Chapter 50 The Blood Joining, and The Outcasts

"What the hell is that thing?" Atom asked, pointing to the roach-bird in the sky.

"I can apparently create hybrids of creatures. As... I created... that thing." Tod said, pointing at the roach-bird, that was having some problems flying. The roach-bird's shell made it hard for it to fly.

"Hey... that could prove... useful... I'll be back... perhaps... you could create a soldier for me..." Atom laughed, he then disappeared in a flash of atomic light.

Atom looked up at the roach-bird.

"If they can create wicked things to destroy, and kill... so can I..." Tod said, then he also disappeared in a flash of light.

Vault 87...
Genius was in his room, preparing to leave the Vault. This time, I'm never coming back. Genius thought. Just then two super mutant warriors entered the room.

"We heard you were leaving." One of the Warriors said.

"We won't let you. Smart one." The second warrior said.

"Hmph. I'm leaving this place... whether you like it or not." Genius barked.

"Ha. You and what... err... what... you and what... agh. Forgot how it went..." The first warrior said.

"The word you are looking for is army. And I'm not just a smart one. I can kick both of your asses." Genius threatened. Both of the warriors exchanged comical glances.

"HA! That's... poor? No that isn't how it went..." The first warrior muttered.

"WILL YOU SHUT UP?!?" The second warrior yelled.

"HOW ABOUT YOU MAKE ME?!?" The first warrior yelled. Just then the two warriors bursted into a fit of rage and began to beat each other and they both completely forgot about Genius. Genius looked down and shook his head in ashamed of his fellow mutant brothers. Eventually they beat each other to death, with all of the other mutants watching, and joining in. Genius walked away from the room and began to leave the Vault.

Most of the other super mutants were distracted by the fight between the two warriors and went to go watch, and some of them jumped in. Genius couldn't believe how easy it actually was to just leave the Vault with higher than average intelligence to outsmart the super mutants.

He left the Vault through the main entrance. The main entrance was flooded with radiation, but due to Genius' abilities as a super mutant he could easily open the Vault door and leave. He closed the door behind him using the door terminal outside of the Vault door. He stared at the Vault door, and swore, that he would never come back. The only reason he did come back was that Megaton wouldn't let him in because of being a super mutant.

He began to march towards Megaton. If they wouldn't let him in, he would break the door down this time.

The Blood Tower... three hours after the LW began the first step of the joining...
"So... he told you all of the times he spilled blood? And... it took three hours?" Jenkins asked, the Blue Blood Brother, who was in charge of preparing the joining for new members of the BoB.

"Well... uh... we've..." The Joining Manager Blood Brother stuttered.

"What?" Jenkins asked.

"According to everything he's told me... and if all of his tales are true... he's spilled more blood than you." The Joining Manager Blood Brother said.

"Wait, WHAT?!? How can that be possible??? I've been in the wasteland all of my life! He's only been out here for a couple of years! Hell, the only one who even came close to passing me was Jason! That freak." Jenkins muttered. He just then felt a chill down his spine as he thought he felt a tip of a machete on his neck, but then when he turned around, there was nobody.

"Yeah, he freaks me out everytime I see him... he's worse than Mute... all he does is stand there and look at you." The Joining Manager Blood Brother said. Then the joining manager blood brother handed a packet of paper to Jenkins that detailed every killing and violent act of the LW.

Jenkins skimmed through it, and his eyes widened even more every page.

"For the love of the Yao Guai! He ripped a guy's eyes out and made him eat them... what kind of person does that...?" Jenkins said shocked.

"Well... we should go and continue with the LW's joining." The Joining Manager Blood Brother said. They walked into the suite where the LW was waiting.

"So... how'd I do?" The LW asked.

"You... made BoB history. You've spilled more blood than... EVERYONE else in the Brotherhood." The Joining Manager Blood Brother said. Just then Jenkins let out an angry cough, to indicate he wasn't happy with how the joining manager just said that.

"Anyways... it's time to drink a few gallons of blood, that we've let sit out for a few days." Jenkins said, putting a rather large jug of blood on the table. The blood from the jug had a rancid scent coming off of it.

"Pft... that's nothing. I'm an honorary member of "The Family". A few gallons of old blood ain't nothing." The LW said mockingly.

"Pah... they drink the blood because their body has grown accustomed to it and their leader fills them with ideas about that retarded vamprisim shit... and they think they need it. We, worship the blood, and drink it because it makes us stronger." The Joining Manager Blood Brother said. The LW stood up and picked up the huge jug of blood and tilted his head back and began to drink from the jug.

"My Yao Guai! Most of the new members have usually choked, or gagged by now!" The Joining Manager Blood Brother said. The LW finished the jug and slammed it onto the table.

"Done." The LW said. He licked the blood from his mouth. A minute before he had started drinking a initiate had walked by the suite and began to watch the LW. When the LW finished and didn't have a reaction to drinking a gallon and a half of blood the initiate puked.

"Now if I remember correctly I have to drink Yao Guai blood?" The LW asked.

"Y-yeah... just a small vial of it though... with that... you'll be a member of the Brotherhood of Blood." Jenkins said.

"Err... actually... with all the blood he has spilled and how well he did drinking from the blood jug... on his first try... he would actually be a elder... or hell... the leader." The Joining Manager Blood Brother said.

"Wait... WHAT?!? No, not under any circumstances he'd be leader." Jenkins yelled.

"Well... even though I'd like the position... I wouldn't be able to be the leader. I have other things to kill and other gallons of blood to spill... so I wouldn't be able to be leashed to the Blood Tower like Jenkins is. I mean... when was the last time you even spilled a little blood Jenkins?" The LW asked, challenging Jenkins.

"What... err... sure it's been a while but..." Jenkins was speechless.

"Well... uh... let's go... and... finish your joining LW..." The Joining Manager Blood Brother said awkwardly. Jenkins walked away, his face red with anger and rage. They walked to yet another suite, where there was only a dresser with a lock on it in the room. The Joining Manager walked up to the dresser and put a key in the lock and pulled the drawer open, and he received a smal vial of blood from it.

"Alright... Yao Guai blood. Here drink it..." The Joining Manager said.

"Wait... I thought it was a sin to kill a yao guai after... you become a member... so how do you get blood from them?" The LW asked.

"Well... we don't kill the yao guai. We see a already dead yao guai... we collect as much blood from it for the Joining process. Then we bury the Yao Guai's body, as a sign of respect." The Joining Manager said. The LW began to drink the Yao Guai blood. He handed the joining manager the empty vial, but he didn't take it.

"No... it is yours. To collect blood to drink... intiatites get one of these vials when they join... but as they become more skilled and more advanced they get bigger containers... Jason has a blood-jug already." The Joining Manager said.

"He... seems a little bit off..." The LW said.

"Oh, well when he came here, he had slaughtered four squads of Enclave outside of the Blood Tower... which was why we let him in without having to do the whole... trial. But now I should tell you of the Sins of the Brotherhood of Blood." The Joining Manager said.

"What are the Sins?" The LW asked curiously.

"The first sin... is to kill a Yao Guai or another BoB member... the punishment is death, the second sin... is to drink the blood of a Yao Guai after your joining... the punishment is banishment, the third sin... is to speak of heresy... to try to change the brotherhood's ways or traditions... the punishment... is to be hung from the Blood Tower and your corpse will be dropped from it to feed the Yao Guai, the fourth sin is to steal from the Brotherhood of Blood... the punishment is to have your hands get cut off and you will be thrown to the Mercy of the Yao Guai... which... there is none, the fifth sin is to ignore the orders of the higher ranked of the Brotherhood... unless, if that higher ranked is a betrayer...

The punishment for that is to be beaten with nail boards, and then you would be made to chew glass... the sixth sin... is..." The LW interrupted the Joining Manager.

"Is there... any second chances if you commit one of these sins?' The LW asked.

"No. If a higher ranked saw you commit the sin or we prove that you did indeed sin... then you are guilty. However... just because you don't get caught... doesn't mean anything... eventually... your karma will punish you. Actually that brings me to the sixth sin. It is if you know about someone who has sinned... or have proof of the sinning... and you do not say anything then... well... we take a dagger, and stick it right through your cheek and out of the other side of your mouth, then we cut a piece of your tounge off... then we drip a little... irradiated water in your mouth... which will make the cut on your tongue burn... severely. Then you will be thrown to the mercy of the Yao Guai." Yet again the LW interrupted the joining manager.

"What exactly IS the Mercy of the Yao Guai?" The LW asked.

"Actually... I do believe we did catch a thief earlier before you arrived... come... we will leave the Joining level and go down to the basement... aka... the Hell level. If you commit a sin, you'll go to the hell... level." The Joining Manager said, they walked from the suite to the elevator and got in. The elevator began to descend down the tower.

The elevator eventually stopped, and it opened. The LW was startled when the door opened, as the walls were smeared in blood. The blood spelled out:

"All who enter here, abandon ye hope."

There were two Red Blood Brothers, and they had a badly beaten person in their grip.

"What... did he steal exactly?" The LW asked.

"Another Blood Brother's shoes." The Joining Manager said.

"Wait... shoes? You've beaten him badly because he tried to steal shoes?" The LW asked.

"Please... I walked the Wasteland barefoot for four days straight... I jumped at the sight of shoes..." The Sinner cried.

"The pain of walking for days barefoot, won't compare the pain we'll inflict if you don't shut your fucking mouth." One of the Blood Punishers yelled. The sinner began to cry but then the other Blood Punisher slapped the sinner so hard, the tears from his face flew to the LW who was just standing there watching this.

"Why are you being so... harsh... on him?" The LW asked.

"Because, even the small sinners have the potential to commit the greater sins. We have to set an example to make the others not sin." The Joining Manager said. Just then one of the Blood Punishers who took his cleaver from his back, chopped the sinner's hands off. He screamed and cried in pain, as the blood splattered onto the ground.

They then threw him through a makeshift metal door. The rest of the room was walled off by a makeshift metal wall. There was a hole in the makeshift metal wall for viewing purposes.

The LW looked through the hole, and so did the Joining Manager. The floor and walls beyond the makeshift wall were smeared in blood. There was a Giant Yao Guai who's head almost touched the ceiling. The Yao Guai was growling at the new Prey that was just thrown into its home.

The teeth of the Yao Guai were completely red with blood. Behind the Yao Guai, pushed up against the wall were bloodied corpses, missing heads, legs, and arms. There was a fresh corpse that sat up against the wall. The fresh corpse was in Enclave armor and it had no head, or neck at all. The LW saw a chewed, saliva covered, Enclave helmet on the ground in the center of the room. The helmet was like a aluminum can chewed up by a dog.

The sinner was on his knees, crying, he was litterally in a growing puddle of tears. The Yao Guai sniffed its Prey.

"It sniffs the sinners to judge the sinner. Some people are eaten completely, some people lose arms, legs, their own head... there was only one person who survived." The Joining Manager said.

"Survived? How? And who?" The LW asked.

"The Yao Guai actually judged the person, and it didn't growl, or attack the person... and that person... was Mute, who we caught stealing a bit of food a few days ago... that day we had a lot of Sinners, so we didn't have time to chop his hands off, so we just threw him in there... the Yao Guai sniffed him and he returned to where it slept and it went back to sleep, as in... it didn't think Mute should have been punished. He stayed around, so we thought... he wanted to join the Brotherhood, he went through the joining, except he didn't do the first step as... he's Mute." The Joining Manager said.

The Yao Guai looked at the sinner, and the growled.

"See. The Yao Guai, has judged the sinner." The Joining Manager said. The Yao Guai roared at the Sinner, who was still crying in his overflowing puddle of tears. The Yao Guai bit off the Sinner's arms and ate them. The sinner then began to run around the room frantically because his arms were gone.

More and more blood poured out from where the Sinner's arms used to be until he finally fell to the floor and died because of blood loss. The giant Yao Guai picked up the sinner's corpse with its teeth in its mouth. It shredded the corpse into bloody pieces with its razor sharp teeth.

"And... the judgement is done. The sinner has been punished. And... Mercy has eaten for the day, as that's about the fourth or fifth one already." The Joining Manager said.

"Wow... why... is it so big?" The LW asked.

"Well... it was the Alpha male of a pack of Yao Guai we found behind the tower... it was bigger than a normal yao guai then... so we tamed it... and brought it here in the basement. It ate more sinners... and... it grew into what it is today." The Joining Manager said.

"It... grew a little too big for just eating sinners..." The LW said.

"Actually... we found a barrel of toxic waste in the basement... and when we brought the yao guai down here... it ate the whole barrel. It grew with every bite." The Joining Manager said.

The yao guai retreated into the back part of the room, to continue its nap. It slept somewhat peacefully, considering it just ate a whole human being... well, except for his hands.

"So... is there anymore sins?" The LW asked.

"Yes... the seventh and final sin... is betrayal. If you are a member of our order... and if you try to end the Brotherhood... or give us to the Enclave then you will wish you were dead before the end of the punishment... you don't want to know what happened to the last guy who tried to betray us. First if the member had any family at all, we find them and the traitor. We then kill the traitor's family, and make him watch. Then we made our way to the traitor... first we chopped his legs off, made him eat them, piece by piece, we made sure he didn't bleed out and miss out on the rest of the punishment, then we remove the bandages that we covered his legs in, and then we drip acid onto them... then we break his arms, slowfully, and painfully.

"Then... we set him adrift in the basin, on a raft made of old wood. We put several gas canisters on his chest, and the raft. Then we take a fireball shooter... otherwise known as to some... a heavy incenerator, we shoot a fireball right at the raft. If the traitor somehow survives the flames... he will then have to deal with the water... and even then if he somehow makes it out of the water with no legs, and broken arms... he'll bleed out due to his wounds on his legs. Either way... he dies painfully. Burning alive, drowning, waiting to die by bleeding out, these are the worst ways to die. We then retrieve his body, and remove his head. His head, we hang, so the members could mock him even in death, and his body, we sell to cannibals, so the filth is consumed by other filth. These are the seven sins. Abide by them... or you will end up like them..." The Joining Manager pointed at the corpses in the Giant Yao Guai's pen.

"Wow. That... would suck. Is there anything more for me to know or..." The Joining Manager interrupted the LW.

"Well... I haven't told you The Oath of Blood." The Joining Manager coughed, and prepared to recite the Oath of Blood.

"For those who choose to seek us out, we welcome them... if they are friendly. For those who seek to kill us, we welcome them as well... as we will paint our tower with their entrails."

"We were once called the Friends of the Yao Guai. We had to change our ways, once the Enclave came... we are now the BoB, the Brotherhood of Blood."

"The Yao Guai, are Gods. They are our friends. They shred the blood of their enemies, and of ours as well. They feed their young with the flesh of their enemies. We the BoB, are almost the same as our beastly brothers."

"We cannot feast upon the flesh of our enemies, as our enemies are the Enclave. Despite that they act like animals as they are today... it is still considered cannibalism. They have no mercy for anyone. They gun down the young, the innocent."

"Instead of eating the flesh of our enemies, like our friends, we drink the blood of them. We worship the yao guai and the blood, not where the blood came from, just the blood."

"Blood is our essence, our life. It runs through every alive thing, so who says it isn't our very life force? Don't we die if we lose too much of it? Coinicidence isn't it?"

"The Yao Guai, know that the Brotherhood of Blood our like them, and they respect us as much as we do them. They treat us like their friends, brothers."

"When we and the Guai are covered in our enemies' blood... we are one of the same..."

"We and the Guai... are Blood Brothers... and we swear to fight by them, abiding the laws of the Brotherhood of Blood."
The Joining Manager recited the Oath of Blood.

"Wow. That was... really long, and actually pretty convincing." The LW said, memorizing the Oath.

"Yes... well... I'll leave you now to look around, or leave with the others..." The Joining Manager said. "Oh... and here... I don't care what Jenkins says, you should be an Elder. The only Elders there are, are the people who were the original "Friends of the Yao Guai" and there isn't that many remaining alive ones." The Joining Manager, handed a silver amulet that was covered in blood, and had a Yao Guai etched in the silver. "It is a Amulet that the Elders wear, the amulets bring good luck." The Joining Manager said.

"Thank you... err... I don't even know your name." The LW said, taking the amulet, and putting it around his neck, the chain of the amulet was long so the amulet reached down to where the LW's chest, about where his heart was.

"My name...? It's Matt." The Joining Manager said.

"Ah, well thank you Matt." The LW said, he turned around to walk away, but Jason had suddenly appeared, blocking his path. "Uh... excuse me..." The LW said. Jason's voice shocked the LW, as it was one of the deepest he had ever heard, but it was appropiate for Jason's size. He was seven feet tall, his eyes were blood red, and his hair was blood red, as if he was a butcher who never washed his hair or wore a hat while he butchered things.

"That... amulet... you're an Elder? But I just watched you get initiated a minute ago." Jason said. The LW realized that Jason had been following them the whole time.

"He gave it to me for my long history of spilling blood..." The LW said.

"...that's funny. I've spilled blood by the gallon. And you're telling me... that YOU got a amulet, an initiate? Matt... I believe we need to have a little talk." Jason said.

"Err... look... you've spilled blood by just dragging random people to their blood soaked deaths... the LW spilled all that blood by just... going out into the wastes!" Matt defended himself. "We like members who can spill a lot of blood, sure... but we also like people who have a little control..." Matt said, just then in a blink of an eye, Jason's machete was not even an inch away from Matt's face.

"See, I have control. I could have just splattered your head against the wall... with my blade." Jason said.

"True, true. But you still need to have a little... can you please get the machete out of my face? A little control killing people. You can't just murder every random person you see..." Matt said.

"I cannot control myself when I get a hint of blood yes... but I can at least tell the difference between my allies and my enemies when I am frenzied." Jason said.

"Well... Jason... Jenkins told me that he was sending you along with me... so..." The LW stopped when Jason's glance turned from angry to murderous. "Err... remember... you can't kill another Brotherhood of Blood member." The LW said, to make sure he was going to walk out of the tower alive.

"Hmph. Fine. I'll go along with you. But. If the blood dries up... I'm leaving... or I'll spill your blood." Jason said.

"Trust me... there's a LOT of blood in war against the Enclave." The LW said. "Now I'm gonna go get Jeffery and Charon." The LW said. He walked to the elevator to go back to the floor where they were.

He was met by Mute when he stepped out of the elevator.

"Uh... yes?" The LW said, he had forgotten about Mute, after Matt had told him all about being a member of the Brotherhood of Blood.

"..."

"Do you want something?" The LW asked.

"..."

"..." The LW remained quiet. "Oh wait... you're Mute..." The LW remembered Mute, who he had met before his Joining. The LW walked by Mute and began to look for Charon and Jeffery. The LW didn't realize that Mute was still following him. The LW turned around and saw him there.

"Uh..." The LW couldn't think of anything to say to a person, who wouldn't acknoweledge him back. "Oh, do you want to come with me? Nod if you want to... shake your head if you don't." The LW said.

"..." Mute nodded.

"Oh... alright... do you know where Charon and Jeffery are?" The LW asked. Just then Mute pointed to the second suite on the left.

"Ah, thanks." The LW said. The LW and Mute went to the second suite on the left, to find Charon and Jeffery waiting for him.

"It looks like your joining went well." Jeffery said, pointing at the LW's amulet.

"Are we going?" Charon asked.

"Yes... and Mute says he wants to come with us... err well... he didn't say it but... you know what I mean." The LW said. Just then the LW had a feeling that there was someone behind him. The LW turned around to yet again see Jason who had just appeared without anyone knowing he was there.

"If we're leaving, then let's get on with it." Jason said. The LW wondered how Jason could move like that, considering his size.

"Y-y-yeah we're leaving..." The LW said, a little shooken at the thought that if Jason wanted, he could kill the LW in his sleep, and not even be noticed. The LW, Jeffery, Charon, and Jason left the blood tower, and they got in the LW's vertibird, on their way to Megaton, they flew over Fort Independence, which was the base of the Outcasts.

"Careful. Fort Independence is a dangerous place, the Brotherhood will shoot anyone on sight." Jeffery said.

"Brotherhood? Don't you mean Outcasts?" The LW asked.

"No... when the Enclave took the remaining Brotherhood of Steel members, the Outcasts began to say that they were the Brotherhood of Steel. They also said "Now that the garbage was gone, they were no longer Outcasts." So they changed their name and began to shoot anyone on sight." Charon explained.

"They shoot anyone on sight. Nobody has even got a foot from the entrance alive, as they scavenged everything from the Citadel, meaning that all that Enclave tech the Brotherhood had collected was now owned by the Outcasts. Meaning that they have twice the power that they did before." Jeffery said. "Speaking of that... it looks like we're in for a bumpy landing." Jeffery said, as he noticed an Outcast, shooting a missle at the LW's vertibird. The missle hit one of the Vertibird's wings, the Vertibird went into a tail spin, and went spiraling down, away from Fort Independence. The Vertibird collided with the ground, and flames erupted from the Vertibird. The LW and the others grabbed their stuff and ran out of the Vertibird.

They were now ten or so yards away from Fort Independence.

"Everyone still in one piece?" The LW coughed.

"Yeah... now how are we going to get back to Megaton?" Jeffery asked.

"Well... perhaps we should try to get into Fort Independence and get them to help us, considering they did blow the Vertibird up in the first place..." The LW suggested.

"They shoot anyone on sight." Jeffery said, repeating himself.

"We still should try... come on!" The LW yelled, he suddenly dashed towards the entrance to Fort Independence.

"Are you crazy?!? Fuck that... I'm not entering until it's safe... err wait..." Jeffery began to look for an ideal sniping spot. Jason used his stealth to avoid the gunfire and to follow the LW. Charon, ran in with the LW being forced to due to the contract.

Jeffery, was not shooting to kill, but to disarm. He aimed at the Outcasts' weapons, then he fired, knocking the weapon out of their hands, and damaging it at the same time.

Jason, was knocking Outcasts out when he snuck behind them.

Charon was shooting at them, but not to kill either, just to wound. Mute was shooting at them as well.

The LW was just making a dash towards the door. When they had knocked out, or disabled all the Outcasts, the LW banged at the door.

"Casadin! I know you're in there! I supplied the Outcasts with I don't even know how much Enclave tech so you better let me the fuck in!" The LW yelled, pounding at the door. Just then the LW heard the door unlock.

Elsewhere...
"GOD DAMN IT! JUST TELL US WHAT WE WANT TO FUCKING KNOW!" Summer yelled, bandaging his wounds from catching a Yao Guai, a Deathclaw, and a Mirelurk King. Woran looked at the caged captive mole rats, the Yao Guai, the Deathclaw, and the Mirelurk King.

"Hmm... I'll consider it." Woran said. Summer had enough of Woran's games. He pulled out his flamer and began to shoot fire at the Watcher, otherwise known as Woran. But as soon as he began to shoot fire, Woran dissapeared and Summer's efforts were wasted.

"ARGHHHHH!!!" Summer yelled frustrated.

"Watcher! Get back here! A deal is a deal!" Spring yelled.

"I... I just captured a Yao Guai, a Mirelurk King, and a Deathclaw... AND WE DIDN"T EVEN GET ANYTHING OUT OF IT!!! FUCK!" Summer yelled.

"We can't find him... and our eyebots can't find him... and if we return here, he will be somewhere else, invisible." Spring said. Spring coughed. "Let's go." Spring said. Summer and Spring left the Citadel's Ruins, and went back to the Winter base.

Elsewhere... in Atom and Tod's hidden cavern.
"Sometimes, I wonder if I'm wrong. If... I shouldn't kill everything, I shouldn't sacrifice everything just to fufill my dream of a no-Enclave world... but then... I remember my life... all my life I thought the Enclave killed my family... but the truth... hurt a lot more. To know that you are the son of something... so unholy, so evil... it burns you up inside... so much... that you will do anything... to get revenge." Tod ranted, while creating a new type of creature.

"Yes... this will do just fine... I feel that I have... failed though... as I could have done so much better..." Tod said, walking backwards, to have a better look at his creation. Tod then picked up a large strip of human meat.

"Here... eat, my creation... eat..." Tod said. He dropped the piece of human meat on the ground, for the creature. The creature practically leaped at the strip of meat, it ripped through it with it's razor sharp teeth.

"So... you created this?" Atom asked, just now appearing in the cavern.

"Yes... I could have done much better though... but it will do for now... I have an eye on a excellent specimen... however... getting it here may be a bit of a problem..." Tod petted, his newly born abomination.

"So how'd you make this... thing?" Atom asked.

"I combined a Yao Guai, a Deathclaw, and a Feral Ghoul..." Tod said. "This one is more Yao Guai than anything." Tod said. "I call it... a Tri-brid." Tod laughed.

The Tribrid had the strength and speed of a Yao Guai, it had the skin of a Feral Ghoul and it could speak and scream, instead of it's back legs had paws, but it's front legs had the claws of a deathclaw. The Tribrid could stand up and claw their enemies into pieces in a second. It had the strength and the speed of a Yao Guai, a Deathclaw, and a Feral Ghoul combined.

"I shall call it... a Feral Beast..." Tod said.

Elsewhere... in Fort Independence...
"Why are you here?" Casadin asked the LW.

"Because. You shot down my FUCKING VERTIBIRD. I wasn't just going to walk past Fort Independence forgetting that. I want a new vertibird, and I KNOW you scavenged the Citadel, so you Outcasts should have one." The LW said.

"WE'RE NOT OUTCASTS. Not anymore... with that piece of shit Lyons in some Enclave base dead... we are the remaining Brotherhood of Steel here. The true Brotherhood of Steel, who hadn't forgotten about their mission." Casadin objected to the LW's comment.

"He could still be alive." The LW said.

"HA! You don't think the Enclave would kill him the first second they got them in there?!?" Casadin asked. "Him being alive STILL is one of the most unlikely things that could ever happen." Casadin. The LW thought for a second.

"How about this. If I bring him back here from the Mountain Base, ALIVE, the Outcasts have to surrender their damn rivalry with Lyons' Brotherhood of Steel." The LW proposed.

"Pft... and what do we get if Lyons IS dead?" Casadin asked.

"I've collected a LOT of Enclave armor and weapons while I was out here in the Wastes... if Lyons is dead I'll bring it to your doorstep with your name on all of it." The LW said.

"Err... LW... maybe you shouldn't make that bet." Jeffery suggested. Despite Jeffery's concern the LW and Casadin had completely ignored him.

"Deal. Bring my Enclave armor and weapons soon, or make sure someone sends it after you die at the Mountain Base. Now, please, get the fuck out of here. One of my men will fly a Vertibird out front for you..." Casadin said angrilly. Vertibirds weren't easy to come by, and he was sure to hear something from his Outcasts about it. The LW, Mute, Jeffery, Charon, and Jason, all left Fort Independence in their new Outcast Vertibird.

They flew to Megaton.

At the Mountain Base...
"Argh... damn it... how long has it been since they brought us here?" Elder Lyons asked in the Enclave prison.

"I... I've lost count." One of the other Brotherhood of Steel Paladins said. They were all in colorless prison suits. Most of the people in the prison were mind controlled slaves from the wasteland. They put them in the prison when WEATHER was finished, as they had no other use for them. They did use a few of them as target practice, and slaves to make weapons in the factory building.

"We're all doomed. We're never gonna leave this place... they only keep us around to mock and beat us... I tried to hang myself last night using my suit but... some damn Enclave prison guard came, and stopped me before I could kill myself." Another Paladin complained.

"The LW's still out there... my daughter is still out there... they'll try to get us out..." Elder Lyons said.

"What are you going fucking senile? It's been weeks!" The Paladin who tried to kill himself yelled.

"SHUT UP PALADIN! We may be out of the Citadel, but he's still your Elder!" Rothchild yelled.

"By now... they've proabably taken everything over... Rivet City, Girdershade, Arefu, Cantebury Commons, Tenpenny Tower, Paradise Falls, Megaton, everything. Hell maybe they even did us a favor and got rid of those damn Outcasts... or brainwashed them." Another Paladin said.

Elder Lyons looked at the wall, where he had scratched the emblem of the Brotherhood of Steel in the stone walls. The whole building was metal, but the cell's walls were stone, to make prisoners even more uncomfotable when they slept.

Maybe... they've forgotten about me. Maybe... we're not getting out of here. Elder Lyons thought.

End of Chapter 50 The Blood Joining, and The Outcasts


Ah, the Outcasts, the power armored, douchebags from the game. Will the LW go to the Mountain base and suceed? Will Mute ever talk? Will Tod create a super soldier for Atom? Would the Author of the story spoil his own story? No. Perhaps these questions will be answered next time. Also from now on I'm doing 6000 word chapters so... enjoy. Adios.