2 weeks later
Steve shot at the grotesque figure of a centaur a horribly mutated human that walked on four disfigured legs, but it wasn't fazed Steve crouched behind a large rock and reloaded but before he could do anything the centaurs large tongue grabbed him by the neck and dragged him out. Steve struggled but the centaurs tongue was too slippery and he couldn't get a grip, the creature growled at him and tightened it's grip. Steve thrashed about, he felt around the floor until he felt a big stone which he used to bash the centaur in the head and escape it's grasp, he pulled out his combat knife and sliced the creature's tongue off, it screeched and fell to the floor bleeding out. Steve picked up his gun and pointed it at the poor things head and shot it through the temple killing it instantly.
Steve returned to his home with that morning's breakfast. They had settled in the rock formations out in the desert east of goodsprings. Lucky walked out of the cookhouse cleaver in his hand " whatcha got for me today buddy" he said. Steve dumped the contents of his knapsack into a large metal bin.
"Some brahmin, gecko, bloatfly, and some cassador meat."
Lucky took the bin and headed back into the cook house. Steve watched the road and saw Nick and Danse walking up the road Steve went to open the gate that separated the groups home from the rest of the mojave.
"Anything?" Steve asked
" well we found out that caesars still indeed hanging around, people keep telling us to go to this place called New Vegas."
Steve looked confused
"New Vegas?"
"Yep" Danse answered
"I didn't think casino's still existed" steve said.
"Neither did I" said nick.
The three walked to the large table in the middle of their little village. Piper and jason exited their cabins to the smell of breakfast and grilled meat as they sat down at the table.
"Smells good Lucky, man why can't there be good food like this in boston?" Piper complained.
Lucky kicked the cookhouse door open with plates all up and down his arms
" bon appetit everyone!"
He rushed across the table setting plates down: brahmin steak, Gecko filet, scrambled radscorpion egg, Steve piled his plate and dug in everyone was eating happily, lucky stabbed his steak and eyed it down with a starved look he tore a chunk off with his teeth and chewed it happily. After breakfast Danse, Jason, and Steve left for New Vegas. They reached a large gate with a sign that read FREESIDE they opened it and went in the place looked like a post-apocalyptic slum, it reeked of radiation, vomit and feces. There was a man by the gate selling cooked rat and radroach and rodents scurried across the street. The three walked towards the shining lights of the other side when out of and alley pounced two crazed hoodlums wielding crude blunt weapons, one swung at jason who caught the weapon and disarmed him the man punched jason across the face and was now furious as he pulled out his gun and gut-shot the man, the other one went for danse who punched the man in his stomach and then threw him across the street. The man ran off and the three headed towards the gate.
At the gate were a few strange looking robots they rode around on one wheel and had screens displaying faces of a cartoon-ish policeman, one approached the three and said
"submit to a credit check! Or show your passports!"
It said in an electronic voice. From behind another voice chimed.
"Hey now boys let these three fine gentlemen through courtesy of Mr. house."
Another one of those robots rode in front of them but instead of the policeman's face on the screen it was a cowboy, the guards let the three plus the other robot through. 'The Strip' was amazing Steve couldn't believe his eyes the whole place seemed untouched by the bombs, it was in pristine condition it smelled of good food, liquor, and perfume. There were lots of casinos and a few drunkards walking around. Steve saw a casino with large neon letters that said "GOMORRAH" Danse nudged him
"hey you're not here for the women kid we need to find this "
suddenly the robot stopped.
"You're the ones he's looking for I assume?"
The bot turned around slowly.
"we need to ask a few questions." Jason said,
"Well follow me." said the robot as he drove off
They followed the robot up the steps to a casino shaped like a roulette wheel. The bot stopped and two other robots came up behind them and took their weapons "You'll get them back when you leave the three followed the robot into an elevator and rode it to the penthouse floor the doors dinged open and the three saw the beautiful sight no burns, no stains just cleanliness.
"Mr. House is in the room to the right next to the stairs, oh and don't try anything...trust me you'll be dead before you regret your decision." said the robot.
They walked into the room and saw a huge terminal with a large screen in the middle and on the screen displayed the face of a man with a pencil moustache and well combed hair.
"Why are you in my casino, in my penthouse ?" said the man
Jason stepped forward and said.
"we traced a slaver employer to you we wanted to find out some answers about this slaughter we witnessed."
"Ah yes the slave caravan i had transported from boston, you were the ones who attacked it yes?, well i can't have you running around Sabotaging my business. You should've stayed away from this for you have made a terrible mistake there are larger things at play here than just a few slave traders and caesar's legion and I can't have people like you ruining it!."
Just as he said that two securitrons approached from behind them Steve clutched his weapon but remembered they confiscated them at the entrance. Steve felt a sharp sting in his lower back, his muscles tensed, he froze as he fell to the ground, all he could see were his two friends being incapacitated and hauled off and the big screen that displayed the man's face now displayed another Image, now it was a large letter E inside a ring of stars, he felt another sting before he slipped into unconsciousness and all he heard was one of the robots saying
"God bless the Enclave"...