Fallout: The End
AN: I do not own Fallout 4 or the characters mentioned in this story.
Arthur Maxson was angry, angrier than he usually was as the Institute and their abominations, the synth, had just attacked the Boston Airport and the Brotherhood had just barely fought them off. Along with this attack it appeared that the Institute was attacking his forces across the Commonwealth.
Maxson's attention was brought back to the report he was getting from Lancer Captain Kells. "We also lost contact with several of our research and vanguard patrols shortly before Institute attack. And Cambridge Police Station has not reported in for several hours." That got Maxson's attention. If the Institute had managed to occupy Cambridge then they had effectively forced the Brotherhood out of the heart of the Commonwealth and away from the ruins of the Commonwealth Institute of Technology, which the Institute was supposedly built under. "Sir?" Kells asked, waiting for orders.
Maxson shot his head back towards Kells and realized that he had not given Kells any orders or ways to prepare for their counter attack. "Get together a fireteam and give them a vertibird and have them reestablish contact with the police station." Kells snapped to a salute and then ran off.
The absence of the Lancer Captain gave Maxson time to look around the Airport. The main force that usually occupied the area around the walls were gone, either dead, injured or patrolling the vicinity around the airport. The walls however were manned by some of the Brotherhood Light Knights. Liberty Prime was patrolling just to the east of the Airport. They were lucky that the Brotherhood had managed to activate Liberty Prime before the Institute had been able to do whatever they were trying to do with it. Several of his soldiers had been placed back in the terminal, where Knight Captain Cade was working to save their lives.
Maxson made his way over to them and looked over the soldiers, these were the badly hurt ones. The ones who had been only lightly injured were still on patrol or manning the walls. Maxson knelt down next to one soldier quickly identifying her as a Knight Rebecca Miller. "Knight Miller, how are you feeling?"
The Knight seemed surprised that the Elder of the Brotherhood was talking to her, and it took her a moment to respond "Fine Sir, Knight Captain Cade says that I should be back on my feet in a couple of days."
Maxson smiled and said "Good" Maxson was going to continue to the conversation, but several scribes moved into the room to help Cade. So, he decided it would better to just get out of their way.
Maxson decided it was now time to get back up the Prydwen and begin to plan for the Brotherhood's counterattack against the Institute. If they were able to, he wanted to launch it at the earliest possible time, hopefully tomorrow, but that depended on whether or not he could count on the forces at Cambridge. If they had been wiped out, he might have to send back to the Capital Wasteland for reinforcements, which Arthur really did not want to, as then that would compromise their operations against the remains of the super mutant army there and Arthur didn't want to give them a chance to organize themselves. But on the chance that the forces in Cambridge Police Station had been able to survive what ever the Institute had thrown at them, then they could then they could launch an attack. These problems weighed on his mind during the flight back up to the Prydwen, and then has he entered the command deck.
Maxson had had a map laid out before the attack on the Airport had begun and he had placed markers on Brotherhood locations across the Commonwealth, along with placing other forces within the wasteland, the Minutemen at their Castle to the south, they were led by the former Brotherhood Knight John Pershing. To the west was the largest settlement withing the Commonwealth, Diamond City led by its mayor, a man by the name of McDonough. Diamond City had refused both Minuteman and Brotherhood request to place a garrison in the city preferring to go at it alone with their own small defense force. Also to the west and a bit closer to the Airport was the settlement of Goodneighbor. Of all of the settlements in the Commonwealth the Brotherhood had very little to do with Goodneighbor, instead at Maxson's directive, the Brotherhood had given it a wide berth as so neither his soldiers or the people of Goodniegbor could cause an incident.
There was loud bang as the door to the command deck was closed carelessly and the familiar clang of powered armor running on the metal. Maxson looked up at the Knight who was now before, about to issue a reprimand on how to be careful with the Brotherhood's equipment but the Knight began speaking before he could. "Elder, the Minutemen's Castle is under attack from the Institute."
That was certainly a surprise that Maxson had not been expecting "How do you know this Knight?" he demanded.
"I was on a vertibird returning to the Prydwen and we flew over the Castle. With our communications down, we thought it best to come back and inform you sir."
"You did well to inform me, go and report in to your commanding officer" The Knight attempted to salute in the armor and then left. The information he had been given changed things. It appeared that the Institute was now attempting to launch an attack on all of their potential enemies, not just their overt ones. Maxson looked down back at the map and knew he had to decide whether or not the Brotherhood was going to come to the Minutemen's aid. As he looked at the map he realized that there really wasn't any decision to made.