"Follow me," Sara led Gregory to the elevator and descended to the lower level. Making their way don the maze of corridors, Sara resisted the urge to smile at the corpses which littered the hallway. It made her feel good to know that her enemies were being crushed and she was looking forward to the next stage of the battle.

It didn't take long before they arrived at where Ross and the troops were now situated. They had lost a few soldiers, but that was to be expected. Sara didn't really think the resistance would give up without a fight. She walked over to Ross and smiled at him. She was quite impressed with the job he had done up till now, but they still had a long way to go. Sara brought up her hand, and activated the COM link.

"Colonel, it's time. Move in and seal the tunnel behind you. Radio me once you have engaged the enemy on your end. I need fifteen minutes on this end. Whatever you do, do not advance to corridor thirteen until you hear back from me. Cameras show heavy resistance in that area, and I do not wish to risk losing anymore troops until the tank has been dealt with." There was nothing to do now but wait.

Listening in for Sara's orders they finally came through, nodding at all the others the Engineers quickly finished their work on the bomb and gave me a detonator. Looking all the others I just sighed and slipped my helmet back on, moving at the front of the people we quickly entered the underground and continued forwards. The lack of Resistance Soldiers up this end was almost worrying me, but it was a good thing at least. After we'd moved up for about ten minutes I turned around.

Lifting the detonator up in a dramtic fashion I slowly pressed the button, a giant explosion rang through all our ears and I could see the actual destruction with my heightened eyesight. Rolling my shoulders I turned around to look at the others, "Well, now their's no way that they can escape, we have them cornered." Lifting my hand up to my ear I quickly said, "General Carter we have the exit sealed off, we're going to start moving up but will stop at Corridor Thirteen, good luck Sara."

Nodding at the others we began to move up, right into a Resistance Ambush; they jumped out from shadows all around us and began taking down men like flies. Scowling I unleashed my blade on the nearest enemy soldier and yelled out, "Open fire for [censored]'s sake!"

Demetri stood and watched the explosions, the dust and smoke blanketing the surrounding area. Soon it settled down and Demetri could see the destruction it had caused, and had done it's intended purpose well. Demetri followed the Colonel as he led the way, hopefully to finish off those which caused this. Demetri heard, "Open fire for [censored]'s sake!" from the colonel. Raising his incinerator up Demetri peered around and soon dropped it, the fighting was being done to close for it to be of any use, Demetri drew his pistol and looked around for a target, the pistol it's self was useless against power armour without multiple shots at the same place, or at very shot range, almost point blank.

Demetri moved around, getting into a better advantage, Demetri fired his pistol at a nearby target, repeatedly hitting the rebel until in fell, the laser finally penertrating his armour. Demetri heard a grinding sound on his left shoulder to see another try fruitlessly to get through the hellfire armour with a ripper. Demetri swung his arm around, catching the the attacker in the side of the head knocking him away, turning his pistol on him, at such a close range, Demetri shot him in the head, a small hole showing in the helmet where the laser hit, a a burn mark around it.

Henry followed the colonel cautiously down the the corridor when the resistance hit them with an ambush. Henry was near the center of the line so when the attackers sprung out of the shadows and struck at those in the front and back. He ordered the squad around him to form a square and had the front row drop to their knees and had the men in the back fire over their heads. This allowed them to concentrate their fire more effectively in the small corridor was quite effective as now they were not engaged in melee combat and quickly helped bring down anyone who tried to charge them.

Henry was in the part of the square facing north when a laser shot hit rifle and rendered it inoperable. His hands were luckily unharmed so he looked around in the center of the square for any spare weapons. He had ordered quickly that the wounded was to be pulled into the safety of the center and that extra weapons and ammo be piled there so that they could keep up their withering barrage of laser and plasma fire. After digging in the pile he smile when he found a plasma rifle amongst the second class laser rifles. He had been trained to use one but was never issued one as a private so now he had the chance to do some real damage. He found that the superior fire power of the plasma rifle did some good damage and he counted at least five kills when he saw five of the resistance members pull all the pins on their grenades and charged at the square. "Everyone! bring them down! " Their chances were bad, even if they did bring them down the grendades would simply hit those who were in close combat near the front. He raised his rifle and leveled it at the nearest rebel and fired.

Sara took the rigged pulse bomb from the Brotherhood soldier and moved to a door in the hallway. She was about to open it , when two of the resistance soldiers appeared from around the comer. They opened fire immediately, and due to the element of surprise, managed to take down two of the Enclave soldiers accompanying her. The Enclave and Brotherhood immediately started to open fire and the first resistance soldier was cut to shreds. Sara quickly pulled Viki's pistol from her pocket and aimed it at the second. The plasma discharge slammed into his head and it disappeared from his shoulders. Sara wasn't quite prepared for the kick of the prototype pistol and she was knocked backwards by it, falling against the wall. Sara righted herself and looked to the soldier holding the computer.

"Do you think you could keep an eye on the camera feed so there are no other surprises?" Sara was sneering at him and he nodded his head.

Sara made her way through the door and into the room beyond. She looked over the room for a vent she could crawl into. Unfortunately, the vent was at floor level, which meant Sara would have to do some climbing. Using one of her knives, she removed the cover and crawled inside. She found it difficult to make her way up, and slipped a couple of times before reaching the top. Making her way, slowly and silently through the duct, she came to a vent which looked down into the hallway. She could see the tank positioned directly beneath the vent.

Sara resisted the urge to sigh. She had been hoping the tank would not be right under the vent. Her intention was to arm the bomb and drop it to the floor behind the tank. As it was, she would have to do things a little differently. Examining the bomb closely, she saw that the Brotherhood engineer had installed a timer on it. She set the timer for one second and then started to remove the screws which were holding the vent grating in place. Once she had accomplished this, she removed the grate and placed it gently inside the duct. Moving the bomb to the edge of the opening , she pushed the bomb, activating it as she did.

Sara wasn't fully prepared for the pain she was about to experience. The bomb went off and a pulse field filled the corridor, slamming into the tank as well as her. The pain coarse through her and as she hit against the top of the duct. She slammed into the floor of the duct, and that's when something unexpected happened. The ductwork gave way.

Sara fell to the floor, bouncing off the now deactivated tank. She felt her left shoulder dislocate, and as she lay there, she saw the hatch on the tank start to open. Sara could barely move, and it took all her effort to activate the COM link.

"The tank is down, all forces move in." Sara closed her eyes, wondering if she would survive the next few moments.

(I am sorry, but this will be my last post in the RP. It’s been a great time, good luck with the rest of it.)


Greg turned to the Brotherhood soldier, “What do you think about all this.” The soldier turned and snickered, “I still want to blow you to pieces. By the way, the name’s Jen.”

“As do a lot of people,” Greg sighed. He placed his rifle down and took out another Rising Eagle and injected it. His body began shaking violently for a moment, and then calmed down. He knew he shouldn’t be taking more than one per day, but he needed the support.

He turned back to Jen and the computer, checking the routes here. As they did, a loud fizzling sound came from somewhere. “Open up the feed to where the tank is,” Greg quickly responded. The room popped into view, showing the tank surrounded by what looked like electricity. Jen was the first to stand up and say, “The mission was a success! We have disabled the tank.”

Cheers erupted from the Enclave and Brotherhood. Greg removed his helmet, looking at the happiness of the crowd. He turned to Jen, who had also removed her helmet. She looked no older than twenty, a mere teenager.

Greg turned back to the screen, watching the tank. As he did, he noticed a part of the duct fell to the ground, Sara spilling out and hitting the tank. He motioned his head towards Jen, who had also been watching. “We have to help her!” Jen yelled out. Greg nodded, picking up his rifle. “Let’s move.”

He and Jen stormed down the corridors, finally reaching the door that held the tank and Sara. “There will probably be Resistance guarding the area, we have to get Sara and pull out, understand?” Jen nodded, loading her rifle.

Greg opened the door, moving back behind the door. The door slid back, revealing the tank. “Remember, don’t shoot the damn thing,” Greg whispered. They crouch walked in and moved quickly and as silent as could be. They reached the side of the tank, listening to the hatch open. A resistance member popped out and looked around. He cursed and mumbled at what could have just happened.

Greg placed a finger to his lips, showing Jen to be silent. He watched as the Resistance member plopped back into the tank, shouting at the others in the tank. He slowly began his way began his way to the other side of the tank. He saw Sara there, lying on the floor in pain. He placed a hand on her shoulder whispering, “I’m going to get you out of her.” He placed her in his arms, moving as silent as he could back behind the tank. He motioned for Jen to follow him back to the door.

They were about halfway there when he heard a shout behind them. “Stop moving, lay down your arms!” Greg turned his head around, seeing a Resistance member looking right at them. “Dammit, run for it!” He ran as fast as he could with Sara in his arms, breathing hard. He felt a bullet penetrate his back, lodging itself in him. He screamed in pain and fell down, dropping Sara.

Jen noticed Greg at the corner of her eye and turned back, running over to where he lay. Jen helped Sara to her feet, helping her back to the door. Greg took out his rifle and started shooting, being wary of the tank. He yelled again as another bullet flew into his side, causing him to drop his weapon. He yelled back to Jen, “Fall back! Get out of here now!”

A soldier walked up to him, pistol in hand. “I’m going to enjoy this, Enclave bastard.” Greg watched as he raised the pistol, aiming it at Greg’s chest. He saw as the soldier slid his finger onto the trigger. He watched as he pulled it.

Greg stared wide eyed at the soldier, hearing a shout from behind him, calling his name. He tasted a bit of blood in his mouth, and then fell over. The soldier turned around, leaving Greg to die. Greg pulled out a holotape and began the recording with a dying voice. “Sara, I have faith in you to end this. End the Resistance, get rid of this damn tank.” He sighed, “Sara, thank you for being there for me, I won’t forget it wherever I go next. My dying words go to you, Sara. Don’t make that a mistake.” He stopped, thinking on how he should end it, “Sara…. I love you, goodbye.”

He placed the tape next to him and closed his eyes, ready for death’s embrace. He slowly started to halt his breathing, taking a final breath before leaving the world. He said his final words, “I am ready to go now, it is my time.” He stopped there, he stopped doing anything. He was gone. He was dead.

Blood was spraying in all directions as I swung my weapon wildly at the enemies that dared to get anywhere near me. The others were busy fighting off their own groups of soldiers when I heard the order to move up in my ear. Roaring angrily I took out a row of four men and brought my hand up to my ear, "We're kind of busy fighting off an ambush here! We'll move up as soon as we're done with this lot Sara." Throwing my fist into another soldier's face he went flying back.

Looking at the others I realised that there weren't as many enemy soldiers as I originally thought, this was just a really good ambush. As soon as the last enemy soldier fell I quickly said, "Status report." From the info that I was given I cursed loudly, we'd lost about a quarter of the men we'd come in with. Thinking quickly I nodded at the group and said loudly, "Okay, let's move up while we still can!" Running forwards through the tunnels the resistance met was minimal.

No more ambushes awaited us, just small groups of Resistance Soldiers set up to slow us down, but soon enough we came up to the area marked by Sara. Bringing up my hand to my ear I quietly said, "General? I've come up to the tunnel that you marked out, from what I remember there is a hole on your side where you guys can come in. From here we should be able to make our way to the Mainframe's location, also where President Eden's office is located.

Good luck Sara, tell me when your in position and we'll run in." Taking my hand from my ear I looked at the others, "Okay guys, listen up. So far the worst we've had is that ambush and that was nothing compared to what this could be. Keep your heads down behind cover and your guns trained on any enemy forces. After this I don't know how many of us will be left standing, so I wanted to say it's been an honour fighting with you all, good luck."

Looking towards the entrance to the area I unsheathed my giant sword and continued to wait for Sara.

Despite his best efforts the grenade had went off, taking with it about 20 resistance and allied troops. Though after the colonel made a quick check of the forces they didn't lose as much as he thought they had. Henry ran along side the troops as they went down cutting down resistance troops as they went along. When they finally arrived at their destination the colonel told them that most of them may not survive their next encounter. Henry wasn't too worried about getting killed as he had confidence in his abilities he just wished that he could see the sky.

Pushing these thoughts out of his head he walked over to Demetri and said "I just wanted to say it's been an honor fighting with you sir, now lets kill some traitors! Squad listen up! When we go in I need every one of you to be fast on the trigger and quick to reload. We're not going to have much time to get those shots off so remember your training and good luck," Henry turned back to look at the tunnel entrance and awaited the order to move in. With the tank out of the way it was a simple matter of slugging their way through the last of the resistance.

Gregory was dead. Thanks to him Sara was alive, but it didn't change the fact that she was pissed. She had plans for Gregory and now she would not be able to see them through. She had been unsure as to whether or not she was going to kill him or turn him into her student. Either way, with his death, she wouldn't be able to do what she wanted. She walked over to Ross, her arm hanging limply at her side.

"A little help if you please." Sara looked at Ross, who took her arm and popped it back into the socket. Sara whimpered slightly and that's when the Colonel's voice came over the COM link.

Sara listened to the Colonel's transmission with much confusion. She knew that Eden was dead, killed by the Lone Wanderer during his assault on Raven Rock. She pointed at Ross and motioned for him to take their remaining soldiers and move forward, which they did. Sara stayed back and waited for the sound of weapons fire. She listened intently to the sounds of screaming as soldiers form both sides fell in battle. Once it had stopped, she moved forward and joined uyp with the troops, picking up the tape which was layng nect to Gregory on the floor. She put it in her pocket, as now was not the time to listen to it.

They continued to advance, wiping out the resistance, whose numbers were dwindling. They finally came to the hole which the Colonel had spoken about, and stepped through. Sara smiled when she saw the Colonel and his troops. Although they had appeared to have sufferd quite a few losses, the ones which remained were none the worse for wear.

Sara walked over to the Colonel and, taking him by the hand, led him a little ways down the corridor so that she could talk to him out of earshot of the others.

"I'm sorry Colonel, but I must have heard you wrong. I could have sworn that you said President Eden's office." She still had the look of confusion on her face which quickly changed to a serious one.

"Is there something you would like to tell me?" Sara eyed the Colonel suspiciously and waited for the answer.

As Sara mentioned the fact that she'd heard 'President Eden' I knew it was time to reveal one of the Enclave's biggest secrets. Thinking about how to say it properly I stopped and took off my helmet, taking a few cursory breaths of fresh air I looked Sara in the eyes. Smiling lightly I said, "President Eden is still very much alive Sara, as you see; President Eden isn't even a Man. He is in fact, a super computer that has the personalities of all past Presidents of the United States; every single one."

Scratching my chin hesitantly I continued, "The techs that survived from the Raven Rock explosion on vertibirds managed to get a copy of Eden's backup hard-drive. They installed him on one of the mainframes here, ironically enough the biggest mainframe that had control over every Enclave base. I don't know what Eden will be like when we get to him, because from all I've heard and figured out," I took a short breath, "Eden is on the Resistance's side. He thinks that they're the only ones who can wipe the slate clean for the Wastes."

Bowing my head I resisted the urge to sigh and tapped the side of my helmet absent-mindedly. Thinking lightly on what I'd said I leant back up against a wall and looked down the corridor. A few others were milling about, trying to keep themsleves calm I guessed; for some of them it would be a lost cause. Letting go of my resistance I sighed and waited to hear what Sara would say.

Sara stared at the Colonel with disbelief in her eyes. It couldn't be possible. How could the leader of the Enclave be a computer? And how, if that was indeed the case, could it be programmed to serve the resistance?

"You're kidding right? I mean a computer? Come on." Sara was trying, unsuccessfully, not to laugh. She continued to stare at the Colonel. Her laughter quickly faded as she realized by the look in his eyes that he was actually being serious.

"You're not kidding, are you?" Sara's tone quickly changed to one that was more serious.

"You don't think that maybe I should have known about this sooner? Like around the same time that you put me in charge of the Enclave?" Sara stared at the Colonel. She looked angry and her voice was cold and calm. She couldn't help thinking that this would make things easier. All they would have to do was go in and pull the plug, thus eliminating the problem once and for all.

Staring into her eyes I quietly said, "Well, Sara, the fact that the President of the United States is a Computer didn't seem important to mention until now. The fact that Doctor Sorein has come up as missing in the Resistance for the last few days worries me greatly. The Sorein that you killed, or put in a coma, was nothing more than a clone that the good doctor made himself. He was the one who re-programmed Eden and I haven't seen any trace of the bastard since we came in.

He'll be in there, I don't know what he's doing but he's not going to make our lives easy Sara. Eden isn't someone to be messed with, he has a lot of backup plans set into his systems; pulling the plug is also out of the question. We'd have to destroy the mainframe or the main terminal, either way it'll be difficult with all the security set into his office." Taking a quick breath I scowled lightly, staring off at the wall for a few moments. Thinking of more to say I just shook my head.

"I'm sorry Sara, but that's all I can tell you for now. If we wait much longer we'll get overrun by a horde of Resistance soldiers tired of waiting for us. We still have a bit of element of surprise so let's USE it, okay?" Looking into her eyes I sighed, "If we don't make it through this... Check my office, their's a message and information that will tell you all you need to know about the Enclave and everything that was hidden to public eyes. Use the information well Sara.

Oh and as well as that, I left a personal message for you on my Terminal, you should be able to find it quite easily. It's adressed to you, the password to open the file is 'Viktoriya Ivanov', something no one would ever guess. This is it now Sara... You up for it?" Looking into her eyes I let them change slightly, to show that there was more to me than a cold-feeling tactical monster. Paul was still inside me, but he wasn't going to get out ever again...

Sara's mind set into motion. They needed a plan, and from the sounds of things, it had better be a good one. Bringing her hand up to the COM link, she radioed for all of her troops to move to her postion. Once they had arrived, she grabbed the computer form the Brotherhood soldier and immediately started to type. The Colonel moved as if he was going to speak, but Sara raised her hand to stop him.

"I know what you're thinking Colonel, and no I'm not trying to hack in. I need to check something." She searched through the schematics of the underground and found what she was looking for. Brining up the armoury listing, she began to check the inventory. Somehow she wasn't surprised that there were no pulse weapons of any kind in the armoury. It was pure hope and speculation, but since Eden was a computer, it was a good bet that they wouldn't want to have anything that would disable him easily on hand. She was just about to close the screen and issue what may well be her final orders when she spied something curious. A single entry in the inventory which was labelled "RG". It was unfortunate that there was no information available on what RG was. Knowing what Sorein was capable of, it could be anything. Fortunately, there was someone here who might know.

"Colonel I understand that our time is short, but I need to know. What does RG stand for?" Sara could guess at what it was, but she needed to be sure.

Blinking a few times I opened and shut my mouth repeatedly, brushing my hand over my face I sighed and said, "RG stands for Rail-Gun, I'm sure you've heard rumors about it. In fact, that pistol you have there of Viki's is an extremely small and under-powered version of a Rail-Gun, they were planning on giving me one; but they went against it. So far, from the experiments I've heard, it's light enough for me to handle and shoot; but for a human you'd need power armor to just lift it. Shooting it would be another problem all together..."

Trailing off I looked at Sara and smiled, "Ohh you aren't thinking that are you? If you are, I can tell you right now that I agree; as a matter of fact I shall be right back..." Winking at Sara I moved over to her and quietly said, "Take out the Resistance Soldiers waiting outside the office then hold position there could you? I know the layout of this place like the back of my hand now, the Soldiers weren't afraid to say anything around me while I was near."

Nodding at her I quickly turned and sprinted down the hallway and then off to the right, in the opposite direction of how my group had come in. Using all my strength that I could I pushed myself through the underground, searching for the Armory.

Sara smiled as the Colonel went off in search of the armoury. She hoped it wouldn't take long. Turning she looked at the soldiers who had gathered around her. Still typing on the computer, she brought up the camera feeds for the last time. Stopping when she arrived at the one in front of the office, the smile quickly faded when she viewed the picture. The corridor in front of the office was extremely long and wide, and there were approximately fifty soldiers positioned in the hallway. Barriers had been constructed and they were dug in quite well. She switched back to the schematic of the underground and quickly came up with a plan. They were outnumbered, but they did have the element of surprise.

"All of you, listen up. Half of you are to accompany me to this hallway," Sara pointed at the schematic on the screen. "There's a large number of resistance soldiers in the hallway and they have constructed barriers. My group will move on their position and engage. The rest of you will head down this maintenance tunnel, and flank their position. Demetri, Henry and Ross, you're with my group. The rest of you get moving. We won't be able to hold out for long." One group of soldiers headed off in the direction of the maintenance tunnel, while the rest accompanied Sara to confront what was left of the resistance. Just as they started ot move out, a voice came over the COM link.

"General Carter, this is Captain Swit. We have rounded up the last remaining resistance members on the surface. We -" Sara quickly brought her hand to the COM link and cut him off.

"Hold them for now, and keep them under heavy guard. And do be sure that you search them thoroughly. We don't want any surprises." As Sara finished speaking, and not long after, they arrived at the hallway.

All their forces were assembled now and it appeared that they would have to make one final charge to crush the resistance once and for all. He knew it wouldn't be easy to try to make it to some cover racing across the hallway, Snipers could pick them off and it would be difficult to miss when they had only one direction to move , forward. He checked his weapon and was about to move out when he realized that Greg wasn't there. Fearing the worst he knew that he was probably dead, he just hoped that no one else important would die.

They reached the hallway and Henry threw a smoke grenade as far down the hallway as possible. "Alright, squad wait for the smoke to build up then on the signal we charge," The resistance started blindly emptying rounds into the smoke and he waited for them to waste their ammo. Then as if something had clicked in his mind he knew that the time was just right to charge. The resistance was not firing and he knew they were reloading, the smoke had built up, and the flanking party was probably almost ready to strike. So he waited for the final signal to attack.

Running quickly through the long corridors I finally made it to the Armoury, no one was around so I smashed the door down fiercely. Skimming through the multiple weapons I grabbed a magnetic pack and slammed it onto the back of my power armor. Placing as many high-tech weapons as I could into it I quickly entered a code into a safe. As it slowly opened I felt my eyes widen at the simple sight of the weapon, hauling it out of the metal safe I firmly held it in my hands.

Looking up I took a quick breath and pushed my legs to their limit, running back towards the obvious scene of the battle. Making my way back through the metal tunnels I thought about how this would truly end when it was all over. Shoving the thoughts out of my head quickly I rounded a corner and ended up at the hallway. Gunfire was slamming in all directions, plasma bolts flew past my head out of the smoky mass that was the Resistance soldiers. Someone must've thrown a smoke grenade to distract them.

Members of our group were firing blindly into the smoke, obviously hoping to hit them wherever they were. The only problems were of course the fact that the smoke was starting to clear and when it did; we would be screwed. Taking the pack off my back I slammed it into the ground and yelled out, "If you need new equipment grab it out of this bag! It's got just about anything you'd hope to need, grab something and get back to shooting!"

Hefting the Railgun in my hands I aimed into the smoke, turning on my thermal vision I found a giant group of huddled soldiers and took aim. Bracing myself for the power of the shot I muttered a quick prayer and pulled the trigger; the explosion of power was instantaneous. A beam of pure energy blasted forth from the barrel of my weapon, destroying everything that it came into contact with. The men that it hit didn't even scream, they were just instantly killed from the power.

The blast had even affected me, pushing me back a whole metre and almost up against a wall. Taking a few quick cursory breaths I took aim at another huddled group, eyed up the sights and pulled the trigger again.

Sara stayed around the corner as the group which was with her fired blindly into the smoke filled hallway. She was thinking that Henry had a good idea, but what was going to happen when the smoke cleared. A look of relief came across her face as she could hear the shots being fired by the group which was now flanking the soldiers in the hallway. The smoke was nearly dissipated and Sara watched as some of the group that she was with started to fall, now that the resistance was able to get a better view of them.

"Find some cover!!" Sara yelled out as she stayed pinned to the wall. Her troops started to dash for the doorways, which would at least provide a partial cover for them. It was then a sound echoed down the hallway. It was near deafening as it rang out. Sara poked her head around the corner and could see the Colonel cutting down the resistance with the rail gun. His timing was most fortuitous and Sara brought her hand up to the COM link.

"All troops move in! We give no quarter!" And with that. Sara stood up and began to fire into the hallway using Viki's pistol. She remembered the kick it had and had to use two hand s to hold it. She wasn't the best shot and drained the energy cell after only managing to take down two of the resistance soldiers. Ducking back to her place of cover, Sara shoved the pistol into her belt and peered around the corner again.

Sara immediately took notice of the fact that at least four of the soldiers were not wearing helmets, something she hadn't notice when she was firing wildly into the hallway. Placing her hands into the folds of her coat, Sara stepped into the hallway and threw tow daggers which flew straight into the heads of two of the soldiers. Quickly moving her hands to her sides, in a single motion she threw a second pair of daggers in the direction of the other two resistance soldiers that were without head protection. The light glinted off the daggers as they flew through the air, each embedding themselves into the eyes of the soldiers. What happened next was nothing short of pure luck. One of the shoulders must have tensed up as he was going down, his finger pulling the trigger, sending bolts of plasma at his allies. Another three of the resistance soldiers took plasma bolts to the chest and crumpled to the ground like rag dolls.

Sara moved fast back to her cover, narrowly dodging a laser blast which was headed right for her. The blast instead slammed into the head of one of the Brotherhood soldiers who was behind her. Sara smiled wickedly and took a moment to take in the delights of the scene. The floors ran red with the blood of soldiers from both sides. Screams of pain were reverberating through the metal corridors giving them what Sara thought was a melodious tone. Sara brought her hand up to the COM link and screamed into it.

"Finish these [censored]ers off!! Colonel, Move in with your team!! We can't last much longer on this end!!" Sara was just now starting to realise that their numbers were starting to become dangerously low.

As soon as Sara's voice came in over the COM I roared and charged in as far as I could with my strength and resilence. Holding the weapon in my left hand I moved up and started swinging at the remaining Resistance Soldiers, killing them left and right. As soon as every single last one of them was down I started panting and brought my hand up to my ear, "Sara, all enemies are down. I want you to grab Ross, Henry and Demetri and meet me up near the entrance into the Office."

Taking my hand off my ear I moved up towards the office and waited, within a minute Sara and the requested people were there. Nodding at each of them I turned and brought my hand up to my ear, "All Enclave and Brotherhood Forces, hold your positions and make sure we don't get ambushed in here. Good luck men." Taking my hand down I slowly opened the doors and walked in, followed by Ross, Sara and the other two. Inside it was dark, extremely dark.

The door slowly closed behind us, none of us made a move to try and stop it and we didn't really mind by the looks on our faces. Within a few moments lights started clicking on in the room and I heard intakes of breath from most of the others. A giant super-computer that snaked up was standing in the middle of the room. Right in front of it though, was a man. I knew that man from the look on his face, that cruel smile and wicked eyes. This was Doctor Sorein.

He began to laugh, a maniacal laugh at the fact that we were here and had come so close to victory. He began to speak but Ross cut him off, "If you have anything to say let it be quick so I don't have to put up with so much of it! I'm tired of [censored] talking today, alright? I just want to finish this, do whatever it is with the Enclave I have to [censored] do and get out of here. So hurry the [censored] up man!"

Sorein just laughed and boomed out, "So be it Lone Wanderer! Sara, I'm sure you must have a question for me before we begin this final battle of sorts. Please ask it while you still have breath in your body." He winked at her and I growled lightly. Tapping the sides of the Railgun to myself I was ready to use it come any sort of problems.

Sara looked at Sorein with calm eyes and a smile on her face. She shifted her eyes about the room, noting places where it was possible that turrets could be concealed. Fixing her gaze firmly on Sorein, she placed her hands behind her back; palming the plasma grenade from inside her coat. She opened her hand just enough to allow Demetri and Henry to see the grenade, and then she started to speak.

"The soldiers of your pitiful resistance are either captured or dead. And even if you win by killing us, you will still lose in the end. So really, what's the point? There is nothing more for you to gain by continuing down this road." Sara eyed Sorein cautiously. It was quite clear that he was insane, even more so than Sara. At least Sara's insanity had a purpose, even if it was to fill the need for pleasure, which she derived from brutally torturing her victims. But Sorein seemed more megalomaniacal, and that would make him extremely dangerous.

Sorein just grinned evilly and started laughing, it grew in power until it echoed around the room. Bringing his hand to his mouth he loudly exclaimed, "Ahh Sara, you say that as though you think you can get out of this room! As I'm sure a few of you know, this computer behind me here is President Eden, our glorious master and person who's told me what to do. Unfortunately, I had to dump all of the servers on this computer and put it into something much more effective."

His smile grew and grew as he pulled something out of his coat, pressing a button on the device suddenly the walls started to shake. Bits of earth and rubble fell down around us and a giant slot opened up in the side of the room. Out came the largest thing I'd ever seen next to Liberty Prime, if anything it looked like Liberty Prime; just a little smaller. It had the words 'EDEN' written across it's briastplate and the symbol of the US Presidency on both of it's shoulders.

Taking a quick breath I just lifted my Railgun and shot it at the robot's head, as soon as the burst of power hit it's head it seemed to hit a shield of some kind. My mouth started to open and Sorein just continued laughing, growling loudly I shot at Sorein but it just went straight through him. It was a [censored] fake! Suddenly a voice eminated from the robot, "I'm in here fellas! The President will be your judge, jury and executioner! Have fun!"

The robot's fists pounded together twice and then I gulped, "So we're up against a giant robot with shields that deflected our most powerful weapon... NOW WHAT!?" I whispered loudly to the others.

Henry was getting agitated and would have shot Sorein first if it wasn't for the fact that he was actually in the giant robot. He heard the colonel ask them what to do and his first thought was this. "Get the door behind us open and lure it out to Liberty Prime!" He backed up and said "If that doesn't work we'll just have to hit it with as many EMP weapons as possible!" His eyes frantically searched the room for weapons to use and while there were some possible weapons to use none had uses he could think of that would help them. So Henry raised his weapons and started shooting at its shield trying to deplete its energy.

This could have easily gotten him killed but in the way the robot pounded his fists it probably didn't like to use its lasers too much. At the same time Henry backed up and started to try to get the door open while taking potshots at the robot in an attempt to dent it. He had thought president Eden would have been fairly easy to take down but now it was clear that this wasn't going to be a quick execution. If their colonel was asking for help and ideas, then they were truly in some deep trouble.

Henry began to fire at the giant robot, which started to bring down it's fists in an attempt to squash him. She smiled a little when she heard Henry's idea to lure it outside. If only they hadn't blown up the entrance to the tunnel. It would be the only way out for the robot, as it was clearly too big to fit in the elevator, As the group scattered, Sara tossed the grenade to Henry.

"Cover me!!" Sara darted in the direction of the mainframe. There was a winding staircase which led to the top of the gigantic supercomputer. And most likely, there would be a terminal at the top. Ideas were speeding through her mind. She could think of a few ways that the terminal could be useful at the moment. It all depended on just how much of the memory Sorein had dumped to the robot.

Sara reached the stairs just as one of the giant fists slammed into the ground behind her, and she began to climb.

Demetri looked as the robot tried to crush them, ditching his incinerator on the floor, there was little reason to keep hold of it, fire was of little use against metal. When sara said for them to cover her, "Easier said then done," Demetri muttered. As it's fists came crashing down, it's strenght could be seen, very few things would be able to stand up to it.

They need far more firepower to even have a hope of denting the robot, Demetri sprinted towards the robot, to see if there was any weak point in it's armour, the robot hadn't noticed Demetri yet, but Demetri search for a gap proved fruitless, he had hoped to put a plasma grenade in it, hopefully to slow it down. The robot's leg moved, Demetri tried to move out the way and was clipped by it, sending Demetri to the floor. Demetri scrambled to his feet and moved to get away, this was going to be difficult.

Henry kept trying to open the door but gave up as he knew they had blocked off the entrance anyway. He turned a head to Ross who was also shooting at the robot and wondered how he had ever managed to destroy all their bases and outposts. Even with the famous Lone Wanderer it did little good against the robot they were fighting now. Seeing that Sara was the only one who seemed to have an idea that sounded like it might work Henry focused his efforts on throwing as many pulse weaponry he had at the robots energy field. It managed to create some small holes in its shield but it appeared to regenerate before any attack could be made.

However, this gave him and idea to damage the robot a bit so they could buy some time. He threw a pulse grenade at its shield and had the colonel's rail gun do some damage before repeating those steps. he only carried four pulse grenades with him though so the effort only gave them thirty seconds of time. He turned around to see Demetri get swept aside by a kick from the robot and it made him wonder if they could get past the shield by allowing themselves to be attacked be the robot. Seeing a fist fly at him Henry quickly sidestepped it and slapped on some explosives on the arm. When the robot withdrew his arm, the explosive remained on it. It was a start even though when the explosives detonated it only knocked out some surface plating.