Chapter 3: Days before the waste
Akira was doing what any adult does during 4th of July. Partying. With the loud music and the use of a lot of drugs, she was feeling like her body had so much energy to power the whole world, dancing throughout the whole evening when she saw somebody across the room. It was a tall handsome man talking to his friends. Akira not thinking straight decides to go talk to him.
"heeeyyyyyyyyy" Akira splurred out very drunkly.
"um hi, are you okay? You look like you're gonna throw up. Do you need a ride home?" said the man worried.
"Meee? nah I'm goood hehe", Akira said trying to sound sober
" I don't feel right just leaving you like this, you can get robbed or worse... No I'm taking you home" The man added.
"Dude you're leaving already? We just got here" added his friend.
"Bro don't cockblock, he's trying to get laid" said his other friend.
"No man, jesus whats wrong with both of you? She's drunk and she could get raped or robbed", The man stated with anger in his tone
"Stop being a puussy ha" Akira said to her shining white knight
"No you could get hurt, I'm not gonna let that happen to you"
"why? You don't know mee... maybe... I did something to deserve it" Akira said sounding annoyed
"What? Doesn't matter, that's just the drunkness talking for you. Come on I'm taking you home"
"How dooo I know you won't rob mee when we're at my houseeee?" Questioned the drunk woman.
"Because I'm the only one at this party that actually cares for your well being and doesn't just sees you as a piece of meat" ,said the man with a stern voice.
"Hn Alright" said Akira with no more sign of arguing.
Akira got in the man's car and started looking out the window looking at everyone else partying. Noticing that the man was driving like an old lady.
"Driive fasterrrr", Akira complaining
"No because I'm afraid that you might throw up in my car and with the friends that I have, I don't want to be cleaning it the next morning again", the man replied
"Your friends sound more fun", said the woman
"Yeah but that's why they're massive fuck ups who still live with there parents. Fuck what am I doing hanging out with them? Seriously they have no plans on a future. Sometimes I feel like their mom or something, always telling them don't do this or act like this or whe-"
"Then stop, nobody is asking your to do it", Akira interrupted
"I thought we already understood that I can't just watch and let people ruin their life. It's not right, I wasn't raise like that."
"Oh great a religious freak",Akira sarcastically
"Does that matter? If I have a good morality does it matter that I got it from the bible?", Said the man a bit angry
"wooooah calm down I didn't mean to offend I was joking, I'm drunk, what do you expect?"
"Whatever"
Akira started thinking about morality and if she has a good one. Why is she selfish? How come she doesn't have nightmares every night about that one incident? While she was too busy looking in her past she got cut off by the man.
" Hey is this your place?", said the man looking around the destination he was told.
"yeah thanks uhh..."
"Nate, Nate Nora" said the man realizing that they haven't even told each other their names.
"Well I'm Akira... so bye and thanks again"
"see ya and be careful", the man added while she got out the car and started to walk away.
'what a wimp hehe' Akira thought to herself while opening her door and seeing the man drive away.
Akira woke up from her dream laying on a couch with some bandages covering her face, not knowing where she was, she called for help. Preston, Cosworth, and Sturges came running up to her.
"ughh my head hurts, what the hell happened?"
"You were attacked by a Deathclaw but we were able to kill it before it could do anymore damage" Preston replied
"anymore damage? " Akira questioned.
"Um Miss" Cosworth trying to speak.
Preston sighed and then reached for his pocket and pulled out a mirror.
"Take a look for yourself" Preston said quietly as he could. ( search up ifunny on google then when you get to the website search up BloodyRedDove )
Akira looked down at the dusty mirror and saw her face. She couldn't believe what she was staring at, she thought of some Halloween mask she use to have. She knew for a fact that she couldn't fix her face and that's what really made her angry. She touched her face and notice how thick the scars were, she was now curse forever with this face.
"THIS IS YOUR FAULT!" Akira screaming at Preston with such rage that the Minutemen felt scared for a moment
"Look I'm sorry that this happened, I never wanted any of this to occur. The original plan was to get the minigun that was on th-"
"Preston... I DON'T GIVE A SHIT WHAT THE PLAN WAS THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT, I'M FUCKING HIDEOUS BECAUSE OF YOU, BECAUSE I HELP ALL OF YOU" , Akira said not wanting to hear the man's excuses. Seeing that the poor guy was getting yelled at, Sturges tried to butt in.
"Hey the man said he's sorry, he didn't mean for it, it just pop out of no where, literally"
"No Sturges, she's right, I keep messing things up, I can't help anybody" Preston said how he's been feeling lately.
Akira got up from the couch and started to walk away, disregarding her injuries. She needed to get away from these random people that she didn't even know. She was mad that her face is now scared for life and that these people were safe and sound. She didn't care that her hometown was destroyed, she just needed to get out of the house.
"Wait where are you going all injured like that?" Preston asking very worried
"Out you motherfucker and you better not follow me"
Preston was about to say something but decided it was not worth the fighting, he was tired as well, he couldn't sleep for the past day thinking if he cause a innocent woman her death.
"Hey we saved her. We did good, She's just mad about her face, Don't bring yourself down man", Sturges trying to cheer the man up.
Akira was walking down towards the little bridge at the end of Sanctuary, she turn back to see her home and saw it was all gone. She had to find a new home because she didn't want to share the same home with the people that ruined the only thing that she could still control in the world. Her beauty. She began her journey, she was trying to avoid Concord because she didn't want to face another one of those demon looking monsters again. When she was quickly passing through Concord she saw the dead body of the Deathclaw and the Power Armor. She didn't like Power Armor but she was defenseless so she thought she would use it for a while till she was better equipped, so she started walking towards it but stop when she saw somebody with a two headed cow already in front of the Armor.
"Fuck. But what the hell is that, a cow?" Akira told herself quietly.
"Wow what do we have here? A dead Deathclaw and a suit? This has to be a trap, this is too good to be true." Said the Caravan while taking his gun out if necessary.
Akira suddenly became aware that she wasn't carrying her gun, she was too busy thinking about other stuff and now this was her punishment for that.
'Maybe if I tell him the true he will let me have it' akira thinking to herself.
"HEY I'M OVER HERE DON'T SHOOT I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING OR WANT TROUBLE. I JUST WANT MY SUIT BACK" Akira shouted hoping the man wouldn't start shooting everywhere.
"Damnit I knew it, this is a trap. HEY KEEP YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR BEFORE I PUT A BULLET IN YOUR HEAD. NOW WHERE ARE THE REST OF YOUR BUDDIES? HUH, COME ON I KNOW THEY'RE HERE HIDING SOMEWHERE", demanded the man.
"NOBODY IS WITH ME I SWEAR, THERE IS NO NEED FOR THIS. THAT'S MINE AND I NEED IT BACK SO CAN YOU PLEASE LET ME GET THIS?"
"How do I know this is yours? Why should I give it to some random stranger? For all I know you could be lying just so you can get this for yourself, and don't think I've forgotten about your plan, I know your friends are hiding somewhere, so stay where you are"
Akira with her hands still in the air, walking slowly towards the guy trying to calm him down," Sir, calm down look I've said I'm he-"
"WHAT THE HELL DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND FROM STAY WHERE YOU ARE? LISTEN LADY I'M NOT AFRAID TO SHOOT YOU FROM WHERE YOU'RE STANDING"
Akira didn't want to it come to this but she swallowed her pride and got on her knees and put her hands on the back of her head.
"Listen man I don't want to hurt you, I just want my suit and that's all"
The man put consideration that she might not be a bad person because he didn't know any raider that was willing to get on their knees for a trader. He put his gun down but not away and started walking towards her and notice two things of her, her outfit and scars.
"I've always said Vault dwellers can't survive out here by themselves. Those are pretty nasty scars and they look recent, mind if I ask what happened?" said the man a bit curious
"I was fighting that thing when it ripped the helmet out and started clawing my face" pointing at the Deathclaw.
"Now you expect me to believe that a Vault dweller with no body armor or weapons found a Power Armor and defeated a Deathclaw all by herself?" said the skeptic man
"No I got help from some people that I found and we killed it before I passed out and then they had to carry me somewhere else and that's why we left the Suit here."
"I thought you said you were by yourself" the man starting to grow suspicious.
"No I am right now but they're back at Sanctuary Hills" Trying to save herself from getting shot
"Now why would they send the injured person to come and pick up what they left behind?" Now having his gun by his chest.
Akira not wanting to say that they got in a fight so she decided to lie to the man hoping to fool him.
"It's because i wanted to prove my self that I'm not weak or a liability"
"Wanting to prove yourself to your crew? That sounds an awful like raider talk if you ask me" The man now not trusting the woman at all
"Not it's not like that, I just wan-"
"Save your so called story to somebody who's dumb enough to fall for it because it's not me. I don't trust you so I'm keeping the suit, I'm sorry but I have to survive out here too" Interrupted the man.
Akira could feel her heart shatter into many pieces. The man saw the sad woman and felt a bit of pity.
"I'm not that coldhearted so here is what I'm gonna do, Im gonna cut you some meat from this beast right here, all you have to do is find somewhere to cook it and you're set." added the man.
"I don't want the meat, I want the suit" Akira sounded like a little child that didn't get the toy she asked.
"Well that's too bad because in this world it's finders keepers and you're outta luck so you can take the meat or go hungry" The man explaining.
Akira realizes there is nothing she can do so she accepts the meat and takes one last look at the Armor as she sees the man puts it on. Now again she has to keep searching for stuff to keep her alive and was even considering going back to Preston but her pride got the best of her she continued on.
Akira kept walking for like an hour till she got hungry and sweaty and tired. She saw a broken house and decided that's where she would spend the night. She found a screwdriver not so long ago so for now this would be her primary weapon, when she got to the broken door she opened it and saw nobody around, quietly making her way to the kitchen, the living room and the bathroom seeing that no one was around. She checked the entire first floor and now was going upstairs. After checking most of the rooms she saw that she was safe but when checking on the last room, she saw some pretty depressing stuff. A person who couldn't handle the life that was given to their just took it away. With the gun on their hand and their brains all over the wall, she put the two pieces together.
"Damn this is some pretty bad shit, It smells too" While covering her noise.
It must've been a blessing in disguise because she saw some canned goods, ammo, a flashlight, and a extra pair of clothes in a bag right next to the corpse.
"Oh Fucking yes. Guess the saying one man's trash is another man's treasure is true. This vault-tec crap was getting hot and annoying" Akira said while taking out her jumpsuit. There was a mirror in the room, she was checking herself out and why wouldn't she? she was curvy,has a nice little six pack, and had nice thighs, had a big pair of boobs, and had a nice ass. She was the woman that most men would kill for and that most woman would envy. She was happy on how she looked but got disappointed when she saw her face. She started to unfold the flannel shirt and pair of pants she found, she started changing when she saw the body on the bed.
"Can you turn around?" Akira said humorously
"huh, it fits well. Now time to eat I'm starving. At least that asshole left me some food before robbing me. I'll show him i can survive out here"
Akira spend the next couple of minutes trying to open the can with the screwdriver only to see the canned good wasn't as good as she thought it would be, the mold almost made her throw up. She threw the can across the room with rage and went to get her meat. She didn't know how to make a fire and she didn't have a lighter or matches so she was staring at it trying to figure out a way to eat it. She checked the bag again to find something else and only found 10 bottle caps, She ignore them thinking that they had no value and still search the empty bag. She went looking around the house for anything. She found some bobby pins and duct tape, She figured they might come in handy later on. Realizing that she wasn't gonna eat today she went upstairs and went to sleep on a bed that didn't have a dead body on it. She got on the bed and stared out the window.
"This fucking sucks. I hate this... Oh look a radio, i wonder if it works, probably not"
She turn the radio on and to her surprise it did. She was trying to see if any stations were working. She finally got to the Diamond city Radio.
"Ummmm I know everyone is sleeping right now but i went to sleep earlier so I'm not tired...so yeah, ummmm yeah it tough out there... oh ughhhh in other bad news, Friendly Michael is causing problems down in the south...so yeah that's bad. Remember he has a -"
Akira didn't bother to listen to the rest of what the shitty Radio host said and went to sleep almost instantly that she forgot to turn the radio off. It wouldn't be much of a problem if it weren't so loud, loud noise tends to attract unwanted things.
