26th of May, 2000, Miho Bay, Japan.
Kyoko Takatsukasa narrowed her eyes, she couldn't believe the number of BETA on her radar, behind her and to her sides friendly blips remained but ever so often one did disappear, especially the ones closest to her, her and those around her had fought long and hard against the BETA, just two years beforehand the BETA came ashore the first time at the very place where she stood or well... Where her TSF stood, Japan was once again being invaded by the BETA and would have to hold the line with her squadron, though while she would do so the numbers would dwindle only to a handful of members of her squadron including her own cousin, Yui Takamura. Kyoko began to saw there was no other way, no other feasible solution to the issue before her, someone would have to die to save the others, with another wave of Beta heading her way and the way of her squad mates, the decision would have to be made, and quickly.
"There is no other choice then..." Kyoko spoke, with a soft, sad undertone in her voice, she would sacrifice herself so that the others could get away, she then opened all communication channels and began to speak. "This is Regent Kyoko Takatsukasa. Everyone else in White Fang squadron is to fall back. Fall back immediately. I will hold the line." Of course though there was one person of whom did try to argue against the orders, Yui Takamura, Kyoko's own cousin of whom earlier just in 1998 she saved from being eaten by BETA. And so after a minute or two of back and forth arguing, Kyoko's orders or.. Final orders were obeyed by Yui and she went to leave with the rest of the squadron while Kyoko fought on up unto a unexpected Fort-class met Kyoko with an even more unexpected tentacle to the chest or cockpit her TSF, though as the tentacle came directly at her she saw her own life flash before her eyes, and a bright light of which blinded her...
29th of August, 2289. Boston, The Commonwealth.
Then darkness... But Kyoko found herself still feeling what one would expect feeling "alive" would feel like... She could move her arms and legs but she couldn't see... And so she finally decided to try and reach around for the ejection pully of which would cause the hatch of the cockpit to shoot off. Of which it did, the hatch itself flew off, hitting a couple already dead trees... Then after knocking both trees over it hit a unexploded car of which became quite the opposite in a matter of seconds. Kyoko stood up from her chair and shielded her eyes, the heat was rather unusual and the explosion from the car was somewhat, what one would expect a nuclear explosion to look like except on a much smaller scale.
Coming out of what was the centre of her TSF, the cockpit of which was the torso of the entire vehicle, she was very disorientated.. It took her a few moments to realise she obviously wasn't in Japan, and she should gather her weapon and possibly leave the area. And so she did, Kyoko gathered her Type 91 carbine, and a pistol then put the top sort of jacket of which would cover her upper body so she wasn't entirely "exposed" in her fortified suit, then she left the area, coming to a dilapidated and almost ancient, broken up road. The only thoughts that passed through her mind were "Where am I?" And to look for the closest possibly Japanese or United Nations position, though little would she know, Japan was far off on the other side of the world, and the United Nations was already a relic by the time of the Great War.
Kyoko continued on walking as far as her legs would carry her until she finally came to a T intersection, and there was left a strange looking vehicle, it appeared to her to be a lived in Armoured Personnel Carrier with the insignia of the United State Armed Forces. This didn't matter much to her at the moment, the US used Japan as a base before the BETA invaded the planet and Japan,t hen the US turned tail and fled up unto the Japanese military got the situation under control and pushed the BETA out of Japan, so she shrugged it off and continued on her way, opting to go right, up the preceding hill she came to a well fortified petrol station with what appeared to be automated security defences and a small number of people living there. Coming to a metal gate with barbed wire at the window, Kyoko knocked on the wall next to it and a man with side burns, and rather strange looking hair came to the gate, he looked like a grease monkey, almost fitting for his current dwellings. "Uh hey? What'cha need? Sanctuary's little bit up the road." The man unknown to her was a third generation synth, and a key part of the commonwealth minutemen. Sturges.
"Uhm... Hello. I apologise to be bothering you, I was wondering if you could tell me where I am?" Kyoko said, slinging her carbine over her shoulder, and Sturges shrugged himself. "You don't know? Well this was an old red rocket petrol station, and further up the road is the main attraction, Sanctuary, one of the safest places in the Commonwealth since Preston got and the General got the Minutemen back up together, and stronger too." Sturges said as he leaned up towards the gate but backed off remembering the barbed wire. "Uh anyway you need something other than that?"
Kyoko paused for a moment, something didn't add up, she'd never head of three things Sturges just mentioned, first being a Red Rocket Petrol Station, second being this... Commonwealth, and third... The Minutemen. "Yes, what is this... Commonwealth you refer to? And what are the Minutemen you mentioned?" Kyoko asked, raising an eyebrow while she did so. "Well, the Commonwealth is our own little garden utopia here in this godforsaken wasteland. And the Minutemen are.. Well.. They're the local militia, protect settlements from raiders, super mutants, the institute or whatever else the wasteland sends their way... Here why don't you come in, you're probably gonna ask some more questions and it'd be best to just get acquainted and relax, somewhere you can finally put down your gun and all. Know there's been some raiders around, but I think the General took care of em earlier."
Sturges said while he began to work the mechanism on the gate and get it open for Kyoko of whom came in and finally took her hands off her carbine, allowing it to dangle from the sling hung over her shoulder. "Thank you very much... And who is this.. General you mentioned? I apologise if I'm asking too many questions." Kyoko said to which Sturges simply shrugged and began to move the gate back into place and get it locked down. "Hey don't worry about it, you seem a bit out of your element here anyway, seems like you don't know what's going on anyway." Sturges said and began walking back into the petrol station's garage setting up a table and a couple chairs while Kyoko followed and set her carbine down just near the table, within reach of course.
In the background Kyoko could hear a radio playing a song she hadn't heard before, but from how it sounded... She could only assume it was old, fairly old even for her. Looking around she noticed a stack of newspapers and picked one up, it just so happened to be the very last one from before the Great War, the date was just barely able to be made out... 23rd of October... 2077. Almost immediately her hands started trembling... Just some time ago she was staring death in the face, in Japan, in 2000. ...And now she was in what she could only assume by the newspaper, the United States or.. What was the former United States with some large event taking place in it... Sturges noticed this of course, though it didn't make much sense to him. Had this woman not seen a newspaper before? All he could assume was she hadn't and felt he might as well say something.
"Uh.. Hey? You alright ma'am?" Sturges asked while he took his own seat at the table before getting back up and going to a refrigerator he managed to get working again and took out a couple cold nuka colas, coming back to the table he popped the caps off both and left one for Kyoko. "I suppose I should ask you your name, since you're kinda in my house and all." Sturges said before sipping his Nuka cola, Kyoko shook her head and turned, facing Sturges. "I am Kyoko Takatsukasa, head of the fifth regent house of Takatsukasa, of the Empire of Japan... And you are?" Sturges' eyes almost widened when he heard "Empire of Japan" and thought... Wait... Wasn't there some sort of country way off in the past he read about in an old Pre-war history book that existed with that name? ...And it took only a few moments for the gears to turn before he realised. Yes. There was at one point in the history of the world a country called the "Empire of Japan" or the "Japanese Empire."
And so Sturges thought.. Well. Kyoko introduced herself, he might as well introduce himself. "Well... To be honest ma'am... I don't have any fancy titles like regent or anything... Or a fancy name... People just call me Sturges.. Huh... I think the General might wanna meet ya... Would you be alright with waiting here while I try and get into contact with him? Or failing that, his second. Preston." Kyoko put the newspaper down and held her chin with her right hand while she thought, it would be best for her to get into contact with whatever "official" might be able to help her with the situation. "It would be best... Yes. I'd like to speak to this.. General of yours, or failing that, his second."
Sturges smiled and stood up leaving the table. "Alrighty, then I'll get the radio up and workin'. You just sit tight I guess... The General comes by every now and again, leaving some magazines and all in the petrol station, on the old magazine rack so if you want to then go ahead and read them. I've just about read all of em." Sturges then left the garage of the petrol station, going out and up a set of stairs leading up to the roof and a radio transmitter, before long getting into contact with Preston. Sadly not the General. Though Preston did say that the General was likely to show up their way in the next few days or so and Kyoko would have to wait for the General to arrive... Coming back to Kyoko, Sturges nodded his head. "Well Preston, the General's second is on the radio but he'll tell you the same thing he told me. Pretty much you missed the General by an hour, he left and Preston doesn't know where he's went. Though he'll try getting into contact with him soon enough. Sorry." Sturges said before returning to his seat.
Kyoko sighed and looked to the top of the table her hands cupped around an ice cold nuka cola she got out of the vending machine inside the Petrol Station. "It's alright, I hope I won't be a bother, it seems I'll have to remain here until he arrives then." Kyoko said before taking a sip. "Nah it'll be fine, I don't mind the company. ...You know how to repair things? Just asking because I'll be needing some help. Traders and settlers come in and out of Sanctuary and stop here to have their guns repaired and to take a quick break then continue on. Sometimes there's just too many and I end up held up." Kyoko looked up to Sturges and smiled. "Yes, I know how to repair some weapons. Though.." Kyoko looked past Sturges to a large crate of which seemed to have some odd firearm type looking weapons she'd never seen before. "If those are common examples of what is used around here I'll have to familiarise myself with them first before I try taking them apart, fixing, and cleaning them."
"Huh. So you really aren't from around here then if you haven't seen a pipe weapon. ...Pretty much with the lack of supplies and actual weapons... Some how. Some guys got the idea some decades ago to make weapons out of pipes, it caught on fairly well to say the least though people still keep those old military combat rifles around... So I guess you'll have to familiarise yourself with those too. Well I hope you're a quick learner, the least I ask is for a little bit of help in exchange for staying here while we wait for the General." Sturges said as he got back up from his chair and walked to the crate Kyoko was looking at, taking a pipe revolver from it, coming back he set it on the table infront of Kyoko. "Got revolvers, automatic rifles, and rifles that can be used as sort of "sniper rifles" I guess. ..Though I've never tried."
Sturges finished before sitting down while Kyoko picked up the odd looking weapon, looking it over. Carefully she examined it ensuring it was unloaded she checked the barrel and the cylinder before moving the cylinder of which would've usually held the rounds for the weapon into place then setting the pipe revolver down. "Strange... I've never seen such a thing. Not even the sort of "last stand" weapons from Germany before they had an atomic bomb dropped on them in the second world war. Huh... It seems rather simple in the design. I'm sure I can get the hand of it. It's not as complicated as my Type 91 and USP."
"Yeah I've been meaning to ask about that anyway, where'd you get that strange get up and those weapons?" Sturges asked, an eyebrow raised, the stranger before him as he had already noted did wear a awfully strange outfit and carried two strange weapons, only one of which was the pistol, he'd seen a few raiders every now and again carry, some traders and their guards carried them. Though they were particularly more so used by the Gunners as a secondary. "Huh? Oh my Type 91 and USP? The Type 91 is standard issue for all surface pilots as well as the pistol for when one's TSF crashes... Though it's somewhat redundant.. Since most TSF pilots end up crashing then almost immediately eaten by BETA."
"I.. That doesn't sound worth while to have them then if you're just gonna get eaten by... BETA?" Sturges said while Kyoko brought her Type 91 up to the table for Sturges to look over, of which he did, quickly figuring out how it functioned. "Huh... Kinda light weight for how it looks, and what's with the magazine being in the back there?" Sturges handed the Type 91 back to Kyoko of whom explained. "It's a Bullpup design, makes the rifle compact while not sacrificing barrel length or mobility. Takes what would be a longer, conventional designed rifle and makes it easier to work with in tight areas." Sturges listened while Kyoko explained, the two would go on for hours about the design before three or so hours had gone by and Sturges put Kyoko to work fixing weapons and helping out with whatever tasks were at hand.