Prologue: Dante Warner
Dante Warner is standing beside a steel door with his back against the wall, 10mm pistol in hand. A small time gang has taken a girl from Diamond City hostage. The girls parents had contacted Nick Valentine but he was booked, so he got ahold of Dante and sent him to deal with the situation. He happily accepted the job. He's tracked down the gang already. Now all he has to do is handle the situation.
"Listen. We can do this the easy way or the hard way. You've got three seconds to come out and release the hostage. Then we can all go on happily with our lives." Dante says in a stern tone as he takes control of the situation.
"Ha! Like we would give up this little slut! Unless you've got some sort of army out there you should turn tail and run!" One of the men yells back.
"Hard way it is." Dante sighs.
He checks his gun; fully loaded and ready to fire. He takes three deep breaths before shoulder charging the door, busting the weak locks and slamming it open. He quickly scans the room; three on the left wall, one in the right corner and one in the middle. The middle man drags the girl up off her knees by her hair, holding a .44 to her head. The other men grab baseball bats or pipe pistols. Dante takes a breath before quickly lining up a shot at the middle man, pulling the trigger and putting the bullet through his head. The two men wielding bats charge Dante, swinging hard. Dante backsteps, putting a bullet in each of their legs, imobileizing them. The other two start firing their pipe pistols. When this happens Dante quickly goes back to his position outside the door. They suppress him for about thirty seconds before they stop firing. Dante turns the corner quickly to see one of the men holding a door on the other side of the room open as the other man drags the girl through the door. He drops the man holding the door and moves cautiously but quickly to the door. After getting there he opens the door and moves down the corridor. He gets through the corridor with no problem. Once he arrives at the end he finds a door. He takes three breathes and swings it open. As soon as the door opens he is met with a bullet embedding itself in his arm. He growls before firing back, hitting the man in the center of his chest, firing two more shots to drop him. He scans the area to find that it is empty, except for the crying girl in tattered clothes laying on the floor. He rips some of his shirt off and ties it around the bullet wound on his arm before walking to the girl.
"Are you hurt? Did they do any physical damage to you?" He asks the girl as he scans over her body.
She shakes her head slowly.
"Okay then. Time to take you home." He picks her up onto his back.
He carries the girl out of the hideout before gently setting her down.
"Can you walk? I really don't want to carry you all the way back to Diamond City but if I have to I will." He says in a soothing voice, hoping to calm the girl down even slightly.
She nods slowly to his question and he smiles at her.
"Good. Let's go then." He starts walking in the direction of Diamond City.
They get back safely with no trouble at all. The girl didn't talk much which Dante completely understood why.
"Hey. It's Dante. I got the girl back." Dante says into the microphone at the gate.
"Come on in." The guard says as he opens the gate.
Dante takes the girl back to her parents where they thank him for what he's done. He doesn't accept any compensation as he knows they will need it. Afterwards he heads back to Valentines Detective Agency since Nick wanted to talk to him. He met up with Nick in his office.
"What's up? Pretty rare for you to bring me into your office like this. What, am I a suspect or something?" Dante laughs lightly as he sits down in the chair in front of Nick.
"Not a suspect. More along the lines of the right man for the job." Nick says with comeplete seriousness.
"What job are you talking about," Dante says, his curiosity peaking "Another small time gang?"
"Not a gang this time. It's a new creature that's been sighted near the Crater of Atom." Nick says, dropping a file in front of Dante.
"How's that a job for me?" Dante skims through the files.
"We think there is a group behind the making of the creature."