I do not own Fallout at all. As for the characters, they can die at any moment in this story. So don't be mad if a character you love dies. If you want to know what happened before, I recommend you read Fallout: South Carolina. This story is the sequel story to that one.


John was working hard on making a new paper Currency as Zoey and Claire walked in. Claire asked John what he was doing, he responded with, "I'm going to make a new Currency. Bottle caps are good and all, but as a Post-war Republic, we need a new kind of Currency. We can't rely on Bottle caps forever. So I'm going to make some currency and get opinions." After some time, John had a first attempt at the new Paper Currency, a Five Carolina Republic Dollar bill with Mason's face being on the front and New Charleston being on the back. Next there was a 10 Dollar Bill with Harold's name in place of it on the front and the Carolina republic symbols on the back. A 100 Dollar Bill with his own name on the front and a placeholder labeled address to the people on the back.

"The Bottle caps will be equal to 1.00 Carolina Republic Dollar for every 100 Bottle caps." John told the girls. Zoey then said, "So five bottle caps are equal to one Five Dollar bill." John nodded his head and told them that he hoped that the Carolina Republic Dollar would be worth making it as they had no gold reserves. Claire looked and asked how they would circulate it. John told her, "Simple Plan, and I hope it works."

The next day, John got approval to make test batches of the new Currency and after making them, John explained to his people that the new Currency would be equal in terms of Caps to start with. Some of the business owners took the new currency and looked at it, some noted how it looked similar to Pre-War money. John told them that was the idea and he hoped that with the Carolina Republic Dollar they could rely less on Caps and on a more sustainable Currency. He then said, "I just realized this, we have territories in the old state of North Carolina… so technically we're the United Carolina Republic now." Zoey smiled and said, "It makes sense, so we're the UCR."

"The UCR… I like it." John told his fiance. Zoey smiled and kissed his cheek and he kissed her cheek. Claire smiled as she hugged both their legs. John smiled and ruffled her hair. He then said to her, "Oh I just remembered.'' He then had Claire and Zoey follow him, Zoey knew what he was leading them to, but Claire was clueless. Rounding the corner, Claire gasped as John was now holding a puppy dog. He told her that it was a Labrador Retriever Puppy since Dogmeat hasn't been down from the Commonwealth Republic. He then said, "If you promise to take good care of him, you can keep him." He also handed her the Puppy and Claire got licked on her face, which made her laugh hard.

"I WILL DADDY! THANK YOU!" Shouted Claire as she hugged him. John smiled and hugged her back as the puppy licked both of their faces. John petted the puppy before asking Claire what she wanted to name him. Claire thought about it and decided to name him Mason, after her dead Uncle. That made John and Zoey smile before they hugged her. After that Claire gave the puppy some Dog food and watched him eat it all.

Later, John was getting reports from the United Carolina Republic Embassies in Athen and New Sparta; they confirm that the Enclave Remnant is embedding spies into both Post-War Governments. John sighed and leaned in his seat. He knew that he had to stop the potential war between the two so he contacted his Embassies to ask to meet the leaders of both sides in a neutral spot and let them talk it out. When Harold asked him where he would have them meet, John told him, "I know a place."

Later, at a beach, John stood there with Harold and a man with a bag over his head being held by two UCR soldiers as two Vertibirds landed in front of him and out came the Representatives of the soon to be warring factions. Lycurgus of New Sparta and Henry Patrickson of Athens. They two leaders walked to John with two guards from both of their settlements. John walked with Harold and another soldier and shook their hands as he said, "Thank you both for coming to meet me today, it's an honor to meet you two.."

"I have heard of your accomplishments Mr. President, the honor is mine." The Athen leader said as Lycurgus said, "As have we, though I don't understand why you asked the treacherous Athens here." John looked at them and said, "I brought you two here to try and stop the fighting before it even begins. Your two settlements are being manipulated into fighting each other." The leaders looked at John with Confusion before Lycurgus said, "You're joking right? Our Patrol was gunned down by the Athenian Dogs!" and Henry came back with, "We did not kill those men! You probably killed your own men to make it look like…"

"ENOUGH! NEITHER SIDE IS GUILTY!" John shouted, getting their attention. He then pointed to the man with the bag over his head. One UCR Soldier nodded his head and removed the bag to reveal a very beaten man. John showed the two Enclave Remnant Dog Tags and that they had the person's face on them. Then he told them, "This man spilled everything about their plans. Including the plan to get you two to fight." After that he pulled out a shell casing and asked them both what they thought it was. Lycurgus said that it was a 5mm casing, and added that his informants told him that Athens just got hold of a Minigun. That was when Henry said, "We got that Minigun from a gun Runner and we never used it!"

"That Gun Runner?" said John as he pointed to his right and out came Zoey and Frank dragging another man. Henry nodded his head and John told them that the man was a Enclave Remnant sympathizer and that the Minigun was used by Enclave Remnant Soldiers dressed as Athenian Soldiers. The two Representatives looked at each other, then they looked at John and Lycurgus said, "How can we believe what you tell us? How do we know you're not secretly siding with Athens."

"Cause I'm telling you the truth." John told them. He then said that in order to gather intel to help his case, the Embassies that were set up in both settlements gathered intel on who was most likely to be working with the Enclave Remnant. That made a guard from each side pull out 10mm pistols as they shouted, "FOR THE ENCLAVE!" but the guns were soon shot out of their hands as men rose from the sand and brush. John crossed his arms as Henry and Lycurgus were shocked while UCR troopers secured the two guards who attempted assassinations. John then went on to say that he hoped what transpired showed them that he was telling the truth.

"But Histatius… why?" Lycurgus asked the would-be assassin. Histatius glared at him and said, "Cause command, Enclave Remnant command, told me to make sure the Carolina Republic didn't succeed in its goal. Which we failed." The Athens infiltrator then said that the Enclave would be victorious by the end of all operations. The representatives looked at each other before looking back at John and Henry said, "What are your terms?" John led them to a small table that had an old Clipboard with papers on it. The two looked at the paper's title which was called the Myrtle Beach Defense Treaty.

"This treaty will allow us to come to each other's aid if members are under threat of invasion. The Alliance between the three of us will be the most powerful alliance in the Wasteland, I will travel with you to your respective homes and show it to your leaders, from there we will expose the Enclave Remnant puppets and bring an end to hostilities between the two of you. I read old history books that the Pre-War US had something like this called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO for short. They would come to each other's defense. This would be like that but ours will be called the United Southern Alliance… or USA… wow that is Ironic."

"Agreed, but what if people disagree with it?" Asked Henry, John told them that if they didn't accept it then they could join in a later time but that the United Southern Alliance was a member by choice Alliance, like the Pre-War alliance. The representatives looked at each other before telling John that they would support the treaty. Meanwhile, a Group of Merchants with Brahmins approached a UCR checkpoint. One UCR Trooper held a clipboard and asked, "Name?" The leader, a man in his late 50s, walked up to the trooper and said, "Jacob O'Brian, Blue Ridge Caravan leader. With me are My wife; Susan O'Brian, my son Jacob O'Brian Junior, my daughter susie O'Brian, and family friend Megan scotts." As the UCR trooper wrote the names down, a UCR trooper walked a trained Dog to sniff out chems or any contraband. The Brahmins were carrying the usual supplies for trading, plus some non irradiated fruits and vegetables. One of the UCR troopers looked at the non-mutated Carrot and Susie flirted with him saying that the carrots are nice and juicy.

The Soldier offered her caps for the carrot and Susie said they were worth quite a lot seeing as it was not like carrots he was used to seeing. The UCR Soldier was about to ask how much, but Jacob took the carrot and said to him, "Listen Private…" He looked at the name tag before resuming, "...Prescott, You are to keep your hands off my daughter. Come on Susie." Susie sighed before she waved goodbye to the UCR Soldier. The Commanding Border guard walked over to Private Prescott and said, "You know Junior, you are somehow a Lucky bastard. Ladies fall for you every time they enter the territory." Private Prescott looked at his Commanding officer and said, "That's what your sister tells me every night." and all the guards laugh.

"Yeah yeah, well get back to your posts." The commander said to his men. As they dispersed, the commanding officer grabbed Private Prescott's shoulder and told him that the next joke he made about his sister would cause Prescott to get shot in his balls. Private Prescott nodded his head and walked away after the commanding officer let go of his shoulder. The Commanding officer sighed and walked into his quarters. Sitting down, he sent a secret message to a contact in a distant bunker. All the while, the soldiers at the Border slowly walked to the commanding Officer's quarters, they had been given orders from Harold.

While not looking at the Building, Private Prescott saw a man rush under the window and motioned to his fellow soldiers to move in. The Soldiers nodded and ran into the Room. The commanding officer was shocked at their sudden rush in and demanded answers before the man that he was coordinating with got stabbed in his side by Private Prescott's Combat Rifle with all the powerful mods but with a Large bayonet instead of the Muzzle break that is normally on it. The Enclave Remnant Scout fell to his knees before the Border Commanding officer began to panic before the Border guards arrested him and kept him from swallowing the Cyanide Capsule that was in his mouth. They pinned the traitor to the ground and bound him with rope.

Back with John, he arrived at New Sparta first seeing as Athens was the furthest from where they were. Entering the city with the Representative, John looked around at the New Spartan citizens. He even saw members of his Embassy talking to the New Sparta Citizens. They gave him nods and glaces, and he nodded back as he walked back with an escort of loyal New Spartan Guards loyal to Lycurgus with Histatius in chains and UCR troopers guiding him. They met up in the Senate building which was once the Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium.

On the stage, John noticed how many representatives there were. Lycurgus stepped forward and said, "Members of the New Sparta Assembly, horrific news has been brought to my attention about the massacre of our patrol." One man stood up and said, "Wasn't it not Athens who killed them? Our intelligence group found that the Athenians have the Minigun!" But Lycurgus said to him, "You and I both know the truth, Limentus, you were the one who sent that patrol that way so your allies in the Enclave Remnant can kill them."

"What? How dare you make such an accusation with no…" was what the man, Limentus, who happened to be Halie's Husband. Pointed at the stage before multiple New Spartan soldiers armed with their Rippers on spears. Lycurgus then said that he had evidence thanks to John and he showed it all to the gathered. Many representatives, including Limentus, tried to run, but were captured as the main leader, a man who renamed himself after the Spartan king of Old, Leonidas, walked down and onto the stage before dropping Enclave bills. Lycurgus then told the leader that John wished to make an alliance with them and Athens.

"New Spartans! What is our answer?!" Shouted Leonidas. All of the loyal representatives stood up and shouted, "WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR AGAINST THE ENCLAVE!" John smiled at that response as the traitors got taken away. He then told them that he had no idea who he could trust so he had his Embassy gather intel on those who were working with the Enclave to bring New Sparta and Athens down. Leonidas told him that he would have the New Spartans if the Athenians accepted their apology.

"That is where we're headed next, Sir Leonidas. Because now we need to get the support of the Athenian people." John told Leonidas. After having the traitors paraded through the streets. Leonidas told his people that New Sparta will be going to war against the true enemy, the enclave remnant. John and Leonidas shook hands before he left to take his vertibird to Athens. At the Embassy, Halie marched into the office and up to Kendra, demanding an explanation. Kendra tried to calm her down, but she wasn't calming down.

"How the hell is my husband behind the attack on the patrol?! HIS OWN SON WAS IN IT!" Halie shouted. Kendra was speechless before she composed herself and said, "Look, Halie, believe me I didn't want to believe it but the evidence was right there." Halie grabbed her shirt and said, "Was Our friendship a lie? Did you use me?" Kendra shook her head and said, "No, the friendship we made was not a lie. You are a good person, your husband was not. I mean to have his own son in a trap must have been rough, you have my sympathies. But your husband still collaborated with the UCR's main enemy, along with others. If we did not find that out sooner than we did, New Sparta would be under military Occupation. This was done to save lives and livelihoods."

Halie sat down and was speechless. She looked at Kendra, a woman who just told her that if she didn't use her, the New Spartans would have been overwhelmed by the UCR forces. She then looked at Kendra before she stood up and without saying a word, walked out. Kendra didn't stop her but hoped that things could go back to normal eventually. She knew she had wronged Halie, keeping the truth from her, but she was just following orders. Back with John, he was in the Vertibird heading to Athens with Henry and the imprisoned Athenian traitor.

John looked across the Wasteland that was once the United States. He sighed as he saw craters from the Nuclear bombs that dotted the American landscape. That was when he made the choice to unite all of the Wasteland and make the UCR a shining beacon of hope. He swore he would make the Wasteland safe for all survivors.