AN:Thanks to all who have read the first chapter of Fallout:New Commonwealth, I was not expecting anywhere near the amount of support I've received! Please post reviews, is gives me useful feedback on my writing. With that said, this is chapter two, and we get to the action in this one.


Preston Garvey stood on the makeshift stage in front of the temporary camp. The General stood in front of him. Elder Maxson stood next to the General, Paladin Danse behind him. Below them was the assault force, consisting of 200 Minutemen and around 100 Brotherhood Knights. Several Vertibirds sat in the space next to the camp, and their crews also stood before the temporary stage, adding around 50 to the numbers of the force. Elder Maxson was the first to speak, his voice ringing out across the camp, "As you all most likely know, today is the anniversary of one of our greatest triumphs. One year ago, today, our combined forces attacked the Institute and destroyed it. Since then, we have forced the roving tribes of super mutants to flee the Commonwealth, annihilated most of the raider gangs, and cleared the Boston Ruins of feral ghouls." Maxson paused and Nate stepped forward to take over the speech. "Today, on the anniversary of the Institute's defeat, we open are campaign against another threat to the safety of the Commonwealth…" he paused for effect, "the Gunners." A wave of muttering slid through the crowd, mostly engaged by the Minutemen. "The last time the Minutemen fought the Gunners was a massacre, but this time will be different!" Nate said, raising his voice to a shout, "This time we have air support, superior numbers, and Brotherhood combat troops. This time, we will win, and in doing so, take back Quincy!" Everyone in the crowd cheered, their voices echoing through the camp. Maxson took the center stage again, "With our powers combined, we cannot fall!" he shouted, before he and Danse left the stage, quickly followed by Nate and Preston. The unit commanders-Brotherhood Knight-Sergeants and Minutemen Captains-moved among the crowd, gathering their squads and giving out battle orders, the vertibird crews dispersed to their aircraft to do final checks and load the mounted guns, and Preston Garvey watched it all, a mixture of sadness and determination on his face.


The camp was taken down and loaded into the vertibirds not taking part in the attack, the units had their orders and positions, and everyone was ready. Preston had received special orders, he would be taking a small contingency of Minutemen to attack the building the Gunners had repurposed into a prison. Their assault would take place after the main force was already engaging the Gunners, in the hopes that the Gunners would pull troops away from the prison to help fight off the assault. His men had bags of extra guns and ammo, to arm the freed prisoners, adding to the forces fighting the Gunners. Because of the distance between the prison and the main gate, Preston and his men would be taking a different route than the rest of the army, positioning themselves behind the city. Preston was pulled out of his thoughts by a hand on his shoulder. Nate stood behind him, fully armed with his six-crank laser musket and his general's armor. "Good luck out there Garvey. Don't get yourself killed." "You too General." Then Nate turned and walked away, shouting orders to the Minutemen from the main force.


Preston crouched in a low ditch behind the town of Quincy, the Gunners prison in front of him. His small squad of 20 Minutemen were positioned all over the hillside, behind trees, in ditches, and lying on the ground. He raised his binoculars to his face and focused on the prison. The sounds of gunfire had begun at the main gate only ten minutes before, which meant the first wave, a group of only 25 Minutemen was beginning the assault. In a few moments, a flare would be sent up, and the rest of the assault force would join the main attack, as if called in by the flare. In reality, the flare was Preston's signal, telling him to attack. He watched as several of the Gunners guarding the prison rushed down the street in front of the building, heading in the direction of the gate. Almost as soon as they were out of sight, a flare burst into the sky, and Preston fired the charge in his laser musket, bringing down one of the Gunner guards. Then he shouted for his men to go, and rushed down the hillside towards the wall. He had almost reached the wall, and was beginning to think something had gone wrong, when a fat man shell arched overhead and blew a gap in the wall that he and his squad poured through. The attack on the main gate head pulled all but three of the guards from the outside of the prison building, and they were easily dispatched by the 20 Minutemen as they rushed through the breach. Preston stepped back as a Brotherhood scribe attached to their squad quickly set charges against the thick iron door of the prison. The small group moved back and ducked under cover as the scribe triggered the explosives, blasting the door off the hinges.


Nate charged forward, the Minutemen and Brotherhood troops behind him firing their weapons at the Gunners on the walls. The crack of gunfire and sound of laser weapons rung out as the Gunners returned fire, their shots ripping into the army charging their gate. The Gunners were outnumbered two to one, but we're giving back just as much as they were taking, causing Minutemen and Brotherhood troops alike to fall. An explosion shook Nate's vision as a Brotherhood knight tore a hole in the wall with a fat man launcher. The Gunners moved to cover the breach, but it was too late, Nate was already through, followed closely by several Minutemen and Brotherhood knights. A Gunner lunged at him, electrified sword sparking, and Nate slammed the stock of his laser musket into the man's throat. He spun the crank of the gun three times and fired, discharging the weapon into a second Gunner as he moved forward. Another Gunner screamed in pain as he was hurled backwards by a punch from a Brotherhood knight. Another knight spun up his gatling laser and opened fire, slaughtering a squad of Gunners as they charged around the side of a building.


Arthur Maxson rushed toward the gate, followed closely by Paladin Brandis and several Brotherhood knights. The gate was the most heavily guarded section of Quincy, protected by machine gun turrets and elite Gunners. Bullets ricocheted off of the small group's power armor. A missile flashed passed Maxson and hit a Brotherhood knight. The man screamed as the explosion tore through his armor. With a wordless roar of anger, Elder Arthur Maxson hurled his power armored body at the barred and barricaded gate, shattering the locking bar and throwing shrapnel everywhere. His force closed in behind him, laser rifles and miniguns firing into the Gunners as they routed in terror from the wave of Brotherhood troops surging through the gate. The screams of the wounded and dying echoed in his ears as the Brotherhood troops rushed through the town, slaying the Gunners as they moved towards the town center.

Unfortunately, their victory did not last long. Three of the knights were killed instantly as a fat man shell arched from the overpass and impacted the ground. Another knight screamed as a sniper's bullet tore through his helmet, killing him. Another knight howled in pair as a Gunner blew the arm off his power armor with a missile launcher. Another Gunner in full T-51b power armor body slammed one of the knights and the two began to fight, exchanging punches. Realizing his force was in a bad position, Maxson pulled a flare gun from his armor and fired, calling the other groups in the town for help.


Paladin Danse stood in his power armor on the deck of a vertibird as the squad of ten aircraft flew over Quincy. They were past the town's walls now, and Danse looked around at his force of knights. He slid his helmet on, and jumped fearlessly from the aircraft. His troops followed him with no hesitation, lead by knight Rhys. They came under fire as they fell, 20 men in power armor, falling at terminal velocity was pretty noticeable after all, but they made land fall unharmed. Danse hit the ground at a run, his power armor absorbing the shock of the landing, and his squad followed, firing at the Gunners. A flare exploded over the town, sending off a blue light, and Danse called out to his men, "Blue is Elder Maxson's group, we have a new objective." Then he rushed down a side street towards the flare.