Fallout Who:

Wasteland Chronicles

Chapter one:

War never changes

But Time Must

The year was 2077 and Humanity was busy with everyday life but what they didn't know was that in split second, War would come and end their peace

Tardis Control Room

Earth was a very favourite planet of a certain alien who in turn caused the destruction of his own, so he dedicated his own lives to protect the small planet and high above the cloud a small blue box burst into reality suspended in the air

"Let's see where we hare then. Hmm Earth 2077, very peculiar year" while reading the details on the monitor, a small flickering red light caught his attention "looks like we need a refill old girl, just need to set you down near a rift" as The Doctor began to set his controls all of the light turned red and the proximity alert kicked in "what?" The Doctor jumped back to the monitor and the screen had changed to show a red alert with a radioactive symbol behind the red lettering, as he was trying to understand he was flung to one side as the Tardis was knocked out of the sky by the nuclear blasts on the outside.

200 years later

Darkness had fallen over the capital wasteland and all those smart enough ran for the security and safety of large settlements, like megaton and rivet city but those brave enough stayed out in the harsh environment unphased by dangers that lurked in the night. One such person was Sarah Lyons; Paladin of the Brotherhood of Steels Lyons Pride. She was officially on leave as took her time off by roaming the wastes and picking off anything she would have done on duty, she never wanted the vacation so when she was finally ordered to take it, what better way to spend it than what you would have done in a group of soldiers. At least this time she could kill in utter silence without the constant chatter of initiates in her ear. As she was resting by her camp fire, she opened her eyes and listened, hearing a very unusual yet very faint sound, the longer she listened the louder the sound became.

Vworp, Vworp, Vworp, Vworp, VWORP!

When the sound was as clear as day, Sarah shot up when she heard a massive explosion far too close to her position. Grabbing her 44 magnum she followed the direction of the explosion and as she climbed over a small hill, she looked down to see a small crater in the ground, taking out her binoculars she looked to see the cause of the impact but when she found out she dropped the binoculars and rubbed her eyes vigorously, taking a second look she was sure she did see it. Inside the crater ajar on its side was a fairly large Blue wooden box around 10 meters in height.

"What the fuck" Sarah said quietly, lowering her binoculars before getting up to have a closer look. Now only a few meters away she kept her gun pointed at the box in case any mutants decided to pop out, however looking around the box, she was surprised to find no damage on the surface when clearly the structure of the box should have shattered as soon as it hit the ground "what is this thing?" as she lowered her guard for a brief moment, she immediately stepped back, gun pointed at the door which had sharply opened outwards. As it did so a cloud of smoke poured out and a figure stumbled out being suffocated by the smoke.

"*cough* *cough* woo! That was a nasty crash" as the smoke cleared Sarah re-positioned her gun to point at the figure which turned out to be a young man looking around her age of 21, he was looking the other way but Sarah could still see his facial features, she could tell by his face that he was unaware of his surroundings, in fact he looked cheerful looking around the area with a small yet distinctive smirk on his face, like he was just looking for trouble. He had short messy dark coloured hair and Sarah was unsure on the colour as it was the middle of the night but she guessed a dark brown, his eyes were also dark brown and despite his youthful face his eyes looked a lot like her fathers, old and wise yet with a spark for adventure and discovery. His attire was also very odd, he sported a red shirt, blue jeans and a black leather jacket, his shoes where the oddest piece of clothing he had, they were thin blue shoes with white toe caps and the word all star on the heel. "Well at least I landed somewhere remote this time" the strange man said before turning and immediately froze to the site of a gun barrel pointing at his head "oh…hi there"

"Hello" Sarah replied with suspicion in her voice as the man shifted to the left and right to move out of her line of fire but she followed him not allowing him to escape.

"Excuse me, I don't know if you realise but you have a 44 degree magnum pointed at my head and I'd prefer if you didn't…" the man then looked over Sarah then back at the impossible blue box "I didn't crush anything of yours did i?" he asked calmly.

"No, why?" Sarah answered unsure if she should shoot the man or leave him be and let the wastes take him.

"Well you're still pointing your gun at me and you're not wearing any clothes" the man's revelation make Sarah blush as she had realised he was right she was currently in her underwear, she had never been able to sleep in full clothing and even less so in her armour. Immediately she dropped her gun and attempted to cover himself from the man's eyes.

"Oh shit!" Sarah said as she stood there while the man just stared at her. Now aware of her mistake she picked up her gun again and pointed it at the man who then raised his in surrender.

"Hey, hey! Don't kill me, just thought I'd let you know" wondering if he was worth it, Sarah ran back to her camp site looking back to make sure the man was not following her, so she could get dressed and move on.

"Who the hell was that guy…and I can't believe I didn't dress first, stupid, stupid! Sarah" a few minutes later, a now dressed Sarah had put out her fire and began packing away and as she was going for her provisions she jumped to see the same man sitting on the floor looking at a tin of baked beans "Fuck!" she yelled as she went for her pistol after noticing it was gone she looked back to see the man spinning it in his hands.

"Looking for this?" Sarah stared at the young man with fear in her eyes, her training had failed her, and she was bested by a complete stranger and on such trivial matters. Expecting to be shot there and then she was surprised when the man threw the gun to one side so nether could get at it without a fight "look, I apologies for that, I wasn't expecting a half naked girl to be pointing a gun at my head and I bet you weren't expecting a blue box to fall from the sky either. By the way I took your gun off you because I noticed you had an itchy trigger finger and I like the head I have and I'd like to keep it for at least a another 100 years" the man said before taking out a fork from his pocket and pointed at the can in his hands "do you mind if I have this, I'm a little peckish"

"You don't know a thing about me" Sarah spat while the stranger opened the can disregarding what the owner thought and began devouring its contents.

"No, I don't but I do know how a soldier thinks and despite your appearance at the time, I know a soldier when I see one" after taking a fork full of beans he immediately spat it out in disgust "eww, these are over 200 years old. Why do you have these?"

"Well I need to eat" Sarah replied as she looked at the man as he stuck the fork in the tin and placed it in front of her.

"Well next time when you buy something make sure you check the date" Sarah stared at the guy as he stood up dusting himself off "what?"

"What are you even talking about, why would I need to check the date, all tined food are over 200 years old!" Sarah exclaimed while she herself stood up.

"You sure? Because super markets usually have up to date food…well except whoever you got those beans off of" the man said walking over to pick up Sarah's gun.

"I'm not sure if you're serious or just plain stupid"

"Hey! Of course I'm serious, retailers can't just sell out of date food, it could spell a ton of medical disasters for your body"

"Oh I get it" Sarah said, thinking she had figured out why, this stranger didn't know about food out in the wastes "you must be from one of those vaults" however as the man passed the pistol back to Sarah, he gave her the weirdest look like she was insane.

"Vault? I'm not some valuable item, why would I be in a vault?"

"You seriously have no clue where you are, do you?" Sarah asked ignoring the fact her gun was being handed to her.

"Or when for that matter, you don't know the year by any chance do you? last I checked it was 2077" completely gobsmacked, Sarah thought it best to show him rather than explain it.

"I think you're better seeing it for yourself. It may knock some screws back into place" Sarah proposed before taking back her fire arm.

"Very well then, lead the way"

Sunrise

Both Sarah and the strange young man where both standing on a cliff nearby which looked over all of DC.

"Just wait till the sun rises and you'll see what I mean" Sarah explained dropping her bag down by a rock.

"I still have no idea what I'm supost to be looking for?" the man was facing Sarah just as the sun rose and the only thing she could do was point in that direction, obliging the man turned to face the sun and his eyes widened in horror "oh no" he said quietly as he recognised the structures that stood before him in the distance ruined and deserted.

"I have no idea where you where for the past 200 years but to spell it out. The year is 2276 and this is what remains of Washington DC, now more commonly known as the Capital Wasteland" Sarah stood beside the man as the cheerfulness she saw the first time she met him drain away.

"What happened?" he asked coldly without taking his eyes off of the city.

"You really don't know? After the loss of fossil fuels the world and its governments fell apart and china and America started the end of the world" Sarah explained basically repeating what she was told in her history classes.

"World war 3" the man then collapsed to his knees and punched the ground in rage "Dam it! You stupid! STUPID APES! You blew it up! You blew it all up!"

"Are you ok? You're acting very strange, even for this place" as the man calmed down he sat still staring at the corpse of the most powerful city in the world.

"I spent over 300 years keeping this world form harm and the one thing that destroyed it all, is the very people I tried to protect…I've got nothing left" the man looked down, Sarah had seen this look before, on her father face every day since he first saw the wasteland.

"Ok time for some answers. Who are you?" Sarah's soldier attitude had kicked back in gear as she begun to question the man. He himself looked up with a cold look on his face but after standing back up and taking one last look at the fallen city he turned to Sarah with a big smile on his face.

"Right yea sorry, I forgot to introduce myself I'm The Doctor" he said sticking out his hand to shake Sarah's.

"A doctor of what?" she continued staring at his hand then back to his face.

"Nothing particular but it is my name. Yours?" this Doctor was definitely odd but he seemed like an ok guy and since he knew nothing of his environment, she couldn't just leave him out here.

"Sarah, Sarah Lyons" she replied, shaking The Doctors hand as the sun had risen fully signalling another night that had been survived.

Back at the crash site

As the two new allies walked back to the crash site The Doctor stopped in his tracks at the site of his box or lack there off.

"Where is it?" The Doctor asked hoping for an answer he knew he wouldn't get.

"Where's what?" Sarah queried before laying eyes on the empty hole in the ground "oh…strange, how could someone pick up a box that size and haul is away better question who would?" Sarah pondered but The Doctor had already ran ahead and after noticing she began to jog to the strange outsider

"How? it weighs nearly 20 tonnes" Sarah stopped when she heard that but after looking at the ground she didn't need much convincing.

"Well at least that narrows it down to who could have taken it" Sarah commented making The Doctor turn and grab her.

"Who!? Tell me who!?" The Doctor yelled.

"Well the only groups that can take something that can weigh 20 tonnes would be the Super mutants which I doubt and the raiders which are you best bet" Sarah answered as she noticed something behind The Doctor.

"Why's that?" after The Doctor let go of Sarah she nodded in the directing she was facing.

"Because there's a group of raiders over there that really shouldn't be in this area" again without her noticing The Doctor had ran ahead looking for answers but unlike the last time he was running to his death "that Dumbass!" she yelled before running after him pulling out her magnum.

The raiders where only on a supply trip and due to how much fear they instil upon other people the last thing they expected was a kid walking up to them with a murderous look on his face.

"Hey Johnny look" one raider said grabbing the attention of another.

"Seems like this kids tired of life" the raider named Johnny said after noticing the kid that was much older than he looked.

"Pop his head off, save him the trouble of asking" Johnny aimed at the kids head and without hesitation pulled the trigger but what surprised him was that he moved only slightly to the side and dodged the bullet, in a panic Johnny fired again but this kid kept dodging them once he had gotten close enough the kid grabbed the rifle in his hands and pulled snatching the weapon from the raiders hand, he then punched Johnny in the face before using the rifle as a club and smacking the other raider along the face before he got a shot off. The Doctor dropped the weapon he was holding as he normally appalled violence but when it came to the only possession he valued more than his own life all bets where off, starring at Johnny the only raider still conscious The Doctor was looked behind him after hearing a gun shot, a raider who was aiming at The Doctor collapsed and in front of him was Sarah who had taken the shot.

"Thanks" The Doctor said as Sarah holstered her weapon.

"You're an idiot you know that, do yourself a favour, never try a single ambush against a raider party again. I'm just surprised how you did the damage you did without getting shot" Sarah wondered as The Doctor grabbed the raider by his mix mash armour.

"Bullets move quick but I'm quicker" The Doctor answered with a smile before turning his attention to the raider "ok pal, I'm only going to ask once, where is my box?"

"Look fucker I have no idea what you're talking about" The raider spat but as The Doctor turned to Sarah she pulled out her magnum and pointed it at the raiders head.

"I'm not one to kill a person, which is why I'm going to let her do it, so there, your life for information" the raider fearing for death began to panic.

"Ok, ok, listen I wasn't lying when I said I had no idea what you were on about but if one of our parties did take it then it will be taken to one of our camps but I'll warn you man going to anyone is a death wish" The Doctor let go of the raider and turned to walk away which Sarah responded by lowering her weapon as she watched him.

"Take your friend and go" the raider looked at Sarah and then to The Doctor in surprise.

"You're not going to kill me!?" The Raider yelled confused making The Doctor turn back.

"You did as I asked so as a man of my word I'm letting you live, so get up get your friend back to one of your camps then forget you ever saw me" the Raider did as he was told and picked up his partner and ran away thank full to still have his life.

"Why did you let him live?" Sarah asked which the Doctor responded with a smile.

"I'm a man of my word but I need to find my box, believe it or not but it is all I have left" The Doctor said slowly looking out into the horizon of the wasteland.

"Well I'm with a group known as the brotherhood of steel, we have knights all around the wastes, so if you come with me back to our base then we can arrange for…" The Doctor held up his hand prompting her to stop.

"Thanks but I'm better off on my own" The Doctor admitted making Sarah a little bit sad she was really getting to like him.

"I wouldn't recommend it, the entire place his a death trap and you have no idea how to survive out there!" she exclaimed hoping to change his mind.

"There's a lot you don't know about me but remember we soldiers have a knack for adaption" The Doctor said before walking away.

"Will we ever meet again?" Sarah yelled making The Doctor turn back.

"Don't know but you've got a better chance than most of my friends" The Doctor began walking north but as soon as he was out of ear shot Sarah noticed he didn't take one of the raiders weapons meaning he went into a harsh world with nothing but the clothes on his back and whatever he had on him.

Next time:

Megaton Skirmish