Chapter 1: The lone wanderer
Disclaimer: I do not own Fallout 3
All right I have been thinking of this story for a long time and I am finally writing it. Here's hoping I do alright.
"War. War never changes. Since the dawn of human kind, when our ancestors first discovered the killing power of rock and bone, blood has been spilled in the name of everything, from God to simple, psychotic rage.
In the year 2077, after millennia of armed conflict, the destructive nature of man could sustain itself no longer. The world was plunged into an abyss of nuclear fire and radiation. But it was not, as some had predicted, the end of the world. Instead, the apocalypse was simply the prologue to another bloody chapter of human history. For man had succeeded in destroying the world - but war, war never changes.
In the early days, thousands were spared the horrors of the holocaust by taking refuge in enormous underground shelters, known as vaults. But when they emerged, they had only the hell of the wastes to greet them - all except those in Vault 101. For on the fateful day, when fire rained from the sky, the giant steel door of Vault 101 slid closed... and never reopened. It was here you were born. It is here you will die. Because, in Vault 101: no one ever enters and no one ever leaves. "
Year 2274
On the day of the G.O.A.T in Vault 101 Jayden was getting a checkup from his father to make sure he wasn't coming down with something.
"As far as I can tell you're a perfectly healthy sixteen year old boy so yes you do have to take the G.O.A.T." His father said as he sat down at his computer terminal.
"Uh… I don't know dad? (Cough) I'm feeling sick, really." His son lied.
His father gave him a disapproving look. "No you're not, really" He stated in a flat voice. "Come on there's nothing to worry about I had to take it and now it's your turn."
He sighed as he walked out the door to his class room. He was almost out when he ran into his father's assistant.
"Hey, hey, hey it's been awhile since you stopped in here." He said.
"Oh hey Jonas, yeah my dad wanted to give me a checkup to see if I was healthy enough to take the G.O.A.T."
"Well you just try your best and don't worry about it okay?"
"Thanks Jonas, see you later."
He patted Jayden's shoulder as he went to treat Stanley. As he walked out he noticed that his best friend Amata was stopped by three guys a pale white boy with brown hair, an African American with no hair and a tanned skin boy with hair that had wat to much gel in local gang known as the Tunnel Snakes.
"Stupid Tunnel Snakes get out of my way!" She shouted.
"Hey Amata why don't you let me show you a real tunnel snake," Coming from the tanned skin boy.
That pissed Jayden right off.
He stormed up to the boy and gave him a deadly glare.
"Yeah, what do you want?"
"I want you to leave her alone Butch." He growled.
"Yeah and what are you her boyfriend? Get out of here you don't want to piss of a Tunnel Snake cause we rule."
Jayden clenched his fist tight.
"Fuck you and Fuck the Tunnel Snakes." He said as he drove his fist into his gut. Taken by surprise the pale skinned boy known as Wally was punched in the face and knocked to the ground and the last one known as Paulie was also sent to the ground with a thrust kick to the stomach.
As Paulie went down Butch was the first to get up and tackled Jayden to the ground delivering a series of punches to his face. Wally also got up and stomped on his stomach while Paulie just stood there not knowing what to do.
After a minute Butch got up and motioned for his friends to follow him.
"Come on this little bitch isn't worth our time. As for this little twerp we'll deal with him later."
The two of them laughed as Butch spit on Jayden and walked into the class room as Amata rushed to his side.
"Are you okay?" She asked as he wiped the spit from my head.
"Yeah those assholes can't fight for shit." He said as she helped him up.
"Listen thanks for helping me those assholes won't leave me alone just because I'm the Overseers daughter."
"Don't worry about it I'm sure you'd do the same for me if I was in trouble." She giggled and took his hand.
"Come on were gonna be late for the G.O.A.T."
"Oh no, a fate worse than death what will I do without the G.O.A.T." He said sarcastically. Amata just laughed as they entered the class room. After an hour of ridiculous questions they finally came to the last question.
"Question 10. Who is, indisputably the most important person in Vault 101: He who shelters us from the harshness of the atomic Wasteland, and to whom we owe everything we have including our lives?"
The choices,
The Overseer
The Overseer
The Overseer
The Overseer
"Is this guy for real?" Jaydenthought as he just circled an answer and walked up to give it to mister Brotch. As he gave it to him he looked at it with astonishment.
"Apparently you're management material. You're going to be trained as a Shift Supervisor. Could I be talking to the next Overseer? Stranger things have happened."
"Very funny ," He said. "But what am I really?" Brotch chuckled.
"No I'm serious the Overseer might not like the looks of this."
"Whatever I just answered them randomly anyway."
"Hey look I was just like you I didn't take it seriously and look were I ended up." He said as he pulled out a piece of paper out of his desk drawer. "So because I like your dad I'll give you any job you want, but think carefully."
After a minute of thinking he finally decided he wanted to be a doctor like his father. After all he pretty much helped his dad at the office in his spare time and he taught him all the medical training he would ever need to know. Not that the Vault actually needed a doctor.
After thanking the good teacher he left the class room to meet Amata for lunch.
3 years later
Jayden was walking through the dark cold hallways of Vault 101 after working all day at his dad's clinic. He tiredly pushed the button to open his door, as it slid open he walked in dropped his lab coat on the floor and proceeded to take of his boots and jumpsuit as he plopped on his bed and fell asleep.
Just as he was on the verge of slumber he heard his door open and footsteps slowly making their way to his room. His bedroom door opened and standing there was Amata with her hair down and wearing nothing but her shorts and tank top. She slowly walked up to his bed her hair flowing back as she walked, knelt down beside him and placed her hand gently on his face. She turned his head slowly till they were face to face and leaned in closer. As she was about to lace her lips on his mouth she suddenly grabbed his shoulders and shacked him violently.
"WAKE UP, WAKE UP!"
Jayden opened his eyes to see Amata. She still had her hair down but it didn't have that angelic glow on it.
"COME ON WAKE UP!"
Jayden finally came to and got out of his bed.
"Hey there I was just dreaming about you." He said with a little romance in his voice.
Amata couldn't care less about him being romantic.
"Come on snap out of it. My father's men are looking for you, Jonas is dead and your father left the Vault." That last part woke him right up.
"My father left the Vault?" He asked in disbelief.
"Oh…I'm sorry I thought your father might have told you something." She said looking at the ground.
"Forget it." Jayden said with a stern tone. "What about Jonas?"
"It wasn't pretty when my dad found out, he must have thought Jonas had something to do with it and…I'm sorry." She said still looking at the ground.
Jayden also looked depressed Jonas was like a big brother to him and now he's gone. But now wasn't the time to grieve.
"So what now," He asked. "How do I get out of here?"
"Listen there's a secret passage in my father's office that leads to the door." She picked up her Vault Tec back pack and pulled out a black holster with a 10mm pistol and a couple clips. "Here I stole this from my father you can use it to protect yourself from the guard's."
He took the gun and examined it carefully. "Here take these to." She handed him a small box of bobby pins.
"Okay thanks I'll make my way to the door." Amata nodded and began to walk out before she stopped and turned her head. "If I don't make it…Just go okay."
That was all she said before she ran out. Jayden put his jumpsuit on and grabbed his own book bag and packed up his medical supplies, his BB gun, and his lucky baseball hat. He also grabbed his baseball bat to avoid using his gun. He strapped the holster around his shoulders and left his room.
When he left he noticed the lights were out and that the alarm was buzzing. There was also the security guard running right at him.
"Hey you freeze!"
Jayden readied his bat ready to fight, only for the guard to get swarmed by three rad roaches.
"Oh shit more roaches!" He screamed as he swatted at them with his baton. But it was no use as they chewed through his throat causing him to choke to death.
Jayden ran up and smashed all of them one by one with his bat. As he was killing them he heard footsteps running up behind him. Jayden swung around and was ready to attack whoever it was.
It was Butch, he was panicking and from the looks of it he was also crying.
"Hey listen those roaches have my mom you got to help her." He said.
He wanted to leave him. Why should he help him or his drunken mom? He always insulted him his father and the fact that his mother was dead so why should he help him.
Because that's not how his father raised him.
"Here take this." He said as he handed Butch his BB gun. "You're gonna help me kill those things." Butch took the gun and took a deep breath. "Okay I can do this."
They both ran to Butch's room and killed the roaches. Jayden squashed them as Butch shot them. When they finished Butch went to check on his mother. She was perfectly fine, but she was also passed out from the constant drinking.
"We did it," He shouted. "My mom's gonna be okay now." He then took off his leather jacket and handed it to Jayden. "Here take this you're an honorary Tunnel Snake now."
Jayden looked at the jacket and back at Butch. "Um…Thanks you can keep the BB gun to if you want." He said still confused.
"Hey thanks man these will symbolize our friendship forever, and don't worry I won't tell the guards."
They both shook hands and went their separate ways. As Jayden made his way through all the chaos that was going on he finally made it to the higher levels. He was on his way to the Overseers office until he heard the familiar cry of his best friend. He slowly made his way to the detention center window to see Amata with bruises on her face. Looking down on her was her father and that bastard Officer Mack. After Amata refused to say anything her father ordered Mack to do it again.
That set Jayden right off.
Before anyone knew what happened Officer Mack was now lying on the ground with a bullet hole in his right temple. Amata didn't waste any time running out the door leaving Jayden and the Overseer alone. The Overseer cleared his throat.
"I hope you're here to turn yourself in young man you're in enough trouble as it is."
Jayden pointed his gun in his face.
"If you ever hurt Amata like that again I feed you your fucking heart." He snarled pressing the barrel of the gun in his forehead.
"All right I have to admit I admire your respect for my daughter and I will not harm her anymore, you have my word."
"Good now I want the key to your office and the password to the vault door."
"Oh is that it? Anything else?" he said sarcastically. Jayden was in no mood for games, he showed that by putting a slug in his leg. The Overseer screamed in pain as he pointed to a desk. "The key is in that desk and the password is 'Amata' you little shit!"
Jayden walked over to the desk and retrieved the key. He walked out shouting 'Thank you mister Overseer sir.' in a childish manner, as he screamed death threats from down the hall.
As he made his way down the hall he saw something that made his heart stop.
Jonas covered in multiple bruises lying in a pool of blood.
Jayden slowly walked over to his body and looked him over. He was on the verge of crying before he noticed something clenched in his hands. After carefully opening his hands he realized it was a halo tape. He pressed the play button and listened to what it had to say.
"Hold on Jonas, I need to record this first.
I… I don't really know how to tell you this. I hope you'll understand, but I know you might be angry. I thought about it for a long time, but in the end I decided it was best for you not to know. So many things could have gone wrong and there's really no telling how the overseer will react when he finds out. It's best if he can blame everything on me. Obviously you already know that I'm gone. It was something I needed to do. You're an adult now. You're ready to be on your own. Maybe someday things will change and we can see each other again. I can't tell you why I left or where I'm going. I don't want you to follow me. God knows life in the vault isn't perfect, but at least you'll be safe. Just knowing that will be enough to keep me going.
(Jonas) Don't mean to rush you, Doc, but I'd feel better if we got this over with
Okay. Go ahead. Goodbye. I love you. "
The tape ended and Jayden just sat there holding it for dear life.
"Dad I love you," He said getting up. "But your plan is just fucking dumb." He said as he recorded the tape on to his Pip boy as he made his way through the overseer's office and down to the vault door below.
When he got there he saw the massive door of Vault 101 and made his way to the control panel. After he pressed a few buttons lights started flashing and the door slowly opened.
"Oh my god you actually did it."
He turned to see Amata standing there in awe.
"Hey your plan worked I couldn't have done this without you."
She blushed and shook her head. "No you didn't need me if anyone can survive out there it's you."
We started to hear some talking on the other side of the door.
"Quickly," Amata said as she pushed him to the door. "You've got to go before security arrives." He nodded his head and was ready to walk out before Amata planted a soft kiss on his right cheek. "Goodbye."
Jayden didn't have time to say anything as security broke down the door and chased him out of the Vault. As he walked down the dark tunnel he noticed a light at the end of it. He walked up to see a door with light seeping through it.
"No going back now." He said to himself as he opened the door, the light nearly blinded him as he stepped through the door. When his vision cleared he was amazed at what he saw. A sky, a sky that had a bright sun in the center and under the sky was a never ending sea of rock and sand. He was overlooking it all from the top of a cliff that was in front of a small town.
"Well that takes care of the Vault but now the real challenge begins." I said as I pulled my pistol out and walked down the cliff. Knowing somewhere out there my father was waiting.
Well that takes care of the first chapter hope I get some reviews and I'm leaving it open for everyone so if you even think about flaming you better leave an email address otherwise I will label you a coward in every chapter.
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