"Oh God, you're a bitch" Ann laughed as she watched her friend take perfect aim at the raiders crotch.

The poor guy didn't see her aiming her gun at him even though she was in plain sight. With a giggle her friend pulled the R1 button with perfect accuracy. It was almost comical how the guy just exploded from that one tiny 10 mm bullet. A nice finishing touch from the bloody mess perk.

"God! It would be so much fun to live in the fallout world" May said as she popped a Cheeto in her mouth.

Ann was at May's house playing fallout 4, one of the best time-wasting games money could buy. It was Ann's game and PS4, but she had long ago played through the game several times and had beaten all the factions just to see how they all ended. Her friend May was working on saving up for her own fallout game and system, but was eager to play.

Ann had let her borrow her PS4 months ago and just like Ann had done months ago, May was playing the hell out of Fallout 4.

"Oh hell no, I wouldn't want go there, it would be a total nightmare" Ann answered her friend with a laugh as she walked to the front door to get her shoes. "That place would flat out suck worse than… a bag of limp dicks." Ann said with a laugh as she remembered the dead pool movie they had just watched earlier that day. "And not to mention, everything in that world is full of radiation and the food looks like it would taste worse than crap. Then, If the radiation poisoning doesn't kill you and you somehow survive the food making you shit yourself to death, you've also got psychotic people and animals around every corner trying to maim, murder or eat you." Ann then looked up at May with a shiver "One last word,...Deathclaws."

Ann shook her head as she gathered her things and set them all by the door. She was always forgetting something at May's house. "Deathclaws are not something I would like to fuck with in life."

Ann took one more look around the house and nodded when she thought she had gathered everything.

Ann walked over to her friend sitting on the couch still playing Fallout.

May pulled up her pip boy to pause the game and turned to Ann "Yeah, but still… it would be awesome meeting Danse and chilling with Hancock in real life." She said as she put down the PS4 controller. "Speaking of Hancock, how's your crossover tattoo doing?" May got up to look at Ann's tattoo.

Ann pulled the back of her shirt up and turned her back to her friend. "It's finally done with the scabbing and itching stage so I think it's finally healed." Ann pulled the back of her shirt back down and continued with her packing.

It was a cartoony picture of a female looking Dead pool hanging on Hancock throwing a peace sign. Hancock had his trademark mischievous grin on his face as he was playfully throwing the bird with his hand not wrapped around dead pool's shoulders.

Ann had redrawn it from a picture she saw on the internet. She had found the original idea for the picture while looking for Hancock and Dead pool pictures to fill her phone up with.

May's face lit up as she pointed to Ann's cell on the coffee table, "Speaking of Dead pool, I download the movie into your phone, I hope it works." May looked at the phone with a smile.

Ann sighed as she walked over to the table. "May… you really didn't have to do that." Ann picked up her phone and grabbed the charge cord. It would have been one of those things forgotten had May not said anything about it.

"It's virus free I promise. You bought the movie and downloaded the app to watch your digital copy, but at least now you can now watch it when you want without needing the damn internet or eating your data up." May gave Ann a friendly hug good-bye. "Besides you've let me barrow your PS4 for this long I had to repay you somehow."

With a sigh Ann shrugged her shoulders. "It's bad and illegal doing that down loading crap. Thank you though." Ann said with a smile as she put her phone into her brown and tan hippie bag with mushrooms printed all over it. The bag was big and had to be slung across her shoulders to keep it from dragging across the ground. "Alright, I think I got everything. God I hate going back to work after having a few nice days off, any more it feels like work is all my life revolves around."

Ann picked up her overnight bag and made for the door. Ann had spent her two days off from work at her friend's house and had to head back home to the country to take care of house cleaning and animals.

May laughed and poked Ann on her shoulder. "Yeah but working keeps the power on so you can play games and hatch your chickens." May said with a smile.

Ann opened the front door just as the sky lit up with distant lightning in the direction she would be driving in. Faint thunder followed letting her know the storm was close. Ann smiled at the flashing sky and with a sarcastic tone held her hands up, "Ah yes, behold! The power of Missouri weather. If you don't like it just wait around and it will change in a few hours." Ann shook her head then took her stuff to her old Chevy hatch back, otherwise known as the granny wagon.

May got a worried look on her face when she saw the intensity of the lightning. "You sure you don't want to stay another night and just go home first thing in the morning?" she asked as the sky lit up bright again. "Odd, I saw the news this morning and they said it was going to be a nice clear night tonight…" the sound of thunder rolled towards them as if to laugh at what May just said.

Ann just shook her head, shrugged her shoulders and smiled "I'll be fine, I've driven through this kind of weather before. It's kind of fun really. The winds in the last storm I drove in got so bad, it felt like it was lifting part of the car off the ground." Ann got into her car and started it up, "Besides, you forget I live on a farm. I can't leave the house for more than a day or two before the animals run out of food and water."

Ann waved goodbye as she put her car into gear and backed out of her friend's driveway with another wave goodbye.

Ann pulled her cell phone out of her bag to see what time it was when she stopped at the stop sign at the end of the road. Almost 10:00pm, Ann groaned. It would be about 10:45pm by the time she got home. Everyone she know had to live nearly an hour's drive away. Ann tossed her phone back into the bag and let out a sigh. Oh well, at least with everyone so far it made for some fun mini vacations on her days off.

Ann looked to make sure the road was clear and pushed the gas to go. Ann smiled at the storm as she drove towards home and into the storm.

Ann turned on the radio to listen for any storm warnings. So far the radio was just playing good music so the storm wasn't bad. Probably just one of those quick pop up storms that they haven't had time to warn about yet. It was a nice back road drive from one curvy county highway to another. Ann smiled as her mind got lost in memories of the past. She smiled as she remembered joking with her brothers that some drunk guy had to of made these back roads. That was back when they first moved into Illinois over fifteen years ago. In that time Ann finished high school and lost both of her parents.

Ann let her thoughts drift as she drove her car home on the winding back roads. Memories of all the times she drove the road before, memories of her past floated by one after another. She was about 20 and she had planned on doing much more, but had settled for a calm quiet life instead of following her true passions. At one time she had dreams of being a veterinarian, cost was the main reason why she never became one. Ann sighed as a memory of watching her mother bake floated into her mind ,but then a flash of lightning made her blink and pay more attention to her surroundings.

Glancing up as lightning lit the sky again pulled her out of her thoughts completely. A light rain started to fall gently on her windshield and Ann smiled, thank God for rain-x because the wiper blades on the granny wagon didn't work right. Just another thing that need to be fixed on the old ancient car.

The rain begun to fall harder and the lightning became more intense. She had no fear of the weather after growing up near tornado alley and smiled as she thought about all the other times she drove through bad weather like this. Major storms, blizzards and tornado weather was nothing to worry about as far as she was concerned. Life was just one big adventure waiting to be explored.

It was the sudden streak of green lightning that made Ann have a small stab of fear in her stomach. She has seen blue and purple lightning, but green lightning was a first. It wasn't just a soft green light, but a very profound bright intense green.

Ann shook her head and slowed the car little. Maybe it's just a freak streak of lightning? Ann thought as she drove on.

Suddenly the sky lit up with more green lightning and the sound of the thunder it made was like no other sound she had ever heard before. It was like the sound of muffled electricity sparking out of control with deep base undertones that she could feel pulse through her body and vibrate her rear view mirror.

Ann slowed her car a little more as she gripped the wheel trying not to show fear. Ann could hardly hear normal thunder in her car while driving, but this new thunder was so powerful that it felt like being inside a giant bass drum during a rock concert. The sound of this thunder was strange and it was starting to scare Ann as she felt a cold chill when her mind started to whisper to her that this was not a normal storm.

Suddenly her car died as a soft green glow started to spread across the outside of her car. She gripped the wheel harder when the headlights and dash lights flickered out as green sparks of electricity continued to snake all around her car and dance across her knuckles making the hair on her arms stand up with goosebumps.

Ann let out a loud "Shit!" When the car died and slammed her foot into the stiff brake pedal as she tried to steer her car straight. Ann's hands were white as she gripped the steering wheel trying to control her car as it hydroplaned across the asphalt sideways.

The car came to an abrupt stop when it slammed its passenger side into a tree. Ann mumbled as she blinked her eyes trying to regain her senses. She tried to look around but only saw darkness. She could feel broken glass fall from her hair as she tried to look around. She screamed when a green bolt of lightning hit the hood of her car and her entire world lit up with blinding green light. She kept screaming as the lightning snaked its way through the broken windshield and enveloped her body shocking her with pain beyond anything she could ever imagine and passed out.

"Behold! Brothers and Sisters look before us! Atom has blessed us with a being brought from one of his many worlds!" A man's loud voice shouted as Ann started to regain her senses.

Her mouth tasted like she had sucked on pennies and cringed as every inch of her skin felt like it had a sun burn. Tears fell down her cheeks as her eyes burned from an odd heaviness in the air. Blinking to stop the burning she took a deep breath and coughed, her throat and lungs started burning with whatever was making her eyes burn.

Rubbing her eyes to make them stop burning she was able to fully open her eyes and saw she was laying on a weird metal platform with four metal supports going up on each side to meet right above her.

The sky was dark and it was still flashing with the weird green lightning. Cringing with every flash she felt her skin prickle and burn with each bright flash then fade away before another flash burned across her skin.

Ann slowly sat up and moaned as she put her hands on her pounding head. She felt like she had a major hangover, it felt like she had drank too much moonshine again. With a moan of pain she looked around to saw a bunch of people were kneeling around her. They were bowing down to her and had their hands raised up at her like she was a god.

Using one of the metal beams to pull herself up to her feet, Ann rubbed her throbbing head trying to remember how she got there. "Where am I?" she mumbled softly trying not to throw up.

"You are at the mass fusion disposal, one of Atom's holy grounds. We prayed to Atom for a miracle and he brought you here to us. You were brought through this machine by the grace and glory of Atom's will. With your help we will show others his love and glory." An old man said as he climbed up onto the platform and reached his hand out to her. Ann looked at him and cringed as the smell of him filled the air around her.

Ann looked at the man and saw he was wearing rags with a colander strapped his chest. His head was balding and his eyes were blood-shot. Ann almost puked as the foul smell of body odor mixed with urine and rotting flesh got stronger the closer he got.

Trying to ignore the powerful stench she looked around and saw they were in a wooded area with weird brownish-yellow water that bubbled and hissed under the platform that she stood on. She looked at all the yellow and white barrels that were scattered all around the place. Ann looked around with a confused look on her face as she tried to figure out why this strange place seamed somehow familiar even though she knew she had never been to this place before.

Ann was relieved to see she was wearing her hippie bag, but wondered what happened to her car as she looked around trying to find it. The crash bubbled up through her foggy mind and she wondered if maybe these people had pulled her from the crashed car.

Ann gasped as a hand grabbed her arm and startled her out of her thoughts. She looked up to see it was the horrible smelling man who had grabbed her and he was pulling her forcefully pulling her off the platform. She was too shocked and confused at first to try to pull away from him as she fell into the muck below the platform. The cold water quickly saturated her clothes as the brown water kept bubbling around her. The burning from the lightning was dull compared to how much this water was making her skin burn. She gagged and spit when some of the water sloshed up into her face as he forced her to walk through the disgusting brown water.

Ann tried to pull away as she tried to plant her feet into the mud with each forced step. "Let go of me! You're hurting me!" Ann yelled in terror as she tried to twist her arm out of his grasp.

She gasped when his hand squeezed tighter around her arm making her hand go numb and her arm hurt where his long finger nails dug deep into her skin. "You will be the mother of a new generation of Atom's followers. We will all plant the seeds of his greatness in you and you will produce Atom's perfect offspring." He said happily as he dragged her towards a group of men standing on the bank.

Eyes wide with fresh fear Ann tried to force her feet deeper into the mud. "No! You're not going to fucking touch me you sick freak!" Ann yelled out as she fought the man and gritted her teeth as she tried to pry open his vice like hand she saw blood was dripping down her arm from where his finger nails were digging painfully into her.

Ann firmly planted her feet into the muddy bank and pulled her free arm back as far as she could then slapped the man across the back of his head with every ounce of energy she had. The man was momentarily stunned and let his grasp on her loosen. Without hesitation Ann pulled her bloody arm from his grip and ran as quick as she could through the mud. One of the men on shore grabbed at her but missed as she ran by him.

Running as hard and fast as she could she quickly made it to a tree line. Tears were falling as her lungs screamed out in pain. Her whole body ached in a way she never knew it could. Ann knew she was out of shape from a recent surgery, but she also had a feeling that something wasn't right.

Running as fast as she could, she dodged massive tree roots as she tried to ignore the burning pain that was worsening in her lungs, skin and back.

She jumped when she saw a bright flash of green as the lightning storm raged harder around her. She wanted to scream with green flash that lit the sky above her as every flash made sharp burning pain flow across her exposed skin.

Sudden panic hit her when the taste of metallic blood filled her mouth and realized her nose was bleeding. She couldn't remember hitting her nose on anything, so why the hell was it bleeding?

Ann heard shouting behind her and felt her fear explode as thoughts of what might happen to her if she let them catch her flickered through her mind.

She slowed for a moment to turn her head to look back to see how far behind they were and felt her foot catch on an over grown tree root and fell hard in to the dirt knocking the wind out of her lungs.

Gasping for air she tried to breathe and struggled with her legs to stand up, but her body was now screaming with an intense pain that took every breath away. She tried to force her legs to work as the right side of her back started having sharp spasms where her kidney had been removed to get rid of her cancer less than eight months ago.

Ann cried out in fear as more blood fell from her nose and into her mouth. She wiped her arm across her face to get rid of some of the blood and wanted to scream when she saw how much she was losing.

A pair of wore out boots stepped into her vision and she looked up to see a man in rags was glaring down at her. He lifted a baseball bat high above his head.

Ann tried to scramble back as she stared at the bat and screamed in frustration when her body refused to work right. Her legs felt like jello and her body felt weaker than it should have been.

The crazed man gripped the bat as he swung it hard into the side of her head and made sickening thunk as it made contact with the side of her face. She let out a groan as everything flashed white when her head bounced back and hit the ground from force of the bat.

Crying as she laid on the ground she tried to sit up as everything spun out of control and pain took over every aspect of her being. She blinked as a giant fuzzy mass of fur and teeth jumped over her and attacked the crazed man who had just hit her. With darkness closing in on her field of vision she heard a woman's voice and gunshots.

"Good boy Dogmeat!"

She tried to get up again but felt her weak arms give out and felt cold dirt against her cheek. Feeling a sudden wave of tiredness she closed her eyes and thought how strange of a name Dogmeat was before her mind slipped into complete darkness.