Chapter 7
AN: Sorry for the late update but I'm back. And I have a long brake from school coming up so I'll have more time to write.
10 hours earlier
In a dark room in a fortified bunker on a mountain surrounded by a dense forest 2 men were facing a bright screen "Phase one is ready to begin sir all pieces are in place." A gruff and unemotional voice rang out from one of them.
The other man shifted his feet uneasily then said "Sir, Phase 2 has reached a road block. The stealth units have been delayed by the lack of results from the science division. We barely have enough units to fill an assault craft…" before he could continue the screen reviled a silhouette of a man. The man responded in an angry but calm voice saying "I don't care what it takes and neither dose the prophet. We need to complete the plan of the prophet as he has dictated to us exactly as he has dictated us to do. If we cannot do so all will be lost."
The 2 men looked at each other then the first one who spoke said "We apologize for the delay confessor. We will alert Echo base and tell them to speed the development of the new commando units and we will also alert General Seth that he will be allowed to execute phase one immediately."
The confessor stared at them for awhile then said to them "The prophet has been notified of the delays and wishes that the plan be executed before the Union has time to prepare any form of offensive."
The 2 men gave a quick salute to the confessor then the screen turned off. The men then went off into the darkness to fulfill the instructions that the confessor had just given them.
10 hours later.
Gabriel turned then shouted out to the people "Who's in charge."
A scared soldier in a tattered uniform came to him and gave him a salute. Stuttering he said "Our CO's are in body bags sir so I guess I'm in charge. Private first class Dennis Redmond sir, we're low on ammo and we probably won't hold out against another attack"
Gabriel looked around him and he saw wounded soldiers leaning against the walls. All of them had bullet wounds and scrapes of all sorts covering them. Gabriel turned to Butch then said to him "We need to take out those AA guns but we need to hold this position. I'll take a team of three to deal with the AA's." Butch smiled then replied "just like old times."
Gabriel nodded dismissively then said "I need you and Fawkes to stay here and hold the line…." Butch interrupted saying "Then who will you take some of these kids." pointing at the soldiers who defended the compound and the ones that accompanied them "They probably haven't seen any combat before today."
Gabriel looked around again looking at the sullen faces of the soldiers then he turned to Butch then said "They may lack experience but they've held out this long that's got to count for something.'
Butch looked at him hard for a moment then said "Whatever man, pick your suicide squad, not my fault if they get you killed."
Gabriel then turned and went to Dennis, he spotted him leaning against the wall skulking. Gabriel nudged his shoulder making Dennis fall to the floor. Dennis scrambled to his feet drawing his rifle. Gabriel looking amused pointed to the guns safety then Gabriel said "safeties on "Dennis looked at it then seeing how it was on he flicked it off then slung his rifle on his back.
Gabriel then asked him "What weapons do you have?"
Dennis replied to him saying "We mostly go rifles and pistols, we got plenty of ammo for them but at the rate we use them we wouldn't last another half hour. We have 2 miniguns but we got fifty rounds for both of them each. We have 2 sniper rifles but the snipers are using them up top they have around 250 sniper rounds left. And we have 8 blocks of C4 and 12 grenades."
Gabriel smiled at him then said "Dennis I need you to help me take out the AA's. It's better than waiting to die in this shit hole"
Dennis pondered what Gabriel had said then after a moment of silence he said "I'm in. But we got to look for alpha company they went out to take down a long range jammer that hasn't been activated yet but they haven't returned yet."
Gabriel Nodded then said to him "Don't worry we'll find them. Get ready to leave in 5 minutes load as many grenades and blocks of C4 as you can. It wouldn't hurt to bring extra ammo as well." Dennis nodded then ran to find the things he had been assigned to bring.
Gabriel then looked for the next man he wanted on his team. After a few moments of looking he found Roger cleaning his rifle while talking to the rest of his company. Gabriel approached them making all the men stand and salute him. Gabriel was caught off guard, not being used to being acknowledged as a person of high stature he gave an awkward salute in reply while saying "at ease"
Roger stopped cleaning his weapon then went to Gabriel saying "I found something from one of the Raiders." He quickly fumbled with his belt for a moment then he pulled out a silver pistol which was extremely big which he then handed to Gabriel. Roger then said "He tried to kill me with it but I got the bastard before he could get a shot off."
Gabriel looked at the gun feeling it's features then he looked down its sights. He then took out it's magazine once in his hand he started taking out the bullets while counting he counted seven rounds per clip.
Gabriel then said to Roger with a insistent voice "How many clips do you have?"
Roger grabbed three clips from his belt saying "Four counting the one that came with the gun."
Gabriel then holstered the gun keeping it then he said to Roger "I need you to help me find Alpha Company and take out a comms jammer then after that we need to take out the AA guns. Regular SF stuff you think you can handle that.
Roger immediately answered saying "Let's kick some Enclave ass." With that Gabriel brings Roger to Dennis then they leave the monument
2 hours later
After two hours of marching through the ruins east of the monument they hear the faint sound of gun fire then they run towards it flicking the safeties of the weapons.
After a few meters of running they see 2 burnt up and destroyed Humvees and men huddled behind them Gabriel quickly signals the men to take cover while he runs forward towards opposite the Humvees.
Immediately bullets hit Gabriel but they only seemed to bounce off harmlessly but he looks around to where the fire came from seeing a group of raiders clustered in an entrenched area in the ground .He drew his rifle and fired a long burst of automatic fire riddling 2 raiders with bullets. He then dives into the cover of some rubble where he changes the magazine of his assault rifle.
The raiders began to advance on Gabriel's position cautiously moving towards him when. Gabriel then leaps out of his cover then he let a spray of bullets lose catching the lead raider off guard killing him instantly as the bullets tear hundreds of holes in him.
The raiders surprised by the attack scrambled for cover firing wildly behind them forcing Gabriel to return to his previous position behind the rubble, having gotten to cover the raiders fired at Gabriel's position keeping him suppressed while also chewing thru his cover. Gabriel hears a beep then he sees a notice pop up on his HUD which said "Warning Armor Structural Integrity down to 75%". Gabriel blindly fires his weapon without leaving his cover at the general direction of the incoming fire.
Gabriel then hears his weapon click empty then he switched magazine but as he grabbed his spare one he noticed counting the one he was about to use he only had 2 magazines left. He then curses under his breath then switches his weapon to semi-automatic mode.
He was about to continue firing when he heard the raiders begin to scream and fire coming from another direction .He then leapt from cover then ran to the raiders , He saw that they were being engaged by the marines. The marines were hiding in a building on the second floor where they moved to while Gabriel distracted the raiders giving them the upper hand. Gabriel then began to fire on the raiders catching them in a cross fire.
After the last raider dropped Gabriel ejected the magazine of his assault rifle when it came out it was empty so he dropped the magazine then slotted his last one in then switching to his new pistol. He then climbed over the cover the raiders had used. He then checked each of the bodies in case one of them was still alive after a few minutes one of them flipped over pulling out a 10 mm pistol.
The raider speaks in a weak voice as blood from a wound in his leg gushes out saying "You won't win. The Prophet will judge you when the time comes and you and all of your allies will burn in the fires of the great ones."
Before Gabriel could say anything the raider raises his pistol pointing it under his chin then he pulls the trigger spraying the other bodies with his gray matter.
AN: Sorry for the long update my school stuff got in the way. I've decided to pair Gabriel up with a character I'm going to create.
