The Divide, 3:00PM
Ulysses was cooking his lunch at a campfire, he had the Courier's robot, Ed-E sitting next to him, what was left of it at least.
Ulysses hated to admit it, but he was touched by the machine's willingness to sacrifice itself to stop the missiles, and surprised by how much the Courier cared for it.
Unfortunately he was not a mechanic, that was more of the Courier's thing.
Maybe he should just give it to the Courier the next time he came by.
Ulysses heard footsteps, several footsteps.
"Why have you come here?" Ulysses asked calm, yet sternly, while reaching for his smg.
Cass, Boone, Veronica, Raul, Arcade, and Ed-E (Regular Ed-E, not LR Ed-E) walked up, well Ed-E floated but you get what I mean.
"Pick up that gun and we'll blow your brains out." Cass said angrily, pointing her shotgun at Ulysses.
"Okay." Ulysses stood up calmly and turned around.
"Who the h*ll are you?" Cass asked.
"You did not answer my question. Why have you come here?" Ulysses repeated his question.
"None of your d*mn business jacka*s!" Cass yelled, still aiming her gun at him.
"Cass, you do realize this is probably the guy right?" Arcade said matter-of-factly. "He's probably the only person here."
"He's right Amigo." Raul added.
"Yes I am the only one who resides in this land of death." Ulysses said in his usual stern tone of voice. "You search for me?" He asked calmly.
"We search for our friend Six." Arcade replied.
"You speak of the Courier?" Ulysses asked.
"Yes." Veronica replied. "He went missing, he would have told us something if he was going away this long." She explained.
"How long?" Ulysses asked.
"Three days." Boone told him calmly.
"Three days? You waste my time." Ulysses said calmly.
"He said to come to you if this happened, that you would know what to do." Raul explained.
"The crater, the Big Empty." Ulysses told them.
"The research facility?" Arcade asked curiously.
"Yes." Ulysses replied. "I must go there."
"Don't you mean we?" Raul asked.
"No, only I will go." Ulysses replied sternly. "You will slow me down, the crater is dangerous, it requires subtlety, something this group seems to lack." He explained in his typical cryptic fashion.
"He's are friend." Boone said sternly.
"Yes but he told me to go, he made no mention of you." Ulysses explained as he packed up his things, he glanced at Raul's jumpsuit. "Is the suit for show ghoul? Or do you know machines?" He asked zealously.
"Si I am a mechanic." Raul replied. "Why?"
"Fix the machine." He pointed at broken Ed-E. "It belongs to the Courier." He stated as started to leave.
"You can't just leave!" Cass yelled angrily.
"You will not stop me." Ulysses said confidentely, and he was right, they didn't.
"Wow, what a douche." Cass said.
Ulysses walked for several days to reach the crater, it was as he remembered.
He walked into the tunnel he used to enter and exit the last time, but it was blocked by rubble. Thankfully he found an opening and crawled through.
He made it to the main facility, the "Think Tank" as it was called.
He entered it, the shells, the brains were there.
"INTRUDER ALERT, WE HAVE AN INTRUDER!" Klein shouted at his typical volume level.
"I seek the Courier." Ulysses stated calmly.
"It seeks a mailman?" 0 asked, clearly confused.
"NO YOU MORON, HE SEEKS THE COURIER, THE LOBOTOMITE, FORMER LOBOTOMITE I MEAN!" Klein exclaimed.
"Yes, where is he?" Ulysses asked.
"We do not know, why would we know?" 0 asked.
"@@@@*...] @@@[...] @@@" 8 said.
"OF COURSE, THE TRACKER THAT'S RIGHT." Klein shouted.
"Tracker?" Ulysses asked curiosly.
"WE INSTALLED A TRACKER IN THE TRANSPORTALPONDER, THE SIGNAL IS FAINT BUT WE CAN LOCK ON TO IT!" Klein responded.
"Yes, and we've also detected multiple anomalies in other areas, it may be related." Dala added.
"Can you send me to it?" Ulysses asked.
"Not yet, we have to work on it." Borous replied.
"WE WILL TELL YOU WHEN WE ARE DONE, GOODBYE!" Klein said.