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Chapter 4- Nipton to Novac

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I didn't get anymore sleep. When I woke up it was 3:41 a.m

It's now 7. I'm leaving at 9:00. I'm still tired...but I don't want another dream like that. I laid on my bed, making noises to keep me awake. I don't remember stopping, but I fell back asleep, I woke up at 8:20. Now it's time to get some supplies.

"Excuse me, Mr. Nash. I'm leaving soon and I was hoping if you could sell some water and food to me if you have any..." I asked as I walked in the Mojave Express building.

I saw an old eyebot on the counter and then I looked at the older man.

"Sure...I have 2 bottles of water. One purified and one dirty. Also we have a couple of boxes of Fancy Lads. I can give you these 4 items for 40 caps. Also, if you want...you can take a look at that robot." Nash said pushing the items over, I gave him the caps and took the items. I walked over to the robot and examined it.

"Can I borrow a screwdriver?" I asked, the eyebot had some screws lose, and it was needing another electric charge, maybe a battery over at the workbench would help. Nash handed me a screwdriver and I quickly fastened the screws. I told Nash I'd be right back and I ran out the door. In the Gas Station's garage I grabbed a battery and ran back to the outpost. I charged the eyebot and it beeped happily.

"Now that you fixed it, you can keep it. It's an ED-E eyebot." Nash said smiling.

"Thank you," I turned to ED-E, "Wanna come with me? I could use some help out in the wasteland..."

ED-E beeped and started following me.

I looked at my Pip-Boy and marked my compass to lead me to Nipton.

On my way there, I had saw two men that looked like solders...more NCR? But they're wearing uniforms, they were wearing Crimson-Colored Armor.

"Out of our way, degenerate!"

Who are they calling a degenerate?

"Excuse me, who are you?" I asked as they walked past me.

"That is none of your concern, profligate. Now stop asking idiotic questions."

Well. They'll see one day that I'm not the one to be fucked with, but I'm trying to get to Nipton right now.

I could see the buildings set on fire from a quarter of a mile.

It confused me...why would there be-- unless the town was raided.

I passed the "Nipton" sign.

It was cloudy, dark clouds...rain in the desert? Great.. I'll leave a bottle out to collect water.

There were more Crimson-Colored-Armor men here.

I hid before they could see me, one was walking in my direction, so I went inside the General Store.

"What are you doing in here? Those men destroyed the town."

"Great! First those Legion cunts break both my fucking legs, and now the Devil himself walks through these doors! Fuck man, what do you want from me?"

"I only killed like four or five of you, what's so bad about that? Here's something to take the edge off." I handed him a Med-X.

"T-thanks. I don't know. I heard some stories. Like you stabbed Cobb 17 times and cut everyone's throat. You tellin' me they ain't true?"

"What the fuck are you talking about you idiot. Yeah I stabbed Cobb, one time." I said, grabbing a Diet Nuka Cola of the counter, opening it, and taking a sip.

"Oh...wow, some wild stories right?"

"Yeah...why did those men break your legs anyway?" I asked, trying to hurry up the conversation. If they're scared of me, then good.

"This lottery thing...the town entered in it. I was the 'lucky' one. Besides the winner, which he got to walk free. I got to crawl free."

"Ah, okay. I'm gonna talk to these guys now. Maybe it won't be a bloodbath."

I left and walked to the town hall, which the main Legion guy was there.

" I will not have you lashed to a cross like the rest of the degenerates, but I want you to tell people about the things that you see...I want you to teach everyone you meet the lesson Caesar's Legion taught here."

"No. I'm not doing shit for you. Die you Legion scum!"

I took my 9mm and shot him in the stomach. I kicked his knee and he fell to the ground. I shot at other Legionaries and ED-E took care of the dogs. Vulpes Inculta, the leader of the group, was still alive, he punched me and I fell to the ground. He grabbed the gun from my hand. He shot ED-E and ran.

"Fuck! ED-E you okay?"

ED-E beeped a hurtful beep, but then a happy sounding beep.

I tasted a Iron-y taste on my lips. I felt something run down my nose. I wiped my nose and saw the blood on my hand. I took out a rag that was in my bag, and held it on my nose.

Maybe I should tell someone about what I had saw...that Nipton was set aflame.

"Now to Novac, come on ED-E."

I walked a mile or two probably.... I took out a dirty water and started drinking it. My Pip-Boy then started to make a noise. It has a RAD detector in it...huh. That's pretty...Rad don't you think? See what I did there? No one is going to see this except me so why am I writing this in here....

Anyway, I could see the Dino and I knew I was getting closer. I heard a pang of thunder. A breeze went by, it felt good...drying the sweat from my face.

I had opened the hotel door, when a slight rain had began to fall.

"Hello, I was looking for a place to stay for the night, nice weather we're having right? Heh heh." I joked to the manager of this place.

"I'm Jennie May...a room is 20 caps." I handed the caps to her as she continued. "It's the one directly above here. And yes! We don't really get much rain ha-ha!"

"Thanks Ms. Jennie!" I nodded as I walked out the door.

I opened my hotel room door and set out a bottle to collect water before I went inside.

"ED-E...you need to stay inside for the rest of the night, now that it's getting dark. Can you repair my guns?" I asked as I set my bag on the floor, I laid the guns on the floor as he beeped and started repairing them with his tools that were connected to his robotic body.

I took out a box of Fancy Lads and a can of Pork & Beans I found at the store. I took a bottle of water out and got the rest of my Diet Nuka Cola and drank and ate slowly, so I could get full faster.

I could get used to being out here after all.

I turned the radio on for the nightly news. I'll visit the townsfolk first thing tomorrow. I read some of a Pre-War book I had found in there.

Something about an un-dead apocalypse.

I laid on the bed and drifted asleep.

ED-E was beeping in the morning and had woke me. Something had him upset. I put my clothes on and grabbed my repaired guns and stuck them in my bag. I stuck my Weathered 10MM in my holster and walked out the door.

"Ho..ly...shit" I whispered as I saw a dark cloud throw a spark into the ground below me.

"HEEEEEELLLPPP!!" A woman yelled as she ran away from the sparks flying into the ground. She was grabbing her child and I knew that she was struggling. I jumped over the railing and landed on my feet. I ran to the woman outside of the gates, a wanderer I guess.

I grabbed the child and picked her up. "Come on!" The mother followed closely behind me, when I passed the gate. Her little girl yelled for her mom. I told her to go upstairs and sit in my room with ED-E.

I ran out of the gate looking for her mother, but she was gone. I felt something grabbing at me, and I heard my pip-boy start crackling again.

It was a radioactive twister, and I was almost sucked into it. I ran as fast as I could, I was still getting pulled on, but not with as much as force before. I ran through the gate and told the girl and ED-E to come with me. We all ran into a bottom motel room.
"You need to leave." I heard a man say behind me...

"We can't there's a twister outside. If you don't want me here then I'll leave but just let the girl stay here."

The man sighed, "Alright...you can stay...just go in the bathroom and keep your head down. I'll be on my bed, trying to get some rest. So don't be loud. I'm Boone..."

"I'm William, this is ED-E and this is...uh...what's your name?" I asked the little girl, she couldn't be older than 10.

"Daisey...Smith Where's my mom?"

"She wanted you to stay with me for awhile, okay? I won't hurt you...are you hungry?"

I nodded at Boone and walked into the bathroom.

Daisey was hungry, and she ate a whole can of Pork n' Beans and drunk a Purified Water.

She had fallen asleep about 30 minutes later and she was sitting across from me. I tried to get more sleep too, but I couldn't. Boone walked in the doorway and stared at me.

"It's over. Get out." Boone ordered.

I'll get more information out of him later. But now I'll leave. I brought Daisey to my room and put her on my bed, I laid the cover over her body and laid out another water. I'm gonna talk to Jennie again later but right now I won't go to far away from the girl. I sat outside the door and looked over the town and then out into the Wasteland.

I went to the dinosaur to get supplies.

I forgot to mention, that little girl, had a bag on here, it had a teddy bear, shoes, clothes, and a bag of 1000 caps. She gave them to me, saying she really didn't need them now. Her mom gave them to her, they were going to New Vegas, or around there, and that and another thousand caps were going to be what they lived off of until she found work.

Sadly, she won't be finding work soon.

I also found out the girl was 8. I knew until I found a place to for her to stay, that I had to look after her.

With the caps, I figured I'd buy lots of food and water for us.

I bought

1. 10 bottles of purified water
2. 5 bottles of dirty water
3. 8 Fancy Lad Snack Cakes
4. 5 MREs
5. 3 Sugar Bombs
6. 4 Nuka Colas
7. 10 Sunset Sarsparilla
8. 2 dinosaurs
For 250 caps, I got a good discount thanks to Jennie.

I went upstairs, looking for Manny.

"Hey, do you know those guys that attacked me? Checkered coat, Great Khans."

"Yeah I know em. But you need a favor, and so do I." Manny said smiling.

"Alright, what is it. I'll consider doing it." I said, kind of frowning at him...I want this to be over as fast as I can get it done.

"We got a ghoul problem over at the Reppcon place up the road."

"I'll look into it." I was lying, hopefully, Manny writes a journal like me, and keeps it out.
"Alright thanks, there's something about you that I like, and trust."

I nodded at left. I went to check on Daisey before I went snooping around. It was getting dark now...what did I do all day? It feels like time is going really fast. Like a minute is 2 seconds. Maybe my injury.

I will check out the place, but not right now, I have a little girl with me, and well, I don't wanna.

I checked my room and saw the girl playing with the Teddy Bear.

Cute. Seeing a innocent girl not knowing anything about the harsh world.

"Oh hey, I got some food, got you these toys too! Here's some Sugar Bombs, and here's a soda."

"Soda? I've never had one of those before. Hey look! It's got a cap on it! Thank you for the dinosaur Will!"

"Nuka Cola, and you're very welcome, Daisey." I said smiling. She ate the food while I drunk a water.

"I'll be back in a little while. I'll be in town so don't worry, if someone tries to come in, don't let them, unless they say who it is. ED-E will be here to protect you. Tomorrow I'll get you some more toys, how does that sound?"

"Okay, and that sounds cool! Maybe I can get a car or another bear... or another dinosaur...or--"

"Okay, don't get to excited, haha. I'll be back."

I opened the door and locked it behind me. I went down the stairs and opened Manny's door, you think he'd keep his door unlocked. I felt a little bad for breaking in, but you have to do what you have to do. A terminal sat in the back of the room, I ran over to it and found that it was locked. Damn. I looked around for a password but I didn't find anything. I looked at the clock on my Pip-Boy and it was 9:05. Wonder when his shift is over. I've been in here for an hour already.

I heard something behind me when I walked back to the terminal. Manny!

I jumped into the old bathroom and looked the door. I heard him close the door and walk closer to my position.

Why did I wait so long before I came in here?

"Better get some rest, I gotta go to the bathroom first." Manny said to himself, strange that he was doing so, but sometimes I do it to.

I was afraid he heard my heart hit the floor. He tried to open the door but it was locked.

"Damn it! Not again. Guess I'll go outside then." Manny said turning from the door.

I heard the front door open and I think he left it open.

When I grabbed my bag to leave I heard something drop to the floor.

A can of Pork and Beans rolled from my bag. I picked it up and shoved it in my bag and closed it.

He probably heard it. 'Just my luck...' I thought to myself.

He didn't come in , guess he's far enough away to not hear it, just as I unlocked the door and stuck my head out, he came back in.

He came to the terminal and sat there writing the events of the day there I guess. He needs to hurry. I sat down and prepared to wait a while. I waited another two hours before he went to sleep. My luck exactly..
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