AN: So many years since my last fanfiction involving Fallout, I suppose I should change this, don't know if I will finish this, but I suppose I should try. Need to do something to kill time LOL. If ya have any ideas for characters ya want to submit to maybe be apart of the adventure let me know. There will also be a few slight changes to the story, nothing too major just some tweaks.
Footsteps echoed through some halls, a mysterious man in a trenchcoat and fedora walked through the halls of a vault, he seemed to be looking for something, or rather someone in this case.
He passed by some radroaches, normally hostile to everything not a giant mutated cockroach but they seemed to be repelled by his presences.
He soon passed through some more doors and found what he was looking for, pods, many rows of pods with people inside, or rather corpses. He looked at each pod stopping at the last one, he could see inside a woman in a vault jumpsuit. He nodded his head and looked across from the pod, inside a man with a bullet wound on his forehead, his final look that of desperation.
He turned his attention back to the woman inside, her short black hair, her well defined figure in the skin tight jumpsuit, clearly this was a woman who would have many admirers in prewar times. Yes this woman was from the prewar, and now she was about to wake up into a new nightmare.
"Well, it's time for you to change the wasteland." The mysterious man spoke, his tone smooth, and yet had a hint of a Boston accent. He went to a nearby terminal and clicking a few switches and buttons he set the cryo pod to automatically thaw out all vault dwellers in an hour and to release the woman automatically at that time.
He lit up a cigarette and put it in his mouth, tipping his hat to the woman in the pod.
"Lets hope her changes are for the better." he said before leaving.
When the woman awoke she panicked, she pounded on the door crying out, 'Nate! NATE! Please be alright!" when the pod finally released her she fell to the ground groaning a bit, her body still weakened by the cryogenic freezing process, she crawled to the pod across from her and struggled to pull herself up, finally making it to the control panel, she quickly looked over the control panel and found the switch marked "Open" and she pressed it, the pod opened up and the body falling to the ground.
She picked it up and began to sob, "Nate, I'm sorry I couldn't help you…"
She closed her eyes and began to remember the events leading up to this point.
It was a warm October morning, the 23rd to be precise. The woman was finishing up some work on a Mr. Handy robot, she let out a sigh of satifaction as she closed the back chassis cover.
"Alright Codsworth how do you feel?" She asked as the robot hovered back up into the air.
"Nora you've done it again, I feel like I just came off the factory floor. Don't know how that bottle cap got into there." The robot named Codsworth said in his British tone. Everyone loved that British accent that General Atomics program them with, although Nate and Nora have seen some models with a Boston accent.
"Always did know your way around a robot." Nate said chuckling as he sat on the couch watching tv. He was in a comfortable pair of jeans and a white shirt, nothing too special but he liked to have some less confining clothing.
"Well I didn't get that degree in robotics for show." Nora said chuckling a bit, she looked at her blue dress, there were now some grease and oil stains ruining it.
"Although maybe I should have put on some overalls before fixing him up,' She said frowning a bit.
"Hey I think it adds character, shows you aren't afraid to get your hands dirty." Nate said as Codsworth flew off to the back bedrooms.
"Gotta say sure glad ya convinced me to get him. Good find too, heard the A32 models glitch out when they cut cakes, causes them ruin them." Nate said.
"Only cakes with coconut in it, strange glitch though. "She said getting up and cracking her back as Nate got up and embraced her, chuckling a bit before kissing her on the lips. Nora not even fighting back.
However their little romantic moment was interrupted by the doorbell ringing.
Nate and Nora both sighed, annoyed by this.
'I'll get it, you go check up on Shaun. "Nora said walking over to the door to see a man in a yellowish brown jacket and hat, she could see a pin on the jacket with the Vault Boy logo, that little man giving the thumbs up.
"Good morning, miss, umm Nora Wilson" the man said checking his clipboard and some papers.
"Yes, you must be the Vault Tec representative, "Nora said and the man gave a chuckle, "That would be correct, I'm just here to finalize a few more forms, and to confirm your place in Vault 111,"
Nora nodded her head, "Yes of course please come in, Codsworth bring our guest some coffee," She called out and the robot butler came to the front room and said, "Ah hello sir, how do you like your coffee, "he asked.
"Um 2 lumps of sugar please, "The Rep said, Nora was the first person he met today who wasn't annoyed by his presence, would make the morning go so much smoother.
"Just need you to sign here and here, "he said passing her the form and a Vault Tec Branded pen (not free of course) and showing her the lines to sign.
"Alright, got it, anything else?" She asked as she was passed another form.
"Just another form here and here, and we should be good. "The rep said.
'Thanks um.." Nora didn't know his name and there was a slight awkward pause before he said, 'Oh um Paul," He said as Nora finished the signing, Paul now being passed a cup of fresh coffee by Codsworth, "Here you go sir, careful still hot,' he said.
"Thank you,' Paul said sipping the coffee.
"So glad to finally have our place confirmed, Nate has some military contacts telling him the big one is coming, the big one is coming, I don't really think we will go that far, but Nate wouldn't stop begging to have a place in the vault just in case, " Nora said sipping her own passed cup.
"Well if you ask me, better to have it and not need it then to need it not and have it, I'm about to get my own spot tomorrow, I finally earned enough money to reserve my spot," Paul said chuckling, Nate came out carrying a bundle in his arms, "And we have the little guy awake and ready for some breakfast, heh heh. "Nate said, "So carrots, peas, or squash, what shall Shaun have, personally I'd feed him some bacon, get him a real meal."
"Nate told you before, not until he is at least able to chew some food. "Nora said, "Isn't that right, you need your teeth before yummy bacon" Nora said in a mommy tone to her baby, in which the little child cooed happy to have the attention.
"Ahem,"
"Oh sorry Paul, thank you for stopping by, "Nora said and Paul tipped his hat ready to leave however…
"...Followed by... yes, followed by flashes. Blinding flashes. Sounds of explosions... We're... we're trying to get confirmation…"
It was the TV, "Nora turn it up, " Nate said and Nora went to the TV and turned up the volume.
"...But we seem to have lost contact with our affiliate stations... We do have... coming in... confirmed reports. I repeat, confirmed reports of nuclear detonations in New York and Pennsylvania. My God."
"We have to get to the Vault!" Nate said realizing what was happening.
They could now hear air sirens, this was no drill, this was real.
The three ran out of the house and they could see panic, people running in the streets towards the hill, carrying as many things as they could carry, some people were falling and being trampled.
"Come on!" Nate called out holding Shaun in one arm the other arm holding Nora's hand, Paul right behind them.
Codsworth had stayed behind, his duty was to the home, robots don't needs vaults to survive, besides there were some dirty dishes to clean, don't want Nate and Nora to come back to messy coffee cups.
They made it up the hill to a chain link fence and many soldiers holding people back. Some unable to pass by, the only reason no one tried to push past them were the two troopers in power armor holding miniguns, no one wanted to take their chances against that.
The trio and baby made it to the front of the line, Paul held up the clipboard, "These 3 are registered, I can confirm it!" he shouted, and soldier looked over the paper, "Nate, Nora, and Shaun Wilson, you can pass. Sir please step back and let them pass. " he told Paul.
Paul frowned a bit but gave a light smile when Nora looked back at him.
"It's ok, at least I didn't let you die, " He said. "Come on, "Nate said trying to drag Nora up.
"THANK YOU!" Nora called back, "We won't forget you!"
Paul nodded his head as he watched them run up the hill out of sight, well time to make his final peace.
The three made it up to the top and saw a group of many people in the town on top of a huge gear. A man in a Vault Tec security suit of armor brought them to the center.
"CAN'T WAIT FOR ANY MORE BRING IT DOWN!" he called out and a man in a nearby switch booth hit a button and Nate and Nora realized they were on an elevator, as they went deep down, almost 2 meters that's when they heard it. The Explosion in the distance and looked up to see a new gear door shutting the sky line closed, they just saw the fire pass above them as it shut. 30 seconds later and they wouldn't have made it.
The rest of the memories were a blur, get changed into vault jump suits and brought to "Decontamination pod" Nora didn't buy it but had no choice but to be put into one. At least she was across from Nate and Shaun's pod.
The next memories seemed almost like a dream, she could barely move and could see a mysterious man open the pod ahead of her...then shoot her husband right in front of her when he refused to give them Shaun. They took Shaun, took him away from them. Why didn't they kill her, they were right there, the man even looked at her before telling another man in a labcoat to 'freeze the bitch."
She stopped reminiscing of the events, and then went to Nate's right hand, and took the wedding ring off of his finger. She teared up and picked up the body and forced it back into the pod and then shut it.
"I'll...find a way to bury you properly, but this will have to do for a coffin, "She said wiping her tears away. She looked around, and checked the other pods status, all of them were failures, everyone was dead, all save her.
"What happened, why is everyone dead?" she asked herself and went past some still working doors, only to see the giant radroach that hissed at her, she fell on her ass out of surprise and it began to scurry towards here.
"BACK OFF!" she cried out crawling back hitting a wall and as it got closer and closer her hand touched a monkey wrench, there was a nearby tool box, she gripped it and swung down on the insect foe, crushing it in an explosion of irradiated guts.
"What, kind of cockroach was that? I think an exterminator would need hazard pay for that one, 'She said panting a bit, still gripping the wrench, she pulled herself together and got back up, she needed to get out of here, find the overseer or something.
Good news, she realized how easy it was to deal with more radroaches, crushing them with a wrench is a really good tactic, guess no matter how big the bug, crushing them always seems to work. Bad news, no sign of anyone, the terminals were either broken, or glitched out so there was no way to figure out what happened. All the doors were open, but all the lockers were looted, only thing not taken was a few spare vault suits, and a strange weapon in a locked case, the case said, "Experimental Cryolator."
"Would love to look over that, "She muttered looked around the shelves and she smiled, she found an old 10 mm pistol, full clip on it too.
"So glad Nate showed me how to use a pistol, 'She said putting the clip back in.
She sighed a bit and kept moving forward, hoping to find any sign of life other then insects, any one, or anything. No such luck.
She made it to the entrance, but found the way forward blocked by the metal gear door, as well as the bridge leading to it not extended.
"Now what," she grumbled however the sound of some bones clattering to the ground altered her, another radroach, this one bigger and this time with green on it.
'Fuck off!" she cried out, very frustrated and fired 2 rounds into it, the roach hissed in pain, and leaped into air and tried to bite it, and she cried out in pain and surprise as it knocked her to the ground and she was forced to use her arm and hand holding the wrench to be the barrier between it and her face.
She could see the jaws snapping at her and she held the gun to it's head and pulled the trigger, fluorescent green goo landing on her face and chest.
Some even went into her mouth and she suppressed the urge to vomit as she rolled over and tried to wipe her face and tongue with her right sleeve.
"Tastes...oh god I think...ok keep it together Nora" she said panting, the feeling to vomit subsiding, she looked at the radroach.
"3 bullets to take it out...what the fuck is going on?" she asked and then her eyes widened, she saw on the nearby fallen skeleton's arm was a device, one she recognize.
"No way. "She went over and pulled off the device, "A pipboy 3000, yes. 'She looked it over and saw the nearby terminal had a plug in slot and the pipboy had the cable, this was her ticket out of here.
Before putting it on however she checked some nearby boxes and smiled finding a new vault jumpsuit, no way was she walking around with bug guts on her, even she had more class then that.
She stripped naked giving a slight shiver as she quickly put the suit back on.
"So let's review, was told they were decontamination pods, but clearly they were cryogenic pods, it's cold enough to confirm that, plus the liquid nitrogen canisters I saw. So why lie about it?" she muttered as she zipped up the suit and clipped on the pipboy.
"And who was that man who took my son, ok Nora one thing at a time, first find people, then find Shaun," She said sighing as she checked the other boxes, she then found something, a Vault Tec branded duffle bag.
'This I can use, "She said grabbing some spare jump suits and putting them into the bag, along with the rings and the wrench.
'Wish I had some food and water through...don't even know if the pipes still work," She muttered going to the control console and plugging in, after some fiddling she got the hang of the controls on the pipboy and activated the door and bridge.
Alarms blared as the gear door rolled open, the bright extending forward to allow her to pass. She smiled seeing the elevator up wasn't damaged or collapsed, she had no idea what she would do if she couldn't leave. She pressed the button inside and went up.
It was a bright morning in the sky, nearly blinding her for a few moments as she made her way up, and the sight to behold...was devastating.
She saw her home Sanctuary Hills devastated, houses destroyed and damaged, the once lush lawns now overgrown and brown, or just dead. The small creek near the community dried up.
She could only fall to her knees in shock and horror…
The world had ended, everything changed.
She began to sob, she needed a moment to let the gravity of the situation hit her. She was alone and she had nothing….
