Taking On Nuka World

Chapter 2

Kiddie Kingdom was a total shit show. The feral ghouls painted like clowns would stick around in her nightmares for awhile. Not to mention the way they looked as they ran toward her through a haze of radioactive water being sprayed from small misting nozzles. The disgusting water burned her eyes and made her stomach churn.

She had a bottle of Rad-X in her pocket, ready for constant use. Every few minutes she popped one into her mouth and tried to swallow it, but her mouth was dry so she ended up chewing the pills. They tasted atrocious, but kept her from getting too irradiated, so it wasn't all bad.

Finally, they made it to the Fun House. She quickly threw off her gloves and rummaged through her pack for supplies. She grabbed a bottle of purified water and two RadAway.  She tossed one to Gage and then opened the water. She washed off her hands with a quick splash and then rubbed her eyes clear of irradiated water, then splashed some water on her cheeks and scrubbed away the stinking water.

Gage watched her as she washed off her face, hands, and arms. She was always so clean, even here in the throws of a wasteland. He worked on preparing the RadAway for injection as she worked her skin. The scratchy voice on the intercom kept laughing and making fun of them. He couldn't wait to shoot that man through the face and end his stupid laughing and chattering. It was giving him a throbbing headache, which interfered with his sunny disposition.

"I wish I could wait longer, but my body has zero resilience for radiation." She explained as he passed the RadAway to her. He grunted a reply.

Going through the Fun House under the nauseous influence of the RadAway was hell. When they reached the spinning room she bent in half, her stomach lurched and expelled the contents onto the spinning floor. The feral ghouls that ran towards her slipped in the puke and fell, causing a domino effect, knocking the legs out from the ones behind them as they tumbled around, trying to get up.

Gage was laughing as he shot them down before they could reach her. She got cracked up as well. The entire situation was in itself hilarious. They laughed long and hard before the scratchy voice over the intercom system told them to get moving. They moved on, ribs still sore from laughing and running through the Fun House.

Despite being sick to her stomach, they laughed and had a great time running through the obstacles, killing ghouls that got in her way. They were barely background noise. A nuisance in the way of their fun.

They finally found the man they had been looking for. A ghoul, glowing and claiming to have magical powers. That was laughable, and for a second she did laugh. The freckles on her cheeks were dark against the blush of laughter that bubbled out of her chest. The ghoul wasn't as amused by her outburst as Gage was.

Even in the face of danger she was stunning and fearless. Laughing in the face of danger. He couldn't help but be a little aroused by her, and more than a little intimidated. She was amazing and beautiful and absolutely terrifying.

"This is fucking insane, Gage." She grumbled as they headed to a different building. The radiation in the air made her instantly sick. She knew that the RadAway was likely to make her sick, she hoped that she wouldn't catch anything while she was out. It'd be hard to get to a doctor if she came down with the flu or a nasty infection.

"Yep." He grunted back.

"Why didn't you warn me that this was going to almost kill us?" She laughed.

"Hell boss, I ain't ever been out this way before. Had no idea that all this was going on."

"Rigghhht." She joked.

...

She sat down with an oof and gripped her thigh. She was injured, and Gage saw his whole world stop for a fuzzy second before he could react. His vision blurred red as he opened fire on Oswald, letting his anger build as he held down the trigger. Finally a bullet caught the ghoul, it went through his head and shattered the cracked glass behind him with a crash.