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The Lucky 38 was quiet, Veronica was sat in the lounge reading a romance magazine that Rachel had found on one of her random deliveries, Boone sat on the floor cleaning his rifle piece by piece and reassembling it slowly, Arcade sat watching making idle comments on how he could do it more efficiently but Boone wasn't listening.
Rachel came running in carrying two Power Fists "Ronnie I had an awesome idea!" she sees the guys sat on floor ahead of her "Oh... Hi guys" her cheeks flushing red causing Cass to laugh as she entered and seated herself on the couch with a bottle of Whiskey.
"Tell me Rachel, why are you carrying those?" Arcade asked taking his glasses off and wiping them on his coat.
"Power Fist Bump" She said clearly excited.
"Oh now this I have to see" Cass said taking a drink of her whiskey while smiling.
"That doesn't sound like a good idea" said Boone "I saw a fiend lose an arm when Veronica whacked him with one, I was 50 yards away and looking through the scope of that fucking varmint shit" clearly displeased about the lack of a good rifle.
"I agree with Boone" Arcade added "I wouldn't recommend it, but hey you never listen to me, and we have plenty of Stimpaks and Med-X"
"Wow... Buzzkill" Rachel said "Why cant I have any fun" she dropped the fists and folded her arms, Cass laughed, Rachel was pouting.
Veronica put her book down and picked up a Power Fist, "Rach, are you sure about this?"
"Lowest setting, yeah?" Rachel said with a smile picking up the other and sliding it on.
"Don't say I didn't warn you" Arcade said smugly.
They both put the fists one the lowest setting and Cass counted down from three, on one they fist bumped, the hydraulics in the fists pushed against each other and both Veronica's and Rachel's fists bounced away from each other causing them to stagger.
"Cool" they said in unison, Cass was smiling, she knew what was coming next.
"Again?" Veronica asked and Rachel nodded they turned it up a setting and did it again and they both were pushed back a few steps when they fist bumped.
"Okay that's enough" Arcade said trying to take control "I don't want to have patch you two up again after one of your silly games, I'm still limping after that incident with a homemade pulse grenade!"
"Seemed like a good idea at the time" Rachel said scratching her chin trying to look innocent.
"Yeah, since when is attaching a cattle-prod to disarmed frag a good idea?" Arcade moaned
"It worked didn't it? the Sentry bot shutdown" Rachel argued.
"Yeah i think that was more caused by the cattle-prod been impaled through the central processor"
Rachel huffed "Details, details it worked end of" Arcade sighed and Rachel stuck her tongue out at him.
"Hey Boone, remember the Nuka-Stim?" Cass asked and Boone laughed.
"That wasn't funny" Arcade said "Rachel was practically glowing, irradiated soda should not be injected directly into yourself.... several times"
"Me and Ronnie had fun, no lights on when we... uhm... played Caravan"
"Yup you were deffo playing Caravan" said Cass emphasizing Caravan before sipping her Whiskey.
"Rach..." Veronica said blushing "They didnt know we were together!"
"We did" the three companions said in unison.
"Cummon girls the walls here aint that thick" Cass said clearly finding it amusing how both girls were bright red.
"Highest Setting?" Rachel said to change the topic, Veronica nodded.
"Three" Cass said trying not to laugh.
Arcade and Boone stepped back.
"Two"
Veronica and Rachel stood apart and prepared.
"One"
The fists made contact and they shot across the room in opposite directions, Veronica landed in a chair behind her that tipped and she rolled out of laughing her head off, Rachel on the other hand had nothing behind her and shot though the doorway to her bedroom, there was a series of thuds followed by a groan.
"Rachel?" Veronica called as she stood "Are you okay?"
"Yeah" came a muffled reply, more thuds and then she stumbled in limping with one arm behind her back "That was Awesome!" Veronica and Cass laughed with her, Boone was already back fixing his rifle with a smile plastered to his face, and Arcade just sighing looking though his pack for some Med-X.
"Oh Ronnie" Veronica looked at Rachel as she pulled her hand from behind her back "I found your missing bra" she said with a smile, Veronica turned pink and Cass nearly choked on her whiskey.