Me: Hello, fans of mine, however few they may be, I'm back with another chapter, and am still looking for OCs to help populate the Wasteland, as writing 'The Settler' or whatever the other wastelanders' affiliation, race, or rank is all the time is going to get boring and also very hard to remember, not to say that it's not necessary every once in a while, or for generic enemies, but for the friendlier folks like the generic citizens of Diamond City, or Bunker Hill, or generic Minutemen, BoS, and Railroad members and it will allow more of a fleshed out Wasteland. Anyway I present to you Chapter Two of The Commonwealth's Super Soldiers.

Chapter Two: Deathclaws, Reinstatement, and a Synthetic Family Reunion

2287 AD, Concord, Commonwealth (formerly Massachusetts)

After Alex and Nora had rested up at their house (they replaced all of the ruined furniture, like their king-size bed and other things like that) and receiving Alex's dimensionally transcendental bag that Codsworth had hidden away for the last two centuries plus a decade Alex changed out of his Vault-Tec vault suit and into his modified World War Two Nazi Gestapo uniform (Symbols replaced with American ones) as well as arming himself with his favorite weapons, a World War Two Mauser Karabiner 98 that had both a scope and a suppressor on it and had painted on the stock several Chinese Red Stars indicating his killcount of Chinese Soldiers during the Liberation of Alaska and Operation Anchorage, a World War Two Walther P38 pistol also with a suppressor, a katana that was made famous, or infamous depending on whether you were an American Patriot, or a Chinese Communist as the sword that carved the bloody path to victory and slayed General Jinwei in a one-on-one duel during the famed T-51b assault that first introduced the Fat-man mini-nuke launcher to the battlefield, and the late General Jinwei's electrified Chinese officer sword which Alex took as a trophy and used to execute many Red Chinese generals like he was spitting in Chairman Cheng's face. As for Nora she changed into one of Alex's old army uniforms and put Combat Armor on which had been modified with more utility pockets for spare ammunition and other supplies and armed herself with a classic M1911A pistol with a reflex sight, a large magazine, a foregrip, and a suppressor, as well as an M4A1 assault rifle having a recon scope, a drum magazine, and suppressor, and finally she had a machete that was serrated, then they headed off to Concord which was on the way to Diamond City, though once they arrived at the Red Rocket Coolant Station on the way to the historic city they met a very friendly non-mutated German Shepherd, and promptly adopted the dog, naming him, Mörder (killer), then continued on their way eventually reaching Concord, and seeing a skirmish between a group of people who were dressed in armor that looked to be just a hodge-podge of random parts put over an old t-shirt and some pants wielding guns that looked like they were made using random parts held together by duct tape and a man of African American ethnicity wearing a really old uniform resembling a Colonial Minuteman's, and wielding a strange weapon that looked like someone took a laser rifle's firing mechanisms and slapped it on an old musket's stock and called it good. Alex and Nora decided to help the Minuteman knowing who he was as well as the situation that he was in and started to take out the mean looking guys which the Minuteman called Raiders using their long-ranged weapons.

Preston Garvey's POV

What did I do to have the worst luck ever? The group of survivors of the Quincy Massacre and I are now stuck inside a tiny office in the old Museum of Freedom in Concord which we were trying to settle, but then we got attacked by raiders who chased us in here, of course we couldn't admire the mural of the famous General Oeder during the Liberation of Anchorage locked in combat with the Chinese General Jinwei while American and Chinese soldiers were firing at each other all around the dueling generals in the Anchorage exhibit, which normally we would do since General Oeder is still ever a positive influence in the Commonwealth, anyway I was doing all I could do to prevent more Raiders from entering the building than what was already inside and trying to break down the door to the room we were in when I saw what looked like General Oeder's distinctive uniform and katana along with a female companion and a German Shepherd start to tear the Raiders apart before they even knew what hit them, at that point I was hoping that our luck was finally turning around, so I shouted to them, "Help us, I've got some settlers up here and there are more Raiders inside the building, and I don't think we can last much longer without help!"

The man who looked like the famous general said to me, "Just hang on as long as you can and my wife and I will make short work of the hostiles!" then entered the building.

Regular POV

After Alex told the Minuteman to hold out for as long as he could and entered the building he, Nora, and Mörder worked their way to the room that the group of settlers were trapped in, making short work of the Raiders who were torn into pieces or turned into bloody Swiss cheese, eventually making it to the room and told the people inside that every Raider inside was no longer living, so the Minuteman opened the door and said, "Thank God you came along when you did, I wasn't sure that I would have been able to hold them off for much longer. My name is Preston Garvey, and I'm the last Minuteman."

The thing that Alex said next shocked everyone in the room save for Nora which was, "I'm General Alexandre C Oeder of the Former United States Army, and this is my wife, Nora S Valentine-Oeder." at that point Preston gaped as an older woman chuckled softly.

"I told you Preston that General Oeder and his wife would come to our aid, The Sight is never wrong," the woman said as one of the other people in the room scoffed at her.

"Mama Murphy, this so-called 'Sight' is nothing more than just the high you get off of fucking Jet! You're not FUCKING psychic! You're just a Jet junkie who fucking hallucinates your visions!" a second woman said to the old woman known as Mama Murphy after recovering from the shock from the huge bombshell that was dropped by Alex while a man who seemed to be the younger woman's husband tried to calm her down, but was silenced by the woman who said, "Shut the fuck up Jun! Thanks to this fucking junkie we're trapped in here and are going to fucking die!" which made the man known as Jun shrink back obviously too scared to stand up to his wife, while Preston also after recovering from his state of shock saying, "Well, General Oeder, we've got more Raiders outside, possibly the 'friends' of the first group of Raiders you and your wife tore apart, but we have a plan. Sturges, tell them."

A man who was standing at a desk and staring at a computer screen, before being shocked and nervous about literally standing in the same room as possibly the most famous and important people in Pre-War America in the five years before the bombs fell, but quickly recovered and laid out his plan which involved heading to the roof, entering a suit of old T-45a Power Armor and then literally ripping the minigun off a crashed Vertibird's turret and then just letting the Raider bastards eat lead. Alex simply smirked and said to Nora, "You've always wanted to pilot a suit of Power Armor, right? Go have fun!" then winked at her as she squealed and ran to the roof eager to go get into the Power Armor and unload the minigun on the Raiders while Alex said, "While Nora does that, I'm going to go show these Raiders why I was so feared by the fucking Commies during the war." then turned on his heel and walked down to head outside and for the first time in over two centuries draw his katana aptly nicknamed, The American Edge, as it was red, white, and blue, with the American eagle as the tsuba design saying seemingly to the blade, "Well, old friend, looks like you're coming out of retirement, and into battle once again."

Nora got to the roof of the museum and saw the T-45 Power Armor standing there with a full fusion core inside of it, and promptly entered the suit then went to the turret and ripped it off finding out through the HUD that the weapon was fully loaded and came with 1,000 rounds for it which pleased the impromptu soldier/former lawyer as she walked into the line of sight of the Raiders who understandably upon seeing the woman in Power Armor and wielding a minigun caused two things to happen; a) caused the Raiders to shit themselves out of fear, and b) to start fleeing while yelling, "Shit! Minigun!" as Nora fired on the fleeing Raiders as she saw Alex come out of the building with his katana in hand, walking in a fashion that she had only heard about once which was the same fashion as he did when he was on the warpath. One of the Raiders was foolish enough to start firing his jury-rigged pistol at Alex who thanks to his enhanced reflexes and speed simply bisected every bullet fired causing the Raider who shot at Alex to yell, "Holy fucking shit! That guy's a god-damned monster!" The boss of the group also saw what happened as right then a loud roar echoed through the area and the ground shook as a portion of the road burst and a large 8'0" tall lizard with horns on top of its head that were pointed forward, powerful-looking jaws, long arms with five-fingered hands that ended in razor sharp claws, and a tail that looked like it would hurt if one got smacked with it, which caused the Raiders to stop attacking Alex and focus on the giant lizard thing that was definitely more of a threat than him, so while the Raiders were focused on the lizard that they called a Deathclaw, Alex simply went into a nearby building that was out of the Deathclaw's reach and let it kill the Raiders while Nora watched in amusement and silently agreed with Alex's plan of action.

A short while later, all of the Raiders, were dead, which in the Deathclaw's eyes, were a bunch of annoying warm-bloods with exploding firesticks, so it started to sniff the air for Alex as it saw him walk away from the slaughter and found him just out of reach with his katana, which it perceived as a sharp metal stick, in hand, as he drew his second blade from its sheath which once drawn crackled with the blue glow of electricity turning the air around it into plasma due to friction then leapt at the roaring creature dodging its claws when it tried to slash at him and stuck both blades directly into its head killing it instantly and causing its body to fall forward and land with a loud thud. Removing the two blades from the Deathclaw's head and sheathing them, a second earth-shaking thud was heard as Nora had jumped off the roof of the museum onto the ground in order to walk over to her brave, but reckless husband intending to give him an earful for his stunt in killing the Deathclaw, but before she could, Alex said, "I apologize for worrying you with that stunt, however I don't apologize for killing the Deathclaw."

After the apology Alex asked for Nora to step out of the armor which she did then hugged wrapped her in a hug and kissed her lovingly and passionately as she melted into it and kissed back, though before the two could escalate the kiss they heard a cough causing them to look and see a blushing Preston Garvey standing with his little group of four people, out of which the man named Sturges, the man named Jun, and Jun's wife were blushing, while Mama Murphy was chuckling and saying things about how refreshing it was to see a married couple that were full of love for each other. After everyone had recovered from witnessing the Oeder couple's romantic moment Preston said, "Thanks again for saving our asses back there, General. Here take these Caps as a gift, since I know that you didn't save us for money." To which Alex said that he shouldn't be rewarded for doing the right thing and for keeping the oath he swore when he joined the army which was to protect the country from any and all threats foreign or domestic which caused Sturges to say to Preston that he had told him that Alex would refuse the gift.

Nora just smiled and hugged Alex's arm saying to him, "Of course you would say that, my love, in fact if you could have you would've just fought the Chinese without being paid a dime!" She then said to Preston, "Don't worry too much about him, he's always been like this, even when he was thrust into Alaska, and served alongside General Chase, he would give half of his paycheck to the soldiers he had under his command and had the other half put in his checking account so that he could still pay the bills." Preston was shocked at this information, and coming to respect Alex a lot more since he was a very humble and generous man, it was no wonder why the general public spoke so fondly of him. Recovering quickly Preston asked if Alex and Nora would like to head to Sanctuary Hills with him and his group to which the couple said sure also saying that the group was more than welcome to live there and be their new neighbors. Preston was surprised to learn that the Oeder family actually lived in Sanctuary Hills, but also at the part about the group being new neighbors and asked them what they meant by that, so Nora said, "Well, as you may have figured out, my husband and I are Pre-War people, but you're wondering how that's possible, right?" Preston and the others nodded saying something about ghoulification, as Nora continued, "Well, some of our old neighbors along with us and our son, who was kidnapped at some point, though I'll explain that later, were accepted into Vault 111, by Vault-Tec, what we didn't know was that it was a cryogenics experiment."

"Shit, that's rough, I'm going to take a wild guess and say that the person or people who kidnapped your son left you two alive and caused the rest of the containers that your neighbors were in to have a deadly malfunction, right?" Preston asked to which Nora and Alex nodded sadly as well as say that after they got out of their cryopods they forced the rest of the pods open so that they could bury their neighbors' bodies as well as the skeletons of the Vault's staff instead of left there for eternity, at which Preston nodded saying that they did the right thing even if the staff screwed them over royally.

2287 AD, Sanctuary Hills, Commonwealth

After a long walk back Preston, Sturges, Jun, Marcy (Jun's wife), Mama Murphy, Alex, and Nora all made it to Sanctuary Hills where Sturges started to formulate plans for the place, while Jun and Marcy were surprised that Mama Murphy was actually right for the second time in a row, and Preston was just relived that the five remaining Quincy survivors managed to survive going all the way across the Commonwealth in one piece and said to Alex, "Hey, General Oeder, may I ask if you and Nora would lead the Minutemen and help me rebuild them back to their former glory?"

Alex made a show of thinking the offer over even though he had already made his decision back when he was in our universe and played Fallout 4 for the first time and was given this offer, and as for Nora, well she also had made her decision which was to accept as she knew that her husband would say yes and that she also was a huge fan of the ideals of the group which were the same as their Colonial predecessors to defend their homes and families at a moment's notice.

2287 AD, Diamond City, Commonwealth

After accepting Preston's offer and becoming the leaders of the Minutemen, with Alex being the General and Nora being Alex's right-hand man, or woman in this case, and Preston being the left-hand man, for the simple reason of Nora knowing how to handle Alex, and Preston knowing how to handle the Minutemen, which Preston accepted and understood the reasoning for Alex's decision, and helping Sturges get the new settlement of Sanctuary Hills on its feet which included building a resource storage unit, a mall (at first Sturges just wanted a general store, but after Alex and Nora explained the concept of a mall to him he asked for that), a power plant, a water purification center, and a couple of farming plots, as well as clearing out all of the debris, and making a few beds, the couple rested for the night then left the next morning for Diamond City, which the journey took several days to get there as well as a few encounters with Raiders, mutated creatures, Super Mutant Behemoths and regular Super Mutants, and Feral Ghouls all of which provided the wandering couple with trade goods, Caps, food, water, and materials for building buildings, and utilities in settlements, and crafting armor, weapons, and modifications to said weapons and armor, and when they did they heard an argument between a woman wearing a paperboy cap that had a slip of paper, that Alex and Nora guessed said Press on it, stuck in the band that was on it, a red trenchcoat that reached to her ankles, and leather boots and someone on an intercom system, so the couple decided to help the woman, who they guessed was a reporter, and walked up to the intercom system and Alex said, "Excuse me, my wife, Nora and I have just got here from Sanctuary Hills, which is a very recent settlement that was just established a few weeks ago, and we have some supplies that we'd like to sell, do you think you could open the gate and let us in?" The female reporter jumped in saying that a woman named Myrna who was extremely paranoid about Synths would accuse the poor guard on the intercom, who was named Daniel Sullivan, of being one, causing him to sigh and let the three of them into the city at which point a man walked over to the group and immediately attacked, verbally, the female reporter named Piper who then asked Alex and Nora if they supported free press to which they both recited the First Amendment as their answer to the question, and shut the man, who was the mayor of the city, right up and made him storm off in a huff that sounded robotic, but it was only noticable by both Alex and Nora, and told Piper that she was right about the mayor being a Synth, but to not accuse him of it until he lets it slip himself to which the firey reporter agreed as she invited the couple to her newsroom to rest and to answer a few questions for her as she said that for some reason she's sure that the two were Vault Dwellers.

Once at the newsroom of the Publik Occurrences, of which the spelling was immediately brought up by the Pre-War couple, to which Piper said that she wanted to be unique, as she didn't want to admit that she was drunk the night she named the paper and forgot how to spell 'Public', though Alex and Nora didn't believe her, but respected her privacy.

Piper's POV

I was sitting in my little newsroom with a pair of Vault Dwellers and asked their names, well imagine my surprise when the man of the couple said that he was fucking General Oeder himself! At first I thought that he was joking with me, but then I saw him take something off his belt which was the famed katana, The American Edge, of which there was only one of in the entire world and believed to be lost the day the bombs fell, making my eyes go wide in shock, as I then asked him, "WHERE THE FUCK HAVE YOU BEEN FOR THE LAST TWO FUCKING CENTURIES!?!?" He had covered his ears when I screamed at him saying that I needed to use my indoor voice, which made me apologize for shouting, but it wasn't everyday you get to see an actual legend in the flesh let alone get an exclusive interview with him, then the woman with him said that she was his wife of 211 years named Nora Oeder neé Valentine, which caused me to ask, "By any chance are you related to a guy named Nick Valentine? He's a detective, both in his former life as a human from what he's told me when I interviewed him trying to get to the truth, and his current one as a synth." Both General Oeder and Nora told me that he was their brother when Nick was alive, which led to them telling me their story about how Vault 111 was just a big freezer that they were stuffed into as an experiment and how at some point that fucked up bastard Kellogg had somehow gotten into the vault, unfroze everyone, opened poor Nora's cryopod and then tricked her into handing over their only son, named Shaun C Oeder, after General Oeder's late father, and refroze them, but sabotaged every cryopod except for theirs, and then left again for some amount of time before the emergency release function was triggered somehow, as well as how they worked together to make sure that all of the dead were properly buried, which actually brought tears to my eyes, and so I ended the interview there and then offered to direct the Oeders to their brother's detective agency for a very long overdue family reunion.

Nick Valentine's POV

I was sitting in my office smoking a cigarette, a habit I've had for the last 60 years of my second life, and for 12 of my first life, and remembering my sister, Nora, my brother-in-law, General Alexandre C Oeder, and my infant nephew, Shaun, who I saw with that motherfucker Kellogg, who I was investigating, and figured that he had broken into the vault that Nora, and Alex were frozen in, and had kidnapped him at least ten years ago for the Institute, which pissed me off to no end, since I was the only one alive in the family outside of Alex and Nora who knew the truth about him and his true origins, and I promised him that I would guard that secret with my life, which I did, even when CIT ripped out my brain and preserved it in a jar then froze it until The Institute decided to make the first of the 3rd generation synths using my DNA, anyway I was reflecting on my life when I heard Nora say, "NICHOLAS RICHARD VALENTINE! YOU PUT OUT THAT CIGARETTE RIGHT NOW!!" Yeah, sue me for for doing as she said, but I know that when she says my full name, I'm in the doghouse if I don't obey, especially if she shouts it, I also hand her the entire pack as well while Piper makes a whipping noise at me while Alex simply just tells me that I knew better than to smoke even if I was a synth now. After Nora threw out my smokes and made me hand the rest of my packs over for her to destroy she and Alex gave me a hug and said how great it was to see me again and to know that I haven't changed a bit since the last family reunion which was right after Alex came home from Alaska after liberating it from the Commies, ah, good times, it was then my secretary Ellie came in and noticed Nora and Alex, not knowing that they were my family members chastised me for being too friendly with the clients which was when Piper explained to her that Nora was my sister and Alex, who she referred to as General Oeder, much to Ellie's shock, was my brother-in-law, being Nora's husband, which caused Ellie to apologize to me for jumping to conclusions, of which I simply told her that it was Ok, since she was making an educated guess considering what this building is, as Nora teased me about Ellie being my girlfriend and such.

Eventually Alex went down to business, saying that it was time, of course Piper and Ellie were confused, and more so when I said, "Alex, I've been ready ever since you told the family the complete and honest-to-God truth about yourself, even if it still sounds like something out of an old Sci-fi flick." Piper then spoke up asking what I meant by that and before I could say that I made promise not to tell anyone outside the family what it was, Alex closed and locked the door then after making Ellie and Piper, mostly Piper, that nothing he said left the room or else nothing on God's green, irradiated earth would stop him from destroying them, of course Piper looked to me and Nora asking if he was serious, and I said, "Yeah, he's very serious, I mean he won't kill you, but he will make you wish you were dead though, I remember when our jackass cousin decided to ignore his warning, he was sent to Parson's State Asylum...that's a place where insane people go, so try to guess what might happen to you if you decide to blab." Piper visibly gulped knowing that even if she wanted to expose this particular secret, no one would ever believe her as everyone practically worshipped my brother-in-law, and as for Ellie, well she paled as she nodded, which made Piper nod as well, and so Alex told his tale, of course Piper, being a person who was a sort of Doubting Thomas, even with Nora and myself both vouching for the validity of the account, she asked for proof, which Alex produced in the form of his Military record from his world, how did I know that, well the American flag on file's cover had fifty stars on it where our version of the flag had a ring of twelve stars surrounding one huge star, and he told Piper that she can read it, which she did and boy was she surprised when she saw the contents of the giant file, and came to believe him and then after she gave the file back asked him if the serum that was injected into his DNA was the reason that the Institute kidnapped Shaun to which Alex nodded and Nora said that she also took the serum, but unlike Alex, she injected herself with it out of her love for Alex.

Regular POV

After Alex, Nora, and Nick explained to Piper and Ellie the secret about the Multiverse and proved it to them, Nick informed Alex about how long it it had been since Shaun's kidnapping based on the halting of phsyical aging which was when the subject reaches the height of development, and adding the Universe Boom theory that Alex came up with to explain the differences between some of what he knew as canon and what he's experienced so far like Nick being a 3rd generation Synth, and him being Nora's brother by blood, which meant that other things could change as well, but once Alex and Nora heard Nick's report they invited him along with them to go make Kellogg pay.

Whew! Finally got this chapter done! So Nick is in the know about the Multiverse, Alex is the General of the Minutemen and he is famous in this AU for helping General Chase liberate Alaska from the Chinese starting in 2075 and had completely emptied Alaska of Chinese soldiers in 2076 during which time he dueled General Jinwei to the death and won despite the latter having an electric sword and then took the sword as a trophy and then used it to kill other Chinese generals just to spite Chairman Cheng which worked by the way as in China and America there are propaganda posters that depict Alex as a demon killing Jinwei in a cowardly fashion. Anyway hope you enjoyed this chapter and remember to read and review.