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Chapter One
Out of the Vat and into the Wasteland - Part One
"These three fresh out of the goo." Came a gruff voice that echoed within vault 87's cold, blood-stained steel walls. It was the voice of an aged super-mutant, his skin was beginning to take more of a green tint, rather than a sickly yellow. He was talking to another, bigger, supermutant whilst standing infront of three fairly weedy looking mutants. "Send them out. They go get humans." He barked, giving out orders to the less experienced one. He turned, looking upon the three new muties. "You go out of vault. Find..." The mutant help his hand up, holding up five fingers after counting each one out loud, "...You find six humans! Bring back alive, ok? And no eating them!" After speaking the final part, he seemed to gaze off, imaging feasting on a human. Mendal, the small and smartest of the three stepped forwards and spoke out.
"Ok, Grish. Do we get guns?" Grish shook his head, knowing that if he gave them guns, they'd end up killing the humans, rather than capturing them. Ham's face dropped, he was the biggest and dumbest of the group. Grish had ran out with half-decent names by the time he'd come to Ham, so named him after one of his favourite treats. "Ham want rocket shooter!" He began protesting to Grish, a frown upon his leathery face. "No!" The large supermutant bellowed at him, pointing out of the door. "You go to armoury, get..." He pondered for a moment, before the eldest one spoke out. "Get hammers...And stuff!" He was clearly fustrated by all the talking within his room; It made his brain ache. He began to throw pencils, cups and other, random items at the group, screaming for them to go...
Not much later, the three immerged from the vault, armed to the teeth with...Crap. Grimm, the most average of the group had a large plank strapped to his back with a few bent, rusty nails forced through the end and a makeshift metal helmet upon his skull. Mendal had come a bit more prepared, having recieved a large custom made club, coated in sharps of metal and sharpened bone. Attatched to his body, he had his own personal armour, created from various pieces of cars. As for Ham, he'd chosen a nice big sledgehammer, good for crushing limbs and hopes of escape. His armour, on the other hand, was, well, unique. To protect his thick skull, he wore a large bucket, with eyeholes and a smiling mouth cut into it. His body armour was the strangest of all; Two large slabs of brahmin steak. Ham's theory was that if he got hungry, he could eat it, "Tasty armour!" As he put it.
Mendal lead the misfit group of mutants forwards. They were heading to a settlement known as Arefu. Mendal had heard stories of it being a small Human settlement with exactly six inhabitants and not only did it have the required amount of Humans, it was also poorly defended and fairly close. "Convenient", thought Mendal, "Whatever that mean.". The group wandered from the vault, content on their little hunting trip. It didn't take the trio long until they found their first human. A weak looking man wearing a black leather jacket and holding what appeared to be an empty sawn-off shotgun.
He jumped out from behind a rock, thinking he'd be confronting a group of large Humans, only to find it was infact, three large super-mutants. "Oh...Uh." He turned on his heels, dropping the shotgun and started to run, but it was too late. Grimm already had the man in his grip. "Haha! Weak Human try to run from Grimm." He lifted him up, his hand wrapped around both his legs and held him up for all the mutants to examine. "Oh god, d-don't eat me!" He tried to plead with the mutants, but it was no use, he stood no chance against these giants, with force or with words. "Mendal, what we do with silly human?" He thought for a moment, for moving down to the human's head, getting extremely closing, exhaling a concotion of pungent smells into his nostrils. "Boo!" He yelled, causing Mel to do two things. Firstly, he lost control of his bladder and then he passed out. All three of the mutants began to laugh at him. "Silly Human. We hold onto him, might come in handy." Said Mendal and they continued to walk. Grimm slipped him into a large brown sack and strapped him onto his back.
Further up the winding road, the muties came across a fairly large hound, who's fur was matted and in a small amount. Ham's face lit up inside of his bucket, charging at the dog, yelling: "Poochie!" The dog's eyes filled with horror as the huge, screaming mutant charged it. The thoughts within it's head sumed up to, "Oh hell no." Before it had a chance to run, it was already being straddled in the bulky mutants arms. "My poochie! Grimm. We feed dog silly man?" Grimm looked over to Mendal, giving him a inquisitive look. Mendal rubbed his chin for a moment, then nodded. Grimm hurled the sack of his back to the ground infront of Ham. The sound of breaking bones and then those bones ripping through flesh and skin filled the air. Anxiously, Ham opened the bag with one hand, as the other gripped the squirming dog. "Time for din-din Poochie." He placed his foot ontop of the back, holding the body of Mel down and his hand gripped a leg. He screwed his face up as he pulled on the leg. Inside the bag Mel screamed and cried out, but his protesting was soon replaced with the ripping of muscle.
Poochie feasted on the severed leg, realising that going along with the mutants may be a good thing, free food and protection. The four wandered on, Ham holding the leg by his side so Poochie could take a bit whenever he pleased. Soon, they were near the overpass Arefu was on. Mendal scoped the place out, his common sense told him they should wait until night to attack. So they did. Night soon fell, plunging the wasteland into perpetual darkness. Ham strapped the leg onto his back, considering it as a possible weapon if needed, but held in his hands the sledgehammer he had named "Hammer". Grimm gripped his club in both hands, ready to grab and bag some humans, while Mendal approached entirely unarmed, knowing that his unarmed skill alone would be enough to take down any humans. Together, the four crept up the overpass towards the makeshift housing, even Poochie seemed to be sneaking.
They approached the first house, Mendal took point and motioned for Grimm to follow and for Ham (and Poochie) to stand guard incase they alerted anyone else. The two mutants managed to make it through the doorway and into the little shack. Mendal signalled to Grimm, who opened the bag containing Mel's corpse inside. With his knowledge of the Human body and brute force, Mendal grasped Ken Ewers' neck, stopping him fron breathing. He thrashed around, making very little noise. Luckily, Mendal applied just enough force and hadn't crushed his windpipe. Once his body stopped moving, Mendal lifted the unconcious human up and placed him in the sack, smiling to Grimm. The commotion had woken up Ken's wife, Brailee Ewers, though. She looked up at the two mutants holding a sack. "Santa?" She asked to Grimm, whom was holding the sack. The two mutants exchanged bewildered looks for a moment before Grimm nodded towards here and then delievered a punch right into her innocent face. He couldn't help giving a little laugh at the clearly insane women after stuffing her in the bag. "Two down...Four more." Whispered Mendal as the two exited the house.
Chapter One
Out of the Vat and into the Wasteland - Part Two
Once out of the Ewer's residence, Mendal tied the top of the sack with a thick metal wire he'd taken from the vault inorder to keep it's contense inside. "Grimm," Whispered Mendal, looking around the small settlement as he spoke to his brethrin, "you, Ham and Poochie stay out here. If you here noise from house, get ready for fight." He then proceeded to the next house, the abode of Karen Schenzy whilst Ham took his place with Poochie by the West's home, standing by the door, listening. Grimm was standing by the door to Evan King's house, club in both hands, incase he needed to clobber the inhabitant of the house, oh he hoped he would.
Karen tossed and turned in her bed, plagued by nightmares of supermutants and ghouls, she called out quitely in her sleep as she rolled, "No...No, don't take me. No, I don't want to be..." Her sleep talking was ended when Mendal bludgeoned her head with a conveniently placed iron; Sadly for Karen, she'd been doing her ironing before she went to bed, so now had a iron imprint burnt onto her skin. Mendal, despite his 'vast intelligence', couldn't resist slapstick humour and chuckled whilst stuffing her in a fresh bag. The mutant crept out, throwing the bag containing Karen ontop of the already full bag. He then approached Grimm, who was standing by Evan King's house. "Now, you go in an get hi--" The mutant's speech was cut short as a bowling ball impacted upon his unarmoured skull.
"Take that you person snatching, milk svcking, radiation loving, hole living, brahmin...Uh, brahmin herding green sonnava [censored]!" Yelled Evan King as he shook his fist at the now unconcious Mendal. Unfortunately for the mutants, Mr. King drunk too much water that evening and had to use the little boy's room and over heard the mutants. Grimm looked to his fallen comrade and called out with rage, "I come for you now, little man!" He kicked the door down with one massive, size god knows foot and stormed in, only to be met with a hail of bullets from the Human's assault rifle. Luckily for Grimm, there was a wall nearby to hide behind which shielded him from the bullets.
The commotion had woken up the Wests, all three of them. As Mr. and Mrs. West ran out to see what was happening, Ham took care of both of them with two might swings with Mel's half-eaten leg. "Haha. That's what LEGGING it get you, human, haha!" The only joke Ham would make and only Ian West and Poochie heard it, neither of them seemed to appreciate it much. Whilst Ham was gloating about his joke to himself, Ian, overcome by his cannibalistic strength and rage, dived out onto the mutant, taking him completely by suprised. The mutant fell, letting go off the leg causing it to fly off, a fair amount of his reach. For a Human, Ian was extremely strong, strong enough to overpower the mutant. Ham lay on the floor, trying to keep Ian's mouth from his neck. "Poochie help Ham! Poochie help Ham!" The mutant called out for his four legged friend, yet the dog too had a dilemma; He was torn between saving Ham, his master or gorging himself on the succulent leg of Mel that was within his reach. "Poochie help master, please!"
Grimm peaked round the corner of the wall, noting the position of Evan before retreating back round to avoid another volley of hot lead. The mutant looked around for something to help him. Infront of him he say a variety of things. A metal box that appeared to have small, green objects in. Next to it was a hunting rifle with quite a few .32 caliber rounds surrounding it and then...An object which filled Grimm with fear. An object of such horrific proportions, he almost began to cry. Summoning all his courage, Grimm gripped onto 'the object' and moved out from his cover, diving to the side. He flung the object at Evan's face with such terrifying speed, "What the blazin--" Smash. The blood red cap shattered against his nose. It's pale white face crumbled and cracked, flying into his eyes. Grimm had managed to take down two threats; Evan King and...The gnome, who was in pieces, embedded in Evan's face. The mutant sighed in relief.
Outside, Ian got closer to Ham's neck, his teeth were audiable as they clicked together, moving closer to the green skin that coated his neck. "Poochie!" Called out the mutant as he struggled to hold the crazed youth back. The teeth of Ian ripped into the mutant's skin, cutting through it like a hot knife through green butter. "Agh!" He called the mutant as blood poured from his wound. His strength was albeit gone, the cannibal moved down to finish Ham off, only to stop halfway through. Ian's eyes opened wide and filled with tears, he let out a blood curdling scream, before passing out and fall down. As his body fell, Ham saw his loyal companion, Poochie, with his teeth sunk into what he imagined to be the Human's 'meat stick'. Ham began to laugh uncontrollably as Poochie jumped up onto the mutant's chest. "Good Poochie! Poochie save master, master happy!" The dog began to lick Ham's face and Ham was happy...Until he remembered where Poochie's mouth had just been. "Ew! No Poochie no!"
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All comments, critism and input is welcome, as long as it isn't blatant flame or trolling. Enjoy. I'll probably do chapter two tomorrow or at least start it. One thing I will say is that it'll involve The Family ^_^