Tactics: GIRLFIGHT!
Fallout Tactics fanfiction
immo
rating:PG-13

Its been a while... and really, reviews do help. Don't think I've forgotten about you guys. Its your comments that get me off my lazy ass to give you another chapter. :D I realize my writing is really short, and not long and detailed... not novel length at all. It reads real quick. That's cuz I don't got the patience to write long and detailed. Maybe some day... some day...

Warning: This aitn beta'd, so there might be mistakes here and there and plot holes the size of Jupiter.

"Goddamn you, Stevie, open this door." Ice pounded on the metal door impatiently. Stevie was sulking. Ice was used to the other woman's temper, but right now, Ice really didn't have the patience to wait it out.
General Lexandria had seriously unhinged her.
"Go away, you frigid bitch! Why you care that I'm sulking is beyond me!" Stevie's voice was slightly muffled, but Ice could clearly hear what was said. As could the crowd that had gathered to watch this drama play out.
"Fucking open this door!" Ice pounded on the door again while Lex's squad looked on nervously. In the team, Ice and Stevie had gotten along alright...most of the time. Of course, with Ice, she kept everyone guessing about what she was thinking and feeling. Easily the lone wolf of the group; the only person she really warmed up to was Lex. Stevie's eager friendliness and headstrong, often stubborn outlook put her at odds with the quiet Ice, who valued her privacy. So the two co-operated brilliantly well under Lex's command, but were prone to get on each other's nerves.
"Open the door or I'll kick it down!"
"You do there'll be a cap in your ass!"
"Fuck you, Stevie! Stop being a bitch and open the door!"
"NO!"
Ice paused, pinching the bridge of her nose. Count to ten. Count to ten. Where was her cool disposition? Shattered by a kiss. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
"Maybe," John coughed. "Maybe you should let her alone"
"I KISSED LEX! There! Are you going to come out now!" Ice yelled.
There was stunned silence. Then the metal door slid open, and Stevie glowered at Ice.
"What. Did. You. Say?"
"I. Kissed. Lex." Ice hised through clenched teeth.
General Dekker was just arriving at the outskirts of the crowd, and people parted for him. He frowned at the proceedings. This was exactly why relationships were discouraged in the Brotherhood between squadmembers. "Ladies"
"BITCH!" Stevie launched herself at Ice, all her frustration and anger directed onto a convenient person.
"BRING IT!" The two were soon scuffling on the ground, tearing at each other's hair and clawing at each other. both were highly trained in martial arts and one-on-one fighting. But the two were unbelievably enraged, and so had instinctively reverted to the one style of fighting that all women were masters of: THE CATFIGHT.
"LADIES!" General Dekker hollered, to no avail. "You two, seperate them!"
"I aint gettin' in there!" The initiate held up his hands. "I like my eyes in their sockets, thankyee very much!"
"Cookie! Mother!" Dekker looked at the two. "Seperate them!"
"Its better to just let this run its course," Cookie shrugged, as people started chanting out 'fight! fight! fight!'. "You're a man. You wouldn't understand."
Mother scratched her ear. "Dangerous. Life-threatening. No. Only Lex make me do, tell what to do. Not listen you."
"Do I have to do everythingAUGH! She scratched me!" Dekker hopped back.
"GIRLS!" John shouted loudly. The place went silent, the usually docile man's shout caught even the two fighting women's attention. "That's enough out of BOTH of you! Get up off the floor, we are going to go talk this through like grown-ups!"
Their uniforms torn in some places, and their faces scratched and bloodied, John hauled them both off the ground by the scruff of their uniforms. "General Dekker? A conference room, if you please, to review and give out disciplinary action for a squadmate and former squadmate."

"What the hell were you two thinking?" Dekker shouted at the two. "Knight Commander Stevie, you JUST got your badge not that long ago. I could EASILY take it away again."
John looked on in solemn disapproval while Mother looked bored by the proceedings and Cookie looked sympathetic.
"Look at me, Knight Commander: DO YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR BADGE!" Dekker was shouting in Stevie's face.
"Yessir." Stevie muttered.
"I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"
"YESSIR!"
"And you, Senior Knight Ice. Your behaviour is unacceptable."
"Yessir." Ice looked straight ahead.
Dekker was significantly calmer in his dealings with Ice. While Stevie was stubborn, Ice fell into line easily. In fact, this has been the first disciplinary action he had ever taken against the woman. She had an examplary record. Dekker had seen her come in as an initiate, and had seen her grow. He shook his head. Lexandria was a problem. It seemed that the most brilliant, the most talented, and the ones with the most potential gravitated towards the redheaded general. And sad to say, though Lex was a terrific leader, she was always in the thick of things.
"Knight Commander Stevie, you have latrine duties."
Stevie opened her mouth, about to protest, but a glare from the general shut her up quickly.
"Yessir."
"Senior Knight Ice." Dekker regarded the woman. "You will be going on the Cheyenne Mountain mission within a week. Max is going there with a squad, and you are to be part of it."
Ice visibly winced. Max was another Senior Knight. He was known for beserking through his missions. And also known for his unshakeable love for Ice. Ice, of course, had turned him down each and every time. He thought it was a game. She found him extremely annoying.
"Sir, I don't think that's the best idea."
"Why not?" Dekker directed his gaze at her.
"Max and I... we don't get along well. At all."
"He specifically requested you, and in these circumstances, I don't think I'll deny him. He has a tough mission in front of him, and you would have gone with General Lexandria if it wasn't for her recent... development."
Stevie had stiffened at the mention of Lex's name.
"You'll be a valued asset. Your scouting skills are excellent, and you know the backstory behind Cheyenne. You're experienced." Dekker paused. "Or you could go mole-rat hunting. We've been having some problems with mole-rats."
Ice looked thoughtful. "General Dekker, if you don't mind... I'd like to have some time to think."
"I need to get your decision as soon as possible, Ice." Dekker harrumphed. "I will give you two days to make a decision. I'm not going to lie to you, but Cheyenne Mountain will be extremely dangerous. Mole-rats are significantly less dangerous."
John, Cookie, Mother and Stevie, all four of them were paying close attention now. Since all the people in the room except for Dekker had been in the missions concerning the robots at varying stages, they all had a personal stake in Cheyenne Mountain.
"The both of you are dismissed. Stevie, you start latrine duties tomorrow. Ice, give me your reply within two days. DISMISSED."
The two Brotherhood of Steel-ers saluted General Dekker. General Dekker left the room, and Ice was about to follow when Stevie called out to her.
"Hey." Stevie held out a hand, as if to stop Ice physically, but dropped it when Ice glared at her. "You can't go with Max."
"Why not?"
"Because we... we're a squad. We started out on this together." Stevie spread out her arms in a placating gesture. "We can finish this together!"
"But the most important member of our squad is out." Ice said softly.
Stevie's face twisted into a grimace. "We don't need her."
"Need." Mother purred. "We do. Lex needed."
"She didn't cheat on you, you know?" Ice smiled faintly. "She couldn't have. There was Cookie, Mother, John and I. And, no offence to you, John," Ice looked at John apologetically. "But Lex would not sleep with you even if she was uninhibited by alcohol."
"The truth hurts." John nodded and chuckled a bit.
"And the only one she's slept with since being back here from last mission.. is you."
"I can't get her pregnant, though." Stevie hissed. She was hurt and confused. "I don't want to believe it, but what other possibilities are there?"
That was true. Immaculate Conceptions were hard to come by, and there was only one woman ever in the history books who had ever pulled that off, and her Immaculate Conception was highly doubted. Lex was no Blessed Virgin, either.
"We're doing a DNA test on Lex's child, on the general's request." John suddenly said. "I didn't want to tell you two... but the results should be in within the hour.
Without another word, everybody headed out the door and towards the infirmary.

"I told you not to tell anyone." Lex alternated from cowering under Stevie's glare to complaining to John.
"Sorry. Your girlfriend and your squad have a right to know." John shrugged.
"Egg..." Mother purred, her tail waving and upsetting some medical equipment. Her maternal instinct was surfacing, and she watched Lex with fascination and awe. There were never any human young in the Brotherhood camps, and Mother was kept away from the shanty towns, villages, and struggling cities so she had never seen a human young.
"General Lexandria, Ihm. Seems like you have a party going on." The nurse had a folder in her hand, within was a piece of paper that held information everyone was dying to know: Who was the baby's father?
"Should I come back later?"
"NO!" Everyone shouted.
"Well... hmmm." She opened the folder. "I guess your squad wants to be present for this news? We cross-referenced the baby's DNA with everyone in the base... so..."
"Get on with it!" Ice snapped, her patience at an all-time low.
"Well..." The nurse looked up and around at the people. And smiled when her eyes fell on Stevie. "Knight Commander Stevie? I don't know how, but it was a perfect match. Congratulations. You're a... mother?"
There was a few moments of silence. Then:
"WHAT!"
"T-t-t-that's not possible." John stuttered.
"Told you." Mother had a satisfied grin on her face.
"That is PHYSICALLY impossible." Cookie blinked, astounded.
Ice shook herself out of her reverie. "There has to be some mistake."
"Does nothing phase you, woman?" Cookie gaped at the nurse.
The nurse shrugged. "We're in a post-apocalyptic world. We have giant superhumans like yourself, ma'am. And we have the ghouls. One of which, has a bonsai tree growing out of his head. There's one-headed brahmans being born. So excuse me if nothing phases me anymore."
Everybody seemed to pause and consider what the nurse was saying, and accept it grudgingly as true.
"You're sure?" Stevie asked tentatively.
"We redid the tests. We had them ready actually yesterday." The nurse handed over the report. "We redid the tests over and over. You don't know how tired we were. General Dekker, of course, has been informed of this event."
"What caused this?" John asked.
The nurse tried to suppress her laughter, and ended up snorting. "Excuse me. Well... I'll leave General Dekker to give you his explanation for this after we confirm with him that the results haven't changed after lengthy testing."
"Hey." Lex caught Stevie's hand. "Hey. We need to talk."
"We need to leave." Cookie started shooing everyone out.
"Ice." Lex called out to the Senior Knight's retreating form. "Thank you."
"I did nothing, General Lexandria." Ice smiled sadly and looked from Stevie to Lex. "Congratulations, General."
Cookie pulled the seperating partitions closed after the last person left.
"So... I didn't cheat, did I?" Lex pulled Stevie down to sit next to her on the bed.
Without a word, Stevie collapsed into Lex's arms, crying.
"Shh... its alright, baby. I'm sorry I cause you so much trouble all the time..."
The tears came, and all the anger and pent-up emotions flooded out of Stevie with the tears, until she was left with nothing but a warm, exciting feeling behind.
"How do you think this happened?"
"I don't know, Stevie."
"How are you feeling?"
Lex tilted Stevie's face up to meet hers, brushed away the tears at the corner of the Knight Commander's eyes and kissed her sweetly. "Much better now."
Stevie blushed. Then her eyes narrowed and she looked up at Lex accusingly. "I heard you kissed Ice."
"...Uh..."

note:Sorry if I disappoint you guys. I'm trying. :P