Chapter 4 Welcome to Runeterra
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October 23, 2290 (Earth Date)
Iunius (June) 13, 1047 A.R. (After Rune Wars)
Somewhere over an unknown ocean east of Valoran and Ionia, Runeterra
The ocean. Vast wide blue waters with white waves flowing with the windy breeze. The sky was pure light blue, lighter than the ocean's blue color with multiple pure white clouds in the air. The sun shined brightly as its rays reflected off the ocean's surface adding sparkling beauty to the scenery. It was something that would be perfect to just lay back, close your eyes, and relax while listening to the waves crashing and smelling the salty ocean air. A sense of peace to ease away your worries and stress. But that peace was about to end.
A blue spark appeared in the stratosphere above the ocean. The spark kept flashing while it made crackling noises that disturbed the peaceful scenery. Then it suddenly made a huge boom noise as the blue spark cracked the air and formed a glowing blue hole with a tunnel inside the dimensional void of space and time. Inside the tunnel was a large damaged ship heading for the opening to complete its hyperdrive jump.
Once the ship exited the hyperdrive jump portal, the wormhole immediately closed in a blue flash. But then, the ship began to get pulled down by the sudden gravitational pull. The ship's frame tilted at a 45-degree angle with the bow pointing downwards at the ocean as it gained more speed and acceleration during its descent due to the carrier's size and weight. Inside the ship's bridge, the crew and their commanders have just recovered from their temporarily blindness and stun condition during the hyperdrive jump travel.
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Dante, Theo, Nate, and the rest of the remaining uninjured bridge officers groaned as they refocused their eyesight and shook their heads to relieve any pain throbbing in their skulls and ringing in their ears. Cooper and Rex whined as they slowly got up from the metal floor and shook themselves. Codsworth wobbled as the Mr. Handy steadied itself after experiencing the hyperdrive jump while saying, "Oh dear. I feel short-circuited." ED-E just bobbled himself in the air as he beeped in his own version of "moaning in pain". The Black Guards and the injured remained kneeling or laying on the floor while they recovered from the stun moment of hyperdrive travel.
"Report!" cried Dante as everyone felt the ship beginning to descend again but this time they could see they are falling towards an ocean through the bridge's thick observation windows. "Thank God, we manage to jump over the Atlantic. I guess that hyperdrive engine did work. Heh. I'll bet those eggheads and sci-fi fanatics in the Science Department will be ecstatic," thought Dante.
"Jump completed. We managed to make it to other side of the jump tunnel. We are descending towards the ocean sir," replied an officer his voice showing his relieved tone that they managed to save the city and the carrier.
"Alright. Reverse stabilizers and divert remaining power to the emergency booster engines. Tilt the ship at around 10-degrees angle and keep her steady. We will glide the Retribution through the air and safely land her on the ocean's surface," ordered Dante calmly as the bridge crew focused on typing on their terminals to comply with the Commander's orders.
"Stabilizers reversed. Diverting remaining power to the emergency booster rockets," replied the officer in charge of the ship's energy.
"Preparing to fire the emergency booster rockets. In 3…2…1," informed another officer whom charged up the rockets and activated them.
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Underneath the carrier's bow, two rockets extended out of their openings and fired out blue, plasma flames. This helped the ship to tilt at a nearly horizontal position and assist the ship to glide through the air as it steadily descended towards the ocean.
As the Retribution got closer to the water, the ocean's surface began to separate causing small waves as though an invisible ship is sailing through. The emergency rockets made one last burst to push the carrier's bow upward a bit for the ship's rear to land first on the water before the rockets retracted back into the ship and their covers closed. The ship's entire frame than landed on the ocean's surface and glided along or against the waves. The ocean's wave and water density helped to decrease the ship's motion speed before it finally remained still and floating on the blue water. A few moments later, Zeta drones came out of the ship's hangers to attach inflatable bags on the sides of the ship to keep it afloat while putting out the flames in the ship's damaged rear engines and seal any breaches.
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Dante sighed with relief. Theo sighed as well as he collapsed and sat on a nearby empty chair next to a blown out terminal. Nate leaned against a wall as he relaxed to clear his head of any mental stress.
"Give me a sit-rep," ordered Dante as he sat up in the command chair. The bridge crew typed their terminals and checked their holo-screens and monitors to look over the conditions of the crew and the ship.
"We manage to land safely on the ocean, Sir. The drones from the hangars have attached inflatable bags to keep the Retribution afloat while they are repairing the damage to the ship's rear engine and sealing any breaches. We have a quarter of the crew heavily injured from the attack and during the ships descend. The rest only suffered minor bruises or non-threatening concussions. However, the engineer crew have suffered heavy casualties due to the explosions. We have about 12 dead with 45 critically injured. Medics are focusing on them for treatment and body removal," stated one officer looking through the life sign scanner and reports sent from the medical bay and the engineer section.
Dante nodded but is saddened for the death of the twelve engineers. "Alright. Anything else?" he asked.
"The ship is stable and the Z-fusion reactor is still functioning. We lost about a half of the generators to power the engine thrusters, the primary weapons, and the energy shields. The generators still functioning are keeping the anti-gravity system stable with enough remaining power to keep the life support systems and the medical bay on working conditions. We can still use the Auto-Docs and the Medical Zeta Arch Pods to heal the critically injured completely with no need of surgery or amputations. The hangars with our Valkyries and other aerial vehicles are still intact along with storages filled with supplies, equipment, and ground vehicles. Even the ship's factory is still in working conditions," informed a female officer whom checked her terminal on the ship's current condition. Dante was satisfied of their reports.
For now, Dante needed to contact the Olympus to bring in the Valkyries to remove the injured and dead from the Retribution and use their anti-gravity tractor beams to carry the ship to the nearby shipyard in the East Coast. Then he needs to start an emergency meeting with the TSC Council, the Third Continental Congress, and other military leaders in the TSC and the Minutemen to discuss immediate mobilization of all armed forces, plans for border and city defenses, and increase the speed rate of military build-up. They will also have the Seraphs, the Railroad, and the Institute Coursers attend the meeting to make plans for espionage and intel gathering to find out which faction launched the surprise attack. All to prepare for another war. If the Brotherhood of Steel and the Midwestern faction are behind the attack, Dante will not hesitate to put them down for good and annex the entire Midwest under the United States rule.
Theo and Nate know what Dante is thinking and they agree with him. They gave the Brotherhood many opportunities to accept the olive branch of peace and alliance, but they slapped it all away with the surprise attack. All because they couldn't accept their organization's state of decline and for the world not recognizing them as the "true inheritors" of the Old World technology. Theo and Nate will no doubt fight alongside with Dante with their respective armies. The Brotherhood are soon going to face three awoken sleeping giants when the three Wasteland heroes get back to America.
"Alright. Comms officer. Contact the Olympus and get them to send as many Valkyries as they can, including any nearby naval ships. We need to evacuate the injured and dead before having them carry and tow the Retribution into one of the nearby shipyards in the East Coast. Also, get me the current acting commander of the Olympus on the line. I need to know the situation in Washington D.C. and the Wall," ordered Dante. The comms officer got to work as Dante looked over his two generals. Theo was checking on the injured officers and assisting in providing Z-Stimpacks to their wounds and injuries. Nate was doing the same with Codsworth helping to move the injured. Dante was glad that the TSC Biology Department developed the improved Z-Stimpack that combines the xander root fluids, bronco flower nectar, and Zeta alien biogel that can regenerate deadly injuries, broken bones, and repair damaged organs including the brain. Dante would have helped the injured crew members since he was taught medical science and surgery from his father, but he was the current commander of the Retribution and he has stay at his post as part of his duty.
Dante looked at the faces of his friends and he could tell that Theo and Nate are worried of their people back in Washington D.C. such as Mr. House, Shaun, Dogmeat, and their friends. Anything could have happened during and after the surprise attack. They could be injured or possibly killed by the falling debris from the destroyed enemy fighters, from the falling debris of the carrier's destroyed parts, or from the hyperdrive jump blast. Dante is also worried of his little niece, Maria, and Amata and her family. He hopes that they are alright after the attack. But they didn't have to worry of their families and friends, including the civilians and government leaders, risk getting exposed to the radiation from the nuclear missiles detonated in the atmosphere since everyone in America were given the miracle serum from Maria's blood and antibodies that grants the immunity to radiation and mutation.
For now, they can only wait for the connection to communicate with the Olympus.
"Uh…. Commander," said the male comms officer whom got Dante's attention. "Something is wrong. I can't get in contact with the Olympus."
"Is the communication system damage?" asked Dante with a calm tone.
"No Sir. I checked the subspace comms and everything is working fine. I even had three drones outside the ship check on the relay dishes and they are still intact and working fine. Plus, I can't even contact any of our satellites, the Archimedes II, the East Coast Naval Fleet, or the Moon Base." replied the comms officer whom is showing a confused expression on his face. Theo and Nate heard what the comms officer said and they turned to look at the officer with raised eyebrows. Everyone in the bridge had become silent with confused expressions.
"Hmmm. Well, we'll look into it later. For now, get some uninjured pilots whom can still fly any intact Valkyries. Have them fly out into space and locate any of our satellites or the Olympus. Once they locate either objectives, I want the pilots to contact the Olympus in request for rescue and towing," said Dante.
Everyone went back to what they were doing while other officers complied with Dante's orders.
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"Attention. Any Valkyrian pilots fit for duty, please report to the main hangar bay, immediately," said the intercom speakers inside the hangar in which is currently a mess.
The hangar bay crews were trying to get the injured crewmembers onto stretchers to take them to the medical bay while others put out any fires, repaired sparking circuits, and moved crates and equipment that have tipped over or spilled all over the place. Many of the Valkyries and Stingrays were intact and are kept in their docking holds in which was good. But there were many Valkyries and Stingrays that were damaged as they collided with the equipment, crates, and walls when the Retribution began to descend after taking damage.
Two Valkyrian pilots, the first a former male ghoul whom is Hispanic with spiked black hair, restored smooth light brown skin, and brown eyes and the second, an Asian female with her mid-back length black hair dyed in blue and put into a ponytail and has green eyes. Both pilots were fitted in their TSC black Valkyrian pilot space suits with helmets under their arms as they navigated through the chaotic crowd of the hangar bay crew in the main hangar bay.
The male pilot looked around the chaos. "Damn. What a mess. Can you believe this, Feng. I can't believe this happened on a holiday."
"Yeah. We are definitely going to war for the ones responsible for all this. I was just planning to request leave after my tour in El Paso, Texas. Looks like I will still be your wingman, Santiago," said the female pilot, known as Feng.
"Yeah. But don't you mean 'wing woman'?" said Santiago with a smirk trying to lighten the mood.
Feng punched him lightly on the shoulder with a small smile. "Come on. Let's get going. Orders from the bridge, especially since its from our Supreme Commander," she says.
They finally reached two intact Valkyries in which are being prepared by technicians and engineers. Both pilots climbed into their respective space fighters and sat down in their comfortable seats. The glass dome closed and sealed in place as the dials and holographic displays began to light up with their HUDs in their helmets connecting to their Valkyries' computer systems.
Once the technicians checked their final preparations, they gathered their tools and equipment and detached the coolant refueling hose before moving out of the way. The hangar bay doors opened with sunlight pouring into the hangar. "Beautiful," were the thoughts on everyone as they saw the ocean outside.
The Valkyries began to hum as they hovered off the hangar floor and retracted their landing gears.
"Reaper 1, launching," said Wing Commander Santiago as he launched out. "
Reaper 2, launching," said Lieutenant Feng as she launched out as well and followed behind Santiago's Valkyrie.
"Activating after burners. We are now punching through the atmosphere," said Santiago. Both fighters picked up speed as they headed straight up and pierced through the layers of the atmosphere before finally reaching the familiar blackness sea of twinkling stars of outer space.
"Launch completed. Commencing search for any friendlies within Earth's orbit," said Santiago. Both pilots turned their ships to start flying along the planet's orbit to search for any TSC satellites, the ARCHIMEDES II, or the Olympus. But what they saw through their glass domes brought shock, disbelief, confusion, and panic.
"Wha…What the… WHAT THE FUCKING HELL?!" yelled Feng. "WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON, SANTIAGO?!"
"I-I….I don't know! I don't know if we are on chems or if one of our beers were spiked. But the last time I remembered when I was stationed at Olympus, Earth did not have a large ice land like Antarctica in the North Pole!" shouted Santiago in disbelief.
"And what is wrong with the continents?! I don't recognize them on the world map!" cried Feng before both pilots heard the comms officer's voice on their subspace radios.
"Reaper 1! Reaper 2! Come in! What is going on?! What are you both panicking about?!" cried the comms officer from the Retribution.
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Back in the bridge of the Retribution, everyone was focusing on their tasks such as checking the ship's repair progress or assisting in moving the injured bridge officers, including Captain Gibson and XO Lt. William, to the medical bay while waiting for response from the two Valkyries. That is until everyone heard the panicking voices of the two Valkyries in the subspace radio intercoms in which everyone in the bridge can hear. Everyone looked at the comms officer whom is yelling in his comms demanding answers from the pilots
Dante narrowed his eyes with concern. "Officer Edgar. Report," ordered Dante as the comms officer, now known as Petty Officer Edgar, turned in his chair towards his commander.
"Sir. The pilots are confused with shock on what they are seeing. They are reporting that they don't see the Olympus nor any of our satellites orbiting the planet. But that is not what they are panicking about. They report that they are seeing three continents in the Northern Hemisphere that do not match the ones on the world map with most of the continents missing, including North America. Plus, they are saying that there is a large Antarctica-like ice land in the North Pole," Officer Edgar explained with sweat coming down the side of his face with his expression showing his confusion and concerns.
Dante didn't like that. Even though there are no enemies around the area or in space, panicking will get you killed in the most unexpected way. But what Dante was hearing from Officer Edgar about the world's current status as described from the two Valkyrian pilots did not sit well to him. Even Nate and Theo are not liking what they are hearing as they stood next to Dante in his command chair. Even the officers on the bridge whom just listened to Officer Edgar's report did not like what they were hearing and grew worried.
"Umm…three continents…North America missing….and Antarctica in the North Pole? Are the pilots on chems or something?" replied Codsworth whom was assisting in moving the injured officers when the Mr. Handy heard the report. Nate turned to look to his robot butler/bodyguard with a stern expression, "Be quiet, Codsworth. Let us handle this situation." "Sorry, Sir. I shall return to my task," replied Codsworth and focused on carefully carrying the officer to the medical bay.
Nate turned to the comms officer, "Could you get connection to the mounted cameras on the two Valkyries and bring up the images onto the main holo-screen?" Officer Edgar nodded and typed on his terminal to bring up the main holo-screen.
When the main holo-screen flashed up in the middle of the bridge above the holo-table, everyone gasped in shock with loud shouts heard around the bridge.
"W-W-What the….?"
"Is this real?!"
"What happened?! Is this our world?!"
"Where is Europe? Where is Asia, Africa, and Australia?! WHERE THE FUCK IS AMERICA?!"
"I have a feeling were not on Earth anymore."
Dante, Theo, and Nate had their eyes widen in shock due to what they are seeing on the screen in which is being sent from the two Valkyries currently in space orbiting the planet. The holo-screen was showing the world that they are in, but it is not the Earth they recognized.
The planet was almost similar to Earth with its surface mostly covered in pure blue oceans, white clouds over the water and terrains, and three continents can be seen on the west side of the planet. One large northern continent, a southern continent close to the northern one in which both formed a large sea basin in the middle that looked similar to the Mediterranean Sea, and an island continent located north east of the northern continent. If they look closely further at the northern pole of the planet, they could see a possible fourth continent covered in ice. They can also see a single moon orbiting the planet similar to the Lunar moon orbiting Earth with the holo-screen showing data that the planet is revolving around a G-type star, similar to the sun in their Solar System. The scanners from the Valkyries also show that the planet is non-radiated, atmosphere filled with acceptable levels of oxygen to produce life, and are able to detect vegetation and minerals. This planet was obviously almost similar to Earth but is different due to the different shapes and amount of continents on the surface. However, the scanners are also detecting strange energy readings that are popping up all over the planet and can be described on their screens as glowing lights with each shining in different colors but show no signs of radiation. It was strange. Almost magical and mystic.
But that is not all what interested everyone on the bridge and the Valkyrian pilots. What also caught everyone's attention is that they noticed lights within the planet's shadowed area where the north western parts of the northern continent are located. The lights were hardly bright but they are almost the same as the city lights back on Earth when half of the planet is covered in shadows indicating night time and everyone in space can see the beautiful city lights brighten up the planet during the night. Seeing these lights on this planet can only indicate one thing. There are cities and towns on the surface. Proof of civilization. Signs of people habiting this world. But what kind of race are they?
"Are there people on this world? Did we just jumped into an alien world?" asked Nate as his widen eyes kept looking at the holo-screen.
"Could this planet be the homeworld of those Zeta aliens or one of their colonies, Dante?" asked Theo as he kept his shocked face focused on the image of the new, alien world.
"I don't know. But we are in a dire situation in which is more challenging than our previous scenarios. If what we are seeing is real, then we are no longer on Earth but on another planet in which is possibly light years from our own solar system. Worst case, we could be in another galaxy. We are cut off from our country, the Olympus, and Earth with no way of calling for help or request supplies and reinforcements. We are on our own in getting back home. Officer Edgar, order Valkyrie Reapers 1 and 2 to locate any uninhabited lands east of our position," said Dante as he got his mind to review the situation they are in while forming plans on how the crew members of the Retribution can get back home.
"I take it we will be staying here for a long time, Dante?" asked Theo as he knew what their objectives will be despite asking Dante for confirmation. Even Nate knew what they need to do first in their state. Set up a main base and gather intel on this world in order to figure out how they can get back to Earth.
Dante leaned back with a sigh. "Yeah."
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(6 hours later)
It was becoming nightfall. But the scenery was still beautiful with the sun setting over the ocean horizon as it's orange rays turned the sky into a beautiful mixture of yellow and orange with stars beginning to appear within the purplish and blackish areas of the sky that is no longer brighten by the sun's rays. Even the sun's rays reflecting over the sea's surface added the beauty to the paradise that the crew of the Retribution are standing on.
For the entire day, Dante had guided the entire crew of the Retribution to head towards east where a large island, the size of the main island Hawaii, is located with six large archipelago islands surrounding it. The islands were located by the two Valkyrian pilots, Santiago and Feng, whom scanned the islands while under stealth cloak in case if the islands were inhabited. Luckily, the islands showed no signs of any tribal people or civilization with only odd looking faunas wildlife detected. The new lands were undiscovered and untouched by the planet's locals in which made the area perfect to build a base undetected. To get to the islands Dante ordered the hangar mechanics to repair as many Valkyries as possible and have any uninjured pilots available to prepare to tow the spaceship carrier with the Valkyries' tractor beams.
The entire crew of the Retribution, except for the bridge officers and two Valkyrian pilots, were confused on the orders of the Supreme Commander. They knew that they could get help from the Olympus or from the homeland to evacuate the injured before towing the carrier back to the East Coast and dock it at the closest port. They were instead using their own intact five Valkyries to tow the ship to their destination unaware of their real situation.
The trip took about 4 hours to reach the islands as the five Valkyries pulled the carrier forward while the spaceship used its available Z-fusion energy to power up the anti-gravity drives to hover above the ocean waves to making the towing fast and easier. The crew got more confused and concerned when they finally could see the archipelago islands through the hangar doors since they were expecting to reach a nearby port or city. The feelings of agitation were growing within the crew members when Dante announced through the ship's speakers that they are going to beach the carrier onto the large island which is in the center of the surrounding archipelago islands and were ordered to disembark onto the island for he has an announcement to make.
The crew of the Retribution do admit that the islands were mysterious and beautiful enough for a paradise vacation with tropical vegetation and beach waves adding the wondrous scenery. But the anxious crew members are wondering what they are doing on a tropical archipelago instead of back on the shores of the new U.S. of A. All they could do now is file out and exit through the hangars, down the ramps, and onto the beach to hear what their leaders are going to announce.
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October 23, 2290 (Earth Date)
Juni (June) 13, 3027 A.R. (After Rune Wars)
The Archipelago Islands, East of Valoran and Ionia, Runeterra
Dante, Theo, and Nate stood on a steel platform in which was set up quickly with assembled parts of scaffolding defense walls. LED lamps and lamp posts were placed around the platform and all over the sandy beach since the nightfall was beginning to darken the area. A steel podium with a microphone was set up near the frontal edge of the platform with speakers in the back. Black Guards stood around the platform and the commanders' sides in a defense formation to protect their leaders. Cooper and Rex sat on their haunches next to their respective masters along with ED-E and Codsworth doing the same by hovering. Behind the platform was the beached carrier with its starboard side resting on the shore as waves continued to gently hit around the spaceship. The three legendary wanderers waited as they watched every crew members of the Retribution walked in orderly lines as they exited the ship through the hangars on ramps and filed up in order on the beach while facing the platform.
They can see the engineers in their black TSC mechanic jumpsuits, the technicians in their TSC black radiation suits, and scientists and doctors in their lab coats based on the Institute's designs.
Surprisingly, among the scientists was a familiar floating robotic sphere-shaped body housing a human brain in biogel with three monitors attached to its chassis serving as eyes and a mouth. It was a Think Tank from Big Mountain and the Wanderers recognized the unique brain bot as Dr. Mobius, a 257-year-old genius from the pre-war era with a behavior disorder due to his addiction for Mentats and Psychos. His brain bot body used to be rusted with his right eye monitor damaged and his glass-dome brain container stained and cracking, but now his body is fully repaired and cleaned looking good as new along with his behavior kept in check. During his time at Big Mt, Theo knew the value of the Dr. Mobius and the other Think Tanks due to the fact that they are one of the last remnants of pre-war geniuses. So Theo used his smooth talking to reason with Mobius and the Think Tanks to end their rivalry and cooperate together in their research and projects. As of now, Big Mt is under TSC control with scientists and engineers from the TSC, Followers of the Apocalypse, and Institute working with the Think Tanks to develop new technologies that benefit the new U.S. and Earth. Mobius was currently chatting with the engineers as he looked around curiously of the island's tropical ecosystem while offering anyone nearby Mentats that he was currently holding with his psionic telekinetic ability. When everyone declined, the brain bot shrugged with his appendage eyes and used a vacuum opening on his side to place 3 Mentat pills into his brain dome. The three wanderers shook their heads as they watch Mobius moan in ecstasy as the pills dissolved and bubbled in the biogel.
Another familiar person among the doctors was a female synth whom is Caucasian with short brown hair and spoke in a familiar French accent. It was Curie, a former Miss Nanny robot and Nate's old travel companion whom was modified to research and develop serums to deadly pre-war diseases and pathogens in Vault 81 before she transferred her AI mind into a Synth's brain to gain enough "human" experience and thinking to research in developing new serums and medicines against mutated pathogens developed from the radiations. She was wearing a TSC version of the Institute's lab outfit with black sleeves and a green right armband with the TSC symbol signifying her place in the Biology Department. After the Institute's surrender, Curie joined the TSC in Dr. Nadia's Biology Department in hopes to use her medical skills and knowledge for the benefit of Earth and humanity. Her personality and resolve to help the weak earned her friendship with Dr. Nadia and Coordinator Tanaka. Currently she was mumbling herself about the odd vegetation of the archipelago islands that she doesn't recognize and is wondering why they are not mentioned in any pre-war botany texts. She will soon find out.
The third person whom Nate knew back in Boston is a male human whom was standing next to some TSC technicians with a familiar male ghoul standing next to the person as his bodyguard. The man had short black hair with a neatly trimmed mustache over his upper lips and has glasses over his eyes with a white lab coat over his light blue dress shirt with a brown tie and gray slacks over his black dress shoes making him look like a pre-war scientist.
This was Jack Cabot, a 432-year-old scientist whom manage to preserve his family's youth by injecting the blood of his father, Lorenzo Cabot, into their body. The male ghoul standing next to him is his loyal family bodyguard, Edward Deegan, whom has a TSC MAR21J9 Marine Assault Rifle holstered on his back and is outfitted with a black TSC BDU with TSC black combat armor but still wearing his trademark newsboy cap. The reason Lorenzo's blood kept the family ageless was due to his history life as a famous 1894 archaeologist whom managed to find an ancient, alien mask in an archaeological dig site of an ancient "alien" city in Arabia which consumed his mind with it's unknown "mythical energy" and affected Lorenzo's body to no longer age that led Lorenzo's blood in becoming the source of the Cabot's "fountain of youth". Since Lorenzo's death by the hands of Nate and Jack, the Cabot family began to grow old again and are expected to die out soon since their source of youth was destroyed to prevent Lorenzo from being controlled by the mask to do evil purpose that could threaten the Cabot family and humanity.
However, the TSC came just in time for Dante and Nate to present a proposal to the Cabot family. They wanted to recruit Jack Cabot due to his research and studies on ancient civilizations not recorded in pre-war history books in which could possibly be built by extra-terrestrials whom came to Earth thousands or millions of years ago or part of a legend that could be proven true. In return, Jack, Emogene (sister), and Wilhemina (mother) Cabot will be granted a TSC serum from the Biology Department to regain their youth and receive implants that will boost their immunity and slow down their aging to live their new life. Also, due to his experiments to harness the ancient "evil" mask's powers in Lorenzo's blood to produce an anti-aging serum and create a Gamma Gun (Lorenzo's Gamma Gun) based on those powers, Dante and Schmidt were very impressed with his work that they wanted to recruit Jack in becoming a lead scientist of the TSC's most secretive, unofficial department. Jack was unsure at first to trust this organization and their claims to possess a Zeta space ship as their headquarters along with creating a new serum for his family. But as soon as he was brought to the Olympus in a Valkyrie and saw its technological wonders, he immediately accepted the job and is given the position as director of the secret department known as the Department of Paranormal Activities (DPA). Jack Cabot now runs the department to conduct secret expeditions all over Earth to search and secure ancient relics relating to "magic" or "aliens" with some Black Guards and Seraph agents as protection and assistants, uncover and record the missing dark historical events related to those relics of myths and legends, find any ancient cities not recorded in history books or have relations to aliens, research and experiment to develop technologies to counter the paranormal, and answer only to Archangel Schmidt, Vice-Admiral Harkin, and Supreme Commander Dante Abram with Nate O'Connor, Theo West, and Robert House aware of the DPA's existence. Right now, Jack Cabot was looking at the holo-screen of his Pip-Boy Z while talking to some of the technicians whom are holding their own holo-screen tablets in which the three wanderers were unsure what their discussion is about. Plus, it confused them since Jack was supposed to be a leading paranormal scientist not a head technician for the space ship carrier.
The last person for them to recognize was shockingly a Synth male whom is standing next to some TSC officers.
They recognized the robot as the unique, advance 2nd generation Synth, Nick Valentine, the former Private Detective of Diamond City and now Private Inspector of Boston while still keeping the title "Detective". Nick's physical appearance went through a make-over that made him look "brand new" from his past broken and ragged appearance in 2287. His robotic body that had torn synthetic skins revealing his mechanical organs and wires with his right arm exposed of his skeletal-like robotic arm were completely repaired with a new upgraded synthetic skin in which is implanted with TSC nano-dermal armor and TSC Phoenix thermal-dissipative membrane fibers for protection against all different calibers of bullets and energy weapons, including electrical pulse attacks. Nick's robotic skeletal structure was also upgraded with adamantium alloy to reinforce his strength and damage resistance. The Synth's familiar facial structure of a male was fully repaired with new pale white synthetic skin in which is smooth and unblemished with no facial hair that he looked like a pre-war handsome, young man in his mid-20's. His mechanical eyes are still yellow and glowed mysteriously with new features upgraded into the eyes to assist his Inspector career such as his own V.A.T.S. for targeting enemies, thermal vision, X-ray vision, magnify his vision to see long distances, and able to scan and analyze areas and objects for fingerprints and DNA to reconstruct events of crime scene. Nick also had new programs installed in his AI brain in which granted him mixed martial arts for close combat, grappling techniques to apprehend criminals, enhanced skills in hacking terminals and lock picking, improved skills in firearms and energy weapons, new skills in adapting with multiple melee-type weapons, imitating voices by lip-syncing and mimic their sound and speech pattern, and multiple pre-war languages such as Spanish and Japanese. Further improvement in Nick's physical appearance is his new synthetic brown hair in which is short and combed in a side-part style with synthetic brown eyebrows that enhanced his new dashing look even though he is now wearing a new Detective Fedora Hat. Nick's current apparel is a ballistic fibered tan trench coat with a white dress shirt, black suit vest, black tie, black dress pants, and black dress shoes. Underneath the trench coat he wore a shoulder holster system with two holsters for his dual IMI Desert Eagles made out of strong Zeta alloys and modified with extended magazines of a capacity up to twenty-five .44 rounds. He even has his own TSC Pip-Boy Z on his left arm in which contains the same features and functions as Dante's Pip-Boy Z to aid in his career. He was currently talking to some of the TSC officers while smoking a cigarette.
"Well, I didn't expect to see those four within the Retribution. I better ask them later on how and why they were assigned to the carrier without my knowledge," replied Dante with Nate and Theo nodding in agreement. The commanders continued to watch as the last remaining crewmembers filed out of the ship.
Among the gathering crewmembers, there are also TSC soldiers from different units such as the Army, Marines, Air Force, Black Guards, and Power Armored units (Hammerhead, X-01, T-60, and Tesla Armor). The soldiers are a mixture of humans, ghouls, and 3rd Gen Synths. There are also two companies of Super Mutants whom served mostly in the TSC Army as heavy weapon supporters along with a company of Intelligent Deathclaws to serve as quick attack units for guerrilla warfare or CQC (close-quarter-combat) supporters. Most are recognized veterans from previous wars such as the Iron Brotherhood-TSC War (2278-2280), the Dixie Wars (2280-2283, War against Super Mutants, Mercenaries, Tribal Cults, Slavers, and Raider factions in the Southern States), the Battle of Detroit (2281-2284, War against the Detroit Motor Raiders whom used modified Mad Max-styled vehicles to wage wars and control the Wastelands in Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio), the Gunner War (2288-2289), Skirmish Wall Battles against Caesar's Legion and the Holy Kingdom of Mexico (2288-ongoing), the Battle of New York City (2284-ongoing), Battle of Miami (2281-ongoing), and the Battle of New Orleans (2282-ongoing).
The three wanderers can tell they are veterans due to their eyes telling of their experience of the horrors and bloodshed of the battlefields, tortured while being POWs under the enemy's captivity, and witnessed the death of their brothers and sisters in arms. Many also had advanced TSC built prosthetic limbs, organs, or eyes to replace the ones lost in battle in which they requested as implants despite knowing that the TSC has medical regeneration technology. These soldiers took their prosthetics as "scars" to serve as proof that they fought and survived through the bloodiest conflicts they ever partook in their service in the TSC. Plus, the implants also help enhance their human abilities and skills in strength, perception, agility, and endurance. Some of the implants also grant the soldiers some resistance against fire, shock pulse, toxic chemicals, diseases, mutation, and radiation with cell regeneration added for quick healing.
There are also three Minutemen Battalions of Infantry (standard regulars, snipers, and Marine Armor units), one Minutemen Armored Battalion (tanks, mechanized infantry, combat engineers, artillery units, and armored ground vehicles), and one Minutemen Power Armored Company (T-60s, T-51s, and T-45s); including two squadrons of Minutemen pilots whom fly Vertibirds or Stingrays, but the Valkyries are still under TSC control. Same with the TSC, the Minutemen are made up of humans, ghouls, and 3rd Gen Synths within the units whom fought together regardless of their physical differences. Two of the infantry battalions and the Power Armored unit are veterans from the Gunner War and the pacification of the Commonwealth. The veterans also partook in pacifying the threats of the abominable mutants and Trapper cannibals in Mount Desert Island with Far Harbor under their protection and annihilating the Raiders of Nuka World before occupying and annexing the pre-war amusement park. The rest of the Minutemen are fresh units from training and half of them were supposed to be deployed to the Niagara Falls to reinforce TSC forces in the city from a possible Ronto military aggression while the rest of the units were to be transferred to New York City to assist in fighting the Rikers and the LMB.
Finally, there is the Robot Battalion in which is an organized unit of 9 companies of each robot serving as mechanized infantries. The battalion consists of Securitrons, TSC Zeta Drones (Guardian and Support), Sentry Bots, Mr. Gutsies, 2nd Gen Synths, Quantum Swarmbots, Quantum Tankbots, Assaultrons (Standard and Duelbot), and Quantum Junkbots. All have been repainted to TSC colors with the TSC insignia painted onto their metal shells.
However, among the units of the Robot Battalion there is not a single Protectron, Robobrain, or Mr. Handy among them. The TSC and Mr. House considered those robots as obsolete since they were the prototypes and the first in RobCo's designs of robotic products and were mostly used for pre-war civilian use such as household duties, security, and support public services in which includes construction, medical, police patrol, and firefighter service. After the new United States was formed, many of the Protectrons and Mr. Handies, repaired and properly reprogrammed, are now seen in high-class citizen households with some rarely among the middle-class serving as robotic servants for their owners while the rest worked in public serving as waiters, chefs, cashiers, and vendors.
For the Robobrains, well the TSC Council along with leaders and members of the Minutemen, Railroad, Institute, Followers of the Apocalypse, and Third Continental Congress have agreed and launched a policy that all Robobrains are to be "decommissioned" by either granting the domed brains a 2nd Gen Synth body or a 3rd Gen Synth bodies to live their new lives among humans and meta-humans. This is due to the discovery from the Sole Survivor and Isabel Cruz at the Robotics Technology Facility in Boston where the human brains were surgically extracted from pre-war death row criminals and experimented on robots to serve as organic main processors to function as the next generation of robotic soldiers during the Sino-American War. The Robobrain experiment was considered immoral and a crime against humanity. Therefore, instead of exterminating the domed brains, they were granted a second chance in life by becoming either cyborgs or granted a new human body with the use of the Institute's Synth bodies. Since the brains had their memories wiped out by the pre-war scientists, it was easy for the Followers to help re-educate the new Robobrain species and integrate them into the new American society with residents of settlements, towns, and cities welcoming the "new citizens" to live among them.
While many believed that the Robot Battalion was hardly needed to be gathered for the Supreme Commander's announcement, the three wanderers requested this because they consist all robots as equals amongst men whether their AI's have developed sentiency or not; most likely the reason is because they had their own robotic companions during their adventures whom acted more sentient than a machine.
Once all the crewmembers, soldiers, pilots, and robots have assembled in front of the platform, everyone stood at an attention with a salute to their leaders they are facing. It was always a rare sight for the American people and soldiers to see the three famous heroes all together. The sight was both awe and intimidating as the three wanderers remained standing straight with their hands held behind their backs as the breeze from the ocean wind blew their military coats like capes with their headwear shadowing their eyes. Like warriors awaiting to partake in their next greatest battle of all times. But these warriors are the types whom have no intentions of starting the next war but will not hesitate to take up arms to defend their country and help the innocence.
Dante took a deep breath and exhaled the air out of his lung slowly. He then slowly walked up to the podium with the microphone and gently grasped the podium's sides with his gloved hands. He lifted his right hand in a salute and waved it downwards.
"At ease, soldiers," Dante said as his voice was amplified through the speakers. The assembled soldiers lowered their salute and stood in an attention stance. Dante stared at the crowd before beginning his announcement.
"Soldiers of the Terran Starship Command and the Minutemen, my fellow defenders of the new United States of America and Earth. Several hours ago, on our national holiday of the Great War Memorial, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by a squadron of unidentified air fighters with the use of nuclear warheads. The attack was an attempt to take out our new starships and cause maximum collateral damages to our capital in hopes to cripple our current government. But thanks to the technology from the Olympus, Big Mountain, and the Institute, I am happy to inform that we were able to repel the attack and avoid any casualties among our civilians along with members of the Third Continental Congress."
Dante paused to give a moment for the soldiers to absorb what their commander had said. He looked at their expressions and could tell that they were all relieved to hear that they manage to save the government and the capital city despite their attempts to preserve their disciplined expressionless faces.
"However, just like the results of our past triumphant in our previous wars, our victory didn't come without a cost. The unidentified enemy has managed to launch their nukes on our ships severely damaging the destroyers and cruisers, along with crippling our carrier that is now grounded and unable to fly. I do not know how many crew members of each ships were killed in this attack but they shall be remembered among our fallen brothers and sisters in arms."
Dante paused to let the words sink in among the Retribution crew members and soldiers before continuing.
"The enemy in their last attempt to take out our command carrier and destroy as much of the Continental Congress as possible commenced a suicidal kamikaze attack by ramming themselves into the carrier's anti-gravity drives bringing the ship down towards the Mall. By quick advice from General O'Connor, I ordered the use of the experimental Z-3 Hyperdrive Engine to quickly jump the Retribution through hyperspace and exit above the Atlantic Ocean to safely land us over the ocean and save the capital city. However, despite saving Washington D.C. and surviving the attack we are now in an unexpected predicament situation in which has now put us all in a state of survival. What I am about to tell and show all of you will be utterly disbelief and inconceivable that you will think someone is on chems."
Dante spoke with hardness in his tone while his eyes became narrowed to show his expression of seriousness. The crewmembers, soldiers, robots, meta-humans, Deathclaws, and companions looked at him with confusion and anxiety as they listened to his words. Throughout their years of service, they know when the commander makes jokes in his speech to boost morale with a little laugh or is serious when the situation is no joking matter. This time, despite saying "chems" in his speech as a joking word, they can tell he is being serious and is not making jokes of their situation.
Dante turned to one of his Black Guards and nodded to him. The Black Guard nodded back and tapped on his own Pip-Boy Z. A holographic screen appeared behind the commanders and floated above the platform for everyone to see. Everyone facing the platform stared at the holo-screen with shock and confusion.
The screen was showing the pictures taken from the two Valkyrie pilots, Santiago and Feng. The main picture showed the planet they are currently on showing the north and south main continents with a small island continent northeast of the northern continent. They can also see the planet's moon orbiting the planet with stars and constellations in the background black space that are not recognized due to many serving their time on the Olympus or the Lunar moon base. They are even pictures of nebulas and cosmos that some formed into beautiful spirals with colorful stars and dusts adding the effects that made the solar system so memorizing and magical.
Other pictures showed multiple spotted lights on the dark areas of the planet indicating it is night time on the western areas of the north and south continents. They also signify as proof that there are cities and towns on this planet with people native to this world. The lights weren't bright as the ones back on Earth signifying that the cities and towns don't have electricity and are using either candles, torches, or possibly gas lights. Although, there seems to be bundles of large black clouds covering an ocean area east of the southern continent and south east of large archipelago islands that are near the opening of the sea basin between the two continents. The black clouds looked strange and unnatural in the picture but since it was a different world they can only speculate as a volcanic island that is spewing large amounts of ashes forming black clouds in the atmosphere.
Dante gave everyone a few moments to look at the pictures on the holo-screen before continuing.
"As you can see, the Z-3 Hyperdrive Engine has somehow jumped us, or more likely transported us, into another world. A world almost similar to Earth but not ours. I do not know how or why it did so, but our situation is that we are cut off from Earth with no reinforcements to relieve us nor any way to communicate the Olympus. We are also cut off from our main supplies of ammo, food, water, meds, and materials to sustain ourselves. Plus, we have no knowledge of the star constellations we see on this planet that could help us input the correct coordinates to use the Hyperdrive to jump us back to Earth. We could be in another solar system, in another galaxy, or possibly in another universe. As of now, we are trapped here until we can find a way back home and assist our nation to fight in the new war that is no doubt beginning as we speak. We are on our own."
Dante paused as he gazed among the ranks of soldiers and civilians whom are shocked and are becoming distressed. Dante, along with Theo and Nate, knew that these words would cause them to become anxious with worry in which may lead to panic. They are worried about their families, loved ones, and friends back on Earth in the United States. A war could be erupting and they are far away from home unable to join the fight to defend their country. Plus, they have three most important leaders of the United States unable to take command of the TSC, the Minutemen, and the Securitrons to fight the new enemy. But it had to done in order for the crewmembers of the Retribution to understand their situation. Now they need to cooperate with their commanders to survive in this new world until they can come up with a solution to return home. Dante continued with some passion in his voice to re-strengthen their morale.
"DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED! This isn't the first time that I have been incapacitated to command my soldiers. That also goes for my fellow colleagues, General West and General O'Connor. Even during the previous wars there were times I have crashed landed in enemy territories and got cut off from communicating our HQs. We adapt and survive through those tough times and we will do so here. Hell, I even sometimes join with my fellow brothers and sisters in arms to fight behind enemy lines to complete nearly suicidal missions. Even General West and General O'Connor do the same even though our officers try to convince us not to due to our leadership status. In the end, we have managed to make it back home alive! And I intend to do same here in this alien world and get every one of use back home! You are my soldiers! My fellow brothers and sisters in arms! And we never leave any of us behind! Alive or Dead!"
The audience felt their discouragement wash away by Dante's charismatic voice. Smiles appeared upon their faces with many nodding in agreement. They felt the encouragement to keep on fighting. They felt hope returning into their hearts with their spirit soaring to follow their leader once more.
"Although we are now at war, we are not sure whom the enemy is. However, we may believe that this may be the work of the Brotherhood of Steel from the Midwest along with any survived Brotherhood Chapters and remnants of Lost Hill. Now you may wonder why it could be them? Well to be honest, they are the only factions in North America to have access to pre-war technology. It wouldn't be a surprise they would have the ability to salvage and rebuilt those advance jet fighters that attacked our spaceships in the D.C. Plus, their organization is dying. Just like the knights of the Middle Ages, they are declining due to their purpose of destroying Super Mutants, restore technology, and rebuilding civilization becoming obsolete. Ever since the TSC was formed and the United States was reborn, our world is on the path of restoration with the Age of Fallout coming to an end. Now the Brotherhood is fighting to preserve their existence by attempting to destroy the TSC, steal our technology, and conquer our nation to become its new ruler. Well, that is not going to happen. As of now, our forces back on Earth should be preparing for war while trying to locate us."
Dante stated as everyone in the crowd listened intentionally wanting to hear on what their next move should be for their survival. Plus, they want to know how they will be able to get back home. All they could do now is listen to their leader's suggestion.
"We may be unable to help our country by joining the fight, but we had made sure to set up an emergency plan in case we are unable to command our forces. As of now, my second in command, TSC Vice Admiral Harkin, should be taking over in my stead in commanding the TSC as per protocol of the chain of command. This includes Lieutenant General Preston Garvey of the Minutemen and Colonel Judah Kreger of the Securitron Army. Our friends, President Truman of the Continental Congress, members of the Delegates, and Mr. House will keep our country and New Vegas safe while continuing to govern our nation in our absent. We must have faith in their abilities and pray that we can make it back on time. Right now we must focus on our objective. And that is to find a way to get back to Earth. To do this I have three orders for everyone. Survive. Adapt. And win. To survive, we must know more about this new alien world by exploring the civilizations on this planet to gain intel on the natives. We must learn as much as possible of this world's history and its cultures to avoid any possibilities of hostilities for our survival. Plus, we need to know what type of vegetation, faunas, and diseases that are natural in this world that could be threatening to us during our stay. We will also need to establish mining sites to gather mineral resources and construct hydroponic greenhouses to secure our own food source along with water purifiers to secure water sources. To adapt, we will set up and build our main base on this central archipelago island and expand to the surrounding six islands by constructing bridges and strategic infrastructures. We will first set up a hidden dockyard inside the central island's main mountain to house the Retribution and set her up for repairs. These islands will be our new homes during our stay and will keep us hidden from the native factions of this world. Finally, we shall win by overcoming any possible enemies that dare come to threaten us in this world and we will return home once we have found the solution to this most important problem. Right now, your first orders are to set up some tents, set up defenses, eat your meals, and rest for the night. Tomorrow will be a busy day for us all. That is all. You are all now dismissed."
Once Dante finished, he stood up straight and snapped to attention before saluting to the soldiers and civilians. Everyone in the crowd did the same and saluted back at their leader with respect and new resolve. Then everyone began to disperse to start unloading crates of equipment and supplies from the Retribution's cargo hold. They brought out the necessary camp equipment to prepare tent barracks, high beam lantern poles, and an outdoor kitchen with a large canopy. This also includes steel cafeteria bench tables to be set up for the crewmembers and soldiers to eat. Defense wall assemblies were set up around the camp in which includes gantries to patrol the walls on top and set up defense energy turrets in case of hostile wildlife attempting to attack their position. This world's wildlife may not have any radiated mutant animals like Deathclaws, Mirelurks, or the strange, mutant creatures of West Virginia and Far Harbor but since this is a new world they are not taking any chances.
The Retribution does have the barracks for the soldiers and crewmembers including the private rooms for the officers to sleep in. But Dante figured that everyone had spent enough time sleeping inside the ship and should have the opportunity to spend the night outside for proper rest. This is his tactic to keep the morale at acceptable level and ensure everyone is mentally stable.
Dante remained standing on the platform as he placed his hands into his commander coat pockets. The Black Guards remained standing in protective perimeter formation around the platform. He sighed as he watched everyone working to settle in for the night.
"Well guys, what do you think?" asked Dante to his friends. Nate and Theo looked at Dante with confusion.
"About what?" asked Theo with curiosity.
Dante looked up at the twilight sky filled with stars and light blue space dusts in which were mesmerizing in his gaze.
"About this world. Do you have this feeling as though we were brought here for a reason? Or was there really something wrong with the hyperdrive that ended up as being a bad luck for us to be sent so far away from home?"
Nate folded his arms across his chest and closed his eyes while his expression revealed a frown face. He hummed as he thought about what Dante just said while tapping his left hand point finger on his right bicep.
Theo sighed as he, out of habit, pulled out his cigar pocket container and took out one of the seven San Francisco Sunlight cigars and placed it into his mouth. After putting the container back into his coat, he pulled out his Blood-Nap bowie knife from his belt holster with his left hand and held his cigar between his middle and point finger on his right hand. Theo then cut the back end of the cigar with his knife. After putting his Blood-Nap away Theo put his cigar back in his mouth to moisten and chew the cut end as he took out Benny's engraved flip lighter from inside his overcoat before holding out the cigar over the lighter to light it up. He held it over the flame for a bit before making small puffs into the large tobacco stick that lit the end and exhaled out thick white smoke. Once the cigar was properly lit, Theo put the lighter back into his overcoat and started to enjoy his fresh, lit cigar as he began to think about Dante's words.
"You know, I felt that way too. This feels like one of those new roads that we used to wander onto and explore a new land with new people. However, every time we followed those new roads we ended up getting involved in a new conflict that we have to solve even though we had no reason to do so," replied Theo as he slowly inhaled some smoke before blowing them out of his nose.
Nate opened his eyes and looked at Theo with right eyebrow raised.
"Are you replying about the times when we traveled to different parts of the Wastelands such as the Pitt, Point Lookout, Big Mountain, Zion Valley, Far Harbor, Nuka World, and others? The same locations where we helped to resolve each major crisis before making those locations safe enough for the settlers to build settlements?" asked Nate as he waved his right hand across his face to blow away the annoying cigar smoke from his nose.
"Yeah. But I am mostly referring to that feeling in our guts. That feeling to wander. The excitement to explore the unknown. The curiosity to learn new secrets. And the thrill to seek out an adventure. Since we are standing on a new planet, do you have that same feeling to wander to those continents and explore out of curiosity? Because I'm getting that kind of feeling in my gut that I had never felt in a long time since my time from exploring the Frontier," said Theo inhaling more nicotine smoke and blowing out smoke rings from his mouth.
Dante and Nate knew what Theo was talking about. For years ever since Nate and Dante become leaders of their own respective faction they hardly ever got to explore new lands of the Wasteland due to their new duties keeping them busy. The only time they were able to see new parts of the North American continent and new rising nations of Earth is during diplomacy or inspection of certain military units occupying certain territories or pre-war military bases. All the time, they are escorted by their personal guards and are unable to explore their new surroundings. You could say that the three wanderers missed their wandering days and wished they could do it again. But now, it seems they could do it again in this new world.
Dante moved his gaze from the night sky to look at the temporary base camp that is now completed. TSC Army soldiers and MPs are now patrolling the defense walls on the gantries with the energy turrets and searchlights activated. TSC drones were patrolling outside the defense walls to keep any possible threats from nearing the campsite.
Satisfied with the base camp set-up Dante spoke, "Yeah. I am getting that feeling again. But right now we need to focus on setting up a base of operations on this island before making plans on our next course of action. Also, I'm worried about Marie back home including my family and friends. I hope they are safe. They must be worried about us." Dante had a sad and anxious expression on his face as he mentioned about their loved ones they left behind as a new war is probably now starting. Nate was also worried about his son and his canine companion, Dogmeat, that he unintentionally left behind at D.C.
Theo doesn't have any relatives back on Earth, but his only family were the Red Rock tribal whom raised him after his parents were killed by the Desert Klaw Raiders. He makes time to visit his adopted family to preserve his bonds with the children, childhood friends, elders, and his guardian. He understood the anxiety of his friends and how important their families are to them. He could only ease their concern by re-assuring them that they are safe.
"Look fellas. I know you guys are worried about your loved ones, but I am sure that they are safe. Your personal guards, the Black Guards and the Blue Guards, will no doubt protect Marie and Shaun no matter what, including Amata and her husband while you're absent. We may have got caught off guard by that unexpected suicide attack but I am sure that the leaders in the TSC Council are stepping up their security to make that it doesn't happen again," said Theo with calm tone and reassurance as he continued to smoke his cigar. "Besides, our men and women of the Retribution need us now to lead them to survive on this new world and bring them home in one piece. Right guys?"
Dante and Nate turned and smiled at Theo's words in which helped eased the anxiety in their hearts. They nodded in agreement with Theo.
"Jolly Good! And you have us to help you with your missions, Good Sirs," replied Codsworth whom is trying to help boost their morale. ED-E beeped in agreement with Rex and Cooper joining in by barking to show their support. Dante, Theo, and Nate smiled at their companions.
"Thanks you guys. But right now we need to have one last meeting with three people before we call it in for the night. Captain Thompson!" said Dante as the Black Guard commander step forward from his guard position and saluted his leader. "Sir!"
Dante stood straight with his hands held behind his back, "Please have Dr. Mobius, Dr. Curie, Professor Jack Cabot, and Detective Nick Valentine escorted to the war room on the Retribution. We wish to have a talk with them." The Black Guard officer saluted once more before acknowledging the order. Captain Thompson than gathered two other Black Guards of Red Alpha squad and proceeded to gather the three mentioned people.
Dante looked up at the night sky as though he was trying to find Earth among the stars. "I hope everyone is alright. The TSC, the Minutemen, New Vegas, and the Continental Congress are in for a real challenge. To wage a war without the guidance of their leaders. Let's hope they can hold out until we return," thought Dante.
Hear is Chapter 4 everyone! Sorry it took months since the last update in May to update this chapter. I was busy with summer classes lectures and labs for the fall since my college major is mechanical engineering. But I like writing this story because I want to entertain myself by creating my own adventure story in this crossover. Right now, our famous wanderers are finally in Runeterra and are going to build a base that is well hidden and perfectly isolated from the native locals before they begin their wandering to explore the new world. I will also keep up with what is happening back on Earth since the TSC, United States and the Minutemen are at war with a powerful faction which I am sure you can guess who it is. Also, the characters: Dr. Mobius, Curie, Jack Cabot, and Nick Valentine will play their important parts in this world. Dr. Mobius = technology development to combat demons/sorcerers/ascendants(targon, shurima, and darkins)/magical creatures/and void creatures, Curie = Runeterra biology research, Jack Cabot = Runeterra magic (including dark/evil magic) research, and Nick Valentine = investigating Piltover/Zaun crimes
Here are the Three Wandering Heroes SPECIAL points with all of their skill points up to 100 or over. Each will have three of their SPECIAL points up to 12 as part of their natural-born perks that is part of their character.
Dante Abram (Lone Wanderer): Strength-10; Perception-10; Endurance-10; Charisma-12; Intelligience-12; Agility-12; Luck-10
Titles: Supreme Command of the TSC; Ressurector of Our Country; Messiah; Last, Best Hope of Humanity; Ambassador of Peace; Protector; Vault Guardian; Sun Tzu's Student; Heir to the Oval Office; Salvation Doctor
Theo West (Courier): Strength-10; Perception-12; Endurance-10; Charisma-10; Intelligience-10; Agility-12; Luck-12
Titles: Mojave Commander; Mojave Legend; Lady Luck's Lover; Suave Gambler; Monster Hunter; Cheater of Death; Treasure Hunter; Friend of all Tribals; Scourge of the East; City Destroyer; Best Chef in Vegas
Nate O'Connor (Sole Survivor): Strength-12; Perception-10; Endurance-10; Charisma-10; Intelligience-12; Agility-12; Luck-10
Titles: General of the Minutemen; Man from the Past; Tinkering Engineer; Settlement Architect; Great War Veteran; Silver Shroud; Savior of the Commonwealth; Grandfather of the Synths
Next chapter will be the focus on the situation with Earth with the TSC's upcoming war including thoughts and reactions from different characters, enemies, and friends of the attack and the new war. I am already starting Ch. 5 and I hope I can get it upload soon. Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!