Chapter 2: So far for my vacation

Part 2.1: Kids?

I ran to the security room to check who was banging on the door on my way there Amata and Charon joined me. "how could someone ever reach the door there were motion trackers all over the entrance plus there were 2 Mark VII turrets in there nobody got through unnoticed. Normally" I thought to myself. Inside the security room where 10 television screens showing the images of every camera in the bunker on the big screen in the middle was the bunker's door with in front of it 2... Kids? I immediately pushed the alarm button. A loud siren filled the entire bunker. From every room people came running, I ran to the atrium where according to plan everybody would meet to receive their orders from me or Amata if I wouldn't be around. I tuned in on the security frequency of the bunker: " do you see anyone else in there Pinkerton?" I yelled into the communicator. "no sorry the cameras see no one else except for the 2 kids." Was the response I got. In the mean time I had reached the atrium I walked up to the stage. In front of it the complete combatant crew of the bunker had gathered. Among them were Reilly's rangers: Reilly herself Brick with, Eugene in her hand butcher one of the medics in the bunker, Donovan their tech who spends most of his days now in the hangar trying to fix up more cars and motorcycles and Theo their quarter master who I resurrected on top of the statesman hotel using 3 fission batteries some iron wire and 2 iron plates. Also in front of me where the regulators and other groups of fighters I encountered trough out the wastelands. I raised my voice over the mumbling of the crowd: "Ladies and gentlemen it seems someone actually made it through our defences without us noticing it, it seems it's only 2 kids but I still want some heavy cover when I go out to get them. So here's the plan: Brick and fawkes you cover me from inside the bunker, Amata you will get the one closest to the door I'll get the other one. The rest of you wait here if something goes wrong we'll call you." I jumped of the stage and ran towards the main entrance. Amata next to me handing me my alien blaster: firelance. She asked me what the backup plan was. I replied there was no backup plan. Arrived at the main entrance I punched in the password to open the door. Behind the door were the 2 kids covered in blood I rushed in and grappled the boy who was standing behind the girl while I pointed the blaster at the wooden door behind him. Amata had already dragged the girl in and by the time I was in the door slammed shut. I rushed towards the hospital where Butcher en Maddison were waiting."O my god what happened?" Maddison yelled. "No idea they were standing outside like this." I responded. "Get them onto the table" Maddison pointed while she grappled a couple of bottles aqua pura to wash the blood away. I lay the boy onto the first table and Amata lay the girl on the second one. Both had passed out.

Part 2.2: What happened?

I walked out of the room. Li and Butcher would make sure the kids were physically fine, mentally would be another issue. Amata came out of the hospital too, she walked away from the door when I put my arm on her shoulder, she turned around and looked at me: "What is it?" she asked me. "you're better with kids then anyone in here you should talk to them when they are OK." "What makes you think I'm good with kids?" " Well you were the one who calmed the remaining little lamplighters when those enclave fugitives destroyed it." I said thinking back to earlier that month when a band of enclave A-holes practically destroyed little lamplight, the kids that were still alive we took with us into the bunker. "I guess you're right, Ok I'll talk to them. What do you want to know?" "1 thing where are they from?"

Days passed, the kids remained in shock Amata talked to them almost the entire day but still they didn't say a word. Physically they were fine but they were in sever shock. In the mean time me wounds on my back healed up fine. After a couple of days I walked into the room were the boy and girl stayed. "how are they?" I asked Amata who was going through the girls long brown hair. "still nothing they just keep staring into the nothing without saying anything." I walked to the boy and kneeled to his height, I looked him in the eyes and asked him: "Where are you from boy What happened to you?" I got no response. I got and turned around to Amata: "You want something to eat?" "Yes and bring something for them too, something sweet they like that." "Ok no problem I'll be right back" I said as I walked out, at the door I heard a silent mumbling I turned and saw Amata staring at the girl . I ran up too her and kneeled in front of the girl: "What did you say?" "The cliff top shacks, that's where we're from." She whispered silently. "Thank you." I said as I stood up and gestured to Amata try to make both of them sleep and come with me. As I stepped outside Sarah walked up to me: "how are they?" She asked pointing to the door. "they're from the cliff top shacks get everyone to the atrium and prepare some vertibirds I want to see what happened there" I said to sarah on which she ran off to do as I asked her. In the meantime Amata had walked out and asked me what my plan was. I simply ran towards the armoury and put on the best power armour we had grasped the 2 alien blasters who I shoved into the holsters on both sides of the armour. Before I left I grasped A3-21's plasma rifle. Meanwhile Amata had suited up as well: "So I suppose you're scrapping your trip to England?" "Yeah till I find the A-hole who did this." I said while I slammed an alien cell into Firelance.