LIFE IN A VAULT CHAPTER 4
The next week, life in vault 101 became very hectic. Wally Mack gave up on the tunnel snakes and became a security officer with his dad. Butch became a depressed alcoholic, crying in his room all day.
The tunnel snakes seemed to be done for. Without Liam Neeson, most people became very sick after mixing up their meds. Stanley got progressively worse and worse at his job, and gave Joey more and more responsibilities. Joey worked hard in the engineering technical room, but plenty of problems were beginning to crop up. When the vault water pump pipes were losing pressure, he had to duct tape them until Stanley could fix them.
One day he was walking to the technician room. Out of a shadowy hallway, two men on tricycles rode by.
They hit Joey in the back of the leg.
"GOD DANGIT OW!" Joey shouted, falling to the floor. The two attackers got off their tricycles. It was Butch and Wally Mack.
"Haha , look at whimpy whimp Joey!" Wally Mack said.
"What a foop" Butch shouted. Butch kicked him in the ribs. He then stumbled and almost fell over.
"Butch you're drunk!" Wally shouted.
"Shut up!" Butch yelled back. He began to cry. "That's what my mom used to say"
"Butch calm down! It's alright man!" Wally shouted back.
Butch wouldn't listen , he hopped on to his tricycle and rode away.
"Look what you did!" Wally shouted at Joey. He kicked Joey in the ribs and rode off after Butch.
Joey eventually reached the technician room. Stanley was sitting on the floor, rubbing his head.
"Joey, I'm feeling really awful, I gotta take the hour off" Stanley left the room. On his way out, he patted Joey on the back. This caused a huge amount of pain in Joey's bruised ribs. Stanley did not notice.
Joey walked up to the electrical output machine. All the knobs and dials seemed to be in proper output mode. He walked over to the power supplier. Every room was getting just the right amount.
He checked the air pressurizer and water directional box. Everything was in place.
Just then, Officer Gomez walked in. "Hey Joey!" he said.
Joey looked at him for a moment and then went back to his work.
"Oh shoot, did Wally and Butch get at you again?, sorry man, I wish I could have helped"
Joey grunted in reply.
"I'll talk to the overseer about it, he might listen to my this time"
Joey grunted in reply again, pretending to be busy.
"Well, its good you take it well, you leave the fighting back to the security! We'll find a way to deal with them" Officer Gomez said.
"Wally Mack is a security guard!" Joey shouted, angrily.
"Oh … right, well ,we can take away his privileges or something, you hang in there Joey"
Officer Gomez left. Joey felt very annoyed. If only there was some way he could fight back against them.
Just then he noticed the computer panel beside the air pressurizer. He could do something!
He went over and signed in. He looked through the output options. There was an option.
He set the options for direct output on the air pressurizer. He could control what sort of oxygen Wally Mack got. He looked around the room. No one was there. As stealthily as he could, he flipped off the oxygen, pooped into the air filtration box, and sent the air to Wally Mack's house. He noticed he could do the same with the water supply for Wally Mack. He switched the water directional box to the channel that connected to Wally's vault rooms. And just as before, he peed into the water directed for Wally's kitchen. He laughed out loud. Looks like Wally Macks family will have some house problems.
He looked at the electrical output box. There must be some way he could get back at Butch…. There was!
He went over to the output options, and shut down all the lights in Butch's home.
Joey laughed outloud. Stupid Butch! He thought.
He might not have beat up his bullies, but he could make their lives a living hell!