I swiftly moved on from Patrick, at his command. He would live. But I was not so sure about Max and Justin. Both looked pretty bad, with multiple cuts across their brows, and a pice of metal joining their left and right legs respectively. Slipping a bandage over each wound, I yanked their legs off of the piece of metal. The bandages took the flow, allowing me to give them each a Stimpak in the leg. I would give a full check up when they awoke. For now, I could sit back and try to rest.

OCC- Where is everyone? No one has posted for ages. I understand if it is exams or something like that.

(OOC: Well I was waiting for others to post but I'm pretty sure everyone is busy atm I know Francois and Mad Max are. I think M'Heree might have exams or hes waiting for the others like I am. It's ok I'm very patient. :frog: )

OCC-Cool, I was just curious.

(OOC: In another thread I apologise, I've had family problems. M'heree you have the best sense of writing I've seen in a long time, gah better than me for sure.)

IC:

I watched Ed, I didn't like it but he was still my superior. Not in rank anymore, but he was still my superior. I shook my head and brought my hand up to my ear, "Anyone else who can hear this, get to Liberty Bravo right now! Ok? Right, [Censored], now!" I then ran out of the hatch at the bottom of the robot towards the wreckage. I heard someone on the radio but I wasn't really listening. I ran right up to another man, he looked shaken but otherwise ok. I put my hand on his shoulder, "Round up the others, we need to get them onto Liberty Bravo, the robot. Then we're getting into the crawler and taking it out."

He looked at me, dumbfounded but I didn't stop. I ran over to a man laying down, growling in pain. I quickly injected him with some meds, then picked him up and started running back to Liberty Bravo. After I managed to get him into the compartment I ran back to the wreckage, looking around, "Well what the hell are you waiting for!? HURRY UP!" I yelled, picking up another man, injecting him with meds and starting another trip to Liberty Bravo.

Patrick looked around and saw Pete run in like a mad man. Pete was telling everyone to get to liberty bravo. They were going to mount an attack on the crawler.

"That's suicide. We're going to have every Enclave personnel in the state on our [censored]. Bah I've always loved a challenge." Patrick chuckled, talking to himself.

Patrick picked himself up, grabbed his laser rifle from under shrapnel and loaded it. His arm was still in quite a bit of pain although soon it wouldn't matter Pat knew that in the heat of battle adrenaline would kick in. Patrick saw Pete pick up a man and take him back to liberty bravo he decided to follow him.

"Brothers! C'mon we're heading back to liberty bravo. Get ready for the fight of your life."

(OOC: Sorry guys, I've been extremely busy lately. And Francois, I definitely don't think I'm a better writer than you. I actually am horrible compared to some of the other writers I've seen around here, lots of them being in this RP by the way.)

Edward

Once every one was on Liberty Bravo Edward took it towards the crawler, taking all of the abuse they could throw at the robot in stride. He finally caught up with the massive crawler and reached out with the arms of the robot to the back. Edward finally found a grasp on the back and stopped the robot in its tracks, letting the crawler continue forward and watching as the back was pulled of with a screeching groan. It finally came free and I watched as the robots arms were snapped of from the weight of the heavy back wall. Damn! That would make stopping it a whole lot harder. I got the robot as close as possible to the deck of the crawler and leant it over. When the men jumped, they would have about a meter or two to fall and then they would be on the deck.

"Pete. Its time for you too go. Lead them in, take the control center and stop them firing any nukes. We can't lose the Citadel. Good luck, friend." he said. Then he watched as the Enclave sent a mini nuke at the small set of Antennas on the robot and he lost contact with everyone. His personal radio was in his helmet behind him and he couldn't afford to reach back and grab it.

He gave them enough time to drop then spun the robot towards the front of the crawler, dead set on stopping it. He reached the front and pushed the robot in front of the crawler, waiting for it to smash into him. When it did he heard the wail of the metal as it protested to the sudden pressure, and the roar of the metal on the front of the crawler being crushed in as it hit the solid metal of Liberty Bravo.

He nearly yelled in victory as he realized he had stopped the vehicle.

Nearly.

He didn't, because at that very moment he saw the vertibird flying dead straight towards the cockpit of the robot.

"WARNING:" started the computer, "SLOW MOVING PROJECTILE INCOMING TO COCKPIT CONTAINING HIGHLY EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL. SUGGESTED EVACUATION."

He looked towards the emergency door at the back of the cockpit and charged towards it, grabbing his helmet on the way and slipping it on. He smashed into the door and felt it crumple out of his way from the force of his armor. He dived away as the Vertibird hit the cockpit and he felt the heat through his armor and was battered by the shock waves as he fell through the sky.

He looked at the ground rapidly approaching him and it was the last thing he saw before something smashed into him.

I jumped out of Liberty Bravo, straight into a bolt from a Gatling Laser. I felt my armour take the force, and felt the heat on my shoulder plate. Returning fire with my Plasma Rifle, I bust an Enclave soldiers heaad, then spun round to help another squad member up. Patrick grabbed my hand, and as I pulled his arm, he gave a grunt of pain. I suddenly realised I had grabbed his left arm, the wounded limb. Grabbing his chest-plate, I swung him to cover. Taking out another Stimpack, I apologised. 'Soryy man, but I completely forgot!' was all I could manage over the noise of screeching metal. As I turned, I saw LB go down, head removed. And there was Edward, plummeting towards the ground.
'EDWARD!'

Patrick had reached the Liberty Bravo with his arm still intact. He felt the buzz and clink of the giant robot as it moved towards Crawler. He heard the screech of the metal on metal. Edward announced for them to board before being suddenly cut off. Patrick jumped into a hail of gunfirem plasma and laser fire everywhere. Patrick tried to dodge the shots which was stupid for two reasons, one he couldn't really dodge the fires in those split seconds and two he landed awkwardly.

Patrick leg had a slight burst of pain but only for a second. Aegus turned and grabbed Patrick's injured arm. He grunted in pain. Aegus apologised and gave him a stimpack.

"No worries, thanks for the stimpack, now just keep your head down I don't want you loosing it."

Patrick spoke with a smile but he saw Aegus' face turn to horror as he shouted

"EDWARD"

Patrick turned around to see Liberty Bravo exploding and Edward falling towards the ground.

As we got dropped down I noticed that I couldn't contact Ed, I looked up and felt the sudden jarring movement as the Crawler was stopped in it's tracks. I looked up and saw Liberty Bravo holding against the Crawler, pushing it to a standstill. I gasped at the effort Ed had put into it, then I noticed a Vertibird that some idiot had shot, flying around in circles. Straight towards Liberty Bravo. I saw the bird fly straight into the head of the collossal robot, right as Ed jumped out the back.

I heard EDWARD! screamed out by one of the soldiers. I didn't care who'd said it, or why. I just cared about Ed. I saw him falling and I saw him fall beneath my view, I knew I couldn't get to him. I remembered the last thing he'd said to me, take over the Control Room. I looked around, tears streaming inside my helmet, "Men, get to the Control Center now! Take out their launch capabilities, then get back on top deck!" I then ran up onto the deck by myself, loading up the gun Ed had given to me.

Standing in front of me, blocking my path with a group of 20 Enclave Soldiers behind him, was Colonel Augustus Autumn.

He stood there, grinning, with a pistol in his hand. I growled, "So, Colonel, your here to stop me?" I spat out.
He grinned, then brought up his gun, "I shot down that vertibird that so happened to crash into Liberty Bravo you know," He chuckled out.
I didn't even respond, I just glared at him, he laughed and I lost it. I brought up the gun Ed had given me, I aimed and took that one shot that I knew I had. I saw it fly through the air towards the man I'd been hunting my whole life even though I hadn't known it.

It went flying in between his eyes into his head, I didn't wait to see what effect it would have on him, I turned around and ran. As I ran past the side of the Crawler, right next to the railing, I got shot. I didn't know what by, but it hurt like hell, I tripped and fell off the Crawler, I fell tumbling to the ground. As I fell I thought one last thing, I'm sorry Ed, I'm so sorry, I failed in doing the one last thing you asked of me.

I fell and hit the ground, hard, everything went black.

(OOC Well looks like its up to me to save everyone )

Patrick was in shock, in the space of a few seconds, both of his commanding officers had been critically injured. Pat didn't dare to think any worse of their state. He saw the colonel being taken away by Enclave Officers, Pat wasn't sure if he was truly dead. All Patrick cared about was helping his Brothers. He ran quickly over to the railing where Pete had fallen.

"Aegus give me some cover fire!"

Patrick looked frantically he couldn't see Pete anywhere. He couldn't even see Edward. Patrick felt his heart drop almost into his stomach. This was it Pat had to make a decision; he could either fight his way to the control room with Aegus or he could keep looking for Pete and Ed.

"Ah [censored] what the hell do I do?" Patrick thought to himself.

Patrick then came to a realization that if he didn't begin to fight his way to the control room there wouldn't even be a brotherhood. It was a hard decision but it had to be done. He turned around to Aegus and began to shoot down the Enclave in a murderous rage. Patrick had no feeling, there was no pain throughout his body, no thought as to what would happen to him, no thought to killing the Enclave troops, he just wanted them all dead, he wanted them to die in tremendous agony and pain. Patrick hadn't even noticed how heavy he was breathing or that tears of rage were rolling down his face. He kept firing til he was out of ammo and even then without a single thought Pat reloaded and began to fire again. Patrick kept up his fire while telling Aegus the plan.

"Aegus you might not like what I'm going to say but this is an order. We have to leave Peter and Edward behind, now I know that sounds terrible, but we have to destroy this crawler at all costs or there won't even be a brotherhood to return to. We are to make our way to the control room and end this and Aegus, when I say this monstrosity is to be destroyed at all costs, I mean even if we have to give our lives. Lets move out!"

Patrick took point. They had managed to finish off the Enclave in the immediate area although he was unsure how many were left throughout the cralwer.

Patrick was going crazy! His blood would end up all over the walls if I didn't help him. Jumping up, I let loose with the rifle. But just as the bolt started to accumulate, I heard a fizzling sound, and the weapon exploded. A flash of light, searing heat, and I knew that it was over.The skin on my left side was now similar to fried bacon. Most of my nerve endings had died thankfully, nulling the pain. I felt for my bag, pulling out a Jet canister. That would be enough adrenaline. I pulled myself behind cover, and waited in agony.

(OOC ok so maybe it really is up to me? :flamethrower: )

IC:

Patrick saw Aegus go down in a flash of laser fire. Patrick turned and shot his laser rifle. It hit the Enclave soldier in the head killing him instantly although Patrick didn't care he kept firing into the soldier. He fired until the MF cell was dead, even then Patrick ran up and started punching and kicking what was left of the body. Patrick was so angry and upset, angry at the Enclave for all the pain they had caused him and his brothers, upset with himself for letting this happen to his fellow brothers.

Patrick picked himself up and ran over to Aegus. Aegus was in a bad way his arm was badly burnt but Patrick noticed the jet in his hand.

"Aegus I'm not going to let you die. I'm not going to let anyone else die." Patrick said as he helped the young Knight inject the Jet into his right arm.

"I know your in a lot of pain right now but we have got to end this. Here take my laser pistol it should be alright to wield with only one arm. Tell me when you need help reloading. C'mon lets move out."

Patrick helped Aegus up. They moved towards one of the doors of the crawler.

Edward

Edward came back to consciousness just before Pete fell of the crawler. He had hit the ground hard, his helmet had taken most of the fall though luckily and it looked like there wasn't any permanent damage. His helmet was smashed to pieces so he discarded it and tried to stand up. His body was sore and his armor was extremely dented, inhibiting his movement, but he could still keep going. And so he did.

He looked over to the remains of the robot. The top half was largely destroyed by the explosion, but the bottom half was luckily still holding the crawler in place. The main Brotherhood Army was entering the cargo hold of the Crawler through the large area he had removed on the back and he could hear the sounds of battle from within. That just left his team to take the most important part. The Command Tower.

He grabbed his pistol, the one with Pete's name on it, with his left hand and his laser shotgun in his right. With the added strength of his power armor and the low recoil from the laser technology he would probably be able to dual wield them.

He looked up at crawler just in time to see Pete falling from it, he had been hit by a shot from a laser pistol, a laser pistol firing at an extreme speed. He knew the pistol that had shot it, it was Colonel Autumns. He yelled out in fury and started sprinting towards Pete's lifeless body.

He finally reached him and he grabbed his body, pulling it under the cover of the Crawler.

"C'mon Pete" he sobbed, "you gotta wake up. Our boys aren't going to survive up their without our help. I'm not going to be able to survive without your help."

Patrick entered the crawler laser rifle drawn. All hell had broken loose inside alarms were raging, Enclave and other personnel were running around like mad Brahmin. Pat ducked into the first room directly to his right, hoping that everyone was too busy to even noticed. It was the bathroom, Patrick could hear the main bulk of the Brotherhood down in the cargo hold, providing a great distraction. The bathroom was empty which Pat thought was a bit funny as he believed he would find Colonel Autumn, cowering. Pat managed to find another door.

He opened it just enough so he could peer through. It was a barracks, the room was lined with bunks, but was empty. Patrick entered gun drawn and every ready for battle he frantically searched through the room looking for a map so he could devise a plan to sneak in and take the command centre with ease. Patrick didn't find a map but instead he found Enclave Power armour and an officers uniform in a locker. If he could trick the Enclave into believing that he was just a regular Enclave trooper he might be able to take the command centre without to much resistance.

I heard Ed's voice on the edge of my conciousness, "C'mon Pete, you gotta wake up. Our boys up there won't be able to survive without our help, I won't be able to survive without your help." I felt my strength start to return but I felt the burning through my body, I knew I had a choice. I made it, straight away, I didn't know whether it was the right one or not. I fought with everything I had to regain conciousness, I opened my eyes and saw Ed kneeling over me. I lifted my hands, slowly, to my helmet, taking it off.

I looked at Ed, smiling weakly, "I'm sorry Ed, I can't- I can hardly even breathe," I stammered out, I coughed and blood came out of my mouth, "Ed, leave me, you can't do any good staying here. Just go, Ed, please, my friend- my brother in steel. In, Cold Steel..." I manged to cough out, as I said Cold Steel I wrenched my hand up, the hand that had my pistol in it. I clenched his arm with my other hand, he dropped his laser shotgun and in it's place I put my pistol. I closed his fingers around the weapon.

I smiled again, even weaker, I felt myself drifting away from my life, "Remember me Ed, I don't know if I'll live long enough to see you again. My last thing to you, if you come back and I'm no longer breathing... Listen to that holo-tape, goodbye my friend, I've never met someone like you..." I wrenched out, from the deepest part of my heart. I let my strength fade, I felt my eyes close, I didn't open them again. I felt myself drift away from the shores of life to the sea of death, I refused to die, still breathing, but I knew I didn't have long. I layed there, feeling my life bleed away. If there was one thing I was going to miss in life, it was Ed.

Edward

He knew he had to go to help the guys in the Command Center, so, wiping away his tears he laid Pete down and gave him his laser shotgun just in case, then pulled out a beacon from a compartment on his armor. He pushed it into the ground and activated it, listening to it as it started beeping.

"I will Pete, but your not going to die. I'm... not sure I'm strong enough to let you go... A medical Vertibird should pick you up soon. You have to hang in there Pete, I'll kill Autumn for us. Just... Just stay with me."

He had to go so he grabbed the pistols in his hands and found a ladder to the top deck, before starting to climb up. He made it to the deck and looked around. The Vertibirds had cleaned it up of all of the enemies so he ran straight to the Command Tower. He looked at the bodies littering in the entrance and smiled. It was obvious his squad had been here. He ran up further and finally found Patrick and Aegus in the Officers Barracks.

"Here you are! We need to hurry, I don't think they'll hold on much longer before activating the nukes. You two put on that armor and lead me into the Command room like a Prisoner. Hurry!"

And then, unfortunately, a voice rang out over a loudspeaker proving his point.

"NUCLEAR PAYLOAD FIRING UPON LOCATION: 13578 AKA CITADEL IN T MINUS 8 MINUTES"

Just as Patrick was deciphering a plan Ed charged in. Patrick was shocked to see him alive, let alone walking. He noticed that Ed was red in the face and looked distressed. Patrick suddenly realised Pete was still missing. Patrick's head dropped at the thought but only for a second as Ed began to bark orders. Pat smiled.

"Same old Ed."

Patrick suited up and grabbed Eds hand pulling them behind his back. He almost laughed as he said

"Ok. Ed I've put your rifle in your hidden compartment. So when your ready give us the signal and we will start firing."

The loudspeaker then boomed out a message.

"NUCLEAR PAYLOAD FIRING UPON LOCATION: 13578 AKA CITADEL IN T MINUS 8 MINUTES"

"[censored] we better get moving then." Patrick said pushing Ed as they left the barracks.

Edward

As they entered the command room Edward grew very nervous. He looked around at the many Enclave soldiers and the scientists monitoring their equipment and he couldn't help but feel like this was way to strange. Strange being surrounded by high ranking Enclave officials not shooting at him and strange not shooting at them...yet.

Patrick and Aegus said something and the soldiers all seemed to relax. They were told to go further into the room and they did. Once they found the control panel for launching and aborting the orbital strike they slowed, and Edward was just about to give Patrick the sign when he heard a voice.

He looked around and saw none other than Colonel Autumn, sporting a large bandage across his forehead.

He saw Edward staring at the Bandage and laughed.

"Your friend Pete had quite a shot, almost killed me too. Its a miracle the kind of technology we have that can let me survive being shot in the head. And, if you remember, which I'm sure you do, lets me survive a near encounter with a nuclear explosion. But I made short work of him, I'm shocked to learn he survived the fall from the Crawler. But that is insignificant, my men are on their way to finish him off now. Its a pleasure to finally meet you Edward. I've been waiting a while for this moment. And it sure will definitely be a memorable one." he said as he stuck out his hand for Edward to shake.

Edward looked back at Patrick and moved his up minutely, but he hoped Patrick could recognize it as the sign. Patrick let go of his hands and he stepped forward to Autumn, flicking a switch on his waist with his other hand as he did so.

"Believe me when I say Colonel, the pleasure is all mine. I'm interested about your technology that allows you to survive like this, its uncanny. Do you think, perhaps it would be able to keep you alive from the grenade I just slipped into your hand?" he asked with a smile on his face as let go of the mans hand a leapt back, dragging Patrick and Aegus back with him. The Colonel exploded into pieces as the shrapnel imbedded itself into Autumns organs.

As Edward leapt up with his laser rifle, shooting wildly around him, he yelled:

"Damn that was a bad one liner. I need to think that [censored] through better!"

He spent the whole battery then through it into as Hellfire soldier. He whipped out his pistols and started firing at the surrounding soldiers while charging to the Orbital Strike control panel. He saw a scientist leap towards the panel, trying to hit the button to launch it prematurely, but he unleashed a kick and cracked the mans head.

He was shot in the shoulder twice by a soldier wielding a pistol before he reached the control panel. He looked down on it before seeing the abort button, he brought his hand down to hit it when he was shot again in the stomach. Doubling over he fell down onto the ground. He looked up and saw the control panel, just within his reach. He stuck his hand up and smashed it down, hoping to hit the abort button.

Just as he hit it he was rewarded with the loud sound of a loudspeaker announcing the strike aborted, just as he saw his gun being picked up by the Enclave scientist he had kicked down bring the gun up to Edwards head and take aim.

BANG.

(OOC: I think the story is pretty much over. Edward is dead. The Orbital strike has been aborted. Autumn is dead. But, what do you guys think of my idea. We rap this story up and begin another, with a different leader (controlled by me) you guys can keep your characters or create new ones. But its a new adventure. What do you think?)

(OOC:Poor Eddy but on a lighter note I would love to start another as I loved this Rp heaps. I would use Patrick again. Maybe if you make another Rp you could start with 5 years later and explain what happened to all of our characters after the war? lol Its only a suggestion )

IC:
Patrick pushed Ed into the control room. A suspicious Enclave officer questioned Patrick.

"Stop. What the hell are you doing here? Whose this? and why aren't you killing Brotherhood instead of capturing them?"

Patrick put a stern voice on and replied. "Are you an idiot? Do you have any idea who this man is?"

Pat turned to Aegus "Can you believe this guy can't even follow simple orders."

Patrick was hoping his little bit of acting would work. "This is Sentinel Edward Shields leader of the BOS unit 'Cold Steel'. Colonel Autumn has been hunting them, he wants to see the prisoner personally. Now before I get you sent to the front line I suggest you let us see the Colonel!"

Patrick stood there he was surprised the officer didn't see his heart beating through his power armor. The officer replied in a shaky voice.

"Ah yes of coarse I.. er.. I apologise. Let me just open the door for you."

Patrick let a sigh of relief out. The door closed behind them and the Colonel and Edward began to talk. Pat saw Ed give the signal so he let go. All Pat heard was something about a grenade before Edward jumped pulling him down. He heard a loud explosion and saw the Colonel paint the room with his body parts. Edward sprang into action heading towards the control panel. Patrick laid down covering fire shooting anyone who went near Edward. He unloaded into an officer and two Tesla soldiers. It was the same officer who had questioned him earlier. Now he had half his face burnt off. The other two Tesla soldiers had a hole burned in their stomach and chest. Patrick then heard.

"ORBITAL STRIKE ABORTED"

Pat smiled and looked over towards Ed. What happened next felt like slow motion to Patrick. He saw the Enclave scientist pick up the gun. Patrick began to run but it was too late the scientist fired shooting Ed in the head. Patrick tackled the scientist to the ground and started to punch his face. He punched and punched until his he was out of breath. Pat then picked up his laser rifle and Eds laser rifle and began to fire. He stood there firing, with every Enclave personnel that was left on the crawler, trying to enter the control room so they could avenge the Colonel. Pat took a bullet to the stomach he didn't stop he just kept firing and reloading. He was then shot in the knee, he went down in a wail of pain. There was a dead officer next to him Pat picked up his plasma pistol out of his dead hands and kept firing. He thought.

"Well this is it. The end. I had a good run but now it's time."

Patrick began to black out. He awoke to find a member of the Brotherhood injecting him with a stimpack.

"We got here just in time we've taken the crawler and managed to save your backside. I'm sorry but we've lost Edward."

Patrick pushed the Knight out of the way and hobbled over to the body of Edward.

"I want this body treated with the utmost respect a proper burial he was an amazing leader. Now take me home I need a beer."

(OOC: So, you guys rap things up here. Kill off your characters or get out of there. I'd appreciate it if Pete lived Francois, it will be easier in the new Cold Steel. This was a fun story guys, and I thank you all for participating in it.)

(OOC: How can you be out of character when you don't even have one lol but I enjoyed this Rp thank you for accepting me.)

(OOC: lol I have no idea. Speaking from beyond the grave? CS3 is up. Check it out.)

(OOC: I'll just give my take of what happened. Sorry if it doesn't go in haven't even read number 3 yet..)

IC:

I layed where I was, fighting everything when I felt a part of me die inside, I'd heard the words "ORBITAL STRIKE ABORTED" but right after I heard one thing...

BANG

I let myself shiver and I awoke from my slumber, standing around me were 8 Enclave Soldiers, looking at me with contempt. I looked at the laser shotgun in my hands, I made it look like I just woke up, they laughed. One of them stepped forward, oblivious to what I would do to him, "Edward is dead you fool, a man killed him, whoever it was he did a good job to! His brains are splattered all over the wall!" He yelled, laughing, he bent down to smash his knee in emphasis of his laughing rage.

I lifted the weapon Ed had left with me, I felt the clip quickly realising I had 8 shots. I aimed quickly, then I squeezed the trigger, killing the soldier who was bending down, he went flying back into the other men. I rose quickly, yelling and snarling, I ran into another one and shot him. I forgot what happened after that, but I do remember looking at myself and seeing blood and body parts all over my armor. I fell to the ground in a daze, I thought I saw another soldier, but all I knew was that Ed was dead, but the Brotherhood was alive.

Okay. Hunting Autumn is over now I think. I'm going to request a moderator to lock this. See you all in Fighting for the Dream!