The great communications tower came plummeting down, like a red dawn in the night, the lights that lined the dish started to crash to the earth and smash into the ground. The attack began before the great bear could even move to find out what happened. The first cannon shot from the Sherman tank behind, silencing the rain that fell onto his leathery skin and deafening his ears, made a massive hole in the stone wall. As one, the squad split up and ran forward. The woman he had picked out before, she dropped her sniper rifle as soon as she lifted it to aim, noticing her comrade next to her have his head blown off by a rival sniper, as well as two more. She turned from the wall and dropped down. He ran on all fours, sprinting ahead of the pack and into the fire. Bullets bounced off of his super strengthened skin. He came to a stop at the hole, lights shining onto him from the spotlights in the base. Standing twice, no, three times that of a man. NCR emptied magazines of their pathetic service rifles into him, but the most they did was tickle him. He took an aggressive stance and roared, the blood-cry piercing the sound of the gunfire and the Sherman tanks breaking through the wall. Many NCR started to drop their guns to run, but they were not fast enough.

He jumped forward, putting his enhanced legs to use and catching a trooper. He used a single claw to rip through the man's stomach and spill his guts over the ground. He screamed as Scissors dropped him to the ground with a thud. Leaving his kill there to die like a dog, Leinhart raced forward into a newly formed group of soldiers. Though they had grabbed shotguns from the armory in the short time they were given, they were no match for Leinhart's vicious claws, tearing through their flesh like tissue paper, he rended them, destroying the morale of anybody that dared see the bloodbath. Just as he was about to execute the last one, a 50. Caliber bullet pierced through his shoulder and out the other side. He yelled as pain tore through his arm and turned to look at what shot him. It was the NCR Ranger from the wall. His bloodied maw formed what seemed to be a smile in the flashing thunder as he dropped the soldier he had in his claws and started to sprint at her. She was not his first kill, but he would break her. 

He jumped from side to side as he sprinted, narrowly avoiding her shots as he closed the distance. She dropped her intervention and switched to a .45 pistol and began firing. Though the bullets pierced his skin, it was not enough to truly harm the deathclaw. He brought the back of his claw to her body and knocked her back. She dropped her weapon and was left defenseless as he slowly approached her. She tried to scoot away and yell for help, but to no avail. He sunk his entire claw into her stomach and lifted her up. She screamed as blood started to seep from her mouth. He lifted up his spare claw and removed her helmet so he could see the terror in her face. She tried to fight, she reached for her knife and plunged it into his arm, but as she tried to rip the blade away, it snapped in half. She screamed again and threw the handle at Leinhart's face in a useless attempt to resist, but it did nothing. Her pupils widened in fear, but her eyelids started to flutter as most of her blood was being drained out of her body. She was fading fast, her teeth were bloodied, her lip stained, and her body weak. He let her die slowly, fading out of existence like a light in the dark. Once she was gone, he used his free claw to snip her dog tags off of her neck and let them fall into his vest pocket. He then let her slide off of his claw and to the ground. Those around him looked to see that the NCR Ranger Captain had fallen, and now either ran forward to avenge her, or run for the momentary safety of their bunkers. No matter, they would all fall. He had no communications device in his skull. If he did, the rest of Eagle Claw would have heard his maniacal laughing as he stepped forward to continue the slaughter.

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Now for the fun.

His first target was one he picked out as a captain of the troops. A sergeant maybe, he didn't care. As the soldiers of the base ran away from the explosions of the wall and the attack of the very capable deathclaw, a leader of some sorts was brought down by a high-powered bullet to the knee. The NCR man dropped to the ground, skidding on the stone ground for several feet before coming to a stop. He was near the barracks now and soldiers ran to his aid. He reached out to grab the hand of one of his squadmates, but just as they clasped, the head of the soldier splattered onto his uniform. Two more came but they too fell as the leader had fallen to a sniper's trick that had survived the war. He yelled for other soldiers to run, but they mistook his warnings for cries of help and soon, the leader was surrounded by bodies. He tried to crawl away, but a final bullet to pierce his elbow and sever the arm made him finally give up. He reached for the pistol in his thigh holster and took his own life before he would let anybody else fall.

Just as he was about to continue the murderfest, He froze and turned slightly. Hearing a sound behind him. Another crunch heard over the rain and he reached foward, grabbing the barrel of his sniper rifle and rolling over. He swung and connected with a ranger veteran just about to slit his throat. He set the rifle down and sprung to his feet, launching himself into hand to hand combat with the soldier as Ginger started to yell about NCR coming after them.

The veteran had recovered quickly. He took a punch from Deathstroke easily and reutrned one. Deathstroke's mask flew off and the rain splattered into his face. It didn't slow him down as the second punch from the veteran was countered by a yanking the arm forward into several quick but powerful rabbit punches to the stomach and chest followed by an uppercut to the jaw. The veteran stumbled back and tried to recover, but Deathstroke was faster, being on the man in a flash and twisting him around. He wrapped his arm around the Veteran's neck and flexed his arm, crushing the man's neck in one swift motion. He dropped to the ground dead, leaving Deathstroke to pick up his now cracked mask and to take the communications headset out of the dead Ranger Veteran. He switched off the voice and just listened. They spoke of a plan and how it was in motion. "What plan..." he whispered to himself, they then said that the reinforcements were already on the way. Then it hit him and he contacted Ginger. "I'll catch up with you soon, back to the group by any means necessary, NOW. Warn them that they knew of the attack...warn them to pull back now! I'm going to make sure that this squad never makes it out of the city. I'll create a hole for you to get out. Move quickly and don't wait up."

As he finished, he disabled his communicator and grabbed a small bundle of grenades from the Veteran and his sniper rifle. It was unharmed from it being used as a club, thankfully. He held them in hand as he leaped across the rooftops, sprinting to a good location to see where Ginger and his group was. Finding a good street, he set up again and took aim, picking off several veterans as they started to prepare what seemed like several sentry bots to storm the place. "Cowards. Too afraid to storm the place themselves." He shot one of the sentry bots in the back and it started to go berserk, firing its laser cannon all over the place and causing a ruckus. There was Ginger's hole. Now to draw the soldiers to him.