Rebuild Capital Wasteland.

Chapter 17: Revelation

TLW woke up later that day by another minuteman.
"Wake up, there is something happening on Manhattan" the unknown man said with a distinct nervousity in his voice. TLW looked at the watch on his Pip-boy. Still only 20.00. He only had four hours of sleep. He noticed that in his body. He still was groggy and irritated, but as a professional soldier, he knew after a second too brush these feelings away. For some reason he felt that he had slept for two years.
"What is happening?" he said to the minuteman.
" The dome, the dome lighted up the sky."
TLW turned around. From behind the ruins that blocked the view, a light of beam reached up to the sky, signalling everyone in many kilometres radius. He thought for a second the distance in miles, but then realised he was not an idiot and thought the distance in Kilometres. He ran back to the main building and opened up the door where a gigantic map of the pre-war Manhattan. Both Nina and Gregor was there already.
"You saw the light?" she said,
"Yes, something is happening, something big. They are using tons of electricity. Nobody using that kind of resources without a reason, a big reason." TLW looked at the map, first he found the Governor island, looked out of the window where he saw the light in the distance and then again on the map. His finger hasted over the map, looking for something. Then he saw the name on the map. The only thing that could be the source of the light. Madison Square Garden.
"Pack your bag, we are going back" TLW muttered.

Capitol

"Another Legion?" Reilly said with horror.
"It is unfortunately true" Maria Bennett was now the official third Link liaison to the Capitol. The building that was so large that it could be a post-war city in itself, and was main building of the new country that had risen after the war with the enclave. A gruesome despotic organization that almost managed to eradicate all life in the Capital Wasteland. Right now, the building was in a controlled chaos. Soldiers, Steels, and scribes was moving along documents, equipment and anything else off value from the Citadel. The latter building was now going to be the new military base, where recruit was going to be trained, and where the Steels were going to be stationed. The Capitol was the civilian and administrative centrum. While Reilly glanced out the window too watch a scribe carrying way to much books in their hand, her thought was with what the woman of the Third Link said.
" We are 90% sure. First, now we are getting reliable reports from what is happening beyond the Appalachian Mountains. Caravans is guaranteed a safe passage from us until the city of Forwa. Bennett pointed at the map in front of her, the city of Forwa, written with a marker on the printed pre-war map. Reilly could barely see that the city had been called Fort Wayne back in the days. "After Forwa, there are months of marching before getting too the other side of the ocean. For the traders starting on the other side, the situation is the same. Now the first one that travelled after the war ended has arrived. They are all telling the same thing, that there is a legion protecting them in the mid of the former US. Now, we know that there is a growing civilization on the other side of the continent. However, we did not thought that they was organized so far east as here." She pointed at the place called Kansas. "The caravans only travel a couple of weeks without protection, instead of the months we thought. Where we first believed that people lived in no larger government than cities with 5 to 10.000 inhabitants, we know now that there is form for law in big parts of the wasteland. Now here is the bad news. For most part this civilization consists of an organisation called the legion. It is the same name, the same cultural identity, and the same mind-set of the organization that attacked us in the Broken Pitt. However, it can impossible be the same legion."
"Why not?" Reilly asked.

" First, all of the casualties from the legion, all 479 of them had some identity that placed their history on the eastern seaboard. Tattoos, haircut, ritual scars. All of them from known tribal gangs and raiders. Second, a large army like that needs to conquer, not travel. Every village in their path needed to be under their control to secure resources and trade routes. That would have taken a decade. Third, we have from secure sources that the legion of the west have sent their divisions west over for a war. They need to conquer their neighbour before us."
" So you are telling me that it was an imposter army?"
"Exactly, an army trained by a person with extensive knowledge of the real legion. Our scouts came over this two days ago, observed from a Vertibird." Bennett threw some pictures on the table that they stood around. It was a gigantic abandoned factory. From the pictures, they saw barracks, training grounds and something that looked like a slave cage. The fortress around it was enormous.
"This is where we believe they were trained. Three groups of Steels and a division of the regular army is on route to secure the area, but they are still a couple of days away."
Reilly looked at the pictures.
"TLW said in his report that the main leader was Malpais Diaobolus. He escaped reportedly to New York. If he managed to gather an army once alone, he will managed it again." Reilly said in a monotone voice. "Anyways, thanks for the debrief Liaison Bennett, I will bring this to Eld....President Lyons right away.
"Thank you madam Secretary."
The day shined over the new Republic of Capitol.