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[closed] the only constant is change

Who: the Fallout AU crew
Setting: the Commonwealth
Summary: BoS things, institute things
Warnings: Fallout warnings, smut
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- minor timeskip to when the BoS has its feet under it again, shaun asks riley to go up and keep an eye on them and deacon goes with
- they get assigned to a BoS squad composed of AU versions of chancellery guards (paladin archimedes o'hallan, knight-captain anthony norris, lancer-sargeant alex reyes, knight riley reynolds, knight everett wynter, knight henry "hal" saller, aspirant 'jack' "deacon" 'priest')
- maybe some minor quests involving getting to know them, gotta get some solid Bonding going
- sarrith (sarah, secret enclave remnant) and sal's romeo and juliet romance
- that one quest where you get the nukes from the glowing sea for the BoS
- wynter's mistake and gradual ghoulification and the position it puts the squad in
- blind betrayal

- shaun announces ferran officially as his successor
- ferran dealing with the short institute quests that result from that
- shaun discovering ferran's a slut and trying to talk to him about it
- zetta freaking out bc they're spending all this time waiting for her to recover and dealing with the BoS, and not having the time to try to figure out a way to save shaun
- zetta, in general, driving shaun slowly up the wall because she's cooped up and needs to be kept occupied or else Bad Things Start Happening, why is this shaun's life, this was not what he was expecting at all
- ferran going on missions with x6-88 / house divided, warwick
- nathan and zay's one night stand with ferran becoming not a one night stand any more
- at some point we need to have nathan call deacon a mongrel to his face so zetta can go positively nuclear
- zay finding out nathan is taking buffout

- build towards the railroad and institute being on better terms (not *stable*, but they need to be in a position where they're willing to make an alliance at the battle for bunker hill and afterwards to take the BoS down)
- probably need to do a meeting with dez and carrington, bc jfc (and ferran being the next director makes it easier to make negotiations on the institute's behalf though shaun probably doesnt fully trust him with that wrt the railroad yet, shaun needs to see ferran make decisions that benefit the institute OVER the railroad for that)

- mass fusion happens before battle for bunker hill, lighting a fire under the brotherhood's ass (still use it as the faction cut-off point?)
- at the battle, brotherhood wins -- keeping them a legitimate threat and serving as the push for the institute and railroad to work together against them

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well, oh, it seems you're a lot like me
you dug yourself into places you never thought you would be
but don't you fret, and don't you mind
the only constant is change,
and you never know what you'll find

yeah, tomorrow i might wake up nice and clean
and i might believe the things i said i didn't mean
and this might turn and wind up just the way we'd dreamed
and i might become the things i swore i'd always be

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[Hal steps up to Riley's side and fires rapidly while Riley's cranks the musket. Once Riley is ready to fire, he'll stop and reload. If at least one of them's shooting at all times, that should help keep the robots at a distance.

On O'Hallan's other side, Anthony covers for Everett while Everett readies a pulse grenade.]

[With everyone organized, Riley feels a little bit of the terror that first gripped him when he recognized the robots settle. This isn't going anything at all like last time. They're better prepared, they're regaining ground.

They're going to be okay.]

[Everett hurls the pulse grenade towards a cluster of robots and turns his eyes away from the flash. Two robots crash to the ground with the pop and sizzle of shorted out electronics.]

[Riley can't tell if that cleared the last of the robots, but he thinks so. He thinks he sees more humans than robots, and a little more of that terror fades.

He focuses his fire from the edges inward as the raiders farther out begin to drop.]

[O'Hallan is taking heavy fire, bullets pinging off his armor, but it's holding up and he's not worried yet. Still, he begins to step backwards as he fires, getting some extra distance between him and these strange raiders.]

[These raiders are tougher than usual ones, but this is a Brotherhood of Steel squad. The raiders are dropping at a noticeable rate, but it still takes concentrated fire to make it happen.

Finally, the last one drops, and no more come out of the woodwork to provide back-up.]

[O'Hallan gestures to Anthony, who immediately sets to checking that all the raiders are truly dead. The dying are given a quick mercy killing. In the wasteland, it's rarely practical to try to take prisoners.

From far back towards the center of the trailer park, Alex comes running up to the others.]

What the fuck kind of raiders are these? Robotics school drop outs?

I don't know. We've fought robots like theirs before -- not... exactly, but... It almost looks like they're wearing parts from robots.

[O'Hallan tromps up to Riley.]

Are they common in this region? Our scouting party never encountered them.

[But Riley has been wandering the Commonwealth longer than the Brotherhood has been here.]

No, not that I know of. There are a couple of settlements to the north of here, and there haven't been any reports of...

[Riley trails off as he starts to make connections. If these raiders are out here, then Abernathy and Sanctuary are in danger. And Irene, Barbara, and Codsworth are still in Sanctuary right now.

And Codsworth is going to be crossing through all this territory on his own to pick up the puppies.

He pales and turns in the direction he last knew Deacon to be in.]

[Deacon's scampering up from their trailer, sniper rifle still in his hands, just in case.]

That went way better than last time. No one's maimed, like, at all.

[Riley reaches for Deacon with his free hand as he approaches, his other occupied by his laser musket still.]

Well... They didn't have an Assaultron with a stealth boy, [he points out.]

Yeah, I guess there's that.

Assaultron with a stealth boy?

[Hal echoes in horror.]

It... It was -- We almost didn't make it out. [Riley feels better, at least, for being able to touch Deacon like this.

... but.]

We need to find where they came from. [He says it to Deacon more than the others.] If they're based somewhere out here, then they're a threat to Sanctuary and Abernathy.

Shit.

Sanctuary's turrets should be able to hold off an attack like this one, but Codsworth's going to be travelling solo.

[He says that quietly, but then raises his voice to talk to O'Hallan.]

If these guys are making their home somewhere nearby, they're gonna be trouble for the Brotherhood base Maxson has planned. Talk about tech being abused.

[That should plant the idea in O'Hallan's head that maybe the Brotherhood should go find these robot raiders and deal with them. It won't happen soon enough to help Codsworth, but it'll help Sanctuary and Abernathy.]

[Riley should maybe feel bad about asking them to do this, because it's a Minutemen concern, not a Brotherhood one -- Except, when Deacon puts it like that, he realizes the Brotherhood is going to want this taken care of.

He squeezes Deacon's hand.]

[Deacon squeezes Riley's hand back, glad that he saw what Deacon did there and approved.

These raiders are a hell of a lot more dangerous than the usual Commonwealth low life. The Brotherhood are better equipped and better trained than the Minutemen. Plus, if there's going to be casualties taking them out, he'd rather it be Brotherhood deaths than settlers, even if he's still suspicious of the Minutemen as a concept.]

Let's help check the bodies to see if we can find any hints where they came from.

[Alex lightly kicks the head casing of the yellow robot Riley shot down.]

If the robots have a nav system, I might be able to pull one out and wire it into the vertibird GIS computer and backtrack their movements.

[Riley wishes Zetta were here.]

Is there anyone who knows enough about robots to be able to tell what's what?

No one here has scribe training. [O'Hallan knows that from the official personnel records. But perhaps someone has a robotics hobby, if they're lucky.

Hal shrugs helplessly and looks at others. Everett stares at his boots as if he thinks it's a shameful failing that he's not a mechanical expert in addition to being a soldier. Anthony shakes his head.]

[Riley frowns. But Zetta is stuck down in the Institute... And he doesn't know if he'd feel right asking Sturges to come -- He doesn't even know if Sturges can do robots.]

Codsworth might be able to recognize something, if we wait around long enough for him to get here.

What's it's ETA? [Alex asks, shuffling restlessly back and forth on his feet.]

Sometime in the morning.

[Alex spins in frustration at having to wait. He turns to O'Hallan.]

Permission to take the 'bird up for recon, sir.

Denied. [O'Hallan says promptly. No consideration needed.]

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