Chapter 21
A guard, sitting at the vault door control console, was leading back in his fold-able chair while reading a purple color magazine. He fell off as he heard the sudden sound of the moving door opening. Panicking, he immediately got up, taking out his pistol, before lowering it and sighing in relief.
"Oh, it just you" The guard sighed as he watched Connor walk inside the vault "So, are those super mutant going to be a…" his sentence trailed off as he saw two of Connor teammate walking inside, holding an stretcher with an large white cloth over it, with something in it
"What happen?" The guard asked, Connor glanced that the guard before looking forward
"Contact Fisher family, tell them it… bad news" Connor said, an hint of sadness in his voice
"Oh, I-… alright, I'll contact them immediately" The guard said in a low tone "You should me to the Overseer office"
Connor nodded as he walked further into the vault, leaving the four team members in the room
"So, Dusk" Jester said as the guardian turned to face the robotic figure "You never mention being friend with an alien, or a FUCKING PONY!" He shouted as he stretched his mechanical arms toward the white unicorn
"What wrong with knowing one, or being friend with one- I mean- Keksis here is a Daedra, no offence. And you're not arguing about him" Dusk said
"That different! Aliens are the main reason why we're in this mess!"
"Aliens or not, we're all in the same boat" Dusk said
"Dusk is right" Mythic said as he walked toward the group "You guys have the same goal for a reason, and sometime, you have to work with an unlikely friend"
"Wait, weren't you there at the Whispering Tip Mountain?" Arc said as he floated around Mythic
"Yes, he was there when we fought that dragon" Dusk answered as they turned back to the dark color unicorn
"And why where you there?" Keksis said in a stern tone
"It long story, Keksis. But now is not the time" Mythic said "Keksis, come and see me on the spitfire, when you guys come back" He said as he exited the vault
"So... who the hell was that" Jester asked, as Cloud slapped himself on the forehead
Connor was waiting for the overseer doors to open as he sat down in one of the clean chairs in the vault. Remembering the death of Jimmy, how he jumped in front of him when that super mutant started to shoot. He started to wonder if Jimmy was being selfless… or was just protecting him
His thought was cutted out when the door to the overseer office opened, with a guard walking outside of the room. "Connor, The overseer is waiting for you inside"
As Connor walked inside the office, where two vault residents where sitting in front of the desk with the overseer sitting behind the round desk. "Ahem, Mister Connor, please sit down"
Connor looked at the two residents then the overseer before sitting down
"We were discussing about the trip you took… with Jimmy Fisher" The overseer said
"Yes"
"Then why did you allow one of my residents from my vault to die, or allow him to leave the vault"
"He wanted to come, but we did everything we did to protect him, to help him-"
"Then Why?" A woman said in a sad voice, her makeups were darkening her face by the tear drops she shredded. Only the old wet waters on her eyes remained a napkin in her hand as she looked down. Connor could tell that she was crying, but she couldn't tear up that much anymore "Why did you let him die?"
"You got my son killed!" Jimmy's father shouted as he got out of his seat
"Joe, stop" Joe wife said
"He's the reason why our son is dead" Joe shouted
"Joe, I believe that Connor did everything he could to save him- to protect him. There was nothing that we could do" The overseer explained
Connor looked at the eyes of the angry man, the anger in his eyes as he lifted his hand in the air, forming a fist as it flew pass Connor, who flipped the dark haired man over him and into the ground, keeping Joe in the ground with his boot while holding one of his arm up in a straight line, putting pressures on his elbow
"Guard!" The overseer shouted. As soon the overseer called the vault guard outside, two arm guards rushed into the room, restraining Joe while holding Connor back
"You got my son killed!" Joe screamed as he was taken outside, struggling with the guards
"Alex… can you leave us for a moment?" The overseer sighed as the Jimmy's mom left the room. The overseer stood up from her seat as she walked toward the round window, pouring herself a drink at one of the nearby stand.
"Susan -"
"Don't, call me that" She growled
"Overseer- what ever happened out there, we tried -"
"You don't think I know that!" She shouted before taking in a deep breath "Do you know how hard it is to manage a whole vault by myself? I have to keep everyone safe- but now? It the same bullshit, we're constantly getting attacked and I have one resident DEAD!"
"We took care of those super mutants, that one problem gone" Connor said
"And what about the others? What about the others that also attacks us- the raiders and the feral ghouls? We were safe before all of that- before you came" Susan hissed
"Blaming him won't solve the problem" A voice called
The overseer and Connor looked toward the door, seeing Jester standing in the doorway as the door closed behind him. Jester was now wearing a dark tactical vest, white bracers on his forearms, and a black scarf surrounding his neck.
"Jester, your aren't supposed to be in here" Susan said
"That not the issue here. Bad thing are supposed to happen… even if people didn't wanted them to happen" Jester said as he walked up to Connor, but before he can get closer, a small glass cup smashed next to him. Looking where the glass came from, Jester and Connor saw Susan, her arm stretched outward toward Jester, the anger in her eyes
"Leave" she growled "Leave us, and never come back!" Soon after she stated her words, a guard, the same one from earlier, walked inside as Connor and Jester exited the room
Just before Connor left the room, he turned his head back, seeing the Overseer on one of the lounge couch "I will sent help... if we can" He said before leaving
Connor and Jester walked to the main atrium as they walked toward Dusk, Cloud, and the others, who were sitting at one of the tables in a market like plaza
"How did it go?" Arc asked
"Not good… Jimmy's parents are mad and sad- while the overseer is… piss, and decided to kick us out" Connor said
"What? Why" Dusk asked, wondering why the Overseer of the vault would kick them out after taking care of the mutant problem
"She think that we're the reason why their vault are getting attacked most of the time" Jester said
"By the same super mutant?" Arc asked
"No" Connor said "The vault had different kind of raids, from human bandits to feral ghouls"
"But she believe that we're the reason why their getting attack most of the time- well, when we first came here" Jester said
"Did you reason with her?" Keksis asked
"You don't think we already did that" Connor sighed as he places his arms over a metal railing "Now what"
"To the IMC base" Jester said slowly as he looked toward one direction