Fallout: Knotted Beginnings, loose ends
Chapter 4: The Assault on Foxtrot Casino
I woke up.
My head was rested on Violets chest, it was obvious that she was the MAN in this relationship. I tried to move but her arms were clasped around me, forbidding any movement. She awoke, her head slowly moved towards mine. Her hair was whisked away from her eyes with one whoosh of a hand. "Morning, sleep well?" I nodded, my hands were handcuffed behind her back, she pulled the key from across the bedside table and unlocked my pained wrist. I rubbed my sore wrist as she hugged me. "Let's do that more often." I shook my head, the thought of more bondage hurt. I turned over and slapped on my pip-boy that was on my bedside table. I checked the time, Damn! It was mid-day! I tried to rush my clothes on but was stopped by a hand on my back, suddenly she reminded me of Lucy. "Don't rush, nothing happening today." Her voice was tired and mopey. I threw my Vault suit on and left the armour pieces on the floor (Except the barding for that was sewn in) and slumped on the bed. "How did you get your name?" Her hand was now placed on her back, "You see here? I was born with this bruise. I was born in a highly irradiated area, it forever stays violet, hence the name." I would have kissed her if it weren't for Matthew storming in the room. "Attack!" We got up and ran down stairs (putting our clothes on beforehand of course.) and found the others down stairs.
"Here!" Tyson threw me a crowbar and a 9mm pistol. I loaded my shot gun and tipped a table for cover. "Who is it?" Liam sat next to me behind the table. "Either Steel or broken Steel." I took a thought, I don't know any groups or people known as STEEL or BROKEN STEEL. Liam caught my confused look and replied "The brother hood of Steel, also known as BoS, wants to preserve pre-war technology and the Brother Hood of broken Steel or the Dark Brother Hood want to hunt and kill off the original brother hood." I ponded that for a moment, I caught a glimpse of the poster with the suit of steel on it. "Why would the BoS attack here?" Liam looked over our barricade and a bullet missed his head by centimetres. "The building is on top of a highly advanced Vault!" My eyes stared into space, a Vault! Here? And why would the Brother Hood want it? Chances were they wanted a possible water purifier, but if it was highly advanced, maybe there was some sort of secret weapon.
I checked to see if my shot gun had a shell in the chamber, it did! I pulled a shot above me to scare off any shooters and ran. CRAP! A fell to the floor, a burning sensation fell around my ankle, well more of a boiling sensation, Liam pulled me back around the table, exposing my wrecked ankle. I cringed as I looked upon my swollen ankle, it was almost glowing red and the skin had crisped into a dark black, ready to peel off. I cried as the shock left and the pain hit threw. Liam put a few shots over the table but none hit, (I mainly knew that because of the sound of bullets hitting the wall.) I grabbed my crowbar and looked at my leg, I wanted to cut it off, I know now that it was probably not needed but I was howling in pain at the time. I was about to dropped its curved head into my knee but was stopped by a powerful hand. I looked up. The same Steel soldier from the pictures stood above me, he lifted me and pinned me against a wall with his one powerful hand, a large looking hammer in his other. Liam put all his ammo into the soldiers head at point blank range. All the bullets bounced off, not even making him flinch. He pushed Liam back by tapping him with his hammer then raised it, ready to crush me! BANG! The soldier fell, dropping me beforehand, I would have landed on my feet if my ankle wasn't swollen.
I looked up to see Nathan on the second floor balcony, his sniper unfolded and aiming at the metal man. I watched in horror as the soldier got back up, only a dent in his armour. He took another shot, this time to the chest, several pieces of his plating fell off, revealing a weak spot in the mechanical suit. A green beam hit the weak spot, I watched as the intimidating man dissolved into no more than a goo pile, only pieces of armour remained in the glowing green slime. I sat against the wall in relief, only to be interrupted by a another Steel ranger, lifting me up and pining me against the wall, he would have shot me if not for my pip-boy. "Take it off, try anything and you die!" I slowly placed my hand on the latch but before I could do anything Liam stood behind him, pulse grenade in his left hand. I quickly rolled, trying my hardest to ignore the blistering pain in my ankle and foot. His gun followed me, allowing Liam to get behind him and jam the grenade in between two metal plates. The soldier screamed in agony as his body lit up like a Christmas tree, the glowing blue electric bolts sizzled from shoulder to shoulder. I covered my eyes as he started to really light up.
We paced in front of a line of Steel soldiers, (Well I was wobbling with a crutch.) their armour had been stripped from their bodies and their guns had been taken by Violet who seemed to be repairing them at a work bench. I looked down at them, all terrified. "Tonight they die." I turned to see Violet standing right next to me. I hated the thought of killing with choice, I turned to her and back at the soldier kneeling between us, his expression was one of horror. "I can't… I can't kill a person knowing I didn't have to." Violets eyes grew, her fist gripping tightly. "They DESTROYED my casino!" Her voice was low but angry, her hand gripping at a small knife on her side. I was surprised she said it was her casino, it did explain her rich attire and unquestioned appearance around the casino. "They TRIED to destroy your casino, doesn't mean they deserve the same treatment back." I felt like a teacher at a school but they didn't deserve any worse treatment then what they gave us. "Take their weapons and supplies, they won't survive long without them anyway." She looked at me with consideration, she was good with letting people suffer, I knew that better than anybody. "Their friends can find them in that time." Before I could reply she drew her knife and drove it into the neck of the nearest soldier, I stumbled back, nothing but horror fell into my mind.
I cleaned the blood off of me with a cloth as Violet took her rage out on the squad of rangers. "Wow, she's pissed." Nathan was sitting at the blood covered bar, broken glasses sat upon it. I smirked at the thought that there could be free whiskey. "Any whiskey?" Nathan looked at me with a smile, a large whiskey bottle in his hand. "Sorry, last bottle." He suddenly dropped it onto the floor, the smash synced with my whispering. "No!" Nathan chuckled before noticing the goo piled bodies on the floor. "I didn't know you used plasma weapons?" I gave a look of shock, "I don't. I thought you shot him?" We both stared at the goo body that pinned me against the wall, scared by what could have caused it. "I got me a live' one!" Tyson walked into the room with a steel soldier following him, he had a gun pointed at his unarmoured head. "Can I keep him? I will love him, hug him and name him George!" I barely noticed Cain was in the fight, but his comment would have sounded disturbing either way. "Please let me explain." We all looked surprised to see the steel ranger was actually talking and not taunting. I looked at him, his hair black but lighter than Nathans or Violets, his eyes brown and his skin slightly dark, I would have guessed tan but his accent was convincing enough "I was new the scavenging team member, only I had never seen what we do out here, I didn't know what we would do when we got here, they told me it was empty, once I had learned otherwise, they forced the thought that you were evil, but in the battle I learned quite the opposite, I killed the man that tried to kill you, I saved you." Tyson snorted "He just a begga'." The man looked towards me this time. "People change, don't they paladin Tyson." We all stood shocked, Tyson gritted his teeth. "You shut it!" Tyson looked towards us and gave a sigh "Yea' it true, a long time ago, I've changed since den', you know dat' best Liam." Liam gave a nod.
I noticed something odd, Tyson and this man were completely different, in personality wise and in physical appearance. Mainly their traits, the man was easy to betray his kind for right judgement while Tyson was loyal to the core. "I can be trusted." His voice directed at me, I don't know why but it felt people treated me like the leader, and I hated it. I knew that Violet would never allow me letting him live, I quickly turned in her direction and asked her. "I'm ok with it." WHAT?! Her voice was calm and soothing, "I only killed those who killed my people, I didn't see this one kill any, also if what he says is true, then I owe him for saving my girl." I blushed, she was now starting to see herself as the man of the relationship. "I accept him." My voice sounded inspirational, even to me, I could kind of tell why people mistook me for leader, I still hated it. Slowly every one raised their hands, everyone but Tyson, he aimed his gun point blank at the man, the tension in the room grew, no one dare took a step in fear for him pulling the trigger. Suddenly Tyson flipped the hunting rifle into his back holster and raised a hand to help the man to his feet. "I say der' too trustin' but I'll accept you." The man smiled and grabbed his hand, he probably made Tyson lift with all of his might, after all his body set of power armour was still on him. "Thanks, name's Ricardo." Tyson laughed. "Screw dat' I'ma just call you Ricky." We all sighed thankfully. As the last body was pulled from the floor and into the trash shoot we eventually made our way upstairs, we were about to split before Liam pointed out the obvious. "We don't have room for the new guy!" We all looked back at Ricardo, he stood tall in his power armour, I didn't know his true body frame but I imagined it was close to that of the power armour. "I'll sleep in the corridor, after all I'm use to sleeping in power armour." We all agreed and split. Violet and I finally made it to her room, it was now very late and we both just wanted some sleep. As I took my pip-boy off Violet laid down on the bed with a sexual look in her eyes. "To be honest I just wanted to sleep tonight." She let out a sigh of relief. "I didn't know if you wanted to or not, that takes a lot of pressure off." Suddenly she fell asleep with a snore, I giggled and kissed her on the fore head, turning off the bedside lamp and drifted into sleep.
END CHAPTER 4