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The Exploits of Fang: The Vault 13 Incident, Part One
By Fang
It was night, a tribal woman stumbled through the barren wasteland, she was almost out of food and drink, she was almost done for. She stumbled slowly glancing at her pip boy as she moved. Her power armour glistened even in the late evening it was. She looked down again and watched the small dot that represented her move slowly south. She had no protection and was no doubt likely to encounter some raiders or just as cruel beings like mutants or deathclaws before she could make it to the vault. Her friend were waiting there, Marcus Goris and lenny, they would have some water, and she could find herself a nice cooked meal somewhere in vault storage. She almost missed the intelligent deathclaws that lived there. She suspected that Frank hadn't really killed them. Even a super being like that couldn't do such a thing. But this was only her thought, she probably would never know the real truth. She hoped she would get there quickly,
And some strange how she just managed it, Several days maybe weeks later she stumbled into vault 13. Her friends were here and had been waiting longer than and eternity for her return. She had wanted a private trip to Reno to clear up a few little things.
She looked up at the great vault door with it's 13 neatly
carved into it, she remembered her first trip to this place. She also imagined
the vault dweller her ancestor who wore the vault suit before her leaving on his
trip to find the water chip all those years ago. However she wanted to make a
hasty departure and get on with her journey. She entered an access code into the
computer and the door swung slowly and heavily open. She rushed inside and
pressed the button to open the next door. On the other side lenny was waiting.
"He hello ch' chosen one," he greeted as she entered
"It's about time," Came Marcus's voice as he emerged from the
elevator.
"It is good to see you again chosen," came the voice of the deathclaw
Goris.
"Hello party," the chosen replied, "Good to see you again
people"
She looked up and saw that her friends had made a few
upgrades while she was gone, across the hall from her was a motion sensor facing
directly at the entrance. A cable linked it to the nearby entrance computer.
From there on it was transmitted all over the upgraded network. She walked over
to the console "Nice," she whispered as she looked at the status of
the new network, she went slowly over the list of upgrades.
"So," she whispered "You've installed a transmitter on level two
huh," She looked back down again "And another outside the vault"
She paused again and looked down "Concealed I hope?" she asked.
"Of course," replied a fourth voice, She looked over in the direction
of the med-lab. It was Cassidy dressed in a dirty over all with a large metallic
tool over his right shoulder leaning down to his weak heart. He held it with his
left hand and was armed with his own customised sawed-off shotgun which he was
especially proud of
"Cassidy," cried young Jedziea, the chosen one. She was surprised as much as she was pleased to see him. "What happened to you?" She asked him
"I survived," he replied. Jedziea and the group had taken him up for dead at vault 15. "I thought the same of you," Cassidy said "I thought I might as well save your tribe if you didn't. I found the location of this place in the other vault and headed here," Cassidy finished
"What about the others?" Jedziea questioned
"You mean Sulik and K-9?" Cassidy stated the (probably) obvious
"As far as I know there still in san Fran. I ain't seen 'em in ages. They
might have given us up for lost and gone back to Klamath or wherever they
intended to go. I've been here fixing up some upgrades to our new base of
operations." Cassidy drew a small object from his belt. It looked slightly
like a stealth boy but it had a fairly large screen and a small
transmission-receiving device. "This is how we all knew you were he so
quick other than Lenny being on guard, See we've rigged up a lot of the vault
with motion sensors Geiger counters and the lot. We've even rigged an inventory
console in the storage rooms. And those BOS stealth boys on al the lockers to
make them invisible if we're attacked. All the networked computers have maps of
everything, we can see whose where in the base. We kinda got bored…very very
bored."
"Well it's good to see you made use of the
time,"
"So who was your time, what do ya do in Reno may we ask?" Questioned
Goris
"Yeah anything we should know about," Said Marcus.
"I was clearing up a deal with little Jesus Mordino. He sexually harassed
me on my last visit,"
"SO…" Questioned Cassidy
"So I let him take out his urges on me,"
"Then…" Cassidy continued to inquire
"I killed him"
"Anything else?" Marcus asked.
"Wouldn't you like to know." She ended the conversation there.
"So will one of you handsome chaps get me some water?" She asked.
"Very well chosen," Goris joked as he stumbled over to the elevator
leading down to storage.
Goris returned several minutes later with some water and nuka-cola. Jedziea took
them and finished the water in one sweeping motion. "Let's go see if the
others are still where I left them. I heard Sulik quite liked that martial arts
guy Dragon.
"I think K-9 did too" Added Goris as they began to leave
"Ahh I almost forgot" Said Cassidy again retrieving the device
apparently all the group had been given, He handed a spare to Jedziea and then
put his own and pointed it at the vault. "Shut down sequence number
13." He said, the last words drained out by a faint humming of the systems
shutting down.
The group turned and walked out towards where they had parked the car.
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"Approach," the lead raider said he motioned forward with one hand and
begin to slide slowly in the direction he was pointing. He had an SMG in the
other hand and his green combat armour protected him from a lot of battle
damage. The group followed him forward leading them through the cave entrance to
vault 13. Soon they moved and ambushed the group exiting the vault.
Cassidy was busy with the computer locking the vault door and it was his and only his vault boy that was contacted. He took the device from around his waist and checked what the motion sensor had seen. When he realised how many raiders were stumbling into the cave he ran. He ran to another upgrade he'd made to the vault, a side entrance. Through this he was able to re-enter the vault without bothering to open the huge vault main-entrance door.
Meanwhile the rest of the group was approaching the stealthy threat completely unaware of the danger. The raiders were able to silently emerge from the shadows and kidnap the group.
"What err wh-what's th-that," Said Lenny as he
heard a gun loaded right behind his head.
"Take us into the vault," Demanded a raider who was concealed in the
green combat armour.
Yet they were all unaware of who else was watching this
strange business. The concealed stranger who was also present drew closer to the
main vault door. He slipped again into the shadows while the chosen one was
forced to open the door. As they went in this presence also followed them.
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"Here you can stay in here," the raider pushed the four into a small
room, it was small compared to some other vault living quarters but it was large
compared to the rooms the people of the wasteland stay in. There was a door down
on the wall to the right of the party entering. There were two beds in this room
as well as a shower, two lockers, a bookshelf, two desks and a toilet. Marcus
moved over to the door from where he had been pushed. He tried it but it'd
already been locked
"Damn it," He whispered to himself
Jedzeia instinctively moved over to the other door and tried that, it led into a
room exactly the same as the one they were currently in.
"Lenny," Marcus shouted over to him
Lenny nodded and moved through as quickly as he could to
try the exit door in the other room but it was locked too.
"It's locked," He shouted back.
They were trapped.
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Cassidy dropped from his perch in the air vents. He had removed a loose tile
above the high-tech storage room. "Good," he thought as he dropped
down and landed silently.
"This can be our base of operations until we can get rid of the
raiders," He thought. "Now if only I'd paid more attention in mechanic
school… it looks like we need to get a door here" he said, he was
referring to where the deatclaws had made the cave. He was thinking to himself
when he heard a footstep, it was growing ever closer. He heard a weapon being
loaded and raised. It was right out side. He could feel it on the ground. He
prepared to make a jump with his rifle in hand. The footstep drew even closer
WHEN…