Chapter 11
March 12, 2292
Location: Republic
"Hey Adam!" yelled a voice. I finished up my discussion with John and turned around, seeing Dusk walk towards me. "Hey Dusk, what's up?" I ask, curious as to what she wanted to say. "Alice wanted me to get you, she says she found something." She responded, excitement in her voice. "Is it the bunker?" I ask, following Dusk to the entrance of the hospital. "No, but it could be a clue to it's location."
I followed her without further discussion down into the basement. There were two levels to the basement, with the top level being our storage for food, water, weapons, ammo, medical supplies, and any noteworthy pieces of technology. The level below us housed the hospital generator, running on a fusion core. Also on the level were a couple of backup generators and a computer server bank that housed all of the hospital's information, as well as any data that the loot teams had collected.
Walking into the first basement level, I saw Alice nearby, typing on a terminal connected to a bunch of machines and equipment. Looking at it, I noticed that a decent amount of it was radio equipment or similar. "So what do you need to show me Alice?" I said, breaking Alice out of her concentration.
After she gathered herself, she responded "Well I was working on adjusting the radio equipment down here to receive transmissions from farther distances, and not just the news broadcasts too. There's likely a decent amount of local radio usage all around the Washington wasteland, and I figured that with a bit of tinkering and adjusting, we could listen in on it, or at least those in the eastern part of the wasteland." She paused, quickly looking over something, before continuing "Well I was just messing with the settings, when I got this over the radio." Alice then flipped a switch, emitting a sort of staticy noise.
After listening to it for a moment, I asked "Ok, so what about it?"
"I was about to get to that." she responded, quickly looking at me with a slightly irritated look. "After a bit of tuning, I found that it was a radio disturbance, somewhat similar to what the military used to block out radio communications." She said, letting it sink in. After a bit a thinking, I realised what she was thinking of. "Can you pinpoint where it is?" I asked. "It'll take a while to get the exact location, but it seems to be coming from western Republic, at the outskirts." Nodding, I started to leave, but then turned back around and said "Let me know when you find the exact location, I'm getting a team together to check the area out."
1 Hour later
I jumped out of the jeep as it pulled up to the office complex, holding a combat shotgun in my hands. Behind me, the second jeep and one of the trucks pulled up, each unloading people. Most of the militia was with me, as well as Dusk, Alex, and Chris. "Alright people, let's move on the objective. Remember your roles, let's move out." I then ran up to the door, waiting for everyone else to get to me before breaching it.
The office complex had already been searched two days, with nothing unusual being found. It had belonged to RobCo though, so there was a decent amount of good loot from it. Just ten minutes ago, Alice had contacted me via walkie-talkie, letting me know that this was the location, I then got the search team loaded up in most of our vehicles and got them here. The plan was to have two people guard the first floor and another to go onto the roof as lookout while the rest of us go into the basement. The door down there had been locked when the loot team had originally searched the place. It was too hard to bust through, so the team marked it off to search latter. Know we were here, equipped with a couple of cutting torches to break it the door open if need be if I couldn't hack the security system.
As we moved toward the door, I looked around me at the nearby office rooms, each holding a terminal or computer, a desk, a few chairs, and a couple other things. I glanced up and saw broken lights and an occasional gun turret, offline and motionless. Shaking my head, I focus on the objective at hand, the basement door right in front of me. As I got to it, I immediately went to the wall terminal next to the door. 'Well this is going to take a while' I thought as I saw how advanced the security system was.
20 minutes later
'Finally' I thought as I finished hacking into the door controls, opening the security door. I had just about authorized the cutters twice before I got the password, 'Nocturnal'. I then stepped through after motioning everyone to follow.
After walking through a small corridor leading down, I came upon a second door, this one with a key card slider right next to another wall terminal. Looking at it for a moment, I got the dead officer's key card and slide it through the slider. A *ping* then sounded at the terminal, and it now a few options. I used it to open the door, as well as turn power back on and disable any online defences.
Stepping back, I motioned for Roy to take lead, following him after he passed me. Stepping through the door, I was amazed at what I saw. The entire room was two or three stories high, and must have been half a football field from wall to wall. Off to the right was a ramp leading upwards, likely for vehicles coming from the surface. On the left were a few parked military and RobCo vehicles, as well as a small lift that went up to a giant ring of catwalks and ledges above us. But what really got my attention was what was in front of us, a military green giant blast door, covering most of the front wall. On the center was a white circle and star. In front of the doors were a couple of deactivated protectrons.
'We found it.' I thought as I gazed at the entrance to the army bunker.
