League of Legends: FALLOUT

by FakeDaVinci

Three Wasteland Legends will meet each other, either by faith or destiny, and travel together on a new road to the unknown where they somehow end up in a new world within a new realm. The new world of RuneTerra. Its inhabitants will meet and learn from the three Wanderers about these famous words. War, War Never Changes.

2. The Three Legends

Chapter 2 The Three Legends

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October 22, 2290

MegaVault Town, Megaton District, Washington D.C.

Cool air blew with the west winds over the new fresh green grass on the landscape hills with fresh green trees and vegetation on the eastern outskirts of the rebuilt and restored city of Washington DC. The sun was blazing its rays from the cloudy blue sky warming the planet's surface. A circular settlement turned-town district was in view, built within a nuclear crater with the sides of the cone-shaped pit covered with concrete as a base to support the walls surrounding the hole in which are also made of concrete and reinforced with titanium steel rebars inside the walls that replaced the previous walls made of scrap metals and parts of pre-war planes from a nearby airport.

Outside its walls is a larger wall, made of steel and concrete with guard towers and energy turrets. The outer wall surrounds the crater settlement, a nearby rocky hill with a cave, and a restored pre-war town with a rebuilt school near the edge of the Potomac River. Within the walls and surrounding the crater, cave, and pre-war town were recently constructed buildings with their designs based on the pre-war architecture while made of the same materials as the walls for additional residential, business, entertainment, and security. The former nuclear crater settlement is known as Megaton for it was named after the undetonated nuclear bomb within the settlement's center which now has become a district of a newly reconstructed town.

It is also the home to the famous legend whom is known to have brought hope and now law and order to the former Capital Wasteland, the Lone Wanderer.

The famous Vault Dweller of 101 was sitting on a steel patio chair with a black cushion on the rooftop of his reconstructed house made out of concrete and steel. Behind him was a rooftop steel hatch in which he installed with a set of steel stairs underneath leading to the second floor of his house. Around the rooftop edges were steel railings that were installed with planter boxes and raised beds placed next to the railings that are growing different species of pre-war garden plants and crops forming the Lone Wanderer's own rooftop garden. His chair was next to a patio table on the center of the rooftop with an attached umbrella to provide shade from the sun. On the table was a bottle of Ice-Cold Nuka Cola next to a book entitled 'War and Peace' and an ashtray for any visitors whom smoke even though the Lone Wanderer hates smoking, especially second-hand smoking. Next to his chair on his left side was his faithful cattle dog companion, Cooper, whom was laying down on his belly with his head raised and still being petted by the Lone Wanderer.

The man relaxed on his chair and looked on from his position as the town district bustled with moving masses of people entering and leaving through the district gates. He enjoyed watching the people socialize at the new Brass Lantern, shopping at the restored Craterside Supplies, checking their health at the rebuilt Megaton Clinic, and enjoying the relaxation at the new Moriarty's Saloon. He never liked nor trust the Irish barman but he tolerates him as long as he is treating Gob and Nora respectively with no physical assaults and gives them fair payments since he "convinced" him to be more fair to his employees. Most likely, Moriarty is only doing it due to the Lone Wanderer's fame, reputation, and status and doesn't complain as long as he is making profits.

The Lone Wanderer's real name is Dante Abram. He is the son of the two famous scientists, James Abram and Catherine Abram. His black hair that was once a messy bedraggled hair style from his 19-year-old teens has been trimmed down to a shorter spiked hair and combed from the front to the rear for a more versatile look. His facial hair was always shaved with shaving cream and a razor to bring out his younger look despite the fact he is now in his early 30's. His face was narrowed and chiseled with a narrow-lined jaw that still contained his younger look and clear smooth skin with no blemish or acne scars despite his age. Whenever he sees his face in a mirror, he often wonders if it was due to Moria Brown's radiation experiment and her "special home-made" Rad-Away that affected his youth besides earning the "teeny, tiny, um, mutation" which he calls the Rad Regeneration "perk". His eyes were hazel like his father and shows the signs of a veteran whom has witness the horrors and atrocities of war and survived. Due to his wanderings, personal training, and fighting enemies and hostile creatures, his body was forged from a thin average teen with a small chubby belly into a muscled toned athlete with a runner's body and a noticeable six pack in which made his belly flat and chiseled. Scars still covered his arms, legs, upper body, and belly, but his face was left mostly intact due to Dante whom is always wearing a helmet and facial protection during his wanderings. His only faint scar on his head, now covered by his hair, was the cut from the crazy Point Lookout Ferryman, Tobar, whom surgically removed his right lobe of his brain. He didn't know how but by some miracle his removed lobe didn't affect his mind, memories, and body control that he thinks the punga dust from the Mother Punga may be responsible for it, or he is just lucky.

Dante wasn't just a regular human, his body is also enhanced with special implants that he acquired during his wanderings. Even implants that he requested from his "faction" that improved each of his SPECIAL perks, granting him fast cellular regeneration, and enhancing his bones to be nearly indestructible to break. Therefore, the implants made Dante either into a super human or a cyborg.

He is currently wearing his Regulator Duster over his Armored Vault 101 Jumpsuit in which is his favorite outfit among his apparel collections. On his head he is wearing his Shady Hat as an additional shade to protect his head from the sun with his Lucky Shades over his eyes. He took another swig of his Nuka Cola and leaned back with a sigh. His head craned upwards looking at the blue sky.

"It has been over a decade since I left Vault 101. The wanderings, the battles, and the rebuilding all have forged me into what I am now and have led me here today." he thought.

He started to close his eyes to enter his "Memory Lane" and view the last 13 years of his life in the Capital Wasteland.

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Flashback

Dante Abram can still remember when he first came into this world on July 13, 2258. His birth gave his parents a great joyful moment. He could still remember the first time he saw his father's face and hearing his excited words of joy along with his mother's happy voice. How he was given the name Dante due to his parent's Christian heritage and their favorite character from the story, Divine Comedy. But the moment of happiness led to tragedy as he was sad to remember to hear his mother's dying voice from a cardiac arrest due to the stress of giving birth before he was carted away. His memories then led him to his childhood life in Vault 101 and his happy life with his father and his childhood friend, Amata Almodovar.

He remembered his first Pip-Boy 3000 on his 10th birthday, Butch's bullying, his BB gun gift from his dad, and the GOAT exam in which made him a Pip-Boy Programmer that made his father proud. Despite being an average, thin teenager with hardly any muscle tones like Butch and his Tunnel Snakes, he was a bright boy whose intelligent rivals his father in the field of science and medicine that his father couldn't be more proud than his mother would ever be. His future looked promising as he looked forward to enjoy his life with his father and his childhood friend now love interest, Amata. However, everything changed on the third month of his 19-year-old life.

On October 23, 2277, his father opened the Vault's door and left him behind without leaving any reasons for his departure. This unexpected action brought chaos throughout the vault, spreading confusion and panic among the population. Whether Dante had or no knowledge about his father's action, he was forced to escape with the assist of his only trustworthy friend, Amata, since he is now a suspected criminal in the eyes of the Vault 101 society, including the Overseer and Amata's father, Alphonse Almodovar.

Dante couldn't understand why it was all happening to him on that day. He lived a simple, happy life since he was a baby in the Vault and had been a loyal Vaultie with his occupation as a Pip-boy Programmer. He was shocked, confused, afraid, and angry at the same time within the pandemic state of Vault 101. But all he could do was focus on getting out of the Vault to survive, prepare himself for whatever awaits him outside the heavy gear door, and search for his father to gain answers for his departure. What Dante didn't know was that his first step into the Capital Wasteland and leaving the safety of the Vault behind him will set him on the path to become the legend he is known today.

He remembered rushing past through the wooden door to exit the Vault cave and was hit by a blind light and warmth air that heated his skin. Once his eyes adjusted, he felt multiple emotions of shock, fear, and wonder when he saw the entire landscape of the Capital Wasteland. He remembered seeing the DC ruins at the distance with the shadow structures of the Washington Monument and the Capital Building dome still dominating the Old World city. As the memories fast forward, he remembered his first meeting with Sherriff Simms at Megaton, disarming the Megaton bomb, Moira Browns and her Wasteland Survival Guide, meeting Moriarty in his Saloon, learning about ghouls from Gob and the ghoul prejudice, his exploration around the Capital Wasteland, and giving help to any settlements he discovers. Not only did he have to train himself and learn quickly to survive and to defend himself, but to harden his mind and heart when taking a human life even if they are raiders, slavers, and mercenaries whom are threatening the weak and innocent.

However, his actions in protecting the innocent people and doing good deeds have led him to make so many enemies whom do not appreciate a "knight in shining armor" to suddenly appear in order to ruin their way of life and fight against the Wasteland's "natural order" of survival of the fittest. This led to some deaths of the innocence whom he just recently saved that it hurt his heart and soul so greatly that he cried in disbelief when he thought he was strong enough to fight against any powerful foe and protect the weak at the same time. These humans with dark hearts were not the only ones introduced to Dante, the Wasteland itself also revealed the horrors of mutated creatures such as Super Mutants, Feral Ghouls, Mirelurks, Bloat Flies, Mole Rats, Giant Ants, and Deathclaws that have preyed on humanity for centuries. Dante couldn't believe when he realized that no matter how many raiders, mercenaries, and mutants he killed, the Wasteland will always be hostile and untamed. It will claim many victims as much as it can either by humans, mutants, starvation, rage, suicide, thirst, or radiation.

But no matter how much Dante experienced the Wasteland horrors and human atrocities that could make any man want to run to a nearby settlement and never come out again, he resisted with strong will and strengthened his own resolve to defend the settlements and the people of the Capital Wasteland with the best of his abilities while he continued to wander in his search for his father. This resolve leads him to earn the title as the Lone Wanderer and it started to spread through every pre-war radios in the Capital Wasteland by a disc jockey known as Three-Dog whom runs an old radio station called Galaxy News Radio. He didn't know how Three-Dog learned about his heroic deeds, but he was happy that the spread of his stories across the Capital Wasteland gave hope to the people and help encourage them to "fight the good fight".

Despite becoming the symbol of hope, the Wasteland had its ways of throwing in the unexpected that can take away the things and the people you love and cherish. Dante experienced this after he managed to find his father and learned about Project Purity. He remembered how he watched his father died in the radiation chamber inside Project Purity to prevent it from being controlled by the unexpected arrival of his new enemy, the Enclave, descendants of the remnants of the U.S. Government and its military.

What he learned about Project Purity was that it is a special purifier built by his parents in order to bring hope to the entire Capital Wasteland. They constructed it to provide fresh clean water freely to all of the settlements and, possibly, forge a new future for everyone. All of it was accomplished from his parents' dream that they based the project on his mother's favorite Bible phrase, "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life, freely. Revelation 21:6".

Seeing his father dying broke Dante mentally that he started to drink strong alcohol for the first time to ease his pain. It took him about a week to recover his will power before he was able to find his resolve on what action he should take to keep himself living and to take back Project Purity. That resolve was found when he received a call for help from his old friend, Amata, to come back to Vault 101 and end the civil war between the Overseer loyalists and the Vault rebels.

When Dante re-entered Vault 101, everything he saw was chaos, death, and fear all around the steel hallways of his former home. Dante never thought that his and his father's departure would cause so much panic inside the Vault leading to so many deaths among the inhabitants. The entire event had infected fear among the Overseer and his loyalists leading them to enforce martial law among the populace and to ensure the Vault's door remain shut forever to ensure their survival. However, the event also enacted suspicion among the young teens and liberal thinkers like Amata, Butch, and Mr. Botch leading them to rebel against Alphonse's iron fist rule and declare in belief that they need to open the Vault to the Wasteland to communicate and trade with settlements in order to survive. With Vault 101 about to erupt into a civil war, Dante knew the fighting will only lead to the Vault's destruction. Dante made a promise to Amata that he will help and he never abandons his friends. With his self-trained skill in charisma and high-intelligence, Dante was able to convince Alphonse to step down and coronate his daughter to become the next Overseer. Peace was restored throughout the Vault and he felt proud and happy to prevent the Vault from becoming the Wasteland's next victim.

Despite his heroic act, Amata still had no choice but to exile Dante from Vault 101 since many of the population still blame him and his father for causing the chaos and panic that led to so many deaths of their friends and loved ones. But Dante was a smart man and this surprised Amata and many residents that he would expected this outcome and accepted the exile with no anger or complaints. Hell, he even admitted that he couldn't stay in the Vault even if he was welcome back since he discovered that he was born in the Capital Wasteland before his father brought him to Vault 101 to raise him in a safer environment away from the Wasteland's horrors.

He now had a purpose and a duty for the people of the Capital Wasteland. He needed to do his part as the Lone Wanderer to save the people from the Enclave's tyranny by taking back Project Purity and start it up to give everyone in the Wasteland a future for a better tomorrow. Both Amata and Dante hoped that one day he can return and visit her again, but he doubts that he would survive the war against the Enclave, even though he had the Brotherhood of Steel and his companions fighting by his side.

He remembered that moment. The moment where he activated the Project Purity with the risk of dying from the radiation that was building up in the control chamber. But it was a self-sacrifice he was prepared to make, just like what his father did when he sabotaged the machine to save his son and keep it out of evil hands. Even though he expects to die, he knows that the Brotherhood will honor him and his parents by distributing the purified water all over the Wasteland freely and protect the sacred machine that will soon give life back to the region.

The moment he stepped inside and activated the purifier he felt death coming to claim as he felt the radiation weaken his strength before he fell onto the metal floor. He watched as the water in the glass central chamber turned clear and pure before he turned his vision towards his friends and companions on other side of the chamber's window. He gave them one final smile and said, "Thanks you guys. For everything." He looked up and closed his eyes accepting his death as he awaits to join with his father and mother.

But by some miracle, whether by fate or destiny, he managed to survive and live on. He didn't understand why he was alive, but in time he will soon discover the path that was set for him to do something greater.

A path towards a goal far greater than Project Purity that it was considered, by everyone in the post-apocalyptic world, impossible to accomplish.

Flashback Ends

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As Dante continued to relive his memory of his first victory and miraculous survival, he suddenly heard a faint, metallic voice, "…Sir...Sir Dante!"

Dante Abrams shook his head and woke up from his "Memory Lane". He looked around and saw that he was still sitting on his patio chair on the roof of his Megaton house.

"Excuse me, Sir!"

The robotic voice grabbed his attention. He turned his head around to look behind him and saw the roof hatch was open with his freshly cleaned and improved Mr. Handy robot, Wardsworth, floating over the roof entrance.

"I am sorry to disturb you Sir, but your dinner is ready and waiting for you downstairs. I also prepared Cooper's meal as well," informed the robot.

Dante looked at the time on his Pip-Boy and read that it was 5:30 p.m. He looked at his surroundings and noticed that the Sun was already setting at the West and it was going to get dark soon. He looked over the railing and saw less people at the Megaton square. He couldn't believe that he just spent about 4 hours going through his memory as though he was reading a long novel. He got up to stretch until he heard his joints popped on his arms and back.

"Thanks Wardsworth, your cooking has improved over the years," complimented Dante. "Oh Sir, I should be thanking you. Those RobCo programming upgrades you managed to acquire have really made me more useful than an average Mr. Handy. I feel more advanced than my counterparts," said the joyful robot butler.

Dante smiled. He remembered discovering some old RobCo Mr. Handy upgrade holodiscs in some old ruins or purchased them from the merchants whom come from the North, East, and South of the Capital Wasteland to trade with the settlements after the area "rose to prosperity". After studying the holodiscs in his terminal, he decided to experiment and try to develop his own programming to upgrade his Pip-Boy and robot upgrades for upgrading any settlements' robot defenders.

He turned and walked down the hatch with his War and Peace under his right arm with the empty Nuka-Cola bottle in his right hand while Dogmeat followed him. After letting Dante and Cooper enter first, Wardsworth followed them in and closed the hatch behind him. Dante first placed the novel on a "shiny built" wooden bookshelf, next to the wooden spiral stairs, that was filled with other fresh copies of Pre-War books, skill books, magazines, and comics. He walked down the spiral stairs and sat down in front of his clean kitchen table to begin eating his dinner. Cooper trotted to his right and started to chow down his meal in his dog bowl. Wardsworth took the empty soda bottle from Dante and placed it into the blue recycle can next to the black trash can. Then he floated around the house to make sure everything was tidied, organized, dusted, and "pest" free. Meanwhile, Dante looked around his house as he ate to gaze at his collection around the house and the interiors.

The new Megaton house was expanded and redesigned during the rebuilt efforts of Megaton and other settlements of the Capital Wasteland after the war between Dante's faction and the Brotherhood of Steel Iron Chapter from the West. The interior was decorated in a Pre-War standard theme. The new house was built on the side of the slope in the same area of his original Megaton home. The concrete and advanced alloy steels were used to replace the scrap metals to construct the base, walls, roof, and infrastructure with steel support beams to hold the house on the side of the crater slope. The floor was made with the same materials to support the base of the house with polished wooden floors and clean tiles on top of the floors for comfort walking. Finally, tough, thick glass was used to build and install the windows with shades to create this modernized pre-war "house of tomorrow" along with the other Megaton residents' homes.

It is also installed with highly advanced A/C unit and heater to keep his home in comfortable temperatures in each season with electricity powered by solar panels and power lines from Megaton's power station to light up his house and a plumbing station with a plumbing system to supply water to his sinks, toilet, and showers while also draining and recycling any wasted/used water.

Starting from the front door, his personal armory was built on the left side that took about a quarter of the first floor. It was installed with a security slide door and can only open with the security terminal next to it. Inside the armory contained rows and shelves of 3 types of armor (leather, metal, and combat) where each armor is organized by light, medium, and heavy. The shelves also held rifles, handguns, melee weapons, ammo, grenades, and custom-built weapons with a large workbench, ammunition reloading bench, weapon bench, and an armory bench to repair and modify his weapons and armor. There were lockers containing supplies of medical aids, such as Rad-Away and Stimpacks, including a trolley with medical tools to treat any of his injuries. There were two safes on one of the walls in which contains his emergency funds. They contain bottlecaps, the new Dollar paper currency, gold and silver coins, gold and silver ingots, gold and silver plated pocket watches, gold and silver plated lighter, jewelries, and silverwares in which Dante found during his wanderings or acquired from his business deals with junk merchants. The armory also contained storages of his collection of heavy weapons, energy weapons, larger sized melee weapons, and his modified former Brotherhood T-45 power armor in a power armor station with his modified Enclave Mk II power armor in a power armor display.

He has other collection of power armors that he collected from his wanderings but he made sure to have them secretly stored in his "personal secret location" along with his collection of unique weapons and armors that he acquired throughout his adventures in the Wastelands.

The kitchen was expanded to take up the other quarter of the house with enough room to install clean counters, a stove, a steel sink, a Nuka Cola vending machine, a freezer, and a fridge. The living room was set up between the kitchen and the armory and was decorated with clean and newly built furniture including a red couch, nightstands, two red sofa chairs, lamps, pottery plants, cabinets, shelves, paintings, and a working flat screen T.V. The kitchen table was placed between the kitchen and the living room with stools installed next to the counters.

On the second floor, he has a single bathroom built with a shower, a steel toilet, and a counter with a sink and mirror cabinet containing meds with two bedrooms with enough space to fit each a queen size bed, dresser, nightstand, and a cabinet. One bedroom served as his personal room while the second room was a bedroom decorated with pink and white paint and is filled with different kinds of dolls and teddy bears, including a Giddyup Buttercup. There were also posters of the New American country and the TSC showing the person's support and interest. This second bedroom belongs to his adopted niece, Marie, whom was the daughter of Ashur the Pitt Lord and was adopted and raised by Dante since she was a baby with the assist of Wardsworth involving mostly diaper changes. Right now she was enjoying her sleep over with her school friends in Vault 101.

The third room was above the armory that served as his personal office with a desk in the center, bookshelves on the walls, cabinet filled with liquors and glass cups, four ceiling fan, 4 comfort chairs, a coffee table with two small couches on each side, and a table with his chemistry set on the side. There was also a secret trap door installed to the floor with a button hidden underneath the desk to quickly enter the armory.

The office was filled with Wasteland items as decoration and reminders of his wandering history. He had the cleaned and restored Vault-Tec Bobble Head booth near the right corner with all the Bobble Heads he collected from his wanderings. He also had trophy heads of mutated creatures hung on the walls in which he killed in the Wasteland. The trophies include a Deathclaw, Mole Rat, Radscorpion, Albino Radscorpion, Bloatfly, Two-headed Brahmin, Mirelurk King, Claws of a Mirelurk and a Mirelurk Queen, and a full body corpse of a Radroach. The trophies he never collects are the heads of Super Mutants, Centaurs, and Ghouls since these creatures were once human and he has his belief of "respecting the dead", even for mutated humans whom are victims of the FEV and radiation.

He looked at his meal and see that he was eating a roasted beef steak with roasted carrots, boiled broccolis, and roasted, sliced potatoes on the side with a glass of purified water. He looked at Cooper's bowl and sees that his meal contains pieces of the same roasted steak and carrots. The food reminded him during the time the Wasteland became green again. The settlers of the Capital Wasteland were able to grow their own fresh crops, began to domesticate cloned animals, and recieve trade agreements within and outside the former Capital Wasteland due to his "influence and efforts" to help his home to prosper.

Once Dante and Cooper finished their meal, Wardsworth collected the dish, utensils, and dog bowl to clean them in an installed steel sink in the expanded kitchen with purified water and dish soap. Dante looked at the time and saw that it was almost 7:00 p.m. on his Pip-Boy. He decided to go to his office and check through his schedule book on what he is planning for tomorrow and to see if he needs to update it. He may have used his Pip-Boy to keep his plans, notes, and missions updated but he prefers to update on his personal journals and notes than the hassle of typing onto his Pip-Boy and organizing it.

Dante walked up the stairs with Cooper following and entered his private office. This was where he kept his drawn maps of the Capital Wasteland and other territories he explored along with his holotapes and hand-written journals that contain information of the territories. On the left wall was a huge world map where other factions are marked in different continents with notes pinned on the map with information and intel on each faction and their territories. His collection of holotapes and notes are in his file cabinets that he discovered throughout his explorations of the Wastelands. On the desk was a highly advanced flat screen terminal with a holo-keyboard in which he was able to have it built in his "faction's HQ", installed it with a new program he created since he worked as a Pip-Boy Programmer at Vault 101, and made his own set of files and journals protected with a security password in which he made sure to change each week. He even set up his own small satellite dish on the roof to connect it to the terminal and set up an e-mail network to easily communicate his "faction" and allies. On the right wall were wooden shelves that contained his personal collection of unique objects that were given to him for his deeds, mark of friendship, or were uncovered during his wanderings. Among his collections are his favorite items, the Lucky 8-ball, Yew's bear charm, and Alien crystals.

He sat down on his comfy black office chair with Cooper laying down on a nearby dog bed. He started up his highly advanced terminal and unlocked his account with his password. He pulled out his planner book from his desk drawer and checked tomorrow's schedule. He sees that he has a meeting with a couple of VIPs, whom represent their factions, and State delegates at the Capitol Building to discuss the current level of public order, diplomatic relations with other nations, trade routes, mutant and non-human relations, technological advancement, terraforming progress, reconstruction efforts, military reports, uniting their armed forces, and finally establishing a new government.

He smiled knowing who these VIPs are. When he heard stories and rumors about the VIPs in the Mojave and the Commonwealth he was very eager to meet them. He remembered the days when he came to meet them with attempts of diplomacy and negotiate their cooperation to rebuild and restore the civilization despite the fact he has plenty of his faction's ambassadors whom he could have sent to their lands for diplomacy.

The planned meeting was scheduled 3 days ago to give time for these VIPs to prepare and be picked up by his faction's transportation to be able to arrive tomorrow. He re-checked his planner and read that the meeting was to start at the agreed location at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow and he decided to make sure his Pip-Boy contains his own personal files and notes that contain the information for the topics to be discussed at the meeting.

He called out his personal robot butler, "Wardsworth! I have a meeting tomorrow and I will need to be up early. Make sure that my "special uniform" is ready by then."

"Yes Sir! Do you mean that 'black uniform' that comes with those 'black boots' and that 'pea cap' headwear?" asked Wardsworth. "Yes Wardsworth. That's the one." answered Dante. "I will have it cleaned, folded, and ready for you in the morning, Sir." said Wardsworth confidently.

Dante continued to look through his Pip-Boy to make sure that everything was in order and decided to prepare for bed. He shut down his terminal and head to his master bedroom to prepare for bed.

His personal room had a clean, queen-sized bed with a polished wooden dresser and a cabinet as furniture. It also had two nightstands on both sides of the bed with a lamp on each stand and an advanced alarm clock on one of the stands. It also had two large windows with bulletproof glass and curtain drapes that overlooked the district square and the right side of the house. He stripped himself down to his underclothes and de-materialized his Regulator Duster, Vault 101 Armored Jumpsuit, Lucky Shades, and Shady Hat into his Pip-Boy.

He walked out of his room and opened a hallway closet filled with clean towels and went into his bathroom. On his sink was a plastic container with a top lid that contained a toothbrush and a toothpaste that is now popular within the D.C. region and other territories for dental hygiene.

When Dante came out of Vault 101, he learned the Capital Wasteland residents had to resort to using a dirty thick brush, which was scavenged or traded from a merchant, or other filthy alternatives with a cup of radiated or purified water to clean their teeth before the Lone Wanderer was able to "request a person to find a solution to produce hygiene products in a certain location" for the Capital Wasteland residents and export them in other settlements in the East Coast. "Thank God I made sure to pack my toothbrush and 4 toothpastes before I first left Vault 101," he thought.

After cleaning his teeth, he checked to see Wadsworth had shut down in the installed recharge station before he turned off the lights and headed to his room. As he closed his bedroom door and turned off the lights, he laid down on his bed and pulled the covers up to his chest. Dogmeat hopped onto the bed and settled next to him on his left. He unclipped his Pip-Boy, checked the time to see it was 10:00 p.m. and set the Wakemaster alarm clock to 6:00 a.m. before placing his Pip-Boy on his right night stand. He gazed up at the ceiling before feeling his fatigue lowering his tired eyes and closed them before he was set off into his dreamscape.

However, his dreamscape brought him back to his "Memory Lane" where he continued to relive his life story.

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Dreamscape

Dante remembered when he woke up in the Citadel hospital surprised and confused. He expected to wake up seeing his father and mother again in the afterlife, but he ended up surviving and cheating death once more. He remembered how he had question himself wondering why he was still alive. Dante knew that the amount of radiation inside the purifier control chamber, despite the anti-radiation perks he acquired, should have killed him and decompose his body into a glowing goo. He didn't understand what his survival meant.

Did God gave him a second chance as a reward for his self-sacrifice, or has faith decided to change his destiny for a greater goal?

After his awakening, Dante was unaware that he was set on the path to become something great and lead to the resurrection of an old nation. The path was going to be harsh and brutal in which will challenge his moral beliefs and good will, but it will lead Dante to redeem humanity for escalating their natural behavior to wage war that led the world to be burnt in nuclear flames.

For the next few months after the Enclave War, Dante experienced many new battles, new hardships, and made tough decisions that tested his morality as a human being and paved the way to rebuilt and restore civilization in the East Coast. He traveled to three different locations outside of the Capital Wasteland where he met new people, fought new enemies, and saw many more horrors and atrocities that he didn't know could exist outside the Capital Wasteland.

His experience in the Operation: Anchorage virtual simulation forged him into a powerful veteran soldier with full understanding on the scale difference between the battles during the pre-war era and the battles after the Great War. He now feels fast and powerful with the acquired skills to fight with any weapons, infiltrate enemy territories, fight the enemy in bloody battlefields, and take down enemies in close quarter combats.

The heavy guilt of his choice in freeing the slaves of the Pitt at the cost of taking Marie, a baby with a natural-born immunity, from her parents had burden Dante with shame and disgust on himself. Marie's parents may be the leaders of the Pitt Raiders and Slavers whom are pushing the limits of forced labor to rebuilt civilization by any means necessary but killing them has made him feel like a hypocrite since he experienced the loss of his parents and he swore to protect the people of the Wasteland, including young children, from suffering the same pain as he had.

But he managed to find his redemption by raising Marie as his own daughter with hopes that she can become a greater person than Dante. Once she reached the age of 12, Dante informed to Marie about her parents with his explanations and reasons for his actions of taking her away from her mother and father and eventually killing them. He was prepared to accept his faith by letting Marie judge for his actions, even planning to give her the right to have her revenge by giving her a 10mm pistol to kill him. But she pushed the gun away and told Dante that she understood why he did it and forgives him as heavy tears poured down her red cheeks. She hugged him tightly as she told him with sniffles and hiccups that she wants to redeem her parents' actions by helping the people like he does and to prove that she can be a good person. This brought tears to Dante when he heard her words of her own resolve and he hugged her tightly as he felt his heart become lighter as his guilt was slowly erased and began to be filled with happiness.

His adventures at Point Lookout led him to free the settlers and Tribals from a pre-war scientist's mad attempts to dominate the region with psionic powers whom was preserving his brain in a giant container of bio-gel. This was something he was relieved to do since he didn't have to make a choice that will cost him to commit an immoral action. However, his happiness was short lived when he had to face and defeat the horrors and nightmares unleashed by demons and spirits of the Blackhall family within their dark manor at Point Lookout and the Dunwich Building at the Capital Wasteland. Dante is not a man to believe in demons and ghosts since he is a Christian like his parents, but what he experienced was something he couldn't explain through logic and scientific understanding. His task was to destroy a dark artifact known as the Krivbeknih, an ancient book of dark occults in which was said to be the key to communicate with a dark entity known as Ug-Qualtoth. Dante can still remember the ghostly whispers coming from the book and images of darkness and death before he was able to destroy the evil book by placing it onto the ancient obelisk underneath the Dunwich building. But before destroying the book, he suddenly had to face against an unnatural being whom was standing in front of the obelisk.

At first he thought it was a regular person scavenging the dark building, but what he saw was something that shocked him so great that he became paralyzed with fear. Standing in front of the obelisk was a young adolescent boy whom is wearing a pre-war striped t-shirt with blood stains and worn out blue jeans while holding a bloody knife in its right hand with a creepy, smiling clown mask on the boy's head. It was the Pint-Sized Slasher, the legendary serial killer from the pre-war days whom is supposed to be killed during the Great War.

Dante thought he could overcome this opponent since he is older and stronger than a younger child, but the Slasher proved to be a demonic being in human form when he moved so fast to slash Dante with a killing strike to his chest that he barely dodged it. But the young psycho managed to quickly punch him in the face that send him flying towards the cavern wall. Dante slowly got up while feeling so much pain in his body as the Slasher stood their giggling enjoying Dante's suffering. Dante huffed and ignored the pain in his body before he charged at the Slasher intending to bring down the demonic child regardless if he is a mortal man. The fight was brutal and tiring for Dante with the Slasher showing no signs of fatigue or pain as the unnatural-being giggled with an evil laugh as it mocking at Dante's persistent.

However, Dante managed to outsmart the Slasher by having the killer stab him on his left hand to grab the knife and put the adolescent killer in a tight hug with his right arm to prevent him from escaping. Then he pushed and shoved the Slasher towards the obelisk and held him there before he materialized the Kribeknih from his Pip-boy and shoved the evil book onto the obelisk's stone surface. The book burst into flames along with the Slasher and the child killer screamed in pain as Dante continue to hold him down while ignoring the fire burning through the sleeves on his arms until the Slasher stopped struggling and became silent. Dante didn't have to worry of any serious burns since he received a syringe implant called the "Ant Might" from Dr. Lesko making his body fire resistant.

Once the Slasher and the book were burnt to ashes, Dante sighed in relief and started to quickly limp out of the catacombs to head towards a second exit in the basement after injecting himself with his last Stimpack to heal most of his injuries.

He remembered feeling the relief of safety and warmth when he forcibly opened the door to greet the sunlight at his face as though it purified him of any darkness and evils that have tainted his body from the Kribeknih and the Dunwich building.

The sun's rays brightened so much that it blinded Dante's vision until he began to hear an odd beeping noise filling his ears.

Beep…Beep…Beep.

Dreamscape End

...

October 23, 2290

Megaton District, MegaVault Town, Washington D.C.

Beep...Beep...

Dante woke up quickly as he opened his eyes once his dream world came to an end thanks to his Wakemaster alarm clock beeping loudly. He could feel sweat coming down from his head with his skin tingling with goosebumps from fear and his heart was beating fast causing him to breath heavily.

Beep...Beep...

He sat up slowly to ease his heavy breathing and heart beating as he looked at the scar on his left hand where the Slasher stabbed him. Dante always tried to forget about the Blackhall and Dunwich horrors but they seem to always come back to remind him of what he saw was real. He closed his eyes to calm himself down to reassure himself that it was all in the past, he was in the present, and he now has the future to focus on.

Beep...Beep...

He laid back down to gaze at his bedroom ceiling for a few moments to ease his mind before he turned to his right and reached for his beeping alarm clock to shut off the annoying noise.

"I thought all of that was finally buried in the past. Why am I suddenly remembering those horrors all of a sudden?" he asked himself. He looked at Cooper to see his dog awake but keeping himself laid down as the canine looked at Dante with worried eyes.

Dante smiled and petted Cooper. "It's fine, boy. I'm fine, just a bad dream that's all," he said.

He checked the clock to see that it was exactly 6:00 a.m. before he stretched his arms over his head until he heard his bones popped to get his muscles moving. Cooper got up from his master's bed to give Dante the space to get up from the bed and to get ready for his scheduled meeting with the VIPs and the delegates.

He looked at his dresser and there laying on top was his black military uniform with his black overcoat all cleaned and neatly folded as promised by his trusty Mr. Handy, Wardsworth. On top of the folded clothing was a black military pea cap with a white insignia on the front that is well known throughout many parts of the world. It was the insignia of the Terran Starship Command, also known as the TSC, with Dante Abrams as its founder and leader with his title as the Supreme Commander.

Dante remembered the day he designed this insignia himself when he created the TSC. The insignia was designed to represent his faction's hope of rebuilding the world to restore civilization and to defend the new order and peace for all humanity to be able to live with no more worries of survival or fear of the Wasteland horrors. The insignia had a set of wings in which represent the uplifting hope for the people's salvation and the TSC taking the action based on that hope. The sword in the center that is pointing downwards represents the TSC's will to defend themselves and the people while bringing amazing technologies and miracles from the heavens to the people of the Wastelands.

Dante couldn't help but feel proud of his faction's progress and efforts to restore the Wasteland back into their pre-war state. He can still remember that day when the Terran Starship Command was created and rose up to become a world power along with the new nation it created.

...

Flashback

He remembered how after wandering to so many unknown regions in less than a year after the Enclave war, Dante began to start thinking about the future of not only the Capital Wasteland but the entire East Coast.

He was leaning back on his chair inside his Megaton home staring up at the ceiling while thinking about what he witnessed and experienced throughout his wanderings within and outside the Capital Wasteland.

He thought about the Pitt's current condition after he liberated from Ashur's rule. He received information from one of merchant traders from the Pitt that Midea managed to create a minor serum to boost up the immunity to mutation and radiation for each Pitt settler, but the Trogs still infest large parts of the industrial city and the pollution and radiation prevented the settlers from growing any crops and locate any source of purified water. So this led to the Pitt to rely on the trade agreement with the Lyon's Brotherhood by exchanging supplies of factory-made ammo, armor, and weapons for crates of Aqua Pura, food, and medicine. The life in the Pitt is stable, but the people are still under the stage of survival by relying on the trade as their only lifeline to get by each day.

Dante then thought about Point Lookout and the way the settlers of Pilgrims Landing resorted to forming a cult and worshiping a false "brain" deity in order to "transcend into the astral plane" to escape the horrors of the Wasteland. It was their way to escape the hardships and suffering of survival and he couldn't blame them for that since he had witnessed many Wastelanders resorted to alcohol, drugs, cigarettes, and religious cults to relieve themselves of their stress to survive today in order to see another day.

Then Dante began to think about the current situation of the Capital Wasteland. He knows that everything is peaceful with the Enclave defeated and the Brotherhood is patrolling with the Regulators around the region to preserve the peace and order while working with the Rivet City Security to distribute the Aqua Pura to every settlement.

However, even with the peace and order still stabilized throughout the Wasteland there are still problems that have not been solved. Settlements still rely on trade with passing merchants and Canterbury Commons' caravans to survive despite receiving their scheduled delivery of Aqua Pura in which is not enough to grow crops but can be used to keep the settlers hydrated and used for trading due to its high value in the apocalyptic world. There are also areas in the Capital Wasteland that are still under the occupation of Super Mutants, Raiders, Talon Company, Slaver Remnants, and other hostiles that still threaten the settlements.

This kind of peace is not enough to Dante.

He got up from his chair to look around his house before he noticed his values within his home.

Dante saw all of his large stash of bottlecaps and pre-war money with some pre-war watches, pocket watches, lighters, and ingots made of gold and silver within his three steam trunks in the second room on the second floor. He looked at his shelves next to the trunks that were filled with cartons and packs of cigarettes and cigars that he scavenged throughout the Wasteland and saved them to use in his trades with merchants. Dante then looked at his collected piles of chems and meds in which he kept within some crates and med kits next to his chemistry set. Finally, he looked in his kitchen and stared at his large piles of pre-war foods, alcohol, punga fruits, and Aqua Pura that have not been consumed yet. He sees that he has enough food and water to last himself for decades if he can keep them fresh and conserved carefully. Also the large piles of money, chems, cigarettes, and meds that he managed to acquire from his scavenging and bartering with merchants have made him wealthier than Allistair Tenpenny that he could live the rest of his life in retirement.

This however made Dante sick when he realized that he is hardly suffering with all these wealth and luxurious items that he acquired while the Wastelanders still risk their lives to survive by hunting, scavenging, bartering, and killing.

He wanted more than just the peace, he wanted the people to live like the people did during the pre-war days before the Great War with no worries of death or survival. He wanted the Wasteland settlements to have the chance prosper instead of just surviving. He knew what he wanted to do next.

Dante Abram wanted to bring back civilization by rebuilding the ruins of Washington D.C.

He remembered how he informed this idea to everyone hoping to hear their positive opinions. He told it to Elder Lyons, Sarah Lyons, Rothchild, Three-Dog, Sheriff Simms, Chief Harkness, and his companions. He remembered how he saw their faces looked shocked and disbelief at Dante's idea to rebuild the D.C. ruins. He remembered how excited he was to hear that they approve the idea, but then he felt saddened and hurt when they say that it was impossible since the people still fear the Raiders and mutants that are still ravaging the area, they don't have the resolve nor reason to establish their own government since the settlements value their independence, the settlers and the Brotherhood don't have any civil engineering knowledge and equipment to rebuild the ruins, and the region is still irradiated with hardly any crops growing to bring prosperity. Dante remembered how he sunken in his bed with anger and disappointment after hearing everyone's rejection to his proposal but he knew within his logical mind that they were right.

The Capital Wasteland still has so many problems that, for the first time, he didn't know what to do. This was the first time that he felt useless.

Dante then thought if he could locate another G.E.C.K. he could try to reverse engineer it with the Brotherhood Scribes to understand its technological secrets to improve its capabilities to terraform a state-size irradiated region. So he started to try to locate another G.E.C.K. by going through all the Vault-Tec files that he collected from the Vaults and their D.C. Headquarters, but there was none anywhere to be found due to data corruption and secrecy and it was one in a million chance to find another since Dr. Braun made only a few. He then tried to calculate to see how long it will take for the Purifier to restore the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay. The results he got, after re-calculating about twenty-three times, was that it will take about 3 decades for the Potomac River to flow pure, clean water and about a century to restore the Chesapeake Bay.

He was distraught at the numbers. He couldn't accept this.

He can't bear the reality that he will never be sure that a civilization will be rebuilt within the D.C. ruins. He needed to see civilization rise up from the ashes and make sure that the next generation of humanity don't have to suffer as their grandparents had to suffer to survive day by day.

Dante was at loss. His calculations have led him to nowhere and he doesn't know what to do.

He remained sitting in his desk chair while moping on his failure until something clicked in his mind in realization. He remembered the prayers and verses he gone over with his father ever since he was a baby. They would always pray before dinner to say their Grace and sometimes before bed.

He once asked his father why they pray to God if he doesn't say anything back and his father told him, "Well son, even though God doesn't respond to us he can still hear our prayers and he has his own miraculous ways to answer them. Maybe one day he will answer your prayer in the strangest way that you will never expected. I know he did it once for your mother in some way and it inspired her to help people."

But he never prayed to the Lord ever since he first set foot into the Capital Wasteland. He was so focused on his search for his father, wandering the wastes, and helping the people that he hardly made the time to pray to God. He decided to give it a try before he sat up on his desk chair, rested his elbows on his desk, and folded his hands close to his face as he closed his eyes to begin his praying.

"God, if you are up there; in the sky, or among the stars; then can you see how every one of your children are suffering in this hellish world for the last 200 years? I know our ancestors have brought this upon ourselves by their greed and arrogance that led to setting the world in nuclear flames. But please, spare us all this suffering and give us just one tiny salvation. If we have to rebuild our civilization through sweat and blood to obtain the life of living instead of surviving, then so be it. So please, dear Lord, just give us one chance to redeem ourselves."

After he spoke his words, his prayers were answered by the beeping alert from his Pip-Boy 3000 signaling him that it has picked up a strange radio broadcast. A broadcast so strange and so alien that it will lead him to not only discover something impossible, but to acquire the miracles from the stars to create a new faction that will be humanity's guide to redemption and salvation.

The unknown broadcast led Dante farther north from the D.C. ruins and south of Old Olney near a ruined pre-war house where a trench was formed from the house and into some nearby hillsides.

At the end of the trench, he spotted a strange disk-shaped craft that looked like a flying machine with rockets and fins on the rear. Dante knew it couldn't be from the Enclave since it wasn't designed like a Vertibird, but he was curious to know what it is and where it come from. When Dante got close to the strange aircraft, he suddenly saw himself in a strange energy field surrounding his body and felt himself floating off the ground before he was pulled up into the skies as he panicked and screamed in shock and confusion while he watched the ground getting further away. He looked up to see that he was heading towards a large bright circular light before he was blinded and felt himself become unconscious.

This was the moment when he encountered something that he considered fiction that should only come from his comic books. When Dante Abrams woke up from his moment of slumber, he was shocked that he was inside a city-size alien spaceship known as Mothership Zeta. It was here where he made contact, resisted, and fought against some extraterrestrial beings in which can be described as "little, green men" in space suits whom are known as the Zeta Aliens.

For about a 3 weeks, Dante fought the Zeta Aliens in hopes to escape the Mothership. He found new companions whom fought along his side such as Somah the abducted slaver, Sally the abducted 211-year-old girl from the Pre-War era, Elliot Tercorien a U.S. Army Medic soldier from the Battle of Anchorage, Paulson the cowboy from America's "Wild West" period, and Toshiro Kago a samurai from Japan during the Tokugawa shogunate. Eventually, the unofficial gang managed to overcome the Zeta Aliens once they reached the Command Bridge and killed the Zeta Captain.

In the end, not only did Dante manage to defeat the Zeta Aliens alongside with his new allies, but he also managed to acquire the entire Mothership after destroying a second Alien Mothership that appeared by hyperspace to retake the human-hijacked ship when they received the Zeta Captain's subspace transmission for help.

As previously mentioned, three of his allies were from different time periods of Earth meaning that the Zeta Mothership and the Aliens have been orbiting and observing humanity and Earth before the Edo period of Japan and after the Great War. Dante couldn't understand why they were here observing the human race for over two millennia since he couldn't read nor understand the Zeta language on their terminals and audio logs.

However, the Zeta's goals weren't important right now. What was more important to Dante was that he had acquired something that no factions on Earth, not even the Brotherhood of Steel or the Enclave, have ever managed to claim. He had a city-size spaceship filled with mountains of technology that are probably hundreds or thousands of years more advance than anything that has been developed by humanity on Earth.

This ship was what he was searching for to rebuild civilization in the Capital Wasteland, but it was more than that. What Dante may have found could possibly be the only source to restore the home world of humanity, Earth, back to its blue-green glory before the Great War. First, he needed some help to explore and study the Mothership since he couldn't do it all by himself.

He wanted to bring the Lyons Brotherhood Scribes to the alien ship to help him start studying the technology to see if it could have the technology capable of terraforming the planet to clean out the radiation and start rebuilding the D.C. ruins, but he stopped himself when further thoughts occurred in his mind. As he sat down on the Captain's chair in the bridge he began to think about his current situation. He knows that the ship houses mountains of technology that none of the Chapters of the Brotherhood of Steel have ever seen before and this concerned Dante a lot. Dante knows that what he learned from the Citadel database about the Brotherhood's history since their founding was that it was their goal to collect and preserve technology of the Old World to be used to rebuild civilization and making sure that it wasn't abused that could lead to another Great War. But eventually he learned from some of the members of Lyons' Chapter that the Brotherhood begun to stray away from the main goal and it was already divided by Chapters due to inner conflicts among the main members on the ideas of sharing technology to improve the Wasteland societies or keeping technology from falling into the wrong hands of "Outsiders" by locking it away in their bunkers. The neo-knight organization had become so obsessed in hoarding technology, mostly military related, for the last 200 years that it led them to refuse to share any technology or the knowledge based on the certain technology to any "Outsider" from the Wasteland. What Dante knew for sure was that the Brotherhood have not made any plans nor interests to help the Wasteland people, not even to rebuild civilization but only focused on searching for any "threats of humanity" to engage in another war. War seems like the only life that keeps the Brotherhood alive and it is their only way of life. How ironic that Ashur, the former Brotherhood Paladin and Pitt Lord, was right about the Brotherhood's current goals in hoarding and fighting instead of sharing and rebuilding.

Dante knows that he could trust Elder Lyons to help rebuild the D.C. ruins, but the Brotherhood Chapters from the Midwest and the West Coast are the factions he couldn't trust since they have a bad reputation of taking away any advance technology that the Wasteland settlements needed to survive. He also heard from merchants and travelers from the West that the Western Brotherhood have massacred innocent lives, including Wasteland scientists and doctors, to get their hands on any advance technology while making sure that they are the only people to have the knowledge on that certain tech.

His most concern is that if the Western Brotherhood or any other chapters learn that the Lyons Chapter has a spaceship in their possession and are using the advance technology to help and share with the Wasteland people, this would most likely lead to tensions between the separate Brotherhood Chapters and then eventually a war will break out. Dante knew that he could not afford another war in the Capital Wasteland since it would hinder his plans to rebuild civilization along with more collateral damages far worse than during the Enclave War.

This caused a set-back to Dante's plans since he couldn't recruit any Lyons' Scribes to study the technology without alerting the other Brotherhood Chapters whom would try to take away the Mothership by any means necessary. Also, he couldn't recruit any Wastelanders since most don't have any real training or education in being scientists or engineers since their main focus was surviving and finding one scientist like Dr. Madison Li is considered extremely rare. Dante was growing frustrated with the set-backs when suddenly he heard a beeping noise coming from the Mothership bridge console in front of the Captain's chair.

The console has somehow received a distress signal from an unknown source coming from an old pre-war chemical plant. From the distress signal broadcast, he learned that there is a large group of people trapped in a large sector in the back of the old chemical plant with a large group of Super Mutants blocking the only entrance/exit of the sector waiting for the humans to come out.

So Dante decided to check it out and infiltrate the chemical plant without alerting the Super Mutants. He managed to wipe out the entire Super Mutant battalion by activating a terminal to cause the chemical tanks to meltdown and explode in the sector filled with the same Super Mutants. Once he made sure the Super Mutants were all wiped out, Dante entered the back sector to meet the trapped people only to discover that the people were former, surviving members of the Enclave when he recognized their uniforms and their power armor.

Both Dante and the former Enclave remnants were shocked to see each other before they shook out of their stupor and immediately pointed their weapons at each other. However, despite the growing hostile tensions, their commander, Major Harkin, managed to convince Dante that they are not here to fight him but are on the run for months from their own organization and the Western Brotherhood of Steel. What Dante learned from Harkin was that this group of Enclave soldiers and civilians have segregated from Colonel Autumn's and President Eden's group after disagreeing with their aggressive methods of how they should pacify and bring law and order to the Capital Wasteland. They tried to join the Brotherhood of Steel at the West Coast in hopes to redeem themselves but were chased off by the Western Brotherhood Paladins and Knights as per ordered by their "paranoid" Elders with some minor casualties on the military side. Dante can see that they are all exhausted, hungry, and dehydrated during their run and hiding from the two organizations that he could only pity and sympathize the state they are in.

But then he noticed that they have some scientists in the civilian group in which gave him an idea on what he could do for the group and in return they could help him. From what Dante knows is that this group is no longer loyal to the Enclave and have been rejected by the Brotherhood of Steel.

It was considered risky since there was a chance they could be lying and would stab him in the back once he revealed his secret to them, but he needed help to explore, study, and run the Mothership he acquired to begin his plans to revive civilization in the Capital Wasteland and this group is probably the only people he could trust. Also, they seem to be desperate to live and are willing to continue their goals to establish law and order to the region.

So Dante held out his hand and lend Harkin and his group his help to escape their enemies with an offer of "becoming a God". With his offer accepted, he settled them into their new home on Mothership Zeta, now renamed the Olympus, and together they formed the new powerful faction, the Terran Starship Command.

With this new faction created, Dante wasted no time and began to start bringing law and order to the Capital Wasteland once the Olympus was operational again.

Their actions in rebuilding and restoring civilization eventually in a few years led them to bring back a nation from the ashes of the Great War, the United States of America.

Flashback Ends

...

Dante kept his smile as his memories faded while he continued to stare and trace the symbol of the TSC on his peak cap with his fingers. He then began to do his morning routine to have himself shaved, combed, dental cleaning, and finally putting on his TSC Supreme Commander uniform. He checked himself in the bathroom mirror and adjusted his cap to make sure he looked presentable.

Then Dante attached his Pip-Boy onto his left forearm as it lighted back up recognizing the owner's DNA by skin contact. This Pip-Boy was different from his original Pip-Boy 3000 that he had used throughout his wandering adventures. The design of Pip-Boy was to have the outer surface made of smooth Zeta alloy to protect the device and make it less bulky around the screen with three touch buttons beneath it. It was based on Vault-Tec and RobCo technology which were reversed engineered by the TSC Department of Science and constructed using the Zeta technology to create a new advanced computer-wrist device called the Pip-Boy Z.

Not only did it had the same common characteristics as his original Pip-Boy 3000, it also comes with a holographic touch screen, a data storage the size of a Zeta databank (unlimited space to materialize and store objects), an installed Stealth Boy Mark V, radio, telecommunication, wireless internet connection, satellite T.V., hack computers and machines including robots, and a teleportation matrix device for the user to teleport to any location by using the map section on the screen. Dante moved his right hand over the Pip-Boy Z holographic screen to activate it and the holo-screen appeared above his left arm. He used his right hand fingers to move the screen in front of his face and checked out his self-status. He can see all of his S.P.E.C.I.A.L. points are all at the top ten except for the Intelligence, Charisma, and Agility perk were at twelve points since those were his main special perks since childhood.

Then Dante closed the holo-screen and proceeded to leave his bedroom to head downstairs.

"Come on boy, let's go see what Wardworth has made us for breakfast."

"Ruff! Ruff!" barked Cooper.

Dante could smell breakfast being cooked by Wardsworth as soon as he reached the first floor. He sat on the table were a Capital Post newspaper sat next to his plate of pre-war eggs, bacon, and toast with a cup of hot coffee. A bowl sat next to Dante for Cooper in which contained slices of carrots, apples, and bacon. Dante then touched his Pip-Boy holo-screen to turn on the living room flat screen T.V. to check on the TSC News and his favorite program, GNR, as he started to eat his meal.

"Good Morning America! This is TSC News! Bringing all the news and updates of our nation and the world to our viewers. Now here is your anchor-woman, Tania Howler."

After the news opening, the screen turned to a pretty female with wavy blond hair that reached down past her shoulders with blue eyes showing intelligence with a professional smile showing her white teeth as she faced her viewers. She was wearing a female tan suit with a white dress shirt and has a the TSC news pin on the left side of her chest.

"Good morning America. Today looks like the weather will be a normal sunny weather with a bit of a cold breeze in the East Coast with no worries of any rain with continuing sunshine throughout the week. Now onto our news. As we all know, today is October 23rd that now marks the 213th annual anniversary of the Great War in which has not only destroyed this once great nation but nearly annihilated the entire world and the human race. As we are seeing from our News Eyebots around the nation, many citizens within different cities and towns across the nation are getting ready to prepare to celebrate this memorial day to honor and remember their fellow Americans and the rest of humanity whom have perished during the day of Nuclear Armageddon and the aftermath. Many people are heading to the central squares or parks of each towns and cities where they are preparing barbeques and picnics to celebrate with all their friends and families with soldiers from the Minutemen and the TSC participating this event."

The screen showed many citizens, whether they are humans, ghouls, Super Mutants, or Synths, with families and friends laughing and smiling as they are reserving and preparing picnics and barbeques in parks with children playing the revived sports like baseball, soccer, basketball, and football. There were also volunteers decorating the street lights, parks, and buildings with flags of the USA (the old glory flag with 13 stars in a circle with no center star), the TSC, and the Minutemen. Then the screen changes to show a huge 50 feet pillar-like structure made out of marble and stones with a huge flame burning at the top of the pillar-like tower in which was built near the Arlington Cemetery with lots of people entering and leaving the structure.

"Here in Washington D.C., we see many people of humans, ghouls, Super Mutants, and Synths, entering the Great War Memorial to honor the names of their fellow ancestral Americans whom became the victims of that tragic event. We hear that many of these people were close friends, relatives, or descendants of these fallen Americans whose names are forever remembered within the Memorial's stones. Inside the memorial, we see many citizens are openly grieving their deaths as they listen to the recovered holotapes attached to so many of the carved names that tell their stories of each victim after the bombs fell. May these fellow Americans rest in peace as we honor their names. Moving on to the Mall, we can also see many are excited and are coming in to reserve certain spots at the National Mall in order to hear the speech that is expected to be given by the Supreme Commander of the TSC, the General of the Minutemen, the Mojave Commander, and the President of the Third Continental Congress. Following the speech's aftermath will be the unveiling of three new starships to symbolize the beginning of uniting the military factions in the US to form the new United States Military with the TSC leading the new organization. And finally, a military parade will begin after the speeches and a special fireworks event will be launched tonight to commemorate this occasion so it looks like it will be quite an eventful holiday."

Dante smiled when he heard what the news anchor-woman said as he ate his meal. He had a schedule after his meeting with the VIPs and the delegates of the Third Continental Congress to make his speech debut in the afternoon at the Mall in front of the Capital Building after the other leaders spoke their speeches.

It was an expected event that he always makes a speech for the entire nation for each of the Great War anniversary to remind the people that the Armageddon event should be remembered to ensure that it was never repeated and the goals of upholding the new freedom, liberty, equality, and justice for a new America.

Seven years ago, Dante came up with an idea to create this holiday to not only boost morale and strengthen public relations with the people, but as a reminder to people of the world to prevent another catastrophic event that destroyed civilizations around the world. When it was presented the members of the TSC, Followers of the Apocalypse, the Minutemen, Mr. House, and post-war countries around the world whom are allied with the TSC, they all agreed to create the Great War Memorial Day to commemorate the victims of the Nuclear Disaster.

Since the first celebration in October 23, 2084, each year became better and memorable with the first being barbecue picnics, food stands, game stands, and sports in the first 3 years before military parades, music, speeches, and fireworks were added that brought happiness and excitement to citizens and immigrants living in the new America.

This year was going to be special for the entire nation that his speech was to be saved for last to not only unveil the new starships and uniting the armed forces but to also announce the beginning of re-establishing the United States Government with the Election to begin on the first Tuesday of November of 2291. They also plan to start the selection for nominees for President, Vice President, and Congress after New Year's Day.

However, many expect Dante to run as the First President of the new United States, but he doesn't see himself as the right person to run the country and mostly he just doesn't have the motivation and reason to become this country's leader. Also, he corrected everyone that he wouldn't be called the First President if elected, but the 73rd President of the United States of America after John Henry Eden. (Enclave members still elected Presidents after the Great War and during their time at the West Coast Oil Rig).

He then switched the channel to GNR to hear his favorite disc-jockey, Three-Dog.

On screen was a newly, improved Three-Dog sitting behind a news desk with a radio microphone on the desk in a dark room with colored lights illuminating the room and a GNR logo behind the disk jockey. Dante can see that Three-Dog was no longer wearing the Wasteland Mercenary outfit with a bandana wrapped on his head that he remembered years ago. He was now wearing a white T-shirt with the GNR logo on the front with a black shirt jacket over the shirt. He couldn't see it due to the desk, but the desk-jockey was wearing a set of navy baggy jeans with some black and white sneakers for his feet. Three-Dog grew his hair out and had it braided into dreadlocks while having it all pulled back into a ponytail for his new look while his beard was neatly trimmed. He was wearing purple-lens sunglasses over his eyes with a golden chain necklace with a GNR logo medallion around his neck. To complete the look, he had some gold teeth to replace some of his rotten dentals while the rest were restored pearly white in which he showed off whenever he made a huge smile.

"Heeelllloooo America! This is Three-Dog! Aaaa-whoooooo! Coming in to you loud and proud. Man o'man. It has been more than ten years on this exact same day of the Great War memorial when Dante Abram came out of Vault 101. If it weren't for him, we would probably still be living the hellish world of the Wasteland instead of this old pre-war Elysium paradise that we thought we would never have. Heck, I can see all the children outside my studio playing next to the GNR fountain celebrating this occasion! All these new generations out there are so lucky to be born in this civilized paradise instead of the harsh, anarchic hell. Hey, Dante! If you're listening, you did great kid. Oh wait, you're no longer kid, you're a man now man! Ah! Ha! Ha! Ha! Haaa! But don't forget, the people owe you man for making their lives great. Heck I owe you as well for making my baby, GNR, into a beautiful girl and getting it heard nationwide. Oh yeah! And we all expect you to be at the Mall for your speech before the fireworks show. Stay cool bro. And now for some news."

Dante laughed at Three-Dogs usual radio talk.

He remembered how much Three-Dog kept thanking Dante repeatedly while hugging him tightly with tears coming out of his eyes. What Dante did during the rebuilding of Washington D.C. was that he made sure to have some of the TSC construction droids and trained workers renovate and repair the GNR building and the plaza back into its pre-war state as though the bombs never damaged the building. Even the GNR metal statue was rebuilt into a working fountain as a finishing touch to the rebuilt GNR station. Dante finished his breakfast as he watched Three-Dog pick up some papers on his anchor news desk to begin the news and updates while he stroked Cooper's head.

"We have an update report this morning on the frontlines at the eastern border of the state of Texas for all you listeners. It looks like Caesar's Legion is still trying to get through the walls that border between Texas and New Mexico. About few hours ago last night, the Legion assaulted the border wall with three divisions of Legionaries with some Veterans, Decanus, Vexillarius, Praetorians, and a couple of Centurions commanding this army. Reports came in that they were armed with heavy weapons and some old pre-war military artillery and tanks that the Legion managed to scavenge and get them operational in hopes to bring down the wall. The attack took place at the fortified city of El Paso where the TSC Marines, Soldiers, Robots, Thunderfists, and Valkyries defended the city and the wall alongside the Texas Desert Rangers and managed to repel the attack with minor casualties but no deaths thanks to their advance technology, strong defenses, and flying saucers. Reports state that the Legions suffered heavy casualties during the attack and, as always, the Centurions are expected to be punished by crucifixion as ordered by their frustrated, dying old leader known as Caesar. Or is it Kaisar? Man, I don't know which one is correct. Anyway, the Wall that has kept our American country safe is still secured with no other major attacks and skirmishes from any Tribals, Raiders, or Slavers that threaten our new way of life. Even the Midwest Power Armored Knights and the West Coast techno-hoarders are keeping their distances with respect. Hope they get the picture and leave us alone. That is all for the news and thanks for listening! This is Three-Dog! Awhooooo! Now for our favorite T.V. program for all you children, sponsored by our favorite New Nuka-Cola Corporation, here is an episode of The Adventures of Bottle and Cappy."

Dante frowned as he heard Three-Dogs report concerning the Legion attack on the Texas Border Wall. Ever since the TSC built their embassy in New Vegas 12 years ago, Caesar has been constantly hostile with the TSC and the USA and showed no sign of backing down the fight. Dante knows why he is still hostile and refuses to negotiate peace.

When Caesar heard from his Frumentariis that the TSC are operating a space ship and are living among the stars orbiting the world, it became the first time he felt shocked, infuriated, and - above all - afraid. Caesar had been angry that the TSC, despite lacking large numbers in their military, have the capabilities to wipe out any and all of his legionnaires with their advance technologies, powerful weapons, and modern strategy and tactics no matter how much he outnumbers them in battle. Plus, the reason Caesar was afraid of the TSC is because they possess a space ship in which he knew in his instincts possesses a weapon that can wipe out his nation off the map despite his Frumentariis unable to acquire any intel on the Olympus.

Even though Caesar is aware of their deadly capabilities, the existence of the TSC and the new American country they created have been seen as a threat to the Legion's way of life and Caesar has no choice but to keep fighting in order to keep his people loyal and faithful to him. Any signs of hesitation will lead his loyal soldiers to doubt his rule and might try to overthrow him to replace him with a ruler more fanatical while lacking common sense. Since their society is based on the Neo-Roman society and hierarchical infrastructure with slavery to run their empire, this also led many of his loyal legionnaires, subjects (citizens), and slaves to begin questioning their own society's lack of prosperity as they were shocked to see the liberal societies of the American country and the TSC prospering endlessly turning settlements into towns and towns into cities near their borders. The hostilities also increased due to constant attempts by Legion slaves trying to escape into the USA to seek a better life after the TSC Seraph agents secretly formed the Wasteland's version of the "Underground Railroad".

The last important intel that Dante received 3 years ago about Caesar was reported from Archangel and his Seraphs that Caesar kept mumbling in denial in his private chambers in his "palace" within the ruins of the Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff wondering why he wasn't "chosen by the Lords of the Universe" to inherit the Olympus and become a god himself.

Dante shook his head as he pitied Caesar whom is about to lose everything he has built after years of uniting his 86 Tribes and conquering the lands of New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. Dante could have finished him off with the Olympus Death Ray, but the weapon was designated as a Weapon of Mass Destruction and he concludes that it should be used as a last resort. Dante wanted to bring order and peace with hope and happiness, not with fear and show of force. That action will tarnish the TSC's image and reputation as an organization of nation-builders and peacekeepers and ruin their diplomatic relations with other factions in North America and around the world, including the Reborn Coalition of Soviet Nations (RCSN, Russia).

As of now, Caesar is surrounded with enemies such as the Free Economic Zone of New Vegas, the New California Republic (NCR), the Midwest Brotherhood of Steel, and the TSC with everyone in the American continent expecting his inevitable defeat very soon.

As mentioned by Three-Dog, the Wall that surrounds the western borders was constructed at March 10, 2085 after the TSC managed to liberate and occupy the entire East Coast and expand westward until they claimed the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, and Michigan.

According to the reports from the TSC Intelligence Division and their scout units, they managed to reach the borders of the lands controlled by Caesar's Legion and the Midwest Brotherhood in which led the TSC to halt their advance and avoid contacts from any of these factions while the TSC council began to discuss their next action. Dante and the TSC council members knew about the Caesar's Legion from due to the reports sent by their embassy in New Vegas and receiving information from a 'certain courier" whom is a loyal contractor to Mr. House.

But the Midwest Brotherhood was a mysterious organization to the TSC. From what Archangel's Seraph agents were able to gather from the Tribals and settlement locals in the area while disguised as merchants and scavengers, the Midwest Brotherhood have not been seen ever since they manage to defeat the Calculator and claim Vault 0 as their new headquarters and home in the Cheyenne Mountains in Colorado. Most of the Midwest Knights, Paladins, and Initiates are seen on their patrol routes at night in their salvaged military hummers and jeeps while their newly acquired Calculator robots are mostly seen patrolling and protecting the Tribal villages and settlements both night and day.

What impressed Dante was that the Midwest Chapter was seen to have ghouls, super mutants, and even sentient deathclaws among their ranks in which shows that they are willing to recruit anyone in their military, but none of these mutants were able to achieve at least a commanding officers rank and have remained as infantries or engineers in which brought suspicion to Dante that they are still wary of mutants.

The TSC also learned that most of the time the Tribals and settlements are mostly visited by the Brotherhood's infamous Inquisitors, whom serve as the law enforcers and intelligence agents, and are always guarded by a squad of power armored knights and paladins and their Calculator robots in which mostly intimidated the Tribals and settlement locals with fear. The reasons of their visits is that they collect each of the village and settlement agreed tributes of food, water, mined ores, herbal medicines, and fresh recruits as payment for the Brotherhood providing security and protecting their trade routes from any threats.

However, the Seraphs manage to acquire rumors on the Inquisitors' harsh treatment on the Tribals and locals when they don't show any respect to them or have not been able to gather the agreed number of tributes on their due date. When they fail to pay their exact amount of tributes, the Inquisitor then drafts young men or women to complete the tribute but many of the draftees did not want to become soldiers and family member and friends did not want to lose their loved ones in which the Inquisitors mostly ignore and are dealt with by the power armored knights and robots arming their weapons and threateningly pointed at the pleaded crowd to silence their cries. Many of the Seraphs whom managed to witness and record these scenes tried to follow each Inquisitor's group hoping to locate their secret bunkers, but were unable to since they travel with their pre-war military trucks, hummers, and armored cars. The Seraphs couldn't follow nor travel with their own TSC land vehicles, including their new motorcycles, in the Brotherhood territory since they need to remain incognito by relying on their Brahmin pulling wagons for long journeys and act like Wasteland merchants and scavengers.

Without knowing where they are, even though they know Vault 0's location, and lacking any intelligence on the Midwest Brotherhood's society, ranks, and beliefs the TSC have no way to communicate or establish diplomacy without predicting possibilities on how this splinter, rogue Brotherhood faction will react to the TSC's existence and their military near their borders.

Furthermore, the TSC may have grown large and powerful but it was still low on their military manpower due to occupying so many territories and their supply lines are stretched thin after years of fighting the Raiders, Slavers, and Mutants and expanding despite rebuilding and improving the industrial sectors in the East Coast to mass produce their war products, medicine, food, energy, water, and basic necessities. Even the rebuilt and repairs of the old railroads and pre-war fusion powered trains could hardly keep up with the supply demands on schedule.

They couldn't risk anymore fighting with any other possible hostile factions until they can manage to bulk up their military numbers to be able to defend their territories and improve their infrastructure and transportations to easily mobilize their forces.

So the TSC council members decided to go defensive and have their engineers and architects to design and build a wall bordering the territories of Caesar's Legion and the Mid-Western Brotherhood while their Seraphs continue to observe these factions to make sure that they are unaware of the construction.

Thanks to their advance Zeta technology and any advance technologies scavenged during their expansion campaign, the TSC scientists and engineers manage to develop and produce new construction equipment, vehicles, and robots to help speed up the reconstruction process and advance the pre-war industrial sectors to mass produce parts 10 times faster than the pre-war industry. This gave the TSC the advantage to build the wall at a faster pace. Their research also included the development of strip-mining technology and advance refining to gather the metal resources such as iron, aluminum, copper, and limestone for the Wall's construction.

It was due to these advances that the Wall was build up to about 30 meters high with large guard towers serving as sentry outposts to guard the border in which would have taken 20 to 30 years to build with pre-war construction equipment but only took about 4 years to complete on November 13, 2289.

By the time the Wall was nearly completed at the newly constructed TSC Fort Defiance at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi River in Illinois, the Midwest Brotherhood and Caesar's Legion were then aware of the TSC's Wall construction and were shocked to see it fully completed with Zeta energy barriers along the wall's surface to provide additional strength to the wall and guarded by soldiers with advance armor, power armor, and advance weapons with new factory-produced Valkyries and Vertibirds to provide patrol and air support. The Wall looked like an advance version of the Great Wall of China.

It was constructed along the Texas-Mexico borders along the Rio Grande River while touching the Gulf of Mexico, going around the city of El Paso, and along the borders of Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma before it travels eastward along the Oklahoma border and cuts straight through the southern territory of Missouri until it reaches Fort Defiance. From there, the Wall borders along the eastern side of the Ohio River traveling up north along the borders of Kentucky and then it goes through the Ohio River to border along the east side of the Wabash River until it surrounds the northwest side of the city of Lafayette. Then the Wall travels straightly upwards, cutting off some of the western territories of Indiana, until it reaches the town of Michigan city and touches Lake Michigan.

With the Wall completed and heavily fortified, the TSC began to focus on rebuilding the cities, towns, settlements, military bases, and infrastructures in their newly claimed states while discussing plans with other factions in the East Coast to form the United States of America and its new government.

"Excuse me Sir."

Dante turned to see Wardsworth hovering next to him on his left side. "Yes Wardsworth."

"Your bodyguards have arrived and are waiting for you outside. They are here to escort you to your meeting, Sir."

Dante sighed with reluctance but nodded. He didn't really need any bodyguards since his SPECIALS were at the top ten along with his body and senses enhanced and augmented with implants making him into a living war machine. Plus, he had learned some fighting skills during his years of wandering the Wasteland and trained with some of the former Enclave special forces when they were recruited into the TSC. He even took the time to train in Japanese martial arts and swordsmanship with his loyal samurai, Toshiro Kago. But the TSC council members did not want to risk in losing their leader by any possible assassinations attempts and urged him to accept their proposal. Dante didn't like to be treated as though he is the second George Washington or something, but he accepted their "Secret Service" proposal just to ease their anxiety.

"Thanks Wardsworth. I guess it is time for me to get going. Make sure you take care of the house while I'm gone, okay Wardsworth?"

"Of course, Sir. You take care now and have a good day. I will be watching your speech on T.V., Sir," said the Mr. Handy as the robot collected Dante's dishes and coffee mug to wash in the kitchen sink.

Dante smiled at the robot as he got up and called out his dog. Cooper ruffed and trotted alongside his master.

Dante opened the door and was greeted by four soldiers wearing the familiar black battle armor and helmets with red eye lenses. Their armors were designed with power armor technology to enhance their strength, agility, endurance, reflexes, and speed with the addition spacesuit mods for the soldiers to fight in vacuum space and zero gravity. They are his loyal bodyguards, the Blackguards. They are specifically chosen among the TSC's elite army division, the Thunderfist, and are considered the elites of the elites. As soon as he opened the door all four of the Blackguards stood attention and saluted their leader. "Sir! Captain Thompson and Red Alpha squad are reporting in. We are here to escort you to your schedule meeting," said the leading Blackguard with a red beret signifying him as an officer.

Dante returned the salutes with his own. "At ease, soldiers. Let's get going then. We have a big day ahead of us."

The Blackguards then formed a protective square formation around Dante with the first two guards leading the front, including Thompson, and the other two guarding the rear with their standard TSC-600 H.E.A.R (Hybrid Energy Assault Rifle) armed and ready to take out anything that threatens their commander. They started to walk towards the Megaton gate to head for the landing pads near the gate where a large Valkyrie spacecraft, Comet One, was waiting to pick up its leader.

As they walked Dante looked around the town of MegaVault remembering when the area was once a dead irradiated region with only Megaton as a nearby settlement that bustled with small amounts of life thirteen years ago. Now the area was terraformed by the TSC's improved and highly advanced Garden of Eden Creation Kit, also known as GECK, that can now terraform a state-size region giving life to the soil and purifying the waters. With soil fresh again, agricultural was able to become developed near Megaton therefore leading the area to prosper and attract new settlers. With the TSC's technology and equipment in construction, including construction bots, they were able to build a town that united Megaton, Vault 101, and the ruins of Springvale creating the town of MegaVault with a total population that grew to a total of 1,200 today due to Wasteland refugees seeking sanctuary for a better life.

Dante looked at the constructed infrastructure with roads made out of asphalt and sidewalks made out of concrete with a sewer system and plumbing built underneath the infrastructure. Along the sidewalks there were street lights to keep the area alighted during the night, electrical poles to provide electricity and communications to each building, and new planted street trees, bushes, and flowers to transform the town streets into lush and inviting places for the citizens to linger and socialize. Lining along the town's roads were two to three-story buildings in the market district between Megaton and Springvale that serve as department stores, markets, restaurants, cafes, bars, and clinics. Even the Red Rocket station was rebuilt as a new Red Rocket garage to maintain and repair the new Zeta-energy powered automobiles that some citizens now own while a huge warehouse was built to house any merchant's current brahmins, cloned oxen, or cloned horses that are now used to pull merchant wagons instead of carrying the supplies and merchandise on their backs. Finally, a new two story city hall and a police station were built next to each other in the center of the town.

As Dante continued to observe his surroundings, he noticed the citizens whom were preparing for the day made way for Dante and his guards to walk through the crowded traffic of bustling people. When the people recognized their hero walking through the road with his bodyguards, many started waving and shouting out his name excitedly. Dante looked around seeing families, couples, and so many citizens waving and cheering out to the Lone Wanderer. Even the children waved at him with stars of inspiration in their eyes. Dante gave a kind smile to everyone and waved back. Although, he blushed a bit when he noticed some of the females, both adult and young teenagers waving and flirting at him hoping to get his attention. He immediately had to look away when he noticed some of them were showing a bit of their cleavage on purpose.

"Uncle Dante! Uncle Dante!"

The escort stopped when they heard a young girl's voice. Dante turned to his left and saw his little adopted niece, Marie, running towards him with a bright smile on her face. He felt his heart warm up upon seeing his little girl's smile as he crouched down her level to catch her as she jumped into his arms to hug him. Dante stood up to hold her and kissed her right cheek as she giggled before he got a good look at her.

Marie, the daughter of Ashur and Sandra from the Pitt, has grown up from an adorable little baby into a cute thirteen-year old girl at a height of 5'3" and is hitting puberty. She had blue eyes like her father with her physical features showing mostly her mother's side as a Caucasian with natural, clear white skin with no blemish. Her smooth and shiny black hair was long and reached all the way down to her lower back with frontal bangs covering her forehead while wearing a pink hairband on her head. She was wearing a pink sweater with no sleeves and picture of a teddy bear on the front over her white T-shirt while wearing a pair of blue jeans. She also wore white TSC boots for her feet in which reach up to her upper calves and is carrying her Teddy Bear backpack on her back to complete her cute outfit.

Marie just came out of Vault 101 after spending the night at a sleepover with her female friends whom go to the same Springvale School as her. Dante gave her permission yesterday after she finished her homework before escorting her to the Vault for her sleepover. Right now she was just walking with her friends to a house that belongs to her friend, Emily, where her parents will take them all in a horse-pulled wagon to head for the festivities at the Mall before she spotted her favorite adopted uncle walking with his bodyguards that she couldn't help but rush towards him hoping to spend the memorial holiday with him today.

The people witnessing the scene couldn't help but awe and feel touched as though they are seeing a beautiful bond between father and daughter even though they are not related.

"Hey Marie! Did you have fun at your sleepover with your friends?" asked Dante.

Marie smiled, "Yes Uncle! It was great! We had lots of fun last night, we even watched a scary movie from the old world."

Dante frowned hoping it wasn't a brutal horror film, "Well I hope it is acceptable and not one of those films with blood and gore. Otherwise, no sleepovers."

Marie pouted, "Oh Uncle. I'm not a baby anymore you know. I'm 13 now and should be considered a teen. Besides, it wasn't that scary at all."

Dante sighed, "Alright, sweetie. I know you are a big girl and I guess you can handle something worse than a scary movie." Marie smiled accepting his answer.

Dante placed his niece down before she grabbed his right hand with both of her hands and looked up at his face with a cute, excited smile with her eyes sparkling from the sunlight.

"Are you coming to the memorial celebration today Uncle? I was hoping we can go together so that we can have fun on this no-school holiday." Dante laughed and placed his left hand over her small hands and knelt down to her level to look straightly at her face.

"Yes. Once I finish my meeting with Congress and my speech, I plan to meet you along with your friends and their families at 1:00 p.m. at the Mall so that we can have fun together," Dante said with a warming smile before he whispered close to her left ear.

"Also, I will make sure that I give my noisy guards the slip so that we won't be disturbed," he said as he gave Marie a sly wink that made her giggle at Dante's planned mischief.

After petting Cooper's head in which he barked happily, she quickly turned and rushed back to her friends whom were watching the scene as she waved back at Dante to signal him goodbye. Dante waved back before he proceeded to head to the Comet One Valkyrie spacecraft with his escorts and dog.

Once they got on the huge Valkyrie and sat on their respected seats, the spacecraft began to take off once it was signaled by a nearby air traffic control tower for the all clear sign. Dante felt the feeling of floating as the craft started to hover up a few feet with its Zeta anti-gravity panels before zooming forwards with the hum of its rear thrusters and heading towards the Capitol Building at the Mall with two other black Valkyrie fighters flying along both sides as escorts. He looked out the port window on his right to watch and enjoy the scenery as the landscapes, towns, farm fields, and the city buildings passed through from his line of vision.

Dante could never get bored whenever he looked down at the fresh green landscapes covered with trees, grass, flowers, farm fields, and many other floras with restored roads cutting around the countryside and towns outside the capital filled with moving restored automobiles and caravan wagons traveling on the road sides. It showed him how much the region has become alive again after centuries of radiation that poisoned the land leaving nothing but silence and death. Even seeing the capital city, Washington D.C., fully rebuilt with its streets bustling with crowded people and restored white buildings shining brightly under the rays of the morning sun.

Dante could see many automobile vehicles traveling throughout the urban streets with some merchants and caravans entering the city alongside the streets with their wagons being pulled by brahmins, oxen, or horses to use the holiday as an opportunity to sell their wares. He could also see the Jefferson Memorial where the city's prized Purifier is located with its GECK upgraded with TSC technology. He could see the Purifier is still pumping fresh water into the Tide Basin even though the entire Potomac River is refilled with clean water with the entire Chesapeake River purified.

Dante couldn't help but smile as he sees the city becoming the proud capital of the new America once more after years of conflicts with Super Mutants, mercenaries, Raiders, and Slavers. He felt so proud with himself, the TSC, and the people to be able to work together to rebuilt their civilization and receive the awards of their long hard struggle by living the pre-war American life once more.

Dante then had an idea as the craft neared the Mall. "Hey pilot."

"Yes, Commander?" said a voice in the cockpit indicating that it was a female with a New York accent.

"Fly low as you can near the Reflection Pool. I believe these people whom have come to D.C. to celebrate this memorial should at least have the chance to see the Supreme Commander of the TSC before the opening," Dante said with a grin.

"Of course sir. Make sure that you give them some good waves of greeting," said the pilot as she informed the escorts of what the Dante requested before the craft flew over the Lincoln Memorial and lowered the craft near the Reflecting Pool.

When the citizens saw the Comet One fly over the Memorial and near the pool, they immediately cheered and waved once they recognized the craft as the Commander's private ride. Dante gave them a smile as he waved back at them before the craft lifted back up after reaching near the Washington Monument and continued its course to the Capitol Building.

Once the Comet One landed on the Western side of the Capitol Buildings lawn, Dante got up and walked down ramp underneath the large Valkyrie with his Blackguard escorts and his dog. Dante was then greeted by a large crowd of humans, Super Mutants, Ghouls, and Synths whom are all kept back by security rails with TSC Marines and D.C. Police lining alongside as they cheered at their national hero. He could also see reporters from the Capital Post, Publick Occurrences, New York Times, Boston Bugle, and many other restored media organizations with their flash cameras and holo-T.V. cameras focusing on himself as he kept his smile and waved at the cheering crowd before heading up the steps with his guards and Cooper following him as they headed towards the double door entrance of the restored Congress building of Capitol Hill.

Upon entering the United States Capitol, he was greeted by TSC Thunderfists, Power Armor infantry, and Blackguards whom are all lined up against the walls standing at attention with a salute. Dante saluted them back and ordered them to be at ease before he fixed his gaze at the middle of the hallway forum where a TSC commanding officer stood attention with two Thunderfist soldiers standing at his sides.

This officer was wearing a black commanders coat like Dante's but it had a three stars on his shoulder patches and on the neck collar of his black officer uniform underneath the coat. This three star signified his rank as a Lieutenant General. His combed hair was gray with white streaks on his sides with raven claw wrinkles next to his brown eyes showing his age of 68. His face was shaved and cleaned due to proper hygiene products as he kept a stern look but showed discipline and respect to his leader.

The General saluted Dante before replying in a Southern accent, "Commander, all preparations for the meeting are ready. The VIPs are expected to arrive within 25 minutes as scheduled. We are also finished preparing the three starships at Adams Air Force Base for the opening of the memorial ceremony and the parade as proposed by the Civilian Affairs Department."

"Excellent, work. You and your men have done a great job, but not as great as your victories during the Dixie Campaign and the Battle of Florida as part of your efforts to restore the United States. You should be proud of yourself, General Augustus Autumn."

The mentioned officer, Lieutenant General Augustus Autumn, was a former Enclave Colonel whom led the Enclave forces during the Brotherhood-Enclave War in the Capitol Wasteland in 2277 while serving under President John Henry Eden.

Now you are probably wondering why an Enclave officer like Autumn is serving the TSC and taking orders from his former enemy. Hell, why is Dante granting this man the authorization to command some of his soldiers since Autumn was partly responsible for the death of his father, James Abram. Well, you could say that he let Autumn leave peacefully during the retake of Project Purity and he never knew what happened to him since he wasn't present during the Brotherhood assault on the Satellite Array facility, now Fort Titan, and Adam's Air Force Base.

But fate somehow brought them to meet each other again six years later when Dante was leading a platoon of TSC soldiers on a reconnaissance mission to scout and recon the ruins of Fort Bragg in South Carolina and scavenge any pre-war technology. Within the ruins, they located an intact U.S. Command bunker where they found surviving Enclave remnants with their leader, Colonel Augustus Autumn, among them. Both Dante and Autumn were surprised to see each other again, but Autumn was more surprised to see Dante leading some soldiers equipped with advance battle armor and armed with advance weapons that he had never seen before. Plus, he was more shocked that they weren't Brotherhood of Steel soldiers since the last time he saw Dante he was a Sentinel among the Lyon's Pride with his commander, Sarah Lyons, fighting by his side. Their shocks deterred once they noticed that their own soldiers have their weapons trained on each other ready to take each other out. With his charismatic perk and speech skills, Dante managed to convince Autumn to order his men to lower their weapons while telling his TSC scouts to stand down before requesting Autumn to have a private conversation with him.

Within his private office, Dante discussed with Autumn on the events that have happened with the Colonel and the Lone Wanderer after the Enclave-Brotherhood War. Apparently, the Colonel began to gather every surviving Enclave soldiers and civilians in the East Coast after the war was lost and to retreat to the South to rebuilt their strength in hopes to continue their goals in the revival of the United States. Unfortunately, their military strength suffered heavy casualties from 1,200 soldiers down to 87 soldiers with only 10 officers and 9 civilian scientists still alive. Autumn felt lost and didn't know what to do since it will take them a century to re-populate their "pure" human soldiers back to their original numbers, they have no intel on the Southern states, their supplies of food, water, and meds are dangerously low despite years of careful rationing, and they don't know what to do next since they are now leaderless with no President.

Dante pitied their situations and he understood that they were only trying to restore order and civility to the Wasteland with hopes of rebuilding an old world civilization from the ashes of the Great War, just like what he is doing right now. But Colonel Autumn's methods to pacify the Wasteland was too aggressive along with bigotry and persecution among the Wastelanders and Ghouls have led the local populace to fight against them. To Dante, the Colonel was more of a battlefield commander than a pacifier to win the hearts and minds of the locals in order to gain their support.

It was at this point that this thought gave Dante an idea in order to put Augustus Autumns skills and talents as a battlefield commander to good use by offering him and his survived Enclave members to join his organization, the Terran Starship Command, to redeem their actions at the Capital Wasteland and help him restore civilization. To prove that he wasn't joking or being a mad man, he ordered three large Valkyrie from the Olympus to transport the Enclaves back to Washington D.C. to show them what the TSC has accomplished throughout the last 5 years since the founding of the new organization. What Autumn and the Enclave soldiers saw at the capital city made them shocked in disbelief at what they are witnessing with their own eyes through the Valkyrie side windows. They saw most of the capital city of Washington D.C. restored with the Capitol Building, the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, and most of the Mall and surrounding buildings rebuilt and restored back to their pre-war glory with their electrical lights shining again at night bringing life to the city again after 200 years of darkness. They could also see trees, grass, and floras growing outside the city with fresh trees, flowers, and bushes lined up along the city streets of the Mall proving that Dante was telling the truth about terraforming the region. They could also people, ghouls, and sentient super mutants walking around the city streets going through their new life doing business, construction, patrolling, socializing, or enjoying a meal in a nearby diner.

After witnessing this scene, Augustus Autumn and his Enclave remnants immediately joined the TSC with his starting rank as a Major to prove his commitment and skills as a commanding officer until he was able to achieve up to a rank of three-star general after 5 years of service. Autumn was also strictly ordered by Dante to not prejudice any of the sentient ghouls and super mutants under Autumn's command since they are now seen as equals among man. Right now, General Autumn commands the 1st Tesla Corps that is combined of TSC Power Armor, Air Force, Marines, Desert Rangers, and Army soldiers along the Western borders of Texas and Oklahoma defending against the never-ending assaults of Caesars Legion.

"I am only doing my duty as a soldier of the new United States, Sir. Although, I should be back at the Texas Frontlines defending our lands from that despicable God-King Caesar wanna-be and his army of slavers and barbaric tribals than attending this ceremony," said General Augustus with reluctance to join the festivities.

Dante smiled and patted his left shoulder, "Nonsense, General. You should have the chance to experience an American Holiday since you are a fellow American yourself. Your second in command, Lieutenant Colonel Irma Royce, managed to repel Caesar's assault at El Paso this morning with no death casualties and has proven herself as a talented leader throughout her years of service to the TSC. Besides, you also have lots of admirers from the Southern States whom I am sure are here to see you after they witnessed years ago of you commanding your soldiers in liberating their lands from the Slavers, Mutants, and Raiders. They even call you the Dixie Liberator."

Autumn shivered when Dante mentioned about him having admirers. Autumn did enjoy the fame and glory with the locals cheering and praising him for saving and protecting their settlements from Raiders and Mutants in the Southern States from Virginia to Florida and from Georgia to Texas. But when he received his own fan mails from the Southern State citizens, he got most letters from females in which contained seductive and flirty words with some including partly nude photos of those certain female fans that he had to quickly throw them in the trash can and burn them to make sure that none of his officers and soldiers under his command found out about them. Despite the blush on his cheeks, he growled in annoyance while mentally reminded himself that he is a disciplined soldier and the revival and restoration of the country comes first. If he wanted to settle down with a woman, he would prefer a female whom is a disciplined soldier or an officer with patriotism and shares his ideals and goals with understanding.

Although, Dante suspects that Autumn and his second-in-command may have feelings for each other even though Royce is 39 years old and Autumn is 68 years old.

"Indeed, Commander. I am proud of Lieutenant Colonel Royce for her abilities to lead. But don't forget that you also have earned the title as 'the Resurrector of Our Country' ever since you led the reconstruction of this capital city and started the military expansion across the states," said General Autumn with a smirk as he enjoyed the frown on Dante's face when he reminded him of his new title given from the American citizens and TSC members.

As you know, George Washington is known as "the Father of Our Country" and Abraham Lincoln is known as "the Savior of Our Country". During the old days in the 20th century, President's Day was created to commemorate all of the U.S. Presidents in history but both of these Presidents were so famous after gaining victory at the end of their respective conflicts that they were well known for their efforts, beliefs, and self-sacrifice. Now the people expected Dante to become the new President after the country's revival and have his image stand next to these two famous Presidents whom shaped the country to become a great nation with his title as "the Resurrector of Our Country". But Dante was not sure if he deserves this kind of recognition since he doesn't want to be worshipped as some kind of God and he sees himself an equal among the mortals of humanity and nothing more.

Dante cleared his throat. "Anyway, lets head for the Presidential Room. The delegates should be expecting me and the other VIPs."

"Of course, Sir. Let's not keep them waiting any longer," said Autumn as both walked side by side towards the meeting room with their respective bodyguards following behind.

Once they reached the double doors, both commanders could hear muffled voices coming from the room. As soon as they opened the doors, the voices immediately seized as men and women in clean suits in the room turned to look at Autumn and Dante as they entered the room with their guards remaining outside.

Not only there were humans, there were also some ghouls and synths both male and female including two Super Mutants wearing modified suits that are designed to fit their size including their footwear with one of the Mutants wearing spectacles making them look intelligent, civilized, and less intimidating despite their green skin and size of 7 feet height.

The room for the meeting was the reconstructed Presidential Room in which was repaired to make it look like as it was during the Pre-War Era. The Presidential Room that was once a room for the U.S. President to relax and settle before making his speech to the Senators was used as a meeting room for the Third Continental Congress with each delegate's respective tables placed in rows in which are facing the President's oak-carved desk just like how it was set up when the Founding Fathers had their Congress meetings at the Independence Hall. On both sides of the room were tables of refreshments and snacks in case the meeting would last for hours, even after the past lunch.

"Good morning, Ladies and Gentlemen. I believe we have arrived early is that right?" asked Dante.

All of the delegates bowed their heads and shook hands the TSC Commander and General Autumn to greet them before a man in a clean blue suit standing behind an oak-carved desk spoke with a smile.

"Indeed you have. We are just finished getting ready for this meeting before the arrival of the other VIPs," said President Truman, former Chancellor of Rivet City and now the elected President of the Third Continental Congress.

The Third Continental Congress was formed by the TSC with the representatives from each restored states in the East Coast such as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, New York, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Florida, and other states that are under TSC protection and occupation. The reason was to insure the trust of the local people that they will not be taxed until a proper centralized government was formed in order to create agreeable taxation laws in which will be fair and acceptable to every settlement and it won't hinder their prosperity progress and opportunities for a better life.

Also, they place an agreement that the TSC will be allowed to recruit any citizens in their settlement as long as they don't forcibly draft their people against their will and receive resources such as water, food, and materials. In return, they provide security, construction, and restoration to their settlements, towns, and cities, including terraforming the lands to restore the pre-war natural forests and landscapes. Dante wanted to use this Third Continental Congress the same way the Founding Fathers did to help form up the central government with proper order and stabilize it before the elections for new members of the Senate, State Representatives, Governors, Mayors, Judges, and President begins.

For now, Dante and Autumn began to converse with some of the delegates while waiting for the VIPs to arrive to start the meeting.

...

October 23, 2290

Lucky 38 Casino Hotel, New Vegas, Mojave Desert

Dust and sand blew with the west wind as a tumbleweed bounced across the dried and dusty plain with the occasional cactus and bushes seen nearby. It was supposed to be morning, but the land was still dark with the stars still twinkling the night skies. Over a nearby rocky hill, we can see a bright city in the distance still shining its neon lights that illuminate the dark desert for miles. The city had many huge and tall restored buildings shining brightly with electrical neon lights with music coming from the jeweled metropolis of the Mojave Desert.

This was the city of New Vegas in which was once called Las Vegas during the Pre-War days.

It survived the Great War due to the brilliance of Robert Edwin House, President, CEO, and Founder of RobCo Industries during the Pre-war days who managed to use his custom-designed mathematical simulations based on the Pre-War's political and socio-economical conditions to predict the inevitable Great War at the nearly exact time and date that led him to make all the preparations with his wealth and influence. He set up and programmed multiple mainframes with satellite links meant to disable as many of the incoming 77 nuclear missiles as possible while an array of high powered lasers he installed on the roof of the Lucky 38 were to take out the rest of the missiles that his program were unable to disable before they hit the Mojave.

To ensure that he would live to see the world after the war, Mr. House took equally drastic steps to preserve himself by permanently connecting his body inside his "hibernation chamber" to take care of his physiological needs while his brain was wired directly into his vast information network and his enormous supercomputer. Everything seemed to be ready for Mr. House to ensure that City of Sins would survive through the coming storm of nuclear flames.

However, a missing integral element of his plan was the unique, custom-made computer device known as the Platinum Chip, a combination access card and high capacity data storage device, containing a massive OS upgrade for Mr. House's Securitrons and the laser defense network. The Platinum Chip was printed in Sunnyvale, California on October 22, 2077 and was scheduled to be delivered in the afternoon of October 23, 2077, the exact date of the beginning of the Great War. Finding out that his mathematical simulation miscalculated the prediction of the beginning of the Great War in 20 hours short, Mr. House was forced to rely on his obsolete mainframes to disable 59 of the missiles and 9 more were destroyed from his laser defenses while the 9 missiles got through his defenses and hit the surrounding region of the Mojave but not the city directly. The EMP and shockwave blast from the nuclear explosions caused the buildings in Las Vegas's outer city limits to be destroyed into ruins along with the elevated highways, but most of the inner city including the casino hotels of the Strip and the Lucky 38 remained intact and survived.

But Mr. House had to battle his own OS computer system due to its obsolete version and the effects of the EMP blast that caused his systems to create software glitches despite upgrading the silicon coverings to protect his electrical devices from nuclear pulse waves in which led to set off a cascade of system crashes. Without the Platinum Chip to upgrade his OS system, Mr. House was forced to take the Lucky 38's reactor offline to avoid a meltdown due to the system crashes and spent nearly five years battling against power outages and more system crashes until he managed to reboot his data core. Eventually, he suffered coma from one of the crashes and spent decades sleeping in his own computer system while his hibernation chamber kept him alive. He then regained consciousness in 2138 and bided his time to gather information on the current condition of the Mojave region, Las Vegas, and nearby factions surrounding the area while repairing his systems and activating his Securitrons in his Lucky 38.

In 2274, after repairing his mainframes and systems, Mr. House then entered the world stage once again by sending out his Securitrons from his Lucky 38 to enlist the help of the tribes living in the ruins of Vegas to form the Three Families of the Strip and rebuilt the city, mostly the Strip, back into its Pre-War glory. The reason for this was that Mr. House detected military scouts from the New California Republic from the West Coast at Hoover Dam and knew that an army would soon be coming to occupy the region. The city was rebuilt just in time to welcome the NCR Army's advance forces giving Mr. House and the Three Families the opportunity to negotiate with their commanders and civilian leaders, including President Aaron Kimball, and sign the New Vegas treaty.

In accordance to the treaty, Mr. House agrees to concede the McCarran Airport to the NCR to use as a base of operations, grants a small building for the NCR to use as an embassy and HQ for NCR military police, and grant the NCR full control of Hoover Dam where they can send 95% of the generated energy to the Republic but in return 5% of the energy has to be used to power the Strip and its adjacent buildings.

Furthermore, the treaty prevents the NCR from any attempts to annex the Strip therefore giving the NCR no jurisdiction within the Strip and have to respect the authority of Mr. House, the Three Families, and his Securitrons.

This gave Mr. House the time he needed to carefully plan his attempts to regain control of New Vegas, Hoover Dam, and the Mojave for his plans for humanity's future. He sees no real future under the NCR's rule due to their only interests in acquiring the resources to keep their nation alive by using the Hoover Dam to acquire fresh water and electricity with attempts to annex New Vegas to tax the Strip in hopes to quickly fill up their coffers with bottlecaps making their nation rich. What kept the NCR from attempts to annex the Strip with their diplomacy and large military force was due to another threat that has arrived on the other side of Hoover Dam from the East. This new threat was known as Caesar's Legion, an autocratic, traditionalist, imperialistic slaver society of 86 tribes united and ruled under a totalitarian dictator, Caesar, whom was born as Edward Sallow and was once a member of the Followers of the Apocalypse and is an ex-NCR citizen.

In 2277, Caesar's Legion made first contact with the NCR at one of their rundown fortification, Fort Abandon, located in the border between the former states of California and Arizona where Caesar's legionaries attacked and slaughtered all of the NCR soldiers stationed in the fort before destroying it to ensure no NCR presence in their lands. Caesar's Legion then set their sights on Hoover Dam as they see it as a strategic asset and river crossing of the Colorado River.

In what became known as the First Battle of Hoover Dam, Caesar's Legion initially had the upper hand and managed to push the NCR defenders back granting Caesar's forces to cross over the dam. However, the tide turned when NCR elements of the 1st Recon Battalion and NCR Rangers lead a tactical retreat west across the dam and into Boulder City where they laid explosives to booby-trap the old pre-war town to lure the forces of Caesar's Legion to inflict massive casualties among their ranks. The plan was executed and succeeded, leading the NCR to counter-attack and force the Legion back east across the river, retaking Hoover Dam, and ending the battle.

The battle was a pyrrhic victory for the NCR, but it did not stop the Caesar's Legion from retreating from the Mojave but to set up their main base known as the Fort on the eastern side of the dam to rebuild their strength for the upcoming second battle; therefore, leading the war between the NCR and Caesar's Legion into a stalemate between the Colorado River and dividing Hoover Dam in half with the NCR controlling the west side and the Legion holding the east side.

For 3 years, both the bear and the bull glared at each other from their own sides of the river, sharpening their blades and loading their firearms in preparation for the final showdown that will determine the fate of the Mojave and New Vegas. What the factions of the Mojave did not realize that a "wild card" had been set to play in this stage whom will shape the future of the Mojave and decide who will receive the "true victory" of the Second Battle of Hoover Dam.

This "wild card" was known as the Courier.

The said famous Courier was lounging inside the cleaned luxurious cocktail lounge of the Lucky 38. He was relaxing on one of comfy armchairs listening to the song, "Ain't That A Kick In The Head", from a nearby radio while staring down through the large windows at the city lights of New Vegas and watching people moving through the Strip. Next to his left was his trustworthy cyborg dog, Rex, whom was laying on his belly as he occasionally scratched behind the dog's ears. He was wearing his famous Courier duster with the Old World Flag painted on the back while his favorite Desperado hat was hanging on one of the nearby table lamps with his sunglasses hanging over his shirt. On his left arm was a new Pip-boy Z that was given to him to recognize his status and a gift from his space-faring allies.

He was smoking one of the luxurious San Francisco Sunlight cigar as he held it between his right hand fingers while occasionally picking up a glass of whiskey with ice cubes from a nearby stand table on his right with a fancy glass ashtray filled with fresh cigar ashes. He took a couple of sips of the brown-gold alcohol in his mouth and enjoyed the taste as the cooled liquid warmed his throat and esophagus as he swallowed it. He put down the glass of cold whiskey and stuck the cigar into his mouth to inhale the nerve-relaxing nicotine smoke into his lungs. Then he took it out of his mouth and exhaled the smoke and sighed at the same time as he continued to stare at the city lights while thinking about the past events 9 years ago that led him to become what he is today.

"It has been 9 years since the day I took that job from the Mojave Express in Primm. Who knew that one little trinket would put me into the stage to decide the fate of New Vegas," he thought as he turn his sight to look at his own reflection on the glass window.

The reflection showed that he has short, lightly blond hair that look almost white and is in a smooth wave hairstyle with sideburns reaching past the ends of his earlobes. His eyes are colored light blue and his unblemished Caucasian skin is lightly tanned due to Theo whom always wears his hat to block out most of the heated sunlight during his travels. His face has a well-shaped jawline in which added the maturity to his youthful look that he almost looked as though he was still 20 years-old back in 2281 even though he is now 29 years-old that it still attracted a lot of the females in New Vegas, including the prostitutes of Westside, Freeside, and the Gomorrah Hotel Casino that they usually "serve him" on the house for making the sexual experience "euphoric" and "erotic". His entire body is sculpted with toned muscles due to his years training and learning new fighting techniques while fighting Raiders, Tribals, and Caesar's Legion in close-quarter-combat, especially against larger and stronger enemies whom somehow have the same strength and endurance of a Super Mutant. Most of his six pack abs were hard and toned so much with no traces of any fat to be seen with his waist area being flat and slim.

But what made his body unique was that he was a cyborg due to getting all the implants from Dr. Usanagi at the New Vegas Medical Clinic with additional implants from Big Mountain, the Terran Starship Command, and the Institute. Not only is he super strong with high endurance and in-human agility, but he also had his heart replaced with an artificial heart making him immune to every deadly poisons and diseases. He also has an implant that makes his body able to regenerate its wounds, even his organs. This gave Theo the advantage to smoke and drink any time he wants with no worries of the nicotine and alcohol harming his body. He even had implants that made his skin partly bullet proof and fire proof while his bones became strong as steel that they are hard to break with his spinal cord reinforced making his back and torso nearly impossible to break. To put it simply he is almost like a super human being like in the Pre-War comics on heroes with a bonus perk of preserving his youth and aging slowly due to receiving so much implants that kept him healthy.

Theo continued to gaze at his own reflection as he leaned back on the chair's backrest before he began to take a trip to his own "Memory Lane" on how it all started.

...

Flashback

The Courier wasn't always called the Courier, Courier Six, or Six all the time.

He remembers that his real name is Theodore West, but everyone mostly called him Theo West.

Theo was born in August 13, 2261 up in northern Nevada in a small settlement known as New Silver in the ruins of a pre-war city, Ely. He didn't know why it was called that but it was perhaps the area was filled with abandoned silver mines with all the silver veins stripped from the cavern walls leaving the mines empty and abandoned. In this settlement, he was raised by his parents, Jacob West, who worked as a bounty hunter, and his mother, Ariel West, who supported the family by working as the settlement's mechanic after she retired as a scavenger.

Life was pretty peaceful with everyone going on with their lives. Theo remembered the adults socializing in bars and laughing, guards keeping themselves vigilante, the bottom-belly mayor who seems to always to be in stress, and playing "Hunt the Raiders" with other kids of his age back then. Many of the pre-war buildings were still intact when they build their settlement where the old three-story hotel building served as the city hall with the other buildings serving as shops, restaurants, and bars with others being a guard station, a clinic, and a school in which was taught by a former member of the Followers of the Apocalypse.

He remembered the evening night of November 6, 2267 when the settlement was burned and pillaged as the locals were massacred, raped, or enslaved by a band of raiders known as the Desert Klaws.

The Desert Klaws were a huge band of 120 Raiders wearing pieces of leather, metal, or combat armor over their Raider apparels with leather clothing made out of Giant Desert Gecko hide. Some of them wear metal or combat helmets with the Giant Gecko skull masks over their faces and Gecko claw gauntlets over their wrists that signify their gang name and add intimidation to their victims. This gang was founded and led by a huge, muscular raider named Red Klaw.

He was noticeable due to the salvaged Power Armor he was wearing with armored plates replaced with Raider armor made out of salvaged metals and no helmet to protect his head. He had a Giant Gecko skull attached to his Power Armor's left shoulder as a shoulder pad, but what made his name significant were the blood-stained Gecko claws attached to his Armor's wrists and over his back hands that he likes to use to kill his victims and enemies. He was bald headed with scars covering his dark tanned skin on his head and face with brown-reddish eyes that made him look demonic whenever he was angry or in rage.

Theo remembered how Red Klaw laughed with his gang as they entertained themselves by killing his neighbors and friends in the most gruesome way as any psychopath would do such as slowly cutting open their bodies to spill out their organs and blood, setting them on fire slowly with alcohol or oil, raping their victims (both male and female) before they kill them with their gauntlets, or chop off their limbs and let them slowly bleed to death. The six-year old Theo watched in his hiding spot underneath an old pre-war Highwayman vehicle in which was low enough to almost touch the ground for any of the Raiders to not be able to notice him. He watched with shock and horror with tears spilling out of his eyes as he covered his mouth with his hands to silence his whimpers and cries to prevent the "monsters" from finding him.

He cried and whimpered as he watched the "lizard monsters" hold his mother down and ripped her clothes to pieces before Red Klaw got out of his Power Armor, crawled over her, and enjoyed his new piece of meat by humping his hips towards hers as she screamed in defiance. His father, after being beaten by their feet and melee weapons that bruised and bled his body and face, held him down on the ground and forced him to watch this horror act for their own sick pleasure of mental torture. His father was able to turn his head to look away from the horrible scene of his wife's rape before he spotted his crying son hiding under the wrecked car. He gave his son a smile before moving his lips for his son to be able to interpret his words, "You must live on, for me and your mother's sake. Just remember, we will always love you."

Then a gunshot was heard and Theo gasped but kept his hands over his mouth as he witnessed one of the Raiders holding down his father shoot him in the head with a .44 revolver. Then he heard sickening sound of flesh being sliced as he turned his head to see his mother choking on her blood due to Red Klaw, whom had a saliva spit on his left cheek, slicing her throat with his signature Red Gecko claw gauntlet.

Theo watched in horror as he grunted and heard, "Fucking Bitch. Oh well, at least she made a good tasty flesh for me to enjoy! Right guys?!"

They all laughed together before they gathered up all their loot of water, food, meds, chems, clothes, armor, bullets, weapons, and bottlecaps and loaded them up onto some of the stolen wagons with Brahmins to pull them before they started to march out as the settlement burned down in ignorance that they left one witness alive whom will live and exact his revenge on Red Klaw and his gang.

It wasn't until a few hours later in mid-day when a party of Tribals from the Red Stone Tribe came to the burned down settlement and started scavenging the area for any materials and supplies. One of the Tribals named Boulder heard a crying noise under the Highwayman car and found the six-year old Theo hiding their who spent all night crying on what he witnessed.

After the Tribals buried the dead settlers, including Theo's parents, they took Theo back to their village which was located within some large, rocky mountain caverns in which were colored red. Inside the mountain when entering the caves was a huge deep chasm where rock bridges were naturally formed on both sides and homes were carved within along the cavern walls like the Indian Cave Dwelling villages. At the top of the cavern was a large opening where the sky could be seen in which was perfect to let in the sunlight for their crops to grow. There was also a bucket elevator that was turned with two wheels to bring up the fresh water from the underground river at the bottom of the chasm and the only source of lighting were oil lanterns, candles, torches, and fire pits.

Boulder volunteered to take in Theo into his care whom will raise Theo for the next 10 years while training him to become a warrior of his own.

He took his time to help Theo overcome his grief of the loss of his parents and friends for about a year before he let him leave their stone house to communicate with the other members of the Tribe to learn about his new home. Theo got to know much about the Tribe and learned that many were also taken in when they lost their homes and families and have settled in this post-apocalyptic community for a better life in peace. It took time and patience for Theo to open up to the other adults, teens, and elders before he was able to communicate with the children whom he was able to play and socialize with.

For the next 10 years under Boulder's tutelage, Theo learned so much from on how to be a warrior of the Wasteland, a hunter, a healer, a cook, and a survivalist. He also learned basic reading, writing, and math with the other children in the Tribe's own school while also learning the history of the Great War and the Tribe's history. Since he was still a child, Theo was only limited to doing house chores in which was mostly cleaning before Boulder taught him how to prepare and cook with different kinds of mutant animal meat, crops, and herbs that survived the Great War. Boulder also taught him different types of herbs he could gather to make medicine for survival and what could be used to make poison for weapons while showing him how to produce such items.

When Theo reached the age of 12, Boulder began to teach him some hand-to-hand combat by training with wooden dummies and sparring. He also took challenging exercises to strengthen his muscles and endurance by running through caverns and around the mountain, climbing the mountain, and doing basic exercises such as weight lifting with water buckets, crunches, sit-ups, and carrying heavy supplies on his back during his trip to the Tribe's Market district.

At the age of 13, Theo was not only taught on how to use, make, or clean Tribal weapons such as bows, arrows, spears, hatchets, axes, and knives, but also with modern weapons like the 9mm pistol, the shotgun, the bolt-action rifle, the lever-action rifle, combat knife, and dynamites. Boulder also made sure to show him how to make leather armor out of mutant animal hides in case Theo needs to make armor quickly for needs of protection and survival of any possible incoming threats.

By the time Theo reached the age of 16, Boulder had turned Theo from a 6-year-old weak and crying boy into a hardcore, young tribal warrior whom is ready to set off into the Wasteland to look for the Desert Klaw gang to avenge his parents.

His childhood friends were sad to see him go, but the adults and elders, including Boulder, expected this since they knew that Theo needed to face the demons of his past and settle once and for all.

However, the real reason they are letting him leave the Tribe was because their "wise and divine" elder, Mother Chrono-Sand, conducted a ritual involving some smooth stones and odd diagrams drawn on the sand floor to foresee Theo's future. What they learned was that Theo is destined to partake in a great battle between a "bear and a bull" that will erupt on a great dam in which will decide the fate of an entire people within a region called the "Mojave" where the "city of neon and sins" resides as a trophy to the victor. They are not sure what it means but all Mother Chrono-Sand can tell was that this future event will be a part of Theo's journey to help redeem humanity's mistake of erupting the Great War and walk the same path alongside two great warriors with one who bears the numbers "101" and the other with "111".

Before he left, Boulder gave him a large duffle bag filled armor and weapons in which he said supposed to belong to his parents and kept them from him until he was ready to inherit the items as part of their Tribal's custom on handing out heirlooms. Inside the bag were his father's Lightweight Metal Armor, Mercenary's grenade rifle, and Weathered 10mm pistol while his mother's items were the Lightweight Leather Armor, Sturdy Caravan Shotgun, and a Broad Machete with ammo for all three guns. Among the possessions was a unique Armored Vault 13 jumpsuit with an old Vault 13 canteen and were actually found from his mother during her scavenging days in the northern area of California where she found these valuable items.

The reason these items Vault 13 items are valuable is because of the history of the Vault Dweller of Vault 13 whom is a legend among the Western Wasteland. He was also known to have help found the New California Republic and is also considered their savior that the new democratic nation made a law stating that all items from Vault 13 are considered historical artifacts and are to be confiscated to be place into their museum at Shady Sands while also adding harsh punishments on any individuals possessing or selling any Vault 13 items whether they are citizens or non-citizens.

However, Theo would care less about the NCR's laws and will not part with any of the Vault 13 items that belong to his parents, even if he has to become their enemy. As a gift from the Red Stone Tribe, he was given a Tribal Raiding Armor with five bottles of bleak venom and ten throwing spears as a part of their custom to equip their new Tribal warrior with armor and weapons before he is set off with a raid party, but for Theo's departure they will make this an exception.

Theo gave all his friends, elders, and his guardian long hugs before he waved farewell and walked off into the Wasteland to begin his journey to his destiny that he was unaware of.

It took Theo about a year to track down the Desert Klaw gang within the ruins of a Pre-War town known as Jackpot near the northern border between Nevada and Idaho. Theo spent the year visiting settlements throughout the western regions where he took some jobs that involve guarding caravans, hunting mutant animals, clearing out feral ghouls, and sometimes bounty hunting as he visited some bars to listen to rumors or bribing the bartenders to gain information on the Desert Klaw gang.

From his info gathering, the Raider gang have been using the old Pete's Cactus Hotel and Casino Resort as their headquarters where they enjoyed their goods of chems, food, water, alcohol, and victims as they never seem to stop partying and gambling in the casino after each of their raids. Their leader, Red Klaw, has grown old throughout the years into his mid-40's but is still built up with large muscles that made his body figure larger than his lieutenants and other members. Their numbers grew up to about 200 and the reason they added only about 80 more members was because they had to limit the amount of total members to prevent fast consumption of their looted supplies of food, water, chems, alcohol, ammo, armor, and weapons.

The hotel was just like every raider hideout that are built in the Wasteland. Pieces of scrap metals and wood were used to build barricaded walls with metal rebar and barb wires placed on top to prevent trespassers from climbing. Spotlights and machine gun turrets are placed around the walls next to each four guard towers with the rest placed around the hotel through the wall holes as secondary defenses. There were also raider poles and chains placed around the area with the bloodied corpses and skeletons hanging onto them along with man-made cages occupied with a corpse as a warning to all Wastelanders whom dare to trespass their territory. The only way inside were the closed front gates, but Theo spent time preparing for his revenge by scouting the raider hideout and purchasing the necessary supplies and weapons from nearby weapon merchants with his own hard earned caps.

The result of this raid of revenge were huge explosions that spread all over the hotel starting from the bottom to the top until the pre-war building began to collapse upon itself turning into piles of rubble and bellowing a large dust cloud that covered the entire area. The key of this success was stealth. Theo managed to dig underneath a section of the walls to go underneath and used a stealth boy to sneak inside the building while the raiders continued to gamble, smoke, eat, and drink to their enjoyment with a man-made stage in the casino center set up for occasional bloody fights between angry members or victims with killing legal. He carried a large backpack filled with C-4 explosives with some Mini-Nukes to add extra damage to ensure that the explosion would incinerate most of the raiders before the building would collapse entirely on the rest. He knew he couldn't take them all on whether by ambushes or guns blazing since that would be suicidal and he is outnumbered. It took him about 5 hours to place the explosions on the exact positions to bring down the building while he had to carefully sneak through the guarded lobby and hallways.

Before he left the building he made sure to spot Red Klaw in the buffet dining area where he was enjoying his grilled gecko meat with his commanding officers feasting with their leader. Theo wanted to ensure that Red Klaw was in the right position to be killed in the explosions and couldn't survive when he pushes the detonator.

Once he was at a safe distance, Theo stealthily climbed one of the guard towers, took out the raider sentry by quietly slicing his throat, and shut off the spotlight and turrets around the tower before he pushed the detonator button.

Theo watched as he enjoyed watching and hearing each C-4 exploding one by one starting from the bottom to the top of the building as it collapsed into a burning rubble.

As the dust cleared, Theo used the deceased sentry's sniper rifle to take out the remaining Desert Klaw sentries and gate guards whom were just recovering from the building's explosions and collapse. However, Theo was shocked to see Red Klaw digging himself out of the rumble in his heavily damaged Raider power armor in which absorbed most of the damaged that all the armor plates have fallen off leaving his body exposed in the exoskeleton suit. He could see that the raider leader has his left arm and right leg heavily injured with blood pouring out of the wounds, including from the cut on his forehead, right cheek, and damaged nose.

Red Klaw was angry with rage to see his "empire" destroyed in seconds until he spotted Theo on one of the towers. He grabbed a nearby minigun next to one of his dead sentry and sprayed 5 mm leads at the tower intending to kill the young warrior while he roared in a raging defiance. Theo quickly slid down the tower and hid behind pre-war vehicles and concrete walls to avoid the bullets. He pulled out his father's Mercenary's grenade launcher and the Weathered 10 mm pistol as he waited for the bullet barrage to end. Once the minigun used up all of its ammunition, Theo leaped out and fired his own barrage of 40 mm grenades and 10 mm bullets onto Red Klaw before he finally fell on his back as he bled from his new wounds.

Theo walked up to him keeping his pistol trained on his head and spoke to him about the night he killed his parents as a reminder of what he did and who Theo is. Red Klaw widened his eyes in surprise and realization before he relaxed and accepted his fate by saying, "Heh. This is why I kill all my preys. You leave them alive in their weak state and soon they will grow strong enough to become your predator."

And with those final words, Theo pulled the trigger and ended Red Klaw's reign of terror.

Four years after destroying the Desert Klaw gang, Theo continued to wander the cracked roads of the old world taking odd jobs as he usually does like guarding caravans, form new settlements, meet new tribals, hunting mutant animals, eliminating raiders and slavers, clearing out areas of feral ghouls or super mutants, collecting bounties, and finding pre-war treasures in ruins. He also occasionally visits the graves of his parents at Ely to pay his respects and the Red Stone Tribe to see his old friends and guardian.

Although, there is one job that he mostly likes to take and it is delivering packages. No matter how far the location is or how treacherous the road is Theo always makes sure that he delivers the package to its destination. The reason he traveled so many roads across the Western Wasteland delivering different kinds of packages was because he was able to explore new territories that he never been to and it filled him with an adventure spirit.

But on October 3, 2281, Theo overheard a rumor while drinking in a bar of a Nevada settlement about the famous Mojave Express in the Mojave Wasteland that hires any Wastelander to become Couriers to deliver packages all over the region, including the settlements in NCR territory. This piqued his interest since the payment is said to be excellent and he was curious about the city of New Vegas that survived the Great War that he hopes he could visit to check out the Strip and try out in gambling.

He arrived at the town of Primm at October 20, 2281 and was hired by the Mojave Express with a given title as Courier Six. His first task was to deliver the "poker chip made of platinum" to New Vegas at the Lucky 38 in the Strip. Theo took the assignment without question and began his trek up the Long-15 heading north towards the bright neon lights of the Mojave's jeweled city oasis with interests of trying his "luck" on the slot machines and cards without realizing that he just signed himself as the "wild card" in the coming battle to decide the fate of New Vegas.

As the sun was setting in the west, Theo was heading up the old highway road near Goodsprings. He was then suddenly ambushed, knocked out, tied and gagged by tribal gang members known as the Great Khans from Red Rock Canyon with two of its five members known as Jessup and McMurphy. They were hired and led by one of the leaders of the Three Families of New Vegas. His name was Benny, the head of the Chairmen of the Tops Casino Hotel, Mr. House's right-hand man, and the man who attempted to "rig the odds" to claim New Vegas for himself.

Theo woke up to find himself tied and on his knees as he saw Jessup already finished digging a new grave in the Goodsprings Cemetery. He watched as Benny put out his finished cigarette, "Time to cash out." "Will you get it over with?!", said McMurphy whom is desperately wanted to get the job done and go back to Red Rock. Benny held up his right hand finger to silence him, "Maybe Khans kill people without looking them in the face, but I ain't a fink, dig?" Benny then looked at Theo in the eyes while pulling out the platinum chip inside his checkered suit to show it to Theo, "Sigh. You've made your last delivery kid. Sorry you got twisted up in this scene." He put the chip back in his suit before pulling out a fancy 9mm pistol that he named Maria. Theo looks at the gun before looking at Benny's poker face. "From where your kneeling must seem like an 18-karat run of bad luck", Benny says before pointing his gun straight at Theo's forehead directly at his brain. Theo silently looks at the neutral and silent faces of the Khan members before looking at Benny. "The truth is...the game was rigged from the start," Benny finally said. Theo looked at his gun's barrel and knew that this was his end. All he could do was say, "Aw, fuck", before Benny pulled the trigger following a bright flash with a gun fire explosion that brought his vision and mind to darkness.

However, this didn't become the Courier's ending but the beginning of his fate to determine the results of the Second Battle of Hoover Dam and his fateful meeting of the other two wanderers bearing the numbers 101 and 111.

Flashback End

...

The Courier exited his "memory lane" as he leaned back on his lounge chair to inhaled some more of the smoke from his cigar. Theo can still remember how that one shot from Benny's gun didn't took away his life but instead took away his memories from his childhood towards the day he accepted the Mojave Express job. He lost his identity and his soul that he could only remember his name when he woke up in Dr. Mitchells' clinic in Goodsprings.

However, he was able to retrieve his memories one piece at a time when he went into the Divide and learned about his life from a strange man named Ulysses. Each memory that returned hurt his head despite having implants in his mind and it brought to tears to finally learn who he was.

Although, the retrieved memory of the nuclear destruction of the settlements of Hopeville and Ashton in the Divide brought him regret, depression, and sadness since he believed it was all his fault despite not knowing about the live detonator in the package that he carried from the NCR-controlled Navarro base. He even felt angrier at himself and seen himself as a monster when he re-directed the Divide's nuclear ICBM into Legion territory despite Caesar being his enemy and watched as a nuclear mushroom cloud rose over the East. Theo knew that so many people were killed in the nuclear explosions that he doesn't know if he could show his face toward his companions when they learn what he had done. He remembered how he was about to commit suicide at the Divide's entrance when Ulysses stopped him by grabbing his hand holding the gun and punching Theo hard in the face. The wise words of Ulysses gave him a resolve.

...

Flashback

"How cowardice. I expect you more than this, Six," said Ulysses with a calm but angry tone.

Theo looked at the sky with dead eyes as he lay on the ground on his back, "Why do you care? You were right all along. I am responsible for the destruction of Hopeville and Ashton. And now, I used the same nuke to kill more people even though they are members of Caesar's Legion."

Ulysses glared at Theo, "I know I am right. But you are wrong, Courier Six. You know you could have stopped the launch by using your ED-E robot to hack the terminals. But you chose to launch the most powerful weapon of the Old World onto your enemies to spare your guilt of sacrificing your robotic companion from overload. Besides, your war with Caesar is not over yet. You still have your part to play at the Second Battle of Hoover Dam."

Theo blinked as he began to think of his actions. He knew Ulysses was right but he was curious on what he was saying, "What do you mean?"

"Your destiny to decide the fate of the Mojave and New Vegas lies at Hoover Dam. It has been foretold by many strange Wastelanders whom somehow are able to see the 'vision'", said Ulysses with his gaze softened but his expression hidden behind his gas mask.

"Why does it have to be me?" asked Theo.

"Think, Courier Six. What has your wanderings taught you," said Ulysses with patience.

Theo sat up as he remembered throughout his adventures at the Sierra Madre, Big MT, Zion Valley, and finally the Divide. He kept thinking until his eyes widen in realization.

"War, War never changes. But man, man can change through roads they walk," said Theo. Ulysses nodded in agreement.

With his mind and heart resolved, Theo walked the road back to the Mojave straight towards New Vegas while wearing a Courier Duster with the Old World flag on his back. The duster was a gift from Ulysses and Theo figured that the man knew whom he is going to support in the upcoming battle and what flag he will plant on Hoover Dam. Ulysses remained at the Divide as he gazed at Theo's back fading in the dust storm, satisfied and proud of the Courier's resolve.

Flashback Ends

...

He continued to relax and enjoy the peace and quiet while petting his cyborg dog, Rex, around his brain jar.

"Excuse me, sugar?" said a deep, lovely female voice behind Theo.

He turned his head a bit to the right to look behind and saw a beautiful female synth, whom is a former "Securitron gal", with lovely brown, wavy hair that cascades down to her mid back and a flower hairclip on her left side holding up some of her hair. She is wearing a white dress shirt that left the top cleavage open, a black bandana scarf around her neck, a black suit skirt that goes to her knees, and black, mid-high heel shoes. She gave a soft, beautiful smile that hardly made Theo blush since he has seen and talked to her many times already while living in the Lucky 38.

"Mr. House wishes to see you, sugar. I am sure it is about your today's business trip to Washington D.C.," she says while keeping her hands folded in front of her.

Theo gave a respectful smile, "Alright then. Guess I shouldn't keep him waiting and thanks for informing me, Jane."

Jane smiled and stepped to the side as Theo downed his entire glass of whiskey with one gulp, finished his cigar with one large inhale before putting it out in the ashtray, and got up to grab his Desperado hat before he walked with his cyborg dog to the elevator with Jane following behind.

They headed up and arrived at the Lucky 38 penthouse where it served as Robert House's main office and home with Securitrons guarding the room.

The Lucky 38 also served as the Courier's home since he was granted the Presidential Suite from Mr. House as a reward for his service to the Vegas Overseer. Though the place was filled with dust that were collected for 200 years before Mr. House managed to get one of his Securitrons to clean up the entire building. The Suite was also where Theo kept his weapons and armor including his unique ones he bought from the Gun Runners and Silver Rush, found them in his wanderings, or took them as a prize for killing a powerful enemy. His collection of power armors are kept in the Lucky 38 basement, the same level where Mr. House demonstrated the Mark II Securitrons since he needed a huge area to keep his power armors maintained and stored.

Among the bookshelves are his collection of items he found during his wanderings in which include Dinky the T-Rex, REPCONN Rocket Souvenir, Legion coins, Cuddle's toy car, his old Pip-boy 3000 from Doc Mitchell in Goodsprings, and his Pimp-boy 3 Billion from Mick & Ralph's shop. He even kept his stockpile of pre-war cash, bottlecaps, pocket watches, and 12 Sierra Madre gold bars in a safe behind one of the framed posters. The rest of the 25 gold bars from the Sierra Madre were used by Mr. House to improve the value of the new dollar currency and establish a growing economy of New Vegas.

Jane went back to her secretary desk next to the elevator while Theo walked to the large oak desk that is placed in front of the familiar large, computer monitor. Occupying the desk was a handsome man who looked to be in his early 40's with a well cut and combed hairstyle with a trimmed moustache to add to his dashing looks. He was wearing a black suit with a red tie and black shoes while his dress pants were white instead of black. The man was sitting in his fancy office chair that is made with red soft cushions for the seat, back, and arm rests with the structure made out of carved oak wood and painted gold. He was currently facing the huge computer monitor with the chair's back facing the desk and the Courier as the man watched the screen showing one of Vegas' security cameras looking at the two embassies, one for the NCR and the other for the TSC.

Theo looked at the screen as he watched a bulgy NCR delegate with brown hair around his bald head stormed out of the TSC front doors with an angry red face as he marched back to the NCR embassy with NCR Ambassador Dennis Crocker quickly following behind him.

"Another NCR's attempts to gain access to the TSC's technology through trade agreements?" asked Theo to the man in the chair.

The handsome older man turned off the monitor with a remote and turned his chair around to face his trusted employee.

"Indeed, they are persistent even though we gave them the advance construction equipment to rebuild their cities and improve their infrastructure along with upgraded GECK devices to terraform all their lands they still want our military technology. They are still proving themselves as the infamous snakes whom will do what it takes to drain whatever wealth or power they can get on their prey before moving to their next target. What they don't understand is that 'trust' is the most powerful currency in business. And the NCR don't have that kind of currency," the man said.

The man in front of Theo is Robert Edwin House, alive with his body restored, whom is currently running the entire New Vegas city and the entire Mojave Region, including Hoover Dam and REPCONN. His preserved body was fully restored all thanks to the medical technology of his "business partners" and ally, the Terran Starship Command. On October 10, 2282, exactly a week after the Second Battle of Hoover Dam, Mr. House received a strange transmission informing him that a "space ship" will be arriving on the eastern outskirts of New Vegas with ambassadors from a powerful organization. Mr. House doubted these claims but he nevertheless sent his most trusted Courier to meet these ambassadors with a squad of Securitron Mk. IIs under Theo's command just in case with one of the Securitrons under Mr. House's control. Through the Securitrons, cameras, Mr. House was shocked (if you can tell from his screen image) on what he witnessed. Coming through the skies at supersonic speeds, hovering above, and slowly landing on the desert sand was a TSC Valkyrie in which through the eyes of the Courier and Mr. House was a real UFO.

This was the moment that changed the Mojave Wasteland into a piece of paradise through the TSC's influence. It was also the only moment of an opportunity that Mr. House couldn't turn down.

After the negotiations between Mr. House, the Courier, the TSC ambassadors, and the TSC Supreme Commander, an agreement was made with a Mojave Treaty. TSC shall have a land next to the NCR embassy to build their own embassy, Mr. House is recognized as leader of New Vegas and a new member in the TSC council as Head of the Department of Economics and Industry, the Courier is recognized as the Mojave Commander (4 star general) of Mr. House's Securitron Army, the Mojave Region is recognized as an independent sovereignty with TSC providing security and mutant animal control, and all former NCR camps, outposts, and the McCarren Airport HQ are under TSC occupation. Mr. House even gave permission to the TSC scientists to terraform the region to clean out all toxic wastes and radiations, restore the pre-war vegetation of the Mojave, rebirth pre-war Mojave animals by cloning, and test out their new weapons in pre-war military test sites. In return, Mr. House receives scientists whom are experts on rockets, aerospace, and space technology along with TSC tech to research and develop new technologies for orbiting satellite colonies, off-world colony bases, and colony spaceships in the REPCONN facilities and test sites.

Another addition to the treaty was that the TSC provides restoration of old highways, railroads and trains, pre-war infrastructure, Mojave Vaults (including Vault 21), and pre-war towns while repairing the Hoover Dam's turbines to full capacity to have the dam fully generate electricity and provide water all over the southwest region bringing more profits to Mr. House. It also included upgrading all the Mojave settlements' agriculture, plumbing, house comfort, and defenses to help them prosper and grow into towns. This lead the TSC to immediately win the hearts and minds of the Mojave locals, gain trade agreements, and establish recruitment offices.

On October 12, 2282, the TSC contacted the Followers of the Apocalypse at the Old Mormon Fort and invited them to join their cause to rebuild the new America due to their needs of not only scientists but doctors, philosophers, historians, cartographers, linguists, economists, anthropologists, engineers, architects, botanists, medicine makers, teachers, musicians, artisans, and especially chefs to help restore humanity's pre-war culture, preserve history and artifacts, provide humanitarian efforts to TSC settlements, rebuild cities and towns, restore pre-war vegetation and wildlife, and restart the education system for new generations of humanity. The TSC even requested Followers whom research pre-war animals and study the current mutant creatures such as Deathclaws and Mirelurks in order to establish an animal control service to keep the mutated wildlife away from settlements, towns, and cities. The Followers were first unsure of this new faction until they witnessed the TSC's capabilities of rebuilding and restoration process. The Followers were shocked and impressed with the TSC's abilities to restore civilization, especially when their representatives whom were sent to the East Coast by riding in the Valkyries to learn about the TSC before they came back with photos of restored cities, humans happily co-existing with sentient mutants, and terraformed lands. This convinced the Followers that they see a better future for humanity under the TSC guidance.

So they accepted the invitation and moved their HQ from the public library in the NCR Boneyard to the Department of Education Building in Washington D.C. while bringing all of their preserved books, knowledge, and restored skills with them. Once settled they began to send their members all over the TSC occupied settlements to educate and provide humanitarian efforts with TSC support.

Although, some NCR politicians of their Senate were concerned of losing their source of scientists, teachers, and researchers while most, including the Office of Science and Industry (OSI), were glad to be rid of the "annoying protestors and pacifists".

But about a year, the NCR immediately requested, most likely begged, the TSC and the Followers to provide some scientists and teachers when their education systems, research progress, and technological advancement began to fail with horrible results in which proved that the OSI were filled with fraud scientists, ignorant teachers, and quack doctors with no real knowledge or skills. The TSC allowed the Followers to decide and the humanitarian organization kept its reputation by providing some teachers, doctors, and scientists to the NCR. The Followers were glad that the OSI were disgraced for their own incompetence since they have been claiming the research credits of their Follower members for their own benefits of fame.

It took about a year for the results of prosperity to show among the settlements of the Mojave such as Goodsprings, Primm, Novac, Vault 3, Vault 11, Vault 19, Vault 21, Vault 22, Vault 34, 188 Trade Post, Searchlight, and Boulder City leading to population growth by immigration from all directions and more merchants coming to trade or set up shop. Even the outer areas around New Vegas such as the building within Westside and North Vegas Square have been rebuilt and restored back to their pre-war state that both settlements expanded their lands until both settlements are next to each other that a gate wall was needed to divide the sectors. Also, the South Vegas areas and the Industrial Sectors, including Vault 3, have been cleared of all Fiends by Theo and are restored by the TSC for their industrial and residential use that hundreds of jobs were opened for the citizens of New Vegas including the homeless. In addition, the walls surrounding the Strip, Freeside, Westside, and North Vegas Square have been teared down and replaced with TSC concrete walls with defense energy turrets and barbwires to give better protection to the residents.

This led Theo to believe that he could trust the TSC when he saw the results of their efforts to help the people and restore civilization that he requested to speak to the TSC Supreme Commander, Dante Abram, on a proposition that could benefit the new America and Vegas.

With the meeting done in private within the Lucky 38 Penthouse, Theo unveiled to Dante and Mr. House of his adventures and discoveries at the Sierra Madre, Big Mountain, Zion Valley, and most importantly the Divide. Dante was impressed with respect for Theo to be able to face and survive the horrors and terrors that almost matched his own experiences of facing the Wasteland horrors during his wanderings. Even Mr. House felt great pride that he managed to employ a powerful person whom can take on anything that the Wasteland would unveil that no ordinary human will be able to survive. But what greatly surprised both Dante and Mr. House were the deadly toxic Clouds of the Sierra Madre, the intact vegetation and herbs of Zion Canyon, the advance technologies of the Big Empty, and the intact nuclear ICBMs in the Divide.

Mr. House knew the Sierra Madre Founder, Frederick Sinclair, during his pre-war business years before Sinclair became financially ruined and disappeared for 5 years before the Great War and he even met the famous stars, Vera Keyes and Dean Domino. Mr. House was also quite surprised that the fancy ghoul wearing sunglasses and tuxedo whom was hired at the Tops Casino Hotel a few months after the Second Battle of Hoover Dam is the actual Dean Domino himself that he made sure to invite the ghoul into his Lucky 38 for a dinner chat and negotiate a contract of performance.

After hearing the Courier's adventures, Dante immediately made a meeting with Mr. House, Theo, and the Council members to secure and occupy the Divide and Big Mountain with some TSC soldiers, scientists, and engineers. He also ordered Archangel to have his Seraphs to make sure that the Brotherhood, NCR, and Caesar's Legion are unaware of the nuclear warheads and the location of the Big Empty facility. They completed the meeting with an agreement that Theo will lead each TSC expedition battalions with some support of Mr. House's Securitrons to help occupy and fortify each region to ensure they are under New Vegas and TSC control.

For weeks the TSC quickly reconstructed the old Hopeville Missile Base as an FOB after setting up a Zeta shield barrier to block out the skin-flaying winds and radiation as they dug out the remaining ICBMs, pre-war military weapons and armor, and advance technologies and moved them to the missile base where they load them into the Valkyries to ship them up to the Olympus for security and study. The ICBMs were first disarmed and secretly transported by attaching underneath the Valkyries to be placed onto pre-war U.S. orbital military satellites now turned into orbital strike satellites as the TSC's secret trump card despite the fact that these are the same WMDs that destroyed the world 200 years ago. They also captured some of the Marked Men and Tunnelers to study the biological structure of these mutants. Dante wanted to make sure that the TSC in the Divide keep an eye on the Tunnelers since they can dig underground and invade either the NCR or the Mojave in large numbers due to their rapid breeding.

Ulysses helped the TSC by being their guide and informer of the Divide when Theo requested his assistance after telling him who the TSC are and the new America they are building while showing the nation's flag which is almost the same as the Old World flag on his back. Ulysses believed that this new America of the "eagle" may have a better chance to become "greater than the bear and the bull".

The other members of the TSC expedition focused to occupy and restore Big Mountain and its facilities with TSC scientists working with the Think Tanks, including Dr. Mobius, to research and develop new technologies that will benefit the Wasteland. Outposts and underground bunkers were set up around the Zion Canyon to establish security for the Dead Horse and Sorrow tribes while negotiating with Joshua Graham on trade agreements between the tribes, New Vegas, and the TSC.

The Sierra Madre had to be tracked down the old fashion way by using a cloaked Valkyrie around the deserts of Nevada until they spotted a huge red cloud within an area surrounded by rocky desert mountains. Under the guidance of Theo, the TSC set up outposts around the red cloud and an FOB fort on one of the surrounding mountains as a staging area to enter the "City of the Dead" to recover technologies such as the matter transformation vending machines, security holograms, and bomb collars with white noise technology. The TSC also gathered Red Cloud dusts and gases while capturing live Ghosts and their bodies to study the effects of the Red Cloud and scavenge the advance HAZMAT suits off their bodies to study the tech.

So much discoveries of the Old World were sent and preserved into the Olympus archives to be studied and debated by scientists if they are beneficial or a threat to the New World civilizations.

But that wasn't just what the TSC came to the Mojave. The TSC needed a base of operations somewhere in the West in order to locate a pre-war military base in which was the source of the alien conspiracies during the pre-war times of the Old World. Since Dante was focused in his war to liberate and occupy the Eastern States, he requested Theo West to locate and explore the legendary military base known as Area 51.

Theo started this task on January 8, 2283 and spent about a month wandering the central deserts of Nevada in a TSC APC with 4 TSC Thunderfist riding with him while his personal Securitron, Yes Man, followed alongside before they managed to locate the base due to multiple U.S. Sentry Bots and Mr. Gutsies patrolling the area. Once the group managed to get through the defenses and enter the old air force base to shut off the security, Theo immediately contacted the TSC to bring in reinforcements before they began to explore and occupy the secret base. After spending a week exploring a total of 15 underground levels by digging through collapse rubbles and repairing elevators and cargo lifts, they were able locate and confirm Zeta technology, weapons, and alien bodies within the laboratories along with two Zeta UFO fighters in an underground hanger. Most of the underground levels contained labs that reverse engineer the Zeta tech and combine it with American technology such as firearms, armor, artillery, satellites, jet engines, rocket engines, military vehicles, and nuclear fusion reactors and are tested to see if the alien tech could be beneficial to the pre-war America and its military before the bombs fell.

The TSC then began to repair and fortify the base and set up a TSC cloaking field device to hide the air base from any known hostile factions. Area 51 became the new secret TSC base of locating any Zeta Aliens and their technology around the world and used as an area point of gathering and studying Zeta technology, culture, knowledge, and their biology.

Eventually in 2 years, it's underground hanger will also expand to become a large underground shipyard to build the five TSC spaceships of their own designs with the support of Mr. House.

The five spaceships were to be built based on the technologies from the first prototype spaceship, the Prometheus, in which was researched and constructed at Adams Air Force Base starting in 2280. The TSC planned to use the prototype spaceship to deploy multiple TSC and Securitron ground forces and TSC air forces around the Old States of Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan to put down the Detroit Motor Raiders and pacify the areas before reconstruction can begin. Eventually, construction of the Prometheus was completed on 2285 and was immediately sent out on to defeat the Motor Raiders. After their victory over the Detroit Motor Raiders, the TSC then immediately sent the Prometheus to the Commonwealth in 2287 with 3 divisions of TSC ground forces and a fleet of Vertibirds, Stingrays, and Valkyries to investigate the Institute's rumored activities and the detected energy anomalies in the region with Supreme Commander Dante Abram leading the forces.

Right now, Theo is with Mr. House to prepare for their departure to Washington D.C. for the scheduled meeting that will begin the formation of a new U.S. Government.

"Now then, I believe we are prepared to take one of the Valkyries at McCarren to fly towards Washington D.C. to participate a meeting with the Third Continental Congress on forming the new United States Government. After the meeting, we are to join the festivities of this Great War Memorial Day with the speeches and the unveil of the new space ships to the public. Is that right?" asked Mr. House with a calm tone as he gazed at Theo with his intellectual and calculating eyes.

Theo kept his face neutral as he spoke, "Yes, that is correct. Although, do you think unveiling those ships is a good idea? Won't the NCR react negatively? Especially the Brotherhood of Steel whom might make an aggressive move once they learn of our new technology?"

"Yes, by my calculations the NCR will become aggressive but will only have attempts on attacking the Mojave by 8% probability. The Brotherhood of Steel would choose to attack the US by my calculations of 56% probability but they have a 19% chance to succeed in reaching the capital. The TSC security is very tight and their technology and soldiers will be able to locate any agents of the Circle of Steel and prevent them from infiltrating their borders, sabotage their infrastructure, or attempt assassination. So we don't need to worry of any threats," said Mr. House with calm confidence.

"Well, you are hardly wrong with your calculations but there are times of a miss calculation with your mathematic simulation," explained Theo with worry due to his experiences of meeting the unexpected such as Benny's ambush during his delivery of the Platinum Chip.

Mr. House narrowed his eyes at Theo, "Since when did I ever make any miss calculations with my numbers?"

"How about the Great War that started a few hours earlier than what you predicted?" said Theo with a smug on his face.

Mr. House glared at Theo before he sighed, "Alright. I guess there can be times when one can make some mistakes or when things can go wrong."

Theo nodded, "Well then. I should go and get myself ready to go to look presentable for the meeting, Mr. House."

Robert House nodded and waved him off as he got up and headed up to his private penthouse bathroom to freshen himself up. Meanwhile, Theo headed to the elevator with Rex following him and went into his Presidential Suite into the large bathroom. There he shaved his face, brushed his teeth, and combed his blond hair before putting on his LAS-009 US Army General overcoat that he got from General Martin Reslaf's ghoulified corpse in the Divide. To finish the look, he placed his trademark Desperado cowboy hat with his sunglasses that helped make him known as the Mojave Commander of Mr. House's Securitron Army. He opened his Pip-Boy to check his stats and saw that his SPECIAL attributes are up to 10 with his Perception, Agility, and Luck are up to 12 with information of his implants in his body. He closed his Pip-Boy, checked himself once more in the mirror, and headed for the elevator.

With their personal hygiene's taken care of, the two VIPs and Rex headed out of the Lucky 38 and entered a newly built Zeta-fusion powered limousine parked and waiting in the front of the building. The luxurious vehicle was painted black with the Lucky 38 logo on the sides and reinforced with the space-age ceramic alloy, saturnite, for armor protection with bulletproof glass and Zeta shields are installed for extra protection from energy weapons. The limousine was escorted by 10 new Mark V Securitrons with two TSC APCs guarding the front and the rear as they made their way out of the Strip, through Freeside, and towards the McCarren Airport where a large TSC Valkyrie was waiting for them.

During the ride Theo poured himself a shot glass of Wasteland Tequila while Mr. House helped himself with a glass of wine from the limo's seat fridge. As he drank his alcohol, Theo looked out the window to see NCR tourists, former ghouls-turned human, civilized Wastelanders, sentient Super Mutants, and caravan merchants walking along the sidewalks enjoying the entertainments and public music of New Vegas. He gazed at the restored Freeside buildings that are used for business or for new residence to live in with some King members patrolling the area. Theo smirked as the limo passed a new building, the Elvis Presley Casino Hotel, in which used to be the old King's School of Impersonation now turned into a head business headquarters of Freeside while still under Mr. House's rule.

"At least I was able to find out and tell the King the name of the famous King of Rock and Roll," thought Theo as the convoy turned right and passed the Old Mormon Fort with a 4-story hospital building inside the fort in which was built by the TSC to support the Follower's humanitarian efforts. The convoy passed more business buildings before exiting through the guarded Freeside's East gate and headed for the airport.

As Mr. House, Theo, and Rex were about to board the Valkyrie, a familiar beeping sound was heard that stopped Mr. House and Theo on the boarding stairs as they turned around to see a familiar Eyebot floating towards them.

"ED-E? What are you doing here?! Weren't you supposed to be with Dr. Miller and Colonel Brune at the Divide to help the TSC uncover more buried military facilities?!" asked Theo with a stern tone in his voice.

He could see the TSC personals of the McCarren base stopping what they were doing and were watching the conversation with amusing expressions. ED-E beeped with confirmation but bobbled up and down with a tantrum beeping that only Theo could understand due to traveling a long time with the flying robot as his companion.

"I know you want to join the American festivities since you never experienced a holiday, but that doesn't mean you should abandon your duty as what you are built to do," exclaimed Theo with irritation as the robot was acting like a child. ED-E made more tantrum beeps as it shook its metal body and bobbled up and down some more before it floated closer to Theo's face and looked up at him making pleading beeps.

"Commander Theo West, just bring that annoying fly-bot along. We are already running a few minutes behind schedule and I am sure Dr. Hellen Miller and Colonel Joseph Brune have extra Eyebots in the Divide to help with their search," exclaimed Mr. House as he doesn't want to waste any time and is a busy man who keeps up with his schedules.

Theo groaned before glaring at the robot, "Fine, you can come. But you must behave, stick right next to me at all times, don't float away, and do what I tell you to do. Do you understand, ED-E?" The robot bounced happily making excited beeping of promises that he will obey Theo's commands. Theo sighed as they finally boarded before he growled in annoyance as he heard some of the TSC soldiers and civilians snicker before he smiled as he heard Brigadier General Albert Ned, TSC Commander of the McCarren Headquarters, shout, "What are you maggots laughing about?! Back to work all of you!"

Once Mr. House, Theo, and Rex have settled in their seats with ED-E floating next to Theo, the Valkyrie hovered up into the air and took off towards the new American capital at a speed faster than any pre-war supersonic jet planes. By their estimation, they should arrive at the Capitol Building at a precise of 30 minutes with 10 minutes to spare before the meeting starts.

...

October 23, 2290

Sanctuary Hills, Boston, Commonwealth

The bright sun was rising up in the blue, cloudy sky to begin this new, beautiful morning. Especially since it is the day of the Great War Memorial to celebrate the commemoration of the fellow Americans whom perished during that tragic day. The land that was once a Wasteland of dead trees, mutated vegetation, and dust blowing by the breeze is now filled with restored pre-war green vegetation with the trees alive once more with most of the green leaves becoming the pigment colors of red, orange, and yellow for the restored season of Autumn. The cold breeze blew from the nearby, crystal blue ocean as we can see the rebuilt city of Boston in the distance with the skyscrapers rebuilt, old historical Boston buildings restored, and elevated highways removed and recycled for resources.

Outside the city limit on the Northwest outskirts passing through the restored towns of Lexington and Concord is the old pre-war cul-de-sac, Sanctuary Hills, now rebuilt into a small town next where the entrance of Vault 111 is nearby. Most of the pre-war houses of Sanctuary Hills have been restored back to their original conditions with an extra floor or two as requested by new residence to turn the first floor into a business. The rest of the 5 houses that collapsed from the nuclear blast were removed and had their parts recycled for resources. In their place new buildings were constructed in which serve to help grow the settlement into a functional town. The new buildings consisted of a hospital, a police station, a factory, a school, and the city hall, Sanctuary Hall. All the new buildings are built with the same resources such as steel, concrete, and masonic materials and are designed with the same pre-war architect to make them look modernized. However, Sanctuary Hall is mostly built in pre-war Federal-style architect with concrete, masonry stones, and marbles as it stands at the end of the cul-de-sac hill at a height of 3 floors with a basement dominating the town. But, what made this prospering town to gain greater prestige than any settlement in the Commonwealth is that it is the home of the famous savior of the Commonwealth, the Sole Survivor.

The Sole Survivor was currently at his old rebuild house where he once lived with his wife and baby child during the pre-war days before the Great War began. He was in the bathroom currently shaving his face as he is getting ready for his scheduled meeting today with the Third Continental Congress in Washington D.C. and for the festivities that he plans to celebrate with his son, Shaun. He gazed at his reflection at the same mirror in his undershirt and sweatpants just like when he was freshening himself in the morning with his wife, Nora, on the day of the Great War.

His reflection showed a young man in his age of 28 despite the fact he is now 238 years old due to being frozen in a pod during cryo-stasis for exactly 210 years in Vault 111 when the Great War began. His short hair is colored dark brown and combed back in a casual kempt hairstyle showing his forehead that kept him handsome before and after he married Nora. His face has an unblemished Caucasian skin with a strong, narrow jaw and soft cheekbones showing on his face signifying that he has no fat around his face. His eyes are in the color of bright green that he was commented by his pre-war friends and family, including his wife, that they somehow glow under the moonlight as though he has night vision like cats. His entire body shows signs of muscular tones with clear lines of abs showing on his stomach proving that he has the strength, endurance, and agility of a former US soldier from the pre-war times during the Sino-American War.

However, his body has become more unique than the average human. Within his body are implants that he requested to receive by the TSC in order to handle the harsh environments and deadly threats of the Commonwealth. Not only did the implants improved his SPECIAL perks, they also granted him a strong cellular regeneration to heal his injuries, powerful immunity to radiation, adamantium metal to reinforce his skeletal structure, quick inhuman reflexes, and boosted muscle strength. Nate is therefore an enhanced super soldier whom can almost be considered a one-man-army.

"It has been 213 years since the day the bombs fell. And 3 years since the Institute surrendered before the Commonwealth was finally peaceful enough to rebuild Boston and the surrounding area," thought Nate as he began to visit his own "memory lane" of how he became the legend he is known today.

...

Flashback

Nathaniel "Nate" O'Connor was born on the day of August 13, 2052 within the city district of Boston where he was raised by his parents, Hana O'Connor and John O'Connor. Hana was a pre-war accountant who worked at the Boston Bank while John was still a Master Sergeant in the US Army with his unit, the 3rd Battalion, 65th Engineer Regiment, at Fort Hagen.

Nate's family, mostly his father's side, came from a line of military soldiers whom served their country since the time of the American Revolutionary War. His father would tell him the stories of his ancestors whom served in each major wars where America fought. But he would mostly tell tales of his great-great grandfather whom served in the US marines in World War II against the Japanese in the Pacific. Nate was proud of his family's military history, but he was also a young and naïve boy back then.

He became an American patriot when he listened to the pre-war American propaganda on the Radiation King T.V. and radio while his school history teachers taught mostly the glorious battles of each major wars involving American victories instead of focusing on justifying the actions of our past ancestors on our own free wills if the wars were righteous or wrong. Even the horrors and atrocities committed by some Americans during the wars were hardly mentioned or censored.

He remembered on the winter season of 2066 how he cried in grief with his mother hugging him in comfort when he learned from his father that his uncle, Captain Henry O'Connor, was killed during the Chinese invasion of Alaska. Nate's emotions and growing patriotism led to plant his seed of hatred for the Communists and the Chinese. It was then he believed that he needed to do his part to help liberate Alaska and save his fellow countrymen whom are under the tyrannical occupation rule of the Communist Chinese forces.

With his own resolve, he requested his father to train him to become a soldier to prepare himself for the hellish training of boot camp once he graduates from high school and sign up for the US Army. Despite reluctance and concerns for their son's emotions, both Hana and John let Nate decide on his own path and John agreed to train his son. For years during weekends and after school, John would put Nate through tough physical exercises, run miles, target practice, assemble and clean weapons, and train in close-quarter-combat.

Nate's childhood was normal until he reached his teenage life in high school in which he became popular among the student body for his military family background, his skills in the quarterback in football, and his academic excellence.

Once he graduated from the D.B. Technical High School on June 21, 2070, he immediately signed up to join the US Army. However, during his first year of high school he met his girlfriend and future wife, Nora Rossen. Nate and Nora have gone to many dates and attended nearly all of the school dances proving how much they take their relationship seriously and are definitely in love with each other. Both parents of Nate and Nora approved of their relationships and hope they will soon have a future together.

But seeing Nate joining the military brought concern and tears to Nora in fear that she would lose her loved one before she could marry him. Nate tried to ease her fears by making a promise that he will survive and come back to marry her. Plus, he kept a picture of her with him at all times to give himself luck and the willpower to live.

On the train through the lands of annexed Canada, Nate was both nervous and excited that he was about to experience his first taste of battle and fight just like his forefathers with his fellow brothers in arms. After going through 6 months of the hellish training of boot camp, in which was partly easy since his father trained him in preparation, he was assigned to the 108th Infantry Regiment of the 2nd Battalion whom are near the frontline trenches defending the town of Valdez. From what Nate learned from his CO, the town was the ending part of the Alaskan oil pipeline that the Americans are trying to protect from falling to the Chinese whom want it to gain access to the valuable petroleum oil.

The officers in debriefing and the propaganda posters posted all over the barracks, mess hall, and facilities inspired the soldiers, including Nate, that they are fighting to preserve their liberty, freedom, and their way of life from the Red Menace whom wants to take it all away and make the American people their slaves.

However, the reality and truth of this war soon hit Nate's mind like a sledgehammer whacking his way of thinking.

Private 2nd class Nate O'Connor was assigned to the 11th squad under the command of 2nd Lieutenant Tim Collins where he met 9 other members of the squad. Gabriel Hawk the sniper, Nick Nytro the demolition expert, Brick Braddon the T-45 power armor user and heavy weapons expert, Sam Static the tech/communication officer, Audrey Grayson the combat engineer, Rachel Turner the medic, and the rest, Frank Hubert, Ben Urbine, and Zackery Stiles, were infantry soldiers with Ben and Zackery using the T-45 power armor to support their soldiers. Nate remembered how he got along first with Frank, Ben, Rachel, and Audrey while he felt uncomfortable from the gazes of the other, especially from Brick, Nick, Gabriel, and Tim, whom seem to only acknowledge his presence but never talked with him as they continue to smoke, drink, and play cards.

He didn't understand why they were quiet until he learned from Frank that Brick, Nick, Gabriel, and Lieutenant Collins have been in the frontlines fighting the Chinese since the invasion. Since then they have lost so many soldiers within their unit that the battlefield became common place for these guys. Nate thought he should be honored to be assigned to a unit of "experienced and veteran" soldiers, but he will soon learn why this squad and the entire 2nd Battalion are always grim with hardly any signs of American patriotism.

On December 12, 2070 at 5:00 am, Nate got his first taste of the horrors of the battlefield and the bloodshed of modern warfare. The base alarm was screaming its warning siren throughout the base that the Chinese are launching an offensive on the town of Valdez. Nate's squad immediately geared up and rushed out of the barracks with other units in APCs and military trucks towards the trenches in which is about 10 miles in front of the town. Nate stood in the trenches keeping his AER9 laser rifle trained on the forest line of snow-covered pine trees as snowflakes continue to drop from the sky. A few seconds later, he heard a sound of a rumbling before a large Type 99 Chinese tank burst out of the trees with Chinese infantry soldiers charging alongside the metal machine with their Type 93 Assault Rifles raised with bayonets screaming their battle cries.

"CONTACT!", screamed a nearby soldier and that was enough to cause all the US weapons, including Nate's, to immediately open fire on the incoming Red Horde.

Nate saw everything as he kept firing on the soldiers of the People's Liberation Army of China. He watched as his fellow brothers in arms fired their weapons with grim and neutral faces while some got hit from the enemy's return fire with blood, brain matter, or bone pieces splattering the snowy trenches with red. He watched as the T-45 power armor units, with enemy bullets deflecting off their armor, kept firing their miniguns and their rocket launchers wiping out waves of Chinese soldiers and turning Chinese tanks and armored vehicles into fiery wreckage.

Nate couldn't believe that the Chinese, despite suffering heavier losses than the US soldiers, kept throwing their men into the "meat grinder" in hopes to use huge numbers to overrun their defenses.

Suddenly he heard a whistling noise in the air when someone in the trenches yelled, "INCOMING ARTILLERY! TAKE COVER!"

He immediately ducked down with his unit and heard the loud explosions of artillery shells going off around him that ringed his ears. Nate never felt so afraid in his life thinking he might get hit by a lucky shell. He couldn't hear clearly on what is going on around him and his sight was blinded by the clouds and dust created by the exploding shells. All he could do was keep his head down and focus his mind on his lover, Nora, and her beautiful smile to keep his mind from breaking down. When the explosions died down, Nate was pulled up immediately by Frank and was told that they need to fall back to the 2nd defense line. Nate was confused until he looked around the trenches and saw multiple bodies of US soldiers torn to pieces from the artillery explosion, even some of the T-45 power armor units were destroyed with blood and organs coming out of their destroyed armor. He didn't have time to think on what just happened since Frank kept pulling him to run as Chinese bullets and tank shells flew around them hitting some of the retreating soldiers while the T-45s fired their miniguns and rocket launchers to cover their retreat.

It had been 12 hours since the battle started with Nate sitting in the last trench with his squad to recover from the battle while the reinforcements came in with extra T-45, tanks, armored vehicles, and infantries trying to push the Chinese out of the first defense line. He was tired, sore, hungry, and thirsty all at the same time. He couldn't even keep his arms from shaking as he tried to eat his ration and drink water from his canteen. He could still hear the gunfire, explosions, and artillery firing endlessly on the frontlines.

Lieutenant Collins and the others helped to comfort Nate by offering him some beer that they secretly stash to help ease his nerves and talked with him about their lives before they joined the military to help calm his mind. This helped Nate for now, but the bloody battle to liberate Alaska was far from over.

For more than 5 years, Nate witnessed the bloody stalemate in the Alaska Liberation campaign. It wasn't until the new T-51b power armor units and the new Fatman weapons were finally deployed and ended the stalemate with the US gaining ground. Pushing forward from the town of Valdez, the US military under the command of General Constantine Chase slowly gained ground until they finally reached the city of Anchorage, their final objective.

Nate remembered how so many of his friends in his squad were killed even though they were veterans fighting the Chinese and he was just a greenhorn from boot camp. The first of his squad member to die was Corporal Frank Hubert, then next were Specialist Nick Nytro, Sergeant Audrey Grayson, Specialist Ben Urbine, and finally Captain Tim Collins. The current commander of this unit is now Staff Sergeant Brick Braddon with Sergeant Gabriel Hawk as his second in command. The ones left are Specialist Sam Static, Corporal Rachel Turner, and Corporal Zackery Stiles with new recruits fresh from boot camp to replenish their numbers. Sergeant Nate never bothered to remember their names since the war was coming to an end, but he still treats them as his brothers in arms.

Right now he is considered a full harden veteran just like his friends and forefathers. So much emotions of grief, anger, and sorrow were mixed up in his heart for all the horrors and hell he experienced, but within his soul he had to keep on surviving to live to see his lover, Nora, again. Every week, he sends letters back home, and each month he gets a pile of letters with her handwriting and a familiar scent of her perfume that he remembers on their dates. The US military is strict on sending postal letters or packages due to possible intel leaks or IEDs in packages.

On January 10, 2076, Nate can remember how Staff Sergeant Brick Braddon informed him with papers in his hands that he was given the honorable discharge for his required 5 years of service in the armed forces.

Nate was surprised and asked "Why? Aren't I needed for the final assault on Anchorage?"

Braddon shook his head and said, "No. You have done all that is needed. For your self-sacrifice and honorable deeds, General Chase and the staff have decided to award you the Bronze Star with the additional benefit of honorable discharge for you to head back home as a war hero."

Nate was shocked and somehow happy. He was finally going home to his family; to his beautiful girlfriend whom he hadn't seen for 5 years with only a photo of her.

The day of January 15, 2076 was the most memorable day for Nate that brought him absolute happiness. Nate was finally home, back at Boston where his family and friends were waiting. Most importantly, his girlfriend, Nora, was there to rush towards him and hug him in relief at the Boston airport terminal.

It was during at the "Welcome Home War Hero" party when Nate knelt down and asked for Nora's hand in marriage. Nora accepted with tears of happiness in her eyes and everyone who witnessed the scene applauded and congratulated the couple. The wedding was done on July 21, 2076 and their honeymoon was a vacation at the Bahamas for about a month.

Nate, with the help of his father and mother, used his military payments and benefits to purchase an advance "House of Tomorrow" outside of Boston in a cul-de-sac known as Sanctuary Hills near Concord as a surprise for his lovely wife. Nora was shocked and overjoyed when they arrived at the house from their honeymoon that she jumped into his arms and kissed him deeply. While kissing, he carried her bridal style into their new home and into their master bedroom for some "love". Their happiness didn't just stop there.

Nora soon became pregnant with their child and gave birth to a healthy boy named Shaun on August 30, 2077. Everything was perfect for Nate. He fought for his country and was happy to hear that Anchorage was finally liberated on January 10, 2077 on the T.V. news. He is now a married man with his beautiful wife and is now a father to a beautiful baby boy.

However, everything he loved and cherished were taken away on October 23, 2077.

The day of the Great War.

The day when the world burned in Nuclear Armageddon.

Vault 111, one of the vaults built by Vault-Tec as a safe house from a possible nuclear or biological attack, took away his family life in a cryo-stasis and kept him alive for 210 years. When unfrozen after 150 years of cryo-stasis, he lost his wife from an execution by a mercenary and two scientists since they wanted his baby Shaun from Nora's arms. He watched as they took away Shaun and he was frozen again for another 60 years until he was released in the year 2287. He remembered his desperation in hope that his wife could still be alive as he forcibly opened Nora's cryo-pod.

Sadly, she was dead from a fatal gunshot wound to the head. Nate cried in grief and sorrow with nothing to tell how long he spilled his tears. But he remembered that someone took Shaun and is still alive along with remembering the face of the bald, scarred man whom shot his wife. This turned his grief into anger and rage, but also brought him the resolve to search and take back his son. He turned to his wife's corpse, took the wedding ring from her right finger, gave her a last kiss on her cold, dead lips, and sealed her pod in hopes to preserve her body until he could give her a proper burial. Nate then focused on retrieving any leftover supplies to scavenge along with some 10mm pistols and a Pip-Boy 3000 Mk IV before heading for the Vault's sealed door and up the elevator to the surface.

When he left the Vault, he was shocked to see a new world awaited him. A world irradiated and filled with the horrors and anarchy of the Great War's aftermath that replaced the peaceful and tranquility life of the pre-war era.

The new world changed his life forever.

But eventually, his appearance will change the Commonwealth to a better future without knowing that his destiny awaits him to walk alongside the other two Wasteland legends of 101 and 21.

"Dad?..Daad!..."

Flashback Ends

...

"Daaaadd!"

A young boy's voice stirred Nate as he blinked and shook his head to return his mind to the present and winced as he felt a sting on his chin. He finally noticed that he was in his bathroom currently shaving his face and he saw on the mirror's reflection that he just made a cut on his chin with his shaver. He turned to the doorway to see his son, Shaun, standing there with his arms crossed with one of his eyebrows raised and a frown on his face. The boy was at an age of 14 with an average teenage thin body with his skin healthy and clear and his combed dark brown hair in which is from his father's side but his brown eyes are from his mother's side. He was currently wearing a blue t-shirt with the Minutemen logo on the front with a white hooded jacket over his shirt while leaving it unzipped. He was also wearing blue jeans and black sneakers with white laces.

"Oh sorry Shaun. I spaced out there for a while," Nate smiled embarrassingly with his cheeks turning a bit red.

"Really Dad? I have been calling you for about a few minutes at the dining table to see if you are ready. Were you thinking about the past again?" asked Shaun.

Nate knew his son was a lot smarter at his current age and his perception had advanced as he grew up that he couldn't hide his thoughts anymore.

Nate sighed, "Yes son. I was just thinking of the day the Great War began and when I left Vault 111." Shaun's face fell into a pitiful expression, "And also Mom's passing right?"

Nate shivered from his son's words but he nodded his head.

"It's okay Dad. I miss her too, even though I've only known her when I was only a baby. She would have want us to continue to live on for her sake. Now why don't we stop our grieving and enjoy this new day. It is the Great War Memorial Day and best of all we are going to travel to Washington D.C. to celebrate and have fun right Dad?" said Shaun with a change of tone filled with happiness and excitement.

Nate couldn't help but smile at his son's ability to turn the atmosphere of depression into an aura of joy. "Ha ha ha. You're right Shaun. This is an exciting day to celebrate. I will be ready in a few minutes so go ahead and eat your breakfast. I will join you once I am ready. Okay?", said Nate with happiness.

Shaun smiled and nodded before he walked back to the dining table to eat his meal.

Nate managed to get himself cleaned up and put on his Minutemen General Uniform and making sure that his General hat was on perfectly. He also placed on his new Pip-Boy Z in which served as a gift from his TSC ally while his old Pip-boy 3000 IV is in a glass case in his bedroom that served as a reminder of his adventures. He opened up his Pip-Boy to check his stats and can see that all of his SPECIAL attributes are up to 10 with his Strength, Intelligence, and Agility up to 12.

After checking his stats and health he closed the Pip-Boy and walked to the dining table and sat next to his son.

"Ah, good morning, sir. I have your breakfast of your favorite scrambled eggs, bacon, and pancakes with syrup and butter on the side. And your coffee at exactly 173.5 degrees Fahrenheit brewed to perfection. Just the way you always like, sir," said the metallic British accent voice of Nate's old Mr. Handy robot, Codsworth.

The 213-year-old robot had been in Nate's family since they purchased him a week before the day of the Great War. Whether part of its programming or it develop its own sentient loyalty, Codsworth had spent all his life since the nuclear fallout maintaining the old ruins of the family house to its best abilities and protecting it from Scavengers, Raiders, and mutated pests. As usual, the loyal robot continued to serve Nate when he came out of Vault 111. After months of traveling with the old robot throughout his adventures across the Commonwealth, Nate came to realize that Codsworth was more like another family member than a house product. Now the robot continued to serve as the O'Connor's family's robot butler happily cleaning the house, doing the laundry, maintaining the garden and lawn, cooking the meals, and polishing Nate's new Zeta-fusion powered black car.

"Thanks Codsworth. Man this looks delicious as always," said Nate as he happily began to eat his meal with Shaun whom is halfway finished with his own breakfast of the same meal but with a glass of orange juice.

"Oh yes. I almost forgot. Here are today's newspapers, sirs," replied Codsworth as he picked up two rolled newspapers from the kitchen counter and place them on the table. Shaun picked up the Publick Occurrences newspaper in which is his favorite since it is written and mostly by Piper or her sister, Nat.

Throughout the years, Publick Occurrences became the most reliable newspaper ever since it published and spread the truthful stories of Nate's adventures, informing Diamond City Mayor McDonough's synth identity, the Minutemen's resurrection, the TSC's arrival and their goals, and the Institute's surrender. There was also added sections of short cartoon comics of Cappy and Bottle, Nuka Girl, and Vault Boy in which were popular for the American families and their kids. Piper even interviewed famous people such as the Lone Wanderer and the Courier when they came to visit the Commonwealth for diplomacy and negotiate the re-uniting the old states. With their popularity growing high, many new settlers applied to become reporters, journalists, or photographers for the Publick Occurrences that it had to be moved to a new building outside of the Diamond City Stadium. With her newspaper business growing, Piper became the President and CEO of Publick Occurrences with Nat as her Vice President and is now able to send out her own reporters to gather any scoop throughout the American nation. Even her stories of the TSC's war efforts to liberate and rebuild the American lands westward were popular among the Commonwealth citizens, including the part when Minutemen and TSC soldiers are fighting alongside against Raiders and Super Mutants.

The second newspaper was the old Boston Bugle in which was revived by another newspaper reporter named Henry Brown whom became Piper's rival for 3 years when he came to the Commonwealth to start his own newspaper business. His newspaper contained many facts and truths based on the interviews with also the Lone Wanderer and the Courier. Others included the restored Nuka Cola CEO John-Caleb Bradbert and his wife Sierra Petrovita Bradbert, Minuteman Major General Preston Garvey, Minuteman Brigadier General Ronnie Shaw, Boston Mayor John Hancock, Institute Director Madison Lee, Railroad Chairman Desdemona, and Detective Nick Valentine. However, the paper doesn't include any cartoon comics except for weather forecast, stock prices, traffic reports, and sports news that hardly makes it popular among the citizens. Currently elected politicians, businessmen, and merchants buy the Boston Bugle since not every citizen has the advance civilian-standard Pip-Boy 3000 that is being sold by the TSC to gain daily information.

Both father and son kept reading their newspapers for about 30 minutes as they ate before the doorbell rang. Nate got up to answer.

Standing on the front porch was a Blue Guard, one of the personal bodyguards of the Minutemen General. The soldier was wearing the standard Minuteman uniform but his jacket was colored blue and buttoned up with a belt around the waist and the pants were colored black with black leather combat boots for footwear. He was wearing an advance combat armor colored gray to match the uniform but is still wearing the familiar Minuteman hat colored black in which had the rank insignia of a captain. Nate could tell that the man is a veteran due to his face featuring an orange mustache, a bullet scar across his right cheek, and his sharp grey eyes revealing his battle experiences during his Minuteman services.

"Sir, Captain Ronald Brown. Reporting for duty, sir!" said the Blue Guard Captain as he saluted his leader.

Nate returned the salute. "At ease, captain. So your unit is assigned to me as my guards for our trip to Washington D.C.?" asked Nate.

"Yes sir. We are here to escort and guard your family during your trip. We have a convoy awaiting outside to take you to the Boston Airport where a TSC Valkyrie is waiting to take you," replied Captain Brown with a discipline tone.

Nate nodded, "Alright, wait outside. We will be out shortly." The captain saluted before turning around to guard the porch as Nate closed the door.

Nate turned around to see that the kitchen table was all cleared of utensil, plates, and cups since Codsworth was fast enough to clean to gather and clean the dishes before placing them in the cupboards. His son Shaun was still reading the comics before setting it on the table to stand up.

"So, are we ready to go now Dad?" asked Shaun with excitement in his voice.

"Yes, son. Are you ready as well?" asked Nate with happiness.

"Yeah, Dad. Come on Codsworth lets go," said Shaun in which startled the Mr. Handy. "Wha?! Me as well?! But who is going to look after the house?" cried the robot butler with concern over his master's home.

"Yes Codsworth. You are coming as well since you are family as well. Besides, I need someone to look out for my son while my meeting with the Congress and my speech since he will get bored in the Capitol Building," said Nate with a smirk as Shaun narrowed his eyes while folding his arms. "I'm not a kid anymore, Dad. I'm old enough to look out for myself", grumbled Shaun as Nate laughed.

"Oh, very well. I guess I should make sure Master Shaun is looked after. But I have feeling he is going to make me carry all of his souvenirs and prizes during the festivities at the Mall," said Codsworth.

The three members of the O'Connor family walked out of the house and Nate made sure to electrically lock the door and set the alarm with his Pip-Boy before heading for the awaiting convoy. The convoy consisted of a Zeta-fusion powered black limo protected by two Minutemen APCs with one in the front and the other in the rear. Four motorcycles were also added in the convoy with the Boston Policemen riding them with the two in the front to lead the convoy and the last two in the back to protect the rear.

As they got into the limo, Nate whistled for his familiar canine companion, "Come on Dogmeat! Its time go!"

Dogmeat came out of his doghouse on the front yard and barked happily before rushing inside the limo as Nate followed inside and closed the door. The convoy started moving with the motorcycles activating their sirens as they headed for the Boston Airport.

As the convoy neared the airport, Nate looked out the window and was surprised to see what awaited him near the TSC Valkyrie on the rebuilt runway. "What the hell?" he replied. A crowd of Commonwealth citizens had gathered around the runway and were cheering and waving at the limo with handmade posters and signs to show their support of their hero. He could see a line of Minutemen soldiers, TSC soldiers, and Boston Policemen keeping the crowd back to make a path for the Valkyrie. Shaun smirked as he enjoyed watching his father grumbled with annoyance as Codsworth patted his back in comfort with one of his mechanical limbs.

Nate tapped his Pip-Boy Z to contact the lead APC, "Captain Brown, why is there a gathered crowd on the airport runway? I thought my schedule flight was classified?"

"I'm sorry, General. But it must have been Mayor Hancock whom decided to let the public know about your departure. I believe the reason was for some increase support in 'public relations', I think," replied the stupor Blue Guard through the Pip-Boy radio as Nate growled.

"When I get back from the festivities, I am going to have a long talk with that former-ghoul turned bigwig about messing with my family's time of privacy," thought Nate as he sucked up some air to calm his mind and mentally prepared himself to meet the crowd.

The crowd cheered louder as Nate and Shaun came out of the limo and were blinded by flashes of cameras signifying reporters on the scene. Nate kept his smile and waved at the crowd with Shaun following his example as he seems to enjoy the attention. The Blue Guard surrounded the O'Connor family as they help guide them towards the Valkyrie. As they boarded the space ship, Nate turned around and cried out, "God Bless the USA!"

The crowd cheered more as he turned around with the door closing behind before finally sighing in relief that it was all over. He sat in a chair next to his son whom is sitting next to a porthole with Dogmeat sitting on a chair next to him on his left. Codsworth just floated in the middle with the Blue Guards taking their own respective seats. The Valkyrie began to hover and blast away at a supersonic speed towards the capital of America.

"I hope nothing goes wrong in this meeting. I want to spend much time with Shaun during this holiday," thought Nate.

However, destiny has already set the path to be opened once the three Wasteland legends have gathered together not knowing that they will end up in another realm.

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Chapter 2 is done. This is the intro and background of the three Wasteland legends. Sorry it took so long, but I had long studies for my major in Mechanical Engineering. I will try to update as fast as possible since I am now on winter break. Just to let you know, the word "former ghouls" is due to the TSC scientist Dr. Nadia's cure of ghoulification. The Prometheus space ships is based on the Stargate SG-1's Earth-made space ship in which is used by the TSC to replace the BOS's airship, Prydwen, in Fallout 4. I am not trying to make these three characters powerful than the League of Legend champions, just to give them their own advantage to outsmart their opponents. Remember, this is about teaching the people of Rune Terra the realities of war. For now, third chapter will be the meeting, festivity, and their unexpected departure to Rune Terra. Review if you want, whether you like it or criticize doesn't matter to me. I do it because I want to.