Author's note: If you haven't finish the story for fallout 3 don't read this. May contain spoilers.
Operation Last Stand
By: undeadshark
"What went wrong.", that had been the only thought Major Brian's had since boarding the Vertibird. It had been easy, they had stormed and taken control of the Project Purity facility. Then there were complications. First, that suicidal scientist called James sabotaged his own project and almost kill Colonel Autumn. Brian had to give the man credit, being able to sacrifice himself to keep his believed enemy away from his project. That is something that Brian could only hope and dream about in his solders. Even with his sacrifice it caused much of a problem afterwards. Autumn had survived the mass of radiation he had been exposed to with no adverse side effects, but the project had been crippled.
Then James's spawn, the Lone Wanderer, walked all the way out in the wastes to Vault 87 and picked up the only known GECK. How he managed to halt himself out there. It had to be a man no women could have walked all the way there. Let alone if the recon reports were right wear the power armor that the reports showed him wearing. He had so nice as to after retrieving the GECK, he gave it to the Enclave. That's when thing had taken a turn. They should have taken the GECK and shot the Lone Wanderer right then and there, would have saved them the trouble and headache. Because, after wasting three weeks of waiting, asking, and torturing him for information. He should have been recruited into the Enclave, He would make an example for all of the personal. Instead he meets with President Eden, and then there's some kind of revolution over it were it was Colonel verses Eden. Brian couldn't even fathom why after so many years Autumn had decided to betray Eden. It didn't matter now, Raven Rock was destroyed. Brian had lost a lot of good solders, and even better friends in that explosion. He vowed that Lone Wanderer would pay for it all.
That was the first of many vows I've taken in these last months. Because the lone Wanderer wasn't satisfied by blowing up own base of operations, and killing own leader. No, he was just warming up. For his next trick he would walk all the way back to the Citadel. Though countless squads of what's left of the Enclave. To deliver the GECK to the Brotherhood of Steel. Then, they all decided to take back Project Purity. Not just with their elite squad and Lone, no they bring their new pet robot. That menace destroyed the Projects defenses. This time they finally killed Colonel Autumn. That must have pissed off Lone more then anything having to kill the Colonel three times before he was dead. To Brian, Autumn had always been a dick, and deserve red to die.
So, you'd think he was done taking back his Father's project and avenging his death. No, Lone seems to have a hatred for the Enclave as a whole. There was a ray of hope in all of this, Brian had personally been there and been the Commanding Officer when the Brotherhood's pet robot had been destroyed. That had been Brian's crowning achievement of his career. Lone responded to this by blowing the entire Adams Air Force Base, and leadership that was left in the Enclave
Which, let Brian's train of though back to the present, and the reason why he was in this Vertibird in the first place. Over the past few weeks he had rallied up what few Enclave personal, and came up with a plan. Unlike his few officers he was not satisfied with just letting the Brotherhood finish him off whenever they found where they were finding. No, if he was going to die was going to take as many of those armored boy scouts with him as he could. So, he recruited as many solders and Vertibirds as he could for his plan. Which, was to attack the Citadel and Project Purity at the same time in a surprise attack. Hopefully, the Brotherhood would be too stretched out around the wastes to really put up a fight at both locations. The hope was to show the Brotherhood they hadn't won the war just yet, and to take back one of the locations as a base of operations. Well, that was the plan at least, and Brian know it wouldn't be so cut and dry once the rounds started flying. These last few months had taught him that lessen loud and painfully.
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