I was in my elent. I slid my goggles off my eyes, and pulled down my bandana exposing my teeth. It was one versus at least 23, but in the dark I had a real advantage. I moved quickly on the nearest of the n. Id have the biggest window of opportunity in the short period before their eyes adjusted to the dark. I struck with my machete, worried the muzzle flare of my guns would reveal my position. I wanted to even the odds as much as possible before I reached that point. I slamd the machete into the first ones shoulder and it buried itself halfway through his chest. I yanked it out and moved on the next one. His eyes were wide open and bloodshot, and he was waving his gun around wildly. I swung at him, but his wild movent ant I just cut off the arm holding his pistol. He scread and I slashed again, this ti slicing his head in two horizontally.
I dove into the nearest building after that, as a few gunshots rang out in the direction of his screaming. I ignored the two still forms I saw sleeping in the dark, and dove out the nearest open window. Then I crept out to the alley and watched as the glowing lights representing the raiders sward like bees in a hive. About half of the n went to the bunker to determine the cause of the power outage and most of the others were just then stumbling onto their dead friends, though the leader had two n go to his side and there were a couple on the outskirts of everything, that seed eager to wait out any potential fighting.
I chose one on the outskirts as my next target and slipped between buildings, and ruined structures toward him. I sheathed my machete, and drew my knife. When I was certain his back was turned I jumped up, pulled his head back by the hair, threw him to the ground, and slit his throat. I left him there and moved on the last one that was away from the larger groups. He was hiding behind the corner of a building. I crept behind him and slamd his head into the concrete wall he was crouched behind, dazing him, then I drove my knife into the back of his neck and kept moving.
By now there were almost a dozen n around the wires Id cut, they were clustered together and I saw the best opportunity Id have to really thin their numbers. I pulled out the gun I still didnt recognize, and found a piece of cover. With the way they were clustered together, I didnt need to be accurate. I felt the new ranks in long gun steady my hand and improve my stance subtly as I took aim. I squeezed the trigger.
The rifle dug into my arm as I fired more than twenty rounds in only a few seconds. Screams rang out as their bodies fell to pieces. The power of the gun surprised , but I was still able to keep it steady as I mowed them down. By the ti the magazine was empty, all of the glowing lights that had lit the raiders had faded to black.
I went to move and at that mont a red beam of light sliced through the cover I was behind and scorched my back. I bit back a scream and forced myself to keep moving as more red beams started cutting through the buildings around . I ducked behind a bar. I had just a few monts to take another headcount and found that there were only seven of the marked raiders left. Four were up where the boss had been, and three were scattered, having run when Id opened fire on their allies. Before I could think of my next move more beams of red light cut through the bar, one of them hitting my shoulder. This ti I couldnt stop myself from crying out.
Red beams slamd into and I had to force myself to move more quickly. I ran in the only direction I thought might provide more cover. Directly under the building the shots were coming from. I watched the movent of the n from below and when they attempted to shoot down, Id make sure their shots wouldn't hit . Calmly moving to the side when they lined up shots. I was gritting my teeth the entire ti, riddled with holes, and standing was becoming harder and harder, but I wasnt done yet.
After a few more pot shots, two of the lights started to co down the stairs to where I was hiding. I slowly made my way behind a pillar and waited. Once they were completely in the room, I slowly peeked out, aid my rifle and fired two more tis, dropping them both. As soon as Id made that noise a flurry of red blasts slamd through the ground wildly. I was lucky this ti, as none of them hit, but the raider leader wasnt so lucky. All of the shots theyd taken had weakened the floor he was standing on, and the building began to collapse inward.
I ducked down behind the pillar, covering my head with my hands. There was screaming, the sound of the building groaning as the floor fell in, and then silence. I pushed off the debris that had fallen on and made my way to the fading light of the raider leader. Hed been impaled by a piece of rebar and desperately reaching for the weapon that was a few feet from him. He looked up at with a look of pure malice. I smiled back, malice was a step up from the fear people usually looked at with. I picked up his gun, and left him there to bleed out.
I was surprised at how light it was. It was almost like lifting nothing at all. I began aiming it at the remaining n marked in light. Because of its ability to cut through cover, it only took a few shots to kill the remaining raiders. After I was done with them, I dragged myself under so debris and collapsed. My breathing was heavy, and I was too hurt from the fight to move anymore. After I was certain I was hidden, I let unconsciousness take .
I was surprised when I woke up. I was surprised that I woke up. The debris were still on top of and the area sounded quiet, but I waited for a couple minutes before pushing them off. I put my hands on the spots where I knew Id been wounded. I found holes in my clothes, but none in . I had always been tough, but that was new.
Once I stood my vision was suddenly swallowed up by a notification. I tried to dismiss it, but it didnt move from my eyes. I looked at it, it was highlighted in the sa way the raiders had been after Id marked them, and the text was bolder as well.
Destroy the Weapons
Destroy the bunker
All PP and Job benefits will be lost permanently if this is not completed
That brought my attention back in full. Id never seen a ssage from the R.A.S. like that before and it almost brought to a panic. I moved over to where Id killed the raider leaders two guards and collected their guns. Then I put them and the one I was holding all together in a small pile. I retrieved a piece of rebar that still had so concrete on the end of it, and hefted it above the guns. I hesitated. The benefits of the system were great, but those guns were incredible. They would give any group in the wasteland an incredible amount of power. Unfortunately it would also completely destroy all the progress Id made, and cut off from the only currency accepted everywhere. I brought down the makeshift club with all my strength. There was a flash of red light, and the concrete shattered off the edge of the rebar, but it worked, and when I looked the guns were shattered into scrap tal and circuitry.
I walked into the center of camp, in the sunlight I was able to find a couple cans of gas. I went into the bunker and began pouring out gasoline, running it from room to room. I stopped for just a mont when I saw a map. There was a bright red dot on a town nad Porteau that linked up to the sa roads a Porto did. I quickly made a ntal note, morizing all the city nas with similar red dots. All my ti as a courier had given a good mind for maps.
The system ssages filled my vision again
Destroy the Weapons
Destroy the bunker
All PP and Job benefits will be lost permanently if this is not completed
I went to the generator room and turned it off before moving out of the bunker. I lit a match and tossed it in. The place was up in flas after only a few monts. I kept focusing on the map Id seen. The fact that the system itself wanted to destroy the bunker ant sothing, and if there were more it couldnt hurt to know where they are.
Once the bunker was a roaring blaze the notifications faded and disappeared from my attention, replaced by much more welco ones.
Congratulations Citizen! You have earned a rank in Investigation! Here in the US we have the right to question everything, except freedom!
Congratulations Citizen! You have earned ranks in Long guns! Good job exercising your 2nd andnt rights!
Congratulations Citizen! You have earned ranks in lee Weapons! From Bowie knives to Picketts charge, the US may have been too advanced for swords, but its spilled blood for freedom!
Congratulations Citizen! You have completed the investigation into the forr Marshalls death! You have earned the job of Federal Marshall!
Id done it. Id solved the previous marshalls murder and killed the n whod done it. With this job, on top of postman, I could actually do sothing. I could be the first deadman outside of Potts Field with any kind of power. I was worried about the systems odd behavior since Id gained the job, but the benefits the job ca with were already clear from the damage Id managed to do last night. I only wish Id been able to earn patriot points before Id gotten the job, I wouldve leveled multiple tis.
I searched the town one last ti, but it seed to have been picked completely clean. No n had weapons left on them, and I was only able to scrounge up a handful of bullets. I was confused, until I searched the houses and realized that all the people whod been kidnapped and enslaved were gone. They mustve managed to free themselves and each other after Id killed all of the raiders. Even safer settlents like Boon bred tough bastards apparently.
I left the settlent and collected my hunting rifle. The automatic gun Id retrieved was nearly out of rounds, and would be dead weight unless I could find more. I threw it into my pack and started walking back toward Boon. As I did I repeated the nas of the towns and cities Id seen on the map. If parts of the system could be taken from , I needed to have a fallback. If each of those dots represented sothing like the guns these raiders had stumbled onto, their value couldnt be asured.
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