The Story of Zarchi Stone
Chapter 1 Part 1: The Escape!
It was around Midnight, though in the vault you could never tell, when I was Awoken by my friend of 10 years Jack Darsi "Wake up damn it, Wake up!", I open up my eyes and ask "What's up Jack, what's wrong?" as i am starting to stand he say's "It's your Mother, She's Gone!" i look at him now fully awake. "What do you Mean Gone!" he looks at me and say's "She Left the vault!, She Opened the Door and just left!" I look at him with shock on my face and say "That's impossable!, the door is sealed we can never leave!" He looks twords the door to my room as a sound of foot steps goes by.
When they pass he looks back at me and say's "I don't know how she did it, but the Overseer is pissed, and they...they killed james, Zarchi they killed him!" i look at him as anger builds in me at this new's. james was the Vault Doctor and my Father, i look down at the ground, the new's that he is dead fills me with anger and hate, but at the same time it fills me with agony and sadness. As i look back up at Jack he say's "The overseer is looking for you!, you need to leave and fallow your Mother, you can't stay here their is no telling what the Overseer will do to you if she finds you!" I look at the door to my room and then back at jack "how do i do that, how do i leave the vault" i say looking at him, with a look of urgency he shoves into my hands a 9mm pistol in a hold out holster and a set of boby pins and say's "Go to the Overseers Office and open the door with the boby pins and in his computer there should be a command to open the the hidden tunnel to the Vault door" as i strap on the holster to my waist jack moves to the door and looks down the hallway.
After a moment he looks back at me and say's "the way's clear for now, are you ready" I look over at him and nod as I pull back the slide on the 9mm, chambering a round and readeing it for use, before i put it back into my holster and move twords Jack as we leave the room. As we move down the hall way i wisper "you know, you are going to have to go with me right?" Jack stops and look's back at me "what do you mean" he say's as he cocks his head to the side, "If you don't come with me the Overseer will Exacute you for helping me Escape" i mention as i look at him, you can hear the Gulp from his throught as he realises this. After about five menutes of walking down the halls of the Vault we finally reach the door to the Overseers Office and i start to pick the lock to the door, after 5 try's and 7 boby pin's i hear the much wanted "CLICK" of the lock releasing. I Draw my 9mm and click off the safty with my thumb, i activate the door pannel and it opens with a muffled "swish" I peek into the office and scan the room. The room is maybe 20x24 Squre feet with a large Crecent desk in the middle of the room, off to the left is the bubble window to the adutorime and to the left is a fair of four lockers, as i look back at the desk i can see the computer that might hold the command for for the entrance to the tunnel. As we enter the room i close and jam the door behind us, 'that would take even old henry a week to get through' i smile thinking of the Vault's "Master fixer" as he calls himself.
I holster my 9mm and move twords the computer as it flickers to life, unfolding from the counter it is placed into, as i look at the screen the all to familure password screen pops into view, 'of corse it would be locked, what else is new' i think as i type in the code string to open up the override commadn list, when i hit enter the screen flashes and a list of jumbled words and other junk comes up on the screen in front of me. I stare at the screen looking over the list's of code strings that make up possabile pass words 'think, what would she use as a password' i start thinking as i look around the room, after a few pass's my eyes fall on to a picture and then it hit's me 'that's it!' i think as i type in the name "Amanda". Amanda was the name for the Overseers doughter that died 3 years ago when she was attacked by a swarm of radrouches in the lower levels of the vault. As i hit enter the screen flickers to the welcome screen and after a moment a list of topics pops onto the screen, as i move down the list, mostly reports on the issues in the vault, i see what i am looking for a i hit enter on the option "Open Tunnel passage" as i turn around the desk behind me let's out a low noise as it starts to raise from it's locked postion on the floor.
After about 3 Minutes of moving down a small hall and though a hidden door we exit out into the control room for the Vault door. i look over at Jack as we stand in front of the Giant Cog like door "so how do we open it?" i say as i look around, After about a minute Jack calls over too me from the right side of the room "I found it, i found the door control !" as i reach the pannel it is no more then a large pice of metal with a lever in the middle. I put my hand on the lever and pull it down, as i do so the Vault doors alarms start to go off and the huge arm of the door mechanesium starts to pull the door out and too the side with a ear renching screech. As it starts to move we start for the opening as the main door into the room opens and Vault Security start to flood into the room, i Draw my 9mm and fire off a few rounds towrds them as they duck for cover i start to move back and out into what i assume is a cave to take cover from the enevatable return fire from the security officers. Just as i move out Jack hit's the control pannel in the cave and the door starts to shut behind us. After about 30 seconds the door slams to a shut and i look at Jack and say "well no going back now" i smerk and recive a smack to the back of the head for the the remark, we both start to move twords the make shift door to the cave entrance when Jack say's "I wonder what it's going to look like out there" as i think about it i say with a smile "how bad can it be".