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As militia, recruits, Trudy and the prisoners now wearing the explosive collars found at the bison. Walked up the road from the skydiving school. Sunny and Terry both notice every one of the power poles are gone. Looking around as they work their way up the small hill just outside of town they are startled to see just past the town sign a log fort has appeared on either side of the road with the long camper that was behind the truck opposite of the saloon has been laid across the street its siding removed to form an improvised gate. On either side of the bunker stretching into the distance was more poles wrapped and stacked three high.
As they approached four of the seven remanding defense force members that remained to protect the town came out of the bunkers cheering loudly at the line stopping when they noticed the collars. Terry and summer chuckled to themselves as they met up with Jessica a great hunter that had been chosen as the at home commander of the guard while either I or sunny is away. "Hey Jessie, ran into some trouble short of the skydiving school. No worries though got a couple of guys and gals more than willing to work to help us out."
Sunny looked at the four guardsmen weapons a pair of single shotguns a 10mm pistol and a Varmit rifle all of them in bad shape setting her bag of loot down as she spoke "We took the chance while in primm to not only recruit these six guys and gals but to also give the bison a through look over despite the NCR saying they got anything of value out." Pulling a pair of trail carbines out she traded them to the pair with shotguns giving them a pack of fifty .45 rounds as well as a pair of 9mm pistols with another fifty rounds for them giving the other two a pair of lever action shotguns with thirty shells and a 10mm with thirty rounds. The militia both startled and grateful to be better armed and supplied both ran back to their guard post as jess sunny and Trudy walked in bringing the rest of the prisoners with them. Glancing back Terry was amused to see the former raiders look at wonder as the town came into view.
A lot of work had been done in the last four days the two skeletal remains of houses were gone and in their place was an enlarged farm and animal pin the two broken windmills were repaired and back to producing electricity and pulling water up from the underground spring that gave the town its name. looking around sunny picked one of the intact houses in front of the old school house nodding with her head to jess "how about we make that house into a town jail for the time being." Looking at the house terry agreed. "It's a two bed one bath house with a large front room plenty of room for the six of them with the militia back and bigger we will have three armed guards stand watch.
As the prisoners carrying their meager possessions walked in "Bobby, David and Beagle." Terry said commanding voice "as your first duty as a militiamen of Goodsprings you'll take the first nights guard duty." Looking at the three men and their weapons each of them had a 9mm on their hips, bobby had his bloody crowbar across his back. David had the 10mm SMG cradled in the crook of his arm. Beagle had a bolt action rifle with his murdered brother's name on the wooden butt. Leaving them at the house Terry, Sunny and Jess continued to back up the road back to the gas station they had decided to make the militia barracks and armory.
As they approached the station the last member of the Militia. A dedicated town only member because he was too old to go on long journeys Easy Pete greeted them as they approached "Howdy" eyeing their heavy load "looks like ol'Primm was gud to ya. Got some guds for the armory?" Nodding "we got quite a collection as the three of them walked in Pete whistled at the small rack of guns laid before him: eight rifles of various kinds a pair of 10mm SMGs and seven pistols. Sunny also told the dumbfound Pete we also found quite a few rounds of ammo." setting the three large tool boxes on the counter "surprise" she said as we unlatched and opened them. "We didn't get a exact count but there is about two hundred or so for everything" Pete looked at the two in wonder as they started sorting the guns and ammo to the appropriate shelves.
As they worked they also told Pete weapons and bullets were not the only thing they brought back skimming over the events in Primm and the way back The new weapons covering the dozen guns the town had before making it feel like a true armory now. As they bid Pete a see ya they headed out to deliver the rest of what they had brought.
Doc Mitchell greeted them when he answered the door ushering them inside. "well howdy there, I didn't expect to see you two again so soon what can I do to help you?" Terry and Sunny look at each other "Well" Terry starts "its more like what we can do for you doc." Confused the doc looks at both of them as Sunny hands him a tool box smiling as he opens it. "in Primm we found quite a bit of useful salvage after selling most of it to the Nash's we bought as many meds as they would witch wasn't a whole lot but being the towns doctor and with so few traders coming out this far you must be running low. He looked inside revealing fourteen stimpacks, ten bottles of Rad-away and three Rad-x as well as five medical books in excellent shape "the books we found after doing a good look over the bison in Primm. We also found almost a hundred others we sent three of the people we brought back with us to the school house with them."
The old doctor and co leader was on the verge of tears as he hugged them both "thank you for the medicine and the books we didn't even think of you trying to get stuff we so desperately need we were more concerned with needing more people." He jumped as he wiped away the water at his eyes coughing as he remembered the reason they had left in the first place. "Speaking of which did you find anyone who wanted to immigrate here?" chuckling they both nodded "we found six people three that could help the town and three volunteers for the Militia." Terry began as Sunny continues "We also found a lot of salvage in Primm and to and from we already dropped off the books as we said. The weapons and ammo we found and bought as well as uhh… found." Chris chuckled at her as he filled in the curious looking doctor "We ran into some raiders that had planned to ambush us down by the old skydiving school…" he was quick to add at the concerned look that appeared "five of theirs dead 6 captured, none on our side." After reassuring the good doctor they were fine they headed to their last stop before finally being able to get some rest.
They headed to the water bottling house they had set up in the house across the street from the saloon before they left now with a dozen large drums set up beside the house. Inside the night shift of water bottlers were at work when they walked in. "hey Sarah hi Jim how's ya'lls night going?" Sunny asked I waved Sarah waved back as she answered "nice and cool much better than during the day" motioning around at the dozens of crates with beer, whisky, wine, sarsaparilla and Nuka bottles all filled with clean cool water. "we are almost out of bottles of any kind I can't believe no one thought of going this before. We are going to be rich selling all this water." As Sunny and Terry carefully set the backpacks and duffle bags they had been carrying down the clinked with bottles moving around "turns out no one in Primm even thought of this there were hundreds just laying around we grabbed a few and don't worry that's the first thing on our list tomorrow." Sunny yawned causing a chain reaction as Terry finished "but first we are beat have a good night" they turned waving as they left.
Moving without thinking they both stumbled back to the house the day shift militia was sharing. "today was a good day Sunny you did great." Sunny looked at him and he could hear the tired smile in her voice "yes it was everyone did great." As they opened the door the days events flashed before their eyes making them even more tired as they headed to the left bedrooms. Not even bothering to take their clothes off they stumbled to the beds and fell into them asleep before they landed.