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Max awoke to the thunder of guns above her. Their wasn't an enclave scientist in site.
Thank god. Maybe they have decided to leave me alone for now
She pulled herself of the padded metal cot attached to the wall. Her vision became a blurry haze and she let out a sigh as tried to steady herself on the bench next to the cot to prevent herself from falling to the floor.
I can't even see the guards outside the window.
The small explosion shook the bunker, knocking max to the ground.
"Ugh… what the hell is going on up their?"
Max hoisted herself up using the bench to support her again.
Now is my chance to escape.
Max slowly made her way to the terminal inside the door. She always thought it odd that the room had a terminal on the inside, bust she figured it was just that this room wasn't intended as a holding cell.
Its Just like the terminals at home in the vault.
Her eyes surveyed the room until they located a surgical scalpel. She slowly made her way the small metal surgical table and retrieved the scalpel from it and made her way back to the terminal.
She jammed the scalpel into the back peripheral port on the wall-mounted terminal and text began to flood the screen.
ROBCO INDUSTRIES UNIFIED OPERATING SYSTEM
COPYRIGHT 2275-2277 ROBCO INDUSTRIES
Server - 19
Peripheral port malfunction detected.
Entering local administrator account.
From their she entered terminal code to activate peripheral port 0x00F7008, more commonly known as the door and the door hissed and slid up into the roof.
The old peripheral port glitch. Would of thought they would of fixed that being so technologically advanced.
Now with the door open Max had access to the whole facility.
Now if I'm going to go to the surface I'd better find my jumpsuit. Going up their practically naked would be a bad idea.
She began to wander through the enclave facility searching for her jumpsuit. The first storeroom she encountered contained some medical supplies and a canvas bag. She stuffed the all the medical supplies into the bag and set off again.
Once again she came to another storage room. This room still didn't contain the vault jumpsuit she was looking for, but she was hardly going to pass up the energy weapons that the room did contain. She quickly scanned the room. It contained crates and creates of micro-fusion cells plasma grenades and a rack odd looking plasma rifles. They looked similar to the heirloom her dad had in the vault but it had a short curved ammunition clip where the micro-fusion port would normally be located.
I see it's an semi-automatic version of the plasma rifle.
She picked up a rifle and unclipped the ammunition clip to pack it with micro-fusion cells. Once completed she packed at least 50 micro-fusion cells into the canvas bag, along with some of the plasma grenades. From their she pressed on looking for her vault jumpsuit. She stopped when she came to some stairs.
Maybe its upstairs.
However the thought was interrupted by a large explosion. The doors atop the stairs flew down the stairs and knocked max out cold.
It was the last thing the brotherhood paladin expected when she found a half naked girl with a plasma rifle in the lower levels of an enclave facility. The paladin made its way to the unconscious girl. She appeared to be still breathing. The paladin noticed that the girl had a tag on her wrist. It said test subject 19.
How odd. I guess she must be one of the enclave medical experiments.
The paladin made a an attempt to awaken the stranger, however the girl remained unconscious.
"we've got a live one down here, it's unconscious and I think it may be a medical experiment. Get a squad down here and take it topside. It may know something."
Max awoke on a cot in some sort of store room. Her vision was a blur.
Where am I? Last thing I remember was an explosion…
She hoisted herself of the cot and fell straight to the floor, making a small whimper of pain.
My ankle!
Max slowly crawled to a locker on the other side of the room in hope it contained something she could make a splint from. It was locked. Max reached into her hair, removed a bobby pin and began to pick the lock.
Good old dad. He knew about energy weapons, how to pick locks and hack terminals. And he taught me all of it.
The doors of the locker sprang open. No splint. But their was something else. Something much better. Even better than her vault jumpsuit. Their lye a set of black shiny hellfire armour, complete with helmet.
Holy shit. What's that doing here.
Ok come on max; its just like the Vault-Tec power armour that dad showed me.
Max unbundled the power armour and carefully lowered her left leg into the lower section of the armour and swiftly slipped her right leg in. She then lifted the upper section of the armour and pulled over her body, wriggling her arms into place. The magnetic seal activated with a clunk.
I'll keep the helmet of for now.
Now remember let the pneumonics do the work.
Max with the added strength of the suits pneumonics managed to stand up. She walked back across the room and sat down on the cot with a loud clunk and crossed her legs.
"what was that?" said one of the knights guarding the room.
"she's probably woke up idiot. Go take her down to scribe Jessica . She'll want to check vitals and stuff." the other knight replied.
The door hissed open and the knight saw something even more unlikely than a half naked girl with plasma rifle. The same girl fully kited out in hellfire power armour.
"what the hell! What are yo-" exclaimed the brotherhood knight.
"well you didn't expect me to strut around half naked, did you?" interjected.
"but where on earth did it come from? Wait no. how do you even know how to use it? The terminal entries said you were abducted from a vault" said the knight completely thrown off by the situation.
The other knight entered the room looking even more confused than the first somehow.
"I'll answer your last question first. My dad was the head security officer for our vault so he taught me how to use the Vault-Tec power armour. Skill seems to be transferable between different models."
"But where did you get it? This was suppose to be a medical supply room."
"It was in the locker over there. Dunno why. Maybe one of the enclave hid it here."
"Take it off."
"Actually keep it on! You don't have anything under that" the knight instructed somewhat bashfully.
" Follow me, scribe Jessica has to check your vitals and stuff"
Max complied with the knight, keeping her cloths on and followed the knight down to the medical clinic where scribe Jessica was taking inventory of the newly acquired enclave facility's medical supplies.
The scribe sported orange robes and was almost completely shaven head, other than a small pony tale. She was quite cheery; though the thought foremost in Maxes mind was that she was very cute.
"Well I didn't expect her to have enclave hellfire power armour. I don't even have armour that good" scribe Jessica said inquisitively.
"As I told him earlier I don't think it's exactly appropriate for me to wander around half naked" max reiterated while pointing at the brotherhood knight.
"Now I gather by the amount of tech you guys have, you must be the infamous brotherhood of steel that I have read so much about on the vault network." continued
"Skilled, resourceful and well informed. I must say vault dweller I'm impressed" said scribe Jessica.
"Well if its all the same to you we're going to see if theirs anything else that we should be doing right now"
said the knights as they awkwardly shuffled out the room.
"Mind stripping of that armour, see if I can figure out what those enclave 'ave done to ya".
"Um... I guess" said max almost as bashfully as the knight earlier. Max began to nervously remove the hellfire armour, being extra careful when removing her left leg.
"you know you don't have to be so nervous, I don't bite. Well not normally anyway."
The scribe carefully inspected her and noticed some abrasions and swelling on her left ankle"
"You've sprained your ankle. Nothing to worry about . I'll fix up a splint and get a stimpack. It should heal 3 days maximum".
Scribe Jessica then prepared a splint for max's leg, acquired a sterilized needle for the blood test and a stimpack to help speed up the healing process.
"Now before I apply the stimpack I'm going to take a blood sample, is that ok" explained the scribe.
"Um... Ok, just make it quick please" said max a little less nervously than before.
Max bite her lip as the scribe took the blood sample and applied the stimpack's hypodermic needle. The scribe then took the sample and put it on a Perspex slide to observe under the microscope later.
"Here take this. I'm pretty sure it was your vault jumpsuit. It'd be a little less unnerving for the others if you weren't dressed as one of the enclaves finest. Anyway I didn't catch your name." said scribe Jessica.
"Name's Maxis, Maxis Star."