Crawl Out Through The Fallout (Fo4 Fanfic)

Chapter 2

    Very shortly after Fiona was refroze she began to fade in and out of consciousness yet again. Shivering the girl finally came to. Heaving and coughing she pressed her hands against the glass, this time the door lifted resulting in her stumbling onto the ground. Ice crystals stuck to her face from frozen tears. The girl weakly pushed herself to her feet wincing in pain from her raw knuckles. Shaking and coughing she threw herself at her mother's pod yanking on the leaver with what little strength she had. "Please momma.." she whined kicking the pod and throwing the leaver around until it finally opened. Her mother's body limply slid out of the cryogenic pod, her frozen dead body laying on the floor. Fiona dropped down next to the woman and stared for a bit. She held her mothers frozen corps in her arms weaping holding on tight. "Mom I'm scared, p-please..." Fiona choked on her tears squeezing her swollen eyes shut "it's a dream it's a dream." She grinded her teeth.  She held her mother gently laying her back in the cryo capsule, shutting her eyes.

"It's just a bad dream!" Fiona screamed slapping herself. To no avail. "Wake up!" She shreaked throwing herself into an adjacent pod. She sat for a moment pulling at her hair. "I-its not a dream.." she cried quietly holding herself.

After nearly an hour of shaking and crying Fiona rose to her feet and rubbed her eyes. "Come on Fi! Pull yourself together! Remember what dad always said, adapt. You have to adapt!" Her voice cracked and shook as she talked herself down. 

Ok ok Fiona what's the situation... E-everyones dead, but me, mom is dea- yeah.. Shaun is- Shaun is alive...Shaun is alive! He was taken. Objective find brother. But I gotta get out of here first..

Fiona wandered out of the cryo room and down the long hall of the vault. Suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her ankle causing her to jump away. A huge roach was latched onto her ankle. She screamed kicking it and stomping it to bits. "Wh-what the hell??" She tried to slow her breathing.

How long was i asleep?

Fiona dashed through the vault retracing her steps back to the entrance.   After a while she had started to thaw out regaining most of her strength back.

Ok now how the hell do I open this door?

She searched around but eventually tripped over the skeleton of one of the scientists. He happens to die with a pipboy on his arm. Fiona cringed but grabbed the pipboy snapping it onto her wrist.  After figuring out the controlled she finally got the vault door to roll open.
   She jogged down to the platform, sliding on just before it surged back to life. It screeched and jolted like it hadn't been used in years. After a few minutes of moving up the doors krept open causing Fiona to wince at the bright light. The platform halted with a jolt causing Fiona to stumble. Once able to open her eyes she scanned the crumbled dead world around her.

She gasped in horror. Everything was dead and decayed. Her whole world stripped from her and turned upsidedown.

"Oh fuck." Fiona cursed. She trudged down the hill sliding a little bit. She might as well start at home to maybe get supplies, if anything had survived the bombs.  Eventually arriving at her house, Wich of course was now destroyed, Fiona searched for anything salvageable. She came across her parents room, Wich had her father's gun safe that no one dared to touch since he disappeared. She figured now was a good time, she knew the combination, it was her name in numerics. She hauled the door open to reveal a shot gun,a few boxes of ammo, several stimpacks, a holotape, and a photo of her and her father. Fiona choked back the tears as she examined the picture. It was the day she was adopted. She wandered off to her room, finding her backpack that somewhat survived. She stuffed the ammo and stimpacks into the ratty sack throwing it over her shoulder. She grabbed the shotgun loading a couple shells in and headed out or the ruined house.