Dear Readers,

I'm sorry fro the long hiatus on this story, I lost all my data for this story as my young cousin who had been staying with me took my drive and erased the data to put on their own stuff.

So to re write the chapters I had, I needed to get some inspiration. In short, I re-played Fallout 3.

Such a great game.

So now I'm re-writing the lost chapters and this is the first of the batch. Hope you all enjoy and thank you for you're patience.

Now on with the story!

~ YaoiGoddess22

"This is the door to the sub-basement." said Sarah.

She stood before a door with 2D looking at it.

"Why haven't the Super Mutants come up here?" asked 2D.

"This is where we chased the remaining ones to, but with them down there, Li and James have had a hard time getting Project Purity up and running." explained Sarah.

"Okay, so what exactly do we need to do?" asked Russel.

"Take out the Super Mutants, change a few fuses, and get the mainframe up and running again." said Sarah.

"I can handle the mainframe." said Murdoc.

"Then I'll see what I can do with the Super Mutants." said Russel.

The bluenette nods and takes the finally task of replacing the fuses.

"The fuses are at the very bottom of the basement, there will be another staircase leading you down to it." said Sarah.

She hands over a few fuses to 2D, who pockets them.

"The fuses won't just give us more power, but it'll also re-start the mainframe." said Sarah.

With that, the three head down to the basement, it wasn't dark at all, a good sign. They see a large, locked door and Murdoc hits it a few times.

"I'll wait here while you change the fuses, Cortez, stick with him." said Murdoc.

Cortez caws loudly and flies to 2D's shoulder, getting comfortable.

"What about you, the Super Mutants could spot you." said 2D. "Eh, they'll have to catch me first, besides, I've traveled the wastes longer than you Stu, honesty think this is my first Super Mutant fight?" he asked.

The bluenette nods and sets off with Cortez and Dogmeat. Russel walks by him to stare at his friend.

"If you need help just holler." said Russel.

"Same to you." smirked 2D.

The large man chuckles and sets off down his own way with 2D heading for the other stairs. He goes slow, keeping an eye and ear out for any Super Mutants.

Dogmeat is low to the ground, ears perked and ready for a sight. Cortez just rests on 2D's shoulders, but his beady eyes were sharp and searching for trouble.

2D turns the corner to jump back as a shot rings out.

"Ha, ha, time to die!" yelled a voice.

'Least there's only one.' thought 2D.

He looks to Dogmeat and with a nod of his head, the dog goes running. 2D pulls out his Assault riffle to load it and peek.

The Super Mutant was trying to hit Dogmeat, but the dog was much faster than the large being. 2D lines up the shot and starts firing.

"Gah, no fair!" yelled the Super Mutant.

Dogmeat growled and jumped, sinking his teeth into the mutant's throat. The mutant roars and tries shaking the dog off when 2D shoots a bullet through the Super Mutant's forehead.

It goes down with Dogmeat barking happily. 2D walks over to the dead mutant, searching him for anything good.

Ammo and that was it.

The three continue on and 2D happily spots the fuse box. He walks up and opens it, seeing the burned out fuses.

"So uh, do I just replace them or are there certain ones?" asked 2D.

He looks at the fuses in his hands, but they look the same. He looks to Cortez, who gives him a 'are you serious' look.

"Alright, I got it, no need to be so judgmental." grumbled 2D.

He switches the burned fuses with the new ones and a green light flashes on. His job done, 2D heads back up to Murdoc.

He doesn't see the Satanist, but the door to the mainframe is open and so he goes inside. A large machine with a computer is inside and sitting at it is his lover.

"It wasn't too much, was it?" asked Murdoc.

"Just one mutant, but what about Russel?" asked 2D.

"He has a mini-gun, grenades, and plenty of fat, he'll be fine." said Murdoc.

2D sighs as he watches the raven haired man work. A few minutes later and he stretches from his seat.

"Everything is now up and running, so we should go look for the fat ass and see if he needs any help." said Murdoc.

They leave the room to see Russel returning to them.

"Took care of them all?" asked 2D.

"Ya man, there were four down that way, what about you?" asked Russel.

"Just the one." said 2D.

The large man nods and they head back upstairs.

"Think Noodle finished up her job like us?" asked 2D.

"Ya, baby girl would have finished before us." said Russel.

Murdoc snorts as they return to the main floor. They head back towards Project Purity when they hear yelling.

"But why, and now of all times?!" yelled Noodle.

"Orders are orders, we must follow them." said Sarah.

The three men ran over to see a few Brotherhood soldiers walking out.

"What's going on?" asked 2D.

Sarah looked to them as Noodle crossed her arms.

"Sarah and the brotherhood are leaving." said Noodle.

The three are shocked as Sarah sighs.

"My father; Elder Lyons, has sent us his orders, we are to return to the Citadel." said Sarah.

"But what about the Enclave?!" demanded Murdoc.

"Orders are orders." said Sarah.

2D blinks to look at the other soldiers.

"But all of you, can't like one stay?" asked 2D.

"Again, orders, we were all ordered to return." said Sarah.

With that, she puts her helmet back on and walks away. Murdoc curses to kick at a fallen bucket.

"Just perfect, if the Enclave catches wind of this, they'll attack!" growled Murdoc.

"No kidding, we'll just have to try and stop them ourselves from taking Project Purity." said 2D.

The others agree and walk off to find anything else to do. 2D looks to Dogmeat to pet him, what could they do?

"Just as I feared." said a voice.

The bluenette jumps and looks to see James standing behind him. How long was he standing there for?

"The Enclave will attack, no doubt tomorrow, what I fear may come to pass." said James.

2D stares at him in shock as he walks away. If what James says is true, then they were all in danger. Especially id the Enclave get their hands on Project Purity.

It'll be all over.

2D then shakes his head, no, that was never going to happen. The Enclave were not going to get Project Purity, even if it costs him his life.

He would protect the Wasteland and his friends till his last breathe.

A/N: They worked hard to get Project Purity up and running and now the Brotherhood is leaving. Is what James said true, will the Enclave attack? Stay tuned and plz review.