Date Tuesday, August 17th, 2275

  Two years before the events of Fallout 3.

  About an hour ter, I suddenly awoke and regained sciousness.

  Holy fuck, my head hurts.

  I thought while grasping my head, that felt like it was on the cusp of exploding.

  As I id on my bed in pain, wishing for it to go away, time ticked by slowly and after a while, the pressure in my head began to lighten up along with the pain. When it subsided to bearable levels, I unsteadily sat up, got out of my bed, and stumbled over to one of the several medical tainers in my room. Ohere, I retrieved something to help with the excruciating pain I was still battling with a med-x syringe and stuck it into my arm and pumped its tents into veins.

  It took a few minutes, but eventually the drugs kicked in, redug my pain by a massive pertage.

  Phew, now that I actually think straight, I should probably top myself off with a couple of stimpaks just food measure. I don't think that overload of information did any damage to my brain, but I'd rather err on the side of caution than not.

  With the idea in my head, I sifted through the medical tainer, retrieved two stimpaks, and immediately ied them into one of the rger veins on my forearm, oer the other.

  Mier, after the stimpak iion, I felt a wave of relief a much better. "Aah, yeah, that's much better now."

  Alright, I'm gonna go y on my bed for an hour and see how I feel when I wake up. I would hate to have to dey my veo the wastend today.

  As soon as I set my arm, I climbed into bed with my head now resting fortably on my pillow and closed my eyes for a bit. From there, I passed out and fell asleep in no time at all.

  *zzz*

  About an hour ter, my arm started bring, waking me from my short power nap.

  *Brrrt...Brrrt...Brrrt*

  *Ah-haa-uh*

  Now that I've had a short nap, I'm feeling much better. Actually, on sed thought, I'm feelier than ever before truthfully. Let me take a moment to check out all the different things that have ged with my drastically increased stats.

  Going over a majority of the ges with my body first, I took a fighting stanext and threw several jabs to test out my newfound strength, along with some kicks. I did that for a few dozen more times before I was happy with my tests, at least enough for the moment.

  Having gone over all the improvements that have happeo my body, I say with certainty that I'm definitely more than ready for the dahat await me in the wastend. Unless I e face to face with a super mutant behemoth if I enter such a monstrosity, I'm getting the fuck out of dodge.

  Upon pleting that thought, I went around my room getting several things ready to take with me for ter. And as I was gathering said things, I noticed it was about time for breakfast since I could sense dad was i preparing his m coffee. Thus, I headed out to spend some quality time with my old man before Amata and her old man showed up for breakfast. This would be the st time I'll be seeing him for a bit, so it's best I spend some time with him before I set off.

  "M, dad." I greeted.

  "M, son." He replied while I was ing into the kit to get stuff ready for when our pany arrives for breakfast.

  The two of us chatted while his coffee was being made and shortly thereafter, he headed out to sit on the cou the living room with his hot cup of joe in hand. I, oher hand, tinued getting breakfast ready for the two of us and the other two that will be joining us here shortly.

  Making small talk for a bit, I eventually sensed Amata and her dad way further out than I ever could previously, about 18 meters out, to be exact. So as they were still ing down the vault hallassing the other vault residents on their way, I asked dad if he could get the door sihey will be at in a few seds here. "Hey, dad, you get the door?"

  "Yeah, sure thing, son." He replied while pg his coffee mug on the coffee table in front of him before he got up to open the door to our home.

  The instant he opehe door, he found both Amata and her dad were both standing there, thus he weled them. From there, they all came my way into the kit, attracted by the smell of food I was cooking up.

  "Good m guys, the food will be done in a sec. If you want to, you three go take a seat while I finish up here." I directed as I busily flipped pancakes.

  "Do you need any help, Harold?" Amata asked sweetly, looking to help.

  "Nah, I'm good, Amata. Thank you, though."

  Several minutes passed before I had everything prepared and o was, I had Amata assist me in bringing the ptes of food over to the table. Whehing was eventually brought over a upoable, we both took our respective seats and began to discuss several topi between bites of food.

  This went on food number of minutes when we discovered we had devoured most of the food oable. Seeing as this was as good a moment as any, I excused myself ao my room to retrieve the encrypted grourating radios that we'll be using while I'm away from the vault.

  After I retrieved them from the taihey were sitting in, I came back out of my room with the radios in hand and handed everyo the table their own radio. As they were looking at them with i, I began going over their different funs and how to operate them, including a few other things of importance.

  "That covers everything. Just make sure you keep it on your person at all times, otherwise you might miss me." I told them getting a round of agreement and head nods.

  We then finished up what little bit of food remained oable. But when I say we, I mainly meahough, since I'm the one whose meals going forward are going to purely sist of shelf-stable food. I'm holy not looking forward to that part, but it is what it is. After that, everyohanked me for the meal before Amata and I started bringing the dishes to the sink to rihem off and put them in the dishwasher.

  A quick few minutes of -up ter, we started heading out as po my workshop/research facility. As soon as we reached it, I tested out Mechu-deru on my robots. And after a bit things out, I discovered that it just seemed to give me direct trol of them on top of improving my ability to make calcutions, the more robots I had under my trol.

  This perk definitely has a ton of tent potential.

  When I was done having my fun, I had all the robots start moving all the materials that I'm going to need for the RobCo Facility to the vault entrance. While they were busy with that, I went over to my gear and started putting it on and in no more than five minutes I had my armor equipped along with my ear like my sidearm, magazines for the 50 caliber A-21 Anti-Material Rifle, and my grenades.

  Giving my gear a good check over, I asked Amata if I was fetting anything. "Hey Amata, am I fetting anything?"

  "Hmm, I don't think so, but did you grab your spare magazines?" She responded.

  "Yeah, I got them." I replied before I gave my gear one final look over.

  Satisfied with my equipment checks, I began thinking about the hing that o get done.

  It's gonna take several hours to get everything moved and assembled, so I better help my robots to hurry things along. The set out a on my way, the better.

  With that decided, I spent the several hours moving all the materials to the vault entrand putting Hauler back together with everyone. Whehing was finally ready and loaded up, I did one final che my head to make sure I wasn't fetting anything. Better off being sure than having to turn back around and waste precious time that I could've spent oing myself set up at the RobCo Facility.

  ... Alright, looks like I'm good to go.

  Everything checked, I gave everyone here o hug and an especially long oh Amata, since she was tearing up more than a wee bit at this point.

  Once Amata calmed down a bit, I said. "Well, it's about time I got on the road since I don't want to travel in the dark. Take care of yourselves, everyone."

  "Yeah, we'll be just fine, son. Make sure you try to avoid anything too dangerous out there and e back alive and well. Otherwise, I'll e out looking for you." Dad said in reply before Amata spoke up immediately after.

  "Harold, you better e back, you hear me, or else I'm following suit if you leave me here all alone." She said very seriously, on the brink of tears again.

  Seeiearing up again, I hugged her and rubbed her back whilst trying to reassure her. "I'll be ba no time, Amata. You have nothing to worry about."

  I kept her in my embratil she got trol of her emotions for the sed time in this shoodbye.

  With Amata dealt with, the overseer decided to take his turn to speak. "Listen here son, you better e back safe and sound or so help me. I'll go to whatever hell you end up in and kick your ass for leaving my precious daughter behind." He said seriously before bursting out into ughter seds ter, which brightehe general mood of everyone here.

  The minute I was done saying my goodbyes and giving Amata some extra reassurance plus a few encing words, I put my helmet on and took out my Mulcher gatling gun. When I had those two pieces of equipment equipped, I finally set foot out past the massive vault door.

  Giving everyone o wave goodbye, the overseer had uncle Gomez activate the door trols and begin shutting the door. It took a sed, but the gargantuan dan turning and o was lined up, it slid forward and screeched shut behind me.

  "N back at this point. Let's set out guys." I said aloud to my robots while heading out of the huge cave Vault 101 was located in.

  "Okay, boss." Hauler answered stly as I kept moving forward towards the cave entrah my sizable squad of robots following not far behind me.