Betrayal (Event)

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## The Betrayal

### Location

The Commonwealth and Nuka World, Massachusetts

### Result

* Ashley Westbrook became a raider, and abandoned the NCR
* Marcella Royce wounded
* Ashley left to Nuka World and became Overboss
* The disbandment of the Commonwealth Rangers

The **Betrayal** is a event and a term often used by Nuka World's inhabitants to refer to Ashley Westbrook, then-Corporal of the NCR Rangers betrayal of then-Chief of the NCR Rangers Marcella Royce.

## Background

After the defeat and fragmentation of Caesar's Legion after the second Battle of Hoover Dam, both Marcella and Ashley remained friends for the next six years. Marcella was recovering from her wounds and stayed in the Mojave in the next three years until 2282, when she forced transformed into a cyborg while staying at Big Mountain.[*source?*] Ashley suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder that was getting to worsen throughout the six years that Ashley wants power due to her friend's disappearance. After Marcella's return and used her new cybernatic abilities, Ashley and Marcella's relationship was even closer, notably Ashley was happy that her friend getting into a relationship with a cage fighter named Cait. Marcella succeeded Hanlon as chief, she send her congratulations to the new appoint Chief of the NCR Rangers.

In 2283, Ashley and Marcella went on a expedition to Boston, Massachusetts by the orders of President Aaron Kimball to expand the Rangers, having they depart from the Mojave Wasteland and arrived in Boston in the matter of days to weeks. They make camp at Fort Hagen and make their base of operations. In the next two years, Marcella and Westbrook gathered a huge group of NCR snipers making the NCR first appeared in the Commonwealth. In 2286, Ashley's disorder and sanity had reached its hitting point, that she was secretly planning to defect and take over Nuka World for herself.

## The Events

Months of planning and Ashley plan goes into effect when a group of Gunners led by Commander Kaylor in search of the lost contact with Gunner groups as well to investigate the Nuka-Cola Family radio signal and reports of that year, a group of raiders led by Colter raid and gain control of Nuka World park. Marcella and Ashley travel to the transit center and defeated Kaylor and her gunner group. While Ashley felt guilty of betraying her former friend, however she hugged Marcella from behind and shot and badly wounding Marcella in the abdomen and leg. Finally, before Ashley's departure, she left a stimpak for Marcella, leaving her for dead before hoping the train.

After a brief ride, the pre-recorded tour guide will be interrupted by her future lover Porter Gage, and that Ashley had walked to a trap and to survive the approaching deathtrap called The Gauntlet which she past all the challenges of The Gauntlet before confronting Colter herself in the Cola-cars arena. She than was getting ready, not knowing that she presumably to be killed, Porter convicted Ashley over a intercom, that he and other bosses were plan to kill Colter and she was offered the title of Overboss which she accept it. She went on to defeat Colter with a Thirst Zapper and becoming the Overboss of Nuka World.

Marcella however, badly limping back to Fort Helgan. During the long and painful head back to the Fort, she get emotional and felt betrayed by her best friend. While she cared for Ashley and her condition before their arrival to Boston, but since she is a cyborg, she didn't have the ability to heal herself until she was Director of the Institute later that year. Marcella made a full recovery months later, however the Commonwealth chapter of the NCR Rangers had disbanded, which Marcella and the remaining rangers went into separate ways and the Fort became vacant until it made hideout of Conrad Kellogg.

## Aftermath

Both Marcella and Ashley went on two different paths, Ashley defeated Colter, became a raider boss in Nuka World and conquered the park for herself while established same raider settlements near the transit station to Nuka World. Marcella undergone several more cybernetic procedures, mostly improving her life expansion, became a field agent of the Institute who later return to Fort Helgan and defeat Kellogg by the order of late-Director Theo Kaiden and outlawing Kellogg by the Directorate, after a cyborgic duel which ended with Kellogg defeat and Marcella wounded. Marcella later becoming Director and went on becoming the dominating faction in the Commonwealth with the Minutemen became the Commonwealth's military after the re-establishment of the Commonwealth Provisional Government in 2290.

In the same year, Ashley's raider empire had grown while Marcella's led Institute became the domination force in the Commonwealth after the destruction of the Brotherhood of Steel, led by Arthur Maxson. Ashley was planning on invading the Commonwealth, while also had rumors her former friend became the high-ranking official in the reformed-Institute. Throughout the aftermath for the next five years, Marcella still haunted by Ashley's betrayal both mentally and emotionally and trying to cope by the creating the fourth generation of synths.

Marcella arrived at Nuka World mostly stealth without detention though she was trapped in the Arena forcing her to sneak pass by the raiders and reach Ashley's headquarters, the Fizztop Grille, eavesdropped Ashley and her right-hand man Gage about their plans were complete to invade the Commonwealth in the matter of weeks. Fearing that she gather the information, she returned to the Commonwealth without being caught. Finally, Ashley launched her invasion after the election of Tyler Buckner, the starting phase worked well however failed to take Fort Helgan but the Institute-Minutemen forces pushes back Ashley and her raiders into Nuka World, after they re-took the Castle. Marcella and her adoptive daughter General Valerie Royce enter Nuka World and they both eventually defeated Ashley, which bring the Raiders rule in Nuka World.

## Appearances

The Betrayal is mentioned only in the *Fallout 4* add-on *Nuka World* and appeared in novel *Fallout: Return to Nuka World*.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Can't take this no more!*
2. ↑ Before the events of *Fallout 4*
3. ↑ Fallout: New Vegas endings, NCR Rangers: *"Despite distinguishing themselves during the Second Battle of Hoover Dam, the rangers' victory was short-lived due to the Courier's interference. Chief Hanlon personally directed the evacuation of the rangers to Mojave Outpost as they fell back into NCR territory. Bitter over the waste of life in the Mojave, Hanlon stepped down from his post and chosen a legendary sniper Marcella Royce as his successor. After a campaign in which he denounced Oliver's and Kimball's hawkish, imperialist ways, Hanlon was elected as the senator of Redding."*
4. ↑ *I did it, I'm sorry Marcella*
5. ↑ The Institute terminal entries; Director Royce's terminal, Life longevity
6. ↑ The Institute terminal entries; Director Royce's terminal, Terminating Kellogg
7. ↑ The Institute terminal entries; Director Royce's terminal, Kellogg killed
8. ↑ Before the events of *Fallout: Return to Nuka World*
9. ↑ Events of *Fallout: Return to Nuka World*