The Scaled Courier

I stood in line at Navarro Outpost which from what the old man said was former Enclave territory that had gotten repurposed as an NCR training ground, I stood with the other recruits getting weird looks from them. "Is Something funny you FEV reject!?" The drill Sergeant asked as I looked at him.

"NO SIR!" I responded scared out of my mind.

"GOOD!" the Sergeant said as he handed out Service rifles. "These are the standard Service Rifles, these will be your best friend in the field." he said as we got into position and fired our guns at a series of targets the best of us would have the chance to become Rangers.

**

In vault city.

"Get out of here Mutant." A passer-by said as I walked with my unit patrolling the City close to the barrack.

"Ignore them son." My commander said as we walked into the barracks.

"Man Scales, you really should see the city at night." My bunkmate said as I rolled my eyes
"I would if I could but most of the city hates me for being a mutant and won't give me service not even the fast food places" I said, I had been classified as A mutant for so long I started to forget about Equestria, about Twilight and mom, about the fact I was a Dragon and well everything.

**

It had been a year since I was an NCR soldier. It was nice while it lasted but when It came time to re-enlist I did want to take that, I simply wanted to wander the wastes and luckily for me as the Unit that I would have been sent with was sent to fight at the battle of Hoover dam and some of the people I knew where lost in the battle and While I was morning them I was also glad that I wasn't there as I had a feeling I would have died there, instead I walked between the NCR territory's and the Mojave for a while now.

**

I was on my way through Goodsprings to deliver a package to New Vegas, not that would let me in, no, new vegas is for humans and no mutants allowed, bullshit I've seen ghouls go in so why not mutant allowed? I thought to myself as I walked up the hill to get a good vue of Vegas from here, but as I got to the top I felt something hit the back of my head and I was knocked out.
When I came to my senses I awoke to see that my hands where gloved and bound and I was gagged. "You got what you were after so pay up." somebody said as I tried to struggle my way out of the ropes.

"Your crying in the rain, palley." another person said as I began to look up.

"Huh, guess who's waking up over here." a third person said as I looked up to see two great.

Khans and some asshole in a suit?

"Time to cash out." the asshole said.

The first khan said. "will you get it over with." the asshole put his finger up shutting the khan up.

"Maybe Khan's kill people without looking them in the face, but I ain't a fink, dig?" he said pulling out the chip I was supposed to deliver. "You've made your last delivery , Kid." he said putting the chip away. " Sorry you got twisted up in this scene." he said pulling out a gold plated gun. "From where you're kneeling it must seem like an 18 carat run of bad luck." he pointed his gun at me "Truth is, game was rigged by the start." he said firing the bullet in my head/

After that everything goes dark and I awoke in Doc Mitchell's house. "whoa take it easy there son." The good doctor said "You're in goodsprings, you took a bullet to the head." he said as I panicked. "Calm down I managed to get it out, well what mattered anyway" he said as I grabbed a mirror to see my face it was the same as it was only with a little scar on the side of one of my cut spines, it was barely noticeable.

"Thanks." I said as I got up.

"Whoa easy now" he said holding me. "Let's get you up." he said helping me off the bed before sending me to a Vit-o-matic Vigor Tester to see what my S.P.E.C.I.A.L stats were and took me to his couch to ask me some questions before sending me on my way to see somebody named Sunny smiles. "Before you go I want to give you this my Pipboy I don't really have a use for it anymore." he said giving it to me.

"Thanks."I said as I left for the saloon where I met with Sunny Smiles.

"Cheyenne down girl, sorry she thinks you're a giant gecko, bad dog." She said, scolding her dog
"You must be the mutant Doc Mitchell patched up, I must say your not what I thought you would look like." she said.

"Yeah I'm not what anybody expects." I said scratching the back of my head as we headed out to the back of the saloon to practice shooting some sunset sarsaparilla bottles before she offered me a job.

"You're pretty good with a rifle wanna help me clear out some geckos?" she asked.

"Sure." I said as she lead me to the reservoir where the Geckos were, after a few head shots we cleared out the first two area's and were heading to the third one when we heard a scream coming from the third water reservoir , I ran ahead seeing a young woman being attacked by three geckos I didn't have time to pull out my 9mm pistol or my varmint rifle so I grabbed one of the geckos and snapped its neck before throwing the corpse at the second gecko knocking it down a hill where it cracked its head before grabbing the final and cooking it alive with my fire breath I must have looked like a demon from hell when I did this as when I looked at the girl who called out for help she looked terrified. "Are you okay?" I asked as she just ran away as I looked at sunny smiles who was startled to say the least.

"Okay? well before you go I should show you how to survive in the wastes, though I’m not sure you’ll need them." she said as I sorta rolled my eyes but reluctantly agreed to do it. After gathering the ingredients from the school which reminded me of something and graveyard next to my grave I made some healing powder and went to meet with Trudy.

"You have till tomorrow or were taking this town down." A rather rude man said to what I'm guessing was Trudy after introducing myself and fixing her radio Trudy told me that the men who shot me probably went south to Primm and after seeing ringo who asked me to help with the help of Sunny and the town we managed to kill the powder gangers.

"Thanks for the help, I know that a payment wasn't on the table but here." Ringo said handing me a hundred caps and as I was preparing to leave the woman who ran from me earlier came up to me.

"I'm sorry I didn't thank you at the reservoir but here." she said handing me three bottles of clean water. "this is for saving my life." she said before running off.

As I made my way to Primm I was stopped by a man who said his wife was trapped between some Geckos which turned out to be a trap and a man who explained me what blue started caps where as I had gotten a few on my travels, though I was kicking myself as I remember paying for stuff with those blue caps before back in the NCR. When I got to Primm I was told to see a Lt.Hayes who told me that a bunch of escaped convicts had taken over the town and that they didn't have the manpower to take the town back, So I went into the town killing the few that were out there and entering the Vikki and Vance Casino and being met with a gun to my head "Whoa." I said. "I'm not one of the escaped convicts." I said as the man put his gun down.

"I don't know what it was brought you to Primm, youngster, but you might want to rethink your plans. Town's gone to hell.” he said.

"I'm a courier from Mojave outpost." I said as I handed him a manifest of my job. "I'm looking for information." I said.

"Let me see that." He said reading the manifest. "Oh it was one of those jobs." he said. "That cowboy robot had us hire six couriers. Each was carrying something a little different. A pair of dice, a chess piece, that kind of stuff. Last word I had from the office, it looked like payment had been received for the other five jobs. Guess it was just your chip that didn't make it. First deadbeat we hired to do the job canceled. Hope a storm from the Divide skins him alive. Well, that's where you came in."

"You mean that robot cowboy?" I said pointing to the Protectron.

"No it was a different robot." he said.

"what about the guy that canceled?" I asked.

"Yeah, got this look when he saw you next down on the Courier list. His expression turned right around, asked me if your name was for real. I said, sure as lack of rain, you were still kicking. Then he turned down the job, just like that. I asked if he was sure, it was good money. No, let "Courier Six" carry the package, that's what he said - like the Mojave'd sort you out or something. Then he just up and walked out." he said as I wondered who this other courier was.

"Anyway my package got stolen by some asshole in a tacky suit." I said.

You should ask deputy Beagle,Well, you can call Beagle a deputy so long as you don't harbor too high an opinion of the word. Boy was 'bout as useful as tits on a radscorpion. Only qualification he ever had was to be brother to the wife of the sheriff. Still, I s'pose he don't deserve what's befell him. We would've considered paying the ransom, if we'd had caps to spare." he said as I left the casino to head to the Bison steve hotel where I killed some more escaped convicts and got the deputy out.

"Thanks a lot." he said.

"Can you give me some information on the people I'm looking for?" I asked.

"Well I could but my memories a bit foggy maybe getting the town a new sheriff would help." he said as I rolled my eyes and wondered why he wasn't sheriff before I went to the NCR
encampment to ask them to to take over the town, they said if they could get more help from the outpost they would annex the town, so I walked to the outpost where I introduced myself to the commander knight and did a job for the ranger posted there, I was rewarded with a service rifle which reminded me of my service days. when I got back and informed the camp that they had the authority to annex the town I went back to deputy Beagle. "Well if it isn't the lawbringer." he said sarcastically.

"What crawled up your ass?" I asked.

'It's just I'm not deputy anymore, apparently a few months of experience doesn't account for anything." he said all angry.

“Yeah boo who now can you tell me about those guys?" I asked.

"Yeah, they went down to Nipton." he said as I had my next destination.