Vault 101, mid-2278
The three Outcast Defenders stood at the door that separated the great Vault door of Vault 101 from the rest of the Vault itself. “You guys hear that?” one of them asked.
“Yeah, what is that?”
“Sounds like... duct tape?” The three power-armoured soldiers looked at each other before the door was ripped off the wall, courtesy of an earth-shattering explosion. It flew into two of the Defenders, pulverising them and compacting their armour. One was left standing, and he quickly fell to a bolt of plasma sent right through his visor as he tried to see who was responsible.
“Knew I’d find a use for those missiles,” Dom smirked as she stepped in to admire the carnage. The explosion would get everyone’s attention, she knew that. That had been her goal. With any luck the Outcast responsible for the attack would send troops to see what had happened. She holstered the Novasurge and picked up her Gatling Laser, Vengeance, that she had brought along with her. She stood there, waiting for the first Outcasts to come investigate.
It was only twenty seconds later when the first group came into view. One of them, obviously not expecting something hostile, didn’t even have his helmet on. He only briefly managed to look terrified before a stream of crimson death impacted, and tore through, his skull. The other three quickly suffered a similar fate, their armour and bodies riddled with new holes.
Dom had decided that this would require a different approach, and wanted to make the last moments of every Outcast one of pure terror. To that end, she had donned a set of Enclave Tesla Armour. The sleek metal plates and the horrible insectoid helmet, combined with the frighteningly sparking coils on the shoulders, was more than enough to inspire fear. The woman inside the armour was just icing on the proverbial cake.
She stepped over the corpses and deeper into the Vault, smiling behind the helmet as she heard the sounds of scared Outcasts yelling at each other. When she stepped into the atrium, she was greeted by a dozen of them, each frozen in varying states of preparedness. “Alright, you sonsa bitches!” she yelled as she opened fire. “Eat laser!”
Later, she would muse that it sounded much better when the line was ‘Eat lead’.
Dom let out a sigh. “Fine. Let’s get this over with. Got something I can use?”
“You’re going to go through with this?” Shining Armor asked, sounding worried.
“If I don’t, I’ll never hear the end of it,” the ghoul replied.
“What’s going on?” Veronica had finally decided to stop gawking at the locals and rejoin the rest of the humans.
“Three of them want to fight me.”
The Scribe looked at the Paladin. “Oh neat! Can we watch?”
Before anyone else could say anything, Thomas spoke. “I swear you were depressed a few days ago.”
Veronica shrugged. “A little hard to stay depressed in a place like this, even if I can’t understand a word anyone says.”
“That is some rather impressive armour you’re wearing,” Grimfeather said, looking Veronica up and down.
“Thanks.”
“Are you absolutely sure you want to fight three Griffons?”
“So I’ve only been fighting since I was nineteen,” she shrugged. “I’ve been forced into a war simulation, enslaved, abducted, anal-probed, lobotomised and ghoulified. I can manage easily enough.”
Veronica, Shining Armor and Grimfeather stared at her. “You’ve been lobotomised too?” Thomas asked.
“You weren’t lobotomised, you had your whole fucking brain pulled out. Anyway,” she said loudly. “I’m going to need a weapon, something I can use to crack some skulls with. Also, I want to talk with Shining alone.”
Five minutes later, Dom emerged from the armoury with a large training sword. While she would have preferred a sledgehammer or even a Super Sledge, it was the best they had. “Let’s do this.”
Shining Armor followed her out, looking at her worriedly. “Just letting you know, you can still back out.”
“Fuck that,” she said harshly. “I’m gonna teach them that you don’t piss off the Lone Wanderer. Besides,” she continued as she rolled her shoulder, “I’ve been cooped up in a freaking Vertibird for weeks. I need to stretch.”
“I’m afraid we have another problem,” Grimfeather said to Shining, knocking him from his musings. “One of your unicorns wants to take a crack at our flesh-rotten friend as well.”
Shining let out an aggravated groan while Dom chuckled. She muttered something about someone called ‘Daring’ Dashwood and went over to the other humans. “This won’t end well,” the stallion muttered.
“Yes, you’ve got that right,” his counterpart said.
“No, I mean for your Griffons and the unicorn,” Shining clarified. “Thomas, the one with the dark skin?” Grimfeather nodded, showing he knew which one he was talking about. “He faced three Night Guard captains in combat, left two of them unconscious.”
“What of the third?” the griffon asked in a whisper, not entirely sure why he was keeping voice so low.
“She surrendered.”
The sergeant began to splutter. “S-surrender!? Impossible! Why, the reputation of the Night Guard is one of complete - ”
“What makes any of our higher ranked soldiers so dangerous is the healing amulets built into their armour,” Shining explained. “Without them, they’re no more a threat than any other pegasus or unicorn.”
Grimfeather blinked. “Isn’t that classified?”
“Not really. All the soldiers know, and they’re free to tell their families. What is classified is that those things have limits, a... well, a set amount of injuries they can heal with the magic contained.” Shining shuddered. “He fought so hard, they ran out of power.”
“Oh merciful heavens,” the griffon muttered. Then he blinked. “But that was him.”
“I get the feeling the ghoul, as she calls herself, is even deadlier.”
“All right, anything you can tell me?” Dom asked as she swung around the padded training sword.
“Well, Grimfeather over there told me that a Griffon’s claw can slice through metal,” Veronica said cheerfully. “And that they’re fast.”
“Go for the wings,” Thomas said. “If they get airborne, you’ll get tackled like before.”
“What about the unicorn?” Dom asked, removing her weapons and placing them on the ground.
“Unicorn?” Thomas asked back. When the ghoul nodded, he face-palmed. “Well, they’re completely fucked then.”
“Why?”
“For reasons I have yet to determine, their magic is identical to gamma radiation,” Thomas explained to the Scribe. Her eyebrows disappeared into her fringe and her jaw dropped. “So, while me and you are fucked without a lot of Radaway, Dom is practically invincible.”
“How does that even makes sense?” Veronica asked.
“Guess I didn’t need Shining to pump me full of radiation, then,” the ghoul muttered.
“What? I thought you had to be in radiation to heal,” Veronica said as she picked up her jaw. “I don’t think you can use stored radiation to heal yourself.”
“I’ve been like this for years, I’ve picked up a few tricks,” Dom replied cryptically. She reached into her armour and pulled out her pair of Lucky Shades. “Let’s do this.”
Standing across from the three feathered killers and their unicorn companion, Paladin Esposito felt confident. True, she had never found herself in such a situation before but, as she had learnt shortly after leaving Vault 101, she was very adaptable.
The griffons were wearing little armour, instead relying on speed and agility. What armour they did wear was mostly leather barding with metal plates over the more vulnerable areas. Their heads were completely uncovered.
The unicorn was a member of the Day Guard, a mare at that. Much like every member of the guard, her armour had rendered her a clone of her compatriots, though there was a purple star set in the barrel. She was wearing a fierce scowl that, were it actually possible, would probably melt Dom’s left arm.
Around them, and separating the combatants from the spectators, was a shield erected by Knight-Commander Shining Armor. It was a translucent, colourless bubble, approximately twenty yards in diameter. He assured her that it would keep anything within the shield safely contained, meaning they could fight as viciously as they liked. He made it abundantly clear that he did not like the notion.
“Alright, chaps, the rules for this shall be simple. No gouging, no excessive clawing, no ripping out throats, no disemboweling, no magic above third tier spells and no killing. This is a friendly fight, I do not want to be the one to tell your families you died in a spar. That would just be embarrassing,” Grimfeather groused as he hovered above the dome. “Now then, I believe you want to get this over and done with, so I won’t delay your insatiable bloodthirst any further.”
“Did you really have to say that?” Shining asked as the Griffon alighted next to him.
“Well, it is the truth.”
Before the unicorn could respond, there was a horrific sound from the bubble. Two of the Griffons had managed to take flight and had moved as if to tackle the ghoul. One of them dove over her head, providing a distraction for the second. Unfortunately, things didn’t go as planned for the flying beasts of myth.
Dom had expected something like that, and had brought her padded sword right into the second griffon’s flight path. Unable to abort, he flared his wings in an attempt to slow down. It succeeded, but that only gave her a chance to bring the sword down onto his head with a mighty two-handed, overhead swing.
While the padding may have prevented the blow from doing too much damage, more than enough was done when the Griffon hit the ground. He now lay unconscious, a crack in his beak marking the point of impact.
The audience could only watch as the textbook maneuver failed spectacularly. The two remaining Griffon combatants immediately switched things up, going in for a no-bars-hold beating. The ghoul could only do so much to block the damage, but her armour took a heavy number of scratches, as did her uncovered arm.
Without warning, she let out a horrible, gravelly scream as she dropped her sword. One of the Griffons had managed to grab hold of her right arm and, using enough force to snap a charging manticore’s neck, broke it.
The Griffons backed away, while the unicorn simply watched in disdain. “So, the great warrior falls to a broken arm,” she sneered. “How pathetic.”
Shining resisted the urge to facehoof. “Why is Captain Starburst in there? She hates non-ponies.”
“Honestly?” Grimfeather asked. “I was hoping your friend would show her some humility. Heavens knows that arrogant mare needs it.”
“You think I’m done, don’t you?” Dom asked as she stood, seemingly ignorant of the pain she was surely in. She brought her injured arm up and held it out for a moment. Green fumes seemed to rise up, much to the confusion of everyone watching. Without warning, the arm snapped back into place in a completely unnatural fashion. “What the fuck!?” Thomas exclaimed, looking horrified.
“That’s not normal,” Veronica claimed in an unusually small voice.
There was the sound of at least one audience member throwing up, but apart from that there was silence. Captain Starburst gaped, her confident expression gone. “W-what are you?” she stammered.
“Let me introduce myself,” Dom declared to her shell-shocked audience. “I’m the Lone Wanderer.” She bent down and picked up her sword. “Now I’ll show you how we do things in the Capital Wasteland.”
Author’s Notes:
Are the bits with Dom’s past unnecessary, or are they fun bits of extra information?
Also, thanks to my good friend Beese for making Grimfeather’s lines so very British.
Wasn't the Courier conditioned to be unable to talk about Big Mountain?
Lets see...12:50 AM.....I have to wake up at 5:00.......FUCK SLEEP UP THE ASS!
First of all, the bits about the Wanderer's past are quite interesting. Are they representative of your own experiences in Fallout 3?
Second of all, I cannot recall a part of Fallout 3 where Brotherhood Outcasts attack Vault 101. When does that happen?
Third, I heartily approve of Grimfeather's British accent. British accents are top.
You do not piss off the Lone Wanderer, she pisses on you.
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Firstly, thank you.
Secondly, if you check the date given (2278), you will realise that the event I detailed there and will in the future are, well, fictional. Basically, they're there to explain the lead-up to when the Lone Wanderer hits ghoulification.
Thirdly, that was completely on a whim to start with. It just seemed to fit.
Daaaayum! Thing's are about to get interesting, here.
As for the bits about Dom's past? Keep them up if you can, I really like them. They give me some insight on how you designed her to be and what she's been through to offer me, or us as readers, to form a connection... Plus, it's an interesting thing to watch writers switch back and forth; it puts their creativity to action in my opinion.
Aside from that, the story is amazing and going strong! I can't wait to see where it goes as I normally do.
Good luck!
That is one of the most disturbing visuals in a way. How is an arm snapping back into place more disturbing than snapping it in the first place? The answer: one will never lnow.
Well, as much as I don't want to admit it, those Griffins are screwed. Also, this whole Outcasts is 101 thing- have I missed something in FO3, or have you made this event up?
nice......when ever something says a limb snapped(s) back it to place in an unnatural fashion I always get the mental image of said limb snapping back into place like a whip cracked then twirled only played in reverse, and if Dom is a............magic/unicorn radiation sponge can she do magic?.....like shields or fireballs or something like that? Other then the fun healing method of course.
I like the parts of Dom's past they are the only way we can know whats up with your Lone Wanderer since the first story was all about the Courier
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Well, Glowing Ones are capable of a shockwave sort of thing. Then again, they did absorb so much radiation that they do glow in the dark.
1342271 I know but then I figured the whole magic thing was just that magic, and I assumed (please correct me if i'm wrong) the magic was in fact just experienced?...felt?....perceived? by humans as a radioactive substance(?)[not sure if tangible] and going off that assumption given time / training / experience it could be just as malleable to Dom / ghouls as it is to unicorns and the like........as I said please correct me if I'm wrong
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The way it works in my mind, unicorn magic works on the same frequency as gamma radiation. The only reason a unicorn can utilise that is the focusing apparatus that is part of their skull. A human (or ghoul, in this case) lacks any such thing, meaning that they either cannot or, if they can, it will be with a complete lack of control i.e. a shockwave.
ah I see how the brain meats churn now thank you it was eaten at me any-way can wait to see Dom demolish the remaining combatants i look foward to the next chapter have a pleasant evening
YEAAAAHHHH
Still waiting on Nuclear Anomaly. I hope you don't disappoint me. :P
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First and only warning.
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Did I do something wrong? Please enlighten me.
And uh...sorry for whatever I did.
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Really? Did you miss this?
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Oh...I see.
Thanks for informing me, and it won't happen again.
I find the history bits extraneous, and somewhat boring... Sorry.
Dom gains the "Taste like Chicken" Perk
-This perk causes all griffins within range to shit themselves, which in turn lowers their Melee Skills by 10!
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Not even done reading. MOTHER F*CKING LUCKY SHADES.
Now, to continue.
EDIT: I finished reading. I love you.
In response to your author's note, if they are taken out and replaced by more Dom air time, I support it.
Just had to do it didn't you
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lone wanderer using magic fuck you
Haven't even read it yet but I'm gonna favorite it just based of wayward courier
Let’s see the lone wanderer is a Goul, in a world of magic and Magic = radiation, radiation makes Gouls stronger. She is possibly stronger then Tomas and unlike him she is fighting normal griffons and a unicorn and again magic / radiation.
Well... they are fucked. It’s just a question of how funny will they walk afterwards.
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No, it's if they will ever walk again.
Heh, a ghoul fighting a bigot. This can only end in the most horrific of ways.
...ow.
1342244Well they said he couldn't speak of it directly but saying he was lobotomized isn't saying that it was in BM also he owns the place now so im pretty sure he can tell every waster he meet they just won't believe him.
1342295 I have to disagree with this the feral ghoul reavers are acting exactly like dom they could regenerate a little while out of a radiated area (unless this was a glitch) and they could hurl concentrating balls of radiation so they did have some control over it.
Well, this is going to be interesting. I can only hope there is a scene where Dom does an AoE.
Ghouls are already cool. Ghouls having special radiation-based powers that aren't just a shockwave/explosion... go on.
Get ready for some Wasteland Justice. Law 1: Start a fight , be ready to finish it. Law 2: Never start a fight your not sure you can win.
Smack downs a-comin. Is gonna hurt.
I like the information of your Wanderer past. It gives us something to learn about her from other than what's happening in Equestria.
i think having her past in the story is helpful, tells us more about the shit she has been through
...This... Iz gonna b good!
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Actually, the Reavers in FO3 were throwing bits of their bodies at people.
Also, what Dom did is a perk you would've gotten during the Wasteland Survival Guide quest called Rad Regeneration. Seeing the properly done Guide is canonical, she would be and should be able to do this.
Combine intelligence, Rad Regeneration + Ghoulification + Being pre-charged with radiation/magic and all of the other upgrades/implants/ect that the Lone Wanderer is assumed to have been loaded with and it's no surprise that she can simply snap her arm back into place. Nevermind that she'd probably have the Adamantium Skeleton perk as well, meaning she'd be even more durable.
OH SNAP!
1342688 Why are the feral ghoul reavers in Fallout 3 insanely over-powered? Because fuck you, thats why. And if Dom is a reaver only not feral, RETREAT!
That's it. Dom is officialy more badass than any other Courier or Wanderer I've read about...... Including my own.
I weep for the griffons facing her.
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Don't forget that bigoted unicorn.
Oh wait, she probably deserves it.
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More like "OH! *the sound of Dom's bone snapping back into place*"
ahhh so shes from Fallout 3
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Lone Wanderer. LONE WANDERER.
I know it's been brought up before. Hell, I should know, I write this damn story.
1343175 I havent played 3 before only New Vegas only part Ive watched of 3 is Liberty Prime
keep the bits about dom's past. they add a bit more backstory.
I enjoy the background story for Dom, but hopping back and forth between them in such short chapters make the story seem to crawl forward at such a slow pace. I realize that if you split them between separate chapters of the same length things would move just as slowly, and negatively effect the pacing, but that's just me.
I wouldn't mind a longer time between updates for more content per chapter.
Personally, I don't like the past bits, but on the other hand that's only because I don't like to switch modes quickly, I'm pretty sure everyone else likes it though.