So yeah Chapter 2. Thanks to those supporting the story so far.
Time slowed down almost to a stand still for her, pupils dilating a sudden shock wave sent the young man back several feet into a rock knocking him out. Glaring at the man she said two words.
"Target Down. All hostiles eliminated." A funny thought went through her head as. 'I should totally bring him to Vahlen, he be crying before she even do anything.'
Moving towards the body she noticed he was still alive. Good, last thing she wanted was to interrogate somebody like those idiots laying in their own blood behind her. Back to the point, no time to waste. Taking out her Cantai-
"Nope I'll probably need this."
Knelling down she raised her hand.
SLAP!…SLAPSLAPSLAP!
"AHHHHH MY FACE!"
"Good you're awake I see. Now before you do something stupid like try to stab me with the knife you're currently reaching for, I have questions." He scoffed
"Don't we all, so what are you doing out here?" He removed his hand from the knifes sheath.
"I'm looking for a town called Megaton. It's somewhere north of here if my map's correct."
"Yeah, it's right. Just stopped by to gather information on my dad, have lunch then leave. I walk you there if you want?" The strange woman nodded and held out a hand.
"Clinton, my names Clinton." She nodded and replied courtly.
"Call me Commander or MF. I prefer Commander though."
"Commander it is, but why MF?" She grimaced at the old nickname. Feeling the questioning look she answered before he asked.
"Stands for Mother Fox, I trained all the young-lings in my old squad and got the nickname after because I acted more like a mother than anything. Lets go, I don't have much time."
With a synchronized nod they left. Clinton looked at the really pail woman, many questions running through his brain. Who was she? Why is she going to Megaton? Could she possibly help me?
Sadly before he could ask she spoke.
"Already told you. I need information and maybe." His eyes widened in shock. How'd sh- "Your body language gave you away. Good where here." Walking through the gates Clinton was meet with a similar sight of sheriff Simms.
"Ah. Back so soon and this time you brought a friend. Tell me lass what brings you to our home."
"One: Information.
Two DAFOUQ!"
He looked at her taken back by her sudden look of shock and followed her gaze to a certain object.
"Yeah you really should disarm it before it goes off. Judging by the outer corrosion it'll go off in about….five years at best. I can get someone to help you if you want?"
"The boy here already offered but said he needed to go get a tool to remove something."
Two pairs of eyes found themselves focused on the boy, who took out a screw driver and grinned.
"And I got it thanks to my savoir here. Commander." Simms eyed her again but she already nodded.
"Yes I'm military, more importantly I'm in need of some answers." Still looking carefully he answered.
"Lass the boy next to you knows more than I do. All I know is that war happened and both side launched nukes. Putting us in the position we're in now."
'Just as I thought, most likely between China and America considering the highest irradiated countries are those two countries.' Now that this problem is solved now onto the next question.
"So care to explain why you wanted to help this poor town boy." The boy looked offended.
"My father taught me to help anyone, anywhere at anytime if I could and that's what I'm doing now. If these people need it-" He got in her face. "-I'll help them however I can and I'll be dammed if I don't." He was about to continue but a glint in her eye caught the words and forced them back down. He didn't like it, that glint was full of mischief and intelligence, a very deadly mixture.
"Boy while I admit I'm happy by your choice of morals; get out of my face please or are you trying to impresses me."
He instantly stepped back face glowing red in embarrassment. Ignoring him she looked back to the sheriff.
"Mr. Simms, my job is to protect the innocent and neutralize the enemy that puts them in danger, I'm no threat to your town fact I may be able to help it later on depending on what the council decides."
Looking around she saw the kid pulling something out of the nuke disabling it for good hopefully. No matter the decision was already made.
"Clinton what are the sights in the town.?" Putting the thing in the bag he ran over to her and pointed in random directions.
"Well Ms. Browns goods shop is up there along with the water plant, saloon, armory, and bar. To the left there's those Nuke worshipers and to our left is our own little restaurant."
"Hey kid." Simms threw a pair of keys and a bag of bottle Caps? At him. "Here's your payment. Thanks to you were now a lot safer so as a special thanks you're now an official resident of Megaton."
"Boy I need to talk to Simms in private go see your new house." He nodded excitedly and ran off. Also he was probably angry about his nickname.
"Now Mr. Simms let talk business shall we." The commanders face went neutral, she wanted to do something. Something very big, but without his clearance it'd be impossible to do anything.
"So Miss. Commander what do you need from me." Sitting down next to her, he eyed her warily still not trusting her. Really why should he trust this woman, in truth what does she really want?
"I want to help you, in return for information and….support." her face faltered as if unsure of something.
"What does this 'help' imply exactly?" Simms asked taking a swig of a Nuka-Cola that just randomly appeared in his hands.
"If the council agrees we'll help rebuild humanity entirely." She sighed "But we don't know were to start and I was going to suggest this town of yours. In return for joining us we'd ask for support and for you to follow our rules along with be under our protection.."
"I not allowing our town to be a base of operations for thugs you know." he said obvious distaste in his voice.
"I never suggested that. Listen our organization was created to protect humanity at any cost to us. When we saw what happened to our world we were shocked. Therefore in about" Her eyes widened greatly.
"Oh god I only have a few minutes to return. Listen in a few minutes we're having a meeting about our next course of action. I personally have major influence in our group and can get the support, but I'll only do it if you allow it. After all this is your town is it not."
It finally dawned on him she was a-
"I'm asking if I have your permission to give my green light on this project when I bring it up in the meeting-" Before she could continue a voice spoke.
"Well well well found you." the unknown figure was suddenly sent flying backwards into the atomic bomb by the commanders' high-kick. The Sherriff along with many others raised their guns.
"DAMIT KIT WHAT HAVE I TOLD YOU !" The Commander yelled stomping towards the prone figure.
"Hehehe sorry about that…it seems I was wrong about you losing your….to..uch…"
"You better have not just passed out on me idiot!"
But it was to late, he'd had passed out from the hits. Everyone watched as the woman cursed lightly at her luck.
'Darn it, now I have to contact them; this idiot made me late to our meeting.'
Just as she finished the thought her communicator went off. Looking at it, she saw it was coming from the Central Officer. Choosing to ignore it she turned to the sheriff-
"What'd I miss, I heard yelling and a loud bang. Oh." His back slumped as he realized he'd missed something important.
"I need to go. NOW. Clinton stay here I'll be back in a few days."
She picked up the stranger and started for the gate, ignoring any questioning looks. One thing was sure though. A big lecture was coming very soon.
-Xcom: Meeting Room 1-
"Beyond the fact that you could've been killed-HEY are you even listening!" Bradford chided. And judging by the fact that her, Shen and Vahlen were discussing something she hadn't.
"Commander just leave it to us of the Xcom Scientific Division well help as much as possible with curing the Radiation on this planet." Vahlen spoke up and left typing things into her data-pad
"You already understand what it will take to build something of this magnitude, so I'll follow you for now mam. I'll have three teams of engineers working on it now." He did the same as Vahlen and left typing into his data-pad.
Turning towards him the commander gave him a look. Sighing and sitting down, her rubbed his forehead.
"Bradley I need you to by my tactical officer on this. Please Bradley I can't do this without you. I have to be with the kid for now, I have a feeling he's a major player in something big here. I need you to manag-"
"Fine." He said head turned to the side. If he had turned she would have seen him blushing at the use of the nickname. "What do you need?" She was smiling now.
"First: I need you to manage day to day operations, leave the big things for me to decide.
Two: Manage the security of all our assets including the civilians.
Three: Keep me updated on our progress with any projects.
Fourth: -
Fifth:-
Six: Locate any possible resources, just because we can build a city doesn't mean I want to exhaust all of our resources. Remember we don't have a fixed supply route anymore so I want information on possible Quarries, Mineral deposits anything that'll be of use to us."
Bradford nodded in agreement, while the commander tapped her on her own data-pad. Suddenly her face appeared on all the monitors in the base and vehicles.
"Attention a personnel, I decided to fully inform you of our current situation. After the incident with the bright light we were teleported to an alternate Earth. This Earth has experienced Atomic warfare, though similar to us it's very different. What I mean by this is that history is not the same as ours."
She took a deep breath.
"I've made contact with some of the locals near here in a town known as Megaton. After speaking with their leader Sheriff Simms, he agreed to allow us to build a legitimate town for them and join us in return for as much information as possible. This is the area surrounding Megaton itself."
It changed to a live feed showing the destroyed town, school, and the makeshift town that was obviously Megaton.
"The old destroyed town is going to be where we are going to build the town. This will work as our base of operations on the surface. It will also be the site that will be used at the actual location for these residents of Megaton as they have very little room and the place looks likes it's going to collapse soon. As for the school itself, that will be our commander center for the surface."
It changed back to her form.
"They know me as a person who works for Xcom , not it's leader. I wish for this to remain the same with no changes until I decide. Men and women of Xcom, I call you to assist me in carrying out our new goal. Our new goal is to rebuild humanity and protect it."
The video cut showing Xcoms' emblem
Feeling the mood in the air she knew she had their support. It was another one of her Psi abilities. This one allows her to feel the emotions in the area around herself. She turned to leave but before she could a hand stopped her. A sadistic smile was on the Central Officers' face..
"Now commander I have something you have to do if you want me to follow your wants. This is not negotiable in anyway, sorry dear but you've no say in this. Me, Shen and Vahlen all decided you needed to be punished. That and we're not sending you into the unknown any support."
"What do you have planned Bradford?" She was actually curious of what they've decided to do.
"One word: Bodyguards"
"Fine but not now though, tomorrow morning when I go back. Also have our men begin now, I want this done quickly Bradford understood."
He nodded his head in agreement and let her leave. But before she left the commander spoke once more.
"I need documents on soldiers Nilsson and Bridger, send them to my data-pad before I go." Turning her head, blond hair covering half the face she smiled darkly.
"I want them to be my guards until I re-assignment. I fear that some bad things are going to happen...I feel the march of war will soon be upon us."
The only word that could describe the Central Officers' face is 'morbid'. He knew that something was coming as well, everyone could feel it. The only question is when?
-Megaton: Clinton's new house-
"Wadsworth can u get me some water please?"
"Of course sir; one moment please."
Leaning back on his chair Clinton smiled. "Finally a break, this is nice."
"Sorry but much work is to be done before we find your father." De-cloaking the commander smirked a the boy's shocked face.
"How did you get in." He asked slowly reaching for his gun. He stopped as as she sat down. finally noticing the stack of paper in her hands.
"Paper work." She smiled brightly at him. "The proceeding passed, but I was left with all the work. You know the destroyed town next to us."
He nodded.
"The entire area will be rebuilt under my watch."
"Wait where'd you even get the resources to fund this. From what I've gathered no one not even the BoS can do this."
'Wait, who is talking about. Dam I forgot about intelligence on current groups. Last thing I need is a war between this BoS and Xcom.'
"Paper-work can be done later I need to make contact with BoS?"
"Brotherhood of Steel"
"Yes this Brotherhood of Steel. Do you know a way to contact them." He shook his head signifying he didn't
"No" Nailed it. "But the GNR station would." He looked away.
"You could come with me... apparently the next clue to finding my father is at Galaxy News Radio. I wouldn't mind the company but first we need to go due a pit stop for miss Brown."
CLICK- she loaded her pistol, putting it back in her holster.
"Lets go i'm on a tight schedule." Going out the door he heard her yell.
"FINALLY I GET TO KILL SOMETHING!"
"Why did ask her to come again." He said rubbing his forehead in exasperation. Apparently he said it too loud as she yelled again.
"CLINTON I"M WAITING."
He quickly ran out locking the door behind him. At that moment the robotic butler came in with a bottle of clean water.
"Sir...hello...anyone?...Well i'll just find something to clean then."
-Outside the house-
Ever since the town was created, it never saw really anything happen. But ever since James kid came everything started changing, first Marties Saloon getting new management. Then the strange woman known as commander came back with him while he defused the bomb. Now this his happening, at this rate who knows what'll happen.
"Care to explain what's going on here moma fo- OW!"
"I told you not to call me that boy now, kit come out I know there."
"Not even going to ask."
Looking to her left she saw a 19 year old boy, standing at 6.1 foot tall, a lean but very build body, dark camo green hazel eyes, a scar down his left eye. His fair skin, showing hints of Japanese and European, small mustache forming. His hair was black and a standard military cut.
His name was Wade Nilsson also known as 'Kit'. Well one of them.
"Come out, I know you're here as well."
"Darn it how'd you know-"
"The twin Kits are your code-names. you caught my eye when you investigated a downed Xeno battleship. All but you two and one other teammate survived, afterwords only to die later from wounds received in the field." They started walking away from all the construction heading. Clinton remained silent, wanting to hear about the two strange men following the Commander.
"You're the second kit, same age, but with brown hair and eyes. Name: Riley Bridger."
The person on your team was a promising young recruit known as Alice Deinburg. Family born in east Germany during the cold war, escaped in a week before the wall fell. Hence the German last name, but was born in Austin, Texas 1995. We picked her up after her family was murdered by Xeno's. She was busy fighting them in the city as she was SWAT and having no where to go we took her.
She died from multiple Plasma rounds to the chest, back And two in both legs. The rookie saved both of yall before her untimely death." She said the last part sarcastically making both irritated.
"Sir. i'd prefer if you speak ab-" That's when the commander spoke again but this time with an accent.
"I'm Alice you dam idiot." Both shut up, wide eyed. She speed up her pace.
"Be lucky the only reason why i'm telling you this is because your both my personal guards now. You three can call me Alice, after all it is my real name."
The group stayed quiet as the walk continued. Clinton felt scared; the reason would be because the two soldiers were glaring heavily at Alice.
"Well this is awkward." She said, "Understand it was the only way for me to be in the field and look for recruits for my elite team."
"You sent us on a suicide mission." Finally Riley spoke, realizing it was a test. Alice remain silent.
"Tell us why. NOW!" Both Riley and Wade puled their guns on her. She was only a few feet in front of them, her armor wouldn't last long. Sighing she stopped. She turn around and took off a piece or her chest armor revealing massive scars.
"Not everything was a lie." She started. "That mission; I had no idea what would await us."
*Flashback*
"Rookie keep up"
"Yes sir. sorry sir."
The area got quiet real quick. Currently they were deep inside the battleship now they were in some type of room. From what Central said these containers held humans, as for what they plan on doing to them no one knew.
When Riley and Wade moved forward she stopped them. Giving her a questioning look she spoke.
"Captain Louis I feel somethings off. Please lets back track."
It seemed that she forgot that Louis was a easily agitated person.
"Damit kid-" He was interrupted by an inhuman roar.
That was when all hell broke loose.