Chapter 7: Truth Will Set You Free

Both the raiders and towns folk were absolutely appalled and just shocked to another degree, John was a deathclaw this whole time! That explains why he would be so secretive..

Jeff was almost as surprised as everyone else and he had apparently knew.

"Well John I can't believe I was actually right god damn!"

Clapping his claws together "Well done Jeffrey you done figured it out, is this worth it exposing me to this shanty town confirming yourself even?"

Jeff spun his bat around in one hand almost unsure what to do now, John just stood there arms down looked at him, he knew he was outnumbered.

"Kneel for me lizard, I want you down and obeying your new master!"

The sickest grin was on his face pointing the bat a John and lowering it along with him as he went down onto one knee.

"Look at this everyone! Most powerful creature in the Wasteland just made into a little..bitch" empathizing the last word as he walked up to John who was still taller than him even while crouching.

"You say anything, I tell one of my men to pop one of these settlers"

The raiders gathered around many of Megatons residents are still alive, only to become slaves. One of the raiders went up

"Jeff man, we need to make this Deathclaw a slave imagine how many caps a talking one would get us?"

They tied John up behind a pole with his arms behind his back Little did they know he could easily get out of this, he finally decided to speak up forming his plan.

"Well Jeff looks like you won, I'm impressed and here I thought you were just some raider runt who ran like a coward"

While they were gagging all the other would be slaves John remained untouched. Jeff didn't take too kindly to that tapping his bat upon John's head

"You know I can't believe you came back fell right into my trap for an "Intelligent Deathclaw" you are pretty dumb"

It was then John noticed that his tail hadn't been tied and was free to move once Jeff made his way to get the prisoners ready, as all the other raiders well..did what they do best raid, they went through the buildings rummaging and destroying everything.

John managed to get his tail in between the bindings crossing his claws together, separating them enough to where he cut them loose without even making it obvious.

It was too dark for anyone to see anything anyway but John could adjust to the dark, this helped in the escape plan and then the rescue, the next guard who went to him would be the first to die while they all have their guard down.

Alas it finally happened one of the raiders went up, even putting their gun down to untie him to start the trek back to their camp. In that moment John thrust his entire hand into the throat of the raider decapitating them, he quickly jumped back and got into cover it was time. There was another he counted twelve raiders including Jeff, he would fall last.

Gun fire quickly broke out as chaos happened, people took that as the hint to make a move as nearly everyone made an effort to find some cover. John jumped from the top of a building, landing on one of the raiders with a satisfactory crunch!

The two unfortunate raiders who were near didn't even stand a chance, one got sliced nearly in half, the other fell and tried to crawl away and got their legs torn off before bleeding out in front of the bar. John saw some settlers hiding on the other side of the building, going over to them they screamed but he made a (shh) gesture with a claw and quietly said

"Look I'm on your side alright? Now if I untie you three can you help the rest, I'll handle the raiders."

They nodded out of fear as John swiftly but careful cut all their bindings and went on his way.

A few of the raiders there their guns and ran out the entrance of Megaton screaming things along the lines of

"Fuck this" and "I'm outta here!"

So much for Jeff and his loyal followers

John sustained a few bullet wounds while dealing with some more of the raiders, none of them were able to keep up with his speed and fury majority of them fell while he freed more and more of the townsfolk.

Jeff had taken Cat and Mike to a corner of the walls near the gate, when John was scouring the area for any more survivors it be raider or settlers but the search was for different reasons, one was to kill the other to save. Jeff threw them both down, they were still gagged and bound.

"If I can't enslave you two, you might as well be dead causing me this much trouble!"

Going to swing his bat at Cat, Mike stood up and threw himself into Jeff knocking him off balance

"Motherfucker! This is going to be so much worse for you now!"

Repositioning himself went to hit Mike, but then seemingly out of nowhere John jumped out of the darkness, tackling Jeff against the metal wall of Megaton, this was the last obstacle,

John backed up and placed two claws in-between the arms of Jeff and held him up and gave him such a nasty glare, his amber eyes shimmering in the light of the night. He just gave him a growl a beast in the end.

Jeff pleaded for his life once more "Wait, wait John please this is all a big misunderstanding, I just wanted to scare you all no one needed to die"

John scoffed at this, can you even believed this guy! Has the nerve to attack the town and then grows small once he's beaten again. John collected himself holding another arm up ready to absolutely gut this sad man.

"No, Jeff there is no misunderstanding I let you go. I let you live and what do you do? You come attack this town that I had no ties to. You force me to expose myself to everyone, you lost even more of your men and believe me when I tell you once I tear you limb from limb, I am going to find the rest of your people and the will all die, and there is nothing you can do. You want to see a monster I will damn well show you one!"

Before Jeff could even reply John went to slash at his head with the other hand..but stopped Jeff gave a sigh of relief, before John bit right into his neck and tearing it back, Jeff tried to grasp the wound but life left him as quickly as his body fell.

John looked back at Cat and Mike before shaking his head. This was all his fault and now they are terrified, much to his surprise Cat got on her feet and leaned forward at John, he leaned down to her level and gently removed her gag which was just a rolled up ball of cloth.

"John I..am sorry"

Which he replied "For what?"

She just cried "For everything, you saved us and made an enemy, came back and saved the whole town."

He told her "No, Cat this was my fault, sure you two would be dead or worse. I let him go and that was my fault." Gesturing for her to turn around he removed her bindings, just like last time and here they thought it was over the first time. John helped Mike up and removed his gag.

"Mike before you say a damn thing, I am in no mood for a lecture or a bashing I didn't tell you I had my reasons."

Mike stood up and brushed himself off "John..I am still processing everything, I'm grateful you helped us again but I.." he paused almost as if he remembered John was a deathclaw now."I'll keep it to myself we got people to help."

He couldn't agree more with a nod John helped them close the gate. Then suddenly a raider came out of the darkness with some kind of assault rifle, John saw it though pushing Cat and Mike out of the way but landing in the line of fire

He was hit with nine bullets total mainly in the chest, Harden came to behind the raider and blew their brains up from behinds then with a .44, looking over at John he laid there bleeding, passed out from the blood loss.

Looks like it's their turn to save him.

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