Introduction to Fallout; As Dusk Falls, A New Dawn raises.
(PLEASE FOR THE PEOPLE WHO WAS PART WITH THE STORY SINCE THE BEGINNING, REREAD THE STORY WAS REWRITTEN ABIT AND I PROMISE THAT THIS IS THE LAST TIME THAT I AM REWRITING OR REEDITING THE STORY.)

The future you plan for yourself shifts - whether you're ready. At some point, it happens to all of us.

My name is Nate Walker, I am 32 years old and I was a soldier part of the 108th Infantry Regiment of the Second battalion known as Fox Company, my great, great, great father served in this battalion during WW II in the pacific. I guess it is in the blood line to join 108th Fox Company.

During my time in the Alaska Campaign, I've seen horrors of war and the future that we were headed to. A world that war, war would be a necessity to ensure the survival of the American dream.

From the revolution war with muskets and canons to the Sino-America war with power armours, and high-tech weaponry, the worst weapon was the atomic bombs. A single small device that could devastate and entire city into chaos. I've done things that I had regretted and things that I tend to see ghost that reminded me of my actions. Things that no man would be proud of.

I retired a few months later, returned to San Francisco and was decorated as a war hero. Nora, my childhood friend girlfriend and a military lawyer/officer in the army. I stood before her at the airport and proposed to her and asked her to marry me. And she said yes.

We later moved to the commonwealth for a quieter life instead of a cold hard military life that brought horrible memories to us. Lucky for me, my uncle, a general in the army was able to pull some strings and got a house in sanctuary for us a few months later. Nora became pregnant, I guess didn't put on my condom properly on, but it was unexpected. We weren't ready to become parents yet, but we approved and accepted fate. With me finding a job and living of my service pay and Nora as a civil court lawyer. We thought we could manage when Shawn was born, in my experience was both a beautiful and horrifying sight in the delivery room. Even if you know where babies come from, but my dad explain it horribly, it was still terrifying to watch. We soon became one happy family in a story, but this was not happy story

8 months later October 23, 2077 was the day my world was turn upside down and crushed. With the communist china came to it last offence deployed their nukes and soon the world followed as nukes rained from the sky. We were lucky that the Vault Tec representative sold us a spot in Vault 111, but he was left outside to die from the nuke explosion. We thought we were safe from the war outside of the vault that we didn't realised Vault Tec had other ideas. We were in cryo-sleep but later was waken up.

I watch helplessly as my wife tried to fight the kidnappers but was gunned down by a cold heart mercenary trying to defend Shaun. Before left into cryo-sleep before waking up. Return to the surface was different. The result of a nuclear war has taken a toll of Mother Nature with everything dead yet still alive.

Returning to sanctuary was another experience, seen the old house where he once had a family. But then a familiar voice made Nate shock. It was Codsworth still here, Codsworth was also surprised to see Nate. Before Codsworth could say anything. I ran up to Codsworth giving the big handyman a hug and said, "It's nice to see your old pal." Codsworth then replied trying not to cry, "It's good to see you too." Before asking, "where the mistress?"

I told Codsworth everything that had happened. Codsworth pointed directions to the nearest town. And follow Nate to help him to find his son and soon found the survivors or the Minutemen guided them back to sanctuary the help of dogmeat. For the T-45 power armour, I hesitated on using the suit with memories of my decease friend, but I needed to use it to survive the harsh wasteland environment.

With my goal to find Shaun, I set out to track Kellogg but only to find out a dark secret that no one in the commonwealth wants to hear or know. His son is in the institute. Find the institute was like trying to find the yeti in the forest or the loch ness monster in a lake. The death of Kellogg resulted into something that lead me using a small chunk of his brain and Nick Valentine to find the institute. There is a saying "just because life doesn't mean you are the only one." Apparently, I had felt from anger and hatred of Kellogg turned to pity upon him. Life also tortured the poor man. From a having abusive father for a dad to losing his wife and daughter to a rival gang, this made it hard for me to hate him, he is what he is because of his past. This then prove another lesson for me, you can't judge anyone for who they are, but their past is what makes them and for that I somewhat forgave him in some terms.

Thanks to Dr. Brian Virgil, infiltrating the institute was easy beside the teleporter blew up in the process of the teleporting. But when I had found out that the man in charge of the institute was my son, at first, I thought it was a joke, but reality came in and slap me in the face the truth. Shaun tried to persuade me to join the institute, but I couldn't.

The army trains you to be prepare for the worst, what they didn't teach is if you son was a leader of a mad scientist group would think what they are doing is right. Their main goal is to look after humanity interest but instead threw it right in the bin and try playing god with people and creating people, they think are just machines, but people of the commonwealth has proven men wrong. Nick is the first synth who showed me that he has a heart of gold in him. People say fate and destiny is what controls our life, but I never believed in it. Life is the one who is in command of everyone. We control fate, we control the thing we do and want. Destiny is just another thing to say in a nice way to say that you are forced into. But for me, life just happened to kick me in the nuts and stab me in the abdomen and slow whispers in my ear. 'Its life, bitch."

I had decided to join the Minutemen since they were the only people fighting for the right cause and help each other just like the Marine Corps. The brotherhood of steel was just like the imperial japan that my great, great, great grandfather fought in the pacific warfront. They used brutal force to control people and anyone who disagree was shot down. The Railroad are willing to support my causes but not go all in with it since they had lost so much from the institute but still had Deacon to help me.

Preston understood my pain of finding out the hard truth, but we still need to push forward to rebuild the Minutemen. More Minutemen settlement outpost, more people volunteering, a stronger army, the recapture of the Castle and the Railroad joining the cause to defeat the Institute. But then the brotherhood of steel began to infer with the operation and attack the people of the commonwealth.

I was able to convince Danse to join ever since he was banished while for Scribe Haylen, Initiate Clarke and a few other BOS rookies to leave and join the Minutemen. Also trying to persuade X6-88, Madison Li and a few other synths and scientist, it took a while to persuade them to sway away from the Institute and that there is more in life than be slaves to the Institute and Brotherhood. They agreed to leave their comrades and side with the Minutemen but will only follow my command since I was the only one they could trust and had faith in me.

A word had spread south to the capital wasteland that brought a certain someone seeking revenge. Sarah Lyons. Personally, ask myself if she could join my team to take down Elder Maxson and regain her rightful title of Elder.

And I answered her proposal with, "Okeydokey."

The Elder Maxson need to be rid off but to do so was to bring Lyons onto the ship for her to challenge Maxson's command. It didn't end well as we were within site of the Brotherhood base, we were fired upon. Including Lyons.
The war raged on for a week before it ended and the remaining brotherhood soldier surrendered as Elder Maxson had escape during the night.

Both the Minutemen and Elder Lyons brotherhood split the gear to prepare for war. X6 gave the location of the institute right beneath the Cambridge University and gave the beacon for infiltrating the institute.

The airship has redesign and the airship was under my command. Four artillery, one next to the thruster engines and 5 multi-purpose miniguns for anti-air and ground defences 1 at the nose, on each boarding cat walk ramp and two at the rear. As a duel manned Gatling laser turret at the front bottom observer deck. The war defence of the castle was intense, but everyone made it out alive thanks to the USS Lexington that now hovers over the castle. Army must infiltrate the institute but there was no physical entrance until we built another relay on the airship that helps us connect the signal to the teleport dock.

When battle of the institute end, I found my son at his death bed. The reason that he wanted me to join the institute was to take over his position as head of the institute for my leadership skills. But now here he is in the final moments of his life to have two options to watch everything he work for die or to be Merced killed by me, his father. We had a short chat before it was time to destroy the institute once and for all.

Before I had to kill my son, reach for my hand and gave me a pristine "You're Special" book I got for him when he was an infant, I was surprised that he manage to get the book and the last words he spoke was, "I'm sorry dad that I was no the son that you wanted me to be and that he didn't had a chance to have a proper family, I just want you to find a family out that you can have in this new world you are going to make."

My only response was, "No, I'm sorry son for not being a better father…" he interrupted me by answering.

"You need to know that it wasn't your fault, we were just puppets on a stage." A similar term that Kellogg also used.

"What do you mean puppets on a stage?" I asked him, not before he pulled me closer and whispered his last dying breath.

"Beware of a man of your past." Shaun said before he collapsed to his bed and he whispered before his final breath, "Beware."

I sigh as I closed his eyes and exited the Institute to the roof as a few Minutemen was hanging our flag over the court yard. Soldiers cheered at the victory, I however was lost to my thoughts.

"I've lost Shaun - all over again".

I close my eyes, I see my life before all of this. Before the bombs. Everything can change in an instant, and the future you plan for yourself shifts - whether or not you're ready. At some point, it happens to all of us.

This wasn't the world I wanted; but it was the one I found myself in. The Commonwealth, my home. Ripped apart and put back together.

I thought I...I hoped I could find my family. Cheat time. Make us whole again. The way we were.

But now, I know. I know I can't go back. I know the world has changed. The road ahead will be hard. This time, I'm ready. Because I know, war...war never changes."

Quoted by Nate Archer – 5th June 2288. (The New Start)

Until Next time. Mr Pebbles out.