Chapter 1: Fallback Point Redemption
Gone it was all gone, that was all Colonel Autumn could think, Years of work washed away in blood and fire, washed away by the Brotherhood and there "peace loving" pawn the Lone Wanderer. So what if he spared me, all that did was leave me here to watch it all burn away. Well not all, when we land in Chicago we will build again and we will be reborn.
Regional Command Center, Chicago 2277
You could almost smell the fear in the air. The single most powerful iteration of the Enclave to grace the earth so far was crushed in less than a year by a bunch a saveges wearing old power armor with poor training and using weapons so old it was a wonder they worked, and yet they slaughtered the Enclaves forces. Enclave forces suffered 30% casualties with half the remaining troops being cut off and ultimately left behind as the other half retreated on the remaining vertibirds. So Colonel Macintosh wasn't surprised to see fear in his battle hardend company as they both prepared to take in the survivors and readied themselves for a possible Brotherhood attack. A Spec Ops platoon was being moved to Fallback Point Redemption near the pre-war navy bootcamp now used as both a training facility and forward operating base or FOB. Colonel Macintosh had already cleared up the space in the command bunker for a couple of platoons and the old navy bootcamp, now called Camp Liberty, still had room for an entire battalion. Its to bad the entire battalion wont make it here thought Macintosh a little less than half of the battlion will make it here and a lot of scared civilians. A Major came running at the Colonel, this was Major White, the Colonels executive officer. "Sir, words just come down Colonel Autumn will be landing in 20 minutes and High Comm has decided to come from the USS Independents to meet and begin to plan our next moves." "Thank you Major" the Colonel said. Damn, the Colonel thought, maybe we can at least get our shit together and start really rebuilding.
Undisclosed Location, Chicago
2277
"Just tell me which group attacked the outpost and all the pain will stop" the Secret Service Agent said. "Fuck you, you red white and blue fuck" the raider said as he spat out one of his teeth. They had been beating him for an hour. "Fine you brought this on yourself, Sergent come over here and show our friend here how much he fucked up." A tall man with Enclave fatigues walked up to the raider. "And who the fuck are you" the raider asked. The Sergent didnt say a word as he smashed the raiders head against the wall. That wasnt the end of it though as the Sergent pulled out a serrated combat knife and slowly dragged the blade acrost the mans forehead. The raider screamed in pain as the Sergent than slowly inserted the blade in the mans eye. Blood poured from the mans broken and mangled face. "Who attacked the outpost" the Sergent asked "tell me or next ill start cutting off parts of you that you could never get back." "It was the South Side Gang, please stop" the raider begged. "Thank you for your help" the Sergent said as he pulled out his 1911 and shot the raider in the head spraying the wall with blood and brains the body sliding down to the ground. "Thank you for the help Sergent Winter that confirms what the other prisoners told us" the Secret Service Agent said. Another Enclave soldier walked in the room and said "Sergent we just got word that you and your team are to be placed on standby and report to Fort Liberty."
Regional Command Center, Chicago 2277
Colonel Autumn had landed three hours ago at Fallback Point Redemption and was then taken to the regional command in an armored personnel carrier or APC. There he met his Chicago counterpart Colonel Macintosh, a short man at around five and a quarter feet tall, short blond hair and was rather lanky. Colonel Autumn had of course spoken with the man before but this was his first time meeting him face to face. The two men shook hands and Autumn noticed the man had a strong grip. "Its good to meet you sir" Macintosh said. "Its good to meet you as well though I do wish it were under better circumstances" replied Autumn. "Agreed" Macintosh said after a slight pause "sorry please follow me to the meeting room we have coffee and snacks what you could feel free to enjoy while we wait for High Comm to arrive." They soon arrived at the meeting room and chatted for half an hour before High Comm arrived. High Comm was made up of five members, the head of the Department of the Army General Cinder, the head of the Department of the Air Force General Landers, the head of the Department of of the Navy Admiral Sanderson, the head of the United States Secret Service Director Coffelt, and the United States Marshalls Director Anderson. The men all gathered around the meeting table in the center of the room. Along with High Comm and the Colonels were a few Representatives of the subdepartments such as Head Researcher Barthel of Research and Development and Colonel Vincent of Peacekeeping and Recovery. "Alright men, madam we have some very important topics to discuss today which will become the foundation of the Enclave for the foreseeable future" General Cinder began " we have lost not only our main stronghold in the east Raven Rock, Adams Air Force Base but we have also lost our president leaving us in a state similar to the destruction of control station Enclave. In this power vacuum we in high command have come to the decision that for the foreseeable future there will be no election as of now the military is taking full control of the government until we have secured the region and are able to establish a clear election. We will form a military junta in which we in high command will run The Enclave from the top level while local commands will be used to act as local governments. Also as of now Colonel Autumn seeing as how you currently have no command, were very close to the previous president and but flexible enough to change our foreign policy in order to allow wastelanders into the Enclave, which is something we need with our current lack of manpower, you are being promoted to the rank of five-star general and you will be placed at the head of High Command, by the end of the week you'll be the most powerful man in the government of the Second Republic of the United States. We have already begun to write up policies replacing our previous ones and allowing us to not only recruit wastelanders but make them into citizens. I know you'll be happy with this move Colonel Macintosh seeing as how you already Incorporated quite a few of the local settlements in order to bolster your numbers and set up those factories along the coast. Along with these policy changes we have decided to go on the offencive and liberate Chicago to form a civilian government under the Department of Peacekeeping and Recovery, this offencive will be known as Operation Chicago Rising. High command has also authorized the activation of emergency Operation Resurgence, now I'm aware many of you currently don't know what this operation is so I'll explain it. Operation Resurgence is the name given to an emergency plan set up before the war, a vault was built near Fort Benning, Georgia which is housing 5000 cryogenically frozen pre-war government and military personnel and was meant to be opened in the case of either an emergency like the one we face now or the restoration of American democracy. since we plan on activating both operations relatively close to each other we will gather our strength for Operation Chicago Rising while simultaneously sending a special operations team to Fort Benning in order to find the vault. We will not be able to spare any vertibirds so they will be provided a military transport and more conventional supplies so they appear to be mercenaries rather than Enclave soldiers. Colonel Macintosh since your men are both combat experienced and more well rested then General Autumns I would like you to select a team consisting of four operators to immediately be sent on this mission." Everyone in the room was astounded by the amount of information just given. A Smile creeped onto Colonel Mcintosh's face "I know exactly who I'm going to send, Winter and his Reapers."