The Vault of The Future

by Synth Overseer

This is the story of the Original Synth and her adventures in the Capital Wasteland. She is the Overseer of Vault 121, built postwar under the ruins of Tenpenny Tower. This is an ongoing story. If you like it, hit that 'Follow' button in the face! Please leave me your feedback as it could help me improve my writing. You can find me on FB as the admin of "Everything Fallout" group.

10. See What I've Become

((Vault 121 PA System))

"Good morning, sunshine! Guess who's back? That's right, mommy's back! No thanks to you, ungrateful little shits! I'd like to thank my rescuers: Colton Kinley, Cory Tutor, Kevin Penloza, Lucas Brill and Daniel Cross. These fine wastelanders risked their lives to get me out of that sinkhole. You guys can take all the supplies you can carry and be on your merry way. Or, you know, you can stay. Get yourselves some nice cozy rooms in this shithole these people call home. Your call."

While addressing to the vault residents over the intercom, the Overseer was studying some reports on her terminal. She looks clearly annoyed.

"Okay, what is this? The power levels are down to 26%? What?! You noobs! I swear, if one day I decide to leave this Vault, you're all dead. Dead!"

The Overseer's assistant, a young attractive woman in her early 20's, was moving her hands frantically, suggesting the synth should end the transmission.

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((Vault 121 PA System))
"Hey, what are you doing? Don't touch my microphone! Fucking keep your hands off. Heeey! I'm in charge here. OK? I'm your O-ver-se-er. Got it? You cun-"

((Transmission cuts off))

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Everyone in the Vault stopped what they were doing, waiting, with worried expressions on their faces. What was happening to the Overseer? Do synths have moods? Someone suggested they 'broke her,' the Brotherhood that is. Another person hinted that the Overseer got 'tired of running the Vault'. But that's absurd! Synths don't get tired. She's a machine, for crying out loud! So what was it then?

Eventually, everyone got back to work and things in the Vault returned to normal. Later that night, Dan Erwin, the chief scientist of Vault 121, requested a meeting behind closed doors. Without wasting any time, he went straight to the point:

"We have reasons to believe our Overseer was hacked. She's not being herself, so to speak, and this is dangerous for the welfare of the Vault. I need a team to go to a place called the Institute, and retrieve a chip for me. It should help us fix the Overseer. If you're successful, you will be paid 1,000 caps. Each. Who is volunteering?"