The people of District 3 hadn't had much excitement since the Revolution. Slowly over time they grew accustomed to their uneventful but fulfilling lives. So when the crowd of people on the beach heard the buzzing noise, speculation quickly began to be debated. At first, most people conceded it must be a flock of birds. But as the birds drew closer, others suggested they were hovercraft. Both parties were half right.
In District 13 hunting had become a popular sport. In addition to being beneficial to their new society, it gave a liberating feeling of freedom to the people who had lived their entire lives underground. One day a hunting party heard a noise they had not ever heard in the wilderness before. It was not unfamiliar however; it was a sound they had grown quite accustomed to in their days underground. It was marching.
They had finally cracked the code. Finished the work their ancestors started. Indeed, Sigma Squad's discovery would be a great asset in Operation: Reunification.
The order was given, and the machine was started. As it powered up, its great voice boomed to the crowd before it.
Liberty Prime is Online.
The decision was controversial, but orders were orders. And in the end, the mutants would prove to be more of an asset than a liability. Besides, their role as cannon-fodder would make them all the easier to exterminate once the job was finished.
The officer entered the password into the rusty yellow panel before quickly retreating to the safety of his Vertibird, and for the first time in over 200 years, the great door of Vault 87 was opened.
The yellow and metal invaders cut swiftly and quickly through their opposition. But for Plutarch Heavensbee, it was not the mutants and soldiers who frighten him most. It was not even the giant robot that managed to survive every bomb the Panem Air Force could drop on it. What terrified him was a radio signal, with a message only a historian such as himself would understand, and thus fear.
"Greetings, my fellow Americans. I am your President, John Henry Eden. And I'd like for us to have a chat."