Fallout New Vegas: The Legion Ch.3

The Valiant Few

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It all happened so fast. The flash, followed by the thunderous blast that had completely leveled what was the town hall of Valiant. The troopers and waitress Miranda Halton were slowly regaining their senses when they saw Claire was unresponsive. Immediately Miranda ran over to help Claire while Morrison went to check on his troopers

"Claire! Claire can you hear me? CLAIRE!" Miranda was shouting at Claire, she was desperately trying to get some kind of response from Claire who had passed out from the blast. PFC Morrison and three of his fellow troopers had formed a defensive line along the walls of the diner that faced towards town hall, trying to figure out what the hell was going on.

"What the hell just happened? Did somebody just drop a nuke on us?!" Private Edwards asked. They observed the crater that now was the center of town. Morrison was trying to determine the same thing when Private Camden, their squad's explosive expert and resident egghead chimed in. " No Edwards, that wasn't a nuke. We wouldn't be here if it was."

"Then what was it then?" Private Albet questioned him, with obvious fear in her eyes. "What could have created a blast that size and not be nuclear?"

"If I had to guess a sizable plastic explosive, but even then the size of the explosive to cause that kind of damage would have had to be the size of a car or something. We would have detected it if it was IN city hall." Camden continue to ponder the mystery.

"Unless….." Morrison paused, " Unless the saboteurs knew the mayor had decided to move the local armory to the town hall's basement last month!" he exclaimed. Everyone paused at the thought that this was potentially a planned bombing.

"Imm-impossible!" Edwards said, " We haven't had a raider or even a mutie attack in months! We haven't even found any suspicious or criminal activity in the past year that would indicate a large scale bombing!" Claire began to open her eyes and saw Miranda staring back into hers. "Claire you're awake!" Miranda hugged her tightly, " I was so worried you were hurt!"

"I'm ok really, now can you stop crushing me?" Claire squeaked. Chuckling to herself Miranda let her go and they went to the troopers to inquire on the situation. Morrison, relieved to see Claire alright shifted to give the girls room on the wall of the diner.

"Morrison, what's going on?" Claire asked. " I don't know Claire we are trying to figure it out ourselves." He replied. " Edwards, get on the radio with the garrison and give the a sitrep of the situation." without haste Edwards tried his radio.

" Attention. Attention, Cub 13 to Momma Bear 1, Cub 13 to Momma Bear 1 do you read me?" Edwards said and waited. No response. "Attention Cub 13 to Momma Bear 1 we have an unidentified explosion in the center of town, requesting sitrep over?" Nothing again. Morrison and the troopers began feeling a sense of dread as there ALWAYS was someone on comms detail.

"Um I think I see the reason our comms our down." Camden said, looking through binoculars. "Morrison, take a look 10 o'clock sharp." He handed the binoculars to Morrison and looked in that direction and gasped in shock. Not only did town hall go up in the blast, but several buildings including what used to be their outpost in town was gone too which meant their long wave radios were useless. "SON OF A BITCH!" Morrison hit the wall with his fist. " We lost the outpost and with it our ears. Now we can't contact the garrison outside of town for reinforcements or a sitrep."

" Uhh guys, I think that's the least of our worries!" Albet yelled, trembling in fear she pointed west of the town and all the troopers could see what was terrifying the normally fearless, Private Albet. Along the edge of town, over two dozen men formed alongside the edge of town. With the blow of a whistle they began their fast decent into town releasing a very audible war cry. "FOR THE GLORY OF CAESAR!" They charged into town.

After recovering from the blast. Local militia leader, James Jackson, grouped up his men in town to try and see who had survived the blast and aid the wounded, as well as getting all non-combatant personnel to a safe location. "Alright men listen up!" he yelled, getting his men's attention.

"Now we no we weren't nuked otherwise we would've been fried from the beginning, however, I have reason to believe that this was no accident. It seems all too coincidental that we had moved the armory to underneath city hall last month and now it just went up in flames." He paused. "Right now squads 1-2, I want all of you to form in your defensive groups and begin securing the designated watch points in town. If this was an attack, you can be sure our attackers will be coming soon. Squads three and four, help the NCR troopers gather as much equipment in the police station and in any other weapon stashes we keep in town. Squads five and six are on escort and aid detail. Get all the medical supplies you need and get everyone injured or unable to fight out to the safe zones understood?" he question the whole crowd and they replied with a unanimous cheer. " Good now move out!"

Just like the NCR who protected them. The Town of Valiant had learned a long time ago that a well trained, well equipped force was the deciding factor to a battle so they had several militia squads formed to deal with any threat that the wasteland produced. However after 15 minutes of dreadful silence had passed by one of the snipers radioed Jackson.

"Contact, I repeat contact on the eastern ridge of town. Around 2-3 dozen visible I repeat, 2-3 dozen visible." the sniper said. Jackson could hear fear in his voice. He yelled to his men, "WE HAVE COMPANY MEN BATTLESTATIONS!" and in an instant the militia squads grabbed whatever weapons that were in the police station and that survived the explosion and hunkered down for a difficult fight. They had homefront advantage…. Little did they know who they were up against. "FOR THE GLORY OF CAESAR!" The battle cry startled many of the militia, and the battle for Valiant began.

Claire and Miranda watched in horror as the first shots were being exchanged between the intrenched militia and their unknown attackers. Morrison quickly formulated a plan with his fellow troopers and beckoned the girls over. "Alright, we have just landed in some deep shit as you guys already know." he began, "Right now our number one priority is establishing radio coms with the garrison west of here. If we don't then we may lose the fight a lot quicker, these guys are no raiders I can tell you that."

Then an idea sparked a lightbulb in Claire's brain, she looked at Miranda. "Miranda! Doesn't Mattias have an old ham radio in his room?" she questioned her.

"Oh thats right! He's been working on that thing for weeks now." Miranda replied. With that information he devised a new plan.

"Alright guys, Edwards and I will escort the girls back to their home. We're gonna try that ham radio and see if we can get in touch with the garrison. Albet and Camden, I want you guys to get to town. Assist Jackson with whatever that man needs ok?" they all nodded their heads and replied with a "HURAH!"

"Camden, Albet, give your side arms and one fresh magazine to the girls. Stock up when you get to Jackson. Take mine and Edward's frag grenades." He told them. They all quickly exchanged weapons and ammo and set off. Morrison walked up to Claire and Miranda, looking at them straight in the eyes.

"You girls know how to use 9mm pistols right?" he questioned them in a serious tone. They both nodded and he continued, "Stay right behind me, don't fall out of line and remain calm. Edwards will cover the rear." They all exited the diner and set off to their objectives.