Stealth
All characters are mine, the highly dangerous Zeals are mine, all the rest belong to the people at Fallout
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Chapter Two: Stealth
"They can't survive, they're too young. We could take them back with us and train them."
"Attempts at training these animals usually fail rather than succeed."
"You know, they could be radiated and poisoning us right now."
"Or this is wasting our time and we should just shoot them and get on our way." The first three platoon members turned to the fourth.
"Stealth, I know there's a heart buried somewhere under that amour."
"Not for as long as I can remember." Stealth responded.
To platoon 011, Junior Paladin Stealth was a mystery. No one
knew her past or what motivated her, one could never see a trace of happiness in her features or any other emotion for that matter. She could easily be mistaken for some biomechanical robot who wore a constant scowl on her face.
Stealth herself did feel emotions; she just chose not to show it. The only people she was comfortable enough to show them to were her best friend and fellow squad member, Junior Paladin Geoffrey Leroy, and also Senior Scribe Almond Barron, who had raised her.
"What's the hold up?" Squad leader, Paladin Jackson asked, coming up to the four soldiers standing around. He spotted the litter of Zeal cubs and nodded. Zeals were around the top of the animal food chain in the wastelands. They were large dog like creatures, the size of horses. They had jaws that could crush a man's head, and were immune to most of the deadly poisons the other predatory creatures used as natural weapons.
"Let me guess. Jenkins wants to bring them back to the base. Garson and Randal being the typical fence sitters don't know what to think and Stealth, wants to dispose of them."
Jenkins smiled. "You know us to well." It was generally frowned upon to have relationships within ranks of the Brotherhood of Steel, but Stealth really didn't care. As long as it didn't get in the way of efficiency.
"Your orders with the cubs, sir." Stealth said, interrupting the two warriors.
"Put them in the jeep." He said, and walked back to his station at the back of the convoy.