Blood Stained Steel

Though Elder Lyons has died his ideals have not. There are those who carry them on in the life of the wasteland even if the so called Brotherhood of steel will not. The pride of Lyons will. Please read and review. Disclaimer: I do not own the Fallout series or the characters. I wish I did because then I'd be rich but I don't so therefore am not rich.

Chapter 1: Recon Radio

Capital Wasteland Addams Airforce base-

Sentinel Henry Casdin formerly Protector Casdin of Outcast made his way around the area making sure everyone was doing their duties. Someone had to make sure the Brotherhood stayed on course. They had been distracted long enough by Lyons ideals too help the Wastelanders. He wasn't sure what caused Lyons too change course but they were back on track. Maybe he shouldn't still be annoyed with a dead man but he had led the Brotherhood astray.

Now they were doing what they were supposed to be doing keeping technology from those who were not ready for it. At first there was some resistance but soon people began to accept it. Of course one of the main reasons was that many of the people who wished to continue Lyons mission had either died or disappeared. There were also those who only stayed with Lyons out of Loyalty to the brotherhood but never followed the man's ideals. Elder Maxson was young but he knew he had to follow the ideals of the Brotherhood.

Casdin Watched as the latest recon patrol Vertibird landed and the passengers disembarked. This was a lot later than usual so he hoped he could get to that debriefing sooner rather than later. He wanted to know what tech if any the brotherhood had recovered from Fort Constantine. He had sent Outcast patrols there before but so far none of them were able to get past the security. It was a standard research patrol one knight, a paladin, and a Scribe.

"You're late Paladin and I see you're all still alive. So what took you so long?" Casdin asked wanting to get straight too business.

"I'm sorry sir we encountered some anomalies in our patrol and weren't able to gain anything." The paladin answered disappointed.

"Anomalies?" Casdin questioned. This wasn't good that meant one of two things, either there was more resistance than anticipated or none of the technology was there. Neither of which were good things for the Brotherhood.

"The entire place was stripped of tech and it looks like it was done recently. At first we were worried it was the remnants of the Enclave but we found no traces of them. Then we found some terminal entries. There weren't any names we recognized but they did say they took the tech about a month ago." The paladin answered.

"Damn it that means it might be a new group. Did you see anyone near the area who might've been in the area recently?" Casdin asked.

"I thought I saw a group of people in Power Armor but I couldn't get a good look at who they were or where they were going. The armor looked like it was one of the old T-45D armors. It was a different paintjob from ours though. It was gold and I think I saw some blue on it as well" The Paladin replied.

"I see I'll have to talk with some of our senior members about this report too me at 0800 hours tomorrow until then you are dismissed." Casdin said. As the patrol made their lead he wondered what this would mean for the Brotherhood. Maxson was not due to arrive back for some time now. He wanted to focus his attention on this Institute. He himself was not sure what to make of that but that wasn't his concern.

What was concerning him was this new group with power armor. He had certainly never heard of a faction with gold and blue power armor. He'd definitely have to keep an eye out for this new group. Hopefully, they would not prove themselves too be a threat. However he wasn't foolish enough to believe that was likely.

Megaton Moriarty's Saloon-

Gob was busy fiddling with the radio. Things had not been the best since the Lone Wanderer left. GNR had become nothing more than Brotherhood news while 3-dog left and discrimination against Ghouls was at an all time high. He often felt offended that his friend wasn't thanked by them as much as he should be. At the very least he wasn't adding to his debt anymore. 101 had given him and Nova the keys too that old house of his.

He really wished his friend would come back though. He and Nova missed the kid. He wondered what the kid was doing. Was he even thinking about them? Was he even still alive?

Gob shook his head. He didn't want to go to those dark thoughts. Those thoughts kept coming around more than most lately. Maybe it was because it was close to the day the Lone Wanderer made his way into Megaton. Moira had been keeping track of the days too. She always went on about her super research assistant more often. Suddenly a new radio channel had begun to pick up and a very familiar voice started.

"Helllllloooooo Capital Wasteland. Guess who is back on air? It is I the one and only Three-Dog aoooooowwwww! Now I hope you've missed me, children, cause I've missed you. Now I know what you're going to ask Three Dog where have you been and why did you go away?

The truth is children I left for a reason. The Brotherhood of Steel stopped fighting the good fight and I couldn't stand it. So I left to see how I could make a difference. Fortunately I've run across some individuals who also wanted to fight the good fight and they offered to help ole Three-dog. Now I can't tell you much about them yet but I promise you you'll come too know them quite well. For now though I need to come up with what I'm going to call this station."

Gob couldn't believe what he just heard. Three dog was back now on a new station. He had to leave it on this station. There was no telling who this new group was but Three-dog didn't cover anything small time. He knew this was going to be big. He had a suspicion of a certain someone being involved.