Taisuke finds himself...again, in New Vegas. The bustling city and lights, the sounds of people being people and even better-his friends, Raul, Veronica, Boone, Cass, Rex, ED-E, Lily, and Arcade. All having a blast. Veronica looking at the dresses in the store, Boone just leaning against a lamp post talking to the local NCR soldiers, Cass enjoying a beer, Rex playing with him, Lily talking to her grandchildren, and Arcade having a simple sip of tea.
He walks in the streets smiling for the accomplishments he's done. Ending , making the legion leave Hoover dam and everything else. Its all perfect. NCR soldiers living in peace alongside super mutants and ghouls from Jacobstown and the legion too. All is right with the world. Cass walks up to him with a vodka in hand and pulls him closer.
"So...why did you let us die?" She asks. The whole city is set on fire around him, synths flooding the city and NCR troopers slaughtered left and right alongside the legion...its the end of the world all over again and he is in the center of town. Taisuke changes to his combat rifle and starts firing at the synths but they just keep coming. An explosion knocks him down on the ground which renders him unable to walk but Cass drags him away from the madness. He continues shooting his combat rifle at the synths but the shots are just injuring them.
He looks over to the left and sees Boone trying his best to fend off the synths with his sniper rifle but a courser decloaks and stabs him in the back causing Boone to kneel. The courser takes aim at Boone's head and kills him immediately. Veronica attempts to punch a synth with her power first but she is overwhelmed by synths and vanishes amongst the crowed. Lily uses her vertibird weapon and swings it at the synths which destroys a large horde of them in the process but she is killed in a barrage of laser fire. Rex runs towards Taisuke and bites off a synth's arm off but the synth uses its pistol to shoot Rex which kills him. ED-E fires its laser gun but a synth with a rocket launcher fires at the robot and destroys it. Gannon is seen tending a civilian's wounds but a synth shoots him in the back as more synths kill the civilians.
"No...no...NO!" Taisuke cried as all of New Vegas is burned. Suddenly, he opens his eyes real quickly and wakes up in cold sweat and gets up. He looks around and sighs, another nightmare. He should be numb to this at this point. His house used to be doctor Crocker's house but since he was killed by Nora, it was given to him under Nora's payment from the minutemen. He hears a knock on the door and goes downstairs to open the door, Taisuke opens the door to reveal Kaworu Nagisa.
"My friend from the railroad is here, Glory. I've arranged a meeting outside of the dugout inn." Kaworu informed with him noticing Taisuke looking like trash.
"You were drinking last night?" The detective asks.
"Yeah of course, must've been a lot of bourbon." Taisuke bragged and yawned.
"Nick told me you've been destroying yourself, I think you should lay off the drinks." Kaworu sighed.
"I'll stop drinking when the institute burns to the ground like last time." Taisuke simply stated. Kaworu rolls his eyes and walks away as Taisuke closes the door. Diamond city is waking up right now, Moe Cronan is walking to his shop, Arturo setting up the guns to show what he's selling, Myrna replacing Percy, Polly sharpening her knives, Solomon setting his chems on display, doctor Sun cleaning needles, and Takahashi still doing the same thing which is cooking noodles.
Shinji finds himself in the backyard of his old house, joined by him is Nora and Nate, his mother and father and his baby sister playing with Shaun. Asuka is with her family and Taisuke prepping there things since they just moved in...its all perfect...he hears sirens now and turns around to see missiles hitting in the distance causing his eyes to widen.
He wakes up on his bed while panting heavily. Asuka is still sleeping beneath him.
Asuka finds herself waking up on her bed in vault 101...smiling in a faded light is her father, James Langley Soryu. His eyes are covered by a shadow made from his hair.
"...Run my child." The place changes to the purifier much to her terror causing her to rise up in horror to find herself still in her room while clutching her heart. Asuka looks up to see Shinji walking downstairs. In his vault suit. Asuka motions her legs to get up from the bed as she yawns.
"Wakey, wakey rookie. Lets get to work but first, some breakfast." Asuka notified and walks outside the house. Shinji walks second and yawns, his body feels a little worn out after what happened. Asuka is sitting in front of Takahashi eating a bowel of noodles with Piper nearby, Shinji joins in.
"I would like to have some noodles." Shinji requested.
"Nani shi maska?" The protectron asks. Shinji raises his eyebrow knowing that he is saying what is
"Noodles?"
"Nani shi maska?" It repeats again.
"Just say yes." Asuka advised.
"Yes...?" Takahashi bakes some noodles and gives them to Shinji who eats them in response. The noodle tastes a little bit like pork but its okay, Kaworu walks in on the two and sits beside them. Shinji turns to the synth.
"Alright, my friend Glory from the railroad is here. Meet me at the outside of the dugout inn." Kaworu informed. Asuka and Shinji finish their noodles and get up. Shinji is starting to get used to the smell of diamond city and the butcher shop too. They spot Taisuke sitting on a seat with Kaworu and a black woman with silver hair and wearing a somewhat bulky outfit.
"Have a seat." Taisuke said and drank some beer and ate some steak. Asuka sighs in disappointment since Taisuke is drinking some bourbon in the morning, too early for alcohol. Shinji and Asuka take a seat.
"Wait...what's the railroad?" Shinji asks since he forgot to ask questions about this organization.
"We're an organization dedicated to liberating synths and giving them a new life outside of the institute. So far, business has been slow but after the battle of New Vegas, we're on high alert for any institute resurgence. Heck, we gave intel to the brotherhood of steel which led to them backing us up. We check out upcoming synth members and give them a special upgrade to make sure they aren't taken away by the institute." Glory explained.
"Now lets get to the point, coursers are attracted to emergency signals relayed by another courser. X6 is the leader and mainly responds to the emergency distress calls. You need to find a courser and I know how. I'm just here to say, witches get hung." The synth gets up and leaves with Asuka being confused by the last phrase alongside Taisuke and Shinji.
"Its a code for their location and I know where it is-the museum of witchcraft. I guess they cleared house after Nora destroyed the institute to a place more outskirt." Kaworu explained. Taisuke finishes his steak.
"Welp I'm full, thank you white glove society for that meat..." Taisuke sighed as Asuka's eyes widen.
"...You do realize what that meat is...right?" Asuka asks.
"Don't worry, I convinced the white glove society not to eat people anymore, this is Brahmin steak and its my favorite. Managed to horde all of their food before New Vegas burned." Taisuke explained.
"Are you sure...does it taste like sweet pork?" Asuka remembered having dinner
"No, it takes like Brahmin." The courier grimaced. Asuka rolls her eyes and gets up to grab her weapons back at her house.
"Hey stupid Shinji, get some supplies at Arturo's. You're running out of ammo." Asuka advised. Shinji nods and gets up while Taisuke goes back him to get his stuff. Shinji stops in front of Aturo.
"A shotgun is good for keeping raiders away unless you want something bigger." The man informed.
"I'm here to get more ammo for my gauss rifle..." Shinji replied. He pulls out the weapon holstered on his back and places it on the table, Arturo whistles at the sight of the gun.
"Well, that's a...very unique model of the gauss rifle. The ones I have for ammo are the railgun variant...hm, I think I have rounds out back. Let me see." Arturo turns around walks inside his shop to see if he has any of the ammo. Shinji turns around to see a woman with a scarf hoodie, brown short hair, sleeveless duster, jeans and what appears to be a power fist on her hand talking with Moe Cronan. Arturo comes back with the ammo inside a dusty box as he blows it all away.
"Alright, ammo for your gauss rifle! That will be...70778 caps." Shinji almost screams, is that how valuable the rounds are!? He shouldn't be surprised though, his model of the gauss rifle is very rare in the commonwealth.
"Um...oh boy..." Shinji adjusts the collar of his vault suit. Walking behind him is Nora Morgan who pulls out a caps stash and places it on the table. He turns to his godmother.
"Oh thanks Nora..." The boy thanked.
"Don't expect that again, alright? I won't be there to help you all the time." Nora walks away as Piper is outside in her bathrobe drinking some coffee. Coming out of the house is Nat and Shaun or at least, synth Shaun. Shinji has to admit, they make a cute family. Shinji stories the ammo into his inventory. Taisuke walks out of his house with the ranger Sequoia revolver on his hand and Cass's old shotgun holstered on his back. Asuka gets out armed with her typical Xuan Long assault rifle and 10mm pistol, this will be a long walk to the museum of witchcraft so its best to wield light weapons.
"Alright, everyone ready?" Asuka asks.
"Yep! Ready to move out." Taisuke replied as he looks at his inventory on his pipboy which all consist of stimpacks, and nuka-cola quantum's he stole from the nuka cola factory back at New Vegas before the institute burned the place down.
"This will be a long one so just pray we don't shot up along the way and remember: Anyone and anything is a living ammo container." Asuka leads the way with Taisuke and Shinji following her.
Civilization-Danny Kaye and the Andrews Sisters.
Asuka, Shinji, and Taisuke walk in the roads of old Boston as Taisuke drinks some nuka cola while walking with the two. Shinji is reading the direction of his map on his pipboy with Asuka picking up a pipe pistol and throws it away since its junk to her, nothing important really and pipe weapons tend to break sometimes or fall apart on hands.
Asuka and Shinji wait while leaning against a wall as Taisuke asks a raider for directions, the raider is a friend of his. The raider signals him to go down street and once he sees the bridge, he's out of the city. Taisuke thanks the raider as he turns to his friends.
Asuka asks for directions to a group of gunners as the gunner leader, Tessa, points her direction to another path on the road. Clint tells Asuka to make a left and avoid a couple of Deathclaws along the way. Asuka thanks them but Tessa makes an ahem and extends her hand out for payment or they die. The redhead signals Tessa to wait and reaches for her inventory...and pulls out a .44 magnum and shoots Tessa in the face alongside Clint since Preston put a bounty on their heads. Asuka turns around to see Preston Garvey with Shinji and Taisuke. Preston gives Asuka some caps and leaves.
Shinji bakes a mirelurk cake as Taisuke rips its flesh out of the poor creature that attacked them. They're sharing stories, post-war and pre-war with the two siblings listening in awe at what pre-war life was like. Shinji tells a story how ice hockey involved a puck not killing people much to Taisuke's shock, he regrets not telling the ice gang and about Elvis Presley which to Taisuke's shock again, wasn't a deity.
A deathclaw squints its eyes at Shinji's pipboy since they took the wrong turn. Shinji is close to peeing himself at the sight of the creature but Taisuke recognizes that its the same one Nora gave the egg back to. The deathclaw stands up and aims its claws left as Shinji nods in fear and the three go onto their merry ways.
"This is the place." Asuka observed the museum of witchcraft since Taisuke remembered that the door is unlocked prompting the group to enter it in the process. No one is there much to their shock...and anger.
"Oh you got to be fucking kidding me!? Just a bunch of hanging mannequins! Dammit Glory!" Taisuke cursed and kicks a cracked deathclaw egg knowing that Nora killed the mother in the process when she was here. Asuka sighed and opens the door with Shinji coming second. In front of them is a man wearing a white shirt and tan pants alongside black hair and black shades.
"You are?" Shinji asks the man.
"The name's Deacon and sorry guys, the new railroad HQ is in Longneck Lakowski's or formerly Longneck Lakowski's. Follow me." The group follows Deacon as there is grumbles and complaints that they have to walk again. Luckily, Longneck Lakowski's is nearby. Deacon opens the door...only for a laser gun to be pointed at his face, the gun belongs to Glory.
"Traitor!" Asuka yelled and aimed her Xuan Long assault rifle with Taisuke aiming his holo-rifle at the synth.
"Wait, Asuka, Taisuke, Shinji? Oh, sorry about that. Little jumpy after what happened." Glory apologized.
"What happened?" Shinji asks.
"A team of coursers tried to infiltrate the museum and we evacuated with everything. I killed them all so no witnesses." Glory replied.
"So...about that device." Shinji said. The group goes downstairs to reveal a large capacity of railroad agents working around the clock with the units stationed in the factory. They're still setting up shop hence why it looks incomplete. On a workbench is Tinker Tom inventing his latest contraption. Shinji walks towards him.
"Ahem-"
"Desdomona?! I swear this isn't-oh, you're the vault dweller." The inventor observed.
"You said you have something for us?" Shinji replied.
"I said? Oh...never mind, anyway, here it is!" Tinker Tom pulls out a device similar to a haptic drive.
"Install this into your pipboy, it will help you track a courser signal. Normal ones tend to go and hunt alone. X6 is their leader and high ranking coursers have teams with them in case things go haywire and stuff." He explained.
"Thanks." Shinji thanked. Taisuke loads his combat rifle with Asuka doing the same. Overlooking the group inside the boss's office and the railroad agents setting up the things is Desdemona as she spots Shinji and the group. She gets out of the office and heads downstairs.
"Oh boy..." Taisuke sighed remembering the leader of the railroad, she got him in trouble once and it didn't end well. The railroad has changed after the institute was destroyed, they're borderline terrorists now in his eyes. Taisuke grabs Shinji by the shoulder.
"Look, be careful with these guys, last time I received a job offer, it was a mission to kill a brotherhood soldier which I refused." The courier advised. Shinji turns to Desdemona.
"You must be Shinji Ikari, right? Nora told me about you when she stopped by here. I have a question for you: How far are you willing to go to save someone?" Desdemona asks.
"Why are you asking me this?" Shinji replied.
"To see if you're a decent person after all. The wasteland has destroyed more people than you ever can imagine and Nora is one of the few." Desdemona replied. Asuka curls her hand into a fist alongside Taisuke. How dare this bitch say that they're bad people!? Sure Taisuke agrees that he's a bad person but he's not a murderer so is Asuka!
"...I'll do anything to find my family or at least what happened to them." Shinji answered before leaving. Taisuke turns to Desdemona.
"Look, I know what you're doing. You're trying to make him convert to the railroad, cute, very cute but you'll only lead him to trouble like what you did to me." Taisuke growled at the leader of the railroad.
"Or so you say."
"I say because last time you gave me a job to rig the brotherhood of steel recon team's ammunition supply to blow up. So stay away from Shinji, you goddamn terrorist-" Asuka pulls Taisuke back and gives an apologetic look at Desdemona then glares at Taisuke as she pushes him against a generator.
"Careful with the rads-"
"What the hell do you think you're doing!? You have something against the railroad or something?" Asuka asks.
"Yes I do, unlike you who just came to the commonwealth, I know the railroad. They've been acting like radicals for the past few weeks and something isn't right. I'm making sure Shinji doesn't fall into their banner." Taisuke replied.
"So you're thinking like the brotherhood. Surprised you didn't join." Asuka replied.
"I'm just saying, these people are slowly becoming more and more...different than before. They're the friends of the synths and they're right but at the same time, their disregarding humans and lives too. If Shinji joins, I'm afraid one day you and him will meet this time with guns aimed at her each other and him spouting anti-human bullshit. Hell, even Glory is seeing this alongside Deacon." The courier stated.
"Seeing how you act-I can't tell if I should trust you." Asuka glared. The two head upstairs with Shinji leaning against the door and listening to crazy in love on his pipboy radio then changing it to the molecular tracker.
"Say, Taisuke, where coursers teleport in anyway?" Shinji asks.
"Dunno, from what I've heard, the signals come from the sewers." Taisuke replied. The three head outside of the factory and sigh and try to walk back to diamond city and it will be a long road ahead. Raider's are still running around and stuff but they're disorganized and demoralized after the minutemen began to gain influence.
"So, about the museum of witchcraft...there was magic back then?" Asuka asks remembering the Krivbeknih. A terrible book that she gladly destroyed back at DC.
"No, the museum was made for commemorating the victims of the Salem witch trials."
"So there was magic." The redhead replied.
"Are you guys talking about magic? Of course it did exist back then, I read Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. Jeez the pre-war world was messed up." Taisuke whistled at the thought.
"No, there was no magic during pre-war. The witch trials were trials where people were accused of witchcraft and were sentenced to death for it." Shinji explained.
"...Were they in possession of a book?" Asuka asks.
"No. They were just innocent people." Shinji answered.
"Man, pre-war people were dicks...and also stupid." Taisuke commented while they continue to walk down the road. The thought people can fall for a trick like that is astonishing for him.
"They weren't pre-war-well, technically they were so...there pre-pre-pre-pre war people?" Shinji tries to explain but it sounds stupid already and giving them the impression of what pre-war life was like. The only pre-war knowledge Asuka knows is the invasion of Anchorage by the Chinese and that was used because the brotherhood outcasts wanted the tech inside. Anchorage was a rather interesting experience...next to mothership Zeta.
"Were they aliens?" Asuka asks.
"Where are you getting these guesses from?" Shinji grimaced.
"Nothing..."
Shinji, Asuka, and Taisuke enter Diamond city again. Its starting to get dark now after all that walking back here though Shinji doesn't feel tired, he wants to keep going and track a synth courser down and lead X6-88 into their little trap. But still...he wonders what Taisuke and Asuka want to gain off of this? Are they his guardian angels? Or do they want to be paid? Asuka yawns.
"If you need me, I'll be at our home." Asuka leaves to the home plate where a XO-1 power armor is parked outside of the house. Shinji feels a little hungry and looks around, the place he can only eat is at Takahashi's but he'll get tired of eating noodles all day.
"Is there anything to eat besides the robot's?" Shinji asks.
"Well, there's the dugout inn where they sell beer but some food but you're too goody too shoes for that...unless..." Taisuke tries to think of an alternate place.
"I'll pick the dugout inn." Shinji replied reluctantly.
"You sure? There's shady figures in there, especially deals Vadim made and owed like last time." Taisuke worried.
"I can handle it, I survived a mutated dinosaur thing after all..." Shinji bragged.
"...Are you talking about a deathclaw or a gecko?" Taisuke asks. Shinji looks down and sighs, he's still trying to get in the hang of the wasteland terms. The courier smiles and shakes his head. The two head towards the dugout inn and enter the bar right before sitting in front of the table. Vadim cleans the drinking glass and turns to Taisuke ad Shinji.
"Oh, Taisuke and Shinji. What should I get you two?" The Russian asks.
"I'll get the Bourbov special and Shinji?" Taisuke turns to him. Shinji is looking at the menu, all beer and Brahmin steak...also iguana bits which disgusts him a little. He sighs reluctantly.
"I'll get the Brahmin steak...?" Shinji ordered.
"Sure thing." Vadmin gives Taisuke the Bourbov special and prepares to cook the Brahmin steak since the minutemen gave him a kitchen and prepares the Brahmin steak. Shinji turns to Taisuke while he drinks his beer.
"So..." He tries to think of something say.
"So?" Taisuke replied.
"I want to know...what are you and Asuka trying to gain by helping me?" Shinji asks. Which causes Taisuke to put down his beer bottle as the bottom cracks a little and looks at Shinji.
"Wait, I didn't mean to ask-"
"NCR soldiers...often come back to a place thought to be non-existent. Tales of riches and fortune. It was called...New Vegas. There was a courier who tried to deliver a package but the package was intercepted by a mobster named Benny. He was shot and left for dead. He was found by a certain doctor who revived him and he went out to find the package and take revenge on Benny. He found Benny with the help of a caravaner and an eyebot that shot lasers from his eyes. They took him down. But that wasn't the for the courier, no sir it wasn't, the courier found himself in a conflict between the NCR, Legion, and the ruler of New Vegas himself, . So the courier was given a side to choose...it was the NCR. It turns out the package the courier was keeping was a chip that can hack the securitrons that patrol the streets of New Vegas. Soon afterwards, the legion attacked Hoover dam and the courier fought bravely with the NCR gaining the brotherhood of steel's support. Soon, the dam was taken and the NCR reigned supreme." Taisuke drinks his beer again and sighs.
"But that didn't end the story of the courier for he had adventures no man can imagine. He made friends with a nightkin, an NCR sniper, a brotherhood of steel scavenger, a cyborg dog, a Mexican ghoul, an alcoholic caravaner and many others...even an old friend who he considered a father that tried to destroy the NCR via nukes. The courier was a legend...until now. New Vegas and the NCR was facing a threat that was unreal, the Institute. When Nora destroyed the place, the Institute had a Nevada branch. NCR, brotherhood of steel Mojave, Boomers, great Kahns, and every other faction knew even the Legion that this Institute is a threat to humanity really. So an alliance was forged to defend Hoover dam...but the institute was too great and so the alliance defended New Vegas till the bitter end. You should've seen it, there was fighting in the streets and pockets of resistance helping out the alliance. But then...it was too late. The courier saw his friend die in front of him at the hands of the synth coursers and institute forces...and the caravaner and him were taken to be experimented on by them. Joined with the two is the lone wanderer and the warrior who would later become the elder of the brotherhood of steel. One by one, they saw the warrior's comrades die in front of them...and they were next. Rigorous experiments were conducted until the warrior and the courier decided it was enough and shot up the place. The courier joined the reborn brotherhood of steel to destroy this branch but knew it was the equivalent to destroying a stick. He saved New Vegas...but it wasn't itself, New Vegas became a giant concentration camp. The elder and the courier, sought revenge against the institute and mounted an assault and destroyed the Nevada branch. The courier then left the Mojave and headed up North, to destroy the Institute once and for all. And so continues the courier's journey, blood was spilled like the old days because war...war never changes." Taisuke ended and turns to Shinij.
"The Institute...they took everything from me. Tried to do their worse and make me into another Kellogg alongside my sister. A sister who I never forgave and hated myself for never forgiving her since she wanted my mom and I to stay in an already doomed vault who's number was 101."
"Taisuke..." Shinji muttered. Taisuke was a hero...a person who saved the Mojave but saw his home torn down by the Institute.
"Do you know why Auska is here in Boston?"
"Probably trying to find Doctor Li, she liked the woman as a mother. I saw her pictures she took, she kissed Li in the cheek while she working." Taisuke explained and drank again.
"Dunno why though, probably to run away...like me. I swore when then the Institute burns, I'll give up drinking." The meal arrives in front of Shinji as he eats it. The two are silent as Shinji knew that Taisuke doesn't want to talk anymore. Soon the Brahmin meat turned into nothing but bones and its up to Shinji to go home.
"See you around Shinji." Taisuke sadly said. Shinji walks back to the home plate which is his home and heads upstairs to sleep on his bed, Asuka is in the bottom sleeping peacefully. Shinji lays on his bed thinking of Taisuke's past and his own...he fears that he'll turn into him. His entire family is gone, the world around him is all blown up to hell...is it possible to find them here? What if they went somewhere else? He drifts into sleep.
A beep on his pipboy is heard which Shinji wakes up at...something isn't right. The beep is on his radio which helps track a synth courser signal and its beeping erratically. Shinji gets up on his bed and activates his pipboy flashlight, he looks down to see Asuka still sleeping. He goes downstairs and picks up a handgun Asuka placed on the table, he turns to Asuka to wake her up and finds out she's awake.
"Keep moving." Asuka whispered in order to get the jump on the intruder. Shinji shines his pipboy light at every corner of the room but nothing is there. He realizes that his movement is causing small noises and even his heart beat so he stands still. He can hear something...Shinji checks his pipboy radar and it has a red dot on it. Then looks up.
Standing in front of him is a pale man wearing a black outfit similar to X6-88 who tackles Shinji on the ground and grabs his throat. Asuka gets up from her bed to pull out her laser pistol but the man turns around and knocks the gun off of Asuka's hand and shoots her in the chest, seemingly killing her. Shinji looks in terror as the man now identified to be a synth courser. A mix of terror and anger perhaps really as his vision starts to fade a little. Shinji is losing oxygen as he commands his hand to find something, anything to take him down. He could feel a handle, its the pistol he had! Shinji grabs the pistol despite his hand feeling twitchy and light and aims the gun at the courser's head. He pulls the trigger which damages the synth but he still keeps on choking, another shot is placed and his grip is starting to loosen and finally, a third shot. The courser pulls away while backing away in shock from the shot to the head, he's giving out a signal. An emergency one! The synth was on a mission.
The courser falls backwards and drops dead on the ground. Shinji throws the pistol away and runs to Asuka who chest is smoking and there's a large burn mark in the center. He gently picks her up.
"Please, please..." Shinji whimpered. Asuka is the first person who he had met when he woke up from the cryo-stasis and she shouldn't be the last, if only if he reacted quickly enough then he would've killed that damn synth. He could feel a pulse...its getting stronger. Asuka coughs up a little with her burned vault suit. The door opens behind them to reveal Nora, Piper, diamond city security forces and some minutemen who were patrolling the streets.
"Is everyone alright?!" Nora asks worriedly while her wife pulls out her pistol. Asuka brushes Shinji off who is shock that she can get up from that, she grabs her Reilly's rangers chest piece and combat leggings right before loading her gun.
"We're fine, we just need to get this synth courser's body out of the city!" Asuka replied as Nora nodded and turns to the minutemen behind her.
"Prepare for a possible attack, warn everyone in the city!" Nora ordered. Shinji tries to think of a way to get the body out of the city...he looks at his bed sheet.
Asuka, Taisuke, and Shinji carry the courser's body to Cambridge while its wrapped in bed sheets with Hikari tagging along to get the scoop. Taisuke is wearing his NCR ranger armor complete with helmet and night vision to help him see better in the dark, he's feeling crabby since they woke him up at like 2:00AM. Asuka has some blood on her but she doesn't care, this courser will lead her straight to X6-88 and will help Shinji and Taisuke get revenge on the institute and find out what happened to his family. Question is: Why are they heading to Cambridge?
"Why are we heading to Cambridge!?" Asuka yelled at Shinji.
"Remember those brotherhood guys? They can help us take out X6 easily!" Shinji replied as they enter college square.
"Oh this is going to be the story of a lifetime!" Hikari bubbled at the thought, Piper gave her the permission to tag along with the gang and wanted to know them too! The lone wanderer and the courier teaming up to save a boy's family! The team up of the century! Like the unstoppables! Two heroes from different worlds have come to he commonwealth! They pass by college square and open the door by barging in while avoiding the landmines. This wakes up Danse, Touji, Amano, and Mayumi.
"Soldier, what the hell-" Danse tries to open his mouth and looks at the dead body of the synth in confusion. Taisuke holds the head body by its arms and drags it outside.
"We got the Institute's attention! I killed this thing they called a courser and now its giving off a distress beacon!" Shinji replied to Danse. Touji's eyes widen alongside his teammates.
"I know what's going to happen next, make sure you stock up on supplies!" Danse advised and loads his laser musket. Touji taps him by the shoulder causing the synth to look up at Touji.
"What is it paladin?" Danse asks.
"Follow me." Touji ordered as Danse holsters his laser musket. The two enter the evidence room...standing there is Danse's old armor, clean and almost untouched by by the weeks.
"We wanted it to be a surprise but given our situation, its best to give it to you early." Meanwhile Asuka is in the interrogation room stocking up on fusion cells and weaponry from the duffle bag nearby. Taisuke does the same thing but is looking for anti-material rifle rounds. Asuka finds one and throws it at him and he loads it in the process.
Coursers run back and fourth in the institute as X6-88 prepares for battle and picks up his institute laser rifle. He enters the teleporter now they have a fix on R7-2197's location.
Shinji picks up a laser rifle as he waits in front of the police station, Cambridge is a small town so it gives little to no tactical advantage in fighting. Hey may not have skills but he has the courage to fight X6-88. A flash of blue light strikes behind him and he turns around to see X6-88 with a team of coursers behind. Shinji grips the handle of his laser rifle and glares at the synth, the one who kidnapped Rei and made his family disappear.
"I hate to quote Kellogg but if it isn't the most resilient boy in the commonwealth. Funny, I thought I had that honor." X6 taunted. Shinji is close to pulling the trigger on X6.
"Where is my family!?" Shinji yelled at X6 who has a blank look on his face. Like talking to a wall.
"Look, I'm just a puppet to this little game of the institute. Rei, she's a good kid. A bit older than expected but still good. Don't worry, she's safe now." X6 replied calmly. Good, Shinji knows that she's safe.
"And my mom!?" The boy yelled.
"She put up a fight and I was forced to kill her but...she got better and left. Your father, I have no clue where he is. But still, don't worry, Rei is safe in the institute." The synth explained.
"The institute? Tell me how do I get there..." Shinji asks furiously.
"You don't come to the institute, the institute comes for you. But you have a small chance for it to come to you." X6 stated.
"...Nothing will stop me." Shinji muttered as X6 gives a small chuckle.
"Funny, I'm beginning to like you. Unfortunately, I'm here to take you in." X6 replied. Little does he know, Taisuke rises above the police station armed with his anti-material rifle and activating the red lenses on his gas mask and takes aim at a synth courser heavy's head. He fires the rifle which pierces the head of the synth, killing him and piercing his head.
"WHAT!?" X6 yelled in rage. Kicking down the door is paladin Danse armed with an automatic laser rifle, minutemen sergeant Danse is still here but as of now, paladin Danse has returned. Danse fires the laser rifle at X6 who dodges the shot. Touji comes out as his stealth boy deactivates and loads his minigun and open fires at the team thus causing them to disperse via stealth boys. Shinji fires his laser rifle at X6 who moves out of the way and fires back while taking cover behind a destroyed car. X6 shoots back at Shinji while his team takes cover.
A synth courser decloaks and loads his gun and sees an opening where he can shoot Shinji. He takes aim but he feels a click against his head causing his eyes to turn to see Hikari who shoots him in the head with her .44 magnum or formerly known as Kellogg's pistol. Another synth courser runs in the back of a pharmacy but he is knock down in the head by Asuka right before she unloads 5.6 rounds into his head. The synth courser team is reduced to only X6 remaining who is shooting at Shinji. The synth's weapon is deadly at best, landing shots that blow off parts of the car Shinji is taking cover in.
Shinji gathers his courage and patience...X6 reloads. He pulls out a weapon Nora gave him, the furious power fist. Shinji gets up and climbs on the car then vaults over the car X6 is taking cover in and launches a deadly punch at his face since the front of the gauntlet-like weapon is a cinder block with metal sticking out of it. A large chunk of flesh slacks from X6's face which knocks his shades down. X6 coughs up blood again and launches a deadly strike at the synth which kills him immediately. He loots his body and finds a strange device on his exposed head.
"What's this?" Shinji asks.
"That could be useful for the memory den. But lets go to goodneighbor tomorrow." Asuka said as she walks towards Shinji. Taisuke holsters his gun on his shoulder and nods. A job well done for the courier.
Diamond city.
Shinji and Asuka enter the house now that its 3:19AM, everyone is asleep in Diamond city and its there turn now to get some rest after what happened. He wonders...and remembers the promise Asuka told him. Shinji sits on the couch to catch his breath while Asuka goes back to her bed.
"Um...Asuka?" Shinji called.
"What is it stupid Shinji?" Asuka sarcastically replied.
"Now that we took down X6, why are you here in the commonwealth?" Shinji asks her. Asuka gets up from her bed and looks at Shinji, to give her attention and support, Shinji sits next to her.
"Years ago, in the capitol wastelands...there was a vault. Inside it was a thriving community of vault dwellers who lived in peace and harmony, amongst them was a doctor by the name of James Langley Soryu who fathered a daughter who never knew her mother. Years later, James met another woman who entered the vault and they married. The woman gave birth to a boy who later become a troublemaker. They lived a happy childhood. One day, the woman and the daughter's brother...were evicted from the vault. Thus making it two again, the father and the daughter. The daughter would later pass the GOAT test and gain a job as an explorer but fate had different plants. One day, the father disappeared from the vault while a radroach outbreak happened. The vault descended into chaos as the daughter tried her best to find him. Helped by her friend, the daughter wandered into the capitol wasteland hoping to find him...and she did. She made friends along the way, a brotherhood paladin, a ghoul mercenary, a Mr. Gutsy, a slave, her old bully, an ex-raider, a dog, and a super mutant. She fell in love with other people, a brotherhood sentinel, an annoying shopkeeper who is making a wasteland survival guide...the daughter found the father later, he was involved in something big and she wanted to be part of it. But at the end, a greater force known as the enclave sought to end us. The daughter..." She sighs.
"...Was later given a choice, to destroy all life...she refused at the end. She worked with the brotherhood and stopped the enclave dead on their tracks. She went on adventures no man or woman would imagine. But at the end...she lost it all again, the institute came to DC for no reason and took her friends away from her, they took everything from her. Discovering where her younger brother is, she sought to find him. So continues the story of the lone wanderer..." Asuka ended. She silently lays on her bed.
"Shinji...the reason why I'm here in the commonwealth is because I'm trying to piece together the family...I had. To make things right again in a world...that's so full of wrong." Asuka explained. Shinji looks down on the groundand gets up before shutting off the lights.
"Hey...idiot." Shinji turns to her.
"Can you...sleep with me? Just this once and don't cop a feel out of it." The boy blushes but realizes that Asuka was alone for the past ten years hence why she is called the lone wanderer, wanders everyday. Shinji lays next to Asuka...
"Can you...pull me closer? I'm too lazy to do it right now..." Shinji blushes again and pulls her closer. Asuka feels warm, almost like a red fuzzy teddy bear. The two drift to sleep...
Shinji opens his eyes and sees that Asuka is gone but he gets used to it...maybe he's accepting the world around him. People come and go, either leave or through death. Shinji opens the door...and sees something that he thought is impossible. Floating above diamond city with astonished crowds flocking and pointing their fingers is a large blimp accompanied by vertibirds escorting it.
"People of the commonwealth." The voice on the mic boomed as two more large blimps join it.
"Do not interfere, our intentions are peaceful. We are...the brotherhood of steel."
