Vault 23

by Dommax17

This is the story of the Vault dwellers of Vault 23, their experiences in the vault and their experiences beyond the vault. The story follows a group of friends who have known each other almost from birth, two of which know what happened in their town just before the bombs dropped. (This story may have similarities to people you know but these are partly made up, partly true.)

1. Prologue

Prologue 2077:

Following the crashing sounds of the bomb sirens the men and women of Spring Valley who took every siren call seriously made their best try at escaping to the vault they had been assigned to, vault 23,but, as they were fleeing a large rebel squad looking for oil blocked their path;"Just where do you think you're going? You have to give us your oil first, you swines"

Father and Major of the areas CR(Californian Republic) forces Mjr. Adam Robinson stepped forward and said "Jack,Jacob get the women and children Out of here! We're going to have to settle this quick John"

To which Cpt. John Curthoys replied "Looks like it Cap" reaching for his trusted service rifle he called "Black Widow"

As the women and children began to flee with Jack and Jacob the rebels began firing towards the short amount of CR forces at the scene, many civilians were killed from the crossfire and some were just directly young child who refused to leave his fathers side young 'Dominic Robinson' struggled but still managed to pick up the hunting rifle his father was teaching him to use and started to fire towards the enemy but Adam turned to him, gave him his 1St Recon Beret and said "son, I want you to get everyone out of here safely can If you can do that I'll promote you to second lieutenant" to which he responded in a voice as deep as he could go "Yes sir!"

Along the way to the vault the young Dominic found his friend Jason crying and his sister Beth beside him sleeping, knowing he couldn't leave them behind he put his rifle on his back with his gun sling almost falling over doing so, and stretched out his hand to Jason and lifted him up, then picked up Beth. Just as this was happening their father and mother managed to re-unite with them, worriedly Stephanie(their mother) asked "where's Beth?" whilst picking up Jason, Dominic turned "right here". Their father quietly coughed and said "alright all of you get out of here now, I'll protect you until you reach the vault

Shortly after the little ones and Stephanie scurried off into the vault, the vault door closed to the sound of a faded voice shouting "WELL DONE LIEUTENANT ROBINSON!" to which Dominic shouted "DAD!" just then the ground shook heavily to the sound of a large bang, everyone except the children knew what had just happened outside, looking around they realised they were the only ones who had made it. Regretting that they were the only ones who made it and thinking of the tragedy of what had happened outside most began to cry. It was here that vault 23 had started functioning.