February 2, 2078

I'm still in shock over what happened yesterday, I just can't believe that people have started to resort to vile actions like… rape just a few months after the world went to hell. I wonder if all humans are feral beasts on the inside.

Taylor limp is getting worse than before. I inspected him today and nothing seems to be wrong with him but he keeps limping. He's holding up our journey and I wish there was a quicker way to travel.

Then I realized, wait there is a quicker way! I checked the Pip-Boy map and it accurately showed our surroundings. I skimmed through the map of the city looking for a certain somewhere until I found it! 4 streets down from where I currently stand there's a Chryslus Motors Factory where cars such as the Corvega are… well were made. I remember seeing commercials for it on the television, I've always wanted to own a Corvega but the price of $199.999 had always well… been out of my budget. But here in the Wasteland anything is fair game as those rapists had proven…

If there was still a Corvega in the factory why travel would be much easier. It was settled for me; I packed up my bag and headed south…

A while later I could see the factory with the familiar Chryslus logo on the building, there was smoke coming from the factory and large parts of it had broken off. I remembered how on the commercials for the Corvega it mentioned that they ran on nuclear power so I guess that the people inside the factory were pretty much screwed when the bombs fell. I got to the factory door and was about to enter when I remembered that Taylor was still with me. I motioned for him to stay outside I didn't want him in danger.

"Stay here Taylor, I'll be right back"

He whined but stayed there. I nodded to him, took out my pistol and headed inside the factory.

The first thought I had when I entered the factory was how messy it was. Desks had been overturned, papers thrown across the floor and wall paint tearing down. There was a large paper on a bulletin board showing the structure of the factory and I figured that complete cars would be in the shipping area near the back of the factory.

I was nervous, my ears picked up every little noise I heard. I remembered when I was in 4th grade we took a field trip to a Nuka Cola factory, back then I was a bit of a troublemaker and I sneaked into a room I wasn't supposed to go into. The result was me almost getting shot by a security bot and getting detention for a whole month. Hell I could still remember my parents shouting at me after the school sent home the report of what I had done… then I stopped walking. I couldn't remember the way my parents had yelled at me in fact I can't remember my parents at ALL. I stood there trying to remember what they looked like and how they sounded… my mother's name was… I just couldn't remember. Then I heard a noise coming from somewhere in the factory. I put away the thought and decided I would think about it some other time.

Anyway ever since my encounter with that robot at the Nuka Cola factory I've been… well scared of them. I admit it I am genuinely scared shitless of robots; I cannot stand to be near one which always gave people easy ways to have fun with me. I remember once in Halloween when one of my friends scared me by dressing up as the robot that attacked me in the Nuka Cola factory.

Then I thought well what if there's still robots in this place? I had heard stories of bots massacring people after their programming had gone bad, I had an instant urge to head back towards the door and leave but I decided that I couldn't. I needed that Corvega.

I kept thinking when I heard what sounded like large metallic footsteps coming across the corner; I stopped dead and then from across the corner appeared a dusty Protectron.

"Please show your identification card", it said in its electronic voice.

"Err well I don't ha-"I started to say but I was interrupted.

"Please identify yourself in 5 seconds or you will meet lethal force", it said in a louder voice.

"I don't have a damn identification card I was just-"

"Commencing attack on hostile target"

Then the Protectron brought up its metallic arms and fired a laser I ducked just in time, the laser hit the wall behind me and produced a blackened hole in the wall, I definitely didn't want to be on the receiving end of that laser.

I brought out my pistol and took cover behind a desk. I turned to fire at the Protectron but when I pulled the trigger the gun gave a click. I checked the stock and realized the gun wasn't loaded; I reached into my bag to get ammo but I felt nothing. I didn't have my bag on me I looked around and saw my bag.

Right next to the damn robot.

There was no way in hell that I was going to get that close to it and I didn't have any other weapon as my laser rifle was still in the bag and the Protectron was getting closer. I was about to turn around and run for the exit when I felt something on my belt. I looked down and saw a grenade! I had totally forgotten that I even had it. Normally I wouldn't risk it but it was a time for drastic measures, I took the grenade from my belt, pulled off the pin and threw it.

In about 3 seconds it exploded and the pieces of the Protectron went flying across the room. Then I felt a sharp pain in my chest and collapsed.

I woke up groggily, my chest felt like shit then I looked down at my hands they were covered in red and the red was coming from my chest. It was blood. Then I saw something that shocked me even more. There was a rip in my suit and there was a large piece of metal coming out of it.

The suit that protected me from the horrors of radiation was now ripped. I should have never used that grenade I thought. I tried to get up but there was an immediate pain. I couldn't do anything while I still had this thing in my chest. I had to get it out.

I grabbed the metal and tried to pull it off but it hurt like crazy. I needed to get it out quickly I couldn't stand the pain no more. I grabbed it quickly and pulled it out as quickly as I could the whole time I was yelling. I had never felt pain like this in my life. After what seemed like an eternity the metal came out. I threw it away.

I limped on over to my bag and rummaged inside then I found what I was looking for: a Stimpak. I really didn't feel like getting stabbed anymore but I needed it so I braced myself and jammed it against my chest. For a second there was a sharp sting but then I felt myself getting better. After a few minutes I felt good enough to walk again. There was still however the problem with the torn suit, if it wasn't fixed I would be dead in seconds outside. Then I wondered why I wasn't dead in here already. I checked the Geiger counter on the Pip- Boy; luckily the radiation levels were low enough that they wouldn't affect me. I wouldn't exactly like having a third arm sprouting from my head.

I reloaded my pistol and put it back in my holster then I took out my laser rifle. Time to put it to good use. I kept walking around the corners through various rooms until finally I found the door to the shipping area. I turned the knob and walked into a large room full of shipping crates and trucks. There was also a large plane in the middle of the room and a runway.

I realized pretty quickly that there appeared to be no Corvegas that were still in perfect condition. Some still looked like what I had seen in the commercials but with destroyed fronts and there were some Corvegas that weren't in car shape at all the only remains left of them being large craters in the floor. I searched for what seemed like an hour but I had no luck. My eyes scanned the room and they landed on the plane. Its loading door was closed and I wondered… what if there was a car in there? I quickly ran to the plane but none of the doors would budge, I figured out that the doors were opened via control panel so I ran out of the shipping room to find the factory's control room.

After a few minutes of back tracking and corridors I found the control room. It had large screens, terminals and many chairs. In one of the chairs there was a decaying skeleton whose hand was on one particular button labeled as Plane Doors. Without a second thought I pressed the button and ran back towards the shipping room.

A few minutes later I was back. I headed quickly towards the plane, its loading door opening slowly. I was clutching my stomach grabbing my breath when I heard a noise that didn't belong to me.

RRRRR

I stood up quickly and aimed the laser rifle but at what I didn't know. I couldn't tell where the noise was coming from.

RRRRR

Then the plane's door finished unloading and I saw a dark shape coming from the cargo. The noise was coming from the plane itself and now it was heading for me whatever it was. No not whatever as I could now see clearly what was making the noise.

It was about my height, had three legs with a wheel per leg, a weapon on both of its metallic arms and a single oval gleaming red eye that partially covered by silver stripes. Then it said in a rough metallic voice:

"HOSTILE ENEMY DETECTED"

I had seen this kind of robot before, one was always standing outside of the Overseer's office back in Vault 69. There were stories told that when it came to military robotics it was the best there was. I whispered its name.

"Sentry bot…"

Then out of its left arm something fast came speeding towards me, I barely had enough time to jump out of the way. It was a rocket and the wall it hit crumbled at its very force. I had only a few seconds to hide from it so I ran behind one of the countless trucks in the room. I could hear the sound of its wheels grinding across the rough floor. I dared myself to above. I saw the plane and the trucks but could see no sign of the Sentry bot. Then I saw it appear from the corner of a truck, it was searching the room trying to find me. I aimed the laser rifle for its head and fired once.

PEW

It was a direct hit but my blast didn't affect the Sentry bot at all and now it knew where I was. It turned towards my direction and blasted another rocket. I ran out of the way as the rocket hit the car and it immediately exploded. I fired at the Sentry bot a couple more times while I was running but it didn't show any signs of having been hurt. Based on what I had learned so far in short time I had been fighting it I pieced together info about it.

Its toughest point was obviously its head so I figured that its programming must be there but the rest of its body was just as tough as well. My laser rifle was barely making any dents when I shot it. I needed something with more of a punch to hurt it. Then I heard the Sentry talking again.

"PRIMARY WEAPON EXHAUSTED, SWITCHING TO SECONDARY"

Then many laser shots started to fly over my head. I looked over to see the robot. It was now firing lasers at a rate only possible of a machine gun. I reached into my bag and pulled out a grenade and was about to pull of the pin when I had a better idea…

I went into the seat of one of the trucks and luckily the keys were still in. I flipped the keys and the engine came to life slowly but surely. At last the engine was roaring and I slammed my foot down on the pedal. The truck moved at a fast speed and I turned the wheel then I saw the Sentry bot right in front of me. I slammed the pedal even more and the truck went screeching towards the bot.

"ENEMY FOU-"

CRASH!

I jumped out of the truck just as it hit the Sentry bot. I couldn't hear the Sentry bot anymore so I walked over to the truck. My plan worked and the Sentry bot wasn't moving anymore, part of it was on fire. I looked around the room and saw that much of it was on fire. And in all this time I wasn't able to find one damn Corvega.

Then I heard another grinding noise and preparing for the worse aimed my laser rifle towards the plane. Another dark shape appeared and a Corvega came sliding out of the plane's cargo bay.