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Again, the setting, premise, and a lot of the characters are not my creation. I'm making my own version of Fallout 3. That said, I'm going to stick to the basic storyline of the game, but I'm going to add some of my own special twists. First and foremost, I have two main protagonists.

Matt Kenderson and Jamie Campbell. Not related to Atlantis Rising whatsoever. This is one of those fun "what-if's."

For anyone who hasn't played the game, I recommend getting it.

"It's a boy! We have a son, Catherine!"

Catherine sighed, murmuring.

"Hi! Hey there! I'm your daddy. Da-ddy." James waved.

"What should we call him?" Catherine asked faintly.

"Matthew. His name is matthew. We'll call him Matt."

Matt wailed happily.

"What kind of person will you be, son? It's a big world out there. Who will you become, hm?"

"-James!"

"Wha- Catherine! Start compressions. Get the baby out of here! One-onethousand, two-onethousand - come on Catherine, don't give up yet-"

Matt was wheeled out of the room and down a bright hallway, quickly succumbing to the harsh lights. Matt sank into a deep sleep.

One Year Later

"Don't look right at the light, pal. It'll hurt your eyes."

"Da-da?" Matt gurgled.

"-just, something to get used to down here. You won't understand any of this until much later, and I hope you never find out. For both of our sakes, I hope you always believe you were born in this Vault." James murmured, more to himself than to the baby.

Matt tottered about the fairly spacious room. There was a bed, a toy box, a crib, and a gated play place, just for him.

James crossed the room and crouched down inside the play pen's gate. "Come on, pal. Over here."

"Dada!" Matt squealed again, waddling over.

"Listen, kiddo. I know you don't like it when Daddy leaves you, but I've got to run a quick errand for the Overseer. Just stay here and I'll be back before you know it." James closed the gate of the play pen and walked out the door, leaving Matt by himself.

"Hehe." Matt giggled, playing with the metal latch on the gate. His thick toddler arms fumbled with the metal piece for a moment, then lifted the latch. Matt rocked forward and pushed on the gate, letting it swing forward.

Matt giggled again, crossing over to his toy box and picking up his toy car.

James came back about four minutes later. "Hm." He laughed. "Quite the little explorer, aren't you? Here, pal. Look at this. Mommy's favorite verse. From the bible." James walked over and crouched next to a framed quote. "Revelations 21:6. I am Alpha and Omega..."

Matt gooed and started tottering for the door once James had finished.

"You see, this was what it was all about. The Waters of Life. Ah well, perhaps when you're older. Let's go see if your little friend Amata wants to play."

Nine Years later

"Surprise!" The lights flicked on suddenly.

"Stanley, you flipped the lights on too fast. You blinded the poor kid."

"Happy Birthday!" The crowd cheered again.

Matt smiled, laughing. "You guys did all this for me?"

Amata came up, grinning. "Isn't it great! I just helped with the decorations some, but really your dad did most of it."

"Thanks, Amata."

"No problem. Your dad thought you were onto us, but I knew better."

Matt half-smiled to himself - he had known the surprise party was coming. What else were the party hats and balloons his dad had tried to smuggle into their dorm on his birthday for?

"And guess what!" Amata continued. "I got you a birthday present!"

"Really? All the way down here?"

"Yeah! Grognak the Barbarian. Issue 104. I found it in a box of my dad's old stuff. Who knew he used to read comic books too?"

Jamie came up and high-fived Matt. "Awesome. Can't wait till the fun starts. Oh, here comes the Overseer - saw your PipBoy already. Pretty sweet."

The Overseer came shouldered his way through Matt's party guests and stood in front of Matt, holding a gauntlet in his hands.

"Well, well, you sure do grow up fast. Ten years already. I'm sure I don't have to tell you what this means. When you turn ten here in Vault 101, well, you're ready to take on greater responsibilities. As Overseer, I now grant you your PipBoy2000. And you'll be receiving your first work assignment tomorrow!" The Overseer laughed like his joke was hilarious.

"Dad," Amata elbowed her father.

Jamie rolled his eyes.

"Thanks," Matt smiled nervously.

Matt spent the next half hour mingling with his guests. They talked, laughed. Andy, a multi-armed 'Mister Handy' model robot tried to cut the cake with his chain-saw articulator, which turned the birthday cake into a messy pile. But one of the older ladies gave Matt a sweetroll instead.

Butch slouched in a corner, pouting. His dad had made him come, and Matt's dad had invited him, but Matt and Butch hated eachother. Butch had his own little gang with a couple of the other kids. Jamie was one of the few other guys not in the club.

"I'm hungry, and that stupid robot destroyed the cake!" Butch whined. "Gimme that sweetroll Mrs. Palmer gave you."

Matt frowned. Why should he? "Come and take it from me, Butch, and see how far you get. Oh, sorry. I forgot. Your mom must have drank all the ration coupons again. Here you go." Matt held out the pastry.

"Why you - I'll get you!" Butch leaped out of the cafeteria booth and flew at Matt.

Matt raised his arms defensively, throwing a few punches of his own. Butch managed to land one painful blow, but Matt gave back two before Officer Gomez interrupted. "Butch, you little bully, I'll take you straight to your mother. Go wait by the door until I'm done." Then Gomez turned to Matt. "You're okay, aren't you? He didn't hurt you?"

"Nah, I'm fine." Matt said.

"What was he doing, picking fights on your birthday like that?"

Matt thought about telling Gomez how Butch had started it, but Matt had insulted his mother. "He wanted the stupid pastry Mrs. Palmer gave me. I told him he couldn't have it."

Behind Gomez's back, Jamie smiled.

"Why that little - I should've known he started it. Take it easy, I'll make sure Butch's mom knows exaclty what he's been doing."

"Thanks, Office Gomez."

"Take care of yourself, kid."

Matt turned around and slapped high-fives with Jamie. Butch's gang looked subdued. Amata rolled her eyes and smiled. Matt smiled back.

"Hey, sport. Jonas and I have a surprise for you. Why don't you gather up your friends and meet me down at the Reactor level with Jonas? I just have one little thing to pick up."

"Sure, dad. Come on guys." Matt waved, leading the way out of the cafeteria, down a hallway, down the stairs to the reactor level.

"Hey, Jonas!" Matt said.

"Hey there, kid! Not every day you turn ten there, is it? Here comes your dad, you'll want to see what he brought you."

Matt turned around and saw his dad holding two BB guns.

"Ah, sweet!" Matt cried.

"Go on, son. Bout time we taught you how to shoot. It took me some time to fix these up - you have no idea how hard it is to find a spring that small. Good thing Butch 'misplaced' that switchblade of his."

Matt laughed. "Thanks, dad."

"Go on, now. You and Jamie go have fun. Amata needs to get back up with the Overseer or he'll get paranoid."

Matt and Jamie ran off into the corridors, firing BBs back and forth.

"Just another day in the life of a Vault dweller." James remarked to Jonas.

"Yep. Let those two have fun while they can. Heaven knows the world outside isn't a friendly place. It's a good thing you're here to teach him."

"I just hope I can do enough."

Six Years Later

"Back off, you stupid Tunnel Snakes!" Amata yelled.

"Or what? You'll call your big bad Overseer daddy to come rescue you?" Butch laughed.

Matt came up from behind and shoved Butch into a wall. "Hey, leave her alone."

"Oh, good. Here comes your boyfriend, Amata. What will you do?"

"Leave her alone or you'll answer to me." Matt responded, deadly calm. In the past six years, Matt had toned his body in the Vault's gym. He was 6 feet as a 16-year-old, 200 pounds of muscle. He could beat the crap out of Butch, easy.

"Ooh, I'm scared. Come on, Tunnel Snakes, let's teach this punk a lesson."

Leave it to Butch to come back with four guys to even the odds.

Matt didn't wait to be attacked this time. The intervening six years between now and his tenth birthday had brought plenty of changes.

Matt stepped forward and drove his fist into Butch's unprotected stomach. Butch curled around the blow, exhaling explosively. Matt took Butch's head and slammed it into the metal wall before one of Butch's cronies grabbed him from behind.

Matt twisted and smashed that guy into the wall, too, but then the other three tackled him. Matt kicked and punched and struggled until he blacked one's eye, then overpowered the other two and rose back to his feet, shoving the closest one into a wall.

"Alright, alright, you win. We'll leave your girlfriend alone." Butch said, trying to keep his composure, acting like they hadn't just had their butts handed to them. Butch fought the impulse to raise a hand to his bleeding lip. "Come on, Tunnel Snakes."

As he turned to leave he found his way blocked by Jamie. Over the last 6 years the slightly older young man had grown into similar proportions as his surrogate brother. Jamie looked at Butch's quickly blackening eye with a raised eyebrow before grinning widely. Butch's bodyguards backed up a step.

"Did, I miss something." he said smirking as Butch got up in his face and yelled at him to stay out of it. Jamie just comicly wiped his eye like he had been spit on and watched them leave.

"Where were you. It was 6 against on. I could have used some help." Matt growled

"Well I figured you would want to protect your damsel in distress from a few snakes. Besides if something went badly I would have jumped in and helped. God knows they almost couldn't handle you, imagine what would happen if we took them on together. Now grab your girlfriend and lets go take those G.O.A.T.S" Jamie retorted before sliding past them leaving them alone.

"Thanks. I dunno what they wanted. I guess because I'm the Overseer's daughter or something stupid." Amata said.

"Anytime." Matt smiled.

"If you want, maybe after the exam we can go get some food in the cafeteria together, compare answers?" Amata asked.

"Yeah, sure, that'd be fun." Matt nodded. "First we have to ace the exam. Or I'll ace it, and you can copy my answers."

Amata laughed. Matt loved the sound. "I think it would be the other way around. But if you say so. Come on." Still giggling, Amata lead the way into the classroom where everybody else was already waiting.