Up the mountain.

Junior pulled out a normal pistol he had in place of his second laser pistol and fired on some giant fire ants that were only half as big as the normal kind. "Why are this bugs so small?"

Aiko then took aim and shot one's head off and said, "Oh I've been checking the background levels of radiation on my old Pip-boy all the way up the higher we get the lower the levels become."

Yuuko then load one of his pistols with explosive ammo and fired on a giant ant making its head blow up. "then the top of the mountain might be a radiation free zone!"

Miharu then took aim with her shot gun and fired on a giant ant. "first unlimited Stimpaks and radaway now a possible radiation free zone. Japan you are miracle place in the worlds end!"

Hideyoshi was running from a fire aunt that was breathing fire and chasing him, the ant had hearts in its' eyes. "HELP!"

Akihsia then swung his protonic Axe slashing the aunt in half from behind. "Step off my sister in law!"

Hideyoshi then began to cry, "I'm your brother in law!"

Yuuko then smiles as she finished off the last aunt by throwing an explosive into its mouth making it blow up.

They then continued up the mountain as Akihisa checked his pip-boy, "According to the data. Japanese vaults seven and eight are hooked together by a monorail track. Vault seven lacks wood purifying systems but has double food making systems. Vault eight has double water purifying but no food making systems. Vault tech want to see if the two vaults would trade to live or start a war over what they need."

Yuuji then spoke up, "so basically the idea was for the two vaults to unite to allow the dwellers to live, they just want to see if they would do it peacefully or through war."

Akihisa nodded as they came to a gate that had a man standing guard in a box.

The man was in a Japanese red and black vault suit. He had armor over it that was made from scrap metal made to look like samurai armor. He had a sword over his right shoulder.

The sword's blade looked to be part of a Vertibrid's copter blades broken off and wielded to a handle then sharpened to make a sword. At his side were two homemade laser guns.

The vault six guard then said, "What brings you this fair up the mountain?"

Akihisa then said, "visiting my father up in Vault ten."

The guard then opened the gate to reveal a feudal Japanese style village built around the vault gate. There was also a massive gap in the mountain patch behind the village, a gap too large to clime or cross." Now welcome to vault seven village. But sadly thanks to a little fight seven and eight had the only way to get farther up the mountain is through the vaults monorail track. Which the last train of the day has left so looks like your spending the night enjoy."

Shouko then looked at the man and asked, "Why are you all not living in the vault?"

The man then said, "you see now right now seven and eight are now so peaceful of neighbors we view our selves as one big vault. But it wasn't always like that. Shortly after the great war the vaults got into a fight over resources. We used most of both vaults weapon systems making that large gap which only leaves the monorail track as the only thing that can cross it. A side effect of this most of both vaults living quarters were destroyed forcing all but the leaders our feudal lords to move out and build around them."

Kouta then spoke up, "and here I thought just for a moment people had settled things without war."

As the gang walked n Yuuko grabbed Akihisa's arm and point to an Onsen sign. "Honey look an Onsen!"

Akihisa then looked to Yuuko and said, "what is it with you and water dear?"

Yuuko point to her neck which had three small lines on each side, "well when you have a mutation that's lets you breath underwater, you kind of grow to like it dear."

Akihisa then said, "Right I sometimes forget about that.

Everyone but Junior and Akihisa blinked confusion and said, "Wait you're not about to speed past that like you didn't just say that."

Hideyoshi's eyes were as big as diner plates, "My sister is a mermaid!?"

Miharu then looked to junior's neck to see the same three lines, "you weren't kidding."

Junior then winked at his girlfriend, "A man doesn't lie about having a superpower my love"

Yuuko crossed her arms. "what it's a common mutation. Very common in the commonwealth." No one knew who to respond to that so they just moved on.

Yuuko pulled her husband along to the Onsen as she said. "Come along my samurai."

Shouko then pulled Yuji along, "come a long Yuuji we most trade what we got from the Vault Ironman protected for rooms for the night"

Yuuji then screamed as he was pulled off by Shouko.

At that moment Junior and Miharu walked off to check things out.

Junior smiled as he looked at the buildings made in the feudal building style he heard about it from his parents but to see it was amazing."

Miharu smiled, "Yeah." She then noticed a 16-year-old girl in a red kimono with her black hair tied into a bun, was sitting outside on the ground a sad look on her pale face as she slowly fanned herself with a folding fan. "you ok miss?"

The girl then said, "No Some mole rats dug in to my family's basement and we can't go home tell someone kills them, and it's so dark in the basement we can't fight them."

Junior then pulled out two bottles of Nuka-cola Quartz, "these two bottles of night vision potion says otherwise, you lead the way me and my Miharu will handle this."

The young girl smiled and them to her house, were Miharu and Junior drank the Nuka cola Quartz making their eyes glow blue as the night vision side effect kicked in the two ran into the basement to see a pack of ten cat sized mole rats standing around a sleeping one that was three times bigger than the rest.

Miharu fired her Shotgun the Buck shot injuring six of them as she said, "think the sleeping one is the big mama?"

Junior pulled out his pistol and Solar scorcher and fired at the six injured ones, before he turned around and Shot one that jumped him point blank in the mouth, "Yes! And that makes Seven down!"

Junior then ran out of bullets for his pistol as he said. "I hate noun energy pistols!" He then put it up and used the last shot on his solar scorcher to Shot one in the head making its' head explode, "Eight."

Miharu didn't have time to reload her shotgun when one jumped her forcing her to use the blade on the end of it to slash its throat killing it, "Nine!"

Miharu then drew her machete and throw it at the last mole rat impaling it! "And Ten!"

At that moment the Queen woke up and roared, forcing Junior and Miharu to reload their guns.

Miharu Shot the Queen with some Buck shot injuring it's front legs badly, and removing one of it's eyes, "How about you use that flaming sword of yours?"

Junior held the pistol as he said, "We're in someone's home I'm not setting someone's house on fire by mistake!"

The queen then jumped at Junior forcing the boy to jump back.

To junior time slowed down as he fired on the Things back legs and tail. As soon as he was out of bullets time went back to normal for him as the Mole rat queen laid on the ground growling its limbs to broken to allow it to move.

Miharu smiled as she reloaded her shotgun and shot it point blank in the Rat's face. "Goodnight bitch!" The Queen then fell over dead and Miharu smiled as she retrieved her machete, "and Another one of our dates that ends with us in a room filled with dead monsters."

Junior smiled as he and Miharu head up, "So?"

Miharu crossed her arms, "I'm not complaining, but still ever give any thought to life post monster killing?"

Junior smiled as he said, "yes and your always in it so I don't worry." Miharu then blushed as they went back upstairs to see the girl.

The girl smiled as she bowed and hand them a box, "thank you. My father works with the monorail, this is a box of passenger Tickets between allowing my family to go home and giving us all that mole rat meat it's the least I can give you."

Junior smiled and took it, "Well that will save us a step for tomorrow."

Meanwhile in an Onsen made for two.

Yuuko was in it snuggling into her husband's chest, "as much as I love the NCR, I've missed some good old fashion Japanese culture, mostly the parts that help one relax."

Akihsia held her close and kissed her head. "yeah and tomorrow we're continuing this journey from vault eight, we're almost to ten. Almost to my dad."

Yuuko turned around to face her husband as she said. "Now as much as I want to meet my father in law, I remember us talking about trying for a second baby in our homeland? And there's no time like the present."

Yuuko then wrapped her arms around her husband's neck and kissed him as Akihsia held her closer.

The next day.

The group had made it off the monorail and were leaving the village set up around vault eight.

Akira looked around the path had become a forest with normal plants and animals, well mostly normal the animals looked to be a little larger, then they should. "Amazing there is hardly any mutations around here."

Junior then checked his pip-boy and his jaw dropped, "the background radiation level is zero! I didn't even know that was possible!"

Akako smiled as she said, "Then I'll be meeting my husband again for the first time in over a thousand years today as we won't have mutation attack delays."

Kubo then notice a metal door built in to the mountain wall it was covered in vines and plants but the number nine written in kanji could still be seen. "Ok that's vault nine already right?"

Akihsia nodded as he checked the map on his pip-boy and he point to the left fork in the road, "then to the right leads straight to the front door of Big MT Japan slash vault Ten. Straight to my dad."

Junior then sighed for everyone to follow, "then come on let's not keep grandpa waiting."

Meanwhile in Vault Ten.

Akima smiled as he looked at the screen.

Point of view change to Akima.

I looked at the screen they were already at vault nine they would be here in two hours. My family is coming.

I'll be able to hold my wife again. Speak to my son and, See my daughter for the first time in over a thousand years

Plus, I'll be meeting my daughter in law, and grandson.

I went from being depressed in this vault thinking I was the only one of my family to live. To Knowing they were alive. To being a grandfather about to meet his grandson.

I smiled so brightly. I then picked up a shiny laser blaster one myself. It looked like the alien blaster my son used. Which made sense as this weapon was reversed engineered from alien tech.

I smiled as I put it in to my lab coat's inner pocket, it may only be ninety percent as strong as a real one but it's still powerful, my grandson Seems to like weapons from what I've gathered. So This will be the perfect Sorry I missed so many of your birthday's present for him.

I put a smile on my face and left the control room. I was going to wait outside for them. I want to be the first thing they saw when they reached the top.

Point of view change to third.

Two hours later Akihsia's group got to the top to see Akima.

Akihsia looked at his father and smiled, "Dad.' Akira teared up and said. "Daddy."

Akima then ran over and hugged his children, he was soon hugged by Akako his wife.

Yuuko then held out her hand to Akima, "Nice to meet you my father in law."

Akima smile and shock it, "thanks."

Akima then saw Junior, "nice to meet you Junior, I'm your grandpa, and I know I missed a lot of your birthdays so I brought this."

Akima then reached in and pulled out the silver version of the alien blaster and junior's eyes light up, "I reversed engineered the gun from alien tech myself. But sadly the beam is ten percent weaker than the real thing, but as it runs on any energy weapon power cell it more than makes up for the power lost.

Junior put his pistol in his bag and put the earth made version of the alien blaster into his holster, "Thank your grandpa!" He then hugged his grandfather.

Point of view change to Akima's.

I smiled as I hugged my grandson. I know they will have to leave to go back to the former USA, But Hopefully the upgrades to the portal on my end will allow them to return to come back to me when they want.

I've been alone for so long, Now I have them back. I have my family back. How many other people defrost into the wasteland can say they have their family? How many people have set out to find their family and got them back?

This is a miracle. Simple a Miracle.

I then let go of my grandson and invited my family and their friends' inside, with a smile on my face.

Meanwhile

In Big MT's forbidden zone dr. Mobius was typing on a keyboard in a text based conversation with one of the Japanese big MT scientists.

If Mobius had a mouth he would smile, "yes that could work. With this mod the two portals would connect so they would send the travel to the other portal instead of just some random location on the other continent. But that could be a problem."

Uncle Leo then walked in, "what's the problem doctor?"

Mobius than turned and said. "Simple my super mutant friend with the portals connect while it would allow for inter-continental travel to return to the world the fact travels would appear here with my former friends want to steal human bodies to leave this place."

Leo rubbed his chin, "yes I see the problem how do we fix it doctor?"

Mobius then point to the portal, "simple the portal was meant to be moved after the test showed it worked and the first travel returned. So it could be copied and placed in former mass transit hubs to replace air travel. As such the portal can be moved. You the only one who can leave this place just needs unplug it pick it up move it outside."

Leo then finished with, "then plug it to the buildings power from the outside port."

Mobius then raised his hand and said, "Yes. It should only take an hour, to get ready so I'll message Akihisa telling his group to stay put for an hour while we get ready on our end."

Mobius then turned to his key board and sent an Akihisa, but he failed to notice he sent it to Junior not senior.

At this moment in Japan.

Junior's Pip-boy gave the new message alert and he answered it, "guys Mobius is moving the portal so travels don't appear in Big MT so they don't have their brains removed by his former friends."

Akima then smiled as he said, "then there is no rush for you guys to want to leave." The man then held his wife tightly and smiled.

To be continued.