(Prologue) Who dares wins…
Year 2277: Adam's air force base/Enclave mobile base crawler.
Carter Westborn clenched his chest as the blood began to pour heavily on to the steel floor. He pulled himself across the catwalk towards the roof door with the alarms screaming as he went. Bolts of green plasma shot around him as he tried to get away with one blasting the side of his T45D power helmet. He quickly pulled off the black piece of armour. His face was a mess of scratches and his blasted back, black hair was a mess. He scanned around the room with his emerald green eyes when the catwalk began to collapse. He held on to the railing as tight as he could to prevent the six-flight fall. Suddenly the Enclave soldiers were no longer shooting at him but at a man running towards him. He wore a blue jumpsuit with multiple leather pads. Carter pulled a 44-magnum from a holster on his chest and started to shoot at the troopers below, his blood still falling to the floor. The man in the blue jumpsuit jumped across the space in the catwalk and landed in front of Carter. The man pulled him up and brought his arm around his shoulder.
"Come on. We're leaving!" Carter through his empty magnum to the floor and removed a second one.
"No kidding, cough* cough*" A splatter of blood poured down Carter's mouth." The man rested carter down by the door as he started to open it. Carter gunned down two soldiers as they tried to jump across the catwalk. As he through the second magnum to the floor he clenched his chest with two hands, his vision began to blur as he could feel himself slipping out of consciousness.
"Stay with me!" said the man as he lifted Carter up. He pulled him in to the outside area and locked the door behind them. Carter fell to the floor and the man applied pressure to his chest.
"Come on Carter. You know Sarah will kill you if you die here." he said trying to be reassuring. Carter let out a bloody laugh.
"Your telling me…oh god, I never got to say good-bye." Carter suppressed his tears as his breathing became more frantic.
"I never got to…" as Carter spoke a Enclave Vertibird landed in front of them.
"Am I imaging this?" The man laughed.
"No Carter. No your not." The doors opened and Sarah stepped out from the Virtibird. Sarah's smile instantly disappeared when she saw Carter on the floor.
"Carter!" She rushed over to him with the rest of her squad following behind her.
"Oh, god…" Carter gave a coy smile.
"That bad? cough*'' Sarah held her hand over his face.
"You'll be alright old friend…" The man rested his hand on her shoulder.
"Don't mean to rush this need to leave now!" Sarah nodded.
"Get Carter inside!" Glade and Gallows picked Carter up and brought him inside the Virtabird where they did their best to stop the bleeding. Sarah knelt in front of him with her hand on his.
"When this is over I'll get you a drink." she said with a soft smile which was very uncommon for her.
"You owe me two, princess." said Carter jokingly. Sarah laughed.
"How long have you been calling me that now?"
"give or take twenty years." Sarah gently pressed her hand against his face.
"I remember when we first left the bunker. Do you?" Carter nodded.
"I remember everything that involves you. They were always the most important." Carter checked the journal of his pip-boy.
"I wrote that when I was seven."
"Protect my shield sister…" said Sarah solemnly. Carter smiled.
"Did I do my job?" Sarah nodded as she held back tears.
"Yeah…You did." Sarah brought her head against Carter's.
"When you pull through, me and you are going to take a break…Together." Carter smiled.
"Sounds like a plan."