Tales From the Wastes
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Chapter 2: Tenpenny Power!
Alistair Tenpenny awoke from his bed in his penthouse suite in Tenpenny Tower. He stood up, still in his fancy pre-war pajamas, and strode outside of his room out onto the balcony that overlooked the Capitol Wasteland. when he stepped out, he heard a buzzing roar of applause from the audience below, which consisted of wastelanders, raiders, slavers, Megaton, Rivet City, and Canterbury Commons residents, and to his surprise, Brotherhood of Steel soldiers.
As he stepped out onto the balcony, the dull-roar quickly grew into jubilant chants and cheers. Alistair just smiled. Then he noticed amongst the middle of the large crowd stood 'a certain Lone Wanderer' bound by ropes and beside him stood a Brotherhood of Steel knight with an axe, ready to perform an execution whenever he was ordered.
Then Alistair looked below him to see dozens of ghouls with shock-collars around their necks being used as servants and slaves to the occasion. They were being ordered around by non-other than his own most trusted guards who patrolled the Tower on a daily basis. He smirked evilly. then he looked to his right and saw his dear old friend, Mister Burke.
"Good morning, master!" He greeted. Alistair grinned even more evilly yet.
And then, as if things couldn't get any better, in Tenpenny's case anyway, a faint chopping noise could be heard on the horizon and the wind began to pick up a little bit as an Enclave heli-bird dropping a few yards away from the massive crowd. A man who was supposedly dead, who Alistair was sure his name was Colonel Autumn, stepped out of the Copter and made his way up to Tenpenny's balcony.
The man then stood out to face the crowd and cleared his throat. "Welcome, Ladies and Gentleman, Civilians, I should say, of the Wasteland!" He spoke in a laid-back, moderately accented voice. "We are gathered here, on this fine morning to crown this man...the new Enclave President and the one true Ruler of the Wasteland!" He said motioning towards Tenpenny.
The crowd went crazy as Tenpenny smirked even more evilly yet. Autumn turned to one of his soldiers who held a crown on top of a grimy pillow, and he grabbed the crown and gently placed atop Tenpenny's wrinkley-old head.
"Ladies and Gentleman...you're new ruler! Autumn said as the crowd went even crazier, and then as if that wasn't enough, caps rained from the sky making Tenpenny smirk even more.
Alistair Tenpenny woke with a start. He looked around. He was sitting in his bedroom in his penthouse suite. Hopeful, Alistair sprung from his bed in the same pre-war pajamas and ran to his balcony. He looked out over it to a barren wasteland.
no crowd, no ghoul-slaves, no Enclave announcing he was the new Ruler of the Wasteland, no Lone Wanderer about to be put to death, and no caps raining from the sky. It had all been a dream. Alistair Tenpenny sighed and sat down in his chair looking out over the barren wasteland.
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