AN: Hi there I know I have another story but this idea seemed promising. There aren't a lot of Fallout fics for fallout 4, least of all crossovered with Fairy tail so i said heck let me give it a try

"Speech"

*Emphasis/thoughts*

Norami never imagined she would ever experience *this* again. The feel of clean unpolluted air (mostly), the lush vegetation and most of all radiation free environment. She shouldered her PTRS-41 anti-anti rifle as she took in her surroundings that she miraculously found herself in.

The General of the Minutemen was having her usual normal day (at least to her) helping out settlers problems by killing ghouls, supermutants and raiders to keep the commonwealth safe, with Dogmeat by her side. The thing about dogmeat is he had an accident, and was basically killed on one of her quests. His body was destroyed but she managed to salvalged his brain and rebuild him.

She used to work for General Atomics International before the great war and before she was frozen. So she rebuilt Dogmeat so he's mostly a robot now, except for his brain, so he is just like a robobrain except he is a dog and she covered his brain. It was her greatest achievement, thank God she had notes about how the robobrains were built or he wouldn't have remembered her. The dog was confused but quickly got used to his condition, in fact she added another function that allowed him to talk, the robotics made him smarter. He prefers not to speak though and act like a normal dog, at least as normal as a robot dog can act.

It was only through her dead husband's target shooting lessons that allowed her to survive in the wasteland, he was in the army but was on leave and wasn't recalled back to war in time. She was a good shot... actually she was a great shot. She began to favor sniper rifles prefering fighting over a distance, not that she was too bad close range with her six shooter and martial arts skills(Her grandfather is Japanese, and forced her to learn self-defense.)

It first came as a surprise when Preston wanted her to be their general, but they needed one, the people of the commonwealth needed *her*. She's a people person, if she weren't a robotics expert she could be a lawyer do she knows how to work with people and also to lead, even if it was a new experience. Before she knew it, 2 years passed and she was already a veteran in handling her weapons and surviving in the wasteland was so easy, the Minutemen protected most of the settlements from all the scum of the commonwealth... and she met her son.

Met him was an understatement. She fought him. His ideals seemed good at first but it was inhumane. There was something just *wrong* with him that she didn't have the power to change. Synths were basically used as slaves and had no rights or freedom, they were completely different from robots, it would be very different if robots were used instead. Synths had a will of their own but they weren't actually *alive*, still they had the right to choose. This line of thinking caused her to conflict with her son, who was the leader of the institute.

She still felt like a part of her broke when she killed him, when the institute was nuked, and the willing survivors to live above ground. This happened six months ago, which leads her to where she is now.

It was her routine to forget about the past to help others that need her in the present, she took dogmeat with her as usual when there was a rumor someone was trying to bring back the institute. Actualy, it was just the Rust Devil gang that decided robots weren't enough and kidnapped synths to try and make them do their bidding. She cleared them out easily taking half of them out from a distance before she went in with Kelogg's gun and cleaned the rest. But somehow she missed one and the last thing she saw was a... device being thrown at her, it glowed and exploded before she found herself... here, wherever here is.

And so the 25 year old(she had Shaun when she was 22) woman wasn't surprised at her situation as she had encountered many hard to believe things before. Teleportation, herself acting out the Silver Shroud and actually scaring people shitless, meeting a mechanical man in the form of Nick Valentine, Her son being over thirty years her senior, what different would traveling to another world free of radiation or even time travel be? Or If this even is a different world or just a place that was actually spared in the war. But she doubts that because the weather itself was affected by what mankind did to it, seriously radiation storms were quite a surprise back then.

But first, she has to find out where she is before making a decision. And take off her General uniform because she needs somem fresh air damnit! Oh and she needs something to eat pronto. But why is her uniform so clean?

She shouted thanks to the heavens, or whatever God there was when the deer finished cooking as she ate, an honest to god actual deer and not a two headed radstag, while Dogmeat looked at the food longingly since he didn't need to or rather couldn't eat anymore. Her prosthetic right arm not even bothering her in the slightest as she ate contently.

She lost her entire right arm in an accident, a malfunctioned robot, before tbe war. Nothing a modified robotic arm couldn't fix as a replacement, even though this design is the same size as her left arm and hand, it's four times stronger, hence why she's able ton carry her anti-tank rifle like it's a light sniper rifle. She considered replacing all her limbs once but there wasn't any real reason, that and she doesn't want to be a robot herself.

"Sorry Dogmeat, I couldn't rebuild your stomach. But at least you'll live much longer than other dogs?" She tried to appease him, only to get a pathetic mechanical whine in return.

Now though she sulked a bit as she thought about all the people she left behind. Ada, Preston, Nick, Desdemonda and a lot more, hell even the Elvis Presley wannabe Sturges. Her rival, the *Mechanist* would probaly miss her the most since they were briefly in that kind of relationship for some comfort. Anyway, she packed the rest of the meet in her Pipboy's pocket dimension, the first time she found out it can actually do it she went crazy for a short time.

Inside her Pipboy is almost everything she owns from clothes to armor to weapons... and her power armor. And most importantly robot parts and everything she needs at a robot workbench... that she left behind at the Castle. Damn building a new one is going to be a bitch, but first she really needs a bath. It's rare for anyone to properly clean themselves everyday, since fresh water is scarce. But damn does she stink! She spotted a clean stream on the way here so that will have to do.

Taking a real bath was nice, her jet black shoulder length her was washed nicely (Styled like Helena Harper from Resident Evil 6) . Her athletic slightly busty figure was quickly covered in clean set of clothes, she used her reflection in the water to do her hair before she equiped her pipboy, checking the time she realized it was night before she arrived here and now its late morning.

That was when she noticed something odd with her Pipboy screen that she didn't notice until now. That ridiculous vault-tec cartoon was showing itself moving around before words appeared.

*Thanks to mysterious circumstances you were granted the power of a gamer, be thankful, your power was chosen randomly out of a hat. To access gamer powers use your Pipboy to see your Stats, Inventory, Data(Quests) and Map. Due to your actions in life your player level and perks were selected for you based on your life skills. What? Did you think the storage mechanic of your pipboy was normal? It was part of the game except now you're fully able to play.*

*Sonovabitch, so that's why people looked at me strangely.*

"Bullshit, I must be drunk." There's no way her life turned into a game, this is a new level of crazy even for her. Still she indulged the words when they disappeard and used her Pipboy, and went through her stats.

It showed that same cartoon with the state of her limbs showing health bars but her right arm having a shield icon and a lightning icon, with the number 500. Her level on the bottom left corner being 65, she wasn't sure if that was high or not but it sounded pretty high. Her HP amount was 1000 and number of AP was 200, there was also MP ?. She found a help section and scrolled to find what it meant.

HP is her life and state of health and AP is her stamina or Action Points that is used in V.A.T.S which means Vaultec Assisted Targeting System. MP is Magic Power and is supposed to be some kind of energy for something else, it said she had to unlock it first whatever that meant.

Still she continued on to S.P.E.C.I.A.L which was her stats and found her stats to be so:

Strength: 8(+3)
Perception: 9(+2)
Endurance: 10(+1)
Charisma: 8(+2)
Intelligence: 10(+1)
Agility: 8(+1)
Luck: 5(+1)

She opened the perk chart to see exactly what they meant even though she had a basic idea and was suprised to see a... manual with male and female cartoons with blue jumpsuits doing various things. Her stats were on the top row with an explanation when she hovered over it, the rest were perks.

Her most prominent perks are Robotics expert 3, Rifleman 5, Gunslinger 5, Science 4, Gun Nut 4 and Armorer 4, Rapid Reload, Better criticals, Life Giver 3, Sniper, Hacker 3 and finally Action Girl 3 and Lone Wanderer 2 The rest was blank and even then she has less than half the perks there. She read each description and was satisfied with her perks. When she exited and went to the list, there was an extra two named Gamers Body and Gamer's Mind, with descriptions. Sleeping recoverd HP and gives a 10% boost xp gain for a short time. Immune to psychological effects and can keep calm in the face of danger.

It explained you get a skillpoint every level so by the looks of it half of her supposed skill points went to her stats, given if they were 5 each before she escaped the vault. The perks were fairly accurate at what she is good at. Modifying and learning to mod her weapons was a step down to robotics as it works with mechanisms which isn't hard for her, she had to keep herself well protected so she learned how to improve her armor (combat armor chest piece only underneath her general uniform), she also learned how to add ballistic weave into her clothing from Tinker Tom, when she briefly did some jobs for The Railroad.

It was hard to believe, but the evidence was all there, on her Pipboy. After getting dressed in her Minutemen General Uniform with the combat armor chest piece underneath minus the ridiculous hat, and put on her gloves to cover her metal limb she called out the Dogmeat.

"C'mere boy! We're heading out for some recon." The dog mechanically barked before he used his advanced mechanical limbs to appear beside her in a blink and they were on their way, with Norami occasionally fiddling with her Pipboy to figure out more of its mechanics and admiring the clean and beautiful environment.

Aster Town was a village known for it's happy, youthful and friendly people. Unfortunately they were located a bit far from other towns so they became mostly self sufficient regarding the production of food and water, and they make good trade to whoever passes through. Even worse now, they were not their happy selves, because a dark guild took refuge nearby and now controls the town through fear. They were stripped of any lacrima's to communicate outside and couldn't ask for help. Too bad because they don't usually interact with other towns because of the traveling distance it was seen as normal in the eyes of other people.

This is the sad scene Norami stumbled upon as she slowly passed through her first actual town not covered in rust. Most buildings were made from stone or wood and the paths were cobblestone. To her everything appeared to be from the 1700's-1800's which made her think she actually travelled through time.

Now if she could only get them to interact with her and not behind their damn windows and seem to jump at every little shadow...

"Hello! What's with you people? I'm lost and I just want some information." They seemed to calm down a bit, but anyone with a robotic dog would seem strange she supposes. Not to mention the weapon slightly taller than herself. Her PTRS is 6"6, 3 inches shorter since she shortened the barrel, while she stood at 5'10, so half a foot hung above her.

After deciding she wasn't a threat they reluctantly started pouring out with an old man leading them in the center, he was shorter than average but not so much to be called a midget, and had a long white beard with a bald head. He walked with a wooden stick and wore a simple non-expensive suit.

"Sorry young Miss, troubling times, not much trust in strangers these days." Young miss? She guesses 25 is still young to these people.

She looked at him sharply. Her time in the Minutemen taught her how to spot something amiss, and there was definitely something off. She could smell their fear clearly, a *very* familiar fear.

"Let me guess, you have some kind of gang terrorizing the town?" She asked dryly as if it was a daily occurrence for her, which it was.

They were quiet for a bit as if debating whether or not to tell her before deciding. The old man stepped forward.

"Thank goodness someone finally arrived, please I beg of you send for help to get rid of the Dark Guild Thunder Birds. You are the first to arrive here in a long time, because our town is self dependant and the distance from other towns we're relatively unknown to most people. My granddaughter was captured by them, trying to fight them. Please save her."

A dark guild? Sounded like this place's version of raiders. There's nothing left to decide then.

"How 'bout I deal with them instead, when I'm finished you tell me where I am, deal?" She simply offered.

Their jaws dropped at her offer before regaining themselves. "Are you sure you can handle this, I mean these are mages we're talking about over twenty of them." A man said doubtfully.

"Mages? Oh well I'll figure it out when I get there. So do you want my help or not?" People use magic here? Definitely a different world. She could interrogate the dark guild then.

The old man nodded. "I hope you know what you're doing. They are hauled up on the west side of the forest in a wooden tavern." He said with a sigh giving up on convincing her to call for help. By the time she gets there somehing bad might happen an they need help now.

Floating words appeared before her saying Quest Started: Save Aster Village before fading away. But before she could leave, a little girl stepped out the crowd and confronted her. "Are you really going to beat up the bad guys?" She asked hopefully, wih her mother trying to pull her away saying they couldn't have too much hope.

"Yes I am, I got nothing left to lose after all." Was her last words before walking away. No one even got to ask what was that... dog with her.

"Wait! You're not going to kill them are you?"

She looked confused before realizing it was a different world, and probably weren't as lawless as the wasteland, and just shook her head, with plans on how to go about it in a non-lethal way.

"She's crazy." Was the unspoken agreement between them all.

Norami realised using her trusted PTRS would be lethal even if she aims for their limbs, since it would just blow them off, so she switched to her six shooter. It seems she would be going in cowgirl style. First she figured out how to use VATS so she could try it out, after testing it the slo mo function seemed incredibly useful and tested switching targets on the local wildlife. One action from her pistol takes a very small amount of AP. The only thing she has to worry about is reloading.

Now she stood in front of the door holding her gun at the ready, her big gun was stored away for now. Dogmeat ready beside her.

From inside everyone was enjoying themselves before the doors were kicked in. The mages sloppily readied themselves thinking they were finally found out but deadpanned when they saw one... no two figures. One was a freaky dog thing.

"What do you want!" Someone shouted.

Norami didn't answer except for saying one word. "Get him boy." In a flash the mechanical dog was on him and bit him in the...crotch. His high pitched scream was ignored when Norami acted. The world slowed around her and she selected her targets, targeting either shoulders or legs, six of them to her right. The chance to hit from her range just over 90 percent.

To them she drew her pistol so fast no one saw it, before six shots were fired all within a third of a second apart each, her left hand pressing the cock down in a blur. Six fell in pain, immobilized. She reloaded within two seconds before switching targets to the left side. Another six fell just as fast. 12 people were taken down in six seconds, 1 extra down from Dogmeat. Quarter of her AP but already regenerating.

"Good boy." A playful bark was returned

"The bitch is going down!" A burly mage said crackling his knuckles and flexing his muscles trying to look intimidating.

"Yeah! That dog too." A thinner man said holding a staff.

Magic circles were quickly summoned from either a tool or hand before lightning rained at the spot she and Dogmeat occupied and exploded, Tables and chairs together with parts of the floor. Unfortunately the smoke cleared revealing her right hand spread out in front of her, smoking indicating she blocked with it.

*So that energy icon means her resistance to energy attacks, her unform had ballistic weave and a total of 200 Damage and energy resistance with her arm adding another 500 adding her total to 700. The damage she took was focused on her arm, and she took 1% limb damage. And 3 HP.*

So that was magic? It was just like a fancy lazer circus. She didn't feel a thing, considering she attracted all the eletrical energy to her metal limb through obvious physics. Now to test how strong these mages were physically. While they were left shell shocked at her apparent survival, she sprinted towards them, her speed surprising even herself before delivering a vicious right hook to a jaw sending the man flying and landing with a loud wooden thunk as he hit the wall, unconscious.

They tried attacking her with their own fists but she found their forms lacking and easily weaved through them, blocking and delivering a few punches or kicks of well placed martial arts she didn't even need to use her gamer ability. It wasn't long before they were all down, groaning on the floor in pain from her rough treatment.

A clapping sound was heard as a door opened, a tough looking man holding a hostage, what looks to be a teenage girl with Cyan hair? And blue eyes, with quite a healthy figure. She was afraid though because she was held at knifepoint, with a strong arm almost choking her.

"Well well well, the whole guild went down. No matter, they were weaklings anyway, I'm on a whole different level and I got a hostage, don't move or she dies. Oh and drop your gun too." He calml said with a deadly undertone in his bland voice, but gave a squeeze on the girl's breast to assure his dominance making her flinch but couldn't do a thing.

Norami smiled at the girl while inwardly disgusted. "Don't worry, everything is going to be fine." She said as she dropped her gun to the side.

No one noticed her dog wasn't present anymore, but he wasn't there to see him anyway.

**Crunch**

Yet again Dogmeat's jaws found itself crunching on another pair of balls, from behind. Dogmeat was equiped with an internal stealth boy so he could turn invisible at will, for a short time of course. The so called Guild Leader let out a girlish shriek and let go of the mayor's daughter. The girl in question realized she was free and asserted her built up feminine fury and beat him down while his balls still hurt.

Dogmeat then realized he bit a little too hard because the man's balls actually fell off, but Norami gave him a thumbs up.

All in all, a relatively normal day for Norami, except she didn't have to kill anyone, but it felt kind of good. Killing is so easy for her, but perhaps she could get used to this.

After the girl calmed down and the leader resembled a piece of tender meat and Nora tied everyone up, she turn to her and literally threw herself in her arms crying out her thanks. Wow, that's new. The people here are so physical, but she didn't mind.

"Thankyouthankyouthankyou! How did you beat them. Can you teach me? That was awesome!" Was the girl's incoherent response to her situation.

"Calm down please, it's over now. Let's get help so these mages can be properly dealt with."

She reluctantly peeled herself off and they trekked back towards town as Nora decided to explain.

"I used this." Showing her revolver. "And him." Pointing towards her dog walking besides her.

"Wha-What's that" She asked in wonder. "Wait, does that mean you beat them without using any magic?!"

"Meet Dogmeat, my ummm... dog. And Yes."

"Wow he's so cute, even if he looks strange." She pondered. The dog looked pleased.

"By the way, can you explain to me what magic is. I'm not from around here. Oh and where I am and the year will help as well." Nora asked.

"Oh that's easy, Magic is a power only a tenth of everyone in the world possesses, and this is Aster town in the Kingdom of Fiore. X785? I think. Oh I have magic too but I'm not all that strong." She sounded depressed at not being strong enough.

Nora nodded seeming calm on the outside but her mind going a mile a minute as she realized she really wasn't in her world. They didn't seem confused at her guns so there were guns in this world too, and guns weren't invented until the 1600's, and what's with the x?

"Oh and my name's Norami Steel but you can call me Nora, what's yours?"

"I'm Siline, nice to meet you" She said with a smile.

"Siline, how about you teach me how to use magic and I'll teach you how to fight?"

"Okey dokey!"

When they got back they were greeted by the mayor who fussed over his granddaughter making the girl pout before turning to her.

"Thank you! You have the whole town's gratitude. Now that the guild taken care of it's only right I give you a reward, even if we never officially requested a job." He gave her what seemed to be a stack of paper money.

She got a notification for Quest complete and +300 xp and +100 000 jewels and a bar quarter way full. She decided, this gaming ability won't relied upon, she survived up to now without it, it's only to view her progress. But the useful perks would be used.

"It wasn't a problem, now about our other deal, I already talked to Siline about it."

That night the townspeople celebrated their freedom, Nora watched before leaving to a spare room the mayor offered her to stay, as long as she wanted he said. It was a simple room with a bed and a bathroom, with a nice view of the town from the window. As she got out of her uniform, she realized since she wasn't in her world anymore, she could wear what she wanted, that and it needed a wash.

Dogmeat lay in a corner recharging himself.

That was when her door opened revealing Siline... Nora was basically half-naked, it made for an awkward scene.

"Oh i'm sorry! I just wanted to find out when we should start... training?" She asked embarrassingly, before noticing Nora's arm. Nora quickly closed the door and shushed her not wanting her to freak out.

"I don't want anyone to find out that I'm a cripple. People always look at me differently." *Except Nate and my friends.*

"Okay I won't say a word. Let's start in the morning okay."

"No problem." She couldn't help but stare at the sway of her hips as she left tne room. She shook her head, when exactly was the last time she got laid? Siline is cute but too young for her tastes.

In the morning Siline lead her to a nice open spot in the forest, she felt teaching her how to unlock her magic first was only fair. Nora couldn't help but feel excited, magic sounds like it will be very useful. And from what she hears, there are so many different types.

So here they were with Nora seated to meditate, with instructions to look deeper into herself until she could feel her magic. It took some time, perhaps an hour before she actually awakened her magic, it enveloped her form in a blue glow.

"Amazing! You have so much magic for a beginner." She pouted at that, comparing it to her own.

Meanwhile Nora marveled at the feeling, she felt so alive. Then she checked her Pipboy and as usual froze her surroundings. At Perks it said magic is a Unique perk with it's own perk tree, to further upgrade the magic she uses. And can actually be increase the more she trains. Her MP stands at 1000, and is the size of a B-class mage according to the manual.

The Magic perk tree deals with making a particular type of magic either more powerful, cost less magic or increase magic regeneration rate, magic container size or choosing a selection of different magic to use. Categories range from Caster type to Holder type to Lost Magic. A MPP(magic perk point) is awarded together with a perk point each level up. She can't do anything now without any points but it won't stop her from learning directly.

Unpausing, she turned to Siline with a sadistic smile. "Let the training begin."

Siline could only gulp.

A month passed and Nora fully accepted her situation. At least this world is normal enough minus the magic of course. She trained Siline in martial arts while she trained her magic when she found the right one to practice, after some research. The town actually had a good library to research different types of magic. Of course she also studied the history of this world and was amazed by it.

There are guns in this world but they are not as powerful even though they do have ballistic ammo, but magic cartridges are more famous that have various effects such has explosions, shock, fire, water or even mud. Kind of like energy weapons she's used to but it can be chosen to be non-lethal or not. Buuut it's not used all that much for some reason, proof in the fact that the Fiore royal army resembles knights, except fot the magic division that uses staffs to fire magic.

Conclusion. Her weapons were more advanced than this world's ones.

The magic she chose is called Metal-Make a not so well known used rare magic, and it does exactly as it implies. Make metal into any shape she wants controlling or creating *any* type of metal. She's not far enough to be combat ready, but she can create simple shapes. Better yet, if she uses preexisting minerals in the ground to form the metal, the metal doesn't break away, ever. Actually it doesn't break away even with it only created by magic unless she wills it. Needless to say she has an unlimited stock of metals for when she decides to set up her robot workbench.

The stronger the metal, the more magic is used to create it. The default metals she's sticking with for now are Iron, Steel and Aluminium. But she's working on the stronger metals like Titanium as well with less progress. It was really amazing having...powers.

She found out she actually got lucky beating that Guild Master because he was supposedly an A-class mage, only he was too cocky and didn't notice Dogmeat and the guild was smaller and weaker than most. Speaking of Dogmeat, she is working on adding a transformation spell on him to make him appear like a normal dog, and perhaps make him able to feel again with a sense of touch or smell instead of just his built in sensors. As a result she was also learning the spell herself.

She also realized after unlocking her magic her body became more durable and faster, and she felt stronger. Like using magic let's you defy physics or the physics of this world is just different. She got a notification on her Pipboy that unlocking her magic increased her physical stats by a factor of 3, so she now has 24 (+3) Strength, 30 (+1) Endurance and 24(+1) Agility. The +1's she found out was bobbleheads she found in the commonwealth that looked suspiciously like each of the attributes, she never kept them because they were creepy, and the extra 2 strength came from her prosthetic. Certain types of clothing boosts attributes, like her general uniform boosts 1 Charisma and 1 Perception.

She tested her speed herself by running, she was even faster than the fastest athlete by a few times... while not even at her fastest, and she got tired much slower than before. Oh and her HP almost tripled being at 2500 now from the increased Endurance .She felt like a young girl again with the energy flowing through her. And she was able to lift a tree with her bare hands! With little effort! Everything was now lighter to her.

Which leads her to where she is now a month later in front of the gate of Aster Town. She stayed for too long already, her time in the wasteland made her a wanderer, eben being a leader she kept on the move only popping in to check on her people. Staying in one place too long just doesn't feel right. Besides, there's a whole world to explore out there!

"Why do you have to leave so soon." Siline pouted like a child. She grew attached to the woman, she was so kind even if she was a harsh task master.

Norami sighed then patted the girl's head making her pout harder. "I told you before, living in one place for long isn't my style. Besides If I want to improve my magic I can't sit idle in one place." She used the excuse of magic even if it's not the real reason.

The other villagers were behind her shouting their goodbyes and cheering for her,

"Besides now you can protect this place on your own. But don't slack off in training you hear?" She added the last part sternly making Siline nod.

"Be sure to visit!"

As she walked her away she could feel her sadness at departing, she idly waved her hand goodbye as Dogmeat trotted next to her. These people were nice and she'll be sure to drop by one day, she easily hefted her large traveling bag uding her game inventory would make them think she's going without supplyies, plus the large bag increased her carry weight by 30, totalling at 500 carry weight.

It was like a breath of fresh air. No more Railroad to deal with. No more Minutemen. No more Raiders and most of all no more radiation. Just her and Dogmeat, in an unexplored world with a strange gaming ability and freshly practiced magic and her already mastered skills. She let out a breath and let the path in front of her take her randomly, anywhere is good for now.

With that she put on her sunglasse, the story of the Wandering Mage was born.

AN: I decided to make my own gamer fic while not entirely the main focus a Fallout Fairy Tail crossover, beside the other fic im writing(Golden Eyed Dragon). I of course am not going to stop writing GED, just alternating between them. I sometimes lose interest and doing something new makes me write faster until i come up with a better idea for the story.

Sorry that's just how I am. There will be power armor, she knows how to build her own frame and will find her T-60 power armor pieces in her inventory, but won't always be using it because she prefers being out it. Oh and the plus one on her stats is the bobblehead bonus. AGILTY here also factors how fast she is including the original purpose.

Oh and my version didn't have a young shaun appear before the institute exploded. And she was only with the minutemen and the railroad.