Chapter 3: Diamond City
Julie woke up in her bed feeling very refreshed from a good nights sleep after all that had happened the day before, she could barely believe that they had met someone from a different planet especially someone like the chief. She got up and got dressed as she left her house she could see a small group of people gathered around the minutemen's workout area they put there to keep their guards in the best shape that they could be in. "Hey what's going on," she said as she walked up to the group of people, "Oh hey general you gotta see this!" on of the minutemen said as they cleared a small path for her, "what is it this time?" she said with a hint of sarcasm but when she got to the front she froze. The Master Chief was laying on the bench doing reps of what had to be more than 250 pounds, and he was making it look easy. When the chief realized that Julie was standing there he put the bar on the rack and sat up, "Yes general?" he asked casually in his large green armor, "What are you doing?" she said with slight shock while staring straight at the large man making the entire bench look small. "Keeping in shape," he replied with his military tone, Julie rolled her eyes at the response, "No I mean, how are you able to lift that much so easily?" she said while still in shock, "I have been augmented to be the perfect soldier," he responded. Julie stood at the front of this small crowd looking at the chief, thinking about what he just said, "So you're like a super- soldier or something?" she asked, all the chief did was give her a small nod. She turned around to the small group behind her after getting her response, "Alright everyone back to work there's people to save and things to be done let's get a move on," the chief then stood up and began to walkaway to begin on a project but Julie stepped in front of him before he could leave. "Not you I want you to come with me to diamond city so we can find some information on where to find my son," the chief nodded and picked up his weapons that were leaning against the wall while he was working out.
When Julie and the chief got to the museum of freedom Julie began to try and make conversation with the large man following behind her. "So chief do you ever, ya know, take off your armor or whatever that is you have on?" she asked while turning her head to look at the chief, the Master Chief simply nodded. "Ok so why didn't you take it off when you were working out back at Sanctuary, not that I wanted you to just asking,," she asked, he merely gave her a shrug without ever turning to look at her. Julie looked at her pip-boy after not getting another response to her question other than a simple gesture and turned her radio onto the classical station as to break the silence.
Whenever Julia and the Chief reached Diamond City's front gate the sun had almost set seeing as they started their journey about an hour before lunch, "Well here we are the 'great green jewel' of the commonwealth, what do you think?" she asked as the chief seemed to be looking around the old ballpark. "It's unstable," he replied that seemed to be the only response she was going to get from him but she would take it, "Yeah well it's not like it used to be, with construction crews around every corner." Julie began walking up the steps into the city after the conversation ended and led the chief over to the noodle stand hungry after a long days journey, "Can you eat anything or do you run off of pure oxygen?" she said with a hint of sarcasm in her voice. "My suit provides me with what I need," he said as he looked around the space seemingly for guard positions, "Hey don't worry no one's gonna attack you here, I don't think they could hurt you anyway," Julie said tapping her finger with her ring on it against his armor. The chief just continued to stare at her through his visor, "So do you want something to eat or are you just gonna stand there and watch as I get me some noodles," the chief nodded, "Is there anywhere to go that is sealed off?" he asked Julie. She thought for a moment about where she could take him and then got an idea, "Yeah, follow me," she said with a small wave.
Julie knocked on the door to the Public Occurrences and waited as she heard Piper's voice come from the other side of the door, "Coming!" Julie saw as she opened the door that Piper seemed to have oil on her face and jacket, probably from the old printer that she keeps in her house for her news articles. "Oh hey Blue, are you coming for the print of the interview?" she asked with a smile on her face, "Not exactly I just need somewhere for this guy to be by himself for a second," when she finished her sentence, Piper noticed the large green armored man behind her that was staring her down from inside his helmet. "Who is that?" she asked with a little fear in her voice, "Oh him he's just the Master Chief, ya know giant green super-soldier," she said jokingly, then walked inside with the chief ducking his head through the doorway inside Piper's home. "So what do you need help with Blue?" Piper asked as she stared at the chief in her living room, "Well he wanted somewhere to be alone so, I guess he could eat or something, I'm not fully sure." Julie then turned to the Master Chief, "What are you gonna do now that you're in here?" she asked, the Chief then proceeded to begin to reach up seemingly pull a small tool out of a hidden compartment in his armor and began to work on his chest piece. "What are you doing?" asked Julie very confused as to what he was doing with his armor, when she heard a small hiss and saw his chest piece split into a front and a back piece that fell to the ground with a hard thud. "Oh well that's a thing," she said with some surprise.
When he finished taking all of his armor off except for his helmet he began to pick up all the pieces and setting them very organized in the places that they should be on the couch that was in Piper's house. He moved the pieces onto the couch with quick and practiced movements, "So what are you gonna do now?" Julie asked as Piper moved to go get some paper and her pencil to begin writing notes about this large man. "Cleaning," he stated as he began to work on checking and cleaning his armor, "Why don't you take your helmet off, Chief?" Piper asked. Julie turned and gave her a small frown, "Radiation," he said without looking up from his armor, "Oh, well the levels are very low so they shouldn't do any damage to your body unless you find large pockets of it." She replied while remembering her Geiger counter on her pip-boy, the chief nodded at this and then stared off into space for a second before he began to reach up to his helmet with the tool and take his helmet off. When his helmet popped and the sides of it opened a little he lifted the armored helmet off of his head revealing pale looking skin, blue war-hardened eyes, and a military cut head of dark brown hair. "Well then that's not what I expected," stated Julie "But then again I did think you were an alien here to invade our planet a day ago," She then walked up to the chief and pointed at his black skin tight suit. "Is that the only thing that you have to wear around without your armor on?" she asked, slightly hoping he would say no, "Yes," he said back his voice now much more prominent than when he was in his armor, "Ok then I guess I have to get you some other clothes." Julie and Piper headed outside to find him some clothes, and after about ten minutes they were back with about three different outfits, "Ok we weren't sure what was going to fit you so we bought three," Julie said as she handed the chief the clothes and shooed him upstairs to Piper's room to get changed. When he came down in the first outfit he had on the roadleather outfit that they had picked out for him hoping the jacket would be able to fit him, but she could still see the skin tight suit peeking out from underneath the jacket and pants of the outfit. "You know your supposed to take off the suit for your… oh never mind," she said as she could see him look at her with slight confusion "Well at least your not as noticeable and you can fix your armor while were stopped and not look naked," Julie said with a smile on her face.