Chapter 2 The southern wasteland
Jack, Stephen, Susan, Alfred and, John, stand in the middle of a fallen shopping mall. As Alfred is shorting out Stephen decides to fix him. "It seems his main hydraulics system is shot, we should search the local labs in the area for one." Stephen explained. The team walked down the dusty road, noticing burnt trees, fallen buildings and bodies surrounding the area like a blanket. "It would seem this lab was one of the few places un touched by the war!" Susan said enthusiastically. The team walks into The state university's science lab to find the parts needed, a chill came over the room, it was dark and it felt as if everything in the room was dead . Stephen takes out the G.E.C.K.S "We might need one of these to get these machines started". Stephen walks over and stands in a chamber. "Ha Ha! Look at me I'm trapped!" Stephen said laughing hysterically. "Get out of there before something goes wrong" Susan said in a nagging tone. "Lighten up Suse, nothing bad will happen" Said Jack. A glass wall falls over the front of the chamber, a robotic voice is heard, the voice says "Test subject ready for FEV virus transformation process". "What's that?" asked John. Stephen is injected with the FEV virus, he shrieks out in pain as he falls to his knees, his hair was falling out, he was growing larger his muscles grew to the size of tires, His skin turned yellow, Stephen turned into a super mutant brute. As he stumbled around he stomped on both G.E.C.K.S. Stephen stands and examines himself for a moment, then runs out of the lab. "We have to follow him!" Shouted susan "Hes our friend, maybe theres someway we can help him out of, of, of whatever that was!" Susan said. Jack looks at his Pip-boy and mentions to the others that there is a near by town, called ditch city. "What kind of name is that?" John asked . The team goes to the town and discovers that it consists of Brother Hood of steel members, they get to the Front gate and Paladin Richardson stops them. "Halt!" He says. " You are tress passing on brother hood of steel territory, any closer and I have been authorized to engage in combat" Says Richardson. Paladin Richardson was a tall very in shape man, one of the strongest men in the wasteland. The whole team had worried looks on their faces except Jack, he had the look of determination. "Sir we need to find our friend, he turned big and yellow and," Before Jack could finish Richardson interrupts and says "A super mutant? Well I can't say I've seen a super mutant in these parts for about a week now, besides if he came by, his head would be one of those on those poles out side of our city's gates, I would check the nearby vaults and also the Scrapyard." The team turned and looked at each other. Jack then says "We need to split up, John take the scrap yard, Susan take ehh it says on my pip boy vault 51, ill take the surrounding cites." The Team splits off and John goes to the scrapyard. He notices a pack of ghouls living in the scrapyard and says "Gah the fuck are those things? They look like zombies". John jumps down and tries talking to the ghouls but unfortunately they were feral ghouls. John draws his assault rifle and starts taking the heads off of the Ghouls but gets ganged up on by a whole pack of ghouls and becomes one of them. But unlike his moronic, brethren, he was a Glowing one but was still a normal ghoul (Opposite of a feral) and can communicate with both humans and ghouls. He looks over his ghoul brothers and grins, he then mumbles "Looks like you guys have a new ruler". Susan arrives at vault 51 to find the door open and its inhabitants gone. She thought to herself this would be the perfect place for a super mutant. She got into the reactor level of the vault when she hears something move, she turns quickly and says "Whos there?" in a broken voice. She turns on the light to her pip boy and notices a snout poking out of the darkness. Before she knew it she was pinned up against the wall. A Death claw was Face to face with her, growling, the death claw licks her face. Susan stands shaking and mumbles "Im going to die!"