Chapter 10 All Hope Is Lost
Elsewhere...in Underworld...1:06 PM...
"Winthrop. I have to talk to you about something." The LW said entering Underworld with the others.
"What is it? Scrap metal?" The cranky ghoul asked.
"No..." The LW said.
"When ARE you going to bring me scrap metal?" Winthrop asked.
"I...uh...I told you I would get it to you someday." The LW said.
"Someday is today, someday was yesterday, and someday is tomorrow. And guess what? You still won't get it to me." Winthrop said in a mad tone. "You remember what I did for you? I hope you do..." Winthrop continued.
"I need to find where Four Dog is..." The LW said interrupting Winthrop.
"...I don't know what you're talking about." Winthrop said nerviously.
"Bullshit." The LW stated. Fawkes and Apathy was just standing behind the LW silently.
"You know where he is." Apathy said out-loud. "I can see it in your eyes. The shame of hiding a smoothskin in underworld. He may be Three Dog's son but it is still not right for a ghoul. Now tell us where he is...if you don't want a katana through your throat." Apathy said tightening his grip around his katana.
"Ah...I...know where he...is..." Winthrop quietly said being afraid of Apathy.
"Good. Show us where he is at. And I'll get your scrap metal..." The LW said. Winthrop started to walk up the stairs to the ninth circle and the others followed him.
The Ninth Circle...1:11 PM...
It was a busy day for the ninth circle. Everyone in underworld was getting drunk off their ass today. Ahzrukhal was smiling raking in caps from every direction. Charon was standing in the corner being badass-ish as usual. Patchwork was on the ground with a bottle of whiskey to his mouth. Winthrop walked over to where Patchwork was laying and kicked him gently.
"Patches...we gotta talk...get your ass up and follow us..." Winthrop said.
"Ssure...I'lll come wittthh you guysss..." Patchwork said while standing up, stumbling Winthrop had to give him his arm so he could stand. Winthrop and Patchwork and the others walked to the outside of underworld where there was nobody currently as the aqua cura stand was torn down after what the LW did.
Outside of Underworld...1:15 PM...
"Soo...whyyyy did you takeee me away fromm my precious timmmmeeee?" Patchwork stuttered as he fell down to the ground being to drunk to be standing by himself.
"Sigh...Four Dog...take off the mask." Winthrop said suddenly. The others didn't know what to think by Winthrop's last statement.
"I don't know what youuu are talkkkking abouttt." Patchwork continued.
"Four Dog...remove the ghoul mask. Now." Winthrop said again.
"I'm not Four Dog!!!" Patchwork screamed as he began to cry.
"If you don't remove it...then I'LL REMOVE IT!" Winthrop said as he grabbed onto Patchwork's face and started to pull.
"NO!! I'M PATCHWORK NOW!" Patchwork screamed. Winthrop emerged from the ground with "Patchwork's" face. It was a mask. All that time, Patchwork was Three Dog's son.
"Get up...show them who you really are." Winthrop said holding the ghoul mask in his hand. The person was on the ground sobbing.
"I left...all that behind...long ago..." The person said sadly.
"Well its came right back." Winthrop said. "Now get up...son of Three Dog." Winthrop said.
"No...why should I? He sent me to this place when I was thirteen. Ever since then I've been a drunk ghoul that couldn't even speak right. Why should I leave my destined life?" Four Dog said still on the ground. Winthrop hearing enough pulled Four Dog to his feet. The others were shocked when they saw a completely new person. Four Dog looked almost exactly like his father, Three Dog. "When I was five years old...me and my father were living somewhere among the wastes...with my mother..." Four Dog said sadly.
"Then...one day...she was simply...gone." Four Dog continued. "We don't know what happened. Why she was nowhere to be found. My father realizing that it was time to go, packed up our supplies and our stuff. So me and my father came into the capital wasteland. It being a wasteland like everywhere else we had been...we went through the DC Ruins. Tagging along with some brotherhood of steel groups...we made it to the center of DC looking for a home. I didn't know why my dad picked DC as a home...maybe it was just a instinct." Four Dog continued even further.
"But that instinct...turned out to be right...as we stood in front of GNR...and stared at it. Dad...must have knew...that GNR was where he was destined to be..." Four Dog continued. "So...we went into GNR and started to set up our new home. He walked up the stairs and found the broadcasting station. And he knew...what he had to do. He began to broadcast reports throughout the wasteland. Some people heard it on radios that were left on in ruins. And...it spread. Everyone started to listen to GNR...to drown out the bullshit that was being spewn out from the Enclave radio station." Four Dog continued.
"The brotherhood of steel, supporting this, began to protect us. As Three Dog was spreading hope among the entire wastes...but it was attracting something...super mutants. They began to come to GNR to attack after a few days of Three Dog's radio shows. First...there was a few...then there were some...then there were a lot...then they began to bring behemoths. The situation, growing out of hand very fastly...he sent me...to the Underworld so I could be safe." Four Dog said angrily. "Because of his reports about...ghouls not being zombies...most of the ghouls were up for it. However...some were angry about the topic. Hiding a smoothskin in Underworld? Fuck some of them were about to riot." Four Dog continued until he was interrupted.
"I have a question...was Mr. Crowley one of those angry ghouls?" The LW asked.
"Yes...did you know him?" Winthrop said stepping in to the discussion.
"Err...no I just know that he is a smoothskin hater." The LW said coughing like he was hiding something.
"Anyways...Winthrop here had a idea. A little bit before dad moving me to Underworld... he took a ghoul mask and some other things away from a human...who was trying to get a place in Underworld because he had nowhere else to go. He was kicked out of Underworld forever. His body was found shortly after as he was mauled by some rabid feral ghouls in the subway. Winthrop disguised me as a ghoul. Patchwork. I became the drunk of the town. I smelled terrible, I was piss ass drunk all the time, and even me talking annoyed people. This made the others not want to talk to me and became less suspicious of me being a smoothskin. Then...I spent five years...here until today...as Patchwork." Four Dog said shameful.
"So...why are you guys here? Is it something about that bastard?" Four Dog said angrily.
"Yes...Three Dog is dead, and GNR is destroyed." Fawkes said sadly.
"Hmph...good riddens." Four Dog said. Winthrop slapped him on the back of his head right after he said that.
"He was a good man! You think he wanted to send you away??" Winthrop said angered at what Four Dog had just said.
"I know...he sacrificed his bonds between his son for a bunch of ungrateful bastards." Four Dog said. "Fuck the good fight!" Four Dog said walking away from Winthrop and the LW, and the others. The LW grabbed him and pulled him back.
"Listen! If he is a bastard... then why did he say what he did for his last words." The LW said turning on the holotape he had stored in his pip-boy. Three Dog's message was played again.
"They are...everywhere...they came...killed the brotherhood of steel knights who were guarding GNR... a lot of them were caught surprised resting...but once gunfire was heard...the other kids around the block came out to play...I...I know I'm not going to survive these wounds...but to whoever finds this holotape...I hope it isn't a Enclave or one of those other fuckers...cough...I need...you to find...my son...Four Dog...the one thing I regret the most...is hiding him among the Capital Wasteland...but I couldn't keep him at GNR...I mean...look at this place now...its in flames...
Please...save him...from all of this...he is hidden away...in the Under...world..." Three Dog was heard saying while breathing heavily and coughing and gagging. He must have died right after he finished this recording...
"Remember...kids...don't feed...the Yao...Ga...agh..." Three Dog continued to say as he let out a dying moan.
Four Dog fell to his knees after the message ended crying.
"He...he...sent me away...to save me..." Four Dog cried out loud. The LW patted Four Dog on his back trying to comfort him.
"Come on...we gotta go..." Fawkes said ruining the emotional moment. "Lets...lets go..." Four Dog said wiping off the tears on his face. Winthrop mumbled something under his breath which nobody noticed.
"The best way to hide something...is in clear sight." The LW, and the others, and Four Dog left the outside of Underworld and went back to the vertibird.
1:35 PM...
"So...where are we going?" Four Dog asked who was in the back of the vertibird.
"We're going to the Citadel. Where you'll be safe." The LW said. Four Dog remained quiet afterwards. They had passed the Washington Monument when Fawkes noticed something.
"Guys? Theres Enclave down there...they are entering the Monument!" Fawkes said alarmed.
"Their entering the monument?!?" The LW said surprised.
"The Enclave would never be foolish to enter a area that was so guarded by brotherhood of steel." Apathy said.
"Someone needs to go down there..." Fawkes said.
"...I'll go." The LW said after a minute of hovering above the monument.
"But...you are the only one who can pilot a vertibird..." Fawkes said.
"Four Dog...come over here..." The LW said. "I'm going to teach you how to fly this...and you have to get to the citadel...no matter what." The LW said.
"You're going to teach me how to fly this?!?" Four Dog asked surprised.
"Yes...it is actually pretty simple..." The LW said.
After ten minutes of teaching and five minutes of test flying...1:50 PM...
"Okay...I think I got it..." Four Dog said at the commands of the vertibird.
"Alright...now get closer to the ground...I'm going to get out...you will fly to the citadel...where you'll be safe from all the bullshit. Elder Lyons will know what to do next." The LW said. Four Dog lowered the vertibird behind the Washington Monument. The LW jumped out of the vertibird and landed on the ground alright. The LW sneaked around the wall that was around the Monument to where the gate was. The gate was closed. They must have gotten in by dropping from a Vertibird. The LW thought as he entered the password to the gate. The gate slid open the LW quickly ran into the monument.
Inside the Monument...1:56 PM...
The Enclave had set up something on the base level of the Monument. The LW not thinking about it quickly ran into the elevator and waited for it to go up. When it got up the LW had his Chinese Assault Rifle out ready for anything. He was shocked what he saw. A huge Enclave soldier with a different type of power armor. There was some letters on the side of the power armor. It read..."Bombshell". The word bombshell bounced around the LW's thoughts until he thought of something. Those things on the base level...explosives. Shit. The LW thought realizing that the man who had bombshell written on his armor was a explosive expert.
"Welcome LW...to your grave." The man said. A vertibird rose up to the top of the monument facing the LW. The bombshell soldier clicked a button and beeping started to be heard. The LW shot at the soldier but the bullets did no effect to the man and he only smiled at the LW. Where the fuck did they get bullet proof armor? The LW thought angrily. The Vertibird rotated and opened its side door. The bombshell soldier jumped through the hole in the Washington Monument into the vertibird unscathed. The other soldiers continued to jump to the vertibird. One soldier was left and he tried to jump to the vertibird but the LW grabbed onto him and dragged him back. The beeping started to get faster. The vertibird flew away quickly as the Monument was about to explode. The LW threw the soldier out of the Monument where the vertibird used to be. The soldier fell. The soldier ended up falling, full speed right into the wall that was around the monument. Due to the soldier falling full speed was split in half when he hit the wall as the wall was made nothing but sharp scrap metal. This was a deadly combination.
2:03 PM...
The beeping from the explosives at the base of the monument got even faster until a huge explosion was heard. The explosives took out the bottom of the Washington Monument. It became more unstable, and then unable to stand up anymore. The Washington Monument began to lean to the right. The LW was holding to the elevator door for dear life. The Washington Monument toppled to the ground fastly and it hit the ground crumbling. The LW was unable to be seen. There was nothing but a pile of rubble. The gate that led to the Washington Monument was also destroyed. The LW was somewhere...in that pile of rubble. Alive...unlikely...Dead...likely. But nobody knows. Wastelanders who were scavenging ruins and was going to GNR had heard the explosion. They came all around the monument. And mourned. As two heroes that they cherished. Were dead. Hell...just got a lot worse.
2:30 PM...
"I still say we should have stayed at the Citadel..." Fawkes said in the vertibird.
"Look..I have a instinct...and that instinct tells me that something is wrong with the LW..." Four Dog said at the pilot seat.
"I sense it too..." Apathy said.
"Oh my god..." Four Dog said while the vertibird was approaching where the Washington Monument used to be.
"Its...destroyed..." Fawkes said stunned.
"First Three Dog, then the Washington Monument and the LW... they like destroying peoples' hope don't they?" Apathy said grimly.
"Shut up Apathy...you don't know that if the LW was..." Fawkes stopped as he saw something in the rubble. A Chinese Assault Rifle that was snapped in half. "
He...he...hes...dead..." Fawkes said sadly.
"He can't be...I've heard the legend of the LW...hes been through so much...just to die here?" Four Dog said out loud.
"We...have...to at least dig his body out..." Fawkes said. Four Dog landed the vertibird near the pile of rubble. Everyone got out and started to look around in the pile of rubble. Fawkes picked up the snapped in half assault rifle and shed a tear on it. As the LW's game...was finally over. But then Fawkes began to shakes his head. "No...the LW I know...wouldn't die from this...he can't be dead..." Fawkes said shaking his head furiously holding the broken assault rifle.
"The possibilities of him surviving this...are very low...even for the LW..." Apathy said.
"They won...all hope is lost...the Enclave...has won..." Fawkes said kneeling down looking at the pile of rubble.
In a Vertibird somewhere...2:34 PM...
"Very good squad 23471. Eden would have been proud. Colonel out!" A voice was heard saying from the radio that was in the vertibird. The soldiers were looking out of the window of the vertibird laughing.
"Ha ha...everyone is so sad and depressed that their heroes have died...we could take the whole wasteland right now!" The first soldier said cheerfully.
"Ha...so filled with confidence just because the LW died..." The second soldier said.
"Are you fucking kidding me? You don't think there isn't another vault dweller somewhere out there just LIKE the LW?" The third soldier asked. The forth soldier who was the one who had bombshell written on his armor was saying nothing until...
"He isn't dead." The fourth soldier otherwise known as "Bombshell" soldier said.
"Are you serious? We all saw him get crushed under all that rubble from the Washington Monument." The first soldier remarked surprised at "Bombshell" 's comment.
"If he did die because of that...we wasted our time." Bombshell continued to remark at their comments.
"Hey I'm fucking happy. That fucking tesla cannon wielding bastard is finally dead, or crushed by rubble. I can finally sleep at night without worrying about a fucking tesla shot fly over my head." The crazed pilot said stepping into the discussion. He is still alive...I know it. Bombshell thought to himself as the vertibird soared to a unknown destination.
Elsewhere...
The Enclave soldier was waking up in a cage.
"What the hell?" The soldier said outloud. The Enclave soldier tried to get up but something was weighing him down. That was when he realized it. He had a metal collar around his neck like a slave collar. "Mother...FUCKER!!!" The soldier screamed as he smacked the ground so hard his hands bled. The soldier tried to get up but he was too hungry and energy depraved he couldn't. Just then someone said something.
"Time to eat you piece of meat." A man said who looked like a raider said as he scooped something into the cage. The soldier went near the substance and was appauled. It was brahmin shit.
"Fuck." He said out loud again angrily. He looked at the shit and then almost cried. He picked up some of the shit and shoveled it into his mouth using all of his energy to prevent himself from puking. He ate all of it. He was too hungry not too. He then looked around. His armor was gone, his weapons, his food, his valubales, his caps, and everything else was all gone. He was in nothing but a bloody slave vest and pants. The slave who had this must have tried to escape. The soldier thought as he saw a bit of brains still on the vest. I'm probably going to be here a while. The soldier continued to think. I don't even know who I am anymore I guess this is karma coming back at me shoving its boot up my ass. The soldier thought as he saw slavers everywhere and only a few slaves. They were either dead, or dying. "This...is hell." The soldier said outloud.
End of Chapter 10 All Hope is Lost
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Yep. Part 2 of my big update that I figured I'd should split in two. As always please review.