The Chosen One... killed... my... pa... …and I done spent the last forty years looking
for the son of a bitch.
Can't be the same Chosen One. The Chosen One was a heroine. She righted wrongs, and kept
the Enclave from killing just about everyone in California.
"She" you must be talking about a different Chosen One. The person I met was a man - with
the devil in his eyes and a pet deathclaw at his heel. Kill ya just for fun, and left
a bloody mess in his wake wherever he went.
You're the know-it-all, was The Chosen One a woman or a man?
The Vault Dweller left behind a written memoir of his adventures, but The Chosen One only
left second hand stories by those who witnessed the events. Some of those people say the Chosen
One was a man, some say a woman. Some say they did good deeds all up and down the coast.
And some say the Chosen One was a ruthless monster. I can tell you the things that everyone
agrees on if you’d like…
A century ago, after The Vault Dweller defeated the Master and was exiled from Vault 13, they
gathered others from the vault and traveled North to the faraway realm of Oregon. There
they found a patch of land separated from the rest of the world by great canyons, sheltering
them from the troubles outside. Safe from the wars between mutant, ghoul, and mankind,
the Vault Dweller founded the village of Arroyo, and lived under the open sky, far from the
steel crypt where they were born.
The Vault Dweller fell in love, had children, and grandchildren. And many years later one
grandchild was chosen to leave the village on a quest that began humbly, but ended up
saving the world...
Chosen One. Who did the choosing?
Nobody. The village elder picked a direct descendant of The Vault Dweller, and sent
them to the Temple of Trials.
I know this part Storyteller. How’s about I take it from here?
The Chosen One had to fight her way through the temple, and reclaim her grandfather's
Vault 13 suit and the old PIP Boy 2000. Then she was ready to head out into civilization
and take down the Enclave.
Actually, the people of Arroyo didn't know about the Enclave when that quest began. The
Chosen One was looking for a piece of old Vault-tec equipment called a Garden of Eden
Creation Kit, and was only concerned about saving a little village.
The village of Arroyo was slowly succumbing to the wasteland around it. Crops withered
or mutated. Brahmin died, and children grew sick. The Garden of Eden Creation Kit had
cold fusion tech from the Back When times, and it could turn a radioactive desert into
fertile land. Although results have, reportedly, varied...
But the GECK was Arroyo's only hope, so The Chosen One settled their affairs in Arroyo,
taking care of a few quests that weren't exactly epic-
Have you found my dog yet?
-then they walked out into a maelstrom of decay with no clue where to find that GECK
except a canteen emblazoned with the sacred number...
Well? What happened next?
I’ll tell you. Right after, you tell me a story. A story about this android we're
chasing. Junior and I have both helped you on your quest, but we barely know anything
about it.
Been a little curious myself.
Look at it like this: if your mission is so important, you’re going to want to keep
your team informed so we at least know what we’re up against. Seems like your android
is smarter than any robot I ever saw.
That's because it's more like a cyborg. Has a... a human brain in it.
Whose brain? Did someone volunteer, or did the NCR just take it?
We're not monsters!
Not what I remember about the NCR from when I lived out West.
We didn't take it from anyone. We... grew it.
You mean cloned it.
Didn't know they could clone people.
Doesn't work so well when they clone a whole body – just ask Gary- but in Vault City
they successfully cloned replacement limbs and organs.
And a brain.
Whose brain?
What I’m about to tell you is classified – tell it to anyone, and I mean anyone,
I'll hunt you down myself.
A while back, our research teams dug through Vault 13, looking for anything that could
explain what made The Vault Dweller and his grandkid big damn heroes. Vault-Tec education
programs? Training simulators? Maybe something genetic... Vaults have good medical equipment,
kept records on all of their inhabitants, part of some crazy scheme the Enclave had
before the war... Even had blood samples...
So you tried to build your own savior. Your own Vault Dweller. I bet you wanted to make
an army of heroes to spread your glorious republic across the continent, at any cost.
Manifest Destiny in reverse.
Every damned thing I hate about the NCR, right there.
Yeah, well the project didn't make it past the prototype phase. All them stories you've
been telling about how The Vault Dweller could kick the crap out of anything in the Wasteland?
Right on the money.
It went crazy, woke up from the simulation we programmed to replicate the Vault Dweller’s
life and broke out. Got through NCR police, the army, even gave the Rangers the slip.
So you wrangled a couple of dumb bastards into helping you chase it.
Motormouth here knows the roads leading east. As for you? You got the only working car around.
Well, ain't I Lucky Luke?
The Republic will compensate you for your help. Money, water, meds, a pardon for the
many ethically-questionable things I'm sure you've done in your time.
What's your stake in this?
First she threatened to kill ED-NA. Then I wanted to figure out what stupid mistake the
NCR was trying to cover up. Now... I dunno... I sure wouldn't mind telling people about
the time I beat up The Vault Dweller. Our little adventure could make for an interesting
story one day.
Guess this story would let a fella could drink for free in every bar between here and 'Frisco.
Alright then... Let's go find your tin man, and clean his clock.