Taylor regained herself and got what she was wearing with her laser rifle. She put the alien blaster away and got her revolver out again. Once she was ready, she waited at the door for Jonathan and the two of them headed to Vault 87, the devils den.
"Did the Brotherhood give you any hints on getting in? I know the entrance is extremely heavily irradiated." Jonathan asked Taylor as they walked through the wastes, not really knowing how they could possibly get into the Vault
"There's another way. I was told to go through Little Lamplight. A series of caves connects it to another entrance to the Vault, although there are tons of Super Mutants." Taylor said to Jonathan, confident in her abilities. "Then, we have the vault itself."
After some travelling, the two of them headed west and made their way up to Little Lamplight. Once they were given access by its foul mouthed mayor, they headed down deeper and deeper until they reached a giant wall. This was the point of no return.
Jonathan looked at the girl standig guard at the wall, "The Mayor says that we can go through the wall, we want to go into Murder Pass." He told her "Ugh, fine Mungos. Dont expect us to go recover your bodies." The girl responded before opening the gate for them. The pair walked through and she instantly lowered the gate behind them. "You ready?"
Jonathan got up against the wall of the cave, peading the way forward, his highest strength laser rifle at the ready. Creeping through, he saw the first of the Super Mutants, a Brute. Raising up his rifle, he aimed down the sight, picking the spot right on the mutant's temple, and fired two beams. The first punched through the thick skin and armor, the second punched through to the brain, killing off what remained of the Mutant's brain and felling him, "Clear." He muttered, slipping into his training, "Tunnel right, I'll stay on point, watch my six."
Taylor had her laser rifle at the ready, watching the back of Jonathan. The two of them made quite a bit of distance until they made it to a large section of the cave, where they encountered a single Overlord with a Tri-Beam Laser Rifle in its green grotesque hands and a Super Sledge on its back. It was as if the Overlord was already on its way to evolving into a Behemoth. Taylor shot first before the Overlord aimed his rifle, as a laser beam hit its right kneecap. The aim was to slow the beast down before finishing it, but this Overlord was much tougher and resistant then the other mutants that Jonathan and Taylor have encountered so far.
"Crap!" Jonathan yelled out pulling out his wide beam rifle and instead shot for the rifle 3 times before a shot sliced the Overlosd's rifle in half, along with several cuts to his arm from the shots. Then, Jonathan tossed his rifles in Taylor's direction before pulling out his lance and charging the beast, which seemed to confuse it. Jonathan took advantage, ramming with all the strength he could muster the lance into the Overload's other kneecap, buckling the beast before he slung it outwards, slicibg the whole leg off and topplibg the monster. The Overload roared and tried to sit up and hit Jonathan, but he had wisely retreated, moving out of the way for Taylor to shoot at the monster who was no longer of any threat to anything directly outside its reach
Taylor aimed down the sights of her rifle as she watched the mutant shamble towards them, clawing across the ground as he tried to reach them. Taylor took a single shot at the forehead of the monster, her supercharged laser rifle burning a hole cleanly through the head of the overlord as it vaporized half it's brain. The monster's head hit the ground, dead and no longer a threat to anyone that should ever encounter such a beast. "Let's keep moving" Taylor decided to speak as she noticed a brief light out of the corner of her eye, they were very close. They had already passed a few warning or construction signs of where the Vault was being originally built, but the light seemed to be the entrance itself. "We need to recover the GECK. I know that Super Mutants are created, so I believe that the FEV that creates them is somewhere inside. If we have the time, and IF we are still alive, we can destroy everything they are."
"Sounds good to me. But how would we manage to destroy how more super mutants are made? We dont have near enough explosives to destroy the Vault and we dont even know how are where they make more." Jonathan replied, "But... If we somehow do it, it means that for once, every super mutant killed will actually mean something."
"It might seem difficult, or impossible. We don't know unless we try." Taylor told Jonathan. "Even if we slow them down, even if it's only a little bit, it's still worth something." The two companions made it to the entrance of Vault 87, which almost reeked with the imaginary essence of evil. Taylor held her rifle as she reloaded, trying to get herself ready for the unspeakable of what was inside. "Are you ready?"
Jonathan nodded, holding his lance up, knowing it would be far more useful in the close quarters of the Vault, "As ready as I'll ever be."
Taylor went over to the control panel and within moments, the door slid open. The two of them found each other in a surprisingly clean room with a power generator, where even the lights were still working. Nothing was inside of this room, so the two continued on their way. When they opened the next room however, things took a drastically different turn. The lights appeared to be an almost permanent dark orange, blood and gore covered the walls amongst other things and the sound of screams and sluggish laughter echoed across the corridors and stairways. The Lone Wanderer took her laser rifle and went in first, slowly going across the wall to check for signs of life with Jonathan close behind her. She tapped his shoulder to let him know that everything was clear. The two were going into the Vault now, prepared to witness things that no human should ever see.
(I always hated going into Vault 87, so damn creepy and all the Super Mutants) Jonathan took the lead as they entered the Vault itself as he had the melee weapon. They entered a room with a large power generator and some stairs leading up. At the base of the stairs, several skeltons surrounded by very dried blood lay. Swallowing hard, Jonathan peeked up the stairs to see a Master standing there, looking away from them. Jonathan slipped out a frag grenade and tossed it up the stairs to land directly at the Mutant's feet. The blast destroyed the Master's leg and launched him up against the ceiling with a cry of pain before being knocked unconcious by the fall back to the floor and quickly bled out, nodding to Taylor, he motioned for her to lead.
(Funny story. The first time I went into Vault 87, it was super late at night. I kinda screamed when one of them came from behind me, and my TV went super loud all of a sudden. All I remember was a Super Mutant's voice as loud as a bomb screaming "Now try and hide from this!" I still hate that place.) Taylor pulled herself up the stairs as a group of three mutants came around the corner with their weaponry, screaming a barbaric yelp in the process. Taylor landed as she went onto her knees and shot three powerful blasts at the mutants torso, killing two of them and disintegrating another one as his heart melted followed by the rest of his body. She turned around to Jonathan and waved to signal that it was safe, before heading down the hallway. A Master then came out of nowhere and charged with a sledgehammer. Taylor, while still running, slid across the floor directly underneath him then pulled herself up. The Master then tried to turn around only to find that the Lone Wanderer had pulled herself onto the beasts back and placed her rifle at the back of the Masters head. With a single beam, the Master dropped to the ground like concrete. Taylor stood on the monsters back as it fell, almost heroically in appearance.
(Speaking of scary moments with mutants, one time I was doing the Reilly's Rangers quest and was fighting my way up a building to rescue the Rangers, I was trying to find the way up to the next floor, thinking I had already cleared out the area, when out of no where a Centaur comes around the corner and freaks the hell,out of me) Jonathan jogged up next to her, "Nice job there." He told her before they moved deeper into the Vault, fighting their way past the Mutants they came across in various ways. Then, they reached the most disturbig part of the Vault, the experimentation chambers. Peeribg into the windows of the first chamber, Jonathan instantly recoiled at the sight of a failed Super Mutant. "That...That is.." he was left at a loss for words
"A failed mutant" Taylor whispered out of her mouth. These failed experiments all have lumps covering their bodies, while their upper bodies are much larger than that of a normal human, though their legs have remained a somewhat normal size and their heads still had some human-like characteristics. A fair amount of muscle had developed on the upper-half of the body and almost nowhere else. She looked at the terminal nearby and hacked into it easily before reading the entries. "They've been dead for 200 years.One of many of these test subjects that have died due to their brains being unable to support even the most simple actions of human body and behavior after being injected with FEV." Taylor said before looking at Jonathan, turning her eyes away from the horribly mutated body. "Makes you think, doesn't it?"
Jonathan nodded slowly, "You know...It looks like the chambers are still operational...Maybe...Maybe they're using these chambers to make more of them?" Jonathan said, looking around at the different chambers in different states of disrepair
