12 hourd later
since the auto pilot was on they all took a nap. Reilly and Jaden got the seats, while Liz rather want to sleep on the floor, and John felled asleep on the pilots seat
it all went well until something woke John up
it was the sound of bullets hitting the vertibird
"aww come on" he said and turn to manual steering
as he tried to dodge the bullets, it awaken the others
"ahhh whats going on" Jaden complained
"we are getting shot from the ground, Liz i thougth you gave us a safe route?" John yelled
Liz just stood there and said "i have been wrong before" she said and sat at the co pilot seat to help navigating since she was the only one of them to be in the area before.
"who is firing on us" Reilly yelled
"well we are flying in over hoover dam so its gotta be NCR troopers firing at us, and by the judge of the bullets, is alot of them" Liz informed
"ok dont panic, um there gotta be way out of here before we crash" Reilly said
that gave John an idea "thats it, Liz take over" he orded her
"you do know, i cant fly this thing" she told him but he didnt listsen
he check one of the lockers above the seats and found some things that could prove importen
"sweet, i found 4 parachutes and one of those ear comunication things" he told them
"what is a parachute" Jaden asked
"is a back pack that relase a big sheet with strings attach to the back pack when you pull in the right string" Liz yelled and everybody looked surprised at her
Liz turned around and said "what? i learn i thing and two before i got kidnapped"
"and the ear things are to call in on others with these on so we can keep up comunication" John then said
they were over helios one and yet got shot at
"this bird arnt gonna take much more. Liz you done teaching them how to use the parachute" he asked
"yes just lower the ramp already" she yelled
Reilly was first up and wernt much for it but jumped
as she fall down from the sky she remember what she was told to do. she breath easily and pull the string
in which the parachute fold out safely
the same was for Jaden
the last abord was John and Liz who were ready
but they were still fired at from helios one so the vertibird got all damage that the auto pilot was down
"auto pilot system down. Manual control activated" said the VI voice
John reacted quickly and took over the rear
"Liz get out of here and meet up with the others, tell them to regroup the town over there" he pointed out of the window infront of him
She didnt hesitated and jump out and folded her parachute out perfectly
she then saw that John didnt got out in time and saw that he crashed down near goodsprings
1 hour later
after the good welcome they got all the girls regrouped at the road between Goodsprings, and Sloan
"ok team, we need to find John and the crashed vertibird fast. I can see that the sun is going down very soon" Reilly orded
"how are we gonna find him" Jaden asked
Liz stepped in here "i saw where he crashed, it was at the campfire site near goodsprings" she said
"tell me again how you could just leave him like that" Reilly snapped at the wild girl
"well lets see reddy, the auto pilot was off, and he orded me to go. Good enough for ya?" Liz asked slight annoyed
Reilly just grunted and moved out to Goodsprings
they then reach goodsprings, which brought memories back to Liz
"ahh goodsprings, last time i was here, the doc patch me up good, after i was outnumber big time at qurry junction. i am surprised he even wanted to even after all the things i said" Liz remembered and laughed
"i dont wanna know" Reilly said seriusly
Liz then stopped laughing and said "you know, i rather like John then you, he knows whats fun, and he is not all serious all the time"
Reilly ignore her opinon
they then reach the campfire and saw the massive crash at the middle of it
they all saw it from a distance and saw that there was shooting from the vertibird damage ramp
there was a storm of geckos running at the crash site but they were holed bay by a stoorm of 5 mm bullets
the group of 3 got down from the ridge and knock on the side of the vertibird
"whos there" John said all paranoid
"us" Jaden yelled
he recognice the voice and lowered his minigun
"nice of you to stop by, had to use some of our 5 mm rounds and this minigun, which is a bust" he said dropping it
"what about the rest of out stuff" Reilly asked. the only guns they had were sidearms, well not Liz since she got her knifes
"well we good news out main guns are good to go and all the ammo is here, but the extra armor didnt make it" he informed them
Liz quickly got in and asked egerly "wheres my sword and rifle"
"right here" he handed the rifle and the sword to her "and can you be a good girl from now on" he asked all santa like
"acturly no" she said
"well cant blame for trying" he said and laughed a little
Reilly and Jaden didnt got the point of it and just got their stuff and moved
"where do we go now" Jaden asked
"well we could stay at prospecters saloon in goodsprings" Liz suggested
"and i could need a drink after that landing" John added
"and i will go anywhere for just to sleep again" Jaden said yawning
"it decided then" Reilyl agreed and headed of to goodsprings
as they enter the town not many people were outside, so they walked inside the saloon
"hey eveybody i am back" Liz yelled
a nearby dog fled behind its master in fear
"it seems like she remembers me" Liz said looking at the dog
"we all remember you" said its master
"i guess a story is at hand" John said
the dogs master just shrug and said "theres not much to say, after she walked limbing in here last time, a deathclaw followed her to town. i tried to fend it off my dog and i but a varmit rifle isnt good against one of them. and after it punch my rifle out of my hands Liz here came in and piggy ride it" she said
"thats Lix" John said smiling
Liz chuckle a little
"well after she had her ride, she stapped it multiple times in the back and bite its neck off and rip its head of with her bare hands, and right infron of poor cheyanna (sunny's dog) which its why she is afriad of her" she said
"hey, it stalked me while i was injured, i was in a bad mood" Liz defende herself
She then handed her hand to John and said "i am Sunny Smiles, yours stranger?
"John and this is Reilly and Jaden" he pointed at them
"well since we all greeted each other lets have a drink" Liz suggest and sat down on a stool at the bar
after John and Reilly talked to the owner of the place, Trudy. They got sleeping arrangement ready
after a few hours of drinking and a few punches by Liz, they all sleept at various places in the bar
John sleept on one of those two persons seats
Jaden was the first one to go so she was lucky and got a bedroll
Reilly sleept on a couch Trudy just got, and Liz were sleeping at table across John
the next morning everybody awoke at 9 am
they all sat together at a table discussing where to go
"well now where are we going" Reilly asked John
"i am still wondering where to start" John answerd
"lets head to Vegas" Liz demanded
"why" Jaden asked cleaning her rifle
"cause it be fun and i know just the way to go" Liz answerd
Reilly then stepped in grabbing Johns pip boy and pulled his arm to her and Liz to see his map
"we just take the I 15 here and take the north route" Reilly orded
"well i gotta disagree with you there Boss, cause you only find lots of cazadors and deathclaws there, and they make deathclaws in the capitol wasteland look like pity raiders" Liz informed Reilly
"so you are saying, we are gonna take the long route south of here" Reilly asked not beliving it
"yes and its more fun, there a more people to meet, people tp kill haha" Liz added
"Jaden what do you say" Reilly asked for a secound opinon
"i dont care" was all she said
Reilly sigh and looked at John
"first off, can i get my arm back" she lets goes "thank you, and i agree oon Liz here, its best if we intergrate with the people outside Vegas to get the know how and what is going on" John said
Reilly still didnt liked it one bit. she think he have seemd diffrently since they recruited Liz
as Reilly tried to convince them for hours they saw a man in a blue shirt with a black body armor covering it
they looked at him strange since they never saw the initials before
"what is NCRCF" Jaden asked
"of is the NCR correctional facility, last time i was here it was a prison ruled by the NCR, i wonder why he is here" Liz said
as the vested man stop argueing with Trudy, he run into a other man not much older then John, who wear a vault 21 suit
they then saw him go talking to Trudy and heard what they talked about
he then went outside for some reason and John called after Trudy
"hey Trudy, what was all that about" John asked
"he wanted to know who that guy was and why he was here" she said
"well what did ya say to him" He asked curiously
"well the guy in the body armor vest, was Joe Cobb, a member of the powder gangers that made a riot at the correctional facility a few weeks back. And he was here for some guy named Ringo, something about payback or something" she said
they all then turned their head at Lix in hoped she knew anything about it
she shooked her head since the riot happen weeks ago
10 mins later
the guy in the vault 21 suit was back an talked to sunny about taking the fight to the powder gangers
Sunny and the guy talked, he went over to trudy
"we could use your help against the gangers" he asked her
"its tempting but i rather wanna stay out of it, but i be rooting for you" she assured him
John took notice of this and asked "if i heard right you need help right?"
the guy just turned around and said "yeah, we need more people to join" he said
"well we could help, we just arrived here and want to get into some action" John inform him
"lets see, ok thats 7 now, that should do it" the man said confident
"7?" Reilly asked
"you four, and i and sunny and Ringo are gonna be in it" he told her
Liz just were eager to get some killing done asked "when does it start"
he watch his pip boy and saw it was 11:50 am
"i guess around 10 minutes" he said and ran off
"where you going" Jaden asked
"supplies and then i meet up with Ring and Sunny at the gas station, you guys just take position" he called out and left
after he left, the group stood up and went outside to the sunny weather
"ok guys, Jaden top of the saloon bar, John down next to the house infront of us to ampush them, Liz you use your anti matriel rifle on the roof with Jaden, while i take cover by the town sign" Reilly orded around and they all did as asked
Ringo Sunny, and the vault guy joined them, both the vault guy and Ringo had 9 mm while Sunny had her varmit rifle
when it was 12:00 pm six powder gangers approached
Reilly who were behind the town sign with her ak 47 gave sign to Jaden and Liz to hold their fire until she gave the signal
John were sitting next to the house next to the road were the gangers came from, itching to fire his shotgun
as the gangers walked between the town sign and the house John were at Reilly gave the signal
Jaden and Liz fire at the same time hitting to diffrent targets
it took the gangers by surprise, and to add on it James came running across the road firing his shotgun only killing one guy
Reilly leap out of cover and fire at one of the remaining 3 targets left but also only got one
Liz then stodd up putting down her rifle and took one of her throwing knifes and throw it at the one of the last guys left in the leg
The guy who now had leather armor on, charge while aiming his 9 mm at Joe cobb, firing casual at Joe and hit him a few times on the torso but found out it was a no go, since he had body armor, so he then target Joe,s knees and shot him both kness in a blink of an eye.
with the two remaining gangers left crippled in their legs and lost their guns, they tried to leap away
as Reilly approach the ganger with her sidearm in her hand, she was stopped by Liz
"his mind" Liz said smiling devily with her yellow eyes and her fangs
"are you sure he desvers this" Reilly asked knowing what is gonna happen
"i dont care" she said lifted her right hand and stap her claws in his neck and then eyes
Joe saw this and said "fuck this man your crazy" he yelled
the guy in leather just approach him and said "turn around"
Joe did as the man asked
The man then got Joe on his kness even when it hurt like hell
he pointed his 9mm pistol at Joe's head and shot him between the eyes
the fight was over
they had won, and ready to move on
Ringo approach the guy and handed him some caps as thanks, John then approach him and said "that was some nice shooting, you know you seem like a good shot, so what ya say joinning our little group" John offered
The guy said "yes on one condition"
"what is it" John asked
"i got an 'investigation' to solve and i need to ask around the nearby settlements for it" he demanded
John then nodded and said "fine by us, we were also planing heading that way. So the names John what about you"
"Ben" he said