Fallout, Second Life

As Adam jogged over Deccanus was just getting out of the building he had entered carrying with him a dead body of one of the cultists which he unceremoniously threw on the ground. Interestingly it was not the one from the roof, so perhaps it was another one inside the building. Buddy meanwhile was still patrolling the area looking for more purple colored people to kill.

"Are you alright Deccanus?' Adam asked him as he made his way right to the guard who he hoped was still alive.

"I am fine." Deccanus said back as he took out a small washcloth from his bag and wiped some splattered blood on his face with it.

Adam got to the guy and saw that the life was leaving his eyes. He had mere moments before he passed on, this was not the sort of thing a stimpack could save, he had lost too much blood. Stimpack might be able to create miracles but nothing short of an act of god would save this man now.

Adam knelt next to him and took his hand.

"T-tell my wife… Jess… that I love…" He pushed out as Adam took his hand before the life left him and he was unable to finish his sentence. Adam held his hand for a few moments longer and then closed his eyes for him with his hand, letting him rest.

When Adam looked up he saw Deccanus quite expertly handling the Brahmin like he knew what he was doing. They were both still panicked but he had got them to calm down enough that they were just unable to sit still rather than running all over.

Adam let off a slow sigh and then stood up.

"Well I think we got our answer." Adam said as he surveyed the battlefield.

"Indeed." Deccanus agreed as he kicked over one of the dead bodies and got the brahmin's reins in hand.

"What do we do now?" Adam looked to Deccanus. Then he looked at Buddy who was still aggravated by the color purple. "Buddy entered normal mode." He said offhandedly to stop Buddy from overheating.

"I suppose finishing the transport would be the obvious answer but…" Deccanus began before looking at the brahmin. Adam understood what he meant immediately. These brahmin were full of chems. Adam was already feeling less than comfortable helping to secure a chem transport line in the first place, and now they had a golden opportunity. If they were to simply… make the chems go away, no one would be the wiser, everyone would assume the Brahmin ran off or died. No one had to know. They already did this once, back in the vault, they destroyed the Vial. This would be no different, it would be simple too…

Adam walked over to the brahmin, a bit careful since he was not great with animals, but found them to be quite docile thanks to Deccanus' efforts. Adam then sighed.

"No, we can't just make this disappear." He frowned.

"Why not? I do not see what the problem would be."

"Well okay, we can." Adam specified. "But my point is we shouldn't. The Madam was right, one way or the other the junkies will get their drugs, people will get paid, it will all work out in the end. However by escorting the caravan ourselves we can get the favor of both Mr. Cantelli and Madam Aquamarine."

"I see…" Deccanus said, as neutral as possible. "I am not fond of delivering the chems."

"I agree, but out here, I've learned, you take what advantages you can get."

Deccanus paused, looked at the Brahmin and then nodded slowly.

"Understood, then we shall simply complete the delivery."

"Are you um… going to be able to handle the brahmin on the rest of the trek?" Adam asked, having no experience with animal handling.

"Yes, I am experienced with handling brahmin, perhaps not as much as I could be, but in the Legion skills like this were second nature." Adam nodded.

"Then we will proceed at your pace." Adam turned back to Buddy. "Buddy, return to Guard mode of target Adam Baxter."

"Understood. Returning to Guard mode." Buddy said mechanically as he walked over to Adam and began to follow him.

"Let's take what we can from the cultists, we can sell their weapons for something I'm sure, and…" He looked at the dead guards. "Them too, I guess. After all, the dead don't need armor." He sighed. The two of them spent a few minutes grabbing whatever they could of value, a number of guns, some armor, some random chems, a few long blades, and a drawing of the dead guard and a woman, supposedly his wife. Adam took the picture and stored it away carefully. Once they were all set they resumed their journey.

The rest of the trip to Midway was entirely uneventful. The brahmin followed along passively with the three of them without issue and no further attacks occurred. Adam was sure this is what happened to all the other caravans who passed through. It was suspicious how coordinated the attack was but that was not for him to figure out, he just needed to find out what, and he had.

Upon arriving at Midway they once more sat through the lengthy speech as if he hadn't heard it a hundred times, but once they were inside Adam brought the brahmin right to the front.

"Deccanus, can you wait here with the brahmin for a moment?"

"Of course."

"Buddy remain here with Deccanus and follow him until I tell you otherwise."

"Confirmed, guardian target Deccanus." Adam then walked inside and went right to the second floor, heading right to the employees only section. Once he got there he stopped right in front of one of the suited men.

"Can you let Mr. Cantelli know I am here? Also we have the caravan, however the people assigned to it are dead so at the moment my partner is watching them, if you do not mind relieving him."

The black suited man looked at another who was standing nearby, nodded to him and then nodded to Adam.

"Alright. I will tell Mr. Cantelli, you have arrived back. Good work, Mr. Baxter." He said as he turned around to head deeper inside the area, presumably to tell Mr. Cantelli Adam was back, meanwhile the other man walked past Adam heading downstairs, likely to relieve Deccanus.

A few minutes later the man returned and flagged Adam through. They didn't make Adam take off his gear this time, which surprised Adam, it seemed as though Mr. Cantelli was in a rush. Whatever, Adam wanted to inform him sooner rather than later anyway. This was simpler.

Once inside, he saw Mr. Cantelli sitting at his desk, hands folded, staring at Adam as he walked into the room.

"Tell me exactly what happened." Mr. Cantelli said with a no nonsense tone.