Theo.A. Roads,The untold story
Chapter two: Seeking Clues,Finding Answers
Theo sighed running a hand through his jet black hair,could this get anymore complicated then it already was,maybe so he had a long journey ahead of himself if he wanted to get any closer to finding his was right about two things, assuming Kellog was speaking the truth,than his son would be older.. perhaps even older than himself,and that he was still alive.
After all these years,he looked up into the sky just in time to see the large ship in the sky,the strong commanding voice looming over the commonwealth,"We are the brotherhood of steel", he tuned out the rest of the mans speech glaring at the ship,noting nick muttering to himself. "Come on,let's get going. best if we stay out of there way, you know avoiding them at all costs is the best option" he said. It wasn't that he hated the brotherhood it was just not his style,he was a soldier once, but he'd left part of that life behind him.
getting down from the roof passed the already broken turrets he had taken out beforehand, he made his way to the ruined cracked streets below,checking his pipboy as it glowed a faint blue colour,"So where exactly is this good neighbour?" he asked looking towards nick,"here let me mark it down for you" he said looking at the pipboy map he marked the location for good neighbour onto it. "hmm,seems far, but I hope it'll be worth the trip" he stated as he started to walk nick trailing behind him.
It wasn't until a few days later did they finally make it to the entrance of good neighbour,"Finally, those raiders and super mutants really wanted us dead huh" he muttered before walking into good neighbour.
He was immediately aware of the ball headed man striding up to him,he barely listened to him speaking,only catching the last part,"heh, the only Insurance I need is right here" he smirked pressing a knife to the man's throat,"Now, I don't like to start fights you know, but you're starting to piss me off,so fuck off or I'll see to it this knife here.. finds itself a nice new home" he didn't really like using intimation tactics but if it kept dumb assholes away from him. he'd probably do it. "n-now no need to b-be hasty" the man's face was getting paler.
"Hm, Really now, I walk in excepting a non hostile greeting, because my good friend Nick here told me good neighbour was a friendly place you know, and..you you're trying to ruin that..hm" he pressed the knife a little deeper before simply punching the guy square in the jaw. twirling his knife and stabbing him in a non life threatening spot. "now, I suggest you leave me and my friend alone" pulling the knife out he wiped it off sighing.
He walked back towards nick,"Sorry about that, I kind of went a little too far huh" he rubbed the back off his head, he saw nicks eye's widen a little, "Alex watch out!" he turned seeing the man charging at him with a blade time slowed he ducked under it grabbing the man's arm twisting it behind his back and using his own knife to slit their throat, "fuck damn it." he cursed letting the man go watching as he bled out. "great.." he muttered. "just great, I try to be nice and this happens.."
he heard a low whistle,"well..first impressions.. not bad" said a low gravely voice it was pleasant to hear and made theo stop in his tracks to look at the speaker,it was a ghoul dressed in what looked like a red frock get up and tricorn hat. "Didn't like that guy anyway, told him to lay off the whole extortion crap,oh right" he stepped forwards offering a hand,"I'm the mayor of this here town, names Hancock. of the people for the people".
Theo blinked,"T- um I'm Alex" he shook the ghouls hand,"Oh..well I guess I did you a favour huh", Hancock chuckled,"So long as you don't stir up anymore trouble,we're good here" Theo nodded,"Yeah, we good.." he let go of hancocks hand and turned to nick,"come on nick let's go.."
Apparently that caught hancocks interest, he and nick happened to be good friends, as they chatted theo couldn't help but stare at the ghoul mayor,'damn it theo,now's not the time. I can't..not now, I loved nora..and I made a promise to her..to find shaun, even though we we're drunk I..took responsibility and nora bless her, let me at least be someone she could lean on..a friend, I did the right thing.. at least.. I hope I did.. Nora was very understanding, she didn't push me..damn it..all' he was nudged out of his thoughts by nick's voice, "Come on let's head over to the memory den", Theo nodded and followed Nick towards the back part of good neighbour and into the memory den.
Hours later when theo had finally recovered from his ordeal with searching through the old necessaries memories he had to steady himself,"So.. the glowing sea huh..great, I need to sit..down, maybe grab a drink.." he sighed. "Where's nick?" he asked,"Oh he's upstairs waiting for you.." said dr imari, Theo nodded and headed upstairs, "Hey nick", nick looked at him , no he stared at him, a chuckle kellogs voice spoke through nick,"Find what you needed in my head" , "What.." theo was taken back, "Huh, Alex?, you okay?" the concerned voice of his friend now spoke, "Damn it nick, you..sounded like him..for a second.." , nick blinked, "Imari did mention feedback..huh..well it's gone now.." he stood.
"look I understand if you don't want to travel anymore, but I'm here besides. you'd need a companion if you're going out there to the glowing sea" said nick. "Nick, I'd like to keep traveling with you..for awhile longer.. but right now, I could use a drink..know any good places here?" he asked. "Well the third rail is a pretty decent place to grab a drink, listen to some music too" he stated. Theo nodded, "Okay I think I saw it while we where heading here, I'll head there, you can join or.. are you going to stay here?" he asked.
Nick smiled,"I'll stay here, Just don't be stirring up any trouble", Theo nodded, "No promises, but I'll try" he said as he walked off, the old synth detective had become one of his first friends besides Dogmeat and Preston. Theo made his way to the third rail sitting down on one of the empty bar stools. he ordered a simple whiskey setting down some caps on the counter, while he was sipping it he couldn't help but overhear a conversation going on in the backroom, he didn't pay much attention watching as the two armed men left. 'hm wonder what that was all about' he muttered to himself.
'Gunners huh..' he noticed the insignia he had seen it before. 'Hmm maybe I can finally go take the rest out', he had practically cleaned out the gunners plaza for the minute men a couple of months or so prior to him finally coming here. this was somewhere before he finally decided to track down kellog with nick. 'Maybe i missed a spot' he had been meaning to go to mass pike, 'hn if these assholes are held up there..' he smirked he had rid quincy of them as well, now that had been a tough fight. even on his own.'Guess I'll find out, the glowing sea can wait..shaun can wait..for now' he finished his whiskey and walked towards the backroom.
He tuned out the first part of the man's speach,"but if you're looking for a hired gun, then maybe we can talk", "Not exactly, more of..looking for information, I know those guys where gunners.. but what I want to know is.. if you want to help me on taking them down, it's been on my to do list, figured if you have some sort of beef with them, I can help you out, unless you rather let them keep finding you like the dogs they are, I could probably do all the work but, I think I need some help even for someone like me..,I'll pay you.. let's say hm, 10,000 caps". he had over 500,000 caps at this point he didn't really spend them on much aside from the odd supply run or two he did, he traded most of the junk and scrap and he had a steady water trading business going on and such.
"Well..that's.. a lot more than i was asking..for but..I'll take it.." theo smiked tossing the bag of caps he had already counted to the merc. "Names Alex, got to talk to my friend before we head out, probably going to be slightly mad I picked up a new travelling companion so soon" he gave a half smile and walked out. sure enough nick was waiting for him.
"Thought I told you not to stir up trouble, and here you are" said nick, theo chuckled,"Sorry, you still want to travel or are you staying here, unless you want to head back to sanctuary with us, I have a few things I want to grab from there anyway, even if it's a long journey. hm might actually risk fast travel again, first time I did it I threw up, things got a nasty kickback" he muttered fiddling with his pipboy, "Alright, I'll come with you to sanctuary but after that you and you're new friend are on your own." theo nodded and left the third rail to get a better signal once outside theo grabbed onto each of them as a second later they seemingly teleported into sanctuary. theo groaned,"ugh..nope..never again. unless emergencies.." he groaned, "so..you never did tell me your name" he spoke to the merc. "MacCready" he stated voice low and gruff.
"Ah Mr Alexander, you have returned", his robotic butler interrupted, "Codsworth..." he looked at MacCready, "Sorry Alexander is my middle name.. not many know my first, I'd like to keep it that way, MacCready. so Just call me Alex, it's short and simple". theo stated. watching as codsworth floated off whistling. Theo walked towards his home. "Anyway, I'm just going to grab a few things, then we can teleport to the nearest location, unless you rather wait a bit, you know enjoy the change of scenery for once". Theo looked at the power armour imari told him he'd either need a suit of this stuff or perhaps a ton of radaway and a hazmat suit. Nick was his best option for the job taking anyone else would probably prove a risk, going alone was probably a greater risk. He sighed as he rummaged through his supplies. He had long since buried Nora in the makeshift graveyard he had made.
-To be continued-
(A/N..I know the man's name is Finn and..I kind of forgot most of the main dialog anyway I do know the sarcastic option something about keeping dumb assholes away insurance ugh, I'm sorry,I'll correct myself and any errors some other time,I promise so please don't immediately go at me for missing out some crap, I know nick quotes poe and..my character doesn't really care about the brotherhood.. hng I mean he doesn't hate them but he rather avoid them to be honest, if they want to talk to him they'd have to come to him, and if they start threatening his people/settlements then he'll step in, plus I don't want my character to side with brotherhood anyway. hn I think there's a way around it..pretty sure.. but I don't want to look up anything right now, if you haven't figured out who theo's old love interest once before I accidentally killed his save file, then..shame on you. I have five other characters besides Theo, Anna,Amelia,Damien,Arcane and Xavier,not sure If I'll do a story for either, also Nina my Fallout 3 character..heh I think I might actually bring her back into fallout 4, I thought I did but I must of done something..hn)