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***Nipton***
**03:42**
You’re standing with Linden, Nix and Pearson in front of the Nipton Town Hall while a platoon of Securitrons march the prisoners taken in the battle to the same holding pens the hostages were held in.
Linden walks over and nudges you before lighting a cigarette and walking in the opposite direction with Nix. Turning around, you see Secretary Kreger and another older man walk towards you. Judging by the other man's gait, he’s also military.
Kreger: Congratulations, Son. This was a textbook military operation on all levels. Aside from some superficial damage, we didn’t lose one unit. Bear Team One conducted themselves with supreme professionalism and I’m proud. But where are my manners? This is Johnson, the best marksman I’ve ever known. I bet he’d give you a run for your money in his heyday.
You doubt that. But now’s as good a time as any to broach the subject.
[Marksman, huh? You still have the eyes for it. Who’d you serve with, a mercenary band back West? You two walk like professional soldiers.]
Kreger freezes for just a moment while Johnson regards you with a cold glare.
Johnson: We both had some good teachers, and no it wasn’t out West. We were north up in Utah and out here for a while before we hung up our guns. That’s until your Courier came knocking.
Kreger: Boone, can you give us a Sitrep here? We’ll be going over Patton’s recording eventually but want to hear it from you.
You motion for the two men to take a seat on a crumbling stone wall while you mentally run through the last three hours.
[Linden, Lily and I had infiltrated the southern defenses at 21:34. We eliminated our target and engaged a squad moving toward our position to presumably check in on the dead HVT. Charlie squad shot their flare off and we moved to assist. That’s when the Securitrons began their assault. Ranger Marius then apprehended who we know as “Headache” before he could kill himself. Headache may have a few broken bones but he’s still fit for interrogation.]
You motion at the line of shambling prisoners as they’re herded into the holding cells.
