> H.V.I Weather Research Labs: Fallout > by 21RoadsWasTaken > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- Log 1: Flashbacks ----------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- H.V.I Weather Research Labs: Fallout It was a good sunny day in ponyville. Everyone is happily trotting, chatting, and hanging around with their best friends. Now, what if I tell you that Equestria had the very first nuclear power plant before? Now you might be wondering how they got that in the first place and what happened to it? Well, they didn't build it, but more like they transported it there, and about what happened to it? No one knows. Even the princesses didn't know it existed, or maybe they knew. No one knows. Maybe those princesses felt a disturbance in the magic, but they didn't care for it, did they? Like really, literally no one cared about it, not until the explosion occurred then, followed by a sudden earthquake. The blast could be heard within 10km, which caught everyponies attention. Which, of course, was followed by mass panic and paranoia. When they received the news that their beloved subjects were panicking, they knew they had to intervene and investigate where the explosion occurred quickly. So the princesses went to their beloved town/city, which they began to assure them that everything is under control, which calmed the crowds. They both ordered their elite royal guards to investigate the explosion, which they obeyed, and they began to search. The patrol of elite royal guards went to Everfree forest as they suspected they had heard the explosion inside the terrifying forest inhabited by dangerous creatures. So the pegasi guards began to search for anything suspicious or trails. Still, when the pegasi guards came back, to their dismay, they didn't get any information regarding this explosion. To their surprise, there weren't any trails of smoke coming out into the horizon. Usually, when an outbreak occurs, fires occur, which means there will be a huge cloud or little smoke, but this? They knew something was off. So the others are left to wonder if this is a trap, but they are still unsure. The other ponies looked at each other. They got skeptical about that but sighed defeatedly and began to trail off inside the everfree forest. After a painful hour of searching, they still got nothing, no clues, no trails, no tracks explosion. So finally, they were forced to go back and report it to their highnesses. After Luna and Celestia heard the news, they began to wonder. How was this possible? If this was related to magic, then the pony who made the explosion was able to hide it (like a perception filter) or instead fix it. Then this pony must be skilled and talented but dangerous at the same time, and it needs to be taken action soon. But if it wasn't related to magic, then what could it be? Both of the princesses are left to wonder. Still, for extra precaution, they send another wave of patrols to investigate it again, but to their dismay, it is the same as the last one. At first, they were skeptical if they had to leave it or not, but as time passed, they finally moved on and forgot it. -----------------------------------------------------------Thousand years later-------------------------------------------------------- It has been a thousand years since that happened and is still never forgotten by the two princesses, but they were still curious about how that happened. As much as they want to investigate it on their own but unfortunately, they can't leave the kingdom. So Celestia went to her room and sat down to write a letter for Twilight and Starlight to investigate the mysterious explosion in the Everfree forest, which happened thousands of years ago since she knew they were a great choice, especially Twilight. She performed a spell and successfully cast the letter away for Twilight and Starlight to see. -------Meanwhile, at Twilight's castle----- Twilight and Starlight are currently reading the letter that Celestia gave. Then they both glance at each other, Curious. But still, it is an order for Princess Celestia so. They will obey her. They went to pack their things to get ready for an adventure. Once they did so, they went outside the castle and trotted their way to the Everfree forest. They reached the woods in about a minute and went through the deep and dark forest. They are galloping through the Everfree forest and find the mysterious explosion of what Princess Celestia is talking about. They put out the map where the blast possibly occurred and went what the map said. They overcame obstacles that they eventually passed with a little or no effort, and once they finally reached what the map said. Unfortunately, they didn't see anything exciting or a blast that she was talking about not until there was an unknown hidden elevator appeared out of nowhere. There was a sign that spelled H.V.I. Twilight and Starlight went to examine the elevator before going in, and once they went inside, the door closed on its own as if it were alive, and then it spoke. "Welcome to Howling Vortex Industries Weather Research Labs. Please enjoy your stay and have a good day!" They were startled a bit when it started to speak for a few seconds, and then it was utterly silent again. Then the elevator stopped, and the doors opened only to be met by a dark room filled with tables, metal detectors (which they didn't know), and a big sealed metal gate. They lit up their horns to see through the dark and went for the big metal door that says FACILITY LOCKDOWN They both glanced at each other before facing back again to the door. Twilight and Starlight unlit their horns and start to charge them up. Then once charged up, they released a stream of magic to the sealed door causing it to melt. They both let go, and the magic stream is beginning to die. When they looked at the closed door, it was already melted. They finally caught some breath as both ponies sat down, tired and scared. Still, they had to continue to uncover the mystery of the explosion. They continued to their tracks as they finally caught some breath, moving on to the mysterious underground place. They trotted down the stairs, and when they got closer, they found another sealed door, but this time, it was destroyed. Twilight went through the door first, then Starlight followed. It was a complete ruin inside. Much debris had already fallen, exposed circuits hanging on the walls, and underground water (Contaminated Water). Twilight thinks that what if this is the explosion that occurred that Princess Celestia is talking about. Still, the real question is how the explosion happened. Twilight hoped that anyone/anypony inside this ruined place got out alive and safe. Little did she know, some of them failed. Both examined the room first and found the three doors but unfortunately. They didn't know which way to go because there was a three-door leading to a different path. Starlight went to the middle one and read the sign "Core Control room. Please do not enter if you know you're not qualified. Please, my money depends on it." But when she saw the Please my money depends on it line, she knew something was interesting inside. She called Twilight to look over the sign and see, convinced that there's something in there, and it might help them solve this mystery. They went through the middle door, and inside the central door hallway, it was creepy, with exposed wires everywhere and rusty floors and walls. And they only hoped they would get out safely with a lot of information to share. They finally entered the core control room, where they found a cluster of glasses on the floor, wires on the control panels, papers everywhere, and monitors on the ground. Twilight picked up one of the papers on the basis and silently began to read it. H.V.I Weather Research Labs Reactor Ops Log 5:00 pm, 14th of April 2080: The Reactor Core reached 3500 degrees Celsius, and a core surge is imminent. We immediately leave the core control room, and 30 seconds have passed. The blast doors closed in the core control room, and we didn't expect an explosion. Once we entered the room, it was a mess. The control panels say that the core is in bad shape, and don't worry, the problem doesn't end there. The automated repairs cannot conduct if the temperature is still at 3500 degrees Celsius since the temperature required to perform automated repairs is 3000 degrees Celsius. Based on their estimation, the coolant is not yet fully repaired and is expected to be fully repaired in 30 minutes. I doubt that because we need that coolant to cool the core down and if this keeps going. I wouldn't say I like this, but we will have a Thermonuclear Meltdown if that coolant is down when that 30 minute has passed. 8:00 pm, 14th of April 2080: The Reactor Core has reached 5000 degrees Celsius, and that's the time when the coolant was fixed and operational again, but it was too late. We are now having a thermonuclear meltdown, and the facility raised a code red. The distress signal has been made to notify the NRC, The Government, and the Howling Vortex Industries (H.V.I) that we are having a meltdown event. 8:07 pm, 14th of April 2080: Maintenance Vice Manager Cromwell has conducted an automated shutdown, but it was a failure. The stabilization towers 1, 2, 3, and 4 are in bad shape to conduct a shutdown. Welp, this is it. We are doomed. 8:10 pm, 14th of April 2080: Maintenance Manager Conqueror has conducted a Core Containment Protocol (CCP). 8:13 pm, 14th of April 2080: (CCP) has finally been completed. Now we are rushing to find those launch panels placed everywhere in the facility so we can launch the core out of the facility and out of the orbit. And I mean out of the orbit means out of the Earth's Atmosphere- wait, I forgot that we are not on earth. 8:16 pm, 14th of April 2080: We managed to find those launch panels but got rejected due to insufficient fuel that the Rocket had, and the complete facility destruction is imminent. And, of course, I'm not going to continue these logs anymore, and if anyone sees this, then you're lucky this paper hasn't burnt to a crisp since this paper is fire-proof. Logs created by Scientific Head - Dr. Pershing ------End of Logs------ Twilight realized that what she was standing for was a former Nuclear Power Plant, and she also realized that this facility was the one that exploded, was the one that Princess Celestia was talking about. Now she had already uncovered the mystery and the question that she asked herself now's the time to get out. But Twilight didn't. There was so much to discover in this place, and this place caught her attention, she decided to stay. On the other hand, Starlight went to the giant core containment (Not the rocket pod one). She was astonished at how vast it was, and she wondered what those big pointy things in the corner were, and those giant four towers were. She called Twilight to see this, and she was too astonished as well, and she already knew that this is where the Reactor Core stays. Twilight lets Starlight explore the destroyed Core Containment while she does some digging. She found the Site 2 logs, but nothing seemed to be interesting about them, not until she found the other site 2 records, but this time it was made by one of the administrators of H.V.I She hit the jackpot and started to read it. ------End of First Chapter------- > ----------- Log 2: H.V.I Weather Research Labs ---------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- H.V.I Weather Research Labs: Fallout H.V.I Weather Research Labs logs 204 made by user Gmaing The building of H.V.I Weather Research Labs site 2 has to be finished by the 15th of July 2069 located in Three Mile Island, where the former nuclear power plant is located before it got demolished by the government officials and finally replacing it with our very own laboratory and power plant. -----16th of September 2069, Site 2 has finished. ----- -----25th of September 2069, The government officials conducted safety tests on our upcoming Reactor Core Power Plant and successfully passed the test. We are ready to go and all we need is competent and experienced employees and scientists.------ ------25th of December 2069, 5:37 P.M. The H.V.I Weather Research Labs site 1, is experiencing a major thermonuclear meltdown. Nuclear Siren has been sounded, a distress signal has been sent to the government and to Nuclear Regulatory Commission to order an evacuation, and site 1 is now at code red.------ ------25th of December 2069, 7:56 P.M. The H.V.I Weather Research Labs site 1 has successfully averted the thermonuclear meltdown by activating the emergency coolant.------- ------25th of December 2069, 8:30 P.M. The H.V.I Weather Research Labs site 1 has now conducted a Reactor Shutdown----- -----25th of December 2069, 8:35 P.M. The H.V.I Weather Research Labs site 1 Reactor core shutdown failure, stabilization towers cannot perform a shutdown due to massive rupture and extreme heat. The reactor core is becoming unstable------ ------25th of December 2069, 8:37 P.M. The H.V.I Weather Research Labs is now again experiencing a thermonuclear meltdown, emergency coolant cannot be activated anymore. Code Black has been raised to Site 1.------ ------25th of December 2069, 8:37 P.M. The Reactor core is now at thermonuclear meltdown phase one. Evacuation is now in progress----- ------25th of December 2069, 8:40 P.M. The Reactor core has now entered thermonuclear meltdown phase two. Blast doors are now closing. Reactor core explosion imminent. ------25th of December 2069, 8:50 P.M. The Reactor core along the site 1 has now exploded, major radiation leak detected, 15km within the Power Plant has a possibility of becoming inhabitable for approximately 100 years. Firefighters and Ambulances equipped with radiation suits are now intervening the site 1.----- ------Overall report: 112 employees have died, 50 are missing, 27 received major injuries, 139 received minor injuries and 598 are safe and sound------- -------26th of December 2069. Radiation has gone airborne and now spreading across Canada----- ------30th of December 2069. Radiation has now spread across the whole of North America. Radiation spreading across from Europe is imminent.------- -------1st of January 2070. Government Officials decided to put a cover to contain the Radiation to keep it from spreading.-------- --------18th of March 2070. The Cover for H.V.I Weather Research Labs Site 1 is now completed and now covering the Site 1.----- --------19th of March 2070. North America has declared a lockdown due to Radiation.------ ------15th of July 2075. The Radiation is now decreasing in North America, lockdown protocol is now revoked.------ --------20th of July 2075. H.V.I Weather Research Labs Site 2 has been closed due to an accident regarding site 1, Officials are skeptical whether they want this to become operational or not. Still, not yet confirmed. ------4th of August 2075. The officials decided to give Howling Vortex Industry one more chance to operate the site 2. If we move it to another dimension and use the inter-dimensional teleporter to generate and bring it to the city, still we will generate some profit. Of course, I and Samb33tle disagreed due to it was very dangerous and might affect the facility's overall performance, hence endangering the employees' lives.------- -------5th of August 2075. The decision has been made, Hurricane Tracker decided to obey the officials, even though he is against their ideas, he had no choice but to obey them. Since they gave our industry the last chance to continue to operate. Hurricane Tracker told us to activate the inter-dimensional teleporter to site 2 and bring it elsewhere safe from the people, well, as expected we don't know where to move it, since we have limited knowledge about dimensions. Unfortunately, we are too lazy to plan it and decided to pick a random dimension and finally it picked Equestria. Well since we are too lazy, we didn't bother and didn't care about how much the population is, as long as we keep our site 2, safe and sound. We will finally be recognized again and will put our ever-crumbling reputation up to the top and also M o n e y (we need that too because, yes). We agreed to each other and finally activated the Inter-dimensional to our site 2 and then in the blink of an eye... It's gone, to our surprise it worked. Now, all we need to do is to build a portal, an inter-dimensional portal to go in and out, but it will take us a few years to finish it though...------- ------ 15th of July 2076. We successfully built an operational Inter-Dimensional teleporter and it is now ready to use. The teleporter we built is now linked topside of the facility, and still no employees.------ -------21st of July 2076. We are now hiring employees at H.V.I Weather Research Labs site 2. ------22nd of July 2076. The number of entrants applying for H.V.I Weather Research Labs is pretty much disappointing as we expected... 737 applied which is not good but who are we to judge? And also, I suspect that due to the Thermonuclear meltdown accident that happened at site 1. Anyways, 578 entrants have been accepted while the 159 entrants were rejected but still, the number of employees is still not enough we need 263 to operate...------ ------30th of July 2076. Only 300 entrants arrived and 263 of them were accepted and 37 of them were accepted as special units and transferred at H.V.I HQ.------ ------1st of August 2076. The H.V.I Weather Research Labs site 2 has now opened its doors and is ready for operation----- -------H.V.I Lab logs end------ You sure that it won't happen again Hurricane? I said Let's hope that our experienced employees can handle it. Hurricane said I know they are experienced but don't put your faith in them, sometimes even an experienced employee can do mistakes as well. I retorted back Yes, I am aware that they'll do mistakes but what I meant earlier is that there are a lot of new employees that/had never seen and operated a Reactor core but they have a degree in the nuclear thingy. He said calmly Oh, I see. I said I hope those new employees don't mess up or do something really stupid. quite frankly, I've never expected that I'll have so many new employees. He said But hey at least we got our old employees- I said but he proceeds to cut me I'm telling you, a few of our employees wanted a round two while the others quit which is not really good but it's their choice anyways... he said disappointingly Look I'm worried about how will site 2 perform but I'm more worried for the employees, I mean what if the start-up procedure might go wrong and there goes our reputation... He said worriedly Then, why did you hire them? I said with a little anger Good point but still I have to give them a chance too and I know that they have a degree, well most of them have it but all I want to say is that I want to test them if they are really capable, just think about a quarterly exam. He said So you're treating the new guys like students?! I said- trust me I was confused and frustrated after he said that I did not say that. he said Yeah... Sure. I said and rolled over my eyes Hurricane and I snickered for a moment, then we laugh and after that, I returned to my work and Hurricane went to his office. The new age of H.V.I has now begun. I said Little did they know an unexpected event is about to happen in site 2. To Be Continued... > --------Log 3: Heart of the Facility----- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------At H.V.I Headquarters------- This is the day that the employees are waiting. The day where the Reactor Core will finally be born and also the first day of their work. The majority of the employees were new and fresh along with the old employees from site 1, even though there are few of them they are expected to guide the new employees and monitor them. Hurricane had the best employees from site 1 and those are: ------ Facility Director: Kranvagn Johansson ------- ------ Manager of Maintenance Team: Conqueror Chieftain ------- ------ Vice Manager of Maintenance Team: Cromwell Bennington -------- ------ Scientific Head of Scientific Team: Pershing Milton ------- ------ Scientific Vice Head of Scientific Team: Sheridan Miller ------ ------ Squadron Leader of Heavy Response Team: Maus Schneider ------ ------ Security Chief of Security Team: Panther Fischer ------- He knew they are the best choice to lead, teach, and monitor the new employees. Hurricane is so lucky to have them back and was excited to meet them once again since the site 1 accident. He called them for a quick heads up before leaving. A minute later, the 7 senior employees entered his room without saying a word and then lined up according to their specified ranks and teams left to right. Facility Director Kranvagn decided to speak up first wisely. Good morning sir, and may I ask why did you call us? Kranvagn asked politely Well, as far as you know that you're the best senior employees that I had on-site 1 and I expect that you will guide the new and fresh employees to operate the Power Plant. Hurricane said Is there a problem with our new employees? Conqueror asked Now you've mentioned it. I don't have a problem with these employees except that they aren't that exactly- uh... Well, it is not that they have no experience. It's just that I'm paranoid that they might do something random that might end my business. Remember we need money for future projects and not to mention your salaries. He said Well why did you hire them in the first place? Cromwell said disappointingly Because they meet the needed requirements and who's a sane person will reject the applicant that met requirements? Because that's definitely not me and also let me remind you that we are 1.3 Million Dollars in Debt after I paid all of the property damage that we've caused and also the hospital bills... Hurricane said slightly annoyed Oh, I forgot that. He said embarrassingly Don't worry Hurricane we got all of this covered and we'll make sure that those new employees will be monitored. Kranvagn said confidently while giving the CEO a little hope. All right, I'll give that job to you. Dismissed. He said The Seniors left the room only leaving Hurricane alone and continued his paperworks. The 7 seniors walked out to the building and went to the giant portal. It was ready and waiting to be used, they were hesitant to walked through it and was ready to back down not until Conquerer calmly walked through the portal like it was nothing but a normal Tuesday for him. Geronimo. Conqueror said He walked through the portal without hesitation, they followed him to see what's on the other side. ------------ Everything was dark at first. All they could see is just nothing just like everything around them had just disappear in one blink. And there, there was an exit and it's getting closer and closer, they don't know what to do at first but it was too late to formulate a plan when the light sucked them up completely. They opened their eyes to see what's going on. Their reaction was priceless. They cannot believe it. The new site 2 of the H.V.I Weather Research Labs. The new lobby was just astonishing unlike their lobby before it was just a reception at the center and just a few benches and that's it. While everyone is busy inspecting the new lobby, Conqueror doesn't seem to be in the mood of inspecting the new looks, so to compensate he walked down through the stairs to see what the core chamber will look like. He opened the sealed door and went through. He took the middle door which it leads to core control room and there he was inside the core control room. He is not surprised that everything changed, including the controls, back then there was just a button for start-up and coolant. He looked to his left and he found an emergency coolant system and muttered "That's new". He went down to the emergency coolant room and opened the door to see what's inside. Inside it was just a very cold room and a button for e-coolant. He was dumbfounded when he saw on the monitor that the facility had only one tank of emergency coolants and he knew that they're screwed. Jesus Christ, whoever decided to put ONLY one tank for emergency coolant, I wish he stepped on a Lego and kill himself now. Conqueror said disappointingly He went out to the emergency coolant room and climbed back up, this time he wants to inspect every controls in this room. He started at the start-up button. Right there he could see a two buttons, the left button is for Reactor Start-up laser charge while on the left one is for Reactor Start-up. He went for the right controls and there he found the coolant control system and the Reactor Core Panels. He was impressed on the improvements that happened in here and he thinks that Hurricane did very well in this one. He didn't notice that the elevator was even there. He went inside, pressed the button and the elevator went down. Once it was all down he went out and he started to inspect what's in. He noticed the five seals in here. He wondered what could that be, but, when he noticed the 2 button on to his left side, he turned his head to the right and there he saw a 2 buttons as well. He had now an idea what's in these four but he couldn't guess what's in the 5th seal or on the center. He walked around to see what to inspect and he just noticed a yellow light underneath. He walked slowly for caution to see what's in there and when he finally reached it. He peeked slowly and there he found a ladder. He was curious at first but he let that aside for a moment and he went down through the ladder. He turned back his head and he was shocked what's waiting for him. "No way" Conqueror said astonishingly He just can't believe it. There is a rocket pod here in this site, he can't believe that his idea will be in here and be added to their safety procedure. His Core Containment was his alternative meltdown protocol when the automated shutdown was unsuccessful. He saw to the panel that it was on 0 fuel, he went to the controls and pressed the add fuel button, unfortunately though it could take a while, so he decided to went out to the rocket pod system and went to the elevator. Once the elevator was on the top side again, he was greeted by several new employees and also his friends the senior team. "Hey Con, you're just in time! We are about to start the Reactor up." Cromwell said "Neat." Conqueror said "Oh boy, I can't wait to see the core!" Sheridan said excitedly "I just hope the start-up protocol don't mess up like the B-core company did" Pershing said calmly "If I'm not wrong, their power laser 1, 3 and 7 malfunctioned and failed to create a core safeguard but in the end its their fault for having a faulty designs" Conqueror clarified "Plus, their IT engineers sucked." Cromwell added "Not at all... They're just having a miscommunication and conflict on their plans and failed to double or triple check it" Conqueror replied back "Hey, might remind you that we are going to start-up the core not to discuss the B core start up failure." Cromwell cutted them off "We know, you don't have to tell us twice" Conquerer replied back Conquerer walked to the start up control panel and pressed the Reactor Start-up laser charge. The lights went off and the start-up lasers began to charge up into the reactor chamber. Music to the charging reactor startup laser. "Reactor Start-up laser: Charging sequence initiated. Directing power all facility power to charge the reactor startup laser" The A.I announcer said Then the lights came on to all facility on a few seconds. "All reactor laser charged successfully. Core can now be activated" The A.I announcer said Conquerer pressed the right button and then the start-up sequence has now been initiated. Reactor Core Start-up music: "Attention! The reactor startup has been initiated. Please stand by for reactor startup in T-minus 80 seconds. the A.I announcer said The startup is now in progress and the system are now starting up. The junior and senior members are now witnessing the startup and they're about to get excited of what they'll see next. "Conducting alarm test... *Alarm blares* Alarm test completed" The A.I announcer said After the alarm stopped the startup power lasers are beginning to charge up and then a few seconds. The Lasers activated altogether. "Attention! Core startup lasers online, please do not approach the core area at this time." "Warning! High instability detected. Switching core startup to stabilization mode and activating the stabilization protocol." The A.I announcer said Below the core chamber the 2 seals started to open along with the raising of the stabilization towers one and two. "Raising stabilization towers one and two" Then the other 2 seals followed up and raised the towers three and four. "Raising stabilization towers three and four" Then the stabilization towers one and two are now half way done to the process while the three and four are catching up. Then a few seconds later the stabilization towers one and two stopped. "Core stabilization towers one and two, locked and ready" Then the towers three and four followed as well. "Core stabilization towers three and four, locked and ready" Then the Core stabilization towers one, two, three and four became online, lit up the core altogether and forming the reactor core safeguard. "Core stabilization towers are now active" "Reactor core startup procedure completed." The Reactor core is now online. The monitors for the reactor core opened one by one and everyone in that room can see how the core performs and it's condition. Well, that was one hell of a startup now let's get to work. Conqueror said Most of the seniors went out of the room to go to their working spots and start working. Little did they know there is an upcoming disaster is about to take place very soon and no one will going to expect it. To be continued > ----- Logs 4: Surge ----- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- HVI Weather Research Labs: FALLOUT ----Chapter 4: Surge ---- Twilight recovered many confidential papers as she could and mostly of them were just logs, the list of employees (excluding the senior employees), safety protocols and etc. She put the recovered papers to her bag and continued to search if there were anything left in the area. She'd found some papers that were scattered near the windows and she picked it up and she read it silently. ------ HVI Weather Research Labs Site 2// //// 07/15/2080 ----- It's been a nice 4 years for the site 2 without any major or minor accidents. The reputation of Howling Vortex Industries had grown over the years and finally free from the debts, now their reactor power business and research center is growing to the point that the Quantum Science Inc invited them to join to their next collaboration project with Nuroxa Inc, Innovation Inc, Pinewood Builders, Eclipse Research Institute and Time Labs. Inside the facility, employees are doing their work as usual and everything is running smoothly as expected. Inside the core control room, nothing is really going on. The employees inside the control room is just cooling the core down. Some of the employees are sitting and chatting peacefully while the others are watching the core. Inside the core chamber, the reactor core is being cooled down using liquid nitrogen. You don't have to worry about liquid nitrogen getting to the lower part of the core chamber as its evaporates quickly. Everything is fine in a minute... Not until the coolants above the reactor core stopped. The reactor control team wasn't aware for a minute until one guy did notice that the core temperature is rising. He looked at the coolant panels, the coolants are on but still the core temperature is rising up. He tried to turn off and on the coolants but to no avail it didn't work. He's way more curious now, he went to the window where he could see what the hell is happening. Finally he knew what the heck happened and to why the core temperature is rising. He notified his workmates that the coolant is not working and told them to cool down the core down by any means possible, he went to the phone and called the coolant control room. ------- Coolant control room ------- A man was just sitting there in peace while listening to the music while also reading his favorite book, he was about to flip a page until a phone ringing interrupted him. He groaned and gets up from his chair and he picks up the phone. "This is coolant control room, how may I help you?" He said "This is William from core control room, uh... I know this might sound strange but the coolant stopped working however the panel says it's still online? Can you check the coolant whether its still online?" He replied "The fuck do you mean online? It's always been online since the very first day and besides I always notify you whether the coolant will be put on maintenance." he yelled "Can you atleast run a diagnostics?" he said "Okay..." he replied Then he dropped the phone, he groaned and followed his orders since they're from the core control room, he can't risk the core getting bonkers again. He started to run a diagnostics to the coolant receivers whether there may be a minor complications or serious complications. He just hoped that it was just a minor problem. But boy he was wrong, when the diagnostics was finished the result were shocking. He was flabbergasted from what he saw. The coolant receivers were malfunctioned but its not just one coolant but four coolant receivers were malfunctioned. He continued to run diagnostics to search for problems and what caused it. Turns out that the coolant valves were too old that the internal parts stopped working and have to be replaced immediately or it will fall apart. He immediately shut off the coolants and hopefully he made a right decision. He immediately called the head manager to inform him what is going on to the coolant. ------- Storage room area ------- (Note: in the real game there's no storage room area, no cargo bay and no coolant control rooms, I just made it up and the only thing exists on HVI Weather Research Labs: Fallout are Core Control Room, Generators room, Maintenance Area, Labs Area (You'll see where the coolant is but unfortunately there are no control rooms that controls the coolant) , Food Court, Security Center, Fitness Center Conqueror is just checking the cargos that had been delivered yesterday and checking off lists of items that are already present in the area. After he finished the checklists he went to inspect the newly arrived cargos in the cargo bay. After he's finished he went up to the cafeteria to rest a little bit and after that he will write a report and submit it to the Facility Director. After he rested for a bit he stood up from his seat and about to went down to the main lobby until he was called. "Sir! Someone is calling you." The security guard yelled "Aye, who is calling me?" he said after turning around to the guard "Its from the coolant control and he said its urgent" The security guard replied back Now this one is unexpected. In four years working in here its the first time he heard urgent. He suspect something is wrong or worse, he was ready for it. He gulped down and he approach the security guard. "Follow me sir" The guard said He followed the guard to his office and they went to his telephone. He sighed and picked up the telephone. "Hello? This is Conqueror Head Manager of the maintenance team, can you tell me what's going on?" He said while his heart is beating fast and little nervous. "This is Parley from coolant control, so straight to the point the coolant receivers have malfunctioned and I've already run a diagnostics and it said that the internal parts are too old and cannot hold any longer. Any moment it can break down or even worse!" Parley said "When did this happen?" Conqueror asked "At exactly 12:04 pm, the core control employees have reported it first." He replied back "Alright thank you for the info, I'll be there in a moment." he said before putting down the telephone He could not believe it, the coolant receivers stopped working. Right now they are superheating the reactor core and they can't let the core go into meltdown state, he can't let that happen again just like what happened to the site 1. He thanked the guard for borrowing the telephone and he sprinted down to the main lobby to call Cromwell and inform him right away. Cromwell was currently checking the pipes near the generator rooms and near the rail tracks to see if there are any leakage, well for now there was none. He looked at his watch and it was already end of his shift, he decided to call off for the day and walked through the sides of the train tracks. He reached the cargo bay within a minute, he climb up through the stairs and headed to the exit. He stopped at the exit door for cargo bay area and about to pressed the button, unfortunately, the door opened and there he met Conqueror face to face. "Oh, hey Con! You look tired, maybe you should rest for a while." he said "Look, I know you're about to go home but this is really urgent and I ask you to help me." he said while panting "Anything for a friend." he said before giving him a big smile "Okay, the coolants malfunctioned and right now we are superheating the reactor core. We have to fix it as soon as possible." he said Cromwell smile quickly faded when he heard from him that the coolant malfunctioned. "Goddammit, alright I'll call our available maintenance employees and I'll notify the others as well." he said before running to the opposite direction to call any available employees. Conqueror headed to the core control room to see how are they're doing. He went inside to the core control room and everything is not fine. He was greeted by the staffs inside and nodded as a response he looked at the control panel and the core is starting to look bad. The rotation speed of the reactor core is dangerously fast, stabilization sphere is weak, Core Temperature is critical and the current temperature of the reactor core is at 3256 degree celsius. He asked them if the stabilization towers power is lowered they nodded in response. If they have an alternative cooling method to be able to cool the core down they won't be in here in the first place but the HVI didn't bother think it through or they just forgot to put it. Cromwell and his team arrived at the scene and now they are now starting to fix the coolant receivers. They started to build a platform connecting to the main platform, the reason is that the bottom part is mostly liquid nitrogen meaning if someone falls down they'll die. They carefully constructed a platform so that they can reach the coolant receivers so they can able to fix it. ------ 12:36 P.M 07/15/2080 ------ The core temperature has already reached at 3320 degrees celsius, the repair has now started, Cromwell and his team are doubling their efforts to repair the coolant receivers as fast as possible. While Conqueror is formulating a plan for Cromwell and his teams. The rest of the core control team are just sitting ducks, they can't do anything except to watch. They're sweating really hard that they're watching the core getting heated up. They just hoped that the repair team can repair it in time. ------ 12:42 P.M 07/15/2080 ------ The core temperature has already reached 3391 degrees celsius. The repair team barely had any progress. The repair team are now disassembling parts of the coolant receivers. ------ 12:55 P.M 07/15/2080 ------ The core temperature has already reached 3487 degrees celsius. The repair team has now making progress as they are now replacing the coolant receiver no. 1 a replacement. ------ 1:00 P.M P.M 07/15/2080 ------ The core temperature has already reached at 3502 degrees celsius. The repair team has already finished repairing the coolant receiver no.1 and now repairing the no.2, they notified the core control room personnels that they had already repaired the 1st coolant receiver the room was filled by joy and a relief that they're now making progress but it was cut short when they heard this. "Warning! Core at 3500 degrees celsius. A core surge is expected within the next 40 seconds. Facility is now at code yellow. All personnel must evacuate the core chamber and control rooms immediately!" The A.I announcer said The siren blares at the control room. The core control staffs immediately vacate the control room until there was no one left a blast door closes the entrance to prevent the shockwave and the explosion. Then they waited for the next 40 seconds until Boom. There was an explosion at the core control room, the blast doors was lifted and now the entrance is available again. They went inside and it was a mess. The room was a disaster, loose wires, wall crack and even a debris from a broken wall revealing some wires that were burnt into crisps. Core controls are still responsive and the temperature on the reactor? Its heating up faster. Why? its because of the core shield sphere is very weak that the reactor core can store up even more heat thanks to the stabilization towers. "Danger! Severe facility damage detected. Initiating facility wide automated repair." the A.I said But it failed... As always expected "Facility wide automated repair failure. Core Temperature is too high to conduct repairs. Please lower the temperature to below 3000 degrees celsius." The A.I added To make it worse the stabilization towers were affected as well and they're in pretty a bad shape and the core is heating up faster than earlier. ------ 1:28 P.M 07/15/2080 ------ The core temperature has already reached 4024 degrees celsius. The coolant receiver no.2 has now finished, 2 to go. Conqueror quickly called Parley through telephone and orders him to open the coolants 1 and 2, he obliged and turns it on. William quickly pressed the buttons for coolant 1 and 2 to cool down the core down unfortunately the temperature is still going up. ------ 1:48 P.M 07/15/2080 ------ The core temperature has already reached 4274 degrees celsius. The coolant receiver no.3 is halfway done. The Security team ordered an immediate evacuation for the scientific personnels but the scientific head and vice head insisted must remain and help them. Pershing and Sheridan went to the core control room to assist them to increase the workforce. ------ 2:37 P.M 07/15/2080 The core temperature has already reached 4523 degrees celsius. The coolant receiver no.3 is done repairing now they're onto the last one. Hopefully they can make it in time. The staffs that remained in the main area prayed that they can make it in time. Conqueror is just sitting there and is in deep thoughts but it was interrupted when he saw Pershing and Sheridan are standing besides him and by the looks of their faces he knew it was a bad news. So did you estimated how long will the sphere will be able to hold out? he asks "We able to estimated it but unfortunately... it appears that we are already in a pickle." Pershing said it in dissapointing tone "The sphere can only hold out for 5000 degrees celsius and I don't think we have enough time to cool down the core unless luck is on our side" Sheridan said nervously "Well... I have a high hopes for Cromwell and his team that they'll be able to finish it on time." He said confidently Pershing and Sheridan sat down besides him and waited patiently. ------ 2:59 P.M 07/15/2080 ------ The reactor core temperature has now reached 4987 degrees celsius and its nearing the meltdown point. The repair status for the coolant receiver no.4 is already finished. By the time 3:00 P.M hits the repair is done, Parley immediately turn the coolants 3 and 4 online. William noticed it on the panel and quickly pressed both of the buttons. All four coolants was finally turned on... But unfortunately they were too late. The Reactor Core temperature had exceeded to the melting point right after the repairs were done. The facility felt a small earthquake but thank god no one hurts. "Attention all personnel, the reactor temperature has reached a supercritical level of 5000 degrees celsius. At this time, we recommend you activate all of the reactor cooling systems imme-" the A.I said before getting cut off by a loud Bang. To be continued...