Aiden entered the building as he was yet again greeted by Major Knight at the main desk. He didn't seem to happy to see me. I just kept walking as I headed into the back room. There was a man sitting in the corner of the room, he didn't have a single strand of hair on his head except for the handlebar mustache. He looked up at Aiden fixing his sunglasses as he leaned foward placing his forearms on his knee's.

"Well now, looks like we have a new visitor in the old Brahmin pen. Not many people in now a days, just passing through. I haven't seen you around here before, you must be that Brotherhood guy Knight was talking about. Well if you are just passing through you came in at a bad time. The road north has gone to hell, if i let a caravan through they wont make it." Jackson said as he wiped the sweat from his head.

"Yes i am, and yes I am passing through but me and the courier with me are trying to Novac. And i was wondering if there would be any way you would let Cass's papers slide and let her accompany us." Aiden asked as he pulled up a chair and sat down in front of Jackson.

"I'm sorry, but there is no way i could do that. I need to get caravans running again, but there is to much crawling the asphalt up the road. I need to clear out the road so we can get the caravans moving again.

"Ok, how about i make you a deal. If you can clear here papers to let her go, and a little information on how to get to Novac we will clear the road down there for you." Aiden said leaning forward hoping his proposition intrigued him.

"Look I, wait you'll clear the road. I can't believe im doing this but alright. She is clear to go as long as you all clear the road out. And to get to Novac you would have to go through Nipton. There has been a lot of smoke coming from there recently. then just follow the road across the railroad tracks, then just follow the roads north and you'll reach Novac. Just watch yourself out there who know's whats going on out there around Nipton." Jackson said as he signed the papers. "Here you go she has permission to set out, just don't forget to clear the road out.

Aiden took the paper and nodded as he headed back to the bar. He could hear some slight laughter coming from inside.
"Whats going on in there." Aiden walked inside to find Cass laughing and poking Selene that was face down on the bar. "What happened to her."

Cass grinned as she looked over at Aiden. "The young lady couldn't hold her alcohol and passed out."

"Ah man" Aiden hunched over sliding her onto his back laying her arms over his shoulders. "I got Jackson to clear you your free to leave now."

"Wow, no shit I didn't think you could actually do it, drinks are on me then." Cass replied chuckling as she took another sip of her whiskey.

"Why don't you come with us, it could be fun." Aiden asked as he stood up holding Selene on his back.

"Hell, why not its better than sitting around her. Lets get out of here." Cass replied as she gathered her things.
They exited the bar beginning they're journey east down to the ruined overpass. Aiden froze for a minute as he stared down at the overpass that was infested with ants.

"Ants, why did it have to be ants." Aiden thought to himself as he rememberd back to Greyditch and all the fire ants there.

"Wait, don't tell me your afraid of ants." Cass asked as she started to laugh a bit.

"I had a bad experience with ants a long time ago, I just don't like these things very much. I would rather deal with Feral Ghouls than ants." Aiden replied

After about an hour they had taken out the ants and continued east towards Nipton. The smoke would begin to grow thicker the closer they got.

"I have a bad feeling about this, there is too much smoke for brush fire somethings wrong." Aiden said as he noticed Selene was starting to come to. "Glad to see you are awake, how are you feeling."

"Uh, my head is spinning. w-where are we." Selene asked as she reached up holding her head softly while still holding on to Aiden.

"We are heading through a town called Nipton. But it looks like there might be something going on there." Aiden said stopping to let Selene down. "when we get into town i want you both to stick close, we don't know what or who is waiting inside the town.

"Ok, I will." Selene replied still holding onto her head.
Cass just nodded, gripping the strap to her rifle, as they entered Nipton. A man ran past them yelling something about winning some sort of lottery. Once inside there was red flags with a symbol of a bull on it. They ventured further inside heading towards the town hall. There was a group of men wearing red sports equipment, the man in the center had what looked like a dogs head he had fashioned to wear as a helmet. The closer they got the more he realized that they were surrounded by men in sports gear, as the man wearing the dog head helmet approached them. Aiden tensed up as Selene and Cass looked around seeing they were surrounded.

"Dont worry, I wont have you lashed to a cross like the rest of these degenerates. It's useful that you happened by," he said in a soft but stern tone.

Aiden and the others looked around as a sence of fear came over them seeing the towns folk lashed to crosses lining the streets.

"I want you to witness the fate of the town of Nipton, to memorize every detail. And then, when you move on? I want you to teach everyone you meet the lesson that Caesar's Legion taught here, especially any NCR troops you run across." He said as he stared the three down.

"I'll do as you ask." Aiden said as he stood there waiting for his reply.

"Then i bid you Vale - untill we meet again" he said as he motioned his men to follow him. After about a half hour have passed they were no longer in sight.

"Oh shit, Legion, I had no idea they were this far west. looks like the NCR are going to have a pity big war on their hands." Cass said as she relaxed a bit.

"Yeah looks like they are going to need all the help they can get." Aiden said as he looked around seeing all the people hanging from the crosses as the town burned. "Come on lets get out of here."

Aiden said leading them out of Nipton crossing the tracks following the road through a canyon pass heading north. The sun started to go down as the howls of coyotes echoed out. The lights of the nearby town could be seen, a giant structure overlooked the town. It looked like some sort of lizard from where they were standing.

"It's getting late and we need to find a place to sleep for the night lets make it to that town down there and see if they have a hotel or something were we can sleep for the night." Aiden replied as he pointed to the town in the distance. Cass and Selene gave a quick nod as the followed Aiden down the road into town hoping there was a place to sleep.