The field dissolved and Katherine felt her insides heave as she landed. Despite working extensively with the teleporters, she had never gotten used to it. She waved her discomfort aside as she cleared the room with her pistol. Nate did the same as she checked corners and the small group's back. Dr. Li stood tall with her back poised, seemingly unafraid of the danger that the Commonwealth holds.
"Come," she snapped. "We need to move quickly."
"Where are we?" Katherine asked. Dr. Li quickly glanced up at the roof and the sides of the room. She remained silent and Katherine accepted that for once in the time that she knew Madison, Dr. Li did not have an answer.
"You there!" A voice shouted from afar. "Stop!" Nate looked down at Madison.
"Ma'am?" he asked in his strange, monotone voice.
"Eliminate him." Dr. Li nodded before continuing down the walkway. Nate raised his rifle and fired twice, the bolts cleaved the man's head off his body before the man could do any more.
"Target eliminated." Nate said once more before moving to shadow Dr. Li once more. Katherine looked at the body and back at Nate before continuing down the walkway with them. Katherine looked right and found a strange symbol incorporating cogs and gears inside a round circle. She found the symbol to be familiar but made no note of it as she carried on with the rest of her group.
"What is the status on the ground?" a voice said from above. Katherine stopped walking and began to aim her pistol. Nate had done the same while holding an arm out to block Dr. Li from proceeding any further.
"Currently, Prime has halted the Enclave advance. We appear to have lost all but the Heliport down on the Airport, Elder." Another responded.
"Call in reinforcements from the Ft. Strong site." The Elder, who Katherine assumed to be Maxson, said.
"We recently lost contact with the outpost, Elder. We are working on re-establishing a link." The other voice responded.
"Don't bother." Maxson insisted. "If it's the Enclave here at our doorstep, then w assume that the Strong site is lost."
"Yes, Elder."
"Prime has the battle contained to the airport?"
"Yes, Elder."
"Then we need to provide him some support. Call in the auxillary units."
"They are not ready."
"We don't have a choice!" Maxson growled.
"Understood, sir." The other voice responded. Katherine looked back at Nate and realized he had continued down the walkway with Dr. Li close behind. Katherine strode to catch up. Nate nodded as Katherine slowed before slowly opening the door. He must have scene something because she shoved the door open and rushed an unseen attacked. Katherine maneuvered herself in front of Dr. Li and aimed down the walkway. Nate slammed a man's head into the railing before turning to face a metal fist. Nate buckled from the blow but still managed to wrest his arms around the man's neck and kneed him hard. The man grunted as Nate headbutted him before subsequently pushing him over the side. Nate wiped his lip with his sleeve, his ballistic mask cracked and on the floor. Katherine stared into those cold gray eyes, that did not belong to the man she once knew as husband.
"Area clear." He murmured as he reached for the mask. Katherine reached it first and shoved the pieces at him. Nate was taken aback, he slowly nodded and donned the half-broken mask. Katherine looked down as a huge behemoth of metal smashed a vertibird out of the air before decimating a floor of an adjacent building with blue laser fire.
"So this is it." Katherine murmured. "The final battle."
"They seem to be struggling." Nate observed.
"That's just what he will want Maxson to think." Katherine interjected.
"He?" Dr. Li asked.
"Is the damn thing charged?!" James asked as he ducked under blue laser fire. He ran out into the street and launched a mini-nuke from his shoulder. The nuke made a plunk sound as it rocketed into the air and into a small arc before landing on Prime's shoulder. He slowly turned as James tossed aside the Fat Man and drew his plasma rifle. He fired a few bursts as Enclave Troopers rushed to assist him.
"Yeah, just about." Nathan responded casually. James jumped over a small concrete wall as he ducked past debris and laser fire. He slid behind a sandbag fighting position just by the entrance to the heliport.
"You're going to have to do better than just about!" James shouted. James looked up and saw Nathan standing over him with the desired weapon. A Target Acquisitioner.
"You don't need to shout. I'm right next to you." Nathan said as he stepped out of the cover. He aimed the small toy-looking device. "You know I can only use this once a day, right?"
"Really? Now you—" A red laser plummeted to the ground leveling half a block and a good portion of the airport terminal. James slowly stood from his cover as the beam shot down for a full 15 seconds before ceasing and leaving behind a crater.
"Yeah, figured that'd be a good time to bring it up." Nathan said as he flipped the machine back into his holster as a gunslinger would his revolver. James looked up at the Prydwyn, looming above him.
"Danse." James began. "It's time to bring in the full force."