"RELTAN!!!" Yelled paladin Tristan "Take out those Hellfire Bastards before they take out our entire flank!!"
Doing as he was told he pulled out his faithful gatling laser and mowed the enclave troopers down.So far the assault on Adams air force base was going as planned; that vault kid had slipped inside and the main brotherhood force just had to hold out a little longer, that though was an achievement in itself with the amount the enclave was throwing at them.
"get down." AHH!!! Reltan jumped as he heard Gallows whisper in his ear,he hated when gallows did that, although it was good advice as not a moment later a 308. cal round wizzed over his head.
"Thanks," Reltan said, although gallows was already gone.
A voice buzzed over the link in his helmet, "Everyone fall back! The vault kid has initiated the sequence, and there's gonna be one hell of a fireworks display!"
The paladin fell back with the rest of his squad, delta, waiting for the inevitable... but the inevitable never came. He tried to raise the captured vertibird on the link, but he only found static... So he ran, he had to keep running as Soldiers, good soldiers, where being mown down around him, so he ran, even with rigorous brotherhood training he knew his stamina was not infinite. He started breathing hard, but he was nearly into cover, just a few more steps. A massive jolt ran up Reltans spine, he tried to keep running, but he felt paralysed, so all he could do was watch in horror as gallows, who a few moments earlier had saved his life, was shot clean through the heart, he watched as friends, who he had sat around laughing with were flung lifeless to the floor and he watched, as he fell slowly into a concussion...
And that's all he remembered, before he woke up in this little storage cupboard with a skeleton on his right, and a skeleton on his left...