Theo . A . Roads. The untold story
Chapter one: The First day,Month,Year
Theo Alexander Roads,that was his name,no one knew his first name. only a few people,but they where long dead. Codsworth refered to him as Mr. Alexander. he had sighed at that but didn't correct the robotic butler. ,Maybe it was best that way.
War never changes,was what he had once said,right before everything decided to turn upsidedown, what was going to be an ordinary day, turned out for the worst as sirens went off and he and his now dead wife and missing son fled to the neighbouring vault.
Vault 111, It wasn't like what he had hoped, Vault-tec had lied, instead of a decontamination pod, it was a cryo pod. Frozen in time, or so it seemed for him and the rest. He didn't know how long had passed after he witnessed his wife's murder and son's kidnapping, after he was called the backup, everything stood still again. frozen in time.
when he finally got out of the vault, he nearly fell over, He had to sit down and adjust to the harsh light of the ever present sun, the air had changed. everything had changed.
eventually when he got up and slowly staggered his way towards his old town, he was surprised to see codsworth still there, but he didn't look like how he had left him,time had taken it's toll and codsworth was faded but still functioning.
The robotic butler was surprised at the sight of theo, Theo on the otherhand was quite distraught, he was silent for awhile until he finally spoke up his voice seemed hoarse, As he slowly told codsworth what happened, codsworth didn't believe him, but after a search through the town, codsworth seemed to accept the fact that Nora, and shaun where no where to be found.
Having accepted that fact, Theo had moved on, but he didn't give up hope, there was a slight chance, even just slim. His son may or may not be out there possibly older now how old? , Theo didn't know.
A few months in the commonwealth and Theo was making slow progress on helping rebuild,he had yet to find his son and yet to make a move, Figuring he'd at least try and get a grip on things before blindly running out into the ruins of the once green and clean aired world. Ever since the bombs dropped the world changed seemingly it was a kill or be killed world.
-Flashback-
He had found out the hard way, After he took a look at codsworths lead towards concord he had headed, Maybe it wasn't the best idea considering the circumstances, but theo had no choice in the matter. He had stopped by The old Red Rocket upon greeting a dog?, strange he had seen a dead dog and a man just out side sanctuary.
He supposed the other dog was more wild than this one, as it seemed to be luckily not that affected by the changes. Theo was not personally a dog man, But he knew from a few books way back this dog was a German shepard and a freindly one at that. The Dog, seemed to know something and lead theo towards the direction of concord.
What he wasn't expecting where people? , from the way they where dressed, and from the sound of things. He doubted these people where the friendly type. He could hear what sounded like some sort charged shot being fired off. He stood watching, waiting.
With his time in the army he was never much of a close quarters kind of guy, prefering to pick off his targets at a distance, he was a sniper at heart. But if he needed to he'd have to try and rely on some rusty close combat techinques.
Honestly he didn't want too, he looked around he noticed the crashed vertibird on the roof, wondering exactly how on earth it got there was quite the mystery, Theo decided it probably crashed during the war and remained their stuck in the roof of the old building.
He honestly didn't know what came over him, slowly picking off the hostile men, and women he made his way inside without getting spotted as the person that was on the balcony was more foces on firing at the remaining hostiles, he had crept his way around, looting a corpse of a few items, a knife was one of them.
When he had eventually picked off the last of the hostiles, a door had opened, one theo discovered to be locked earlier was now open a shot fired off and theo ducked out the way. "what the hell", was the first sentence he muttered, "I don't know who you are, and I don't know if you where with..whoever these guys where but..I'm not your enemy.." he had managed to speak from his hiding spot behind a thick pillar. The dog that had been with him shot forwards running into the room, Theo blinked, he heard the sound of a warm chuckle,"Well..looks like you aren't a raider after all", said a smooth deep voice.
Theo slowly came out from behind the pillar walking towards the door, he was greeted by a dark skinned man, who eventually introduced himself as Preston garvey.
It wasn't until after he had fought off a deathclaw and killed off the rest of the raiders all while in a suit of old power armour, did he find himself where he was now.
-Flashback end-
Theo sighed at the memory,it had been months since that day, now here he was trying to make a difference. Deciding when he should head to this Great green Jewel, Diamond City had been a somewhat hard decision for him.
He had a better understanding of the world now, He wore sturdy metal armour over some road leathers he had found. It wasn't much but atleast he was protected, as for the suit of power armour it was docked in an old power armour station, It had been upgraded with spare parts of the like and repaired, Theo probably wouldn't need it, but he decided to keep it just in case he actually did.
Atleast now he had decent weapons, he still kept the 10mm pistol strapped to his thigh, but he had aquired himself a nice modded sniper rifle which was currently slung across his back. He hadn't felt comfortable with the laser musket he had been given deciding to let sturges keep it instead.
It was a nice gesture but Theo didn't feel the need for it, as for the rest of the things he had, a decent combat knife was safely tucked inside one of the combat boots he had luckily managed to scavange from and old army store that looked like it was barely standing,he had found a backpack,more army clothes,and most of the bare essentials inside.
After a few more days of looking around and scavanging, he had found himself staring at a combat shotgun inside a cracked display case, he had managed to recover it, it was in great condition,having not been exposed to the elements, even with the crack in the display case it was held in, the wood was smooth, the barrel polished, he had decided he was going to take good care of it.
Which he had, the shotgun now resided with his sniper on his back along with the backpack he had scavanged,now at least having a decent weapon to use in close combat he had made his way off to diamond city, the suppose great green jewel he had been told about.
He had left the dog, who he discovered to be named Dogmeat from Mama Murphy, the old woman the dog had greeted when he had ran into the room back in the museum of freedom, in sanctuary it wasn't that he didn't trust Dogmeat.
He was just not about to let him die if things got serious, he had warmed up to dogmeat in the following months, he had to find some suitable armour for his canine companion when he had the chance.
It wasn't until almost a full year later, he was standing over the body of Kellog, who now sported a bullet wound right between his eyes, courtesty of Theo's sniper rifle. He looked towards his companion a synth detective he had rescued a few months prior, Nick valentine was his name.
-Flashback-
When Theo had made it to Diamond city, It wasn't exactly how he imagioned it, then again the world was just about blown to hell anyway.
'so they turned the old statium into a city' , was one of the first thoughts he had when he had arrived, it had taken him slightly longer than expected to get to diamond city, who would have thought, With all the Raiders, and Super mutants, as well as what he later found out to he called the gunners where scattered around the surrounding buildings.
Theo sported a few cuts, bruises and bullet wounds, as well as a new scar down the left side of his face, he had nearly lost an eye, thankfully he didn't. Staring up at the giant gate infront of him he was aware of a woman, who he would later learn to be known as Piper. was argueing with someone named Danny, through the intercom.
It wasn't until hours later did he find himself searching for the missing dective, apparently he had went off on a case, hadn't been heard from since. Theo was skepitical but, if this was a chance at finding his son even a slim one, he'd take it.
After he eventually found the detective in the old vault beneath the subway, having fought of what he now knew as Triggermen, It hadn't been that easy in getting out alive but when he did, Theo was greatful.
After following Kellog's trail did they eventually end up where they were now.
-Flashback end-
Theo sighed,"Well, we know where he is, but..the question is how to get there.." he looked at kellog's corpse noticing something shiny sticking out the dead man's skull pulling it out he blinked,"What is this.." he muttered,"Looks robotic..of something".
Nick's yellow eyes widened,"Cybernetics,Kellog may have the answers we need, but to get to them, we'll need to head to goodneigbour, the memory den is where we need to be".
Theo nodded,"Alright let's get out of here, I can't stand seeing kellog's corpse any longer", with that being said he made his way out towards the exit on the roof of the building.
-To be Continued-
(A/N,Hey DarkQueen here Formally HalfInsane-HalfMental, that somewhat sums up the first chapter, but to be honest, in reality I myself haven't gone through the main timeline with this Theo, my other Theo character died when I accidentally killed his save file, I don't know what happened but well he's gone now, Theo Alexander Roads is taking his place.
I know, I cut most of the main stuff out, but otherwise this would've been sufficiently longer and drawn out that it was suppose to be, but fear not, I will be including some background stuff eventually that means more long drain out chapters folks, Anyway Feel free to Read and Review, also..any grammar errors are mine lol. Spelling mistakes too. by the way, I am English therefore, some things will be spelled differently. Also..at this point in time. um for some reason the sanctuary workshop is broken, cause it says I have to clear the place of enemies.. but..there.. is no.. enemies.. damn it.. I've looked and I'm confused, also I had a mod installed 'Little sanctuary' that messed with the building stuff for sanctuary misc quest. even on my other character Arcane snow but at least I was able to use the workshop it's just the misc quest labelled the little sanctuary workshop instead of the actual sanctuary workshop.. so I don't know what to do here at all. this looked better on my wordpad. Also.. I can't really highlight and stuff, due to the fact.. some reason I have to use my wacom tablet as a mouse and I don't know how to fix this issue. should I try unistalling the software? and see if that helps..maybe? also..before I forget. I will most likely come back to this chapter and edit a bit. but I promise the second chapter will have much more. Also I may write about my other characters eventually. for now though I'll try and make the second chapter longer :3 )