Chapter 109: Ceasefire.
It took a couple of days for Paladin Wright to finally get back in touch with them but when it came the news was at least hopeful.
I have spoken to the Elders that I trust and have apprised them of the situation and quite a few of them are rather upset to say the least, they seem to have been labouring under the notion that the Brotherhood was engaged in an operation to remove a hostile species with no more intelligence than your average super mutant, no insult intended to your companions who are no doubt listening in," Paladin Wright's voice crackled through the slightly tinny speaker.
Adam glanced up at Raymond and Jack and while one simply looked amused the other looked rather noticeably narked at the insinuation and made a huffing noise while twirling his moustache.
"I do not believe they are offended Paladin please continue," Adam said.
"Yes well now the truth has been revealed to them that the Brotherhood has been attacking an innocent species while invading their lands they have called an emergency meeting of the council of Elders to address this, they have all the evidence that I have provided in hand but they have already called for an immediate ceasefire while this is addressed, they have also expressed a wish to meet with representatives of both groups should they manage to sway enough votes in the council to terminate the operation completely, it seemed that rather liked Oliver's suggested compromise as it both serves the Brotherhood's true mission and in their words would go a long way to hopefully not only restoring our reputation in the area but hopefully lead to a possible future alliance," she said over the clapping and shoulder patting going on behind him from the gathered group.
"Tell her we would absolutely welcome such a meeting and we hope that this could be the start of a mutually advantageous partnership," Oliver said.
"Same here," Raymond said.
"Both say they welcome this wholeheartedly and are most willing to come to the table if and when you are able to get it set up for them Paladin," Adam said.
"Excellent! I shall pass that along to the Elders, the meeting is supposed to be happening later today from what I understand and I am supposed to provide details of what I have seen so I should hopefully be able to give you more good news later, oh and there is one last thing we need to discuss and unfortunately this is not on the good new side of the spectrum," Paladin Wright said and Adam instantly noticed the hardening tone creeping into her voice.
"Why does that kinda put me on edge?" Adam said.
"Yeah it kinda should, we don't have anything truly concrete yet here so this is just intel I'm hearing filtering through our intel analysis centre but I thought I'd give you a heads up here, there's a lot of chatter happening on the Enclave channels all of a sudden and our sources say they are gearing up for something big though no-one knows what as apparently this is being played real close to their chests, something tells me they may have gotten wind of leaks in their networks but for what we do know there is something big headed for Boston though what it is or what's going on or when it'll happen everyone is clueless, so tell your new friends to keep their eyes and ears open as I know they are no friends of the Eclave either," Paladin Wright said.
"Roger that Paladin will do I'm sure they'll put the word out to the rest of their number to keep their eyes open too and if we hear anything we'll be sure to let you know," Adam said.
"Glad to hear it, for all our differences at least there is something that we can all agree on its that those cunt waffles lurking about are good for no one, right I'll get back to you when I know more, Paladin Wright over and out," she said and with that, they closed down the line.
Adam turned back to Raymond and Jack and he saw them sharing a concerned look between them.
"Why do I get the feeling that this has to do with that ESF team that Wisp and her lot were telling us about?" Jack said and Raymond nodded.
"Yeah that was my thought as well, the Enclave were never ones to take losing lightly and losing one of their special forces teams must have really pissed them off, but a large-scale operation into Boston is bad news for everyone, it could derail everything we've been working towards if we're not careful, the others need to know about this, Adam tune in their frequencies if you would be so kind," he said gesturing to the radio set which Adam did.
A few minutes later Raymond had relayed the Paladin's warning to the others and Seven Raymond both got a shock when Wisp let slip that she knew why they were probably so freaked out and informed them that they now had another number running with them, though Adam didn't know what that meant so he just kept quiet and listened as Raymond spoke.
Apparently according to Wisp the ESF team sent here to root out Seven and herself had contained two of their number and had failed when they had been ambushed by both themselves and a roaming Brotherhood patrol, this had led to them trying to liquidate the one remaining number who was with them as the other had been sent out to infiltrate a group calling themselves the Railroad.
Well, the number hadn't taken too kindly to this and had legged it but not before kidnapping one of her team an ESF turncoat called Fuller who was the one who'd warned them about the team's existence in the first place.
Apparently, he'd managed to convince this other number of their team's merits and had even convinced her to join and she was now part of their team though as for the other one his whereabouts were still unknown but they were working on it.
Seven seemed very impressed by this news and also took the opportunity to inform them of the progress his team were making up in Nukaworld having already successfully not only made contact with the Gatorclaw population but struck up an alliance with them, they were now currently on working on freeing the slave populace and ridding the area of both a dangerous cult and the raider overlords that ruled the place.
When the conversation ended Adam couldn't help himself, he simply had to ask the question that was plaguing him.
"Who or what is Seven really? And Three, what makes them so special?" he asked and Raymond sighed and nodded.
"Seven as you know is pretty much the defacto leader of our group as a whole and possibly one of the most powerful beings on the planet, though to look at him you'd never know it, he's a quiet softly spoken man not unlike yourself but he possesses a power the likes of which you have to see to believe truly, he's telekinetic which means he can manipulate and interact with the world with nothing more than the power of his own thought and to see him unleash it is something to behold, it's like witnessing someone pulling a tornado out of a cardboard box," Raymond explained.
"Wow truly?" Adam exclaimed as he tried to comprehend something like that.
