At that moment paladin burst through the door.
"Sir, we've got reports from Megaton, the Brotherhood there say their under attack and vault 101 has been destroyed, I'm sorry but they're all dead."
I looked back at Ryan.
"There's your answer, this man is scum, he must die."
I turned to the rest of the team. "Saddle up boys and girl, we're leaving for Megaton and we're bringing the pain." I turned back to the Paladin. "We need the vertibird and the captured soldiers weapons and ammo in that vertibird, we're going to save Megaton."
The Paladin quickly ran off and everyone began to run up the stairs towards the courtyard, I took off towards the infirmary. Nate was awake and lying in bed. "Get ready soldier, we're taking the fight to them."
He got up and nodded. Together we ran up to the courtyard where everyone was waiting, the vertibird was even there. I smiled, "Let's move out!" I yelled as we all clambered aboard the bird. We took off almost straight away, the trip was smooth and it didn't take long for us to get there. I heard the pilot yell out that he could see Mercs, I told him to open fire, he did taking out a few. We then landed. "Everyone out we're going to save this town."
Three birds had followed us all unloading men, we moved quickly to the entrance, past the dead mercs and entered the town. Some of it was already destroyed but we had got there just in time. I couldn't see Dakayev anywhere but the mercenaries sure looked surprised. The feeling of battle was upon me, I moved mercilessly through the mercs, killing then moving, everyone knew why we were here, we were here to evacuate and smash as much of this 'army' as possible. As far as I could tell we were doing well, we had fortified the front of Megaton and gotten a few citizens out. The rest were in the bar. We pushed our way down the right flank and made our way to the bar.
"Cover the entrance, I'm going in." I said to the guys outside.
I went into the bar, people were cowering left right and centre almost the whole town was in there. "This is your lone wanderer, the Brotherhood and I have come to save you, let's go."
Luca Simms stood up and agreed with me, he'd trusted me ever since I disarmed the bomb. We ushered everyone outside while the Brotherhood provided covering fire. We got all the survivors back to the entrance, I told the rest of the guys we were getting out of there, at that moment I saw Dakayev come out from a house, covered in blood. I couldn't jeopardize these people's lives for revenge, so I turned with the rest and we got into the vertibirds. As we took off I looked at the town and smiled.
"Enjoy the empty town Dakayev."
We had managed to save Megaton, with only a small loss. The loss was still great and sad.