A/N: Given the 'recent' release of Fallout New Vegas, I've been enjoying it just as much as Fallout 3. I only finished the game once before I put it down for a bit to catch up with other games that had come out this season. Coming back, I remembered how my first character advanced through the plot. Then, the next day, I remembered reading through Tastychainsaws' Falling Stars. One of the key points of my play-through came to mind, where I decided on the Wild Card route because I didn't want to destroy the Brotherhood base for the other factions.

I imagined what it would be like for the Konata and Kagami from Falling Stars to go through the New Vegas plot. This led to me imagining a short scene in which an NCR supporting Kagami would have a small breakdown when confronted with destroying another Brotherhood base. One thing led to another, and I decided that I'd try my hand at writing fiction for the first time with a New Vegas adaptation, using Falling Stars as my canon. I've only got two concerns coming in, and the first is knowing that since Tasty used almost all of the Lucky Star cast, I've got to figure out other ways to keep this fresh, but I need to do it without going too wild. The second is that since it's my first time writing fiction at all, I'm going to have to learn how to write characters, and learn fast, since Fallout New Vegas is quite dialog heavy in my experience.

All in all, I hope this turns out good (or at least, not terrible), and I encourage reviews about how I could make the story more original, or simply how to improve the writing itself.

EDIT: (2/7) Logical error fixed.

A few miles south of Vegas...

"I want to find some loot before we get to the next town," Konata said to her companion, "We are going to need some more caps to spend when we finally get to hit the casinos in Vegas!"

"I'm not just a pack mule for carrying our things, Konata," Kagami replied. "Why do I have to carry everything anyway?"

"I'm off in search of rare items! See-you later, Kagamin!" Konata shouted as she ran off.

"And you're not even going to give me an explanation, are you? We're going to be separated because of this. Where are we supposed to meet up anyway?" Kagami wondered. "Even if I do leave her behind, I know she can catch up. I hope she's going to be more responsible in the future, especially since she took this job that I'm being forced to do. And here I thought she was taking my advice for once," she thought, as she fingered the chip they were supposed to deliver in her pocket. "Then again, she probably only took on this courier contract because of the promise of easy money..."

Little did she know, that chip was soon going to be everything but 'easy' money.

Just outside a little town known as Goodsprings...

"Where's this courier of yours?" one man muttered to another.

"Watch the road. Shouldn't be long now."

That night...

"What the hell just happened..?" Kagami awoke in a daze, and tried to reach up to rub her eyes. "What's happening now?" she thought in a panic, as she realized her hands were bound.

"Time to cash out," the man said, seemingly to everyone around her. He continued talking, but Kagami was far too preoccupied with trying to figure out how exactly she got into her current situation. She could hear him, but she wasn't listening. She snapped out of her dazed mentality when she saw the man reach into his checkered coat, and pull out a 9mm pistol.

"Wait wait no!" Her eyes widened in fear, she knew what was about to happen.

"From where you're kneeling, it must seem like an 18-karat stroke of bad luck," the man spoke, as he examined his weapon and took aim at Kagami. "Truth is," the man continued, "the game was rigged from the start."

"Konata..." she thought.

BANG.

Sometime later...

Kagami awoke in a daze yet again. "Where exactly am I?" she wondered. She struggled to get up, from where ever she was.

"You're awake. How about that."

Her vision was swimming, and her head was pounding. "I'm still alive, right?" she asked herself. She wasn't quite sure why, but she didn't feel as hurt as she thought she should have after being shot in the head. "Wait, shot in the head?" she mentally exclaimed, right before trying to leap out of the bed she was in.

"Whoa, easy there, you've been out cold for a couple of days. Why don't you just relax a second, get your bearings."

She couldn't help but agree to that idea, moving around too much when injured was never a good idea when it could be avoided, and she knew that.

"Let's see what the damage is," the man in front of her said. His voice was calming and reassuring, which was really helping prevent her from falling into a panic. "Can you tell me your name?"

"Kagami... Kagami Izumi..." she muttered. At the moment, just about everything hurt to do. She could barely keep her voice steady to even tell this man her name. At least there wasn't much pain when she was perfectly still.

"Good, at least you're still together enough for that," the man said under his breath. He looked back into her eyes, "Welcome to Goodsprings. I'm Doc Mitchell. Now I hope you don't mind, but I had to go rootin' around there in your noggin' to pull all the bits of lead out. I take pride in the skill I have at what I do, but you might want to check to make sure I got everything back where it was suppose to be." He reached down to his side and handed her a small mirror.

"I think this is all right," Kagami said cautiously, "I'm not sure I could even remember what I'm supposed to look like right now anyway," she finished in her head.

"Well, that's good," the doctor said, sounding more relieved than Kagami thought he should. "Either way, we should see if you can still move around good. I don't think you want to be kept in bed any longer anyway," he said as he reached to help Kagami from her position on the bed.

She took her first good look around. "Looks close enough to a doctor's office," she thought, "If being a doctor was a hobby you practiced in a spare room in your house," she completed with a small grimace. "I really hope he didn't do anything wrong to me..."

She was interrupted from her train of thought when she realized the doctor was speaking to her. She gave him a look that asked him to repeat what he'd just said, because she was nowhere close to listening to him when he said it.

"I said, 'why don't you try walking over to that Vigor Tester over there, make sure you can still move fine'," he calmly repeated with a worried look on his face.

She slowly walked over to the machine. Everything seemed to be working fine in her body so far, the only problem right now was the headache that was beginning to fade. She grabbed hold of the sides of the machine; she was still worried about falling down at any minute.

"Give it a try," the doctor said to her, with just a hint of excitement in his voice, "It'll be a good way to see if everything else is in working order."

Again, Kagami was forced to agree to the doctor's suggestion. That reasoning, combined with a bit of apprehension and curiosity about what it would say, drove her to use the machine.

"Barrel Chested, Monocled Falcon, Hardy, Peevish Librarian, Smartypants, Catlike, Sickly Albatross", the results read.

"I'm really not quite sure what that means... is this thing trying to insult me? Because it almost sounds like it..."

"As long as that sounds vaguely like what you remember yourself to be, then it should be just fine," said the man looking at her as she studied the results.

A look of annoyance flashed over her face, but disappeared as quickly as it came when she realized Konata would be able to help her sort herself out. Her face changed to a mixture of anger and worry when she remembered about Konata. Anger that this was her fault in a way, but a greater concern about how Konata would have no idea what happened to her, and they had no real way of getting in touch.

"Eh?" she squeaked as she felt hands on her shoulders. She now noted that they were bare shoulders.

"I was going to give you a personality test, but I really wouldn't have anything to compare it to anyway. I don't have results from anyone else, and I don't know what you were like before all this," the doctor said as he guided her out of the room.

She felt her face heating up in a blush. She was unclothed, not completely like she'd feared, but being in her underwear in front of a man she hardly knew was quite embarrassing. It also had some less than fortunate implications.

"He's a doctor, he wouldn't try anything like that, and people who become doctors aren't usually like that. They don't prey on innocent girls like me." She tried to think of other doctors she'd known. That pursuit was quickly abandoned when the first doctor that came to mind was Konata's father. "Alright, he's an exception. Maybe this wasn't the best idea. I should just calm down, I'm sure there's a perfectly good reason why I'm not wearing the same clothes I put on myself."

As if on cue, the doctor began to tell her, "When Victor found you; you had just about nothing on you. Just had what you're wearing now and this note." The doctor handed her a holotape. She took a quick glance at its contents, glad that not only was her Pip-Boy still with her, it was operational and she hadn't lost any knowledge about how to operate it.

The note was nothing more than another copy of the delivery job that Konata had accepted, to bring that platinum poker chip she had earlier to the New Vegas Strip.

"Stupid chip, it's probably the reason I'm in this mess now," she huffed, "What could possibly make that thing worth killing someone over without trying anything else first? I didn't really care that much about it, certainly not enough to give up my life for it."

"More importantly, I'm really upset about losing everything else," she thought disappointedly. "I might never be able to replace Konata's Gauss Rifle, and I know I can't replace the memories that came with it..." she continued mulling with a frown. Though it would be a real pain, nothing else she was carrying was unique in any sense other than having been used by the pair, so nothing of irreplaceable value was lost.

She was once again separated from her train of thought by the doctor, who was now returning to her with a blue bundle of material.

"It's not much, but I can't bring myself to send you off on your own as you are," Doc Mitchell said as he handed her the bundle. It was a Vault 21 jumpsuit, which brought on a feeling of nostalgia that wasn't completely welcome to her, along with a pistol and some other basic supplies.

She turned back to the doctor after having dressed herself. "There are a few people I want you to talk to before you go and skip town, if that was what you were planning. I know I'd want to say a few choice words with someone if I was in your shoes."

Her brow furrowed and she nodded automatically, just realizing now that revenge was an option, and it was starting to seem like a pretty good one at that.

"I want you to speak to Victor and Sunny Smiles. Sunny should be in the saloon, which you should be able to find yourself. Victor, well, he'll be somewhere. You'll know him when you see him."

Kagami nodded. "Thank you for your help Doctor Mitchell," she said as she bowed slightly.

A warm grin appeared on Mitchell's face, "Don't mention it, it's what I'm here for."

As she made for the door, he called one last thing out to her.

"There are some other people you should speak with in town, but I trust you'll run into them soon enough."

She nodded once again, before opening the door to her renewed life.

A/N: At the end of Falling Stars, Konata and Kagami are geared REALLY well, and it just wouldn't make sense for them to storm through the plot using end game weapons. The whole being shot in the head scene is a good excuse for leaving them with nothing.

Other than that, it was mostly minor changes to the introduction. Going ahead, there's going to be order of event changes, and a few things will be left out for time's sake, and for the fact that I can use their existing 'wasteland experiences' to deal with things.