Radiance Ch. 105

"Well then welcome to the Free People's of the Wastes Yumi, from what Gregory tells me it's bring your own Claw night every Tuesday and Thursday but they had to expand it to bring your own non-human due to the lack of Claws to go around," Fuller said making Yumi burst out a surprised laugh that turned very rapidly into a full-on belly laugh as the apprehension and fear melted visibly away from her slender young shoulders.

After a few minutes of laughter she dried her eyes and smiled at Fuller and Passa, "Thank you, Fuller you have no idea how much I needed that, or how much I needed to hear that, you really are good people and now I know what good people really look like I also know what bad people look like too," she said.

Fuller patter her on the shoulder and then steered her back towards the chair she'd been occupying before Passa and Wisp had burst in and wrecked up the place, "Alright let's get you fed up and back on your feet properly we got a bit of a flight back to the others, though it might be a good idea to see if we can fire up one of the old radios here and see if we can raise the others, bet Malakai and Shepherd are going mental with worry bout now if Malakai hasn't paced a trench deep enough to be considered a moat around the camp or panic knitted enough socks to keep an army warm I'll be bloody shocked, while Shepherd has probably nerve stripped and cleaned every gun in the camp at least six times by now," Fuller said and Wisp couldn't help but feel guilty but also laugh at the thought of her beautiful spider boy worry knitting.

"Sounds like a job for cloud girl, I'm on it," Wisp said before pouring out of his head and shooting off out into the camp.

"Where's she going?" Yumi asked as Wisp streaked out of the room leaving a little glittering trail in her wake.

"To find a radio, that girl can jack into just about any piece of tech she finds and radios is something of a speciality of hers," Fuller said.

"I will assist Alpha Wisp," Passa said moving to follow her but Fuller got there first and steered the confused-looking Claw boy towards another of the armchairs.

"Oh no you don't you look like you've been ready to drop since things calmed down in here, plant that scaly arse of yours in that chair and get yourself some food there's plenty to go around even for you big boy, Shepherd will bloody kill me if her man comes back looking like I dragged your scaly arse backwards through a hedge, I'll help Wisp with the rad you get some rest," he said and with that, he left Yumi and Passa both sat in their chairs and followed after the wayward cloud girl.

It didn't take Wisp long to locate the base's radio and with a little help from Fuller who managed to jury rig a power supply for it from an old FC he found in one of the buildings they got it powered up.

Wisp poured herself into the radio and began adjusting the frequencies to the ones that her team used, she just hoped that they were still in range of the relay towers for the portable hand units they used to be able to pick up the signal.

"This is gold two is anyone receiving this over?" she asked into the airwaves but only static responded to her so she tried a few more times waiting a minute or two between each call until finally a very familiar voice came back through the radio.

"Gold two is that you? Are you ok?" a very relieved-sounding Malakai asked.

"Good to hear your voice and yeah we're ok you can stop panic knitting now and tell the certain other member of our team to stop cleaning the guns she's gonna wear out the mechanisms," she said.

"Wait, how did you know I was.....never mind we're you successful, did you find them?" Malakai asked.

"Yeah all good package returned and we have a plus one, Gold one is gonna love this, we're quite a long way out so we'll be heading back as soon as we've had the chance to get our strength back, so hold fast where you are and we'll be back as soon as we can, gold two over and out," she said.

"Roger that, be safe my love, over and out," Malakai said sounding very relieved indeed which made Wisp feel both guilty for worrying him and happy that her safety meant so much to him in equal measure.

Once she flew out of the Radio she filtered her way back into Fuller's head, "So how many socks are we all going to have?' Fuller asked making Wisp snort a laugh.

"Probably quite a few but that's ok I'm probably gonna have some new sets of silk underwear to go with them, but yeah we're all good they know what's going on so crisis averted, now if you don't mind I'll just hitch a ride with you as I can't be arsed to keep popping in and out every time I want to speak," she said.

"Yeah that's fine just do me a favour and don't go walking through my mind and especially not the file-marked fantasies," Fuller said making Wisp snort a laugh again.

"Why? You worried I'll find that you were secretly looking at super mutant girl's arses?" she asked teasingly and now Fuller snorted a laugh.

"Ain't even ever seen a female one or one that even remotely looks so to be fair, though given what you've told me of this Shauna character I'll actually be interested to meet one," he said.

"You'll get that chance and so many more trust me, stick with us and you'll see all sorts of people you never even imagined before, it's what we do," Wisp replied.

"Yeah I'm really starting to see that, now come on I'm fucking starving," he said turning and heading back into the officer's mess where they found both Passa and Yumi actually having a conversation.

".......so the power you possess is capable of altering the elements around you?" Passa asked as he ladled a large serving into a bowl that he handed to Yumi which she took gratefully before returning to her chair.

"Yes in a sense, it allows me to alter the states of various elements, for example, if I wished to make this stew hotter or colder then I can do so by simply speeding up or slowing down the molecules by either transferring my energy to them or robbing them of it, it the same with electrical charges I can alter the polarity as well as the charge which allows me to control both electrical and magnetic fields," Yumi explained.

"Which is why I guess they attached you to us so that you could deal with Seven or Wisp," Fuller said claiming a bowl of stew from Passa as well before taking a seat before the big Claw filled up his own much larger bowl and began to tuck in ravenously.

"Pretty much yes, the plan that was explained to me was simple, Eight would use his abilities to mimic one of your group at the right time and infiltrate it, he would then relay information on your people to me or the ESF and when he had managed to lure you into a place I would step in and disable the both of you by rendering Seven unconscious and then finding a way to either contain or if that was not possible kill Wisp by either overloading or dispersing the magnetic fields that holds her energy together, though having experienced her abilities first hand now I'm not even sure that would have been possible," Yumi said frankly and honestly.

"I'm sure Wisp is glad to know that part," Fuller said as he took a spoonful of the stew.

"You got that right but I'm damn glad she's on our side now our muscle just royally jumped up, with her and Seven on our team the Enclave is going to be shitting bricks because they will know that if they decide to come after them with all of us behind them they are going to be nigh on unstoppable especially if we keep gaining power the way we are," Wisp said.

"You got that right, about now the head shed is going to be shitting bricks, they've lost an entire ESF team and one of their numbers which leaves them with only one person working for them still in the area, well unless that distress call got out in which case we're going to have a much bigger problem very soon and honestly my money is on that being the case," Fuller said after relaying what Wisp had said to the others.

"What do you think their response will be? Do think they'll send another ESF team after us or more of my kind?" Yumi asked and Fuller scratched his chin as he thought for a few moments.

"Most likely all of the above along with the forming of a FOB here, they will want a foothold here and will most likely use the destruction of their team by the Brotherhood to justify it, so they'll probably send in a few ESF teams to scout out and secure a place for a stronghold, once that is secured they'll bring in the troops and some heavy artillery to hold it against Brotherhood attacks while they start staging out of it, as for the numbers I'm no expert on your operating procedures or what's required for your deployment but given they sent two of you to take on Seven and Wisp and now there's three of you they'll probably send in a whole squad," he said.

"They will probably start tapping into the other cells, the one we came from was only one cell of it but from the intel, I was able to get access to before we ran there are multiple spread out across the country though I don't have their exact locations or any kind of personnel lists but e have to assume they are just as dangerous as us, or they would have been shut down," Wisp said and Fuller relayed that to the others.

"So things are gonna get cranked all the way up because of this huh? That's gonna mean a lot more lives are in danger because of me?" Yumi said and Wisp instantly sensed where she was going with that statement as the guilt was written all over her face but before she could speak up Fuller got there first.

"Don't even feel guilty for this even for a second Yumi this is not your fault, we are going to stand against these people regardless and it would have been just a matter of time before they rolled out this kind of response, these kinds of people do not stop unless someone makes them stop, that is what we are here to do and we can do that a lot better and a lot more effectively with you standing shoulder to shoulder with us, together we can show them we are not going to idly stand by and let them steamroll over good innocent people regardless of their species," he said with such passion and fire in his voice that Wisp felt her sparkly heart swelling, he'd only been among their number a short time but he already got it and was all in.

A relived and warm smile broke out on Yumi's face and she nodded, "Thank you, Fuller I needed to hear that and I appreciate it I also noticed that you didn't even hesitate before you said it, that tells me you truly believe what you say and that means a lot to me," she said and Fuller simply gestured to her with his spoon and nodded.

It took them a couple of hours and a good couple of bowls of the fantastic stew that Fuller had made but all of them were back to full strength, or at least somewhere close and they began their flight back with Yumi once again carrying Fuller, Passa was going to do it but she kind of insisted as she was the one that snatched him so she felt responsible for returning him properly.

Thanks to the fact that they were flying in a straight line rather than trying to locate a trail to follow it took a lot less time to get back than it did to get here in the first place, though upon their landing the response was immediate from their group.

Shepherd literally flung herself at Passa and very nearly knocked him off his massive feet, Wisp who had been riding shotgun with Fuller flew out of his head and towards her body and right next to it Malakai looked like he was tap dancing as he was waiting for her to re-engage her body and no sooner than she was inside it he snatched her off the ground and clung to her.

|I'm so glad you are back and you are safe, I was so worried about you," he said with genuine and powerful relief in his voice.

"It's ok cuddle spider I'm all good and I'm back," she said softly as she held onto him tightly.

That's when they all seemed to notice their newcomer standing nervously and tiredly in their midst and all eyes locked on her, "Guys let me introduce you to Yumi formally called Nine," Fuller said placing a supportive hand on her slender shoulder and Wisp could already see him bracing for the barrage of coming questions.