Chapter 9
Diamond city or bust
Harrie and Nora were talking as they walked to the gate where they were meeting some S.A.S soldiers, Neville and Susan before they were to go to Diamond City, they were going to walk down to the south east to concord continuing down to Lexington they then planned to go to the main police station in Cambridge before crossing the river to the south to Diamond City they chose to follow the roads looking for people around the route, it was about 20 miles to the south east and the only problem they could see was Lexington due to the feral ghouls Preston told them about, the soldiers had asked to be aloud to clear Lexington out and start a base there as it's a large town it could take some time, it was planned for them to stay out over night in Lexington if they could fined and secure somewhere defensible, as they started to walk Harrie was thinking of the conversation she had with her mother earlier that morning.
Madam bones black had told her that they were sending 5 more planes with 2000 troop they were going to build bases on there route from the U.K to the U.S.A the bases would be equipped with a flue connection to make moving people and supplies easier. They expected it to take 2 months for the bases to come on line giving them a direct line of support or retreat if needed, she was looking forward to being able to visit her parents, some of the magical's with them had started to ward the areas they had secured these wards would worn of the intentions of the people that approach they should also stop any creatures that would attack but not stop any other animals.
As the group was leaving Concord to head south they were attacked by a group of gunners with what appeared to be robots supporting them, the fight was over in minutes the well trained and equipped soldiers ripped the attackers apart with little effort, the scouts had killed several giant insects and they had reported a giant scorpion in the distance as they moved through Boston they had to shoot many robots and some raiders, they had lost 2 soldiers when they found a group of super mutants with heavy weapons and one had committed suicide next to the 2 men the remaining troopers had then destroyed them with no more casualties, collecting as much junk and weapon as they could when the loot became too heavy for the group one of the wizards or witches would apperate the stuff back to Vault 111, major sharp had made the Vault into the main storage for what he called a beachhead in America , as they entered Lexington killing feral ghouls and searching the area they found Lexington Apartments with some gunners after clearing the area and sorting a guard they settled in for the night.
Over night the camp had been attacked no less than 6 times 4 of these were just feral ghouls but 2 had been large groups of raiders and robots Harrie had only found out after a Sargent had reported it to her as she ate breakfast the next morning, as the sun had risen they prepared to leave for diamond city several soldiers arrived from sanctuary with the witches and wizards that were taking the junk to the Vault, major sharp had agreed that a base in Lexington was a good idea more troops were moving from Sanctuary and Lexington the route would become a trade route between the first 2 bases.
A few hours later as they approached Cambridge police station the scouts found a man in power armour being attacked by a large group of feral ghouls the soldiers moved in to assist him the battle took just over half an hour there were many ghouls when Harrie was allowed to approach, the soldiers had secured the area and where moving the dead ghouls and collecting the junk Harrie asked Nora to talk to the man as she went to talk to her men just over an hour later Harrie, Nora, and paladin Danse sat talking about the brother hood of steel and the institute Danse told them that he was from the capital wasteland
"Before I joined the Brotherhood of Steel, grow up as an orphan in the Capital Wasteland. As a child, I made a dangerous living by scavenging the D.C. ruins until I could afford to open my own junk stand in Rivet City. It was around that time I became friends with a man named Cutler, and together we scraped by as traders.
When the Brotherhood of Steel began recruiting, Cutler and I agreed it was "the best way out of our nowhere lives". We joined the order, under the training of Paladin Krieg, and we were successful soldiers, but roughly a year after being posted to the Prydwen the airship the brother hood build, Cutler disappeared on assignment.
I personally spearheaded a three-week search for the missing squad. Ultimately the trail led to a super mutant hive where we found that Cutler's team had been killed, and Cutler himself had been exposed to the Forced Evolutionary Virus". Harrie was the one to ask "what is this virus are you telling use that the super mutants were created not just mutations?"
Danse continued "Yes! The enclave created it before the war, and a super mutant is trying to create more, he has the virus and is infecting people.
When we found him I killed Cutler. I hate most non-humans, including super mutants, ghouls, and synths.
I achieved the rank of Paladin while the assault on Adams Air Force Base was happening, which resulted in the fatality of my first drill sergeant. By the 2287, l had risen to become one of Arthur Maxson's most respected officers. Now I'm assigned a to this reconnaissance team we were dispatched to the Commonwealth to investigate signs of the Institute's activities. The institute are creating fake humans that you can't tell the difference from normal humans and they are very technicality advanced we think this is where they are based.
However, misfortune quickly reduced my recon team to only the three members here that's when you found use earlier.
The brother hood is moving to the commonwealth by airship we are going to take the Tec and end the institute once and for all, elder maxim was going to be in the area in the next few weeks we are going to take over the commonwealth!"
Nora decided that they were not going to have anything to do with the brother hood of steel as both Nora and Harrie had a bad feeling about the way that he had spoken about them Nora soon told Danse "we are going to leave for our destination I'm glad we could help you but we need to get going" thankfully they hadn't given him any important information about there base's or how many people they had in total the only thing he knew was that Nora and some soldiers were looking for Nora's son.
They had walked the 13 miles to diamond city, just before they reached the stadium the soldiers spread out around the area, only Susan and Neville followed Nora and Harrie to the doors,when they approached the door was closed with a dark haired woman in a long red jacket and cap with a little card in it.
It took the group time to read the word press that was written on it as they approached her she appeared to be shouting into I microphone near the door when she noticed the small group coming she whispered to them "do you want in? of cause you do just play along" she then turned back to the mic saying " is that right? your traders you've got a caravan coming in, did you hear that Danny? I've got a group of traders out here are going to be the one to tell crazy murn that you turned away supply's", there was a crackle over the speaker they could hear Danny say "ok ok piper I'm opening the door, the mayor will meet you when you come in."
Harrie stepped back and Spock into her radio "we need a caravan of supply's to arrive here in the morning tell them to only bring the stuff we've collected from the commonwealth and to tell the people at the door that you work for Nora and you've got her stuff for trade."
Only seconds later the large door started to rise as the entrance came into view there was a fat man with a trilby hat waiting for them he started to shout at Piper as soon as he could see her, Harrie couldn't hear the conversation but after a few minutes Piper turned to them asking "what do you think of the press?" Harrie said newspapers can be useful if there factual why? Wait it doesn't matter we are traders looking to start a caravan from our base to here we need a place for storage and we will sell bulk to the shops, then we need to find someone to help Nora find her son as he was kidnapped from the Vault they were in." Both The mayor and Piper looked at her before the mayor could speak Piper said to Nora "if you need help finding someone you need to speak to Nick Valentine he's a detective here in diamond city" meanwhile the mayor had spoken to Harrie about the cost of a place in the city costing 2000 Caps Harrie still had to laugh every time she thought about the bottle caps she had thrown away all of her life being money but she chose to haggle with him and got the cost down to 1200 caps he had told her she would have to collect the keys from his office in the upper stadium.
Within hours the group were sat in there new building just off the market place in diamond city, It had been named home plate, this would be there base in the centre of the commonwealth. They would trade the junk and weapons, they would find when the soldiers were cleaning up the commonwealth. Nora had agreed to an interview with Piper she would arrange it after she had seen Nick Valentine at his office.
Susan and Neville spent some time on the radio with the troops out side and in Sanctuary they had arranged for the soldiers to scout the route to the north as they were going to carry on to Salem as planned Nora was staying to work with Nick and Piper, after losing men on the way here they wouldn't be taking any chances on route the troops would secure the route before Harrie and her friends even set off, they had also secured the trade route to Vault 111 and Lexington.
It had taken the next 2 days to secure there position in the commonwealth there were radio's in each of there base's, the major had started to work on all there base's they now had base's at Sanctuary, Lexington and in home plate at Diamond city, the minutemen had helped 5 settlements around the commonwealth this help was with things like clearing out feral ghouls, killing super mutants but they had helped to secure 2 new places for settlers to start moving into then securing the settlements that had asked them for help so there were now 7 settlements working with the minutemen, very few people know that most of the minutemen were British soldiers.
Nora had returned to home plate telling Harrie that if she wanted Nick Valentines help she would have to help him first so she had asked Harrie to lend her some men to help her the men had agreed to help her very quickly so they were going to split up Nora heading off to find Nick and Harrie, Neville and Susan were setting off to Salem in the morning.
A/N
iv had a review about conversions and it was right I need to improve how I show who is speaking and when I will try to improve this in the future.
I've not received many reviews about the plot or ideas of where to take the story in the future I've planed where it's going but not how to get there and after starting to write this it has become clear I don't know as much about the fallout stories as I thought I did.
i have contacted Fulminanz about using some parts of there story The Salem Settlement in an up coming chapter I recommend this story as it's different and I'm enjoying the story so far
