Chapter 10- Old world glory

The Commonwealth southern borders exploded and the thundering sound echoed across the land. A burning wreckage of a building glowed with fire and in front of it stood a coated man with a thin face and thick-rimmed glasses. On his hip hanged an ominous jar with the look of a closed lantern.

111 watched the rogue robot factory burn and his mind marked the end of the major parts of this machine uprising. The bodies of synth's and regular machines littered the area, scorched by energy weapons and blow apart by ballistics. He had no pity for the machine who obtained free, this world is far too small for any more self-destructive people.

"Well, that was taken care of." 111 said chipperly. He looked to his side were a marine stood. "I guess it's time to move on to the next thing in my agenda. So tell me, what is on my list."

Without saying a word the marine reached into his satchel and pulled out a clipboard. He looks over it, seeing dozens of finished objectives. He pulled out a pen and underlined a bullet point, then handed to 111. He took it and saw what it was.

*Tame a dragon for six.

111 smiled and handed the board back to his trooper. "Ah yes, I remember we just finished the mind control device for 6's a little time back. Very well, get the 12th, 32nd, and 44th ready to pass through the teleporter. From the synths we planted with the Japanese, it seems that thing is going poorly." 111 Knew that it would go belly up. He wasn't a man of faith but understood that six was an exception to that rule and understood thing would become a cluster fuck soon enough. Sure the courier would come back better than ever, that's just how he worked. But a small army will still be welcomed. They certainly weren't needed here anyway.

He turned and walked on to the verti-bird that was waiting for him.

[Japanese 1st Gate]

The courier was giving a quick once over on some documents from the NCR. Well, they were for his brother back home but he sent them to him. Hks little bro feel like it is better for him to decide what to do. They were offers of aid, troops, supplies, and manpower. In return, they want plots of land themselves for resources. He chuckled at that. It would be-be quite a gift for them and to smooth thing with his neighbor would be… good. He doesn't really hate them either, sure they do hate him for taking chunks of their territory and backstabbing them. He had to think this one over. The aid was needed and it will smooth thing over with them, on the other they are quite incompetent and he didn't know if this was some ploy to sucker punch him later. He'll make up his mind after the talks, that way he'll be able to plan around the outcome.

He sat up and walked out his tent, ignoring a package on his bed and with a skip in his step, singing a merry tune. He wouldn't need the NCR help later, these people seem reasonable. His agents and moles planted here told him all about the Japanese intention for a war of pure self-defense. They had no intention to grab any land or destabilize the empire. Better yet, Lucy is moving to deal with any empire forces harassing their borders and to get him a special surprise afterward. He stopped when he felt his spine tingle again. He knew how it was attempting to heal something that was already healed a while ago. It was disturbing but he let it fester in the back of his mind, he had work to do. Six moved on.

He met up with Sergeant and smile. The former was in his new power armor while the latter was in a deathclaw sized suit. It was tailor-made for him to look a bit more approachable, he even had a tiny top hat planted on his massive horned head.

"What's the dig guys." The courier asked.

Smile's looked at six and his usual gear, the stealth suit mark 3 and the cowl. "You know we're heading towards a civilian area." The deathclaw said unamused at the sight of his leader in combat gear.

"So? They still have crooks and lowlifes." The courier said plainly.

"Their entire city has an extensive police force. They have a military station near the gate and most importantly of all. You. Have. Bodyguards. Go and change before we are at risk of being late or risk starting a war." Smile's told the courier.

"Fine Mom!" Six said in a huff.

It didn't take long for the co-leader of new vegas to return. He was dress in a light navy suit with a bolo tie and night stalker skin suit. "You happy now, I put on the clothes that you put on my bed."

"Yup, let's go." Smile told the courier.

Serg looked at six and was quiet for a while until he spoke. "Nice shoes cowboy," He said mocking the courier.

"Shut up." Six said embarrassed.

They walked to the meeting point and found multiple jeeps, each one with them inviting diplomats of his nation in. A particularly large one had their name on it, well a formal dress man with a sign did. They walk inside the large jeep. Truck? Six had no idea, it was too in the middle for him to know. He did find a pleasant surprise of finding the princess with him, but she had two more people with her. An elf looking girl and a wizard kid with a staff. They, in turn, stared back at him and the deathclaw who was in the front. It was a bit awkward for six to be like this, so he decided to defuse it.

"So… Princess, who your new friends." The courier said in an attempt to seem friendly.

The redhead just looked at the courier for a while, a bit confused at his friendly attitude. "Excuse me, but you seem a little familiar, have we met?" She said in a sweet friendly voice.

"I'm the guy who is invading you. You know, I where big green eye's." Six said.

Pina's face turned to horror and her hands moved to cuddle herself. "W-What! But your human!"

Then it clicked for six. "Right, I forgot I was pretending to be a demon king and stuff."

"No that's wrong, you command hell knights, you shoot red fire from hell, you're commanding a massive demon right now." Pina said point a finger to smiles.

Pointy ears and kid wizard gained the same expression as the princess. Six crossed his arms and gave her the once-over. "It's all tech, like the Japanese."

Pina seemed both embarrassed and disappointed. She sat back down defeated. Then a man with a clipboard and a military uniform appeared alongside with a vegas trooper. "Alright, this is a last minute checkup. If you hold and firearms on your person, please hand them to vegas soldier." The Japanese man said in a monotone voice.

The courier just looked away, pretending as if he had no business with the man. Smile's growled and looked at six. "That includes you." The deathclaw told six.

Pointy ears and wizard girl reacted surprise again. The courier just rolled his eyes and pulled out several different guns, explosive, energy weapons, knives, brass knuckles, his massive fist of the north rawr, and a ninja sword. Everyone looked at Six with slack jaws. The courier just pulled out two hundred pounds of weapons and ammo from his pocket and looked like it was normal to have your suit defy the rules of physics. Six just looked at them and told them one thing. "Trade secret."

It didn't stop the blue from speaking to six. "Do you understand our tongue?" She asked and the courier nodded.

Her face was now blank, studying his every aspect. "I wish to understand why the princess said you use the magic she described. I have a mild understanding of how the Men in green tools but none of them do what yours are said to do. If the princess is telling the truth."

The courier didn't like the fact the Japanese were getting their own experts in magic and even less on them teaching them about their tech. Still he might be able to take her for himself, if he was smart. The doors slammed shut and the vehicle jerked forwards. Six looked at the girl and acted as if he was thinking. "It's a bit much to be explained right now. For now, I'll just say that any technology sufficiently advanced enough is indistinguishable from magic." Six said with a showman smile.

Little blue still needed a little more explanation. "I don't understand what you mean."

Six crossed his arms and kept the smile. "It's a quote, I don't know where from. The gist is simple, technology will be made easier to use and will bend more laws to your will. Until one day you wave your hand and…" The courier waved his hand and the hyperbreeder appeared from thin air. "Your dreams come true."

Smiles did the opposite of his namesake and frowned. "Really Six, You used a stealth boy to sneak in your prototype recharger pistol."

Six hid his gun with a flare. "Better not need it and have it, then need it and not."

The deathclaw just shook his head in disapproval. Six looked back at the girl who didn't understand a word that smiles and six said. Still, she was wide-eyed and curious. He knew he had her hooked and he would capitalize on that when the time came. For now, he enjoyed the ride as they entered the deep black tunnel. For a solid minute, they waited. Everyone wanted to see the home of these people and when they saw a light at the end of the tunnel, hearts skipped beats. In an instance, they saw everything that made the dream of the old world worth risking nuclear hell. The buildings were huge and the streets clean from any rubble. The sight of old world glory struck the gate natives in the mind and the walkers of the apocalypse deep in their hearts. Pina and everyone like her marveled sight of might towers of glass and stone. To six and the rest, they felt a bit of jealousy. Even all the work was done to new vegas and it's town, it still had the scars marked on the outside. These buildings were almost brand new, untouched by time and kept pristine by maintenance and a lack of a nuclear war.

With beating footsteps they walked into a checkpoint and after some formality's, they met the world. They saw hundreds, if not thousands of people being held back by barriers. Six could see dozens of reporters, civ, and what he guesses are police holding the crowd back. Behind them were more giant buildings with windows full of pristine products and unmutated foods stuff. The reactions of the group, even the wastelanders was awe. These same faces could be seen on the civilians of the world as well. They saw the beautiful elf girl and the flesh and blood princess walk amongst them, only ever dreamed of in writing. But who grabbed the most attention was Smiles, the giant deathclaw looked like a demon from hell that dressed sharply. Still, the twelve foot tall genetically engineer lizard waved and gave a friendly toothy smile. It didn't help him at all.

"Easy there bud. They never saw someone with a mug like yours." Serg told smiles.

"Heh, I know but still, some of those kids have stick hands and they look like I'm sort of petting zoo." Smile said in a trembling voice.

"You're half a ton of ass-kicking muscle and claw. You have no right to be afraid of kids." Serg said sarcastically.

"Funny, anytime I hear a woman say you have kids, you run like your ass is on fire." Smiles chastised.

At that, the sergeant stayed quite. Six, on the other hand, noticed a few faces that were gruffer than the others and had the features of indifference. A chill ran up his spine as he knew what that meant, hired assassins. He speed walked next to the sergeant and tapped him in a pattern of 1-2-1-2. He understood the gesture and maintain his pace. He moved and gave smiles the same signal.

"So, how do like the locals." Smiles asked Six.

"They seem like a fine bunch of people. A few seem rough around the edges, a little off-putting even but nothing that seems dangerous. Still, we know very little of them, for all we know they might shoot lasers out of their eyeballs or something. All I can say for sure is that they seem normal compared to us." Six told smiles.

"I'm sure we can impress them with our skills." Smiles said.

"Let me do the talking, you can sit back and have them enchanted by your beautiful face." They bunch of them moved on and the encryption message sent. They understand who we are facing but not how many. Still, he hopes that smiles can stay out of any fighting. For the sake of his image and the assassins who didn't understand who they were dealing with.

They moved on until they stopped in at a row pearly white buildings. All of them was a marvel to be seen by the newcomers. Some of these building were architectural wonders to the children of the empire. But the sons and daughters of the waste see it as a fairy tale come true, as the old world came to life before their eyes. They walked up the stairs and looked at the various faces of people who never seen combat and never experience terrifying survival. Makeup, a rare commodity for both parity from beyond the gate. They walked through the double doors made of wood untouched by radiation. An image taken from pre-war pictures was now in front of everyone from new vegas.

They entered the building walked through their halls until they entered a massive room for the meeting of the three nations. It was as if the capital wasteland turned back the clock and showed it old splendor. Here would be where they would lay their cards on the table and let the fate of the nations begin.

The representative of the empire sat in one side and lords of new vegas sat on the other. In the middle of it was the Japanese and rows upon rows of people in suits. Six made a closer inspection and saw that some of them were not Asian but people from all around the globe. He saw people from Russia, England, Africa and even America. Still, he didn't see anyone fromChinaa, he did find it for the best as the last time China interacted with old America, it ending in hellfire. The courier felt tense as the audience of billions of people watched him. He released when the chairman of the meeting started the game of diplomacy.

If you hate me for this cliffhanger, then I understand. The only excuse I can give is that I need to think up how the meeting would go but I can't stop thinking about my second fic. It's a sorta writers itch and I didn't want you to wait for a 4k long chapter for weeks. So instead of powering through, I'll just go with the flow of my mind. Still, I hope you enjoy what's there.

I do have one question for any of you willing to answer. What do you think about fight scenes in writing? Do like a lot of detail or prefer it to be open to the imagination. Are they better longer or should they just take a paragraph at most? I feel like that's the area that I have the most trouble with and can sometimes take hours to write.

Thank you for your time and support.