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e x p e r i m e n t #07 (voice)

Hello Wonderland! This is Dr. Pines speaking.

Out of curiosity, how many of you have been to different dimensions, not counting this one? Alternate worlds? Other parallel planes of existence? Or... engaged in any form of time travel, for that matter. How did you do it? Was it even on purpose, or by some fluke?

I myself spent three decades adrift in the multiverse. Fascinating stuff.

[PRIVATE TO FIDDLEFORD & STAN]

Stanley, Fiddleford--

--We need to dismantle the portal in the basement and we have to do it as soon as possible. I can't just let that thing sit around being dangerous.

Fiddleford and I should be able to take it apart with no problems, but Stanley, since you did push to have it built in the first place I thought it was only fair to tell you what I want to do.

[There's a brief, awkward pause, and then...]

I've hurt enough people with my recklessness.

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Cryogenics, yeah. [As for magic, that's still something she's getting used to here.] I didn't know we were going to be frozen, but that was their plan all along.

"Their plan"? What, freezing people for a few centuries to... do what, exactly?

As far as I know, just to see what would happen. [Her voice is filled with venom at the idea.] This is the kind of stuff VaultTec does, although I didn't know it at the time. We thought we were going somewhere safe.

[His voice is sympathetic. He knows too well the feeling of having been used.]

'We'? There were others? And why would this 'VaultTec' freeze people and lock them away? That sounds terrible.

Yes - my husband, my baby boy, all of our neighbours... and there were many more Vaults too, all across America, although they weren't freezing people, the others I've found were running very different experiments. They sold them to us as a safe place to go when the bombs fell, but really we were all just test subjects to them.

My God... "When the bombs fell"... [He shudders.] I was born in 1948, so I know all about the fear and propaganda, but fortunately I'm from a world where the bombs haven't fallen yet.

[... yet. Perhaps one of the few things Ford doesn't actually relish about being back home.]

That's almost two hundred years before I was born.

[She sounds slightly amused as she realises it.]

Whoa! From the 22nd century, eh? What actually caused the bombs to go flying? If... you don't mind me asking.

The excuse was energy - after fossil fuels ran out, there was a scramble for natural resources. But if it wasn't that, they'd have found some other reason to blow each other up.

Of course. If they think they won't make money off renewable resources, why not just nuke the planet? Makes perfect sense.

[He apparently has strong feelings regarding this subject.]

Well... I'm sorry that happened. The bombs, the Vaults--all that.

Yeah, you and me both. [It felt strange to hear someone apologising for it, especially when the ones who'd actually messed the planet up were long gone.] It feels strange being here, in comparison. Everything's so clean.

Heh. That makes two of us again. I did wind up in some nice places during my travels, but being on the run keeps you from enjoying relatively normal things-- like pajamas, and orange juice!

And easy access to plumbing.

[YIKES.]

Right? I haven't gotten over the plumbing yet. Being able to bathe in water that isn't full of radiation, that's a luxury.

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