Prologue: Revelation 21:6
Tom's hand hovered over the keypad. He didn't even know the password to activate this thing. Why didn't his father tell hi-. Tom knew then and there. It was so obvious. His father had told him his whole life. Not a year had gone by that he didn't formally recite the passage. The building quaked as the battle raged furiously outside the Rotunda. Tears welled in Tom's eyes as he dialled in the code. 2…1…6. Tom closed his eyes and whispered.
"Thanks…dad."
His finger fell atop the enter button and the Rotunda shuddered. Tom felt the radiation Pass through his body like a deadly wave. It boiled his insides and burned his flesh. He managed to stay on his feet and turn around. Sarah Lyons was at the window. He grit his teeth as he took small weak steps over to her. She put her hand on the glass. Tom returned the gesture as best he could. He raised his hand to the glass but with his strength draining away, it slid from the glass and hung limply at his side. His father told him the dangers of radiation and how it changed the body. It worked its way to the bone changing the DNA. It wouldn't matter. Tom knew it was over. His last fleeting breaths were unbearably painful and his lungs shuddered from the effort. His legs buckled and gave. He fell to his knees, the power armour clanged against the grate floor. His own body soon felt heavy to him and the pain wracked his whole body. He leaned up against the cold brick wall. The cold was soothing against his feverish flesh but it quickly warmed. In an attempt to move himself to a cooler part of the wall he fell back onto the grate. His head swam and voices echoed in his thoughts. Some he knew, others were enigmas of a forgotten past. Some of these voices stood out. His mother's and father's.
"Our son." His mother's voice was weak and exhausted. "Our beautiful son."
"It's a big world out there son, but what about you, what kind of person are you going to be." His father seemed so close. And one last time the passage was spoken.
"I am Alpha and Omega. The beginning and the end."
Thomas died.
Lady's and gentlemen of the wasteland, this is Three-dog. I have only sad news for you. We have just been informed from the Brotherhood of Steel that the lone wanderer from vault 101 is dead. After a brave battle against colonel Autumn and his heavy-armoured lackeys, our lone wanderer succumbed to radiation while activating the purifier in the Jefferson memorial. All of you out in the wasteland have this brave soul to thank for what is bound to be a new age in our capital wasteland. Thanks to his bravery, fresh, clean water will now flow in abundance through rivers and streams all over the capital wasteland. The lone wanderer sacrificed his life for the good of not just the capital, but also the entire world. From the day he emerged from the vault, people from every corner of the capital have heard his name. He has helped countless individuals with his bravery and devotion to the good fight. For this we thank you lone wanderer and may your soul rest in peace.
Didn't he?