Caesar's Mighty Legion had won the war for the Mojave with their victory at the Second Battle for Hoover Dam. The Courier who took the banner of the Bull whose true name was Gaius before he even met the Legion led them through the Hoover Dam and his master gave him five cohorts to crush their enemies. With these hard trained and brutal men he had already taken several levels before Lanius and his forces swept in like a tidal wave cutting down all enemies in their path. Gaius now had one order and execution left before the Mojave was Caesar's. The General Oliver, the last face of NCR control left would die.
In Hoover Dam the Legion had won on every level of the facility thanks in part to the Courier's aid and allies. He saw NCR being thrown from upper levels and machetes cutting into flesh. Gaius watched as dozens of NCR soldiers were being killed by the Legion and looked for Oliver's compound, which literally had an arrow pointing to it and with a force of Khans and Legion he went to kill the last chance the NCR had at ruling New Vegas. The head of the bear was about to be cut off. The only face that showed regret was Cass'. She tried to hide her feelings but Gaius noticed "Be strong Cass you are part of a new world."
Cass said nothing as they entered the cemented walled compound and saw Oliver standing above them with several rangers. The General looked to see if they would exchange words, maybe of surrender. Gaius however did not care for words at this time and did not wait for them to respond and grabbed his pistol. The Rangers were ready and already shot down several of his allies before they hid behind barriers. He watched Roxie his cyber dog from Big Mountain rush forward and tear the throat of a NCR soldier while a group of Khans flanked behind the barrier shields and began to fire on another group of soldiers behind a barricade, the Khans used some grenades given to them by the Boomers and the barricade was gone while the Legion streamed into a stairwell several dying before they reached the Rangers. The sound of blades against flesh was heard and Gaius used a Ranger Sequoia he took during the battle and shot a ranger in the skull shattering his helmet and brain. Gaius was nothing if not resourceful with weaponry. Oliver became afraid and ran as Heavy Armored soldiers also showed up to the battle to protect their general.
After Gaius worked with the Brotherhood, until he ultimately betrayed and killed or enslaved them, he knew every weakness of power armor and the NCRs was even less effective than the clanking rusting tubs the Brotherhood called armor. With a hunting rifle he aimed for the eyes which were not as reinforced and the bullet broke the fiberglass and eye behind it causing the man to run in fear and fall breaking his bones and letting Legionaries gather around him and hacked him apart. A legionnaire may have laughed at the gaping wound and put some cloth over the destroyed eye but the NCR are not so brave or insane depending on who was asked.
Gaius continued forward seeing the NCR fall back and lose ground and lives as more of the Legion rushed in killing the morale of NCR as one by one their comrades were slaughtered by the unrelenting force. Gaius did not care about how many of the NCR forces were left, only the General's death mattered and he would have the General's head for Caesar.
He entered the upper level that was filled with broken offices and cubicles. He heard the clanking or armor and sent his Legionaries into the side rooms waiting for the General to come out. NCR fought with attrition but in desperate times would use a frontal assault and Oliver had no time to plan an ambush unlike Gaius. Gaius stood in the center of the room with his Gauss Rifle taken from the Brotherhood aimed at the door with several Khans and Legionaries with him and Roxie and Cass with him. She saw the failings of the NCR but it was Gaius and his nature of being good to others that made her stay. Over time his power has begun to corrupt him but she has not yet seen this. Maybe she chose to ignore the blatant betrayal of the Brotherhood or perhaps she understood it. She never revealed her thoughts while they shared the same bed in the lucky 38 or the tent while out in the Mojave.
Gaius prepared himself for the coming battle and looked at Cass. She now wore legion armor and had a skirt instead of a kilt. He enjoyed lifting it up at night. She gave a stern look "pay attention to the battle Gaius not me."
"That is asking a lot of me."
He looked at the doors and shouted to his enemy."General we are waiting for you." Oliver must have thought he was no different than the run of the mill Legion officer with a direct charge and they came out guns blazing. They thought they had superior fire power but their information was incorrect. Gaius aimed and destroyed the armor of one of his soldiers while the rest of the Legion opened the doors and shot their rifles and shotguns and threw their spears. The armored soldiers were dead in moments of heavy fire from Gaius and his equally armed legionnaires leaving only the General alive.
Gaius dropped the rifle and quickly pulled his 45mm out and shot Oliver in the knees forcing him to fall down and scream. Gaius walked forward but looked back "Cass would you kindly report to Lanius of our success and if anyone mocks you tell them that the Wolf of the West will hunt them down." She nodded reluctantly realizing why he wanted her to leave. After she was gone Gaius spun around with a kick and broke several of his enemy's teeth. "Now General before we kill you in a very, very painful way tell me what will happen now that we have won. What challenges will the bear present to us as it flees bleeding back to its cave?"
General Oliver spat on him but the metal armor of Gaius leg returned to his face in another swift kick blackening his left eye and shut it "I will tell you nothing." Suddenly a radio was heard in the back and Gaius went to it and listened while his soldiers punched Oliver a few more times.
"General, are you alive, some of us have escaped and are making a tactical retreat to Jacobstown the war is not over yet, a former Sniper in the NCR told us we would be safe there." Gaius thought to himself "So that is why we won the war" Gaius grabbed the radio with a chuckle "Sorry can't talk right now I am bust dying for a lost cause." The radio suddenly became silent and Gaius turned to Oliver "Well I know where the rest of your soldiers are going if you do not tell us we will simply find out when we send spies further into the NCR."
"Why did you do this, you could have made the Mojave a better place with the NCR?" Oliver did not care about his life anymore but he wanted answers. Gaius laughed and put his arms to his stomach "Really? The NCR the corrupt debased government based on a nation that helped destroy the world? You want to emulate them, a failed state. You failed the NCR you drove dozens of Mojave inhabitants to the Legion. Someone very important to me was once an NCR patriot and now she sides with the Bull. You must realize that you lost the war and the Mojave."
Olivier tried to stand up and spoke through the moans of pain "All I will say is that the Barbarians will be at the Gates and your new feeble attempt at Rome will fail." They both knew the secret of the Legion and Gaius could not let him live and he lifted his machete above his head. Lanius should be pleased.