Author's Note/Disclaimer: I do not own any of Fallout 3.

Operation: Last Stand

Chapter 2: Press start

By: undeadshark

The plan, to attack Project Purity, and The Citadel in one coordinated double strike. It had taken Brian three weeks to come up with this plan, and the eight Vertibirds full of fully armed solders, each with a score to settle with the Brotherhood, for each part of the mission . It was a simple plan, and that was the way it should be.

" fifteen minutes out sir." called the pilot. Brian moved up to look out the front window. The Citadel was just coming into view.

"Good work pilot." stated brain.

"thank you, sir."

'all right men, lock and load. It's going to be a busy day"

***

"Ten minutes out sir." Stated the pilot. Brian watched as his plan when into action. First, the twelve birds slated for Purity pulled away to LZs, which included Major Brian. For Brian this would end where it all started. Brian watched as the other birds made their course corrections in preparation fro their drops. Brian made last check on his new armor. No officer was wearing anything that would tell them apart from their men. So, those dim-witted Brotherhood crones wouldn't know which to target to "cut the head off the snake" so to speak. He slid the helmet on, it felt weird to be wearing a helmet after so long.

Then, a streak of light blue light shot out from the ground and struck the lead bird in the right wing. The bird angled to the right as the pilot struggled to keep it level enough to crash land.

" Son of bitch!" yelled one of the solders

"Stow it solder." braked Brian, he didn't need his solders getting rattled before to battle really got started. "All pilots, begin firing on the ground, and take evasive actions." commanded Brain though his radio. " The Brotherhood seem to have a new trick, lets show them our option of it."

" YES SIR, WITH PLESURE." responded the pilots, almost in unison. The ground exploded into clouds of dust as all twelve birds started firing at anything that moved below them. More of those blue streaks started coming up from the ground. Whatever They were they were soon taught to keep their heads down. As every time they fired, their position was shot to pieces by the Vertibirds that could get a line on that position. So though Brain, the Brotherhood had engineered a new weapon to defeat Vertibirds with after he destroyed their pet robot. Interesting, maybe the Brotherhood wasn't as dumb as they seemed. Maybe they could create technology instead of just scavenging from pre war weapon caches. That was food for though for another time, right now Brain had bigger issues to attend to. As another one of his birds was struck by another anti-air round. This time it was struck in the tail wing, It swung around almost one-eighty degree as the pilot tried to avoid the other birds. It failed, what was left of the birds tail wing struck the front machine gun of the bird next to it, ripping the gun off the bird. Just then, Brian felt the bird shudder as the pilot started cursing.

"Damn boy scouts! Left wings been hit! Everyone, strap in. Were going to start experiencing turbulence." said the pilot.

"You hear the man ladies, seatbelts on and, chair in the upright position." stated one of Brian's NCOs.

It was such a simple plan, thought Brian