Preface: I've aged everyone up about 2 years because I think its fucking weird that everyone choses high school when they could easily say collage. no disrespect to the creators of rwby but why is ruby 15 at the start of the show and not 17 or 18, it just makes more sense and is way less creepy, plus it's basically treated like collage anyway.
"Every time I've teleported it's been unpleasant."
"When I say that I do mean every, getting sucked into the big empty, using the transportalponder, and ESPECIALLY now after taking a nuke on the chin."
"My name is Yuri but I'm also called and better known as courier six. Some things you should know about me is that I'm 22, I think but that's assuming I was 18 on the day I was shot in the head. I was the mayor of new Vegas until I apparently nuked myself in some last ditch defense protocol that I don't remember making, and while i might not have a good memory considering the magnitude of what happened it seems like I should."
"Anyway that's neither here nor there because right now I'm in a forest that makes Zion look like a sandbox and that would make Joshua cry, so I'm gonna sign of on this log for today"
I sighed as I leaned back on a tree, still shocks me how big they are despite it being a few hours, they stretch on for miles through the night, and only four things are even close to being better looking than them, first is the snow capped mountains to my left, second is the clear blue sea to my right, third is the shining city glowing like a beacon in the distance right ahead of me, and finally the silence from my Geiger counter for the first time I can remember.
"Wow seeing Vegas for the first time was great, but I'll be damned if this ain't first place"
I climb down from the tree I'm sitting in and start wandering towards the city in the distance.
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I haven't seen anything this impressive, except maybe NCR city and that's a far second.
I've got a bag of coins in my hand and after looking through the library and buying some new clothes I'm waiting for a coffee at some café.
Far as I can tell this place didn't go through an apocalypse and instead just have a wildlife problem so by my standards this is paradise, complete with cheap food and water, not that i have much money to buy it with yet.
My current goal is to find a antiques collector to pawn some legion coins to, as ancient artifacts, that or I'll just sell some, based on what I got for the first one for just the gold, the rest should make enough for me to live out the rest of my days in peace with all the coffee i can drink, omelets I can eat, or guns I can shot.
Maybe I could get a formal education, I never was able to get much going in Vegas, still don't know how to do any math past multiplication, might do me good. Then again borous didn't make it seem very enjoyable, then again again he was a fucking nerd and also deserved to get bullied for being an asshole so fuck it I'm doing this.
"Sir your coffee" the waitress puts a coffee down on my table, she's got rabbit ears on which is the first thing that draws my attention, but then again after fisto who am I to judge people for their proclivities.
"Hey I'm sorry if this is rude but are you a hunter?" the waitress asks me, can't understand why I'm wearing a brightly colored purple suit vest, dress shirt, and the most comfortable set of dress pants I've ever been in. All of this would draw attention from animals.
"Well by trade imp a courier but yea I've been a hunter in the past, never for a job though." as I say this she begins to look more excited and I swear I saw her ear twitch. "Do you mind telling me what it was like?" fair question, based on the ears she probably loves animals.
"Well quite frankly it's pretty fun but after a while the more fun part is getting together with friends and comparing numbers." she smiles and seems to consider what I've said " if you want to try it out I'd say go for it, as long as you're sure you can stay safe, nothing worse than getting seriously bitten by something that can throw you around like a pillow in a tornado."
She looks ready to say something when her boss calls from the back, "hey if you want to take your brake you can but don't have a conversation on company time" she looks back and nods before walking back to her station, nice girl, I take a sip of my coffee
Wow this tastes like shit.
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"As far as I can tell all of this places drinks taste like shit, this soda is fizzy for some reason, the coffee is bitter as shit instead of like sweet dirt, and this 'lemonade' stuff is acidic as hell, only good thing they got is is clean pure water and this 'tea' stuff witch is just the coffee I'm used to with the tobacco switched out for different leaves"
"As for food, most of it just crumbles ,crunches, or your teeth go right through it. The meat is softer and better seasoned but, I don't know, something about it feels off, it might just be that I've never liked brahman meat as much as Big-Horner or gecko but it all feels fake and artificial, like pre war packaged food."
"As such I've resorted to omelets which I thank god are still delicious and tea for survival until I can find new recipes I enjoy, Yuri out"
As I switch the log off I turn back to the one room condo I've purchased with the money from just the aureus, keeping the denarius for later sale if I need money. It's probably one of the most comfortable houses I've ever bought, with a single window, a shower with hot and cold water, and even working air conditioning, not even the 38 had that.
Looking at the 'scroll' I bought I go back to research on possible options for higher education I could go into, and so far the options aren't great, it's one place with fairly high requirements like having gone through previous schooling but I'm courier six god damn it, if i can't forge some documents then what good am I, plus I have enough money for some bribes if I need to, and I pull up the tape recorder.
"My plan for the next few days has settled into a proper form, first I need to find a source of revenue outside of selling coins, then i want to find some good recipes and finally find somewhere good to shoot some guns or other entertainment."
First though, I have to "apply" for school
(passage break to indicate the main body of the chapter is over)
COMMENTS
Yeti man: yea I decided to try out this new thing I found out about called subtlety, it turns out I can make a better paced and more enjoyable story if I just imply stuff instead of out right saying it. In all seriousness confused and intrigued is the highest praise i can get so thanks
Disabled-doctor: funny story the name new new new Vegas came from the name of the old version of this story new new Vegas which was a placeholder that just kind of stuck
: don't worry six will show up eventually
Finally the chapters main characters will be organized as follows for the first arc i have planed sorry if this one was mostly filler but it sets up for later stuff
Chapter 2 Yuri
Chapters 3-5 Jessica
Chapter 6 Yuri
Chapters 7-9 Jessica
Chapter 10 Yuri
Chapters 11-13 Magnus
Chapter 14 Yuri
Chapters 15-17 Magnus
Chapter 18 Yuri
Chapters 19 -21 Cinder
Chapter 22 Yuri
Chapters 23-25 Cinder
Thank you for reading and have a wonderful day