AN: Sorry for the wait, I have been busy, what with college and other things. I also been working on other projects, like my Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 2 fanfiction. Which follows me and my clan online. But I digress. Sorry to keep you waiting for the next chapter. Hope you can forgive me.
It was noon at the Citadel, Bren had been training for a few days with the Brotherhood in order to increase his skills, so far his skills in hand to hand combat were improving as he was able to use many kicks and punches to take out an opponent with ease. He realized there was a gap between him and other people. Skyler was a monster, and Bren barely beat him and even then it cost him his arm and eye. Jacob was an even calmer monster, but he could tell that not even Bren backed up with everyone could beat him. So he had to get stronger.
Bren grabbed the paladin by his arm and slammed him to the ground winning the sparing match.
Charon grinned, this owner was by far the strongest he ever seen, not just physically but mentally, his previous owners usually used Charon for greed and power, or just plain fear of enemies, but Bren was different, he fought for good and stood on that path.
"Hey Bren might want to rest a bit" Charon said and Bren nodded his head in agreement. He took a bottle of Aqua Pura and downed it quickly. He couldn't stop enjoying the fresh taste of the water.
"So Charon any word on the others?" Bren asked, while he was training here, Rommel took over the protectors. The only other person with him other then Charon was Star Paladin Cross, only because she still had duties to the brotherhood.
"Nothing really, course pretty much everyone in the Wasteland knows about us and you" Charon said pointing to Bren. Bren had a big reputation in the wasteland, and a reputation like that had a few bounties. One of which was from the Talon company for 5000 caps for his head. 7500 if you could somehow get him there alive. Course Bren took out most Talon company members that came for him.
"I see, well I heard the brotherhood is gonna need my help" Bren said finishing another bottle of water. Damn that stuff was good.
Bren and Charon saw Cross walk to them.
"Bren, Charon, Elder Lyon's would like to see you" She said and the duo nodded and followed her into the Citadel. They soon met up with the Elderly man.
"Bren it is good to see you at this moment" He said motioning them to sit down.
"So what is the problem?" Bren asked
"As you are aware of, since the destruction of Raven Rock, and the fall of President Eden, we have been defeating the scattered Enclave troopers. However our recon troops had found a base where Enclave troops have taken refuge" Lyons explained
"Let me guess, you want me to assist them" Bren said and Lyons nodded his head I agreement.
"We know it is a Satellite Relay station, if we control it, we might be able to find the rest of the Enclave Troops" Lyons said
"Right, so I will get my squa-"Bren was cut off
"I'm afraid we don't have time to find them" Lyon's said
"I see, so Cross and Charon shall follow me then" Bren said and the other two nodded
"Very well then, we need you to leave in an hour with the next company of troops, and Bren, please be careful" Lyons said and Bren nodded heading into the barracks.
Charon followed Bren inside while Cross went to the other troops to talk to them.
"So Charon, I have a question for you" Bren said removing his armored vault uniform, leaving him in his boxers
"What's that Bren?" Charon asked
"Well I was wondering if you wanted to leave" Bren said putting on his personal Power Armor uniform, the one painted blue with the yellow 101 on the back
"What do you mean?" Charon asked not understanding the question
Bren picked up his infiltrator and magnum, since the Pitt, he replaced his shotgun for the silenced Assault rifle; he found the power and precision made it a better weapon, and being silenced a better tool.
"What I mean is, do you want your freedom?" Bren asked
"I…." Charon didn't know what to say, Bren went into his pack and pulled out a worn sheet of paper, the contract that belonged to Charon.
"Take it, I don't want you to follow me because you have to, I want you to follow me because you want to" Bren said as Charon took the paper in his hands. He stared at it for a few seconds and turned to Bren
"Bren, you are a good man, a normal person would have kept me for their personal gain, all you did was help people." Charon said smiling, he then took the contract and tore it up into pieces
"Thanks to you, I now have true freedom, and for that I will follow you" Charon said and Bren and the ghoul shook hands.
"Charon it is good to have you fighting along side me" Bren said as he picked up the helmet and walked out with Charon
Bren and Charon met up with the other Brotherhood members, they were glad to have "The Lone Wanderer" working with them, and their moral was at a peak.
"Lets go men, we have a lot of ground to cover" Bren said to the squad and the walked out towards the Southwest corner of the Wasteland.
It took them five hours to make it down, as Bren decided to take routes that wouldn't endanger them, meaning Super Mutant camps. They were brotherhood but they needed to be in top shape to fight the Enclave.
They made it to the Rockland Car Tunnel where they were greeted by none other then Rommel
"Rommel what are you doing here?" Bren asked, he thought Rommel was away on a mission
"The mission you sent us on was completed earlier but we found some dead Enclave solider in our base, thank god Fawkes was around to kill them or we would have been caught in an ambush. I found the information on one of them about this area and how all Enclave needs to be there" Rommel explained
"I see, so you came here" Bren said
"Yeah, met up with the Brotherhood so I helped them get inside, you be surprised how easy it is to hack a turret and set it to only attack Enclave" Rommel said laughing
"I hear that" Charon said grinning as they walked inside. Bren could see Enclave soldiers stripped of their armor and put into a pile of body, the weapons and armor were laid out while brotherhood members examined them.
"Good thing I came, or else they would have had a hell of fight" Rommel said, it was true not many Enclave officer's knew about Rommel's defection of the Enclave, and they believed him to still be apart of the Enclave. Course now he was working with the brotherhood.
"So what's the plan?" Bren asked Rommel
"The higher ups filled me, in, it's a simple attack, we go in, kill every Enclave soldier….other then me, and we get the data" Rommel said
"Good thing we have that Liberty Prime to back us up" Cross said to them and they agreed, the brotherhood used to have problem with Vertibirds but now with Liberty Prime backing them up, they stood a chance.
The group took the rest of the day and night to rest and prepare and in the morning it was time for the battle to start.
"Alright guys, lets go in and show them the true strength of the Wasteland" Bren said and that boosted the moral of the group and they charged out of the tunnel behind him. Bren could see the large robot Liberty prime marching towards the enemy as well
"EMBRACE DEMOCRACY, OR YOU WILL BE ERADICATED." The Robot shouted at the Enclave soldiers, who didn't stop to question it, instead they fired fruitlessly at him only to be destroyed by its laser eyes.
"Jeez that thing is strong" Bren said as he pulled out a frag grenade and tossed it, taking out two Enclave soldiers
Charon fired a few shots at another taking him out. Cross fired her laser pistol and took down an Enclave soldier. The group refused to go down without a fight.
"Come on we are almost there" Rommel said but then he looked up and his eyes widened
"Oh fuck" Rommel said when he realized what it was
Liberty Prime was hit by a large missile taking out not only it, but many brotherhood and Enclave alike.
Liberty Prime still was working but barely, it dragged itself on the ground and said, "I….will…..fight…..them….until….my….last….br…r…r..eath….." and the machine's eyes powered down and it went silent.
"I can't believe they would do that" Rommel said helping Bren up
"Come on we still have a mission to do" Rommel said looking around, he saw a large hole in the side of the large base. He could also count about 10 troops left
"Listen up everyone, me, Bren, Charon, and Cross will go in, everyone regroup" Rommel said and they nodded and murmured in agreement
"Come on" Charon said dusting himself off, him and Cross thankfully were not in the blast zone of the Orbital Bombardment.
The four went through the opening and found a large tunnel filled with rubble
"Come on" Rommel said walking ahead, Bren was behind him with Charon then Cross following them.
"Hold on" Rommel said looking around the corner, he saw three Enclave soldiers and a turret awaiting anyone to come
"Time to try this new tool out" Rommel said pulling out what looked like a heavily modified plasma grenade
"Where did you get that?" Bren asked pointing to it
"Got some from Moira" Rommel said tossing it around the corner. What happened next surprised everyone, the blast radius was at least two time larger, Bren could feel the heat from the wave. The soldiers and turret were piles of green goo after that and all Rommel could say was, "How she comes up with these inventions is beyond me" Rommel said as they walked past the piles of former Enclave.
They walked up and went past a door where they were met up by an Enclave commander who was surprised
"Damn it" He said pulling out a plasma pistol but Bren shot it out of his hand with his magnum
"I wouldn't do that" Bren said to him, "Now then, would you be so kind as to tell us where the Satellite uplink terminal is" Bren requested in a somewhat kind tone.
The commander pointed upwards and Bren nodded his head. Charon then shot the man's head off with his shotgun, spraying blood all over the consoles.
"Was that necessary?" Bren asked Charon
"Hey, those bigots deserved to die, present company excluded" He said
"Right" Rommel said, he still had to watch what he said to the ghoul, lest he becomes a target for that shotgun
They continued upwards where they were spotted by some Enclave soldier
"Their they are, blast them" One of them said but Rommel already shot him down with his Novasurge.
"Too slow" Rommel said as they tore up the soldiers. Bren ran up and knocked a soldier to the ground and shot him multiple times in the chest with his infiltrator.
"Bren your back" Charon called out shooting a soldier in the head with his shotgun.
Bren grabbed his trench knife and slammed the knuckles into the man trying to flank him. He then pulled his helmet up and slashed his throat.
Cross supported Rommel's back as he fired his Novasurge at the troops and soon they finished them all off.
"Alright, that wasn't too difficult" Bren said removing his helmet and walking over to the other area where the terminal was. Bren looked at the screen and began typing on the keys and looking at the data.
"Alright let's see, no no, yes, no yes got it." Bren said downloading the information onto his Pipboy. He couldn't understand the data.
"Hey Rommel can you make heads or tails of this?" Bren asked
"Sorry I was never good with this kind of stuff, I never had to encryption while I was in the Enclave. We should still take it bake to the Citadel, they will want to know what happened anyway" Rommel said and they made their way out of the base.
They made it back to the Citadel and made it to Scribe Rothchild.
"….and so that's what happened" Bren said finishing explaining what happened
"I see…it is sad to lose such a powerful weapon but we have the data we need." He said taking a copy of the data from the Pipboy
"I think Elder Lyons wishes to see you" He said working on his terminal and Bren nodded his head to his friends, they went into the barracks while Bren walked to Lyons personal study. He saw the elderly man typing on a terminal.
"Ah Bren, so good to see you are all right" Lyons said and Bren nodded
"We lost a powerful ally in that fight" Bren said noting Liberty Prime, he was a soldier like the rest of them and he died honorably.
"I know, we are running out of ideas, we need more help in these matters" Lyons said to Bren
"What do you mean?" Bren asked wondering why he was called to him.
"Bren are you aware of the Brotherhood Outcasts?" Lyons asked him
"No" Bren said hearing about them for the first time.
"The Outcasts as they call themselves are Brotherhood members who left us, and it's my fault. I came here for technology, but instead I saw the plight of the super mutant and Enclave so I changed our goal to fight to defend the people of the Wasteland" Lyons explained
"So why did they leave?" Bren asked
"They said I strayed from the true ideals of the Brotherhood, to find the weapons of the past and to further aid the rest of the Brotherhood in California….Bren I want you to find them and convince them to help us, we will need their help for us to win this battle" Lyons said to Bren.
"Alright I will try" Bren said shaking his hand
"Thank you" Lyons said and Bren left the room and went to the Barracks where he changed into his Armored Uniform. He met the others out in the courtyard listening to Three Dogs on a nearby radio.
"….and so then Bren pressed the button in the irradiated chamber where he died, but get this, he came back. I'm not kidding, maybe he is a savior or some kind of son of God. Either way if you see him ask him what heaven was like for me. Thanks for listening children, this is Three dogs, hoow" The Radio said and some old music played.
"Hey Bren, so what's the next plan?" Rommel asked
"We need to get the Outcasts to help us out against the Enclave" Bren explained
"Ah the Outcasts, gonna be hard to convince them" Cross said to Bren.
"Yeah, but…huh?" Bren said finding out he had a signal on his Pipboy.
"What the heck?" Bren said adjusting the dials a bit. He then heard the sound of a man on the Pipboy.
"This is Defender Morrill, any Outcasts listening on this frequency report to sector 7-B, Bailey's Crossroads. This is a high-priority message, backup is needed at our location. Any personnel listening on this frequency please report at once."
The message then repeated and Bren smiled.
"Seems I found a way to get them to help" Bren said marking the location on the map.
"Guys head back to base, I will meet you there later" Bren said
"Wait why?" Rommel Asked
"An Enclave, a Brotherhood, and a ghoul walks into an area full of Outcasts, the Outcasts look at them and then open fire" Bren said like it was a joke, but he was serious.
"I'm going alone, I will meet you back at base" Bren said walking out of the Citadel.
AN: Right right, now then I plan to do the next Chapter in Operation Anchorage, that's right. However I do not know when I will update so once again sorry for taking so long. I hope this makes it up to you.