User:Cheesy Snake/Brian

This is something my dad told me once. It's from the bible, my mother's favourite passage. It seemed the best way to start this.

My name is Brian. I live...lived...in Vault 101, a nuclear bunker built over 200 years ago, under the barren wasteland that was once Washington DC, capital of the United States of America. I say lived, because I don't anymore.

You're probably asking why. Why would I leave a comfortable, safe, radiation-free vault with everything I'd ever need and come out into the wasteland? Truth is, it was because of my father.

He escaped the Vault, and all hell broke loose. I had to run. I had to escape too, otherwise they would have killed me.

This is my story.

17th August 2277 - Day Zero
It all began today. Amata, my best friend, shook me awake looking absolutely terrified. I'd never seen her so scared. She told me that my dad had escaped the vault and the Overseer (her father) had gone mad. They hunted down my dad's assistant, Jonas, and killed him. According to Amata, they were now coming to find me. Orders were to shoot on sight.

I had to escape. There was a secret tunnel in the Overseer's office that I could use to get to the Vault entrance. Amata handed me some bobby pins and a pistol she'd stolen from her father. She promised she'd meet me at the exit and left.

It took me a few seconds to pull myself together, then I quickly grabbed everything I could get my hands on: some stimpacks from the first aid kit, an old baseball bat, the BB Gun dad gave me for my 10th birthday and a few other bits and pieces. I ran out and came face to face with a guard, luckily he was distracted by some radroaches that had got in so I managed to slip past him.

I made my way through the corridors, not really taking it in. Dad had left me all alone. And now all this shit was happening. People were dying. They killed two right in front of me. There was nothing I could do except run.

I was about to walk past the cells when I heard Amata crying out in pain. I looked through the window and saw one of the guards, Mack, beating her, while her father watched. I don't know what came over me, but I hammered the door release with my fist and stepped in. By the time, Mack turned to face me, I'd drawn the pistol and fired twice. His head seemed to explode and fly off his neck, hitting the wall behind him with a sound I'd really like to forget. Turning my gun towards the Overseer, I contemplated pulling the trigger again, but something held me back. I replaced the pistol on my belt and followed Amata out and up towards the Office. It was there I saw Jonas' body. They'd murdered him in cold blood and left him there.

I noticed something reflecting the light over the top of his lab coat pocket. I slid it out and looked at. It was a holotape. With my name on it. I pocketed it, I decided to listen to it later. I had slightly more pressing matters to deal with. I found Amata in her living room. She seemed shaken up, but managed a smile and told me she'd catch up. I picked the lock on the office door, went inside and made my way to Overseer's terminal. After a few tense minutes I managed to hack the computer and activate the secret tunnel door.

Running now, I reached the entrance and activated the door controls. Amata caught up with me and we said our goodbyes before we were interrupted by a group of guards who had heard the siren. Running as fast as I could, I bolted through the door of the vault and up towards the door to the wasteland. I heard shouting behind me and then the sound of the vault door closing. I couldn't resist, and turned back in time to see the huge door roll back into place, sealing me out forever.

Vault 101. The only home I've ever known. And now I can never go back. I took one last look and pushed open the door to the outside world.