Vault 111 was quiet, too quite, and as lifeless as a grave. Radroaches, giant roaches the size of a small dog, scurried around the desolate vault walking over the remains of the long dead scientist and security vault dwellers, their dust covered bones lying among spent bullet shells, a final testimony of a brutal end.
In the room where Evelyn was frozen in an alarm went off "Warning system failure, malfunction detected begining cryostasis shut down thawing all subjects, cryostasis shut down." Evelyn's pod began to depressurize as the pod began to open.
Evelyn fell out of her pod her knees weak from being suspended in time for so long.
She began to gasp and cough violently as she tried to adjust her lungs to the harsh feel of the stale old air of the vault. She looked around confused. The vault looked older than when she had first entered the pod, it was no longer shiny or clean it now had stains and the metal was a dull color made even duller with the dim lights overhead.
Evelyn stood up shakily, she looked around and noticed that none of the other pods had opened yet. She then remembered that James was still in the pod and then remembered how he had been shot. She hurried to his pod and saw that it too showed no signs of opening she tried to find a way to get him out and then noticed an emergency opening switch next to his pod. Frantically she pulled on the frozen handle until she was able to yank it down. The pod let out a blast of air as it depressurized "Come on come on hurry up" she said to herself impatiently she was afraid she would be too late but hoped James might actually be okay. Finally the pod's door lifted open, but James did not move and was still covered in frost.
Evelyn immediately moved towards James hopping she could find a sign of life on him, but he was unmoving and she felt no pulse. Evelyn felt her eyes water and she felt a sense of desperation set in on her as she stared at James' corpse. She knew he was dead and she suddenly felt anger overcome her grief "You can't just leave me like this!" she yelled at his lifeless body"You promised me you said you would never leave, never hurt me in any way!" she knew deep down that she was being irrational but she did not care all she wanted was a way to vent her anger out.
Evelyn felt the tears running down her cheeks, but was too engulfed in her anger to care "Why did you have to die you shouldn't have tried to struggle you could have lived then you could been here to help me and you wouldn't have just left me!" deep down Evelyn understood that had she been in his situation she would have done the same and tried to fight to keep Shaun from being taken now however she was too angry to care.
With tears still in her eyes she looked at James' body accusingly as if this was all his fault and not the people who had actually done this to them Vault-Tec and the strangers. Evelyn then felt the anger ebb away as she reached out and touched James' cold cheek "I can't believe you're gone you said you'd never leave" she leaned in and put her head to his chest the beating of his heart was no longer there to comfort her to reassure ber, he was gone forever.
Evelyn placed a kiss on James' cold cheek "I'll find Shaun and I won't stop until the ones responsible for all this are gone, I'll make sure they pay for what they did to our family" she felt no anger now she only felt cold as ice and that, she thought, was more frightening. She took James' wedding ring from his cold hand and put it into the pocket of her vault suit, a way to remember him. She finally turned and pulled the handle again to close James's pod, she would try to bury him later. As the pod closed she looked once more at James' who looked peaceful in death "Goodbye" she said and wiped the tears from her face as she left the pod behind.
Once in the hallway she looked around, no other pods had opened in the other rooms.
She tried to use a control pad to open the door she had first used to enter this section of the wall but it would only beep and did not budge. She looked around once more and decided to use a side door hoping it would lead into the entrence of the vault.
Cautiously she walked around the vault not being sure if anyone was still inside and knowing that the security guards and scientists could not be trusted. She finally came upon a security room, it was a mess papers thrown everywhere and busted lockers a desk sat next to a wall in the room with terminal sitting on it that from the looks of it still worked. After checking the lockers for supplies she was disappointed in finding nothing inside. She turned to the terminal and looked in on old records which described how after the bombs the all clear signal to open the Vault never came and how after months of no word and dwindiling supplies most of the people had revolted and had killed many before finally escaping the vault.
Now certain no more people could be left in the vault, Evelyn began to walk faster eventually coming upon a room with a view into a sort of generator as she got closer to the window she heard movement and saw a giant insect jump from above the window into the floor. Evelyn immediately jumped back with a yelp of surprise, that thing had to be at least three feet long! what kind of insect grew that big? once more she moved with caution into the next room hoping that the creature had not heard ber, but to her surprise she had come close to another one of the insects. Now having a closer view she saw it was a giant cockroach and it was coming right at her scurrying with it long feet and clicking its mouth menacingly. with no time to think she immediately kicked it away with her foot, the roach flew across the room and slammed into the wall it laid there stunned but not dead. Evelyn looked around and saw a police baton on a table she threw her self at it and grabbed it before turning around to face the roach, which had recovered and began running angrily at her again.
When the roach jumped to bite her she smashed it with her baton with all her strength, she heard a crunch as its body caved in from the blow and fell to the floor, dead. Panting both from fear and adrenalin Evelyn proded the roach with her foot making sure it was dead. She then turned and saw a kitchen and she ran in hoping to find supplies like food or water, but found nothing but bare cabinets and old dusty cups. Sighing Evelyn went back into the other room and steeling herself entered the generator room.
She became aware of the bones littering the room some in old lab coats, vault suits, and riot gear while others only had rags. "These must be what's left of the people in here" before she could examine them further a roach jumped at her out of the darkness before it could bite her she managed to smash its head in with her baton. She quickly wiped the disgusting roach blood from her baton on a few old rags. After quickly crossing the generator room, and killing more of the gross giant roaches, Evelyn arrived at what she supposed would be the head of the vaults' office.
The first thing she noticed was a 10mm gun on the desk she grabbed it along with the ammo in the desk and then proceeded to search the room for supplies finding only more ammo she returned to the desk and booted an old terminal back on. When she looked through the files she was not surprised to learn just how violent the revolt in the vault had been, especially when she read the rather tyrannical way the overseer ran the vault. Having searched through the terminal she opened up an escape tunnel that apparently ran through the overseer's office. She ran through the tunnel killing any roach she saw with her baton not wanting to waste her gun's ammo just yet.
Once she came upon the entrance she saw the vault door was closed "Well..shit" she thought to herself now how was she going to get out its not like she knew how to move that extremely heavy door and it didn't look like a key would just open the dann thing.
Frustrated she moved to investigate the controls close to the door none of witch seemed to work unless she had a pip boy and it wasn't like those things were just lying around.
Evelyn then turned to leave until she tripped and fell down getting up and getting ready to kick whatever had tripped her she stopped and looked at the old dusty skeleton with a pip boy on its bony wrist. Kneeling down she looked at the old device and took it "it's not like he'll need it anyways" she thought to herself as she strapped the thing to her wrist after turning it on and finding it to be working order, she turned back to the control panel and connected the pip boy to an opening on the control board which in turn popped open a glass case that held a red button inside which she proceeded to smash down.
Immediately lights began to flash and an alarm blared loudly as many mechanisms turned and twisted on the gear shaped door. Evelyn ran towards an extending ramp and waited as another mechanism pulled the door open letting light flood into the vault, but it was not sunlight. Evelyn quickly ran out the vault the second the ramp fell down, she recalled the entrance room and the giant elevator which had brought them down into the vault. She waited for it lower itself down and allow her to get on it, as she stepped on it it began to ascend and she heard the female voice come on and say "We hope you enjoyed your stay underground and thank you for choosing Vault-Tec!" she quietly waited as the elevator went up until finally the above doors opened letting in sunlight as the elevator got closer to the surface she covered her eyes from the glaring sun unused to such brightness after being inside an old vault.
When the elevator finally came to a stop she uncovered her eyes and looked around gasping as she took in her surroundings for the first time.