Fallout 4 :Wasteland Survivalist Journal:

Chapter 2: Rocket 69

Chapter 2: Rocket 69

    The platform started to go down as the shockwave drew closer. It almost hit us, but the doors closed just in time. Complete darkness swallowed the 8 of us that entered. I had a very bad feeling about this. A thin sheet of light grew bigger as we entered the vault, when the platform stopped and the gate opened we were directed through a vault door.

An automated voice said, "Welcome home. And thank you for choosing Vault-Tec!"

"Well this is pleasing." I mumbled to myself sarcastically.

Once we got into a room that looked like a security checkpoint, the Overseer welcomed us. They gave us these blue, black, and yellow leather jumpsuits. After putting them on, a staff member guided us down a long hallway to the "decontamination" pods. I should have known it was all a fucking lie.

"This is it, honey. Our new home." Nora said to me smiling.

"Shaun will love it here." I replied while tickling Shaun.

The staff member ushered us to enter our pods. I stepped in and the door closed behind me. I was only in there for 5 seconds until it started getting unusually cold. I looked up to notice a wave of ice and frost filling the pods. I tried to bang on the window but my entire body froze before I could. For it would be over 150 years before my fist connected with the thick pane of glass.

For the next 150 years, I would stay cryogenically frozen. Then I started to regain feeling in my body. I could see two suspicious figures standing out side my wife's pod. One dressed in a lab coat opened up Nora's pod.

A muffled voice said, "Get the child."

"No! Not Shaun!" I screamed , but it seemed as the pods were sound proof. I kept pounding on the door as hard as I could, but it didn't budge. I was concentrated on opening the door when I heard Nora yell between grunts., "Let...go...of...Shaun!

    All time seemed to stop...when I heard the click of a gun. Then, crack!!! Nora was there, dead. Shaun was being carried out. I will never forget the face of that bastard! He walked up to me. I spat curses at him and he just smirked.

    "At least we have a backup." He said sarcastically.

They reactivated the cryogenic array. As I was frozen once again. For 60 or so years.

I remember awakening, still in the pod. Staggered out of it, leaping over to my wife's pod. "No!!! That fucking bastard, I'm going to kill him!" I yelled at the top of my lungs while trying to open it. It opened and I pulled her out and lay her down beside me.

"No, no, no. Please stay with me!" My eyes were pouring like a river. "I'll get Shaun back. And I kill that mother fucker for you...I promise." I took her ring and let her rest. Walking out of the room, I fell to my knees and cursed.

I was walking along the hallway outside of the cryogenic room. I noticed the kitchen to the left of me and the dorms to the right. First I entered the kitchen looking for food. It looked very deserted. I saw a fridge cracked open a little bit. When I had opened it, inside was some cram and insta-mash. Of course I ate the cram, even though it was most likely rotten.

    After that I went into the dorms. It was a little too quiet. I checked the footlockers and lockers, to my surprise I found a securities baton and a 10mm pistol with its ammo. "Good thing we used these in war." I said to myself.

    I heard a faint clicking noise behind me. I turned around to see something as ugly as my grandfather. "Ahhh!! That's one giant roach!" I yelled sarcastically, thinking someone was messing with me. That was until it launched itself at me. I shot it twice in the abdomen to which it fell dead on the floor.

    I had continued through the vault. 5 more of these so called RadRoaches attacked me. I got to the front entrance where there was this skeleton wearing a lab coat that had this pip-boy on his arm. I took it off his arm, put it on, and turned it on. That activated and showed me my health, items, map, quests, and, I'm very thankful for this feature, a radio.I used my Pip-Boy to open the vault door, sirens and alarms roared and echoed throughout the vault. I walked back to the platform and left the vault.