Fallout: Crimson Legion Vol.1

Chapter 2: New Dawn

   It was around midnight when Alan woke up from his nap. He slowly got up and rubbed the sleep from his eyes. He grabbed his helmet and sighed heavily for this was not the first he had fallen asleep in his power armor. He put his helmet on and left his office before leaving the factory as well. He walked around the fort and on the walls before turning on thermal vision. He scanned the ground below and spotted a heat source that was not one of his troops. He jumped down and followed it as it went behind the factory. He turned the corner with Salvation out and found out that the heat source was just a dog and it was really friendly too. He smiled as he turned night vision on and scanned the area. He spotted an old motorcycle and his smile got bigger as he pushed it into the factory with his new friend following close behind. It was going to be a long night for him.

   Dawn slowly crawled in and the troops got a loud wake up call as a motorcycle engine started. Everyone ran outside and saw their leader doing donuts. Everyone just sighed and went to start they duties while a few went to take a nap. Alan was having a blast on his new ride. He had painted it crimson with black flames and a black star on the gas tank. After a while, he stopped and parked it in the factory. He walked into his office and sat at his desk to look over some field reports from scouts. Without looking, he reached down and patted the dog's head that was sitting at his side. He looked down at the dog and said, "I shall name you Sora." Sora barked and wagged his tail while panting. Alan laughed and read the report about a tribal village about a mile north-east of Fort Everway. He got up and looked down at the factory floor and saw that they had gotten a few military trucks working and were painted in their colors. He smiled and walked to the war room inside Vault 66.

   He walked into the war room and called all company leaders down. Once they were all there, Alan pulled up a recent and detailed map of the Indiana region. "There are three key locations that we need to get under our control if we want a stable foothold in the area. A Tank Factory to the East, a Solar Power Plant to the North, and an Air Force base to the North-East. Now the Solar Power Plant is held by Raiders and the Air Force base is held by well armed Slavers. A bunch of ghouls have moved into the Tank Factory and they are not the friendly ones either." After a hour of going over plans, they reached an agreement and left the war room. Alan went back to his office and fed Sora before looking over more reports. They knew that the Slavers outnumbered them by a few hundred but they didn't have any factories under their control and the Raiders were not giving them any ground at the Solar Power Plant. They had came up with a plan to attack the Solar Power Plant after the Slavers sent another failed attack and wipe out the Raiders before entrenching heavily. Before that plan was set into motion, they had to first make contact with the Tribal Village and make some sort of agreement to get them to join the Crimson Legion.

   Alan split his time from reading reports to helping get military trucks working. There were twenty military trucks in Fort Everway before they came out of the Vault and now had seven out of twenty working. They were also building some Humvee and getting a few motorcycles working. Alan looked at the last report and read that a scout has found a weapons cache guarded by a few super mutants and one Behemoth. He got up and called both his team and a heavy weapons team to meet him on the factory floor. He met them and told them the details on the mission they were leaving for. They didn't have a Fatman so they had to make do with missiles launchers and heavy gunfire. They got on their trucks and drove towards their target. They got off a mile from the site and sneaked their way there. They had two snipers with them so they put them on a hill along with the soldier with the missile launcher while the others sneaked closer. Once close enough, Alan gave the command to open fire and took down four super mutants before they could react. The missile missed the Behemoth, but hit between two other super mutants which killed them. Alan had Damnation and Oblivion out which had slain two each. He looked up before leaping out of the way of the Behemoth's swing. The Behemoth went for a over head swing, which Alan dodged, and before it could react, Alan jumped and ran up it's arm. Alan leapt over its shoulder while swinging and landed safely on the ground as the Behemoth's head rolled off its shoulders. Alan looked at his troops and saw that they had only two wounded. He sighed in relief and called in another team to get of the weapons to the base. Two hours later and they were safely inside Fort Everway along with the weapons cache. They now have a few AA guns and artillery guns along with a bunch of Fatmans, which had a shit load of mini-nukes with them.

   Alan was now sitting in his office with Sora and looking at a few more scout reports. So far they had not found any more weapon caches or tanks. They needed tanks if they were going to take the Air Force base from the Slavers that were heavily entrenched there. Tomorrow they were going to make contact with the Tribal Village and work out an agreement of sorts with them. Alan sighed in exhaustion and slowly took off his power armor to reveal an officer uniform. You could barely see strong muscles and abs under his shirt. He yawned and climbed onto his cot to sleep. Sora leap onto the cot and snuggled close to Alan's sleeping form.

   The next morning Alan woke to a very stiff back and a furry pain. He slowly got up and got all the kinks out of his back. He slowly got his power armor back on and sat at his desk to once again go through scout reports. He stood up after finding nothing that needed to be taken care off and looked out the window at the rising sun. He turned and left his office with Sora right behind him. He walked along the wall and met a scout team at the gate as they entered. He walked up and said, "Anything useful to report?" One of the scouts nodded and said, "A group of Raiders are heading towards the Tribal Village to the North." Alan nodded and replied, "Go get my team and two squads." The scout nodded and ran off to do as ordered. Alan walked back to the factory and hopped on his motorcycle before taking off for the gates. His team and two other squads were loading up into the trucks as he neared the gates. He nodded and took the lead as they took for the Tribal Village. Intel showed that the group was sixty strong and that they outnumbered them four to one. Most of the people behind him were saying their prayers and others were double checking their ammo supply.

  Alan could hear gun shots and explosions as they neared the town. Intel also showed that the Tribal Village was very well defended, but only from attacks that were thirty strong. He put the peddle to the metal and zoomed through the gate. The defenders jumped out of the way as Alan zoomed by and watched as he went off a ramp. The Raiders below watched as Alan soared above them before crashing down onto three unlucky Raiders that were too slow to move out of the way. He drew out Oblivion and drove through the mini army, taking off heads and limbs. His troops joined the defenders and picked off the ones that he missed. Alan drove straight at the Raider that was shouting orders and sheathed Oblivion. The Raider raised his gun and emptied the whole clip. As he went to reload, Alan had nearly reach him and made the motorcycle do a back-flip. The rear tire nailed the Raider in the nose and while in mid-air, Alan pulled out Damnation before firing a round off. The bullet hit right between the Raider's eyes and he dropped dead just as the motorcycle landed on its wheels. Alan drove into town as the Tribals cheered and cried for joy. One thought went through his head and that was "Maybe getting them under our control won't be as hard as we thought."