"WARNING! Unauthorized entry from the main entrance! Base in lockdown!" The mainframe announces, solidifying the women's fears.
"Great, what now?" Emily sighs, checking the ammo of her weapon. "I don't have enough ammo, one and a half magazine."
"I broke open an ammo storage cupboard on my way back here. There has to be some useful ammunition in there!" Marieke gathers plasma cartridges to make sure she has enough. "To be fair. I am running low too, so I need to find other ways to get us out of here." The women leave the lab behind and make their way to the elevator. When they exit the elevator, the room suddenly turns dark. Using her night vision Marieke sees that they are being surrounded by what looks like Gunners. She sighs and lowers her weapon.
"You have no idea who you are dealing with." She says calmly but her calm state of mind quickly fades as two hands grab Emily from behind and bring her to a large man in Power Armor, who bellows with a cocky laugh as he accepts his hostage.
"You are coming with us or this beautiful specimen will be brought to the raiders." The apparent Gunner boss handles Emily roughly as if she is already his property. Marieke grits her teeth seeing how he handles her girlfriend. She reaches for her weapon threateningly and looks into the Gunner Sergeant's eyes.
"Let her go. I'm warning you, you have no idea who you are dealing with." Marieke can feel her face become bright red with rage. "Let. Her. Go."
"Do you really think that fancy suit will do anything to help you fight MY army?" The Gunners laugh as the Sergeant makes taunting gestures to the crowd to rile them up against the steaming cyborg.
"I am going to say it one more time. LET. HER. GO!" The green veins on her new body start glowing bright green to the amusement of the Gunners surrounding her.
"Oh look! Our friend lights up like a christmas tree! What are we scared! HAHAHAHAHAHAA!"
"You are going to regret this." Emily whispers in the sergeant's ear with a devious smile, knowing what is about to happen she ducks for cover as Marieke instantaneously teleports behind a group of gunners and quickly snaps their necks before they can respond.
She picks the combat knives from the corpses' sheaths and throws them towards some Corporals opposite of her, both knives hitting their targets skull, instantly killing them. The sergeant returns fire and commands the other gunners to cover him, so he can grabs Emily and make a run for the exit.
Hearing Emily scream enrages Marieke even more. She drops the gurgling Gunner and teleports to the escaping sergeant. He is almost at the door but before he can open it Marieke appears before him and stops him in his tracks. He tries to give Marieke a right hook, but she expertly catches the fist with her smaller but much stronger hand. She gives the hand a good squeeze and nearly crushes the sergeants armored hand in the process. He falls to his knees and Marieke gets close to his face and whispers soft but angrily in his ear.
"I want to make ONE thing clear. Next time when you consider taking my girlfriend hostage think of what I just did to your pathetic men." She grabs his head and turns it to the corpses of the Gunners that were surrounding her. "You now know who you messed with and if I see your face ever again, I will PERSONALLY hunt you down and make you beg for mercy." She calmly stands up and helps Emily back on her feet. She holds out her hand, gesturing she is waiting for something. The Gunner sergeant reluctantly puts Emily's gun in her hands and runs for the exit, but before he can open the door Marieke shouts once more.
"Sarge! You forgot something that belongs to us!" Marieke holds out her hand as if she is expecting something to be put in them and soon a few magazines of 10mm ammunition are put in her open hand.
"All of it." She commands with a stern voice, glowing eyes watching as they strike fear into the otherwise proud sergeant. He reluctantly hands her more boxes which contain more ammo and when she is satisfied, she gestures him to leave her sight. The man quickly scurries towards the exit. Green eyes follow the running sergeant.
Emily stays close to Marieke who keeps a close eye on their surroundings. Even Emily has calmed down significantly as she feels safe with her now cybernetic girlfriend. When they near the exit Emily spots something that the Gunners did with their rude entry.
"Blue! Look! The explosion opened a safe!" Emily points at a large safe with a cracked open door. "It's not fully open but maybe you can bend it open?"
Marieke pries her fingers between the safe and its door and pulls with all her might. Slowly but surely the door opens and when she opens the safe far enough, they see a unique weapon.
"Is that what I think it is?" Emily stammers as they see the contents of the safe.
"It seems like it. That looks like a katana with a plasma generator…"
"C'mon! Pick it up! Gimme a good pose! Then I can take a picture with this camera I found!"
Marieke strikes a heroic pose with the sword and Emily snaps the picture. She takes out the film roll so they won't have to take the whole camera with them.
"You look amazing my love. As soon as we get back to Diamond City, I'll get this developed."
They exit the room and head towards the exit of the bunker. On the way they meet a few straggling Gunners, but they are easily dispatched by either Marieke's rifle or Emily's pistol.
"You were over the shock of being kidnapped quite quickly Em'." Marieke holsters her weapon after killing a Gunner. "People usually don't really recover from this so quickly."
"I wanted to get out of this cursed place as soon as possible and I realized sobbing did not speed things up. I am still distraught, but I'll manage for now." Emily intertwines her fingers with Marieke's and gives them a kiss. "Besides, I have the most awesome and beautiful bodyguard a girl can ask for."
The women share their affections and soon they close in on the exit of the base. Their peace doesn't last long because when they enter a large room all doors slam shut, and a familiar face appears behind a set of windows.
"Ah, M01-91 and her so called girlfriend." Justin Ayo greets them with a sinister tone in his voice. "I'm glad you could come here so quickly to witness the reveal of my second finest work. With you being the prime of my work."
"Cut the shit Ayo and let us go!" Emily shouts towards the deranged scientist "Why aren't you in that crater?"
"I just escaped with the rest of the evacuating scientists. I used the chaos to escape."
"Now that you are here and made my life a living hell, why don't you just cut the talk and let us go?"
"Well, as we say in the Institute; failed experiments should be discarded and that is what I am going to do with you two." Ayo snaps in his fingers and two figures drop down from a bridge above. Both their faces are completely covered but the masks show a faint glow in their eyes. Marieke unholsters her weapon and takes aim, but just before she can shoot Emily stops her.
"Blue don't! Those are friends of mine! They look like they are under control by something in the room with Ayo! You use that sword you just got to keep them busy and ALIVE while I figure out how to free them!"
"How do you know they are your friends?"
"That sword the woman is holding is a one of a kind Japanese katana! There are only two confirmed Japanese ninjas in the commonwealth. Ayo uses that dish over there to control them via the transmitters on the backs of their necks!"
"I'll keep them busy then, you better find a way to free your friends!"
As Marieke finished her last sentence, the figures dash forward and she has little to no time to respond before she is overwhelmed by the trained ninjas.
While the three are fighting Emily slips away and climbs up to the balcony where Ayo's supposed control room is. She sees the door is locked with a terminal and starts the hacking subroutine to open it up. Before she even can enter the first command she jumps up from her concentration by a loud crash.
"Keep them in one piece Blue! I don't want to lose more friends!"
"I just knocked the dude unconscious! Two versus One isn't really fair" Marieke's voice hitches from exertion as she catches another blow from the female's sword. Paying no attention to her partner who lays unconscious in a corner.
After a short while Emily manages to hack the terminal and orders it to open the door. Just in time to dodge the female ninja who was thrown away by Marieke.
"HEY! BLUE! Next time when you throw brainwashed ninjas, don't aim for your girlfriend who is saving your ass!"
"Sorry but I had to divert her momentum somewhere!" Just as Marieke says those words the woman regains her posture. She immediately jumps down and resumes her assault on the cyborg, paying no attention to the other woman in the control room. Emily rushes towards a terminal and starts hacking it while Marieke is struggling to keep the skilled Ninja at bay and to buy more time to free them. She carefully notes down every wrong guess but gets scared by a loud crash.
"HEY! Can you two keep the place intact?!" Emily yells to the fighting women. "And especially you, Ms. I'll throw a mind-controlled ninja into a steel cargo door."
Marieke mumbles a quick sorry and immediately braces to divert another attack. "Can you PLEASE hurry?"
Emily runs back inside and quickly continues hacking the terminal linked to the mind control machine. Time slowly ticks by and Marieke is getting tired. She gets distracted by a radroach for a second and her attacker uses the distraction to get Marieke on the floor and lifts her sword up for a killing blow. Marieke closes her eyes and braces, but it doesn't come. She sees the ninja frozen in front of her.
"You ok?" Emily jumps down and rushes to Marieke.
"Yeah I think I am. That or the afterlife is a big disappointment." She pushes the fainted ninja aside to reel in Emily for a victory kiss.
"You always find room to make a joke. C'mon let's see if they are really who I think they are."
Marieke picks up the fainted ninjas and lays them down next to each other. They wait a while for them to wake up and eventually the man wakes up and mutters something in Japanese.
"Nandatto...doko darou...?" He mumbles while the woman wakes up next to him.
"Um, can you say that in English? We don't speak Japanese." Emily says to the man while helping him with his mask.
"He just wants to know where he is and what happened." The woman murmurs, barely recovering from being unconscious.
"Yes, and who are you?" The man asks goggily.
"Don't you recognize me? I'm Emily Hudson! That reporter who interviewed you on your retaking of Fort Strong!"
"I remember now. You changed a lot." The man helps the woman stand up on her feet. "Where are my manners! Allow me to introduce myself to your lovely partner." He turns to Marieke who is standing quietly behind Emily.
"My name is Sosuke Fujisaki and this is my wife Kurumi." The pair bows and Emily and Marieke answer the gesture by bowing the same.
"They are those mercenaries I told you about a while back, love." Emily stands between the pair. "They might be able to help you with your new body."
"I do have to say, you have gotten yourself a one of a kind woman with you Ms. Hudson." Kurumi inspects Marieke from top to bottom. "I have never seen a woman or a man that has been modified to this degree!"
"Well, I didn't want this anyway. Me and Em' got taken captive and they basically made me mostly robotic with all kinds of enhancements and not to mention super human strength."
"Ayo did this to you?" Kurumi makes fists to curb her anger. "That kisama's coursers killed some of my men and he's gonna pay!"
"Not to mention the whole mind control thing." Emily says while handing Sosuke his weapon back.
"That too. C'mon, let's go to our base where we can discuss our next action." Sosuke gestures the women to follow him.
The group leaves the base and the out the exit of the Robco Sales and Service center and on their way to Fort Strong. After a short walk they approach Fort Strong where Sosuke and Kurumi have their base but as the fort comes in view, they see columns of smoke rise from the fort and seeing this makes them rush towards it, fearing the worst.
"We have to hurry! There may still be survivors in there!" Kurumi commands while drawing her swords. "You ready for another fight?"
"We're with you!" Marieke readies her rifle while Emily quickly unholsters her own gun.