Fandom Fallout: Legends of the Badlands

[LawOfChaos]

"Ch-cheers guys," Jay stuttered. He was shaking from the adrenaline and his heart was beating against his insides like the pistons of a V8. His leg was starting to betray him, so he grabbed hold of the tribal's spear and supported himself with it.


"H-hey, don't worry about me. It's all numb- no pain- the stimpak saw to that. There aren't many of them left, so let's swat those fuckers," he half-laughed, limping forwards, with his bat resting on his shoulder.


"It's a right shame that my Pip-Boy wasn't made with a bug-spray feature, eh?"

 

[Roth]

Daphne

Daphne quickly gestured for him to follow Spear-Girl's instructions, laughing slightly at his joke despite the situation, and began shooting at the hornets advancing on them. All too fast, however, her gun was in need of reloading again, and, like before, she didn't have the time. She quickly shoved it in her bag, and in the moment she was distracted, a hornet zipped forward and attempted to plunge its stinger into her chest. She screamed wildly, ripping a blade from its cover and slashing the monster down, but the stinger, even sharper than her blades, managed to slice across her upper arm.


A choked gurgle came from her throat, followed by a screech of pain. All she got was a slash. The hornet's stinger had been embedded in Jay's leg. If this was all she felt now, she couldn't, and didn't want to imagine the pain he was feeling.


Her knife fell from her hand, leaving her with only one, but she knew she needed to get herself a stimpak. Diving for her bag, sitting quite un-conveniently a few meters away, she ripped it open and grabbed one of her dwindling stimpaks. She aligned the needle with a vein and shoved it in, pushing down the stopper before throwing the empty vial aside. "Shit, Jay, I can't imagine how much pain you're in..." She said through gritted teeth.


She retrieved her fallen blade and took up a fighting stance next to him. Her arm was in excruciating pain, but the pain seemed to be spreading slowly. Thanks to the stimpak, she figured. Therefore, she maintained her unofficial duty as Jay's sentry.

 

[Mitchs98]

Annalise Fredricks

Anna immediately nodded, Tess didn't have to tell her twice. She was built for medium to long range combat, not up-close combat, especially against wasteland creatures. Humans? She could probably fuck up a human that wasn't extremely more well trained that her. Nevertheless he currently problem lied in figuring out who Nic was. She cluelessly scanned the group for this 'Nic', having no clue who anyone was, not even her robo-savior. Luckily Nic soon called out to her, and without any further delays, Anna ran up to her side. "I take it the robot is yours then..?" She asked sheepishly, gesturing over to the currently fighting Tess. "Th-that's so cool! I've always wanted to see a working assaultron. A-all I've gotten to look at were the farming bots and stuff back in Colonia." She told her, not even bothering to wait on an answer.

 

[Dodiestee]

Dode was now pushing his luck, he'd drawn his knife and was trying to spare his pistol ammo, a stupid move he realised as 2 hornets sent their stingers straight for his chest. He shot down the first, but the second forced him back, the stinger impacting against his armour... He tried to regain his footing bit instead went down hard. His pistol had dropped in front of him. "Shit!" he spat! The hornet charged again, coming in stinger first... Then it hit the ground, the red haired woman standing in the way, hornet blood coating her knives. "Heh...ta".


Dode clambered to his feet, seizing up his gun in the same action, holding his knife in the other hand, he moved forward, sending the rest of his clip into three more hornets, either putting them down, or ripping through the wings... Either way, they were down, alive, but down... 'One of the others with blades can finish the wounded' he thought to himself. Another quick reload and he was ready for the next wave.


Sending forth some more bullets, he noticed how few were actually still attacking... The momentum had changed, now they had the advantage. Dode raised his knife holding it against his pistol and started moving forward back up the hill, two shots here, three shots there, the hornets were being beat... They just didn't know it yet...

 

[LawOfChaos]

"You'd be surprised; it's pretty numb. Probably a good thing... But my dad always did tell me, pain is just your body's way of telling you you're alive, and all that. The body must be a bit of a bastard to choose that instead of just saying it, though." Jay managed a laugh and steadied himself. The hornet numbers were dwindling, and he was finding it difficult to come to terms with the fact that the group had managed to fight them off with minimal injuries; well, other than the obvious. He begrudgingly admitted to himself that a lot of that was probably owing to the intervention of the tribal and, though he already didn't like her much, she would certainly make a good exterminator.

 

[ThatGuyWithSouvlaki]

Marykept close to Jay giving him cover firing at what remained of the hornets. "You are numb now bit just wait when we finally finish with these bastards and we relax."She commented before she noted Dode moving up a hill. "I think he has the right idea, come on tough guy."She said firmly.

 

[Church131313]

Alex stood up and studied his wound from the hornet. "How's everyone doing!" Alex yelled out as he followed Dode up the hill. He reloded his pistol and reached the top of the hill.

 

[LawOfChaos]

"I-I think that's all of them," Jay announced proudly. He wasn't shaking so much now, as the adrenaline from the situation was wearing off, as was the numbing agent in the stimpak. Glancing down at his leg, Jay noticed that the wound had stopped bleeding, but the pain was returning. The young man winced and grimaced as he realised that the low amount of pain he was currently feeling was just the tip of the iceberg. He turned back to the tree Alan was in.


"Hey, you can come down now. We need to get going."

 

[Dodiestee]

Dode stood at the top of the hill with Alex triumphantly. The wastes had returned to calm silence... For how long though, was the question, they'd made quite a racket fighting the hornets, noise that would be heard for miles. He turned to Alex as he holstered his pistol and knife, "No bad, aye? Fuck knows how much ammo we've used but we're all in one piece I think", Dode remarked, a thin smile across his face. He stared back down the hill, noticing Jay and his wound, "Fuck... Maybe no, spoke to soon...".


Dode started back down the hill, patting Alex' shoulder on the way past, heading down toward Jay. He scanned the ground as he walked, looking for any Hornets still alive, waiting to spring at him, there were more than a few still twitching, some trying to flap decimated wings. 'They're not a threat' he thought. Halfway down the hill, Dode came across his crutch, the base of it covered in Hornet remains. He scooped it up, and shook off the debris, keeping the same pace, biting back any pain that was trying to make itself known...


The rest of the group was fragmented across the hill, either lingering until we were ready to move out or picking off the still twitching Hornets. Dode walked toward Jay, "should consider getting yourself a gun buddy, might no be as lucky next time" he said in as friendly a tone as he could muster, stretching out his hand and offering the crutch to Jay, "It's no as good as a stimpak but it'll allow that leg to heal"...he winked as he offered the crutch...

 

[LawOfChaos]

"Cheers, mate," Jay chuckled, taking the crutch and tucking it under his arm in place of the tribal's spear. Gritting his teeth, he began to hobble up the hill, splitting pain pulsing through his leg with each moment he had pressure on it. He hadn't really noticed, but he had been sweating heavily during the fight, and his hair was matted. Blood and mud was already caked onto his trousers, bat and the bottom of his boots. The air was also becoming much colder, and the sky was painted with streaks of orange and pink; the sung hung low above the trees.


Sheepishly, Jay turned to Daphne.


"I realise that I did get us into this situation, and all that, so I'm really sorry about your arm. Thanks for helping me out back there- I gotta say, without that, I's probably be considerably more worse for wear. I guess you could say my first day in the badlands hasn't been much to shout about, heh."

 

[Roth]

Daphne

Daphne was frozen for a moment, mouth agape at Jay. Her lips, however, betraying, twitching up at the corners before she giggled quietly, despite the pain and situation they were in. "Wow, wonderful. I guess you aren't dead yet, huh?" She said, grinning. "Don't worry about it. It would've happened sooner or later, I'm sure."


Then, she took a look around at the carnage before her. Hornet bodies were scattered across the ground like rocks. They'd gone from 3 initially to a whole, giant ass swarm.


"We did pretty well, I think." She announced, sheathing her knives carefully and stowing away her gun, then getting her bag onto her good shoulder.

 

[Church131313]

Alex looked at his arm. Hoping nobody noticed the sting he got. Maybe it won't be that bad he thought. It was just a graze. He pulled his hoodie arm down onto it and stuck his gun into his holster. "Anybody find my machete?" He asked the group.

 

[Karcen]

Nic shook her head when she was asked is Tess was hers " Yes is... a really good friend" Nic said have long ago stopped considering Tess a robot and having started thinking of her as a person. Nic actually often forgot that others might think Tess was with her because of some programming glitch or custom code, but in truth it was choice it just seemed that old habits died hard. She was a bit like a maid from the prewar holotapes. " She used to be a Miss Nancy" Nic said after the girl had talked abotu farming bots, likely Mr. handys or protectrons.


Tess finally finished the last hornet she could find and returned back to Nic, one of her arms hanging a bit lose. A hornet had gotten her just right and managed to break the various parts that kept the joint together. Well arm aside she had been far more beaten up before and unlike the humans that had fought she could not feel pain so a broken arm was nothing. " You are ok I see that is good" Tess said to the girl before looking to Nic " It seems my calculations were wrong, no one died we should stick with these people" She said finding anyone that could violate the numbers as a good bet.


" I guess we could, at least until we are near home, i wanted to try to finally use those robobrain blueprints that one brain gave us[/color]" Nic said thinking about that brain in a jar they had found and learned it was some kind of brain powered robot. Nic had never actually seen a robobrain before that and she had never seen one after that but it seemed interesting. " For now lets fix you up" Nic said as she pulled out a repair kit and went to work fixing up Tess.


Tess turned her had back to the other girl " So I saved your life, I bielive that means you must now become my servant. " Tess said then waited a few seconds " That was a joke, what is your name?"


@Mitchs98

 

[Mitchs98]

Nic shook her head when she was asked is Tess was hers " Yes is... a really good friend" Nic said have long ago stopped considering Tess a robot and having started thinking of her as a person. Nic actually often forgot that others might think Tess was with her because of some programming glitch or custom code, but in truth it was choice it just seemed that old habits died hard. She was a bit like a maid from the prewar holotapes. " She used to be a Miss Nancy" Nic said after the girl had talked abotu farming bots, likely Mr. handys or protectrons.
Tess finally finished the last hornet she could find and returned back to Nic, one of her arms hanging a bit lose. A hornet had gotten her just right and managed to break the various parts that kept the joint together. Well arm aside she had been far more beaten up before and unlike the humans that had fought she could not feel pain so a broken arm was nothing. " You are ok I see that is good" Tess said to the girl before looking to Nic " It seems my calculations were wrong, no one died we should stick with these people" She said finding anyone that could violate the numbers as a good bet.


" I guess we could, at least until we are near home, i wanted to try to finally use those robobrain blueprints that one brain gave us[/color]" Nic said thinking about that brain in a jar they had found and learned it was some kind of brain powered robot. Nic had never actually seen a robobrain before that and she had never seen one after that but it seemed interesting. " For now lets fix you up" Nic said as she pulled out a repair kit and went to work fixing up Tess.


Tess turned her had back to the other girl " So I saved your life, I bielive that means you must now become my servant. " Tess said then waited a few seconds " That was a joke, what is your name?"


@Mitchs98

Annalise Fredricks

Anna nodded, a Ms. Nancy? Nic must be great at robots if she used to be a Ms. Nancy model. Maybe even better than her..mostly because she's never gotten to deal with anything being Mr. Handys. "Yeah, I-I bet she is. She seems nice.." She told her. She watched as Tess killed the last of the hornets and proceeded to walk up to them heavily damaged. She silently wondered if she was one of the cause of her damages, but quickly ascertained she probably wasn't. She listened to them talk in silence, Tess was actually sounding more human than machine. That was pretty damn cool, Anna found herself wondering just how that came to be. Though she was brought out of her thoughts when Tess asked her name and joked about her becoming her slave. She grinned at her and laughed softly, "Well..even if it wasn't I-I'd be fine with that..I guess. I'm Annalise. Call me Anna." She told them. "N-nice to meet you both." She added.

 

[Karcen]

" It is nice to meet you Anna" Tess said as her arm and various dents were quickly and skillfully repaired, the duo obviously having done this a lot before.


" Yeah.. nice to meet you" Nic said as she finished her repairs and Tess flexed her arm showing it was back to fully functional state. This was no where near as bad as that one time Tess had been reduced to basically just a torso, that repair had taken hours once they found her legs. Nic often wanted to include some new armor over the factory platting, the robot workshop could do that but Tess liked the default too much.


" There we go back to 100% ma'am" Tess said sheathing and unsheathing the blades " My fusion core could use a replacement though i am down to 40% power remaining. "


" It can wait at 15% we can change it out just don't use the beam, i don't have many cores" Nic said before looking over to anna " You agree on conserving power don't you?" she asked looking from someone to agree with her.


@Mitchs98

 

[Mitchs98]

" It is nice to meet you Anna" Tess said as her arm and various dents were quickly and skillfully repaired, the duo obviously having done this a lot before.
" Yeah.. nice to meet you" Nic said as she finished her repairs and Tess flexed her arm showing it was back to fully functional state. This was no where near as bad as that one time Tess had been reduced to basically just a torso, that repair had taken hours once they found her legs. Nic often wanted to include some new armor over the factory platting, the robot workshop could do that but Tess liked the default too much.


" There we go back to 100% ma'am" Tess said sheathing and unsheathing the blades " My fusion core could use a replacement though i am down to 40% power remaining. "


" It can wait at 15% we can change it out just don't use the beam, i don't have many cores" Nic said before looking over to anna " You agree on conserving power don't you?" she asked looking from someone to agree with her.


@Mitchs98

Annalise Fredricks

Anna smiled at the both of them, she'd already found two nice people out of the group. Well, nice in her opinion at-least. They had saved her, after all, they couldn't be too terrible of people. She watched in awe as Nic expertly repaired Tess, it was always cool to watch someone so skilled do their work. Nic was definetely more skilled in robotics than she was, that was for certain. Maybe she could teach her sometime since they were going to be travelling together for a while. When Nic asked her if she agreed she blinked. Why was she asking her? Tess as her companion..not hers. She looked between the two with slight confusion. "Umm..sure? Yeah..probably." She replied before glancing off to the rest of the group that was assembling themselves. Looked like they were ready to go soon, and she needed to retrieve her nails. Might be a bit dirty..but she doubted any of them were too damaged to use anymore. "Umm..I hate to ask you to do something for me after saving me b-but..can you help me get my nails out of the dead hornets?" She asked them, holding up her rifle so they didn't think she was crazy.

 

[Deadkool]

Alan wasted little time moving out from the stump. He used his pocket knife to carve a few choice pieces from the hornets. They made good sources of poison, and food. After finishing, Alan packed away the supplies into his knapsack and said "Good work team. I imagine we're quite close now." He wasn't happy to be of such little help, but hopefully he could make it up at the factory.

 

[Karcen]

" Nails?" Nic asked a little confused why were their nails in the hornets, did Anna use them as a weapon, well it made some sense as they had more metal than bullets, but they would lack the proper velocity to go far. " Never mind already got it " Thought Anna was already holding up the rifle so Nic was actually a little behind on what was going on.


" i would help but I don't have hands, I have considered gettign claws, but they would be equally as useless" Tess said showing off the blade to make a point.


Nic sighed " I guess I can help you with that" She said though there was some reluctance . She was not a people person and this wasn't a matter of life or death so she was more than willing to just leave Anna to fend for herself, but that didn't seem to be an option.

 

[ThatGuyWithSouvlaki]

[QUOTE="The Seer]

Daphne

Daphne was frozen for a moment, mouth agape at Jay. Her lips, however, betraying, twitching up at the corners before she giggled quietly, despite the pain and situation they were in. "Wow, wonderful. I guess you aren't dead yet, huh?" She said, grinning. "Don't worry about it. It would've happened sooner or later, I'm sure."


Then, she took a look around at the carnage before her. Hornet bodies were scattered across the ground like rocks. They'd gone from 3 initially to a whole, giant ass swarm.


"We did pretty well, I think." She announced, sheathing her knives carefully and stowing away her gun, then getting her bag onto her good shoulder.

[/QUOTE]
"Pretty well... Nobody dead and only one injury, in fact we are one person extra? I think things went perfectly."She said chuckling checking on Jay. Noting he was in pain, she reached for her bag taking out a bottle of morphine pills. "Now you know you are alive you can numb yourself again."

 

[Church131313]

"Hey Dode. Can you walk without the crutch. I'll help you walk until we find some other item for him to use." Alex didn't want one of their best shots hobbling around slower than ever. He was glad to help him.

 

[Dodiestee]

"Aye I'll be alright, it hurts to walk, but I've got some pills and med-x in my bag if the pain gets too much", Dode paused... then looked up at the darkening sky, "it's worse in the cold". He appreciated Alex' offer, the crutch would keep him going, but he had to adapt...the wasteland didn't play nice. He looked back to Alex, "I only brought it so I wouldnae slow the group down, but now...I think Jay needs it more. Just promise to catch me if you see me trip", Dode let out a light chuckle as he turned toward the buildings in the distance...The factory was over there.


Dode looked back at Alex and noticed a small but fresh bloody stain on Alex' sleeve, "Enough about me...Alex is it?, Is that arm okay? Were you stung?"...

 

[Church131313]

"Um, I think I'll be fine. It's not that bad. Aah." He winced and grabbed his arm. "Dammit." He felt the pain surge through his arm. His vision faded a bit and he fell down.

 

[LawOfChaos]

Jay nodded and laughed a little.


"Pretty well sounds like a bit of an understatement to me. Mad Ol' Jack said that hornets are the biggest bastards in the badlands, and we just beat a whole swarm of them. If that isn't doing damn well, I don't know what is."


He paused for a moment, and looked up thoughtfully to the sky.


"I did wonder, though... Don't hornet swarms usually have a queen?"


In some form of belated punishment by a horrible god, the dirt mid-way up the hill on the far side begin to shake and dust was thrown into the air. The queen hornet's head erupted from the hillside, followed by her mutated body. Her wings were too small and damaged to fly, but they buzzed away nonetheless, freeing clods of dirt from her exoskeleton. She crawled up the hill towards Alex, who had just fallen, like a hungry, pissed-off predator walking towards its petrified prey.

 

[Roth]

Daphne

"Wha- SHIT!" Daphne screamed, backing farther from the giant bee that erupted from the ground. Little guns and tiny knives didn't seem like they'd do jack shit against her, much less kill her. It was headed for Alex, pissed off that all of its babies were dead.


Daphne was petrified, imagining the queen coming for her, tearing her apart... "She can't fly, maybe we can run for it!" She shouted, already beginning to back away.


Regular hornets were one thing, their queen was another. Size-wise, poison-wise, and strength-wise, the queen was better. The only downside, for her, was that she was too huge to fly.

 

[ThatGuyWithSouvlaki]

"Oh Damnú air!"Mary cursed seeing the queen charge at them for a moment uncertain on what to do at first. "Yeah we need to get out of here." She said firing a few shots at it to get its attention away from Alex, as she could out run it better than him. Though she needed to think of something else too. "Nicola have your robot detract it so we can escape."