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.

23. Chapter 23

Part 23:

The corridors and rooms were empty, no enclave soldiers, no enclave scientists, not even robots. The whole floor was empty, it seemed the security lock down had removed all personals off the floor and allowed only a small amount of soldiers to patrol within the locked down area. They walked up the stairs and reached level 1, on that level however, it was filled with enclave soldiers wearing enclave armor and tesla armors, patrolling the floor. On the left, Parker can see enclave scientists conducting experiments on various wasteland creatures, mole rats, bloat flies, yao guais and even deathclaws. On the right, there were enclave scientists, setting up programs for the vertibirds. "well, I am out of ideas." Said Parker. Nikita looked around and told Parker, move to the right, there was an empty terminal, just distract the scientist and we can see if we can do to the vertibirds." "but we can't drive a vertibird" said Parker. "no, but if we can pilot the vertibird from here, cause a diversion and then we will have time to find a way escape."

"okay you wait here." Parker said to Nikita as he laid her down on the floor. Then he moved onto the terminals, there was one enclave scientist, busy setting up programs into the software system of the vertibirds. Parker stood beside him, figuring a way to distract him. He coughed and leaned down "so…er… one of the cryogenic stasis prison is leaking out water…is that okay?" the enclave soldier said, wihout turning around "what? Oh, I am sure they do that, it happens all the time, no need to worry." Parker got nervous, but he chose to stick to the lie, "look, listen, I don't want to alarm anyone but I saw the deathclaw's hand twitched within the prison, looked like as though he was about to wake up." "what?!" the enclave scientist tuned around and muttered to himself "an escaped deathclaw….it's terrible enough just to think about it. " as he ran into the corridor and left the level. Parker sat down on the chair and looked into the programs., searching for the navigation system, the terminal was set to control one of the vertibird on the vertibird bay, Parker gained accessed into the navigational system, and to his surprise, he was able to activate the vertibird and set coordinates on its navigation system. Parker set the coordinates of Citadel on the vertibird, but before he could press confirmed, the thought of an enclave aircraft flying towards the main base of the Brotherhood changed his mind. He set the coordinates for an abandoned food factory, Mama Dolce. Then puts the vertibird on auto pilot, then he ran to grab Nikita. Nikita asked Parker, "so…? You found a way out?" "er…yeah, kinda" replied Parker. As he dragged her across the hall and into the vertibird bay. Parker said to Nikita "we are getting out of here, using that" pointing at a vertibird, about to take off. Nikita froze and stared at the vertibird and asked Parker "are you fucking kidding me? We cant drive that shit!" Parker replied " I don't have to, it's auto pilot. The coordinates had been sat, let's go." Then he put her arm over his shoulder and carried her into the vertbird.

Suddenly a siren echoed through the vertibird bay. 4 Enclave guards appeared at the vertibird entrance and exit. They took aim at Parker and Nikita with plasma rifles. Parker was carrying Nikita and had nowhere to take cover, he knew it was the end for both of them. With the sound of a heavy rifle firing, the two enclaves head exploded right in front of them. Then the two other enclaves behind Parker attempted to search for the enemy, but they fell one by one as their head was shot through by a mysterious attacker. Parker and Nikita couldn't grasp on what was going on, but whatever it was, it saved their life, but they had no time to lose, they ran into the vertibird and sat in the pilots seats as they vertibird takes off.

Chen was following them all along, he saw his way out of the heavily guarded military base, and he chose to take it. The Enclaves soldier nearly had cut out his ticket out of this place if they had shot the paladins dead on the spot. Chen decided to assist the paladins and took out his QBU T 119 rifle and eliminated the surrounding enclave soldiers. Then he sneaked onboard of the vertibird's passenger's seat along with the paladins.

More soldier came rushing into the bay, attempting to shoot the vertibird with galting lasers, missile launchers and plasma rifles. But it was already too late, the vertibird flew away into the distance and disappeared within the clouds.