Metro Exodus: Artyom X Male Reader

Chapter 9

I'm back

Sorry if it's short but I felt like making another chapter for y'all as to not look as if my book is dead
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Artyom sighed softly, his hand wrapped around the handle of the cart door, pushing it open and stepping onto the railcar portion of the train to which he stepped past, two large water tanks connected to the next portion before coming up to a small car cart were the rusted blue van sat, Artyom could hear the strumming of a guitar along with a soft humming, stepping into the portable car shop, looking to his left he spotted Y/N at the desk, feet propped up on the desk with an old guitar resting on his stomach, Artyom sighed which seemed to have caught the males attention, Y/N looked over at him before moving into a sitting position on the chair, he smiled at Artyom E/C eyes closed, his smile dropped as he noticed Artyom's gloomy expression

"What's wrong Artyom? Something bad happen?"
He asked whilst gently patting the seat next to him, Artyom gladly sat down and rested his head against the H/c male's shoulder

"During Katya and Stephan's wedding Anna had begun to cough up blood, she had been keeping it a secret the whole time, apparently it was from the gasses in the Ammo dump"
The raven-haired male signed as his facial expression turned sour, Y/N cursed under his breath before looking at Artyom with a scowl

"I knew something was wrong, I should have said something before this got worse"
His mouth was twitching, hands wiping the sweat off his forehead, Artyom noticed his bandana was hanging on one of the nail hooks on the wall, he only had a cotton pad covering his missing eye, Y/N licked his lips and leaned forwards a bit sighing with a concentrated glare aimed at the metal floor

"I knew from the moment we got her out that something wasn't right, her coughing grew worse during our time in the Volga, in Yamamtau that Ghoulified doctor was rambling about an Antidote and a sickness, she grew worse in the Caspian, it's not from climate change, it's from the toxins, I remember reading up about it back in the metro, you remember that book my Father had on Gasses?"
Y/N looked at Artyom with a perplexed look on his face, he nodded whilst recoiling the memory back when the two were mere teens

"Back before the war, the army had a cache of gas tanks hidden underneath the ground in an old bunker, it was either the Volga or somewhere else but I remember him telling me the gas was powerful enough to turn someone's lungs into liquid, but I'm guessing after a few years the gasses potency has reduced to a slow and agonizing death, little by little the gasses eat away at the person's lung tissue turning them into a water balloon"
He sighed softly playing with his hands before looking back to Artyom, his face held an unknown expression

"We'll have to see what we can do, so what's the plan now? Where do we go next"
Artyom pulled his portable map out and handed it to the H/C male before beginning to sign out the plan Miller had given him

"You, me, and Alyosha will be sent out ahead to explore an untouched place near the mountains it has no radiation and is clean, we're going to check up on the dam atop the mountains before giving the Aurora the all-clear"

"Ah, alright, hopefully, we don't encounter, Bandits, slavers, or cannibals, or all in between"
He chuckled as Artyom smiled, the two were joking around whilst the sunset behind them, unaware of what dangers lay ahead and what deaths would occur

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Artyom and Y/N stood near the front part of the Railcar, Alyosha driving the car whilst joking around with the two

"Soooo, a little bird told me that you two are together"
Alyosha teased and both the two rangers turned their heads to look at him, Artyom had a glare meanwhile Y/N was sputtering like a heated engine, face hot and steamed and a glare in his eyes

"Hey, at least I'm not one who says that every woman wants him! You fuck!"
Y/N shouted out in an emberessed fashion meanwhile Alyosha died of laughter, the railcar was shaking a bit due to the rail tracks being too unstable and old

"I better radio this into the Colonel, these tracks are too unstable for the Aurora to pass through"
Alyosha picked up the radio and pressed the call button

"This is Alyosha to the Aurora do you copy?"

"This is the Aurora we copy, whats the report Alyosha?"

"We're still on the tracks but unfortunately there too unstable for the Aurora to pass through, you may want to take the main rails"

"Alright, I'll let Yermak know, Miller over and out"

Alyosha put the radio down before turning his attention to the tracks, Y/N was looking at the water meanwhile Artyoms eyes were following the tree line, all was quiet until a roar cut through the trees, Y/N snapped his head in the direction

"What in the fuck was that!?"
He shouted as rocks tumbled down the sides, the three shouted in panic when large boulders came tumbling down crashing into the tracks, Alyosha tried to stop the railcar but it was already too late, they were in the water, Y/N was stuck in the cart due to it falling onto it's side pinning him in a tough situation, Artyom was pulled out into the river by the currents pulling him more he tried swimming back but it was no use, he took his heavy backpack off in an attempt to stay afloat, unfortunately, he was pulled under by the ways causing him to lose oxygen and pass out in the river bank...



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Also I'm gonna be creating a version of an outfit based off the Ghost people from the New Vegas DLC but with my own twist, not mine but I like it