AN: Welcome back to Fallout: Unforgotten.

As thanks for getting rid of the Nightkin Manny set Amata up with a room in the Dino Dee-lite Motel. She had to admit it was one of the better places to spend a night at. Amata didn't bother setting the alarm on her Pip-boy as she decided she'd need all the sleep she could get. When she awoke she could see the sunlight shining through the boarded up window in her room, a glance at her pip-boy told her that it was close to noon. With a sigh she urged herself to get up and get ready. When she stepped outside she was half expecting the Courier to be outside leaning against the wall with a cigarette in his mouth, but today seemed to be the exception as he was nowhere to be seen.

'So where did that idiot go?' Amata thought, she suddenly retracted the thought. As she was heading out of town Manny called down to her from his perch in the Dinky the Dino's mouth.

"Hey thanks again, it's good to see that not everyone has become assholes." He yelled.

"I'll take that as a compliment." Amata called back.

"Hey you should head to the 188 trading post, just follow the road. From there it's pretty much a straight shot to New Vegas more or less." Manny informed her.

"Wait, how do you know I'm heading to New Vegas?" Amata asked.

"Three weeks ago a guy comes into town asking for directions to 'The city of Lights'. Had a pip-boy on his arm much like yours, doesn't take a genius kid." Manny answered.

Amata couldn't believe it, The Lone Wanderer had been through this very town! She had never given it any thought of asking if anyone had seen him.

"Soon after word comes up from the NCR Ranger Station that their barricade been blown to hell, it's not rocket science to connect the two." Manny added.

"Any reason why he would do such a thing?" Amata asked.

"I figured you're better off asking him that yourself." Manny reasoned.

'Touché' Amata thought, she bid farewell to Manny as she started on her way, heading down the long road ahead of her, with more questions than answers. The sun had started it's decent but was still high in the sky meaning that noon had come and gone. There was dirt and sand as far as the eye could see with only a few ruined buildings dotting the landscape. The wind started to pick up causing Amata to squint her eyes to reduce the amount of sand and sunlight getting into her eyes.

'Looks like a dust storm is coming.' She reasoned.

She was just passing an abandon gas station when she when a loud buzzing sound caught her attention. The dust storm was starting to gain more momentum obscuring her sight but from the sound of things there was more than just one. The buzzing was from the result of wings flapping at a high rate of speed and it was getting closer. Amata turned just in time to see something black and huge buzz by her.

'That's not a bloatfly.' Amata thought as adrenaline started to pump in her veins. She readied her Cowboy Repeater and tried to take aim but the creature was fast and erratic making it hard to predict where it would move. The buzzing was picking up meaning that whatever this thing was there were more waiting just outside her line of sight.

'If it's too fast for me I bet I can hit it in V.A.T.S.' Amata reasoned as she activated the assisted targeting system. Time slowed to a crawl and the targeting system had no problem locking on to her target. Moving at a fraction of the speed she could see it now. It had a bulking black carapace, blood red eyes, with huge orange-amber wings with a stinger to match.

'Eww, Eww, Eww! I hate bugs!' she mentally cringed as she took aim. Even with V.A.T.S assistance the creature still moved at an alarming speed. She put three rounds in it but the creature's hardened skin took most of the damage. She side stepped it as it came in for another stab.

'Alright, if simply shooting it won't work maybe crippling it will.' She figured as she targeted the creature's wings. Two shoots managed to knock the wings of the mutated bug sending it careening to the ground.

"Gotcha." she congratulated herself but her victory was short lived as the bug righted itself to continue its assault.

"Damn thing doesn't die easily does it." She exclaimed as she put several more rounds in the bug finishing it off. Amata quickly looked around as best as she could. The dust storm was in full swing and the buzzing hadn't stopped. She checked her pip-boy's threat assessment and it revealed two more of those things were lying in wait, safe under the cover of dust. The first one made it's move and flew at her in an erratic manner. Before she could aim it was already pass the barrel of her repeater. She quickly stepped aside as it nearly missed her. She switched to her 9mm exchanging power for maneuverability. She fired 4 rounds after it, two of which managed to cripple its right wing sending it into a spiral and crashing to the ground. Before she could finish it off the last of the creatures struck. It's stinger cut Amata on her right shoulder, it wasn't a serious wound but it was all that was needed to introduce its venom into her blood stream. Almost instantly she began to feel it's effect as it felt like her blood was made of lava.

'The damn things are poisonous!' Amata figure a little too late. The venom packed a punch as it began to spread quickly. The two remaining insects could see what was happening and began to close in on her prey. She fired her remaining rounds killing the crippled creature but the remaining one moved to fast for her and retreated back into the dust storm. All it needed to do was to wait out its prey while the venom did all the work. Amata kept moving in hopes of finding a way out of this situation. Her vision blurred compounding the difficulty to see in the dust storm. Numbness took over her right arm and was starting to spread to her right leg, the venom began working on internal organs as her breathing became labored and her muscles cramped. She urged herself to keep moving but it was getting harder and harder to stay focus. Her limbs were becoming heavier as paralysis threatened to set in, soon her body could go no further and she collapsed under her own weight and fatigue.

'I can't die like this.' Amata thought as the buzzing sound started to near. She could only look as the insect hovered near readying for the kill. Amata tried to raise her pistol to defend herself but her limbs refused to work.

'I'm sorry.' She thought as she readied herself. As her eyes were beginning to close the buzzing sound was interrupted by a loud crunch of something solid pulverizing a fragile shell. She looked and on the ground next to her the insect laid slain with half its body smashed. She soon noticed a robed figure was standing over her with a power fist in hand. Amata vision was blurred but she could make out the feminine figure underneath the hood despite the power armor she wore underneath the robe.

"Sarah?" Amata asked before losing conscious.

"Sarah? Who the hell is that?" the robe figure pondered to herself.

AN: Thanks for reading! I look forward to your feedback and hope you are enjoying the story so far.