Ch.5

The sound of gunshots and maniacal laughter rang out through the stores and our lone wanderer was pinned by gunfire and Logan could only help with the raiders who ran inside with lead pipes and switchblades.

"You can't hide forever punk!" yelled one of the raiders.

"Jesus, what's taking Liam so long I'm running low on ammo" she said to herself poking her head out and taking a shot at one of the raiders. Logan howled and barked, baring his teeth, and snarling at the door.

Liam worked his way to the counter in the shadows; he then poked his head over the counter not seeing anyone but a locked door, "bingo"

"Sneaky bastard aren't ya?" a raider called pointing a flamer towards Liam.

"Shit…" he cursed under his breath pulling out his Chinese assault rifle and opening fire on the raider. The raider laughed and released a wave of flames on the mercenary; trying his best not to get hit he killed the raider but scorched his arm "fuck, that hurts." Sucking it up and turning to the terminal.

"This should be easy to get into" he said typing away and cracking the code.

Meanwhile the gunfire ceased to silence and gabby poked her head out unable to see any raiders she called Logan then snuck over to the counter where Liam was opening the now unlocked supply room.

He turned around looking her over "Gabby are you alright, you're not hurt are you?"

"I'm fine, are you going to be okay?" she asked studying his arm

"It's alright just a minor burn is all" he replied looking toward the supplies "shall we?" he asked gesturing the door.

She entered the room gazing at the shelves of supplies; shelf after shelf of food, chems, alcohol, and even some nuka cola quantum. "Look at all this food"

"Moira is going to be pretty happy about this haul" he replied collecting the boxes of food and placing them in a sack.

She nodded doing the same before looking up at the pod "hey Liam whats this?"

"Oh that? It's an old protectron, lots of pre-war buildings have them" he replied walking up to the charging pod and studying the terminal. "I think I can hack it"

She stood next to him looking over his shoulder and grabbing the I.D. card on top of the terminal; the face on the ID and name were scratched out on the old card, and the only visible detail on the card was the RobCo logo.

Within a couple minutes the terminal sounded off with a ping and the pod unsealed the offline robot.

"Lets see if this old bot can help us out…" he replied activating the robot.

With a couple beeps and release of some exhaust fumes, the old relic re-animated back to life immediately scanning our heroes "RobCo protection number: 438692, reporting for service… please present your assigned RobCo ID card"

They stared confused for a moment before gabby remembered the card "Oh! You mean this?" she asked pulling out the scratched card.

The protectron turned to her scanning it and taking it from her "thank you for your cooperation" the robot then turned around and walked out of the storage room.

"I guess we should follow him" Liam replied as he checked Logan for wounds.

As they both ran out gunshots and lasers ring out in the building "This area is now a free firing zone! Please stand clear, detecting hostels in area."

Liam pulled out his rifle and took cover at the counter "great more raiders"

Gabby took cover as well, giving the robot some covering fire "we need to clear them out and get the hell out of here!"

The two began to fire at the stringed out raiders as Logan and the protectron charged them head on, careless of the numbers that faced them. Over time, the numbers dwindled, and our travelers moved forward fighting alongside the robot and dog, eventually making their way out of the supermarket and sitting down against the door with a sigh of relief.

Gabby slumped over setting her rifle down and resting her head on her knees "we made it…"

Liam smiled and panted being exhausted "yeah… we did and we got the supplies" he replied clenching the bag. Logan laid between the lone wanderer and the young mercenary letting out a yawn.

He got up looking at the location of the sun and drank some water "we should head back before it gets dark."

Gabby nodded getting up and looking at her pip-boy '5:30 pm'

Liam walked over to Logan petting his head and giving him some salisbury steak "time to go home boy" he said. The dog barked and got up to walk with them, "Alright let's get back to moira"

She nodded holstering her rifle and walked back up the road. As the sun began to set our heroes made their way back to the city of megaton with a bag of supplies and a bounty to claim; The wasteland was silent and in a way had its own type of beauty. Where our heroes' journey will take them is unknown and now will continue in the next chapter….

(Heya, so that was chapter five, hope you guys enjoyed. The school year begins to end and now I might have more free time to continue these chapters. If any of you have a suggestion on where our heroes should go next, let me know in the reviews. Once again thanks for reading and I'll be sure to have a new chapter up soon)