Reviving a fantasy

Hold the line

John stared at the metal door in front of him, his bipod deployed on top of a metal crate his finger resting against the trigger guard waiting for the moment to open fire. The soldier standing next to him manning the browning 50. Cal was visibly shaking in rage and anger and he couldn't be blamed either, the brotherhood was slowly pushing through the defenders ahead of him and they knew all of the men and women ahead of them personally. Their family being murdered like animals by these scum of the wastes.

"John on a scale of shit to fucked what would you say we are?" John looked at the man next to him the one manning the .50, john laughed and bumped him with his elbow "pretty fucked just like we were last night!" A bit of laughter was heard from the people around him which unfortunately had to end when Everyone's attention was drawn from their thoughts as a knocking sound came from behind the door, everybody froze and no one moved from their spots. The entire group had there weapons raised and pointed at the door, everything from plasma, laser to explosive and ballistic. That was before most of the group fell to the ground by a large explosion blowing the door from its place and sailing past the group onto the ground barely missing John and some others. John looked back from the massive door to the equally massive hole in the wall and gently squeezed the trigger firing lead into the smoke filled hole. The firefight was intense, red lasers and green plasma from both sides could be seen hitting everywhere. The burn marks of super heated plasma and light were the most prevalent markings in the hallway and on the corpses. John couldn't hear much other then the crack of bullets and the whizzing of plasma and lasers flying by his and his friends faces.

After twenty rounds the magazine emptied And he took it out and placed another one back into the gun and pulled back the bolt, taking at a one of the brother hood soldiers and fired a burst into his chest destroying his combat armor and putting a few holes through his chest effectively killing him. John kept aiming for targets not in power armor that job was left to the browning and those with lasers and plasma, a burst of its powerful ammunition could disable power armor or out right kill the user, of course if no power was in sight then it was a mess of flying limbs and bone as the gunner ripped the rats apart.

John kept putting rounds into the soldiers killing as many as possible but there numbers were to great even for the multitude of energy weapons and the browning which began to fail, the energy weapons from lack of cleaning and intense use and the browning from heat causing some rounds to cook off inside the chamber. In desperation they had to switch to less effective weapons, pistols and knives were some of the first to be used before they to ran empty and dry. Sadly Johns bar wasn't far behind either as it started to jam and run out of ammo causing him to have to discard his favorited weapon. Looking around for something more handy to use in the ensuing hand to hand combat he had picked up the browning and decided to use it as a baseball bat. His first kill was on a scumbag who had stabbed a unknown friend of his in the neck through a lucky shot when they weren't looking. He quickly got his revenge on the bastard with a quick bash to the head caving it in and forcing the bastards face into the sturdy metal wall making blood fly up over it. The second was him shoving the barrel through a brotherhood power armor helmet and yanking it out with some of their brain.

This hallway reminded him heavily of the history classes he took years ago about American history, reminding him of the First World War and the intense ugly close quarters fighting that took place. Between the growing mountain of bodies the defense line has and currently still are racking up thanks to their skill and the immediate blocking of enemy reinforcements thanks to their friends corpses John called for a retreat. The group quickly gathered what weapons they could and what Ammo they could scavenge and ran towards the reinforced double doors that lead to the "control center" of the bunker that they were defending for a hope of escape.

As john and his group walked through the only door in the control room they were met with a large number of pistols and rifles pointed all at them, of course it was the scientist and other active high ranking members, including his  parents, they all put down the weapons and continued to work after seeing the battle scarred power armors before them.

His squads friends and family ran up to them and gabe them their lone or their concern but many cried silently upon not seeing the men or women they expected and prayed for the most. However johns parents were few of the lucky ones "were happy your safe son" his mother said breathing a sigh of relive, he would of smiled if it wasn't for the current situation. "The group is mainly K.I.A and we are the last remaining few" john said as he heard banging from the door. This rushed the scientists to go faster out of fear and a scientist ran up to his father and whispered something into his ear as your father nodded back. "Son the project is ready, do you know what this will do?" John shaked his head not knowing anything about the giant ring shaped contraption "no sir." He said. Your father looked into johns helmet lenses and said with pride "this is a teleportation device, it will save us from the brother hood as you already know." John nodded and took the browning and set it up on a box in front of the door, the brotherhood were starting to get through.

Johns father looked at the slightly dented door and went over to a desk with a red button on it, and yelled out for Everyone to hear "god bless us" as he hit the button, the machine started to make weird noises as a blue aura went around the machine and started to go around the room and continue through the rest of the base. And just before the giant flash of white light the brotherhood soldier broke down the door and were meet with the marvel of engineering and it's mysterious white light.

Hey guys this chapter is longer than I expected but I hope you like it.