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Ok hi again guys. I said I would so I have. I know there are a lot of new guys to the Fan Fiction board who will continue, I am sure, to right their wonderful stories. And I intend mine to carry on but the first part was posted ages ago so you probably won't have seen it. Anyway this is quite a lot of work here and quite a lot to read. Comments question etc. are welcome. There is the odd rude word here and there. And some stuff that might offend some of you, Remember you've been warned.
Anyway I present to you:
Exploits of Fang: the Vault 13 Incident in it's entirety
PT1
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
Jedziea 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 deathclaws 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…
PT 2
"Vic you son of a Bitch," Cassidy remarked
"Nice to see you again Cassidy,"
"You have a way with mechanics don't you?" Cassidy asked.
"Well sort," Vic replied
"Do you fancy making this into a door for me?" Cassidy pointed at the space that linked into the cave beyond.
Vic loosened his small rucksack that was strewn across the back of his combat armour. He pulled out some rather large cutting tools. He reached for a locker and climbed upon it. He focused the tools above him and began to cut a hole for the door to go to when open. Meanwhile Cassidy searched the lockers to find something that might fit into place to make it look like a wall whilst also keeping a keen watchful eye on the door.
"Here we are," He whispered to himself as he found a crate containing "Repairable wall tiles," He began to lift some out of place and stick them together.
"So Vic do you know what's going on around here?" Cassidy asked.
"I think the raiders who captured the place are up in their living quarters drinking." Vic replied.
"Why did you come back down here?" Cassidy continued to inquire.
"I'm not stupid you know,"
"I wasn't implying you were."
"Well actually I laid a detector here. It was an old holographic thing. I was able to see what was happening from San Fran. As soon as it became clear Cala would be coming back here I headed off. Sulik decided to stay back there."
"So you let him, Why. Come on this makes no sense"
"Hey just trust me god dammit." Demanded Vic.
"Yeah just get on with the job," Cassidy remarked.
Vic resumed the cutting and he was nearly finished. He soon finished and climbed down. He began to assemble some type of mechanism to work the door he had just cut. It took him a while but he managed to get it working. It took them many hours but they managed it. They carried the lockers to appropriate places in their new head quarters. Vic pulled a couple of bedrolls from his pack and rolled them on the floor. He had installed a key card locking system on the door. It was concealed quite nicely on the opposite side. He could remove a tile to find the slot. He was able to salvage some gear from around the vault. The raiders who now controlled the vault were not too interested in the systems of the vault at the present time. They were expecting some technical workers to come in and evaluate the potential value but that was a few days away. Vic and Cassidy did not know this but it was time for them to recapture the vault AND uncover the traitors that must be working with them. The door locked smoothly and the two enjoyed a pleasant night of sleep.
So did the prisoners in the level above except their night was ruined by worry and fear. They had no clue that Vic and Cassidy were down beneath them right then sleeping in the rocky cave.
The raiders indeed were drinking until they dropped. Most of them had. That was what gave the two so much time and also made the raiders a careless bunch of idiots.
"What's the time?" Vic asked as he woke lazily
"Time to get up," Replied Cassidy energetically jumping to his feet shotgun at the ready.
"Do we have to?" Vic asked
"Yes we do," Cassidy checked his Vault device and reviewed the positions of the raiders. "Dammit" he whispered "Still jammed,"
"Yes Boss," Vic said pulling himself up and putting on his combat armour. "So what's the plan?" Vic asked
"So Cala," Whispered Goris who was shearing the same room as her. "What do we do?" he asked
"I don't know, I-I-I haven't ever felt this helpless before," She whispered back.
At that moment a raider entered the room and picked Jedziea up by the arm of her power armour and dragged her out. She was taken down to level 3 and out into the first room where there was a group of raiders seated on chairs with weapons on their laps. Jedziea was dragged kicking and creaming over to a central platform. Her weapons were pulled from her hands and as was the main attraction her power armour removed from her body. This was where she educed the worst part of her torture. The raiders forced themselves upon her. It wouldn't have been so bad for her if they didn't all smell of cigarettes. She was publicly humiliated not the raiders could tell anyone or even think about it when she was done with them. You can only imagine the pain of being constantly raped. She would probably have been more pleased as the beatings the rest of the group would probably have. They gave her a small funny looking out fit which they immediately made her get on. It didn't leave much to the imagination. She was told she could wear this or nothing as she was shoved completely unarmed back into her cell. Next they pulled Goris out. He had not many possessions to be stripped of but he received a savage beating. After this all of them were pulled out in turn with all their possessions taken and then they were tortured.
Cassidy and Vic decided that they could only risk leaving if they had stealth boys so they retrieved what they could and emerged from there hideout each with a card for re-entry. They went to a set of lockers that they hadn't seen the other day when they did a search of level three. Cassidy picked the lock of the first one and looked inside. The first object he found were Jedziea's bracelets. The ones he had given her for her last birthday. He continued to search the inventory of the locker.
"This is all her stuff," he declared as he looked through the collection of armour and weaponry. "Strange what some people keep on them isn't it," He stated as he removed a bag. He had found a strange collection of items after searching through it. There was a collection of condoms and necklaces and cosmetics cases. There was even a large amount of plant spikes that spore plants launched. "We might as well take this back to base," he whispered as he picked some of it out.
"Good idea," Vic agreed as he began to help his friend. When they finally had hold of all of the items, and junk in the locker they headed back to their temporary base. "I wonder what was in those other lockers?" Vic wondered aloud.
"Probably the rest of the groups gear too," Cassidy replied
Vic was startled at Cassidy's voice. It was Cassidy's usual voice but he wasn't aware that he was wondering out load. He hadn't been in a situation like this for a long time. His life had started to become dull after he had been left behind in San Fransisco for a while. He was prepped for adventure when he was recruited and rescued but that was thanks to being in the slaver's guild for ages. It was boring still it was exciting. He had gone back to just being a person. He was no longer Vic, the guy with the gauss rifle that loved to rip the hell out of slavers. He was just another citizen in a very crowded wasteland town. Now it was all beginning to come back to him. He dumped the stuff on the floor and left to go and have a longer look round the vault. Still under the protection of a stealth boy however.
"Hey where's all that gal's gear?" Asked one particularly dum raider
"What do you mean?" Said the raider who had placed it there looking in surprise to see it missing.
"Well it looks like we have intruders," said a third
A group assembled around the locker. Cassidy and Vic were approaching ready to take some of the other gear back. This was when they realised how stupid they'd been. The raiders wouldn't know the other gear was missing but THIS. They put it there so they could figure out it was gone, and they had. The raiders had their weapons ready and started patrolling slowly round the vault.
The presence crawled in, its eyes were focused on the raider unaware of him. He crept closer still shadowed somehow. The raider looked down as the thing emitted a deafening noise. The raider could only see a brief shadow. The shadow leapt forward with inhuman agility. It struck at the raider's legs crippling them and bringing them to the ground. The shadowed figure rose silently and a faint humming and then a click could be heard. Then the raider was no more, there was no trace of his body or his existence.
Cassidy stumbled, he hadn't been so scared in his life. There was a large group of raiders in front of him. Heavily armed and vicious. His weapon was puny and small but still at lest slightly deadly. Then he made the decision, to attack. He raised his weapon.
"No," said Vic stupidly alerting the raiders. They turned and looked towards where Vic and Cassidy stood. They could see shadows. The fairly intelligent leader immediately knew what the situation was and ordered their group to fire. A stream of fire went through the air as both Vic and bullets constantly bombarded Cassidy. Their combat armour soaked up most of the damage. But just one blow ruined everything. A small grenade was released along with the many others the soldiers were throwing but this one. This one was plasma, it overloaded their stealth boys and they feel to the ground uncloaked and helpless. The riders dragged them up to where another uncomfortable group were sitting planning. Vic was tossed in first followed closely by Cassidy with their equipment still on them. The raiders intended to get to business. Before any other dangers showed up. This was impossible however.
"Vic Cassidy," Called Jedziea as they were thrown in. However the door would not close. It stayed open despite the raiders pressing one hell of a lot of buttons. Then the furthest back raider was hit. Then another. Then a minigun and a plasma rifle thrown into the prison cell. Jedziea jumped at the sudden but unexplainable chance at hand. She raised the rifle and Marcus took the minigun. They released a spray of bullets at the raiders. This was when what saved them revealed itself. A hum came as a device clicked off. What stood before the group by the level elevator surprised them extremely?
PT3
In front of them was a power-armoured figure. It wore no helmet but still looked advanced. It had some sort of a pistol in one had and had a minigun strapped to the other arm. It looked like a ferocious monster and the entire group felt like screaming. But still this "Monster" Had just saved their lives, they should at least be thankful to it for that
"Hah," It exclaimed "I see the look of fear in your eyes. It is with that fear that you were rescued." He declared. The group of course knew that this was true. "So you need another travelling companion?" He asked Jedziea.
"Ahm sure," She said surprised at herself
"Where we headed then?" he asked.
"San Fran," Replied the still scarred Jedziea.
The rest of the group was a bit calmer now as they realised their saviour was with the Brotherhood. The figure had a bloodthirsty look on his face. It suddenly faded and he looked normal despite the fact that he was wearing power armour. He moved over to the elevator. He gestured with his hand for them to approach him. As they did he triggered the elevator to move downwards. Then again without speaking he moved over to a door and opened this. He gestured them in and then opened a locker. He went through the rest of the group's gear handing it to them slowly. He then stealthily ran to the next storage room. The group then wondered how long this presence had been lurking here in observation of every move. They thought perhaps that he had been here even when Jedziea was north in New Reno. They were wrong however as he had entered when they were captured. It wasn't his first visit but he was aware he had visitors in what he had taken to be his home. Goris seemed easier with him emotionally than the rest although if he did have any emotions at all he rarely and barely showed them. He displayed no fear or hatred now but instead friendship as if he knew and admired the power-armoured man.
"So Goris still hung around then, loyal to this girl now are you?" He asked Goris.
"I am indeed Fang," Replied Goris. The two were now ahead and almost isolated from the rest.
"Still like this place then?" Fang continued to ask.
"Yes I do LIKE it here but it reminds me of what happened still."
"Ohh yeah, that reminds me." Fang said
"What?" Asked the deathclaw.
"I took that video clip of your leader dying." Fang began to tell
"AND?" Goris questioned
"And I studied it in my base." Fang continued.
"What did you find?" Asked Goris.
"Well when I ran an advanced scan I found your leader was still alive."
"What do you mean!" Shouted Goris
The rest of the group ran up to them.
"What is it Goris?" Jedziea asked.
"Do you really mean it?" Goris asked Fang
"Mean what?" Jedziea questioned "Do you know each other?"
"Yes we do indeed." Goris said to her "He is my friend, he used to live here. Or at least temporarily. He left a lot and went places but…"
"Goris this is important." Fang told him "he was dumped in the waste land, he lives in a cave. Some of the others were still alive too. They hid. The mother is still alive and they have a large and prosperous new tribe."
"You seem awfully positive on your theory, have you any evidence to back it up?"
"I've been there I've seen him." Fang told Goris.
"REALLY?" Goris asked
Fang nodded and continued to walk on. He came to where Vic and Cassidy's secret base was. He removed the tile from the wall and he took a key card from a pocket. He ran this through the reader and the door opened.
"How-how is this possible? " Vic asked, "It was completely safeguarded."
"Relax," Said Fang "It's a skeleton Card," He raised it displaying a picture of a human skeleton. "It opens any door locked like this."
Fang went through and proceeded to open the unlocked lockers. He handed Jedziea her gear which was in the locker. He also took out some of Vic's. Cassidy had his on him.
Jedziea left the Vault eager to get on to San Fran where the rest of her friends waited. They went on at a startling pace which only Fang could keep up with.
"So you like running?" She asked Fang.
A smile came across his face as he looked down at her. She was an average height but Fang was larger than she was.
"I guess you could say that." He replied
"Will you two please slow down." Asked Vic who was weakly panting along behind them. They could also see that Lenny has having trouble but he didn't want to complain.
"Unless you want some privacy, and even then you could hire a room or something. Or whatever the hell just quit running. Some of us aren't as fit as the two of you."
Jedziea slowed down, Fang remained at her side.
"Chosen, if I may ask a favour," said Goris.
"Yes go ahead." Jedziea replied
"Did you hear what Fang said?" He asked her
"About what.?" She asked.
"About the deathclaws."
"Ohh that," She replied "Yeah he started."
"Well I would like us to go and visit the new deathclaw tribe."
"Do you mean you want to leave us, if so it's been nice having you with us and we hope we can see you again."
"No that is not what I had in mind chosen." Goris said.
"Well what did you have in mind?"
"I would like our whole group to visit."
"Very…" She was cut short as a stream of blasts came up behind them
"I thought we destroyed all the raiders," Jedziea said to Fang
"This is the same clan just a different band," Fang replied "Probably seeking revenge."
The raiders approached with all their weapons blazing. Fang drew his Vindicator at let that release all its stream of powerful bullets on them. Fang stood next to Marcus and they let their burst of fire combine. Jedziea joined them with her weapon going also on burst. Goris decided he would stay out of this fight, as there was no room for close combat. The group soon lost their advantage over the raiders as their miniguns began to run out of ammo. Jedziea advanced with only a pistol in hand. She then realised that this was the same group of raiders that were in the vault, the same that had raped her. She was not sad at this just very very angry. She aimed her weapon at ones head. The raiders were launching gauss rifle bullets at her. But even this could not stop her anger. She shot at the leader. The single bullet hit his nose and almost instantly his face turned red with blood. From behind Fang shot with some sort of weapon. The device had a large circular and long barrel. A handle protruded from its side and a strap was attached to Fang's back so as to support the weapon. Fang had his other hand on another handle sticking out of the bottom. This handle apparently held the trigger, the other being used for weapon settings. He focused the weapon on one raider. He turned it on and a stream of blue and white fire leaked out. It was incredibly burning and Fang turned his head as the flame was launched. The raider's screams could be heard for miles as the weapon which apparently had the hottest flame I the world burnt through his skin and armour. He ran the fire was tailing him and he was burning still. The worst part of the weapon looked like it didn't make you die instantly and instead made you stand and suffer.
Jedziea looked at Fang and his weapon then across at the still burning raider. She motioned with a nod and Fang began to unstrap the weapon and through it to her.
"Ok Cala," He said "is it all right if I call you that?"
"Sure," She replied as she looked at the weapon settings. She was still being bombarded with some bullets but the raiders seemed to be running away. She made her advance with Fang'' weapon. She released the Flame and swivelled on the spot as she did so. She then walked forward the flame going with her. The previously launched flame dissipated in the air even though the first raider shot with it was still on fire and perfectly alive. She continued to get her revenge with the flame as her device. It shot forward and began to burn raiders. The air stunk of fried blood and ashes. Jedziea looked away as she couldn't bare even the heat of the flame she shot herself. She decided that she wanted her revenge. That nothing would stop her. She looked increasingly scary. She burnt all the raiders quickly and turned around and walked back. An evil smirk came over her face, The group looked at her. She had never looked so scary. It seemed to cast fear even into Fang the brotherhood agent. She no longer looked like that playful beautiful little e girl that used to travel around near Klamath shooting scorpions in a playful way. She meant business, She turned and then sat down.
"Let's set up camp here," She said the anger seeming to slip from her, it was replaced by a look of extreme sadness. Fang walked over to her and put a hand on her shoulder.
"Are you ok?" he whispered into her ear.
She looked back up at him, she began to slowly cry. She looked down at herself, Fang kissed her on the head and laid her down o the floor acting as if they were old loyal friends.
"I'll protect you," he whispered as he removed a tent from her pack.
He unrolled the tent and individually set it up "Who normally sleeps with Cala?" fang asked them
They all looked across at him strangely.
"I mean in her tent," He replied.
They all looked normal again. "I did for a while," Said Goris, "But I normally sleep in with Vic but he wasn't here when last arrangements were made."
Goris climbed into a tent he had rapidly put up, Vic followed him. Then Marcus climbed into a tent on his own and that left Lenny and Cassidy to the last tent. Marcus left no room for any one else as he was only using human sized tents.
"I guess I'll have to come in with you," he said to Jedziea
"What did you used to sleep on before then?" She asked
"Ohh, the floors ok for me, when I was in the vault I had a comfy bed though." He said. He smiled which was a rare thing among the first few days when he met the group. She seemed to change him over time as she had changed the rest of them. Her playfulness and her joy, She acted like a little girl. Always running dancing singing and trying on what clothes there were left in good condition in the wasteland. Even Marcus and Goris seemed to have developed at least some sort of limited sense of humour.
Jedziea laid back and sighed, she would be going through an emotional week now after being raped. This is no way to treat our new guardian though. She remembered when she had first meet most of the group, how friendly she and her limited amount of comp
Anyway I present to you:
Exploits of Fang: the Vault 13 Incident in it's entirety
PT1
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
Jedziea 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 deathclaws 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…
PT 2
"Vic you son of a Bitch," Cassidy remarked
"Nice to see you again Cassidy,"
"You have a way with mechanics don't you?" Cassidy asked.
"Well sort," Vic replied
"Do you fancy making this into a door for me?" Cassidy pointed at the space that linked into the cave beyond.
Vic loosened his small rucksack that was strewn across the back of his combat armour. He pulled out some rather large cutting tools. He reached for a locker and climbed upon it. He focused the tools above him and began to cut a hole for the door to go to when open. Meanwhile Cassidy searched the lockers to find something that might fit into place to make it look like a wall whilst also keeping a keen watchful eye on the door.
"Here we are," He whispered to himself as he found a crate containing "Repairable wall tiles," He began to lift some out of place and stick them together.
"So Vic do you know what's going on around here?" Cassidy asked.
"I think the raiders who captured the place are up in their living quarters drinking." Vic replied.
"Why did you come back down here?" Cassidy continued to inquire.
"I'm not stupid you know,"
"I wasn't implying you were."
"Well actually I laid a detector here. It was an old holographic thing. I was able to see what was happening from San Fran. As soon as it became clear Cala would be coming back here I headed off. Sulik decided to stay back there."
"So you let him, Why. Come on this makes no sense"
"Hey just trust me god dammit." Demanded Vic.
"Yeah just get on with the job," Cassidy remarked.
Vic resumed the cutting and he was nearly finished. He soon finished and climbed down. He began to assemble some type of mechanism to work the door he had just cut. It took him a while but he managed to get it working. It took them many hours but they managed it. They carried the lockers to appropriate places in their new head quarters. Vic pulled a couple of bedrolls from his pack and rolled them on the floor. He had installed a key card locking system on the door. It was concealed quite nicely on the opposite side. He could remove a tile to find the slot. He was able to salvage some gear from around the vault. The raiders who now controlled the vault were not too interested in the systems of the vault at the present time. They were expecting some technical workers to come in and evaluate the potential value but that was a few days away. Vic and Cassidy did not know this but it was time for them to recapture the vault AND uncover the traitors that must be working with them. The door locked smoothly and the two enjoyed a pleasant night of sleep.
So did the prisoners in the level above except their night was ruined by worry and fear. They had no clue that Vic and Cassidy were down beneath them right then sleeping in the rocky cave.
The raiders indeed were drinking until they dropped. Most of them had. That was what gave the two so much time and also made the raiders a careless bunch of idiots.
"What's the time?" Vic asked as he woke lazily
"Time to get up," Replied Cassidy energetically jumping to his feet shotgun at the ready.
"Do we have to?" Vic asked
"Yes we do," Cassidy checked his Vault device and reviewed the positions of the raiders. "Dammit" he whispered "Still jammed,"
"Yes Boss," Vic said pulling himself up and putting on his combat armour. "So what's the plan?" Vic asked
"So Cala," Whispered Goris who was shearing the same room as her. "What do we do?" he asked
"I don't know, I-I-I haven't ever felt this helpless before," She whispered back.
At that moment a raider entered the room and picked Jedziea up by the arm of her power armour and dragged her out. She was taken down to level 3 and out into the first room where there was a group of raiders seated on chairs with weapons on their laps. Jedziea was dragged kicking and creaming over to a central platform. Her weapons were pulled from her hands and as was the main attraction her power armour removed from her body. This was where she educed the worst part of her torture. The raiders forced themselves upon her. It wouldn't have been so bad for her if they didn't all smell of cigarettes. She was publicly humiliated not the raiders could tell anyone or even think about it when she was done with them. You can only imagine the pain of being constantly raped. She would probably have been more pleased as the beatings the rest of the group would probably have. They gave her a small funny looking out fit which they immediately made her get on. It didn't leave much to the imagination. She was told she could wear this or nothing as she was shoved completely unarmed back into her cell. Next they pulled Goris out. He had not many possessions to be stripped of but he received a savage beating. After this all of them were pulled out in turn with all their possessions taken and then they were tortured.
Cassidy and Vic decided that they could only risk leaving if they had stealth boys so they retrieved what they could and emerged from there hideout each with a card for re-entry. They went to a set of lockers that they hadn't seen the other day when they did a search of level three. Cassidy picked the lock of the first one and looked inside. The first object he found were Jedziea's bracelets. The ones he had given her for her last birthday. He continued to search the inventory of the locker.
"This is all her stuff," he declared as he looked through the collection of armour and weaponry. "Strange what some people keep on them isn't it," He stated as he removed a bag. He had found a strange collection of items after searching through it. There was a collection of condoms and necklaces and cosmetics cases. There was even a large amount of plant spikes that spore plants launched. "We might as well take this back to base," he whispered as he picked some of it out.
"Good idea," Vic agreed as he began to help his friend. When they finally had hold of all of the items, and junk in the locker they headed back to their temporary base. "I wonder what was in those other lockers?" Vic wondered aloud.
"Probably the rest of the groups gear too," Cassidy replied
Vic was startled at Cassidy's voice. It was Cassidy's usual voice but he wasn't aware that he was wondering out load. He hadn't been in a situation like this for a long time. His life had started to become dull after he had been left behind in San Fransisco for a while. He was prepped for adventure when he was recruited and rescued but that was thanks to being in the slaver's guild for ages. It was boring still it was exciting. He had gone back to just being a person. He was no longer Vic, the guy with the gauss rifle that loved to rip the hell out of slavers. He was just another citizen in a very crowded wasteland town. Now it was all beginning to come back to him. He dumped the stuff on the floor and left to go and have a longer look round the vault. Still under the protection of a stealth boy however.
"Hey where's all that gal's gear?" Asked one particularly dum raider
"What do you mean?" Said the raider who had placed it there looking in surprise to see it missing.
"Well it looks like we have intruders," said a third
A group assembled around the locker. Cassidy and Vic were approaching ready to take some of the other gear back. This was when they realised how stupid they'd been. The raiders wouldn't know the other gear was missing but THIS. They put it there so they could figure out it was gone, and they had. The raiders had their weapons ready and started patrolling slowly round the vault.
The presence crawled in, its eyes were focused on the raider unaware of him. He crept closer still shadowed somehow. The raider looked down as the thing emitted a deafening noise. The raider could only see a brief shadow. The shadow leapt forward with inhuman agility. It struck at the raider's legs crippling them and bringing them to the ground. The shadowed figure rose silently and a faint humming and then a click could be heard. Then the raider was no more, there was no trace of his body or his existence.
Cassidy stumbled, he hadn't been so scared in his life. There was a large group of raiders in front of him. Heavily armed and vicious. His weapon was puny and small but still at lest slightly deadly. Then he made the decision, to attack. He raised his weapon.
"No," said Vic stupidly alerting the raiders. They turned and looked towards where Vic and Cassidy stood. They could see shadows. The fairly intelligent leader immediately knew what the situation was and ordered their group to fire. A stream of fire went through the air as both Vic and bullets constantly bombarded Cassidy. Their combat armour soaked up most of the damage. But just one blow ruined everything. A small grenade was released along with the many others the soldiers were throwing but this one. This one was plasma, it overloaded their stealth boys and they feel to the ground uncloaked and helpless. The riders dragged them up to where another uncomfortable group were sitting planning. Vic was tossed in first followed closely by Cassidy with their equipment still on them. The raiders intended to get to business. Before any other dangers showed up. This was impossible however.
"Vic Cassidy," Called Jedziea as they were thrown in. However the door would not close. It stayed open despite the raiders pressing one hell of a lot of buttons. Then the furthest back raider was hit. Then another. Then a minigun and a plasma rifle thrown into the prison cell. Jedziea jumped at the sudden but unexplainable chance at hand. She raised the rifle and Marcus took the minigun. They released a spray of bullets at the raiders. This was when what saved them revealed itself. A hum came as a device clicked off. What stood before the group by the level elevator surprised them extremely?
PT3
In front of them was a power-armoured figure. It wore no helmet but still looked advanced. It had some sort of a pistol in one had and had a minigun strapped to the other arm. It looked like a ferocious monster and the entire group felt like screaming. But still this "Monster" Had just saved their lives, they should at least be thankful to it for that
"Hah," It exclaimed "I see the look of fear in your eyes. It is with that fear that you were rescued." He declared. The group of course knew that this was true. "So you need another travelling companion?" He asked Jedziea.
"Ahm sure," She said surprised at herself
"Where we headed then?" he asked.
"San Fran," Replied the still scarred Jedziea.
The rest of the group was a bit calmer now as they realised their saviour was with the Brotherhood. The figure had a bloodthirsty look on his face. It suddenly faded and he looked normal despite the fact that he was wearing power armour. He moved over to the elevator. He gestured with his hand for them to approach him. As they did he triggered the elevator to move downwards. Then again without speaking he moved over to a door and opened this. He gestured them in and then opened a locker. He went through the rest of the group's gear handing it to them slowly. He then stealthily ran to the next storage room. The group then wondered how long this presence had been lurking here in observation of every move. They thought perhaps that he had been here even when Jedziea was north in New Reno. They were wrong however as he had entered when they were captured. It wasn't his first visit but he was aware he had visitors in what he had taken to be his home. Goris seemed easier with him emotionally than the rest although if he did have any emotions at all he rarely and barely showed them. He displayed no fear or hatred now but instead friendship as if he knew and admired the power-armoured man.
"So Goris still hung around then, loyal to this girl now are you?" He asked Goris.
"I am indeed Fang," Replied Goris. The two were now ahead and almost isolated from the rest.
"Still like this place then?" Fang continued to ask.
"Yes I do LIKE it here but it reminds me of what happened still."
"Ohh yeah, that reminds me." Fang said
"What?" Asked the deathclaw.
"I took that video clip of your leader dying." Fang began to tell
"AND?" Goris questioned
"And I studied it in my base." Fang continued.
"What did you find?" Asked Goris.
"Well when I ran an advanced scan I found your leader was still alive."
"What do you mean!" Shouted Goris
The rest of the group ran up to them.
"What is it Goris?" Jedziea asked.
"Do you really mean it?" Goris asked Fang
"Mean what?" Jedziea questioned "Do you know each other?"
"Yes we do indeed." Goris said to her "He is my friend, he used to live here. Or at least temporarily. He left a lot and went places but…"
"Goris this is important." Fang told him "he was dumped in the waste land, he lives in a cave. Some of the others were still alive too. They hid. The mother is still alive and they have a large and prosperous new tribe."
"You seem awfully positive on your theory, have you any evidence to back it up?"
"I've been there I've seen him." Fang told Goris.
"REALLY?" Goris asked
Fang nodded and continued to walk on. He came to where Vic and Cassidy's secret base was. He removed the tile from the wall and he took a key card from a pocket. He ran this through the reader and the door opened.
"How-how is this possible? " Vic asked, "It was completely safeguarded."
"Relax," Said Fang "It's a skeleton Card," He raised it displaying a picture of a human skeleton. "It opens any door locked like this."
Fang went through and proceeded to open the unlocked lockers. He handed Jedziea her gear which was in the locker. He also took out some of Vic's. Cassidy had his on him.
Jedziea left the Vault eager to get on to San Fran where the rest of her friends waited. They went on at a startling pace which only Fang could keep up with.
"So you like running?" She asked Fang.
A smile came across his face as he looked down at her. She was an average height but Fang was larger than she was.
"I guess you could say that." He replied
"Will you two please slow down." Asked Vic who was weakly panting along behind them. They could also see that Lenny has having trouble but he didn't want to complain.
"Unless you want some privacy, and even then you could hire a room or something. Or whatever the hell just quit running. Some of us aren't as fit as the two of you."
Jedziea slowed down, Fang remained at her side.
"Chosen, if I may ask a favour," said Goris.
"Yes go ahead." Jedziea replied
"Did you hear what Fang said?" He asked her
"About what.?" She asked.
"About the deathclaws."
"Ohh that," She replied "Yeah he started."
"Well I would like us to go and visit the new deathclaw tribe."
"Do you mean you want to leave us, if so it's been nice having you with us and we hope we can see you again."
"No that is not what I had in mind chosen." Goris said.
"Well what did you have in mind?"
"I would like our whole group to visit."
"Very…" She was cut short as a stream of blasts came up behind them
"I thought we destroyed all the raiders," Jedziea said to Fang
"This is the same clan just a different band," Fang replied "Probably seeking revenge."
The raiders approached with all their weapons blazing. Fang drew his Vindicator at let that release all its stream of powerful bullets on them. Fang stood next to Marcus and they let their burst of fire combine. Jedziea joined them with her weapon going also on burst. Goris decided he would stay out of this fight, as there was no room for close combat. The group soon lost their advantage over the raiders as their miniguns began to run out of ammo. Jedziea advanced with only a pistol in hand. She then realised that this was the same group of raiders that were in the vault, the same that had raped her. She was not sad at this just very very angry. She aimed her weapon at ones head. The raiders were launching gauss rifle bullets at her. But even this could not stop her anger. She shot at the leader. The single bullet hit his nose and almost instantly his face turned red with blood. From behind Fang shot with some sort of weapon. The device had a large circular and long barrel. A handle protruded from its side and a strap was attached to Fang's back so as to support the weapon. Fang had his other hand on another handle sticking out of the bottom. This handle apparently held the trigger, the other being used for weapon settings. He focused the weapon on one raider. He turned it on and a stream of blue and white fire leaked out. It was incredibly burning and Fang turned his head as the flame was launched. The raider's screams could be heard for miles as the weapon which apparently had the hottest flame I the world burnt through his skin and armour. He ran the fire was tailing him and he was burning still. The worst part of the weapon looked like it didn't make you die instantly and instead made you stand and suffer.
Jedziea looked at Fang and his weapon then across at the still burning raider. She motioned with a nod and Fang began to unstrap the weapon and through it to her.
"Ok Cala," He said "is it all right if I call you that?"
"Sure," She replied as she looked at the weapon settings. She was still being bombarded with some bullets but the raiders seemed to be running away. She made her advance with Fang'' weapon. She released the Flame and swivelled on the spot as she did so. She then walked forward the flame going with her. The previously launched flame dissipated in the air even though the first raider shot with it was still on fire and perfectly alive. She continued to get her revenge with the flame as her device. It shot forward and began to burn raiders. The air stunk of fried blood and ashes. Jedziea looked away as she couldn't bare even the heat of the flame she shot herself. She decided that she wanted her revenge. That nothing would stop her. She looked increasingly scary. She burnt all the raiders quickly and turned around and walked back. An evil smirk came over her face, The group looked at her. She had never looked so scary. It seemed to cast fear even into Fang the brotherhood agent. She no longer looked like that playful beautiful little e girl that used to travel around near Klamath shooting scorpions in a playful way. She meant business, She turned and then sat down.
"Let's set up camp here," She said the anger seeming to slip from her, it was replaced by a look of extreme sadness. Fang walked over to her and put a hand on her shoulder.
"Are you ok?" he whispered into her ear.
She looked back up at him, she began to slowly cry. She looked down at herself, Fang kissed her on the head and laid her down o the floor acting as if they were old loyal friends.
"I'll protect you," he whispered as he removed a tent from her pack.
He unrolled the tent and individually set it up "Who normally sleeps with Cala?" fang asked them
They all looked across at him strangely.
"I mean in her tent," He replied.
They all looked normal again. "I did for a while," Said Goris, "But I normally sleep in with Vic but he wasn't here when last arrangements were made."
Goris climbed into a tent he had rapidly put up, Vic followed him. Then Marcus climbed into a tent on his own and that left Lenny and Cassidy to the last tent. Marcus left no room for any one else as he was only using human sized tents.
"I guess I'll have to come in with you," he said to Jedziea
"What did you used to sleep on before then?" She asked
"Ohh, the floors ok for me, when I was in the vault I had a comfy bed though." He said. He smiled which was a rare thing among the first few days when he met the group. She seemed to change him over time as she had changed the rest of them. Her playfulness and her joy, She acted like a little girl. Always running dancing singing and trying on what clothes there were left in good condition in the wasteland. Even Marcus and Goris seemed to have developed at least some sort of limited sense of humour.
Jedziea laid back and sighed, she would be going through an emotional week now after being raped. This is no way to treat our new guardian though. She remembered when she had first meet most of the group, how friendly she and her limited amount of comp
