Chapter 1: future meets future?
The master chief woke up feeling the cold of his cryo-pod slowly beginning to 'melt' him out of the pod and wake him up fully. He moved his arms around in the pod stretching them out and warming them up from his cryo-sleep, he flexed his hands and fingers feeling the slight effects of freezer burn that everyone who went into the cryo-pods experienced. "Chief you need to get out of your pod now and look at this." He heard Cortana say from her pedestal outside of his pod so he pulled the hatch and exited into the zero gravity environment moving around to the pedestal after acquiring his MA5D assault rifle primary and his M6G pistol secondary. "What is it Cortana?" the chief asked with his deep, rough sounding voice "It seems that there is a planet that almost perfectly resembles earth below us but, it seems to have high levels of radiation in almost every continent and I can't find any sources to hack into to find out what this planet is from here in the dawn." She replied turning towards the chief to look at him as he thought on what she had just told him "So what do you suggest we do now?" the chief asked getting ready to have to go through entering a planet's atmosphere, again. "Well if you want to survive for more than about two months here in the cold confines of space, we should probably go to the surface of that planet and find out what's happening down there." As she finished her sentence the chief puled out her chip and inserted it into the back of his helmet and pushing off from the console to begin his journey through the Forward Unto Dawn to the nearest escape pod.
Julia was helping Sturges finish boarding up the last house in Sanctuary to have as an extra home for any of the folks who may need a place to stay if they want to join the minutemen's cause. She finished putting up the last board and wiped the sweat from her forehead "It looks good to me general, I just hope that whoever gets this house will take care of it." Sturges said as he walked around the other end of the house having just finished fixing the side door. "Yeah me too Sturges me too, is this the last big project you had for today?" she asked hoping he said yes, "Yeah the other stuff I have is just making some more filters for the water and other small things, but thanks a lot for your help general I know you're very busy." He said with a smile "No problem anything for the people who helped me when I needed them," she replied.
She waved goodbye to Sturges and began her walk back to her house that she was currently living in, which was the one next to her past house as it gave her too many bad memories. Julia walked into the bathroom getting ready to take a bath with the new drainage system that Sturges had made for all the houses of Sanctuary, she turned on the water and walked to her room to get her nightclothes and a towel.
©After about ten minutes of soaking in the bath water she heard a small whistling type of noise coming from outside but she decided to ignore it until she heard a large explosion nearby and felt the ground shake briefly beneath her. Julia being the 'quick' thinker that she was jumped out of the tub put on her robe quickly and ran outside, she could see everyone else gathering outside as well and followed their gaze to where vault 111 was, she could see smoke coming from the top of the hill as she began to run towards the hill grabbing her hidden pistol out of her mailbox and running towards the vault. When she made it up the hill she slowed down being careful not to step on anything sharp as she was barefoot but also not to make a noise, as to not alert whatever had made the explosion. When she peeked around from behind the old rusted forklift she saw some kind of pod in a small crater in front of the vault elevator, she slowly crept forward keeping her eyes on the pod as she slowly got closer to it. When she reached the pod she checked all around just making sure there were no rigged explosives on it and then she stood in front of what looked like the front of the pod trying to look inside it without leaning on the pod. When she reached to put her hand on the pod to get a better look at what is inside of it hissed and popped as Julia quickly backed up a few steps and readied her weapon for whatever was about to come out of this thing.