I wake with a start, my hand reaching for the laser pistol I kept on my bedside table. I looked to see who woke me up and saw Whisper standing over me, smiling. "Damn it, Whisper! You scared me shitless!" I said to my friend. "Sorry," she said. "I was waking you up to tell you we got a job. Vizago came by and told me about it," she told me. "What do I have to dig Vizago out of this time," I asked tiredly.

Vizago was another friend. The guy loved to play around with the residents of Megaton. But, soon playing turned to crime and one thing led to another. Eventually, he stole from the wrong trader and he was about to deliver some Wasteland justice to him when I came by and paid the merchant what Vizago owed him. "Who escorted him here this time? Brotherhood of Steel? The residents of Tenpenny Tower? Or let me guess, another Vault guy thinking Vizago is a hero," I asked.

Vizago also lied like a fur rug. A Vault resident escaped his Vault and met Vizago. Vizago somehow wound his tale so it seemed that he was the best person in the Wasteland to find him. He led the guy to us and the poor idiot found some Enclave Power Armor we had in our in our storage room from one of our encounters with them. He put it on and we thought the Enclave had come to kill us. After a lot of yelling, he took off the helmet and we saw it was him. Afterwards, we promptly took him to Rivet City and got him a job. We always make jokes about finding Vaults because Vizago always gets all excited.

"Actually, Vizago needs us to do something for him," Whisper said. "He thinks he has actually found a Vault. I didn't believe him but he was all sorts of happy," she said. My interest was piqued. "He was bouncing around and acting like one of those bouncy balls you used to collect," she said.

A few years ago, we were going through a supermarket trying to find some food. We went into what had been a toy aisle and I found a package of little rubber balls that bounced around when thrown on the ground. I started collecting them and eventually had at least one of every color. Vizago ended up selling them to Moira Brown in Megaton to buy some schematics for a weapon he had all the parts for. I found out and was about ready to wring his neck when he decided to give me the weapon as compensation. It was something called a Rock-It Launcher. It uses any piece of junk you find in the Wasteland. That tin can you haven't been able to sell? Yep, it fires it. And it causes one hell of an impact.

"Where is he now," I asked Whisper curiously. "He said he was going back to his house. I wouldn't be surprised if he was in Moriarty's Saloon, hassling Gob and trying to get a discount because he is in there all the time," she said. So, in total, Vizago is at best a liar and at worst a thief. Got that? Good. That will be important later.

"He said he was in the Super-Duper Mart and pulled at a box and a section of ground retracted, revealing a stairway to the Vault door," she said.

"He went down there and said he had a scuffle with a Super Mutant. I won't believe it until he shows me a corpse with everything on it," she said skeptically. Just that moment, a man with messy hair and combat armor on walked in. That is Vizago.

"Dakota! I've been looking for you!" Yep. That is Vizago all right. Optimistic as always. Other times… well, let's just say last person who annoyed him when he was mad had one less limb to worry about. "Did Whisper tell you about it," he asked excitedly. "Yes, she told me all about how you found yet another death trap that is most likely going to kill us within the first ten minutes," I said to him. He looked a little wounded, as if his pride had just taken a hit.

"The fact that you think that I would lead you to certain death hurts me. Name one time that I led you into immediate danger," he challenges me.

"Well, let's see. The Radscorpion nest, where I got stung and had to defend myself for two days and two nights with just a laser pistol and a combat knife. Vault 106, where we nearly died at the hands of a Super Mutant Master and his demented lunatics. Evergreen Mills, where a Super Mutant Behemoth crippled Whisper and nearly ATE me. Vault 112 where Stanulis Braun trapped us in a demented version of what Pre-War life was like. Shall I go on?"

"Hey! That simulation helped you find your dad, who was in the pod right next to you. I suggested that you shoot the lock with the 10mm Pistol that Amata gave you while you were escaping Vault 101. But you said that a gun going off with him coming out of the simulation would be bad," he said, making a mildly valid point.

"Still. We had to deal Braun as "Betty", who made Whisper into an assassin and you into a mixed martial artist and me into a kid! More specifically, a ten-year old. That was not fun," I said countering him.

"Braun was a bitch, I know. But he did release us after you set off the failsafe and had the simulation Chinese soldiers kill all the Tranquility Lane residents," Vizago pointed out.

"I still don't see why Braun let us go and didn't just kill us. It was a little too generous, if you ask me."

"When we first met Braun as "Betty", you made him/her promise to release us. That is the only reason why Braun released us and you know it," Whisper said.

"Whatever. Forget it. Now," I started. "Tell me about this supposed 'Vault' you found," I told Vizago.

AN: Hey guys. I'm working on getting stuff out more often. I'm going to be putting little breaks in between chapters that explain events in the Fallout Universe. All the interludes will stick to canon and will involve things from F1, F2, and all the other games and things in the universe. Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and I'll talk to you in the next chapter. Bye!