"Thanks Danse!" The knight who helped get the dish set up was named Danse, he had medium length hair and a bit of a beard. He was in Paladian Johnson's squadron. "Anytime wanderer!" Blake went down the elevator.
Charon and dogmeat were still waiting for Blake outside. "So where to now?" Blake had brought up the map of GONE on his pip boy and said that was where they would go. "Charon, we should talk a bit don't you think?" The man looked disgusted at Blake.
"I don't get attached, if i do they die soon! I lost family due to my last and I don't want to lose more and grieve!" The group contuined walking. The first time charon talked about his past. Blake hoped he would get charon to leave his slave master.
They exited the tunnels and saw a area on fire and destroyed, it was bland and rundown. A giant ant came running towards them it started breathing fire but charon killed it with ease.
"What the he'll are they!?" Charon with a bland face told him about the area.
"This is gray ditch, I've seen here before, grayditch. It was out of the way of mutants and raiders only threat was the occasional hit man after the mayor." Charon looked a bit sad, Blake knew not ask him on where he learned about grayditch.
"Ahhh help me please!" A kid ran towards the pal being chased by ants breathing fire.
"Ready, open fire guys!" Blake grabbed his rifle and started shootingone any died after 4 hits from blake, charon shot a any 3 times finally killing it and dogmeat killed one. Ammo clips on loaded onto more ants. Fire sprayed everywhere until a any from behind leaped on Blake, charon shot the ant off.
"Always watch your back kid!" He helped Blake to his feet and the gun fired were silent.
"Tha-thank,thank you for your...hel...help!" Blake handed the kid a ice cold nuka cola and he chucked it down.
"Whoa, slowly your dehydrated, not all at once. There you go now tell me what happened.
"Well this grayditch, and my name is Brian Wilks! awhile a go a bunch of ants showed up and attacked. it was only two, my pa always said 'shoot for their fucking antenner!' whatever that means. It was always officer Clinton, pa and my brother who always fended off the town. About 5 years ago my brother left and joined the BOS he always was an initate but he was stationed here, I guess as a mission or something. Now about a week ago a fuck ton showed up and killed everyone, my pa told me to run and he stood and shot the ants with Clinton. Anyhow that's our house can you see if he is alive mister?" The boy was scared and Blake did want to leave a scared kid alone.
"All Right pal, dogmeat stay here and guard the house, do you have a safe place to stay kid?" The kid pointed to the Pulaski preservation shelter next to the town dinner, he said it was safe. So Blake had charon escort him to the shelter and come back to guard with dogmeat.
Blake went inside. "Oh sh it, what's that smell!" A rancid odor of dead corpses, bonfire, and what smelled like bleach mixed dirt and dart or whatever. His nose hairs burned and his eyes watered. He saw what smell was, Brian Wilks dad was burned to a crisp around dead ants. He closed the man's eye and said this. "Aquste en apach." It was Italian for rest in peace, he family was Italian and British.
The group (after being told what happened to Brian's dad) headed over to the preservation center to tell Brian what happened. "I'm sorry pal, but your father is dead... before you say anything, I will finish this nyself, dog meat and chqron, you stay here and clean the surrounding area. Kid do you have a place to stay?"
"Yeah, I could stay with my brother. He is stationed at Galaxy News Radio." Blake told chain to take him to knight sergeant Wilks.
"Charon, make sure this kid survives or I will gut you personally!" Just like that he went to a old shack ran by a 'doc lesko' to search for clues. Blake must have lost part of himself, he made a friend he lost his dad. He killed people and saw people killed who he grew up with. He killed people. I guess Brian and his dad were the snapping point.
1 and a half hours later. Marigolds station.
His clues lead him to marigolds station. He had to find a doc lesko and ask for info on the ants. Blake was firing a mounted 50 caliber machine gun at over 50 ants.
"TAKE THAT, THIS IS FOR THE INNOCENTS YOU KILLED!" Explosions went all about and many things caught on fire. The 50 cal bullets went through the ants like a 500 magnum on soft tissue. "I hope you burn in your own fire!" He screamed as killed the rest of the ants and moved a head into the cave to be stopped by 3 fire ants.
"Fuck. You. Assholes" he said each word as he unloaded a bullet from his desert eagle into a ant, hitting each one between the eyes.
He ran into 7 more ants but each one was killed with ease. He stopped in front a metal door to hear man talking, Blake hide behind the wall waiting for the man to Come out.
"So my hypothesis was almost right, my a-" he was cutoff by Blake pointing a gun at his side of the head. "Don't move or I will blow your brains out of head." The doctor had a scientific accent and chuckled.
"All Right no introduction needed! Your here about the ants, well long story short, I made them and they went crazy. A flaw I guess you could say!" He chuckled again and Blake became red with anger. He turned the scientist around and pointed the pistol at his temple.
" all right Einstein, tell me how to kill these and give me and Brian a reward or I will paint the wall with your blood, I guess you could say God had made a 'flaw' with me in his hypothesis!" This time lesko lesion was scared.
"All Right just don't kill me, we will start from the beginning and work out way up, ok!" Blake nodded yes. They went inside and took a seat as lesko began telling the story.
Meanwhile at GNR.
"Let us inside, we know Blake, we have a citizen with us who needs sheltshelter! Come on man have a heart!" The lead guard went to the intercom.
"Knight-sergeant Wilks, this is officer Wilson. There is a ghoul, a dog and a child out here who demand for entrance, you may want to see this before they get wild." Then Wilks came out in his T-51B teslas power armor.
"What's the issue here of- OH MY GOD! Brian, what are doing here?" The two brothers ran towards each other and hugged. "What are you doing this far out from grayditch?"
Brian began to cry but wiped his years away. "Grayditch is gone, everyone. Including our home an pa! If it was not for these two and the lone wanderer I would be dead!" Wilks approached charon.
"Here take this, 350 each for you and Blake. Here is a bag of treats for dogmeat, there for the guard dogs here but I don't care." He handed charon the items. "Come on in, relax, eat get a shower whatever you want. It's the least I can do for a savior!" Officer Wilson was outraged.
"You any be serious, a group of citizens, this is a military outpost, not a hotel!" Wilks slapped the man and told him it was ok since Blake saved the day before and this was his brother.
"Anyhow here is a couple of twenty gauge rounds. I will tell three dog about you guys! What is your name anyhow?" Charon told Wilks his name. "Thanks, charon, relax for as long as you need. I'm going inside to tell three dog!" And like that the group followed Wilks inside, Wilson still outraged.
Back at Marigold.
An giant ant head was thrown at lesko's feet startling him. Blake was covered in any blood and a burn mark on the side of his armor which burned his body.
"The deed is done, your monstrosity is over!" Lesko raised a 9mm pistol at Blake.
"What the hell, I said no killing since science is over and you will pay for it, I should have made them stronger so you Brian would have died!" A bullet went between lesko's eyes. It was from Blake and his hunting rifle. He grabbed the needles lesko told him about and injected them. He looked at his pip bit.
"Your now enchanced, your special stats are now 6 strength. 6 perception. 9 endurance. 7 charisma, 6 agiliyyiand 7 luck!" His special was what his pip boy rated him on, as he increased those stats by doing something he would know in the pip boy menu.
3 hours later. Galaxy News Radio.
"That's it, river city, anyhow tell li I said hi. And tell James I know where his son got his badassity from!" There dog chuckled and Blake left the room, his priority on river city. But he had to take charon home due to his week about to be up.
"Charon, why don't you leave ahzurkal, join me in the wastes. We need to be friends. We worked and fought toghether. Each time you opened more and more about your past. If you leave now you will find happiness!" Charon scoffed at Blake.
"No I wont, Ahzurkal owns my contract, if I leave I will always be on the run and be attacked by assassins and hitmen! Nice try you raised about 0.5 percent of me to leave, but that's it!" Charon speeded ahead of the group.
"I will never understand him,at least were cool dogmeat!" He patted the dog on the head, his anger cooled down and cared again, this time especially for charon and dogmeat. He was happy Brian was being taught under the brotherhood ways. He making a difference a little at a time.
"Let's get moving to underworld!" He was stopped by Wilks and told him to go outside. Outside was a huge helicopter that looked weird.
"All aboard the veribird, next stop is underworld!" Blake stood with his mouth wide open he had to wipe his brow with his baseball cap he was sweating so much due to amazement!
"What is This?" He questioned Wilks.
"This is a vertibird, sort of like a helicopter but better get inside!" The group went in, they were heading to underworld to talk about charon!
1 hour later. 9th circle, Underworld.
"Thanks for bringing charon back, buuut, charon now!" Ahzurkal pointed his pistol at Blake and charon pointed his shotgun at Blake also. Quinn pointed his hunting rifle at ahzurkal, hearing the whole conversation.
"Ahzurkal stand down, now!" Ahzurkal just tainted Quinn.
"Well 'lone wanderer' moriaty had put a price on your head, I want it and charon will do it for me."
Blake looked at charon. "Man, we saved toghether, i want to help you. I learned alot about you this past week and I feel if anyone can break out slavery it's you. So be strong. We can be friends, we will beat the wastes! You said your friends if you get attached die, well if were friends I live, if were we're not I die. Riddle me that! So kill him charon! Not me, but if that's how it is I see." Blake had put his hands behind his head, turned around and went on his knees, the shotgun pointing at his head.
Ahzurkal laughed as if there was no tomorrow. "Do it charon, I own you. Now, come on do it you present! Just fire it! We're talking money. Do it!" A single shot rang out.
Blake opened his eyes, but he was alive, but Ahzurkal dropped to the ground, cu aron had shot him in the chest. He helped Blake up.
"Grab the paper and smokeit...Friend!" The two embraced, they were "homies" now as what charon said a little after. They grabbed the paper. Cut it into little pieces and settled it on fire.
"Your right, I am happy like this!" Charon finally smiled! Quinn took the 9th circle deed and became the new owner, he said free drinks for every one.
The 3 friends talked for hours and laughed while dogmeat just ate his treats and kicked the faces of the friends he cares about.