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The blue joy is calling... but can Fresco survive it?

"Do you know what happened to you?" Joey's voice broke a little. Fresco shook his head. The kid nodded, like it was no big surprise." Yeah, me either. No one seems to. We just have normal lives, you know? Then suddenly you wake up with this thing eating into you," he swallowed hard, "and that's it. The rest is Wasteland."

Seventeen-year-old Fresco Conte is an ordinary All-American kid from an upper middle-class family. He plays football. His girlfriend is a cheerleader. Life is good. Until unexplained things, scary things, start to take him over. Like surviving an accident that should have killed him. Or hearing the thoughts of the people around him whether he wants to or not.
 
When the men in the dark blue coveralls come for him, Fresco is forced into addiction to the blue joy known as Wasteland and set free on the street, with no answers and only his hunger to keep him company.

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Diamond City Trilogy

They found a quiet diner and huddled around hot drinks, keeping their sorrow to themselves. Genvieve occasionally wiped at random tears tracking down her face with the cuff of her hoodie, but otherwise no one moved or spoke, even to drink their coffee.


Fresco finally sat back and gave himself a shake. "Worst case scenario?"


Daniel's head bobbed. "Whiteout hits the streets."


"We are captured and turned," Strom said.


"We die." Genvieve snuffled and shrugged. "That's my worst case. Sorry."


Fresco laughed softly and winked at her. "Fair enough." He was surprised when she forced a smile back and even took a drink from her mug.


"Best case scenario." Their energy shifted, he could feel it. Time to drag themselves back into the game.


"We modify Whiteout to our own use and take Meritas down." Daniel tried his coffee as well, then made a face. "This stuff is crap."


Strom toyed with a packet of sugar. "Break into the lab, free everyone and arrest Meritas."


Chapter 107: Worse Case Scenario