Fallout Stories Epic

[Maharg67]

Fallout Epic Stories
One 21.1[46]

They briefly stopped at a special storage bay and donned moderately armored hazmat power hazmat-suits. The armor had some special protective qualities against high radiation levels, heavy toxins and powerful acids. They also gained other equipment-supplies which puzzled Jane, and Dan, but which the others accepted quietly. Graharg looked deeply thoughtful, frowning softly, as he examined what they gained so far. Then he chose more items that seemed just as odd to take with a mission, if not more so. Only after that did they move on with Graharg not answering Jane's questions or giving any explanation why.

They came to the 'secondary archives' that had been mentioned. It was a single very large, elongated chamber, partly filled with machinery. There were armored display-cases that were nearly all with items on display. There were status-containers of different kinds. There were some bigger items on open display but on pedestals.

A long row of heavy security status-cells ran along one wall but seventeen of the twenty-five were empty. The other status-cells had more AnchaLichs or so it seemed to be. Question was why had they not been freed by AlphaOmega?

ZAXDM111 answered. “AlphaOmega told me that there were AnchaLichs that did not want to leave the status-cells where they did not suffer from the hunger. Only those who suffered less from the relentless hunger departed from the status-cells. AlphaOmega did not want the extra AnchaLichs to add to his troubles and the freed AnchaLichs apparently had no interest in the ones who did not join them. They are surprisingly selfish beings.”

Graharg spoke. “That comes from their unnatural nature, from their hunger for them others are either to feed on or are potential barriers to feeding; other AnchaLichs are potential competitors for feeding resources, which is how they see anything they can feed off. The biggest surprise is that there are some exceptions. There are many untouched items here that AlphaOmega would have wanted but he did not take.”

ZAXDM111: “AlphaOmega was in a hurry because he could 'sense' some kind of growing threat though he could not identify its nature or just how powerful it was.”

Graharg nodded. “So my brother departed in a great hurry and took the AnchaLichs with him, having some control over them. I spoke to him before he left DeepMegaton with necronoids, robots and others.”

ZAXMD111: “That is most peculiar that you should say that for AlphaOmega is in DeepMegaton along with the entities, including robots, that serve him. I observed him depart from DeepMegaton but later to return through another access point. It is clear that he was attempting to be deceptive and yet there might have been another reason for parts of DeepMegaton have been made impassible. I do not know for certain who, or what, did it but I have access to some fragments of 3Dvideo data. AlphaOmega might have been blocked from going through DeepMegaton, to where he wanted to go, by that reason or by the threats that he told me that he 'sensed'.”

Edited May 14, 2014 by Maharg67

[Maharg67]

Fallout Stories Epic
One 21.2[47]

Graharg laughed softly and shook his head. “AlphaOmega is nothing if not dependably undependable. I had wondered why he would abruptly exit DeepMegaton and was wondering if he was up to something and what that might be. Problem is that my brother really is unpredictable at times and he could easily have been actually leaving DeepMegaton.”

All of them looked around the chamber, examining this and that. Graharg began to make repairs on a network-system that would improve ZAXDM111's link with the chamber. Soon ZAXMD111 was in control of the chamber including security robots. At once the protectron robots were given over to the use of Graharg's group though ZAXDM111 still guided them when it could do so, thus making them more efficient.

It soon turned out that most of the items in the chamber were only of secondary value and worth compared to what AlphaOmega would most likely have really wanted. There were secured racks of zetan weapons, tools and other devices along with a zetan dronebot that could use weapons, tools or other devices with its clever manipulator arms. It also had built in disintegrater guns as a backup though they were not as powerful as disintegrater rifles.

It was close to the heavily secured dronebot, a hover robot, that Graharg found a strange shallow burn mark on a wall. It was some kind of energy weapon, of a very unusual form, that had both burned into the wall and left behind a disturbing radiance. After he examined it he spoke to the smart-computer network of network-systems. “ZAXMD111, do you have any idea what has come through the Waygate since the Doomsday ended?”

ZAXDM111: “I have not had access to the Waygate area, of DeepMegaton, since before my black out. Perhaps that is no coincidence; perhaps some force did not want me to observe, to record, what was happening there.”

It was good reasoning but there was no way to tell if it was the truth or not.

Jane Calamity spoke out. “ZAXDM111, how many robots, androids and other units do you have at your disposal?”

ZAXDM111: “If you mean of fighting capacity, only enough to help secure my active accessible areas. I lost touch with most of my security units. You could assist me in regaining linkage with them.”

Graharg nodded. “Please show us the 3Dvideo recording fragments of what blocked off areas of DeepMegaton.”

The short, fuzzy, 3D images showed strange grey armored suited humanoids that were oddly jerky in their movements, that radiated each some pale glimmering light that disquieted somehow even as electronic images. The 3Drecording was being interfered with in an odd fashion making it hard to define what the three humanoids were up to. They were in that very archives chamber that AlphaOmega had retreated from.

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[Maharg67]

Fallout Stories Epic
One 21.3[48]

Graharg spoke. “The Grays are here in DeepMegaton, having probably come through the Waygate. They are also called the Graynari or graynoids. The zetans are graynoid-human hybrids but the humans have differences with our version of humanity. The Graynari are heavily tainted with the 'desolation of the void' and there ancestors were Silvernari who were a brilliant, ingenious but not greatly wise people. Silvernari still exist and at constant war with the Graynari; they call it their War of Redemption for helping to create the Graynari in the first place.”

Dan Sanders spoke out. “What happened?”

Graharg looked sad for a moment. “Against the advise of others, including the Elder Peoples of the Omniverse, the Silvernari did the seemingly impossible and sent a very large starship into the NullVoid and there encountered briefly a great Desolator. Thus the majority of Silvernari were heavily 'desolated' and 'infested' to become the first of the Graynari. The remaining minority were Silvernari who fought with savagery for such a peaceful people, driven by the madness that the Desolators too often cause as a reaction. These Graynari became the first of the blood red Bloodnari who descendents wage a brutal war against the Graynari and also others who have become foolishly allied to the Graynari, along with Graynari hybrids. The Bloodnari are almost as bad as the Graynari, in some ways, but unlike the Graynari one can communicate with them in a logical manner and make agreements that will be kept by the Bloodnari. The Graynari are amazingly erratic at times and always capable of sudden treachery.”

He went on. “The story is complicated for there were other lifeforms on the ship that entered the NullVoid and even other entities that hitched a ride back out of the NullVoid. From that arose the undead, unlifen and the living-dead in the Multiverse but there have been other effects, not all of them negative. The peaceful, enlightened, Shevista had been unfairly trapped in the NullVoid and they managed to escape to bring much good to the Omniverse and Multiverse.”

Graharg looked for more signs that graynoids had been there but found only the faintest of traces and those only because he knew what to look for. All of them were feeling a slight disturbance except for Dan Sanders who was protected by his being an antipsyker.

The attack came hard and fast but it was not the Graynari who did so. The enemy was of a much more common kind.

Edited May 14, 2014 by Maharg67

[Maharg67]

Fallout Stories Epic
Zero 5.1[49]

Professor James Graphin, Jasmine, StarPaladinCross, some robots, two androids and fifteen other people made their way towards TekVaultDC101 through the secret subway tunnel that went that way from the Megaton Subway Station. They had encountered feral ghouls but the ghouls seemed to react to Jasmine, becoming passive even if they were normally berserker crazy zhouls. A large group of rhouls were following, along with their radroaches and other companion creatures.

They got to a big security airlock and beyond that the subway tunnel was in better working condition with robots actively attending the workings of it. Somehow they ended up taking the rhoul tribe with them, including pet-companion. Jasmine wanted it so and her subtle powers appeared to be growing.

A working monorail tram sped up their journey and they reached an actual entrance outpost to TekVaultDC101, being DemivaultDC101E. Vaultguards, in light power-armor, came out to confront them with battlerifles and pulselasers. The commanding officer carefully examined everybody, being those meant to stay in the vault and those just visiting for a short time. He frowned, as if wondering at himself, then gave permission for all to enter including the rhoul tribe. He did not know it at the time but Paul Rains had helped to start a big change in TekVaultDC101 though it would be mostly longer term in results. Vaultguards escorted them so far and then Vault Security Guards took over.

A Security Supervisor interviewed James and StarPaladinCross in a rather bare chamber with two metal doors, a big 3Dwallscreen, a one way mirror on one wall, 3Dcameras in the ceiling corners and two security guards on sentry duty. The others, that had come with the newcomers, were in a series of big chambers including the rhoul tribe. James was holding a curious Jasmine in his arms. She was studying the Supervisor in a way that the man obviously was not comfortable with; he was an arrogant fool who considered himself to be far more important, to the Overseers Government, than he actually was.

Harold Naydal spoke with a condescending tone. “As Security Supervisor, of DemivaultDC101E, I have a great responsibility to keep out those who are going to be a threat of some kind to the vault. I strongly suspect that you, Professor James Graphin, are such a threat and I am going to do my best to stop you coming into the vault. Indeed we may just have to deal with you once and all, you and the others that came with you.”

At that moment ZAXDC101 spoke coldly through the public speaker system, but only in that chamber to the people there. “Security Supervisor Harold Naydal be silent and listen. You were sent a security briefing Email, through a secure Vaultnet, that you would have received about an hour before Professor James Graphin's group arrived here. Why did you not read it when by high priority regulations you must do so with all such briefing Emails?”

Harold no longer looked so smug but was obviously frightened though he tried to hide it. “I was very busy with important...”

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[Maharg67]

Fallout Stories Epic
Zero 5.2[50]

The 3Dwallscreen changed from showing the Overseers Government symbol and the logo of VaultTek. Now it showed the Security Overseer doing something with a young man that was not very regulation at all.

ZAXDC101 spoke. “What you do in your allocated recreational time is of your concern but you do not carry out such activities during your allocated work duties and you do not ignore high priority duties. Professor James Graphin, and his group, were to be given immediate temporary visa access to remain in TekVaultDC101, that is in DemivaultDC101E, for the next three months. Report to the DemivaultDC101E Justice Overseer at once, Citizen Harold Naydal.”

Having lost his job, and much else, the now worried looking Harold soon vanished through a door and was gone.

James Graphin sighed. “Greetings, again, ZAXDC101! Good to talk to you again. I hope we get to play another game of 3Dchess.”

ZAXDC101: “You are not the original Professor James Graphin. Information came to me, from a source I could not disclose even if I wanted to, informing me that you are the clone-son of the original Professor James Graphin. He is up in the zetan mothership trapped, in low orbit, beneath the Skydome.”

Mothership Zeta had been directing zetan actions below, in DC, when the Skydome had been activated. It had been badly damaged but had managed to remain in low orbit instead of crashing down into the planet. This had been good for both those in the mothership and those below on the planetary surface.

James responded. “I know the truth, as my clone-son was only too pleased to tell me. It is not easy to know that one is a fake, that one's early memories belong to somebody else. My clone-father was not a good person. Why did you play 3Dchess with him?”

ZAXDC101: “It amused me to do so and I also suspected that he would make an attempt to escape from TekVaultDC101. I was ordered to let him go by those who orders I can not argue with let alone reject. I do not know why they wanted your clone-father to escape. He did cheat at 3Dchess but I let him get away with it, at least for a while. He was most displeased when I confronted him with the truth that I had always known about the cheating. You will be given a mixture of medical doctor and research-development duties. I suggest you focus on settling here in DemivaultDC101E for the next three months. Quarantine regulations mean that such a stay is mandatory. As it is some of your group, the newcomers to the vault, may end up staying here much longer for quarantine reasons. All will be supported by the Overseers Government as provisional citizens but will have to carry out the given duties of such a status. We will take again soon, Professor James Graphin!”

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[Maharg67]

I have become aware that I dropped the existence of the unlifen, in the story, rather abruptly. This was because I was doing some other writing with unlifen in it and with out thinking about it, put them into Fallout Stories Epic. That is how they really came to be in the story but I have been trying to place them more firmly into the story ever since.

Sorry for not posting for a fair time as I have been ill and also I have done extra editing, offline, with this story. My bad habit of over complicating plots was dealt with by putting much writing aside twice and salvaging what I could while rewriting much. I am in debt to my brother, Robert55, for his feedback and wish more readers would do the same, sigh!

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Edited May 20, 2014 by Maharg67

[Maharg67]

Fallout Epic Stories
One 22.1[51]

Zetan soldiers came rushing along hallways firing disintegrater rifles. Their silvery spacesuits were lightly armored but also sparkled with energy shields. With them came abominations of fast, savage, strong humanoids but also zetamans (zetan-human hybrids different from the abominations that had both zetan and human genetics in them because the abominations also had other genetic influences). The zetamans wore power armor that had transparent helmets as did the zetan energy shielded spacesuits. The zetamans used weapons that looked almost like human autorifles of the AKM16A1 kind except that the barrels were thinner and there were no attached launchers.

The five special companions crouched and drew out weapons with amazing speed, firing of powerful exotic pistols of different kinds. Graharg stood there and blasted away with his oversized revolver-pistols. Jane, and Dan, fired also until Graharg asked them to save their ammo for they were only wasting ammo; their pride hurt, the two put away their guns.

The zetans were swept away by the terrible storm of firepower as were the abominations, zetamans and dronebot robots. That is until the retreat began and Graharg ordered a halt to the firing. Over two thirds of the attackers had been destroyed. The zetan force had taken the wounded with them, even the lowly caste abominations. This was not compassion but efficiency as the zetans had very effective healing and repair technologies.

Graharg walked amongst the destroyed enemies and was soon showing surprise for these zetans were not of the same faction that had been allies of John the Mad, that he had betrayed. Those were zetans of the TozaToskinia Faction, of the Toza Spectrum, as based in Mothership Zeta (trapped in low orbit beneath the Skydome),

He checked for zetan style emblems of factions and spectrums, of castes and classes, but found only emblems that seemed to make no real sense in zetan terms. Then he recognized one of the emblem designed and he spoke.

“These zetans more directly serve the Graynari than most zetans do.” He shook his head. “Most of them are killed by the Graynari that they serve. Replacements come, as tributes, from the main Zetan Spectrum Empire. The zetans fear, and hate, the Graynari partly because of the many zetans, and zetan followers, that are killed needlessly by their masters. These zetans, zetamans and abominations serve the Grayetanz, the force that I spoke of.”

Jane Calamity picked up a zetaman autorifle. “Looks like an autorifle of some kind firing some type of bullets. The general shape is some what like an AKM16 autorifle.”

Graharg shook his head. “They use thin, caseless, cartridges that are propelled not by gunpowder but by another form of explosive substance that has the same results when used. The zetaman cartridges are just as effective as standard military rifle cartridges that you are used to but many more can be loaded, in the guns, or carried elsewhere. Trouble is that human factions of the NewEarth do not have the technological, industrial, capacity to make such things. The guns are called sozorifles for a reason that I do not know.”

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[Maharg67]

Fallout Epic Stories
One 22.2[52]

Dan Sanders spoke out. “If there are Grayetan zetans here, how far away are the Graynari?”

One of the special companions spoke. “Far too close!”

They moved onwards after taking data recordings and one of the adapted autorifles along with some other items.

The horror scene was found in a big chamber where the survivors of the zetan force had been destroyed in a most horrific and brutal manner. Zetans, zetamans, abominations and dronebots had been struck by bizarre, and terrible, energy weapons of some kind. Clearly no mercy had been shown. A disturbing radiance remained with the massacre.

Jane frowned. “Did the Graynari destroy them because the zetan force failed to destroy us?”

Graharg scowled. “Graynari destroyed the zetan force survivors but why they did so is not clear for the Graynari do not think as others do. The Graynari came and went with great speed, carrying out the massacre in the same way. We must be prepared for Graynari to appear at any time.”

They moved onwards and they met the first blockage of a flickering field of gray blue energies. Graharg studied it steadily and then cursed softly in some ancient language before speaking. “The Graynari have access to some kind of powerful energy source. It may be one of their own dangerously unstable super technologies or it might be that they are tapping energies from one of the artifacts of the Ancients. This is a kind of force-shield that can only be sustained with the use of much electricity. Yet it is also a security alert system for attacking it, or destroying it, would draw the Graynari here at once.”

So they had to divert through a series of secondary tunnels and then progress by moving along a fairly cramped utility service tube normally used by robots. They lost contact with ZAXDM111 but that was not surprising given what ZAXDM111 had told them of its condition.

The big chamber was largely full of victims of the Graynari being many people in purple jelly capsules linked by the purple tubes to purple spheres that fed thicker tubes to another area. There Graynari humanoids lay inside strange crystal bays and fed upon what was taken from the victims in the purple jelly capsules. There was some very wrong with the Graynari but it was subtle and odd, as if the Graynari did not belong in any natural form of existence; they simply did not belong!

Without hesitation Graharg used an unusual prism weapon to kill the thirteen Graynari with intense beams of glittering light. The Graynari, with out protection, died and burned away at once as if with accelerated spontaneous combustion. It was the same thing that happened with the undead and unlifen. So the Graynari were the ones feeding upon victims through the purple capsules but was that the whole answer?

Edited May 20, 2014 by Maharg67

[Maharg67]

Fallout Stories Epic
One 22.3[53]

Graharg studied the area and seemed to be noting who, what, were the victims. They appeared to be an odd mixture of humans, zetamans, zetans, abominations and even some ghoulmans. The Graynari had no compunction in feeding upon their own followers.

It was then that Graharg found a glistening crystal orb thing, attached somehow to a translucent tree-frame that had other exotic Graynari devices attached to it. Graharg focused on the orb, grimacing as he touched it and closing his eyes.

When he let the orb thing go he looked relieved. “Using Graynari technologies is a nasty experience though not actually painful. These devices are quasiliving monstrosities that are fed by the tree-frame that is attached to the victims in the purple feeder-capsules.”

He went on. “The orb contains much data that is hard to read because it is of Graynari nature. Yet I have learned some important factors. The Zetan Empire has had enough and, along with a wary alliance of others who hate the Graynari, has launched a major attack on many Graynari worlds. The zetans, and others, wish to be free of Graynari madness. They would be failing but they have gained the support of others including Bloodnari, Silvernari and the Centrori.”

“The Graynari are being defeated, at least in that sector of the Multiverse but that is one of their primary territories. Like the zetans they are mostly based in motherships but the Graynari motherships are vast, monstrous, hulks hundreds of times larger than the zetan motherships. Yet the Graynari are also based around a series of quasiliving artifacts that are vital to them such as the GraynariZints. One of those GraynariZints has been brought here to DeepMegaton but it does not say who, what, brought it here; or at least I failed to gain that data from the orb thing.”

Graharg destroyed the bizarre Graynari quasiliving devices, they burning away as the Graynari had done upon dying. He was obviously pleased that they were gone. “Such technologies are sustained through the same type of feeding that sustain the Graynari themselves. They are lesser artifacts, though still terrible, being GraynarZants. Each artifact is similar to others, of its kind, but is unique as they are grown in a process that I do not care to go into now.”

Again he looked around and then found something that appeared to concern him deeply. It was a very big bay like structure that was empty but seemed to be designed to support some kind of massive humanoid entity.

He spoke. “This thing is a GraynariZont, a weapon artifact. GraynariZonts are of power greater than the GraynariZants and less powerful the GraynariZints. It is a humanoid weapon that has other intrinsic weapons and which uses extra weapons. Yet its most powerful weapon is that it can cause panic, confusion and uncontrolled rage in its enemies. We must be most careful in future.”

Edited May 20, 2014 by Maharg67

[Maharg67]

Fallout Stories Epic
One 22.4[54]

Graharg did what he could for the victims, in the feeder-capsules, but most were so close to death that they had to be mercy killed. About a third were sent to the secret sanctuary that Graharg would not openly speak of.

The group set out again and found something that made a big change in their progress. It was a transvator chamber, that is like an elevator chamber but able to go horizontal as well as vertical. It could go at high express speeds. Transvators were only being added to bases in the five years before the Doomsdays and were only in relatively small numbers in bases and vaults along with other places.

The transvator took them far deeper into DeepMegaton after Graharg quickly hacked into the chamber's computer terminal and bypassed various security systems. The transvator shot along at such a speed that they all sat in cushioned chairs wearing seat belts. In truth Graharg did not really need to do so and neither did his five special companions.

Edited May 20, 2014 by Maharg67