It was already 3h pass midnight. Group Epsilon, now divided between Zeta team, headed by Carmen herself, Eta team by the ordinarily reckless John Brams, eager to use his two ripper chain swords, Theta team by the silent but always cool William Nash, awaiting to rush in the breech with his flamethrower and finally Iota team which would stay in support behind with their launchers, guided by the older Xavier Himmelmann with his fatman ready to bombard the town with what few nukes they had.

Normally Carmen and John would squirm in their armors due to the extremely slow pace clearing the mine field had but as per the order of Carmen, everyone was at the moment using 'Chemical assistance' to keep cool, having thus popped a mentat before going in. Most people were fine with mentats, but there had been protest about phase two, which involved combat drugs inoculation, those being more commonly known across the wastes as 'Psycho'. Buffout was also something better tolerated by the group, but with power armors? No point in increasing your strength.

"Zeta 1, this is Zeta 2, we're clear of zone Orange-Nine, ready to enter Purple-Nine, over." Carmen had kept her head down during most of the crawling but she allowed herself to peek up. The legion bunkers were within grenade throwing range (quite a length, considering Carmen's throwing arm) and Theta was already in position. Unusually for Brams, he was last. "This is Zeta 1." Said Carmen in the radio. "Eta 1, status report, over."

"Zeta 1, this is Eta 1, just one mine left to clear over." Good, this meant that the plan was thus far in synch, it seemed like good luck for them thus far. "All teams, this is Zeta 1, ready SGs and deploy on Eta 1's signal to begin phase 2, over and out."

Someone beside Carmen shuffled in the dark to ready a smoke grenade as the others went on to prepare their dose of phycho, waiting anxiously for things to go loud. "...Jesus Christ in heaven, watch over us as we fight in thy name..." Carmen clenched her teeth, Vincent was always vocal when he was about to possibly die. "Complete Silence, Corporal." And so he did.

"Eta 1 to all teams, GO! GO!" 

One of the men in power armor unpinned a grenade and got up on his feet. In the distance, Carmen saw a shimmer of star light reflecting on metal as William's team did the same. A few seconds later, 3 bouts of smokes were visible around the camp as alarmed voices were raised.

[url=https://youtu.be/mVh6P9zMZbU?t=13s]"All teams, advance!"[/url]

Carmen got on her feet, raising her plasma caster as her men did the same, advancing swiftly toward the smoke. Suddenly, a familiar whizling sound was heard and moments after there was an explosion some distance in front of them the atomic blastwave making the power armors stand still for a moment before they continued onward the mushroom cloud that cleared the way in front of them.

"Iota 1, N-1 fired right on target, firing N-2!"

Now assured Xavier didn't lose his aim, Carmen rushed in the breech at full speed, entering second after one of her men. It was then that she saw them, the legionnaires rushing toward them in a hurry and with bravery. They hadn't seen them yet as the Enclave troopers used thermals to see through the smoke, showing their technological edge. Carmen raised her plasma caster, the soldier in front of them pulling the trigger on his minigun making that fearsome spinning noise that caused most of the legionaires to stop in their track. They raised their eyes in fear as they heard that sound, feeling the earth tremble under the steel boots of the power armors and finally, when they saw the glowing eyes, the distinctive features of the X01 power armor the enclave used, walking toward them in the smoke.

"Contact. Liquidating."

The minigun began to spew its leed, the first wave of reinforcement being mowed down in seconds. Carmen fired her own destructive plasma on the lines, the psycho keeping her on a murderous edge as everyone before her fell, a simple hit in the arm insuring a lost limb and agonizing pain as green goo that burned everything that it touched splashed on their chests and faces.

In the camp behind this wave, those that didn't know what was going on quickly enough realized it was an attack as missiles came flying from team Iota to hit the frontline defenses and as tiny 25mm grenades showered the camp. Epsilon had indeed acquired a grenade machinegun but had decided to use it as an indirect fire weapon, shooting it in a high angle to hit enemies behind cover.

"Keep on firing! Begin maneuvers and check for cross fires!"

The armored soldiers surged forward as around them two more nukes detonated before their reserves were spent. It was now a matter of forcing the legion out before the rest of their guns went silent, hundreds of ammunition being spent every seconds by the miniguns.