Raymond yanked a stimpack out from a pouch, but in his rush, he stopped for just a moment. He looked at it, and let his thoughts wander. What he was holding was the most valuable thing in the wasteland next to RadAway and clean water. Stimpacks could bring a man shot in ten places back to full health if administered properly, and Raymond only had so many. More chems were being used to make Psycho and other drugs these days, and stimpacks were only becoming more rare to find, and more expensive at markets. He'd have made a better doctor than explorer, he was starting to think.<br/><br/>He had one plus side, KimRae was unconscious. He wouldn't have to use anything to numb the wound, and she wouldn't have to struggle, which was good for her. That, and she wouldn't yell, the less attention, the better. Normally the stimpack wouldn't sting too much, but as he examined the wound, it became clear, it was one bullet fragment that hit her, and it was still in the wound. Patching it up wouldn't do anything, she'd be in intense pain when she'd wake up. Raymond considered walking away, away from the ranger, away from KimRae, and away from all of it. He could navigate the streets, and certainly find that key. But he couldn't survive alone, he knew that much. That and he wouldn't be able to leave her here to die, not after her plea to help her. KimRae would be one of the people that would be forever burned into his head if he left her.<br/><br/>Without another though, he grabbed some tools, small ones, and got to work on getting the fragment out. It wasn't nearly as deep as it could have been, but it was still important to get it out. Carefully, Raymond operated, getting the fragment out as fast as possible, she was bleeding pretty badly, as the fragment hadn't spun the way a bullet did. Raymond's own bleeding wasn't nearly as bad, his wound would heal fully with time. However, KimRae's needed attention. Getting the fragment out, he injected a needle into her side, a stimpack, and took her hand. With the stimpack in effect, she'd wake up any moment, and Raymond decided it'd be best if she did as calmly as possible.<br/><br/>"Kim?" He asked, waiting for her to gain consciousness. The best game plan he could come up with was to get KimRae up and on her feet, and then go find Victor. After that, it would be to lay as low as possible until there was some kind of lead on where they should be going? "We need to get moving, can you stand?" He asked, as gentle as he could, hoping she'd be awake by now.<br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;">--------------------</div><br/><br/>The NCR soldiers soon had shelled an abundance of rounds into whatever this green beast was, its body and face looked nothing like it had moments ago, and blood pooled all around it, though the sight sickened several of the soldiers, who looked away, except for one that only walked up to the beast and started stabbing it in what was left of its head. The beast was dead, but this soldier clearly wanted to be sure it wasn't coming back.<br/><br/>"Freeman is down!" One of the soldiers yelled to the medic, that soldier was quick to get down to what was left of his fellow brother in arms. When it came to his head, there wasn't much left. Bits of brain and skull were everywhere, as that soldier in particular cursed before taking the dogtags from his corpse. There was a lot going on, and the one soldier not performing a task was simply panicking.<br/><br/>"Listen, sir, this will numb the pain and get you standing and moving for the time being. We're not doctors though, this is only temporary." He insisted, before injecting a stimpack into the paladin. "Listen up, we have to move!" The soldier tending to Cyprus announced. "Anything within miles just heard that, and it looks like it came from the west. That means moving west is going to result in anything trailing it to find us, travelling back north will have us run into whatever might have been tracking us, and any snipers in those building will have heard this. Any more south, and we're going to run into the 'slums,' which means we're heading east. If we stay here we're dead, we have to leave Freeman." The soldier declared, standing up, helping Cyprus up.<br/><br/>"Move out!"