Mojave wasteland, Goodsprings, Courier

Courier steps out of the house stopping for a minute to have his eyes adjust to the sunlight. As he waited his Pipboy beeped as it picked up a four singles on the radio. (Will be doing the DLC content in individual stories later on.) He looked around and saw a robot heading up the path. He remembered Mitchell's saying a metal fellow named Victor saved him. HE walked to it was it turned to greet him.

"Howey there, it's good to see you're still kicking my friend." Victor told him the screen on it showing a cowboy on it.

"You're Victor? Thanks for getting me to the Doc, the name's Courier." Courier told him. "Do you know anything thing about what happened that night?" He asked Victor.

"Can't say I knew about what exactly is going on but I'll tell you want I can. I was out for a stroll that night when I noticed something was going on at the boneyard. Saw what looked like some bad eggs and you so I stayed low to check things out. Once they left I dug you up and find you were still live and got you posthaste to the Doc." Victor told Courier what he knew. "That's all I know but I did hear about them going to the Saloon that night. Perhaps you can find out more about them there." Victor told him.

"I see, still thanks for saving my ass and for the info." Courier told him.

"No problem. Always willing to lend a helping hand to those in need. Good luck." Victor told him as the two parted ways. Courier made his way to the saloon giving a nod to the man sitting near the door. When he enters it building he saw a dog which started barking at him.

"Cheyenne, stay. Don't worry, she won't bite unless I tell her to. So your the guy Doc Mitchell was helping, good to see you on your feet." A woman told him.

"Are you Sunny Smiles? Doc recommended me to come it you to learn how to survive out in the Mojave. I remember some things but I don't mind expanding my knowledge base in case it proves useful in the future." Courier told her.

"Sure, I won't mind. Come out to the back and we'll get started." Sunny told him. The two headed to the back with Cheyenne following them. They left the building and moved to the rear of it. She gave him a varmint rifle and 50 rounds of 5.56mm. "Lets do a quick test to see if you can still shoot." She tells him as she put a couple of Sarsaparilla bottles on the fence. Courier put in a chip and aimed at a bottle. "Bang!" The bottle was broken in half. He fired another two shots with the same fate for the bottles. "Ok that's go but I doubt you came to shoot Sarsaparilla bottles. Now I have to chase or remove some geckos away from out water supply. You want to come along?" She asks him.

"Sure. Plus it will give me some live targets which are trickier to get, a true test in shooting." He replies to her.

"Follow me then. It's not far from here to the southeast." She says as they left for the wells. It took a couple of minutes before they got near the first well and heard some chirps. "You hear that. We got some geckos here." She tells him. "Lets try to catch them off guard." She tells him. They slowly got close as they saw two geckos which are grey bipedal lizards. Courier aimed when suddenly everything seemed to go very slowly. He looked at the Pipboy and saw. "VATS online." He remembered what Mitchell said about it and aimed at the heads of the Geckos. After he picked his targets he let it end and both Geckos were killed as he fired faster then normal. "Holy! How did you do that?"

"VATS." He told her and explained it as he reloaded his rifle.

"Well that's pretty useful." She told him. "I got another two wells to check out and if you would help me out I'll pay you some caps for it." She tells him.

Courier thought about it before agreeing to help out. After being given a few more 5.56mm rounds the two cleared out the other two wells and saved one of the setters who give the two of them some clean water she collected from the well. "Well that's it for the next few days till the damn things come back." Sunny told Courier. "How do you feel like learning to make something that would be useful for your travels." She tells him.

"Sure. Anything that can help I'll take it." He replied to her. The two walked to a campfire not far from the third well. Sunny pulled out some plants and some meat she collected from the Geckos. "I'm going to show you how to make what travelers call healing powder. Put some of this on a wound and it will colt it up and allow it to heal quicker." She told him. She did the mixture and then put him through the steps in making the powder.

After he made several batches of it the two decided to call it a day after Sunny made some lunch out of the Gecko meat and the two talked about what creatures can be found out in the wasteland. Sunny give Courier 30 caps for the help and they were about to walk back to Good Springs when. "What Is It girl? Smell something?" Sunny asked, as If In reply, Cheyenne barked and began to run off to the right, towards the beaten a cracked road. Courier and Sunny looked at each other for a second before taking off In pursuit of the canine.

Once they caught up to Cheyenne, she was standing In the middle of the deserted road, sniffing at the ground Intently. Cheyenne noticed their approaches and barked to get their attention before taking off down the road, away from Goodsprings.

"Cheyenne wait!" Shouted Sunny, but to no avail, begrudgingly, the two continued to chase after the dog. After a short while, they watched as she came to a stop and laid down next to something. Courier tried to focus and see what It was, but they were to far away to tell, but, as he drew nearer, he noticed that the object of the dogs Interest was beginning to take the shape of a person, sprawled out across the road.

The pair stopped and looked at each other with faces of concern, before taking off In a sprint towards the body. Both uttering something under their breath. For Courier It was something along the lines of "Oh fucking hell, this cant be good." while Sunny let loose a long line of vulgar creative words and something having to do with gangers.

All concern was lost when they got to their target, being replaced rather with curiosity and awe. Courier stood silent while Sunny gasped what her dog had led them to. Laying across the road was what Courier thought to be a woman at first glance, only she wasn't. She was covered In dark grey, almost black fur and long dark cerulean hair.

Her facial features were... off. A short, almost snout like mouth, large, unnaturally large eyes and the fact that she had a crooked black horn sticking out of her forehead. The only way he could really tell she, really was a she, was when he knelt down and flipped her over, revealing a pair of breasts on her chest.

Courier checked on her noting she was clothed. Well, barely. She was wearing a tattered, hole filled black dress that hugged her form tightly and went down to her knees. He looked at her hands and noticed that they had four fingers and a thumb. Why he became so Interested In her hand was unknown even to him, so, before it became a obsession, he moved on to her legs. Long, toned and... Wait a minute....

'Okay... I can deal with the hooves Instead of feet, but why does she have a fair number holes in her calves?' He thought to himself. Everything that Courier saw was blowing his mind. This, woman, If he could even call her that, was so unnatural to be real, but at the same time to perfectly shaped and symmetrical to be a mutant. He looked up at Sunny for a answer, but she was just as shocked and clueless as him. After what felt like hours of silence but was several minutes, Courier asked "What do you think she Is?"

"I don't know, but she sure ain't any kind of mutant I've ever seen" Courier nodded and looked to the horizon, noticing that the sun starting to set. Sunny seemed to notice as well and said "We better get her back to town unless we want to get there when it's dark and wake up the Doc."

Courier nodded again and went to pick up the woman. He paused when he saw something he didn't before. On her back she was sporting a pair of transparent, insect like wings, the leftmost being damaged badly. He also noticed after he picked her up, bridal style, that parts of her body were hard, and felt like smooth pieces of chitin.

He stood up with his package and began to quickly walk down the road, hoping to get back to town before the sun sets, but he was cut short when Sunny called out "Wait!" He looked over his shoulder and noticed she was kneeling a couple of feet away from where the woman had been laying. She stood back up and jogged over to him. In her hand he noticed that she held a long, thin, black sheath with a handle sticking out of one end, most likely a sword of some kind.

"Must belong to her" She said as she fell into sync beside the now walking Courier.

They arrived at town not soon after, the sun was about to set below the horizon and only that didn't matter though, because Courier and Sunny made a beeline straight for the house up on the hill near the middle of town that belonged to the good doctor. Sunny go there first and knocked on the door loudly, soon after Courier joined her, still carrying the bug woman carefully not to harm her farther.

"Hey Doc, we need some help out here." Sunny called as she was about to knock again.

"Sunny what is going-" Doc Mitchell said as he opened the door before he saw the woman in Courier's arms after Sunny moved out of the way. "Oh dear, come inside!" He told them after seeing the injuries and closed the door. Courier placed her on the bed after Doc Mitchell prepared it and left the room to cook some food for the three of them after being asked to by the Doc and leaving a plate on the table as the Doc started tending to the injuries of his newest patient as the other two waited for what was likely going to be a long night.

Author's Note

Level up! New perk chosen: Swift Learner

Perks: Swift Learner, Skilled, Trigger Discipline