Fallout 4 Buddy Cops

Partners in (solving) Crime

"Detective!"

"Shit!" Nick exclaims, startled from the sudden call right behind him.

"Shroud! Would you stop sneaking in here and use the damn door already? What are you even doing here? It's three in the morning!"

"Crime never sleeps, thus neither does the Shroud of justice!" The Vigilante slurs his speech and sways on his feet.

"Are you drunk? Sit down." Nick ushers the man in a chair before he can fall over. "Now why are you here?"

"Crime."

Valentine gives his most 'I'm done with your shit' look. "What about it."

"Les.. Let's Commit a Crime."

"Wha- Commit a Crime? Now I know you've lost the last of your marbels. You need to sleep this one off. Go on, off to bed with you." Nick starts herding the vigilante to the back of the agency.

"I am Still Sane. Stop! Sleep is Seco- Scndaryy. Firstly my Friend, I ask Fo- *Hick!* For a Favor."

"A favor. To break the law." Nick says flatly.

"Yes!" The Shroud digs his heels in like a petulant child.

"And what crime do you even want to commit, huh mister justice?"

"Burglarize a Bank." The Shroud states proudly, like it's the best idea he's ever had.

Nick pinches the bridge of his nose. He feels a headace coming up. Do synths even get headaces? Maybe his systems are overheating from all this nonesense.

"Shroud there are no banks left to rob."

"Wrong!" The vigilante exclaims pointing a finger up and everything. "When I Was Walking near Fannyy.. Fanuuu- Fa-ne-uil hall I Found a Fully Functil-Fuu Fuck. Bank vault. Even Explored the Ex-te-ri-or to Idenn- see lt was Intact.
l Tried The Terminal, But Breaking the code is Beyond me." The Shroud shrugs.

"So you want me to have a crack at it."

Silver shroud nods exagerately.

Nick sighs, if he doesn't agree, with the state the Shroud is in right now the man is liable to go back to that bank on his own and try to brute force the door down.

"Alright." The vigilante lights up at Nicks acquiescence. "In the morning." And slumps right back down.

"But-"

"That bank has stood undisturbed for over two hunderd years. It will still be there tomorrow. Sleep."

Shroud grumbles but makes his way to the bed in the office.

"i am curous though, what're you plannin to do with the loot?"

"I will steal from the rich, and give to the poor!"

Nick chuckles "I think you're getting your characters mixed up there Robin Hood."

He shakes his head fondly, should have figured i'd be something like that. The man would give his last rags to a sad enough looking mutt.

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Having the Silver Shroud around sure is some getting used to. it's pretty clear the man isn't all there upstairs. Nick supposes you can't avoid being a little nuts with the sort of work he does. The things they both see on the daily. But the Shroud is doing some real good. Not just for Goodneighbor, but the wider Commonwealth.

He may be the best man Nick's had watch his back in a long damn time.

Maybe he should ask the vigilante to become his partner officially. lt would make Ellie happy at least, knowing he's not going out alone.

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The shroud loves to travel over rooftops, and find the highest vantage points he can. lts why he prefers living and working downtown instead of the wastes.

Nick loses sight of him because of this habit every now and then, only for a sniper accurate shot to take out an assailant before his sensors even registers there's danger.

He apperantly tried to make a grapple gun for easier travel, but the thing is broken more often than its functional. So he just carries a steel cable with a hook attached to it. The Shroud uses it to make dramatic entrances jumping off of rooftops. Nick doesn't know who he's trying to impress with that little leg breaking stunt. Himself probably, because the people witnessing it usually end up too dead to admire him for it.

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The heaviest gun the Silver Shroud carries is his iconic silver submaschine gun. While it can shread through just about any opponent, Its not often he uses it. Preferring his silenced 10mm or a lazer pistol he swears up and down is an alien weapon.

He's taken Nick to what he claims is a downed alien spacecraft once to prove it. Nick still doesn't believe it. lt doesn't help that both the gun and the craft look like toys straight from the comics.

The Shroud is not happy with not being believed, and insists aliens are real. That he's seen them. Nick questions how much chems he was on at the time, which gets him hesitant mumbling that he doesn't remember.

Asking further about his chem use makes the vigilante assure Nick he's been off of the stuff since he's donned the costume. The detective is inclined to believe him on that one.

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Though the comic book Silver shroud is a detective, this one isn't great at it. For one, he's often too caught up in playing the role to put witnesses at ease. (Though he does tone it down with victims)

And while he is learning with Nicks guidance, he still overlooks important detaiiles and clues on scene.

But give the man a bunch of seemingly unrelated evidence and he will find the red thread binding them together. No matter how out there consperacy theory it sounds. The wackier, the more right he is proven in the end as well.

~

A lot of mystery surrounds the Silver Shroud. This shouldn't come as a surprise from a man who hides his face. But it does make the Detective curious. Nick is reluctant to go digging into a mans past without reason though, especially since he hasn't been the most forthcoming about his own yet.

Perhaps he should share a bit. Throw a bone, see where it goes...

lt's something to ponder in the wee hours of the night.