Outpost 230-320

As time went on at the outpost outside of Salvation, many things progressed as the growing season went on and Deuce was starting to feel apart of the guards and was feeling full of purpose. The threat of the Freak village still lingered throughout Deuce, Fade, Stalker, and Longshot's head but he decided to wait it out and see what happens. Just as it seems everything is going perfect, disaster strikes the camp. One morning they wake up and get ready for the day and Deuce notices that Fade is nowhere to be found. She shrugs it off thinking he must be talking to someone or doing some business then a hour goes by and she starts to get worried. She goes into his and Frank Wilson's tent and nobody is present. All their things are scattered about and her heart sunk when she saw on the sheets of his bed blood. Fade and Frank where knocked unconscious and taken away to the Freak village. She rushes to Longshot telling him the news he is very upset by it but does not have the men to spare to send out. He tells Deuce that if she assembled a team she can go, so she talks to everyone in the camp and manages to get Stalker, Ellis, and Gary Miles. Gary Miles was the man who gave her the creeps and was sure that he wanted to harm her but she needed all the help she can get. Stalker used his honed tracking skills to figure out where they went from the tent. He picks up a trail and they start off into the woods. They follow it for a long time into the woods and they start coming across the warning signs they saw before. They are for sure they are nearing the freak village. They are jumped by freaks and Stalker and Ellis fight them off, but Gary Miles takes Deuce far away from the fight. The perfect time to hurt her when she was not ready. She had her on the ground with his gun pointed at her telling her all the things he was going to do to her. Not knowing that Deuce was a much better fighter than him, she was not worried. When he put his gun down she kicked the back of his knee out breaking it then putting a knife into his chest killing him. She returns to Stalker who was wounded trying to find her. They lost Ellis in the fight but decided to carry on. They made it outside the freak village and they where all sleeping. She decided to sneak into the village and Stalker would stay up on the hill and watch. She made it their and found Fade battered and beaten the worst she has ever seen. He screamed when she touched him and the freaks started to wake. She told him that he has to get up and run and cut him lose they both ran away from the freaks and got away. They walked far enough away and made a fire and tended to Fade's wounds she tried to comfort him but he would not let her he did not want her to touch him and this made Deuce feel very sad. They make it back and Fade and Stalker go back to the town for medical attention. She thought being away and healing Fade would feel better. Then one day out on the field the freaks assembled in a huge mass and attacked. They retreated back to the outpost fighting many off as they could and in the process Longshot gave his life protecting the others into the outpost. Devastated Deuce and the two other survivors go back into Salvation and the mass of freaks lingered outside waiting. She goes to see Fade and he is still very distant and wants Deuce to leave him alone. Heartbroken she continues on and goes to Bigwater the mayor of the town and tells him of the threat. He tells Deuce that Longshot made a will and gave Deuce his old house with all of his belongings. She goes in and finds the maps of all of his trade routes he used to run and decided she needed help from another settlement. She gives Fade the house so he can be alone and he is thankful. She goes to Bigwater explaining that she needs to go find help from another settlement so they can help with the freak problem and he agrees seeing how bad it has got. She then goes and says goodbye to everyone. Little does she know when she tells Stalker and Tegan goodbye they joined her. Last she went to say goodbye to Fade he asks her if she is still his partner and she says yes and he then wants to go with her too. With the team together they head to Bigwaters and they get all of their gear. He shows them the secret underground tunnel to the outside of Salvation and they enter it to start their journey to look for another settlement for help. The future of Salvation lay in their hands.