The Wasteland of Rapture

Chapter 1 - Missing

It all started with a death, then a flash. Then another death, another flash. This took place for what seemed like a Millennia. Every few minutes a death and a flash. But it was worth it, she told himself. It was worth it...

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I slowly got up from the stool I was sitting on. I had been sitting on it for at least three hours, spending my many caps that I had earned (and a couple of hundred I stole) on a large amount of whisky. It seemed that was the only thing I could do any more. Sleep, go to the Brass Lantern for a couple of pints of whiskey and then go to bed again. I was turning into Jericho.

It had been like this for a while, with nothing else to do in the Capital Wasteland, I was bored. There was no more Enclave, no more weird radio signals which either led to me getting abducted, sent to rescue some slaves, made to settle a two hundred year old grudge or beat a computer simulation. So I was waiting for something to happen. Someone to be saved or someone to be killed, I was up for anything.

Hell I was even thinking of go and getting Fawkes and seeing if we could take down every Raider in the wasteland and then maybe every super mutant. When I thought it up about a week ago, it seemed like a suicide mission more than anything else, but now...

Suddenly my train of thought was thrown off track as I saw Billy Creel running toward me.

"Whoa, slow down Billy. What's the problem?" I asked him. He was panting and he looked frightened.

"They...They took her Liam. They took my Maggie!" He shouted at me. His eye looking like a mad man, the other one still covered.

"Who took her? What happened?" I asked him.

"I have no idea what took her. I was coming home with some dinner from here; I was only gone for three minutes at most. When I was coming up the ramp to our house I heard her scream and I ran to find out why she was screaming and when I got into the house I saw some kind of monster." He said, all in a breath.

"Wait? What do you mean a monster, how did it get in?" I asked.

"It looked like some kind of metal person; it had a big round helmet that covered its whole head and a glass plate on it... It also had some kind of needle on its arm..." At this point we were attracting quite a crowd. Even the nuts from Church of Atom were listening in and Confessor Cromwell had stopped his never ending rant.

"And it had a huge and yellow eye behind the glass. It looked worse than a Deathclaw. It looked at me and jumped out the window, Maggie shouting and screaming for me to help."

"What? It just jumped out the window?" Someone in the crowd shouted. Billy just shook his head and I just walked away. You could see that was all Billy could say. He was deeply shaken and it looked like he was going to stay like that until he was with Maggie again.

I started over to my house. If there was one person who would know what this thing was, it would be Elder Lyons.

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As I made my way to the doors of the Citadel, I was feasting on what looked to be a burnt piece of Mirelurk meat. I looted it from a bunch of raiders who attacked me. As I got to the doors, someone ran up to me.

"When did you hear?" The Knight asked me.

"What do you mean? About Billy's kid being kidnapped?" I replied. He looked at me confused; I just walked through the doors and into the courtyard. Everyone stopped and looked at me. Having such a reputation across the wastes does that, and whenever I'm seen even near the Citadel, there's always something up.

I went through the courtyard and into the laboratory. There I saw something that I never had dreamed of. Elder Sarah Lyons crying, Paladin Tristan was awkwardly trying to comfort her, but failing miserably. He looked up and saw me; he grimaced at me and gingerly tried to pat Sarah on the back.

"What happened?" I asked. Sarah looked up. Sarah Lyons hadn't been this upset since her father died in his sleep, about two years ago, a year after her daughter, Olivia Lyons, was born. She had blood shot and puffy eyes and it looked like she had been like this for a while.

"My baby, she was only six. Six years old. She shouldn't have gone like that." She spoke to me with a horse voice. I pitied her, it sounded like poor Olivia had died.

"When did she die?" I asked in a barely audible whisper. Paladin Tristan shot me a look of confusion and disgust. I gave him a strange look and he said;

"She didn't die. She was taken."

"Wait? She was taken? By who?"

"Only Elder Lyons knows what, and she isn't telling." I thought for a moment and said softly;

"What did it look like Sarah; did it have a yellow eye?" She gasped and clutched my amour.

"You...You've seen it too?" She said in a weak voice.

"I... No, but someone in Megaton has. His little girl was taken by the same thing." I said. Then to Paladin Tristan I added "When did this happen?"

"It happened at about seven thirty this evening. Everyone heard Elder Lyons shouting at something and then a loud thump. We found her crumpled up in a heap, with a broken arm. We still don't know how that happened; she was still wearing her power armour."

"It threw me. Threw me across the room with air. She pushed the air and I hit the wall." Sarah said to me, still clutching me. I gently pulled her off me and she slumped back on the chair she was sitting on.

It didn't make any sense, something, the something that had taken both Olivia and Maggie, had been to Megaton, then to the Citadel in a matter of ten minutes. It had taken me at least three hours to get here on foot. Unless there was more than one...

"Have you sent out any people to find out if any more have been taken?" I asked

"Yes we have, it seems like almost twenty have been found missing. All captures were made within the last twenty four hours, but locations for the captures were all across the region we monitored. There was no way there was only the one 'Thing'." He pointed at a terminal he was talking about.

I looked over at the terminal and saw a map with nineteen little dots, ranging from Megaton and the Citadel to Ravens Rock and the Pitt. My Pip boy started to download the information and pinged when it had finished downloading. Then it pinged again, I looked at it and saw a message. It was a message from Amata.

Since I went into the Wasteland, she and I had been in constant contact. Then after my father died and I cleaned up the mess in the vault, she kicked me out saying that I had caused enough trouble. A year later I was invited to her wedding. She was getting married to Butch of all people. My childhood crush and best friend was marrying my childhood bully.

I went to the wedding and I found out that they had, had a baby girl together. They named her Silver and made me swear I would protect her if she wanted to live out in the wastes. I agreed and now after three more years of not talking to her, she was sending me a message? I wondered what was going on.

"Dear Liam... Well I don't know what's happening over in the Wastes, but I have something to tell you. Silver's gone. We don't know how or where but she's gone. She's not in the vault and another one of our resident's daughters has gone to, a girl called Sophie. She's Silver's age and she was playing with her when we think they were kidnapped.

I'm actually asking you to keep on your promise to me at the wedding. Could you please, first, see me at in the Vault? The password is now "ReScUeMe". Please, try and get here as soon as you can.

With love and hope,

Amata"

I read and re-read the letter. It was eerie not knowing what was going on in this world. I started for the door when someone shouted my name.

"Hey Liam, wait!" It was Sarah; she got up and hugged me. I looked surprised and she whispered into my ear; "Please try and get her back safe. I'm begging you." She let go and I made for the door.

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AN: Hey guys. Really I thought that someone else would have made a Fallout 3/Bioshock crossover, but anyway. This is a full idea of mine and I will finish it but I would feel a lot better if someone could Beta for me. Please R&R

Till next time,

Umbra-Luna

Edit 03/04/12: Minor spelling and punctuation mistakes. Thanks GPhnx!