Captaindrake123:...merry Christmas.
Stargate Commonwealth: The beginning...
Drake the general of the minutemen stood at the top of the building with Preston beside him with his dark brown hair having the wind blow against it as he wore his heavy polymer combat armor and held his synth field helmet under his arm, the institute exploded in nuclear fire before his eyes, along with the son he hoped he could find.
But he wasn't his son, he was raised in the institute to become it's leader and to hold no remorse to the things they've done to the people here above ground. Drake promised Nora he would find him but in the end he was too late, the man he met in there didn't even give him the password to the alert to save the people he lived with, instead Drake had to hack it to make sure the residence would be able to leave.
The minutemen downloaded and copied most of the institute data and research onto holotapes, they allowed the residence to leave through the transporter, and eliminated coursers and synths that tried to stop them.
Drake remembered a certain quote mumbled by one of his superiors from his time in the army...
"I guess it's true...war never changes"
Drake stared at the blast emotionlessly and then walked towards Preston.
After talk about how much work the commonwealth still has left to be done preston then brought up an important issue...
"I think it's time we dealt with the brotherhood"
Later...
After discussing the plan of using artillery from all directions Drake had returned to the castle, it's walls were rebuilt and had heavy ballistic and laser turrets all around the walls with guard posts and some missile turrets.
He found the synth shaun, the one he decided to save from the institute.
Drake thought about not saving him...but that look of hope on his face when he saw him quickly erased all those thoughts. He had three siblings before the war and he was the oldest giving him somewhat of a soft spot for children.
"Hey dad!"
The kid ran over to him, his companions watched the exchange.
Drake allowed himself a small smile "Hey you alright?"
"Yea I'm fine, this place is awesome it's like a real castle!" He said with glee, he then had eyes of realization and went digging into his pocket making Drake curious.
"Here I almost forgot" the synth said as he handed the general a holotape "Father told me to give it to you, he told me not to listen to it"
The general looked at the tape annoyed.
"I'm gonna go play it in my office..." He said as he walked towards the office and sat down to stare at the tape contemplating whether or not to play it...
Drake put it in...and none of it was what he expected.
The director...shaun, had programmed the boy to be his son and to live together as a family.
"Like a family..."
That thought repeated in Drake's head after the tape ended..and unknowing tears streamed down his face as he stared at the Pip-boy.
"He could control himself now, he could stop the crying, the feeling was in the back of his head that he could, but he didn't want to.
"...Dad?"
Drake looked at the boy near the door with teary eyes.
"Is everything okay?'
"..." Drake was silent for a moment then walked over to rub his head "...yea...I think so Shaun"
The boy then wrapped his arms around his father's waist "I know it will be as long as you're around"
The next day the general spent the entire day with Shaun.
Three days later...
"Are all the artillery locked on the coordinates?" The General asked wearing his uniform to the man at the radio station, they were prepared to take out the prydwen.
The brotherhood became very aggressive over the ghoul minutemen and mutated residence recently, and it only seemed to be getting worse. So now it was the time to end the threat and show the brotherhood they can't walk all over the commonwealth.
"Yes sir we're ready on you're command!" The radio man replied.
Drake had sent a message yesterday morning to the brotherhood to back off of settlements and minutemen territory, obviously they didn't listen. Minutemen scouts report though that the brotherhood are evacuating children and other personnel off the Prydwen, the general knew that from his time in the brotherhood that this was standard procedure after hearing such a threat, but that didn't mean they thought the minutemen could do it, it was just procedure.
"...give permission to open fire" The general ordered after coming out of thought.
"Yes sir!" The radio man replied and immediately started relay the message to the other batteries.
"We have a go for deliberate phoenix, code blue..."
The general walked up the stairs heading towards the side of the castle towards Ronnie shaw, formerly retired minutemen.
The general walked and stopped next to her staring at the Prydwen "Their gonna fight back" the Ronnie warned him as he stared towards the Prydwen with calculating eyes.
"I know"
That was all Ronnie needed to hear and she then smiled "Let them come"
"5...4...3..." The radio man counted down.
"...2...1, FIRE FOR AFFECT!"
The sound of artillery all around the castle were heard by anyone nearby, and so the Prydwen started going down in flames. The projectiles exploded on the Prydwen's hull causing metal pieces to fly in the air, the vertabird's scrambled to get away from their former base.
"I REPEAT! FIRE FOR AFFECT!"
The former Prydwen and now a ball of fire went crashing down through part of the Boston airport, creating a large explosion, fire stormed from the former airship creating a large amount of smoke covering the area above and around it.
"The Prydwen is down, the brotherhood threat to the commonwealth is now over..."
People across the commonwealth listened closely to their radio today and cheered in victory for the minutemen, raiders began to worry, and gunners began to question how much of a threat the minutemen really are, supermutants who actually had radios gained respect for the minutemen for finally bringing down the one's they know as tin men and yelled in satisfaction at their deaths.
The general stared at the smoke...
'Hold on everyone! let's see if they still have some fight left!" Ronnie called to the men, they heard loud and clear and loaded up their weapons.
Clicks of magazines popping in guns could be heard as the minutemen got ready.
The smoke began to move, an object could be seen coming through it and everyone knew what it was...
A brotherhood vertabird.
And there were more appearing, the general counted three.
"BROTHERHOOD VERTABIRDS INCOMING! PREPARE FOR THE FIGHT OF YOU"RE LIVES!" Ronnie yelled to the men as she loaded her six-crank laser musket.
"Alert! Alert! Brotherhood vertabirds converging on the castle!" The radio man reported leaving everyone in the Commonwealh on the edge of their seats.
The general took his favorite laser rifle off of his back, he then loaded up a fusion cell...
"Let's show them what we 'cannon fodder' can do" Drake said.
Vertabird machine gun turrets fired on the castle walls, the minutemen responded in kind. Turrets along the top of the castle walls beeped simultaneously as they detected incoming threats, chaos ensues...
The first vertabird was shot down by a missile turret causing it to crash outside the castle walls entrance, brotherhood soldiers in power armor survived though by jumping out just in time and are now walking towards the inside weapons drawn.
Three minutemen with their six-crank laser muskets fired on the second vertabird that hovered near the outside walls shooting at fellow men...
"Cover me!" a ghoul minutemen told his fellow soldiers, he then sprinted towards the firing area of the vertabird.
He successfully made it to one of the junk made guard post and hid behind as another round of the vertabird's machinegun came. Once stopped the minutemen cranked his laser musket to maximum and came out of cover, he aimed through his scope towards the vertabird's window at the pilot and pulled the trigger.
The laser blast went through the window with ease and hit the head of the brotherhood pilot, turning him to ash.
The vertabird then began to spin out of control and crashing into the side of the castle exploding as it hit the ground, causing some of the turrets nearby to be destroyed and others disabled.
The minuteman flew back at the brunt of the explosion and fell onto his back...
"UGH!" he screamed in pain as he held his bleeding right side, a piece of metal was lodged into it.
He painfully pulled on it "AAAH!" he screamed as he pulled it out, he then tried to get up but a metal foot then landed on his chest.
"You filthy ghoul! You will pay for killing my brother's and sisters!" A brotherhood soldier with an eyelid cracked helmet yelled at him as she pushed him down with her foot.
She then lifted her laser rifle to his head...
"GET OFF OF HIM YOU RACIST ZEALOT!"
A human minutemen yelled and fired his laser musket at full power hitting her in the head, her helmet blew apart.
A female minutemen with a combat knife then ran up behind her and jumped onto her back...
"GET OFF OF ME!" The brotherhood knight yelled as she tried to shake off the minuteman on her back.
The minuteman then raised the combat knife over the brotherhood's head and brought it down with all of her might into the side of her head.
"AH!" the knight screamed in pain, the minuteman then stabbed in her eye, and then her neck, only then did the knight fell...
"Ad victorium..." the Knight managed to get out as she gurgled her own blood and fell to the ground.
They afterwards quickly tended to the ghoul's wounds with some stimpacks "Good job frank, let's going" a minutemen told frank the ghoul as he helped him up.
"Gotcha..." Frank replied.
Drake jumped down from the castle walls and rolled onto the ground, he then jumped up to his feet with his laser rifle raised and ran towards two brotherhood knights in power armor.
He fired the first shot, the powerful modified laser rifle damaged the first brotherhood soldier's helmet.
"DAMNIT!" The knight yelled in anger as he and his fellow officer fired at the general with laser rifles, two shots hit him but the many others missed as he ran for cover.
The general hissed in annoyance at the burnt part of his left leg, he then jumped over the cover and went for another sprint towards him...
Once he came in close the knights tried to hit him with the butt of their rifles, he dodged them swiftly as he rolled onto the ground and was now behind them. Holding his rifle by the barrel he bashed the handle on a brotherhood knight's helmet cracking it apart, the general then took hold of the handle again and fired twice at the man's head killing him.
"NO!" The brotherhood soldier yelled as she fired her automatic laser towards the general, but he held up the body of the soldier he just killed as a metal shield to block the energy shots.
Stopping her shots she then tackled the body shield causing the general to be knocked back on to the ground and then took out his trusty 10mm pistol, the deliverer.
Firing repeatedly Drake shot at the chest of the knight, the armor didn't hold out long as it cracked apart. Once the clip was empty the brotherhood soldier dropped to the ground with a clank from her power armor.
"These guy's aren't nearly as bright as they think they are..." Drake muttered to himself as he then turned towards the other vertabird in the sky.
Reloading his laser rifle with another fusion cell he aimed at the vertabird.
"Engage V.A.T.S!" Drake yelled, the pipboy took the voice command and the world around him slowed...
Percentage chances showed for the vertabird target as calculations were made in the Pipboy for chances of successful hits.
59% chance to hit the pilot, he was at full health.
95% chance to hit the rotor, it was down to 1/3 health, damage it took from the castle missile turrets.
Drake took the rotor and fired three good shots at it, being a two-shot laser rifle it could be at the equivalent of six shots, the rotor soon exploded and sent spinning on it's y-axis and crashed into the ground.
He let out his held breath, V.A.T.S takes energy directly from the body making him tired...
He quickly shook his head regaining some of his stamina and looked over to the castle, all three vertabirds were tooken out, he then look towards another sound of rotors spinning heading towards the base from far to his left.
"Of course there's more..." he said to himself as he reloaded his weapons.
"Maccready!" Drake called attention to one of his companions, the sniper shot a brotherhood knight that got in the castle walls straight through his helmet leaving him dead.
"There's more vertabirds incoming, get to a higher area and aim for the pilot!" Drake ordered him.
"Got it boss!" Maccready then ran for the stairs to the upper floor.
"Ronnie take some of the men and kill the Knights at the other side of the north east wall! I'll take care of the ones here" The minutemen general ordered as two more vertabirds flew around the castle.
"You heard you're general!" Shaw yelled to the men, they then ran towards the north east wall.
Gathering up at the wall they fired below at the knights with plasma bolts, lasers, and bullets. Spraying the enemies power armor down to scraps of metal, ash and goo the brotherhood soldiers dropped one by one.
As the two vertabirds hovering the castle were shot at, four brotherhood knights dropped to the ground in power armor. The general shot his laser rifle at one of them repeatedly, the soldier's armor soon buckled against the sheer amount of energy the attacks gave.
The knight fell down to the ground dead after a few more shots were delivered, another Knight brought his attention to the general and shot him with his automatic laser pistol. Drake having laser blasts hitting against his flesh and general uniform began to run firing at the power armored enemy, as Drake was finishing off the knight another one shot him in the back with his laser rifle, only to be then shoved to the ground by a metal shoulder.
"Name is Preston Garvey" Preston said as he towered over the brotherhood soldier in T-45 model F minutemen power armor holding his T-45 helmet under his right arm "Commonwealth minutemen" he finished as he then put on his helmet, and once the brotherhood soldier got to his feet Preston punched him in the face.
The T-45 power armor was an earlier made of power armor than the T-60, however the general creating the model F version of the power armor made it superior to the brotherhood T-60 mark II armor the soldier used.
Drake ducked under a brotherhood knight's metal fist, then bashed his laser rifle into the soldier's side , then pulling out the Deliverer he shot the pistol repeatedly at the man's helmet.
Meanwhile Preston Garvey and the other brotherhood knight were in a power armor fist fight, Preston threw a right hook at the Knight only for it to be blocked, the knight then punched the minutemen emblem on his chest knocking him back. After recovering Preston grabbed an incoming fist from the brotherhood knight, the knight tried again with his other fist but Preston got hold of that too, Preston then head butted his helmet into the knight's leaving the soldier in a daze. Preston proceeded to punch the soldier repeatedly, left hook, right hook, until the Knight's helmet cracked under the pressure.
Another vertabird started spiraling to the ground, Maccready shot the pilot while the fight happened with his .50 caliber sniper rifle, the second one was brought down by minutemen gauss rifles. The first vertabird flew out of the castle walls before crashing, however the second one started heading inside the castle walls towards Preston and the general.
Trying to get away they all started running, but Preston and the soldier he was fighting were caught in the explosion and were knocked to the ground. The soldier died but Preston was alive, his power armor gained a good amount of damage.
The remaining brotherhood soldier aimed her weapon at Preston Garvey, the general fired two shots from his laser rifle at her gaining her attention. Running up to her the general fired two shots at her helmet, bashing his rifle on her helmet when he got close the soldier punched him in the gut with her metal fist. The general ducked under another punch from the knight and grabbed her metal arm making her stationary, he then brought his right fist to the Knight's helmet making it's lenses crack and some parts of the helmet dent.
"AGH!" The brotherhood knight screamed, she then punched the general in the face making him let go of her arm.
After being knocked back the general stood there, Drake looked up with a bruise on his cheek and a bloody lip, he wiped off the blood with his left hand.
"That the best you got?" The general questioned "The almighty brotherhood of steel brought down by a bunch of farmers..."
The general could see the angered eyes of the knight though the broken lenses on her helmet.
"Ghoul's" The general pressed.
"Even Super Mutants" Drake finished as he pointed a finger to the right where strong the Super Mutant shooting with minutemen at brotherhood knights at the wall with a combat rifle.
Drake's cold eyes watched as the Knight clenched her power armor fists, but he didn't stop there...
"You're faction is so damn arrogant, you think you get to step over everyone" Drake continued.
"That's not tru-" Drake then interrupted the Knight.
"Taking food from farmers, killing non-feral ghouls, how many people did you kill just for having a laser rifle?" Drake said as he narrowed his eyes.
The knight tried to say something again but Drake continued...
"We warned you to back off, we told you we didn't want you here, yet you still stayed and did whatever the hell you wanted, because you don't care for anything accept for yourselves and you're own goals"
"You horde technology, treat people who are different from you like shit, and don't care for anyone's opinions accept you're own"
Drake then sent her a glare.
"You're way or the highway"
Drake then sighed.
"You horde technology because you're afraid that it will set the world on fire again, but do you want to know what really destroyed the world?" Drake questioned.
The Knight looked at him confused.
"People like you" Drake finished.
The knight had enough of it and glared at the general with all of her hate.
"WHO CARES WHAT YOU THINK!? GHOULS AND SUPER MUTANTS ARE DISGUSTING CREATURES THAT NEED TO BE DESTROYED! WE"LL TAKE WHATEVER THE HELL WE WANT! YOU ARE JUST SOME WASTELANDER TRASH! I AM A MEMBER OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF STE-" BANG.
Maccready had shot her through her helmet with his sniper rifle, the knight dropped down to the ground dead with a clang from her power armor.
Drake then started at the dead body for a few moments, after hearing her response he cleared any doubt he had in his mind about getting rid of the brotherhood...
He made the right decision.
Turning over to his left he saw more vertabirds in the distance coming towards the castle.
The battle between the brotherhood of steel and minutemen continued, Five vertabirds came and were taken out by minutemen rocket launchers and what's left of the castle defense turrets, brotherhood knights fought with minutemen soldiers outside the castle walls, people dying on both sides.
The general now on the castle walls looked below him as he saw a minutemen about to be killed, the general was out of ammunition, so he turned to the broken turret along the wall and ran towards it.
Seeing the problem, the general ripped off a lid on the turret to find a circuit board with bullet holes in it, taking out a spare from his bag he took out the old one and hurriedly placed the new one in and plugged it in.
The turret hummed to life and beeped detecting combatants in the area, the turret aimed at the brotherhood knight and fired. The bullets hit against the knights armor which was already heavily damaged from minutemen weapons and cracked under the pressure of the barrage of bullets.
The minuteman then fired his six-crank laser rifle at full power at the knight, turning him into ash.
"Thank you genera-AGH!" The minuteman was shot to ash by a brotherhood knight before the general's eyes.
The turret near him was then destroyed by lasers from the brotherhood knights, the general covered his face from the explosion.
Taking his hat off the general tossed it to the side, he jumped off the wall towards the battle. Soon landing on the ground the general ran towards a fallen brotherhood knight and grabbed a fusion cell from the knight's laser rifle and reloaded his. He fired at the knight that turned one of his soldiers to ash and paid him back in kind.
Other minutemen nearby fired there weapons relentlessly at the remaining brotherhood knights.
Not long later the brotherhood knights were dead...along with some of the fellow minutemen soldiers.
"We don't have time to mourn" The general addressed the soldiers who stared at their dead comrades.
"They sacrificed their lives to make sure the commonwealth can make it's own future, are you gonna let that be in vain!?" The general questioned them.
"No sir!" they answered him.
The general continued "Then show these brotherhood bastards what it means to be a minuteman!"
"Sir yes sir!"
"I DON"T HEAR YOU!" The general yelled to them.
"SIR YES SIR!" They yelled louder.
"Lets kick the brotherhood out of our home!" Drake yelled to them.
"YEAH!" The minutemen with their spirits lifted raised their weapons.
The general sighed, seeing three more vertabirds in the distance coming towards old fort independence.
"Next wave everyone...MAKE IT COUNT!"
"YES GENERAL!" Drake heard this not just from the group he faced but behind him as well, everyone heard his speech.
The general smirked, he got on one knee and grabbed another fusion cell from a fallen brotherhood knight, he then reloaded his rifle and faced towards the next wave.
"Let's show these idiots what happens when you mess with the commonwealth minutemen" The general gave out one last comment and heard everyone yell behind him in agreement.
Seemingly never ending the brotherhood continued their assault. However their forces were depleting quickly against the minutemen soldiers who armed with powerful weapons and were trained by the general with his experience and knowledge in Pre-war military training, they were prepared for this, the brotherhood was not.
However the brotherhood was still a formidable force even in their weakened state, having air support on their side as well.
Two more vertabirds were sent flying down by minutemen fire, they crashed into their fellow brotherhood knights damaging their power armor. Strong then ran up to one with his super sledge, cracking the knight's helmet on impact.
"TIN MAN WEAK!" Strong yelled in triumph as the knight fell down dead, another brotherhood knight tried to shoot at him with her laser rifle but was interrupted by a minuteman soldier shooting a gauss rifle in the head killing her.
Minutemen soldiers fired again and again, blood and burnt flesh could be smelled from across the battlefield.
Meanwhile another minuteman soldier was aiming a piece of artillery at a group of knights converging at the castle entrance.
"Fire!" The general ordered, and so the artillery fired and rain hell on the brotherhood soldiers.
Screaming words like "For honor and glory!"and "For Elder Maxson!" were made by the brotherhood knights as they were hit with barrages of artillery. Minutemen in the interior of their base were being treated by the doctor, having been injured badly in battle were glad to hear the brotherhood knights falling in the battlefield.
The barrage of Artillery and gunfire then stopped...
Silence.
The minutemen outside were waiting in anticipation for the next wave...but none came.
No vertabirds were seen on the horizon, no brotherhood soldiers left, no more fighting.
Only sign of the brotherhood were the ones that lie dead on the ground.
They won.
"HA! WE BROKE THEM!" Ronnie yelled in triumph.
"YEAAAAHHH!" All the minutemen soldiers yelled full of pride, they fought against one of the most powerful factions out in the wastelands and won.
Raising their rifles in the air they continued to yell in triumph, the general nearby leaned against a wall injecting a stimpack into himself.
"Radio freedom with an after battle report, the brotherhood have launched all their remaining forces against the castle but we came out victorious, the commonwealth for the first time in centuries can now make it's own future..."
The people of the commonwealth cheered in victory, gunners and raiders worries grew, and super mutants respect grew as well...
The commonwealth was free to make it's own path.
All the minutemen gathered in front of Ronnie Shaw "Alright people, that was a tough fight but we came through it" Ronnie said with a sense of pride towards them "You can be proud of how you handled yourselves today" She said and then got a serious look on her face.
"But we don't have time to sit around congratulating ourselves, we're the minutemen, goldurnit, and that means we always got to be ready for the next fight!" Ronnie told them, the general then walked and stopped beside her wanting to speak to his men.
The general looked at them and took a breath before speaking "Today will go down in history, it wasn't easy, and it was costly, but we won"
The men stared in anticipation at what he was gonna say next...
"Today the minutemen weren't just some group of farmers or settlers" Drake told them "We're an army, one that will protect the commonwealth and it's people. I see potential in our army, a potential to make a new commonwealth. We won't stop here, there is still people out there that hurt others, we still haven't taken back the entire commonwealth that is occupied by some drugged raiders or mercenaries"
The minutemen were in awe what he was implying...
"We'll grow stronger, we'll get smarter, we'll turn the commonwealth into a place even better than before the war, we'll take it back and rebuild. With the people of the commonwealth and the minutemen army we'll become something more, a civilization"
"Can we do that..." some of the minutemen mumbled.
The general continued "It will be hard, we'll probably squirm and struggle, but with the people of the commonwealth, humans, ghouls, super mutants" The generals says "But we'll prevail"
The minutemen stood silent...
"I know it sounds crazy, but look at what we've already done" Drake pressed "We have the potential, so let's use it"
"I plan to make the minutemen even more of a force to be reckoned with, better equipment, weapons, and more bases across the commonwealth so we can take it back and defend the people in a minute's notice..."
The general looked at his men readily "Are you with me!?" Drake yelled to them.
They were silent for a moment...
Then they all smiled, they cheered, they clapped, but most of all they believed...
They believe they could do it.
The general then stepped away from the group and headed towards the armory, he sighed in relief as he walked. Preston Garvey, Maccready, and Ronnie Shaw started walking beside him...
"Did you really mean all that?" Maccready question him.
"No, I said that to mess with the troops" The general replied with dry sarcasm.
"You're either the craziest general I've ever served under... or the craziest general I've ever served under" Ronnie said honestly to him.
"At least you're honest about it" The general replied without a care.
"I can hardly believe we defeated the brotherhood, to become something so big...we might be able to do it' Preston said, making Maccready and Ronnie look at him like he was just as crazy as the general was.
"We can, and we will" Drake said sternly and turned to them as they made it to the armory entrance "It's time the commonwealth to make it's own future"
"...if you're so sure I'll be right next to you boss" Maccready replied smirking with confidence.
"I'll follow any of you're orders" Ronnie said, she then got out the General's hat and held it out to him.
The general took it and put it on and went into the armory, he had work to do.
The Commonwealth's path that day was made...
In the span of almost Two years the minutemen accomplished a great deal, from increasing it's military power, to gaining technology, and most of all their mission on taking back the commonwealth...
The minutemen army first began training and growing their power to defend the commonwealth, they took back areas that were occupied by feral ghoul's, raiders, or other mutants. They created new military bases, such as Fort County Crossing, Fort Nordheagan, Kingsport lighthouse, and more.
The minutemen HQ was also refitted, the general made an entire third floor made out of multiple layers of steel, inside contained a power armor armory of T-45 model F minutemen power armors fully ready for use, a Brig or prison cells to question enemies for intelligence, and even a hydroponics lab. The third floor was made around the radio tower, supported by steel concrete beams and the steel wires that also helps keep up the radio tower. Defense turrets, lasers, machinegun, and missile launcher turrets were on the roof of this third floor to fire at enemies in the air, Two entrances to the second floor were on the third floor along with an elevator that leads to the first floor.
The castle itself was outfitted with the best defenses and technology, conduits connected to the turrets that surrounded along all the walls of the castle. A concrete watchtower faced the ocean, a fusion generator was placed in the new radio room that had terminals connected to the castle technology, along with consoles to keep track of radio status and power output. A vault-tec super reactor was near the new concrete barracks in the courtyard, every entrance was hallowed to make a steel rolling door inside to put the base on lockdown if ever needed. There was also a new entrance towards the south of the castle that hat a complete rolling door with a switch on the inside to open and close it, along with a decontamination arch as well to get rid of radiation. On the outside of the castle there was two check-in stations at each entrance to keep tabs on who comes in and who comes out.
A firework launcher was also used affectively, whether to call reinforcements or to change the weather with the new technology the minutemen developed. A couple of robots also take guard at steel guard posts keeping an eye out for enemies, blue colored minutemen designed assaultron and the newly designed air strike attack bot A.S.A.B.
A.S.A.B was designed for aerial attacks against enemies who are airborne.
A gym for muscle training was also made for the soldiers...
Many other minutemen military bases had similar equipment, but the castle was the most fortified base in all of the commonwealth.
Minutemen also gained air support, having carefully studying vertabird technology over at the new minutemen research facility at vault 88 and creating more over time with some improvements made to them as well as giving the vertabirds blue minutemen paint jobs.
Minutemen equipment was also improved, ballistic weave was added to every minutemen uniform after creating an alliance with the railroad, making them unofficially a part of the minutemen, and in exchange they helped synths start new lives. Minutemen were equipped with a variety of weaponry, plasma rifles, Gauss rifles, .308 snipers, 7.62 caliber rifles from nuka world, and every other weapon you could think of modified to suit a minuteman's fighting style.
Nuka world was occupied by minutemen to help defend and operate nuka world along with the former enslaved traders, nearby was a minutemen outpost at an old red rocket station to radio the minutemen back in the commonwealth. Far harbor had a minutemen outpost built at Dalton farm Longfellow after some negotiating was given the rank of a minutemen commander, after the destruction of the children of atom and the help the general provided to the people of far harbor and acadia they gladly accepted the minutemen moving in.
And as for the commonwealth itself, was a fully working government.
This didn't come easily, first the minutemen had to take back the commonwealth itself which started off at a slow pace. The first few months the minutemen defended settlements as usual, and defending old military outposts on the roads, but they were also gathering strength. Collecting equipment and repairing it for good use, training for stealth situations as well collecting stealth boys, and chameleon armor. The railroad having not to worry much about synths anymore since the institute is gone the general asked some of their agents to do surveillance on the gunners being that they are the main threat of taking back to the commonwealth.
The next month went differently, the minutemen sent three vertabirds from the Boston airport towards the city of Boston, snipers from inside the vertabirds along with mini guns started clearing paths towards the main city killing raiders, or bloodthirsty super mutants, and every now and then a gunner. After cleating a couple of paths the vertabirds started heading back once getting too close to the city confusing some of the raiders and mercenaries who tried to shoot them down.
Three large groups of minutemen battalions of thirty men each were sent through these cleared paths towards the main city, half of them fitted with power armor and heavy weapons, the other half wore minutemen painted heavy combat armor with heavily modified assault rifles.
After a couple of hours of stops, rests, and planning, the minutemen soon reached the main city surprising the raiders with an attack, they didn't stand a chance against the minutemen battalions.
Minutemen soldiers collected anything useful from the downed enemies, mainly ammunition. They continued onward walking through the city, firing at any raiders who stood in their path, collecting anything useful nearby, this went on for the entire day until the minutemen were tired and overwhelmed. Some were injured, others out of ammunition for their main weapons, so they took shelter in buildings they cleared out that were previously occupied by mutants or raiders, in these buildings they treated the wounded with stimpacks and used tools they brought with them to repair power armor.
This went on for three days, gathering ammunition, battles toughly fought for, minutemen casualties were made, however many raiders were killed, it was a small success but they weren't done yet. The minutemen having radio communication asked for more support, more minutemen battalions were sent with equipment, vertabirds flew carrying ammunition and men in power armor ready to join the fight as well.
The vertabirds being support craft fired on any enemies that tried to attack the battalion heading towards the city, the path was mostly cleared making it relatively easy. After a few more hours the battalion met up with the ones in the city supplying more ammunition and equipment, also helping repair power armor and bringing some of the few heavily injured aboard the vertabirds.
Having reinforcements on their side of forty more men and fully stocked on medical supplies and equipment the minutemen split up and continued their operation to take back the city of Boston.
A week later the minutemen battalions took out many more enemies, also gaining twenty more men for reinforcements, however they began to meet heavier resistance from gunners. Gunners being much more organized and equipped than raiders or super mutants were a much bigger threat causing more minutemen casualties.
Three more days passed having fought the gunners, leaving the minutemen exhausted and having wounded,thankfully the residence of Diamond city provided shelter for many of the soldiers trying to take back the commonwealth, providing bed rolls , food, water, medical supplies, along with ammunition courtesy of Arturo's Commonwealth weaponry.
Many of the residence of the city said it was the least they could do.
Piper wright and her sister Nat had gotten permission from the commanders of the battalions to interview with some of the soldiers, asking what enemies they fought, The well being of the soldiers, and what the minutemen thought of the whole thing.
The last question was met with same answer from all of them...
"We're taking back the commonwealth"
Two days later the soldiers left diamond city, prepared to join the fight once again. Meanwhile the general ordered 50 more minutemen soldiers to join the fight in the battle to take back Boston city. 10 of them carried computer calculating Quad missile launchers in military painted combat armor, five carrying 7.62 rifles in shadowed medium combat armor,15 in T-45 model F minutemen power armor with mini guns, 10 were in leather armor with six-crank laser muskets, and the last ten were minutemen modified courser uniforms with ballistic weave and minutemen emblem on them while equipped with modified laser rifles, strong the super mutant also joined them being bored at the castle.
Having the minutemen already cleared through the part of the city they walked into the small army ran into little resistance and marched forth to join their fellow soldiers.
A month later the minutemen cleared 3/4th of the city, ten minutemen snipers joined them in that time led by Maccready to take out gunners with information supplied by the railroad.
Unfortunately the raiders decided to work together temporarily, they brought together raider groups making it more difficult to take back another part of the city.
During another battle near trinity tower, gunners and minutemen soldiers were fighting each other along with strong the super mutant, leaving the mutants who watched in the tower confused.
Trinity tower was still a home for strong, therefore he and the minutemen he was with went to defend it. The gunners being unequipped and outnumbered to deal with them had lost against the minutemen forces.
For the first time the super mutants saw the minutemen had strength, much more than their previous leader Fist. They had defended the tower just because a fellow super mutant didn't want puny gunners to take it.
And having radio the super mutants knew of the minutemen's accomplishments, destroying the brotherhood of steel or the "tin men" as they referred to.
A super mutant known as "Razor" went down with revolutionary swords on his back, the minutemen raised their guns to the mutant however the mutant didn't try to attack, instead it wanted to "talk" which confused some of the minutemen.
Along with other super mutants, Razor went to talk to strong, the minutemen had proven they were strong and wanted to join the fight with them.
Strong seemed reluctant at first about the idea, and the same was especially said for the other minutemen, however after chanting with some of the other mutants strong got to like the idea.
The minutemen commander radioed the general for permission to have the super mutants to join, although a bit unsure the commander said this could put the odds in their favor against the army of raiders, the general gave it a go as long as strong kept them in line.
Having the super mutants join the fight gave the minutemen an edge against the raiders, having a lot more numbers on their side.
A few days after some battles were fought together with the mutants and the minutemen against raiders, their respect for each other grew, once dealt with caution to each other they now started to talk and actually become friends over time as strange as it seems.
Some of the super mutants were also fascinated with Strong's talk about "the milk of human kindness" leaving some of the minutemen to joke about it with the super mutants.
After another week of attacks the commander had equipped the super mutants with better armor and weaponry, attacking the raiders relentlessly this caused the already unorganized group to go up in chaos, in many cases they attacked each other mid-battle.
Another few days passed by and the raiders were destroyed, the ones that were still alive surrendered having only joined out of desperation. The minutemen in the process also saved kidnapped people who were being held for ransom money.
The remaining gunners in the main city either surrendered for the same reasons or retreated out of the city.
They took back Boston city after two months...
The operation was a success, the minutemen once again pulled an amazing feat.
And now it's time for the people of the commonwealth to rebuild...
Six months passed by, the minutemen and many people across the commonwealth worked together to rebuild Boston city. The minutemen had many resources and technology such as the Vault-tec workshop, robots, and newly made cranes that played big part in this. Settlers from across the commonwealth started to live in the city of Boston having they repaired the buildings, even started making clean working electricity with vault- tec super reactors to power the city once more.
Almost a full year later the city was rebuilt, roads were remade for the newly made APC's minutemen repaired and made, while occupiers of the city also started making Gym's, arcades, Gun stores, Junk stores, Food markets, and much more.
The streets were largely cleaned as well, much of the junk metal was melted down to help repair the buildings, wood was also used to help repair more homes and restaurants. A project for making working water also being worked on for all the buildings in the city, Vertabirds are now often used for transport or delivering supplies to Boston city.
Using the vault-tec workshop after clearing the way of fallen buildings, the people created the first new skyscraper in 200 years, although not as big some of the others in the city, it was mainly used as a headquarters for the newly made government officials to oversee the progress of the people and to make laws or decisions.
The newly made commonwealth government was run by a council, each council member a representative from a community, such as the atom cats, Diamond city, Vault 81, far harbor, acadia, nuka world, spectacle city (once known as spectacle island was turned into a city by the minutemen), minutemen military(the railroad is part of this but is mostly kept a secret), and other local settlements
Laws were also made to protect peoples rights, such as to bare arms to weapons (advanced weapons they have to go through training for), moderation on drugs (much to the general's annoyance he couldn't ban drugs), the right to minutemen protection, gender equality, all races are to be treated equally (although took convincing to the diamond city representative because of synths, ghouls, and mutants).
Super mutants, ghouls, and synths were also allowed to join the minutemen military, many super mutants actually joined the minutemen to be able to fight enemies, some mutants actually chose to live in the city, synths didn't often join the minutemen often just wanting a peaceful life. Plenty of Ghoul citizens signed up to join the minutemen as well.
Minutemen were stretched for a while, not being able to send forces to take back major parts of the commonwealth having to make the city, but after the city was repaired the general left it to the colonels to take back parts of the commonwealth while he helped form the new government.
Minutemen had built up their weapons, vertabirds, and with more recruits joining they had men,killing gunners and raiders, taking back outposts, and becoming a stronger force in the process...
In the glowing sea...
A minutemen group of scientists and soldiers of 20 walk throughout the radioactive land in radiation suits and power armor carrying equipment, food, and supplies following the general who was in his quantum X-01 power armor. The general told his men that there was a major facility in the glowing sea that the minutemen were gonna take under it's control and repair.
It was Christmas day, the general planned to get back to the castle soon to his son. Joining him was Colonel Garvey in T-45 model F minutemen power armor along with commander Danse in X-01 mk III power armor with a minutemen emblem painted on the left side of his power armor's breastplate.
Along the way there were only a few rad scorpions to deal with and a few blow bugs...
A pyramid was in sight of the minutemen.
"What the heck is that?" one of the scientists asked in astonishment.
"The sentinel site, a pre-war military base" Danse answered him.
Walking over to the entrance of the concrete pyramid, they past a couple of crates.
Entering through the metal door they saw a heavily armored security door, the general walked towards it in his power armor and proceeded to unlock it...
Once open the scientists were astonished at what they were seeing, they proceeded to walk forward to the rails.
"Are those...nukes?" Preston asked, seeing a nuclear silo in front of him.
"Whoa..." one of the scientists mutter in fascination.
"Sentinel site Prescott was in the process of being turned into a nuclear silo before the bombs dropped, it was never finished" Drake explained, he then led them down the stairs towards the control rooms.
The general ordered a scientist and a minuteman in power armor to stay behind to examine the control room, the general and the rest continued.
"I can see why you wanted us here general, this will make an excellent military base" Preston commented "Not sure what were gonna do with a few of the nuclear bombs that are laying around"
"That's only one of the reasons were here Preston and you'll see soon enough" Drake told him as the footsteps of the men in power armor echoed through the facility.
Walking down the platforms tp the bottom floor of the facility, they then went through a circular hallway walking on more metal platforms, then gurgles and screeches could be heard nearby...
"Feral ghouls behind us" Preston said turning around aiming laser musket, shooting a feral ghoul's leg off.
The fellow minutemen in power armor had feral ghouls scratching against their metal plates, the minutemen made quick work of them with there assault rifles.
"I thought we got rid of all the feral ghoul's last time..." Danse said confused.
"They're could have been more hiding, or ones that only recently entered this place" The general explained "That's the reason why were heavily armed'
"I thought that was standard procedure" Preston joked getting a couple chuckles from the fellow minutemen.
Drake and Danse rolled their eyes and continued walking, the others followed suite. Going through the tunnels the minutemen eventually went into a part of it that collapsed, they took the path to the left then, the area had walls with holes in them and multiple crates of nuclear warheads.
"There's more of these?" A soldier questioned.
Continuing they group managed to get through a hole in the concrete wall that led to the other side of the collapsed part of the tunnel, continuing their walk the scientists stared in awe around them sometimes tripping over the gaps in the walkways, taking a right at the next turn there was no feral ghouls in sight.
Reaching the end of the walkway they came to a stop, in front of them was two big red steel doors and to the right of it an elevator.
"Stay here" The general ordered the team and exited his power armor, getting out he was wearing his general uniform without the hat, he then headed up the stairs towards the doorway.
"...so what's in there?" Preston asked Danse.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you, it's better just to show you" The former Paladin answered him.
The general walked inside the room, seeing the dead children of atom and assaultron still laying where he last saw them, he walked over the body and headed towards the terminal, once on it he typed in the password opening the red doors.
The general noticed something over by the consoles, so he went over to investigate.
Seeing a little opened on the bottom portion of the console the general pulled on it with some resistance, in little time the compartment opened with a holotape inside.
Drake picked it up and read the text on the holotape.
"Classified, authorized personnel only..." The general read the text aloud before putting it in his pocket and heading down with the rest of the team.
"Holy crap..." Drake heard some of his soldiers say as he approached them.
"Mark 28 tactical warheads" Danse mentioned.
"This is enough to destroy the world all over again..." Preston muttered.
"Tactical warheads Preston, they're a lot more powerful than mini nukes but nowhere near as powerful as the one's that were launched on the great war" The general corrected him.
"What are we gonna do with them?" Preston asked.
"...I want to finish the project that was started" The general said facing them.
"WHAT!?" Preston and Danse practically yelled.
"You want to make it so we can send these bombs in missiles?" A minutemen scientist asked for clarification.
"Essentially yes" The general said sighing at Danse and Preston's reaction.
"General why would you want to do that?" Preston questioned.
"I have to question you're judgement on this, these bombs are dangerous if not used properly, we can't just use them on whoever we don't like" The commander pressed.
Rubbing his nose in irritation of his officers, the general looked at them "If you'd both shut up for a second I could explain"
They immediately went quiet.
"First of all I don't plan on just using them on a whim, you know me better than that" The general glared at them for suggesting it.
"Second of all weren't the brotherhood gonna use these as well just to get rid of people they didn't like to get to the institute? The only reason why the bombs are still here is because you were discovered to be a synth, and the institute was destroyed by the minutemen, halting the brotherhood extraction" explained the general further.
"...you're right general,sorry for being so presumptuous" Danse apologized.
"Please continue general" Preston said.
Drake nodded and continued "First of all what I say here is not to leave this room, no one says anything to anyone else about the information I'm about to tell you"
Everyone nodded in understanding.
"If you do mention this to anyone I will have to either contain you in a prison cell along with the people you told, or end you're life, it will most likely be the latter" The general pressed.
"Yes general" Everyone responded.
"...good, now the commonwealth, maybe the entire planet, has an enemy" The general started to explain.
"Almost two years ago, when the minutemen didn't even reclaim the castle yet, I heard something falling through the sky near the red rocket at sanctuary hills, Preston was with me on that day" The general said looking at Preston.
"Two years ago...?" He mumbled questioning himself.
"We went over to investigate it, it wasn't like any aircraft we've ever seen, strange design and shape" The general continued.
"You mean... that spaceship?" Preston asked his eyes widened as he remembered the event.
"Spaceship? As in aliens? Seriously?" Danse asked, clearly skeptical.
"Aliens aren't real are they?" one of the minutemen soldiers also said skeptical.
"There are millions of planets in the galaxy and you think that earth is the only planet where life evolved?" the general questioned them.
"..." they stood silent.
The general sighed annoyed "Well I guess you're all idiots then, because here's the proof" the general then pulled out a strange looking pistol from his bag and threw it to commander Danse, he fumbled with it at first before grabbing a hold of it.
"What is this...?" The former Paladin questioned "It's not like any Pre-war technology I know of that the brotherhood ever came across, and this power source...at least I think it's a power source..." He said inspecting the left side of it, the scientists and soldiers looked at it as well.
"It's not Pre-war, it wasn't made by the institute, it wasn't made on this planet at all" The general explained.
"Me and Preston didn't just find the spacecraft, we found the pilot" The general continued gaining curious looks from his men.
"We followed a trail of green blood towards the cave it was hiding in, it was wounded" Preston helped explain.
"Green...?" one of the soldiers asked.
"Yes green, we found it in the cave near a ham radio, we tried to see if we could help it, we didn't and still don't know if it was here for destructive purposes" The general told them.
"What happened to it?" Danse asked.
"We had our weapons down trying to look peaceful, however it shot at us with that gun, Preston much to my dismay decided to kill it" Drake finished.
"Sorry general..." Preston apologized.
"It could of attacked us because it was hurt and scared, however we also had our weapons lowered and it attacked us anyway, that's not a good sign" The general said and then turned around to look at the bombs "If there is more of them, who are just as aggressive, I'd like to have as many ways to defend our planet as we possibly can"
The general then turned back to them "That's why I brought you here, to get this missile silo up and running, most of the work is already done, we just need to repair the base, and I would also like a way to make more of these bombs and if necessary more powerful versions"
"I think I understand general" Commander Danse said.
"From here Danse I want you to oversee the repairing of this base, I'll also need you to inform the other soldiers and scientists that I will be sending for this operation" The general ordered him, as the commander handed him back the alien device.
"Yes sir!" The former paladin saluted to his general.
"Me and colonel Garvey will now take our leave" The general then entered his power armor and faced his men.
"For the minutemen!" The general saluted to them.
"For the minutemen!" They responded saluting back to him.
Garvey and the general then proceeded to walk towards the elevator, the general then stopped and turned around to look at Danse.
"Don't go disappearing this time understood commander?"
"...understood sir" The commander responded.
The general and Preston then walked onto the elevator and pressed the button, they rose to the upper levels.
At the castle...
After passing the edge of the glowing sea the general called for a vertabird with a smoke grenade, the vertabird carrying the general and colonel back to the castle, they are now landing on the landing pad on the side of the castle wall.
Shaun ran down the set of stairs much to curie's dismay, he then headed towards his father who just got out of the vertabird.
"You're back!" Shaun yelled to him and wrapped his arms around Drake's waist.
"Whoa! You're getting strong" Drake said smiling looking down at the kid rubbing his head.
"Merry Christmas dad!" Shaun said happily.
"Speaking of Christmas, did you open the present I left you?" The father asked as Preston left him to his son.
Shaun shook his head "Nope! I wanted you to be here when I opened it!"
"Alright then let's get going" The general said, they then went up the stairs from the landing pad and headed towards his office, there laid a Christmas tree with a big box next to it, along with a cat sleeping under the tree.
Drake went to pick up the cat awaking it from it's sleep before sitting down on the ground and putting it on his lap, Shaun then proceeded to rip up the wrapping paper around the box, leaving nothing but the wooden exterior of the box,Shaun then unlatched the lid on the box and took it off...
An eye bot then rose over the box and hovered over to the boy.
"My own eye bot!?" Shaun yelled with glee.
"Yep, his name is ol' rusty, he used to race for some raiders entertainment" The father told him as he pet the cat on his lap.
'Can it shoot lasers?" He asked.
"Yes, but I disabled it" Drake explained.
"Aw man... but it's still really cool" The child perked up and then looked at the robot "We're gonna be awesome friends you and me!" The eye bot beeped in agreement, Shaun then ran out to the castle courtyard to run around with his new eye bot companion.
The general smiled in satisfaction...he then frowned remembering something.
Not moving from his spot with the cat still on his lap, the general removed his backpack and pulled out a holotape, the general then put it in his pipboy and text came up on the screen.
The text read...
Dear captain Dunleavy...
I am sorry to inform you that one of you're relatives, Colonel Jack O'neil, is now deceased, he died in the line of duty to protect his country, taking on a threat that comes with the stargate program.
We send you are regards,
Sincerely, from Vault-tec.
The general stared at the text for a moment...
"Stargate program?"
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General Drake's special stats:
Strength: 10 (11 if using bench press regularly)
Perception: 9
Endurance: 10
Charisma: 7
Intelligence: 10
Agility: 8
Luck: 5
Castle stats:
People: 42
Food: 50
Water: 480
Power: 838
Defense: 999
Beds: 42 (not counting bed rolls)