Chapter 7.
"Speaking", 'Thoughts', 'Writing', (A/N: Authors Note).
Disclaimer: I do not own My Hero Academia or Fallout New Vegas; they belong to Kōhei Horikoshi and Obsidian Entertainment/Bethesda respectively.
Six slowly comes to, groaning lowly as she does before hissing sharply in pain. She opened her eyes and through her helmet she could only see concrete and feel something impaled in her right thigh. From the feel of it, it was a little over a half inch in diameter and had ribs on it, giving her the impression that she had a piece of rebar in her thigh.
"God damn it." She whispered to herself through clenched teeth. She was thankful to have her mask on to prevent any dust getting in her lungs. The waster tried moving her arms but found that they could move only a few inches. But a few inches were all she needed to activate her so called power, Six pushed the pads of her fingers against the concrete and focused, causing them to begin floating slowly, Six pushed the pieces aside, doing the same to the many other pieces pinning her. Soon enough she was able to sit up, Six then pushed her hands together and deactivated the zero gravity that affected the rubble that previously covered her, making them fall to the ground with a clatter. She then turned her attention to her thigh, turns out that she was right, it was indeed a piece of rebar that jutted from her thigh, her lifeblood on the dust covered ground, mixing with it and creating a rust colored mud. A good foot and a half of the metal rod went through her right thigh before stopping.
Six let out a low hiss at the pain, it wasn't the worst that she'd felt, hell, this wasn't even the first time that this had happened. Six raised her PIP-Boy and pulled up the stats window, showing, surprise-surprise, that her right leg was crippled. Six went to her inventory and pulled out a syringe of Med-X, which she injected into herself to dull the pain. The veteran waster took in a deep breath before activating her power on her body and literally pulling herself off of the piece of steel; as soon as she was off, Six deactivated her quirk, making her fall to the ground with a thud and a curse. Six quickly pulled out a Stimpak and injecting it above the affected area, letting out a groan of relief when the rather large puncture wound began closing. It wouldn't heal fully until tomorrow, but walking with a small limp was better than walking with an open wound. Six looked around, spotting her Anti-Material rifle among the rubble, she ran over and pulled it out, looking it over. Silently, she pulled back the bolt, checking to make sure it had ammo, nodding once she saw that it did.
There was a slight shudder as the rubble around the waster shifted, coming to a new resting place. Six readies her rifle, limping around to the edge of the pile, towards the street, hoping to get eyes on her allies. She slowly moves over to a small outcropping of concrete debris, crawling prone up it. Once she peered over she saw the masked man in the suit. The man, which Six now dubbed 'Mister Fugly,' was floating above the injured and most likely unconscious forms of the pro-heroes and some of the general Riot Squad. She propped up her rifle onto a piece of concrete, lining up his head in her sights. Six hesitated for one moment as she saw him monologuing at the injured Best Jeanist, remembering the Riot Commander's instructions to go for non-lethal take downs on any non-Nomu targets. In her moment of hesitation, Mister Fugly raised up his arm and the red light that surrounded him before returned. He fired off a more toned-down blast than before, hitting Best Jeanist in his torso, sending up a spray of blood. Six froze as she saw the red mist appear from Best Jeanist, most likely killing him. She glowered at the man, pulling back the bolt on her rifle quietly, loading Armor Piercing-High Explosive rounds into her gun. She would have a steel calm about her, giving the bastard in her sights a frigid gaze full of malice. While the rounds she loaded were considered antiquated for anti-armor purposes, they were still good against infantry in her books, with the round normally first entering the body of a person, and then detonating a split second after. Six then placed her finger on the trigger of her rifle, ignoring the strange deep green liquid that spewed forth multiple people, she only focused on getting the perfect shot on the bastard. Said bastard had turned from her associate and landed on the ground and was now talking to who she dimly recalled was Bakugo Katsuki, the VIP of the hostage rescue. She didn't give the teen a second thought as she pulled the trigger, sending a .50 caliber bullet into the head of the fucker who massacred the pro-heroes and police officers surrounding her. The people surrounding him quickly covered their ears as the supersonic projectile hurtled itself towards its target. Defying all laws of physics, the man before her zipped a hand up and caught the bullet, regarding it for a split second with a chuckle, before the bullet exploded in his hands, causing the bastard to flinch slightly and the nearby people to duck.
Six's eyes widened in shock, what he did should not have been possible. She had him dead to rights, but somehow, he caught the bullet, and even the explosive charge only made him flinch. She smoothly pulled the bolt on her rifle back, cycled in a new round, and fired again. The bastard merely flicked his arm and deflected the projectile, the other people around him recovering from the initial shock and frantically scanned the area, looking for the shooter.
Uraraka swore lowly to herself and breaking her line of sight on the group, sliding down the pile of rubble back onto the street. Seeing that she'd be useless at a distance, Six digitized her Anti-Material Rifle and summoned forth her Riot Shotgun and Flare Gun, deciding to load Beanbag rounds into her shotgun due to the standing order to not kill any villains coming back into her mind; after all, Beanbag rounds aren't supposed to be lethal, but if anything happened to go wrong, she couldn't be blamed. She stood and moved through the rubble towards the group of villains, planning on firing off her Flare Gun to alert any nearby police of heroes where the bad guys were.
She halted at the last bit of cover she could find before going out into the open an into the sight of the villains. Six glanced down at her compass, seeing where exactly each of the villains, as well as the student hostage, were. She never quite understood how her PIP-Boy determined what was and what wasn't openly hostile to her, but she never looked a gift horse in the mouth. She retrieved a Flashbang from her PIP-Boy and mentally judged where to throw it to get the most effect out of it without doing permanent harm to Katsuki. She pulled the pin on the grenade and threw it over the cover, simultaneously firing a flare into the air.
A loud bang was heard on the other side of her cover, followed shortly by the panicked exclamations of the Villains, though she also heard subsequent explosions of a more traditional nature. Six sprinted around the corner, her Riot Shotgun at the ready, seeing Mister Fugly still up and apparently unaffected by the Flashbang; another still up was the kid, though he was squinting heavily. Fugly reached to grab Bakugo, but Six shot his arm with her shotgun, the man recoiling slightly as the Beanbag most likely left a nasty bruise.
"Don't forget about me." She said in English, mentally realizing that her voice modulator was off. "IF YOU CAN STILL HEAR ME KID, GET THE HELL OUTA HERE!" She shouted at the top of her lungs at the student.
"So, I see they conscripted an American to help with retrieving the child. Am I correct to assume that you were the one behind that quite annoying delayed-fuze round?" The well-dressed villain asked in English. His entire speech pattern reminded Six of the two groups of people she hated the most, politicians and entitled mobsters who think that wearing trench coats makes them effective.
Six remained silent, keeping her gun trained on him, swearing to herself as she noticed that the other baddies were recovering from the Flashbang, and were preventing Katsuki from escaping. "What? No clever remark from the American? That's new." Stated the man with a low chuckle, Six glaring icicles at him as he spoke. "Well, if you don't have anything to say, I might as well get thi-" He was interrupted by another Beanbag round hitting him in the chest, apparently unable to pull off the bullet catching trick at this range. "I see how it is then." He stated, raising up his arm, the red lightning appearing once more as his arm swelled. The Courier sprinted to cover, all the while emptying her drum into the villain, the non-lethal ammunition apparently not even tearing his suit. She ducked down behind a conveniently overturned Armored Car just as he let loose his wind-shot attack.
Six's cover was pushed back a couple meters, knocking the veteran waster down. She quickly recovered, swapping her magazine from the Beanbag rounds to the slightly more lethal Pulse Slugs. While that ammunition was more effective against Power Armor users and Robots, she hoped that the large projectile in combination with the electricity would stagger the man, if not outright injure him. She peaked around the car and opened fire. The Pulse Slugs had less than desirable effects, but more useful than the Beanbags. Mister Fugly recoiled lightly and his muscles tensed slightly with each impact of the slow, electrified, slugs.
Six had to dive for cover once more as the large Villain once again charged up his wind-shot attack. Though due to her constant fire, it went wide and hit a large pile of concrete rubble, sending smaller chunks flying everywhere. Six was about to continue firing, but she was interrupted by a Blue and yellow blur landing in between her and the main villain, reinforcements had arrived.
I LIVE! Sorry for taking 8 months to update this, even if it might not be very satisfying as I left off on a cliffhanger again, man am I evil. But here you go, more content for ya'll. I also decided to draw up what all Six has on her currently, meaning at the time of the chapter's end. Also, Six will be OP for her universe, and based on how I'm having this go, she'll be able to most likely beat anyone without her quirk, with some exceptions based on circumstance.
Courier Six's Weapons and Equipment:
Elite Riot Gear, Remnant's Tesla Armor, Stealth Suit Mk II, Mercenary Wanderer Outfit, Vera's Outfit, Aviator Sunglasses, Rebreather, Ulysses' Mask.
Riot Shotgun, Lever-Action Shotgun, Medicine Stick, Anti-Material Rifle, Ranger Sequoia, Mysterious Magnum, That Gun, Maria, A Light Shining In Darkness, Shoulder Mounted Machine Gun, YCS/186 Gauss Rifle, Holorifle, Compliance Regulator, Flare Gun, Grenade Launcher, Chance's Knife, Blood-Nap, Oh Baby!, Gladius, Ripper, Brass Knuckles.
Satchel Charges (10), Detonator, Flashbang (19), Frag Grenade (10), Frag Mine (5), Plasma Grenade (5), Plasma Mines (3)
273.5 lbs of Armor & Weapons, 15 lbs of Misc, 21.5 lbs of Ammo
310/350 lbs total.
But anyways, feel free to leave criticism, roast me, threaten my life, or anything else along those lines.
Sayonara readers, Gamenian out.