An: I OWN NOTHING.
Location: Pre-War 'Europe?' (Six's POV)
Time: 18:00 pm Local Time
After rebooting ED-E, we started randomly walking in a certain direction until we could find some form of damn society. Along the way, my theories of us being in Pre-War Europe were starting to become more believable by the minute as I took in my surroundings.
'I hope we find some road or house. Just hope the locals won't.. wait.' I paused midway through my thought and gestured back to stop the others from advancing further after hearing what I can presume is... A horse?
"Uh... Boss?" Raul whispered, "Am I going feral or did you hear..." I slowly turned my head towards him and nodded while ignoring ED-E beeping in confusion on hearing actual horses.
Readying my Sequoia. I looked at my Pip-Boys compass and sure enough picked up three entities. "They're closer than I thought..." I whispered.
"Pip-Boy scanners are picking up two targets in our vicinity." I paused, "Here's my plan. You two find some hiding spots and stay here. I'm gonna see what the hell it is." I quietly ordered towards my colleagues.
"Okay boss, but unless you want me to squeak more than Slow-Poke Rodriguez I will. Until you get sucker punched by our 'friends' there!" The Vaquero sarcastically teased while I made my way towards our first 'hopefully friendly' local...
Not too far behind 'Junior', two figures (one on horseback and the other simply walking) are spotted through the night air towards their location. Belle, one of the figures, was listening to one of Joshua's sermons, reciting the book he's holding as they neared their destination.
"The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, "You shall not enter here." Nevertheless David captured the stronghold of Zion…(that is, the city of David)." Graham finished, reciting Chronicles 11:5 as he closed his totem. "I do hope I'm not boring you Miss Belle."
"Nono! It's fine Monsieur… It's rare to see a religious monk like yourself so.. Violent around here." Belle stated.
Joshua chucked. "It's alright Bel-" He paused and quickly pulled out his "Light Shining in Darkness." in alert.
"Monsieur Graham... What's wrong?" Belle nervously asked whilst trying to stay brave. "We're not the only people out in these forests Belle." He answered ominously.
"W- What do you mean? We're the only people out here. I highly doubt that anyone…. else... would..." Her voice trailed off as she spotted two piercing red eyes facing right at them.
I lost track of how long I was walking but from what I guessed, it was probably a few yards behind us three. Whilst doing so, I could've sworn I heard small voices in the wind talkin' about colors?…
I'll investigate that later. Has to be my brain imagining things. Drinking too much Scotch just as a way of healing instead of visiting a doctor would... What. The. Fuck?
Up a-head, to my utter bewilderment was a fucking castle. The exterior of it looked like if the Madre and Lucky 38 had an ugly bastardized child and wait... Why do I re-
"Joshua, we're the only people out here. I highly doubt that anyone.. else... would..." A feminine voice broke my shock.
I turned around and standing behind me was Joshua Graham. 'Well that solves one pr-' I froze as I gazed at who was standing next to him. I've seen several. Several. Crazy shit thanks to my head injury [Wild Wasteland]. But nothing paled in comparison for what I saw that made me mentally shit myself.
The figure was a brunette woman, probably around my age wearing a blue very-pre-war rural dress complete with a white blouse and gray cloak being used as a makeshift winter coa-
"As if the prodigal son has returned. Glad to see the good lord has kept you safe, Junior." Graham smirked as I shook his hand. "Same to you old friend." I then paused and turned to see the girl who looked like she'd seen The Sierra Madre...
"Ah. Didn't think I've introduced myself to you yet" I said before removing my helmet. "The name's Six and it's a pleasure to greet you again, Belle."
Belle's POV: I was at a loss for words on today's events. First Gaston tried to marry me, then Monsieur Graham interrupted my song number, and now I'm standing here in front o- wait.
"A- Are those bullet holes, Monsieur?" I asked nervously, pointing at the two scars just barely seeping through his hair.
He nodded, "Yeah some jackass in a checkered suit robbed me while I was out on a delivery run." He said before placing the helmet back on. "I'll try to explain it later. Right now though, I gotta c-"
Back to Six's POV:
I stopped mid-sentence when we heard faint rustling close by. Shortly thereafter, Raul and ED-E came' a tumblin' down a small embankment with the latter colliding Joshua. "Raul, the hell you doing out here? Told ya to stick at your post!" I said, while helping the ghoul up.
"We did, Jefe." Raul groaned, "But we ran i-" Before he can continue, A familiar voice suddenly popped through my Pipboy.
"-ourier. Courier, are you there?" I paused before glancing at my pip-boy. "What'd ya need Mr. Hou- WAIT. HOUSE!? HOW THE…." House butted in, "You do realize that I can easily hack into any Rob-Co Device at will right?" I nodded, "Yeah sure but… How though? There was no satellite con…" I paused mid-sentence before glancing at Raul.
"Raul." I started, "What the hell did you run i-" Suddenly I heard Belle start screaming in confusion. "QU'EST-CE QUE C'EST QUE SUR EARCH!?" I turned around and was greeted with… THREE CAZADORES FLYING OUT OF THE TREES LIKE THE VIETCONG!? [Wild Wasteland].
"HOW THE FUCK THEY GET HERE, RAUL!?" I yelled whilst reaching for my Remington 870. "They just showed up out of nowhere, Boss!" Raul exclaimed, "We had to ditch our spot and run in your direction!"
I ignored the final word while I quickly loaded in some fresh 12 gauge. "Worry about that later, I'll handle these fuckers." I very quickly worked the pump, opened V.A.T.S, and just three shots later were all dispatched.
For a while we all just sat there in the night until Belle broke the silence. "C'était la putain de chose la plus effrayante que j'aie jamais vue de toute ma vie. OH YEAH! Have you I-"
"BELLE." I chimed in, "I KNOW YOUR PAPA'S IN TROUBLE OVER THERE BUT I JUST HAD TO KILL THREE FUCKING CAZADORES IN THE MIDDLE OF FRA-"
"ENOUGH!" House rebutted, stopping everyone in their tracks (and quite honestly probably the reader as well [Wild Wasteland]) on what just occurred. "Arguing like greedy NCR Politicians is not going to take us anywhere." He said before focusing his attention on me through the Pip-Boy.
"Six, to answer your questions. The Mojave is stuck here as well. For now though, my signal is getting fainter. I will try to send help when I get more Rob-Co satellites out in orbit. Adieu." Mr. House finished before returning my Pip-Boy to its normal state.
My mind must be playing right? The entire Mojave Wasteland.. In Fairy Tales!? 'Oh good god I sure pray Caesar ain't working with them' I thought. "Well boys guess w- OW"
I was cut off mid-sentence by a kick gut punch to the stomach by… Belle!? "Monsieur… I've probably broken out of character FIFTY times by now today so ferme-le." Belle barged in angrily at me as I pulled my ass up from the ground.
"I've had it with you idiots! Until my Papa's found, all of you are sticking with…" she finally spots a small brown hat just beyond the gate and runs towards it.
"What's the matter child?" Joshua quizzed. "This.. This is Papa's hat!" she exclaimed! "C'MON! PAPA MUST BE INSIDE." While Belle rushed to the door, Raul quietly walked up to me with a smirk on his face.
"I must admit, boss.. It was kind-of funny seeing you get sucker-punched." Raul teased. "Ah shut it, Vaquero." I chuckled before we ran in pursuit of her.
Location: Central Pennsylvania
Time: 10:00 am
Billy, after aggressively petting the dogs for five hours, calms down as Jim and Elizabeth quietly walked up to him "So… Billy?"
"What the fuck do you want!?" Billy snapped back "Ah!" Elizabeth jumped from his rude snap. Jim stepped in front of her.
"I'll take over from here. Start making dinner before your Aunt gets here." Jim exclaimed, as Liz nodded and went to do as she was told.
"Alright." Jim started, "I want you to explain why you fell into my living room nicely and slowly. Got it?"
"As if I don't have any fucking choices… Fine. I will. But be warned. This story will involve a death counter higher than your puny trench warfare." Jim gulped nervously after hearing Billy say that to him. "Al.. Alrighty! Just start away"
Jim replied before Billy starts explaining the whole lore of Fallout NV in painful and excruciating detail.
AN: Rewriting this chapter was a whole pain. Hope it's better than the original draft.
So the plan for this moving forward is still having the same story structure but some of the unnecessary bullshit will be cut. Oh some stuff will be in for sure but I'll explain the changes as I move along.
