Calculator's screen flickered, its going to consistently do that as it speaks, so I don't think I'm going to mention it anymore as this is beginning to get annoying as fuck. "The Great Calamity happened on March 15, 2292, the fanatic Children Of Atom had managed to activate several automated silos at once with the use of nuclear codes long thought destroyed in the fire that smashed Washington DC, and brought about a new wave of nuclear destruction for their false god, their 'division' as they called it, killed almost everything left on the surface."

I listened intently as it went on, this was rather shocking news to say the least....hell that was the understatement of the century. "Now what remained of the mighty Enclave hid away in various underground bunkers, one of those holding several thousand Enclave personal from Pre-War times in cryogenic sleep. The idea was that once the Enclave had taken back America the Great, they would unfreeze the soldiers and mechanics, medical staff, scientists, to take the fight back to the Chinese, there is one such vault here."

My eyebrow rose as I spoke. "Why did all the personal here die? From what I'm able to gather this bunker is in decent condition now, so it must have been in much better condition back then." This was an honest concern, to me anyways.

Calculator spoke again. "The facility has several stress fractures, which let radiation from the new wave of destruction slowly leak into the facility. With the Oxygen Filters only buying them fifty years at most before every human within the facility would be dead, they dedicated their time to contacting Enclave Survivors and enforcing a new set of protocols in which several key pieces of technology and the personal in cryogenic stasis would remain, fail safes where employed to the point nothing sort of a nuclear bomb hitting directly over their facilities would smash them."

I tilted my head to the side, skeptical about how someone could survive being frozen for over....actually I didn't know, so I asked. "How long ago did the Great Calamity happen exactly?"

Calculator went quiet for a few minutes, before it, he? Spoke. "My estimates and time in sleep mode give me a time frame of approximately 5654 years."

Oh by Faust's milky teats! That amount of time it surprised me that damned computer was still functional, let alone having power. "If its been 5654 years, I don't think even the most advanced cryogenic technology would keep a person alive that long." If I was proved wrong, hell I'd eat my crown.

Calculator sounded smug as he spoke again. "I assure you President Lorenzo, that our cryogenic stasis was the most advanced, they are completely frozen, and when unfrozen, should be able to walk about as if they had never gone into cryogenic sleep whatsoever, the pods shielded them from the radiation, so they have suffered no genetic damage, and have pure human DNA, I will direct you to the vault so you may meet them, there are only three frozen down there, high ranking members of the Enclave whom entered cryostasis on September 8th, 2077. They will likely awaken confused, but I shall instruct them you are standing President of the United States of America as ordered by General Blake." A hallway lit up, as such, I made my way down it, slowly however, I didn't trust walls so old to not collapse and crush me, despite the fact I could respawn I'd rather not find out what its like to be crushed by several thousand tons of rusted steel and rock.

It took ten minutes of walking to reach this so called vault, its door however wasn't like a vault tec gear door, it was more akin to the series of doors you go through when you first open the Mechanist's lair, a rush of stale air came from the door, but was quickly gone as the...slightly less stale air flowed through from the vents which coughed up a cloud of dust as they activated. The room was...surprisingly intact, given the amount of time it had been here untouched, it looked almost as if it was freshly built if not for the peeling paint on the walls. Calculators voice came from a monitor to the right of three cryogenic pods, they looked nothing like the ones we saw in Fallout's Vault 111. They almost looked like the ones from Halo or something else. "Please plug your pipboy into this terminal, I will upload several blueprints, locations, and audio logs into your device."

Walking over I pulled the plug off my pipboy, same as the one you open Vault 111 with, and plugged it into the port, and watched as Data Transfer flashed across the terminal's screen, before it was complete and I unplugged my pipboy from it. "Alright what now?" I said checking over the data which had been uploaded into my device, scanning through it, rather interesting...

Calculator's voice sounded like if it had a face it would be smirking. "I will unfreeze the three within those cryogenic tubes, they will be under your command as President." After about three minutes, the tubes began to hiss and vent steam. Thirty seconds after the cryogenic tubes vented steam, three people stumbled out of them and fell onto the floor with the grace of a elephant trying to walk like a person. After a few moments of gathering themselves, one of them noticed me and rather surprisingly pulled a gun on me, an old ten millimeter pistol by the looks of it. Calculator all but screeched as it spoke. "Field Marshal Jacob Brown! Stand down! That is the acting President of the United States! Failing to comply will result in you being trialed for treason!" I had stopped trying to correct the AI about the US of A no longer existing, seemingly it just didn't think such a thing was possible, either that was programmed into it, or it was just in denial.

Regardless this got the man to drop the gun and raise his hands in surrender. "Oh God, I almost shot the president..." He sat down halfway into the cryopod.

I just laughed. "To be fair, it wouldn't have done much but annoy me, I can't exactly die." I looked to the other two, both of which saluted.

One of them, a rather pale looking white man with black hair, brown eyes, and a generally....uninteresting look, walked up and saluted again. "Command Sergeant Major Levi O'Neil at your command sir!" The last one just rubbed her head trying to get rid of an apparent horrid migraine, and spoke. "I am Warrant Officer Lucy Collins, what I want to know first of all, is what is the year? How is the war with the Chinese dogs going?" She asked, venom clear in her voice at the mention of the Chinese.

I didn't say anything for a moment. "There is no Chinese anymore, or America, that AI refuses to listen to me about that, you where frozen a mere month before the Great War, which happened on October Third, 2077, then on March 15th 2292 the Children of Atom, a fanatic cult worshiping radiation and atomic bombs as some sort of gift from their god 'Atom' brought about what they called Division, and launched all remaining nuclear weapons they could get their hands on, bringing about a new wave of fire and death." I took a break to breathe for a second, these explanations where long, and rather tedious, but I was going off what I had been told by Calculator. "Next thing is, humanity itself was extinct, or should have been anyway, but the remaining Enclave personal decided to leave you frozen, and the others at one of their other bunkers, and it ended up saving your species, as for the date? That's a bit hard, from 2292 add 5654 years." I watched as the Field Marshal blacked out his body going limp against the cryogenic pod that he had been half sitting in, Command Sergeant Major Levi O'Neil go purple like someone was fucking strangling the guy, and Warrant Officer Lucy Collins go pale.

Warrant Officer Lucy Collins was the first to speak, the absolute shock clear in her voice. "The year is 7946?....Jesus Fucking Christ.....No more United States? How would....I can't...." And she promptly fell to the floor as well with a dull, ungraceful thwack as her face met the metal floor.

After she had fallen to the floor I looked at Command Sergeant Major Levi O'Neil, who had through the use of some weird looking breathing exercise, regained control of himself before he looked at me and said. "Despite this....you've been made President by the highest power that remained, as such I am going to follow you like I would any President, what are your Orders sir?"

I tilted my head. "Why are you not flipping out like those two did?" I asked him, and this was an honest question, I mean come on the other two passed out and looked like they had a damned heart attack.

Command Sergeant Major Levi O'Neil's face went blank. "With all due respect sir, I can flip out later, at the moment there is no time for that sort of bullshit, we need to find and unfreeze the remaining Enclave personal, and then inform them about the situation and just how bad the war really went for both sides if what you say is true, and I'm inclined to believe it due to the fact that Calculator was ordered to make you President, and then I can always check the logs to get proof either way, regardless, I will ask again, with all due respect Mr.President, what are your orders?"

Signing I pressed a button on my pipboy and a team of androids walked into the room, startling Levi O'Neil for a moment. "You are to help these androids take your two friends to the transport craft waiting for me along with them, I will get back to the Empire another way, see to it they are taken to the medical ward within the palace, and keep them sedated for now, because I'm going to have several tests done on them, and you, to completely ensure you guys have suffered no ill effects from the cryogenic stasis for so long.

Command Sergeant Major Levi O'Neil, Jesus that was beginning to become annoying with how much of a mouthful it is, saluted and helped the androids carry out his two, not so light friends, once they where gone from the room I collected the various bits of technology which had been preserved within this vault, several weapons, and less lethal devices, I stored them all within my inventory, Calculator took this time to speak up. "What will become of myself since I no longer serve any viable function?" The AI, despite being synthetic, sounded rather.....nervous, somehow.

I thought about that for a moment. "No need to worry, you will be transferred to a unit within the Empire, I just need to upload you into this storage crystal, and then plug you back into an Empire Super Computer, it's more advanced than your current ZAX unit, I assure you, after that, I seal this facility off for one last time, and it stays abandoned, after all the data I can get from it has been taken along with you, I already got blueprints and other such crap from that terminal, but what I want is everything within your systems, or what remains of them at any rate."

Calculator sounded relived as it spoke. "This is doable, just plug the 'storage crystal' as you called it, into the terminal which you plugged your pipboy into." I did so, and everything flickered for a moment, and Calculator's voice came from the crystal. "Transfer....Complete? I no longer can see you on the cameras, nor use anything within the facility....I do not like this feeling, I feel utterly alone." I tucked the crystal into my inventory, it would pretty much put em in stasis until I pulled it out. Along with the AI, the crystal had snagged any information in the system it could as well, I had also scrapped the Cold Fusion Reactor as well once I was done, so with only dregs of power left, the facility would shut the doors automatically and I would''t have to do anything, once the power ran out, the facility would die, and remain dead. With all this said and done, I pressed a button on my pipboy and activated the relay, and I was gone within an instant with a bright blue flash.

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Princess Celestia looked over the reports she was being given, they had come over the radio and been transcribed into paper for her to read, and looked over to her sister Luna. "It seems the moon colony is almost complete, once it is it opens up so many new possibilities for ponykind! And every species on Equis as a whole, I have to thank you again for allowing our ponies to settle onto your moon, even if its only a very small crater."

Princess Luna nodded. "It was truly an honor that not only would ponies be interested enough in the moon to build a ship to sail the stars to arrive there, but also to want to remain, I can feel them now as they build upon my moon, each building erected I can feel it, their idea to make a massive dome over the city was rather smart as well."

Celestia nodded. "Agreed, I wouldn't have thought of such a thing, but our ponies have come such a long way in so little time, and a big part to thank for that would be Lorenzo and his Empire, he shared this technology with us when he didn't have to do so." She took a sip of tea, her Nuka Cola Quantum shipment hadn't come in yet sadly, but she eagerly awaited when it would. "Our fleet of starships grows every day as well, at the moment we have 25 civilian starships, going back and forth between Equis and your moon, we have yet to explore beyond that but you and I know the planets well since we control all of them, the military starships range in about 57, all of these, civilian and military, being the size of a hoofball field, while the Griffons only have 15 military starships at the moment, the Minotaur only have a paltry five, and from what Lorenzo has told me, his Empire now has thousands, if the larger one we can see from here even without the use of a telescope."

Luna nodded at that. "I saw it as well, impressive in its size, and weaponry, his Empire has already claimed one of the few planets with an atmosphere within our solar system, a small pinkish planet our ponies call Harmona, he calls it 'mars', what a boring thing to call a planet, tis a shame he laid claim to it, from what I understand its the only other planet to have a breathable atmosphere, abit its very chilly, very nearly never getting warmer than just above freezing, but it wouldn't be something some warm winter clothes couldn't fix." She chuckled, 'mars' what an honestly boring name to call a planet which was such a lush pink color, oh well its not like she could tell him he couldn't claim the planet, his Empire had equal call to anything in the solar system, and so long as it had power to enforce those claims, it wouldn't be contested, same as Equestria's claim to the moon couldn't be contested since Luna controlled it.

Celestia grinned. "I see you've been doing your research! Despite the fact we haven't gone exploring beyond the moon with ponied, unponed drones however have been sent all around the solar system to take photos and the like."

This caused Luna to laugh. "I never expected when I returned from my banishment, how advanced our ponies would become, let alone how rapidly they would advance before my own eyes, I have to admit I didn't like Lorenzo at first, when Cadence came to me and told me about how horrible he was, but after seeing what he has accomplished with the help of his citizens, and speaking to Shining Armor I had to agree, he may be a tad weird, but he is overall a good....I don't actually know what he is I just realized." Luna's face twisted in thought.

This just caused Celestia to laugh. "He explained to me that he is a person, his species is Human." Celestia grinned thinking of how strange that conversation was, then frowned, she remembered that map, what it had shown, and when Lorenzo asked her to trust him, so she had, and was beginning to wonder if even he knew what was going on, he had said he knew the technology for the most part, which shouldn't be possible, his species had never before been seen until he arrived on the scene.

Luna nodded and looked up at the ceiling, sighing in boredom. "I tire of this paperwork, I'm going to go for a walk." And without giving Celestia a chance to reply, she teleported away with a white flash.

Celestia looked at the mountain of paperwork Luna had left for her, and glared at the spot she had once been. "Faust Damn you Luna, I shall have my revenge." She said to herself, already thinking of the perfect revenge, she could replace the creamy filling within her moon cakes with mayonnaise or something, Luna always ate those just as often as she ate actual cake. Just as she was beginning to think of the deeper details of her revenge, she got a notification on her pipboy, a gift from Lorenzo to her and her alone, that her shipment will be arriving within ten feet of her just about now, this confused her until a flash that nearly blinded her went off, vaporizing Luna's paperwork and leaving in its place a massive crate which had a soft neon blue glow to it, Celestia damn near cried with joy as she cracked open a bottle of the glowing blue soda, and drank.

Author's Note

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