How about a quick preface.

This is... For the most part purely a stations of cannon chapter, and is about half the size of the rest. It can be quite safely skipped, I just wanted it here as a quick intro. Perhaps the first 10 lines are the only things of note as they point out something off is going on which is the lead in to bigger things.

My own writing really comes in around chapter 4, with it straying further from the main story line from there.

Also, I would like to note that likes to screw around my doc's when I save them. For the most part it seems big things, but occasionally I catch smaller errors when possible. Some spelling errors are deliberate, but please let me know if say, all the spaces disappear [I.E. what I just found in chapter 3, by god that's going to be a hastle to change, staying up late tonight], I used to think some errors were just lazy editing and that may be the case, but the server doesn't seem to be the most stable of things.


Something pulled from his mind. I opened my eyes.

'Why am I boun- oh shit!'

I struggled against the ropes, vainly.

"From where you're kneeling, it must seem like a 18-carat run of bad luck. Truth is…-"

The man pointed the gun in my face.

"-the game was-"

My mind began shouting.

"-rigged from the start."

His finger pulls.

'NO!'

It fires; I bolt upright in my bed.

"-You gotta get up."

Amata steps back, she must have been shaking me… But she doesn't sleep here, why is she waking me from my nightmare?

"What?"

"You've got to get out of here, your dad's gone, and my dad's gone crazy!"

I was awake before, now I'm on edge.

"Wait! What?!"

"He's left the vault, I don't know how but your dad's gone, and… My father's gone crazy!"

"What, what happened?"

"They… They found Jonas, there was shouting and they killed Jonas… They killed Jonas. Oh my god you have to leave!"

I get out of bed, I start grabbing my things putting them in my bag.

"No shi- wait you must have- Are you okay?"

I turn to face Amata, she's in tear's, how didn't I see that?

"Yea, yea I'm fine, but it's not time to worry about me, you've got to get out."

"But… It's not supposed to be possible."

I sling my bag over my back, and then my BB gun, grabbing my baseball bat.

"Apparently you can, didn't, didn't your dad say anything?"

"NNo, I… I had no clue."

"Oh, I'm… I'm sorry, perhaps Jonas was supposed to help you, but that doesn't matter now, you need to get out of here. I've got an idea."

"Well?"

"There's a tunnel from the overseers office to the vault door. They won't expect you to go that way, here I've got some bobby pins, their how I get in."

"Sound's goof, let's go."

I begin walking to the door, but she grabs my hand, and she pulls a gun out, probably from the back of her pants.

"No, I'll go another way, try to get some attention off you. I also stole my father's pistol, I hope you don't nee-"

"I won't, you keep it, I don't want to kill anyone and you may need it more."

"I… Okay, I'll try to meet you at the exit, watch out, good luck. Give me 5 sec's head start."

We left, she ran off, I counted to five, making sure to go slow as my heart pounded, then I began running. Through the steel corridors, I came to an intersection, there was Kendal.

"Stop righ- Gah!"

A roach leapt at him, I charged in to help, my baseball bat squishing them.

Then he turned on me, without a word.

He was fast, but my bat was bigger, after a few strikes I bashed his head against the walls, and I stood, panting. There wasn't any blood… Good, I had hoped I hadn't killed him but… And the other guards could have guns.

Reaching down, I grab Kendal's helmet, taking it off and taking off his Kevlar vest, putting it on before putting on his helmet, and I felt it…

Blood. Against my hair, matting it.

There was no time to help him, I ran, eventually I found some stairs up to the Atrium and I saw Gomez, he shouted out my name.

"Where did you get- Never mind I don't care. E***, you need to get out of here, I don't know exactly what's going on but you've kicked a roach's nest and Mack killed Jonas, you need to go, find your dad-."

He turns, we both hear Andy activating his flame thrower.

"Go! Get out of here!"

I run with him, but where he runs for Andy I run around him, and keep going out a door.

Then there's a couple Mary and Tom, they run out of a corridor, something about their only chance, looking behind them there's a pair of guards and they… They shoot them. I look around frantically, there's a door, ignoring the shouting I run through it, knocking down the locker holding to door open causing it to seal shut behind me. I keep running, then past and around Andy as he roasts some roaches. I run past apartments, vaguely I hear someone shouting as I run through a server roam, I slow to a halt, it's Floyed, just… On the floor, being picked over by roaches…

I kill them, they… I can't think about it, I keep running, Slamming into someone as I leave the room, it's Hannon. He growls and starts swinging, I tackle him, out of the corner of my eye I see Amata being interrogated before we hit the floor, struggling. He's not as strong as me though, not as fast, and he most certainly isn't as smart as me, even if he's just as tough, and it makes it all the harder as we struggle, eventually coming apart before I… Before I kill him.

But as hard as that is, hearing the Overseer try and force Amata to help me, and the panic with the gun, it's worse. At the time I looked up from the fight shortly before finishing it, Amata's eyes were like saucers, and then they become moons when she spots me fighting with Hannon, running with gun in hand.

Having finished, I looked in, Mack was dead, riddled with bullets, and there was The Overseer, against a wall, he spotted me and shouted.

"You there! E***! I hope you turn yourself in young man before you-"

"Before I what, threaten Amata?"

He glowered.

"I place the good of the vault above everything-"

"Bullshit, I don't know why my dad left but the guards would have only killed Jonas if you told them to, which makes you an idiot and a murderer."

"You watch yourself young man because I did nothing of a sort-"

I raised my arm without thinking, my baseball bat connected with the overseer once, and he fell down, this time there was no blood… Amata could deal with him, if the others didn't… Realising I was in the security room I quickly looked around for a gun, but only found ammo, and a replacement helmet, one without any cracks in it.

Heading towards the office, I being jogging, it looks like Amata's plan may finally start panning out… And then I spot Jonas, just…

Lying there.

In a pool of his own blood.

"Jonas!"

I run towards him, skiiding as I drop to my knees, his eyes are open, but are… They lack…

He's…

'He's really dead.'

A tear in my eye, I notice a holo-tape and pick it up as I rise. I've got to get out of- I've got to go.

And then I hear Amata crying in a side room…

"Amata…" I say as I walk in, my voice almost as teary as hers.

"I… I had no idea… I had no idea I could do it… I can't. E***! Here take it! I can't! I don't want it."

I quickly take the gun, putting it in a pocket before she accidently fires it into my chest.

"You had no choice, you did what-"

"Did I? I… I don't know."

"You did, now come on, let's get to the door, come on."

Taking her hand, I lead her to the door of The Overseer's room, with a practiced hand I open the lock, it wasn't too different from reactor locks, moving inside I move to the computer, opening it with ease as Amata grabs some things from the locker to the side of the room. Without thinking, I download all the data to my pip-boy before I open the passage.

We move through it wordlessly, and arriving at the door controls, I open it, lights activate and spiral, warning alarms boom.

"We did it…"

"He's on the other side! Quickly get this door open!"

"You actually did it… I didn't think it was possible."

"WE did it. I couldn't have done it without your help."

"I… You could have done it alone."

"No I couldn't of, now come on, we need to go."

"No… I… You could survive out there, but… The vault needs me, I can talk some sense into my father-"

"Your father-"

The door behind us finally opens, I push Amata to the side hurridly, backpeddling as I draw the pistol, the Guards waste no time rushing me.

"Run, get out of here I'll close the door!"

There's not time to fight her, I just backpeddle shooting, the guards do their best to give me no time and to throw my shots off, behind the last one I 'see' the vault door close without seeing, and I shoot one last time, breaking the visor and destroying the guards face… I'll never know who it was.

But. It's done. I'm out. But Amata's in there.

Looking around, the Vault door is sealed, there's some kind of busted up console, and desiccated corpses with insulting signs demanding entry lie around me, with the guard joining them…

There's no way back, only forward, the cave's sealed by some sort of wooden door and wall, bright light streams through it. Rock crunches underfoot as I walk, my shoulders sagged as if defeated.

"Dad, wherever you are, it better damn well be worth it."

I grasp the doors handle, and throw it open…