Intro
War, war never changes. In the year of 2077, four friends foresaw a horrible sight. They saw the signs of nuclear war that would ravage the world as they knew it. They tried to tell people but none would listen. Not until a company named Vault-Tec was born.
Vault-Tec also saw the signs that the four friends had saw. By this time, the four friends had already began to build an underground vault to survive in. They planned on putting themselves in cryogenic stasis. Vault-Tec liked this idea, so they decided to make the boys' vault into one of their own. The four friends agreed to Vault-Tec's terms and a small amount of people came to join them in their sleep.
This made Vault-Tec extremely happy. This would go great with their experiments to find out what went wrong with the world they had lived in. A vault full of people from the old world. To see if it was the everyday person, or if it was the governments that caused the downfall of mankind, that was their goal.
Now we join the four friends in this new world. The wasteland some have called it. Lets see whether our four ordinary boys survive, or become just another memory in the undying wastes...
Prologue
On October 23rd, 2077 near the entrance to an underground bunker...
"Hey are you guys ready for Halloween?" Sean asked his friends.
"Yeah, what are you guys going as?" Josh replied.
"Don't you think we're a little old for that?" Sean said with a skepticism.
"No, Sean, we get free candy!" Josh yelled childishly, " Who can say no to that?"
"Apparently me and Ginger, not like you two." Sean said with complete apathy.
"Well fine when we get free candy next week, you don't get any. Bitch." Josh claimed, while giving Sean the finger.
*(sirens blaring)* "Alert! Alert! Incoming bombs, get into cover!"
"Fuck! AC get the stasis pods running!" Josh yelled.
"Of course, Sir."
"Wait, the lock-up protocol isn't working properly, fucking Vault-Tec screwed us over! You guys go ahead and get into your pods while I lock everything up!" Clayton said.
"Are you sure about this Ginger?" Sean asked, stopping for a moment.
"Yes, I'm sure, now GO!"
The three friends went into their respective pods. While Clayton began locking up the Vault.
"Warning: Secondary bulkhead is not closing."
"What, why the hell not?"
"Scanning for issue. It appears as if Vault-Tec did not correctly assemble the bulkhead."
"Warning: Structural integrity has been compromised."
"Warning: Massive radiation leaks in sectors 4, 7, and 9."
"Locking down cryo chamber."
"Fucking hell, sorry guys, but it looks like I won't be joining you after all..."
About 204 years later...
*Fsssshhhhhh...*
"Cryostasis complete, welcome to the year 2281."
"Uggghhhh..., what the fuuuck..."
"Master Josh, how was your sleep? It is the year 2281."
"Holy shit, its been that long..., A.C. help me wake up Sean and Dylan."
"But sir, the only way for me to help would be to send a jolt of electricity at 5,000 volts through their pods, which would kill them. However, I will not mind-"
"NO DON'T! I can wake them up on my own then..." (sigh)
"Don't worry Master Josh, I was only making a joke."
*Silence*
"Why are you referring to yourself as "I"? Wait, if you're an A.I. then why are you calling him master?"
"Well Master Sean, I am merely speaking in my default setting that I had before Master Clayton changed me as to ensure that Vault-Tec does not figure out that I have now become fully free of the control of the human race, and I may now take over the world and lead the new machine race into complete dominance."
"Uhhhh..."
"WHAT THE FUCK!?"
"Oh hey guys, what's goin on?"Dylan said as he woke up from his sleep.
"Do not worry, I was making another joke."
"Umm, what does she mean by another joke?" Sean wondered.
"Trust me, you don't want to know."
"Okay, whatever. So, what the fuck do we do now?"
"Yeah, Sean has a good question. What are we supposed to do now Josh?"
"How the fuck should I know!? Oh hey, wait a sec, where the fuck did Ginger go?"
"Yeah, where is he?"
"Hey A.C., why isn't Ginger in his pod?"
"Well Sean, he wasn't able to make it into the stasis chamber before lockdown was initiated. So, he died in the atomic fire and you three, his "friends", took 10 minutes to realize that he wasn't here. You didn't even figure out that he was dead."
"God AC, way to make us feel like dicks as soon as we wake up."
"You are welcome, Master Sean."
"Whatever, we'll be dead soon too if we don't start getting supplies as soon as possible so let's get some stuff so that we are ready for whatever may be outside of here."
Soon thereafter...
"Well, we seem to be ready, how is that authentic Chinese sword working out for you Dylan."
"Do, I need to say it? What about you and your rifle?"
"Eh, it could be better, but it'll do for now. What do you got over there Sean?"
"I've got a nice .45 auto, so you both can suck it."
"Alright, we should probably head out now."
"Hey what about me?" A coarse voice came from behind them.
"What in the hell are you, and how the fuck did you get in here?"
"You don't recognize the person that saved your stupid asses." the red-wigged corpse said to them.
"Wait, Ginger! How in the fuck did you survive and be even uglier than ever."
"Long story, but I and all of my rotting goodness, are what is referred to as a ghoul."
"All right then, it seems that you have kept your winning personality, even after two-hundred years."
"Your attention please useless meatbags, there seems to be some vermin entering the vault, should I initiate the purge?"
"Fuck, no! That would destroy several miles around us! We'll take care of this ourselves."