Deathclaw on the Roof

Sarah wiped the sweat off of her brow as she got done clearing out the debris from what used to be a collapsed house so she could make room to build a generator. It has been over a few months since she left the vault, and a lot has happened. Her life at this point might as well become one of those sci-fi post-apocalypse novels that she used to read as a teenager. She was frozen for over two centuries, lost her husband, her son got kidnapped, finding out that the world she knew was gone upon walking out of the vault. Fighting Raiders, Super Mutants, Gunners, and all kinds of post-nuclear monsters the wasteland has to offer. She befriended a dog, a Super Mutant, a mercenary, and an Irish cage fighter. She even tamed an entire pack of deathclaws after returning their egg. She rescued Preston and several people from Concord and started rebuilding the Minutemen. On top of all of that, she found out that her favorite ballpark was turned into a shanty town.

Well at least Fenway Park or now Diamond City wasn't ruined by Raiders. Sarah thought to herself remembering when she was at Diamond City for the first time.

She and Dogmeat were fighting Super Mutants near Diamond City when it happened. The last thing she remembered was pushing Dogmeat out of the way from a missile which exploded near her, sending her flying towards a building, which knocked her out. When she woke up, she was bandaged in Piper's house. Apparently, Dogmeat finished off the last Super Mutant after Sarah was knocked out, went to find help, and found Piper who then fireman carried her to Diamond City.

I really owe Piper one for that.

Sarah had gotten the parts needed to build the generator out when she heard a roar and a scream. She instinctively put on her deathclaw gauntlet and ran straight to the source of the scream. When she got there, she was greeted by the following scene: her deathclaw Blitz and Marcy are on top of the roof of one the houses, Cait laughing at the sight, Jun, Mama Murphy, Sturges, Preston, and Codsworth were staring at the roof dumbfounded.

"Mum, I don't believe what I'm seeing," said Codsworth

"Alright what happened and how did they get all the way up there?" asked Sarah as she puts away her deathclaw gauntlet

"Well, Blitz suddenly let out a very loud roar and started going crazy," said Sturges

"He was running and slamming himself against some of the houses. Then he ran towards Marcy, started chasing her, and now they're both on the roof." Preston explained

"What Preston said is exactly what happened! Call off your fucking deathclaw and get us both off this damn roof!" shouted Marcy

"Marcy, calm down, she'll get you out of there." Jun turns towards Sarah "Won't you?"

"I don't know, maybe you should just leave her here. She is kind of a bitch," said Cait

Jun has a shocked look on his face. Preston and Sarah give Cait a disapproving glare.

"What?" asked Cait

"Marcy, just sit tight. Let me go get a ladder and I'll get you both down from there." Sarah goes to her old house to go get a ladder

"Ok, but you better hurry up!" Marcy called

Sarah went to the back of her old house, opened the doors that lead to the basement, and entered. Just like the house above, most of the basement is still intact with some damage despite the nuclear war over two centuries earlier.

"As much as I'd like to take Cait's suggestion, I am not leaving her up there." Sarah muttered to herself as she sifts through the basement's clutter to find the ladder

The day the bombs fell, Codsworth was supposed to help her clean out the basement. She was surprised that Codsworth had forgotten about it despite trying to clean up Sanctuary Hills for two centuries. She had almost tripped on a box when she finally found the ladder. She picked it up and went back outside to get Marcy and Blitz off the roof.

She put the ladder in the right position and climbed up to get to Marcy and Blitz. As she was climbing up, she saw Blitz swatting at what appears to be a hornet. The glowing deathclaw let out an irritated growl at the hornet buzzing at him. Sarah stopped when she got close to the roof as the hornet flew past Blitz and Marcy. Sarah watched the hornet as it flew away and once it was gone, she turned her head towards Blitz, who was itching his tail. Sarah got up on the roof and took a look at Blitz's tail which has a hornet sting on the right side of it. Upon inspecting the sting Sarah was able to figure out what caused Blitz to go mad and chase Marcy on the roof. She had to guess that the part where Preston told her about how Blitz slammed himself into some of the houses is Blitz trying to scratch the itch. He must've been chasing after the hornet and Marcy got caught in the crossfire.

"So, all of this over a hornet Blitz?" asked Sarah

Blitz let out a low roar as if he were saying "yes".

"Next time, don't chase people and don't get stuck on the roof if one stings you, okay?"

Blitz grunted at her in agreement.

"Hey everyone, I found out why he went crazy!" Sarah called out to everyone else "His tail got stung by a hornet. He was chasing after it and Marcy got dragged into the chase."

"A hornet?!" Marcy asks in disbelief

"Your deathclaw went crazy because of a hornet?!"

"So, it was just a hornet then?" asked Preston

"Yes Preston, it was a hornet, and no one is turned into deathclaw food," said Sarah

"Whatever, let's just get off the roof." Marcy and Sarah climbed down the ladder to get off the roof

"Blitz, can you get down from there?" Sarah called the deathclaw

Blitz jumped off the roof and, on the ladder, breaking it to pieces. Everyone jumped back when he landed on the ladder and broke it.

"WHOA!" Sturges and Preston exclaimed when Blitz landed

"By jove, that was quite a jump," said Codsworth

"Now that all of that is over with, I'm going to get something to treat Blitz's sting and build a new ladder." Sarah, Codsworth, Cait, and Blitz walk to the direction of Sarah's old house with the intention of going to the basement to see if she has something that would treat the sting and get some building material for a new ladder.

"She might as well be the crazy deathclaw lady." Marcy muttered to herself

Blitz, who overheard her, stuck his snake-like tongue at her before joining Sarah, Cait, and Codsworth.

Author's Note: Fallout is celebrating, it's 25th anniversary this month and so far, I've been playing Fallout 4 and making art of the faction flags which I post on Deviantart. Now I'm adding in a fanfic.