Vault 101
I heard a beeping sound fill my ears. My eyes were still shut. Is he alive, he should be. I heard people talking. When I opened my eyes I saw a guy in a lab coat. Hello Jacob, my name is James. Welcome to the year 2277. You have been frozen for 200 years. You did not age at all. All your stuff is in this locker over here. He pointed to a locker with my name on it. Where is Missy I asked as I climbed out of the stasis chamber. Her chamber broke and she lived in the vault. She begged us to wake you. But we didn't. She died last week. How I asked, Lung Cancer James replied. She wanted you to have this, he handed me a notebook. I looked in it and saw pictures of me and her, and notes under them, also dates and the time of some of them.
Now Jacob since your only 16 you can't legally live on your own until your 18 in the vault, so if you want you can come live with me. Umm okay sure. Where are my parent's I asked him, they didn't get accepted in a vault, I'm sorry Jacob. It's alright I said feeling tears form in my eyes. I grabbed my stuff and followed James to his home. I kept getting glares from everybody and hearing whispers saying is that him. I looked at my watch which read 5pm. When we got to his home, he showed me my room. I set my stuff down. And followed him down to the reactor level. I'm taking you down to get you fitted for a pipboy. I chuckled at that. What's so funny James asked. I remember when the pipboy's were being made. We turned a corner and were heading downstairs when a girl and her father were arguing over something. That's the Overseer and his daughter James pointed out; you don't want to get on her dad's bad side. Her dad seems like an asshole. He is but try to be nice to him. When we got to the reactor level Jonas was waiting for us.
Is this him Jonas asked, yes this is the one I've been telling you about. Jonas walked up to me and pulled out a tape measure. After a few minutes of standing still Jonas said to hold my arm out. I did and a minute later I had on a pipboy 3000. James thanked Jonas and we headed back upstairs. Ahh there you are, me and James turned around and saw the Overseer with his daughter. Is this him he asked, yes it is James said. Well young man tell us, how do you like the vault. Umm It's alright I guess, You guess? He sneered, James I need to talk to you in my office right now, they both turned a corner in disappeared. I turned around and started walking back to my home, when I heard someone yell wait. I stopped and turned around. The overseer's daughter was right behind me. I never got your name she said, It's Jacob I replied, Amata. We shook hands. So tell me about yourself she said. Well where do I begin. Before you do let's go to the diner and get some smoothies, she urged me to follow her. When we got smoothies we sat down at a table.
As I told her about my life I saw that more people were showing up. They all pulled up chairs and listened. Weren't you in The Great War, someone said. The Great War, memories came flashing in front of me. Yea I was I finally answered back. I told them all about it, including what I did after that and how I ended up here. By the time I finished all of them were heading out. I looked at my pipboy and saw that it was 8pm. Wow Amata said sounding shocked. The Mister Handy robot butler, Andy came up to us and asked if we wanted something to eat. Me and Amata both ate Yum Yum Deviled Eggs.
When we finished I got up and started walking out. Amata grabbed my arm and turned me around. What I asked. Do you know we have the GOAT tomorrow, what's that I asked. It's a test that determines your job in the vault. If you want we can study for it, where I asked, your place she said. Why not yours I protested, my dad would have a fit. Oh well alright let's go. When we got to my room she dropped her notes on the Goat on my bed. I shut the door. What's that she said pointing to my Winterized Combat Armor. That's the Armor I wore while in Alaska. Here I'll show you it and my weapons that I used. After 20 minutes of showing her all my Military stuff we finally got to studying. We spent the whole night going over notes, most of it I knew.
When I woke up I saw that my room was dark. I looked at my pipboy and saw that it was 4am. I looked over and saw Amata curled up next to me. I got up quietly, not to wake her. I picked up the notes and put them on the table. I reached in my Jumpsuit and pulled out my dog tags. I held them in my hand looking at them. I heard Amata move so I looked up and saw her climbing out of bed. She walked up to me. You didn't show me this last night. She took the dog tags from my hands and looked at them. Since they were still around my neck she had to stand close. When she looked our noses where not even an inch apart. I backed away. She started coming closer, she had seductive look on her face. Amata, your dad wouldn't like this I said to her, I know he wouldn't but I would.
I tripped over her bag and fell on my bed. A second later she was on top of me. She had me pinned down. For a girl she had a lot of upper arm strength. She leaned in a kissed me. When she pulled away she had lust in her eyes. She was probably going to do more when James knocked on my door. She got off me and fixed her hair and all that. I opened the door and asked him what was wrong, nothing he replied just wanting to see what you were doing. We were studying Amata said. I looked at my pipboy and saw that it was 8am. Amata when does the GOAT start, at 8 why. It's 8am. We both ran down to the classroom. You to are early, Hello I'm Mr. Brotch, I shook his hand. I rescheduled the Test till 8:30 but if you two want to take it now you can. Alright I said, we both sat down beside each other. While Mr. Brotch handed out the test. 15 minutes later we're both done. Well let's see what you get Amata, hmm Shift Supervisor, you'll be managing how people work, could I be talking to the next Overseer, Mr. Brotch said with a smile on his face. Thanks' Mr. Brotch. Okay let's see what you get Jacob, hmm that's odd. What is I asked, originally we had 100 vault jobs, we took 50 out because they involved leaving the vault.
Well what did I get. Vault Dweller Mr. Brotch said sounding excited. In the description it says, well you are one of the lucky inhabitants of your vault to venture out into hell, enjoy. If you will excuse me I'll have to go tell the Overseer about his. 20 minutes later the Overseer came into the room saying that I had to go do my job. 1 hour later I'm at the vault door. As the Vault door was closing, I looked back and saw Amata running towards the door. She dove through at the last second. Why did you do that I asked. What you think I would let you go out and have all the fun on your own. Yea right, and also we didn't finish what we started.