(Nathan picks the lock on a locked door while Nick Valentine watches his back. Once he succeeds, he and Nick hide and wait until a couple of figures enter the room next to them)
(The figures are Dima, Chase, and Faraday)
(Faraday is in a lab coat, and Chase is wearing a courser uniform)
Dima: We need to accomplish this without bloodshed. Far harbor and the children of atom have a right to exist on this island. The same as any of us
Chase: They're going to kill each other, Dima. There's no stopping it. We need to pick a side now
Faraday: Haven't we already picked a side? Building the fog condensers around far harbor wasn't exactly a neutral act
Dima: We couldn't stand by and let the people of this island die to the fog
Chase: Just like you just couldn't leave the children of atom without a home? Giving them that submarine base was a mistake. "The nucleus", as they're calling it, is basically one big fortified position
Dima Far harbor had cast them out. Sure, they do have strange beliefs. But they have always accepted us for what we are. And confessor Martin was a friend
Chase: Well, the new confessor isn't. High confessor Tektus is an unstable megalomaniac and he's going to keep threatening us as long as we're helping far harbor
Faraday: Guys. Can we please just talk about the elephant in the room? We keep dancing around it
Dima: Yes. My old memory banks down in the submarine base
Chase: I can't believe you never told me about those. I have to wait until they become a security risk
Dima: In hindsight, I know how it looks. But at the time, it was an act of trust. I was honestly more worried they'd accidentally trip the pre-war security and get hurt. Giving the children of atom my old home. Allowing them to safeguard my old memories. I thought our people would be working together
(Chase facepalms)
Chase: Just how secure are the banks? How long do we have? And what's in them?
Dima: We've gone over this before, Chase. I don't know what's in them. That's how it works. It's as close to "forgetting" something as I can get. But I've run some projections of worst case scenarios. If we do nothing, and the wrong knowledge falls into the wrong hands...
Chase: So just send me over there. I'll be in and out in a day
Dima: We can't risk it. They know you're from acadia. If you're caught, or even seen, then it's war
Faraday: We should at least prepare her to go in. We're running out of options. I say we tell her how to crack into the memory banks
Chase: You've been working on this without me?
Dima: It came up in a private moment, Chase. But yes, we've been writing a program that will let you access and download my memories. But it's not going to be like a normal hack. You'll be breaking through a version of my own mental network. It'll consider you to be an intruder. I've loaded the program with some instructions I've recorded that will help guide you through it. I'm afraid it's difficult to explain without seeing it for yourself
Faraday: I'm finishing up some tweaks to my program right now. I'll leave a copy of it for you on my desk when I'm done
Chase: Get the program. Use it to break into Dima's memory banks. Got it
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Just a Fallout 4 fanfic
FanfictionWar. War never changes. In the year 1945, my great-great grandfather, serving in the army, wondered when he'd get to go home to his wife and the son he'd never seen. He got his wish when the US ended World War II by dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshim...
