Fallout, Second Life

Chapter 317 - 317

Almost as soon as Adam had landed inside the former classroom turned workshop all 5 of the people inside turned their guns at him, excluding the one he landed on. Adam had hardly enough time to whip around and aim his own laser rifle before a brilliant large red laser beam carved through the room decapitating one cultist and maiming another. It was Eve, no doubt about it.The laser bought enough time for Adam to dive to the ground and aim up with his laser rifle. One cultist was shot in the leg, another in the stomach, another in the arm. All done in rapid succession. However Adam did not have time to hit the fourth man, the one who he had landed on, the one behind him. However as he felt the barrel of the gun touching his head he then felt the barrel go slack and drop hard. Adam did not see what had killed him but clearly he was shot. Judging on the angle, likely someone through the window.

Adam didn't waste the chance, he quickly ran over to where the other injured cultists were and shot them all multiple times while they writhed on the ground from their injuries. Ensuring they would not get a chance to fire again, even while injured. He had learned his lesson about leaving injured enemies alive. It usually came back to bite him. He was not in the mood to take chances with fanatics.

With the room cleared Adam waved out the window to his allies that he had finished making a path inside for them. Of course it was still easier said than done. Practically every window looking to the back was lined with rifles, pistols, and all other manner of weapons. It would be no easy feat to make it inside even if one room was clear.

There was one mad man, however, who braved the still heavy incoming fire to try to make it to Adam's position regardless. Deccanus. He had, at some point, grabbed hold of an entire car door and was using it as a makeshift shield as he charged headfirst towards the school, braving the bullet storm coming his way to make it to Adam with a fearlessness that even made Adam question if he was sane. Of course, Adam had done no less just moments ago so perhaps he too was just as crazy.

As Adam saw Deccanus charging headfirst into the fire he saw Hades beginning to spool up his guns. His rockets fired off into the adjacent rooms to where Adam was, rocking the entire building and collapsing part of the walls, killing or injuring those inside. At the very least buying enough time for Deccanus to safely make it to Adam, dropping the car door outside the window, and then diving through. As if ripped right from a movie, the moment Deccanus had dove through the window, in the same motion, he unsheathed his machete and prepared for combat, finding the immediate area was clear.

The firefight outside was only beginning to intensify as Adam's large group was starting to gain ground on the cultists, simply overpowering the more geographically advantaged cultists with overwhelming superior firepower. The sounds of the robots, the Baxter Brigade, The Gunners, and even the sounds of an anti material rifle firing off filled the back of the school as it quickly turned into a warzone of unmatched proportions.

Eve, who had been biding her time, seemed to take inspiration from Deccanu's bold actions and ripped the Playground spinner right out of the ground and lifted it up into the air, holding it by one of the handrails that a child would use to spin it. Then, using it as one giant shield, she led a charge of several others as she too pushed forward into the building giving a chance for a number of others to advance inside too.

Once more the building rocked from the force of a series of explosions, however this time it was not from Hades' rockets but something else. Perhaps something in the front. However Adam didn't have time to worry about that, he needed to move. They could not simply stay trapped in this room, they had to clear the other rooms nearby to give a chance for their allies to Advance. So, with a simple hand signal to Deccanus, the two men sprinted out of the room into the hallway.

There were two cultists standing in the hallway, clearly running from one room towards the front, unaware that the room Adam had just come from was compromised. Deccanus slashed off the first one's head with ease only to quickly be shot by the second. However it was in his leg. A blessing in disguise. As Deccanus took a knee from the bullet he then slashed at the foot of the second cultist, the one who shot him, forcing him down to the ground too right before he then stabbed him in the neck.

Adam was going to ask if he was alright but then he noted Deccanus' armor. If this was a month ago that would have been a grievous wound for Deccanus, a shot right through the shin would have forced Adam to leave him behind. However, this was not the Deccanus from a month ago, This was the new Deccanus. One that discarded his attachment to his old legion armor in exchange for a newer, more advanced piece of protective gear. While it retained the Legion aesthetics it was far more protective and that came in clutch here as, with ease, Deccanus quickly rose to his feet ready to continue to fight. The armor had already proven its value and it was only the second battle he had ever worn it in.

Adam began to move again, kicking in the door immediately in front of them with enough force to shock a few of the cultists inside and momentarily get them to turn around and stop firing through the window.

As soon as Adam had opened the door he began to lay into the cultists with his laser rifle, firing it as quickly as he could, nearly the speed of a low RPM machine gun, as he completely filled the space with laser fire. Within moments all 3 cultists were dead and in tatters on the ground.

However before Adam had a chance to even internalize this he felt a bullet hit him directly in the shoulder, forcing his grip on his laser rifle to loosen and by extension drop it. However luckily the combat armor's pauldrons protected his shoulder from any serious damage but that did not mean it did not hurt. As Adam turned to look at who shot him, he watched as Deccanus' machete flew through the air, past his face, and impaled itself into the head of the man who just shot at Adam, killing him on the spot.

As he went down his finger pulled on the trigger which sent a series of bullets firing up into the ceiling causing the dust caked onto the ceiling to gently fall down. Adam's eyes were drawn to the ceiling for a moment by the action only to notice a semi circular mirror on the ceiling, used to see around corners in schools, and in it he saw a cultist taking aim from behind him and Deccanus.

Adam was quick to spin around and quickly draw his 10mm from his holster. Firing 5 times into the body of the cultists before he could even get a shot off. It was clear they were too exposed out here in the hall, they had to get to cover, fast.