User:JASPER42/Vault Villains: Hired Help

CANCELED! I have haulted this untill further notice, due to the fack it just wasn't working from me. I will be writing Tin Soldiers instead.

Part one: Out of the Job...
Deep withing Farragut west station Juliet Stone awoke. She stood up, groaning as she pulled on her glasses and checked her Pip-boy.10:00am.

She sighed. She made the short walk over to her desk and checked her terminal. Nothing.

"Why do I bother?"She asked her self aloud. She hadn't had any business for weeks. She contemplated going back to bed, but decided against it. What was the point? She was up now anyway.

Juliet thought like this a lot, a little over two years ago she had been diagnosed with VDS, and although she had long since left Vault 101 in search of her brothers and father, she was still suffering. Work had taken her mind off it for a while, but now know one was hiring.

Still, she'd made plenty of caps, she had bought a old, broken mirror and hung it on her wall. She was stared in to it.

Juliet was, there's no other word for it, beautiful. Long brown hair fell out from below her cap, gently touching against her soft, flawless skin. Behind her glasses glistened her huge dark brown eyes, sparkling even in the dim light the underground provided.

Not that she saw it like that, in her eyes she was ugly. Nothing on Christine Kendall of Susie Mack back in the vault.

She decided to go out for a bit, see if she could catch some lunch. She grabbed her combat shotgun off her desk and pulled on the Tunnel Snake jacket Butch had given her. A wave of sadness suddenly washed over her, but she shock it off and headed out her door.

Part two:...And into the Wastes.
Juliet soon emerged out of the metros, in to a place called Chevy Chase. It took a couple of seconds for her eyes to get used to the strong natural light. But as her vision un-blurred she saw somethibg she could never get used to.

Everything was gone, whole buildings were now ruins. It was a dreadful sight and, although she had seen it a million times before she was never quite prepared.

Swallowing hard, she scouted the area, searching for anything to eat.

Suddenly two super mutants came from nowhere. Juliet raised her combat shotgun and fired twice, both mutants were stunned but stayed standing. Juliet tried to shoot again but the combat just clicked uselessly in her hands. No ammo. She swore.

Vaulting over gap Juliet took cover behind a wall. She was in trouble, with out ammo she didn't stand a chance.

I'm done for! she thought, but by some amazing feat of luck the mutants were guned down by laser wielding armored soldiers.

One, a pretty blond woman (Juliet disliked blonds, especially pretty ones)ran up and started yelling at her.

"Look, I don't know who you are but you don't belong here. The super mutants have overrun our brothers at Galaxy News and we're going there to back them up. You can tag along if you want, just try not to do anything stupid."

Juliet was rather taken back by this.

"Wait... Who the hell are you people?" she asked the blond.

"I'm Sentential Lyons of the Lyon's Pride. We're the Brotherhood of Steel. Don't worry, we're on your side. At least I hope we are."

"O.K. You said some thing about Galaxy News Radio?"

"It's one of the few safe places left, sort of our port in the storm. Unfortunately the building's been hit pretty hard lately, we're their backup. Do if there are no more questions we really need to move out."

She then turned to the others and called. "Alright pride, lets go!". She ran off down a alley and the armored soldiers followed her.

"What have I got to loose?" Juliet asked herself as she ran off to join them.

Part three: GNR
The group rounded a corner, on a matress was a Brotherhood of Steel knight. He wasn't moving.

As they reached the end of the alley, Juliet saw a couple of dead mutants. A knight muttered something to Sarah Lyons.

"Right pride, lets flush these nasties out!" With that she, and the rest pf the pride rushed forward, towards an old abbandoned office block, weapons raised they prepared to fight the mutants inside.

Juliet gulped, pulled out her trusty nailboard and ran towards the building screaming.

She pumled a brute until it collasped on the ground, but had no time top celebrate as a nearby car exploaded. Juliet was lucky, it didn't do too much damage, but did criple left leg. Quick;y opening her Pip-boy she jabed a stimpack in to her damaged limb, healing it instantly.

Useing V.A.T.S she quickly dispatched another supermutant in two quick swings.

But the third mutant posed a challenge, he was inside, on the first floor, looking out a window and taking quick, shots at the armored pride with it's hunting rifle.The pride attempted to return fire, but few shots found their mark.

Juliet knew her nailboard would be no use, so instead she pulled up an assult rife she had scavenged, along with ammo, from a dead mutant, and open fired.

After one and a half clips, the mutant collapsed, falling backwards off the balcony it was standing on. Juliet liked the feel of her new gun, and deside to keep hold of it.The pride, along with Juliet ran foward into the building. Juliet took out two more mutants in quick sucsetion and emptied another clip in to a third.

"Noic shooting." muttered a passing pride member.

"Thanks" Juliet muttered back.

The group ran out in to the GNR plazer. It was full of mutants, Juliet poked round the door fame, picked a target (a particually vicious looking brute) and opened fire, she was half way through the first mag when it turned and fired. Juliet ducked behind the wall, narrowly missing the spray of bullets. Reloading her gun she pocked out again and shot the whole clip srtaight in to the brute's head, who fell to the ground, dead.

Out of nowhere, a master ran, but it was no match for the combined force of the whole pride and Juliet and was cut down in seconds.

They had cleared the area, but had suffered for it. All the BoS soldier who had been protection the area had been guned down by the mutants, Juliet sweaped them for ammo and found that they were all wearing holotags. Deciding the BoS might want these back she pulle dthem off and pocket them, then she headed over to Sarah Lyons.

"So, how did I do Vargas? Pass my little trial run? Come on, Lyons' Pride needs me and you know it" Reddin poclaimed smugly.

Reddin fire a few shots in to the air to celebrate.

"Come one now, knock that off" ordered Vargas."You're wasting ammo. Now seep the area, You think that was all the uglies in this part od DC? You take the east side. I'll take west."

"Okay, okay" muttered Reding, under her breath, as she walked over to two overtuyrned busses. Suddenly a crash and a roar startled the pride.

Vergas called out "Reddin, get outta there! Behemoth!" but it was too late. A huge mutant smashed it's way through the two busses, killing Redinn.

"Take cover!" Shouted Sarah Lyons. But Juliet did not, she wanted to prove her self to the pride, and now she new how. She fired round after round into it's face but with no prevail. This thing just didn't feel pain.

Then she spotted somethin, laying on the ground next to a dead Brother. A huge gun, the fabled Fatman, on of, if not the, ost power full weapons of the 23rd centery. Juliet grabed it and loaded it's highly explosive ammuntion. The mini nuke.

The Behemoth was preparing to club Vargas in to the ground when a shout came.

"Hey ugly. Your mummy buy you that rattle?". The beast truned, saw Juliet and charged. She raised the Fatman and took careful aim. The mini nuke smashed right into it's face, exploading on impact.

The result was funominal. From the other side of the coughtyard Juliet could feel the heat, she couldn't even begin to imagin what it felt like at the core. The beast was thrown to the ground, it's head dammaged, with a bit of brain sticking out the top of it's skull. The shock wave had aslo knocked down Vagas. He climed to his feet, stumbled a few steps and collasped, he steaded himself by grabbing hold of the huge Behemoths's body.

Sarah Lyons walked up to Juliet.

"I guess it's my turn to thank you. Anyway the area's cleared so your free to talk to Three Dogg if you need to." She said.

"You sure your not looking for new recruits..." asked Juliet.

"I'm sure. You can handle yourself, I'lll give you that. But lets not get carried away."

Juliet was a little dissapointed, but neot supprised."I have to go now."She said, and entered GNR.

Part four:Looking for Dad
Juliet went upstairs and was greeted by a strage man.<br? "I am Three Dog -- jockey of disks and teller of truths. Lord and master over the finest radio station to grace the wastes, Galaxy News Radio.And you well... I know who you are. Heard about you leaving the vault, travling the unknown. Just like dad huh. Met him already."he said. "You know my father? Is he here? Please, I've been looking for him" Juliet replied urgently. "Hey, hey one thing at a time. Nah, your old man ain't here. Not any more. He heard old Three dog on the radio, figured i knew what's what out here in the capital wasteland.And he was right. So I filled the old man in. But he spilt. Looks like I've got my way of contributing to the Good Fight... and he's got his own.",br> Juilet was confused. "The Good Fight? Whats that all about?" "Imagine a picure okay? A picture of the Capital Wasteland. All that brick and rock. A whole lot of nothing, right? There's people out there just trying to barely make it from day to day. Fighting to stay alive and make something out of what they've got. But tehn you've got all kinds of s---... Slavers, Super Mutants, Raiders... They all want a slice of the pie too and aimto take it by force." Juliet couldn't see where this was going. "So, what's this about the Good Fight?"she asked again. "I fight the Good Fight with GNR as my gun. Thre truth goes out across the Capital Wasteland, and with it the word about the Good Fight." Juliet was still confused, but she had better, mor important things to do then listen to this man ramble one about a 'Good Fight'. She wanted to get back to her Dad. "I understand your fight, but I still need to find my Dad." Three Dog was simpathetic. "Sorry, I'm so used to talking to an audience that can't answer i just assume you want to here my voice all the time. So, you want to know where your dad is? Fair enough. We got one rule in the Good Fight, though. You want help, you gotta contribute." Juliet was getting a little desperate now. Why wouldn't this man answer her questions?. "If you know anything that can help me find my Dad, please just tell me..." She pleeded. You wanna find your dad, and it just so happens his location is know to yours truly. He was here, at Galaxy News. We had a great converation. He's a real stand-up guy. If you wanna know more, you gonna have to contribute to the Good Fight." Maybe she could trick him."Look Three Dog. If I find my Dad, maybe he can help with the Good Fight." But he didn't fall for it. "I like what you're saying, but this is bigger than just you and your dad. If you want help from Galaxy News, you need to contribute to Galaxy News. That's all there is to it." Juliet gave up. "To find my Dad, I'm ready for anything." "Good, cause this isn't gunna be easy. No one out od D.C can here GNR. You see, some brainless Super Mutant thought it would be funny to shoot at the shiny round thing on the Wasington Monument. That was our relay dish, od course the factory that made the relay dishes is long leveled, but one of the Brotherhood guys that passedthrough here mentioned seeing a dish in an onld D.C musieum. On the old Vergo two luana lander. I need you to get it and replace the old on. That's it." Juliet didn't like the sound of this, but she accepted. She added the cordenates to her Pip-boy map and left GNR in to Dupoint Circle.

Part five:Ghouls, and Radiers and Super Mutants(Oh, my!)
As soon as she left the building she saw a threat. There was a small pack of feral ghouls below here. Juliet knew how to deal with theese guys, from her time in the metro tunnels. Nut she still had to be careful, if she got over powerd she was done for. Skillfully, she leaped down, from floor to floor, of the wreaked buliding in till she was in range. Taking carefull aim she open fired with her assult rifle. She killed one easy, but the other two ran of befor she had a chance. Jumping again, she landed on the floor, both ghouls camingf running back. Bad move, for them. Juliet open fired and took both out in seconds, quickly realoading her gun she coniued on her journey, in to a Collapsed Car Tunnel. It was dark. This was bad, she was in ghoul teritory non, fighting them in their home ground. She dashed forward, killing two before they knew waht hit them, at a third that had charged at her. A fourt caught he of guard from behind but she managed to turn and kill it before it did too much dammage. As she went to reload she noticed something. She had no more assult rifle ammo. She swore, but refused to give in, pulling out her 10mm pistol, she walked slowly down the tunnels, keeping her eyes peeled for any movement. But she was lucky, there was only one left in the tunnel and she took it out with tree shots to the head. She opened a door to a staircase and was greeted by another ghoul, which she greeted with 5 shots to the head, then she took the door out into Dupont Circle. Again more ferals, but she had the high ground and took them all out with ease. But tehn a real probelem came along. Radiers. A small group open fired at Juliet. Killing the first on with a volly of shots to the head, Juliet scanned for cover. She ran round a corner, and leaped over a lump of concreat. At the same moment, a car exploaded, the raiders must have hit it a few to manny times. She crouched behind her little shild and shot at a second radier. Although her 10mm was weak, and made for close combat, it's accracy was still better than the raiders' assult rifles. She took out the second one, ans managed to spot a thrid creeping up on her. Injecting her self with a couple of stims, Juliet knew she was in touble. She pulled out a grenade and tossed it at the Radier, it missed but the explostion was enough to kill him. She ran for new cover and threw grenades as she did so. She killed another Raider but one still remained. She stuffed her face with all the food she had and injected her last stimpack. Then grabing ammo from the radier she just killed she ran at the final one. Both open fired, but Juleit was faster on the trigure. The final raider was thrown of her feet. Juliet scavenged all ammo and guns she could find and drunk deep from the near by fountin. It was irraitaed and tasted dirty, but it healed. She then got back on track and ran in to the metro tunnel and straight in to two super mutants. She open fired, and took out both. But ran out of assult rilfe ammo by doing so. She took what they had, a hunting rifle, three grenades and a nail board, she use these to fix up her own stuff. She pulled out the huntirng rifle and contued through the metro. She soon ran in to another radier, but three shots to the head in V.A.T.S soon took him out. Juliet found some more shotguna ammo on him at took it, then she searched his ammo boxes/. Anothyer raider was just bown the hall, but Juliet took her by supprise, and took her ammo and chems. Unforchanatly, in an attemt to force on of the boxes open, Juliet had broken the lock. No matter, she still ahd pleantly of ammo. She soon found a cave, and it appeared the raiders were using it as a base. Juliet fired three shots at on, two norrowly missed but the thrid took the raiders head off. Juliet ducked and fired a single shot at the turret, it exploaded. One by one she took the small raider army out, each with a single hunting rifle shot to the head. A second turret proved more difficult than the first, but Juliet took it out soon. She then walked up to a near by pool of water and drunk. She then followed a path to a utility gate, which opened in to a sewer. She had expected to be swarmed with ghouds, but they were all dead, along with a radier, however, she heard one hiss, along with some gun fire, as she entere metro centeral. She saw two radiers fighting off some ghouls. She started shooting at on radier, casuing both partys to dirct their attention to her. But niether were a problem, she took out the raiders quickly and thge ghouls even quicker. Then she entered to subway. Pulling up her shotgun she followed the path. One ghoul ran at her, but it was dispatched by her combat. Juliet had forund just how effective combat shotguns were on ghouls form her weeks in the metros. She was ambushed by a pack of feral dogs. She targeted each in V.A.T.S and took them out quickly. Taking a sppedy root through more radier territory, Juliet emerged out into the Mall.