"General, I have good news and bad news.", a power armor clad private came up. "And I got two pieces of both."
The General looked up from watching the automatic turrets being set up around the door to Vault 75. Which was going to complement the number of Minutemen that would have to be located here just to blockade the door and enforce Vault 75's siege. "It must be pretty bad news if your sargent sent her power armor to do the talking.", she commented.
The armor shifted side to side as if the person piloting it shrugged.
"Alright. Let me hear some good news for a change.", she ordered.
"Major MacCready's squad has come in from out in the cold.", was the reply.
"Where?"
"Tenpines Bluff.", the private answered.
The General narrowed her eyes. "How did...He was ordered behind lines on the East Highway line. How did he make it so far north as Tenpines?"
"That's part of the bad news.", the Minutemen supplied. "Apparently, his squad over heard some intel that a group of Gunners under the command of Captain Bridget were going to head north to escape the war. He headed north to find out more and possibly head them off."
"Oh, good grief.", the General lamented. "Your second piece of good news?"
"I've heard that Conway just announced the second super villain that the Silver Shroud has taken down.", the power armor warped voice supplied.
"Really?", the General prompted.
"Well, you know how Conway said that the Shroud was back at it with the Fenway Phantom's defeat? Well, he just confirmed the take down of the Mechanist. So on top of the raider gangs that have gone silent, we also don't have to contend with those wandering random robots anymore."
The General shook her head. "Don't get that hopeful, soldier. Just because she's gone down doesn't mean the Shroud has gotten all of her creations. Even if the Shroud exists outside Kent Conway's head."
"'She', ma'am?", the private asked.
The General talked over the Minuteman. "What's the last piece of bad news?"
The power armor showed that the pilot took a very deep breath. "You...may want to come listen for yourself."
She clenched her eyes shut. "What's on the television?"
"er...It's not just television any more, General."
The General raced off, out of the abandoned school that sat atop Vault 75. As soon as she found a contingent of the Minutemen that had chased Captain Bridget's Gunners...deserters...conscientious objectors? sitting around a radio, she listened in.
"Ole Red Eye here!", the annoying voice on the radio announced. "Now, I'm sure you're wondering how Red Eye got - that's right - another promotion. Red Eye, just how are you coming and tickling my ears over the striking sound of WRVR?"
The General face palmed.
"Well, you know that Colonel Cypress is a wizened old military man. So he knows it's important to get the info out to the people. That's you - the people that is, not Colonel Cypress. Anyway. He sees me doing my television show. And I'm doing a damn fine show. I'm bringing on Gunner cuties to ogle and showing war footage of those pansy ass Minutemen getting blown up and bringing the heat with my guitar."
At this point a tremelo of random notes came over the radio.
"So Cypress comes in and asks 'Red Eye. Are you a man of the people?' Or course I'm a man of the people. He knows that because he knows that I am the real deal. So I'm like, 'Hell yeah!' and he's all 'I knew you were because I knew that you are the real deal.'
"But he goes on to say, 'But I got you out here doing TV. How many of the people got a working TV anymore?'. And I get to thinkin'. I'm thinking real hard. Like a two cans of PURIFIED WATER and a bottle of SCOTCH stuck out in the wastes and which do I drink first and which do I drink last to get me home, mathematical type thinking. So I say to him - I say 'Only the fancy dandiest type. The type that act like they can go through life never getting their hands dirty, like the General and her hand picked la-di-da Mayors that rule over the real people us Gunners have been trying to free.'
"So he says, 'You know it. If you want to take a message to the people, then nowadays you gotta be on radio.' And it just so happens that us Gunners have just stomped all over the Commonwealth recently. We ran past Vault 88 and Diamond City and Bunker Hill. Just all up in your business like a mother-in-law that just moved in. And with the Minutemen panicking in response, we had ab-so-lute-ly no resistance at all when we just snatched up WRVR.
"Inside of fifteen minutes, I got these sissy actor guys all trussed up like a kidnapp victim with no ransom coming. I'm all settled in at WRVR, to bring you - the real people - the real deal about how us Gunners are just winning the war left and right.
"I'm even gonna let you get a little news right now. This just in - we've completely surrounded Egret Tours Marina. And you know it's true because you've seen the Minutemen pull back trying to chase down the guys we sent up north all into your neighborhood. Hell, even this fine radio station is north of the Marina. Egret Tours, and with it control of the river, is going to be slaughtered out from underneath the Minutemen. And but quick.
"Now that you all are informed, I think it's time for one of my sure fire hits.
"Ahem.
"Gunners gonna be gunnin' fer you..."
