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Chapter 21: Continuation

  Once I was finished saying what I wao say Amata seemed a little teary-eyed after what I had said but heless uanding since she k was ing while my dad and my soon-to-be father-in-w oher hand briefly looked at each other before the overseer turned back towards me and said. "Well, you said a lot there, son... reciate that you pce such importan us that you are willing to go to such lengths as subjeg yourself to the plethora of dahat exist out in the wastend."

  He paused for a moment and tio say. "But as you said previously, we knew you weren't normal by any normal human standards, so we figured you were going to try to head out into the wastes at some point or another. I mean, you've been making things that don't have any real use down here in a vault like that new vehicle you finished retly, for instahus it was only a matter of time."

  "So even though all of us would've liked it if you had held off on this topic for a few more years we expected it to e one day and sihat is today I guess you're reag your limits soohan I and your father James expected you would, unfortunately." He added.

  Seeing me nodding my head, he tinued. "And seeing how you told us there's a threat to the vault and its many residents, I 't exactly tell you 't go, even though that's what the three of us would like to say. But given what I know about you, that would possibly sour our retionship, which is something I would like to prevent."

  "So you got my go-ahead, Harold. Just don't go a yourself killed out there since you still o marry my daughter and make me a few grandkids ohe two of you tie the knot, ha ha." Amata's dad, the overseer, said stly, trying to lighten the versation a bit.

  "DAD!" Amata yelled out loudly, turning bright red with her previous downcast mood o be seen.

  *Ha ha ha*

  After both of our dads were done, having a ugh at our expehough mainly Amata's, the overseer hahe reins of the versatioo my dad.

  "As for your visions, son, we don't really doubt your visions given the various abilities you've dispyed over the years, So if you think there's danger ing, then I'm ined to believe you since you're not the kind to say something like this." My dad said.

  "Also, before I tinue, I would like to apologize to everyone here about my pns to leave the vault without telling you all. It was a mistake but I still have a very strong desire to finish the project my te wife Catherine and I were w on prior to us io vault 101 with our son." He apologized in a siohat everyone accepted moments ter, me included.

  "Apology accepted dad, but I also have some things I would like to add regarding yours and mom's project."

  "Okay, fire away."

  "So even if you were to get project purity up and running how would you distribute the water and how would you protect it from other hostile forces such as the Encve who want most of the wastend dead because of some arbitrary bullshit reason that all wastenders are expendable mutants?"

  "On top of that, project purity would be a great way of dispersing a poison or some other biological agent to kill off most of the few remaining humans we have left that have mostly all been exposed t degrees of radiation, which the Encve would likely want to do."

  "So please expin to me iail, dad, how you, a man in his te forties, will be able to go up against a hostile fa like the Ehat could stomp out the brotherhood of steel easily if they were willing to throw everything they got. And that's not even sidering the other hostile groups and enemies you would face as well, like the various raider groups, super mutants, and talon pany mercs?" I asked, causing him to actually think long and hard on his harebrained idea of his.

  A short while ter, he sighed and answered. "If I'm being ho here after thinking about it over the years and with a bit of influence from you, son, I don't think my old team and I would've really been able to trol it and use it for the purposes ing life back to the wastend. We would've just had a huge target painted on our backs at all times that would've eventually ended up with us being attacked by raiders or some other hostile group down the line making all the effort we would've put into the project for naught."

  "Phew, I'm gd some of my qualities started to rub off on you, dad. But as you said, I also didn't see any reasonable way of how it could possibly work out in the end unless you had the power and force required to trol and protect it from others. Hence why I'm trying to persuade you not to run back out into the wastend to get yourself killed for nothing."

  "I also doubt mom would've wanted you to tihe project if it was not going to help aher than those that would use it to take advantage of others and spread more suffering." I responded, which got anh out of my old man before he nodded his head in a depressed state.

  "Fortunately for you, dad, all might not be lost with project purity. Let me just deal with the Encve first before we start w about fixing the wastend." I added, improving his mood some.

  "Going bae, I don't really pn on leaving the vault forever. I will just be spending the majority of my time out in the wasteing things set up so I take care of the Encve in one fell swoop and prevent them from causing any irreversible harm to anyone here and the general wastend popuce at rge."

  "And this brings me to my sed reason why I want to head out into the wastend. When I've dealt with the Encve and I think things are somewhat safe, I would like to try my hand at bringing this try back from the ashes. Whether that be as the former Uates of America or as airely new try or entity altogether. The former did have its fair share of issues, such as the stant corruption it faced with politis. Thus, it may be better to the tter to try to ehat it doesn't ain." I said, while going into a few other details regarding it seds ter.

  "And I have o thing to add. I've taken the liberty of creating a grourating encrypted radio so I talk with everyone here daily. Also, the encryption will ge weekly to keep our versation safe and secure because you never know who's listening." I said stly as everyone paused for several seds in thought.

  Now that I covered everything that o be discussed in its ey, for the most part, the overseer took trol of the versation and said. "Those are some lofty goals there, son, but you very well may be the oo aplish them one day aore civilization to its previous state, if not better. That aside, you got permission to e and go as you please as the overseer of this vault. Just make sure you stay in regur tact with us, for Amata's sake, at the very least."

  "Oh, and one more thing, you must e bad make it official with my little Amata when you are the age of 18. I won't be taking no for an answer." He added stly with a grin, riling up his daughter for the sed time who now had a bright red face fag down towards the table.

  Everyo a ugh out of it except Amata, but she was secretly smiling with her head down, thus I knew she wasn't averse to it. After I agreed to his terms, we discussed a number of nitty-gritty details regarding my pns and the information I learned of in my visions. Which was, iy, just a plethora of information I learned from my many thousands of hours spent pying Fallout and expl the wiki.

  Following that, the bunch of us discussed a few other things regarding my and Amata's future before we ed things up finally and everyone headed out to do whatever they had pnned for the day. Whie ending the rest of the day rexing with Amata apanyihat whole versation was tiring, thus we could use a break, Amata included.

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