A few moments ago she was meaning the King and Rex with Ed-e. Now she, Rex and Ed-e were here in this strange yet unsettlingly familiar red forest. Six knew she had been there but much like the Divide she couldn't remember where it was or when. All she knew was it was a place back from a time where all her problems weren't solved with the end of her Gobi Campaign rifle, a time where she had trust.
It has been 30 minutes since they started to move all three were on high alert Ed-e beeps every so often when he detected movement and Rex sniffed the air in an attempt to find anything. That when it happened Ed-e gave the signal so they hid and waited. There were three people running in their direction.
Six steadied her AER14 prototype to her shoulder after her time spent in the Sierra Madre she always felt more comfortable dealing with a pile of ashes or goop than an actual corpse. The three people stopped within view. Six only noted the hair color and weapons they had, two of them had swords of some kind the one with white hair and the one with black hair to be more specific. The last, a blonde had gauntlets of some kind though not similar to any Six had seen.
Turning on the voice module on her desert ranger helmet Six gave the signal to confront the three people.
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It was enough to say that Yang Xiao Long was not having a good day, her and her team had been camping out on a mission everything was going well until they went to sleep. They had woken up expecting to get back to beacon instead they found that their leader, her sister, was missing.
They had been searching for an hour now and to make it even better they now had ambushed by a robot, what looked like a dog with cybernetic enhancements, and some person with a strange rifle pointed at them. Yang was ready to deck this person for getting in the way her and her teams search when they spoke.
"Tell us where we are and we won't shoot" the person said
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Weiss was now confused, at first she was angered by the actions of what she could only presume was a man, the armor they had on hid any defining features and the voice was distorted by the helmet. Now she was confounded by the words of this person, they had her and her team at gun point but only asked for their location.
However she refused to give in to their demands even if it was as simple as where they were. She was a Schnee and she would not give in to some thug. She tried to move her had to her rapier when the person turned the gun to her.
"Don't try it, you do and I turn you to ash" was all Weiss heard before stopping.
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Blake saw the gun turn on her teammate and decided to speak up. In her mind a location wasn't to much to ask especially since the last thing they need was a injured teammate well looking for their leader. So she spoke.
"Forever Falls" was all Blake said
"What" the armor person said
"You wanted a location so I told you, you're in Forever Falls." Blake finished
"Thank you but where the hell is that the only place with this many trees in the Mojave is Jacobstown." the distorted voice responded
Mojave? Jacobstown? What was this person on about never in her life had Blake heard of either of those places. No matter if it meant they could get back to finding ruby she'd tell them.
"We've never heard of those places but to answer your question forever falls is in Vale."
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Six needed a drink. She was in a place she had never heard of before and well it wasn't the first time it gets tiring after having it happen three times. She then turned to Ed-e and signaled to disengage.
Ed-e beeped in protest but still followed the order. Six then pulled out a whiskey bottle from her bag. Normally she would have cursed cass for getting her addicted to the stuff but damn did she need it today. Six still remembered when she first tried to stuff it smelled and tasted like something burning which she supposed it was.
Six took off her ranger helmet and proceeded to down the entire bottle of whiskey. When she was finish she looked back at the three people in front of her, each had verying looks of shock.
"What, did you want some" she said
"R-ruby" was the only response she got
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Return of a Wasteland Rose
RandomCourier Six was never good with her memory, she supposed getting shot in the head didn't help that but now she was in a forest with bright red leaves. This place made her uneasy much like the Divide it was familiar enough to cause a sense of dread b...
