Part 17: Into The Frying Pan
Over at the scene of the shootout, we saw some terrible things. King members lay
dead, bullets riddled their corpses as well as the walls, and everything was
drenched in blood. We bobbed and dived and just narrowly averted getting
massacred from the heap of fire coming our way. We made our way over to an old
building, where Pacer was sitting crying.
“YOU SON OF A BITCH, TOOK YOUR SWEET TIME.” He stuttered, looking intensely worried.
“Sheesh, we could have not came.” I reminded him “Be thankful we’re saving your sorry ass.
He looked angry at me, and shuffled off to safety now that we had arrived. I asked
the Kings behind cover to stop shooting, because I was going to walk to the
NCR, and hopefully resolve the situation peacefully, without getting my corpse
perforated with lead. They agreed, and I left them my weapon, placed my hands
on my head, and slowly moved out of cover.
It only took a second of seeing over thirty guns pointing at me, for me to start shitting myself, but luckily I made it across about halfway safely, seems they were actually going to let me be
peaceful. I got past the soldiers, and was shown into a small shelter they had
temporarily set up. Inside was Elizabeth and a lot of NCR guards. I sat down to
hopefully stop the fight.
“Oh god…” Elizabeth covered her face with her hand and shook. “Why did it have to
come to this…” she asked me.
“All I did was tell the King exactly what you told me. Only seconds later we hear
news of the fire fight, honestly, we never meant for this.” I responded “so how
did this all start?”
“Well, a few NCR guards were hanging around, when ‘Pacer’ started shooting at us. We
fired back and brought more support, but then more Kings joined in and shot at
us. They called me in, in case you came to resolve this peacefully.” She said.
“Jeez, Pacer is that crazy?” I said.
“Not just him, the whole of the Kings seem to be murderers. Look at what they did to
our Envoy. They’re nothing but thugs.” She ranted.
“Funny thing. We went to the King and he had no knowledge of an envoy. Somebody else
attacked them, and I would assume rumours got back to say it was the Kings.
I’ve met them, and they are perfectly respectable people, other than Pacer.” I
informed her on the truth.
“Really?” she asked “I’ll get the commanders to call off the hostilities if you can
promise that the King deals with Pacer somehow. If this firefight was just his
doing, we’ll call peace with them.”
“Ok, just let me get back to him. I’m sure he’ll deal with Pacer.” I said, and
swiftly made it back to the King to get this situation over asap. He turned to
me with his hands covering his mouth.
“Oh please, tell me this is over.” He begged.
“Not quite.” I unfortunately said. “They’ll stop this firefight, if you deal with Pacer. He caused this shootout.”
The King took a few steps backwards and slumped into his chair. He grabbed Rex and hugged him tight.
“…Alright” he said. “I can’t let a king member die anyday. Tell them to call off the hostilities. I’ll deal with him.”
I quickly left and made it back over the firing line to Elizabeth, to get the shootout over with.
“Ah, back already. I do hope the King wants this over peacefully.” She said
“Indeed so. He wants this situation over with, and he’ll deal with Pacer in some way.”
“That’s brilliant news!” she exclaimed. “Please give me a moment.” To which she stepped
up, and told the commander to stand down. The kings still behind cover fled
back, and the NCR got to dealing with the corpses. Before I went, I had to
clear some things with Elizabeth.
“Hey, does this mean that you’re still hostile towards the Kings?” I asked
“Well..” she struggled to answer me. “We’re…very suspicious of their activity, and we’ll
monitor it a while before we decide to let them off the hook. After all, both
sides have resulted in roughly 10 dead. My superiors are pretty pissed about
this, they might even shut me down from giving out food.” She truthfully said,
and shuffled off sadly. I returned to the King to give him news that the
situation was resolved.
To Be Continued....
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