Wasteland Tales

Wasteland Tales Ch. 1: The Beginning of the End

"What a beautiful night, isn't it Will," said Jamie laying on her sleeping bag.

"It is," responded Will with delight.

"Yeah, well I hope this journey to New Vegas goes well," as Jamie turned to Will.

"Same," he responded turning over in his sleeping bag, "Goodnight."

"Goodnight," she said with glee in her voice.

Will looking down at the old, musty floors of the abandoned shop, he kept feeling that going to New Vegas was a bad idea. Sighing to himself, he closed his eyes, wishing the guilt to go away as he went into another night of unrestful sleep. Waking up in the morning, Will wakes Jamie up for another grueling day of walking in a brisk and windy day of the Mojave.

"When are we going to get to New Vegas?" said Jamie annoyingly.

"Soon enough," said Will.

"That's what you said for the past couple of days."

"Well we're walking, what do you expect?"

"Us to get there sooner, duh."

"Jeez," murmured Will to himself.

As the day progressed further, the two found themselves in the midst of dusk. Knowing that the sun will set soon, they hurry their pace.

"I thought that we passed a sign awhile back saying there was a campsite nearby," said Jamie.

"We did," said Will, "That's why I'm walking faster, we don't know if any radscorpions would come out to attack."

"You don't have to be such a dick Will."

Moving onward, the two came closer to a town, hearing gunfire in the distance, the two hid. Seeing a NCR Ranger shooting back at a couple of raiders, the two readied their guns. The Ranger got behind a rock, and shot his anti-material rifle at one of the raiders, killing him. The other hiding behind a rock, started shooting at the position the Ranger was at. Seeing that he was in trouble Jamie peaked over the rock.

"Over here," she said while standing.

"What the hell are you doing? Get down!" yelled Will.

The raider looked over and so did the Ranger, but realizing the distraction being made, he quickly shot and killed the raider. Standing up, he waved over Jamie to his position.

"C'mon Will, he's calling us," said Jamie.

"How do we know it's safe?" said Will.

"Don't be a hardass."

Sighing, Will followed Jamie towards the Ranger, but also keeping an eye out for any possible danger. As they approached, the Ranger keeping his eye toward the direction he came from and quickly analyzing them.

"Thanks for helping me," the Ranger said.

"No problem," said Jamie, "It looked liked you needed help.

"I could've handled it, but now that you're here I want to ask if you can help again."

"Help with what?" Will said quickly.

"I came from a town not too far from here, and was split from my team when we tried to clear out this town of raiders."

"So you ran?" said Will, "You're a ranger, you're supposed to be the NCR's strongest military force."

"Yes I know, but we were ambushed, from all sides."

"We'll help you," said Jamie, grinning. at the Ranger.