Fallout 3 The American Dream

This is Part 9 of our complete Fallout 3 Walkthrough, featuring Fallout 3 The American Dream, and Take It Back.

The American Dream

You awaken to an interrogation with the Enclave's Colonel Autumn. The two of you will begin a conversation. The only thing you should not reveal to him is the correct code of 2-1-6. Outside of that, you're free to answer however you want. President Eden will eventually call the Colonel away and will unlock your restraints. He wants you to come meet with him face to face.
Pick up your equipment in the locker and head outside. You'll be stopped by an Enclave Officer who will ask why you're getting out of your cell. If you have a high strength stat, you can scare him off with your physique; if you have a high charisma stat, you can smooth talk your way out of the situation; if you have a high enough speech skill you can succeed in a speech challenge and get the guard to check with President Eden about whether you should be out of your cell or not.
Whatever method you decide to use, eventually President Eden will come on the intercom and will tell everyone not to hinder your passage to his room.
Go left and start proceeding down the hallways. If you open Cell 2 you'll find Nathan from Megaton. You saw him earlier; he was the guy that was singing the praise of the Enclave. If you pickpocket or kill him, you can get the key to his house in Megaton.
Continue down the narrow hallway until it empties out into section 3A. Make a right and follow the path until you see a doorway on the right that leads to the Bio Labs. Head up the stairs in the lab and look for the door on the west end of the room that leads to Raven Rock - Level 2.
NOTE: A short while after President Eden tells everyone to hold their fire against you, Colonel Autumn will come on the PA telling everyone to ignore the president's orders and shoot you on sight.
Walk forward into the main lab and be prepared to deal with Enclave resistance on both the top and bottom levels. Your best plan here would be to take shelter in one of the rooms on the top floor and just let them come to you. Be wary of both entrances to the rooms though.
Once the area is clear, scour the lab for ammo and other valuable items.
Jump to the bottom floor and exit through the northern doorway. Turn left and head up the stairs into the Cryo Lab. Again, look around the area for health kits, Mentats, and other valuables you might be interested in.
Drop down and exit through the western doorway. If you want to, you can explore the storage area to your left and raid all of the lockers to find lots of cigarette cartons and ammo.
Start heading north and check out the two Storage Quarters. You'll find Anna Holt in the one on the left. She seems to have betrayed Doctor Li and your Father by deciding to work with the Enclave. You can decide what to do with her.
In the storage room on the right, there is a barrier keeping you from opening three Enclave supply boxes. If you can hack the nearby terminal, you will be able to remove the barrier and pick up plasma grenades, Enclave Power Armor and a Plasma Pistol with some ammo.
Travel north down the long hallway until you reach the end where there will be a door on your left and right side.
Enter the door on the left and check the desk for an Energy Weapons Bobblehead.
You can also deactivate the barrier with the terminal and pick up some ammo and stimpacks from the supply boxes.
When you've cleaned the room of all valuables, head through the doorway across from you and climb up the stairs into the War Room. Enter the door on the west wall to reach the Control Room.
You'll be placed in a room with two Enclave guards and two Sentry Bots. Don't shoot anything just yet. The Sentry Bots will kill the two guards and will unlock the door for you.
Head through the door and travel up the long winding staircase to finally come face to face with President Eden.
Listen to Eden's side of the story and decide whether you agree with his idea of purging the Wasteland of all mutated abominations in order to move humanity forward. Whatever you decide, you'll have to take the Modified FEV virus from him if you want to leave.
TIP: If you have a high speech skill, a high Science skill, or you found and listened to the ZAX Destruct Sequence, you can convince Eden that he needs to be destroyed. If you're successful, he'll destroy Raven Rock after you leave. Don't get too excited though, it won't be the end of the Enclave. It really just affects your dialog choices in the next quest and has a small impact on the ending you receive.
Time to get out of here. Turn around and exit through the door in front of you.
Run southwards down the hallway and take care of all of the Enclaves that line the path. Thankfully you'll have help from Turrets and Sentry Bots.
Make a right when you find that the door ahead is broken. Continue following this path until you reach the exit. You'll have to fight through lots of Enclave Soldiers, so let the Sentry Bots do the majority of the work and then see if you can finish them off.
NOTE: If you really want, you can make the first left once you start going south again and you'll find a large box with a terminal next to it. If you unlock the box you'll unleash a Deathclaw. Unfortunately it won't treat you as its new master for releasing it from captivity and will attack everything around it indiscriminately.
Right before the exit, there is another terminal that can bring down another barrier that blocks off several crates. Inside the crates are a Gatling Laser, Plasma Pistol, lots of ammo, lots of Plasma Grenades and Plasma Mines.
Exit Raven Rock and you'll find Fawkes outside tearing it up with a Gatling Laser. (Assuming you helped him in the previous quest.)
TIP: If you have good Karma, you can get Fawkes to become your follower.
Fast travel to The Citadel, head into the lab, and drop to the bottom level to become part of a conversation with all of the important members of the Brotherhood. When you're allowed in to the conversation, tell them that the G.E.C.K is currently in the hands of the Enclave. That will quickly change the minds of those who were opposed to launching a strike against the Enclave.
Sentinel Lyons will tell you that both she and her father have decided to make you an honorary member of the Lyons' Pride. As a reward she'll give you a set of Brotherhood Power Armor or Recon Armor. Pick whichever you want or none at all if you like your current armor better. When she asks you if you're ready to head out, tell her not yet if you still want to do some exploring. Quest Completed

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Take It Back

NOTE: If you still have some sidequests or exploring to do, it's best to do them before you talk to Sentinel Lyons. You can technically still explore while this quest is active up until the point where you enter the Jefferson Memorial, but since you're almost constantly in battle, it is a little hard to fast travel out of it.
Once you've made all preparations involving stimpacks, ammo restocking, and have completed all of the sidequests you wanted to, talk to Sentinel Lyons to tell her that you're ready to get started with your next assignment.
Listen to Sentinel Lyons' mission briefing for a general idea of what you should be doing.
Rothchild will activate his giant robot and lift it to the surface. Head out to the Citadel Gates and get ready to take back the Jefferson Memorial and Project Purity.
Your strategy here is pretty straightforward. Stay behind the robot and let it absolutely demolish everything in its way. The robot can't die and you obviously won't be a priority to the Enclave Soldiers. There really isn't anything to collect on the way outside of what you can get from the dead Enclave Soldiers so just stick to the path that the robot creates for you.
TIP: Make sure not to get too close to the robot or you'll be in danger of getting hit by splash damage from missiles. You especially don't want to get in front of the robot since you run the risk of getting stepped on.
Once you make it to the Jefferson Memorial, quickly enter the Gift Shop.
Get ready for the final large scale battle against a squad of Enclave Soldiers as you make your way down the hallway and turn to the right at the junction.
Remember that this is the final mission and there is no turning back. Bring out your big guns and throw away any concerns about ammo or stimpack conservation.
When the area is clear, proceed into the Rotunda.
You'll be stopped by Colonel Autumn who wants to finish everything once and for all between you two. You can oblige him and kill him on the spot, or you can try to use your speech skill to convince him to leave without a fight.
Once Autumn is dealt with, head up the stairs and listen to Doctor Li on the intercom. She'll tell you that someone will need to sacrifice themselves by going inside the lethally radioactive chamber and turn the purifier on.
You've got three main options here that will affect how your ending turns out. You can go yourself to turn the purifier on, you could tell Sentinel Lyons to do it, or you could simply refuse to do it at all and let the thing blow up right in front of you.
NOTE: If you want to use the modified FEV that Eden gave you and purge the wasteland of all mutations, go to the device near the airlock door and choose to insert the virus. A good time to do this is while Lyons is talking to Doctor Li over the intercom.
If you do choose to go inside and do it yourself, make sure to be quick about entering the code 2-1-6 on the keypad before radiation poisoning gets the best of you and before the whole thing just blows up.
In any case, once you've gone through with your decision, everything will fade to white and the ending will start to roll. Congratulations, you've just completed the main quest of Fallout 3! Quest Completed