Lost Hills Bunker 2254
A Contingent of Brotherhood of Steel Members went east to the ruins of Washington D.C to recover all advanced technology, Exterminate the Super Mutants living there, and to reestablish contact with the Brotherhood of Steel that was lost somewhere along the way. This group consisted of Scribe Rothchild, Star Paladin Cross, Paladin Henry Casdin, Paladin Ishmael Ashur, Knight Commander Tristan, Junior Knight Colvin and Junior Paladin Gunny, and was led by Owyn Lyons, who brought with him his daughter Sarah. Owyn eventually became Elder of the Brotherhood on the East Coast after deciding to help the people of the wasteland over retrieving technology, and the West stopped supporting him when he did this, for they had issues enough already….
Lost Hills Bunker 2285
"Hurry! They are pouring into the bunker!" Paladin Arturo shouted, "At the pace that they are coming we got a few minutes left!'
"I'm hurrying! These are very important, and must be delivered in one piece!" I shouted right back.
A loud explosion boomed through the Halls as the Main Door Blew open. I turned around to see NCR soldiers pouring in on the Security feed.
"Damn it! They got through, I got to go help the Defenses. I'll try to buy you some time!" Arturo promised as he left.
"Christ, I didn't think they'd get through the Bunker Door so fast." I muttered to myself packing up the Holotape Backups and the Originals on paper. "At least they won't get these." I said trying to build hope in myself.
I packed the Tapes and Papers as best I can and proceeded down to the lower levels. I passed through the Doors to the 4th Level where the Elders lived. As I ran passed all the Paladins and Knights running upstairs, I came to High Elder George Maxson. The Elder was a Older man around 60, and looks beaten down by time. And the NCR.
"High Elder, Paladin Ramsey reporting!" I said.
"Good, do you have what I have asked for?" High Elder Maxson said in a Haggard tone.
" I do." I said presenting him with the Tapes and Papers.
" Excellent young Paladin there is hope yet," He said as he shuffled over to a Safe and proceeded to unlock it ", I'll need you to take this with you. My son, Arthur is over on the East Coast, take this and everything else to him, our legacy lies with you Paladin Ramsey, and as such I am giving you a Promotion to Sentinel, seems appropriate considering our situation right now." As he said this another explosion as the NCR penetrated the 2nd Level of Lost Hills, which is a irony as per the events playing out.
"I'll do my best sir." I said"
"That is all anyone can ask of you. Now go before they get here."
At this High Elder Maxson opened the Escape tunnel out of Lost Hills. "Aren't you coming with sir?" I asked
"No, my boy I think I'll stay here, I've been in Lost Hills as long as the NCR have been at war with us, no Member of the Brotherhood would dare let me fight as I am the only Maxson left on the West Coast, I am tired of sitting as the NCR destroys all I hold dear. I think I'll go for a tour of the Bunker one last time." Maxson said Somberly.
I gathered myself as best I could after the News for Maxson, and headed down the Tunnel, and after a couple minutes I heard the 3rd Level doors blow open, and half-an-hour later the 4th. I blocked out the sound of a gun as best I could as the NCR killed my Elder. 3 hours later I sat down to rest, I needed to rest after running for so long. I shed my Power Armor, and sat out of breath and took inventory of what I had; 1 Modified Plasma Rifle, 12 Plasma Cartridges, 6 shots each, A Water filter, 280 Caps, BoS Paladin Fatigues, A Canteen, 4 MREs, and all of the Brotherhood's Blueprints, so the NCR won't gain anything. If the NCR got these they could build Power Armor, Gauss Rifles, Plasma Rifles, Laser Rifles, all of the Pre-War Tech lost in the Great War like; Robots, Vertibirds, Tanks, and worst of all Nuclear Missiles all of the things that doomed us before. Worst of all they would know how to use it, and they would've, on the Legion. They never knew what we had to keep secret from the world to save it, until they infiltrated our ranks and saw for themselves. This was enough for President Peterson to declare all out war on the Brotherhood, and the populace supported them, and for 25 years we've been at war, almost won for a moment there, but in the end we didn't have the numbers.
After sitting for a while and catching my breath I carried on leaving my power armor the fusion core was dead anyways. A couple hours later I came up to see sunlight, it's been a couple years since I've seen it, and it is a welcome sight. I appear to have popped out around the ruins of Necropolis, an old Ghoul city. A appropriate place to begin my expedition as any I suppose...