The flashes became more frequent as I walked away from GNR. Three Dog, the DJ of GNR told me my father set out to Rivet City, a floating fortress built from an aircraft carrier. The first flash happened just after saying farewell to the Sentinel.
The place that was once my home, Sanctuary Hills, is a growing community and a stronghold for the Minutemen who cannot reach the Castle and the storage bay for my Power Armours. I was sitting at the stand that held my... Sentinel?! Was I a Sentinel in the Brotherhood? Is that why Lyons armour looked familiar? It help armour painted similarly to Lyons but seemed more high tech... While I worked a man walked in wearing a different suit of armour. He began telling me his story, a merchant in Rivet City who joined the Brotherhood...
Why does this keep happening? My mind wanders to scenarios I was never in and I end up minutes after my last memory. I was walking past a ruined building, then again there is a lot of those around, and now Im in a junkyard. I see a figure moving as another vision enter...
I am walking down a road not far from a broken bridge leading to my former home and I see it. Red Rockets. Knowing the place likely had something of interest I decided to check it out. A German Shepard walks up to me as I walk towards the gas station. It growls playfully at me tilting its head. "Hey boy. Where is your owner?" the dog just looks at me as if analysing me before letting out a friendly bark. "Do you wanna come with me boy?" the dog rubs his head into my hand...
Shortly after I enter the museum the survivors were staying. The mysterious old lady looks at me and says "You werent who I expected Dogmeat to find."
I'm back in the junkyard. The figure is moving towards me, growling. It looks like a dog. Stepping into the light I get my first glimpse of the dog. He looks nothing like the dog in my memory. I believe he is a Cattle Dog of some sort. If he doesn't attack he is an ally. "Hey boy. Are you alright?" the dog looks at me. I notice his eyes, something I never saw before. Both are different! He is adorable! I just want to squeeze him and love him! I slowly move my hand forward trying to rub his head. He allows it. My first companion out here and of course its mans best friend. Where do I go now? He looks tired and hungry. I have some brahmin and cleanish water, he can have that and then we go to Megaton. As we begin the slow walk back to the town I feel the dog rubbing against my leg periodically.
Oh thank god finally! We are at the gates. Its already getting dark out and the dog is fast asleep being carried on my back. I have so much crap to leave in the house it isn't funny. The town seems empty as I make the relatively short walk from the gate to my house. When the door is unlocked the dog springs to life and bounds up the stairs immediately jumping onto my bed and falling asleep again. I chuckle as I walk over to my weapon storage. The laser rifle I got with the Brotherhood that Lyons let me keep and the Fatman launcher were the first to be deposited on the floor of the locker. I'll neaten it up tomorrow. My hunting rifle and 10mm are next. Keeping my revolver in my holster I go to the spare room that served as a Nuka Cola storage room with about 20 full bottles littering the various surfaces. As I lie down I feel blessed. I finally have a travelling buddy.
My dreams are haunted by a face all night. An old man, probably around 60 and wearing a lab coat. He has an air of familiarity to him but I can't tell. First I arrive in a sterile white room with a young boy standing in a small room. The old man stood in front of the child. Next I see the old man in bed, coughing and angry. Finally images flash by, a soldier, a scarred man, power armour, finally I see a bearded man wearing a jacket with an all to familiar insignia on it.
As I awoke the German Shepard crossed my mind. "Dogmeat?" I say to no one in particular as my new companion jumps up on me and licks my face. I start laughing as I push him off, unable to scold him I just say "More warning next time boy." he cocks his head as if to say ok. "WADSWORTH! Get some meat for the dog and something for me ready." I call to the robot butler thing as I take of my dirty armoured vault suit and don the brahmin skin outfit I was awarded by a local for helping the town. I'll need to find some way to wash this. It has not been cleaned in a while. As I walk down my stairs with my companion rushing down to eat whatever the robot served him I throw the vault suit into a corner reminding myself to grab it when I next head out. I'll take... hmm... a week off to resupply ammo, fix and clean my armour and sell the various crudely made weapons I refuse to use.
And so ends another chapter. I decided Ally needed an ally (yes I used that pun both here and on the title) more than the enhancements and gear that Anchorage would give. The 4 DLCs will be done over the course of the story, with Operation Anchorage and Mothership Zeta being done before the end of the pre Broken Steel story and The Pitt and Point Lookout after Broken Steels chapter Ally will visit Rivet City and begin piecing together more info about the mysterious Project Purity. See you next chapter,
-CrazyGamerJack
