Chapter 1: Vault 101

Vault 101, constructed started in 2062. A wonderful place to live and be away from the radioactive wasteland. Well at least that's what everyone down there says. 'We are born in the vault, we live in the vault, and we die in the vault', well at least that is what the posters, the Overseer, and the grown ups say.

Scarlett thinks very differently then everyone, to her this isn't the best home but they can go no where else. Considering they live underground and the door doesn't open. There are occasionally large infestations of radroaches and no one knows where they came from, but apparently be for the Great War they were tiny and people could squish them with their feet. Everyone is told its the radiation, the whole world is radioactive.

The Great War, Saturday October 23, 2077. The United State, China, and the USSR went to war, for two hours they bombed each other with atomic and nuclear warhead. The world went into nuclear holocaust. In 2050 fossil-fuels began to run out, which created a worldwide energy crisis. The need for these fossil-fuels just kept increasing for the power of technology that was less energy-efficient. So everyone around the world fought over the last remaining areas that had fossil-fuels, which resulted in the destruction of Tel Aviv, Israeli in December of 2052.

With little success the United Nations tried to keep the peace, which ended up with them being disband. So then in 2066 the Chinese invaded Alaska for the state's remaining oil reserves. To ensure Canadian support for their defense of the Alaskan front, the United States annexed them in 2076. The US retaliated against the Chinese by invading the mainland in '74 to reduce Chinese pressure in Alaska, this proved successful as American forces liberated Anchorage, Alaska and forced the Chinese People's Liberation Army to retreat entirely back to China in '77. According to Mr. Brotch the Vault 101 teacher, many smaller nations went bankrupt in result of all the chaos.

No one actually knows who launched the first nuclear weapon, you would thing there wouldn't be much destruction for a war that only lasted two hours but it was incredibly destructive. More energy was released in the first moments than all of the previous conflicts in history. Vault-Tec built many Vaults across America, the only remaining civilization is in these vaults.

"Vault 101, located in the capitol of Washington, D.C." Scarlett read out of the book in her had. The history of the war and her vault. She was currently sitting in Mr. Brotch's classroom at eleven-fifty at night. Everyone else were in there quarters asleep, as was her father. She enjoyed sneaking into the classroom and ready the books about everything they learned, she occasionally would look at student records. She did the same thing with medical files on her fathers computer.

The Vault never opens, and is the safest place. So why did she feel trapped. She has one friend, her best friend Amata the Overseer's daughter. Butch's Stupid Gang 'The Tunnel Snakes" are always bulling her, and Scarlett has interfered on almost every occasion. Usually resulting in Butch having a bloody nose and the rest of the gang pulling her off of him.

She looked back down at the book and began reading again. October 23, 2077 the very first Overseer came into order, Overseer Frankie Smith. He shared radio transmissions he received with everyone in the vault, saying the outside world was an uninhabitable nuclear-ravaged wasteland with absolutely no hope of existence outside of the vault. He prepared a subordinate to continue after him and died of natural causes in 2127. The Second Overseer led by the same example as Smith. The third Overseer vanished. "How can they not find the Overseer, there's no where to go." She shook her head.

Alphonse Almodavar the forth overseer and Amata's father. He became Overseer in 2257, was all it said. The vault before Alphonse sounded good but when he became Overseer it became a strict police state. He is the one who put Jonas and her fathers assistant. They stopped getting the transmissions from outside, the overseer said that things had gotten so bad that whoever was sending the information was no longer able to.

Putting the book down, not wanting to read any longer. She looked at the black board to the right, Butch must have snuck in earlier to write the stupid remarks on it. 'Brotch the crotch!' and 'Christine Kendall puts out!" were newly written on the bottom of the board. She got up and started to head back to her quarters, stopping to go into the cafeteria. Looking at the bulletin board for any new news. A notice for the "Cake Bake-Off" for tomorrow. Founder's Day reminder for next month.

She Leaves the and makes it into her quarters without anyone spotting her. Laying down in her bed and staring at the ceiling, she actually wanted to leave the vault, she hated it down here. Maybe she could make it to one of the other vaults before anything bad happened, she was just so tired of everyone down here.

Author's note- Thank you so much for reading, please review and tell me how I'm doing. I would really appreciate it. With this chapter I kind of just wanted to but a background to the story and character. How she is feeling about the vault. I got the Background info on the War and the vault from the Fallout Wiki page.