Snowflake on the Sand

Deck of Six's

Chapter 1

Maximus glared as he stared at the platinum chip "The wrath of the old gods plays tricks on me once more" Victoria simply snorted.

"Typical Legion fuck, superstitious as their dead leader. How's Caesar's tumor eh?" Maximus simply glared "The son of mars is alive and well profligate scum, soon the Legion will crush the throat of the bear and you will see just how helpless you all are"

Winter shuddered a bit as she stared at the monster of a man that rivaled Lanius in height "Put the weapon down skirt boy, you are no longer in your world" Six commented as he walked up to him. For the first time since he faced the monster of the east Winter felt that Six looked small, the power armor already added a couple of inches and it was clear to see that even if he did not have it on Maximus would still dwarf Six in size.

There was a tense silence as Maximus stared at the scars on Six's forehead "The slave of technology dares to ask me to stand down. What would you be without all those machines wired to your head?"

Six grinned "A damn good shot and you are one trigger away from no longer having a brain" the Riot Shotgun hidden underneath his clothes was revealed making Maximus frown, Winter heard the monster of a man grit his teeth as he weighted in his chances.

"Is a three against one bucko, you ain't winning this rodeo" Victoria said as she gave him a cruel grin, Winter simply glared at him. Maximus spat on the ground "I won't go down without a fight"

Winter smiled sadly "Seems like none of you do, please just stand down. There is no need to die somewhere that is not your world" Maximus glared at Winter but let out a sigh and placed the weapon he had on his back. There was a tense silence as Six put away his own weapon, Victoria refused to holster her assault riffle "He is legion… he should not be allowed to live."

Six turned to look at her "Should we be the ones to kill him? He is not from either of our worlds… might cause some fucked up shit to the universes."

"Why?"-"Because you would be killing yourself" a voice said from the side making everyone jump in fright. A tall and slender figure grinned at them, its yellow teeth pointy like the ones of shark "Oh what fun! More of me, I must tell Yes Man of this!"

Six gave Maximus a look and the man nodded as he reached for his sword "Who are you?"

"Me? Oh I am courier six or that's what I think will make sense to you now. I go by Lara, or Doctor Death. Whatever suits you best, expert in medicine and… well death. I was studying anomalies near the Big MT and look at what I found" Lara jumped down to them and extended her hands "Family!"

With speed that was almost blinding she enveloped Six and Victoria in a hug, Six heard Victoria yelp as she was crushed under the hug while he simply caught a peculiar smell coming from her, it reminded him of the kitchen in the Ultra L-"Oh shit" Six muttered as Maximus prepared to strike the three of them down now that they had been successfully distracted.

"Ok I had enough of this" Winter stepped in as she froze their feet in place "All of you will cool it" Six snorted at that, Victoria meanwhile whistled "Well aint that just amazing, how did your girlfriend do that?"

Six smiled at his other self "Trust me you wouldn't believe me if I told you gorgeous"-"Oh I am full of surprises handsome, care to take a closer look?"
"Six stop flirting with… yourself and focus"-"I agree, the more we spent here the more likely is that we might cause irreparable damage to the worlds, that why I am here" Lara said as she broke free from the ice with ease, Victoria and Six stared at one another with surprise and then with some effort pried themselves free.

Maximus on the other hand decided that it was best if he did not move he spotted someone else moving behind him in the shadows, he could move when they least expected. Faster than he could react the shadow was behind Maximus "Hey legion boy, don't move. I will get you out of here" Maximus looked as a cloud of red gas followed the shadow and he recognized the smell of copper and death. Before the other Six's could react a bomb of red cloud exploded near Maximus as he and the new shadow disappeared "Oh that's bad" Lara muttered as she looked down at her Pimp-Boy 3 billion.

"What is that thing doing here!" Six jumped back as he vividly remembered the red cloud from the Sierra Madre, his empty eye socket began to itch like crazy. Victoria shuddered while Lara simply remembered how that old man had twitched while she killed him, she remembered the taste of blood. Winter felt cold sweat form on her brow as the enemy escaped, this was not good not good at all. Going home would have to wait. She motioned to Six to come closer and pointed at the dome "Have the brains lock down Big MT now!"

Maximus spat on the ground as he washed his mouth with water from his canteen, he absolutely despised the cloud but for now he was thankful to it, as he stared at the man that had freed him he could only feel distrust "The cloud from The Madre, you command it. How?"

Cristal blue eyes shone underneath a robe as the man simply shrugged "I know its tricks, I wiped the slate clean with it" he looked up as the dome sparked with energy and an alarm began to blast in the distance "We are at their mercy now it seems, can't go anywhere if they don't want us to"

The legionnaire simply cracked his knuckles "They are not as strong as the like to think they are" Maximus shattered a rock with his foot as he glared at the dome of the big MT "Let them try to capture us"

Victoria let out a long sigh as she crashed down on the bed that was on the sink "This… I missed, I don't come back here all that often you know" Lara for her part simply sat next to the bed as she hummed a song to herself. Six rested next to Victoria as he had the brains search for the missing sixes all over the Big Empty, while he tried to figure out how the fuck to get everything back in order "Why? I think this place is sweet" Victoria made a face "I got my hands full handsome, I need to manage the strip and assist the NCR around the region it's a bitch and half let met tell ya. At least the Brotherhood helps out from time to time"

Six flinched at that "You made the NCR and the tin cans play nice?" Lara asked from her spot on the floor, Victoria nodded "Yeah… didn't you?"

"Oh no, The Brotherhood loves me but I kicked the NCR out of Vegas and the Legion too, Benny's plan worked just fine it just needed a bit of… tweaking" Lara commented as she grinned, her yellowed teeth making it seems like she was an alligator on the prowl.

Six raised an eyebrow "So you went with Yes Man huh? Why?"

"I could ask you the same thing, why House? He has ruled over Vegas for so long and ahs done nothing until you came along, he needs you not the other way around, is it not better for everyone that someone that has always lived in the Wasteland help those around them? Who better than us?" Six chuckled a bit "Yeah but then the question becomes, are we really a good fit to rule the Mojave? I am no House to manage everything, I never had the brains for it"
Lara merely blinked at that "But I do"

Victoria snorted "Yeah, we can see that you are smart other me. But… how does it not become chaotic" Lara smiled "Oh it is chaotic, but its fun. The Mojave needs to be free and chaos always comes at the beginning of everything new"-"Poetic"

Lara giggled "Indeed, but poesy doesn't matter all that much right now. We need to fix this timeline mess, but I am happy about this… I am happy now"

Victoria raised an eyebrow "And why is that?"

"I always wanted siblings" the girl said as the other two blinked in surprise, from the other room Winter smiled softly as she heard the exchange. Guess being lonely was a universal thing for him, looking down at the map of the big MT she let out a long sigh as the radar tried "It can never be that easy huh?"

A/N: And that's it for now, I got all the player ready to go in the Big Empty. The Couriers stats are as follow, Victoria: NCR Courier main stats would be Guns, Speech and Energy Weapons. Six you know: Speech, Melee Unarmed and guns and as for Lara the Independent Vegas Courier… well she has intelligence energy weapons and survival. Maximus and the other I will keep a secret for now. Thank you for reading!