[quote=Sabin]Sabin goes ballistic![/quote]

Poe silently turned and gazed up at Sabin as the boy ranted, another rictus grin starting to spread on his face. Once the young NCR trooper had finished, Poe began to approach the stairs, slowly - and he spoke.

"You're not fighting for anything right now, because you're not here by choice. You're here because your dandy boy superiors told you to be here, and unlike you and basically the rest of these worthless assholes," Poe reached the staircase and began to ascend. "I was [i]specifically[/i] invited here, I'm not a walk-in like you and Mr. Lost and Found over there." He tilted his head and gestured over at Dallas as he took another step up. "Unlike you, I actually have a real reason to be here, and a purpose to pursue - while you're just a waste of space meant to obstruct ballistic projectiles."

As Poe reached the top of the staircase he reached behind to his travel pack and unslung his baseball bat again, while his left hand fished into his jacket and withdrew his plasma defender and immediately thumbed off the safety switch on the back of the casing. The bat he simply slung over his shoulder, and the plasma weapon simply hung, aiming limply at the floor as Poe casually advanced on Sabin.

"And on a final note: No matter how hard you boy scouts fight, [i]there is nothing you can do to make yourself safe from me.[/i]" He stopped three feet from Sabin, his opaque goggles meeting and leering at Sabin's eyes, giving nothing away. "Here I am, little mote. Did you challenge me to come up here and prove something? Because let me tell you...It sounded an awful lot like a challen-"

[quote=Hayley]“Alright ya’ll lets calm the fuck down, don’t need anyone dying before we start rolling.” She said, throwing a bit of a wastelander’s accent into her voice.[/quote]

Poe's head snapped to the side to look at Hayley and Castillo, and he actually listened to what she had to say.

"Shit." He swore faintly as he looked at Castillo. There was a classic NCR New Vegas type - one who would probably take offense if Poe vaporized an NCR trooper right in the same room. Normally he still wouldn't have given a damn, except as the head of the expedition, Poe could ill afford to get onto his bad side, at least if he wanted to go through with this affair. He looked back to Sabin, a scowl on his face.

"Please give me an excuse to kill you." He said in a seething tone. "Go and change your pants, little mote, you'll embarrass us in front of the boss."

[quote=Hayley]“Oh, and quit throwing fucking grenades around, you sun fried psychopaths!”[/quote]

"It wasn't even armed!" Poe called back down from the balcony as he went back to the staircase, back turned to Sabin. "The only other thing I have to throw on me is Sugar Bombs, and even I'm not heartless enough to throw those around! Well, except for earlier, but that was a spur of the moment kind of thing..."