Red Squidkid: Yes it was.

And as always, thanks to commanderpill for assisting me with the chapter.

Ilia Amitola

Ilia, with Fizz in her backpack, and Lily following her, was walking towards what she knew to be where the Followers of the Apocalypse Reside. Before Lily and her had left the safety of the bunker, Ilia made sure that she had obtained all of the documents in it. There was an entire notebook that simply had the words Factions of the Mojave written on its cover. Truth be told it was quite helpful for someone such as her who was not very familiar with the subject. It told her which factions were openly hostile, openly friendly, or somewhere in between.

"Lily, have you heard of the Jackal and Viper gunslingers?" Ilia asked as she was reading through the notebook.

"I can't say I have Dearie." Lily said.

"Well, if we encounter them be prepared to fight." Ilia said, petting Fizz. As they rounded the corner of the long trail, a swarm of giant flying creatures with large orange wings and big dark-blue abdomens with blood-red eyes. They charged Ilia and Lily as Fizz ducked into the former's backpack.

Ilia grabbed her weapon and plasma pistol and began firing at the creatures. Lily took out her sword and began to swing at them, impaling one through the abdomen and cutting another two's wings clean off. Ilia began to fire both of her weapons at the creatures. They continued to swarm her and Lily as the two of them continued to fend off their attackers.

One of the things flew at Ilia with its stinger at the front. Ilia ducked, whipping the thing's stinger, sending the creature into a crazed frenzy. She ran to cover so that she could reload her weapons. However, she was still being tailed by the attackers. She began to flay her whip at the creatures as they began to get closer to her. 'If we don't kill these things soon, we'll be dead.' Ilia though, charging at the swarm, zapping the creatures with her whip.

As the dust settled Ilia began to look for Lily. She scanned the area but to success. Panic began to spread through her. For her first time in this world she was alone, it was just her and Fizz now, that was until she heard Lily calling her.

"Dearie! Where are you?" Ilia heard her call out.

"I'm right here Lily." Ilia deadpanned. "We should find a place to stay for the night. We don't want to encounter any nightstalkers right now." Ilia advised. The Factions of the Mojave wasn't the only notebook Ilia had picked up while in the bunker. She had also grabbed a notebook by the name of The Creatures of the Mojave. It detailed every creature that lived in the Mojave Wasteland. It listed the threat they posed, if they were poisonous or venomous, and uses for anything that could be harvested from their corpses.

Lily found an abandoned barn shed and a few unused cots. She shut the door behind Ilia as they both took to their beds. Ilia tried to fall asleep, but couldn't. There was something plaguing her mind that refused to let her sleep.

'Why? Why am I still thinking about him?' Ilia thought. 'He's just a human! Why do I care?!' She thought. 'What he did, what his comrades did, it wasn't right.' Ilia thought as she drifted into sleep, still pondering on the subject. 'Why are humans here so malicious towards each other? Are humans just naturally malicious and violent?' She continued to go through what she knew about Doctor Henry. She knew he was a part of a group called the Enclave that tried to kill everyone who wasn't them. She also knew that after being a part of the Enclave, he joined Jacobstown and tried to help cure the super mutants & nightkin. What did he have to gain by undoing his deeds?

Ilia felt something soft, slimy and small against one of her cheeks. She slowly opened her eyes to find Fizz standing there, mewing for his mother. She smiled, and wrapped her arm around him, feeling him snuggle her for a few minutes before falling asleep with his mother. This is one of the few things she liked about this world, how kind those who cared for her could be.

Courier Six

As Six and Cinder walked towards their final destination, a horrifying thought crossed his mind. If he didn't get to the Lucky 38 soon, he might cross paths with his ex, Cassette Fairaday. who for lack of a better phrase, was fucking insane. Even worse, she was the jealous type too, which meant if she saw him walking with Cinder she would add two and two together and get five.

"Six? Why are we walking faster than normal?" Cinder asked.

"So that we have some sunlight left by the time we get to the house." Six lied, his anxiety taking over as his slow pace turned to a light jog.

"Six, you're acting… strange. Are you ok?" Cinder asked, legitimately worried about the man's sanity.

'I think he's finally going to crack.' Pyrrha said, a bit worried. 'Do you think you can take him if he turns on you?' she asked.

'By a slim margin, yes. If he truly has succumbed to insanity then that would mean he would be more erratic and less logical. Thus, I would be able to outwit him.' Cinder thought, responding to Pyrrha's quandary.

"Yea, I'm fine, just a bit on edge." Six said, his shooting hand hovering over Maria's holster. It was only a few hours until they reached the homestretch of their journey. As Six opened the gate to Freeside he heard the sound of shoes on broken road coming up from behind them. As he turned around to see the source of the noise, he was hit hard in the back of the head as he fell to the ground and everything went to black.

He woke up hours later, a note pinned to the ground with a rock next to where he laid. He picked up the note and read it out loud.

"To my dearest love, I hope you can understand my reasoning behind my actions. I, Cassette Fairaday, will take this wench out of your life. Don't worry it's all for the better. If you wish to watch her demise with me, you can find me at these coordinates." He read, inputting the coordinates into his Pipboy.

"Shit." Six said as he took a look at where the coordinates led. "Of all places, why there?" Six said as he headed towards Quarry Junction. He readied himself for combat with the wasteland's most versatile predators. He loaded incendiary rounds into Maria and used a whetstone to sharpen his katana. He made sure his grenades were primed and ready, especially the incendiary grenades. He checked his belt to make sure his flare gun was loaded and ready to use in case the mother tried to take a swipe at him. He hooked on some incendiary and plasma grenades on his belt for quick and easy access in combat.

It took only an hour and a half to reach the cursed area. Although Cassette was out of her mind, he had to hand it to her, she was also smart, using this place for a hide out. No one would come near the place due to the deathclaws, and they couldn't walk around the deadly beasties due to the walls of rock surrounding the quarry. He sighed and charged into combat as he drew Maria and began to fire into a crowd of adult deathclaws.

Three of them charged at Six, ready to attack. He fired three shots into each of the creature's body, lighting them all on fire. The beasts did not let up, and continued their charge. Six materialized his grenade rifle and fired a high explosive round at them. It crippled two of three deathclaws' legs, the third continued its charge towards Six. He ducted as the giant abomination lunged, swiping at Six who shoved his Katana's blade through the skull of the third deathclaw as it went limp. The remaining two were quickly dispatched with two plasma grenades. Six moved on, activating his last stealth boy to sneak through the remaining deathclaws.

He moved on to a small concave indent into the side of the wall of rock. He noticed a metal hatch in the back of the cave. He opened it, a loud, gut wrenching screech as he opened the rusted cover. All heads turned towards him, tens of deathclaws rushed towards the veteran courier. He scurried under the lid which he quickly shut. He slid down the metal ladder as he activated his Pip Boy light in the pitch-black room he was in. He traced his hands across the wall until he found a light switch and turned on the lights. A large, empty room revealed itself to him, with a single door leading him closer to his door. He slowly pressed his ear to the door to listen for any possible enemies on the other side. He could hear some faint talking, then a much louder scream. The scream of a woman. He knew it was Cinder. That's who Cassette was after. She wanted to kill or torture Cinder so she wouldn't be in the way of getting Six. He had to end this now or things would get out of hand fast.

He opened the door with his Katana at the ready. When his foes came into sight, he activated his tool that he used to get a job done quickly, V.A.T.S. He found there to be five opponents, he targeted two who were standing by the door, carrying a light machinegun each. For the first, he dove the blade through his chest, the man emitting a dying groan as he fell to the ground. His partner aimed his gun at Six, but it was too late, he had already offed his head.

The remaining three took cover behind a counter and began to take shots a Six. He took out Maria and fired the remaining rounds in the magazine at the men, only one getting hit, his body becoming engulfed in flames.

"WHERE IS SHE?!" Six shouted in rage at the remaining two men.

"Fuck off!" One of the men shouted back. Six took a grenade from his belt, pulled the pin, and threw it behind the enemies' cover. They came running out of their cover, making for easy targets for him. He took out Lucky and fired three rounds at the first man, with each shot, the man's pace began to slow. The final man held his hands up in fear for his life.

"Please! I surrender!" The man begged as he threw his weapon to the ground, trying to avoid the inevitable. Six neared him and kicked his weapon to the side, a look of pure anger on his face.

"WHERE. IS. SHE?" Six asked once more, this time getting a response.

"Th-through that d-door." The man stammered as he pointed to the door in fear.

"Good. Stay here until I get back." Six commanded, walking towards the door.

"Thank y-you." The man stammered.

"Don't thank me yet." Six said as he shot the final man in the head, his limp body fell to the floor. Six moved on to the next room to find seven sentry bots. Six took out his Protonic Inversal Axe. He charged in, ducking from a missile as he swung his axe at the robot's body, its body began to short circuit, the bulking metal war machine going limp. The remaining six began to fire at Six. He ducked once more as two of the bots were eliminated via friendly fire. Two more charged Six, slamming him into the wall, pinning him there. He unclipped a pulse grenade and threw it at the remaining two behind the first two. The wave of electric energy breaking their combat modulators, driving the two bots to attack the two who were pinning Six to the wall.

Six slid out of the grip of the sentry bots and fired Annabelle at the frenzied sentry bots. The blast from the missile flung them to the other side of the room. He injected a stimpack to heal the wounds he had sustained during the two fights. As he neared the door, the same scream could be heard from where he was, only this time it was louder and more pained.

'I'm coming Cinder.' Six thought as he rushed through the second to last door to find Cassette on top of Cinder, holding a serrated combat knife to her throat.

"Oh! Sixie! You came!" She said in a sadistically jolly tone. "Did you come to watch this BITCH'S death?" She asked with a horrifying grin.

"No Cassette, I came here to kill you. You've gone too far this time." Six said, glancing over at Cinder. She was dressed only in her underwear and bra, held in place with metal restraints on a queen-sized bed. Her body covered in cuts and bruises. She had two black eyes and was coughing up blood as her stone-cold demeanor began to falter. His face distorted in rage as he swiftly walked up to his ex-lover.

She slowly climbed off of Cinder and grabbed a whip with sharp, metal barbs wrapped around it. "WAS YOUR FAMILY NOT ENOUGH?! MUST I KILL YOUR SLUT OF A GIRLFRIEND TOO?!" Cassette shrieked in rage as she cracked her whip at Six who rolled out of the way of the sadistic weapon.

"So, it was you. I had my doubts, but now I know for sure." Six said, drawing The Blade of the West. He charged Cassette as she used her whip at him with another crack. The whip slashed Six's leg as he grunted in pain.

"Why my family?" Six asked as he prepared to finish her off quickly.

"So that I would be the only one you could love!" She laughed as she rotated on her heels, sending her weapon in the form of a pulse at Six. The whip slammed into Six, sending him flying as blood began to seep out of the wound. He blocked the next blow by using the special bumper sword as cover as he hid behind it.

"YOU CAN'T HIDE FROM ME MY LOVE!" She shouted as sent a vertical attack in Six's direction, the barbs of the whip laying into Six's chest. He ripped the whip out of him as he injected a stimpack and lined the wounds with healing powder to speed up the effect of the advanced medical technology.

"NEITHER CAN YOU!" Six shouted as he charged towards her with his weapon reaching out in front of him like a lance. She merely stepped to the side as she rotated on her heel once more, sending a flurry of strikes at Six. This forced him back on the defensive, once more using his sword as a shield. He took a plasma grenade from his belt and threw it over his sword. His grenade was sent back his way with a simple crack of Cassette's whip. He took cover, reloading Maria and began to fire at her. However, Cassette saw this coming and deflected his rounds with her whip, the incendiary rounds lighting it on fire.

'Fuck. Now I have to fight against a whip that's on fire.' Six thought as he was forced to duck from an incoming strike. He took cover again, this time formulating a strategy to defeat her. He equipped his Scorched Sierra Madre Power Armor and materialized his Katana. He drank an atomic cocktail so that if he did catch fire, he wouldn't be as damaged by it. He drew the Japanese sword and charged straight at Cassette, ducking and diving out of the way of incoming strikes of her whip. He cut her whip, only the handle remaining within her grasp. She quickly dropped the handle, pulling her dual Hunter Revolvers from her rear holsters. They were painted completely red with black skulls painted on each side of the barrels.

"So, you want to play with the boys, huh? Well… BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU ASK FOR!" Cassette yelled, rapidly firing at Six, who just barely dodged the maelstrom of bullets. He sent an upward slash at her. She back peddled, just avoiding the strike, the barrels of her twin revolvers fell to the ground, his strike severing the barrels of her weapons.

In rage, she drew her serrated combat knife and charged at Six, who tripped her, moving swiftly out of the way of her rabid strikes. He knocked the blade out of her hand with the use of the Ranger Takedown. He put her in a headlock, trying to reason with her.

"Please, just stop." Six said as he began to submit to fatigue.

"NEVER!" She shouted as she tried in vain to escape his hold.

"Fine." Six said, leveling Maria at her head. He ejected the magazine and loaded the chamber with a special bullet. The bullet was all silver, and it had an engraving on its side. only he knew what is said due to its extremely small size. It read, Cassette Fairaday.

"Remember what I told you the day we met?" Six asked with a heavy sigh.

"LET ME KILL HER!" She shrieked.

"There's a bullet with your name on it. the trick is, to find it…" Six continued as he cocked back Maria. "Before it finds you." He finished as he pulled the trigger. Her body went limp, slipping through his head-lock. As her now dead body fell to the floor, Six ran up to Cinder, equipping his duster.

"Six…" She called, completely stone cold and devoid of emotion.

"I'm here Cinder, I'm here." He reassured her as he began to release her from her restraints. "My god, what did she do to you?" Six said as some tears began to form under his eyes.

"Six just...Just get me out." Cinder replied completely lifeless. He seen this before with Corporal Betsy The cold hard attitude that tried to hide the pain and suffering she was feeling.

He let her out of chained bed and He handed her some leather armor and a spare vault suit to go under it. She quickly put it on and started walking out of the room quickly. Six reaching out for her out of concern saw her flinch as she back and away and she said quite harshly

"DON'T...Just don't touch me." Cinder said Cold but with a hint of pain and fear.

"Cinder Please you need help after what you just went through just.." But he was cut off as he was speaking

"NO, not now just….just leave me alone for a bit." She said with pain now evident in her voice. Six stopped and just look at her with sadness, he knew that leaving her alone would be a bad thing as a thing like this was not something you let fester but he wasn't trained in this sort of things.

"sigh. Alright." Six said reluctantly. He would have to get her help from the followers after he visits Vegas with her she needed the help. But first he thought to give her something that might help her a bit.

"Hold on, I got something for you." Six said as he took off his Rattan Cowboy Hat and she took it and placed it on her head, adjusting it so that it was firmly sat on her head.

"Thanks…" Cinder said in a somber tone, walking out of the cave slightly shaking.

"Cinder?" She looked up at him.

"You know I won't ever let something like this happen again right?" he asked hoping this could help her.

She muttered softly but clearly."I hope so" and continued walking out but now allowing him to be at her side. Walking a little less shaky than before.

"Alright… partner." Six said as he lead her through the last door of the compound that opened to the Mojave Wasteland. "Next stop, home." Six said, popping off a cap from a bottle of Sunset Sarsaparilla. He offered it to Cinder, who slowly took it and sipped from the mouth of the bottle. She looked to Six as he materialized his own bottle of the western soda pop. He looked out into the distance to see that New Vegas was only an hour's walk away.

"I can't wait." Cinder said as she followed Six to his house.

Weiss Schnee

As Weiss woke up from her enjoyable nap, she noticed that Arcade was talking to someone she hadn't met before. She got out of her bed and grabbed her plasma defender and walked out of the tent to find a woman in a doctor's coat with spiked hair running down her head.

"Oh, Weiss, you're up!" Arcade said with an upbeat attitude.

"Who is this?" She asked.

"My name is Julie Farkas, nice to meet you, Weiss Schnee." Julie said with a smile as she extended her hand out in a friendly gesture.

"Pleased to make your acquaintance." Weiss returned as she shook Julie's hand.

"So, as I was say, are you sure they are coming?" Julie asked Arcade as he nodded.

"Yes, they are. I was listening to a restored Enclave radio. Although their east-coast branch was destroyed, there are still remnants and descendants from the west-coast branch that would love to come on over here." Arcade said with urgency.

"Alright, do you think you we can negotiate with them?" Julie asked.

"I wouldn't count on it. From what I heard, they are preparing for a war." Arcade said as he glanced towards Weiss with concern. "And I don't want for innocents to get killed." Arcade said to Julie with worry.

"If that is the case, then you have to call him. He's the only one who can assist us with what is to come." Julie said.

"Alright, I'll go get The Courier." Arcade said with a sigh. He motioned for Weiss to follow him as he made his way over to their tent.

"What's going on?" Weiss asked, a bit worried about what she heard.

"I'll tell you, but you can't tell anyone, understood?" Arcade asked. Weiss nodded her head. "Alright. The group you heard about, the Enclave is going to attack the area where we live." Arcade said.

"What? Why?" Weiss asked with disbelief.

"Nobody knows why, and that's what makes the Enclave an intimidating force." Arcade answered.

"What will can we do about this." Weiss asked with concern

"We see if a old friend of mine can help with this problem. See if he can negotiate with these people first." Arcade said with some hope.

This made wiess confused "Why would you want to negotiate people like that they want to kill us."

"Not everyone in a group is evil by nature, There are plenty of good people in the enclave who are just misguided or who don't know what else to do. I'm not saying we do nothing and push comes to shove I will defend my home, but I don't want to kill people I don't have to." Arcade said firmly.

After hearing this Weiss thought of Blake and her stance on the white fang and saw how similar these two were which made her suspicious of how he seems to know a lot about this Enclave.

"How do you know about the Enclave." This question takes Arcade off guard for a second be he responds quickly as to try and not draw suspicions.

"Them? They were a huge force years ago and as a man as educated and handsome as myself it would be unbenounced of me not to understand the history of the wasteland." Arcade said confidently.

Weiss took this answer for now but he was obviously hiding something and she would get to the bottom of it. But she wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt he did save her so she would try and trust him in his words.

"So, should we get started on trying to look for your friend?" Weiss asked making Arcade look at her.

"We? Are you sure you're ready to go back out there? Especially after the umm Incident?" Arcade asked.

Weiss thought of this and knew how scary that experience was and she had her doubts, but she was a huntress and a huntress must overcome their fears to help people.

"Yes I'm sure and this time with you to help me and me understanding this place a bit more i'm ready." she said with confidence.

Arcade sighed. "Well if you're certain come let's go and prepare, we will need some supplies for this." then he and Weiss began to leave the for and Arcade thought to six

"IT's been a while Six lets see how you are doing." with that he and Weiss set off.

Blake Belladonna

It was midday and she was currently helping Raul organize his ammunition. As they sorted through the bullets Raul got Blake's attention by snapping his fingers.

"Hey, Blake, did I ever tell you about the time I met a strange man?" Raul asked as he separated the nine millimeter ammo from the ten mill.

"I don't think so." She responded.

"Oh, I think you're going to love this one." Raul said with a chuckle.

"So, I was walking along the Mojave, when a man with a duster that only reached down to his knees, a pair of sunglasses, and a rattan cowboy approached me. Now, at first, he seemed like a sane man. However, when I started to talk to him, he seemed to be a bit… detached from reality. He asked if he could follow me around and I said sure. Not five minutes later, some legionary assassins approached him and attacked us both." Raul said, taking a sip from his whiskey.

"As we fought them off, he started shouting about goo-goo bars! After we had killed the assassins, he walked up to every one of them and started blasting their fucking heads open! I tried telling him that they were dead, but as I got closer to him I noticed that he was singing! Singing! But that's not it, oh no! After he was done blasting the legionaries head's off, a giant radroach, another ghoul, a protectron that couldn't walk straight, and a deathclaw that could turn invisible approached him. The robot seemed to take a liking to his backside got quite the scolding from the man. He kept on asking the other ghoul if he wanted a chainsaw." Raul continued as he took another sip from his whiskey.

"After that, I had just had about enough of his shenanigans, but not before gave me one of his 'goo-goo bars' and threatened to burn my house down. Granted this was the first time I have ever met him before so I'm sure he didn't mean it." Raul finished as he put the organized ammunition into their respective containers.

"That's… odd." Blake said. In all honesty, she didn't know what to make of Raul's story. "Did you ever hear from him again?" Blake asked.

"Yea, on a visit to Freeside, I saw him standing on the corner talking about the atomic wrangler and chicken nuggets, whatever the hell those are." Raul answered, finishing up his whiskey.

"Do you think I'll ever meet him?" Blake asked, a mix of curiosity and fear in her mind.

"There's always a chance." Raul said as he climbed into bed and covered himself with his blankets.

Five Hours Earlier

Cinder Fall

As Cinder awoke, she looked around to find herself bound by metal restraints with nearly all of her clothes off. The only articles of clothing that remained were bra and underwear.

'Where am I?' Cinder thought.

'I don't know, but whoever did this to you isn't very fond of you.' Pyrrha said.

'Clearly.' Cinder retorted.

She could hear the voice of a woman getting closer and closer to her. "So, I heard you've been taking a liking to MY Sixie." The voice said as it continued to get closer to her. She felt a cold, open hand touch her stomach.

"Who are you?" Cinder asked before she was struck powerfully in the same spot as she tensed from the pain.

"I SPEAK! NOT YOU!" The voice screamed in anger. She slugged Cinder in the face, giving her a black eye. Cinder fell silent, not wishing to incur the wrath of her captor. "Good, you're a quick learner, that means I won't have to hurt you as much as I can. But I am going to make you my slave. Once you're my slave, I'm going to kill you, ok?" The now visible woman said as she held Cinder's head up by her hair.

The woman had light green eyes and light brown hair with a pony tail and twin tails. Cinder could smell the alcohol on her breath. The woman held her head down with one hand and began to lick her face. After a few licks, she stopped and an eerie smile grew on her face. Cinder heard a blade of some sort being taken out of its sheath. As she began to ponder as to what it could be she felt a sharp blade cut her skin. She hissed in pain but refused to scream.

"What's wrong honey? Can't feel pain? Can't feel emotion? That just won't do for my Sixie!" The woman shouted before socking Cinder in the other eye. The woman began to pound on Cinder with fury, every punch was worst than the last. Then, the punches stopped suddenly as she felt the woman lay herself on top of her. The woman's body completely covered hers, she could feel the heat of the other woman on her skin.

"You know, if you weren't with my Sixie I wouldn't have to do this, but alas, I must. We would have made such a great team too." The woman said as she caressed Cinder's face.

"What's your name?" Cinder asked, regretting it almost immediately, getting a shallow slash on her side.

"YOU DO NOT SPEAK!" The woman howled in rage, grabbing a whip a cracking it on Cinder's stomach, giving her more cuts and bruises. Cinder fell silent, not wanting to spark the rage of her captor once more.

The sounds of distant explosions could be heard. The woman became very excited at this. "Oh! Sixie comes for me! I can't wait, but first, YOU WILL SCREAM!" she yelled as she plunged the knife into Cinder's hand.

The pain was unbearable, she couldn't hold back, she had to scream. She let out a blood curdling scream much to the satisfaction of the woman. Then, as she heard gunshots in the distance, everything went black.

In her dream she had nightmares of her torture. Cinder was not a kind woman, she was not a good woman, but even she did not go this far on anyone. Not her enemies not her underlings when they failed her, and not even Roman that deplorable annoying man. She was harsh yes but not cruel. But that was not what broke her, no. She had seen things like this before while she worked with Tyrian that psychotic fanaus. No, what really broke her was how she was experiencing it. She was always in control, always the one in charge. She was the one that got the last say, but now? Now she had no control, and it terrified her. As she began to wake up she feared seeing that damned woman again but as she woke she saw Six.

Adam Taurus

As Adam awoke he took note of his surroundings. He was in a tent of some sorts with only a desk and two chairs in it along with his bed. He felt his neck, still feeling the metal collar around his neck. He began to try to remove it, only to be warned against it.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." He heard the man known as Vulpes say as he walked into the room.

"And, why shouldn't I?" Adam spat with venom as he rose from his bed, a sharp pain shooting through his shoulder as he gripped the now treated wound.

"Because it would be shame to lose someone as skilled as yourself to a mere explosive collar. And by the way, the wound may be treated, but it is still sensitive." Vulpes said, taking a seat in one of the seats calmly.

"Explosive collar?" Adam asked as he rose from his bed.

"You're no fool, Adam. You heard me." Vulpes said, pulling out the second seat for Adam.

"So, why are you here?" Adam hissed refusing to take a seat next to this human.

"Good, right to the point. A few of our forward patrols have not returned. It has been five days since they were ordered to scout ahead. They were supposed to have come back one day later." Vulpes explained.

"And what am I going to do about it?" Adam asked.

"You are going to see what happened to them and gather any intel you can." Vulpes said as he rose from his seat. He handed Adam a set of praetorian guard armor. "Put this on, it should give you more protection than your previous armor." Vulpes said as Adam put on the armor.

"And why should I do anything you say?" Adam said with hate.

"Why tell you when I can show you?" Vulpes said as a slave wearing the same type of collar walked into the tent. Vulpes picked up a remote with two buttons on it. One had the number one painted on it and the second had the number two painted on it. Adam watched as Vulpes pressed the first button and the collar on the slave exploded, blasting the man's neck to million pieces, blood pouring out of the stump that was his neck.

"Any questions?" Vulpes asked with a confident smile.

"No." Adam said angrily as he put on the armor, following Vulpes out of the tent.

"You will be following me towards the area where our scouts were last seen. We will be traveling together for this mission." Vulpes said. Grabbing a pack of water and food as they set out to find the missing patrols.

And that's that!

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