Vault 101 Entrance
2281
His ribs were sore possibly cracked, his left arm broken, his leg was also pretty bad. He had two .5.56 rounds in his chest. The hole was dug. The three year old daughter was in Dr. Li's arms. "You're asking too much of me Hector..."
He told her, "No...I'm not. After everything I did to make your vision...dads and my moms come true...they're not around. But it's here."
"This doesn't have to be the end..."
"You got any stimpaks, doctor?"
"You know we're out..."
"Then I'm fucked...not even you can help me now...but you can help Ximena...she deserves a fresh start. She's not safe with me. And that bitch is too concerned only with her own career as a courier. All she gives a fuck about is that damn chip. Said she can't even begin to try and take care of the kid..till she makes the delivert. Meanwhile...the fuckin Enlave is still around..."
"Just let me get your old friend to get you help."
"Amata can't help me...she won't help me..."
"Then wy did you come home? Why did you bring that coffin with you? With him inside?"
"I've lost three friends between out there and Vegas...couldn't bury the other two. Besides...this coffin aint just for him. It's for me too..." He had regret in his eyes. "At least it aint Fawkes. He wouldn't fit in this thing anyway..."
"Don't talk like that!"
"Maddy...get realistic..." He warned. "I'm banged up. Dad...he once asked the verseer for asylum on my behalf. And you helped me get into the Citadel. They won't let me in here...you and me aint getting lucky twice. But they'll let you in with her...this vault has been open for four years and they would't let me back in after I fixed everything...I love Amata...and I hate her at the same time for that. She won't let me come home but she said maybe we'd see each other out there...we never did...but now...we never will..."
He laid down next to teh body taking his armor off down to just his boxers and bloody white shirt. Dr. Li had tears in her eyes. "She wo't get here in time to help me...they changed the password on me. i saw Susy Mack out there and Butch. you already know he came with me. He joined me...I saved his mom but...Susie she was glad to see me too...but I can't come home. Amata won't let me in those doors. But she can't stop me from being buried here."
Dr. li shivered then began to make her recording distres to Amata using his pipboy. "This is Doctor Li Madison from Rivet City. I'm reaching out to Amata. i have your best friend with me. I know you won't let him in...and he's not asking to come inside but he's hurt. Badly. He needs medical attentin..."
"Maddy...don't worry about me...the baby..."
"He has a baby with him. His daughter. He's asking for asylum for her. He doesn't ask you to let him in but he does ask you to remember how he helped you when the vault fell apart. If you ever cared about him...you'll do it...please...he's dying."
He took it from her and said, "Hey Amata...i know we didn't leave on a good note...and I'm sorry we never did meet out there...but I don't know if I can forgive you for saying I had to leave...I would have left too...and I would have given you all...the time you need...you didn't have to lock me out...I would have never done that to you...even though I can't forgive you for this...I have to ask you one more favor, Amata. Don't open the vault again for a while. My friends in the Brotherhood...they're dying out there against the Enclave but they fight on. Don't open that vault once this is over. They will kill Vault 101 members. They shot Susy. I had to bury her...four years of trade with the you should be able to sustain it. The Enclave was dying but they came back from the brink. You must have seen the vertibirds out there..."
He coughed up blood. "L..listen...I was heartbroken when you changed the password...especially when you left me that voice recording when...you asked me to remember your name...as the password...i wonder what the fuck the password is now, huh? A new boyfriend? Well...it doesn't matter now...I don't agree with you kicking me out but...I have right to have my final resting place be here. The Enclave is terrorizing everybody out there but...that door will hold. If it can keep me out...it will keep them out. Just...sit tight in there a year or two. Maybe the Brotherhood will have made some progress...Dr. Madison has a few more of my last requests to you...I know you owe me and you know you owe me...but if you think you're doing more for me than me saving this vault was worth...over the last four years...I've left journals...telling everything I went through out there...well...not everything...but everything I did the year I left...some things helped a lot of people...others...I'm not proud of,..I meant to record what I did the last few years but...i recorded so much about what I did in '77 that I got tired of it a while...and I never got back to it..but...what I went through...can be a lesson in morality for the children...and survival...for the adults...Amata...I can't forgive you for what you did and maybe you cant for what i did...but I still l...l..." He coughed up blood more violently.
She stopped the recording holding him until it finally stopped. "There...it's done...Hector...? Why do you have the door open? Wh do you want to be buried with the cofin halfway in and halfway outside?"
The Salvadoan American smiled a bloody smile. "This was my home for most of my life. Before that asshole father of hers stripped me of it. But my life...my life outside the vault...in a way was more memorable than a lot of the first part of my life. My life...it's out there and it's in here. I can't forget the people out there or in here. Tell her...to take my recording in this ppboy. My journals...telling of all I experienced on the outside. I want her to tell anybody who comes in here to know whose grave they're walking over...and those from in going out...they already know all I've done or them. Some of them understand what I did. Others hate me. Fuck em. They all know they'd be fucked if i didn't do what I did."
"I don't know if she'll do all this or if she'll even allow all this... she won't like your grave being here..."
"She will..she owes me. Besides...everybody is asleep...it's 2 in the morning. By the time she hears this...i'll be gone...and the hole will be filled..."
With that, he said, "Goodbye Maddie...listen...tell her one more thing for me. I thought I got rid of the Enclave after Raven Rock.."
She didn't answer him. She set the lid over him and he had with him, the bones of his father to his lef, nothing but bones now and to his right the ashes of the other companion he'd decided to bury with him even if it was only ashes now. He had also left Madison with what remaining belonging he had of that person.
The sound of dirt being filled on the coffin went on for a long time. He was tired and he wanted to shut his eyes. He wished he could take his mother with him but he could't. He had her bible however and that was like having her with him as well as his father. "The Mendoza family won't end here..." He promised. "Ximena wil carry our bloodline..."
With that he began to read the book of Revelations. He stared at his mother's favorite passage for what seemed like forever. He finally read on before he fell asleep
2077
Let them Eat Cake
He woke up that morning after a night in Freeside with morning wood. It had luckily gone down by the time he had to walk through but he'd had a dream about Amata. It was torture. He wanted to forget her and yet she was the one woman he wanted to make love to that he couldn't have.
He'd gotten rid of it but he'd had to do it twice. First he'd thought about a night with Clover. Her southern accent strabngely arousing as she'd rode on top of him. And then after that even a few of the times he'd screwed Dr Li. The fucked up thing was, what he remembered her saying one night at the Citadel.
"Mmmmmmmmmm..." She'd said as she had ridden him. "You have your father's cock..." He'd insisted that she be nude that night wearing nothing but her doctors robe and stethoscope. It was a fucked up dynamic especially knowing that she had also been intimate with James and he was sure it was not normal for a father and son to have screwed the same woman but at the same time he wondered if in some way, that had made them closer.
His mind had flashed to him taking her doggystyle and her turning around to kiss his lips. He didn't love Clover and he didn't per say love Dr Li not imn that way but he had felt something when they embraced that night and she had in a shaky voice of vulnerability, insisted, "Call me Maddie..." She'd said as she had put his hands on each breast removing them from her butt cheeks. "Please..."
He pushed the thought away, however. She was old enough to be his mother but much like she was a refugee after the Enclave came at them at Jefferson Memorial, so was he after Amata had not let him come back even though she'd wanted to. There was a closeness in that.
Hector was approached by a Caucasian male. He had a messy beard, auborn hair, blue eyes behind sunglasses and a grimy pre war business suit. "Hey. The Strips's a rough place to be. Even with Securitrons everywhere people can get roughed up. Gommorah is full of a bunch of mafia goons. If you should ever go in there, it's better to go in armed. Problem is, they don't let you go in and carry openly in these casinos."
"Hey, daddy-yo! We'll be needing to see what you got," Warren stated to the weapons dealer. Warren bought a 10mm pistol and Benjamin bought a .22 pistol. "That's Mister Holdout. He can get you weapons that can get you in there."
"I don't need help with that. I have my own skills. I've snuck in weapons."
"Suit yourself. Don't blame me if you get shot."
Hector rolled his eyes. He had a laser pistol and over 200 cells for it. They made their way into the Tops. "Hey. Gonna have to search you for weapons," The chairmen, a blonde hired blue eyed white male. He took Hector's weapons and informed him that he would get it back.
Hector muttered as they walked past, "Tengo una pistola en mis pantalones. Olvidaste buscar eso, cabron. También explotará en tu cara."
(I got a gun in my pants. You forgot to search that, cabron. It'll explode in your face too. )
Benjamin asked, "Hey, you got any caps?"
"What are you serious? I already had to deal with the credit check these assholes came up with!"
"We need to look like we belong. Gambling in a casino is as normal as it gets."
Hector rolled his eyes giving each of them 500 caps. "You better not blow it all before I got back."
"I've done my share of blackjack at the Vicki and Vance..." Insisted Benjamin. "I'll be allright..."
"All right then. I'll get you both when it's time."
He approached a Caucasian male in a dogtooth suit. He had dapper style hair as well. "Hey there baby. Welcome to the Tops."
"I don't know where you come from but where I come from, men don't call each other baby. At least not me."
"What can Benny do for y? Get you a smoke? A drink? Some girls?" Hector asked, "Melvin and William around? Got something I want to talk to them about."
"Anything you can say to those cats you can say to me, daddy-yo!"
Hector lied. "The Ultra Luxxe wants to talk to them about a possible partnership. A merger. Thinking of a plan to go onto the Lucky 38 Casino. Get a fourth casino together that all three casinos have a stake in. Or at least, some of the leadership of the Three Families.
"Lucky 38? Nobody has set foot in that place in over 200 years."
"That's the idea," Hector continued. "The three Families of New Vegas already turn a hefty profit but not everybody has the same vision Obviously the Tops is well...the Tops. I'm sure Herkimer and Stanford would cut you in too."
"Those guys are action hogs, baby. They want all the power to themselves. And Swank? He's a little bit square. If you want to make a deal you should make one with me. Herkimer and Stanford are too attached to just having the Tops be the number one place. They don't like that the Ultra Luxxe is fancier or that Gommorah has the best whores. They'd sooner make the Tops the only spot on the casino."
"Yeah well, if they don't like what I have to hear I can always work with you, pal. I like an ambitious spirit. Why should some asshole who never shows his face and just relies on Securitrons be the one one to run the show? Those Securitrons don't even work for the rest of you. That's his army."
"You make a good point kid. Real good point. All right what the hell. Here. Take this key. Stanford is over at the Gomorah getting his knob polished but Herkimer should be up on his presidential suite.
"I'll tell you what. If they don't like what I have to say you and me can take it from there."
He went up to the suite still in disbelief at the city. He had never hearf of Sunset Sasparilla for one thing. For another, it was strange to him that he had been fighting the Enclave for water literally back in DC when here in the Mojave they basically had many water sources that were radiation free. He wondered if it made this all for nothing. That he had fought for water to be restored only to have some other place be more untouched. That said, he felt that it was a good thing but he had been listening to side conversations people had and their opinion of the man responsible for New Vegas being mostly preserved was hated by a lot of the locals especially NCR citizens.
He reached the floor and he saw a door closed. He spotted two guards. There was a white male standing 5'10 with blonde hair and gray eyes. He had a Pompadour. The man on his right was African American with a similar haircut that was dark brown but with brown eyes and he had a soul patch. "Herimer says he doesm't want to be diisturbed. Get lost, kid..." Stated the second man.
"Yeah, he's got woman in there with him," Stated the blonde. "Beat it before ya get burned."
He could hear female moans inside.
"Hey,...wait a second...how did you get past the door?!" Demanded the man on the right. "It was easy..." Hector said as he was drawing his Silenced .22 and he aimed between the man's eyes. "As one..." the round hit his flesh with the sound of squishing flesh and his brains decorated the door and he fell with a thud. Hector fired striking the next man in the chest and the man cried out in pain. He fell against the door and he fired striking him in the forehead. "Two...three..."
He watched the brain matter decorate the door. He kicked down the door and saw a woman with her bare ass out her black panties to the side as she was blowing Herkimer a large man of German American descent with a curly haired Pompadour. He stood 6'4 . The woman going down on him was a brown haired blue eyed Caucasian woman. She had her brown hair in a bun. The other woman was a blonde with short hair. "How the fuck did you get in...oh Jesus..." The brunette moved her mouth from his cock and he cried out, "AHHHHH! Watch the fuckin teeth!" Hector told him, "You're going to come with me, buddy boy. You're wanted in Freeside. Get your clothes on."
"Hold on, asshole..." Stated the brunette. "You still haven't paid."
"Joana, you call yourself the amazing Joana the enchantress. You'll get paid when you finish. And I haven't finished. "Guards!" More guards came running down the hall and a 9mm was fired five times. Hector took two rounds in his body armor but he dove for cover behind a plant near the door. He fired with his left hand around the side of it striking a guard of Italian American descent with olive skin and a black pompadour. He hit the man twice in the right thigh. He fell over bleeding crying out in pain. He reloaded as several rounds hit him including one in his right arm. He fired striking the next man in the left knee. He let him fall bleeding. He fired again and let the man have one in the Adams apple. He got up, his arm bleeding and he fired the silenced pistol into the bleeding man with the wounded thigh. "You son of a bitch..." Coughed the man as he bled out from a stomach wound. Hector disarmed him taking his 9mm from him. "
"How much does this bum owe ya?" Asked Hector.
"A hundred caps."
"I don't know..." The Salvadoran American said. "Seems to me he should pay each of you 1500 caps."
"Are you goddamn kidding me?!" Herkimer cried. "You're the reason for the credit check same with Stanford. I didn't factor in him not being there but you'll have to do. You better pay. Or I'll separate your balls from each other..." He aimed at his groin. "Come on Herk. Don't be a cheapskate. You expect New Vegas citizens, NCR citizens and whoever else to have it. You telling me you don't?" He said, "All right all right! Here...I expect 14 free sessions, Joana! Or I tell Cachino and he'll make sure the whores never step foot outside the casino!"
He paid her. "All right lover boy..." Hector said turning to Herkimer. "Get your goddamn clothes on. Or you'll be buried in your birthday suit."
He got dressed. "What's this about?" Hector took a bottle of the man's whiskey and put it in a shot glass. He also put some Med x in there, two of them. "Drink up. Have one for the road..." Herkimer said, "What are you stupid? I saw you drug it."
Hector fired a shot shattering the whiskey bottle. "It's not a negotiation. Either you drink it or you'll be the next thing leaking."
"You're just gonna kill me!" Herkimer blurted out. "Maybe I will. Maybe I won't if you drink it you just get x'd like a lot of the poor hookers out there. I saw Joana's pupils..."
"You didn't exactly help her giving her 1500 caps!" Hector quick shot back, "I said i noticed I didn't say I care. Three...two../." He aimed at Herkimer's head. The Chairman took the shot. "We're taking a walk. Move."
He kept the gun at his back. "Any sudden moves I blow your kidneys out. Remember that."
He made it back to the casino floor. He nodded at Benjamin and Warren. They cashed out their chips and followed him. As they moved out of there, an NCR member on leave a Caucasian male with red hair and blue eyes and a buzz cut took notice. "Wow. That guys had a little too much, eh?"
"He'll get his second wind," Replied Hector. "Off to Gommorah we go! Then the Ultra Luxxe."
"You got more caps and gusto than me, buddy. I'll drink anywhere but the UL. That place gives me the creeps."
They got him past the securitron. Francine Garrett was out and about going for a walk. "Hey there, mister..." Slurred Herkimer. "So how did you get to the party?!" He drooled before hitting the ground. Hector put him over his shoulders. They finally got through to the school of impersonations. They dropped him down. "Well well...look what the cat dragged in..." The King said with a chuckle.
"What's the next step, King?" Asked Benjamin.
"Now we have Pacer write us a little ransom note. I can't help but notice you're short one Chairman."
"It wasn't his fault..." Stated Warren. "Stanford wasn't there. It wouldn't have been easy to get in there with two of them."
Hector nodded. "There was two hookers from there too. They made off like thieves though. I made sure this asshole paid them. But there was bloodshed so I don't know if we should go there right now."
"No, you should go there. To be honest, after what you just did at the Tops it's unlikely you'll be able to get back in if they figure out it was you that killed their bodyguards and it's unlikely he'll be going back to the Courtyard over there again any time soon," The King stated.
"Joana and Dazzle will probably be off limits to the Chairmen knowing two of their best earners could have been killed in a shootout," Added Warren. "Well what are you saying, King? You want me to go back and get Stanford too?"
"Well now...maybe it's a blessing in disguise. Way I see it we got two options. We can hold this fella for ransom and Stanford would have more incentive to fork over caps and get the other Chairmen to get rid of the credit check. Or you can go back over there and get him while he's still holed up there. I'll tell you what. Give it a day to mull over."
They went outside and Benjamin lit up a cigarette. "So what's your story?" Asked Hector. You said you used to be a Jackal? Back east we used to have a gang of our own called the tunnel snakes in the vault I came from. So the NCR is what made you guys lose numbers?"
Warren was also with them. "Tunnel Snakes? Sounds like you named your gangs after cocks, if you ask me..." He laughed.
"Yeah listen...even though I don't like what we became...the NCR still killed a lot of my friends and that doesn't sit right with me. You know I keep hearing about these men from Cesar's Legion being slavers and how they crucify people but I haven't seen any of that myself. I never seen them in Nevada. It's the NCR i see , I wish we'd all banded together to take on the NCR. Then there's the Great Khans too. I like their style but they're just too far out of the way. They can be nasty too but I heard what the NCR did at Bitter Springs.'
"These groups are news to me. I never heard of the NCR or Legion."
"Remember what I said about the Followers Of The Apocalypse and how I'm almost an honorary member? It was a man from there that started the Legion. Edward Sallow. A former New Californian Citizen. Then he read some books on Roman history and culture and he started getting men to dress up in sporting gear. It's like he forgets that it's the year 2277 AD. Not 27 AD. But like I said...for all I know everything that's been said about them could be bullshit. It could all be NCR propaganda."
"Maybe..." Hector said. "There's two sides to every story. Plus isn't Navvaro in California? If that's true...it makes me wonder if the remnants of the Enclave joined up with them. It's not much of a stretch to say so."
"I doubt it, mack. The Enclave aint been seen around here in years."
"You should be glad for that, chero..." Replied Hector. "Those Enclave bastards are not nice people. They killed innocent people where I come from. They killed my father."
"Hey, I'm sorry to hear that. Family is everything. I got a brother at the NCR Correctional Facility doing some time. He had a fixed sentence when he got sent there but knowing him the way he behaves he'll probably be there forever. Or dead."
Benamin then stated, "Hey...you wanna come with me to the Old Mormon Fort? I need to introduce you to somebody. Somebody you should meet. She might have some information for you on some of the whereabouts of where the Brotherhood or even the Enclave might be out here."
"I don't see how it could hurt."
Way Out West
4:30 PM, Pacific Standard Time, 2277
Hector eyed the strange woman in the lab coat as Benjamin introduced him. Her hairstyle was something he had seen plenty of times back east but certainly never on a doctor. "This is Julie Farkas..." Introduced Benjamin. Hector shook her hand. "Hector Mendoza. I'm with the DC Brotherhood Of Steel."
"It's nice to meet you. I know a little bit about the civil war between the two factions. We've had a few people here and there who have abandoned the Brotherhood faction of the Mojave and joined us. They didn't like their rigid ways. I would say no offense but I know that your faction of the Brotherhood is more willing to help people.
"That's part of why I'm here. The threat of the Enclave in the east has only gotten worse. We took down their DC chapter among others but we also know that this is near the New California Republic and that's where they started."
"Well, I don't know if anybody told you but the Enclave hasn't been seen around New Vegas in years."
"What about the rest of the Mojave desert? California and Nevada?"
"i can't say for certain. All I can do is point you towards the Mojave bunker. I don't know exactly where that is but I've heard it's near Black Mountain."
"Black Mountain?"
Benjamin chimed in, "Yeah. That's a place you don't want to be wandering. The place is filled to the brim with Super Mutants. And they're not lightly armed."
"I gotno problem killing Muties. I don't know how many of them are in the Mojave but they're everywhere in the Capitol Wasteland. I even went to the vault they were made in."
Julie chimed in, "Do any of them have cloaking abilities? The ones out here are different. They have blue skin and they can make themselves invisible. They're organized. They kill any humans that go to Black Mountain and they're lead by a mutant named Tabitha. She has her own radio station."
"Jesus. At least back where I'm from they didn't have that...all right well I have no choice. The Enclave are still around. We thought we got rid of them after Raven Rock but I still saw the Vertibirds."
"You should take me with you. I can show you the ins and outs of this place. You don't exactly know your way around here."
"I've been to Pittsburgh, Maryland and to a lesser degree, Anchorage. Why would I need help from you? I've explored unknown territories before. Plus I have a Brotherhood of Steel paladin with me."
"You're not from out here like I said and there are gangs. You said you had other people from the wasteland with you helping out, right? Well they're not local either. Even if you have a paladin, that paladin would be from the DC chapter. Out here...the Brotherhood aren't friendly so you'd likely only end up in a firefight."
"That's not an option to not go and see what's what. We need reenforcements. This is complicated and it's something you wouldn't understand."
"Well Ican get you there. With minimal trouble. I know all the places that the fiends might try and attack you."
"Fiends? Is that another way to say ghoul?"
"No, they're cchem fiends. They ambush caravans on the road and they're hygiene, lack of remourse or regard for their own survival. In my time i took to find Freeside I had to deal with them and sometimes I'd have nothing but a Revolver while they were taking shots at me with a hunting rifle."
"I'd need to stop by myown vertibird first. I need to let everybody know what's going on. That I'll be looking for the Brotherhood and that i'll be back."
"Let's do it then."
Hector soon traveled back to his vertibird. He went through each of them one by one. He talked to Fawkes. "Hey, I think I'm gonna need you to come with me. Before in DC we never travled with more than a few but this time I need a mutant companon with me and this here is Benjamin Cobb. He's our guide."
"If you insist..." The mutant grunted.
He spoke to Clover next. The Asian woman said, "Bottlecap for your thoughts?"
"I have to go for a while, doll but I'll be back. We're going out into the desert."
"But it's so boring here!"
"Yeah, I know. We'll do something fun when we get back. At least the Vertibird has air conditioning."
He spoke to Jericho next. "Yeah, kid..."
"You heard what I said to the others, right?"
"I hear ya. It's too bad though. I could really use some smokes."
"It's always about smokes with you. Why don't you bum some off Charon?"
"He's a ghoul. I aint no bigot but I don't wanna smoke off the same butt as him. It's just not sanitary."
"Maybe not but can you say your entire time living in Megaton was?"
"Fair enough. Just don't get yourself killed out there."
As they headed out, Benjamin stated, "Oh you might want to know I aint ever seen it but I heard there's a settlement to the North West of Vegas. Jacobstown and it's run by mutants for mutants."
"What are you trying to say? That I should go live with them? That I am not good enough to accompany Hector?" Demanded the Super Mutant.
"No, i didn't mean it like that. But this is the Mojave. It's dangerous out here and everybody wants some shelter. Why should Mutants be any different?"
"And what about you, Ben? You just hide out in the Mormon Fort and play house doctor with that lady?"
"Hey that's not nessecary. Talking like that!And no I stay in Freeside but when I need to get away from the slums and she offers I don't turn down a bed. I'm still a Follower so I earn my bed. Freeside is home but it aint always safe."
"Yeah I saw that much just looking at the place. It's a shit hole. It reminds me of Megaton..."
"Mega what?"
"It doesn't matter it's a settlement back east."
"Well anyway Freeside is hard I aint denying that harder than the Fort at least the Fort is safe. Feels just as safe to me as the Strip is but we're just surrounded by more poverty but at least it's got walls. The place I never felt safe was out there in the wasteland. My gang the one from before when we came from the Vaults it was just a bad place to be. There was a few times when we ran into Deathclaws. They picked us off. All I had was a pistol here and there but when I shot Deathclaws they could have killed me. Thank God for locked doors and buildings out there. With Deathclaws there's really no fighting them."
"I've killed them but it wasn't easy..." Hector admitted.
They made their way through the Hidden Valley. "Shit..." Cobb stated. "Radscorpions..." He withdrew his .45 and began to open fire. Three rounds struck the blue flesh of the gigantic scorpion. "TIME TO DIE!" Screamed Fawkes as he ran towards the scorpions and he began to swing his sledgehammer like a mad man strung out on Jet.
Hector fired his Plasma Rifle and with five shots managed to reduce the next one to ashes. Just then, the last one which was coming for Benjamin was almost upon him but it was disintigrated before their eyes into ashes as a Gatling Laser was fired. They soon found seven knights with weapons aimed at them. "Don't move a muscle, wastelander!" Commanded the leader. "He's got a mutie with him!" Shouted another. "Waste it!"
Hector drew his own weapon at her. "Fawkes is my friend. He's not like the others. He's sentient. You kill him I'll kill you."
"You got balls, wastelander but not a lot of brains..." Stated the male with the Gatling. "You're outmanned and outgunned. We'd cut you and the mutie to pieces. And your little friend there looks like one of those vault gangsters. He's either a Jackal a Viper..."
"I might not win that fight but I could get her before you all killed me. And if you've ever fought mutants you'd know they're not as easy to kill as just a few shots. Fawkes would probably take down at least three of you before he got to the Gatling."
"Think this through, man!" Urged Benjamin. "Is it worth it to kill one Mutant?! He's with the Brotherhood of Steel!"
"Bullshit! We're with the Brotherhood and we don't know you!" The female barked.
"I'm with the DC chapter. We're here to get reenforcements from the western chapters."
"For what? I'm going to need to see some evidence of that..." He showed him his own halotag. "All right..." The Paladin stated. "We're gonna get to the bottom of this. You're coming with us. The Elder will want to meet you. The rest of you? You stay outside. Veronica, you watch them. All of you watch them. If any of them makes any sudden moves, kill em..."
The Paladin told him, "I'm Paladin Ramos. What's your name, soldier?"'
"Hector Mendoza. I serve under Elder Lyons."
"We're going to allow you to keep your weapons. There's a whole base full of us if you try anything. But your friends stay outside."
"That's fine...and Veronica was it? You shoot either of these two I'm coming up here and killing you. I'm not used to killing one of our own but I will..."
"I'm doing my job. You have a Super Mutant with you. What did you expect? That's not normal. For the Brotherhood or any human!"
"Yeah..." Spat another BOS soldier. "Fuckin Mutie lover..."
As Hector went through the door to the Hidden Valley Bunker he shot back, "So's your mother, pal! She loves getting spitroasted by green cock! She said unlike your dad they can hold her up while they fuck her without getting tired. Ghouls too! Said she's sick of smoothskins."
He smirked to himself as he went inside and Benjamin burst out laughing while Fawkes remained stoic and while he didn't see it, Veronica, beneath her helmet had to stifle a giggle which sounded more like a sneeze coming out of her but her smirk was wide even though she could not be seen, she felt like to laugh was betrayal.
He was brought through the bunker, amazed at how it looked. It was no Citadel by any means but for an underground bunker it was quite impressive. Before long, he was brought to a room but only after Ramos spoke to him first. An older bearded Caucasian male with white hair and a white beard waited ahead. "So you're the new guest I've heard that was causing a disturbance. You've scared my soldiers with your green companion topside. My soldiers thought he came from Black Mountain."
"Hector Mendoza..." Introduced Paladin Ramos, "This is Elder McNamara."
Vault 101
2281
Amata and Dr Li were both digging with shovels in the doorway entrance as several Vault Security guards kept guard with Assault Rifles both outside and inside as they dug into the coffin. "This is completely irresponsible and reckless! Why would he do this?!" Amata cried as they dug, her voice shaking. "I can't believe they got Susy too..."
"She's not the only one, Amata...we gotta hurry...he's got less than an hour of oxygen left. It took me a long time to bury him. He wanted me to bury him and just tell you and leave he wouldn't want me to dig him up. He thought he was past saving we're out of stims..."
Amata had tears in her eyes but she blinked them away. "We've got stimpaks...and a new surgeon...we have to save him...I don't care if the rest of the vault still has a problem with it this time..."
"Maybe if you'd said that to him five years ago he wouldn't be in the shape he's in!" Dr Li growled.
"I didn't WANT to!" Amata insisted as she dug up another large pile. "It was a hard choice but it can't just be about how I feel! My dad went off his own choices without caring what the people thought! I have to be different. And the people needed time. They needed time to see that Hector's way was the right way..."
"Yeah..I'd say five years was a good enough amount of time..." Dr Li shot back. "You know his father came out...to give the people of the wasteland a chance at life. At clean water. Something you take for granted in there. I get that James had obligations in there. But he had obligations to people out here too and I'm sorry but the world is bigger than just one vault. And Hector? He wouldn't be his father's son if he didn't try and find him and help us..."
"I know...I'm sorry...and this time...a lot of people haven't changed their minds and others have. But they're gonna have to live with it. He repaired the vault when it had problems before he left. He stopped our civil war..we owe him..."
She sobbed a bit stopping. "Why...why did he come back? There had to have been doctors closer..."
"There wasn't...he got injured trying to help Susy...and well..." There was the other body that he had brought with him. "He brought them home. The Enclave has tried to kill Vault 101 members out there. He's probably saved you from them. From a distance. For all you know..."
"I know it's just...it's because there's a whole world out there I don't understand why he came back. Him and his dad were never here in the pre war days. My family was. It's just not the same. I don't know why he'd come back here he doesn't have to be tied down. He was meant to be out there."
"Isn't it obvious?" Dr Li responded. "The kid loves you. I can see it in his eyes when he says your name."
Amata's hazel eyes widened at her words. She began to dig harder and faster the two of them racing against the clock and broken bones and a limited oxygen supply. Others began to help and three more shovels came in.
Amata huffed and puffed and sweated as she dug and dug. "Hector... Espera, cariño ..."
That's it for this chapter people I hope you like it I know it's short and honestly I'm feeling uninspired about this fanfic in particular and thinking I should do more on my fiction press stories than ff for a while anyway. Depending on how this chapter is received I may delete it That's not to say I've lost the Fallout spirit in fact I only just recently bought Fallout 4 and I enjoy it and may write a fanfic on that but I also want to do a Fallout story set in NYC. I guess I've thought about doing Chicago or Seattle too or even Florida. But I already did both Seattle and NY in a walking dead story each and aside from the Space Needle I'm not sure if I want to commit to a Seattle story but I guess NYC would still be cool cause it's so big.
Honestly I'm surprised Fallout has yet to do a story on the midwest chapter of the Brotherhood. Also I wonder those of you who played Fallout 4 which ending did you go with? There's no way in hell I would ever side with the Institute or the Railroad because both ideas are fuckin stupid as a faction. In a way I think Fallout is bad at creating sympathetic villains and maybe in a way even though the Brotherhood is never the enemy for an entire game to where you can't join them at all and they are in every game they honestly feel more like a sympathetic villain group than any of the actual villains who are mostly batshit. And maybe the NCR and Enclave to a point depending on how you look at that but groups like the Institute, House, the Legion it's just so blatantly obvious.
So I'm sure if Fallout 5 was in Chicago you'd be playing as their Brotherhood. I just find it weird that the Commonwealth Brotherhood just ends up being kind of more like the west coast factions rather than the DC brotherhood but I know why with Eldere Maxon and all the shit that comes with that. I probably will have all my Fallout stories in the same universe not just Fallout but my fanfic universe if I do continue this story IDK why I thought it would be a good idea if the LW and the Courier were connected I just did but now I'm not sure.
And as far as the thing with being buried halfway under the door outside the vault entrance in 101 and halfway in I thought symbolically it makes sense to his character and I think that would maybe be one way he could get Amata to come out and talk to him since now the password is changed. This isn't the reason why, of course it's more like Hector thinks he's dying and he's almost kind of killing himself but also wants to be buried at home.
Also by the time of Fallout 4 the LW is a legend but history has forgotten his/her name or gender but I think this is more just them covering their asses as far as creating your character. But I think it would be interesting to find out what he's up to by 2287 it says he left the wasteland as of the 2090's so it makes you wonder where he went and I think in a way this story can kind of touch up on that. Assuming I decide to not delete it. What do you think? Keep it or delete it?
I wanted to make this chapter longer but as I said I'm uninspired but I also know if I was gonna make it this short it should have been updated a long time ago. Also I spend too much time on my GTA fanfics and need to get back to Resident Evil. I noticed Resident Evil reviewers tend to stick with you a bit more than GTA fans do. Not sure why. They leave longer reviews too which is greatly appreciated I'm not trying to sound like an asshole but one sentence reviews makes it seem like you barely read the story. You don't have to have them be as long as mine are but a good example of a good reviewer would be somebody like The Lady Frost or Zilla 2000 . That's another reason I despise guest reviewers. When they aren't just talking shit anonymously they'll leave one sentence reviews I don't even want or need and it's probably because they're lazy after all they're too lazy to make an account and give a real review which makes me wonder why they're not too lazy to leave these reviews.
Anyway, yeah let me know who you usually side with in Fallout 4 as well as New Vegas and why if you can. I used to work with this guy who said the NCR ending was the only real humane one and he said the independent Vegas serves nobody but the Courier but I'm thinking yeah and the NCR ending serves the NCR who run over farms lol. At least we agreed on Cesar's Legion but honestly if I continued this story, there's also the possibility that with Cesar's death I would explore his succession line also Legate being dead too. Maybe I'd make it much like the Roman Emperors and even have them have the same names but much shorter lived than the actual Romans. And it wouldn't be every Roman Emperor I'd probably have the Legion be destroyed during Caligula's reign. Or no wait. Not him. Nero. There we go. Think about it the most famous and notorious Emperors were Julius Cesar, Caligula, Nero.
And no by the way I am not nor will I ship Hector and Dr. Li this obviously was in a past tense but in a way I found as I wrote some of her dialogue in the flashbacks of them being together that her saying what she said about James and him was funny. I honestly wrote that in more as self entertainment than anything else plus there's these pretty funny Fallout Hentai pics that are hilarious. If you haven't seen them I'll tell you what they say.
For Moira it shows a quest called Moira's Kamasuta and it says moist panties removed and the dialogue options are Speech 100% I would love to help with your research.
Lie "No i've not been exposed to any radiation"
or "No I would rather do it witha feral pack of ghouls"
for that hooker Nova dialogue options are Speech 20 % "I love you will you marry me?"
Barter 45% "120 caps? You're too old and skanky and Briana gives better head and has a tighter pussy" and it says completed lose your virginity completed cum on Nova's face and optional shave all your body hair and scrub with gasoline for three hours and optional cry then puke LOL.
Amata's was a quest called The Girl Down Below
Cop a handful of Amata's hooters
Convince Amata to help you repopulate the world
Escape Vault 101 before the overseer sees it
Optional pretend you're still a virgin and have not screwed every irradiated whore in the wasteland
'Optional tell Amata you got Bittercup pregnant
Optional avoid getting your face slapped
Grab another handful of Amata's hooters
Avoid getting kicked in the testicles
I'll save the Dr Madison Li one for another chapter but the calling her Maddie part was sort of a reference to that one. These are all funny though Idk why nobodyu did one for the Fallout New Vegas and 4 characters yet but they're creative. So far they've done these little "Quests" for Dr Li, Lucy West, Amata, Moira, Nova, and Sarah Lyons.
I would tell you all of these but there's a bunch so I'll just save a few for next time. Any how, assuming this continues Hector would find out what Father Elijah would want him to do right now Father Elijah is going to be in disbelief the Enclave is still even a factor. But also unlike the Elder in NV after Elijah despite going crazy, Elijah did initially have good goals in mind to help oput and this meant ingteracting with the world out there so maybe Hector';s influence here would influence him not to be so against outsiders. I guess I'm saying he's a catalyst. I'm not entirely sure how I want to fully play out Veronica either because while she is a more progressive Brotherhood member this is still 5 years prior so do you think she would have the same views in 77 as she does in 81? Or would she be more closer to being a follower of their code? Either way if she saw a Mutant she'd want to kill one on sight.
Plus her views on the Brotherhood and how it is on the west vs east stance and where Hector plays in could have a different outcome as far as her own Brotherhood outcome in the epilogue to New Vegas. Question is let's say she somehow joined the East coast brotherhood do you think that the outcome wher she leaves the Brotherhood entirely but maintains friendly relations with them is the most likely to be where she'd join DC or would it be the one where she's still a Brotherhood member depending on which faction they helped in the Hoover Dam battle? I just wanna know your thoughts on this.
That's all. And Happy New Year I know it's a bit late but still.