Okay this is the new and improved version of the chapter i hope everyone likes it
James awoke in the darkened room of the motel in Novac still slightly tired. He had been in Novac since the night before. Today he had to check in with the two people that where once soldiers in the First Recon. James looked at the window to see how long he had slept. It was still dark.
"Well Rufus it looks like we get to see Boone first." James said to the dog lying at the foot of his bed.
The dog looked at his master and panted making his face into resemblance of a smile.
James sat at the edge of the bed and grabbed the sand colored pants to his ranger armor and slid them on. He walked into the bathroom of his motel room. He turned on the light in the bathroom it was enough to make James shut his eyes from the pain brought on by the sudden jolt of illumination to his eyes. He looked into the mirror the edges where covered in grime but the center was relatively clean.
James looked at himself. His hair was getting long starting to curl at the ends. Dirty blonde facial hair in the form of a goatee covered his face. He felt the small scar on his cheek with his right hand. James looked at his eyes. Beneath his reading glasses he saw the greenish eyes he had. He looked towards the center of his iris and saw the rust red color. James turned the knob on the sink and let cool water run into his hands. He splashed the water onto his face to help aid in his awakening from his less then satisfactory slumber.
James walked out of the bathroom and put on his black shirt and his combat vest then wove his belt into his pants and added his storage pouches while doing so. James looked towards his duster and helmet debating whether to wear them. He decided against it feeling more comfortable with his riot vest on and his arms free from the restriction of the duster. James did grab his bandoleer and Hail Storm from his night stand securing the items to his person.
James walked out of his room and walked down the stairs to the ground. He walked towards Dinky, the giant T-Rex shaped building, then walked up the stairs and opened the door leading to the dinosaurs "belly", He looked at the counter where Cliff would be in a couple of hours it was littered with the Dinky toys as usual. James smiled then walked up the second flight of stairs to the mouth of Dinky to meet Boone the night sniper for the town.
"Boone." James said to the man wearing the red beret with a stained tan shirt and faded brown cargo pants.
"James, long time no see." Boone said in his normal monotone and emotionless voice.
"Yea I'd have come to visit but the Rangers had me stationed byLake Mead." James said with a chuckle.
"It's good to see you James." The sniper said with a faint smile building on his face.
"So what problems does Novac have this time around besides the Legion?" asked James.
"Manny has been saying something about ghouls at REPCONN." Boone said motioning to the way James had come from.
"Looks like I've got work to do then." James said letting out a faint sigh.
"Good luck James." said Boone "I'll see you when you get back."
"Thanks Boone." The ranger said "Come on Rufus we've got work to do."
Rufus whuffed and followed his master down the steps and out of the dinosaur. James walked back to his room and grabbed his service rifle. James walked through Novac still wearing his riot vest as his only armor heading towards REPCONN. As he reached the area just outside of Novac he saw a dead ghoul that was fluorescent green. James stared at the zombie like irradiated human, it was just skin covering bone veins and weak sickly muscles.
As James continued along the road to the facility he encountered living ghouls. The closest had their throats torn out by Rufus and the ones farther away where quickly and efficiently killed by headshots from James' service rifle. James had the building in his vision and more ghouls around the stairs leading to the doors. He lifted the rifle and aimed at the ghouls off in the distance and fired the one who didn't move fast enough where put down by the rifle and the rest faced a more painful death at the teeth of Rufus.
James made his way up the stairs and reached the doors to the building. He pushed them open and Rufus bolted inside and stood guard as James entered. On the ground just feet from the door was a dead supermutant, but it was different it still looked like a huge muscular humanoid but it was a pale blue color. In its dead hands it held a club made of rebar and concrete on the end making it a deadly sledgehammer like weapon.
James ducked down as he heard a ghoul running at him knowing Rufus was soon going to leap over him and tear its throat from its body. He looked at the site of the dog viciously shaking its head side to side as the ghoul ceased to move, something he could never get fully comfortable seeing. At that moment a voice came over a nearby intercom located on a wall.
"You there come up to the room in the east side of the building you go up the metal stairs." The voice through the intercom said.
"Okay." said James curious as to what was about to occur.
James looked to the east side of the building and saw a door; he walked over and opened it Rufus once again walking through first. After killing more ghouls James found his way to the large room containing the staircase up to the room he was told to go. He and Rufus killed the remaining ghouls in the room then advance to the stairs. At the top of the stairs he saw a ghoul it wasn't a feral but it was dead. It wore brown robes and had a strange pistol. James picked up the pistol it was obviously an energy weapon. He held it in front of him and fired it until it stopped firing. The tubes on the gun lit up after his firing cease and he clicked the trigger once more and it fired again.
"Even if I don't use it much it's a nice backup weapon if I'm tight on ammo." James thought as he slid the weapon into his extra holster around his waist.
James walked into the small room near the top of the stairs and rounded a corner and saw a door. There was another intercom next to it. James pushed the button and the same voice as before came on saying the door was unlocked now. He stepped through and standing down the short hall was a man who was almost bald wearing a lab coat.
"Alright smoothskin Jason is waiting just up the stairs in the other room." said the man.
"Smoothskin? But you're a human not a ghoul." James said.
"Don't even try to trick me now go to Jason before I keep you from making it there." the man said.
James walked past the man with a look to intimidate, that along with Rufus' growling made the man quickly walk out of sight. James chuckled lightly and continued to walk to the stairs. At the top of the stairs stood a glowing ghoul he was unique, the only glowing ghouls James had ever seen had been feral. The ghoul had the normal random missing patches of skin but his voice was as unique as he was, it had a more ominous sound and wasn't as raspy as normal non-feral ghouls voices where.
"Hello my name is Jason; the man you met earlier was Chris." Jason said.
"It's nice to meet you Jason; this is my dog Rufus, say hello Rufus." James said to Jason then the dog.
Rufus made a sound as he raised his paw for Jason to shake, which the ghoul shook gingerly as he began to smile.
"It is nice to meet you both; I wish to ask for your assistance." Jason as he stood up from the crouching position he assumed to shake the dogs paw.
"What do you need?" asked James.
"My flock and I are being stayed from our journey by demons who have taken residence in this building's basement. I wish for you to clear them out so we can leave to the Far Beyond." Jason said
James knew this was a peaceful way to get the ghouls to leave REPCONN, so he agreed to help Jason. The ghoul handed James the key to the basement level of the building. James left the room and was on the ground floor within the next two minutes. He walked into the hall he had noticed stairs leading to a door and walked down them and put the key in the door knob and unlocked the door.
The room James entered was only illuminated by fire in barrels. The floor was covered by randomly placed makeshift bedding. James raised his rifle and Rufus began to get into fighting posture. The duo walked through the doorway and searched for anything moving. At first they saw nothing but James saw the air down the hall shimmer, he fired at the area and a mutant like the one that James saw when he first entered the building materialized in the space as it fell from an accidental head shot delivered by James.
James couldn't help but laugh at the sight that just unfolded infront of his eyes but this was a bad idea due to the fact that another mutant rounded the corner and charged at him and Rufus with one of the concrete and rebar clubs. James was still able to aim in time and fired at the mutant's face three times killing it. James walked through the halls of the basement and killed more and more mutants as he searched for them
He found a closed door and inside was a more menacing looking mutant staring back at him. As James raised his rifle the mutant charged and Rufus ran forward. He squeezed the trigger but only heard a clicking sound. He tossed his rifle aside and drew Hail Storm and the energy pistol. He began to fire at the mutant but was soon struck and thrown against the wall with Rufus yelping as he joined his master. James drew his combat knife from his boot and jumped onto the mutant digging his knife into the creature's jugular vein. The mutant screamed in pain as he ripped the knife from his neck and once again threw James to the wall. It grasped at its throat in an attempt to stop the bleeding. This act was pointless as the mutant soon fell to the floor; James grabber Hail Storm and fired one round into the back of the mutants head killing it.
James looked at Rufus who cocked his leg and peed on the mutant's corpse. He again laughed and began to realize he was covered in the dead mutant's blood, so he soon stopped and pulled a cloth out of one of his pouches and wiped his face off after wetting the rag.
"This day is just getting funnier and funnier." James said with a smile on his face
Rufus looked at his master and panted making his face resemble his masters now smiling one.