The invaders

The main door to the vault Kent is in gets opened and a band of raiders are flooding in and Kent needs to find a way out.

     Kent gets done with his daily routine of checking the vault's air filter and water purifier so he leaves to get ready to see a play that his vault is doing. He puts on his jumpsuit and makes his way to the lobby. The play already started when he arrived so he just took a seat in the benches that are laid out for the audience. After the play people just mingled in the lobby then everyone went to their rooms.

     Once Kent got to his room he went into a deep sleep almost immediately after he got in his bed. Alarms filling the halls woke Kent from his slumber. Kent thought this was really strange given that drills were never activated when everyone is asleep. Kent got dressed and went to see what was going on. He looked at his dad's bed to see he was gone. Kent wondered what was going on as he left his room he saw that all the guardians were running though the halls guns at the ready and some were hauling large ammunition containers. Kent went to find his dad who was most likely at the office maybe he knows what's going on.

     As he made his way to the office he thought he would stop by Mason's station to see if he knows what happened. Mason  was at his station looking as confused as Kent. "What's going on Mason?" "I don't know, I think it's another drill." But at that moment something else ringed though the vault louder than the alarms. Gunfire. Both Kent and Mason ducked under the desk. "What the f**k!" Mason yelled. Kent looked around relieved to see the gunfire is on the other side of the vault. "Come on we need to leave. Now!" Kent told Mason. Mason nodded and they took off towards the office. Before they get there they see two guardians dead on the ground. "I thought you said nobody can get though the main door." Mason glared at Kent. "Nobody can. Someone had to open it from in here." Kent reassured mason. "A scouting team must have opened the door to leave and the raiders were there." They make it to the office and find Kent's dad laying in a pool of blood. Kent looked at his dad and refused to move. "Kent the people who did this are probably still close by. We need to leave." Mason told Kent as he led him down the hall to where the upper staircase is. They get there and Mason gets hit in the head by some guy wearing a tire as clothing. After Mason hits the ground the guy turns to Kent and tackles him to the ground. The guy got a knife and raised it up in a stabbing formation but then a loud bang ringed and blood shot out the raider's head. Kent looked up to see Damon with his pistol in one hand and the other holding a wound that looks like a stab with a wooden weapon. "This way, come on!" Damon ordered at Kent as he picked up Mason who was knocked out by the hit to the head. Damon led them to the door where bodies were piling up rapidly. "There's too many to fight, we need to leave." Damon and Kent charged though the fighting people. They make it out barley to see the door close behind them. "Why did it close?" Kent asked Damon. "Steve closed it when we left." Damon said trying to breathe slower. "What now?" Kent asked more to himself than Damon. "We keep moving. There's a settlement a couple of miles that way." Damon pointed down a path that looks like it used to be a road. They kept going until they reached their destination. The place didn't look like much but as long as they are friendly he doesn't care what the place looks like. "I've been here once, they're good people and they have the closest medical area around so I need to go to their medical station for a while until they get the wood out of me. We'll drop Mason off their too until he wakes up. You should go to a saloon and get something to eat and some rest, we'll find out what we will do when daylight comes." Damon said and Kent nodded. When they got to the medical station Damon showed Kent where the saloon is and Kent left them to go there. When he opened the door to the saloon a smell he doesn't know hit him really hard. Everyone looked at him as he made his why to the bar. "Do you have steak?" Kent asked the bartender who just laughed at him and said that the closest he will get to steak is radioactive dog meat and the drinks might have piss in them. Kent looked away feeling like he was going to vomit. "What's the best food you have?" The bartender replied "Rat stew with beer." "I guess I'll have that then." Kent turned to the person to his right "Who are you?" Kent asked trying to be as nice as he can. It obliviously didn't work as the man looked like he would kill someone in a second. "Mercenary, two scraps of metal for one day of my protection." Kent was confused "What do you mean by two scraps of metal?" The mercenary looked at Kent then at the jumpsuit. "You're from that vault close by here are you?" "Yes." Kent answered hoping now he could get some help. "Scraps of metal are used as money." "Like dollar bills?" Kent was trying to remember history class. "That's the past kid." The mercenary was getting irritated. Kent looked around because he didn't have any metal, he also thought that was the reason behind the vault raid but he still had pieces missing, like how did his dad die? There weren't any raiders around. And where was Mr. Anderson? The raider that attacked him couldn't have done it. Did Mr. Anderson make it? Too many questions for the moment, right now he should find a place to stay the rest of the night. He looked at the mercenary "Do you think it would be better if we work together? I mean you can't get much business here." The mercenary looked at Kent for a few moments then finally said "Can you fight?" "No, but my friend can, he is in the medical station. I can fix anything mechanical wise though and my other friend was a doctor in the vault so with you on our side we can make a really good team." Kent informed him. The mercenary nodded "My room is room 3 it only has two beds but you said your friends are at the hospital anyway so we can see where we can go to find four beds and food for all of us. The name's John by the way." "My name is Kent, I'll greet you to Damon and Mason tomorrow." John nodded and they both left to room 3. Kent slept on the floor, thinking about what he is going to do. His whole life just changed in two hours and it's a lot to take in. After minutes of thinking Kent went to sleep.