The age beyond the apocalypse

Chapter 1: the crash landing

"Push... Push you can do it! Push!" Yells Jack Stoke as he comforts Liza Stoke. Liza screams as she delivers the baby. Jack picks up the baby. "its a boy!" jack happily declared. Everyone in the Vertiebird claps and cheers. Jack holds the baby and wraps it with a cloth, he looks at the baby, the baby stops crying "he's perfect" says jack with a tear running down his eye. "Let me look at him" Liza says with relief and excitement. Jack carefully passes the baby into Lisa's arms. Liza looks at the baby "he has beautiful green eyes" she says. "Congratulations Sargent Stoke!" Shouted the captain. Jack is a member of the Enclave, he has served them for 12 years. "What shall we call him hon?" Jack asks with a smile. "How about... James?" Liza replied "James... James Stoke... I like it!" Jack declared. "Sir. were flying over LA, may wanna check out the view. said the captain "give him here hon" Jack commanded. Liza passed baby James into Jack's arms. Jack moved to the nearest window and looked down at the ruins of LA. They saw the devastated remains of what used to be called Los Angeles. There was buildings that stood tall stripped to their foundations. The roads that lead around LA where blocked off by mountains of rubble, roads that weren't covered by rubble had dead bushes and yellowish grass growing out of the cracks. The colourless dead city stood there abandoned. Baby James gazed out the window. "See that James?" Jack softly asked "That used to be Los Angeles, it was one of Americas greatest cities. Over there they made old holotapes, they drove around in things called cars, instead of caps they used something called the dollar.
It was a golden age where people didn't have to survive... And then the apocalypse happened... Now the place is crawling with mutants and monstrosities that where once humans and..."Jack please, let the baby sleep"interrupted Liza. Jack said nothing, he sat next to his tired wife with the baby in his arms. All of a sudden there was a laud bang. Everyone covered their ears. It it was a gunshot. "What the fuck was that!?" one of the soldiers asked. "It...it sounded like a gunshot" Jack said over James's laud cries. "Err Sir.you may wanna look at this" said another one of the soldiers. Jack looked forward at the captains seat. blood was running down the captains arm witch didn't move. Suddenly the control panel exploded with sparks a siren went off. "Fuck where going down!" Shouted one of the soldiers. Everyone in the vertibird panicked as it headed straight for Hollywood hills, or at least whatever was left of it. Liza screamed. Jack said nothing, he just shut his eyes and embraced James tightly. The vertibird crashed and skidded along the dirt knocking over any dead tree in its path.

The virtie bird had crashed just under the ruins of the holywood sign. Hollywood hills looked like dirt it was covered in dark brown dead trees. the Hollywood sign missed the letters Y and O, the H was on a slant and the other letters where in bad condition.
A wooden door built into a cliffy part of the hill opened. It lead to vault 44 (LA). 5 Vault security guards emerged waring vault security armour and vault-tec gas mask helmets. they had Assault rifles drawn. they searched the area alarmingly "what was that sound?" asked officer Mitchell. "Whatever it was, it was loud" replied officer Clark. As they cautiously moved further away from the door they saw black smoke peering over the dead trees. It was the smoke from the virtiebird. "where's that smoke coming from?"asked officer Smith. "Whatever it is, there's only one way to find out" replied officer Parker fearlessly. Officer Parker is the squad leader he is a high rank in vault security. The squad approached the desecrated virtiebird. "What is that thing?" Asked officer Jones. "I don't...wait can you hear that?"asked officer Parker. "What...what is it?" Asked officer Clark. "It...sounds like a...baby"said officer Parker. "Yes, I hear it, listen"said officer smith. They hear a fragile cry "c'mon"commanded officer Parker as he entered the wrecked virtiebird. When they all managed to get in they saw a baby embraced into the arms of a man's corpse, it was jack. Jacks face was covers in blood a part of his brain was exposed. The baby cried a loud cry as officer Parker put his assault rifle on his back and gently picked the baby up. "j...j...James sst...ssstoke" said a voice coming from the corner of the wrecked virtiebird. All the officers looked, there was a dying soldier speared through the belly by a large piece of steel "h...his name...is James ssstoke" said the soldier in his dying breath. "Who are you?" Asked officer Mitchell. The soldier shook as he spoke"My...my name...is j...j.Johnny sssparksss...I..." The soldier stopped shaking, his face went pale and he took his last breath... officer Parker looked back at the baby. "What will we do with it?" Asked officer Clark. Officer Parker sighed."we'll take it into the vault" he said "but sir it's an outsider!" Replied officer Clark alarmingly. Officer Parker turned to officer Clark and replied "and that what I just said to you was an order! Where taking the baby into the vault no questions asked!" Officer Jones interrupted. "Sir." Officer Parker turned and looked at officer jones as he spoke. Officer jones continued "it's mother is till alive. I think she's in a coma sir." Officer Parker sighed again "bring her into the vault too. She can look after the child when she wakes up, if she wakes up. For now I'll look after the child" "but sir. You're head of squad!" officer Smith pointed out. "I'll work part time" replied officer Smith. "And what will the overseer think about you bringing in two outsiders?" Asked officer Mitchell in a rude tone. Officer Parker turned to officer Mitchell and looked at him with a dirty look. "I'll persuade him, okay!" He yelled. Officer Mitchell opened his mouth "pfft ha You! Persuade the overseer! Oh please you can't persuade shit!" The over four officers looked at officer Mitchell in shock. Officer Parkers face turned red, he gave the baby to officer Clark, walked over to officer Mitchell and looked him in the eye. Officer Mitchell stepped back. Officer Parker spoke."I don't care if you're seventeen and young, you failed the G.O.A.T exam, That means you had two options: you could sign up as a security guard or get thrown out the vault. You chose to sign up and I hired you, I saved your life. I know for a fact that you won't last an hour out here in the wasteland, so if you plan on keeping your job, treat me with some respect you little shit!" Officer Mitchell stepped forward, he ripped off his badge and threw it on the floor."what are you doing?!" Asked officer Parker angrily. officer Mitchell spoke "Fuck the vault, Fuck vault security, Fuck the overseer and Fuck you officer Parker I'm done!" Officer stares at officer Mitchell shockingly as he stumbles out of the virtiebird and into the wastes "I'll show you how long I'll last!" He said "go on leave! I'm not stopping you, you delusional kid! C'mon lets get back in the vault, night time is falling."officer Parker commanded as he lead the squad back into the vault with a baby and its mother...