Chapter 9: Ambush Station

As I was packing up my equipment into my satchel I placed my ballistic mask inside it right by the magazine's I had for my rifle, plus a hand grenade or two that I bought at Moira's and a trench shotgun that I placed inside my inventory when nobody was watching. when everything was done I said my goodbyes to the kids and Anna and when outside Megaton which I noticed it had some sandbag fortification alone the entrance and a small trench that was two feet deep giving the guards cover from gunfire. Lyons and her team was already up as I checked my huds time it five minutes to five which was early by my old life standard but I didn't find myself tired when I woke. I walked up to them but only noticed that three people were wearing power armor while four just wore tactical armor like helmets, vest, kneepads and arm guards that covered the elbow to the rest, all looked professionally but one of them was acting giddy until slow voice that sounded like sand paper rubbing across rust which I realized that was Paladin Vargas yelling at a Initiate Reddin, she then instantly stopped making jokes about something she heard from the trader she was talking to.

At that moment Lyons was signalled by Vargas that I arrived making her turn around in the power suit to look at me, which she asked if I had everything ready which I replied, "Yea I gotten everything I need so how are we getting to the GNR building?" Lyons looked at me before telling me, "We well be going across the river to a abandon subway station going through we will have to be careful of ghouls or super mutants roaming around down there, next we'll come up and out a block away from the GNR building and make our way there," as she told me. She then warned everyone to keep their eyes open and mouths shut while we are moving and ambush points across the river, as we moved I look at my stats again.

*Stats:

Name: John Miller

Age: 18

Strength: 20

Perspiration: 20

Endurance: 24

Charisma: 24

Intelligence: 26

Agility: 26

Luck: 20

Skills: Parkcore (Expert) , Hand to hand/knife fighting (Master), Weapons training (Expert), Explosive training (Basic), Driving (Adept),Scouting (Expert), First-aid training (Basic), Sneaking (Advanced), Ghost (Adept)

Achievements: Killed by Truck-kun, School yard Hero

Survival Points: 33,000*

While looking at my stats I noticed reddin looking at the mysterious ear piece on my ear and asking me what it was,"Hey new guy what's that thing attached to you're ear it looks like a radio earpiece but it's not connected to anything on you?" while she was asking she looked around my neck and back looking interested and confused at the same time. I told her, "It's my pip-boy that I received from my Vault when I was ten, it's a prototype the only ones that had one was a few of us kids in the plus my dad, the overseer and the security guards there." She was stunned by looking at that she fell out of line and tripped over something In the weeds, when we looked it was a half eaten body of some poor bastard that was killed out here. Vargas and Sarah Lyons noticed it and asked if anything was on the body which I proceeded to check out only to find a half bottle of whiskey and four packs of cigarettes and a lighter with a skull etched on to it which I decided to kept the lighter and whiskey for something that may help Reddin's out. As she looked sad at the body Jennings looked at her and said, "Look he's dead there's no wishful thinking that would bring him back or for a peaceful death considering half of him is gone maybe inside some wasteland animals stomach time to move on," As he said this Reddin nodded her head and moved on.

When we neared a bridge connecting to the other side of the river I saw a figure waiting there with a backpack and a rifle slung over his shoulder. As we got close he turned to us and saluted to both Sarah and Vargas and told them something out of earshot that's when the System gave me an alert, *John ther are hostiles on both sides of the river one near the subway entrance and another across from it three on both sides* 'Thanks for the update,' as I was thinking that the group formed a wedge and joing the end on the right side while looking at both sides of the river.

Reddin was on my left side when she noticed I was looking over on the right side of the riverbank watching it carefully then she ask me if I saw anything which I replied, "I have a bad feeling about the building on our right," Reddin looked over and asked, "Which one John the two stories or the broken one storie building? " I point at the two storie building and then as she was about to call out to Sarah or Vargas, a hail storm of bullets were sent our way by the building I pointed at. Raider's started to ambush us and telling us to leave the girl if we want to escape with our lives and soon as he said that the second group of raider's showed up right up on our side waiting for us. Knight Captain Colvin was the person we pick up at bridge holding onto a MG42 and looking at Sarah and the rest of us holding his five fingers up, we all looked him and nodded at his signal when he started to count down the raider's on our side started to get out of cover and come closer while on the other side the raiders were watching to see what we'll do.

Then when they gotten close enough Colvin and Vargas opened up with their rifle and machinegun onto the group in front while the rest of the team opened up on the group across the river. The raider's in front were chewed up my the MG42 that they didn't stand a snow ball chance in hell to fire their guns at us, while the right side took casualties taking two down while the other tried to make run for it I raised my rifle and popped him between the shoulder blades making his body go limp and die before he hits the ground. As we gotten out of cover but having our weapons at the ready as me and Jennings scaned the area Reddin looked at me a curious expression. "Alright everyone let's searched the bodies for anything useful then head to the entrance of the subway station."

Vargas gave everyone the order, I walked over to a raider who had a pump shotgun and I reached into his bag to take out a box of shells that only had five or seven good shells while the rest were unusable, I sighed the reach of the remains and picked up the shotgun and unloading it which only had three shells. After searching I walked towards the entrance Lyons ask if I had anything to see down there and I showed her my night vision goggles and she was surprised to see someone who has a working pair of night vision goggles, which I told her I grabbed from the vault before leaving and then she nodded her head at the answer buy she looked like she had something else to say but she didn't ask. We waited for the rest before going in so I put on my ballistic mask that had a white skull painted on and the nvg's on top, when the rest saw they also was to see not just the goggles but the mask to but they didn't ask about it like Sarah did then we all entered the subway station.