Summary: How does Lucas react when he sees a soldier from brotherhood of steel for the first time?
20 years after Lucas' birth
Lucas pov
When Lucas sees one of the brotherhood of steel for the first time he mistakes her for some kind of robot. With steel all over it is n easy mistake to make. But after a certain time of just looking at her he realizes that this soldier can't be a robot, mostly of the fluid movements that she is able to do.
But Lucas isn't able to observe her that closely, as at the time being he just have walked in on a small battlefield between a small group of brotherhood of steel soldiers and a band of super mutants. He quickly gets his hunting rifle from his back, ready to defend himself from either the giants that are the mutants or this potential new threat that are these metal cladded humans, and dives behind a barricade of rubble.
Lucas pokes his head over his protection from now and then and mostly observes the battle. Both sides battle ferociously, the soldiers with laser rifles – a technology that he never has seen before – and the mutants with hunting rifles and clubs. Seems a little unfair for the mutants at first, as the lasers seems to deal a lot of damage, but then Lucas sees that the mutants can take a lot of misuse. They seem to never die, as blow after blow hits their bodies, and they never seem to feel the pain from the big burns that the lasers leave behind. The mutants don't even flinch.
In the end it is the soldiers that wins, and as the last mutant falls to the ground, the last laser rifle have shot it last blast and the last order amongst the soldiers have been given, Lucas pokes his head out to see if these new faces are either friends or foes. And it turns out that they actually are friendly.
The first one of the soldiers that Lucas has seen, a woman named Sarah Lyons, called out to him and presented herself and the small fraction that she works for. When she takes of her helmet Lucas notice the yellow, almost white, hair instantaneously, and thinks that it clashes terribly with her dirty face. But she is cute in her own way. He finds himself to think on Amata when he looks at this Lyons.
She advised him to get out of the ruins, and told him that it is only foolish to travel in these parts alone as the place crawls with super mutants. But when he tells her of his mission, to find his dad and that a man named Three Dog at the GNR might know where the man is, Sarah offered Lucas to take him there together with her little group of soldiers.