Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters in the Fallout series, they are the property of Bethesda. This fanfic is rated M for language, violence, and adult content. And finally I have taken some liberties with dialogue, interactions, and events so that everything flows more smoothly(in my opinion, give me a break ok).

Hey y'all I'm back(I'm not dead). Sorry for those of you who have been waiting for so long, a few things about my "situation" that I need to go over first. I'm back from Basic Training but sadly I didn't get to graduation and become a Medic for the Army and I was actually discharged by the Army because I got diagnosed with low bone density in my entire body and even as bad as Osteoporosis in my left forearm so yeah, but I did write a couple of chapters while I was in Oklahoma so y'all should have a few chapters basically back to back since I've got nothing else to do but write which I love to do thankfully.

I'm currently forced to write on my phone but I'm getting a new laptop for my birthday so expect lots of new stories soon and maybe I'll get back around to working on one of my novels.

Anyways enough about my life so this will be completely my own stuff from here on since after the Second Battle of Hoover Dam the game ends and you can't continue playing unless you revert to a save prior to the battle.

Anyways I hope everyone enjoys Chapter 3 and remember leaving reviews helps so if you want leave a review telling me if you liked it or what I can do to improve. I love writing and if people enjoy what I write then that's a pleasant bonus and it makes me feel good and I'm even thinking of doing fanfics on other games I like other than Fallout: New Vegas and maybe even some anime that I really like, if you'd like to see that let me know.

Without further adieu here is Chapter 3 and I hope everyone enjoys it.

Patrol Night

It was a cold desert night which made Steven happy that his armor had heat insulation as he crouched and scanned the surrounding area using his helmets built in night vision. Hovering nearby him was ED-E who was also doing a scan, they were on a mission for the NCR making some of the roads safer for caravans and travelers, it was part of the NCR's new public outreach trying to the Mojave a safer place. Making the roads a safer place was something Steven as a courier could get completely behind and completely agreed with but Steven also had special orders attached to his normal orders and that was to be on the lookout for any remnants of Caesar's Legion still in the Mojave. Despite having no leadership hierarchy with Caesar and Lanias, both dead by Steven's hands, gone there were some who had decided to stay and they were causing unrest in some of the towns. That's why the NCR had called upon all of its Veteran Rangers as well as the Courier to handle this Legion problem. Steven sighed as he stood up feeling bad for the other night with Cass, they'd gotten caught by some of the others, and then leaving the Lucky 38 with ED-E. That's been two nights ago and it was eating at him inside, he had to talk to Cass when he returned in two nights. Steven snaps out of his little daze at the sound of ED-E beeping, Steven looks around trying to see what's got ED-E all worked up, after looking for several minutes and not seeing anything Steven sighs and looks at ED-E.

"Let me check your calibration ED-E." Steven says as he has ED-E come over to him, after doing a quick diagnostics check and recalibration Steven gives ED-E the all clear and has him face towards him, "Ok now everything should be alright and you have additional instructions that I'm giving you." Steven says and ED-E beeps once, "Ok now if you detect anything that we're here to get rid of I'm giving you permission to fire to start firing as long as it's an enemy got it?" Steven asks and ED-E beeps in acknowledgement, with a nod Steven sits down on the ground and sighs. He takes off his helmet and looks around before pulling out a flask full of whiskey, he smirks thinking about how Cass would kill him if she ever found out he hid a full flask on him at all times and didn't share, Steven takes a sip of whiskey enjoying the warm feeling of the liquid going down. Steven sits back against a rock as he looks at the evening sky, somewhere out there his brain was transmitting information to him via the Tesla coils in his head or something like that, he never really grasped how it worked. He sighed as he continued taking sips from his flask wondering what Cass is doing, if she was wondering where and what he's doing, if she was concerned about if he was alright, if she really even cared. As he was deep in thought all of a sudden ED-E starts beeping and firing lasers at something bringing Steven back to reality and he quickly dons his helmet and brings up his Ratslayer looking at where ED-E is shooting when a bullet whizzes by his head nearly hitting his helmet. Steven looks in the direction the bullet came from and sees a few Legionnaires shooting at him and ED-E, Steven chambers a round in his Ratslayer and takes aim at the first Legionnaire's head before squeezing the trigger killing the Legionnaire in one shot. ED-E keeps firing lasers setting a few Legionnaires on fire making them panic and flail around spreading fear in a few more, one Legion recruit out of fear continued to fire and was spraying bullets all over, Steven quickly put him down with a headshot while the rest either fled or were turned into ashes by ED-E's lasers. After the skirmish was completely over Steven felt a sharp pain in his left side, he looked down and noticed some bleeding but the wound didn't look severe so he quickly used a stimpack and lightly bandages it up over his armor. After patching himself up he radioed in to the NCR and reported, when he got to the part about himself getting wounded they said they'll send out a different team and that he was relieved until he healed up completely. With those new orders looked at ED-E.

"Alright time to go home buddy." Steven said as he got up and the two started on their way back to the Lucky 38.

So here it is Chapter 3 done and complete, this has Been a really long one in the making and I'm so sorry for such a long break in between this one and the second chapter but I've already explained why that's so.

Anyways I hope y'all enjoyed this one and Chapter 4 will be coming out really soon so look out for that.

Not important but I'm really excited for Borderlands 3 coming out in September and I'm definitely pre-ordering it and playing it when it comes out.

Sincerely,

EmoTherapy