Hey peeps, here's a new story about Fallout, I haven't put much thought into how it will pan out but I'm hoping it will be good. This is going to be a secondary project to 'Those Snake Folk', but I will still try to finish it.
There was a crack, and the bullet tore a hole through the legionnaire's skull, the veteran ranger let out a low chuckle when the brute fell to the floor. Did the legion really think that a baseball helmet could protect their soldier's heads from a .50 MG antimat rifle bullet? Whichever drone in Caesars army thought sports equipment would be good armour was a fool.
Whoever it was wasn't the only idiot in the legion, she wondered who it was in the East who could possibly believe that sending recruits, armed only with spears and machetes, against trained rangers armed to the teeth with hi-tech weaponry and black armour would be a good idea. Whoever decided that was probably the one legion member she didn't want dead, because he made her job one hell of a lot easier.
It didn't take long before the rest of them started dropping like flies. It wasn't like it was much of a surprise, what did the legion patrol expect? A few recruits, two officers and a vexillarius were nothing compared to a squad of rangers.
For a group of warriors that are supposedly meant to be amazing tacticians this group of legion weren't particularly smart, Stella couldn't think for the life of her why the legionnaires would try to attack them close-quarters when half of her group had riot shotguns, it just didn't make sense.
Perhaps there were a few centurions in their mix and match armour armed with super sledges it might be a problem for them, but her rifle tore through the sports padding like it was a knife through butter, and, if they had even managed to get close enough, her armour would have been more than enough to halt the machetes.
That legion patrol probably didn't even know she was there, while the rest of her group were in the thick of the battle she was up on the ranger stations battements firing down at them with deadly precision picking them off one by one and tearing their armour to shreds.
She couldn't help but think it strange that the legion would attack their station in such small numbers, not that she was complaining. It was no secret that Ranger Station Charlie wasn't the best of the stations, but it was still filled with rangers, and it was just a bad idea by the legion to attack like this, maybe they had underestimated the amount of firepower the base had left.
The station itself wasn't in the easiest position to attack either, it was right near Novac, so she was sure that sniper up in the dinosaur mouth would gun down any approaching legionnaires, so it's not like they were the easiest of targets. Also from the other direction was the road filled with raiders, so if the legion tried to attack from that side they would have to deal with that problem.
Of course some still made it through the road. Like that cute little courier that passed through asking about some guy that shot her in the head. So maybe she eased up the roads a bit for the legion to pass though, even so, it still seemed like such a waste. Surely even Caesar wouldn't be so stupid as to send a considerably small group of men against them.
Stella barely had time to dwell on her thoughts as another wave of legion attacked, it was almost as soon as the first was killed. She was hoping they would be just as easy to take out, but it seemed that this was the main wave and the last was a decoy.
She tried keeping them at bay with her rifle but even the high end weapon with devastating accuracy and power couldn't stop them all, she only managed to kill about three of the recruit legionnaires before the veterans started to funnel through the station.
'Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit!' Stella jumped down from the piles of cars used as fortification and re-joined the rest of her squad. They were taking damage this time. It seemed like the legion did have a plan, wear them down with close range grunts, and when the rangers reloaded and thought the fight was over attacked with the real soldiers.
Even their NCR ranger combat armour wasn't enough now, the Decanus's were using more than machetes now, and 12.7 mm rounds started to embed themselves into her group. Stella cursed, wishing they only used sharpened sticks like the wave before, but realising it was a farfetched dream as she saw wave after wave of more legion rise from behind the hills.
There must have been at least 20 of them now. However great she and the rest of the rangers are, the four of them couldn't take on five times their number out in the open. The only chance they had would be to run into the station interior and prepare in there to shoot anything that went through the doors.
The rest of her team had the same idea as they all retreated in, pushed to it by the legion forces. Luckily the walls to the building were bullet proof so even the .308 sniper rounds and 12.7mm SMG bullets wouldn't make it through.
A bead of sweat rolled down her head as she pushed down a filling cabinet to take cover behind, the other rangers followed suit, and they were soon all facing guns first toward the door prepared to shoot anything that went through.
With any luck the legion would just leave, knowing that they would lose lots of soldiers if they were to try and storm in. Unless the legion had any explosives that would most likely be their only option.
Stella's weapon, although extremely powerful was not right for this task, if someone was to run through right now she would be most at risk, using a sniper rifle now suddenly seemed like a disadvantage.
It only took a few seconds before the legionnaires formed a plan and all hell broke loose, it turned out they weren't as bad with tactics as she had thought. The first through the door were a small amount of recruits gunned down immediately, but as the smoke was clearing two centurions burst through it before any of them realised.
The centurions, armed with super sledges and trained for melee fighting were a fearsome enemy and she and the rest of the group were almost scared to engage them, not that they were left much time to.
The trained centurions rushed towards them, swinging their weapons with deadly precisions knocking weapons out of hands and causing massive injuries even through their ranger combat armour.
In such an enclosed environment she barely had space to shoot at them, especially as they were moving so quickly and erratically, the rifle in her hands was practically useless for this situation and any shots went far wide.
The other rangers tried suppressing them with their riot shotguns, but the shell just skittered off the centurions' powerful suit. The armour was made out of their fallen adversaries, and whoever the legion member had gotten the brotherhood pauldron from must have been turning in their grave knowing that the armour was serving their killer more than themselves.
Stella froze in horror as her squad, no, friends, were killed in front of her. She wanted to throw up as she saw the people she practically called family have their skulls caved in by the centurions' advanced close range weaponry and skill. The sight of her best friends grey-matter splatter against the wall as the sledge came down was the last thing she saw before she fell, cracked in the head by the butt the other legions weapon.
She tried to fight but even her unarmed fighting skill she'd been perfecting for years didn't help, when it came to numbers she couldn't do anything but watch in dawning realisation as they pulled off her helmet and leered at her realising she was a woman.
They laughed as she tried to scramble away and took turns in kicking her back down when she tried to rise, her final memories of her station were the cruel and lustful grins of those crimson monsters pulling at her armour as she passed out.
There, I hope you enjoyed. I have an idea what to write so I'll update as often as I can. And you can probably guess what's going to happen, so for those of you that don't want to read rape/non_con I wouldn't suggest the next chapter, so there's a heads up for you.
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