Knight Olsson stared at the wide expanse before him, burnt trees, swirling ash clouds and the common corpse. Knight Olsson did not agree with the way the Brotherhood was handling things. It all went sour after the battle of Vault 0, according to Paladin Jameson. He said that the elders became mad with power, probably the radiation. They started to issue orders to the order of the sword, if technology was found, and being used, the user must be killed. No one could disagree because they were the elders, soon word caught on that a few paladins were letting users live. Each of the six paladins were placed in front of a firing squad. In terms of the Brotherhood codex, that was soon abolished, the elders reasoning? The west coast could not be contacted so they must adapt to the situation. Knight Olsson knew that was a load of crap. He was on scout duty today, with Knight Carson and Knight Bishop. Knight Carson believed in the same idea Olsson believed. The Brotherhood was corrupt and evil. Something had to be changed for better or worse. Knight Carson was witness to a whole village slaughtered by paladins. The reason for genocide? The village would not let them stay for the night. A simple act of rebellion leaded to the deaths of many. It was cloudy today, the sun was still out. Soon they would have to find cover, acid rain. Acid rain can cause damage to the shin servo's, rendering you completely immobile. Knight Bishop trudged along, he wore the old T-45D armour, he preferred it. Carson and I both wore Enclave mark II power armour, painted grey with the Brotherhood sigil on the shoulder. There was a rustling sound behind us, both I and Carson raised our Plasma rifles.
"Don't worry it's probably jes' mole rats." Bishop said, he kept on trudging along. Carson and I exchanged a look before following. It was barely a second later, at least 20 or more Protectron mark III's circled us. We were completely surrounded. One protectron strolled towards us. It raised a hand.
"Lower your weapons, we only carry a message." Knight Bishop kept his weapon up, Carson and I lowered our weapons.
"What's your message, robot?" The protectron stared at him, it appeared to be scanning him.
"You are Brotherhood?" Bishop replied with a yes.
"Then here is the message. Playing recording 0001." A different voice burst out of the voice modulator.
"If you are listening Brotherhood. Your chapter has gone rogue. You have committed war crimes and endless killings. If you comply to the peoples demands then you will be spared. The demands are as follows. Change your current leadership, treat the common people fairly, hold the Brotherhood values that you disregarded and do not instill fear amongst the common people. They are not your enemies, but if you continue in your actions, not only will they become your enemies but we will. We have the resources to fund an uprising, we have the weapons and the armour. We also have an army of Mark III Protectrons. I would advise you to stop your ways. This will be played across the radio waves until the demand is met." Bishop turned to me and Carson. I walked straight up to the Protectron. Shit, I didn't know what I was doing, but there was something here. Even if it was a sliver of hope I would grasp on it with my inner strength. I hated what the Brotherhood had become, true I was only 27, I was only a knight. I still recognized what the Brotherhood used to stand for, I wanted to be a part of that Brotherhood, not the Elders army of wretched thugs in power armour.
"Can you give me a live uplink with the man who spoke please?" The protectron stopped for a second.
"That is possible, please wait." Bishop grabbed my shoulder, turning me around.
"What do you think your doing?" I replied calmly.
"You'll see." It was barely a minute later when a voice bounced off the Protectrons voice modulator.
"Who am I speaking to? I trust you heard my demands."
"Yes, my name is Knight Marcus Olsson, I wish to join you-" Bishop raised his rifle.
"What the hell do you think-" I turned and fired a plasma volley at him. He was dead.
"If you heard that, I have committed treason against the Rogue Brotherhood and I wish for amenity, I amongst others believe the Brotherhood is wrong in what they do. Please I can help your cause." The robot stared at Knight Olsson.
"Who will send the message to the elders?"
"I will." Knight Carson stepped forward,
"I too renounce the Brotherhood ways, I will try and escape but that is unlikely." The robot opened it's chassis pulling out two lines of micro chips.
"Here, if you find yourself or any other Brotherhood members that are not in favour of the way you do things, in combat with our robot's. Placing these on your chest will target you as a friendly. The robots will not fire on you, they will protect you and provide you with the ability to escape. Now this robot will accompany you to the elders to relay the message Knight Olsson, follow the robots home." And that moment sparked a flame that would consume the Brotherhood rogues, a moment that would change the mid west. For better or worse. The Saviour had arrived.
cv snowblind: Sorry about the year mistake, that is purely my fault. Yes, the year the battle of Project Purity took place was indeed 2277. This story is set in 2281, four years after after Project Purity, coinciding with the events of FO New Vegas, set in 2281. Yes, you are correct in the fact that the Pip boy 2000 was in FO1 and 2. I assume they are Vault Tec issued equipment, so they would be issued to most Vaults. As the Brotherhood now occupies Vault 92, they would have a surplus amount of pip boys. Stanley from Vault 101 says he prefers the 3000A so I guess there is a variety of pip boys in Vaults for example Amata might have a pip boy 2000 whereas Butch has a Pimp boy 3 billion. Also in the Fallout 3 Vault prologue, I think it's Stanley, he gives you the Pip boy 3000A. Here, from the fallout wiki: The player character is equipped with the Pip-Boy 3000A; it is indicated that there are other models in the 3000 line, with A being one of the oldest.
This would indicate the possibility of such a thing as a Pip Boy 3000b or even c. This story is non-canon obviously so I will be adding different tech to this story as we go on. The Brotherhood will now be equipped with Pip Boys, well most of them.
I hope you keep your interest and thank you very much. I decided to post this chapter a little early because of my mix up with the years.