Fallout Eds
(A/N) I don't own E,EnE or Fallout (I wish I did though).
War. War never changes. The Romans waged war to gather slaves and wealth. Spain built an empire from it's lust for gold and territory. Hitler shaped a battered Germany into a economic superpower. But war never changes. In the 21st century war was still waged over the resources that could be acquired. Only this time the spoils of war were also it's weapons, petroleum and uranium. For these resources China would invade Alaska, the US would annex Canada and the European common wealth would dissolve into a group of quarreling, bickering nation-states bent on controlling the last of the last remaining resources on Earth. In 2027 the storm of world war had come again. In two, brief hours most of the planet was reduced to cinders and from the ashes of nuclear devastation a new civilization would struggle to arise. Few were able to reach the relative safety of large, underground vaults. Your family was part of that group that entered Vault 13. Imprisoned safely behind a large vault door, under a mountain of stone a generation has lived without knowledge of the outside world. Life in the vault is about to change.
These were the words at the beginning of the game "Fallout". This game had been played by Ed in the year 2007. He had enjoyed playing it, but had no idea of how close to home it's plot was.
The very next year China invaded Russia after large oil and gold deposits had been found in Siberia.
A nuclear war started between the two. America and the United Kingdom stayed out of the war for as long as possible, but were forced to after China fired nukes at major military strongholds in Europe and along the Eastern seaboard of America. After that little is known. The facts are pointless and trivial.
The families of the cul-de sac had made it to the nearby bunker before the radioactive heat vaporized them. The vault was sealed for 100 years. After this century had passed the doors would open and the world be colonized again. But in Vault 13, when the doors opened not everyone wanted to leave, there were arguments among the leaders until eventually half the vault's population was kicked out.
100 years later ...
Eddward Tchasky the Forth a.k.a E4. A descendant of Eddward Tchasky, the lead scientist 200 years ago.
E4 walked down the cold hallway towards the single steel door at the end. He had been called by the Vault's leader, Kevin O'brian. E4 and Kevin had never gotten along well, their families had some grudge against each other. E4 knocked on the metallic door, "enter" came a voice from inside , E4 opened the door and walked in. Kevin was sitting behind an ancient wooden desk, the only one in the vault. Wood was a rarity, you'd be lucky if you even saw a piece in your whole life.
"Mr. Tchasky" said Kevin as E4 entered, "O'brian" replied E4 bowing his head a little. "Look, lets cut to the chase" said Kevin "You know how this place works, the machines that keep us alive and the people who run the machines" "I might know" replied E4 avoiding any direct answers, "well, the water purification chip is broken, we don't have any spares, the operators say that there's enough water for vault for six or so days", "so, what do you want me to do about it" said E4 suspiciously, "well, your the only one in the vault who has any knowledge of the Outer World, we are going to open the vault doors, you are going to go out and find a replacement chip, we'll supply you enough for a couple of days and we'll give you some of this stuff they call "Money", OK ?"
"And if I refuse?" replied E4 angrily, "then you will kill everyone in the vault" Kevin responded cooly. "Fine, when do I leave" E4 said, clearly pissed off.
Thank you for reading, please post a comment :) p.s I won't be following the Fallout plot, just taking ideas from it.