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He did really know how long he’d knelt there, or how many shots he took, only that now the Legion had broken and were fleeing. Pushing himself back up with a groan he spotted one last fleeing figure, the ragged plume on his helmet bobbing and dancing through the scrub.

Heat shimmers radiated off the lensing ‘barrel’ of his weapon as he took aim once more, and one last flash tore across the desert. Chance alone saved the runner; the fellow stumbled as Sam fired and thus instead of the shot catching him square in the back, it instead hit his right shoulder. The man screamed in pain as he dropped out of sight, probably into one of the innumerable crevasse that crossed the landscape. [color=54C571]”Dumb bastard,”[/color] He muttered to himself, lowering his weapon. [color=54C571]"Gonna take a while to die now..."[/color]

With the camp seeming to be secure, he started to pick his way back to where he’d dropped his gear. Slinging the still hot laser, he unplugged the belt pack and made a face as he checked its charge. [color=54C571][i]Forty percent…shit. Have to try and find a new FC soon.[/i][/color] Getting [i]down[/i] wasn’t nearly as easy as going up had been, especially at his age, but after a bit of trying and a rather undignified slide on his backend, he dropped back down to the same level as his stuff.

Taking off and stowing his power pack, he pocketed a fusion cell before shouldering his pack and heading for the camp, deciding to let his weapon cool a bit before recharging it. Approaching the camp he saw a few folks gathered around, a couple of them he knew at least enough to give a nod to as he passed, but the others were new, especially the bots.

[color=54C571]”Hey kid!”[/color] He called out once he spotted Albert. [color=54C571]”Good to see the bull botherers didn’t get ya’.”[/color] Reaching the group, he pulled out his flask and took a long pull before swapping it for his pipe. A moment's work had it drawing nicely and he exhaled a cloud of smoke upwards before turning his attention to those he didn’t recognize. [color=54C571]”Sam.”[/color] He said by way of introduction.