It all started with a gift

by connorcooper2

A gift (prologue)

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"Whoa,"

Looking around me I saw the amazing things that my fellow gamers have done to bring stuff from books, video games, and even movies to the real world.

Fans of every series walked around me along with characters from other worlds.

Bendy the ink demon,
Korra from avatar,
Team Rwby was their,
Master chief and his girl Cortana,
Space marines from the salamander chapter,
Orcs from all series,
Sweet tooth from twisted metal,
Deadpool (of course),
Spider-man along with his nemesis venom,
Heck even Nemesis was their with a torn voice shouting...
"sssssssstttttttaaaaaarrrrrrrssss,"

This was truly a great place to be for a gamer, everything was amazing! Collectibles from everything under the sun ranging from the giant metal gear Rex to the smallest slime from portal.

I would die here happily.

"Hey," I turned to my cousin the reason why he was here.

You see he is a master photographer and taught me a thing or two that got me a award for best bird's eye view picture, he was a great cousin and photographer. He was hired by some company to take photos of the event and he got a plus one to come with and he knew how much I loved video games and he brought me here with him.

"Yeah Austin?"

He walked over to me, though he was older than me I was taller than him being 5ft 11in when he was 5ft 4in it was kinda funny in a way. When we were younger he was taller than me when I was the shortest one in the family but ended when the good old stones dropped causing me to grow like a weed.

Besides the irony of it he still brought me along.

"I'm going on a call it will be awhile you can head to the hotel without me it will be awhile," He informed me which I gave a nod as he walked away leaving me to my own devices.

As I browse though the vendors but I stopped when I saw a familiar face...er face plate.

"Welcome sir or ma'am do you wish to purchase something?"

VENDORTRON!

In the steel!

I was freaking out at what must be an animtronic but I played along.

"Alright Vendortron what do you got?"

"Proccedddddd ccccccddddddd-"

The protectron began to bug out as I took a step back at the robot, but then before it could do something damaging a masked man walked over and unplugged the machine.

"Damn machine," A also most pirate like voice spoke though the clothed mask.

As the machine powered down the man gave a huff and turned over to me in a merchant costume from RE4, glowing infected eyes and all you have to admit it was a great costume.

"Sorry about that stranger my assistant is quite new here I apologize about the malfunction," Damn he even nailed the voice.

I wave it off.

"No worries though I have to ask did you buy it or did you make this Vendertron?" I asked.

The merchant gave his creepy but warm laugh.

"Me build this no no no this was a gift from a customer of mine from the Mojave,"

"So you've been to Nevada too?" I asked.

He nodded as he turned to me slightly hunched over.

"So stranger are you buying?" He asked me as I got goosebumps from his voice making me smile.

"Yeah but I'm just looking around for now," for the first time I took a good look at his wares.

Most of the stuff is things that would make me go home with a smile and never go to sleep again but nothing really spoke to me...hell even the iron infinity gauntlet. The merchant looked at me placing a hand on his chin as if in deep though as I held a storm trooper E-11 blaster before he spoke.

"Stranger if you don't mind me asking have you have something stolen from you that connected you to realm of games?"

I froze how did he know?

"You mean a gaming system?" I asked.

He gave a nod.

Giving a sigh I placed down the E-11 as I placed a hand on my hair.

"Yeah, My dad's ex stole my X-box one X, My Ipad, and my games lucky I still have my 360 but its not really the same without it," This caused the Merchant to go wide eyed.

"My god that a crime in within itself did you go to court," I gave a sigh.

"She never showed up," This caused the Merchant to rub the back of his hood.

seeing how I must have made him uncomfortable I gave a smile and brought something else.

"So how's business did Leon come by?" I joked getting a chuckle from the salesman.

"No no he hasn't come for awhile but I might have something that you might be interested in stranger," he told me with a masked smile.

"Really then," I smiled back.

He ducked into his booth and within a moment he was back out with a Vault-Tec back pack, he placed it onto the table with a heavy THUD. I was a little surprised these things were rare this wasn't the cheep version of the backpack that came with the power armor of vault 76 but a real rugged Vault-Tec backpack. With a click he opened the back pack and pulled out three idems which made me go wide crazy.

The first was a Pipboy 2000 kit, the second one was a intelligence bobble head unopened mind you!, and the last one was a Tb-51 power armor helmet which made my jaw drop to the floor.

"W-w-w-what where did you get these!?" I almost shouted.

This got a dark chuckle from the merchant as he placed a finger on his 'lips'.

"Trade secret my dear vault dweller,"

I picked up the helmet in awe then the merchant said something that almost caused me to drop the helmet.

"You can take them Stranger,"

Turning to him with wide eyes he laughed.

"Are you serious?" I asked.

He nodded.

"I don't normally do this but a fallout gamer like yourself shouldn't have you Xbox stolen from you so this is a way for me to say sorry for your loss,"

Giving a light chuckle I looked at the helmet one last time as I packed them into the bag and thanked the merchant for the stuff as I turned and waved. With a pack full of fallout gear I began to leave but I turned around to the merchant and waved which he did but the moment I blinked he was...gone. Confused I walked back over to his booth but it was...empty?

'The hell?'

Looking around their wasn't even a table cloth and the booth was empty nothing, cleared weirded out I power walked out of the building and to the hotel I was staying at. Swiping my card the door to my room opened as the smell of clean hotel room entered my nose as I quickly closed the door and jumped to the desk and pulled out my loot.

Pulling out the red box from the bag I placed it before me and opened it, their before me was the parts for a pipboy 2000 ready for Assembly. I pulled out the instructions and tools that came with the pipboy, giving the whole device a look over I knew this was going to take awhile to build. Grabbing the hotel phone I punch in a series of numbers as I heard the ring from the other end before it picked up and I heard two words.

"Room service,"


(Half a pineapple and pepperoni pizza and a pack of sprints later)

*click*

'Its done,'

I raise the final product that was in my hands I gave a smile.

"My very own pipboy 2000,"

Opening the cuffing I strapped it to my left arm as I clicked it on and there I was wearing a pipboy that I made! Gently I opened the holotape slot and placed the holotape that came with the pipboy into the 'device' as I pushed it shut. Giving a laugh I then yawned, the Assembly and the rush from before must have tired me out. Not bothering with removing the pipboy I crawled on top of the bed as I placed my head on the pillow and with a smile I turned out the light and shut my eyes.

"What a great day,"

That was my last day on earth.


Author's Note

Guessssssss who's back!!!

Alright I been looking for a job after my graduation that's way I have been silent forever but right now I'm on vacation! Right now I'm on a plane to Seattle Washington writing this and then I'm going on cruse to Alaska! Cool right so while I'm at sea I'll be trying to keep up with you guys with this new story and another one that involves quake 4.

So that's it for now and no this isn't a fallout 76 fic I just like the design of the pip 2000 and the Construction, Assembly, Mobile, platform or C.A.M.P. Along with other fallout games like 1,2,3, and tactics.

Also Characters from other series (Anime/TV/video games) and maybe a few from the fallout series as well, but not all of them will be Allies to the Sentinel.

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