Chapter 4: Up above a world so high.
Authors note: Thanks for the reviews everyone I'm glad you like it.
Disclaimer: I do not own Fallout 3.
Somah and I kept making our way through the ships prison quarters taking down as many of those little basterds as we could. I passed a cell that still had a survivor in it. It was a young woman in black combat armor and a security helmet. She was in a fetal in the corner of her cell mumbling something.
I opened it and she freaked out.
"PLEASE NO DON"T DISECT ME!" She screamed. I held up my arms in defense.
"It's okay I'm not one of them. I'm just here to help."
"N-No…There's no help no one's here to help were dead."
"Don't worry these things aren't god's they're fragile just like you and me."
"No were dead were dead we-"She was interrupted by a slap to the face.
I grabbed her by the shoulders and shook her a few times.
"We are not gonna die alright!" I shouted. "You get on your feet and you help us get off this god damn ship understand."
She looked at me in shock and nodded. I handed her my shock baton and we caught up with Somah. She was blocked by a big door with no switch to open it.
"Well any ideas?" She asked,
"Let's look for a lever or something." I said she looked at the woman behind me.
"Who's she?"
"Um…I don't know she never told me her name."
"J-Jessica." She said.
"Okay she's Jessica I'm Jayden and this is Somah." I introduced. We looked around to see if there was a switch or a lever to open a door. I saw another glowing switch like the one on all the cells. I waved my hand over it and it turned causing the door to open. I walked in to see another hallway with more cells.
"Is anyone there hello?" A small voice asked from one of the first cells. We walked over to see a little girl dressed in a prewar outfit.
"Are you okay?" I asked. She nodded.
"Yeah, I'm okay. What about that guy over there." She pointed to the cell across from hers and inside was a man dressed in a blue army suit with gold buttons and a matching hat. I walked up to him and he got up and looked at me.
"What's your name boy?" He asked.
"I'm Jayden."
"Robert Gould Shaw. Major of the U.S Army." He said as he stood up straight.
"You mean that guy in the Civil War?" I asked. "I thought you died at that attack on fort something."
"Fort Wagner." He said in an annoyed tone. "I laid there bleeding and was almost dead when a bright light consumed me and lifted me up to the sky. I thought it was heaven before those little green men started poking and shocking me."
"Wait, I thought you died with your troops? How have you been alive for over 400 years?"
"I can answer that." The girl said. "But you have to get me out first."
"Okay, how do I do that?"
"See that thing over there, press the button then press the buttons on the other devices, it will get hot and then blow up and I'll be free."
"Okay and I'm Jayden by the way."
"I'm Sally." She said as I made my way down the hall. The device wasn't hard to miss, I pressed the button and three switches came out. I pressed each one and quickly ran away as lights started going off and in an instant it exploded. The transparent doors disappeared and both Sally and Shaw walked out.
"Oh thank you." She exclaimed as she ran up to me. "Are you trying to escape the ship?"
"Yeah, but how has this man been alive so long?" I asked.
"The aliens keep him and a lot of other people in these pods." She said.
"What kind of pods?" Somah asked.
"I dunno they're cold and the people inside don't move, but the aliens let them out sometimes." She pointed over to Shaw. "Mr. Shaw here was let out a few days ago."
"So that's why I'm so cold." Shaw said. "Well what do we do now?"
"We beat the hell out of these little green bastards and get the hell off this ship." I said as are small group cheered except Jessica who was still fidgeting behind me.
"I know this ship better than anyone I could help you if you want." Sally said.
"Okay, let's go everyone." We all followed Sally as we made our way back to the main room and back to the large round door. She tore off a covering on a vent and crawled in. Somah scoffed.
"Boy, she played you like a fiddle." Before I could say anything the door opened up and Sally was standing there with a big smile on her face.
"How did you do that?" I asked.
"I sometimes get out of my cell and explore the ship, I just move a few wires around and stuff like this happens."
I looked over to Somah and gave her a toothy grin. "Shut up." She snarled as she pushed past me. We walked down the hall before we heard some more alien gibberish coming from another room. I signaled for everyone to stop as I slowly approached the window, I looked in carefully to see two aliens going through my things. One was examining my Pip-Boy and the other was holding up my armored vault suit. I walked back to the group and talked to them in a low tone.
"There are two up ahead, they have are stuff to." I whispered.
"So what's the plan?" Somah asked as Jessica started to freak out.
"There's nothing we can do they're going to find us and then they're going to cut us up and use us for experiments." Shaw wrapped his hand around her mouth.
"That'll be enough out of you." He said and then turned to me. "What do we do now?"
"I'll go in real fast and use this," I held up the shock baton. "to kill them both."
They all nodded and took a few steps back. I slowly walked forward and crouched low enough to avoid their view. I was in front of the door and in an instant I swiped my hand over the switch and opened the door. I ran in and hit the first one in the head three times before it exploded, the second one took a swing at my chest but I stepped out of the way and smashed the baton right in its head killing it instantly.
"It's all clear." I said as they walked over. I grabbed my vault suit and put it on along with my Pip-Boy and I walked over to a container. I looked through it and found my 10mm pistol, my knife and sniper rifle I also took my back pack and saw that my other belongings were still in it. I also looked through the other containers to find more weapons and equipment. Somah found her shot gun in one container and Shaw found his revolver and sword in the other. I found a 10mm SMG in the container and looked over to Jessica.
"This yours?" I asked she nodded and walked over to me.
"I'm sorry." She said taking her gun and looking through the container pulling out a few mags.
"It's okay, don't worry about it." I said.
"They're really not that different from Super mutants are they?"
"I wouldn't know I'm a Vault Dweller I've only been outside for a couple days."
"God I'm pathetic."
"Don't worry about it now let's grab whatever we can and move on." I said Somah scoffed.
"No way, I see what's gonna happen. We all continue on and then we get wasted." She loaded her shotgun. "I'll stay here and cover from the rear while you guys take care of the front."
"I'll stay too." Shaw said. "It will be better if we have two small teams covering each section of the ship rather than one massive team."
"Okay but take this," I said throwing him my hunting rifle. "Somah can show you how to use it, it's pretty easy."
He nodded as me Jessica and Sally moved on. We walked through a small door and into what looked like a small engineering room. Sally stopped us as she walked up ahead to see if the coast was clear. She walked back to us.
"They must be looking for us. I got an idea I'll distract them and you sneak past them.
"Or," I pulled out a plasma grenade. "You can take this grenade and turn the bastards to mush."
"Oh wow I get to use a grenade." She said with excitement. "Okay you wait here." She crawled through an air duct as Jessica and I stood there for a couple of seconds before we saw a green flash. We ran down the hall and saw nothing but two shock batons and a large pile of green goo.
"Nice job kid." I said as we continued on. I looked down the hall to see one alien doing a patrol. I took my rifle and looked down the sights and pulled the trigger blowing it's head clean off. Three more aliens came out and started firing their weapons. We took cover behind the wall I aimed my rifle and fired but the damn thing jammed.
"Shit, I just got this thing." I said checking the chamber while Jessica fired her SMG.
"How long have you had it?" She said firing a few more rounds and hitting one of the aliens.
"I just found it before I got abducted from some crazy camping guy." I pulled out my pistol and waited for Jasmine to finish.
"Reload."
I took her place and fire a couple of careful shots I hit one in its face and the other in its chest. We both stood up aiming our guns down the hall. Just then a door opened and we quickly aimed in the opened room.
"Sorry I took so long doors opened now." I picked up my rifle and we both walked in.
"Hey I heard your gun broke. You see those blue tube things on the shelf." She said. I walked over and picked one up. "Okay squeeze that tube on your gun." I did it and some blue liquid covered it until the tube was empty. I sat there looking at it for a few minutes before the liquid started moving. I looked closer and saw tiny blue spiders crawling all over it and crawling inside of it. My entire rifle was covered for a few seconds before they turned gray and then turned to dust. I looked down and I don't believe what I'm seeing my rife was shiny and looked perfectly clean. I picked it up and fired a round it was louder and more powerful than before.
"How is that possible?" I asked.
"The aliens use them to repair their weapons and armor all the time." Sally said. Jessica wasted no time before she started to do the same thing to her gun, afterwards we moved on. We walked across a bridge getting shot at by turrets but we took them out one after the other. We came across a little alien wearing a red jumpsuit I pulled out my pistol ready to kill it but was stopped by Sally.
"Don't do it he's like you he's a slave, he means you no harm." She shrieked. I looked down at the whimpering being and decided to let it live. We continued down further in the ship until we stumbled upon a small room with a very nice view of space and the sun. Sally grabbed me by my sleeve and dragged me upstairs.
"C'mon up here we can use this thing to go up and to where the boss alien is." We arrived at a small platform and Sally started to frown. "Oh no, they must have turned it off. This thing works kind of like an elevator and could have taken us straight to the boss alien's room."
"So what do we do now?" I asked.
We all stood there before Sally got an idea. She ran over towards a larger room that had a generator in it and immediately ran upstairs.
"I've got an idea!" She exclaimed. "We can ask the astronaut to go out in space and turn on the elevator for us."
"How the hell is an astro-," My sentence was cut off when I saw four pods sitting in the middle of the room. "whoa."
I walked up to one and touched the surface to feel nothing but cold ice. I looked in to see a man dressed as a cowboy with his hat and everything.
"Hey push this." Sally said in excitement. I walked over to the main switch and pushed the button mist flew out of the pods and the ice started to melt. In an instant all four of them fell to the ground. One was the cowboy the other was the astronaut the third was some kind of army medic and the last was what looked like a samurai warrior. They all slowly got to their feat all except the astronaut.
"Aww the astronaut died." She said in a sad tone.
"What happened to him?" I asked. She shook her head.
"I don't know these things just happen sometimes."
We didn't have time to grieve as we heard a gun click from behind us. Sally and I looked behind us and saw the cowboy and the soldier pointing their guns at us.
"Hands up!" The cowboy ordered. I slowly got up but quickly turned to point my rifle at the solders head and my pistol at the cowboys head. Then Jessica, Somah and Shaw came in and pointed their guns at them while the samurai and Sally just stood there.
"We can either put our guns down and talk this out, or we can all die like dogs." I said as everyone stood there we all raised our guns and holstered them.
"Who the fuck are you guys anyway?" The cowboy asked.
"I'm Jayden, this is Sally, over there is Somah, Jessica and Shaw." I introduced. "Who are you?"
"Call me Paulson." He said and walked off somewhere.
"Elliot Tercorien, serial number 3477809, Medic of the 108th Infantry Battalion in Anchorage" The solider said in a panicked voice.
"Anchorage? You mean that war in Alaska with the Chineses?" I asked he nodded.
"Yeah, my squad and I went up to help some of our men when a blinding light surrounded us. We couldn't move or anything. The next thing I know I'm strapped to a table and there poking and prodding me." He said and started looking around. "You haven't seen other men dressed like me have you?" I shook my head. "Oh, okay." He said as he walked away looking distraught.
I walked over to the Samurai but couldn't understand what he was saying.
"Hey sally, did these aliens have some kind of translator for this guy." I asked.
"I don't know this is the first time I've talked to him." She said.
"There's gotta be something." I said looking at the table in the center of the room. As I was looking I saw a glowing green ball floating on some kind of metal case. It had Japanese markings on the bottom kind of like a trophy so I touched it.
All of a sudden flashes of Japan, samurai training, battles and symbols entered my mind. I opened my eyes to see everyone staring at me. The samurai was first to speak.
(Are you all right boy?) He said, it wasn't in English but I understood what he said.
"Yeah I'm fine are you okay?" I asked.
(Yes many thanks for freeing me from my prison.) Was all he said as he walked over to a corner and kneeled down. Somah helped me up.
"So what's the plan?" She asked. I shook my head and turned to Sally.
"What's the plan?"
"Well the teleporter can be turned on from the higher level in space. Jayden can go out and activate it for us and we can all go to the captain's quarters." She said while I sighed.
"Why do I have to go out in space?" I asked while Sally lifted herself on the table and sat down.
"Well," She said kicking her feet around. "Mr. Paulson, Mr. Shaw, and Mr. Samurai don't even know what space is yet. Jessica and Mr. Elliot are too scared."
"I am not!" They said simultaneously.
"And Somah doesn't really look all that smart to work a space suit." Somah nodded in agreement. "So that just leaves you." She said in a sweet know it all voice. "You're the only one who's brave enough and smart enough to do this." I grumbled in defeat knowing she was right.
"Okay, so what do I have to do?"
"Well, they're probably waiting for us on the other side of that door. So were going to have to suck out all their air in order for you to pass."
"Even if I turn off their air they probably have a backup generator in case of emergencies."
"Three actually." She said sheepishly.
"What?"
"In three separate locations."
"What."
"Surrounded by more aliens and robot gaurds."
"WHAT!"
"I didn't say it would be easy." She said giggling.
(Alien Hangar)
After convincing Paulson to get revenge on these little bastards after what they did to his family we made our way to the hangar. It was a large room with the broken down ship hovering in the center and surrounded by eight large poles surging with electricity. We moved in a little closer to see that the bottom of the chamber led straight into space.
"Careful that's a long way down." He said as we took a few steps back. We looked all around the area both down and upstairs and didn't see anyone.
"Where are they?" He asked.
"I don't know." I said. "They probably didn't expect anyone to be here so the never bothered to guard it. This probably explains why they weren't in that other room where we found you and the others."
He nodded as we entered what we assumed to be the main room. We walked in the back and I saw what looked like a generator. I pushed the button and an alarm started going off. Mist started coming out but so did aliens from the lower level. I ran over to the balcony but lost control of my speed and ended up crashing into some switches. Just then a burst of electricity shot out and took out a whole horde of aliens and robots.
"Holy shit those damn towers shoot out lightning." Paulson exclaimed.
"Okay here's the plan you man these controls while I blow up that fucking generator."
"You got it!" He said while I ran back to the generator. I pushed all three switches and waited for the thing to blow while Paulson was pressing the switches like there was no tomorrow. It took a minute but the generator finally blew up. I walked over to Paulson and he pulled out his magnum.
"I missed a few." He said. "Two on the right three on the left." I pulled out my pistol while he ran to the left doorway. I ran over to the right and was immediately fired upon. I pointed my gun out and fired a few shots hoping to draw them back which they did and I fired a few more shots killing them both. I looked behind me to see that Paulsen had already killed his enemies.
"We done here?" He asked.
"Yeah were done." I said as we left the room.
We made it back to the main room to see more dead aliens lying on the floor. We ran to the center of the room to see the group pointing their guns at one of the smaller aliens.
"What should we do with it?" Somah asked.
"Just kill it." Jessica yelped.
"No we need to keep it prisoner to find out what they know." Elliot said.
"No wait!"
We all turned around to see Sally running towards us.
"He's not a bad alien he's a slave."
"What do you mean?" Shaw asked.
"Him and his friends were born smaller than the others and were declared weak. So him and his friends are used as engineers and test subjects."
"So what does he want?" I asked.
"He wants his people to be free." She said.
"How do you know this?" Somah asked.
"Here I'll show you." Sally said pulling out a green orb like the one I used to understand the Samurai. It flashed a bright light and the alien started talking.
(You should all be able to understand me by now.) It said, he still spoke alien but we could understand it. (The device I used was a memory storage unit. When we first bring people up from earth we scan their memories and store them here so when we need to understand their language, weapons or other unique abilities to figure out how to abduct them easier.)
"So you want us to help free your people?" I asked.
(Please.) He begged.
"I'll do it." Shaw said. "I helped free slaves before and I'll do it again."
"I'm in." Somah said.
"Me too." Jessica said.
Everyone but Paulson was onboard as we helped the small alien with his problem. I looked around and noticed crates of ammo and explosives lying around. After scavenging around I was able to find some clips for both my rifle and pistol. Paulson found his Winchester rifle and some more bullets for his gun.
Elliot and Shaw went to the cold storage room to take out the second generator while the rest of us kept a look out for more aliens. They built a small barrier between the pods and the rest of the room. It was littered with armor, melee weapons and guns.
"So where did you guys find this stuff?" I asked.
"There's a storage room filled with a bunch of crates filled with weapons and supplies." Sally said walking over to us with a crate of food. "There's even more in a different part of the ship."
We ate the food she brought as Elliot and Shaw made their way out of the cold storage room covered in green blood. Somah and Jessica were up next in the robotic facility. As we waited I looked around and noticed something.
"Where's the samurai?" I asked. Everyone shrugged their shoulders.
"I don't know." Sally said. "He walked down stairs and that's the last we saw of him.
"He's probably dead." Paulson stated bluntly.
With nothing to do I talked to the alien.
"So let me ask you something. When I picked up one of the orbs it was written in Japanese and when it flashed I could understand what he was saying and for some reason I know martial arts."
(The storage units can sometimes not only transfer information but also abilities as well.) He said pulling out another storage unit. (Take this one it's the astronauts you can use it to get a better understanding of how to use his suit.)
He held the orb up and it also flashed in my eyes. I saw the moon the pentagon and N.A.S.A and all sorts of prewar life. I opened my eyes to see Somah and Jessica.
It was time to finally get the hell off this ship.
I put the space suit on checking to see if it was sealed. I looked to everyone before I headed out.
"Everyone grab whatever you can carry were gonna need all the fire power we have to take these bastards out."
(The second you pass through that door I send out a signal for my people to start the takeover.)
"Okay I'll see you guys later."
"Good luck." Sally said.
I walked through the door and sealed it from my side. I pressed a switch and in an instant I heard the sound of alien screams and then nothing. I opened the door and tried not to stumble over the alien corpses that littered the floor as I made my way up to the top of the ship.
I walked out to the top of the ship and plugged in the power coils overlooking the small aliens killing the large aliens through the windows. I pushed the last coil and a teleporter turned on in the middle. I walked over to it still admiring outer space.
I would officially be known as the last man to ever walk in space.
I found myself in a small room and saw two teleporters, the one I came out of and the one I just turned on. The whole group came out and Sally was the first to get to work as she crawled through a vent. Everyone congratulated me as Sally opened the door to what looked like another observation deck.
We all looked down to see the earth. We all just stood there looking at the brown planet.
"In all my years I never would have thought I would see something like this." Shaw said.
""It's so pretty." Sally said.
"Almost makes you forget what we're doing up here." Somah said.
Just then an alien appeared.
Me, Paulson and Shaw drew our weapons and fired only to hit nothing.
(It is only a hologram of the head alien.) The little alien said.
The glowing head fired a laser beam down at earth and babbled about how we should surrender and accept our fate.
I loaded a clip in to my pistol.
"Fuck that." I said.
"This is bad." Elliot said. "But it also means we're getting under their skin."
"Of course we are their chicken shits." Paulson said.
We all moved on down the hallway and towards a door when we heard what sounded like a war breaking out.
"Okay you guys stay here I scout ahead and clear a way for you."
"This teleporter leads straight to the bridge of the ship. I f you can turn it on we can take over the ship." Sally said as she turned on another teleporter.
"Okay wish me luck." I said as I walked over to the teleporter. "By the way what's your name?" I said to the small alien.
(I don't really have one.) He said as Sally put an arm around his shoulder.
"Don't worry, will just give you one when this is over."
"Sounds good." I said as I walked through the teleporter.
As I moved forward I saw the little aliens beating the big aliens with pipe, shock batons and other blunt instruments. Every time one of the large aliens tried to get me three small aliens would jump in and take him down. Not before I heard something growl. I looked over in a corner and that's when I saw it. It was a big beige monster with no nose or anything but eyes ears and a mouth. It looked at me and gave out a large screech and just then three more appeared. I drew my sniper rifle and fired a round straight into one head. As it fell down the other three moved in after me taking down not just the small aliens but the big ones two. I fired another two rounds killing one but only injuring the other. It grabbed me by the throat and slammed me against the wall causing me to drop my rifle. I pressed my foot against its chest trying to keep its mouth away from me while I tried to get my pistol. I finally pulled it out and fired six rounds into its chest causing it to fall dead on the floor. The last one came out of nowhere and smacked my pistol out of my hand. I dogged a few more hits as I drew my knife out of my boot and dug it into its chest. It let out a gasp of breath and fell to the floor not before whispering 'thank you'.
The small aliens gave me my weapons back and collected their own guns as well.
"What the hell were those things?" I asked as one of them walked up to me.
(Those were originally humans the unlucky ones if I must say.) One of the aliens said.
"Why were they unlucky?"
(Because they didn't have the good fortune to die, the head aliens try to create them to be weapons for when they enslave the earth but they are to brainless to follow orders. They call them Abominations.)
That did it for me, I was pissed. To kidnap them is one thing but to turn them into theses monsters is just a disgrace.
"I'm gonna put an end to this shit right now."
(Right we will disable the death beam while you figure a way to the bridge.)
We nodded and made our way to our goals. The little aliens took down the four generators while I activated a teleporter to the top. I walked through and saw another teleporter right in front of me. I activated it and my friends were all here.
"All right lets end this." I said.
We all made our way to the bridge and we took out every last alien we could see. The head alien was cowering behind his chair begging for his life. Shaw gave the little alien who's been helping us his revolver and the little alien shot him in the head without any mercy.
"It's over" I said.
"We… did it." Jessica said in disbelief.
The celebration was cut short when another alien ship appeared before us.
(No this is just getting started) The alien said as Sally ran in.
"Ooohhh this is just like Captain Cosmos." She exclaimed as she sat in the captain's chair. Somah you stand over there, Mr. Elliot you guard the teleporter, Jayden you can be captain, Mr. Shaw, Paulson and Jessica can be the space chimp, little alien can be the engineer, and I get to fire the death ray!" She said while everyone moved into position.
A screen with a vision of the enemy's ship our death ray and shields and both our power levels appeared.
"Fire the laser." I shouted as a blue beam fired at the enemy ship.
"Convert all power to the shields." I ordered as they fired a beam at us, it did very little damage but all the power went off.
"Oh no, not good." Somah said as she drew her shot gun.
(I will restart the power you hold the others off.) The little alien said as he got to work.
Just then more aliens appeared. We all drew our guns and opened fired. They took cover by the wall firing shots of blue plasma at us. Elliot fired his assault rifle at them only hitting two before he ran out of ammo.
"Reload!" He shouted as Jessica opened fired. Both Paulson and Shaw were calm and cool taking their time and shooting hitting their targets. The power came on and I heard someone talking from somewhere.
(Hello? Is anyone there this sorcery has taken me all over the place.)
"Hey it's the samurai!" Sally exclaimed as she opened the door. The samurai was covered in in green blood and chunks as I looked behind him to see alien bodies with heads chopped off and throats slit.
"Great job." I said as I moved back to the controls.
There were a couple of close calls but we managed to take down the alien ship. It blew up and crash landed into the Earth. We all cheered as the ship went down the small alien came up to me.
(Great work all of you me and my people owe you are lives.) He said.
"Only your friendship." I said. I walked over to the head alien's corpse and picked up his gun. "They are gonna need a leader to help free your people." I gave him the gun. "Omega."
(Omega?) He asked.
"Your name, those alien bastards will fear Omega as he comes down and free his people." I said he took the gun and Shaw patted him on the back.
"When I was chosen to be leader they gave me this revolver here and with it I helped my country to fight. Now you can do the same." Shaw said.
(Alright, I'll do it.) He said taking the captain's chair. (Also I sent down a pod to help transport you back to Earth whenever you want.)
"Thank you." I said as I shook everyone's hand and said my good byes. I walked through the final teleporter and was ready to finally find my father. Because if fighting an alien ship and killing hundreds of Aliens didn't prove my worth I don't know what will.
Whew long chapter. Sorry if this comes off as a little rushed but I just found this part of the game boring but I needed this sequence for later purposes. My story will get better from here on out thanks again for the reviews till next time.
Peace, Love, Shadow.