rifle that fucker had been using to shoot lightning.
It isn't long before a brave soldier who peeks his head over spots the missing figures, meaning they'd escaped somewhere they'd not be able to follow...
Karl sighs and lets Veronica go, leaning against the edge of the wall, "They sending assassins after us now? Should I feel proud they seem us important enough?" he jokes.
Veronica shakes her head, "What I wanna know is who sent them, the NCR or the Legion."
Tamia frowns, "Or the Brotherhood... That Hardin guy didn't look happy about getting his ass beat."
Veronica looks as if she's about to refute that but Karl speaks up, "Oh fuck, we left Dogmeat..."
The other two look at him with wide eyes and quickly stand, running towards where the Cyberdog had last been seen. Once they arrive they spot the whimpering cyborg with ED-E hovering protectively over it.
Dogmeat's leg had been severed and was slowly bleeding out, but a quick tourniquet and bandages temporarily sort him out for the time being.
"Shit, boy... That kid's gonna be on the warpath when he hears about this..." Karl mutters.
"Wouldn't he already be with how many people those guys killed?" Tamia asks.
Karl shakes his head, "He'd mark that as simple casualties... No, he's gonna take this personally, even if he ignores the fact they were obviously here for him..."
Tamia stands and gently picks up Dogmeat, "We need to get a proper doctor in this place, I'll head down to New Vegas when I have the chance and ask House if he knows anyone... Until then, let's check the wounded and damages." she states as she marches towards the makeshift tent hospital...
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บท 433: Unwanted Observations
Afton had been completely unaware of the attack on Novac while he was in Big Mt. The only reason he'd been alerted to it was that Glados had detected damage to her 'observation unit', better known as Dogmeat.
A quick teleportation and he was once again inside Novac, immediately he was greeted by many weapons pointed at him, the Novac soldiers were all on edge and were waiting for some more intruders to face.
Afton just crosses his arms and glares at them, "There better be a good reason you're pointing those things at me." he growls out, causing the men to halt.
Fortunately, Daisy walks over with an angry look and smacks a couple soldiers on the back of their heads, "What do you think you're doing? Go on, get back to work!" she says before turning to Afton, "Welcome back... Has anyone told you about last nights events yet?" she asks.
Afton shakes his head, "No, explain it to me... And where's Dogmeat?"
Daisy gestures for him to follow her as she begins explaining the events the night prior. She explains that the Mercenaries were here to kill Afton or someone close to him, judging by their attempts to gain access to the apartments.
Afton had expected something like this to happen, but was sure the security of Novac was good enough to block most attempts... Somehow a few got through though... He would've laughed their attempts off had they not killed many people, and he certainly wasn't laughing when he saw the state Dogmeat was in.
The Cyberdog was missing a leg and had scorch marks covering it, blackened spots on its metal components with burns on its organic ones. Dogmeat whimpers as he kneels down next to it to examine its injuries, but Afton wasn't really sure what weapon would cause something like this...
Glados was helping examine its systems and reported that some of its nerves had been fried, something a flamethrower wouldn't usually do... After a couple minutes, Glados eventually just tells him to transport Dogmeat to Big Mt so she can get it repaired or replaced.
Afton nods to himself and does so, teleporting Dogmeat back so Borous, Dala, Glados and the other robots could help fix Dogmeat... Hopefully, he wouldn't have to be replaced, Dogmeat had been a 'good boy' as far as he was concerned.
After seeing to Dogmeat he looks for his companions and eventually finds Boone on the southern wall watching the road. "Yo Boone, where is everyone? They all seem to have disappeared..." he asks as he approaches, Boone not even giving twitching at his sudden appearance.
"Everyone but Tamia should be attending to the injured, or at least, helping those that know something about it... You're a doctor right? You should probably be down there too." he states.
Afton nods, "I will be, but I need to make sure everything is ok before that... Where did you say Tamia is?"
"She left to go find a doctor." he states simply.
"Wait what? Isn't she on the NCR and Legion watchlist for associating with us?"
Boone smirks, "You mean for associating with you, right?... Anyway, she has the protection of House, so she should be fine for now, she also took that floating robot-thing... Plus, that woman can handle herself."
Afton sighs and leaves Boone to it as he heads down to the make-shift hospital they'd set up... He should still have his medical equipment in his backpack... But it's been quite a long time since he'd properly used any of them.
Elsewhere :
Tamia kicks a rock as she walks North towards New Vegas, she'd only now realised how annoying walking actually is... She wished Afton or Josie had taught her how to drive on of those Vehicles. And given her permission to use one for that matter.
She'd been walking for around Eight hours now, yet she was still a couple miles away from the 188 Trading Post. Though, At least she had some company, ED-E wasn't just good at detecting incoming enemies, he also came with an inbuilt radio... Though, he didn't seem to be able to lower the volume of it, so both of them were very, very noticeable as they walked through the Mojave.
Of course, she'd encountered a few troubles along the way, halfway to the 188 Trading Post she'd run into an NCR barricade. She'd thought she would be arrested, but apparently she was the only one involved with Afton that didn't have a bounty... For obvious reasons.
*Bzztch!*
Tamia raises a brow at ED-E at the strange sound he was emitting, "You alright Eddie?" she asks, but doesn't receive its trademark beeps to indicate its mood.
"*Bzzztch!*-And so you walk, far from those under your banner, to an old master with a new flag. Where will your path end? That, will be for you to decide.*Bzztch!*"
Tamia scowls at the gravelly voice that'd come over the radio, this wasn't the first time she'd heard it, whoever they are seemed to use ED-E to speak to communicate with her... They would occasionally chip in with unwanted observations on her situation, which meant they either had a good information network, or were watching her...
She glances around the sandy area she was in for anyone, but finds herself still alone, the only sound she could hear being the desert winds and the old prewar songs ED-E was playing.
Tamia rubs her temples, feeling yet another headache coming on... It was strange that she got a migraine every time she heard the voice, the fact they seemed to know her better than herself was worrying too.
Afton says that the voice belonged to the one who helped save his sister in all but blood, Christine. And that they were looking to meet a courier... Which most likely meant Tamia herself. What she didn't know was why they hadn't just come up and spoken with her yet, did they have another goal in mind? Or was just fucking with her mental state deemed 'good enough'?
She shakes her head and sighs before continuing to walk. Must be her old motto, or at least it felt like it... When in doubt, walk it off.
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