Prologue: The Beginning

In a small one bedroom apartment, a young man in his early twenties could be seen sitting at a large computer desk with their feet up, reclining back and looking up at the ceiling.

"Well… just finished another challenge run of Fallout 4… what should I do next?"

The young man with long dirty blond hair, stubble forming on their face and wearing blue jeans, a grey t-shirt and a black sweater tied around their waist turned their chair to their right, looking at a bookshelf full of fallout memorabilia, collectables, and games. Getting up out of their chair, they grab one of the game cases and looks it over.

"Hmm… I haven't played Fallout 3 in a bit. I'm not really in the mood to do another challenge run though." They mumbled as they look over at their computer. Suddenly a light bulb lit up in their head, coming up with an idea.

"Why not try playing the game with all tens in my specials? I haven't done that yet."

After mulling it over a bit, the young man eventually exchanged the Fallout 4 disk from his computer with the Fallout 3 one. Booting up the game after putting their feet up on a small stool under their desk, they start up a new save file.

After the opening and the birth scenes, they then get to the point to decide the characters gender, looks, and name. After a bit of debate, he decided to go with male, caucasian, dark brown eyes and chestnut coloured hair that's in a pushed back hair cut called 'blast back'. They didn't really spend much time on the face though; instead they just chose the first pre-set and made some slight changes. Smoothed out all the features, changed the jaw line to a more pointed shape and decreased the size of the nose slightly. Satisfied at the basic looking character, they continued on and, after a quick look at a name generator, decided on the name Jayson.

After that the baby scene came up where you distribute your special stats. Distributing the stats randomly, they then opened up the console window and, through some console commands, artificially brought all his seven special stats to 10.

Feeling satisfied, they leaned back in their chair and quickly went through the child birthday scene and chose all of the more friendlier speech options. They then came to the GOAT scene, and after debating it for awhile, they decided to take the test for nostalgia sakes. Knowing how the test worked, they chose all the options to get the three tag skills he wanted. Them being Sneak, Small Guns and Speech. It didn't really matter but the Job they got from their choices was Shift Supervisor.

He has played a lot of all of the fallout games, and one of his more favourite play styles is the silent sniper/gunslinger. He loves picking off enemies from a distance and the reason he chose speech is mostly because he finds it a very important skill in the Fallout games; with it being one of the tag skills for most of his characters.

'This playthrough is going to be a chill one anyways' He thought 'So best to play the way I love to'.

As they moved their character out of the classroom, their eye lids suddenly grew very heavy. He tried to blink a bit and fight it off, but the next thing they knew, they drifted off into unconsciousness.

Everything felt timeless, as if he's in a dreamless sleep, until he started to hear faint sounds in the distance. The sounds started to get stronger and more clearer, with an oddly familiar female voice saying something frantically.

Opening their eyes and shielding them from the light, they sat up.

Sirens are blaring all around them as they blinked their eyes a bit to take in their surroundings. They immediately opened them wide as they took in the familiar sight of Amata and the main character's vault bedroom from the game. They also felt incredibly weird in all ways possible, with their mind feeling very muddled as information and memories they never knew started to swirl around them and their body feeling very foreign. Before they could come to a conclusion, the young woman, Amata, placed her hands on the side of the bed and started to speak very frantically.

"Jayson! You have to get out of here! Your fathers gone and my dads men are looking for you!"

He was so confused and couldn't get his thoughts focused. All he could say was a confused "W-wat?"

"Your dad! He left the vault! I don't know how he did it. My dad though... well, he's kinda gone crazy." Amata replied as she let go of the bed and stood up, but still with a frantic look on her face.

He just couldn't get his mind around any of this, and placed his right hand on the side of his head as he shifted to sit on the side of the bed.

Amata looked at him a bit concerned "Are you ok?"

"Y-yeah. Just can't get my head around this." He then looked at the real life looking Amata standing in front of him, taking in her worried and scared appearance. "Are you ok?"

"No. My dad's men, they… they killed Jonas!" Amata looked down and he could see she brushed away a tear. "They went into his office and… oh god…"

After a bit of silence she then looked back up at him with a very sad and troubled expression.

"I'm sorry you have to find out like this; I know Jonas was your friend." She paused a bit, taking control of her thoughts. "I'm sorry, but… I don't think you can stay here, my dads goons are after you."

He looked at Amata, and then around the room, finally understanding the situation. He didn't know how, but he somehow instantly understood what was happening when his head stopped swimming. He then looked back at Amata. "You're right. I can't stay here anymore."

"Yeah. I think you should escape the vault, go after your dad." She then paused for a bit, reluctant, but then continued on "I know this isn't my place to speak, but didn't your dad say anything about leaving?"

"No, he didn't."

"Oh, I'm sorry. He probably had his own reasons, and maybe Jonas was supposed to explain everything to you?"

"Well, that all doesn't matter right now. I can help you escape! I have my own plan."

"How?"

"Listen, my dad has a secret exit out of his office. Use these." She handed him some Bobby pins. "That's how I always get in."

He then nodded "Sounds good."

"Oh, one more thing." She then pulled out a 10mm pistol and handed it to him with some ammo. "I snagged my fathers 10mm pistol, just in case."

He gently took the pistol and ammo from her, the weight and shape somehow feeling so familiar and comfortable even though he never touched a gun in his life. He then looked back up at her. "Thanks. I'll only use it as a last resort, I promise."

"Ok. I'll meet you at the exit when you're ready."

She then quickly dashed out of the room. Checking around a bit before she left into the hallways.

After Amata left, he just sat there on the side of the bed with the gun in his hands for a bit, taking in everything that happened so quickly. He has no idea if this is real, a dream or even a hallucination. Everything feels so real though, and for some reason his body feels incredible and his mind feels clear; things he didn't understand before suddenly making sense.

In just a few moments, he was able to bring all the points and details of his situation together, coming to a conclusion.

Somehow, miraculously, he's been transported into the world of Fallout; as the Lone Wanderer from Vault 101.