The Midday sun blazed across the Georgia wasteland, the suns angry glow held back by a thin layer of darkened glass that protected my eyes
The propellers of my vertibird made the familiar swish sound that I heard every day. And as the shadow of the first skyscraper hit my vertibird and the buzzing voice of my commander telling us to halt threw my ear piece, I got to get my first gimps of the ruins of Old Atlanta.
"So How ya Like it?" said the man sitting next to me. "Its Horrible" I responded still looking at the mass of concrete and steel, the my commanders buzzing telling me to move foreword.
"That's about what every one says when they see the old cities" I looked up at partner his eyes were covered but like mine I was sure they glowed with a sense of despair
"How will we ever rebuild what we lost from this" I said remembering the long history classes and the pictures of the great old Cities
The man smiled, I'm sure it was fake a ruse to hide the worry all older Enclave Soldiers felt from resent events but he did try to hide it
"Hell if I know, but" He paused for a second and then pointed into a mass of concrete that had fallen onto a highway overpass "What's that?" he said
I pushed the button on my ear piece "Spotted something interesting 30 yards west of halt position permission to move to location" I waited a few seconds for a response and after hearing my commander give me the green light I slowly pushed my vertibird foreword
I moved foreword keeping focused on the buildings making sure not to hit one while my partner scanned the mass
I stopped 10 yards from the crumbled building "I see some kind of structure under the highway"
he said still focusing on the shattered building "So just some wastelander building right?" "I Don't know" He paused thinking "Pull back a little and drop low a think I've see this before" I did as he said being careful to not hit the street lamps that littered the roadside
"What do you think it is" I said as my vertibird lowered its altitude, He didn't say a thing still focused on the mass, and as my vertibird hovered a few feet from the ground I could see what looked like barricades, fortifications set up as if pre-prepared for battle "Pull Up!" said my Partner.
I started to raise my altitude, and was about to ask my partner again what it was, when I was interrupted by my vertibird's alert system.
I quickly pulled my vertibird up narrowly avoiding a rocket propelling towards us, "We have been engaged! I repeat we have been engaged!" out of my peripheral I could see my partner yelling into his ear piece explaining the situation, seconds later my commanders screaming voice telling me to move to a different position
It always struck me as weird how I never seem to know what's going on, my partner who I've never met before this day, a city that I've only seen from a distance, And an enemy I knew nothing about I had all ways believed that it was how chain of command worked, a need to know bases the lower pegs don't need to know what the higher ones know, But now my first recon had become a battlefield and the enemy as it turns out will be one I'm not prepared to Combat.