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Charming Killer	By : TheFashionableNerd Category: +A through F > Fallout (Series) > Fallout (Series) Views: 5389 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not have any ownership of the Fallout 3 franchise nor do I make any money of this, its just for fun as a fan of the coporations game.

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Nika was having a great dream of a large man between…well; anyway, she was having a great dream until she was shaken slightly and roused out of sleep. She got up on her elbow on the bed and rubbed her eyes. She finally opened her bleary eyes to see Amata standing there. She collapsed back down and forced her eyes shut, trying to pull back her dream. She was shaken again, “Go away Amata.” She grumbled, not wanting to rise from such a great dream.

Amata glared, “Get up. Come on! You need to get up! It’s your Dad!” She said quickly.
“What’s wrong Amata?” Nika said sitting up quickly and rubbing sleep out her eyes.
“Your Dad! He’s gone. He left the Vault. My dad…”Amata trailed off before finding the courage to continue. “He’s gone insane. They’ve killed Jonas! I got here before them but you have to get up. You need to flee.” Amata finished hurriedly while helping Nika get into a jumpsuit, which she just tied at the waist and left her tank top showing instead.
“What am I supposed to do Amata?” Nika said, for once looking lost. Amata paused in her assistance, not used to seeing her level-headed friend a nervous wreck. Nika just continued on, not expecting an answer. “And what do you mean my dad left the Vault? I thought we couldn’t.” She said now packing some small essentials from her room, a picture from her 10^th birthday, her BB gun, the stuff from the first aid kit, even a baseball bat and a spare jumpsuit. She made to grab a large amount of toothpaste containers and many spare toothbrushes as well, knowing that she likely won’t be coming back. Two different styles of hairbrushes were also placed in the pack with some hairbands. All in all, everything to look presentable wherever she needed to go.
“You need to leave the Vault. Your Dad found a way. Here, take these.” Amata said, shoving bobby pins, a 10mm pistol and some bullets into Nika’s backpack that now contained everything that she cared about in. Nika picked up the pistol and strapped it to her side, it was easier to access this way.
“Please use that as a last resort Nika…” Said Amata a little worried, knowing Nika would kill someone who was a threat without real thought. Afterall, horrible people weren’t real people. Nika nodded at Amata, promising to try to use her words first. “And please don’t hurt my father, he isn’t thinking correctly right now. The best way out will be through my father’s office, there is a tunnel that goes directly to the door. Now go! I will meet you at the vault door if I can.” Amata said and rushed off.
Nika checked to make sure she had everything she could need and then went into the halls looking around alert.
She quickly stumbled upon one of the officers fighting radroaches, trying to bludgeon them to death. He hollered angrily when he saw her and tried to then kill her the same time as the radroaches. Nika grabbed the loaded pistol and fired two shots into the officer’s head, before grabbing her baseball bat to kill the radroaches without wasting bullets. It left a sticky mess on it though, which she wiped clean on the officers now-dead body. She didn’t care that he was dead and she was handling his body, her dad made sure she was fine with the bodies he worked on, since he was also the vault coroner(population drops made jobs be combined). She was used to the dead, and since it was the dead of someone who tried to kill…well, she could care less.
She roamed through the hallways, saving Butch’s mom even. Enough had died that day; the woman didn’t need to die for her son being an ass.
She made sure to swing by her dads old office and look around, grabbing a bobble head with an insightful saying that helped her understand medicine a bit more. She kept looting everything, grabbing guns, ammo, and other such things.
She left armor on the bodies of the officers she killed for two reasons, she didn’t need the weight slowing her down and by the time she was done killing the officer the suit normally had tons of blood and brain matter on it. She wasn’t really squeamish, she just didn’t want to have to deal with cleaning the blood and matter off later, she was being lazy in that aspect.
Thankfully Officer Gomez was kind and didn’t attack her, just told her to hurry. Nika was glad she didn’t have to kill such a nice man. She thanked him for his support and flashed her signature smile, ensuring that he didn’t second guess his choice to let her go.
She quickly went through the halls grabbing supplies and killing when needed. She continually wiped her bat on the dead officers clothes to clean it, most officers were killed the same as the first, with two shots to the head, though sometimes she got a good shot and was able to kill the officer in one shot. Sadly, that wasn’t a common occurrence.
She was surprised with how much people blamed her for her father’s mistake; their ignorance angered her and made the violence easier. Well, that and the bullets flying past her head.
She even went by a window where a guy was yelling at her inside of the room, his yelling was grating on her ears and she decided to silence him, or at least dumbfound him. She lifted up her shirt and flashed him, since she wasn’t wearing a bra from the night he saw plenty. She then blew him a kiss and shook her boobs and he was stumped into silence. She smirked and went on her way, happy she could hear again. She didn’t care if that was supposed to be wrong; it was funny and saved her hearing. She didn’t really understand the concept of right and wrong when it came to showing skin.
She finally came upon the Overseer interrogating his daughter with one of the officers. When she entered Amata ran, the Overseer went into the corner and she defended herself from the officer that had held Amata at gunpoint.
Nika quickly eliminated him with a single shot in the eye, causing him to drop instantly.
“Hello Overseer.” She said, walking up to him, smiling and with a swagger in her bloody footsteps.
“Come to turn yourself in have you?” He said, ever confident no one would defy him. Nika stopped two feet in front of him, smirking.
“Nah, I will be on my way once you give me the password to your computer and the keys to your office. Just give me those and I will be out of your hair…or lack there off.” She said, smiling. She knew she would be winning one way or another.
“You will get those over my dead body.” The Overseer said, sneering before looking away, like it would make her disappear. Seeing how he was acting made Nika pause to rethink her approach. She really just wanted to kill him and be done with it. Sadly, she had promised Amata he wouldn’t be killed, she decided she needed to bluff her way through it instead.
“Ya know…” She said, pausing to cause him to focus on her fully. “Amata trust me a lot…” At that she paused to see his reaction to her speaking of Amata. He was glared at her. “If you don’t give me the password and key, then I will hurt her. You have seen what I am capable of, just give me those and I will be out of your hair and Amata will be safe.” She said, a slightly demented smirk on her face for added effect. Of course she had no actual intention of hurting Amata, she was her friend, but he thought she would and that is what mattered.
The Overseer glared at her, which had her smirking more. He sighed and spoke, “I don’t doubt you would harm her, it seems you have no values.” He sneered after saying this. “The password is Amata, and here are the keys to my office, just leave her alone.” He said while handing over a set of keys. Nika smirked in victory and took the keys.
“You made the right choice, I will leave you alone now.” Nika said and walked away, shaking her head at the Overseer yelling for the guards. She didn’t worry, she had killed all the nearby ones, so unless they could function without a head, she was safe. She continued towards his office until she entered the main offices and saw Jonas there on the ground.
She sank to her knees next to him, crying. Jonas had helped raise her, he was like another father. She lightly touched his beaten face, tears dripping down and splashing in the puddle of blood around him. She took in a deep, shaky breathe and tried to control her tears. She was very rarely emotional, crying when it concerned her family only, and that was just extremes. She always tried to ignore every negative emotion since positive ones were much easier to handle and much more useful.
After she had calmed down she carefully removed small things from his body and around him, including a message from her father. She found out her father didn’t realize that the vault was not a safe place for her, that she would need to escape. Her father did actually care, though he truly was ignorant of how people thought. Thank god he wasn’t a therapist.
Nika walked into the Overseer’s apartment and saw Amata with her head in her hands. She placed her hand on her friends back in comfort before she spoke. “Amata…” She said, trying to find how to phrase what she was about to say. “I left your father alone, even though I do think he is a demented, egotistical bastard. He is safe screaming for guards probably still, which won’t be coming.” She said smiling down at Amata who looked up with watery eyes. Amata sniffled and hugged Nika around her waist, finding comfort and a feeling of safety in her commanding presence.
Finally Nika got around to explaining the story she said to the Overseer, “I had to get the keys and password from your father so I told him a story…” Nika trailed off, trying to see if what she was about to say would cause a break of trust or unstableness. Amata wiped her eyes and looked up at Nika, waiting for the news. Nika got the sign that it was safe to continue; her words and trust never being questioned. “I told him that if he didn’t co-operate I was going to hurt you. You know I would never do such a thing, but he didn’t know that. So he gave it to me so I could leave. Please don’t be mad at me, I just needed to get the key and password.” Nika said with a comforting and trusting smile. Amata took her words just fine, seeing her friend like that won her over, so with a smile and a light hug Nika was forgiven for fake-threatening her life and using Amata as a bargaining chip.
After calming Amata down enough Nika went through the Overseer’s room and Amata’s to get some more supplies. She ended up finding some medical supplies and other small things, all of which were carefully placed in her vault-101 bag, which she thought was weird to have in closed in area, but it ended up being useful anyway.
Nika then went through the Overseer’s office with the key she had gotten, grabbing supplies in their before opening the door up to the tunnel. In the tunnel she walked around with her bat, killing the few radroaches crawling around. Suddenly she was there, standing in front of the large, daunting door. She went up to the console and put her hand over the lever, pausing trying to get the courage to make this permanent life change. She finally got the courage to do it and pulled the lever down. Alarms began blaring as the heavy door began pulling in and rolling out of the way slowly. All to slow for Nika’s taste, since time was of the essence. Amata ran in as soon as she heard the alarms.
“You did it! You actually did it!” Amata stood there amazed as the door started to finally pull to the side.
“Come with me?” Nika asked offering her hand as she heard the guards getting closer, talking about how she was in there but they couldn’t get the door opened.
Amata shook her head, “My father needs me here. I am the only one who can get through to him. Be safe. Go now!” Amata said as the guards opened the door finally.
Nika ran out the now open vault, the guards to afraid to chase her so they just shot after her for a moment, until Amata pulled the lever and the door dropped back into place. Nika heard the guards saying something along the lines of “I am not going out there, I don’t care what the Overseer says.” Nika just shook her head, glad that they didn’t have the courage. She got worried for Amata’s safety when she heard her yelling for them to get away from her. She knew she would be safe though, Amata is the only one in the Vault that would never be truly hurt by the Overseer. Even with his stupid threatening of her earlier.
With the door sealed Nika slowed and walked up to a rickety door with sunlight peeking through. She took a deep breath and opened the door.
Light flooded her vision, temporarily blinding her.
Nika just stood there for a minute, letting her eyes adjust. Once she could see, she quickly readjusted her pack and started walking. To where she didn’t really know, just…away.
She walked over uneven ground and passed through a town labeled Springvale. Nika marked it on her Pip-boy so she could return if she wants to since it appeared as a ghost town except for a weird flying robot broadcasting a message that seemed to be false with how out of context it was to the surroundings.
Nika then saw a hand-made metal sign that stated Megaton and looked more current and so she followed the arrow. When she came upon it she was quickly let in. She met a cowboy in the town who went by the name of Sheriff Lucas Simms.
The cowboy started talking, “I'll be damned, you're from that vault, Vault 101.” He laughed, “I ain't seen one of those jumpsuits in a long time.” Shaking off his nostalgia, he started warning her about behaving in his town. Nika smiled at him warmly.
“I understand sir, you don’t have to worry.” Nika said holding her smile in, nodding her head slightly.
“Well shoot, you have manners to! Who woulda thunk it?” Simms said laughing in astonishment. Nika quickly gathered that manners and behaving were a rare thing out here. Though she figured they would be in a wasteland, though it didn’t seem at all as savage and insane as the Overseer made it sound.
“Since I am talking to the Mayor and Sherriff I am wondering if you could direct me around. You see, I am looking for my father. He escaped that horrible vault and now I need to find him. Have you seen him?” Nika said politely, seeing that he would want to help a young woman who just wanted to find her father as part of his duty. She decided to leave the bit about her being chased and killing her way out quiet, as well as that her father broke the law to leave. He didn’t need to know everything anyway.
“I can’t keep track of every person; I suppose ya could talk to Moriarty but he is bad news. He is a slimy fellow that you should stay away from…” Seeing the spark in Nika’s eyes at the mention of a lead Simms realized she wasn’t going to be staying away, in fact, she was going to be doing the exact opposite. He sighed. “Moriarty is an Irish bastard who owns that saloon over there, seeing as you will be ignoring me advice and all....” The Sherriff pointed to a metal sign with the saloons name. While he was at it he pointed out the other places in the town, like where to go get caps from what she had to sell at Craterside Supply. She assumed caps were money from the context, an odd currency to her, but she understood the abundance of them made it an easy currency, and they lasted through the hell around her unlike paper money.
“Thank you for all the help Sherriff. Now that you have helped me, is there a way I can assist you around here?” Nika asked politely, figuring the faster she repaid the debt the better. It was never good to have an open debt hanging; she wanted it finished on her terms.
“Now that ya mention it, if you have the know-how could ya look at the damn bomb? I would try to be more open about finding people to deactivate it but they had to go an’ make a damn cult around it. The Children of Atom or something or other. Nice folks, but outta their damn minds. If you can do that, I will give ya 100 caps.” Simms said, it was a large favor to ask. Nika wanted to look into that anyway for her own safety but he didn’t need to know that.
“500 caps and you got yourself a deal. After all, that is a big deal. You want to live in safety and having a huge un-detonated bomb in your town center doesn’t exactly scream safety. So for a few extra hundred caps you can have that safety.” Nika said, trying to sound like she was selling a product rather than peoples safety. Simms seemed to consider what she said after looking at her long and hard. He sighed and shook his head.
“If you can get this done, I will give ya you’re 500 caps. Just…don’t kill us all. And don’t upset the worshippers, they like the warhead. Now get out of here before I end up in an even worse deal.” Lucas Simms then ushered her along.
Her first task was to go down and defuse the bomb that was ‘perfectly safe’ according to the greeting robot, so with 500 caps on the line she thought it was worth doing. She walked around the insane folks who worshipped the bomb. There was a man standing in the water preaching about bathing in the glow and relishing the power of Atom. She figured the radioactive water was helping with his insane thoughts.
Nika stood there for a bit listening until she was no longer a novelty and popped a panel off and saw that it wasn’t ‘perfectly safe’, the thing was live. She quickly clipped the right wire which was shown on the inside of the panel cover and removed the detonator so it would be hard to re-arm. It was a lot easier than she expected. One would think someone would have looked at the instructions on the panel before now.
After taking care of the bomb she walked up the mismatched metal plates up to the place that had “Craterside Supply” written on the sign, the top of the building round like a barrel. She pulled her bag off her back and went through, pulling out what she wanted to sell ahead of time into another little bag she had grabbed in passing before escaping the vault. Once she separated the excess medical supplies and other small things like police batons she put her pack back on and walked into the door to an unusual woman.
“Why hello there! Ignore the smoke, it’s no longer toxic. At least, I don’t think so!” The strange woman greeted….and at the same time scared Nika. She was a very odd person who you couldn’t judge, her upbeat attitude being all you can see. When surrounded by a wasteland and an abundance of death, upbeat people were scarier than any other.
“Um, that’s good… I guess. Not dying would be great. I was wondering if I could sell some stuff.” Nika said, entering further in, keeping a good distance between them with the questionable sanity of the woman.
“Oh! Of course! I am Moira by the way!” Moira said, pulling out some bins that were packed with many different supplies. “Here ya go, this is what I got!” Moira said in a still-scary upbeat way, showing her selection and telling Nika how much caps she had on hand to buy supplies off of her.
“I am Nika,” Nika said, pulling out her pre-seperated bag, handing it over to Moira, “Please tell me how much caps I can get for all of this.” After a short amount of bartering 200 caps were handed over, though Nika used it more of a learning expeirance to see what was worth more to people in the wasteland and trying to understand how much a single cap was worth, it seemed similar to pre-war dollars, just in a less manageable form. Moira was kind enough to give her a small bag to hold her caps in, since she didn’t have anything to hold them. Nika thanked her smiling, and started walking to the door.
Right as Nika went to walk out the door Moira called her back.
“Wait, Nika, right? I want to ask you something.” Moira said, grinning away as Nika walked back over to her, who was standing near her computer terminal.
“You look like someone who is going to be traveling a lot and maybe you could help. It wouldn’t be too dangerous. A t least, you shouldn’t die. I want to write a book to help people survive out there. A prologue of how you came from a vault to the waste’s would be great.” Moira said, leaving little room to not answer her prologue question. She really was a pushy person. Nika noted her style of getting what she wanted in case she needed to use that method in the future.
After some consideration Nika spoke, “It is a lot nicer than I expected. In the vault we were told the world was a crazy hell, no sane person alive and many horrible things. The Vault was cold, damp, and the lighting was horrible. The food also got very repetitive down there. All in all it was horrid.” Nika said, then paused again before coming to a decision, “I guess I could help you write your book.”
“Great, this will be great for the prologue! Now, for the first part of chapter 1 I need you to get a little….well, irradiated. 200 rads should do it, but to get really good results I need 600 rads or more. Just make sure you can get back here and I can patch you up with a bit of my homemade remedy! I can give you some caps for you trouble. Then I also need you to check out a landmine area and see about getting food and medicine at places like the Super-Duper Mart. That should wrap up chapter one!” Moira spilled out, all the things sounded insane to Nika.
After some consideration Nika decided it would be easiest to get irradiated and waved at Moira, the crazy bat, and walked out the door to her fate. How the manipulator was manipulated Nika had no idea, blaming it silently on underestimating the woman. Something she was learning to never do in the wastes.
Nika walked down the metal-plate ramp to the bomb, dodging the worshipers scattered around it. She then proceeded to wade in the water near the bomb and sat down, leaning against it. She decided to pass the long time and began watching the nutcases around it, as she slowly got more radiation into her system she relaxed more and slouched. Slowly the tingling had her drifting off to sleep for a short nap, a light enough one to wake up at any change.
She jerked awake when she heard someone laugh loudly at the Brass Lantern and got up immediately and looked at her Pip-boy which was still ticking, though much faster now. It read 700 rads, which would explain why she was feeling so sick and her limbs were so sluggish. Looking around she saw most of the town had drifted to finish the night in their own way. She rushed up the ramps to Moira before she closed and got in just before she finished locking up all her supplies for the night.
“Oh, you’re back!” Moira exclaimed. “And you are positively glowing!” Moira said initially, after having Nika sit down she asked her tons of questions.
“So how do you feel?” Moira asked when taking her basic vitals.
“While I think it adds to my already glowing personality, but if you listen carefully I can actually hear my genes crying.” Nika said, her eyes half-lidded from exhaustion.
“That’s right! Think positive! I am sure you will be fine, I just have to fix you up with my little home-made remedy here. I never had the chance to test it on a living subject before, how exciting!” Moira said, causing Nika’s eyes to snap open fully. The word exciting normally meant dangerous with Moira it seems, Nika noted that quickly. With Moira actually meaning well she then became one of the most dangerous people out there. One she knew she would probably end up doing more insane and dangerous stunts for, all for a good cause. She was a sucker for helping others in general.
Moira asked some basic medical questions that got actual answers and Nika had her reflexes tested. Once Moira got all she could for information she led Nika over to a couch so she could start the long process of treatment. After starting an I.V. Moira went and locked up and let Nika sleep for the night there, knowing the entire thing was very tiring. Moira then proceeded to go to bed, the treatment lasting all night.
Nika slept deeply, much more deeply then was safe in a foreign environment, but the radiation and then the treatment really affected her. When she woke up she looked over to see Moira who was sitting, chipper as ever, waiting to hear the results of her mystery treatment…and to tell her something she didn’t want to hear by the looks of it. Moira smiled her normal smile, though her eyes showed a bit of worry.
“There you go, all better. There was just one teensy, tiny, little, um… problem. I think it’s alright though.” Moira said as she stood up next to me since she was laying down on her couch. At her no-nonsense look women continued. “Well, there was just this slight problem. A small, tiny problem. Not a big deal at all,” Nika just gave her a look to just tell her the bad news. Moira continued finally, knowing she couldn’t stall anymore. “Just a teensy little…um, mutation.”
Nika shot up wide awake, “WHAT?!” She yelled, completely shocked. Mutation was a big deal. Nika took a big breath in, trying to steady her normally perfect nerves. It couldn’t be that bad, right? She felt fine and she didn’t feel any different. Moira just smiled more at her.
“You see, now you heal up when you have over 400 rads, just like a ghoul, without the icky torn-up skin to go with it. Of course you need to use rad-away after a bit, since your body won’t naturally flush it out like a ghouls. Maybe that is why there skin decays, hm. I wonder if, if that is true then maybe I can find a way for people to reverse the effects of ghoulification, perhaps still healing from it though. If I could just run some experiments on some of them…” Moira trailed off into her own thoughts, mumbling to herself softly. Nika just shrugged and got up, walking into Moira’s bathroom to change into another jumpsuit.
Nika pulled on her clean suit, feeling her body over for any physical mutations. She guessed what she was told could be a lot worse; healing for radiation could be very useful with all the dangerous out there in the irradiated wasteland. She shrugged, oh well, it could have been worse. Nika walked back out to see Moira was back from her little side-trip into her own brain and waiting.
“I almost forgot deary, here is your caps for your work and some extra rad-away. I wouldn’t tell others about your mutation though, I am afraid not everyone is as kind as me. We wouldn’t want you to end up as an experiment now would we?!” Moira said, while Nika agreed and knew she meant well, wasn’t she an experiment for Moira though? Nika shrugged and nodded at Moira, deciding to leave that tidbit to herself. Nika proceeded to go off after grabbing some more ammo and stimpacks from Moira to complete more of chapter one of the book.
Before Nika left she went and told Simms about the bomb being disarmed, earning an amazed response of “Well, hot damn!” from him. Nika was thrilled when he handed her a large bag of caps, she trusted that it was her asked 500 caps since she didn’t want to count one by one.
Nika hugged Sherriff Simms tightly when he gave her the deed to a house for disarming the bomb. Simms stumbled back and didn’t know what to do, Nika just hugged tighter and said “Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I didn’t have a home and you just gave me a home! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!” When she was done Nika pulled back with a huge grin on her face.
Simms smiled softly at her innocence, her natural reaction of hugging someone when thankful unusual but not unwelcome. It was a nice change for him to not be greeted with indifference or have someone snub an offering. Simms just chuckled at the young woman, “Your welcome little lady, just don’t be causin’ no trouble and you will always have a home here.” Nika nodded before heading up the rest of the way and went to her house first to look at it.
Walking in she was greeted by a flying robot, “Good morning Madam, I am your robo-butler Wadsworth. May I assist you currently?” Nika just smiled, madam, she liked that. She was never called that. She thought for a moment, she heard about such robots in passing and knew their capabilities.
“Nothing right now Wadsworth, I just wanted to check my new house out before I headed out. Thanks though.” Nika said and walked through the house to check everything else.
“Very well Madam.” Wadsworth said and moved on, dusting more things.
Once Nika was done she walked out the door hollering out to the robot as she walked out the door, “Wadsworth, I will be back in a few days so watch of the place!” She was gone before she could get a response. She walked to the door of Megaton and entered the wastes.
Walking through the wastes to the Super-Duper Mart was fairly easy, only encountering Bloatflies which were more annoying than an actual danger after breaking out of the vault. She walked down the hill towards the back of the store, before walking around to the front, waving to the merchant outside before ducking inside carefully. Once inside she shut the door carefully, trying to make as little noise as possible. She pulled out her pistol and crouched down, trying to get the element of surprise.
She walked in a bit farther and saw many raiders scattered around the store, walking on make-shift walkways. None were looking at the door, apparently no one knew she had entered. She peeked around the corner to see what appeared to be only one raider at a counter with tons of ammo around him. When he turned around to look at something else randomly she snuck up very close and stayed on the other side of the counter, out of site. When she heard him move something behind the counter she could tell he was turned away from his location. She got up and fired two shots directly into his head, skull and brain matter splattering the surrounding area.
Nika smiled in triumph, amazed she had killed him. This wasn’t some dumb vault officer, this was a crazy raider. Nika turned to the side to be greeted by an assault rifle leveled with her head by a crazy looking man with a Mohawk. “Fresh meat kiddies!!!” The raider yelled to his companions, walking towards Nika. Nika walked backwards, trying to stay away. She eventually was back against the wall, cornered against the counter. More raiders came closer, all smiling insane grins that spelled bad news.
Nika faced one of the male raiders from her position before settling on a plan. “How dare you!” She screamed at him like she was heartbroken. “You promised that I would be in charge! You even sold out other groups! Make up your damn mind you asshole! We had a deal, I was in charge, locations of other raiders, and then I gave you a way in to the Botherhood. You could live this shit-hole behind, that’s what you wanted! Follow through dammit!” She hollered at the man, seeming pissed off. He sputtered as the rest of the raiders turned on him.
“So, Ripper, thought you were better than us? I will show you!” Said one of the woman. She went down, as well as two other men before Ripper dropped. Nika quickly raised her gun at the rest who were distracted and quickly unloaded at least a half a clip in each one’s head. The few stragglers that came to her quickly had their heads removed in a rain of bullets.
Nika slunk against the wall at the massacre she had just made of the raiders. They were horrible people to her…she shuddered and tried to block some of her lurking thoughts out. She knew that such a massacre wasn’t abnormal in the wasteland, but she never thought she would ever see such a scale, and be the reason for it.
Nika took in a shaky breath and thought over her situation. She could leave this mess for everyone to see who entered and risk people knowing it was her who was this horrid, or she could put the bodies in a room and lock it, sealing away this dark part forever. She stood up and looked down at herself and saw no speck not covered by blood. The only spots that likely weren’t covered in blood were patches of her hair on the back of her head as well as her back.
Nika went about her first task, stripping the bodies of anything useful and their armor if salvageable. Once she pulled out all the supplies from the bathroom and the things from the bodies, she set them down on the counter, near where she would grab the medicine when she went out later. She then proceeded to drag all the bodies into the bathroom, where the main messy killings were. After dragging the bodies in there and piling them she looked over the room again. Satisfied that was all she closed the door and locked it. The heavy blood trail a good sign to anyone who ever entered what was in there, a good deterrent.
She decided that she needed to bathe second and walked to pile from one of the woman she had shot in the head and picked up the armor. She then walked up to the front of the store quickly and sealed the doors so she could let her guard down. Nika began wandering around, while she didn’t find an old shower or anything she found piping that went overhead in an abandoned back room that had the inside walls pulled apart, showing a lever to access water flow to that room, likely once belonging to a sink.
She was thankful to see part of the floor had weekend with age and tilted towards the back wall of the store, so she wouldn’t be standing in filth since it would leak into the collapsed basement below and also outside. She smiled and made sure the water was off and the room was clear of any supplies and then brought in her outfit from the raider and two boxes of Abraxo cleaner.
Nika set her supplies down to the side, including her underthings pulled from the room she sealed off, and pulled the pipe apart, so the water would act also like a shower head, though the spread would be much farther with the pressure. Once it was pulled apart she turned the water on and enjoyed the slightly irradiated water pouring down on her, even with the coldness of it, washing the blood away. The proof of her sins and the horror that happened to her was washing away. When the water was relatively clear of blood from her body she bent over and grabbed the abraxo box and scrubbed her skin until it was raw, covering every part of her body in soap to clean away any marks of what happened, though she couldn’t change the bruises. She then used the rest of the harsh chemical to clean her hair of the horrible blood. She tried to be careful with her hair, not wanting to damage it with the chemical. Once she was done scrubbing herself she just stood in the fall of the water, letting it wash away all the dirt.
For the first time since she left the vault she was clean. Nika looked at the pip-boy still on her arm to check the date, she froze and looked more closely at it. Five days, five days of fast-paced action. She supposed that it seemed longer since she was trying to obtain a life’s worth of knowledge instantly. Nika thought she adapted well, and this final horror was her final message “Welcome to the Wasteland! You are now a true citizen! Try not to die!” Nika shook her head at her own thoughts and decided to just accept it, the more she dwelled on it, the harder it would make it on her.
Now that Nika was clean she decided to start working on her clothes with the remaining box of abraxo cleaner and scoured them until they were almost new looking. The raider’s armor lost all the blood on it, she scrubbed hard to remove any reminder of who it once belonged to. Happy with her cleaning job she set the clothes on a clean-ish chair she grabbed to drape them on to dry. She then proceeded to shut off the water and drip dry. She walked into the remaining nearby bathroom and to a slightly broken mirror. She slowly began brushing through her hair with her fingers before pulling it into a pony tail up on the top of her head, tied with surgical tubing and falling just past her shoulders still.
Since caring for her hair took a while she decided that she could probably go get dressed. Her clothes were still a tad damp but they were dry enough for her to put on. Once she was fully dressed in her new apparel, which fit nicely on her, she went through and began packing up everything in the store that she could use and sell. She even got into a room that had medicine and found a fridge full of food. She squealed in delight with all the nice weapons and ammo she found, with some crafty strapping she managed to put all the guns onto her bag and the ammo.
When she was done combing the place of supplies her clothes and hair were dry and she could barely pick up the pack. Once she managed to slowly get the pack on her back with it loaded full she unbarred the doors and excited, quickly pawning off a couple of junk guns to the somewhat-poor merchant outside. Sadly the woman didn’t have tons of caps so she could only get rid of three worn guns and two missiles. While it didn’t make the pack a lot lighter it helped a little, making her able to make more than five steps at a time and needing to stop.
She decided to camp out front with the trader, it was dark now and she didn’t want to sleep in the house of horrors called the Super-Duper Mart. She spent a night there and two more out in the wastes, slowly trekking back to Megaton. The normal day trip took almost three.
Nika walked into Megaton around dusk with her new look and enough ammo and guns to make a small army happy. She looked like woman who knew the wastes, only the sickly bruises on her arms visible on her skin. She still had her charisma though, smiling nicely at people she passed and waving to Simms cheerily. While people could tell the wastes had changed her physically, to them mentally she was the same person. She was still the kind, trusting person that walked in and disarmed the bomb.
Nika wondered up the ramps to Craterside Supply and entered, smiling cheerily at Moira who was sweeping.
“You’re back! Did you get the chance to check out the Super-Duper Mart? What did ya find?” Moira said, assisting with Nika’s removal of her pack and setting down so she could answer Moira’s questions comfortably. Nika rolled her shoulders to loosen them up and sat down on a nearby couch with Moira.
“I found plenty of food and medicine. It seems that raiders were using it to store some of their best gear. Though the sheer number of the raiders in that small area makes them dangerous and needs caution. But with the huge risk came a great reward.” Nika said, trying to caution such adventures but not wanting to touch upon what happened.
“Oh really? I want other treasures are hiding out in the wastes! That is great news! Keep what you found, I just got a new shipment in. Take this food sanitizer as well, it should help with the radiation. Oh this is so great! All that’s left is to go explore Minefield, if you could grab a mine as well It would be great! So while you’re here lets go through and help you lighten your load here!” Moira said and then got up and waited for Nika to show her what she could buy.
After bartering tons Nika was handed over another 1500 caps, a hefty sum and was worth the long trek back. Nika smiled wide and removed all the objects, only keeping 2 assault rifles, a 10mm pistol, an energy pistol, and tons of ammo to go with it, on hand for weapons. She also carried a spare combat suit she found and many, many medical supplies. She had bought some extra Nuka-Cola’s and noodles, things she could eat and drink while walking without much thought. She also carried a spare assault rifle to her home in case hers got in too bad of shape.
Once everything was set up at home that she didn’t need, like the spare suit and some spare ammo since she had such abundance of them, Nika laid down, prepared for the next day. When Nika woke up she was feeling much better, looking in a broken mirror she saw that her bruises were just an ugly light tinge, noticeable but not strong. Shrugging she went and had her hair done by Wadsworth to how it was before she went to sleep. When done she ran up to Craterside Supply and quickly bartered with Moira to have a Love Theme installed in the house while she was gone, her bartering and spare caps still leaving her with a hefty sum. She then went and exited Megaton and trekked across the waste.
Before Nika knew it she was walking carefully and only managed to disarm one landmine before she decided she did enough of that and just started shooting the top of them to cause them to explode at a safe distance.
Nika paused in her actions when a bullet whizzed by her head. “What the fuck?!” Nika screamed, hiding behind an old building. When another shot was fired Nika took the chance between loadings to see where the sniper was, he was on the top floor of an old building, right in the open. She ducked back as the man fired again. The next time she went out was her assault rifle aimed and shot 6 shots, dropping the man where he stood. Nika then walked up the stairs and took his sniper rifle, ammo, and everything she saw of interest.
Once she was done looting the homes she went to the playground in the middle of the town for good measure and then walked back out, shooting all remaining landmines remaining. She spent the night in one of the homes there after she locked it up, eating some Pork N’ Beans she found a house instead of her bland noodles that she was always munching on. She shoved a corpse out of the bed of the upstairs of the house and went to bed. She held her gun like a child would a teddy bear when she slept.
When the sun rose she was wide awake, she did take the extra time to use the still working tub. She relished in the unusual experience in the waste, cleaning her clothes as well, all of which was cleaned with some of the abraxo cleaners she found in the house. Once she was satisfied with her cleanliness she got out of the tub and got dressed in her still wet clothes and fixed her hair. She figured she would dry out when walking across the wastes. She quickly ate another can of Pork N’ Beans for breakfast, then through on her bag and started the long trip back home.
Nika was fine on her walk back except for a little ankle-biter radscorpion. The thing was fast though, but it was easy to just side-step the pinchers and tail. Before she knew it she was walking back into Megaton and smiling at the residents. She walked up to Craterside Supply to give Moira the landmine and finish the chapter. Walking in to see Moira sweeping again(which seemed pointless when one lived in a dustbowl), Nika sat her stuff down to sell her.
“Oh! You’re back! How are those little potatoes? You know, because they are in the ground. But they explode.” Moira said trailing off when her attempt fell flat before walking over expectantly to Nika.
“I am back and I brought you a present!” Nika said, pulling out a landmine. She thought to herself that to some people that may have been a threat to the woman’s life. She mentally shrugged, Moira was weird, so who cared.
“You did?! That’s great! I always wanted one of these.” Moira said happily, taking the landmine and walking to put it into a safe. “So how’d it go?” She asked.
“With watching the ground for unusual cracks and lines I was able to avoid the mines, though there was a sniper trying to kill me.” Nika said, dragging her bag closer to Moira.
“Oh, that is great to know! So you can try to avoid the mines. And a sniper, hm, so there was something to the haunted myth. I wonder if more myths hold some truth out there. That would be a great thing to look into. Hm. Oh. Well, I suppose you don’t want to listen to me ramble. Here is your payment.” Moira said, handing over supplies and caps for the job.
When Nika was asked if she wanted to continue to the next chapter Nika said no, she wanted to take a break currently. Nika got around 750 caps for her scavenged things before bidding Moira farewell and heading home.
Nika entered her home and greeted Wadsworth before heading to bed, for tomorrow she was go to the Saloon and continue the search for her father. Tomorrow she was getting ready for a larger adventure. To think, not too long ago she was having hot dreams in the vault. Now she was healing from wounds that she dared not mention and trying to act like she was unbothered by the horrible world. Nika rolled onto her side in bed and closed her eyes. She would deal with the lowlife tomorrow, tonight, she sleeps in peace.
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