Chapter 6: History Lesson

My god I never thought I would be able to update either of my stories with all the stuff I've had to deal with but I somehow found a way. It's an early Christmas Miracle. XD

This chapter probably won't be that cool or good as it is another explanation chapter but i tried end it in a comedic/serious note.

Also my other story, Invicta, is actually pretty surprisingly o.O and I plan to make my next chapter for that soon, I already have the first page or so done for it.

Bah, no more talking let's the boring chapter commence !

Disclaimer: I do not own Fallout or ATLA, only my OC's.

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"Our people, in a way, evolved similar to your's. We banded together and created communities that soon became nations. However, we did not have any sort of powers and/or abilities your people seem to posses. What we did have was our intelligence, perseverance, and a strong need to improve ourselves. Now, as you can see those traits gave us some of the most advanced technology my and now your world has ever seen. Though that did not come without a push for rapid improvement and this rapid growth of technology would be thanks to something we all know very well, war." He said catching his breath before continuing.

He explained what nation they came from, what they stood for and who they really are. He summarized some the most prominent empires in their history, such as the Egyptians, Romans, the British, the Chinese, for a subtle timeline so that the siblings can see how far they had grown. All leading up to a somewhat detailed explanation of WWII and how that led the world into a massive divided between Communist and Capitalist countries thus creating the Cold War. He told them how as the Cold War raged on for decades the worlds resources were decreasing, especially oil; the lifeblood of almost every technological tool in the world. He explained how the world's nations all began to fight each other for the smallest amount of oil and with this greed began the Resource Wars. The conflict lasted almost a decade until it ended when nuclear weapons were launched and two entire countries were destroyed and with it their oil and other resources. After the bombing more countries began to fall in chaos and soon only a select few nations stood strong.

He did not avoid the topic of annexing both Mexico and Canada, their neighboring countries, for more resources, power, and protection. However, he did say that doing this was the only way for all three of the nations to survive. Telling them that the other nation's economy was falling apart and since the U.S. had one of the remaining successful economies in world those nations would also survive. Insinuating that annexing those countries was most moral thing to do. He then told the siblings how China had invaded the US, specifically Alaska, to have access to the last remaining oil reservoir in the world and after almost a decade of grueling war they were fought off the state.

Katara and Sokka's eyes stayed wide for the entire story. They could not believe this was even possible. They knew he wasn't lying, well mostly, the story was to elaborate and the evidence was directly in front of their faces.

"But all that wasn't even the worse if it, only months after the war in Alaska ended the The Great War began. It destroyed the entire world turning it into a radioactive wasteland." He paused in thought for a moment before he turned and told Jackal to collect photo's and a mobile computer for video feed. The siblings were confused on what he was asking for.

However, Autumn had a raised eyebrow and hada small smirk on his face. " Jose always loved talking people's ears off. Now he's gone off and got more stuff to talk about." He thought humously, not at all annoyed by his friends passionate love for storytelling.

"Now, as we wait for him to return I'll explain to you what an Atom is becuase if I don't you won't understand anything I'm going to explain to you."

"Atom?" Katara asked, Jose nodded.

"Yes, Atom, an atom is a particle so small no human eyes can see it, unless using a tool specifically designed to. It's the building block of everything, you, me, the walls, our weapons, everything. After decades of researching our scientist discovered a way to harness atoms. In this new discovering we were able to create our power armor, laser and plasma rifles, robots and much, much more. However, the most ultimate use of this would be in the construction of a Nuclear bomb. A nuclear bomb uses a element called uranium that has a large amount of unstable atoms within it. After a long process of refining the element and placing it into a bomb capsule. It can be used to destroy anything in a very large radius and if the explosion doesn't kill you the radiation will. Now, I won't get into the complexity of what radiation is but basically radiation is like a disease that can either kill you or change you."

The door opened behind him interrupting Jose's explanation. Jackal had returned with a cart carrying a computer and a few folders. Jose's quickly told Jackal to position the cart next to the table and after he did so Jose quickly grabbed the folders and looked through the many papers within them. Leaving the siblings to finally absorb the information of Atom's into their minds. However, they were still having trouble too effectively respond as their minds were numb from the overwhelming flow of information. Though even with this mind numbing information they still can ascertain that they should be afraid.

Afraid of these people and their weapons.

The siblings both thought that even if the Enclave is civil with them now it doesn't mean they won't try to take control of their people later. As neither of them bought the whole "we annexed to save them" crap. They knew it was a lie and they knew that the real reason they annexed those nations was because of they'll let them believe they fell for their lie for now. Just until they leave and return to their village.

"Ah, here they are."Jose said finally finding the papers he was looking for. Removing them from one of the folders he then presented it to the siblings by putting it in the center of the table.

The papers had very detailed colored images on its surface. It was an image of a destroyed city, a thousands times larger than their village. The desolate city was riddled with ruined homes, destroyed streets, and bones of thousands of people littered about. The siblings blinked in horror before the LC picked up another photo showing a large crater in the center of the city; he presented it to the siblings.

"The Great War is not a war you kids are used to. There was no fighting with swords or guns. They was no invasions into enemy lines. They was no form of modern combat. Only dropping nukes on each other across the entire world." He then pointed at the image of the crater.

"This was the location of a city in Pennsylvania, a state in our country. It was hit directly with a Decimator warhead; it was wiped off the face of the earth." He picked up another photo showing a beautiful city, with large buildings, with people, cars etc. He then put them next to each other and pointed at a far off mountain in the distance in both images.

They were exact same mountain.

Katara gasped in shock while Sokka gurgled in fear, his mouth still covered by cloth.

"There's more" The LC said solemnly as Katara and Sokka's eyes grew wide.

"How could their possibly be more!" She screamed in denial as the LC pressed buttons of the computer, ignoring her cry.

"This is uplinked to our central archive, correct, Jackal?"

"Yup"

"Good"

The LC continued tapping on the buttons before turning the monitor to the tribals.

"This is a video recording of a recon mission I was sent on during the Migration of our forces from the West to the East." He said as he pressed play.

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" Knight-01, this is Command, you've got another thirty minutes on your shift and you're back home."

"Thanks for the reminder, Command. I'll sweep the irradiated sector of Dallas one more time before heading back to extraction point."

"Acknowledged"

As he walked through the streets he looked at the city ruins that were falling apart with each passing moments. Trash, bullet casings, blood, and dead bodies both new and old riddled every corner of the city. It looked like any other destroyed city in their former great nation of the United States of America.

The DeathKnight checked his ammo and found that it had run low. He did not expect the large band of ghouls, bandits, and other mutated abominations mid way through his recon. He shrugged, not even slightly worried about his lack ammunition as he expected no more surprises for the rest of his recon, before continuing to walk.

Moments later his radiation detector began to tick rapidly signifying his first steps into the irradiated the safety off his weapon, a standard issued laser rifle with a holographic scope, he began to check every nook and cranny for any type of mutated bastard.

Fifteen minutes later he was exiting an alley way, finding himself at a street filled with cars and trucks smashed together. It blocked his path to move forward so he decided to turn back the way he came but as he was about to enter the alleyway once again he saw a body not to far from the wall of cars. He raised his weapon and calmly walked towards the body. It was on it back so he kicked it over. He was not surprised to see it was a ghoul as he had noticed its back was covered in rotting skin. It was ripped to shreds, only its torso and head remained while its hands and legs were missing.

Looking away from the corpse he saw more dead ghouls leading away from the car wall into a small and somewhat unnoticeable crevice between rubble that looked big enough for him to fit through. He knew following the trail of dead bodies was always a bad idea for anyone but with these many dead ghouls lying around signified a powerful predator was in this part of the ruins. With his mission parameter to find and locate any mutated creature in his recon and eliminate it forced him to keep going and kill whatever was killing these ghouls.

Five minutes later he was hugging the walls as he checked another corner for any potential threats before following the body trail yet again. The bodies were becoming less and less whole as now only limbs and organs gave him any sort of trail to follow. He knew he was close to this creature. He could feel it, his gut was screaming at him to be prepared. So he did, he checked his rifles fusion cell and was pleased to see it say 100% before continuing forward. He then checked his spare cells and found only three fusion cells remained, his smile fell at being reminded on his low ammunition count.

"GRRRR!, MUNCH, MUNCH"

He stiffened before hugging the closest wall to him. Trying to be as stealthy as possible, though it was very difficult to do while wearing a MK.I Power Armor, he tiptoed to the edge of the wall towards the opening where the noises were coming from. Finally reaching the edge he took a deep breath before leaning over.

The beast was tall, almost 11 or 12 feet high. It claws were as long as swords as it clawed on its meal. Its scaly skin covered in blood with its lizard like tail swayed happily as it ate, almost like a puppy. Its two horns had random chunks of meat stuck to it from his sloppy eating. It was about take another bite out of his ghoul before it froze. It sniffed the air for a moment before his head snapped over to look at the open alleyway roaring in rage as it charged at the lone soldier.

"MOTHER FUCKER!" The solider screamed before fleeing and shooting his rifle to try and slow it down. Only for its skin to deflect and shrug off the attacks. As it continued to charge the beast hit a car throwing it towards the DeathKnight hitting him and causing him to fall on his chest. The Knight quickly turned over on his back and fired as quickly as he could at the Deathclaw. The beast again ignored the laser blasts as the Deathclaw pierced his armor with one hand, its foot long nails protruding out of his back going through his gut and other organs. The beast then lifted him up to his eye level, it roared, taunting him, at his poor attempt to kill him. The Deathclaws other hand was preparing to cut off his head but the DeathKnight was not ready to give up. As it roared again he grabbed a plasma grenade from his belt and activated it after stuffing it down the deathclaws throat. The deathclaw bite down and nearly cut his arm off but the grenade went off killing the deathclaw, shooting his organs and blood all over the street, and throwing the soldier across the block with his arm surprisingly still, mostly, intact.

The Knight was breathing heavily as he tried to sit up even with all his wounds and excruciating pain pulsing through his body but his legs gave out from under him, forcing him to lay down on the floor with his back perched up by some rubble. The visor for the video screen was cracked from the blast but still worked. Its audio was also fine as it heard a groan, hissing and sloppy footsteps as a small pack of ghouls appeared from one of crumbling buildings.

"Shit" The knight cursed before reaching for his plasma pistol side arm and shooting at the ghouls with his left hand, his weaker hand. It made his shots somewhat inaccurate.

Three ghouls were killed quickly but eight, no-nine, ten more were attacking and more and more were flooding out of the building. The deathclaw must of kept them at bay but with him dead they could now roam free and the DeathKnight was gonna be there first meal in there new found freedom. The green blasts of plasma covered the screen as he fired away at the horde the DeathKnight's roars of curses sang through the recording. The ghouls kept getting closer and closer and more and more ghouls laid down dead but soon his pistol clicked shooting only a spark of green light signifying that the fusion shell was depleted. In a matter of seconds the first ghoul was upon him and smacked him on his face ending the recording with a fizzling white noise.

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"How..how did you survive?" Katara said weakling as her face began to pale contrasting her exotic tanned skin. Sokka did not fair any better as his skin was almost white. The LC sighed as he rubbed his arm before lifting the sleeve up showing his hairy arms but most importantly revealing his grotesque scar that circled the entire arm; the siblings gulped at the site of it.

"There was another soldier reconing the irradiated area and he quickly ran towards my location after hearing the plasma grenade go off. It took him about 10 minutes to get there but thankfully ghouls have a hard time tearing apart power armor so he found me getting wailed on by a very large group of ghouls instead of being eaten. He cleared them out easily enough and quickly extracted me out of the area. I don't remember much after that as I was rendered unconscious from all the blood I was losing. Next thing I knew I had woken up on a hospital bed, my arm completely covered in a cast, my stomach being poked at with a dozen different wires to regenerate my organs and a crying Elizabeth at my side." Jose finished with a calm and nonchalant demeanor, treating it as another day at the office. Katara and Sokka simply looked at him in shock, horror, and awe.

" Those things in that, what was it called ,'video'?...Were those created because of radiation?" Katara asked remembering his words of it either 'killing or changing you'. Jose nodded before he went backward on the video and moved the image on the screen to a ghoul.

"This is what happens when humans absorb too much radiation. You turn into what we call ghouls." The sibling gulped as they looked at the former humans melted face.

"However, this is the most drastic of the known mutations. As we have found humans who did not change to ghouls surviving in the irradiated environment." Katara and Sokka were both glad that there was a chance they could live even in a radiated environment but they were still worried as Jose looked grim as he said it.

"While those human were not changed into these creatures their minds and bodies had some…alteration. Increased violence, love for mutilation and torture, insanity, or extra limbs and organs. Basically, while they have did not change to ghouls they still did change drastically." Jose looked at the siblings to notice their fear filled faces at this new knowledge. He did not understand their fear for a moment as they had nothing to fear about. They had no nukes to use on them. He blinked realising the issue.

"You have no need to worry of any sort of nuclear attack. We have no nukes to use, as most were used up in the war and we had never planned to destroy more of what little we have left by creating more." His words actually caused them to sigh slightly in relief. Satisfied that they calmed down Jose continued to speak.

"As you now understand some of our history I think it's time for you to know why we treated you the way we did. We, the Enclave, are children of our ancestors that escaped the bombs by staying at a oil rig far off the coast of California." Jose said as he grabbed the map to show the exact location.

"The radiation was not as heavy there as it is on land so we were able to stay pure and in this sense of purity a lot of the Enclave began to view ourselves superior to everything that was irradiated. Creating distaste, intolerance, and now hatred to anything mutated." Katara slowly began to understand why they had kidnapped her and her brother.

" You thought that because of my waterbending that I was some form of mutant." She said but after some more thought her face grew angry again.

" If that's the case what did he plan to do with my brother and I by kidnapping us." Katara thought before she opened her mouth but before she could speak Jose raised his hand to stop her.

"Before you go mouthing off about whatever got you angry this time. I think you should know that Enclave soldiers are ordered to shoot mutants on site." He said calmly causing Katara to blink before a confused expression appeared on her face. She looked at the General for a confirmation getting a nod in response.

"Then...why would you kidnap us if you were ordered to kill us." Katara asked while she and her brother gave him a questioning look. Jose sighed as he leaned back, placing the ice bag he had on his crotch on the table, as he gave them calm face.

"I always pay my debts." He said simply making the siblings even more confused for a moment before they understood what he was talking about.

" You-you kidnapped us so you could save us?" She said surprised as her brother was also wide eyed. Jose merely nodded at her question.

"But, that doesn't make any sense, when we arrived we would have been found out by everyone else here." Katara said getting a raised eyebrow from the LC.

"How so? I have friends in high places. I could of sent you home the moment I was healthy and after I vouched and explained what you did for me, ignoring the fact that the Enclave would of thought you two to be mutated. Saving a high ranking officers life is a big deal even if you didn't know who I was. Only it didn't work out as I had expected as you not only escaped the bonds we placed you in but also attacked two Enclave soldiers using your abilities. If not for the surprising evidence that you are not mutated by radiation we would not be having this conversation." He said calmly with slight annoyance and tiredness.

"Wait! Are you saying this is my fault!" Katara said standing up from her chair, her bottled up anger and mood swings finally tipping over, favoring rage.

"Well, I can't and can say that it is or isn't your fault as you did not know my plan but if you didn't go all salem witch on us you guys would be at home by now." Jose said calming getting facepalms by the General and the other two soldiers.

"Really!? Of all times you want to be honest!? The General said as Katara attacked Jose in a bit of rage. However, with the LC still recovering from frostbite he could not counterattack effectively allowing Katara to be on top of him throwing punches to his face. The guards were about to get Katara off Jose but the General waved them off.

"He deserves it." The General said simply as he leaned back, smoking his cigar and watching the show.

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"Gran Gran, you must come inside the weather is becoming worse and the moon is almost at highest point." A Southern watertribe women pleaded with the older matriarch. The older women turned to look at the young women, worry was evident on her face. After a few more moments Gran Gran sighed before standing up and walking back towards the safety of their small home. However, before she entered the icy building she turned around and looked at the moon.

"Please, Moon Spirit watch over my Grandchildren, they have not returned and I worry, dearly, for them." Finishing her prayer she walked in her home with tears falling down her face.

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Ya, again, like that last Chapter, I have no idea how i feel about this one but oh well atleast next chapter there will be actual progression in the story.

Before I go the chapters might come in with a long wait also if any of you notice my Invicta story being updated at any time then this story is not far( as in another month or so) away from being updated as well.

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