"You had better cut this tough guy crap Caine." said Isaac in a firm tone. "We all need to stay together, at least for now. You, nor I can survive alone at this point, we don't even know what's outside of these walls, none of us as far as I am aware have been outside, and for all you know there could be a giant scorpion or something absurd like that!"


OOC: See my penny comic thing reference.

Steven obliged his new dad, but was none too happy. He tucked his Beretta back in his waist band and waited for anything else anyone had to say.

OOC: Wow Daunte, just wow >.>

Max turned to Ashley and said "Cover your ears..." so Ashley did just that and so Max turned to Caine and said...

"Do as you wish, at this point I really don't care. I just want to get my family and everyone else here out of here alive, including you Caine..." Caine looked at Max a little funny...

"What's wrong, shocked that someone is actually trying to look out for you?! Regardless of who you have become, I remember who you used to be, and whether you like to remember or not, we did actually get along. Now if you want to run off into whatever is out there and play Hero then fine, you'd probably be doing us all a favour, but you don't know what to expect out there... Don't try that mucho stuff on me, because it doesn't work. Now when you are ready to talk to me properly I will be here ready to listen, until then, keep your mouth shut, and stop causing trouble. We are leaving..."

Max picked up a hunting rifle off one of the dead raiders and an ammo belt for it. He also found a few frag grenades and a .32 pistol. Luckily, both guns seemed to use the same ammunition... he had seen guns in movies but that was about all he knew about them... He had to stay strong and pretend like he knew what he was doing though, for the other's sake.

Max loaded his guns and put the ammo belt round his neck and under his arm and put the frag grenades in his pocket. His other pocket was full of bottle caps just because there were so many, they must come in handy at some point...

Max led the group out into the hall, securing each corridor with Caine and Steven. Richard was telling them which way to go... They pressed on...

Apparently Caine hadn't been listening to Max, as he was picking his finger nails and whistling. "Hm? Didn't hear you but I'm sure you said something along the lines of "Caine stop acting tough!" or, "Caine you don't know what's out there!", and let me just say you sound like a broken record. As for that "acting tough" remark I seem to keep hearin', I don't recall you storming into that cafeteria and saving your sis with the nice ass. But I may have missed that, I was a little busy." Caine then crossed his arms and let out an obnoxious yawn, obviously bored half to death by another one of Max's patented "Stern Parent" lectures he seemed to pass around like STD's.

Steven ignored Caine for most of the way. He bumped into Caine once, but Steven didn't care. He wasn't afraid of Caine, he tried to make that point in the canteen. When they reached the door, Steven tried to release the door. The door panel beeped a warning and failed. "Dammit!" He plugged his Pip-boy in and quickly ran diagnostics, with Caine and Max trying to hold back the raiders. Steven gave his gun to Jessica. "Use it wisely." The diagnostic report came back. The door mechanism was jammed. Steven climbed up on the railing running parallel with the mechanism, and jumped to it. He landed with a thud, pried off the top of the service panel. "This thing was not made to be used twice..." He muttered as he dug through what parts he had to repair the machine.

Although he couldn't tell if that insult that Caine spat out was directed toward him, Isaac gripped his bat, resisting the urge to beat Caine till that steel hard head became jelly. He would, but they were preoccupied with fire from the raiders. Isaac released three rounds at the raiders direction, hitting one in the shoulder.

"I swear to god Caine, if you don't shut the [censored] up, I'm gonna put you in so much pain, you have no idea!" yelled Isaac over the sounds of chaos erupting behind them.

Sheena called out "Wait! We can't leave without Jonathan! He went to find Ryan!"

"Yeah and I sure hope James is ok too..." Max said wondering if they would find them at the entrance or whether someone was going to need to go back and get them...

"[censored], where is he in the vault? We should have a small portion of us go and get them, while the rest stay here repair the door, and defend the area!"

"We might as well look for James and Ryan, I need my tool bag. I don't have the parts to fix this thing right now!" Steven hopped down and got his pistol back. He aimed it up and walked through the empty doorway.

"Go Jonathan I have to take care of her" Said Ryan pointing towards the injured woman.

"I can't just leave you here!"

"Just go!"

Jonathan knew he couldn't change Ryan's mind. He quickly climbed back into the vent and began to crawl towards the vault entrance. He came to a dead end, it looked like the vents didn't reach the vault door. He found the nearest vent exit and he opened it up then jumped down.

There was a raider right next to him. He was glaring at him and grinned. "Well well what do we have here." Jonathan quickly pulled out his pocket knife and stabbed him in the neck. The raider was bleeding out but he reached for his Winchester Model 70. Jonathan quickly pushed him down and stabbed him in the head repeatedly. He grabbed the raiders rifle and smashed it into the raiders head. He quickly tried to take any sort of ammo and weapons off of him.

He found 15 .35 rounds a Beretta 92FS with 2 clips, including the one already inside and a combat knife. Jonathan stabbed the raider again with his switchblade and left it in there. He took the combat knife the pistol and the ammo and stuffed them into all his pockets. Now to get to the door.

OOC: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH I'm Tired of these mother [censored] raiders in this mother [censored] vault.

Paul agreed, "We need to get as many people out as possible." Paul said, and maybe we can make an announcement over the intercom to tell people to get to the vault door." Paul waited for an answer.

Richard said, "I'm not sure how that'll work, it may just give the Raiders a beacon to slaughter us all."

OOC: Are you two with our group? If not I'll edit this.

IC: "Yes, that has to be one of the worst plans I have heard yet! But is there any way to send out messages to anyone with a pip-boy?"

"If only we had a way to broadcast messages..." Steven looked at Judith "Any ideas in that smart brain of yours?"

((OOC: Oh I edited my post before you guys posted since i thought I would be left in the vault while everyone was outside you might have red the original but I was in the canteen the whole time. I can edit it back if you guys wanna come looking for me))

"Okay how about we broadcast it in Latin!" yelled Paul sarcasticly, "Or maybe we could catch Caine on fire and attach a holotape to him, saying get to the door! Because I don't see any of you coming up with ideas."

Nikolai came out of hydroponics covered in the blood of a raider too busy eating the vegetables to notice Nikolai come in from behind with a knife. He had heard the scattered fighting coming from across the vault while is stealthly walked the halls,figureing someone somewhere was putting up a good fight. It was at that moment he had realized he had forgotten about his parents in his fear and panic. "They're all the way in D Block,thats almost the otherside of the vault. Can I really make it"? Nikolai thought back on how everyone he ever knew seemed to have lost somebody through an accident or some other mishap,everyone except him. He had taken the blessing of always having parents for granted,and it stops today. He wasn't going anywhere until he knew without a shadow of a doubt he couldn't help them. With new resolve in his heart he started his way to D Block.

"Father, calm down okay? This is hard on all of us but we need to find James, Johnathan, and Ryan and get out. Plus I need my tool bag anyway. Let's move." With that, he started to walk towards the reactor room.

Calming down Paul said, "Sorry, under stress I tend to overreact."

Richard just nodded as if to say, "Go ahead", and Judith said, "Richard and I modified our Pip-Boy's to be able send out short-range messages. It only works for a mile, but that should be good enough to reach the other Vault Dwellers."

"Father, that's okay. Judith, do it. I'm going for my bag. Steven fought his way downstairs, and with Jessica's help, took down a rather large raider. They came across his tool bag, and Steven picked it up. They went back to the door, and waited to see if the message had sent.

Nikolai was able to avoid the radiers for some time,they didn't bother checking the rooms they already rummaged through. He was halfway to D Block when he was stopped dead in his tracks by three raiders standing guard in front of the repair bay for the robots. Nikolai couldn't reach D Block without passing through here but all he had was a knife.

Judith put her mouth to the microphone and said, "To all surviving Vault Dwellers, please make your way towards the Vault Door if you wish to live. These invaders are depraved and deadly, and they can't be bargained or reasoned with. Once again, please come to the Vault Door if you want to survive." Her Pip-Boy started broadcasting the message to every other Pip-Boy in the Vault. At that moment Richard said, "I hope that'll work. Now we wait."

Nikolai was looking at the raiders from the corner of the hall when the his pip-boy made its alert when it recieved a new message. Nikolai cursed under his breath as he tried to stop it,but it was too late. Nikolai heard one of the raiders say,"did you just hear that,we didn't get all those vault rats around here,I'll get this one."
Nikolai hurried into a room and readied himself for a fight. "Come out,come out,wherever you are you little [censored] ,or I'll be forced to enjoy this more when I find you." The footsteps got louder and louder as the raider closed in. Suddenly the sound of gunshots filled the hall,but it wasn't from the raiders,since it caught this one by suprise, "Who the[censored] is firing!? Hey Spike,Mad Dog,what the hell." Seeing his chance Nikolai bolted and jammed his knife into the back of the raider's neck while his back was turned. Blood spewed from the wound and got all over Nikolai's hand. When he pulled it out,the raider stumbled forward a little before falling to the ground. Nikolai took the assualt rifle from the twitching body and waited for whoever won that fire fight to come in his direction.

Steven hurried back to the door, and jumped back onto the door system, repairing it. "This is going to take a while, hold them off!"

OOC: Just for RP purposes, strive2b has asked to be the one who announces that the door is opened. THX and good night.