Whitley- A Fallout-based Fanfiction

by LoneWandererLexi

In 2277, just before the Lone Wanderer exits the vault, the Enclave is already starting to prepare for their grand entrance. While they get ready to enter, a scientist named Whitley, who made the Enclave's eyebots, prepares to exit. Whitley must find his way to get his beloved ED-E to Navarro for an upgrade, but there's always a little trouble along the way.

1. Chapter 1

Chapter One- 1/17/13-

The lab was dark and shadows creeped around the corners. Whitley tinkered with his electronics and began building yet another eyebot. Footsteps became clear and Whitley stopped in his tracks. Colonel Autumn opened the door to the lab looking disappointed. He glared at him without saying a word. Whitley peered over his glasses.

"Can I help you?" he said rather rudely.

"Yes, you can. We need to discuss the issue earlier with Doctor Grant." Autumn replies with a threatening tone in his voice.

Whitley feels anger pool up inside him. He's still outraged that she would do such a thing. He sits furiously as he waits for Colonel Autumn to continue. His face became hot and his mind became cluttered. Autumn finally broke the silence."Your methods don't make sense Whitley. What's so wrong with the fact that she tried to upgrade that eyebot of yours while it was still on? It's more efficient that way and the upgrades take less time."

"While he was still on? He was awake Autumn! She was hurting him!? Her methods don't make sense, she's torturing them! She's torturing ED-E!"

"Whitley you are a brilliant scientist, but Grant is right. The efficiency guidelines she requested got my approval. You'll have to upgrade the eyebots while they're 'awake' now."

"You gave this entire base the permission to hurt them?! What have you done, Autumn? I can work on them more efficiently when they're asleep, I can't do this while they're awake. This is unbelievable, these practices are medieval! You're a monster for doing this Autumn. It takes more time when they're awake and the percentage of failures increase to over fifty percent. If people are to operate on them they could corrupt the whole system by doing something wrong when there's no risk whe-"

Autumn cut Whitley off and began to leave. "Whitley they're just machines that can't feel anything. Obey these guidelines or I'll give this project and your ED-E to Grant."

Autumn shut the door and his footsteps grew quiet after a few minutes. Whitley turned to ED-E and woke him up. He was nearly in tears from the argument with Autumn a few moments ago. ED-E hovered and beeped facing Doctor Whitley's troubled face. Whitley stared at ED-E with a faint smile. Then his smile faded and was replaced by a blank stare. He began to get upset again.

"I can't believe it!" he began staring at this robot; his robot. "Grant actually went to Colonel Autumn and got approval for her damned "efficiency guidelines." All experiments will be carried out with the test subject fully active to reduce iteration time. It's barbaric. I'd explained this to the colonel, just because the eyebots don't have true AI doesn't mean they're just machines. I guess results are all that matter around here. Forget things like ethical procedures or humane treatment. I'm starting to have serious misgivings about leadership around here. At least I've got you to talk to, huh, ED-E? "