Lucky sat at his desk in his shack lighting a cigarette, he took a couple puffs and sighed, it had been a week since Jason, Danse, and Steve left for New Vegas and they haven't returned. Lucky knew how dangerous the Mojave was he'd spent half his life living in it and he feared the Mojave had probably gotten them. They had no choice but to return home there was nothing they could do so lucky called a few of his buddies in the NCR to get him another vertibird to fly them back.
"Alright you two ready?" he asked.
Piper and Nick exited their shacks.
"Yep we're ready to go." said Nick.
The three traveled to Camp McCarran to pick up their vertibird. They walked through the gate and made their way to the bird, a man wearing a leather Jacket stood leaning on the side of the vehicle smoking a cigarette the as they approached the man took one last drag and threw it away
"well lucky this is it your new bird sorry about your friends, chin up though they'll probably turn up somewhere oh and I pulled some strings and managed to get you guys an NCR escort." said the man
Two NCR troopers walked up
"Lieutenant Brandon Fennel reporting for duty sir!" said one of them
" This here is private Grenier"
He said pointing his thumb at the other trooper. Lucky thanked him and the group boarded the plane. Lucky powered on the vertibird and took off it took 2 weeks to get home due to a few skirmishes with super mutants but they finally reached The Commonwealth but they didn't expect what awaited them.
Everyone looked in shock at what they saw: Several Vertibirds flew past them they were gray and had a logo on the side door which was A letter E surrounded by stars and below them a large troop of men in black power armor marching towards Fort Sanctuary.
"We have to warn them."
"With all do respect sir our mission is to Escort you home and return."
"Nick's right we have to warn them we can't let them be slaughtered." said piper
Lucky circled around and made way to Sanctuary. The vertibird hovered over the street as Piper Nick and one of the troopers got off
"You guys warn 'em, imma go grab something'"
Lucky shouted the people stared in confusion as Lucky flew off Preston approached the three two minutemen behind them weapons raised
"You guys mind telling' me what the hell that was?" he said in a stern voice.
"You guys need to get your soldiers ready there's a whole battalion of soldiers coming straight for Sanctuary." said Piper
Preston looked confused.
"What do you mean?"
"on our way home we looked and on the road was a small army of heavily armored troops marching straight here and packing tanks too we gotta get ready."
Preston nodded and turned to one of the minutemen behind him
"go to the barracks and tell the men to fortify the city and get some men on the artillery!" he shouted
"Yes sir " the man replied and ran off.
Preston reached into his coat and pulled out a flare gun and fired a flare into the air
"that should help get word to the castle about this attack."
Sirens broke out as minutemen rushed to the armory. Preston grabbed a megaphone and began shouting orders
"all unable bodied adults and children evacuate to vault 111! All able bodied adults to arms! Defend our home!"
The civilians ran to the vault as those who stayed grabbed their weapons and joined the minutemen.
Lucky Landed his vertibird behind sanctuary and grabbed his cargo
"C'mon lieutenant grab a crate we gotta go!"
They grabbed what they could carry and ran in. Everyone was getting ready loading weapons and powering on turrets, Preston and Nick turned to see Lucky and Lieutenant Fennel jogging towards them carrying large crates.
"Thought you boys might need some extra firepower." lucky said dropping the crates and prying them open.
In them were missiles and Rocket launchers and Gauss rifles, lucky then pulled out a large Grenade MG and loaded a circular mag in it.
"Just a little something I picked up back west." He said smiling but it quickly turned to a snarl as explosions went off and shots rang out.
"FOR THE MINUTEMEN!" shouted the troops.
They ran to the gate to defend the fort, lucky took the lieutenant and joined them, this was going to be one hell of a fight.