I do not own or will ever own anything by Bethesda Softworks or by Obsidian and Fallout New Vegas. This is just about a regular soldiers journey through New Vegas and the NCR.
The spelling and grammar are poor at best, I know this, believe me I know. So if you can still read this then I thank you, if you can't... well stop reading.
Chapter 25
A Sister in Need
Feeling herself starting to awaken, Jennifer slowly opened her eyes. Looking straight ahead she could see through the blinds it was still dark outside. With her husband still spooning her, she carefully reached around with her right hand trying to find her first recon watch. After stumbling around for a few seconds, she managed to find it, bringing it up to her face.
"God...it's only 2:45 in the morning,"she said sigh heavily, and tossed her watch back on the night stand.
Only wearing a pair of red panties, Mrs. Walker scouted her backside up against her husband once more. Hoping to get back to sleep once more, she closed her eyes and let her mind wander again.
Today was September 15th, making it NCR day. They were expecting a few people to come over, including Samantha and her new boyfriend Charles Woodcomb.
While Jennifer was one of the first people Sam told about Charles, she asked her to not tell her brother yet. Jen hated keeping a secret from her husband, but she understood why. When it came to his sister Tristan was extremely overprotective of her. Jen assumed it was because of how they met, combined with the simple fact that she was the only family he had left. As he felt it was best that his aunt and two cousins on his mother side simply go back to thinking he ran away and was never heard from again.
Suddenly a loud knock on their front door made her sit up wide awake. "Holy shit!"
"What's happen?" Asked Tristan who was awaken from Hawke's loud bark and grabbing his custom auto pistol on instinct.
"Someone knocked on the door,"she replied by grabbing the cover and wrapping it around her body.
Standing up, Tristan walked over to the door with his pistol in his right hand while only wearing a pair of sunset sarsaparilla boxers. Watching him look through the small peep hole, Jennifer reached behind the bed post and grabbed the hidden 10mm SMG.
"It's Arcade,"he said lowering his pistol and began unlocking the door for him.
Stepping aside, the worried Followers doctor entered the room. Right when Tristan was about to close the door once more Rex (the King's cyberdog) quickly fallowed him inside. Immediately Jennifer watched as Hawke narrowed her eyes on the cyber dog and started growling at him.
"Hawke relax,"said Jennifer in a stern tone, making the dog stop growling and sit calmly on the floor.
"Did your sister make it here?"
Tristan shook his head. "No, I thought she wasn't coming until tomorrow?"
"Damn it,"he said swearing loudly before looking down at his worn pip-boy.
Turning to look at her with a confused look on his face, Tristan walked over and put his hand on Arcade's shoulder.
"What's going on?"
Slowly, doctor Gannon looked to up meet his gaze. "Samantha along with her boyfriend Charles volunteered to lead a small convoy to Nipton. Afterwords, they were suppose to stop by here and surprise you. But that was almost 8 hours ago, and ED-E's distress signal suddenly went off 2 hours ago."
Looking up at her husband's face, Jen could see that determined look he always had when facing a problem. "Can you track the signal?"
"Yeah, that's another reason why I am here. It's close by... maybe only 500 feet away from ranger station Charlie."
Ranger station Charlie was one of the newest ranger stations in New Vegas. With more and more foot tracking coming along I 15 along with the ever growing prescience of the Caesar's Legion, NCR felt it was best to have a ranger station near Novac.
"Okay, give us 5 minutes and will be ready to roll out."
"Just one question if you don't mind? What's Rex doing here?"
Immediately the dog gave Jen a soft whine. "The King and his gang have been able to keep some type of balance inside Freeside As much as the Followers don't like dealing with street gangs, thankfully the Kings have been honest in there dealings. So one day when the King reportedly became seriously ill your sister treated him for a nasty infection, untimely saving his life. Afterwords, he refused to let any one treat him or his dog besides Doctor Walker. So when he heard that Sam was missing, he immediately lent me Rex to help,"he added causing the cyber dog to bark rapidly at the mention of his name.
Giving them a hard look, Arcade headed for the door with Rex quickly fallowing him outside. As soon as the door closed, both of them jump into action. Dressing in silence Jennifer finished tying up her Assassin boots when Tristan appeared putting on his Desert Ranger duster over his armor.
"Heads up,"he said tossing her gun belt at her.
Catching it, Jennifer snapped it around her waist. "You okay?"
Tristan who was busy looking inside the gun cabinet, shrugged his shoulders. "Yep."
Grabbing her twin auto pistols and putting them inside her hostlers, she could sense he was lying. Reaching around him, she grabbed a dozen throwing knives putting most of them on her gun belt with a few hidden all over her body.
"Can you pass me the assault carbine?"
"Sure,"he added giving her the carbine that was modified with extended mag, forged receiver, and a light bolt.
Putting a few 5mm mags inside her front pockets, she watched as Tristan grabbed Patrica's custom hunting shotgun along with a couple types of 12 gauge ammo.
Sighing, Jennifer was getting tired of his one word answers to her. Right when he went down to grab them some .45 ammo, she reached and grabbed a hold of his wrist.
"Tristan Andrew Walker...stop ignoring me!"
Looking her deep in the eyes, Tristan sighed heavily. "What do you want me to say?"
"Nothing my love. But you don't need to pretend that you not stressed out at the fact that your sisters is missing. I am not asking you to relax. Hell, I am just as worried as you are. But will find her, of that I have little doubt. Remember my love, this is exactly what we specialize in"she said with a mischievous grin on her face.
Smiling back at her, Tristan went back to grabbing .45 ammo they would need. Giving her a few mags, he made sure to put his katana along his right hip. Making sure to give Hawke some clean water and food, Jen was about to head outside when he put his hand on her shoulder.
"Hey...thanks for telling me what I need to hear."
Giving him an amused look, Jennifer placed her hands around his neck. "Sweetheart...I am your wife. I would do anything for you. Sometimes that means kissing you, while other times it means giving you a swift kick in the ass. Now lets go find your sister and her boyfriend."
Barely 15 minutes later the three humans and one cyberdog found the location of the ED-E's distress signal echoing from inside an abandon Metro tunnel, that a group of Jackal gang members were currently using as a base. Using the high ground that was behind the small camp for cover, the two First Recon snipers carefully examined their targets.
"I count 6 of them. With only 1 of them having a gun,"said his wife looking through a pair of binoculars.
Handing him the binoculars, Tristan couldn't find any sign of his sister, ED-E, or her new boyfriend. While he was a bit pissed off that Sam hadn't told him about him yet, he knew he would have plenty of time to discuss that later.
"So...how do you want to approach this?"
Running a hand through goatee, he gave his wife a small wink. "Very quietly."
Grinning back at him, Jennifer stood up. "I will go and tell Doctor Gannon and Rex to stay put. Be right back."
Watching his wife leave, Tristan once again turned his attention back on the group of Jackal's who were gathered around their small fire. Staring at a dirty woman who was giving the man with 10mm pistol a blow job, Tristan pounded the ground. He hated people like this. Raiders who preyed on others to survive by, killing, raping and pillaging anything they can get there hands on. It was groups like this made the NCR's prescience in New Vegas necessary. Something a lot of the locals seem to forget until the threat is right on there door step, then they came crying for Republic's protection.
"You ready,"whispered Jennifer appearing next to him once more and snapping him out of his thoughts.
"Always."
"I love you."
"I love you too,"he said giving her a small kiss.
Crawling forward, the two snipers reached the edge of the cliff. While the leader was still receiving his blow job, another 2 Jackals were busy eating what look like a thigh leg of a human. Two more Jackals were currently on patrol while another watched the rail road tracks from the north. Using there stalking training, the two snipers timed their drops perfectly with the foot steps of the patrolling Jackal.
Moving up to a red boulder Jennifer pulled out a throwing knife. Bending down, Tristan picked up a small rock and tossed it over his head making sure to hit the ground in front of his wife. Instantly the Jackal pulled out her tire iron and advanced on were she heard the noise coming from.
Getting closer and closer to the rock they were hiding behind, the woman looked down at the large rock that was at her feet. Taking one step forward, Jennifer reached behind her and put her hand over her mouth. Bringing up her throwing knife to her neck, the STF agent slashed quickly, slitting her throat. With blood pouring out of neck, Mrs. Walker slowly dragged the dying raider behind the rock they were using for cover.
"My turn,"he whispered as Jennifer placed the corpse on the ground.
Sneaking around the rock, Tristan made his way closer to the main camp. Ducking behind a flaming barrel he knew he had to be patience. Sooner than later someone would come looking for the missing patrol.
"Where is that bitch!" Shouted the gang leader who suddenly came inside the woman's mouth causing her to choke.
Holding her head down, he made sure she swallowed every last drop before letting her breath once more. "You two! Bring her back her. I want to have me some of that sweet ass."
"What about me?" Asked the woman who had given in a blow job.
Standing up, the leader backhanded the woman across the facing sending her to the ground. "I wouldn't fuck you if you paid me. The only good thing you are good for is your mouth. Now go and get me a beer bitch!"
Putting down the cooked human thigh, the two raiders moved away from the fire in search of there missing patrol. Coming within 5 feet of him, they finally split up with one going towards the right while the other to the left. Using the flames heat as cover, Tristan let the Jackal go past the barrel.
"Come on Ass! I want to get back to eating!" He yelled calling out to the woman.
Moving quietly, Tristan sneaked up behind the raider. Putting his arm around the man's neck, Tristan placed his other hand on top of his forehead and snapped his neck. Catching his limp body, he slowly lowered the dead Jackal to the ground. Crouching, lieutenant Walker made his over to other raider who was beating his police baton inside his open palm.
"You find her knife!" Shouted the raider towards the direction of where he thought his fallen comrade should be able to here him.
When he got no response the Jackal stopped walking. "Knife, you fucking deaf!"
Turning around, the Jackal only had a second before Tristan appeared right in front of him. Looking down he could see his katana sticking in the middle of his sternum. Thrusting his blade forward, he pushed the rest of his sword inside the raider's chest. Looking the man into the eyes, lieutenant Walker quickly pulled out his katana from his chest. Turning his back to the bleeding Jackal, he heard the raider fall on his knees before slumping over on his side.
"About time my love? I thought I might have to help you out if you moved any slower,"whispered Jen who appeared right in front of him wielding two throwing knives.
Swinging his blade sharply to the right, Tristan wiped the blood of his blade. "Yeah...but you and I know you can't match my style."
Rolling her eyes at him, the two lieutenants silently made through there way over to the camp fire. By now the Jackal leader was growing impatient with his fellow raiders lack of success. Standing up, he tossed the beer bottle into the fire, shattering into a tiny pieces.
"That's it! I bring her back my fucking self! As for you...stay here!" He yelled grabbing his 10mm pistol out of his hostler and started walking forward.
Waiting for the Jackal leader to get closer, Tristan suddenly sprinted forward and leaped off the ruined car that was blocking them from the main camp. With his attention still on his fellow raider, the leader didn't even have time to look up when he swung down beheading the man with one quick slash. Landing behind the beheaded leader, Tristan turned to see the female raider have a stunned look on her face.
Without warning one throwing knife hit the woman in the throat, while a second one appeared sticking in her chest right where her heart was. It was then his wife came into view, as the female raider choked on her own blood before falling face first into the fire.
"What the hell!" Shouted the last remaining Jackal noticing the flames of the fire flare up when the dead woman impacted the fire.
Sprinting forward, the Jackal entered the camp to see both lieutenant Walkers pointing a auto pistol at him. Before the man could react they pulled the trigger, hitting him twice in the chest. Looking at each other first, the two STF agents walked forward and pointed there pistols at the bleeding Jackal.
"Goodbye,"he said before they each fire again, this time hitting him twice in the head.
Giving a sharp whistle, Jennifer let Arcade and Rex know it was safe to come down. Putting away there weapons, they turned there attention on the metro entrance. Jogging forward, they found it was unlocked.
"What now?" Asked Arcade slightly breathless from running down the hill as fast as he could.
"Easy,"he said taking his hunting shotgun off his shoulder and give it a quick pump,"stay here and protect our escape route."
Arcade nodded his head in agreement."Do you want to take Rex?"
Jennifer knelt down and started petting the cyberdog. "It's tempting...but his keen sense of smell and vision will be better use here...with you."
Standing back up, Jen grabbed her assault carbine and pulled the bolt, readying the first round. "Let's go get your sister back."
Closing the metro door behind them, the two STF agents could barely see inside the dim lite tunnel. About 20 feet down the track was a derailed train car that blocked them from going any farther north. Near the end of the north track, was a right curve which led them farther inside the old metro tunnel.
Looking at his wife, Tristan exchanged a brief head nod with her before they both started moving down the tunnel. Making sure to avoid the tin cans, empty milk bottles, and other kinds of trash laying all around them they reached the bend in the track.
Leaning up against the concrete wall, he could see at least 8 more Jackals all gathered around an intact train car. Along the sides of the track was a series of fire barrels that they were using to cook a few giant rats, and two dead human bodies.
"I don't see any sign of her,"he said whispering to Jen who took her eyes off the Jackals and gave him a worried look.
Just when he started to think the bastards had already done something to his sister, Jennifer pointed to the right of the train car.
"See that guy heading up those steps. A bet there's some kind of side maintenance room over there."
"What if Sam's not in there?"
"Then we keep searching into we find her,"she said with a determined look on her face.
Grinning down at her, Tristan leaned down and kissed her. "Now why don't we show these assholes who they are messing with."
"My thoughts exactly."
The Jackals were cowards, and normally would only attack when they think they have the advantage. Without there primary leader to keep them in line, it was inevitable they would revert to every man for themselves once they found out he was dead. Which meant they would have to act now, or risk something happening to his sister and her boyfriend.
"You take the right side, I take the left. Together we should be able to create a good cross fire and cause a lot of confusion."
"Then we check out that maintenance room,"said Jennifer finishing his exact thought.
Nodding back at her, she quickly darted across the train track to the opposite side of the small ledge that he was standing on. Putting there weapons behind there backs, the two lieutenants slowly made there way down the tunnel.
Finally coming into view, the Jackals stopped talking and turned there attention towards the two intruders.
"Look at what we got here boys,"said one Jackal man wielding a single shotgun.
"Under the authority of the Northern California Republic...your all under arrest. I hereby order all of you to lay down your weapons and come out with your hands raised in the air."
Looking at each other for a second, the Jackals suddenly started laughing. "I haven't laugh that hard since I that I raped that woman who kept begging me to kill her."
Whether they were stupid or couldn't see how heavily armed the Walkers were, the Jackals all started pulling out melee weapons.
"Well...I guess we do things the hard way then,"he said bringing up his hunting shotgun and firing at the man wielding the single shotgun.
The 12 gauge slug hit him right in the middle of the chest, knocking him backwards onto the train tracks below. Pumping the spent shell, Tristan aiming his shotgun to the right and fired again hitting a raider in the side of the neck. The heavy slug easily pierced through his neck, snapping it and killing him before his body could hit the ground.
Looking to his right, Tristan watched as four Jackals were riddle with 5mm bullets from Jen's full auto fire assault carbine. Within three seconds, she shot her entire 30 round clip and quickly reloaded again ready to fire once more. Raising his hunting shotgun, lieutenant Walker fired hitting a woman in the lower back, sending her body skidding on the concrete. Walking forward, Tristan pumped the spent shell and he fired at point blank range. The shell exploded the back of the head of the woman, painting the nearby wall and ground with blood and brains.
Looking up, Tristan spotted one more Jackal attempting to run away by climbing up the train car. Reaching the top step of the side ladder, he watched as his back was riddled with 5mm bullets. Despite the fact he was bleeding severely from all his gun shot wounds, the raider was still hanging on with one hand. Shouldering her assault carbine, Jen pulled out one of her auto pistols and fired once more. This time the .45 bullet enter the back of his head and exited out of the front, killing him and making his body fall down to the concrete.
"Clear!" He said shouldering his shotgun and pulling out his auto pistol.
"Same here!" She added by scanning her side of the track.
With their pistols at the ready, the two snipers made their way down the rest of the tunnel reaching the train car. Climbing up a small debris pile, Tristan and Jennifer scanned the inside of the ruined train car. Finding nothing but trash and debris scattered all around the train car, the two STF agents turned there attention back on the side maintenance door.
Walking up the small flight of steps, Jen attempted to open the door finding it was locked
"You want me to lock pick?" She asked getting ready to pull out her screw driver and bobby pin.
"Nah, we have already made ourselves known by our fire fight. Let's just kick in."
Standing back up, Jennifer nodded back to her husband before they both kicked the door with tremendous force, easily breaking the lock. Charging in, Tristan scanned the messy office finding no sign of his sister or her boyfriend. With his wife quickly joining them inside, both lieutenant Walkers made there way farther inside the old maintenance office. Reaching the end of the office, they spotted a small bathroom at the far end of the hall.
"I think I hear someone Charles,"said the voice of his sister threw the door.
"Sam!"
"Tristan...is that you you!"
"Yeah, me and Jen came to rescue you!"
"See...I told you my brother would come for us!"
Outside the door, he could hear her boyfriend sigh heavily. "We can exchange pleasantries later...get us the hell out of here!"
Stepping back, Tristan let his wife start lock picking the heavy door. Out of the corner of his eye, he spotted ED-E laying on a desk. Making his way over to the eye-bot, he hoped that ED-E wasn't beyond repair, as he knew how much he meant to his sister.
Without warning, the bathroom door flung open. Immediately Jennifer found herself being embraced by her sister in law.
"I knew you guys would come for us!"
Hugging her back, Jennifer laughed back as Sam wiped away a tear of joy. "Of course we would. Your family Sam."
Stepping forward, Tristan smiled back at his sister who slowly pulled away from his wife. Giving him a wide grin, Sam rushed forward and embraced him tightly letting Tristan picked her up. Holding onto his sister, he finally let her back down on her feet.
"I never doubt for a second you would come for us!"
"I would have marched into Hell if I had too! A few Jackals didn't stand a chance against two first recon snipers!"
Smiling, Sam turned around to see a slightly uncomfortable looking Charles Woodcomb staring back at them. Charles was a little taller than himself, with medium long black hair that he kept in a small pony tail. Clean shaven and with strong brown eyes, Tristan could see he looked to be in his earlier twenties.
"Can we please get the hell out of here before any more of those Jackals come back,"he replied with a worried look on his face.
While Tristan knew he had a point, he couldn't help but not like him. While that might be simply because he was dating his sister, quite frankly he really didn't care.
"Not before we get ED-E and our gear back!" Yelled his sister making the annoyed looking doctor sigh and nodding his head back at her.
Four hours later, Jennifer was inside her apartment making a small breakfast for the guests they had now staying with them for the day. Flipping the large wasteland omelet she made big enough to feed all five of them, Jen took a step back and grab a bottle of sunset sarsaparilla from the fridge.
"How bad is the damage?" She asked Samantha who was currently working on ED-E at the work bench.
Turning off her pre-war plasma cutter, Sam lift up her modified hockey mask that she was using to shield her eyes from plasma cutter's intense light. "Not as bad as I thought. Some of his hardware was fried by the pulse grenade. But most of the parts can be easily replaced by spare electronics that are very plenty here in New Vegas."
"Well that's good. Although, I get the feeling that ED-E is doing better than your boyfriend at the moment.
Immediately both women started laughing, before quieting themselves down. For Arcade was still sleeping on her couch, with Rex waiting outside there apartment. Currently Tristan, Hawke, and Charles were outside walking around Novac, with Tristan attempting to get to know Sam's boyfriend better.
"I just hope Tristan doesn't torture him too much,"she said with a painfully expression across her face.
Smiling back at her, Jen flipped the omelet once again. "Your his sister...he's just trying to look out for you."
"I know, I know. And trust me Jen, it means a lot to me. Ever since we first met Tristan's always watched out for me. While I can take care of myself,"she added by tapping her modified plasma pistol,"it's nice to know that I have a brother who would do anything for me."
Taking the omelet of the burner, Jennifer gave her sister in law an amused look. "I have never meant anyone like your brother before. He has that unique ability to make you believe, even when the odds are stacked against you. I can't tell you how many times I found myself doubting whether we would make it back alive. But then...Tristan always finds away."
Chuckling, Sam took off her hockey mask and sat down at the dinning room table. "What's so funny Sam?"
"You really don't know what drives him to do that?"
Jen shook her head. "Not really?"
"It's his will and desire to protect his family, his friends, his country, and more importantly...you. Ever since we were kids my brother always wanted to find his place in this hellish world. While he was one to never to start a fight, he wouldn't shy away from one either. Men like Tristan need a strong and it not stronger woman behind them or else they are destined to fall. I have no doubt that if you weren't in his life, that he wouldn't be the person he is today,"she finished saying with a serious look on her face.
Grinning back at her, Jennifer began placing 5 portions of the omelet on each of there separate plates. Sitting across from her, she drank deeply from her sunset bottle. "So enough talk about my husband. How did you meet Charles?"
Chuckling, Sam took a small bite of her omelet. "I have know him ever since my training at the Boneyard. Back then I thought he was a bit of an ass, coming from a wealthy water merchant family. But over time I realized he was nothing like his upbringing. When I got my transfer to New Vegas he was assigned to the Hub. Keeping touch all this time, I found myself missing him terribly. Well 2 months ago, Julie told us they were bringing in some new doctors to combat the growing problems inside Freeside. Immediately Charles jumped on the idea, and as soon as he arrived we started dating."
"Do you love him?"
Choking on her food, Jen was about to get up and help her but stopped when Samantha raised her hand. Pounding briefly on her chest, Sam took a quick swig of her purified water. "Sorry about that. You just got me off guard."
"You still haven't answered my question Miss Walker?"
Slowly a smile smile started appearing on her face, before she nodded her head. "Yes, I believe I do. Granted...Charles is the first boyfriend I ever had. I was so busy studying and making sure I could learn as much as I could, my personal life was left behind. So for now I want to take things slow. And whose knows... maybe I will find myself getting married."
Suddenly the loud barking of Rex and Hawke made Arcade sit up. "What happen?"
Looking towards the door, they watched it open slowly with Charles, Hawke, and finally her husband coming inside before closing the door once again.
"So how was your walk sweetheart?"
"Productive and uneventful,"he said by tacking off his duster and giving her a quick kiss before taking his seat beside her.
Yawning, Arcade made his way over to the table to join everyone else. "It looks delicious Mrs. Walker,"added Charles who gave her a small smile before turning his attention back on his food once more.
Leaning back in her chair, Jen put her hand on Tristan's shoulder. "What did you say to him?"
"Nothing, just some guy talk you know,"he added by grinning at her before leaning in close to her ear,"although I might have mention something about removing his balls if he ever hurt my sister."
Rolling her eyes, Jen shook her head at him. Giving her a innocent look, she reached out and playfully smacked his arm. Bringing her attention back to her meal, Jen was glad to know some things would never change.
A/N: This is my second fallout story, the first one was called Dragon Knights so hopefully if you liked that you will like this one. I will try to get new chapters out every 2 weeks or earlier. If you want to review or offer help I am always willing to listen. I can take criticism too, I promise.