Big Trouble in Big Town

 is a Fallout 3 quest. It is also an Xbox 360 and PC achievement.

Objectives and walkthrough
Flash, a local resident of Big Town asks you to go secure some hostages from Supermutants in the Germantown police station. Use the upper level door to gain entry to the station. Make your way down to ground level, watch out for land mines!

Once you're on the ground level find Red and get her cell door open (either pick the lock or open it with the Germantown jailors key from the nearby mutant). Talk to her and she'll thank you for rescuing her and tell you about her friend Shorty. Rescuing Shorty is optional and gives good karma.

If you want to rescue Shorty make your way down to the basement and I recommend sneaking up on the room where he's located to listen to the super mutant and Shorty talking about how the mutant will eat him! Hilarious. Anyways, kill the mutant and rescue Shorty. You can give both Red and Shorty weapons but they're not very good with them.

Make your way up to ground level and exit the house. If you haven't cleared the area yet, get ready for a fight. You'll be facing several mutants out there, roughly 3-4. Once they're dead start walking twards Big Town.

When you make it to Big Town they will both thank you and Red will tell you that she heard the super mutants discussing yet another attack on Big Town and ask for your help. If you accept you'll be rewarded with good karma upon completion. 4-5 super mutants will storm into the area and the residents are pretty... lame, so it's your job to take the mutants out. If you've got a high enough small arms skill you can teach/train them how to shoot and with a high enough science skill you can also reactivate some broken robots in the junkyard. Also, you can teach the residents how to sneak if your sneak skill is high enough. On a higher difficulty setting it might be necessary. Once done, you're their new hero!

Bugs
If a player rescues Red and does not enter the basement to rescue Shorty, after returning Red to Big Town and fighting off the super mutants, the player will no longer be able to rescue Shorty. He will still be in the basement, but the speech between him and the super mutant captor will carry on as if the player was not present. Upon defeating the mutant, Shorty will remain in the crouched, cuffed position and speak as if he was back in Big Town.

Also, after you speak with Bittercup the Pappy NPC will offer a dialog option about coming to Big Town with Bittercup with a Speech skill check. In some cases this option doesn't go away and can be repeatedly selected for 5xp each time the check is successfully made.

At least on the PC and the Xbox 360 (happens on the PS3 as well) the broken robots option is bugged. When you go to find the robots, they are nowhere to be found in the junkyard. On the PC, to get them to reappear, you have to use the following Reference ID codes to get the robots to reappear.
 * Protectron - 0002d934
 * Sentry Bot - 0002c11b

Since the player.placeatme command does not work with RefIDs, you have to go through this set of commands: (in big town, near the junkyard, press ~ to open the console, then type these in. After each line, hit enter)
 * PRID 2d934
 * kill
 * resurrect
 * disable
 * enable
 * PRID 2c11b
 * kill
 * resurrect
 * disable
 * enable

After each enable command the console should write something about bot being set to Patrol. After exiting the console, you should now see both bots. Even though they are up and running, you still need to go up to each of them, select them with E, and choose repair bot, and the protectron may be outside patrolling bigtown.

Behind the scenes
The name of this achievement could be a nod to the 1986 film Big Trouble in Little China.

Loot

 * D.C. Journal of Internal Medicine in the Germantown Police HQ, upper floor, in the conference room bookcase.
 * Lying, Congressional Style in the Germantown Police HQ, ground floor, in the classroom, on the rusty child-sized desk.
 * Tumblers Today in the Germantown Police HQ basement, in the locked weapons closet.
 * Fat Man in the Germantown Police HQ basement, in the locked weapons closet.
 * 8 Ball of luck (has a hidden +1 to LCK) is given to you by Timebomb as a reward for completing the quest. This will only happen if you go into Red's and revive him (requires a Medicine skill of 40).