The Nightmare of a Deathclaw

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Suddenly, the bus is rammed, knocking Piper and Jennifer to the floor of the bus. Thank god the bus was gutted of the seats and bars. The bus is rammed again, this time, we felt the bus tilt. if the bus gets hit again, the bus will flip over onto it's side. I try to look out through the cracks in the boards, to get a look at what has the strength to do this. However, i'm unable to see anything outside, but whatever it is, it's big. Suddenly, the bus is rammed again, this time, the bus is rammed hard enough to flip it.

"What the hell is this thing?" Jennifer asks.

Shortly, Jennifer's question is answered with a bone-chilling, Heart-pounding howl.

"DEATHCLAW!!!!" Piper says, scrambling to the back of the bus.

I grab my shotgun, and toss Jennifer her assault rifle. Piper grabs a couple grenades and tosses them at us.

"I don't have a visual, where the hell is this thing?" I ask checking the front wind shield.

Suddenly, the wind shield fogs up, and the sound of nails scrap across the glass.

"The fucking thing's invisible. How do we fight something we can't see?" I ask, scrambling to get away from the wind shield.

"Move! Piper are you ready?" Jennifer asks, holding the missile launcher.

"Yes, ma'am, whenever you're ready." Piper responds.

"Now!" Jennifer yells.

Piper opens fire on the wind shield with her pistol, shattering the glass, followed by Jennifer firing off a rocket. I barely hit the floor on time for the rocket to fly over my head and slam in the invisible force. I could feel the heat from the explosion. The impact causes the Deathclaw to become tangible again. However, the thing is now trying to climb it's way into the bus.

Back on my feet, I move to join the girls. I grab my combat rifle, and open fire. Piper switches to her hunting rifle and adds to the gun fire. Jennifer, with a new magazine, opens fire with her assault rifle. The Deathclaw seems to stumble back out the bus. Just then, one thought occurs to me, bus, plus rocket, equals bus going boom. We're sitting in a ticking time bomb.

"We have to move, don't stop firing unless you have to reload, this bus is going to explode." I yelled, over the gun fire.

We continue our fire on the Deathclaw, moving towards the front of the bus. Piper reloads first, and provides covering fire while Jennifer and I reload. I get out of the bus and help the others keeping my gun fixed on the Deathclaw. If it made any movement, I was going to shoot it.

All of us made it out of the bus, and safely away, before the bus finally exploded.

"I'm really flirting with death, my luck is extremely uncanny." I say, watching the bus engulf in flames.

I look over at the girls who are watching the flames with amusement.

"Girls, we need to find a new place to camp." I say, looking around, being completely ignored.

While they're mesmerized by the flames, I walk over to the Deathclaw claw and harvest some of the meat. I also harvest the hands off of it. The shopkeepers at Diamond City said they fetch a decent price.

Soon, the flames die down enough that I can finally get the girls attention.

"We need to find a new place to camp for the night." I repeated.

We all agreed to stay away from vehicles. There's an​ apartment building not too far from where we were at, we made our way there and decided to hold up in them for the night.

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