"All batteries FIRE!" Sergeant John Turner ordered as the roar of prewar rockets flew overhead. The Brotherhood had continued their march through Enclave territory with no mercy. John had watched as some of his closest friends were vaporized at Raven Rock's destruction. Now John and his fellow soldiers attempted to hold the last satellite facility in Enclave hands. In front of him attacking their forces were a squad of Brotherhood soldiers and their pet robot "Liberty Prime" The most elite member of the attack force was the one and only lone wanderer.
"Sir, Johnson is down, we are going to need to fall back!" Private Gillired shouted as Liberty Prime's lasers cut a hole in the wall, followed by a nuke.
"Negative! We need to hold out until the bombardment breaks through!" John ordered. He fired his Plasma Rifle at the Brotherhood Knights and Paladins. He looked from side to side as his brothers in arms were cut down by the Lyon's Butchers. Hate swelled John as he sighted the Lone Wanderer dressed in Tesla Armor and a Raider Blastmaster Helmet. John put his finger on the trigger and squeezed, he sent a round of plasma at the fool.
(Lone Wanderer's POV)
The Brotherhood's push into Enclave Territory has been swift and brutal. One by one, the Enclave bases fell. I have been tasked with the destruction of the satellite array that is giving some sense of unity among Enclave soldiers.
"Kid! Watch it! Up in the tower! Sniper!" Paladin Tristan shouted. I looked up in time to see a plasma bolt slap into my helmet. I fell to the ground and my Pip-Boy registered low vital signs. I was in shell shock as a grenade exploded nearby. My head was in a blur and I could hear the muffled sounds of explosions hit like behemoths around me. Exploding shells fell from an unknown source in the sky. I watched as liberty Prime was torn apart by a shell. I felt myself being dragged to cover. I looked up and saw a Brotherhood member in full armor pulling me away. He was murmuring something inaudible when a shell landed nearby. He was blown to pieces with parts of his organs and a weapon scattered bloodily about. All had gone to hell in a blink of an eye. I looked up and saw Paladin Tristan shouting an order and waving his arm. I attempted to crawl away but I couldn't move a muscle so I just sprawled there.
"We can't just leave her there!"
"That's an order soldier we need to haul ass outta here before we are blown to bits!"
"Sir, Yes Sir!"
Paladin Tristan covered as much ground as fast as he could. He and the two other survivors had to abandon the best soldiers the Brotherhood have had.
"What the hell just happened?" Knight Yory asked.
"Son we just got our asses handed to us," Tristan replied, "how are we going to explain this to Lyons and Rothchild?"
"Explain? How are we going to fight off the inevitable Enclave counterattack?" Yory bluntly asked.
"We pray for a miracle." Tristan kept running until he was past the car tunnels.
"Can we take five now sir?" Initiate Gorbach asked.
"Affirmative," Tristan replied taking in breath after breath. Tristan attempted to communicate Elder Lyons with a prototype Comm unit. "Elder Lyons, this is Paladin Tristan, come in over."
"Tristan? This is Elder Lyons, we read you loud and clear, how was your mission?" Lyons's Holo'd voice spoke.
"I regret to inform you that the mission ended in utter disaster, we have massive casualties including at least 21 Soldiers, Liberty Prime, and the Lone Wanderer has gone MIA."
"Oh, this is indeed a dark day for the Brotherhood; you are to report back to the Citadel ASAP Paladin, Lyons out." The comm hissed to silence. Tristan was left pondering now if this operation was even a fragment of a good idea. An Albino Radscorpion rushing the team was enough for him to snap out of thinking.
John cheered as the Giant Robot was silenced by Enclave Scientists. He walked down to where he had hit the Lone Wanderer. He neared the Tesla Armor wearing soldier and heard staggering breath. As much as he hated the Brotherhood and what the Wanderer had done, he couldn't let them die. He grabbed a stimpack out of his medpack and injected into the Wanderer's hip. The legend sputtered for a second and then the breathing regulated.
"You….you….bastards…..," the lone wanderer whispered. John could tell from the tone that believe it or not the Lone Wanderer was in fact a woman.
"We're the bastards? You and your Knightly Gang destroyed man and machine just to further your goals!" John fought back. She coughed and her voice was weak and pained.
"say……. where am I……… and who are….. yyyooouuu….?" She whispered slightly allowing the calm into her voice.
"I'm Sergeant John Smith of the Enclave Fourth Division Gamma Squad. Listen, I'm going to see to it that you get the medical care you need. This will not be your grave," John spoke soothingly, he was surprised at how mellow he was getting.
"Thank you…….John…….My name's…..Danielle….," Her head now nodded backwards.
"Can I get a medic over here?" John shouted at no one in particular, soon an Enclave soldier with white power armor and a red cross across the chest ran up to John.
"What's the problem? You look fine," The medic commented. John nodded to the Lone Wanderer at his feet. "Why help a BOS soldier?" The medic asked confused.
"Do you really want to question a superior when he has a fully loaded Plasma Rifle and a giant robot as one of his kills?" John growled. The medic shook his head and gave the Lone Wanderer First-aid. The medic injected a few stimpacks into the leg of the wanderer as John walked off.
"Well done sir! We actually held! What are our orders?" The enthusiastic young private of his squad asked.
"Tell Gaugin to make sure our little Wanderer gets good medical treatment, tell everyone else to meet me by the car tunnels for our next mission," John ordered. The Private ran off to do as he was told and John walked over to a body of an Enclave soldier that lie now peacefully on the ground, missing an arm. John reached down and whole-heartedly pulled off the dogtags of his former best friend. Farewell, friend, John whispered to the body.
Where am I? Danielle thought as she floated in some type of tube. Her inventory lay on a long table in front of the table.
"The Subject's awake, initiate Purge Sigma," A voice said. The water in the tube in which she floated was pumped out and soon, Danielle's head poked out of the water. She felt exposed in only her Jumpsuit which she had never worn before.
"Ahh, so you are awake, you have been one heluva problem you little brat," A voice said. Danielle's blue eyes fluttered gracefully as she adjusted to the light.
"Who is this?" Danielle asked.
"I, my trouble making blonde, am Colonel Jacob Cutter, head of the Enclave operations here in the Capitol area. It has been at the request of one of the soldiers defending this installation that you be spared, yet I do not see the use in you," The Colonel said slyly. The Colonel appeared to be in his fifties and wore an Enclave Officer's Uniform Complete with hat, his hair was grayed and he had a mustache that looked like Mario's from an old prewar video game that Danielle remembered only gray. Danielle remembered the voice of that soldier earlier.
"What do you want with me?" Danielle asked.
"I only wish that you secede from your pact with the brotherhood and enlist in support of the Enclave."
Danielle spat at him, "you will never get my support, YOU KILLED MY FATHER!"
"It is a pity you feel that, you would have been a valuable ally, none the less Geravick, do it." A Soldier in Enclave Power Armor approached Danielle with some type of stick with two prongs at either end. A spark appeared between the prongs and touched Danielle's flesh. She yelped out in pain and the prod retreated. "Will you assist us?" Colonel Cutter pried.
"Go to Hell," she growled.
"A pity, Geravick, again." The Prod came back and zapped her again. Danielle screamed in agony again. "It hurts me to hurt you but I must if you don't agree to enlist with us," the Colonel insisted.
"What is it you ask of me?"
John Smith, report to the Med-Lab, sublevel B-4 immediately, Sergeant Smith to the Med-Lab The loudspeaker boomed as John was inside the armory. John walked past the rows of new blood Enclave recruits as they trained, he kept walking until he finally reached the Med-Lab. He opened the door and in front of him was what appeared to be a goddess with long blonde hair, clear blue eyes, and wrapped up in a medical jumpsuit. Colonel Cutter stood in front of the lady.
"Atten-shun!" John saluted.
"At ease Sergeant," Cutter acknowledged.
"What is it you called me down here for?"
"You have a new recruit in your squad." Cutter gestured towards the female.
"Are…..you……the one from before?" she asked.
"Depends, are you Danielle?" He asked, she nodded, "in that case, then yes I am the John from earlier."
"Yes, I can see you two have already met, you are to report to the barracks in one hour to be deployed for your first mission together," With that, the Colonel dismissed them. John walked with Danielle on the way to the barracks.
"So….. Why do you work for a Schlum like Colonel Ass Wipe?" Danielle asked.
"Ehh, I have to, he's my superior after all," John responded.
"You aren't like the other soldiers here in the Enclave, most would have left me to die, why do you work for such evil?" Danielle interrogated.
"Hey lady, what you deem Evil differs from what I deem Evil," John growled offended.
"Sorry, why do you work for the Enclave?"
"It's not that simple, maybe later when I know you more, I'll tell you." John opened the door to the barracks. "Here we are." The two walked into the room.
"Hey John come on play a hand here!" Private Gaugin exclaimed.
"Yeah and who's the babe?" Corporal Taylor asked.
"You might want to show a little more respect to the newest member of the squad," John nagged. A few assorted whistles came from the guys in the room.
"Well, I have to say, I never got this much attention in the Brotherhood. Now can someone tell me what we are gonna do for the next mission?" Danielle asked.
"Alright," John brought up a holo and a table illuminated with a blue light and a map of the Capitol Wasteland popped up, "compared to our other missions recently, this should be a cake walk. A vertibird will drop our squad just a few klicks outside the settlement of Paradise Falls. Once deployed, we must either eliminate all the slavers, or convince them to end slavery. This is the first of President Eden's last requests to restore America to its former self, you are to be equipped and ready in the courtyard at 0900 hours. Dismissed." The Enclave soldiers scrambled about, Danielle walked up to me.
"So uhh without my weapons or armor what am I supposed to do?" she asked.
"Catch," John threw a full set of Enclave armor complete with helmet.
"Am I supposed to use my fists or what?"
"Pick one of these," John said as he held up the corresponding weapon, "Missile Launcher, Ripper, or Laser Rifle?"
"Don't you have anything with, you know, bullets?" she asked.
"Ha ha ha bullets! Why the heck would want those?" John mocked.
"I've never used any energy weapons or advanced tech like this."
"Well, a laser rifle is better than any Assault Rifle or ballistic out there because it does more damage and is a lot more accurate, just pull the trigger like the other guns."
"I'll take the Ripper then, after all it's just stab right?"
"Yeah, go change into your armor then meet the rest of the squad in the courtyard," John ordered as he walked off. This new little recruit is going to be a fun ride, let's just hope she doesn't die on the first mission.
So yeah, that was the beginning to a series of chapters leading to a conclusion. This is a Female Wanderer with the Enclave featuring an alternative to the Broken Steel DLC pack.