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Damian told Lyons and the others what he had seen in the base of the Enclave and how he had managed to destroy it. He voluntary did not mention the vial of FEV in his pocket. Everyone looked astonished when Damian mentioned that President Eden was not a human, but a pre-war A.I. which became self-aware. Rothchild, who had joined them, asked him many questions about the nature of Eden, but Lyons asked him to keep his questions for a later time.
Fawkes briefly took over when Damian mentioned that Vault 87 was the birthplace of the Super Mutants.
"We'll have to deal with that once we've taken care of the Enclave," Lyons said. "Now that we know where they come from, we can strike at the root."
"Yes, but for now, we have bigger problems. If we don't do anything, we're going to lose Project Purity," Damian said.
He was burning with anticipation. He felt that the end was near. He knew that taking the purifier would be a real bloodbath, but if the Enclave managed to get it up and running and had another sample of the modified FEV, then the Capital Wasteland would quickly become a giant mass grave.
"Follow me," said Lyons.
He gave a suspicious glance at Fawkes who slowly got up and stood behind Damian and followed him without saying a word. As he passed, the soldiers moved aside and glanced at him with mistrust, hatred, and curiosity. Some had never seen a Super Mutant so close, let alone one that hadn't already tried to rip their heads or guts off.
Lyons entered the Citadel's laboratory. Damian walked in and was stunned by what he saw.
The structure in the center of the laboratory no longer had the large white curtains and sheets he had seen when he had last been there. Instead, standing in the middle of the laboratory and surrounded by four steel pillars painted red, was a giant human shaped robot.
Damian descended the stairs to find himself at the feet of the enormous machine.
Cumulating at a height of 12 meters, the machine was grey whit heavy steel armor covering his chest, shoulders, wrists and ankles. His head was oval, with only a blue line where the eyes should have been. On the right shoulder, a red star in a white circle was painted.
"Wow..." Damian whispered.
"Impressive, huh?"
Damian turned his head. Sarah stood next to him and smiled proudly.
"What the hell is that thing?" Damian asked.
"Let me explain."
Rothchild stood between him and the robot. A small hint of pride pierced through his eyes.
"This, is Liberty Prime."
"Did… Did you build that thing?" Damian asked with his eyes glued to the robot.
Rothchild laughed and shook his head.
"No, no one today is capable of building such a thing. Liberty Prime was built before the Great War, to repel the Chinese invasion of Alaska. Unfortunately for him, no one was able to make it work and he has been here until we found him about 30 years ago."
Rothchild observed a short pause, allowing Damian to imagine what a giant robot like this one would have performed in the Anchorage simulation.
"This little marvel of technology is our secret weapon," resumed Rothchild. "Since the Enclave took Project Purity and you escaped with the Purifier scientists, Doctor Li and I have been trying to get it working again."
"And it will allow us to take back the purifier?" Damian asked.
"Well...,"
Rothchild looked at Lyons who had stayed on the bridge.
"It's pretty complicated, let's just say..."
Lyons cleared his throat and all activity in the lab ceased. The soldiers lined up and stood at attention.
"Brothers and Sisters of the Brotherhood, comrades of the Reilly's Rangers," Lyons said. "We are at the edge of a battle that will determine the fate of the Capital Wasteland. Our enemy, the Enclave is in possession of Project Purity and we will take it back."
He watched the soldiers face him in silence.
"I won't hide from you that this will be a perilous undertaking and many of us will not return. Thanks to the young son of James and Catherine Franklin, the architects of Project Purity, we know that the Enclave no longer has a base."
A slight wave of satisfied exclamations rose.
"However," Lyons resumed, waving his men quietly. "All the Enclave lack now is the activation code of the purifier, and it's probably only a matter of time before they discover it and activate the purifier."
He observed silence and turned to his daughter.
"Sentinel Lyons."
Sarah stepped forward and stood at attention.
"You and the Pride will lead the assault. But you will have access to support. Scribe Rothchild."
"Elder?" replied the scribe as he stepped forward.
"Is it ready?"
"No, I mean yes, but... Diagnostic tests were not very conclusive, although Li and I were able to solve the power supply problems. Prime isn't ready for field tests yet, let alone combat."
"Can you make it work or not?" barked Lyons.
"I can try," Rothchild answered shyly.
All eyes were on him as he headed for the main terminal. He activated the computer. Nothing happened and Damian could hear whispers of disappointment and frustration around him. If pre-war America was unable to figure how to make a machine such as Liberty Prime, it would be an impossible task for the Brotherhood.
Rothchild mumbled to himself and tried again.
The robot rumbled and a deep voice thundered and shook the walls of the Citadel.
"Liberty Prime is online. All systems nominal. Weapons hot. Mission: The destruction of any and all Chinese Communists and the liberation of Anchorage, Alaska."
The voice was so powerful that Damian felt it resonate in his chest cavity.
Suddenly, a tremor shook the laboratory. All soldiers, and scribes looked at each other. Lyons turned towards the door leading to the courtyard and saw a soldier running at him.
"What's happening?"
"Elder, the Enclave are shelling this bank of the Potomac!"
"Looks like they won't wait for us to attack," spat Sarah.
Lyons faced the soldiers in the laboratory.
"Get back to your units, soldiers! Sentinel Lyons, I want your men on the front! You, he added to the soldier next to him. Make sure our sentries on the roof have enough ammo and AA capacity! Now!"
The soldier stood at attention and rushed outside, while a second detonation resounded above their head.
Damian looked around him. All the soldiers were running toward the exit. He had seen many pictures of soldiers going off to war or on the eve of a great battle, but he never imagined he would see them with his own eyes, let alone take part in them. He felt fear growing inside him. It was different from the fear he had felt in the Wasteland, when he walked through the dark tunnels of the subway or the ruins of D.C. looking for his father. He felt a hand on his arm. He turned around and saw Sarah standing beside him.
"Come on, I'll explain you the plan on the way."
Damian nodded and followed the young woman and the Pride soldiers in one of the corridors. Behind them, an alarm began to sound. Orange lights, installed on the pillars surrounding Liberty Prime, began to flash. A hatch above the robot opened and let in daylight.
"We'll set up a defensive perimeter on the outskirts of the Citadel, while the robot is lifted out," explained Sarah. "We expect the robot to do all the dirty work, but it looks like it will need some help."
They continued toward the exit and walked pass some other Brotherhood units.
"The Enclave have set up MG nests and snipers between the FSK bridge and the purifier. We'll have some support unit on this bank to suppress their troop while we advance with Liberty Prime."
She glanced at Damian for a second.
"I won't lie to you. It will be harder and bloodier than everything you've experienced so far, and if you want to…"
"I'm all in," Damian replied.
Sarah nodded and smiled.
"We wanted to make this all official and stuff, but we lack time right now."
"What do you mean?" asked Damian.
"We, my father and I, had a talk about you, and we have decided that, regarding everything you've done for the Brotherhood, you'd be granted an honorary membership of our Chapter."
"I… That's…"
"I also talked to my men," cut Sarah off. "And we all agreed that you should also become part of the Pride. Congratulations, Knight Franklin."
"Welcome aboard, buddy," Damian heard behind him.
He looked at Sarah and the others and smiled shyly.
"We'll celebrate later, and you can thank us by buying some beer once we are finished. Right now, we need to give you some armor," said the Sentinel. "Each Brotherhood Knight and Pride member receives T-45 power armor but given the short time we have and the training it takes to wear one, this privilege will have to wait until after the battle."
On their way, they crossed Reilly and her men getting ready for battle.
"Looks like it's going to be way harder than in Vernon," said Brick as she loaded her minigun.
"All you have to do, is set up defensive positions on the banks and we wait for the Brotherhood to start their robot," said Reilly.
"Easier said than done," murmured Butcher.
Damian and Sarah stopped as they approached them.
"Hey, Franklin. Seems like destroying their base made those assholes really pissed," said Reilly.
She looked at him from head to toe and realized that he was not wearing any armor.
Before Damian could explain, he saw Butcher removing his breastplate and handing it to him.
"Here, take mine," the Rangers medic said.
"Are you sure?" asked the young man.
"Take it. I'm still not fully fit for combat and I'd be more useful at the rear treating the wounded than on the front with my SMG. Speaking of which, can you guys show me where you plan to install your triage center?"
"Yes, Kodiak, show him."
A tall African American man in power armor approached and motioned to Butcher to follow him while Donovan helped Damian put on the armor who immediately felt at ease.
"Okay, guys, you stay with Franklin and the Brotherhood and you follow the Sentinel's orders," said Reilly to her two remaining subordinates.
"Colvin, I want you, Dusk and Gallows to set up at a window and provide sniper fire," ordered Sarah to some of her men. "Glade, you set up on the bank with the Ranger girl and you suppress the enemy. Watch for their Vertibird. If you see one coming in for a gun run, you shoot it."
They all looked at each other and nodded.
"Great, you all know what you have to do. Let's rock!"
They all left the corridor toward the courtyard.
Outside, they could hear gunfire and explosions. In the courtyard, a large construction crane lifted the robot above the Citadel. Damian noticed that the Vertibird he had stolen, had been pushed aside and was already being inspected by a group of scribes.
They heard a loud crash and turned toward the main gate of the Citadel. The robot had just entered the wall and concrete blocks were falling off and onto the floor.
The soldier in the crane cab backed the machine up and lifted the robot even higher this time, over the roof and onto the street.
Damian went through the big door. Unmentionable chaos reigned. Never since the Anchorage simulation had he seen such an outburst of violence. On the bank, facing the buildings across the river, several Brotherhood soldiers, were taking cover behind the field or a wrecked car, and were firing at the Enclave troops. Damian saw several Brotherhood soldiers, behind a rusty car shooting at a Vertibird unloading a group of Enclave soldiers.
On the bridge, the Enclave had troops stationed, and they were firing towards the Citadel gate and throwing grenades to the soldiers approaching the bridge a little too close.
The Vertibird swarmed around them, landing, dropping several squads of enemy soldiers and taking off to provide fire support. Explosions thundered everywhere, and from time to time a sheaf of earth or water would appear where a shell had hit.
Damian, Sarah, the Rangers, Fawkes and Brotherhood soldiers rushed to the rocks in front of the Citadel main door. They managed to take cover and began to retaliate.
Damian looked over his shoulder and saw that the robot was slowly being put on the ground. He turned toward the opposite bank of the Potomac and raised his assault rifle over his cover and shot.
"What the hell's the robot doing? It ain't movin'!
Damian looked in the direction of Liberty Prime. The giant robot was inert. Tiny sparks flashed on his chest or head when a bullet or laser beam crashed into his armor.
A Vertibird passed over the river. It swung around and started firing at the door and at Prime with his heavy machineguns. The soldiers took cover behind the machine while a small handful of them were torn apart by the shots.
Liberty Prime finally moved. Its head followed the Vertibird's movements and its big voice thundered again.
"Initiating directive 7395: Destroy all Communists!"
The blue stripe on its head gradually lit up and a blue ray glowed from it. The ray flew to the Vertibird and severed one of its wings. The aircraft began a series of spins and ended its course in the river, lifting a huge sheaf of water in its fall.
"Engaging Communist targets! China will fall! Democracy will win!"
Liberty Prime swung to the side and began to walk, the ground trembling with each step. Its laser beam fired again and again, vaporizing the soldiers of the Enclave on the bridge or turning them into a human torch.
Damian exchanged a half-terrified, half-fascinated look with Sarah. They were all happy that Liberty Prime was on their side. The robot approached the bridge, its big voice spreading anti-communist propaganda. Almost all of the Enclave soldiers were now focusing their fire on it, but no projectile seemed to seriously damage or stop it
Fear had disappeared. Seeing this giant robot, insensitive to the Enclave's fire, and capable of destroying a Vertibird in a single shot, Damian felt that victory would only be a matter of time. Liberty Prime would act as a steamroller and pave the way to the Jefferson Memorial, and all the forces of the Enclave that stood in its way would be destroyed. Damian would only have to follow the huge machine and once inside the purifier, he could take on Autumn and the rest of the Enclave's surviving troops.
A rocket whistled and fell on Prime's head, which came to rest. Damian feared he had thought too quickly. Prime was motionless and seemed to have shut down. Suddenly, the robot turned to face one of the buildings across the river. A second rocket whistled but just missed him and ended up in the ruins behind him.
Liberty Prime activated its laser beam. The beam hit the building hard and part of the facade collapsed. Prime put its right hand behind its back and grabbed a large oval-shaped, beige object. Prime raised its left arm towards the building and pointed its index finger at the hole in the façade. It cocked its right arm and stayed there for a fraction of a second.
Seeing Prime taking this pose, Damian could not help but see an American football player ready to throw the ball. Prime threw the object in his hand towards the building. Damian had just enough time to realize that the object in question was a miniature nuclear warhead. He and his companions looked away and covered their ears when Sarah shouted at them to do so.
The warhead whistled and entered precisely through the hole in the front of the building before exploding. When he opened his eyes, Damian saw that the building was collapsing and that a small mushroom cloud was forming at the impact site.
"The Enclave troops on the bridge are retreating!" shouted one of the soldiers.
Damian turned his head toward the bridge and saw several human silhouettes on the bridge, running away to the opposite bank.
"Don't let them reorganize! Attack!"
The Brotherhood soldiers rushed toward the bridge. Damian followed Sarah, while behind them, Liberty Prime has started to cross the river
On the bridge, carnage laid before their eyes. Amidst the rusty wrecks of cars and the barricades set up by the Enclave, corpses littered the street. Bodies still crammed into power armor, shredded limbs, puddles of blood, skeletons burnt and still smoking, small piles of hot ashes. Prime walked through the chaos, paying no attention to anything in his path, whether it was a car, a wall of sandbags or a dead body.
Amidst the dead bodies and torn-off limbs, wounded Enclave soldiers crawled on the ground
Prime had already crossed the bridge in a few short strides and was now engaging Enclave troops on the other side. It turned its head on a group of Vertibird approaching him and prepared to send another warhead towards one of the aircraft.
Damian and the others took cover behind wrecked cars and sandbags, just before the group of Vertibird flew over them, all guns blazing. Slowly, Liberty Prime turned around and sent a warhead on the group of aircrafts.
Several others Vertibirds appeared and focused their fire on the giant robot, allowing the Brotherhood soldiers, Damian and his companions to cross the bridge.
On their way, they ran past wounded Enclave soldiers, screaming and crawling away, their legs torn off or crushed. Behind him, he could hear gunshots from Brotherhood soldiers, executing the wounded.
The road leading to Jefferson Memorial was blocked by debris from the collapsed building. Some of the Enclave soldiers were still sheltering in the ruins or behind the concrete mounds. At the end of the street, the Enclave had set up machinegun nests in a building. Several soldiers of the Brotherhood were hit by the hail of bullets that fell on them.
"Suppressive fire on that MG!" yelled Sarah.
Sheltered behind a wrecked car, Damian and the others started to fire at the building, waiting for Liberty Prime to finish destroying the Vertibirds still flying around him.
"Vargas, get some men in that building on the right!"
The second in command of the Lyons' Pride and a few other soldiers, ran to the collapsed building. Damian looked over his shoulder. Liberty Prime had resumed walking was heading their way. In the meantime, Glade and Brick had joined them. The Brotherhood heavy weapon specialist had brought with him a rocket launcher team. He aimed his minigun at some Enclave troops crossing the street and heading to a small square where a metro exit was located.
Sarah reloaded her laser rifle and looked at the rocket launcher team. Damian could hear her talk to them, but did not understood what she said, as a shell fell right next to them, killing some Brotherhood soldiers.
"Willie Pete! Building at the end of the road, second widow from the right, top floor!"
Damian flattened on the ground just before the rocket fired. When he looked over his cover, he saw thick white smoke coming from the window hit by the rocket, as well as sparks of light in the smoke. The moment after, silhouettes of Enclave soldiers jumped from the windows. Smoke was coming from their bodies and parts of their power amors seemed on fire and glowed.
Liberty Prime walked over Damian and the others and down the road before passing over the debris of the building. He shot out all the windows of the surrounding buildings and threw his fist at any soldiers who dared to venture into his field of vision. He turned the corner and Damian and the others rushed after him.
The dike separating the Tidal Basin from the Potomac was empty, except the burning wreck of a Vertibird. Prime was standing in front of the force field set up by the Enclave to isolate the purifier.
"Alert! Obstruction detected. Composition, titanium alloy supplemented by photonic resonance barrier. Probability of mission hindrance: zero percent!"
Prime advanced to the barrier. Electric arcs surrounded him. He grabbed the pillar on the left and then the pillar on the right. The blue light from the force field intensified. Damian heard a detonation on his left and saw a rocket hit Prime on the back of the head.
On a little square to the left, overlooking the Basin, a two Vertibird were starting to land and dropping troops to reinforce enemy positions while on the opposite bank of the Basin, Enclave soldiers were coming out of the building and started to shoot at them.
"It's a whole other company!"
The Brotherhood took position on the bank and fired back.
"You!" yelled Sarah to a group of Brotherhood soldiers who had just arrived in reinforcement. "On me, we need to get to that square and flank them!"
She started to run, followed by Damian and the group of soldiers. They went back on the road they had just took and where Brotherhood medics were taking the wounded back and fresh troops were coming in with ammunitions.
They headed right, behind a large building and ran to the little square where the Vertibird had landed. After throwing several grenades, they rushed in to eliminate the Enclave soldiers. Damian and Sarah took cover at the edge of the square, behind a small wall. From there, they could see the enemy positions and several defenses the Enclave had set up, like trenches and foxholes, all oriented towards Rivet City.
"I am Liberty Prime. I am... America!"
Damian turned his head to the Jefferson Memorial. From where he was, he could still hear Prime's deep voice. The robot had just deactivated the force field and was firing at the Enclave troops entrenched near the Memorial.
"Enclave troops in the open!"
Damian looked in front of him and saw that all the Enclave soldiers were running away to the Jefferson Memorial or Rivet City and the ruins, abandoning their positions.
Sarah and the other, ran to the next square. There, they set up position near a road and fired at the retreating Enclave forces. Damian reloaded his rifle and next to him, he could hear a Brotherhood soldier, counting, every time he fired.
"Our troops are at the Memorial! Let's go!" shouted Sarah.
They ran along the Basin, passing by empty trenches and foxholes and dead Enclave soldiers.
They linked up with Vargas and the rest of the Brotherhood, at the door of the Jefferson Memorial.
"Vargas" said Sarah. You and half the Pride take care of enemy reinforcements! Keep them out of the purifier! The rest of you, inside with me!"
Damian followed Sarah and several soldiers into the purifier's gift shop, while Donovan was taking over a disabled mortar with Brick and pointing it to Rivet City and the ruins.
There weren't many Enclave soldiers inside the Jefferson Memorial. Only a few officers and scientists were there. Damian rushed to the rotunda, shooting every soldier or scientist he came across, not caring whether they were trying to surrender or not.
"You two, secure the basement, I'll take the rotunda with Franklin and the Super Mutant," said Sarah.
The two soldiers nodded to the leader and broke down the door leading to the basement, crushing one of the scientists hiding behind.
A laser beam passed within inches of Damian and Sarah's heads. Several soldiers from the Enclave had managed to get through. Sarah, Damian and Fawkes dove to safety.
Sarah straightened up and fired several shots.
"Fawkes, stay with Sarah. She's going to need your help. I'll deal with the control room."
The Super Mutant grabbed his laser gatling and sent a long burst to allow Damian to enter the rotunda.
He entered the control room and ran into two Enclave soldiers and easily eliminated them. He walked up the stairs and heard a gunshot. Damian turned his head and saw Autumn holding a pistol.
Damian took cover behind one of the columns of the rotunda and heard the bullet hit in the marble of the wall.
"You are definitely a resilient person," Autumn told him. "But I'm not really surprised. You and your friends have done everything in your power to destroy what our government has sought to build."
Damian glanced behind his cover and saw marble shards flying as Autumn fired.
"This time, Eden won't be there to save your ass."
A tremor shook the building. Damian felt dust falling on his skull. He looked up. If the fighting continued at this intensity, Jefferson Memorial would suffer severe damage.
Damian sprang from behind the column and fired. Autumn was not there. He heard a yell and saw the Colonel hitting his hands with a fire extinguisher. Damian dropped his rifle and dodged a second blow.
Autumn raised his pistol and shot, while Damian jumped behind a column. His right hand was hurting.
"It's over Colonel," said Damian. "You lost. In a minute, your troops will surrender and…"
Damian felt a burn on his left arm. Autumn had just shot him. Damian grabbed his pistol. He jumped from his cover and fired, hitting Autumn in the shoulder. The Enclave officer retaliated and hit Damian on the right hip. Damian tripped and unloaded his gun on the Colonel. Each time his finger pulled the trigger and he felt the recoil of the gun in his wrist and up his arm to his shoulder, Damian saw his father's face again, dying, kneeling in the control room as the radiation devoured his flesh and body.
The magazine was empty, but Damian continued to pull the trigger. Autumn had collapsed to the ground, his body riddled with bullets. Damian approached the body and stared at it for several seconds.
He felt no satisfaction. No joy. He had finally gotten his revenge. He had killed those at the head of the Enclave and avenged those responsible for James' death, but it hadn't changed anything. In the end, he still felt the same emptiness, and Autumn's death and all those soldiers in the Enclave hadn't brought his father back.
Damian could still hear gunshots outside. He looked down at his wound. He only had a scratch on his arm, his hip was bleeding. Nothing serious, but he could feel the warn and sticky blood on his cloth and leg. He groaned in pain and searched for a Stimpack when he heard Doctor Li's voice echoed through the control room intercom system. She seemed nervous and begged for an answer. Damian climbed the stairs to the control room and answered her.
"Doctor Li, it's Damian. I'm at the control room, what's going on?"
"Thank God, you made it! Listen, we have a serious problem. The site has been damaged in the fighting and the sensors I have in front of me are going crazy. Pressure is boiling in the tanks."
"What do you mean?" asked Damian.
"I don't know! But if we don't reduce the pressure very quickly, the whole site will explode!"
"How is that possible? We made sure not to hit the building directly and…"
"I don't know why or how, but it's happening, and if we don't do anything quick, the whole place will explode!"
Damian looked up as another explosion shook the building.
"What can I do to stop it from exploding?"
Madison Li felt silent for a moment.
"You… You'll have to get into the control room and activate the purifier. But... Radiation levels are probably lethal in there, since… Last time."
Damian looked through the control room window. He could hear the clicking of his Pip-Boy's Geiger counter. If he entered the control room, he would not come out. The purifier had to be activated, but how could it be done without the code.
Suddenly, he remembered his mother's favorite phrase. "I shall give unto him who is athirst the fountain of the waters of life freely.". The Bible verses. Revelation 21:6. Alpha and Omega. The Beginning and the End.
Damian smiled. He had finally understood. He entered the airlock leading to the control room. And alarm sounded throughout the rotunda. The control room was in the same condition as when he had last left it, littered with electrical wires and cables. The diodes on the control consoles were lighting up at an alarming rate.
Damian closed the airlock behind him. He was calm, serene, despite the annoying alarm ringing in his ears. Next to the control panel of the doors, Damian saw that the Enclave had installed a small device, allowing someone to put in a vial.
"What the hell are you doing, Franklin? Get out of there immediately!"
Damian turned his head. Sarah had entered the rotunda and was standing at the glass and tried unsuccessfully to activate the door control.
"Now is not the time to play heroes! Get out of there!"
Damian couldn't think of anything to say to her and just smiled at her. He looked at a spot on the floor in front of him, on the other side of the door. A sad smile appeared on his face as he looked up at the statue of Thomas Jefferson. He ran his left hand through his hair.
"That's it...," he whispered to himself. "Everything is going to end where it started. The circle is finally complete."
He activated the airlock control and the door to the control room opened. The sizzling of his Pip-Boy intensified, and he felt tingling all over his body. He walked to the main console. As he walked forward, he remembered all the events that had led him to this situation. His escape from Vault 101, his quest to find his father, the horrible simulation of Vault 112, the journey back with his father to Rivet City, The Enclave and James' death, his search for the G.E.C.K., and finally the destruction of Raven Rock.
He thought of all the people he had met. People who had helped him like Simms or Three Dogs. The people he had helped, Red and the folks of Big Town, Lucy West. He thought of Moira and realized how much he regretted not being able to help her finish her book. To the children of Little Lamplight.
He thought of Somah, Paulson, Elliot, Sally and the other captives of the alien spaceship and remembered his escape from the alien ship, which looked a lot like a pre-war comic book.
He thought of all the people who had tried to kill him and whom he had killed, their faces flashing before his eyes. The people who had died to help him since his release from the Vault.
He heard a bang next him and saw Sarah, smashing the butt of her laser rifle on the glass. She casted panicked glances at him and was begging him to stop.
Damian stood in front of the control console where the keypad was located to enter the code for the purifier. His thoughts turned to Amata. A tear ran down his cheek. He had promised himself he would return to the Vault to see her again. Unfortunately, it was a promise he could not keep it and he would never again have the opportunity to tell her how he felt about her.
Finally, he thought of his father who had sacrificed his dream and the future of humanity to offer his son a life far from the dangers of the Wasteland. His father, who had later preferred to sacrifice himself rather than see Project Purity fall into the hands of the Enclave and who had saved his son's life at the same time.
Damian painfully raised his hand to the console keyboard. He pressed the keys corresponding to the code. 216. 21:6. The Alpha and the Omega.
He would see his father again and finally meet his mother. He entered the code and a jolt shook the control room and he stumbled and fell on his back. The alarm had fallen silent, as had the battle detonations, and Sarah had finally stopped banging on the window. Everything was silent.
Damian tried to get up but was unable to. He had been so close to die so many times that he could not remember all of them. A faint smiled appeared on his face. It was certainly not the death he had wanted. He had always thought that he would die, in his bed after a long and peaceful life. Unlike what he had imagined about dying, it was not as scary.
The tingles in his body where getting stronger, to a point where it was beginning to hurt, and Damian started to fear that he would die a horrible and painful death, or that he would turn into a ghoul. His vision got blurry and a white veil started to cover his eyes.
"Son."
Damian recognized his father's voice. He smiled. Despite the white veil, he could see him clearly, next to a woman smiling at him.
"Damian," smiled the woman. "I'm so proud of you, honey."
Damian could feel tears running down on his face and cheeks.
"Mom, Dad, I'm coming."
This is it. Damian's journey has come to an end.
I hope that you liked the story, as much as I liked writing it (or playing it, should I say).
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