» Sun Sep 06, 2009 1:06 am The patrol moved ever so slowly, making sure not to set off the traps the civilians set up before the attack. They moved along the town border, looking for the deathclaw that has been terrorizing the citizens of a small settlement up north.
"Pretty dumb idea to make a settlement near Old Olney." Kyle said.
"You think?" Jake replied.
The patrol continued around the town, staying deep into the night. They arrived at the town gate when Kyle heard something. He just started opening up on spot, praying to kit something. A citizen from the town shrieked, then followed by many others. The patrol ran into the town, hoping the deathclaw did not enter the town. To their disappointment they saw a deathclaw ripping a person into two. The squad opened fire on the beast, but that didn't stop its relentless attack. After the deathclaw took out four more townspeople it focused it attention unto the greater threat. The deathclaw sprinted towards the group of hunters. The deathclaw slashed Jake across the chest, severally injuring him. Another hunter was just able to dodge his body flying towards him. Kyle continued to fire at the beast, but nothing seemed to kill it. A hunter who went by the name of Josh took out a missile launched. The deathclaw hit the poor man, taking his arm off. Kyle sprinted towards the missile launcher, just dodging a swing from the creature. The other hunters countined to fire at the beast, but it still was standing, not good enough. Kyle loaded the missile launcher and aimed out the deathclaw. He pulled the trigger
Jammed.
"Dammit!" exclaimed Kyle as the deathclaw jumped at him. He rolled out of the way, the deathclaw's, well claw was no more than a few inches away from his face. He got up and ran ahead to try to fire another shot at the deathclaw. Still jammed. He dropped the missile launcher and picked up an assault rifle off of a fallen friend. He fired at the beast, who's left leg was now crippled. As the beast continued on to Kyle some villagers on top of one of the houses dropped a net on top of it. But the deathclaw was now just pissed. It ran faster to Kyle. Kyle ran up a stairwell, hoping the deathclaw was too stupid to get up. The deathclaw tore off the hand rail of the stairwell, but the deathclaw still couldn't get up. The deathclaw ran to the other hunters, killing one of them.
Only three hunters remained. Kyle continued to fire at the monster, which got its attention again. The deathclaw tried to get up the stairwell this time, it was half way up when it slipped and fell to the ground. It yelled out a cry when it landed. Kyle fired bullets into the brain of the beast, finally finishing it off.
"I'm guessing were not getting paid, right?' One of the hunters asked.
"No, no were not." Kyle said, putting a bullet into the deathclaw's head to ensure its death. The walk back to HQ was quiet. The only sound was the footstep of the three men, walking in line. The walk was really uneventful. They ran into two molerats, but other than that, nothing. The three men hesitated to enter the HQ, which was located just south of Old Olney. They gulped and walked in. Lucky for them all hunters where either sleeping or out on a mission so no one confronted them about the mission. They still had to report to, him. They walked up the stairwell of the building, and into his office.
"I expect your mission went well, eh?" He said, knowing that it was a failure.
"Sir, I'm sorry to report that roughly five civilians have died and three hunters have died." One of the hunters said.
"You men are hunter's, you are meant to hunt the animal out of that town with no civilian or hunter causality." He said.
"But, sir, this deathclaw was no ordinary deathclaw, it could take more hits than the other's. It was faster, stronger, it also got slightly smarter!" Kyle said, hoping he would give mercy.
"You lost us a lot of caps, and for that I hereby demote you. You will do the missions you men did when you first joined; your pay is lowered 80 percent to help regain the caps you lost. You are dismissed." He said.
