(This story contains elements from Fallout 3, but is not a total crossover)

A green flash of light woke Mordecai up from his sleep. He opened his eyes and scanned the room. All he saw was Rigby sleeping on a pile of laundry as usual and nothing else. He shrugged it off as a simple airplane when…another green flash was seen. In the distance, he could hear police sirens as well.

It was coming from the window. Feeling curious, Mordecai approached the window and looked out. From across the park, he could see downtown. It seemed a bit odd though, as if half of the lights were turned off. As he wondered this, the green flash made yet another appearance, and the sirens multiplied. Since he was looking out the window, Mordecai got a better view of the source. It was not coming from the sky…it was coming from the ground.

Even stranger, the flash seemed to leave a light green haze for a few seconds after it appeared. Not only that, but all of the lights downtown were shut off in an instant. Needless to say, Mordecai was confused. He knew what a power outage was, but the sky was clear and there was no wind. It wasn't even hot outside, so it couldn't be a brown out.

Mordecai was too tired to think anything of it, so crawled back onto his bed. Despite all of the sirens, he was able to fall back to sleep.

The next morning, the rays of the sun woke Mordecai as they shone through his window. As he stirred in his bed, he heard a soft murmuring outside the same window he looked out last night. Looking back out the window, Mordecai saw Benson talking to a few men in black suits and sunglasses. Benson didn't really look concerned, but the fact that he was talking to these men led Mordecai to go downstairs and see what was going on. "What did we do now?" Mordecai thought as he walked downstairs, the voices getting louder as he did.

"So do we have to evacuate?" Benson said.

"Not this area, but we want you to stay safe," said one of the men.

"Evacuate? Stay safe?" Mordecai thought to himself, "what's going on?" Mordecai wanted to know more, so he opened the front door and walked outside. "Morning Benson," he said a bit awkwardly. Benson just looked at him with a straight face. Not angry, not upset, just blank.

"Mordecai," said Benson in an almost monotone voice, "what did you and Rigby do this time?" Benson folded his arms, at this point being absolutely sure that this was their fault. However, he couldn't get as angry as he usually did since he didn't have his morning coffee.

"It wasn't us this time," Mordecai said, "believe me, if a raccoon and a blue jay could shut off power to the entire city, I doubt we'd have trouble taking the trash out."

"Then how do you know the power went out?" Benson asked, his voice getting louder with suspicion.

"The green flash woke me up last night and…" said Mordecai before he was interrupted.

"Now hang on a second," said the tallest man of the group and the only one wearing a white tie instead of a black one, "we have an idea of who did this, and it wasn't him."

"You don't know what he's capable of," said Benson.

"Believe me, a whole lot of crazy stuff happens in this here town" said the officer again, his southern accent being more obvious, "but it ain't him who caused this." The officer held out a hand to Mordecai and gave a reassuring smile. "Officer Bentwood, deputy head general of the Radiation Control Center, or RCC for short."

"Mordecai…" said Mordecai, a thought popping into his head as soon as he was about to say his last name, "did you say radiation?"

"Yes, the power was shut down by a surge of radiation, " said Bentwood, "we reckon it was this man." The officer held out a picture for Mordecai to see. The picture was very low quality and blurry, but Mordecai did make out a human figure. It wasn't like a normal human being though; it was much more yellow in color and looked rather thin. Plus, whoever it was looked extremely bright compared to the rest of the picture. It was almost like the man was glowing. Suddenly, it felt like a jagged rock hit the bottom of Mordecai's stomach. CJ and Eileen lived downtown

In a hurry, he ran inside of the house and picked up the phone, almost shaking in fear. He heard a dial tone for a few seconds, his knees shaking a bit as he waited, and finally heard a voice on the other end.

"Hello?" it was Eileen's voice.

Breathing a sigh of relief, Mordecai composed himself and said "Hey Eileen, what's going on?"

"I'm in the hospital," said Eileen. The nerves kicked back into Mordecai's body. "Nothing too serious though, just some minor radiation poisoning."

"Oh my god!" Mordecai shouted.

"No, relax," said Eileen with a reassuring laugh, "I just have to get a Rad-Away injection and I'll be fine. Oh, and CJ's here too, she just got her injection a few minutes ago. Her radiation's gone."

Mordecai was still in shock that Eileen and CJ had gotten radiation poisoning, but he was also thankful that they were okay. Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Mordecai continued. "Is anyone else there?"

Eileen grew silent for a few seconds…"Skips is here too, he was right near the blast."