Chapter 2:
Resting in a door less vertibird crossing Lake Ontario, the wind blowing through and it's passengers staring at sea, Tyler sits with a squad of unknown passengers who have just saved his life against a group of sea raiders. A woman in green combat armor with the words "Reilly's Rangers" painted on the upper left area of the chest, green eyes and orange hair in a bun, she stares at Tyler while holding a 10mm submachine gun on her lap, figuring out who Tyler might be.
"What is your name wastelander?"- The woman
"Tyler… Tyler Mcgrath"- Tyler
"Well Tyler McGrath…I'm Reilly and these are my rangers. Today is your lucky day. We just happen to find you on the way to our destination. What do you do?"- Reilly
"I'm just traveling.."-Tyler
"Oh. Well we are happy to offer you a lift but after that, your on your own."- Reilly
"Were here! – Pilot
Tyler looks out the vertibird as it approaches the mirelurk infested shoreline of a park, getting a view of a city of ruins nearby, and an abandoned military camp. The vertibird hovers itself as it enters the park to land on a helipad at the abandoned U.S military camp filled with tents and vehicles.
After landing successfully, Tyler and the rangers hop out of the vertibird. Tyler stands beside Reilly as she talks with the pilot with the vertibird still running while the other rangers walk down the staircase, aiming their guns in-case of threats in the area.
"72 hours and I will be back! Landmark anything of value before we get back or this trip is for nothing!" - the pilot
Got it!- Reilly
The pilot hands a stack of documents to Reilly then sits back into the cockpit and flies back to Lake Ontario, retreating back the direction they came. Tyler notices the images printed on the side of the virtibird to be of gears, a sword, and wings, recognizing the brotherhood of steel emblem from caravan traders.
"Ok guys, we have a job to do! Brick clear those nests at the shoreline! Donovan get some defenses up! And butcher, scavenge the place for supplies!" -Reilly
Brick slowly walks towards the shoreline with a mini gun, Donovan inspects a dead terminal where wires control multiple powered down sentry turrets, and Butcher searches the back of a military transport truck full of steel crates. Reilly stands around as she continues to scan over a few documents with drawn photos, including a map. Tyler feeling useless, he walks over to Reilly.
Anything I can do to help?- Tyler
You survive an ambush and finally make it to Canada yet the only thing you want to do is help? Sure… I need to find this building marked as a priority and since my squad is busy…I'll send you instead. If you don't make it back then we know it's got to be crawling with threats.- Reilly
…-Tyler
Before you leave, the brotherhood gave us extra supplies for this trip so here is a pipboy 3000 and a geomapper module. Once you mark the place, return here, I'm sure will find something to reward you.- Reilly
Tyler equips the pipboy onto his wrist and tinkers with it As it loads it's programming, Reilly gives Tyler magazines for his 10mm pistol. Tyler walks away from Reilly, exiting through the gateway between the fencing that surrounds the camp.
Walking across the empty park and entering the city district, Tyler walks by a sign "Welcome to Long Branch Park!" and marks it on the geomapper then continues into the city.
Tyler continues to walk through the ruins as he follows the map displayed on his pipboy, he is only a few streets away from his location until he comes across a pair of wastelanders inspecting wagon full of junk with a broken axel, a father and a daughter of wastelanders.
Tyler, cautious, he cocks his pistol and holsters it behind his back as he walks towards the wastelanders. As he gets closer, both the wastelanders panic as they watch Tyler approach, they both pull out hunting rifles to aim at Tyler.
We don't want any trouble!- wastelander dad
I don't want trouble either, I just want to help fix your wagon.- Tyler
We could really use the help dad—wastelander daughter
Well he can't anyways.. it's snapped in half an-"-Wastelander dad
The wastelander stops talking mid sentence as everyone feels the ground shaking. Tyler looks at how terrified the wastelanders become as they start to grab what they can from the cart. Tyler looks around as a large piece of rubble explode on to the wagon, blowing Tyler back and covering him in dust.
Tyler opens his eyes, seeing the wastelander dad dead as the daughter has a leg smashed into pieces. Tyler rushes back up as he hears screeching and roars from down the road. Tyler runs to assist the wastelander but stops as a large naked ghoul the size of a super mutant behemoth, walks towards them from down the street. It's head covered and wrapped with wires and some kind of helmet topped with Tesla coils, it leads a large group of feral ghouls wearing the same helmets. Tyler panics as he struggles to lift the crippled wasteland daughter, her screams only bring the ghouls closer. The feral ghouls running closer, Tyler feels he has no choice but to leave the crippled wastelander, he sprints away as the wasteland gets mauled by feral ghouls and her screams of pain distracts the behemoth ghoul, some ghouls still give chase to Tyler.
Night is approaching as Tyler runs into a barricade made up of reinforced vehicles and rubble, Tyler turns around but finds himself pinned as a dozen ghouls approach from the end of the street. Tyler with nothing left to do aims his pistol using the V.A.T.S system from the pipboy and places four shots at the heads of the ghouls and fires. Only two shots hitting and killing only one ghoul, Tyler sprays his remaining shots, killing two more until he runs out of ammo, he struggles to reload due to his hands shaking then drops the magazine.
Bright Lights shine from above the barricade and onto Tyler and the ghouls. Machine gun fire and laser beams spray the area, killing all but Tyler as he remains unharmed and surrounded by dead ghouls. Four figures in power armor jump down from the barricade to approach Tyler face to face.