Steel Waste Chapter 78
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A few hours later when the sun started to dip below the horizon After was ready to head out, in his backpack was the block of C4 and the trigger was sitting in his pocket with the safety still on. He was about to step out of his office when a voice interrupts him.
"Hey, Afton, you wouldn't happen to know where all the meds have gone would you? We seem to be missing some..." Hannigan asks from behind him.
Afton's feet stop as his voice his caught in his throat, perhaps he shouldn't have looted all the meds until after the siege... But then the NCR might have seized them... "Err, you sure Eddie didn't take some again? You know how he is with the Chems." he says before turning to Hannigan.
They shake their head, "I don't mean just the Jet... Literally everything is gone, I think someones stolen it... We need to take this to Eddie and find whoever they are."
Afton slowly nods, "Yeah... Let's go do that, lead on." he gestures towards the door.
Hannigan turns to leave and is about to grab the door handle when *CLACK*
Afton hammers him in the back of the head with his revolver, causing the man to drop to the ground unconscious. In all honesty, it was probably better this way, Hannigan was one of the relatively decent Powder Gangers so him being knocked out now meant that he wouldn't be shot dead later.
He picks the man up and puts him on the bed, using the medical curtains to block anyone from looking at him. If they did they'd just assume he was sleeping again as this wasn't the first time he used the bed for himself.
Afton quickly ducked out of the room and into the courtyard, the sun had finally set and there weren't many people milling about the courtyard any longer. The only light came from the watchtowers, and those were only directed outside of the prison in-order to detect anyone approaching or leaving.
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Taking a few glances around to make sure he wasn't be watched he snuck up to the North wall and shoved the block of C4 in between the metal of the gate and quickly retreating. He didn't immediately pull the trigger and activate it though, Instead he looked up at the nearest watchtower and down at the walkway leading up to it.
Again, he starts sneaking up it and eventually finds himself behind a wall where two Powder Gangers were drinking and talking to one another.
"Why the fuck doesn't Eddie let us take women back with us? Its a fucking sausage fest in this shit hole." one asks in a gruff voice.
"Mike, we barely have enough food for ourselves, let alone whatever toys you wanna bring back. Shut up and deal with it... Unless you wanna talk to Eddie."
The conversation stops there and Afton slows his rapidly beating heart before pulling out the C4 trigger... "God I hope this thing actually works." he mutters to himself as he activates it.
...
*BOOOOOM!*
After a moment the C4 finally detonates, creating a huge explosion which sends shards of metal zipping about the place, no one is hit by the shrapnel but the shock of the sudden explosion is enough to catch them off guard.
The two men in the watchtower launch themselves out of their chairs and walk to the edge of the watchtower to see what'd just happened, not noticing Afton who'd been waiting for them.
"Hah!" Afton grunts as he throws a kick at one of their backs, sending them flying off of the watchtower to the ground below, they'd either die instantly or be crippled for life when they land, so Afton activated VATS to see what the other Powder Ganger was going to do.
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Time froze and he examined the man, noticing that their hand was already on their 9mm pistol strapped to their hip. Deactivating VATS Afton locks their hand in place and headbutts them, sending their cowboy hat flying off.
"GUUHK! F-Fucking bastard!" they shout and stop trying to grab their gun, instead, sending a fist at Afton's face. Both could hear guns firing but neither could lose focus on their current fight.
Afton tries to dodge but isn't quick enough due to him trying to take the man's 9mm pistol, he's hit in the cheek which immediately begins to bruise. In retaliation he palm strikes the man in the chin, causing their teeth to audibly clack together painfully.
Another fist flies for Afton's face but he successfully dodges this one, getting close and delivering a powerful elbow into the man's nose, this breaks it completely and creates a large bloody gash on their face, as well as leaving them disoriented.
Taking this chance Afton went into VATS and selected the man's head with his revolver a couple time, once activated Afton had drawn his revolver and pressed it under the man's chin in half a second. Their eye's widen at how fast this'd just occurred before the trigger is pulled.
*Bang!*
Blood and grey matter explodes out the back of their head as the drop limply to the floor. Afton quickly smashing the search light in-order to make it more difficult for the Powder Gangers to shoot at the NCR soldiers that were now advancing through the hole the C4 had made.
He tears off his Powder Ganger jacket and tosses it away, turning his attention towards the Powder Gangers on the ground trying to defend against the invaders. Glancing around the watchtower he finds a varmint rifle in semi-decent condition, luckily for him it seemed to be loaded already as he didn't have time to loot the bodies... Not to mention one of the corpses had been thrown off of the tower.
With his system-upgraded Guns skill he lifted the unfamiliar gun to his shoulder and took aim, it felt like his muscles were working on their own as he started firing at the ant-like people wearing blue jackets.
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