Welcome to another chapter! Hope it pleases you...

Nora was now the head of the Institute. The queen of the boogeyman of the Commonwealth.

All of its power and resources were at her disposal. Everything she could ever need to carry out her plan. But it would have to wait. Shawn had passed and the entire Institute was in morning, even Nora herself felt the weight of his loss. He was the last of her family. First Nate and now Shawn. Everyone from her previous life was gone, even Codsworth.

The Institute seemed so quiet.

There would be no funeral for Shawn. It was believed that it would be too problematic for everyone and so he was quickly cremated. Nora quickly became privy to all the secrets of the Institute, all of its plans and hidden rooms. It was nothing major or unexpected. The Institute was a shady place and the fact that it wanted to destroy the Commonwealth was no surprise. X6 had said as much.

X6.

He would have to be taken care of. He knew about how she was more or less a triple agent and how the continuation of the Institute was not at the forefront of her mind. He too had refused to travel with her and had returned to the shipwreck by Libertalia. To her knowledge that was where he currently was.

But if he decided to return, he would turn the whole Institute against her like Hancock did with Goodneighbor.

She could not let that happen.

"Attention Coursers." she spoke into the intercom, "I know we are all upset at the passing of Father but we must not let our mission be disregarded. There is a rogue Coursers who threatens us. Meet me in the main hall on the first floor."

Nora would use their loyalty to the Institute to take down one of their own.

When everyone was gathered they teleported to the settlement just a little aways from X6 location.

"Listen. I want X6-88 taken alive and uninjured. If you must, use his reset code. And most importantly dont listen to what he says, they are lies to get you to turn on me." Nora addressed the group.

"Understood." they said in unison.

Nora went ahead of them so that she might speak to X6 before the fighting began. She hoped he would shoot at her first as to prove to the others that he was in the wrong.

There he was just standing by the ship. When he saw her he didn't raise his gun but that's when she saw the series of mines littering the ground.

"Really X6?"

"You are capable of speaking to me from that distance."he said spitefully.

"Fine. I promised that i would find a way to make you pay for abandoning me. And here i am."

Nora raised her gun and shot at the mine closest to X6 feet. It exploded into fragments that barely damaged him. But that was also the signal for the other Courses to charge. From both sides they rushed X6. A few stepped on mines and others were shot by X6 but soon he was laying flat on the ground, pinned down by the others.

"Take him back to the Institute and lock him away. I would prefer having him alive." As the Coursers began to drag him away he began to calmly share all the secrets he knew about her. Nora would have demanded some proof of the accusations, but knowing him, he probably had some.

Thankfully none of the Coursers seemed to believe him. When X6 captors vanished into the blue lighting of the teleporter Nora turned her sights to Libertalia. She needed to blow off some steam and the flotilla had become overrun with raiders again.

She had become so much stronger since she had done that mission. She noticed that every so often she would have a skill that she didn't have before. Terminals, locks, conversations, everything seemed to get easier. Hell she could even eat people and walk through radiation and actually feel better. And it always happened after a big battle so maybe re-clearing the place would make her stronger.

She would go in with the gun she had stolen last time she was there, Le Fusil Terribles, just for the "In your face" value of it. It was easy pickings this time, each person going down like ragdolls before her. It was far too easy. She went through and collected all the stuff she wanted and she even felt stronger.

"So fighting makes me stronger...good to know." Nora thought that she would have to get in fights more often. "Lets see how strong i can get."

tits tits tits tits tits tits

With X6 out of the way and her plan going smoothly, Nora began to experiment with her new found ability. She went to the Glowing Sea just to see how it would go. She didn't even bother wearing a hazmat suit.

Rad Scorpions were the first enemy she encountered, the hurt her a bit before she blew them away. The next were the stingwings that she actually had to flee from, they were just too fast for her to follow. Their thin bodies and fast stings were difficult to cope with. She wasn't strong enough yet.

The ghouls proved easier, she just shot out their legs and then proceeded to walk around and shot them in the head. A bit cowardly but it enabled her to win and that's what was important. It was when she saw a deathclaw in the distance that she decided she wasn't ready just yet for such an area and she ran out of the radiation polluted area. When she was safe enough away that nothing would follow her she stopped to take a breath and think.

"If my plan is going to work i need to get to the point where i run from nothing." So i need to start on some smaller game' she mentally added.

Luckly a Gunner outpost wasn't that far away.

"Time for some target practice."

So what did you think? Let me know, i love reading reviews. Until next time...