Greetings!

Before I explain anything let me throw out a disclaimer: I do not own neither Familiar of Zero nor Fallout. I'm just another random writer on this forum.

Yes! Finally made my awesome entrance. Go me!

Now, where should I start? As you can obviously see I'm writing a crossover covering Fallout and Familiar of Zero. I'll be honest to you folks, I'm probably not a good writer. This is my first fan-fic and the fact that english is not my native language leads probably to grammatical errors here and there. And other mistakes, forgive me in advance for them.

There's another point I'd like to mention. When you talk about Fallout you instantly think about the Sole Survivor or the other protagonists of the Fallout franchise. While I will be using its content here and there the protagonist of this story is not connected to any of these games. It's a character I thought up, which means that I wasn't all too sure if I should count this as a fallout crossover. Share your thoughts on this matter.

Another note before I release you from this endless torture of mine, even if this very first chapter makes you puke and you are sure that you won't read any more of it; at least tell me what exactly you disliked so I can improve things and actually make progress.

I guess that's enough for now. Let's start this!

War ... war never changes. Humanity, since its very beginning, carried the fate to become the dominant lifeform on earth. What started as a primitive being evolved, after countless years, into the most powerful species.

Mankinds journey from the discovery of fire to the conquering of the sky was a long one. What started as a survival of the fittest turned into planned mass murder. Ages of years ago man battled predators to ensure it's survial, and millions of years later, in the year 2020 on the Gegorian calendar, mankind threw itself into doom.

Nobody knew where they came from or who unleashed them, and it did not matter. People have known them from made up stories, TV series and movies, the subject was so well discussed that science, in the end, proved it to be impossible. Zombies.

In the year 2020 however someone unleashed the impossible upon the world, and death itself purged all life that it could find. It started with only a single infected human being, but after the host of the virus died, it rose again as an undead. Only one of those beings was needed to infect a whole city, and later the country. Governments and armies failed, scientists could not produce a cure and the virus continued to spread over the whole world.

Decisions had to be made and humanity had only two choices; to do nothing and die, or to use the most powerful weapon on it's disposal.

The population of the world could only stare into the sky as nuclear warheads made their way to the ground. Three hours, that was the amount of time which was needed to destroy the world as humans knew it. Infrastructure collapsed, soil turned barren and those who weren't killed by the impact were contaminated and killed by radiation.

And even though the world was in chaos, purged by nuclear fire, mankind preserved. An old world has died, and a new one has risen from it's ash.

The people who kept on living, as if fate mocked them, followed into the footsteps of their ancestors. The collapse of the world, lack of food and clean water urged them to give themselves into despair. The survival of the fittest, something the modern human disregarded because of modern technology, once again took it's place in the new world.

But not only humans underwent a procedure of change, many animals, exposed to extreme radiation, turned into grotesque and dangerous monsters.

Societies formed anew, but there was nothing left of the glory and elegance that humans left behind, only ruins. In this new world every day could be your last, every stranger your fierce enemy. Distrust was common place wherever you went, and freedom was but a word to people who had the bad luck to be caged and treated as slaves.

But hope was not completely lost. Somwhere, at some place a dim light fought against the darkness that threatened the world. As if inspired by this dying world people took action and tried to defend what could not defend itself. Not because they wanted to be heroes, they did it simply because they had enough of the anarchy that plagued the world.

Those people died fast, but every now and then a "warrior of justice" picked up his arms and marched right into hell to haunt the demons that plunged the world into chaos.

In a small town made out of junk there stood a single human surrounded by dead bodies. He never knew what excactly happened in this town, for when he arrived the population was already dead and the raiders were going through their loot. He could not save them, but the least he could do was to punish this scum that called themselves humans. And they died miserably.

"This neverending madness ..." he shook his head slightly in disbelief.

The sun rose and marked the beginning of yet another day. Only that this day was one of utmost importance. In the country of Tristrain nobles carried the ability to use magic, and to do so effictively their talents were nurtured at the Tristain Academy of Magic. And every mage, be it male, female, strong or weak, was bound to summon a familiar to aid him or her.

At this very Academy Louise, a young noblewoman, stood on the outer field of the acadamy and watched as her fellow students, one after one, summoned their familiar.

"Are you sure that you want to do this? It's even more shameful to not accomplish the summoning ritual than not doing it." the red haired woman next to her said. Louise did not bother to look at her, Kirche Zerbst, this damn vixen, was always trying to catch her off guard and make fun of her, but she would not give her this satisfaction today. This red-haired devil could go to hell.

"If you are so concerned about shameful things you should hide those meatbags of yours" Louise took a quick glance at the red-haired woman.

"Oh? Aren't you just jelous that your chest is as useless as your "magic", Zero?" Kirche smiled as she watched the smaller woman turn around, pointing a finger at her. She knew that Louise hated it to be called a Zero because she wasn't able to cast any other magic than her "explosion", and that was enough reason for alle the students to call her "Louise of the Zero", or Zero in short.

"Shup up Zerbst! I'm a great mage and I'll summon the finest, strongest and best familiar there is!

"Truly"? Kirche smiled at here words, "Well, you have your audience already. Prove it to me, to us that you are what you claim to be.

Louise turned around and saw her fellow classmates watching her. Of course she catched everyones attention with this proclamation, and nobody believed she could summon anything at all. When it was her turn for the ritual she stepped a few steps aside and held her wand in the air.

"Please let me succeed, just this once!" she thought before she started chanting.

As he focused his gaze on the trail of death the raiders left behind, wondering if he could have prevented this slaugher if he would have been only a little bit faster, a voice of a young female resonated in his head.

"My servant that exists somewhere in this universe!" His gaze wandered through the area, searching for the girl the voice belonged to.

"My divine, beautiful, and powerful familiar!" He could hear the voice loud and clearly, but his eyes could not find anything. He knew that nobody in that Junktown was alive, was he finally going insane? All the deaths must have taken a toll on his mind, maybe it was a girl he was not able to save?There were far too many of them ...

"I wish and assert from the bottom of my heart for you to answer my guidance!

A second later after the chant was finished an explosion greeted her like an old friend. Between the coughs, caused by the smoke, she could hear the other students cursing her name, and again Louise cast her eyes down asking herself why she had to be the one without proper magic abilities.

A scream brought her back into reality as she saw the boy that stood next to her fall down out of surprise whilst pointing in her direction. He was not exactly terrified, and it was not the first time for her to cast an explosion, so she turned around to see what the hell surprised him.

Louise's eyes widened in surprise as she saw a sort of ... golem in front of her. Golems were not that uncommon in Tristain, but this one was ... different. Had she summoned something like a moving armor? It certainly looked like one, allthough she had to admit that she had never seen something like that before. The golem ... or armor? Louise did not know how to call it, was painted in a lifeless grey and had probably witnessed many battles, or so she thought. At least it looked like it has seen the battlefield before. Louise was not all too sure what to think about this, but ... she did not fail! She summoned something, even if it was a golem of some sort, the details didn't matter!

"What the hell is this"? She could hear the people murmor behind her back, not believing what they saw. Louise did not care, it was her familiar, wether he, she or it was alive was not of importance. But yet again her thoughts were interrupted by the panicking crowd, the golem was moving and nobody could trust something that was summoned by the Zero.
It's moves were smooth for a construct, and as it reached its head ... which, in fact, was more like a helmet, nobody could believe their eyes; the golem Louise summoned, the lifeless construct turned out to be ... human.

Without the helmet a face was revealed. A rather young man, not even in his thierties, with his brown hair and green eyes, stared down at the little girl with the pink hair. The determination in his gaze was intimidating and yet asking.

Before he knew it the barren land around him disappeared, and he found himself ... where exactly? He was used to sudden developments, but this was something he has never experienced before. Could this be a dream? It certainly did not look real, the grass, the tall building ... these people. Everything looked so ... so alive. Small boys and girls, wearing strange clothes, holding some kind of sticks in their hand. It had to be a dream. There was nothing like that in reality, nothing was left.

It didn't look like they were in apparent danger, so he took off his helmet to breath in the air. To evade the radiation he had to filter the air through his helmet, but ... something urged him to ignore it this time. Freed from his restraints, at least partly, he quickly took in the air in his lungs. It was ... fresh. Even more so than what his helmet provided. After a moment passed for him to collect his thoughts his gaze met a small girl with pink hair. She looked at him curiously and anxious at the same time, a look he got every so often.

"Poor child ..." he thought as he got on one knee to not appear as a giant, and his armor really made him look big.

Louise did not know who he was, but that was not important. Before her stood ... or kneeled her summoned familiar. The girl knew that the ritual has yet to be completed, so she started chanting again; "My name is Louise Francoise Le Blanc de La Valliere. Pentagon that rules the five powers, bless this individual and ... make him my familiar!

The man had no time to react, only to think. He was not able to understand the words she spoke nor did he know what he hell was happening, but after she finished her ... speech she took another step forward and gave him a kiss. To be kissed by a girl was nothing new to him, but what he did feel was a burning sensation on his left hand. And with this, his new fate was sealed.

In a different world to begin anew.

Can't believe I did it! My very first chapter! Meet you folks in the bar, next round is on me.

Seriously now, it went a little better than I expected. Don't want to brag now obviously. Maybe on the next chapter. But do tell me what you liked and especially what you did not like, I'll try to adapt as good as I can.

That's it for this one, see you on the next chapter!