"What is this?!" Danse asked after looking up from the manila folder. James glared hard at Danse, trying to read his movements. "This can't be right."

"Danse." James began. "Calm down, let's talk about this."

"How do you know this isn't faked?!" He shouted at James from within the confines of his cell. "How can you trust anything from the Institute?!"

"Danse." James sighed. "Accept it. You're a synth."

24 hours earlier.

Ash flexed his fingers as his body adjusted to the new suit.

"So you're the newbies I'll be working with?" Major Dusk asked. Ash nodded, his throat parched rendering him unable to speak.

"Yes, ma'am." Yuri answered for him.

"New armor." Dusk chuckled. "Lighter stuff than ever. Enclave never ceases to amaze." Dusk looked out the open bay door of the vertibird.

"Mission is to inspect Fort Hagen, intel suggests that Brotherhood has take over." Morales began his briefing. It was almost midnight. The sky covered with rain clouds. Lightning flashed and thunder rumbled, causing Ash to be nervous that he was riding in a flying vehicle.

"Nervous?" Yuri asked. Ash looked at her.

"Yeah." He admitted.

"Locals report that a patrol walked in hours ago and never came out. Two Brotherhood vertibirds flew in, dropped off two fireteams and flew out. Again, no one came out. General Hwang has ordered an inspection of the facility." Morales finished. "Also, as this is the first field test of the new X-02 stealth variant, please be careful. This variant is not as durable as a normal suit of power armor. It was modeled after the Chinese Stealth Suit recovered by General Hwang years ago."

"Wait, General Hwang recovered that?" Niko asked. "And I thought the guy was a pushover."

"You'd be very wrong." Sam responded. "Hwang's the Lone Wanderer."

"The Lone Wanderer?!" Yuri exclaimed.

"Who?" Ash asked. He regretted the words soon as they exited his mouth as the whole crew looked at him funny just as he asked.

"Clear." Dusk said over the radio. "Gallows move in."

"Affirmative." Gallows responded. Major Dusk took point and entered the hallway with Niko covering her. Ash entered the room and covered the right corridor that was Dusk's blind spot.

"Hallway clear." Ash reported.

"Good job, rookie." Dusk responded. "Gallows take your team and carry out your orders."

"Roger." Gallows replied curtly. Niko, Sam and Yuri rushed over to the dark room that Gallows entered.

"Rook, you're with me." Dusk said. Ash simply nodded and followed Dusk as she walked down the corridor.

"Why does Captain Gallows have a separate mission?" Ash asked. Dusk paused but continued to clear rooms.

"If anything, we have the separate mission. This is where General Hwang and the Sole Survivor dealt with Kellogg." Dusk said. Ash shuddered as he remembered the scarred, bald man that haunted his dreams.

"Kellogg?" Ash almost whimpered. Dusk seemed to sense Ash's sudden irreverent fear of the late mercenary.

"He's dead. Don't worry about him anymore." She replied.

"I didn't even know he could be killed." Ash said as he continued to clear rooms with no sign of any Brotherhood operators.

"Yeah, well. He was killed by those two. I don't know how they did it. I wasn't here."

"Oh." Ash replied. "I see."

"But anyway, the mission is to recover Kellogg's body, he wasn't fully human and has a bunch of random synth parts in him." Dusk began. She paused to kick down a door that revealed a stack of piled synth bodies. Dusk paused and lowered her weapon before moving once again. "I guess the General believes that those parts can help the Enclave in some way."

"What specifically?" Ash asked.

"Beats me. You ask the General. I just follow the orders." Dusk replied simply.

The two walked in silence when they arrived before a pair of double doors.

"According to Corporal Morales's intel this is Kellogg's old room." Dusk said.

"Was this our objective?" Ash asked.

"Very perceptive of you, rook." Dusk replied. Ash wasn't sure if that was meant to be sarcastic or not. "Stick with me and you might learn some things. The rest of the Pride wouldn't do that for you." Dusk kicked down the doors.

"Why do you always have to kick down doors?" Ash asked. He understood that with the suit, the action was nearly effortless, but he still felt opening them would be easier. Dusk shrugged.

"Maybe I like kicking down doors." She replied. There was a man laying on the bed in Kellogg's room. A crowd of Brotherhood Paladins stood around him, in the center stood a man clad in a black vest, white shirt and black slacks. The man turned his head and revealed two bright blue glowing eyes. Ash raised his weapon at the same time as Dusk.

"X6!" Dusk grunted as the man rushed forward at Ash and Dusk. Ash cursed himself and pulled the trigger.