Chapter 3: Tunnel System to Vault 101

The samurai had indeed gotten himself into the tunnel system that he felt would lead him to Vault 101 where a time machine was thought to be located by the samurai. He could hear the footsteps of a few Enclave soldiers coming his way so the samurai hid as the patrol of Enclave soldiers passed.

"That Aku must be very paranoid about this samurai, a sword, such a weak weapon" laughed a soldier.

"Yea, I know what you mean, we could waste that samurai anyway" added the second soldier.

As the two Enclave soldiers continued their patrol, Jack dashed across the tunnels hoping to avoid anymore Enclave soldiers. The soldiers were very hi-tech and likely had powerful armor. Though the samurai was skilled himself, the Enclave soldiers might be too much for Jack to take on. But as the samurai crept up to one corner, someone pulled him in.

"Don't be afraid" said a woman's voice to Jack.

"Who are you?" asked Jack.

"I'm Anita, I've been working with the resistance of Vault 101 against the Brotherhood of Steel and the Enclave continued Anita.

"I am Samurai Jack" replied Jack.

"I know, I've heard about you, you could help us stop the Enclave and their allies" continued Anita.

"Get me to the time machine and I can make sure none of this would ever happened" said Jack.

"I'll see what I can do, follow me" said Anita.

Jack indeed had no other choice but to follow Anita as she led him through the network of tunnels heading straight to Vault 101. There Jack was greeted by Butch who was in second command of the resistance.

"Wow, you found Samurai Jack?" asked Butch with astonishment.

"Yea, a few Enclave soldiers passed by his position before I found him" continued Anita.

"Alright, we're going to give those Enclave soldiers a taste of their own medicine" laughed Butch.

"Where's the time machine, your vault was rumored to be holding one" continued Jack.

"Oh, that thing, yea, about that, it's heavily guarded by those Enclave soldiers" continued Butch.

"Then we must come up with a plan to create some sort of a diversion" continued Jack.

Indeed, Jack and the resistance were drawing up plans on how to battle the Enclave and the Brotherhood of Steel whom were guarding the time machine. Jack had hoped he'd be able to get through them in time, Butch used some of his Sewer Snake comrades to steal some arms from Enclave soldiers whom were asleep on the job.

"What lazy bums" laughed Butch as his gang threw the weapons on the ground.

"I think we got everything we need to give the Overseer the right surprise he wants" said Anita.

Indeed the resistance along with Jack were gearing up for something big between the Overseer, the Enclave soldiers and the Brotherhood of Steel and their soldiers whom were guarding the time machine.

"Time for inspection" said the Overseer as he and a group of Enclave soldiers came with him in a Gestapo style fashion.

The Overseer felt confident he could find the missing weapons the Enclave soldiers had somehow lost, for which the Enclave soldiers in question who had lost their own weapons were reprimanded and demoted. After investigating some other tenants within Vault 101, the Overseer and the Enclave soldiers moved toward Butch's room.

"Search all you want" said Butch to the Overseer, "you're not going to find any kind of surprises here."

"I wish there were so that I can find some excuse in detaining you for good" continued the Overseer.

But the Enclave soldiers turned up empty handed.

"He's clean sir, and I do mean that in a disappointing manner" said the Enclave soldier.

"Good, I hope Anita doesn't have any kind of surprises for us" said the Overseer.

The Overseer stepped into Anita's room where Jack was hiding in a secret room that was blocked off.

"I hope there will be no surprises you have hidden away" said the Overseer to Anita.

"Look, I have nothing to hide, see for yourself" replied Anita.

"Alright, men if you wish?" asked the Overseer as he signaled the soldiers to tear up the place just in case.

Indeed the Enclave soldiers were typically tearing up Anita's room as they always did since the Overseer felt it would be a ruse to demoralize her. But suddenly an Enclave soldier pushed over some empty lockers that were in the way of something and instead the soldier found a large room where someone could hide in.

"Sir, take a look at this!" cried the Enclave soldier.

"You head on in" continued the Overseer to the Enclave soldier.

The Enclave soldier readied his weapon hoping it would be an unwelcome intruder Anita had probably brought in. The samurai who was able to climb up to the ceiling tried to keep his cool as the Enclave soldier continued to search the now-known-secret-room.

"This is very suspicious, a red flag" remarked the Enclave soldier, "someone should obviously be in this room somewhere, but where?"

"Well, if you were that intruder, why not picture how you would hide?" suggested the second Enclave soldier.

"Hmm, maybe there might be another secret passageway I might be able to escape to" said the Enclave soldier to which he pounded his fists against the walls trying to see if any of them were hallow to no luck.

"Nothing" sighed the second Enclave soldier to the Overseer.

"Hmm, sounds like you passed the inspection, clean up and carry on" said the Overseer to Anita.

As the soldiers and the Overseer left, after a few minutes Jack got out of his hidden place.

"That was a close one" said Anita to Jack.

"Listen, we must hurry if we are to get to the time machine" continued Jack.

"I can obtain the Overseer's password and also Enclave soldier armor for your disguise" continued Anita.

"Good, let's hope this plan works" continued Jack.