He randomly freaked out and tried to kill you? I need to hear this story. Please? *puppy dog eyes*
Gather round, and hear my tale of woe....
Once upon a time there was a good guy, who tried to do good things, because it felt right in his heart. He gathered a bunch of followers who also believed in doing the right thing.
The almighty Fawkes, The Strong, Silent Charon, Clover, who kinda grumbled the whole time, and briefly RL-3, who got stuck in a rock right after purchase, and died at the hands of a Deathclaw.
We found a kid who needed armed escort to Big Town, where they eat bullets and sand all day long. The right thing was to help him, besides, we were heading in that direction anyway. (Note: with so many followers, have them wait OUTSIDE your home. Unless you don't mind all your displays and trophies to explode all over the place. This was also a previous character to the hardcoe mode that my current character is playing now.)
During the journey, with no enemies in sight, I hear a scream from behind me from Fawkes. He opens up with the Gatling Laser, and takes off Sticky's head. Which burned me up because the party hat looks great on him. Fawkes then kills Charon, then switches to a Super Sledge and owns Clover, switches back and starts shooting at me. So I nuka naded him. 100 in Explosives, all three levels of the Explosive Perk, can't remember the name atm, and it took all 6 Nuka Nades I was carrying.
Then I reloaded.
Then we started heading east, and I hear a scream and guess what? The only variation was Fawkes' kill order this time. And I switched to a Missile Launcher and free-handed 15 rockets at him, 100 Big Guns.
Then I reloaded.
Then we started walking again, except this time I played sheep dog, by running around the gaggle and having Fawkes by my side and the others flanking.
Then Sticky screamed....
So I transferred all Fawkes' gear to everyone else and fired his green ass on the spot. I didn't look back as we kept walking. Good riddance.
The only commonality was that each time Fawkes would freak out about 10 minutes from my previous save. And, it happened once on a previous character, when Fawkes killed Star Paladin Cross then started shooting at me. 360.
Thus endeth my Fawkes tale.