Fallout 3: Cure the World

by lionhead

This is an extention too the storyline of the fallout Bible, written in the same way. I start of with the chosen ones actions in Fallout 2 and then proceed with what could happen afterwards in the following chapters.

4. Chapter 4

On March 2263 a person from NCR was send out too find a way too get into the glow and extract the cure. This person was called the Last Hero. He was first send too Arroyo too ask guidance of the elder, who saved the world 20 years ago. Then he would be on his own to find out how too get inside the glow and Metropolis.

The guy arrives at arroyo and consults with the elder. The elder tells him that he doesn't know much of the glow, his ancestor went there and recovered something for the BOS, he suggest he should find the BOS and ask there The Last Hero sets out too the south and finds the brotherhood of steel new HQ at Navarro base. He is send straight too Ronald Maxson, the new head of the BOS after they discharged Francis. He gives the information the Vault Dweller had given them, it's a holodisk with on it. This is of little use, he heard from the elder the Vault Dweller also brought some research information with him, but no one knows where that has gone. Anyways, the Last Hero sets out for NCR. There he gets some training in fire arms and degreases the riots, killing the rebel leader. He also gets some information on a holodisk intended for a guy in Vault City. But the Last Hero takes the holodisk too the first citizen instead leaking information about a spy in Vault City, Westin. Order is restored as found out Westin was the source of the riots. Then the Last Hero is send too Gecko and gives the research disk too doctors there. He solves some other problems the citizens of gecko had with the power plant and he establishes a new route too NCR. With the new weapons and Armours he got from the BOS he is ready too face Metropolis. He heads in silently and discovers all the secrets Metropolis has and exposed them. Then he rejoins the People of metropolis on a difficult way and the vault is opened. The Last Hero enters first, a couple of dead bodies by the front door and a whole lot of damage too the door itself. Further in the vault there are signs of large combats with rotting meat and funguses blood everywhere. Further down they discover the horror, the scientists have changed themselves in to mutants. But most corpses are here, staged up super mutants, maybe the last scientists, maybe no one survived. The lower levels are blocked but the Last Hero finds a way too get around that and he find 2 remaining scientists, one mutant and one human playing cards. The man asks what has been going on here and the Scientists reply, "we have found the meaning of life." The hero sees they had destroyed all the vials and most of the research too the cure, "We thought nothing more good can come out of this then what happened inside this vault."

They tell that most scientists wanted too become mutants, lots of the became but instead of using their own bodies too bash the door they used the last human scientists, this lead too an big battle, some super mutants fought along the humans, "eventually 4 of us where left, 3 humans and one super mutant. By then the guns where empty and we attacked Thomas over here head on. But we then realised that it had no point, he couldn't kill us and we couldn't kill him. 1 Scientist wanted too research again but he got in contact with FEV and we put him out. Then we decided that all FEV and research should be destroyed, the 3rd scientist was killed in the progress." The people of Metropolis are stunned by this story. They bring the scientist up and try too convincing him too build more Cure, but he refuses. The Last hero takes back what is left of the research too gecko and he finally goes too The Glow.

Armed with a lot of Rad-x and Radaway he is untouched by the radiation. With his new found outdoorsman skills and weapon techniques he fights of the floaters and centaurs and he enters the doomed base. He sees a lot of dead bodies on the way down, radiation is so intense he doesn't have much time before the radaway is gone. He quickly finds The A.I. computer and asks for power regenerations (which has been shut off again) and clearance. The computer responds and cries for help actually. The Last Hero heads more down, as fast as possible, he now is further then the ghouls where able too go. He finds an Air purifier and fixes it, giving him more time because some heavy radiation is cleared from the area. He heads down and down until he gets too the part untouched by the nuclear warheads that rained down on the lab. Large portions of the last 2 levels are filled with FEV. On the walls and on the roofs, the equipment, floor and dead bodies everywhere. He studies the bodies finding out that they where overwhelmed by FEV viruses and couldn't possible have survived. He quickly realizes that if mutated critters like a floater, centaur or even a radscorpion would be infected this heavily who knows what they might become. The hero finds some vials of the Batch the ghouls used and with some samples of the dead bodies and some samples of the loosened virus he heads back too NCR. There they study the virus, giving the Last Hero errands too Metropolis, Vault city and Arroyo. But vault city and Arroyo have both different solutions too the problem then each other or NCR, the Last hero has too choose. Arroyo wants that the Last Hero goes too the glow again and destroys the vials, bring back the loosened virus and seal the glow up for good. Vault City wants the Last hero too find test subjects too mutate with the virus and NCR wants the last hero too help find a cure, with this new virus unleashed into the glow they can make millions of cures for any kinds of diseases, but the glow should remain intact (as far as that is possible) and be re-opened.

Without knowing what too do the last hero went back too the glow, when he got there he found a ghoul sitting near the edge of the crater. When the last hero approached the ghoul actually went on his knees, saying he finally found a normal. The ghoul told he was from a town too the southwest inside the blast area of the glow. The last hero had read somewhere that when west Tec research facility was hit 2 towns disappeared; they just got engulfed in radiation and FEV. The last hero decided to go too this town where the ghoul came from. A couple of kilometres northeast laid the other town, the ghouls there where not so friendly as his own said the ghoul when they travelled. When he got there the whole town actually looked more pleasant then necropolis in his old days, the ghouls actually made quite a community with their short life span and fragile bodies. The head told that it had been almost 200 years since they saw a normal, the other town had a visitor 50 years ago but they ate him and wore his skin, disgusting. The hero is not scared by this, the elder asks him to find a way too make them reasonable again. So the last hero travelled to this place, when he got there they didn't attack him immediately, instead he was lead too the leader. Seth II was his name and The Last Hero remembers there was a ghoul named Seth in necropolis too. Seth II said that he was send here by Seth from Necropolis, he was his son and with mechanical enhancements he survived a long time. They have been worked up because Seth usually reported in every year, last year he hasn't given a responds and everybody thought normals have killed him. Anyway the Last Hero tells the whole story and Seth II apologizes for his actions and cuts a deal with the town too the south. He tells the last thing he got from Seth was some research data, half of it actually the other half was given too a young boy in necropolis. The Data contains the portion that the vault Dweller handed too the BOS, how it got in the hands of Seth is unknown. Probably a super mutants or ghoul got hold of it. Now the last hero heads back to Metropolis again too find this boy. He tells about the two towns, the ex-ghouls of Metropolis respond afraid and angry and refuse too help the Last Hero too find this data, or help the ghouls of that town. They actually don't want anything too do about it but demand the last Hero too find a way too get this problem solved or else they will. The last Hero know what they mean and he goes out too the BOS, too tell that they had a leak and might still have. He has 1 month too do it all, too cure the world.

In one of the 2 towns they got in contact with Washington which was invaded by English troops. Theses troops where defeated and but Washington was almost entirely destroyed with the process. 2 Nuclear devices exploded 2 weeks after the English invasion and the regime collapsed and scattered, New York survived the blasts too, 3 vaults in the facinity rescued most of the new Yorkers and they headed back too they're town, trying too eak out a pathetic existence.

Anyway Washington got in contact with the lab near the town; they gave important information about the world after the war, including a world map, with the new forming of the countries.

They report that after the big war, china got totally retreated into they're own country, they even retreated into Mongolia, which they conquered. Then the Americans left, just like that and as a desperate choice china launched all his nuclear devices, they split in the air and at the same time America's missiles passed china's. They dropped; the American army disappeared into the waters and coasts. China got their acts together and fled too Japan, which they conquered too. Europe was unhurt by nuclear explosions except 3, one destroyed Tel Aviv, one dropped into the North Sea and one landed between Iraq and Iran. However no contact has yet been established, they believe something else happened as well. Russia took advantage of the situation when they saw the missiles and expanded south but Chinese forces where unbeatable and they soon stopped, having only captured some smaller countries. India did nothing and spares they're troops too defend themselves against the newly made China and EU. Next china went down too Indonesia, however Australia went there too, getting support from an enormous amount of troops from Africa. The Australians won the war over Indonesia after 20 years of combat. The Chinese just stopped caring for the countries and signed a peace treatency. This was what the inhabitants of Indonesia wanted too. Half of china's population was gone and they had little room left too live so they took Thailand and Korea too. Probably the countries are now waiting who is going too attack next, who gets Africa and who dares too find out what the hell happened in the USA.

The countries are probably scared of the US, they know about the FEV virus, they know the potential dangers if it got loose. Although we think they probably tried too investigate what happened in these past 200 years, maybe they even already know and just don't care. Whatever it is the town of the ghouls works day and night too find some contact, they know that somewhere close is a communications facility that survived the holocaust, from there they may get in contact, so they can get some help. The last hero can't think straight anymore, he has too go back too new Reno where the council is located. He also wants too get help from the BOS. A ghoul from the south town goes along with him too tell what is happening. They evade metropolis as much as they can, the ghoul might get injured. The counsel has too tell them how and what. Arriving at New Reno isn't pleasant, people walk over the street looking disgusted at the ghoul entering their town. People close their windows; children are dragged inside as if he is the devil. They arrive at the council and they (after a short brief) agree to listen too the ghoul. He tells his story, a bit shaken up and the council heads back too their consulting room. An hour later they come out and tell that if the Last Hero can get the brotherhood on their side they will give medical supplies too the towns and research so they can establish contact with the outer world.