i sat on the floor, staring in awe at how massive this door is, You could fit the whole of V13 through this door, What the hell is inside this thing!. After i get over how dumbstruck i am by the size of this door i gather my wits and take a look around for the control panel. The control panel for V13 is right infront of the door but i can't seem to see one here, I walk a little closer to the door and see if it's hidden under any metal panels or hatches, but that'd be too easy. After about 20 minuites of looking i'm about to give up all hope, when i notice a switch embedded into the rock on the left side of the door.
I flip the siwtch and and i hear some cracking, Then part of the wall on the other side of the door falls off and the control panel is hidden behind, No wonder i couldn't find it. I head over to the control panel and press a couple of buttons flip a few switches and being computer savvy i hacked the overseers passcode to open the door, I hear a few rustic sounds and metal scratching against it's self which was insanely loud. Then the door began to move towards me, I dived out the way out of instict then remembered it comes away from the hatch, This massive door began to roll away from the huge hole in the wall as that's pretty much all it was. and stopped about quarter of the way out, "bloody machinery" i said to myself.
I peered into the door way and into the "lobby" so to speak of the vault and it seemed like it was identical to V13 just bigger, I mean the lobby in V13 is no larger than you're everyday automobile, But this is like the size of a neuclear reactor, Which seems rather ironic considering the reasons we built these giant lead and titanium rabbit holes. I set off inside, Taking in my surroundings as i go. Carefully counting how many steps it takes me to get to the other side end of the lobby, There is method in my madness.
I get to the inside entrance to be greeted by an error on the control panel, Apparently the power generators are down, Which means everything is on emergency power, Which was probably caused by me opening the vault door after 25 years, so i'm going to have to manually override the automatic power to for the door open, Which depending on what Vault-Tec Operating system this vault was installed with, will either be really easy, or really damn hard. Lets hope it's easy.
I fiddle around with the fuses in the panel and reconnect some wires that were pulled out for what ever reason and the panel flickers up a new screen, telling me that the power has been restored but the door is stuck, Vault-Tec doors stuck? The irony, Anyway, I'm just going to hack the systems operating system and override the warning, And hopefully it'll open the door at least enough for me to get through.
After a good 30 mins of guessing code and trying to find out what the overseers password was, because apparently he or she didn't use the same one for both vault main door and the inside entrance, (paranoid much?) I found it. Why on EARTH you would use Ponies69 as you're password beats me, but i got in, I told the computer to force the door and it raised but only by maybe a foot, it's enough to crawl through. Just.
Crawling through the gap under the door i hear scuttling of what sound like clawed and padded feet at the same time, Which in logical biological sense, doesn't make sense, at least not to the extent where you can hear the claws dragging, Thus. Kind of worried me, So i stayed as close to the inner door as possible as i stood up and readied my 10mm, Just as i was about to step out i quickly remembed that i have been firing a few times, I eject the mag and notice i've fired 4 bullets, out of a capacity of 12, I should probably reload, So as quietly as i can i eject the rounds from the clip so i don't waste any and grab a new mag. I slot it in the pistol as quietly as possible, Remembering there's still a round in the chamber it saves me cocking the pistol.
I put the spare rounds in my left breast pocket and i back up against the wall. still with the pistol in my left hand i hope, i really hope that i can still have some element of aiming like this, Until such times as i can get my hands on a medkit i don't stand a chance trying to use my right hand. It'll probably be infected soon too.
