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Chapter 3: Call to Arms
Lyon's Quarters. 1030 hours.
"Remember the infirmary room after we defeated the Enclave?" Sarah asked between kisses from the Lone Wanderer
A smile formed as he kissed her neck, hearing the sound of her expressing a moan."How could I not? Remember kicking Sawbones out leaving just the two of us. We deserved some alone time for ourselves."
"Like right now." she concluded as they began to take their clothes off
Sarah and Nicholas started pleasuring themselves orally, going from his mouth tasting her entrance to her sucking his dick after taking their clothes. Once their oral sessions stopped as they faced each other, they began kissing each other passionately touching every part of their bodies. He started kissing her neck hearing a moan escape from her lips. His hands trailed down from her back to her firm apple bottom, squeezing both cheeks as he lifted Sarah up and have her sat on the desk nearby. Sarah's lips once again made contact Nicholas's as he slowly inserted his member inside her, proceeding to kiss her afterward. He thrust into Sarah in a slow and embracing pace as her groans became louder before turning into moans of pleasure. Her hands grasp his ass through every thrust which began to sped in pace after pace. Sarah then wrapped her legs around his back as he fell on the bed, leaving her hands to be on his chest. She bobbed her body down his dick, his hands remaining on her waist before going up squeezing supple breasts. The more he thrust the more she moaned as Nicholas felt himself closer to his climax. In one last thrust, he erupted himself as his seed went inside her leaving Nicholas to sat up kissing her. Once he softened inside her, Sarah pulled out as she rested her head on his chest.
"Tomorrow. We're at war."
"All that matters is if we win. And we will win."
"I know. But there will be casualties. The question is how many."
"The only thing we can do is hope for the best. But also plan for the worst if we lose."
"That won't happen." Sarah leaned in and kissed his lips once more. "Micah, i love you." she said calling him by his real name.
"I know." he said kissing her back as they crept into a sleeping embrace
Arefu. 0439 hours.
Butch Deloria stood watching the team the Lone Wanderer assembled for him on the away mission as he crossed his arms. There was Amata Almodovar, wearing a leather armor equipped with a infiltrator assault rifle behind her back while holding her metal helmet. .45 auto sub-machine guns were an optional weapon of choice for them as well. The helmet itself was composed of a sensor system and heads-up display inside it. Susie Mack were also clad in their light leather armor just like Amata, her metal helmet in hand and her silenced assault rifle strapped behind her. Reinforced and enhanced with one long sleeved black leather jacket, where men who wore them had motorcycle chaps and football pads. The women of the black ops on the other hand, also lacked a left sleeve and football shoulder pads. Andrew Cole had on his leather armor as he held his .45 auto sub-machine gun in his hand, while his metal helmet was being held by his other hand.
The metal helmets were in the shape of a motorcycle helmet, only with a silver color instead of white. Wally Mack, along with Freddie Gomez and Christine Kendall were in their standard issued combat armor. Short-sleeved, having only the shoulder pads and chest plates covering the torso along with the forearm guards. The helmet itslef was olive drab covered and carried the shape of a PASGT kevlar helmet. The three commandos had their type 93 Chinese assault rifles. They carried a few frag grenades in their pouches along with magazine clips and a canteen. Charon stood beside Butch while they were behind the SSN-37-1A spy submarine, as the Lone Wanderer wore Brotherhood of Steel prototype tesla armor only more agile fitted with two small tesla coils. He held in his hand a gauss rifle Nicholas retrieved from a weapons vault at Bailey's crossroads while Charon carried two tesla cannons on his shoulders.
"You're probably wondering why I brought you all here." Butch said, breaking the long silence that filled the area. "Nicky's been told that you five have been training in both real life, and virtual simulations for the past two years while he was away. He brought me along to make sure you get the job done"
"I'm surprised you didn't notice." Wally Mack said in sarcasm as Butch slightly glared but merely ignored the comment
"Colonel Daniels and Major Long have both informed me on your position in MARC, knowing that there are two positions from both Commandos and Black Ops." the former Tunnel Snake continued. "For the Commandos, there is the Tactical Rapid Assault Force, TRAF and Enforcers. For the Black Ops, there is the Shadowfax and Taskmasters." Butch slightly glanced at his former childhood bully victim and old girlfriend of the Lone Wanderer. "Amata Almovodar, you are in the Shadowfax." he glanced at Susie. "Susie Mack, you are signed in the Taskmasters." he then looked at Andrew and Freddie. "Andrew Cole, you're in both the Shadowfax and Taskmasters. Freddie Gomez, with the Tactical Rapid Assault Force." he then gazed at Christine. "Christine Kendall, even though you are a pilot, you're in the TRAF when required." he lastly glanced at Wally. "And Wally Mack, you are in the Enforcers."
"So now that you've listed everyone's position in the Commandos and Black Ops, what's the mission?" Andrew asked
Butch pointed his thumb back at the submarine behind him. "Since those energy fields are keeping anyone from going in or out of the D.C. area, we are going to use this submarine to sneak in since the cannons the Neros have will blast our birds out of the sky. I have Captain Thomas who has a team of his own operating the sub and can also help Susie intercept what any bogeys on the sonar." he stated as everyone stared at Susie for a second, before looking back at Butch. "Nick's plan is to sneak in underwater with this submarine to meet up with Paladin Tristan of the Brotherhood of Steel and what remains of those that escaped GNR at that time. He and a fire team of my choosing will be the distraction. While we distract the Nerospriodium, another team will disable the energy field and shut down the cannons taking out our vertibirds so our troops can enter the DC area safely."
"Then by a couple of hours, the Brotherhood of Steel and MARC can arrive in force to take back D.C." Amata added as she received a nod from Andrew. "What happens after we shut down the energy fields and cannons?"
"We head over to Rivet city for the time being after the mission is accomplished. Receiving rest and relaxation until next mission." Andrew responded, as the submarine hatch opened revealing Captain Thomas who had a muttonstache on his face.
"Everyone aboard." the brown haired man said
The team got inside the SNN-37-1A submarine, as the hatch closed on their way in before it descended into the river. The submarine moved forward to the extraction point near Jefferson Memorial as Susie kept her eyes steady on the radar, while her brother Wally was loading a magazine clip. Christine sat down reading a book of the Pre-War times, but stared closely at Charon before he would notice as she went back to her book. Freddie was twirling his thumbs waiting to arrive at the meet-up point, while Andrew loading his .45 sub-machine gun and Chinese assault rifle for the mission. Amata on the other hand, noticed Butch heading over to the kitchen as he took a small cereal box of sugar bombs from the small fridge. He took a bite out of it and stared at a photo of the Lone Wanderer and Sarah Lyons together. He remembered because he was the one that took the picture. Amata looked closer and saw both of them holding hands in the picture, with the setting of it being outside a couple of miles while had a sign that said: "Vault 87 entrance that way!". Amata crossed her arms and slightly looked away, until she walked toward him.
"So..." she started, trailing off while shyly looking away. "That's him and Sarah, huh?" she suddenly asked. "Are they..."
"They look like just friends to me." Butch answered to Amata
"You know what I mean."
"Jealous much?"
"Butch..." she trailed off
"I don't know, alright?" Butch admitted to Amata. "After he went in to turn the purifier during the fight with the Enclave, an energy spike knocked both Nick and Sarah unconscious. I was there when it happened."
Amata leaned over the counter with a near concerned look on her face. "How long were they out of their comas?"
"Two weeks." Butch answered taking a chug of water in his mouth. "Nothing to worry about. She woke up six days later before we destroyed the Enclave's mobile platform carrier. When he had set the satellite missile launch to Adams Air Force, a vertibird landed near us and there she was." a smile crept on his face. "When I looked at him, he was smiling."
"It looks like ever since he was the first one out on the wasteland, he's made quite the name for himself." Amata said. "A well accomplished legend of the Wastes for him if he was here for me to tell him." she complimented
"I'll tell him you said that."
"Can I ask you a question?" Amata asked as Butch nodded his head in reply. "How did those two first meet?"
"Well, from how he told me, it started off like this..." Butch trailed off, recalling the story Nick told him when he first met Sarah
Flashback. Two years ago.
Chevy Chase north, 0414 hours. September 1, 2277.
Nicholas step out of the Tennely/Friendship station of Chevy Chase north, wearing his tunnel snake leather jacket with his vault jumpsuit underneath. He went up the steps as he walked over to the one-man preservation shelter, suddenly hearing a beeping sound causing him to look down. He saw it was a frag mine as he ran out of the way when it exploded, cautiously walking back to the shelter before he opened it. Inside, there were three purified waters as he detected no radiation from them while he grabbed them and put them in his duffle bag. He took out his assault rifle, holding it in his hands checking his surrounding as he walked forward with his finger near the trigger.
After he had helped Lucy West deliver a note to her family and helping Moira around on her survival guide book she was working on. When Nicholas had took the trip to Arefu, he found out the town was afraid of a group known as the Family. The first house he went to check on was the home of the West family, he found out horribly that Lucy's mother and father were dead. There were bite marks on their necks as their bodies were nearly sucked dry, but her brother Ian was nowhere to be seen leaving Nicholas to think the Family had taken him. The town was in a uproar, with Karen Schenzy demanding that the town mayor Evan King to do something about them. Ben Ewer waited to him and his wife to leave the town, but felt ashamed of leaving a home he built. Coming up with a solution, Nicholas suggested to Evan King that he would head to the Family's home in the Meresti station. Once a ghoul scientist on creating SuperJet revealed information about a secret entrance in a manhole near his work station, Nicholas went there and found the Family's location.
When he reached the Meresti station that was were he found Vance, who was the leader of the Family. Vance asked him things or saying that started with: the hunter that bathes in sand to hide from the sun, and creature of the night, where Nicholas came to the conclusion that the Family were either vampires or mimicking their ways. It turned out they were a specific kind of mutants that feed on blood, and so did Ian when Vance told Nicholas of what truly happened in the West's home. Like the Family, Ian had the thirst of blood that drove him crazy and made him kill his parents. The revelation set Nicholas aback upon finding out the truth of what happened in Arefu. Most of all, he had a feeling Ian was feeling worse after realizing he killed his own parents when the Thirst set from within him.
Nicholas went over and talked to Ian about how Vance found out he was one of them, trying to know how he first came to him. Ian explained when he was a kid, he and Lucy would throw rocks on the river for fun. That was when a wastelander came to take one of their brahmin as Ian told the man to stop. Long story short, Ian had tore the man's throat open with his own teeth. And whenever the hungry for blood would kick in, Lucy would always hold him tight and never let go. When Lucy had left, the hungry grew worse and got him to kill his own mother and father. There was even a part of him that made Ian would to pull away from his parent's corpses. In the end, Vance took him under his wing and welcomed him to the Family while the members of his flock came into town to feed as they fed on the blood of Ian's parents instead.
After a long train of thought, Nicholas decided to let Ian stay with the Family and let Vance know of his decision. During the talk of Ian's decision, Nicholas discussed the matter of Arefu before proceeding any further into the conversation until a solution was compromised. Arefu would donate bloodpacks for the Family to take, and in exchange they would left the town alone. Before Nicholas left Meresti, he gave Ian a letter from his sister Lucy to let him know she still cared about her little brother. He thanked her and began his new life with the Family, even receiving intense training from Vance and the Family to defend himself while taught in their ways.
Nicholas jolted back into reality as he sudden heard a noise, crouching down and heading toward another preservation shelter. From the corner of his eye, he spotted a couple of armed supermutants as he prepared to open fire on one of them. Then suddenly, the supermutants were met with gunfire and beams of red light attacking as Nicholas looked to the direction of the cause getting a closer look. There was people in armored suits firing laser rifles with one firing an assault rifle instead as Nicholas looked back to the supermutants that were killed from the ambush. At that point, he believed he could continue to head to Galaxy News Radio in order to speak with Three Dog on the whereabouts of his father.
"That's how we do it in the Lyons' Pride, you fucking freaks!" one of them with a muffled female voice exclaimed proudly
The one who had his face exposed with a hood glanced at the female in the suit of armor. "Initiate, check. You'll have your fill of death soon enough."
"Yes, sir. Won't happen again." she replied as Nicholas stood out of cover when the initiate noticed him walking by. "Well, this is something."
"Is this the idiot that blew our ambush, Vargas?"
"Looks that way." one of them answered, leading to be Vargas himself
"I don't know who you are, but you don't belong here." said a voice right of Nicholas, as he looked to see who it was. The direction of the voice was revealed to be a woman with her blonde tied back in a bun and sapphire blue eyes. She was in a suit of armor which had a coat of arms on the left shoulder pad. It had a lion imposed over the upper sword blade, inside the span of the wings. The initiate had a coat of arms which had a winged sword with cog wheels, around and behind the sword blade. "The super mutants have overrun our brothers in the Galaxy News Radio station and we're heading to back them up. You can tag along if you want. But keep your head down and try not to do anything... something."
Nicholas only shrugged his shoulders as he continue to walk by her. "Thanks for the assist. I'll be more careful next time. So I'll just be..."
He felt a hand grab his shoulder as he looked back to the woman with blonde hair. "Have you been living under a rock?" she said with a stern look
"You'd be surprised by where I use to live." Nicholas merely joked as the woman shook her head
"This is D.C. The entire city is crawling with Super Mutants. Now if you'll excuse me..." she let him go and proceeded to move, only for Nicholas to grip her hand as weapons were trained on him
"Who the hell are you people?" he asked her
"My name is Sarah Lyons, sentinel and squad commander of Lyons' Pride. We're with the Brotherhood of Steel." Sentinel Lyons saw Nicholas raised a confused look. "Don't worry. We're on your side, at least I hope so." she said as Nicholas released his grasp of Lyons.
"Did you mention something about GNR just recently?"
"There aren't a lot of safe places in the area, but Galaxy News Radio acts like our port in the storm. Unfortunately, the building has been hit pretty badly." Sentinel Lyons stated. "We're their back-up, so if there aren't anymore questions, we really need to move."
Nicholas nodded his head in reply. "Lead the way." he said as he followed Sentinel Lyons
"Reddin, on me." Vargas told the initiate as pushed forward up, then heading right to find a dead comrade laying on a bed while another aimed his weapon
"What's the situation?" Sentinel asked as Nicholas found out the other Brotherhood of Steel soldier took a shot at a incoming super mutant
"All clear, Sentinel." the soldier stated. "Five mutants released from their torment. The rest are keeping their heads down."
"Good." Sarah stared at the corpse of the Brotherhood member. "Jennings?"
"Negative." Vargas responded as the sniper looked at Nicholas
"A new recruit?"
"Just a stray we picked up. The one who that blundered into the Uglies, over on 42nd." Lyons replied, referring to the Super mutants
"Welcome!"
"Hey." Nicholas said to him
"All right. It's the usual drill." Sarah glanced over her shoulder at the initiate. "Reddin, you just do whatever Paladin Vargas says and keep your mouth shut." she ordered
"Yes, Ma'am."
Lyons' Pride pushed on down to the school building as two super mutants came off firing hunting rifle while two more were on the second floor. The Pride took cover and opened fire while one of the super mutants were down, as Nicholas fired his assault rifle at the mutant on the left broken window of the second floor. He took cover while waiting for the right moment to fire back as the super mutant on the right window of the second floor, firing three bullets into its head. Once inside the building, they took out as many super mutants as they could. Nicholas and Sarah fired bullets and laser at the mutants, with Lyons' Pride moping up the rest of remaining super mutants. They were twenty super mutant brutes outside, firing at the Brotherhood of Steel soldiers stationed in GNR as Nicholas and the Pride opening fire on them.
Nicholas cooked a grenade for three seconds before tossing it near a super mutant as it exploded, taking a leg in the process while Nicholas took out another mutant. Three super mutants opened fire on him as he took cover by the fountain, reloading his assault rifle with Lyons' Pride shooting them down with laser fire. Nicholas brought his head up to see every super mutant was down on the ground or turned into a pile of ash as he got out of his cover as made his way to the steps leading inside GNR. He pressed a button on the intercom, seeing if anyone was alive and inside the Galaxy News Radio station.
"Hello? Anyone in there?" Nicholas yelled out
"Door stays close until we secure the permiter."
"Guess so." Nicholas muttered as he took a sip of non-radiated bottled water, until he suddenly felt the ground shake along with a loud non-human roar. "What the fuck?"
"Reddin! Get out of there, now!"
Then suddenly, a massive super mutants 25 foot tall charged through the blockade of buses that surrounded the area. It was covered in a collection of skulls around its neck, carrying a pole stuck to a fire hydrant at the end of it. Nicholas' eyes widened in sudden horror as the behemoth slammed its fire hydrant club at a couple of BOS soldiers, with one sent flying back to a wall while another's head popped off. Both bullets and laser blasts were hitting the giant, but it was not going down as Nicholas spotted a dead BOS soldier with a fatman launcher beside him on the fountain. He ran toward as the behemoth charged at him, leaving the lone Vault Dweller to roll away from a hit with its fire hydrant club while the rest of the Brotherhood and Lyons' Pride kept firing. Nicholas took the fatman and armed it with a mini-nuke as he backed away, heading to where the behemoth came from.
"Hey, you! Big, tall, and stupid!" he shouted as the behemoth set its sights on him. "Come on. Come at me! Come at me, you giant punk-ass bitch!"
The behemoth roared and charged at Nicholas as he stayed on one knee, taking aim while using the fatman. He took aim, breathing in and pulled the trigger, as the mini nuke flew out and hit the behemoth in the head. The head blew into pieces upon impact as the behemoth's body fell down on the ground shaking. Nicholas went over to the upper body to find the behemoths head was gone, as he had confirmed that the mini nuke did its job on the super mutant behemoth. He took out whatever the behemoth had on him with a couple more frag grenades, combat knife, and ammo for his assault rifle. Nicholas waved his hand back to let Sarah know that it was dead for good as he walked away from its corpse, setting the items he collected in his duffle bag.
"This duffle bag will have to do the trick until I get a backpack." Nicholas said as he walked over to Sarah who was with a grief-stricken Paladin Vargas
"It wasn't your fault, Vargas. Reddin was good enough in the Pride, and she deserved it." she told him
Vargas sighed. "Yeah, I know." he slammed his fist on the bench he sat on. "God dammit!" he swore
"When we get back to the Citadel, I'll talk to the scribes." Sarah said as Paladin Vargas stood up from the bench. "Let it be chronicled that Paladin Reddin passed her test."
"C'mon. Let's see what they got to drink in this dump." Vargas said
Sarah glanced back at Nicholas who drunk the bottled water in his possession. "I'll be in there in a second." she replied to Vargas as she made her way to Nicholas. "I guess it's my turn to thank you." she said exhausted. "Anyway, the station is secure. So you can talk to Three Dog if you want."
"Don't worry about it." Nicholas said to her. "I'm sorry about friend, Reddin."
"She died well. In the end, that's all that matters."
"How did you guys find this place?"
"Well, the Brotherhood needed a secure outpost and the guy needed to not get his head ripped open by super mutants." she stated nonchalantly. "It's a mutual beneficial relationship. Three Dog is the man in charge around in GNR. He's... interesting, I'll give him that much."
Nicholas chuckled. "I guess I'll find out for myself when I get inside, then."
"Good luck with that." Sarah responded in a laugh
Flashback end.
"Attention all passengers of S.S. Swordfish, we have reached the meet-up point near Jefferson Memorial." Captain Thomas said on the intercom radio. "Everyone off, and godspeed to you."
"I guess it's time." Amata said
"That it is." Butch stared at the team as he armed his tri-beam laser rifle. "You have your orders and know what to do. We link up with Paladin Tristan and the rest of remaining BOS. The fire squad goes with me to help the Brotherhood. We'll distraction them while the other team shuts down both the energy field and artillery guns. Andrew, you're the leader of the other team charged with shutting down the energy field and disabling those artillery guns."
"Whose on your team?" Andrew asked
"Wally, Freddie, and Christine." Butch answered
"Then that leaves me with Charon, Amata, and Susie." the vault dweller of 76 replied, receiving a nod from Butch. "Once you get their attention, we'll do our job and take care of those fields and shut down their artillery."
"No, no way. No chance in hell." Wally Mack refused
"This isn't for debate, Mack." Butch said. "Follow orders."
"I don't give a shit. You're not sending my sister out there!" Wally exclaimed
"I can assure you that we will look out for her." Andrew reassured
Wally scoffed. "Like I'm suppose to trust you."
"Wally!" Susie hissed at her brother
"He's a vault dweller just like us." Amata added. "That and we have Charon. If he's look out for Nick, we'll be-"
"This is the same 'friend' of yours that invaded the vault!" Wally snapped as Butch punched him across the jaw
"Is that what you really think?" Butch shouted. "You are a fucking idiot! You know that?! You would stay in the vault where it's safe? Let me tell you something, Wally, you're not safe. Even if you stay the Neros would have found the vault and take everyone as their slaves or worse. So, do the world a favor and listen to this. This world does not care whether you goddamn like or it!"
Charon suddenly walked over to Wally. "Listen here, smoothskin. If you don't get your head in the game, you're already dead. This is war, kid. Get use to it." the ghoul saw a beaming light turn for a second. "Butch Deloria. They are here."
Butch noticed the light as well. "Yeah. I see them. Let's move out." he ordered
Lyons' quarters, Citadel. 0531 hours.
A leg moved out of the bed sheets, as a pip-boy light shine on his face before the Lone Wanderer opened his eyes. He got up from his bed and stared at his reflection in the mirror, as he unlocked a locker which carried power armor. However; this was no regular Brotherhood of Steel power armor as it was a modified version of the t-51b series which was fit to be agile in every part of the suit. He sat up the power armor with a still that was about to hold the armor parts together. The armor was composed of regular power armor, Enclave hellfire armor, and Ashur's power armor from the Pitt. Nicholas closed his eyes at the sudden memory of the Pitt where he was caught between Ashur and his former right-hand man Wernher.
Wernher and his contact Midea orchestrated a plan to kidnap Ashur's daughter, Marie. A baby girl with an immunity to TDC, possibly being a cure in the end for the people of the Pitt. Tom Holden, and his wife Mary were with Nicholas went he traveled to the Pitt themselves as they had to fit in as slaves. From what they saw, the Pitt itself was not scorched from the fires and destruction from the nuclear bombs that hit the country in the Pre-War times. Once Nicholas risked his life from retrieving steel ingots while avoiding to be killed by Trogs and surviving the Pitt arena, he finally had the acquaintance of Ashur. At that point, Nicholas never knew that a single baby was the cure of TDC. Wernher told him the cure was merely a 'package', but after finding out it was only a mere infant he decided to broker a truce between the raiders of the Pitt and the slaves. But the plan had quickly backfired when Wernher let loose the Trogs upon the entire Pitt, leaving Nicholas to give Marie to Tom and Mary after the child's parents died in the chaos. The chaos ended when Nicholas left Wernher as a cripple before the Lone Wanderer freed the slaves, leaving the bridge to detonate and the Pitt forever stranded away from the Wastes.
A door knock was heard as Nicholas said. "Come on." the door opened to reveal Sarah Lyons in her Lyons' Pride armor. "Is it time?"
"Just got the word from Tristan. The shield is down."
"Good, good."
Sarah walked up to him with a worried look. "Hey." she pressed her hand on his shoulder. "Are you alright, Nick?"
Nicholas touched her hand with his as he replied. "I'm okay."
"We'll win this war." Sarah planted a brief kiss on his cheek. "You won't fall. I know you'll get us all there."
"We'll find out."
An hour later, Nicholas strapped on his Recon power armor as he step out of his room holding a gauss rifle in his hand. Every BOS soldier from initiate-in-training and scribes, saluted the Lone Wanderer and Lyons' Pride off on their mission to D.C. Even the children of Little Lamplight such as Knick-Knack, his sister Knock-Knock, and all the others stood out their waving them off Citadel gate opened with vertibirds stand at the ready, as Nicholas and the rest of Lyons' Pride saw the battle in the distance where the Coalition fought against their enemy. Six vertibirds carrying a squad of BOS knights and paladins flew off heading to the battle, as a Brotherhood of Steel initiate ran toward Nicholas with a look of urgency on his look.
"Knight Law, sir!"
"What is it, Initiate..."
"Winston, sir. I have word that a ghoul name Roy Phillips wants to speak to you." Winston stated. "Also, word from Reilly's Rangers that they required your assistance at her base in Seward Square."
Nicholas raised an eyebrow at the mention of Roy Phillips and Reilly. "Tell Roy he'll have to wait."
Roy Phillips and his group arrived behind the initiate. "You're the one I need to talk to, smoothskin." Roy said as weapons were aimed on him and his group, with the group of ghouls doing the same
"Weapons down." Nicholas ordered. "They're on our side." he turned his gaze at the ghoul who lead the settlement in Tenpenny Tower. "Are you?"
Roy shifted his glance at the Brotherhood, before looking back at Nicholas and said. "Hear me out and we are." he received a nod from the Lone Wander as a grin crept on his face. "We got a radio transmission from ghoul fighting against these Nerospriodium bastards since they overtook the D.C. Ruins. They looking to join force with you and the Coaliation."
"Do they have a name?"
"They call themselves Fate's Insurgency." Roy answered. "I have no idea who the hell leads them, but you're gonna need all the help you can get."
"I take it they're somewhere in D.C.?"
"They sent out a messenger to all ghouls who would to join the fight. They got a base in this paper in my hand." Roy stated as Nicholas looked down at the paper, only for Roy to keep it in his grip. "Before I do, I want to know if we have a deal."
Nicholas looked at Sarah, who nodded her head as he stared back at Roy. "You got yourself a deal." he said extending his hand
Roy shook his hand in return. "Good. See ya in D.C." he replied as they got a gator boat from the Coaliation
"Think we can trust him?"
"We'll see where this goes with the Insurgency. But first..." Nicholas trailed off, making his way inside the vertibirds along with Sarah and the Pride as it flew away. "We need to help out Reilly and the Rangers. Vertibirds Lance and Arthur, form up with Angela. We're heading to Seward Square."
Seward Square, D.C. 0700 hours.
The Nerospriodium were losing fawns and trogs, gun turrets near the compound of Reilly's Rangers Headquareters as sprayed bullets at them from two Rangers opening fire. The heavy weapons expert Brick with her military hairstyle kept firing at trogs using her mingun, Eugene as they scattered into cover. One of the new recruits from Big town, Flash reloaded his assault rifle while he took cover as a satyr fired a plasma caster with Flash firing back his weapon. All of a sudden, a bullet was launched into the back of a minotaur's skull as Flash glanced up to see Bittercup up on a roof after the beast dropped its sonic weapon. She had her hair over the shoulders, as she kept picking them up one-by-one while she looked back to notice more of them. Accompanying her was accompanied by her current lover Timebomb, hence the name being a demolitions expert due to training from the Lone Wanderer when he saved Big Town.
Timebomb rubbed the hair of his curly dark hair as he stared down with his hazel eyes. "Look at them. They're so scattered out here." he said to his girlfriend
"The Coaliation must have did a number on them. Look at them, they're like puppets moving back and forth!" Bittercup taunted. "Dance for me, puppets! Dance!"
"One of the creepiest things you have ever said today." Timebomb muttered, detonating the charge down the alley
A chain of explosions erupted in the alley, and another section of the area as scorched bodies of the Nerospriodium were away in the air for only a brief second before descending. Their corpse were to a crisp as Bittercup and Timebomb looked down to where the burning bodies had laid.
"Did you put too much explosives in?" she asked
"No, of course not. At least I'm sure of it."
They felt air blow their hair as Bittercup and Timebomb looked up to see a vertibirds hovering their direction as it descended into the ground. Bittecup kept her sniper rifle trained on the vertibird that landed, using her scope to see if it was friend or foe. She received her answer when she noticed the symbol of the Brotherhood of Steel, as she lowered her weapon along with Timebomb doing the same. The Lone Wanderer step out with his helmet off as Sarah Lyons and Lyons' Pride got off the vertibird as well. At that moment, Reilly herself walked up to the Lone Wanderer with a smile on her face as she shook his hand.
"About time you got here. You almost missed all the fun." she said
Nicholas chuckled. "Have we have?"
"Let's go inside. We can talk there."
Nicholas followed Reilly inside her base at Rangers HQ, as Sarah followed beside him while the Pride stayed behind to look after the vertibird. Inside was where Nicholas spotted Pappy loading weapons as the Rangers' quartermaster, receiving a nod from the shaggy haired man. He saw Kimba, who served their recon specialist as her wounded arm was being treated by Red with both dark skinned women being in a room where Dusty was over by the radio. Nick also spotted Ted Strayer loading shells into a shotgun, which surprised him that the stoner from Rivet City was with the Rangers. Donovan was repairing a sentry bot to be a guard from his and Ted's shift after Brick and Flash were finished with theirs. Nicholas and Sarah followed Reilly into a room where Butcher sat down by the monitors, as Reilly pulled up a couple of chairs for her and Nick to sit while Sarah only leaned on a wall.
"So what can I do for ya?"
"Two things. One: I want you guys as allies in our fight with the Nerospriodium." he stated
"Sounds good to me." Reilly replied. "Those bastards tried to kill ever since they covered D.C. What's the second thing?"
"Do you know of a ghoul resistance called Fate's Insurgency?" Nicholas asked the leader of the Rangers
Reilly's ears perked to the mention of the group in D.C. "I have, actually. They're a bunch of ghouls who took the Nerospriodium's uprising as an insult to them after the neros took D.C. I don't know who leads them, but you won't be able to get to them." she added. "The neros have the people they captured in check. Not to mention they know all about you and the Brotherhood of Steel."
"We'll need two people just to sneak over their defenses and find the Insurgency." Sarah added
"I think I know they won't suspect." Nicholas said as he set up the communication frequency on his Pip-boy. "Andrew, are you there?"
"I'm here, Nick. What do you need?"
"I got another mission for you. Take Amata with you, and I'll explain it to you on the way." he said as the battle to retake the DC wasteland had just began