Sentinel Adam Taurus

The Prydwen

2287, November 15

Adam didn't sleep much, he probably should have listened to that holo-tape once. He ended up listening to it for some time and by the time he fell asleep he had only slept a few hours. Rolling his shoulders he put on his new uniform a black flight suit, and his armor and to top it off that bomber jacket that was left for him. He grabbed his pit boy and strapped it on the way out. He was due to report to Elder Maxson. Climbing down to the Command Deck he met Elder Maxson where he first met the young leader. Fist across his chest Adam reported in, like the soldier he was.

"Elder Maxson, you wished to see me?" Adam stood at attention.

"Adese soldier, yes I have a mission for you, before we depart in a few days for the Capital Wasteland" Maxson turned from looking on to the commonwealth.

"Anything to get me moving Elder" Adam replied.

"Good, because as a Sentinel you will be assigned your own squad" Adam thinned his lips in thought, recently aside from one of his friends accompanying him he usually traveled alone.

"Problem Sentinel?" Maxson asked.

"No sir, just haven't led a squad since Anchorage" he recalled his time in Alaska and the few men he was in charge of.

"Well as a Sentienl, though fairly independent you need to set an example for the rest of your brothers. So a squad is the best and most basic way to start" Maxson explained.

"Understood, what will be my-our mission" Adam nodded.

"Asset retrival, if worst come to worse than asset denial. I had an interesting conversation with Lance Captain Kells, he informs me you helped cure Doctor Virgil from the FEV virus" Ah that asset he thought.

"Great the Glowing Sea…again" I'm going to turn into a freaking Ghoul Adam thought sarcastically.

"Don't worry soldier it will be the last time you see it…we will speak further about that later however" Maxson looked to the side with some trepidation.

"I understand Elder, but how useful can he be?" Adam shrugged.

"If he can cure the super mutants that would go a long way into healing the scars of this nation and starting again." Maxson said.

"Sentinel I have come to trust you so, as such I will confide in you this" Maxson walked and sat on one of the seats.

"I learned a lot from my predecessor and his daughter. Elder Lyons, led the Brotherhood of Steel to the Captial Wasteland. When I was assigned as his squire as a young boy I didn't know what to think. Everyone back West either called him a savage sympathizer or an honorable man finally displaying the qualities their order should possess." Maxson frowned in thought.

"So I strived to learn as much as I could from him and his daughter Sarah Lyons, she taught how to fight and trained me to use power armor. Eventually when I was fifteen Elder Lyons died and his daughter Sarah took over" Maxson waved his hand dismissively.

"Because of Lyons goal to protect the people of the Capital Wasteland, some of our brothers desserted the order, calling themselves outcast and remained so even when Sarah took command of the Brotherhood" he looked a bit sadden.

"She died about a year later and there was the problem of succession, the council at the West sent a decree to put me in command" Maxson leaned back and looked tired for a young man.

"That's a lot of pressure on a sixteen year old teenager" Adam said outloud. Maxson snorted shaking his head.

"Yeah it was up to me and I didn't know what to do, I mean I had some brothers tell me to return to our original mission and others to honor Lyon's memory and continue his ways" Maxson sounded conflicted just talking about it. He couldn't imagine the burden he must have leading the brotherhood.

"First things first we couldn't remain divided, so I chose to have the outcast return to the brotherhood. It took some convincing and some empty promises but they joined up, I used mostly former outcast men to send out and collect tech and take out ferals and, super mutant strongholds" Maxson explained, no doubt his loyal brothers saw it as betrayal that he favored the deserters. However Maxson was making sure that the former outcast took the brunt of the casualties and have their ideas die out and easy to replace with his. The move was as much ruthless as brilliant.

"Shortly after that I made sure we started making outpost and manning Adams Airforce Base, stretching our numbers thin and appealed to the brotherhood that we would need more people if were to ever become stronger. The idea of only being born into the Brotherhood as an outdated and useless ideal" Common sense and creating a situation that served his own purpose Maxson was as good a tactician as they claimed.

"From there I began recruiting Wastelanders and buying supplies and scavenge tech and resources to build this thing" he knocked with his knuckles on a nearby railing.

"It took me eight years to get this thing in the air, by then I found out about synths, the institute and well here we are" Maxson finished.

"For what it's worth eve if we disagree on the method, I think we did what we had to, the Institute would have brought death on us all" he agreed on the institute needing to be taken out, however him and Maxson varied on their views on synths. Still he could see where he was coming from.

"Thank you Sentinel…that that means a lot to me. Now with the Institute gone, Iv'e been thinking of this" Maxson said.

"I'm tired of sending out our Brothers out to scavange for technology like god damn rats, the Brotherhood has spent countless generations hording technology to keep it from hands that would use it against mankind" Mxason said.

"So we have to use it, if we don't set the example how the hell can we save humanity if we don't do anything about it" Maxson was idealistic, but conflicted like any young leader. Adam smiled a little maybe he could help him become the man Maxson seemed to be aspire to be, he wanted to be like this Lyons he spoke of.

"Sentinel…Adam, I want to establish a nation again I want to build a future where we don't hoard tech but use it to improve our lives. The brotherhood lost the war against the NCR because they held on to their outdated ideals. I want to establish a new country rebuild what we lost" Adam nodded.

"The United Commonwealth States" Maxson stood proud.

"Once we take the Hoover Damn the people will flock to our cause we will offer stability and freedom"

"What of the Government?" Adam asked.

"It's our motto isn't it? Democracy is non-negotiable" Maxson proclaimed.

"That's what I like to hear" Adam nodded with a grin.

"I thought so, I will hammer out the details as we wage our campaign, now you have a mission don't you sentinel?" Maxson stood ad offer him a salute.

"That I do Elder, I will head out as soon as possible" Adam nodded.

"Good we will speak later the team will be waiting for you at the Catwalk by a Virtibird that will take you to your mission" Adam nodded once more and walked off to find his power armor. As he walked through the halls he found a bit of a commotion at the bar. He found some men gathered by the right corner table. Paladin Brandis was shaking his head looking at the younger initiates and scribes. From the voices he recognized the accent easily.

"Ah yes I am, a Miss Nanny, or perhaps a synth now I suppose" the French accent explained.

"Curie" Adam was suddenly tense and had half a mind to reach for the alser pistol at his leg.

"Ah Monsieur Adam, I was wondering when you would arrive! I had hope to keep this as a surprise until we departed" Curie stood offering her hand, she was clad in a scribe uniform. Adam clasped her hand and shook it.

"Curie…how did you join exactly?" she asked. Paladin Brandis joined them walking by them.

"She said she knew you and traveled with you, Elder Maxson was quick to accept her considering her knowledge of the past and medicine" Brandis explained.

"He was okay with you?" Adam asked still unsure.

"Yes it seems I'm not technically a synth and because I was originally a Miss Nanny unit, I have been welcomed more or less" she explained.

"Are you having trouble?" he asked, Adam would not lie having a familiar face was going to be a good thing.

"Oh no real trouble, the Mr. Gutsy units are simply curios and keep asking me questions about how I was put into here" she tapped her chest for emphasis.

"Ah I see, well if you have trouble" Adam said.

"She will come to me" Brandis said.

"I'm getting tired of being cooped up here not doing anything, so Maxson order me to keep an eye on her and to make sure she's not bothered while she works" Brandis explained.

"That's good I'm glad you can start to work again." Adam nodded and he felt the tenseness melt away away.

"Yes I just hope I can be cleared for field missions soon" Brandis explained.

"I agree Paladin Brandis, with you on the field I can gather more samples and experiments. I am quite adamant to help Senior Scribe Neriah into making a potent anti-radiaton serum" Curie said and quickly walked off in her own little world mumbling something or other about mole rats. Paladin Brandis chuckled and gave Adam a firm nod and walked off. Adam resume his treck into the Armory to find his power armor. He found Proctor Ingram looking over his armor as some scribes tweaked it.

"An X0-1 Mk VI power armor…I never thought in my life I would ever see one of these" Ingram said as he walked up by her.

"Yeah, wouldn't believe where I found this thing" Adam muttered.

"Try me" Ingram said.

"In the Glowing Sea" he said the irony not lost on him.

"And you hate that place" she cracked a grin.

"Yeah…well I better suit up, you re stocked up the med-x on the pump system?" he asked.

"Yep, replaced the core and tweaked your jetpack so it uses less power, though not any less powerful" Adam rotated the crank, the armor opened up awaiting his master. Adam stepped in the armor closing in around him. The display on the helmet read his vitals and his V.A.T.S charge. From the table next to him he armed himself after walking out of the frame. His trusty Righteous Authority from Paladin Danse with its modifications. A plasma pistol and a sledgehammer with a rocket booster attached to it. He slung the hammer on his lower back. He attached the Laser Rifle to the magnetic hilt on his thigh. He picked up a laser pistol for good measure and put it on his right thigh. Armed he briefly spoke to Proctor Teagan and restocked on ammunitions. He was ready to go to work, as it were.

He made his way out to the catwalk, he found three individuals waiting for him. One in power armor and two in fatigues and armor. Adam made his way to them and they stood at attention saluting him.

"Ad Victoriam brother" they said in unison.

"Ad Victoriam…I guess you are my new squad" Adam said looking to the gathered brothers. The familiar face of Knight Lucia was the only one he recognized.

"Knight Lucia…any word on Initiate Clarke?" he asked and she looked down.

"No sir…I think he's still confused about things" Lucia admitted.

"I see perhaps he will see the light yet…chin up knight" Adam offered her a smile and the knight returned it with a hopeful one of her own.

"Alright aside from Knight Luica what are your names" Adam asked.

"Initiate Roger Moore Sir!" the initiate talked.

"Knight James Fenix sir" the Knight offered a crisp salute.

"Good, well I assume you already know me, so let's get this started, have you been briefed?" Adam asked.

"No sir, we were told you would brief us" Lucia said.

"Very well, our mission is asset retrieval, Doctor Virgil from the Glowing Sea. With me and James being the only ones in power armor, do you two have anything to counter the radiation? I only brought a spare for the good doctor" asked Adam.

"Yes sir we got some Hazmat suits, scrounged them up from Logistics" Lucia said.

"Good, into the Virtibird, were heading out, I want this mission clean and easy" Adam motioned for the docked Vertibird with its engines warmed up.

"Yes sir!" his squad said in unison.

"Dad!" the squad turned to see the young boy run up to them clad in an initiate uniform.

"Dad! Are you going out!? Can I come with you, I won't get in the way I promise!" Adam knelt down with a wry smile as…his son. Something he was still trying to process and come to terms with looked at him with curios excited eyes.

"No Shaun, were going somewhere Dangerous, you can't go I'm sorry" he said and placed his big armored hand on the boy's shoulder.

"But dad…I don't want you to leave me" he said, I never wanted to Adam sighed.

"I will return in a few hours, I promise, besides shouldn't you be training to be a knight?" he gave him a comforting smile.

"Yeah…can I wear power armor like you dad!?" he asked his eyes shined with admiration for Adam.

"When your, older son…just remember listen to Paladin Danse, and he will train you to be a knight" he said.

"I know I like Danse, he's kind of odd though" Shaun shrugged.

"Don't let him hear you say that, you'll be doing pushups until your arms fall off" grinned Adam.

"Y-yeah, okay dad, see you later, I love you" he hugged his power armor as best his smaller frame could.

"Thanks bud" I can't say it back he tried, he really was, Shaun…the real Shaun left a last request of trying. He wasn't sure he was succeeding, Maxson gave him the benefit of the doubt with Shaun. With the Institute destroyed and Synth production no longer possible, he agreed to keep Shauna secret.

"Alright team let's move" he stood just as from the Decks door opened and Dogmeat trotted out to stand next to Shaun.

"Take care of him buddy" he said as he walked up to the Virtibird. Dogmeat barked in return and sniffed Shaun who petted his head in return.

The Glowing Sea

2287, November 15

Once inside the Virtibird, Lucia and Roger began to change into a Hazmat suit. Disengaging from the Prydwen they began their flight to the Glowing Sea.

"Wasp-four, moving to mission location" the pilot of the Vertibird announced.

"Alright, passengers this, is your pilot speaking this is a non-stop flight to the eradiated shit-hole of the Commonwealth, please keep all mutations to a minimum and enjoy the ride" the squad chuckled and flew in relative silence. After about thirty minutes the Geiger counter on his power armor began ticking.

"Look alive approaching target location" Adam said over the roar of the engines. His squad began checking weapons and injecting some Rad-X for good measure. Lucia and Roger put on their helmets and gave each other a checkup for suit integrity. They gave thumbs up and pulled up their laser rifles checking their weapons. James towing a Gatling Laser loaded fresh power core span the charge barrles once to check.

"Flying over impact site…two minutes" looking over the edge Adam saw the crater of the bomb that ended his old life. Nothing to do now but look forward he closed his eyes shaking his head.

"You okay Sir?" Lucia asked.

"Yes…just reminiscing" Adam said.

"Alright were here…oh shit" the pilot said.

"What...what is it?" asked Adam.

"I got contact outside the targets cave, muties mean and green, they seem to be fighting a deathclaw" the pilot said.

"Shit…James with me Lucai on the minigun, Roger keep us covered if you can" Adam ordered and as the Virtibird flew lower Adam and James jumped off. Their power armor hit the ground kicking up gravel and dust.

"Destroy the humans!" yelled a Super Mutant and ran at them braindishing a sharpened car bumper. Reaching across his lower back Adam brought his sledge hammer to bare. Gripping with both hands he stood his ground.

"James slag the others this one is mine" Adam ran forward.

"AAHH!" The super mutant yelled and swung down against Adam. The Sentinel blocked the hit with a loud clank and pushed the mutant off. Then he swung sideways and the mutant yelled in pain as the rocket and the strength of the super armor delivered a bone shattering hit on its right arm. The mutant pushed him off and swung catching his chest plate. Sparks flew but damage was superficial.

"Die bleeder!" yelled the mutant. Adam parried an overhead swing and swung upward. The sledge hammer smashed into the mutants face blood splatter his armor as he smashed the skull brain matter and blood flying everywhere. Just as quickly he passed the mutant to head for James location. The knight reved up his Gatling laser and fired red beams of fiery death on the mutants and Deathclaw.

"Heads up Sentinel!" Lucia came over his helmet radio. The Viritbird leant down as it circled the battlefield. Lucia squeezed the trigger and rain hot led on the battlefield. The rounds kicked up dirt and dust. The rounds hitting home ripped flash apart of the less armored mutants. The Death claw roared and knocked a mutant aside charging Adam and James.

"Here it comes, eat slag abomination!" James roared and let loose a hail of laser. Slinging his hammer Adam joined and activated his V.A.T.S, his display lit up highlighting the Deathclaw and its vital body parts. Taking the optortunity by James as the beast staggered back roaring in pain as the hot lasers made contact. Flesh seared and its carapace superheated. Adam fired his laser rifle aiming for the rams and the weaker joints. The beast roared in anger and charged again this time zig-zagging to lessen his damage.

"James pull back!" Adam yelled firing at the Deathclaw. James however wasn't fast enough as the Deathclaw jumped on him and knocked James on his back. With its razor sharp teeth it went for James head biting his helmet.

"Shit I can't get a clean shot!" yelled Lucia over the radio.

"I got him!" Adam squeezed the trigger hitting the softer underbelly.

"Get it off! Damn it get it off!" the beast clawed and banged in a frenzy on James power armor. The beast finally ignored him in favor of Adam. Oh shit Adam lowered his stance as the creature ran for him. It repeated its zig-zag and Adam pressed the trigger. Empty offcourse waiting for it to get closer he leapt and with a loud burst his jetpack ignited and he leaped over the lunging Deathclaw. He landed near James and the beast writhed on the twisting and roaring its claws grasping at the dirt.

"That thing looks pissed" the pilot said and it hovered above James and Adam's location. Adam put his Righteous Authority back on its magnetic hilt at his hip and bent down picking up the Gatling laser.

"Light it up!" Adam yelled he squeezed the trigger the Gatling laser whined in a high pitch and the red lasors fired a burning trail hitting their target. Above him he felt the clank of small casings as Lucia unloaded the mini gun Roger as well taking a knee fired his laser rifle on the creature as it reared back before charing blindly.

"Fall!" Adam yelled as the creature closed the distance it seemed as though its front claw exploded snapping at the arm. It fell writhing under the heavy fire before finally stopping.

"Cease fire!" Adam ordered. Adam looked at the creature, he looked down to James for a second.

"You alive in there soldier?" he asked his answer was a thumbs up from the groaning soldier. After firing a few more shots on the corpse for good measure, Adam offered a hand to James that stood up with a few creaks to his armor.

"Status soldier?"

"Visor's cracked a little and the chest plate is reading critical, but other than that I'm fine" James panted, Adam nodded and looked to the destroyed bodies of the Super Mutants and Deathclaw.

"Alright…okay Wasp four anything else near enough to try to kill us?" Adam said as he handed James his weapon back.

"No looks clear Sentinel, your clear for the cave" Was four said.

"Roger, James watch the entrance al be back in a minute" Adam said and reloaded his laser rifle and walked up to the caves entrance.

"Sir?" James began.

"Don't worry soldier Virgil will want to help, I'll be fine" I hope Adam walked Righteous Authority back on his hip. The turrets light next to the barrel light up yellow.

"Whoa, whoa! Virgil it's me Adam" Adam lifted his metal hands up, the turrets beeped after a minute and Adam walked in.

"A-Adam…so are you here to kill me?" he asked he was holding a 10mm pistol that wouldn't even scratch the paint on his power armor.

"No I'm here because I figured you would want out of here by now" Adam said.

"I can't leave, the radiation would kill me" Virgil said.

"I got a hazmat suit with me, more importantly we want you to continue your research into finding a general cure for the FEV" Adam said.

"For the Brotherhood of Steel?" he knew Adam was part of the organization when he had first come into his cave.

"Yeah, originally they wanted you dead for being a Super Mutant" Adam began.

"But when I told them you cured yourself, well they really wanted you after that" Adam watched the scientist drop his weapon and sigh in relief.

"Good….good if the Brotherhood allows me to continue my research, I will follow you" Adam nodded.

"Pack what you want to take without and let's move out" Adam said and talked into his calm.

"Lucia get in here and bring the spare suit" Adam ordered.

"Understood Sentinel" about thirty minutes later Virgil had a briefcase a bag and his protector robot following close by.

"Alright let's move out, I'll contact the Prydwen once were out of this irradiated hell hole" Adam grumbled and they mounted the Virtibird. Though James and Adam had to help get the protrecton into the Virtibird. They flew again I silence with Virgil looking rather pale from flying, he would have thought being a super mutant would have helped him lose fears. When the thunder stopped and skies cleared up Adam tested the long range calm again.

"Sentinel Adam to Prydwen, do you read me?" he got a clean response from none other than Captain Kells.

"We read you Sentinel, was your mission successful?" he asked.

"Yes, Captain the doctor agreed to join us and were almost there" Adam informed.

"Another job well done as always soldier, Elder Maxson will debrief you on the command deck. Prydwen out" Adam sighed.

"Well, for a first sortie as a team you did good, soldiers was this your first mission Initiate?" asked Adam. He saw the young man was still shaking the grip on his laser rifle shaky, adrenaline was still high on him.

"Y-yeah I just got promoted from squire" he grinned sheepishly.

"You did well, don't worry we will keep you alive" Adam said.

"Not a bad first sortie at all, a round on me when we return"

"Ad Victoriam sir!" they all said in unison. With that done Adam took his place near the back of the Virtibird and shut off his outside communication. Sighing he played the holotape he loaded into his power armor.

"Hi honey! Listen…" Adam closed his eyes I said look forward, but can't take my own words to heart he quietly stayed out of the conversation his squad started up with Virgil while he listened to his late wife's message for the millionth time.

Alright chapter two down! Hope you guys enjoy this, also to answer a bit of question for you guys. Well first, thanks for reviewing guys I hope we can make this story greate.

Kage: Nope, in this particular playthrough I went into the institute using the Minutemen. So I avoided that whole scenario. Still if I hadn't I would have kept it without it happening, Idk I found that was just idk an unncessesary plot twist, the one you get when you go into the Institute was crazy enough lol.

Thedark2: The Curier? Who knows…who knows ;)

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