"Hold it right there!" a stern voice echoed out as the trio had finally reached an unconscious Sarah Lyons. It appeared as though she had been taken by surprise and knocked senseless with some energy weapon, after all: Sarah was invincible. An Enclave soldier and a troop of Legion scouts stepped out from behind a large boulder. In the Enclave trooper's hand was a large, strange rifle that omitted a yellow glow. "Your friend the Sentinel was taken down easily with two rounds of this. It is the Enclave's latest technological masterpiece: the Yellow Mama. If you don't want to end up like the paladin on the floor here, you'd best come quietly."
Boone had had enough of the attacker's nasally voice and pulled out his trusty sniper rifle. As powerful as the Yellow Mama was, the gun was much heavier than Boone's, so the Enclave trooper was unable to match the speed of his opponent. Swift silver bullets sped and lodged into the head of the trooper. Just like in a terrible B-list horror film from the 2010's, the man's head exploded, pouring brains and bits of skull onto the uniforms of his Legion companions.
"Your friend musta got lucky in taking out Sarah here," Sid smirked cockily as he picked up the Yellow Mama. He felt the power of the gun in his hands. It was way too powerful, better than his best grenade rifle, Thump-Thump. He aimed it at the Legion scouts who immediately ran back the way they came.
Once they were out of earshot, Sid said, "Okay, Boone, take Sarah to Freeside, and see if the Followers of the Apocalypse can fix her up. Me and Cassie are going to follow those shitheads to see where their base is."
Boone, silent as ever, grunted and picked up Sarah, threw her over his broad shoulders, and started off towards the Strip. Sid put his heavy new weapon in his satchel and started to follow the Legion scouts. "Come on, our biggest enemies have teamed together. This is the worst thing possible. We have to see how many there are, than report back to Hidden Valley with the info. Got me?"
"Gotcha."
Several hours later at the Hidden Valley Bunker
"Ah," Elder McNamara smiled as he saw his favorite paladin and the most popular person in the East Brotherhood chapter. "I was wondering where you went. Where is the Sentinel? Or even that brutish NCR 1st Recon sniper that follows you like a puppy, Paladin Boston?"
"We have come across a dilemma, Elder McNamara. It appears as though the Legion has teamed up with the Enclave and are stationed in the Grand Canyon. There are thousands of them. All armed. The Enclave has even built some new diabolical weapon." He pulled out the Yellow Mama.
The Elder was shocked. "Holy Steel! I'll be damned. It seems to use micro fusion cells as ammo and shoot bolts of electric currents, like a cattle prod rifle. Is seems similar to what the BoS out east call a Tesla Cannon. You own one, yes, Cassandra?" Cassie nodded. "I believe the name is actually a reference to a slang name for the electric chairs used during pre-war times."
The two paladins looked at him blankly.
"Oh, I forgot, you two know nothing about pre-war tech. The electric chair was used to terminate criminals who were given the death sentence."
"Actually," Cassie remarked, "I know what you are talking about. There is such a chair in the D.C. ruins. It doesn't work anymore of course."
"Anyway," the Elder continued. "We're lucky Sentinel Lyons wasn't turned to ash. Elder Lyons would kill me. Why don't you take this gun to the scribes and see what they can do for you."