Chapter 5: Headin' West
The group met at a large cave where Lucky was supposed to meet them they looked around When a bullet whizzed past Danse's face and struck the wall.
" You got three seconds to leave or I start picking you off!."
Jason sighed, twirled his pistol and holstered it,
" Lucky it's jason don't shoot."
Suddenly a large rock got taller and skinnier to reveal lucky heavily camouflaged.
" Well crickey i apologise i almost domed you paladin! Good thing i missed eh? Sorry about all that i'm just a bit paranoid on account of what i got hiding in there."
He said nodding to the cave
"let's head inside shall we?." Lucky said as he lead the way into the cave.
Lucky flipped a switch and the cave burst with light and in the cave was small shack and in the center: a green vertibird. Lucky went into the shack and came out wearing khaki armor with a two headed bear on the chest piece.
"Alright everyone Before we take off some ground rules first of all to my paladin friend over there you'll need to leave the t-60 here my bird is tough but i don't wanna risk overshooting the weight limit on 'er there's a spot where you can leave it in the back it'll be safe here in my cave."
lucky points to the large metal door behind him " next up if you need to pack some heat before we leave my armory's got all the ballistics you could want courtesy of the gun runners, grab what you need enough ammo and and an armor set or two and meet me at the vertibird."
The group all went into the other door of the cave and sat walls packed with gun cabinets and boxes of ammo for a crazed pilot Lucky was armed to the teeth. Steve looked around Danse grabbed a laser rifle and some combat armor Jason grabbed a case of ammo and refilled his bandoliers. Lucky comes over to Steve.
" nothing find your fancy mate?."
"nope imma just stick with my .357"
" ah a gunslinger, jason's been rubbing' off on ye' i see follow me"
lucky opens a small box and pulls out a strange pistol.
"This pistol has been around all over It has no name take it."
steve takes the gun it called to him he holstered it and asked
" what's the ammo type?."
"5.56!."
Lucky yelled, they geared up and boarded the vertibird.
The flight took 5 days of non stop flying. Steve woke up to sounds of lucky yelling
" HEY get up!"
"what time is it?" piper groaned
"time for you to wake up sweetheart we're under fire!"
Everyone shot up
"Lucky we need to land!" yelled jason from the copilots seat.
Then the Vertibird was hit hard and the next thing Steve knew they were on the ground Steve woke up to Gunfire and explosions.
"alright we gotta fight on our hands people! Heads down guns at head level.'' Jason shouted
Steve drew his pistol and the gun switched on with a high pitched whine Steve took aim and fired, the gun let out a bang as the bullet nearly missed and hit a rock Steve ran over to Lucky and yelled
"who are these guys!"
"dunno they just shot us down and wrecked my bird!" lucky growled.
Suddenly a spear flew past the two and impaled Danse. Danse Screamed angrily and broke the spear's pole and continued on Steve fired off a few more shots, then a grenade landed and bounced of the vertibird and landed by steve's feet Steve grabbed it and threw it as hard as he could it hit one the assailants in the head and exploded Steve popped his head over cover to see men in crimson sports gear bearing machetes rushing them.
"what the?" then Steve was tackled by an attack dog.
He struggled with it until it was shot by danse Steve got up and saw the Crimson attackers headed their way. Jason rushed past steve and he climbed over the vertibird as he tackled one man slitting his throat, pulled out his revolver shooting another in his head sending him into a backflip. Everyone watched in awe as Jason dispatched them with a passion. One poor soul tried to attack from behind but jason's reflexes were to keen as he spun around and popped a round into the man's neck, jason took out a knife and threw it at another man hitting him in the chest jason emptied his chamber into the the last one dropping him to the floor. Jason walked back to the wreckage Danse slumped down holding his chest Nick walked over to him and kneeled down
"there there soldier, everyone stand back i'm gonna patch him up keep a look out."
Nick took danse into the vertibird Jason gathered everyone else around
" what was all that jason?" asked piper
Jason took off his helmet he had a snarl across his face "
you see those men they are legionaries from caesar's legion." he spat
" you kill every last one of those motherfuckers you can" he growled
" caesar's legion?" asked piper
Lucky sighed
"they are an army of slaves, they fought a war against the NCR here in the mojave both me and Jason here lost many friends to those bastards."
Nick crawled out of the vertibird wiping his hands
"Danse is all better he just needs to take a stim every few hours"
" you're a saint nick." piper said
" just doin' my job" nick chuckled.
Danse emerged from the plane bandages around his waist he put his chest piece and limb armor on and grabbed his rifle
"where to now."
"thank the overseer you're all better" steve said
" now we head to goodsprings" Lucky said Looking at map
"it's about a 2 day walk"
"well you know the area lucky lead the way" Nick said
"oh and this is a desert so pack some water."
The party traveled for 2 days in the scorching heat till they reached the small town, it was made up of a few houses a saloon and a general store Danse's eyes lit up when he saw the saloon so he, piper and Steve went in Jason went to talk to someone while Nick and Lucky went sightseeing piper, danse and steve sat down at a booth. A woman in her 40's walked over with a notepad.
" it's always nice to have some new faces around what can i get ya?" she said with a smile
" i'll have a beer." danse said
"i'll take one too" piper chimed
" got any soft drinks?" Steve asked
" we've got tons of sunset sarsaparilla" the woman said
"any food? Im starvin!"
"we've got some gecko steak on the grill"
Steve pondered for a minute
"alright then i'll take a steak and a sunset."
the woman scribbled in her note pad and walked away to get their drinks. The three looked around there were pool tables and a jukebox the woman came back and gave the three thier food and drinks danse sipped his beer, piper took a swig Steve cut a piece of the steak and ate it, it tasted surprisingly good better than any food he had in the commonwealth. He popped the cap off the bottle of sarsaparilla and pocketed the cap he swigged it it tasted syrupy and tart Steve was surprised at how good it was.
" how's it taste?" danse said
" it tastes better than nuka-cola in my opinion"
"now that's not true." danse said
" i'll bet you 12 caps you'll love it."
"you're on" danse said shaking steve's hand.
Steve called the woman over again
"there a question?" she asked
" can we get another sarsaparilla please."
"no problem."
the woman came back with another bottle danse popped the cap off Steve wrestled for it with piper until she pried it from his hand danse took a swig he smacked his lips a bit and took another swig
" you were right it is better"
"Yeah!" steve said triumphantly
Danse paid the caps as danse gave the rest to piper who also agreed it was better than cola. Suddenly through the door came in 3 men in crimson red tunics with sports gear attached danse and piper both clutched their weapons in anticipation of a fight. The men were indeed looking for them the woman at the bar frowned.
"you're not welcome here leave before i call the rangers own here."
one men then pulled out a machete and growled.
" touch that radio and the only thing the ranger will save is the bodies for the burial."
Piper got up and walked behind the men and leaned against the wall Danse clutched his rifle while steve also clutched his weapon next thing they knew one legionary pulled out a gun and proceeded to threaten the poor woman. Steve stood up and walked over to the 3 men
" now what's all this?"
The man lowered his gun.
"well well well, Caesar's looking for you and we're not going back empty handed." said the man
Steve held one finger up to signal them to hold on as he finished his sarsaparilla he then smashed the bottle and gripped it like a knife
" now unless you want to go back to your little camp a pile of mincemeat I suggest you leave..now or we can take this outside."
the men turned and walked out while Steve and piper followed just as the men reached the road they turned to draw but Steve was too quick as their guns stood in their holsters while steve's was smoking and all 5 rounds have been fired, the three men fell to the ground lifeless steve then reloaded his pistol and holstered it
" holy crap how-" piper stuttered
" Jason's rubbing off on me" Steve shrugged.
Out from the store was nick, jason, and lucky weapons drawn
"all good guys just a few legionaries." Steve said
They walked back into the saloon, Steve placed 100 caps on the counter.
"sorry for the mess miss."
The woman put her concealed weapon behind the counter and asked
" who are you guys?" Steve turned around just before he was out the door and said.
"Just your local private dicks at work ."
The group met at the beginning of the road and head off to find their perps.