Chapter 2: Journey Beginning
A/N Co-Authored by LTcrazy2
A/N I do not own anything except the plot and the right to play god with these peoples lives.
"Speech"
'Thought'
"Telepathy"
"Communications"
"A.I./Robot"
*Four days later*
John Shepard woke up feeling refreshed and changed. He got up and began to put on the clothes laid out for him. As he put them on he could already tell the changes he selected had taken hold. His biotic sense allowed him to instinctively tell the mass and movement of things around him.
Once dressed he spoke. "Skynet. What is our current status?"
A hologram sprung up before him. "Your combat armor, dual deliverer's, P90, Sniper rifle, Katana's and ammo have finished fabrication and are placed in the armory on the central table. Nanocore calibration is complete. If you require the nanocore it will scan the area and be able to build any additions people will want. Also as a precaution I have added kinetic shield emitters to your armor and the eyebots."
John nodded at this. "What are these kinetic barriers?"
Skynets hologram changed to a simulation. "Kinetic barriers provide protection from ballistic damage for a small amount of time before they need to recharge. Bullets, shrapnel and other projectiles will be nullified while the barrier is up. However the system will require you to swap out a microfusion cell every so often as needed to power the device. 100 microfusion cells have been manufactured for your use. That should provide plenty of power for the kinetic barriers. A warning though. While ballistics are blocked, energy based damage will bypass 50% of the shield allowing you protection just not as much as against bullets."
Again John nodded in understanding. "Very well. While I am away please continue scanning and research and development. I want to know what we can do to help out there and if you can find where my father went as well."
Skynets hologram nodded. "Of course. The teleporter is prepared to drop you just outside the cave housing Vault 101. Which is where you would have appeared if you had used the vault door. Also before you leave an additional note, the repair eyebot has the capability to unlock locked containers and safes, however you do have some paperclips stored on your pip-boy if you wish to handle it yourself at times."
Nodding and clicking on his pip-boy, a flash of blue light and John was heading out to help the wasteland, and find his dad.
He teleported directly outside the cave for vault 101 as this is where a vault dweller would have come from. He checked his gear once more before pulling out his P90 and slapping a clip of normal rounds into it and setting off to the decimated town he saw a little ways away.
His HUD on his goggles made notes of everything that he was seeing. Walking through the ruins of Springvale he saw destroyed houses, radiation in the background, even sensing life. He walked slowly through town as he didn't know what to expect. His every step seemed to echo in the early morning with no one around.
Looking around the place he found mailboxes and containers, some filled with items he could use but mostly the area was filled with trash and scraps.
Before he could head towards a town seemingly called Megaton, his pip-boy picks up a radio broadcast which seemed to be a distress signal. Tuning to the frequency he listened in.
"This is Defender Morrill. Any Outcasts listening on this frequency report to sector 7-B, Bailey's Crossroads. This is a high-priority message; backup is needed at our location. Any personnel listening on this frequency, please report at once."
Clicking on his pip-boy he opened a frequency with Skynet. "Skynet. Can you locate the source of that transmission?"
Skynets avatar appeared on the screen. "I have the location now. Sending coordinates to your pip-boy as well as directions to get there. It seems you will have to go through a metro tunnel to get there."
John nodded. "Good. I will head to that location and try to help these outcasts. Maybe we will get more information on the capital wasteland from them."
Signing off the frequency, John headed to the location designated on his pip-boy. He moved at a steady pace to keep from tiring, but also to get there with as much haste as he can. Once he made it to the metro tunnels, he came across his first feral ghoul which went down quickly from a few headshots.
Seeing that they were unarmored he swapped his normal ammo for shredder rounds. Picking up the pace he came across more ferals, a few took more than a few hits to go down, he figured they had more resistance to damage due to mutation.
Making his way outside the metro and up stairs to the street. He noticed many people in what looked like power armor fighting tall green creatures that were shotting at them. Moving over to one of the armored people he slid and hid behind the same barricade before he heard the person speak. "Who the hell are you civilian?"
John frowned a little at the disgust in her voice. "Name is John Shepard. Maybe you can not be such a bitch to those who are answering your distress transmission."
He could hear the frown in her voice when she spoke again. "What does a civilian think they can do here to help?"
In response he checked his ammo for the P90 to make sure he had a full clip of shredders. After seeing a full clip he jumps over the barricade and immediately shoots the green creatures advancing on his position. As they wore minimal armor, the shredder rounds went through them with ease. His excellent marksmanship also allowed him to get majority of headshots killing those ones quickly before moving onto other targets.
30 seconds in and 14 of the creature lay dead from his weapon. During the silence he reloaded a fresh clip and looked to the outcasts. "That's what a fucking civilian can do."
Not bothering to wait, he sprinted forward towards the transmissions source cutting down any super mutants, which is what Skynet has told him they are, with ease making the outcasts seem inefficient and useless. When he made it to the transmission source, he was escorted down an elevator to meet with their leader.
Once the door opened they were greeted by Defender Morrill who was instantly verbally aggressive. "Great, another dirty civilian."
John took offense. "This dirty civilian just saved your comrades asses out there, so loose the attitude and be thankful."
Defender Morrill looked insulted but didn't respond except to make John follow him to his leader.
They reached an office where his superior apparently was. "Here's the person you wanted to see. I still don't think we need his help."
Protector McGraw cut him off. "That's enough. Return to your post."
Defender Morrill saluted and left.
Protector McGraw turned to John. "Sorry about that, we're all getting a little antsy from being here for so long. I could actually use your help with that."
Looking around John recognized the facility for what it was from historical records in vault 101. "You need me to help you get through the operation anchorage simulation to open a vault that's tied to it yes?"
McGraw looked surprised by that. "How do you know about that?"
John smiled. "Vault 101 has extensive historical records on military installations and labs."
McGraw nodded. "So will you help us?"
John looked him straight in the eyes. "I will, on the condition that once the vault is open I be allowed to scan anything inside with my pip-boys. Any physical technology is yours for the taking."
McGraw and John shook hands and headed for the simulator room.
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