The Enclave's Courier

Chapter 3

A/N: Hello everyone, hope you are well and enjoy.

Searchlight Airport

The courier leaned on the hull of the remnants vertibird staring at the assortment of decaying and burned remains of the radscorpiaons that called the airport home. Arcade comes out of the aircraft and stood next Six looking over at the crumbling remains of the airport terminal.

Six:"...How long has it been since they wore the armor, decades?"

Arcade:"Yup, honestly I'm not surprised at this turn out. Sure, it was just radscorpions but that armor is like a second skin to Moreno."

Six:"Yeah, he seems REAL happy about holding that gatling laser again."

Arcade:"I haven't seen him smile like that since...... feels like forever, honestly I didn't think after all this time he'd ever smile again."

Six:"Unless the NCR imploded..... I'm sure he'd smile then heh."

Arcade:"That'd would work." He says holding out a bottle of water to the courier.

Six takes the bottle and looks back at all the freshly killed scorpions with a look of confusion.

Six:"These radscorpions are different from the ones we've usually dealt with."

Arcade:"What do you mean?"

Six:"The ones we've dealt with were all blue, these ones aren't."

Arcade:".....uh Six, I have never seen a blue scorpion..."

Six:"What? What about that queen in the firehouse at searchlight, that giant bitch was as blue as the ocean was 200 years ago."

Arcade looks at his friend with a look of concerned confusion.

Arcade:"Six....that radscorpion queen was not blue, none of the scorpions we've ever dealt were blue."

Six:".....Shit, really?"

Arcade:"Have I ever lied to you?"

Six puts his hand to the side of his head, rubbing his fingers over the scars courtesy of Benny.

Six:"I.....I guess Benny did a lot more damage than I thought..."

Arcade:"I suppose he did.....you think he's still breathing?"

Six:"No he's dead, I hate the legion, but when they crucified him.....I smiled like a kid."

Arcade:".....Any chance those bullets played with your psyche?"

Six:"Nah.....that was either the brains or the autodoc...."

Arcade:".... leaving that for another day, why exactly did we take this place?"

Six:"Colonel Santiago and Colonel Autumn told me to find somewhere to drop off troops and supplies, somewhere just out of reach of both the NCR and the legion, searchlight crosses that box."

Arcade:"Alright....so what happens when they get here?"

Six:"Well we're going to find a base.... And well that's where hidden valley comes in."

Arcade:"Hidden valley..... wait, no..... you don't mean-"

Six:"Yes, yes I do."

Arcade:"What about Veronica?"

Six looks down at the ground with a frown, he kicks a rock away before looking back up at Arcade.

Six:"Vee will be fine, especially after we get Christine back. She already knows that her chapter is doomed, she'll get her lover, a new life with the followers and if she never wants to speak to me again then that's ok."

Arcade:"Oh my god....what about everyone else, what about Cass, Boone christ Raul and lily!?"

Six:"Calm down, Raul and lily will not be harmed, like I said before the Enclave has changed while there are still those who look down on the ghouls and supermutants but they're not in the position to do much."

Arcade:"What about Cass and Boone?"

Six:".....When the time comes, I will give them both the option to not fight us. I don't want to kill our friends, but you and I both know that they are hardline supporters of the NCR.....if they fight us there's nothing I can do to stop it."

Arcade:"And you're alright with that?"

Six:"Do I look like it?"

Arcade stared at his friend and could see the pain in his eyes, he knew Six wasn't the kind of person to kill his friends.

Arcade:"No....no you don't. I just don't know what to think, I believe you when you say that the Enclave has changed but....fuck I don't know."

Six:".....Do you trust me?"

Arcade:"....."

Six:"Arcade."

Arcade:"I trust you man, I just hope you know what you're doing."

Six:"I do, I wouldn't do this if I wasn't sure."

Arcade:"....Then that's all I need."

Six nods his head and looks back at the area. Moreno walks up to them, his Advanced Power armor allowing him to tower over the two men holding his gatling laser at the ready.

Moreno:"My god, that was the most fun I've had in years! I almost forgot what it was like to wear this armor....feels right."

Six:"Well enjoy while you can Moreno, chances are pretty good you'll get a promotion and a new job away from the fighting."

Moreno:"I'll take a death on the battlefield any day over a desk job boy! I'm a soldier damnit!"

Six and Arcade laugh at that, soon after Moreno joins in. Daisy suddenly screams at them from inside the vertibird.

Daisy:"Hey! I've got something on that frequency you told us about."

Six climbs into the aircraft and gets into the seat next to Daisy. He puts on the headset and listens to the transmission.

Sex:"That's it, there close."

Krieger:"Hey! Get out here! You have to see this!."

Six climbs out of the Vertibird looks out towards the North Eastern horizon, and slowly a smile spread across his face as he could just make out dozens of black spots dot the sky getting closer every second.

Six:"Well folks, I hope you're ready to get to work.

A/N:A bit shorter, but what do you expect from filler. Anyway I hope you all still enjoyed it.