[1stPOV]
The slaves in the settlement of Action are under the boot of the raiders. But that doesnt mean they dont carry weapons.
With the explosive collars around their necks, the raiders dont have to worry about betrayal. But they can still have the slaves be armed in case a rival gang or wasteland creatures attack the settlement.
So once the collars are disabled, there will likely be a pretty good fight.
'I'm a little excited even though I probably shouldn't be...'
I made my way to the town hall, avoiding the detection of some raiders guarding the perimeter.
Cloaked in my stealth suit, I kept to the shadows of the building to get closer.
A patrolling raider passed as I hugged the corner of the building.
And as he walked by, I reached out and grabbed his mouth with one hand and then stabbed into his eye socket with a knife in the other.
I learned my lesson last time. Better to go for an instant kill by scrambling the brain instead of slitting throats like you see in the movies.
Death throes are a real thing and can cause others to detect you.
I pulled the body back into the shadows and then moved to target the second guard blocking my path.
The raider met the same end as the first.
I slipped into the main door leading into a wide hall.
The other end of the hall led to a set of double doors. I snuck up to them and cracked the door open to view the other side.
I immediately went back to hugging wall since I saw someone approaching the door from inside.
The doors opened and a figure walked out. A woman with generous curves that drew my attention. But only for a second since she was a raider. I still know my priorities!
I attempted my usually assassination attempt by grabbing her and ending things but as I wrapped my arm around, she reacted quicker than what I anticipated.
In the second I tried to put my hand over her mouth, she reached up and grabbed by wrist and with a forceful pull using her center of gravity, I was thrown to the ground over her shoulder.
'Fuck!' I thought as the woman pulled a knife and lunged down to stab me.
I rolled to evade and then jumped back to avoid her continued assault.
She charged me with a blade in both hands causing me to dodge and sidestep to defend against the onslaught.
"Ah!" I got slashed across the arm leaving a wide wound that caused me to hesitate. With a well placed kick to my chest, I was kicked outside the entrance doors.
I rolled to a stop and the woman lunged again at me. I pulled Fuckbringer out and was about to fire on her but she did something that I caught me completely off guard.
A throwing knife hit the back of my hand causing me to miss my first shot.
I saw her unholter a pistol from her side faster than I could blink and fired a shot.
[Dodgy] activated and I rolled left behind a fence pillar for cover.
'What the hell is this woman?! Everytime I try to counter attack she is already a step ahead of me?'
I pulled the pin off a frag grenade and tossed it behind me as I moved along the fence line as bullet fire was shot through it in an attempt to hit me.
*boom!*
The grenade went off cutting off the gunfire for a moment giving me a second to breathe.
'Looks like silent infiltration is out of the question now.'
I changed my gear back to my combat armor set and pulled out my second pistol.
I jumped up from cover and activated VATS.
The crazy woman that attacked me was lurking behind cover, our eyes met as I locked on to her head and fired.
Unfortunately she pulled back behind the corner she was using as cover and my shot missed.
Two more raiders came out the building and she directed them to fan out and flank me.
'Well this isnt going as planned...' I mused.
A raider ran out and took position and put me in thier line of sight while the other ran around started firing an assault rifle towards my cover.
I rolled away and then used VATS again to take that raider down.
But as I shot that raider the other took the opportunity to fire at me.
*ding*
A bullet grazed my shoulder armor causing me to pull back in alarm.
The first raider I shot had went down and the second clipped me.
'But where's that crazy chick?'
Suddenly a shadow loomed over me as the woman had jumped over the fence was in the air above me.
'What the fuck?!'
A knife left her hand and was on a trajectory for my face specifically my eyeball.
I raised my pistol and deflected it and then dodged right to avoid the gunfire from the woman's pistol and the sub machine gun from the other raider.
I rolled three consecutive times Dark Souls style, before launching into a sprint.
I felt bullets hit my legs and back. Fortunately only one of them managed to penetrate into my hip.
I put some distance between us but I could see that woman giving chase.
I ran around the other side of the town hall to get more control over the engagement.
'Why is that chick so fast to react? Is all her points in Agility?' I thought seriously. I hadn't had a struggle in combat up till now so this was a valuable experience... if I survive.
The woman dashed around the opposite corner of the building after me and I let off a flurry of shots, causing her jump back behind the corner of the building for cover.
'This isn't good. We will only manage to exchange shots from this position. But if more raiders come to flank me, it's over.'
I looked through my inventory while reaching out and returning fire every few second.
'Oh? Let's try this...' in my hand was a molotov. I lit the flame and then launched it toward the opposite corner.
The bottle hit the ground and burst with a wave of flame that must have caught the woman because I heard a hiss of pain and then the sound of someone slapping themself to put out a flame.
The woman stayed behind cover but the second raider popped out and started firing through the flames.
I reached out and fired a series of shots that hit the raider's chest causing his body to crumple.
"You bitch! I'll kill you!" I heard the woman shout.
I heard her but killing her was taking to long and more raiders would be coming to reinforce her soon.
Deciding on something crazy, I launched out from my position and saw the woman in front of me raising her pistol and firing. Instead of dodging I took the gunfire head on with my left arm raised as a shield for my vitals and charged toward her while firing Fuckbringer.
Several shots hit me but only a couple manage to break flesh.
It didnt matter since I could regenerate, but I needed to take that woman down quickly.
My kamikaze charge and counter attack must have surprised her because she quickly pulled back behind the corner.
I jumped around the corner and swung out with my left arm causing her to jump back.
I aimed and fired Fuckbringer and while she was quick to evade getting hit anywhere vital, my shot took a chunk of arm off.
"Ahhh!" She screamed in pain but still kept up her attack with a thrust of her knife in her left hand.
But I hand the upper hand this time, as I grabbed her arm and pulled her off balance and drove a knee into her gut followed by a pistol whip to her face.
She fell to the ground unconscious before me.
I raised Fuckbringer and aimed at her head to finish her off but a blast followed by pain across my chest and face caused me to recoil back.
'Was that a shotgun?' I moved back around the corner of the building while firing potshots as suppressive fire since one of my eyes was fucked at the moment.
"Dammit!" I said as I bit the pin off another frag and tossed it blindly. I was in an intense amount of pain.
"Grenade!"
I heard the sounds of raiders jumping out of the blast area after seeing the grenade and I decided to retreat for now.
I ran back around the building and pulled out a survival Syringe and injected it into my side followed by a stimpak for a healing boost.
Things had become far more complicated now that I had been detected.
I could hear the sounds of people chasing behind me as I darted over to some buildings away from the town hall and hid between them.
I needed to complete my mission but survival took priority.
A couple bullets and shotgun pellets that had struck my body fell out with a clinking sound on the cold ground as my wounds mended.
'I'll have to force my way to that terminal...'