(the next day)

“Should I go with a high roller or a sink style house? I mean the high roller suite was nice and all but it lacked in some aspects but then again it had more room than the sink. Though the sink was actually clear with more stuff than the suite had and I did like the sci-fi theme,” I hummed as I sat in front of the sketch of my home I was planning on making when I finally got a chuck of land to call my own.

So far I had decided to make some kind of superhome that was built like a fortress, along with that I had also planned that only 40% of the prim ‘house’ would be on surface level while the other 60% would remain underground vault like. Most of the home would be a factory area where I would build ‘insurance’ possibly, the rest of the house was actually for growing plants, collecting and cleaning water, life support, and a area where drones would go down to mine. In the heart of it all was going to be a personal area where I would have my own room with everything I would need.

That was what I was working on right now actually.

I needed a theme to go on, with a huff I bit down on the chocolate bar that was one of the many candies of the gift basket that pinkie pie gave to me. It was good but I need sugar to help me think and it was working but slowly.

Humming I erased a part of the sketch and began to draw in a new part to the blueprint as someone knocked on my door as I turned to it.

“Come in,” Huffing I turned back to the blueprint as I placed my hand to my chin.

Hearing the door open follow by a pair of footsteps, Sitting down I hummed at the drawing as I turned my head to see who it was.

“You’ve been busy,” Starlight told me as I gave a nod.

“Yep...though I don’t have land yet that doesn’t mean I can’t at least draw up my home idea,” I told her pointing to the blueprint.

She raised an eyebrow before pointing to the piece.

“What am I looking at here?” She asked.

“Simple my future home,” Turning back to the piece she then asked.

“Do all of your people live in castles?” I laughed as I got up from my chair.

“First, no we don’t and second this isn’t a castle it's what most call a vault where I’m from and besides it won't be THAT big,” I told her as she looked at it.

“Well...besides that I just came in to check on you since no one has seen you this morning,” She told me as I gave a smile.

“That’s nice of you but as you can see I’m just fine the way I am right now,” I state looking at my blue print.

Starlight nodded before telling me to not work so hard then she left leaving me to my lonesome as I sighed. Maybe it was best that I take a break and work on something else, after all I wasn’t going to get that land any sooner. Sitting back down I moved my chair over to the table and hummed to think what I should do next, then it hit me!

The egg!

Well since I didn’t want to summon the deathclaw egg I did want to build some for it, turning to my pip-boy I flipped though it as I summon a few different Items. Ranging from counducters, pilot lights, scrap metal and electronics, a toaster, steam assembly, along with a fusion battery, and finally a few empty syringes.

What were these for you might ask and to that I say: I’m making an incubation tank for the little deathclaw that was stored in my pip-boy. See my pip-boy places items that are within it in a still statius like state until they are summoned by me again. Well that is my theory anyway, so as long as the egg stays in my pip-boy the egg will remain unhatched.

But if I took the egg out it won’t hatch by itself since it needs a touch of nature to allow it to hatch so that was why I was making this incubation tank. The tank would also help me splice the DNA of deathclaw within to make them better than the everyday deathclaw. After ‘borrowing’ some tools from twilight’s castle staff I got to work on building the tank, usually something like this would be extremely hard to do when I wasn’t the courier but hey...science 100 and medicine 100 so eat it.

First I built the tank itself. I was also thinking about the fluid I would set the egg to help with the splicing more. The idea of stimpack juice came across my mind but I decided against it as I thought of making the fluid based off salient green mixture. I had a ton of salient green on me so that won’t be a problem, so I had everything for the little one to make it strong and very healthy.

As I built the base of the tank I hummed a tune as I screwed in the heating coils to keep the fluid warm when the egg is in the tank. Turning on the coils they came to life as they warmed up making me smile as I turned them off and turned to create the tank fluid.

I’m so glad I made that my courier was 100 skill for everything otherwise this would be hard as all hell! I pulled out a chemistry along with my trusty hot plate I went to work creating the fluid for my deathclaw buddy. Salient green would be the base so I placed in at least 10 jars of the stuff to start us out as I began to think of what else to use. Deathclaws were radiation base creatures so I decided to place in nuka-cola quartz and victory into the mixture to give that radiates warmth to assist the coils. Being careful not to blow myself up I then added two douces of super-stims into the mixture to create a more stable and strong mix. I wasn’t done with the mixture just yet, I then added a few duraua herbs and thick red paste then finally i added a atomic cocktail to finish it off.

Flipping the switch I watched as the station began to mix the ingredients, as the different color liquids were brought to the mixing tank I watched as the heat helped warm up the mix. As the machine mixed the fluids together they began to turn a orange-amber color as it bubble due to the reaction to heat.

Smiling at my work I turned to the incubation tank. I connect the two together as I placed on the finishing touch to the tank. Placing on a plastic bullet proof glass I then opened the top of the tank. Finished I pulled out the deathclaw egg, I had to say it was a weird feeling to hold the deathclaw in my hands. The texture of the egg wasn’t like chicken. It felt harder and also felt like it could be dropped without breaking. It held a leather-like texture to the egg making me wonder if I should change the vigorous needles that the tank had to sharper ones.

But I decided against it, so I then carefully placed the egg into the tank’s receiver plate. Watching the machine bring the egg down into the tank I shut the top as the tank’s heavy duty locks snapped into place. As the top placed another metal plate on top of the egg to hold it in place the tank hissed informing that it was vacuumed sealed.

For some odd reason I felt like the white ranger from dino thunder when he was taking care of his own dino egg. Smiling at the memory of one of my favorite TV shows I flipped the switch to the mixing tank, I watched as the surgical tube that connects the two stations filled up with the incubation fluid. The amber gel like fluid slowly began to fill up the incubation tank, while it did this I pulled out my pip-boy connection plug and attached it into the tank.

The screen switched from my normal pip-boy set up to then a Robco logo with a vault boy wearing a lab coat and glass with his normal smile and thumbs up. It soon turned to what looked like a terminal screen as the words at the top of the screen read: Welcome to the Robco Incubation kit what would like to do today, using the many dials and switches of the pip-boy I turned to the ‘Subject’ window.

Subject: Deathclaw egg.
Statius: Healthy
Days to hatching: 25 days
Fluid levels: Good
Fluid temperature: 110 degrees
Injections: None

Smiling I turned to the now full incubation kit as I placed a hand on it feeling the warmth of the fluid in the tank. Happy of how well this was turning out I then thought of what to inject first into the egg.

A mentats mixture?
Jet?
Buffout?
What was good?

I only knew I had a lot to work on.

Author's Note

There you all go the next installment in the courier story!