So I have had a major writing block on this, it was start, lose inspiration, start again. Went on and off like this ever since I posted the first chapter.
I also got my Courier up level 50 and with max intelligence you know that there are only three skills that aren't up to a hundred and one of them are over fifty points, the guy is god like in that world…
Originally I wasn't going to use high grade weaponry but then I read the Emerican odyssey revolution fic which takes place in Germania rather than Albion, but my main point is that the main character, who is a teenager, had the villagers manufacture G3's and howitzers right off the bat so then I thought if a teenager could do it. Why couldn't a hyper lethal, genius, wasteland adventurer, with a high science and repair skill plus the jury rigging perk do it? Not that it will realistically tie over into this story.
Also about the town named Stormhold, it wasn't inspired by Skyrim which I bought recently, I started playing it and one of the first things I learn despite the whole intro thing, is that the rebels have their main base in the town of Stormhold…so yeah total coincidence there.
This chapter actually consist of two different attempts i made to create it and in the end I put them together and this is what happened
Courier Six has been in this strange world for two weeks in that time he has manufactured weaponry, three kinds to be precise he made copies of the survivalist rifle, 12.7mm rifle was of the most reliable and deadly guns in the wasteland despite being two hundred plus years old. Not just the design but the gun itself and it still works great. The gun despite looking like the M16 has an incredibly simple internal workings making it easy to manufacture. That and six overhauled the commoners means of production with more advance tools and techniques. He named it the Type 1 rifle. The second gun was a belt fed machine gun based off the light machine gun from his world just belt fed due to a lack technological advancement. It was chambered for the .308 round.
The third gun was special it was a silenced .45 auto pistol. A pure copy then gun design was three hundred years old and it's still one of the better designs Six has found in the modern world. Hell the first time he put a silencer on the gun he walked into the Tops casino and murdered Benny with one shot in the middle of his guards. No one even knew he shot him until he confessed to it after he gained control of New Vegas and at that point no one cared anymore. The reason he even bothered with the silencer is because the people told him of heavily fortified stone castles in Albion. Six that would need a more quieter surgical tactic to avoid unnecessary loss of life
He's also trained specific infantry types, or rather trained people to train other people, first was the light infantry, they travel in groups of two and are issued a Type 1 and a legion styled machete which they are trained to use decently, but still meant for a last resort. They were meant to monitor groups of Reconquista soldiers traveling through the area, and to find their bases which they then raided at a later time with larger groups. The second was the medic Six had extensive medical knowledge and trained them to help heal wounds, they are also issued an SMG. Then we have the Heavy infantry who were armed with the belt fed machine and a few grenades they were made to take the targets that the scouts deemed needed a little more force, they also receive metal armor which protected their vitals. Which was kind of heavy not s heavy as a knights armor but still they were meant to be the juggernauts of the newly made army.
At first the majority of the people at Stormhold didn't trust Six save for those he kept from getting executed but after leading them on a few successful raids and even taking a couple of notorious mages (notorious as in callous with the lives of commoners) the people grew to trust him. This helped them in gaining other villages support for the rebellion. They even made a flag in the middle the symbol was black ink with over a white flag with a circle and the number 6 inside the circle along behind it was the main stream guns six made crossing each other above the symbol said No lords below the symbol was No masters. It seemed to be a rallying cry for the commoners as recruitment skyrocketed in the towns who knew of the rebellion.
From each base they recovered documents, these documents revealed locations of other camps and eventually revealed a large fortress one of two that were charge of maintaining northern Albion, fortunately they have been taking out Reconquista camps so quickly and didn't leave survivors the rebellion was still invisible. That in they were focused down south with an invasion by other countries and weren't worried about the northern territories. Today that would change probably.
It was night, Six was in the bushes with his team consisting of seven scouts armed with their job was to take the fortresses gate house. In the area was a large number of rebels undercover of the foliage. They were the reason why Six needed to take the gate house. The plan was that Six and his team get up the wall of a largely unprotected portion of the fortress and get up undetected then they make for the gatehouse silently kill anyone along the way take the gate house leave the three general infantry soldiers to hold it while the rest of the group move into the main building find the leader(s) kill them then signal the rest of the attack force via flare.
"Let's move." Said Six, the others nodded and moved up a siege ladder they constructed earlier that day and moved up to the wall putting up the ladder as quietly as possible and climbed it. The scouts when up first and found a lone guard…sleeping. These people obviously weren't expecting an attack, let alone an uprising so one of the scouts slit his throat and threw him over the edge. The group proceeded along the wall crouching to avoid being seen by the few soldiers guarding the courtyard. Most of the force were probably in the wooden structures on the edges of courtyard. They made it to the gatehouse and found one tired guard which another scout snuck up and knifed him. Three of the light infantry took positions, two at the doors on each side of the gate house and one by the lever.
The scout team made their way down the basement, though some stopped off at certain points to relay the message when the leader was dead. The first one ad the flare so he could reach the outdoors faster. 'Note to self.' Thought Six, as they moved stealthy through the halls, taking out any unaware guards they came across with their silencers. 'Invent radio.'
By the time they reached the door he had three scouts left. On the other side there was loud talking and laughing. Looks like the higher ups were having a party. Six cracked open the door a bit to get a visual on the targets, there were four of them. A fat man wearing extravagant military uniform was sitting behind the desk a three other people in rather classy military uniforms were standing around the desk conversing with each other and drinking.
Six pointed out where they were lined up to spots on the floor where a rebel would go and take aim with their auto pistols. "On one we kick the door open and take them out all at once" whispered Six, the rebels nodded.
"3…"
"2…"
"1…" Six kicked the door down and the rebels all shot once killing all four mages before any of them had time to react. The men shot with expert skill that wouldn't fit with a new recruit. These guys have been on several raids an showed rather good combat prowess, which is the reason Six selected them for this job. "Good job boys, now someone go tell the our friend to light the flare and so we can take this place."
"On it, general!" said one of them, Six was named general of the rebellion due to the fact he was the only guy who knew what he was doing militarily wise. No one argued with the decision.
"Right then, the rest of you look for any important documents to see if we can get any information on operations and anything else of value. The remaining two rebels nodded and proceeded to check out the room after moving the bodies to the side. Six began to walk back towards the building entrance and the sound of automatic gun fire grew louder.
He walked out into the court yard to discover the mass of Reconquista from before now where a bunch of lifeless bodies filled with bullet holes…and bullets. Among them were Rebels of various classes checking for survivors and finishing them off when the need arise.
"Robbie! Good job leading the charge!" Said Six, walking up to a middle aged man who grumbled at the nickname. Robbie aka Robert was the man who led the initial uprising in Stormhold, and the one who's group was saved by Six.
"Yeah I should say so considering your team did most of the work." Said Robert "I'm no historian, but this is the first time I ever heard of a stone fortress being taken over this way, it saves a lot of lives."
"What did everyone else just throw guys at a fort until they surrendered or starved to death?" said Six jokingly.
"…" Robert remained silent at this.
"Seriously?" asked Six incredulously, a little surprised people did that. I mean even the Fiends of New Vegas could get creative when they wanted to! An example being when they killed an NCR ranger and used the body as bait to kill other NCR forces trying to reclaim it. "And it took you this long to attempt an uprising?"
"Hey, they have magic!" protested Robert.
"Well now you have rapid fire weaponry which as far as I can tell work pretty damn good against them." Said Six spreading his arm out to the scene of mass carnage.
"I can't argue with you there." Said Robert "I'm still amazed that there are weapons such as these, our muskets were a relatively recent development, and then you come and show how to make these…incredible."
"Just wait until I introduce you to electricity!" said Six. Much to Roberts confusion.
"What's-" before Robert could finish the question one of the rebels six had to investigate the officers room came running up.
"General I found something in need of your attention." Said the Rebel he was holding a piece of paper, when he reached them he showed it to them.
"I can't read your guys language, remember?" said Six, Albion though it would seem like the place people would speak and write English so Six could understand them, but they actually spoke the Irish dialect of Gaelic. Six can read both English and Chinese but not Gaellic.
The Rebel translated for him and Six eyes widened, this wasn't an operation against them it was an operation against the invading armies to the south. Something if accomplished could stop that war, and then the Reconquista could focus on why a chink of the northern territory started rebelling.
A day later
Six and Robert along with a small squad of light infantry, were on a hill scoping out a port town. Which much to Six's surprise found out that not only the ships could fly but that the country he was standing on was floating, off all the weird shit he encountered in the wasteland back home, this comes into the top five. He eventually got over it.
"Okay so this is the specified port." Said Six looking through a pair of binoculars "The Mercenary Mages should be leaving on the ship with the purple sail. So everyone's clear on the plan?"
"Yes, you sneak aboard the ship and when it leaves we take the port, and if possible capture the ships intact and then wait for you to return." Said Robert.
"Good, I'll see you guys in a few days try to make some more progress with weapon production and territory gain." With that Six began to head towards the town, he casually entered the town he guards not paying him much mind. It was a hiding in plain sight deal, unlike in the wasteland where you could assume everyone who's not on your team is the enemy, here the guards didn't know what the enemy looked like, or even if there was an enemy. News travels really slow with this level of technology, which again reminds Six to invent the radio.
He got to the harbor and began to see people with capes, and instead of swords or muskets had large metal staffs, these were probably the mages. 'They kind of stick out from the normal crowd' thought Six who was sat down on a crate to inconspicuously observe them.
They didn't pay him much mind except for a rather large figure who Six observed to be the leader kept shooting glances in his direction. They were preparing to board the ship, and Six walked making his way over to the ship at brisk but casual pace, when he was sure that no one was looking he began running and jumped off the dock and used his unique bowie knife the blood-nap to get a grip by stabbing it into the hull. He then climbed up into a view port, luckily there was no one inside and he hid behind some crates.
The reason for this mission was related to the documents found at the stronghold they took over the night before it revealed one of two things. One, the bulk of the Reconquistas army was down in the south consisting of seven hundred thousand men. The only ones left up north were basically a skeleton crew. The next one was related to what he was doing, the other part was that these mercenaries were dispatched to some place called the Tristan Academy of Magic, to capture all the students there and hold them hostage until the invasion stops.
It was great plan in Six's book seeing those were all noble kids, and therefore have connections to politicians and military leaders on an international level. But Six decided he would stick it sideways to the whole operation, like he does with most other plans that are working against his interests. Like NCR annexation of New Vegas the look on Oliver's face when Six watched him leave through the Mojave outpost was priceless. That and the report said that there was something called a musketeer squad stationed at the academy and he wanted to see how they would react to some modern weaponry.
Later
Courier six was a man known as probably the most dangerous man in post -apocalyptic America this coming from his skill intelligence strength speed and endurance. All if which surpass most of the people in the wasteland on their own. Only the Lone Wanderer could probably match him, but she was a woman and therefore had the title of strongest woman in post-apocalyptic America. They haven't figured out who was better mainly because when they met, while it was probably one of the wastelands most epic battles in its history. Seeing as the town it took place in was no longer there. Too bad it was over something trivial like the last Nuka-Cola on the vending machine. Seriously that's how it happened. And the Nuka-Cola machine got destroyed in battle probably by the explosions they implemented in the figtht. After the battle they talked it out and ended up sleeping together and left each other in the morning. Ah...the wasteland it has it's good parts if you look hard enough…and live long enough to find them.
But he was no longer in the wasteland. He was in a world which looked as if it got crapped out of a mix of fairy tales. With the oppressive noble magicians ruling a majority and doing whatever they want with the masses. Six did not like this, So he does what he always does in this scenario totally screwing up the status quo, and probably make those in charge shit themselves in the process.
He currently was in a country called Tristain, why? Well he came here to stop a hostage scenario and then decided to let the so called musketeer squad handle it, and you know what they couldn't! So Six is going to walk in there and kill every enemy and free the hostages, just like Vault 3, except with the enemy to hostage ratio being reversed.
"Okay there's about eight of them…" said Six looking through a pair of binoculars "a few soldier girls apparently locked in standoff with them…hostages tied in the corner, and they are not exactly dressed so they probably got them while they were sleeping…Alright time to introduce them to modern firepower!" Six grabbed his own Type 1 rifle and snuck towards the gaping hole in the wall coming from the edge he noticed two bodies. They were more of the female soldiers, they were badly injured and probably wouldn't last long without medical treatment. Treatment that this world lacked. "Dammit why do I have to help every hopeless case I come across." He took out two stimpacks "You girls better be thankful, I barely have any of these things left." Six injected both girls and their wounds began to heal. "Alright then back to killing and maiming." And he took aim through the hole in the wall.
Inside the magic Academy
'This is not going well' though Agnes, captain of the Tristain Musketeer squad was currently unarmed and staring down a group of volatile fire mages. And her squad had a failed breech and are currently in the same predicament as her. She hated not being able to do anything it made her feel so useless. But that could wait, the leader of these mercenaries was apparently involved in the destruction of her village.
"I was not the one who burned your town, but I am also looking for that man, that flame that wiped out the town so effortlessly. I want to find that flame and be-" before he could say anything a loud bang was heard and he fell over with a large hole in his head. Several more successive shots were heard and more of the mages died due bullets to the head until there was only one left.
That's when a man walked through the door carrying an odd rifle, wearing a sleeveless black duster with a symbol of twelve stars circling another larger star on the back the remaining mage obviously shaken by the fact his leader and the rest of his group were taken out so quickly, charged the man who calmly shot the mage…repeatedly. Earning the shock of the musketeer squad. "Expected that to be just a bit more difficult" said the man to himself "Seriously I could have squad of my men take care of-" he stopped talking as he noticed that Agnes was pointing her sword at him "Is this how they say thank you in this country?" he asked with an incredulous look.
"Who are you?" she asked, her eyes were cold, this man was dangerous, and while he may not be an enemy he is still threat.
"Seriously, no thanks" said Six "Come on! I wasted precious ammo on these guys!" Agnes was not amused.
"I will ask you again, who are you."
"I'm a Courier."
"Really?" she asked not believing him.
"Yes I specialize and delivering bullets to people's heads." Six said with a smartass remark. Which is kind of true when you think about it.
"Be serious!" yelled Agnes irritated.
"Agnes wait!" said an Asian kid looking to be about seventeen running in. he was wearing a blue hoodie and jeans
"What's an Asian kid doing here?" said Six with a look of confusion on his face. "I thought you guys weren't advanced enough to start pushing east yet."
"Wow you know that word, and those weapons, you really are from my world!" Exclaimed the boy happy to find someone in the same situation as him. If only he knew.
"Saito, what are you talking about?" asked Agnes not taking her eye off of Six.
"From your worl- ohhh" Six grinned finally getting it "So I'm not the only guy to end up in this screwed up world, that offers some comfort."
"I know, right?" said Saito, excited to find someone to relate to. "So are you American or something?"
'American? That's and outdated term, maybe he's a foreigner like Canadian… or maybe mexican…No that can't be right.' thought Six, in the wasteland people don't really use the word American to describe someone, instead they use whatever tribe or area they belong. Even the Enclave who are self proclaimed remnants of America aren't even called American. "Sure, what's left of it."
"What do you mean?" asked Saito confused.
"You know the war that happened that killed a whole bunch of people?" said Six
"What?" asked Saito still confused
"Saito, I thought you said your world didn't have wars" said tall man who was bald at the top of his head, but had hair on the side. He was standing with three other girls who looked dress as opposed to the girls tied in the corner
"I thought it didn't." said Saito with a confused and scared look on his face.
"This isn't making sense even biggest junkie knows-" started Six but then stopped when he figured out something "Shit…Saito, when you came here, what year and country were you in?" Six now had a serious look on your face.
"I'm from Japan, the year is 2006 there." Said Saito curious to why Six would ask something like that.
"Shit again" said Six face palming "Saito come with me for a bit." Six began walking and Saito followed however Six turned to the crowd who had a perplexed look "Anyone who tries to eavesdrop gets capped in the head!" he held up his rifle for emphasis
"What happened?" asked Saito now concerned.
"The year I was in, before I ended up in this craptastic place, was 2279" said Six in grave voice as Saito's eyes widened. "About two hundred years before that a nuclear war between the US and China happened that wiped out most of the life on the planet" Six let that sink in as Saito fell to his knees "Japan was on the receiving end of the American arsenal due to being a Chinese ally, or rather an occupation zone. I live in nuclear wasteland where any sort of central order has broken down. Hate to be the one to tell you this kid, but everyone you knew or loved either died of old age or burned in nuclear fire."
"ho-how could have this have happened… over two hundred years? I've only been here a few months at the most" Said Saito grief stricken.
"Hmm interesting" said Six in a thoughtful pose "how did you get here?"
"I was summoned."
"Summoned?"
"Yeah by Louise, the pink haired girl over there." said Saito pointing at the aforementioned girl who was watching them with concern "A green portal appeared in front of me and when I touched it brought me here, they explained that I was summoned to be her familiar, which means magical servant."
"Now that just doesn't sit right with me… Hey Pinky!" Yelled Six to Louise fumed at the name "Congratulations you totally screwed up this guy's life!" Surprise flashed over her face and confusion along with the attention of the entire room.
"That was unnecessary." muttered Saito
"It's the truth" replied Six in a carefree manner "Listen I got business in Albion…got some primitive magical screw heads that need to be shot in the face…but hey if you need help don't hesitate to find me." Six began to leave and noticed some strange burn marks on his left hand. He didn't say anything and began to walk towards the hole on the wall, but he was stopped by Agnes.
"Wait, you killed the guy that was about to give me a clue on who burned down my home village" said Agnes a bit irritated "Thanks to you I now have to start all over."
"Actually Agnes" said Colbert with resigned look "The one who burned down your town was me."
"What!?" Agnes yelled enraged drawing her sword.
"I feel like I walked in on the middle of something that'd take time to explain." Said Six, everyone ignored him though.
"Let me explain" said Colbert, calmly "My unit was sent to quarantine a town that we were told was infested with a plague we didn't realize until after, that there was no plague and we were given false information. Now that you know the truth you may do what you want with me."
Agnes charged at him enraged with sword drawn, as Colbert closed his eyes resigning himself to his fate. However the sword never came, Colbert opened his eyes to find Six holding a particularly large knife to Agnes neck.
"Now hold on just a minute, before someone does something they'll regret later." Said Six with a stony expression on his face that everyone froze in place when they saw it. "Where I come from, which to put into perspective, is place where people fight for everything, down to very last drop of dirty water, not a very good place by normal standards. Anyways in this world towns get burned to the ground and other atrocities happen on a daily basis either deliberately or on accident." Everyone looked at him in shock or disbelief that a place like that could exist. "I know this one guy his name is Boone, now he is one of the single most deadly snipers in the Mojave. Guy can shoot a person's head off form a thousand yards, and see them coming from farther." The musketeer squad seemed interested that such a person could exist. "Well he use to be part of a unit who during an operation to stop a tribe that's been raiding his countries supply lines they were put at the end of valley that these tribal would use to escape while the main force pushed them back when they did that they would opened fire until they exhausted all their ammo." The courier took a deep breath "well when the fighting started apparently someone forgot to mention certain unarmed civilians such as women children and the elderly would be there. Well people started coming down the valley and…I don't really need to get into what happened there, do I." everyone present shook their head with horrified looks. "There's not a day goes by that this guy doesn't regret what happened there it even pushed him to leave the army he belonged to. He seeks to repent himself for what he's done, just something to make right the wrong."
"What's that have to do with this?" Said Agnes who calmed down a bit, but was still angry.
"Look at his face. Try to find the monster who burned down your village." Said Six calmly, Agnes did so, she tried to find, the person who torched her town, and killed her family and friends. But she couldn't all she saw was a sad man seeking repentance for what he's done.
"I can't…" said Agnes lowering her head and letting the sword drop from her hand "I can't forgive him, but I won't kill him."
"Good enough" said Six taking the knife away from her neck "I'll trust you weren't saying that because I had a knife to your throat." Agnes shook her head "Alright then." Six began walking toward the hole in the wall but was stopped by Colbert.
"Why did you save me" he questioned confused at the man before him "I don't even know you."
"I'm able to judge people pretty accurately at a first glance." Explained Six "And from what I can tell you are good person, there aren't enough of those in the world." Colbert seem to accept this at answer "Now if you'll excuse me I have a regicidal revolution to get back to. Also you might want to give Saito some space because I delivered world ending news to him so he might be depressed for a few days."
"Your fighting a Revolution?" asked Agnes incredulously, putting the Saito comment away for later.
"Fighting?" asked Six as if it was a stupid question "Hell, I started it, trained, armed it, and now I'm leading it!"
"The queen would want hear about this." Said Agnes "I need you to come with." She readied her sword while the other musketeer squad women readied their weapons. Six however was already walking away as if there was no problem "Hey get back here!" called Agnes, six however nonchalantly threw a canister of some sort over the back of his shoulder. It detonated and blinded the group. When they go their sight back Six was gone. After searching around the school they found no trace of him and eventually gave up.
Louise walked over to a depressed Saito who was now sitting against the wall.
"Saito what's wrong?" she asked worried at his behavior "And why did that man say I ruined your life."
"It's…Nothing" said Saito forcing a smile Louise didn't believe him but she let it go and walked over to her sisters. 'Why am I not angry, she's the reason I was taken from my family, my life, to serve her and she's treated me like crap ever since, so why am I not angry!?'
About a day later
"Keep the pressure up on the left!" yelled Robert. When they attacked the port, a ship with some Reconquista soldiers on it left and got to the second northern Reconquista stronghold. The strong hold gathered four thousand men to take back the captured territories and the rebels were in there first field fight despite being outnumbered, the rebel force of five hundred were delivering heavy casualties on the enemy forces while barely taking any themselves, thanks to the weapons Six brought them. However their mobility was limited to the forested area due to the ship overhead shooting cannons at any they could find. Even of the rebels killed the ground forces the ship could keep them pinned until another unit arrives.
However the ship wouldn't be there for long as another ship came in, the one Robert recognized as the one Six boarded. At first he thought Six failed, and the mercenaries were returning to aid the Reconquista soldiers. Then he saw the ship crash into the other one causing both ships to crashed to the ground on top of a rather large group of enemy soldiers. The remaining Reconquista now noticing they were now outnumbered, and that their air support was gone, retreated. The rebels ran out to the crash site to discover their general sitting on crate casually as the ships burned behind.
"What's up guys!?" Greeted Six "miss me?"
"General…" said Robert stunned at the what he did "I didn't know you could man a ship."
"Neither did I!" standing up and began walking with Robert and the rebels following him "But you know they say, learning by doing."
"Are you telling me you learned how to man a ship after it was in the air?" asked Robert stunned
"Basically" said Six with shrug "then I saw you guys were in trouble so I rammed the other ship and you can see what happened. So I take it the assault on the port town didn't go well."
"No, we took the town." Said Robert "But some of the soldiers managed to escape with one of the ships. We also found something interesting."
"Interesting? What is it?" asked Six intrigued.
"Well…we don't' know." said Robert "We don't even know what kind of metal it's made out of. But we brought it back to stronghold so you can look at it.' After the rebels gathered their wounded and dead they marched back to the stronghold.
"Okay." Said Six walking down the hall with Robert "Where's this mysterious thing you want me to see."
"In here." Said Robert going in front of Six and opening a door.
Six walked into the room and instantly recognized the object.
"What the hell is this thing doing here?" asked Six out loud.
Also originally I was going have Six blow another whole in the magic academy and walk in singing another one bites the dust by queen as he kills the fire mages.
And done I don't think I'll spend too much time with revolution and instead go to the point where Six trols the nobles of other nations. Because you know that's always fun. Also I put in a part where Saito starts drifting away from Louise, because seriously that romance does not make sense to me.
By the way I re-did the first chapter a bit, nothing to major just correcting some mistakes I made.