Chapter I: Back to School
"Ginger, go grab your gear and meet us in the entrance hall. Josh, Dylan, let's go take out some of these stupid fucks."
"Only if we have to Sean, we shouldn't kill them if they aren't threatening us," Dylan added solemnly.
"You're right, I just got a little worked up there. Sorry," he said with a bit of regret.
"Alright guys I'm ready to go, and you left fuckin' grenades in your lockers you dumb-asses. We each put one in with our gear remember?" Clayton stated sarcastically.
"Well, I feel stupid about forgetting those." Josh stated.
They made their way to the entrance hall, which is actually a giant room like a great hall, and three of them saw their first glimpse of the what the wasteland has to offer.
They saw a group of ten people in patchwork armor. They had dried blood all over them and odd hairstyles. They were carrying weapons of different sorts, and saying the most repulsive and vagrant things.
"Yeah so that last place we were at, you know how they had all them cute girls there? Well had this one with the biggest boobs ever, and oh boy did she struggle! I then started ripping her clothes off and-" *BANG!*
"What the FUCK! Who the hell just shot him?!"
"I did ass-hole," Josh pronounced defiantly, "You sick fucks deserve to die."
They all just stood there looking at this man for a second. His short brown hair and glasses. standing at about six foot tall, holding a hunting rifle up in firing position. Then all hell broke loose...
Josh dove to the right as one of the raiders started to lift their gun. A fucking pistol is all it was but it could still kill him. Dylan, Sean, and Clayton came out and started to help him. Josh popped above cover for a second and took off another one of the people's heads. Sean also managed to kill one.
There was only one left by this time, so Josh took aim and *Bang*.
"Ahhh FUCK MY LEG!"
"Good job Josh, now lets find out where these fucks came from. So, where are you from? And if you don't tell us our friend with the sword here will definitely be able to persuade you..." Sean looks over to Dylan with a sly grin. Dylan just nods his head in agreement.
The raider looks at the four guys standing above him. The one that shot his friend first is kind of built. he closes his eyes and says, "We are at the place that says, Davison High School, alright? Now please just let me leave-"
He stops as his head bursts with the impact of a bullet. Sean lowers his gun and puts it in his holster. He looks at his friends and they all just start to head out of the vault...
A few days earlier...
A caravan was going east along a highway, bringing Aqua Pura from the Capital Wasteland into a place that was known as Michigan before the war. Specifically, a town called Flintsville. A settlement made from a pre-war city.
One of the caravan guards randomly asked, "Hey, when are we gonna get there?"
"We will get there when we get there dammit," the lead guard replied with annoyance in her voice.
*guns being fired*
*loud screams*
"Shit! the traders are dead! Jenkins, grab as much of the water as you can an-Ahh!"
"NO! Sarah come on don't die! Please!"
The guard known as Jenkins grabs Sarah and starts to run the opposite way they were traveling, only to hear a single more gunshot, and then it was black.
A man approaches the caravan, seemingly talking to himself.
"Perfect, this will do nicely for my...experiment. Grab the water and take it back. Then we will initiate the test with the so called raiders at that God-Forsaken hell-hole that was an old school."
Back to the present...
"Those stupid fucks had nothing good that we could use. Goddammit."
"Yeah so what, they were just stupid raiders Sean. We need to worry about the school," Josh said.
"Oh look guys, we're here," Dylan said with mild surprise, "Lets see if our pip-boys have any maps or something."
"Yeah it does. Good thinking Dylan," Josh said with a note of glorification, "But it's only a map of the outside."
"We went to this shit-block for four years guys, I don't think that we really need a map," Sean said as he looked at the building, "Oh god, those were some good times. Considering now that is. Hah."
They laughed at the horrible joke for a few minutes, remembering the times they had spent going through the daily bore that was high school.
"Still, even though they were somewhat annoying, all those people are gone now, and I kind of miss them," Sean whispered on a sad note.
Dylan added, "Yeah, I do too kind of."
"Why?" Josh said.
"Because that world is gone and replaced by this one, and it will never come back," Sean trailed off. Josh said nothing at that comment.
"Well, instead of being little bitches and dwelling on the shitty past, why don't you focus on the shitty future and figure out how we're gonna tackle this."
"Good point Ginger, let's do that. So I'll go in near the office, Dylan you get the gym doors, Sean you get those ones and Ginger go in the doors that lead into the cafeteria."
"Alright, lets do this," Clayton said with sarcasm.
"Oh but guys," Dylan added, "We gotta do it all sneaky-like."
Sean replied, "Dylan's right, don't fire unless necessary."
Josh opened the doors, then realized that wasn't needed. The doors were glass so the explosions blew them out. He looked around noticing the worn down bricks, and the old terminals and other things scattered around. He looked at the office, pondering, then decided to go in.
"I can't believe it, this place looks better than before...and damn those RobCo terminals were built to last." he said aloud to himself.
Laughing at his own joke he found nothing of interest in the office. As he was about to leave however, he noticed a black cube box thingy. A safe that, as he soon found out, was locked.
"Damnit. I guess I'll go meet up with Dylan."
Meanwhile...
Sean opened the double doors that were amazingly still standing. He could feel something in the air, but couldn't quite figure out what it was. He looked at the yellow lockers, just remembering that the school was color coded by lockers.
"God, that's so dumb," he said aloud to himself. "These were the freshman lockers that year. Yeah, I remember that they were. They were actually pretty cool. I know but let's not think about that. Now I'm fucking talking to myself again, ugh right back into old habits."
*Grrrrrr*
He looked to the left where he thought the source of the growl was. Then, Sean saw a feral dog, with meat hanging from it's teeth. Fresh blood on it and some skin was missing. Obviously fresh wounds. But mostly he noticed the black, soul-less eyes that led one into nothingness. Slowly, he moved his hand closer to the .45 on his hip as it stood there. As quickly as he could, Sean drew his gun and put three bullets into it. Two in the head and one in the leg, and somehow it wasn't fucking dead yet. It lunged at him and he barely got out of the way. Then he heard a noise, like something was squished and looked around. A young girl was standing there with a knife stuck into the dogs head.
Also...
Dylan Walked right into the school because the doors no longer had any glass. He looked at his pip-boy's screen and saw there was some enemies in the gym. But first he had someplace he wanted to go to first. He turned left and went down a hallway into a big cold room.
"I can't believe I'm actually here again. The band room, oh! Where are the xylophones!?" he thought with much excitement.
Unfortunately there was not much left of the room. There were a few scattered chairs and stands that had been flung around. He stood there reminiscing for a few minutes, then he heard a gun being fired.
Downstairs...
Ginger entered through the doors that led to the basement/1st floor/cafeteria. Whatever the fuck you wanted to call it. It was empty except for the old lunch tables and some alcohol.
"Wow, what a waste of my fucking time. God damned ass-holes sending me down here to fuckinlook for shit. There isn't shit in here at all. They sent me down here because I'm fat, didn't they? Fuck them, I'll go look at the up stairs, but there'll probably not be shit up there either."
After a few seconds of climbing the stairs he got to the third floor. he searched for a bit but only found that the classrooms had been turned into living areas for the raiders. Looked like each room only housed a few people.
*BANG! BANG! BANG!*
Around the school the three froze as they heard the gunshots. Wondering what it was that had caused the other one of them, though they didn't know who, to shoot their weapon.
Dylan was snapped to attention as he heard them. Then he heard voices coming from the gym. He snuck up the hallway, and peeked around the corner. Seeing that there was only five raiders, he wasn't concerned. *BANG* One of the raider's heads was gone as they all took cover from the office area. Dylan caught a glimpse of Josh down in the office.
Dylan snuck up behind one and stabbed his sword through the raiders stomach. That's right, a classic sneaky execution. The other raiders had no clue that he was slowly killing them from behind, as they were all focused on shooting Josh, who hadn't even come out of cover after the first shot. He assassinated four of them. Wow they are really stupid.
"Damn, Dylan! you killed the rest of them, good job man!" Josh yelled from down the hall.
"Thanks man! Yeah, I stealth assassinated all of them. With my sword! Do you think Sean would need any help?"
"How do you know that was Sean?"
"Because Ginger has an assault rifle, and that was three single shots."
"Oh, good point. Hmm, nah he won't need any help. I haven't heard any more shots. Let's go search the gym for any stuff we could use."
"Alright, that sounds like a good idea."
Dylan started towards the gym, his shaggy blonde hair flowing as he moved. Josh looked toward his friend who was the same height as him. Josh remembered back when there used to be arm wrestling competitions and Dylan's buffness always had him winning. He is still a skinny guy though, built and skinny.
'I would not want to be on the receiving end of one of his punches.' Josh thought as he followed Dylan into the gym.
Sean stood there for a few minutes just staring at the little girl.
"Why are you so clean?" she asked innocently.
"Well, I just got out of a Vault," he replied.
"What's a Vault?"
"It's a place where people live, it's underground and safe from anything outside."
"So there are more people than just you? Where are they at?"
"They're exploring this building right now. But don't worry they're nice people."
"Than can I come with you?" she asked in a soft, pleading voice.
"But what about your parents? Where are they at?" he asked, slightly confused.
"They were like that doggy, so I had to save them," she answered in an even softer voice.
Understanding what she meant, Sean just nodded. She ran up to him and jumped up as he caught her. The poor girl was balling her eyes out. Sean almost was too.
"Whats your name sweetheart?" he asked in a whisper.
"Lucy, and this is Rose," Lucy replied as she stopped crying and pulled out the knife she used.
It had a rose at the base of the handle, and a rose design on either side of the blade. Sean put her down, told her to put the knife away, and to follow him. She did so and they went to meet up with the others.
During that time, Ginger had managed to meet up with Josh and Dylan.
"Hey guys, whats up?"
"Oh, hey Ginger, have you seen Sean?"
"No I haven't Dylan."
"Here I am guys," Sean said as he casually walked up.
"Oh, look who's here..." Josh stated with no sarcasm whatsoever. "Um, you do realize you're being followed, right?"
"Wait...I was being followed? I never realiz- of course I knew that!"
"Relax man, just a joke, calm yourself."
"I will not thank you very much!"
"Ladies please, something is heading this way." Clayton said as he looked around.
"He's right I think its more raiders." Dylan added.
"Very perceptive Dylan, I'll go up to the roof, and see if I can't take out some of them, I can't kill all of them so be ready." Josh said as he ran towards the stairs.
"Alright then, let's get set up so that we can funnel the ones that actually get in the building." Dylan commanded.
A few minute later, up on the roof...
"Alright then let's see what we got heading in our direction."Josh mumbled to himself as he looked through his scope.
"Oh shit, there is one in metal armor carrying some sort of large flamethrower, and he has a helmet on damn, looks as if I have to shoot his friends, oh well."
There were three shots fired and three heads exploding outside the front door to the school. The others knew that Josh would not be able to hit anymore as they were getting too close.
"C'mon sweetie, you need to hide," Sean said grabbing Lucy, taking her into a room further back, "Stay here until we're done, okay?" She only nodded.
Dylan was hiding behind the desk next to the doors, while Ginger and Sean took cover behind another desk a few yards in front of the doors.
"Haha Fuckers! Here I come! Hahahahaha!" the metal clad raider screamed in craziness, lighting up his flamer.
"How the fuck do we kill this guy?" Sean asked to no one in particular.
"Let's use our grenades we packed," Ginger replied.
"Oh, right, kinda forgot about those," Sean said feeling incredibly stupid.
Dylan decides to assassinate the metal raider, but not in the conventional way. He instead planted a live grenade on the raider without being noticed. Sean and Clayton noticed this and dropped to the floor as he went BOOM! Taking about three other raiders with him in the explosion and setting the area on fire.
Still on the roof, Josh suddenly heard a loud noise.
"Oh damn, that was an explosion. I probably should get down there and help, but the stairs are too fucking slow," Josh stated with puzzlement, "Fuck it. Time to do something stupid." Josh, keeping his word that he'd do something stupid, proceeded to jump off of the roof onto the ground. He did manage to land on a raider killing him, however, it did not stop him completely and he broke his leg.
Dylan was, unfortunately, knocked out by his own grenade blast. Sean had managed to kill two more raiders in the confusion following the grenade. Clayton however, killed three by just shooting them, as he was experienced in the wastes.
To the two friends' surprise, the raiders had stopped shooting. Daring to take a peek, Sean looked over the desk. What he saw blew his freakin' mind.
There was Dylan, sprawled on the desk unconscious, partially hanging off of it. Also, Josh was somehow on the ground in front of the school, on top of a raider. He was screaming in agony holding his leg. Sean assumed he broke it and had internal bleeding and he then thought, 'Dumb ass'.
Lastly, he noticed that his original estimate of twenty raiders was off. There was only twelve.
"Oh, damn. They're all dead," Sean said with great surprise.
"Oh, are they?" Clayton asked.
"Oh shit! We gotta get these two back to the vault!" Sean exclaimed with sudden realization.
"Why?" Clayton asked, staring at him. Sean just stared back. "I'm just kidding." Clayton went to Dylan and tried to pick him up.
"Son of a bitch, he's fucking heavy." Clayton said grunting to lift up the unconscious Dylan.
"Well, yeah genius he's hooked onto the desk." Sean stated as he helped Josh to his good foot.
"Shut up." Clayton retorted.
"That could of gone much better than it did." Josh said regaining the strength to speak.
"Well duh, you jumped off a goddamn roof, what the hell were you thinking!" Sean said with a tinge of annoyance in his voice.
"Well excuse me for trying to save you, but that's what I get isn't it, no gratitude whatsoever." Josh joked.
"We should probably head back to the vault this place is still on fire. Lucy, are you coming?" Sean said hauling the cripple out of the building.
"Yeah, I am." she said running to catch up with them.
"Anyone else glad to see that place on fire?" Clayton asked as they looked back at their old school.
"Oh hell yes." Sean said.
"Yeah, that fucking place broke my leg." Josh answered.
"That was your own damn fault, not the school's." Sean told him.
"Fuck you."