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//USERID: Vic//
Howdy.
So I went to the Seneca station trying to meet up with Lucy and her new team. It has been almost a month since I last saw her. I managed to catch up with them about half a mile away from the metro.
"Vic? What are you doing here?" Lucy asked me as I was walking toward her.
"I came to see how you're doing. Sonora told me where to find you." I replied. Her friends, Gage and Tony, according to Sonora, looked at me, and had their hands firmly on their holstered weapons. Both of them wore Regulator Dusters, Gage had short buzzcut brown hair, and Tony had a hat on with longer blonde hair running down to his shoulders.
"Don't worry, he's a friend. Or something like that..." Lucy told them. That didn't change their stances though, "Anyway, we can't stand still and chit chat. Let's talk while we go."
"Alright," I responded as we started moving closer to the Seneca Station, "So, how've you been then?"
"I'm guessing Sonora told you about Dave," She looked at me, "Honestly, pretty good. I didn't like that bastard anyway. This is Tony, and Gage, by the way." I waved up to them, but Tony didn't look over to me.
"So, who is this guy, Luce?" Gage looked at me, and then back to her.
"Some traveler I met back on my mission with Dave and John to GNR."
"How well do you know him?"
"Well enough to know he isn't the enemy." She glanced at him and he lost his tention. Letting go of his weapon.
"Can never be to careful." Tony chimed in, but letting up his guard at the same time.
"I've been here before. It's just up that way," I lean in front of them and point to two burned up, broken buildings.
"Ya sure?" Lucy asked me.
"Hundred percent." I responded.
We walked the rest of the way in silence. I could tell Gage and Tony didn't really feel comfortable with me around, and Lucy sensed that. We arrived at the stairs down to the metro station, and Gage looked at me.
"So, anything down there we should look out for?"
"Last time I was here, there were two ghouls working on some project. Friendly though."
"Good thing that Dave isn't with us anymore." Lucy chimed in. I remembered when Dave had killed those two ghouls in one of the metros on the way to DC last time I was with him. Without saying anything, we started to go down, me in the lead. I opened the gate, and went in by myself to scout out. I went back to signal them inside.
"Wait here." I told them, and I started to go toward the door where I last met the two ghouls. The door was opened, and I walked inside. Instantly, I felt a sharp pain in my right foot. I had stepped on a bear trap. I fell down backwards and saw Lucy running toward me.
"Who's that?!" A ghoul voice yelled out. Gage and Tony ready their weapons, while Lucy tries to free me. I see Barrett walk toward me with a rifle pointing right at Lucy. I reach for my holstered pistol and switch the safety off, but I am too late. Barrett fires his rifle and moments later Lucy is on the ground, not moving.
"Shit!" Gage screamed as he ran up to her, Tony aimed at Barrett and fired his assault rifle several times. I had also been shooting at him with my pistol. Within seconds, the ghoul collapses, and crashes into a desk behind him. Tony rushes over to me and pulls me free. I look over at Lucy, and Gage looks up to me.
"Alive, but barely. She was shot in the arm here," He points toward her left arm, and I can see how disfigured it is, "We need a doctor right away."
"H-hey!" A ghoul screamed. Tony and Gage get up and ready their weapons. A Ghoul, Murphy, I remembered, came up to us with his hands raised, "I am so sorry about what just happened, Barrett... he... he is too careless. Listen, I can help her, please, just bring her in here." Tony and Gage look at each other, then to me. I nod, and they bring her inside. I manage to get up, my ankle in pain, but it isn't too bad.
"Who are you?" Gage asked Murphy.
"My name is Murphy, I am a ghoul scientist and medical expert," He pointed toward an empty table, where Gage and Tony place Lucy down, "Over there, bring me that case." Gage went over and retrieved the case.
"I'm sorry about your friend, but he shot first." Tony said, staring at Murphy's ravashed face.
"I know." He said, beginning to poke at Lucy's wound, she still being unconcious.
"Will she be okay?" I ask him, he doesn't seem to recognize me, "This wound is very serious. Barrett is a good shot," Tony grits his teeth, "We may need to amputate."
"Amputate? What?" Gage shouts, "The hell-"
"Listen, buddy," Murphy turns toward him,"She was shot with a powerful rifle, and landed in a pile of dirt and radroach shit. She's probably already infected, and I don't have the necessary tools to clean all this crap out. I need you to go and get me that bonesaw on the shelf, and about a dozen stimpacks." Gage complies, and grabs the saw, while I go into my pack and get my seven stims out and hand them to Tony, who is shuffling for more.
"Here." Tony says as he hands the bag of stims to Murphy.
"Ok, listen up. She is probably going to wake up here. I need you three to restrain her. This isn't going to be pretty." We get into place, and he begins to remove her jacket, revealing her naked torso. I take hold of her right arm, trying not to look at her. Tony and Gage get into place, as Murphy raises his arm, saw in hand, and crashes it down onto her left shoulder. She instantly wakes up and screams, I try to hold her in place the best I can, and Murphy is finishing up the initial cut.
"FFFUUUUUCCCKKKKK-" she screams, making me shake, as she quickly falls back into a comotose state.
"Ok, I need you to bring me that shishkebab over in my closet, second shelf." Murphy points, as Tony rushes over and opens the closet door, and grabs the weapon, handing it to Murphy. He places it onto Lucy's severed shoulder.
"Ok, we are going to need to get her to some advanced help after this. My ankle is fucked up, so one of you two needs to go get some help." I tell Gage and Tony.
"Yeah, I will go back to back to the HQ and bring some people back here," Tony says, as he looks at Gage, who nods. "She'd better stay alive." He then rushes off out of the room, and back outside. Murphy finishes with his sword thing, and gets bandages, while injecting her wound with stimpacks.
"Is she... going to be ok?" I ask, as he is performing his operation.
"I don't know." He says, looking at me with that blank ghoul face. By now it was around 1PM.
"Gage," I looked at him, "What was your mission here anyways?"
"We were supposed to wait out here for a few hours," He told me, "A talon squad was supposed to come here and we were supposed to ambush... shit."
"Wait, when are they supposed to arrive?" I asked him, worried.
"Sometime around..." he looked at the piece of paper he had in his pocket, "4 or 5."
"I doubt Tony will be back with reinforcements by then... hell it took over night to even get here." I responded.
"Yeah, but if he runs there at full speed, he could maybe get there by the end of the day."
"We'd better get ready for Talon then," I look through my pack, "How many are supposed to be in a squad?"
"Three or four."
"Hey, hey, hey, wait a second here," Murphy chimed in, "I ain't getting involved in this back and forth nonsense I... thought I could work here in peace."
"We don't need you, just stay low," Gage told him, "Make sure that she doesn't die."
"I am gonna look around for things in the other room." I piped up, and then left Murphy's lab and into the other service room beside it. Now I am making this log. If there are no more updates, then it seems that I've died in the battle that will come. Victor out.
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