Of The Past We Use To Advance Chapter 3 – Cloak And Dagger's.

Eight thirty at night and everything is dark, with only the light of the moon shining onto the face of the mountain and the lights from the Enclave camp illuminating the broken road. This was a perfect time to sneak around the Enclave encampment without being seen or heard.

Falcon was using his Stealth Armour so it made sneaking around the camp and planting explosive charges in the tents that littered the area so incredibly easy.

Performing this mission was thought to best be done at night not only to make it easier for Falcon to sneak around, but so that the Pride wouldn't easily be seen hiding around the rocks that scattered the area.
The sniper teams arrived earlier so they could climb up the side of the mountain and find positions which suited them best to take out the Enclave soldiers when instructed to.

There were only specific tents that Falcon was going to be blowing up with the explosives, such as where the Enclave soldiers were sleeping and if necessary the command tent. The theory behind not blowing up all of the tents was so they could collect as much Enclave technology, ammo and medical supplies as possible, as well as taking the tents for use as mobile camps in the wasteland when they needed one in the future.

Falcon only had the command tent to go where both Enclave commanders were still there and talking to each other. He noticed the first commander, a blonde female who was sitting down at a computer terminal in the middle of the tent reading out an update of their orders, "General Turner wants us to send out a patrol to one of the SatCom arrays designated as NW-05a."

The other commander who was lying down on his bed got up and turned to her with an eyebrow raised, "Does he say why? Because the reports that we have from President Eden's forces said that all the arrays were either inactive or damaged in such a way that we don't have the parts to repair them."

The female commander replied, "Sorry Glen but he doesn't. All he says is that we need to go there, remove any residents and take control of the array before his arrival in a few days."

Glen stood there in thought until an Enclave scientist entered the tent.

"Excuse me for interrupting but we've made some progress with the excavation."
Both commanders looked at the white suited man as he continued, "We managed to dig down far enough and found an intact hallway with a terminal that was linked to the fusion generators of the base. It barely has enough power to function but we've found that according to its final report, the generators went into a form of overload. That's what caused the base to explode."

"Does the terminal say why the generators overloaded?" Glen asked to which the scientist just shook his head.

"No it doesn't. Considering it's dark now we're stopping the excavation for the night and resting up. We'll resume early in the morning. Now if you'll excuse me, I have equipment to secure."

The scientist walked out of the tent, leaving the two commanders and Falcon who was crouching in the corner of the tent alone.

Glen turned to face his counterpart and said "Well I'll go and organise a squad to look at that tower now. May as well not waste any time as we know what the General is like when objectives aren't performed quickly enough."

He turned and walked out of the tent. Falcon started to think how he would go about planting the explosive in the roof of the tent without attracting the attention of the female officer but then he thought of something better.
He carefully crept up to the table in the centre of the room and placed the explosive underneath it, almost slipping up when he fumbled the explosive but caught it before touching the officer's leg.
He started to back up slowly so he could sneak out of the tent when the officer got up and zipped the tent flaps together leaving Falcon to think 'Shit. How the hell am I going to get out of here now?

The officer went to a locker and retrieved a small flat device and pulled out a long antenna from the top of it. She placed it down on the table, pressed a few buttons and said, "Home base come in please. This is Commander Daughtry of Raven encampment. Home base, come in please."

It was a few seconds later that Falcon heard a deep voice come from the device, "This is General Turner, report Commander Daughtry."

"Sir, the excavations are proceeding well. We have found a terminal which has told us the fusion generators of Raven Rock overloaded, so that is the most apparent reason the base is gone sir."

There was a moment silence until Turner replied, "That is indeed interesting. This leads to the question of why that happened. Anyway, moving on. Have you received my new orders?"

"Yes sir we have. Commander Vaughan is organising a squad to head to the array right now."

"Very good commander. If that is all I will talk to you tomorrow for another update?"

"Yes sir that is all I have to report for now. Goodnight sir," Daughtry pressed two buttons on the device and pushed the antenna in, placing it back in the locker.

She walked to the tent flaps and unzipped them, walking outside leaving Con alone in the tent.

"About bloody time. Hmm... I may as well take that device seeing as they won't be using it anymore."

Con moved to the locker and took the device, putting it in the bag he had used to hold the explosives.

He proceeded to move outside, noticing several Enclave soldiers walking around on patrol.
He started to walk to the outer edge of the camp and met up with Sarah at one of the larger rocks on the side of the road.

"Sarah," he whispered, causing her to jump slightly, "Con? Where are you?"

"Oh right, sorry," he suddenly appeared before Sarah's eyes and took off the helmet of his armour.

"That thing freaks me out sometimes. Anyway, here's your armour. When you're ready I'll give the signal for the attack to begin," Con nodded as he took his Ranger armour and started to put it on over his stealth armour. The good thing about the stealth armour is not only does it help out when you need to escape the view of someone, but it's thin enough to put other apparel on over it.

After Falcon was done he nodded to Sarah who pulled out a flare gun and aimed high above the Enclave camp.

She fired the first flare, lighting up the camp in a red hue, attracting the attention of every Enclave soldier outside the tents; the loud sounds of several sniper rifles echoed around the mountain as soldier after soldier dropped to the ground, some being shot in the head, others in the chest.
Sarah shot another flare up in the sky, watching Falcon put his helmet on and once more disappear in front of her as he activated his stealth armour. She also watched as every Enclave soldier in the tents rushed outside to find who was shooting at them and Lyons Pride moving slowly around the edge of the encampment shooting at any soldier they had a chance to kill with only one or two shots of their laser rifles.

Suddenly several tents exploded into a fiery cloud of smoke. Falcon had triggered the explosives and moved in with his shock sword, striking down any soldier that got in his way.
The snipers on the mountain face were now covering Falcon and the Pride who were moving in on the camp, shooting to kill all those who opposed them.

The battle didn't even last for another five minutes until all the Enclave troops and scientists who had been excavating the site were either dead or surrendering.

Sarah and the Pride were in the middle of the encampment taking note of how many prisoners they had and calling in the other members of the Brotherhood to help put out the fires and start securing what remained of the camp.

"This is it. These are all the remaining Enclave personnel," Paladin Vargas reported to Sarah who was counting how many prisoners they had.

"Vargas is right, that's all of them. I just went around the whole camp and couldn't find anyone else," Falcon added to Vargas report, causing Sarah to look around because she couldn't see him.

Realising he was still in stealth mode he deactivated his armour and took off his helmet, appearing next to Vargas, "Sorry I tend to forget when I activate it," Falcon smirked as he looked at the faces of the prisoners who were studying him up and down to figure out how he just appeared out of nowhere.

"Hmm, that's a first," Falcon said aloud.

Sarah and Vargas looked at him curiously as he added, "I was just thinking that this has to be the first operation that's gone exactly to plan. Great. Now I feel like something bad is going to happen," Sarah and Vargas let out a small laugh as Falcon stood on the spot turning around in every direction looking for anything that could be trouble.

Sarah walked over to him and pulled him by the back of his armour saying, "Come on nutjob, time for you to pilot one of these Vertibirds back to the Citadel so we can tell my father that the plan has worked, and that we have a few prisoners."

The two of them started walking towards the parked Vertibirds near the edge of the mountain while the rest of the Pride kept a watchful eye on the prisoners.