Shadow of the Red Flag: Part 1

by dcfefs

The year was 2277, 200 years after the Great War. the world was locked within a dark and quiet void. The US government was broken, unable to continue with the war with its enemies, nor could the enemies. China, with its government remained intact, sent out her most deadly force towards the capital wasteland... to execute protocol 614, a plan to end the war once and for all.

14. Chapter 14

Part 14:

Chen decided to venture North to proceed his mission to infiltrate the Citadel, as it was the closest of his objectives. As he moved further north, ruined buildings and abandoned houses laid before Chen. It was Chen's first time to observe how the Americans had lived before the nuclear holocaust. To Chen, the houses on the road were like a castle to him, ever since birth, Chen was trained under the government's elite military program and lived in tents and bunkers of military bases. The spacious and comfortable life style of the housing had sparked a strange anger in his heart as he thought "how could the white devils deserve to live in places such as these when they brought this war upon themselves."***

Soon, Chen saw a massive building in the distance, despite being old, it was mostly intact, on top of the entrance it had a sign which read "Alrington's Library". Chen assumed that the library would most likely be emptied, as all the library do not contain resources relevant to military or civilian daily needs, it would most likely be intact ad yet untouched. Just when he was about to move on and continue his mission, the sensor from his suit picked up on some activity.

Chen took out his QBU Type 119 marksman rifle and through its scope, he can see that at the entrance of Alringotn's library, raiders are trading fires with heavily armored foes, and it had acquired Chen's attention, they were wearing the T-45d power armor. Chen recognized the armors as he once saw within the archives of military history, the grey and silver dense metal which covered their entire body, with supporting mechanism behind the leg to ensure the user can still be fast on its legs even when wearing such armor, the gas tank behind the torso, allowing the user to perform faster movements wearing the suit by reinforcing the user's movement with gas operation system, the helmet was big and heavy, protecting the most vital area of the user and its gasmask function allows the user to obtain oxygen even in heavily polluted areas in the wasteland. They were forces from one of the organization of his objective; it was the Brotherhood of Steel. There were at least eight raiders and only four BOS paladins, the 4 BOS paladins were under heavy fire, but they had the advantage of the T-45d power armor and they also have superior weapons, including laser rifles, gatling laser and a missile launcher. While for the raiders, they were wearing armors of ragged cloth and skins of their foes, the way the fight lacks tactic and formations but yet their sheer numbers were overwhelming their opponent with rains of bullets and missiles so that the BOS paladins did not have openings to counter attack.

The BOS paladins were pinned down as they took cover behind the truck in front of the Alrington's library, while the raiders were guarding the entrance of the library. Chen's instincts tell him that something very valuable was inside the library.

"OK, listen up! After I create an opening with the grenades, here is what I want to happen. Parker, I want you to lay down some covering fire! Nikita, once the opponent is distracted, blast them up, Jones and I will take down whoever is left alive at that point. Is that understood?" Paladin Hawkin ordered her subordinates. "YES SIR!" replied in union from the three paladins. And a few seconds later, a grenade explode in the left side of the raider group, 3 of the raiders were forced to duck to the right in order to avoid the blast, then another grenade was thrown to the right and the right side of the raider group jumped to the left. The raiders were then grouped together tightly. "NOW! PARKER! NOW!" ordered Paladin Hawkins, and the paladin with the gatling lasers came out from the cover and began to open fire on the raiders, and it was too late for some of them to duck as they were bumping into each, 3 of them was shot and burnt into ashes, "Nikita!" yelled Parker, as he ducked back into the cover, Nikita, who was holding a missile launcher, fired towards the broken, running raiders, and after a huge explosion, only 2 were left alive, they struggled to run away in fear, but their legs were badly injured from the missile attack. The two other paladins came out from the cover and took the raiders out. "Nice work, Paladins! Now we will move in and take over this outpost and set an HQ up for our research party! MOVE OUT!"