Wastelands Chance of Revival

[Maharg67]

Thank you, gormonk, suggestions are noted. Revolver-rifle gives me an idea for a weapon to be used with power armour.

THIRTY-EIGHT

 

Boxbie-Boe limped a little as he made his way down a lightly damaged walkway in Outer Megaton. The cultists, traitors and android thugs were gone except those dead, destroyed or damaged but these were gone from sight. As yet nobody seemed to work out why the attacks had taken place for they had apparently achieved nothing but the loss of a few innocent lives, some woundings and damages done. The attackers had ended up suffering far more than the defenders.

 

Colin Moriarty stood outside of the Go-Go Delights holding his autorifle. He had been part of the fighting and had shown himself to be a grim fighter. He had helped defend the Brass Lantern, his commercial competition, which had surprised everybody.

 

Boxbie-Ben was waiting on a new platform newly completed that was for defence-security purposes complete with battlements and two heavy machineguns. Two new Megaton Guards stood there in green fatigues and kevlar body-armour including clever eye visored helmets.

 

Most of the old Townguard was vanished, taking much equipment and supplies with them, and sabotaging other equipment and supplies. They had done much damage to the settlement but there were positive changes taking place to more than compensate for what they and other departing traitors had done. Surprisingly many old cultists had turned loyal to the settlement and against the strange, secret cult that most of them knew surprisingly little about.

 

The Megaton Bunkerplex was being abandoned by the Cyber who were all moving to the Harem Mountain Bunkerplex that was far larger. A single brigade was staying behind as part of a new joint defence security agreement. Megaton would get it and much of its resources. The Cyber would end up taking over all of Harem Island but in a surprisingly careful manner. Visitors would be welcome in regulated numbers to live in a new town on the southern shoreline and could visit Lagoon Village or Hilltop Town, no longer known as Hopetown.

 

The Subway Union, facing over population in areas, was finalising an agreement to send settlers to Megaton Caves, the great cave system spreading out beneath Megaton. They would come with resources and equipment. It was the first step in the creation and rise of the Union of Columbia as the agreement was made under this name.

 

The twins frowned at each other. Their pride was hurt on learning that they had been used in more way than one. Their aunty and their mother had been secretly communicating with the enemy, with Dexter Devillon, who was one of the twin’s two biological fathers. The Bobby Triplets had informed the twins of the truth as soon as they themselves had learned it.

 

Boxbie-Boe spoke. “We have always be jealous of the Bobby Triplets but now it seems we have been fools.”

 

The two had experienced enough sporadic bloody violence over the last days to gain a couple of small scars and to lose any desire to see it as romantic or heroic. More than one person they had known for years was dead including a few traitors.

 

The Telebooth Chamber was not a secret and it now had new structures built around it but it was made clear that it was energy expensive a form of travel and was to be heavily regulated in use. Small important packages would be the normal traffic and nothing living.

 

Boxbie-Ben shrugged. “We still have our contract to carry out to find the missing young women or at least some better indication of what happened to them. I say we go down to the Megaton Subway Station.”

 

With repairs and carefully planned reconstruction work taking place they had to do some detouring but they soon came upon the entrance that had been a house. They made their way down a newly built rampway and were soon going deeper. The big subway station chamber was damned impressive to see. There was a big wide walkway, the ticket booths and turn-a-bouts, the train still siting on a big double rail and a good deal else. The Megaton Secret Council and the related cult had kept it all secret even in times when the station could have been used to save lives.

 

The fools were gone and had taken much with them using unknown means but they had left in such a hurry that much had been left behind. The equipment and supplies were carefully checked and this soon turned out to be wise as some food and drink was poisoned and some equipment was booby-trapped.

 

Two subway train tunnels went only a short distance before great safety doors closed them off. But in the other direction they seemed to be in surprisingly good condition though the safety designed electric rail system had no power.

 

The twins stood on the big wide walkway and looked out over the station. They noted locked doors leading to chambers that had as yet not been fully checked out. Others had led to secret workshops, a depot-shop, dormitories and other facilities. Indications were that a fair sized secret population had dwelt in the station perhaps for years with out the great majority of Megatonfolk knowing about it.

 

Kylie-Anne stopped next to the two dressed in a kneedress of neat casualness and holding the babystop slumbering in her arms. She frowned at the two of them. “We did what we had to do for the good of the Harringtons.”

 

Boxbie-Boe turned to her. “You used us and made us play out a public farce. We opened our minds to you when you and Aunt Kylie-Jo told us to take some secret hypnotic instructions. Yes, we now know it all thanks to the Bobby Triplets. You had us forget all about it. You had us put our lives at risk doing things and then forgetting that we had done them. Cloak and dagger stuff. Picking up packages, passing on cryptic messages, taking a big roll of Prewar cash from somebody and then dropping off in the middle of nowhere on our way home to Megaton. You owe us. You owe us big time. Harringtons do not use Harringtons. Are those not the very same words you have always used? Harringtons always respect Harringtons. Harringtons are always truthful with Harringtons.”

 

Boxbie-Ben snorted. “Dad, our real dad and not that monster you r**** with in secret, committed suicide. Or did he?”

 

She almost slapped her son then and there. “Your dad was a poor father but a lousy husband. He was there for you but not for me. He learned about DD and never did forgive me. He tried to get revenge against your other father and paid the price for it. He did not commit suicide. He pretended to do so. He wanted to escape with monies he had stolen from the family. I shot him when he turned a gun on me.”

 

Benzy-Bib awoke and stretched. He saw his ‘uncies’ and stretched out arms to be picked up by one of them. Boxbie-Boe took the small one, kissed him and held him in his arms.

 

The twins nodded almost as one.

 

Boxbie-Ben spoke. “It is good to know the truth for once. No more hypnotics! We are more powerful now. How did we Harringtons really get to Megaton all the way from West Virginia?”

 

She frowned. “DD rescued us from being massacred by our own demented clan when we refused to start worshipping the new monster guru there. We went by experimental telebooth from there to here but we had to make up a story to explain our coming to here. Some locals assisted us. Megaton is far more than it seems. It has always been so. Professor Agakar really did manage to do miracles here. The two aircraft balanced above Middle Megaton, the one above Inner Megaton. The basement-bunker. But he was showing off, was stretching his power too far, and he paid a big price. He became far weaker after that and he retreated to his own great underground lake, to Harem Island. When DD came to Megaton he pretended to leave but all he did, we think now, was to go down to Harem Island. Dexter Devillon tried to take over Harem Island but he met stiff opposition but not from Professor Agakar but from Lord Dark, his own father.”

 

Kylie-Anne smiled. “They cancelled each other outside and in the end neither of them gained control over the underground island. They are gone into hiding for now to rebuild their powers.” She lost her smile. “We need to get Sheriff Simms back. He is more special than most people know, more special than even he or his wife knows. Now it is up to you two to stop trying to be normal humans and to allow your powers to flow forth.”

 

Boxbie-Ben frowned. “You knew about this subway station.”

 

She sighed. “Yes but Lord Dark was down here and so were his followers including past abducted young women who were long twisted into something very nasty. His most trusted cult followers were down here and he had something down here of surprising nature. A vehicle of sorts. It was a subway train while it was here and it departed down one of those open tunnels to the unknown. We had an agreement of sorts but it was not one we ever were comfortable with. Lord Dark is our father, is your grandfather, is the father of Dexter Devillon and yes, that means I had sex with my own brother as did Kylie-Jo. The knowledge of this does not make us happy.”

 

Bobby-Boe looked puzzled. “The knowledge of what?”

 

She smiled. “Thank you! You can turn the hut in Outer Megaton into your formal office and come back home to live. We miss you. You can also behave now much nicer and less arrogant.”

 

The twins sighed and nodded. They were being pulled back more firmly under family control, at least until they got a bit older.

 

They wondered what they would do next.

TO BE CONTINUED

Edited December 7, 2009 by Maharg67

[Maharg67]

THIRTY-NINE

 

Bobby-Bob walked nakedly amongst the zihumans who were angry enough to rip him to shreds but they did not do so. Then he sat amongst them and the Light acted through him. It swept outwards through one million people and changed them but not into elementals but into humans with enhanced physical and some other abilities. They were now basically what they had been before they had gone into the capsules except fitter, healthier and more capable.

 

He told them about Hilltop Town, about the elementals there and the bunkers beneath. He warned them that they would face enemies there and other challenges but they decided they would rather live there than in a great chamber beneath a bunker. They forgave him and began to prepare to move.

 

Bobby-Anne and Bobby-Sue met him at Lagoon Village. Cyber-infiltrators were visible but they were all dressed like natives in only sandals and cloth or grass skirts with beaded necklaces around their necks. There were some visitors from Megaton being reunited with women who had been stolen from their families, from their lives, over the decades. Now they were being introduced to changed women and to children, to a whole interwoven community of families.

 

The town on the south coast was to be called Agakar Town and at its centre was to be a bronze statue of Professor Agakar who had helped to create a destiny beyond his intentions, beyond his own powers and beyond his own wisdom.

 

They walked on the sands of the lagoon dressed as natives and surrounded by girl children and a couple of boys.

 

Later the Bobby Triplets returned to Megaton and to Home.

 

THIS STORY IS CONCLUDED

A NEW STORY IS SOON TO BEGIN IN THIS TOPIC

Edited December 7, 2009 by Maharg67

[Maharg67]

MEGATON

 

Megaton is built around a crater but also a fortified missile silo bunker from which three of four Molemite ICBMs (intercontinal ballistic missiles) had been launched and one staid unfired in its cradle. The ICBMs dug themselves up through the dirt and then launched out into space.

 

The silo doors are closed again and covered by dirt. They are at the centre of the crater which destroyed the old fake buildings and much of the other structure above the silos.

 

Outer Megaton is built up around the sides of the big round crater, going upwards in levels and walkways, rampways and platforms. But away from the crater there is a big old still surprisingly solid wall that had once surrounded the grounds above the missile silo. The buildings are constructed out of scavenged peices left over by the crater, stuff taken from nearbye and stuff taken from a bunker.

 

Grand Hall: big multiple purpose shed with stage and screen.

 

Outer Megaton Town Council Centre: Mayor, Council Rooms, Offices, Depot, Public Office, other.

 

Houses on platforms; houses dug into crater side. Houses dug underground further into crater sides.

* Simms Family

* West Family

* Moriarty Family

 

Special: Harrington Mansion (3 levels + 3 basement levels + cliffside expansion)

 

Sheriff's Department. Offices, small jail, small armoury, volunteer rooms, police dog kennel, other.

 

Community Centre: library reading rooms, gallery, school,

 

Common House; a basic female/male dormitories run for workers employed in Megaton. Goes deeper into crater side.

 

Craterside Farm: a Co/Op farm with livestock, crops and an muttfruit orchard. This is way up on topside of the crater.

 

Craterside Workshops: a big building with a lot of workshops for pottery, leather work and much else.

 

Craterside Tannery. (A relatively small but important establishment; stinks!)

 

Common Ablutions. Two toilet-rooms and one bath-house.

 

Megaton Townguard Fort: barracks, training area, depot, garage-workshop, armoury

 

Megaton Defence Security Boundary (reinforced sentry-gun and turret equipped ring wall)

 

Free Trade Zone

* Caravan Outpost

* Orderhood of Compassion/Protection Outpost

* Regulators Outpost

* DCTek Outpost

* Union of Columbia Embassy

* Crosswayne Commonwealth Embassy

* Hot Cups: diner

* Brass Lantern: diner.

* Gogo Delights. Saloon.

* Craterside Welcome: brothel

* Craterside Supplies: a large old building now divided into five shops selling clothes/footwear, guns/ammo, general supplies, crafted Co/Op goods and odds/ends.

* Moria Brown's Craterside Emporium.

 

Middle Megaton: Upper Bunker Levels

 

Megaton Townguard Fort and Offices, Main Armoury

Megaton Security Offices

Megaton High Sheriff Offices, Jail, armoury, barracks etc.

Megaton Manufactories, Workshops, Workrooms

Megaton Hydroponics Centre

Megaton Classified Centres

*Megaton Research and Development Centre

 

Storage Depots and Vaultrooms

 

Middle Megaton Apartment Complex (apartments, service and support facilities)

 

Megaton Academy

 

Inner Megaton

 

Presidident's Offices

 

Elite Family Homes

Elite Service and Support Centres

Elite Pleasure Centre

 

Fusion Globe Generator

Robotic Android Centre

Mattercation Duplication Centre

Computer Centre

VR Centre

 

Elite Security Offices, Armoury, Barracks, Training-Programming

 

Other?

 

 

 

 

How dod folks like this new idea?

Edited December 7, 2009 by Maharg67

[Herculine]

I love the new concept!

[species5478]

Keep those juices flowing. Your stories keep me coming back to the Garden.

[Maharg67]

Thank you Species5478!!!

[gormonk]

verry good

(im currewntly working on a revised cyberman attack transport for a concept)

[Maharg67]

Thank you, gormonk.

 

Tell us more about your transport in future.