Author's note: this is my first story so please read and review and I hope you enjoy, Burke won't show until chapter 3 or 4 so please be patient
The Mall 5 months after Broken Steel dlc
Alexander had been scouting through the mall area for the last week or so, picking off super mutants with his infiltrator assault rifle, blowing their head off with his gauss rifle and tearing their throats out with his flaming super charged ripper (Moira's idea). Alexander didn't have much else to do, the enclave were crushed, the super mutants were quickly thinning out, even feral ghouls were becoming less common, all he could do was kill the super mutants and the occasional raider. As he ran away from ten super mutants across the trenches he couldn't help but feel empty, lost, bored.
"YOU GET DEAD NOW!" an overlord screamed as he shot a rocket at Alexander who leapt to the side behind a bus stop as graceful as dancer. The mutants continued their charge moving to the other side of the bus stop… only to find that no one was there.
"Ahem and here is the part where you fall on the ground and bleed profusely" Alexander chuckled as he stepped out of thin air and began to open fire with his infiltrator rifle. Out of the ten super mutants six went down before Alexander's clip ran out, the remaining four were about to fire when another person wearing outcast power armor appeared from behind a tree and began to cut down the other super mutants with a combat shotgun "Sigh I miss the old days" Alexander sighed
"Ten in all, not a bad day" Charon stated as he gently kicked the body of a super mutant corpse "Lyons will be pleased when we return"
"Yeah the old man always gets a twinkle in his eyes when we tell him one more mutant has been treated to our hospitality"
"I meant the other one, and not because of the beasts" Charon replied in his cold, calculating voice. Alexander could never tell when his oldest friend was ribbing him or not, he had met Charon in a dirty dive run by one of the most greedy bastards in the wastes, after he had stolen Charon's contract the first thing Charon did was put two in each of his old master's eyes, Charon scared him sometimes but he knew that Charon had warmed up to him and was glad that his friend was starting to joke around, even if it was… creepy.
"OK then let's get the blood samples and go get paid, my Chinese armor's stealth field could do with a recharge" Alexander said avoiding his friend's stare as he ducked the conversation of Sarah. "Well then off to home sweet home" he said as the companions set off toward the dark beauty of the citadel.