Somewhere in terra
Evacuated town
Dumpster bin at back of grocery store trembles. With some metal hitting sound the dumpster fell and revealing a courier crawling out from the trashes and garbage .
The Courier is wearing a elite riot gear which has old American flag drawn on it at helmet it spells out Courier. and wearing bandoliers that covers most of his chest and waist . Groaing courier gotten up .
He surveys his surroundings
Birds chirping and wind howling through the now ghost town was only sound he heard no traces of human or wild life besides bird in his area. By look of it he is in back alley the atmosphere here is humid definitely not in North.
Thirsty he tries to grab a purified bottle from his backpack but his hand catches air. He instantly checks his back and realizes his backpack was gone and all the camping items, supplies he packed was gone . So as his medical supplies most importantly his stimpacks and emergency only super stimpack . Not to mention his Sniper rifle and assault rifle and submachine gun. Cursing under his breath he checked his bandoliers to make sure his absolute essentials was in place. After rummaging through he was relieved that things in his bandoliers was in place.
He checked his supplies he now had :
3 MRE
6 stimpacks
6 med-x
2 bottle of rad - x
2 emergency rad away
Vault 13 Canteen with purified water
Binoculars
3 30 round mag of 5.56 mm
40 rounds of 307
4 20 rounds mag of .22lr
8 12 rounds mag of .45 apc
24 12 gauge shells
30 45-70 GL rounds
m1911
Sawed off
Ranger's Revolver
Broad Machate
Silenced Pistol hidden
3 combat knifes hidden
small gun maintenance kit
150 bottle caps
3 frag grenades
2 pulse grenades
3 flashbangs
Enough to get him back to his hide out to re supply what was lost. Now first he needs to know where he is and second find the bastard who dumped him in that garbage bin and give him a good old hot lead or even depleted uranium round if he re supplies in his hidey hole . Speaking of re supplying where is he.
looks at his pipboy to check a GPS location
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what. There was nothing . The GPS was at 0 , 0 and map was blank .
Okay Lucky Six think what could possibly cause this
First thing possible to cause this is that his pipboy is malfunctioning
Second thing is his pipboy might be hitting the shelf life
Third thing is his pipboy might be damaged
Fourth thing is The guy who took his backpack and dumped him on dumpster might also broke his pipboy
Fifth thing is Satalites might have fallen from the orbit or got crashed with other junk orbiting earth
Taking a sip from his canteen and walking to entrance of grocery store he started to cross out then possibilities .
First and Second is crossed out since he does regular maintenance on his pipboy was modified to make sure his pipboy to work in rad storm for 24/7
Third can be possible he can do maintenance now but he lacks the tools to do so .
Fourth however makes no sense since his supposes assaulter could've killed him and killing him would be much risk free . Perhaps his assaulter was a automated robot following a routine. Wait how did he even got knocked out he doesn't remember . Will investigate this but not now
Fifth is unlikely but possible scenario and if it is this then most of the Vault Dwellers with no sense of direction might be fucked . Unless Remnants of Enclave or East Brotherhood decides to launch thier Jurry rigged Vault Tech GPS Satalite which he doubts they are interested in . To be honest what's the deal with Enclave remnants flocking to Boston.
Things gotten worse oh well . It happens . Speaking of which Where is he.
Looking at this grocery store he would like to say he is in NCR territory but both climate and distinct lack of NCR propaganda poster and Color scheme says no.
And those NCR Citizens really don't have much reason to abandon a town unless it is a infested with rad scorpion or attacked by pack of death claws led by Elder Deathclaw or attack from Caesar's Legion well Legatus's Legion now it is called
But those are all crossed out since there is no sign of fighting or even looting , seems like it was abounded like week or two ago
Entering the empty grocery store he looked at it and he notices the architecture wasn't same as pre war buildings . It was rigid and blocky . Going through empty metal shelves he inspects the cashier.
By just one glance to cashier he knew this wasn't pre war tech. It is slick and thin unlike pre war designs.
Inspecting it he notices it has black screen to it. And no keyboard present . It must be a similar to those enclave consoles with video feed . He always wanted to study enclave tech but all of it is confiscated by NCR and Brotherhood... well was confiscated by Brotherhood of Steel before losing it all to NCR in later conflicts but that's not the point . What is the point is that he now has one and he needs to find a power source to see if it is colored screen.
Looking around he also goes to the Vending machines by look of it there was 2 more enticated by the darker markings .
Lucky Six inspects the machine and most standing out thing was the blank screen on place where ordering buttons supposed to be
Intelligence 7) By look of it people must have entered command to vending machine
after they entered the currency . But how? perhaps they had something similar to his pipboy to connect? or they sended transmission? It is truly intriguing
Turning the vending machine around he grapped the small weapon maintenance kit he grapped screw driver from it and started to tinker with it
repair 80) After 10 or minutes later he was able to open the Vending machine's storage.
It was quite the process he must admit .
This vending machine wasn't even close to vending machines of pre war era or even San Madeira vending machines. He was able to salvage unfamiliar electronic part .
Luck 6) Opening the storage he was delightful to see 5 colorful bag of chips .
5 bag of chips ! It was brand he was unfamiliar with and by look of it was 3 different brands but it wasn't corroded to time but looked like it was manufactured recently .
He tinkered more and was able to open the cash box . Taking the shinny pennies and some paper money from the cash box he inspects them .
On the pennies it had number arranging from 5 , 10 , 50 with language familiar to English only letters he can make out was a,B,e,y,p,k,m and rest was complete mystery but by the coralanding parallels it can't be that far from English.
Pennies had 5 pointed star behind the numbers.
The cash money had 100 on it however the most standing out thing was the 2 birds back to back on a 5 pointed star. Flipping it over he can see another 100 number and at the left side it has someone's face on it . The clothes it wearing enticates a wealthy person but most supernatural thing was it had 2 round ears on the head . 2 round teddy bear ears nonetheless.
Lucky Six stares at the picture of the cash for a while processing what he is seeing .
He quickly checks the rest of the paper money.
Frigguty fuck ? mentally says to him self
The ears wasn't drawn on it it was forged with the rest of the paper. And yes teddy ears not like those mutated cancerous ears just good old fluffy teddy bear ears.
Alright .
This has to be one with one of wildest things he saw. People with teddy bear ears.
He had around 565 local currency.
He then goes to cashier and proceeds to salvage the screen off . After putting the screen to his extra pouch he grabs the bag of chips. And chooses the blue colored bag with a white onion pieces. He exits the grocey store and surveys the street . Opening the bag of chips he gives a snack a try.
As soon as he takes a bite the sweet goodness of salt and onion registered to his taste bud .
It wasn't dried up salted to every inch jerky or Rotting Cam on pre war shelves and wasn't a sugery mess that was Suger Bomb.
This chips tasted somehow fresh and flavoring wasn't crodden away to time.
The bliss of taste the chips brought to Lucky Six was beautiful.
Where was this snack in all his time in Mojave and road to common wealth. Oh well I found it , and that is the point. wait where was he , ah yes he was in the town.
About the town . It is hard to say a town as there Is no residential area around mostly abounded buildings like empty shops, and tall building alike. With occasional big empty spaces . He decides to take road to left hence that is where buildings start to get denser .
By look of it residents left this place in hurry. Why did they leave? No idea . Maybe some sort of disaster? or perhaps where they forced to leave?
Continuing his walk he takes a turn to see massive crater stretching far and wide.
Lucky Six stops on his tracks . Speechless as he tries to register what he is seeing .
Explosives 25) It is not a bomb there is no scorch marks and the buildings around the blast radius is unharmed
Taking the Binoculars he looks around the edges of the crater . Crater seems like a size of a small lake to medium lake.
Perspective 6 ) Now he paid close attention to cut off of road it seems like it had a detachment mechanism to it and so is the Power Lines , water pipes and sewers
Perspective 8) Looking at ground and the collapsed mountains it seems like the whole land mass was taken away rather violently
And there was no destroyed buildings from the land take off. It is possible that buildings were planned this way . But wh-
survival 95) His guts were feeling something big is coming from South.
Quickly he runs into a nearest tall building about 7 stories tall . The door was locked . He grabs his revolver and smashes the near window. The Glass shadders and Lucky Six continues to smash rest of the glass away
and removes remaing large and small pieces of glasses he climbs through the windows . As soon as his feet touched the ground the remaining glass pieces shadders. Continuing his advance.
By first glance clothing shop. He runs to doors at back and opens hallway going through the hallway he opens more doors till he finds staircase and goes to roof top to get clear view .
Looking at sky Lucky Six saw a largest lighting storm he have seen in his life. And it was approaching the remains of the town with rapid pace. Cursing he surveys through the streets to find a shelter from the storm.
Ahoy the police station and by look of it had below ground structure. That is his shelter . with no time to waste he takes emergency stairs to down . At 2nd floor staircase he kicks down the hanging ladder . Taking the ladder down he quickly runs into a police station .
The Damn thing was locked and he did not had time to lock pick this. Aiming his revolver to lock he shoots it with mighty thunder of 45-70 Gov't round . The lock holding the door to structure violently ripped along with the ballistic opening the door .
Lucky Six quickly runs to through receptionist check and collects a momentum to an door leading to downstairs aka holding cells
Lucky six Hits door with his body with momentum he collected.
Streght 6/8 The sound of something hard hitting a door comes but with no avail door was in one piece.
In panic Lucky six shoots off the lock of the door in similar fashion. With another might thunder of .45-70 the door shambles .
Taking the staircase to holding cell Lucky six calms down a bit. Catching his breath he takes a seat on one of the metal chair behind a table.
By the lord and all the time he spend crossing the wastes that was the most vicious and largest storm He saw. He needs a fully sealed power armor to live through that . Other than that he wasn't even sure anything on surface would survive that.
Relieved carrier takes a look at the Ranger revolver . Mighty good revolver . He took it off from the ambushed NCR Ranger . Hey it is the rule of the wasteland. To leave a good gun laying in the ground that ain't happening . If he was with favor with NCR he would've gave it back but nah. That ain't happening . He is in odds with superiors of the NCR. Those dammed rotten pigs.
The storm hits the the town . The wind was going wild and as the thunder storms . He can hear buildings collapse and occasional explosions . God knows what is causing that.
Damn this is some serious death storm. He wasn't sure nature could produce this but here it is. It can be a old world tech causing this but what are the odds.
Was this what residence Evacuated from? . In week or two advance nonetheless. Damn.
Instantly the windows at end of hallway burst open with it comes heavy rain starting to accumulate in the area . At that moment the pipboy's in build rad detection sparks to life Crackling indicating that there is 100 rad dosage per second the maximum dosage of rads . He never saw this happen before at highest it was 50 rad and that was turning a radstorm . Cursing under his breath Lucky six flips the table and takes a cover while he takes out rad-x to take the pill. ready to inject a rad away when rad poisoning start hitting in droves setting his pipboy to display rad poisoning from his blood stream he prepars for the worst...
... (constant sparkling of rad detector humming)
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1 2 3 5 seconds passes and his blood stream was in perfect condition.
What de frigguty fuck is happening .
medicine 50) He wasn't feeling a sickness so pipboy was properly functioning on blood analysis.
Science 45) The sickly thick green radioactive dust wasn't present so there is no rad in the air so then.
Science 60 7 Intelligence ) Looking at his rad detection on max perhaps it is catching something else than radioactive dust.
On reliev Lucky six relaxes but now his worry was in this mysterious material that is making his rad detection go wild .
And so Lucky Six took a refuge in a basement of the police station in darkness. Waiting for storm to pass away while munching on chips he grapped.
yay my first chapter.