Chapter 30 - Shootout

Having dealt with all the raiders, leaving only the leader alive, Brandon left part of the squad at the school to meet the Gunners, and he and the hostage went to the subway.

When they arrived there, they did not meet any resistance, apparently and the third raider was in a crowd of others, thereby making their work easier, of course there were a few lucky ones who were not there at that moment, but there were only three of them, naturally the detachment also killed the leader , because they no longer need it.

[Congratulations on your promotion to level 8]

Without hesitation, Brandon increased his Agility to 7

After clearing the subway and checking every corner, Brandon, without hesitation, headed towards his main goal: Vault 75.

Coming out of the subway, Brandon heard the sounds of shooting from the direction of the school, apparently the mercenaries decided to check the noise outside.

When he, along with part of the detachment, ran to the school, the shooting had already ended, going up to Arthur, Brandon began to ask about the situation.

-As you predicted sir, the mercenaries heard the explosions and sent several people to check the situation, as you can see we killed seven, but five more disappeared inside, most likely the whole shelter is already ready for our arrival.

With a nod, Brandon only ordered the party to move forward.

Having passed the corpses, they entered the destroyed school, looking around you can only notice a heap of garbage, as well as a door leading to the basement, where the Vault is located,

Without thinking twice, everyone went down there, also carefully looking around.

There was no one in the basement either, but sounds could be heard from the far passage. As far as Brandon knew, there was already an entrance to the hideout in the far passage, so with quick steps the squad took up a convenient position for fighting.

Brandon walked over to the corner and turned on V.A.T.S. and looked around the corner.

There he saw not a bunch of clumsy raiders, but experienced mercenaries, who, holding laser pistols and assault rifles in their hands, were holding this passage in sight.

After examining everything, Brandon returned around the corner and turned off V.A.T.S.

Thinking of a good way to break through, he did not think of anything better than a grenade.

Taking out a grenade and switching the timer to 3 seconds, Brandon threw a grenade at the mercenaries, and he himself ordered the squad to break forward.

The mercenaries immediately thought of a grenade when the enemy threw something at them, so they immediately began to scatter trying to escape the explosion, some were unlucky and wounded, but mostly they could shoot back. At that moment, people in blue armor began to run inside the shelter, simultaneously shooting at the mercenaries, but the gunners also did not sit idly by and tried to somehow shoot back at the enemies. A few accidental shots did hit Brandon's men, but the armor allowed them to keep them alive, leaving only minor wounds. Therefore, after a few seconds, with a quick rush, 4 mercenaries were already dead.

Allowing the wounded to be bandaged, Brandon assigned them to the back of the squad, and continued to the depths of the vault.

Moments later, the squad stumbled upon a large two-story atrium, where about 20 mercenaries were waiting for them, two of whom were wearing makeshift power armor.

The detachment had no choice but to take positions and start a firefight.

After 5 minutes, several mercenaries were killed, after another 10 minutes Brandon's detachment suffered the first losses for the entire expedition, a member of the squad looked out from behind cover, but then a bullet hit his head, immediately killing him, unfortunately nothing will help.

All the people tried to hide behind cover, shooting back along the way, but the two mercenaries in power armor were stupid, they stood right in the center of the atrium firing at Brandon's people, of course they sometimes went behind cover, but not so often. They thought that nothing threatened them in the wasteland, but unfortunately they met Brandon.

Finding a secluded spot to shoot, Arthur began to load the coils in his barrel, and after a second, a crackling sound sounded, completely imperceptible compared to the noise of the shooting.

After the shot, the farthest armored mercenary received a needle directly in his forehead, feeling only an instant sharp pain in his head, he died.

When the power armor fell, the first mercenary did not notice this and continued to move on, unfortunately he suffered the same fate after a few seconds.

Having dealt with the cans, Arthur focused his fire on the mercenaries on the second floor helping the squad.

After an hour of intense firefight, the detachment was still able to suppress the mercenaries and destroy them. Unfortunately Brandon lost 4 men during the fight, many of his squad began to feel sad and angry at the Gunners, but Brandon quickly found a use for their anger, directing it to the remaining mercenaries, who fled all over Vault 75.

Approximately two hours later, the squad completely cleared the complex, their squad is almost completely exhausted, but they still have a few things to do before they deserve a rest.

An hour later, all the corpses were taken out of the school and were burned, and the four battle brothers were packed in containers found in the Vault, so that they could then be buried with honors.

When the squad had dealt with everything and began to prepare for their well-deserved rest, Brandon went outside, raised his left hand and began to press various buttons on the pip boy.

After a while, white noise and someone's voice could be heard.

-shshshshsh Br eshshshsh how you hear shshshshsh repeat shshshsh you hear me, Brandon.

-Yes Marcus, now I can hear you.

-Excellent, Mom and Sister will be delighted to know that everything is all right with you.

-I am also glad to hear that you are doing well. Let's get down to business, we got rid of the main dangers in the city: Super Mutants, Raiders and Gunners, there were only ghouls and all sorts of animals, well, the death claw, but so far it is not dangerous. During the battle for Vault, we lost 4 fighters, but still managed to take it. Therefore, I want you to send a group of 10 people, and together with them all the slaves, together with them we can completely clear the city and begin to gradually rebuild it.

-Ok Brandon, most likely they will arrive tomorrow at 12 o'clock, bye, take care of yourself.

[Congratulations on your promotion to level 9]

[Congratulations on your promotion to level 10]