Sorry it's a fallout heavy chapter but the Institute has a few loose ends that need to be dealt with. Also I need to rewrite the damn summary too.

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The relay station flashed the bright blue leaving both Nate and X6-88 standing in the metal room.

"Well X6-88 how is it to be back home?" Nate asked as the both of them started walking towards the glass elevator the both of them wanting to reach the others wanted location.

"Good sir." X6-88 left it simple but he saw the blade the man carried on his back and couldn't help but to ask.

"Sir where did you acquire that sword?" It had a passing similarity to some of the blades he saw those androids using at the border fight he got caught up in but older. Did he find it by accident? Through after reading his file he might have gotten it from an android as far as he knew.

"Like it? When I was dropped in to find you I helped these machines with am android issue, after we killed her I kept her sword." He killed one of those androids?

"How did it looked like?" Who knows maybe X6-88 saw the same android somewhere.

"She had long hair and looked naked. She called herself A2." So he crossed paths with that degenerate? And killed it? Impressive even if he did had help.

Nate pressed the button to open the elevator the two stepping in even through X6-88 has done this no doubt hundreds of time he will never grow tired of how clean the Institute is with the smooth metal walls, green grass and running water.

"Sir when you talk to Father please pass word to him that I'm enacting protocol 9-53-77. It would require the director and all on site courser's to attend the debriefing. Only other time this was enacted was when the brotherhood have shown up. And when I give my report of the area I would also like you to share your own experience, this would give the other courser's another person's perspective of Twilight."

"Yes I can and I will. Oh one more thing I need to mention the place is called Eden." X6-88 couldn't help to raise a eyebrow at that. "Hey it wasn't me who named it I was told it was kind of a joke. Good thing no one here is religious right?" X6-88 knew some people in the Institute did believe in a higher power but he always found the concept to be ridiculous. After all if god made humans and humans made him what was the humans of the Institute? Gods themselves for making life even if it is synthetic? X6-88 pushed the thought away it was a pointless topic that end of the day meant nothing. He is one of the many greatest Institute scientific achievements. If they can make life they can do anything.

A few thousand

"So X6-88 this meeting a special place that Shaun knows or someone will pick us up?" Nate asked taking X6-88 from his thought.

"Father will know the room. I see you there sir." And X6-88 walked out of the elevator once it opened letting him walk towards the SRD.

With this done Nate made his own way towards Shaun's room the halls only having enough people he can count on one hand wandering around for who knows what since as Nate was told it was "quite" time through people still worked even past those hours. And Shaun himself as he learned would stay awake until twelve and wake up at four on the dot not the best sleeping schedule but what could Nate do? Tell him to sleep sooner? The man was older then himself.

He knocked on the door not wanting to just barge in, the door opened revealing Shaun who smiled at the sight of his father.

"It's nice to see you weren't hurt on the mission how did things go?" Shaun asked as he moved aside letting Nate and the two sat down on chairs near the viewing, Shaun glancing at the sword in his hands.

"Pretty good actually, Shaun I also brought back a souvenir." He past the sword towards Shaun the older man having to grab the handle and blunt side of the blade due to how heavy it is.

"Father this sword is much heavier then it looks. How long did you carried it?" Shaun asked as he looked over the blade it was a strange design all metal of what kind Shaun couldn't say and did it have a trigger?

"Yeah and arcs of electricity run along the blade don't know how to use that though. Here let me grab it for you." Nate reached over and took the blade back and placing it on the table near by and then going back to sitting down. "Still just a few hours nothing to bad." And it wasn't he carried heavier stuff then before and he was still wearing his backpack.

"Well do take care father we wouldn't you to have back problems in your age now." Nate only smiled. Did just got called old?

"Still how was experiencing Eden with your own eyes?" Shaun asked curious on what his father thought of the place.

"…Amazing… it was like before the bombs like the forest my dad would take the family out for the weekend. Just the animals myself and the machines before I left to find X6-88 in a ruined desolate city with machines and androids." Shaun can hear the nostalgia in his voice. It hasn't even been close to a year since the bombs fell for his father but the world around him has long since moved on from that day. He will always miss the life that was taken in the blink of an eye.

Still.

"I'm sorry father but what is this about machines and androids?" while he was curious on the mention of his father's family from before the war since he only talked about himself and never of his own parents or potential siblings his father may have this talk about robots took his attention.

"I think I let X6-88 explain he told he was starting protocol 9-53-77 and said you know where to go." Shaun nodded through me didn't think that be activated again since the Brotherhood arrived.

The two men left the room Shaun leading his father towards the Synth Retention Division in the rooms made for courser debriefing and once the two of them stepped inside they saw a total of twenty-seven courser's in the room Dr. Ayo and an unlucky assistant named Kelly was the most noticeable in the room due to the white outfits.

"Hello Father, Nate take a seat Father we still have a few courser's coming in the room Nate please stand with X6-88 at the hologram projection since he said you be helping him with his debriefing." Dr. Aryo greeted with a tired tone his eyes bloodshot no doubt asleep when X6-88 started the protocol. They did as asked with Shaun talking to both Dr. Ayo and Dr. Moseley with Nate asking X6-88 about the hologram.

"Hey X6-88 what's with this thing?" A hologram. Nate wasn't surprised they had this too they had a teleport system why wouldn't they have holograms? Through he was surprised it took this long for him to find out.

"Here sir is all the information I have on the projection with a straight forward diagram of the "fractions" I learned about in Eden." Nate look at the hologram and saw it was rather blunt a good thing in his opinion he didn't want to stare at a mess.

"Move the "Council of humanity" next to the moon base since that's where they are supposed to be. Sorry I forgot to mention it I had a rather simple explanation given to me by Merlin so somethings I forgot." X6-88 did as told moving it next to the moon.

"Merlin sir?"

"He's a machine I helped with that android problem." X6-88 nodded.

"Ok all the courser's are here except a few who were sent to bunker hill for a mission. X6-88 please start." Dr. Aryo ordered wanting to hear what's in Eden that the protocol had to be used again.

X6-88 stated his report going through the events in order from the desert the city ruins, his interactions with a unknown robot model to his first contact with a android with the information he collected on the androids to the war the machines the state of humanity and a unmoving sun, Nate supporting that the sun didn't move for the hours he was there. After two hours of his explanation of Eden he stopped talking once everything was needed to said. Now it was the questions.

And due to the role courser's perform in the Institute most of these questions were about the capabilities of the androids and machines with X6-88 answering Institute lasers work well on both machines and androids through YoRHa the all black wearing androids are more durable then the resistance models. And yes plasma works far more effectively then lasers something Nate also agreed on telling his own experience in Eden and the android known as A2.

"This forest kingdom what's are current status with this fraction?" Nate answered that since he helped them with the android problem he would count them as an ally towards the Institute for now.

"What is future courser operations in Eden? Or any at all?"

"That X6-56 is a issue that the directors will discuss in the morning." Shaun answered, he was the one to answer this courser's question.

With a few more questions answered the courser's left the room either to return to their duties, training or maintenance/software updates.

"Well. That was interesting information." Dr. Moseley said aloud.

"I agree with you Dr. Moseley, now Dr. Ayo please come by to the meeting room at ten in the morning we will discuss all this by then also Dr. Kelly send the information you typed down to me I send it to the other heads." Shaun said as he stood up from the seat saying goodnight to everyone left in the room the three humans and one synth.

"Yes I agree with Father its time to sleep, and X6-88 go to robotics they implant a new ear to you." X6-88 nodded at that his hearing wasn't affected but it be nice to have both ears again. X6-88 also left the room leaving the two men behind with a goodbye.

"Hey aren't you from ASD?" Nate asked since he seen the man there the few times he visit to talk about pre-war plasma weapons with a few scientist their.

"Yes I'm William Moseley and you are Nate Ramirez right." Less of a question and more of a statement since everyone knew who he was.

"How you got pulled into this late night meeting? And are you heading back towards the ASD? I need to drop off my helmet it has a video recording of Eden they wanted."

"I was here to give a document to Dr. Ayo and he asked if I was available for a courser meeting regarding Eden and well I said yes. And yes I'm am." With that the two left the room talking about Eden and their thoughts on it.

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Shaun looked out at the rest of the Institute seated in the meeting room waiting for the others to come talk about Eden. The Mysteries it held regarding the flora and fauna would have made him shake in excitement if he was younger and was still in Bioscience Division. But now he focused less on the plants and animals and more on the possible threats to the Institute it held. A war between androids and machines, humans and aliens.

The location was still a mystery even his father's pip-boy still connected to pre-war satellites couldn't pinpoint his location. Then the talk of the unmoving sun which he would have honestly dismissed if both his father and X6-88 didn't stressed that point in the meeting. The video he saw earlier even solidify there statements.

Over all it was worrying. From the possible thousands of androids somewhere in the world engaging in warfare for "Humanity" against machines made by aliens who is being controlled by an unknown fraction. Or and Shaun couldn't decide wither it's a good thing or not are running themselves without human supervision. He wondered what some of his predecessors would have thought of in his position.

Didn't matter. They have long since passed.

Even then he couldn't lie to himself he wanted to see it with his own eyes. This land that his father compare to pre-war forest to how the world was before the bombs ever dropped. He wanted to experience it himself even if it was only for a while.

He turned the chair around when he saw his father and Dr. Holdren, Allie entering the room, the four didn't have to wait long Dr. Li and Dr. Ayo entered the room everyone nearly fifteen minutes early. Time to start.

"Hello everyone I take it the document I sent was seen?" While it was said like a question Shaun knew the other three heads had no doubt they fully read it or at the very least looked over it.

"Yes the height that the trees have grown to reach is amazing! That pre-war plants and animals are left largely unmutated is interesting the others in the Bio Division can't simply stop thinking of the reasons why." Dr. Holdren as always is dedicated to his field of research of agriculture and wildlife.

"Dr. Holdren I believe Father may want us to focus on this war between robots then flora." Dr. Filmore said to the man hoping to keep him on the topic Shaun wanted them to talk about.

"Yes while its true I share the same excitement, the more important thing is the fraction X6-88 has called the Apollo which humanity is supposed to reside in the moon after aliens invaded the world. Which we all know is nothing more then the imagination of programmers that they created for their machines." Shaun couldn't think of a reason why? All these resources this fraction has and they waste it on some mock war that has no meaning besides returning humans to the earth. This Apollo could have taken over their own territory and move onto the rest of the world he doubt they could have been stopped a hundred years ago and no doubt they still couldn't be stopped.

"I believe this Apollo is just treating this machine war as nothing but entertainment they have the time and resources for it so why not? Or they could be testing the software of their machines and once they reach certain results they cease operations." Dr. Ayo put in his thoughts of Eden and what this war could be about.

"Operations for what exactly? We know the machines are fighting for humanity another for aliens but results are they reaching for? Combat data on the androids? From what X6-88 gathers on the androids a good amount of them can blend in with surface people if you ignore their looks and views on humanity so I doubt it has anything with socialization." Dr. Li said since but even combat data didn't make since to her YoRHa androids were considered the special operations so future ones made by Apollo would no doubt be base off of those YoRHa ones, and it be easy to blend into current society do to how different people are.

"Which is why I propose the Institute reach out to these machines. As you all know my father has already achieve good relations with one sub-fraction in Eden the "Forest kingdom" and now wants to compensate a android leader named Anemone for the androids that X6-88 killed under its command. I agree with him if we work with these machines I have no doubt the Institute will be contacted by the true leaders of the Apollo fraction. Are we in a agreement?"

Surprising everyone at the table agreed with him no doubt Dr. Holdren wanted people in Eden taking simples, Dr. Fillmore having an interest in the tech used by the Apollo with Dr. Li sharing the same views even Dr. Ayo agreed though he had things to say on the matter.

"Father while I agree on trying to keep and establishing good relations with the fractions of Eden I have to say we must considered on potential repercussions on this matter. What if this Apollo fraction isn't as friendly we hope they are? What's next?"

Shaun has long since came to a decision on this matter hours before this. "Simple we cut contact with the machines of Eden and continue are own operations if Apollo continue being aggressive after this choice of action we leave Eden all together." Shaun didn't want to waste resources in a land they didn't even know its location so he save the Institute the trouble of getting into a fight they wanted no part of. Unlike here in the commonwealth violence can't be avoided in part of his predecessors choices and the natural violent land. He will not drag the Institute in a fight that can be avoided.

"One last issue that needs to be brought to our attention is Phase 3."

For Shaun what followed was a simple explanation of Phase 3 to his father to recovering a nuclear reactor that would ensure the Institute will be independent now and forever. And Nate would be the one to retrieve it due to his own experience in the wasteland. With this done everyone left the room with the exception of the father and son.

"So Shaun I'm going to take a guess and say this phase 3 is connected to Eden right?" Nate asked as he learned into his seat after lighting a cigar, Shaun also smoking his own cigarettes which Nate found disappointing. Those were only chemicals not tobacco and to this day no one will convince him otherwise.

"Eden is the reason why I'm moving phase 3 forward yes. Dr. Li shared with me that the power used in relaying into Eden is worrying not to say we face problems now but it led me to the decision of moving ahead with it." Shaun said then he inhaled in the smoke and released it.

"Makes sense. So about the whole compensating thing what we doing on that?"

"Dr. Li has already looked over her inventory and have found some older but still functioning laser rifles to give without issue and some cells. A total of fifteen rifles and seven cells for each rifle." Which Shaun found to be a good amount.

"Yeah that seems fair. Shaun I have a question any chance I can take X6-88 with me? Since the Institute is going to be dealing with Eden I think it would be good if the two of us work together since we have firsthand experience in Eden, and taking him to get the reactor core would let the two of us work together in a familiar environment." Nate reasoned after seeing all those machines and what A2 could do he knew he was going to need some help in Eden and what better help then a courser? Though even he knows he needs some more equipment then what he got now. Time to go home.

"Yes father you can I send a message towards Dr. Ayo to clear X6-88 of future duties." With this done the two of them talked about Eden the machines and a little about the past until the two of them left the room Shaun having to deal with director duties and Nate to found X6-88.

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In a flash of blue light Nate and X6-88 appeared in the edge of concord and quickly made their way to Sanctuary a place X6-88 knew has long since grown in population some time after Mr. Ramirez has left the vault once a single robot occupied the area it now hold a rather modest size of hundred plus people farming, building and breaching out from said little place and into the woods even looking towards Sunshine tidings co. As a new potential trading hub through Nate told X6-88 he was still looking for a few more craftsmen to fill in the roles that needed to be filled in through he had enough people and weapons for security.

The nearby Abernathy farm also grown due to this increase of population in the area being able to expand their own farm with the new hands coming in. With this new solid settlement in the area made the travel time it took to get here for traders worth it.

X6-88 looked on as Nate waved at the armed people at the red rocket stop as he passed by X6-88 didn't doubt they recognized the man so they saw no reason to stop him or X6-88.

"Sir what are we doing here?" X6-88 didn't refuse to work with Mr. Ramirez both because he agreed with his logic and he wouldn't have the choice if he didn't through it wasn't the case here.

"Just going to get something more heavy for the fission building in the night, and want you to meet some people since we be working together for sometime."

X6-88 looked around Sanctuary from its walls to the clean streets and yards as people moved back and forth adults doing work and children running around all the things that make a community. This place even had a makeshift school house empty which Nate said because it was a Sunday. X6-88 didn't understand the reason through to Nate it explained everything.

X6-88 looked at the only house in the community that was left untouched in more then one way. A white picketed fence grass that was cut clean the house even had a repaired roof and walls, windows and new coat of blue paint. It looked as if time never touched it. Only thing that didn't fit was the T-51 power armor with it hooked up to a power armor station in the drive way. It was painted green.

"Like the suit? Got from some raiders trying to get it open they couldn't obviously they had nothing to plug into her killed them and took it home been fixing the old girl since, fusion core is still high so no change anytime soon." The both of them stood behind it with Nate plugging his pip-boy into the leg he showed X6-88 a screen. "Legs been calibrated, arms fixed got the HUD working in the head a pain in ass that was mind you but it's the chest piece that has the real gold in it. A medical pump. Holy shit right? Found that mod in a t-60 suit in downtown it was a mess only good for scrap but the pump was great." X6-88 listened as Mr. Ramirez kept talking about the suit which X6-88 agreed is impressive suit of armor and all the work he's done to it.

"Mr. Ramirez is this what you wanted to get?"

"Yeah and a Gatling laser brotherhood unfortunately. Also want you to meet Nora, Codsworth, Ada and Jezebel plus just call me Nate would you?"

With that X6-88 followed Nate into his house confuse on who the two others are. Inside was a similar state of repair through still worn down after two hundred years he saw as Nate made his way to a bullet ridden Codsworth model in the corner which he then proceeded to talk to as if it was still functioning.

X6-88 couldn't help the shiver that ran down his back. The man even paused as if he was hearing a response back from it.

"So yeah he's older then I was expecting but hell I still love him."

"…"

"It's clean very clean you can eat off the floor clean Cod."

"…"

"oh and say hi to X6-88 here we be working together for some time don't know how long yet. He's a bit shy."

"Good afternoon Nate its been a while since you stopped by how's the search for Shaun going?" X6-88 looked at the strange robot that walked in armored assaultron legs laser weapon on its left and a claw on the right, it's until form is armored with a dark blue paint.

"I bet the man still hasn't found him. How long it's been?" X6-88 glanced at th-What? Is that a brain in a jar?

"No, no I found him and it's a weird story too."

"That's good to hear Nate you found your son. But how? You went to the glowing sea yes?" X6-88 ignored the conversation between the two and focused on the brain in the jar in front of him. Is this the reason Father didn't like cybernetics? Because it would lead to something this horrid? X6-88 didn't even know what to consider the thing as. Not fully robotic or even close to being human but it was powering the machine it is attached to. Take the brain and it falls.

"Are you done looking or you going to ask me something fleshbag?" the crime against nature and since when did X6-88 ever thought of That? Said to him in annoyance.

"I have no interest in a technological failure." Whatever it is X6-88 didn't doubt it was a pre-war failure only something this horrible could have been made by lunatics of a crumbling society. He's been to a few of the vaults outside of the commonwealth after all he knows how sick pre-war people are.

"A failure? I have you know I am the top military model of robo-brains long before your grandparents were even born!" The thing said in anger.

"Yet here you are rotting in Nate's house no doubt having been bested by him and only continue to live because he doesn't see you as a threat." The thing said nothing in response but X6-88 knew if it had a mouth it would be grinding its teeth.

The thing rolled away into a different part of the room ignoring them all and giving X6-88 some peace.

"Could have been worse. Remember when she cussed at me all the time when I put her in that body?"

"Yes I do Nate she has a large vocabulary. At least when it comes to curses."

"Well then X6-88 meet Ada, Ada meet X6-88. Oh and we taking her with us to the fission building for extra help and Eden. The more hands the better yeah?" X6-88 paused.

"Nate I don't think that wise it can't be allowed into the Institute. It's strictly against protocol unless approved by the director or Division head."

Nate just shrugged his shoulders. "Don't worry then X6-88 I bring it up with Shaun when we get back then. Sorry Ada I be back to bring you the news."

"Don't worry about it Nate I understand. Are you going to see Nora?" Ada asked curiously. X6-88 wondered if Nate buried his wife outside. He glanced at the Codsworth model and shivered.

"Yeah I am. Follow me X6."

The two went outside from the side door and into the backyard it was a similar state as in the front restored but still worn. In the back was a empty doghouse, little swing set and a mound of smooth, different colored rocks.

Nate crouched In front of the mound and took rocks out of his own backpack and placed them around the mound once he was finished he gently began to take rocks off the top until he pulled out a sliver pocket watch, pressing the button on top opened it revealing a woman with light skin, short dark hair and X6-88 guessed she must have been in her mid-twenty's.

"Hey Nora I found Shaun. He's a bit older then I was expecting but he's safe and sound. Not sure when I bring him over to see you but… yeah so I want you meet someone he's X6-88 one of those synth I told you about. He's kind of like our grandkid its confusing really he's based on Shaun's DNA code or something. And Shaun was made from us so yeah. Technically we got a lot of grandkids since they call Shaun, father."

X6-88 only looked at the man who he now consider to be delusional through even then this isn't something he was sure he should share to the others or reports he give. No doubt Father wouldn't want others to know his own father didn't had a firm grasp on reality. Still is this the reason why he fixed up his house? Maybe Nate isn't delusional and this is his own way of coping with the reality he's faced with?

X6-88 isn't sure he will never be in Nate's shoes who lived in a different time who sudden found his wife dead, son collected to build the greatest ,machines known to man and only to found said son is a man older then himself.

"Here you go X6 she wants to say hi." Nate had his hand out with the pocket watch that held the picture of Nora in it. X6-88 gently reached out and grabbed it from his hand and looked at it.

"Hello Nora." X6-88 paused he wasn't sure what to say if Nora was still alive this conversation would be easier to do. " It's nice to meet you ma'am." He paused again still unsure how to proceed.

"She says it's nice to meet you too." Nate held his hand for the watch X6-88 without question handed it back.

"Can you wait inside please? I want talk to Nora." X6-88 nodded and went back inside Ada give him a bottle of Nuka cola even through he shouldn't he still drinked it. Delicious. An hour passed before Nate walked back inside saying he needed to take his armor off to get inside his power armor, and collect the Gatling laser.

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In the days that followed the Institute retrieval mission for the reactor core lead by Nate, X6-88 and Ada protecting Allie Fillmore the threes only resistance for collecting the pre-war tech was the gunners who while held the superior numbers unfortunately couldn't stand against the might of the T51 power armor and Institute technology. The robotic guards of the reactor had the same fate as the gunners.

With the core in Institute hands solved the issue of power within with the exception of outside threats. Nate and X6-88 attacked the railroad base with Nate entering in the front while X6-88 stood in wait at the back exit found by the watchers when Nate told them of the railroad hideout.

It was a massacre in one night nearly the whole leadership of the railroad was turned into ash or goo in one fell swoop.

With Father wanting to end the brotherhood quickly he ordered gen 1 synths to be implanted with bombs to relayed above the Brotherhoods ship past its own magnetic field a issue no longer bothering the Institute with its increase power. This action destroyed the ship and leaving the found liberty prime while damaged still whole enough for the Institute to work on in the future.

With all threats to the Institute no longer an issue this let them focus entirely on the new land named Eden.

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I'm not even going to lie I didn't want to add a bunch of content that anyone who played the game will already know about in this writing.

Undead3- That's the gen 2.5 while on the outside it looks human its very much not on the inside Piper wrote a paper about the broken masked in game about it. Guy comes in Diamond city acts normal flips his shit and shoots people he gets killed and people noticed something weird his body look inside he's all machine. The 2.5 is a android in every sense of the word while some would consider Nick or DiMA as 2.5 , I consider them as a top model of gen 2's. While the gen 3 is purely organic with the exception of the Synth component/courser chips their all just synthetic flesh. If a scanner tried to hack said component I doubt it would work since 1. the tech of both worlds is very incompatible until one side gets their hands on the others tech. 2. What the hell would a scanner see in a Synth component if a successful hack happens? Possibly just memories and accidentally mind killing said Synth. Pods are no doubt confused as fuck about a dead race walking around. I don't even want to start on souls, since in both worlds they exist since in fallout you have lovecraftian gods in the background and Lorenzo Cabot has the spirits of a dead race that existed before humanity talking in his head/soul. In Nier the gods are so in your face it kills humanity, while in fallout the gods or things are driving humans insane for fun. The similarity of both worlds is scary.