Desperate Plans And Broken Hearts.
Connor slowly peeked his head over the lockers he and his companions were hiding behind, surveying the current situation down below. Two dozen raiders were gathered around a group of settlers, several of whom had already been executed. He watched, frowning softly as one of the raiders, a tall, burly ogre like man, pointed his 10mm pistol at the back of a teenage settler's head. Her eyes were closed tight and tears trickled down her dirt covered face as she sobbed, leaving tracks. Connor looked back at his three companions and gave them the signal to get into position. The tallest, Ed, went to talk but was stopped by Double D, who's eyes narrowed angrily. The final member of the group, Eddy, who was the shortest of the four, shook his head disbelievingly at his best friends stupidity. Ed simply smiled stupidly and moved towards a gap in the floor, where he dropped down without bothering to look, landing heavily on a stack of wooden tables below. Connor grimaced, his bright green eyes watching as the raiders shot round in the direction of the noise.
"Oaf..." he muttered darkly, readying his Chinese assualt rifle. Eddy and Double D had moved up to the top level of the school via a set of damaged stairs in the mean time, using previous knowledge to their advantage. Connor waited, clutching his gun impatiently as two of the raiders slowly made for the room Ed had crashed into. The teenage girl sat motionlessly, tears still running down her face as the leader of the raiders, the ogre man, barked orders to the others.
"Hurry up!" he barked viciously, waving the meat cleaver he held in his other hand towards the door. "I want to eat already!" He looked at the girl with a hungry glint in his eyes and licked his lips as she shifted slightly, unnerved. Connor heard slow, shuffling foot steps above him and felt tiny bits of debris fall from above him, signaling that the other two were in position. He bite his lip and waited now, for Ed had to make the first move. He didn't have to wait long. There was a scream of shock from below as Ed emerged from the remains of the tables, holding a sledge hammer one handed, followed by the sounds of bodies flying across the room. The rest of the raiders aimed their weapons at Ed's location, stunned, as he roared over their pained screams.
"Bad men, you hurt innocent people!" He roared as he bought his sledge hammer down on one of the two raiders chest. Her body lurched up involitarily as blood and bits of bone spurted out her mouth before falling back to the floor, dead. Connor took this as a sign to finish the job and began firing from cover. Caught off guard by the sudden attack, two of the raiders fell before being trampled by their comrades, desperate to find cover. From above him, Eddy opened fire with his hunting rifle, capping one in the head as he peeked out from cover. Double D lay flat on his stomach and pointed out targets for him, occasionally taking shots himself with his .32 pistol, though his poor aim ment he hit the wall more than the raiders. The teenage girl screamed and threw her hands over her head as Ed charged through the door, sledge hammer above his head, his eyes gleaming with bloodlust. Some of the raiders decided to try and risk close quarter combat with the giant Ed, pulling out kitchen knifes and knuckle dusters. However, those who weren't cut down by the gun fire from above we smashed aside by Ed's wild swings. The battle barely lasted five minutes and ended with the raider's leader lying against a locker, half his right hand having been blown off by Eddy's sharpshooting. Connor dropped down from his vantage point while Ed clumsily pulled the girl to her feet.
"So, you finally caught me, Boy!" the raider spat, trying to stand himself up. Connor scowled and shot him twice in his leg, producing a ear-splitting scream from the villian. Eddy and Double D stopped just behind him, Double D turned to help Ed look after the girl while Eddy looked down on the thug with pure hatred. They had hunted this pice of shit for two weeks, following the trail of mutilated corpses. Now they finally had him.
"Ed, don't mess!" Double D barked sharply from behind, the young girl had a collar around her neck, one that the four companions had seen many times in their two month stretch in the wasteland. A slave collar, it was rigged with explosives and a remote detonator, meaning anyone unfortunate enough to be wearing one was pretty much fucked unless someone can take it off. Double D began to disarm the explosive on the collar while Eddy stepped towards the wounded raider. Connor stepped aside, half weary of his little brother's intentions. Hunting Cheng was a personal matter for Eddy Jackoski. They had been out of the vault for two months now but have spent six weeks of their new freedom hunting down this man and his bandits, who had stolen the life of Eddy's pregnant girlfriend, Lee Kanker, in an ambush outside of the remenants of Lemon Brook. They had managed to hold them back using what little weaponary they had taken during their break out from vault 41 but didn't have the medical supplies required to save Lee Kanker's life. In Eddy's mind, staring at Cheng's deranged face, that moment played vividly.