Fallout (Nintendo Cinematic Universe)

Fallout is a Japanese graphic novel series.

Volume 1
In a post-apocalyptic future, a Vault Dweller is dispatched by Vault 13 to venture out into the Wasteland to find a replacement Water Chip and save his fellow Vault inhabitants.

Volume 2
The Chosen One, a descendant of the original Vault Dweller, is sent to save his primitive tribe from starvation by finding an ancient environmental restoration machine known as the Garden of Eden Creation Kit (GECK).

Van Buren
In the ruins of "Capital Wasteland", the Lone Wanderer leaves Vault 101 in search of their missing father.

New Vegas
After surviving a robbery on their way to New Vegas, the Courier travels across the Mojave desert in search of the thief.

Volume 5
210 years after "The Great War", the Sole Survivor, emerges from Vault 111 to rescue his son from the Institute.

Volume 6
25 years after "The Great War", the residents of Vault 76 strive to repopulate the Wasteland.

Volume 1

 * In Vault 13, the Water Chip, a computer chip responsible for the water recycling and pumping machinery of the vault, malfunctions.
 * With 150 days before the Vault's water reserves run dry, the Vault Overseer tasks the protagonist, the Vault Dweller, with finding a replacement. They are given a portable wristwatch-like computer called the "Pip-Boy 2000" that keeps track of map-making, objectives, and bookkeeping.
 * Armed with the Pip-Boy 2000 and meager equipment, the Vault Dweller is sent off on the quest.
 * The Vault Dweller travels to Vault 15, the closest known Vault that may be able to provide help, but finds it collapsed into ruins and abandoned.
 * The survivors of Vault 15 have founded a town named Shady Sands, and the Vault Dweller is given the option to defend them from the Khans, a group of raiders that attack the town, and radscorpions, mutated scorpions that plague the town's herds.
 * The Vault Dweller then travels south to Junktown, where they can help the mayor, Killian Darkwater, bring the corrupt casino head Gizmo to justice, or help Gizmo assassinate Killian to take over the town.
 * Further south the Vault Dweller finds The Hub, a bustling merchant city, where the Vault Dweller has the option to hire water caravans to aid Vault 13 and extend their estimated survival by 100 days.
 * With clues from the Hub, the Vault Dweller travels to Necropolis, a city of mutated humans called ghouls who are under occupation by large mutated humans, dubbed Super Mutants.
 * Under the city, the Vault Dweller finds Vault 12 and recovers a water chip.
 * Upon returning with the chip, the Vault is saved, but the Overseer is concerned about the Vault Dweller's reports of the Super Mutants.
 * Believing the mutations are too widespread and extreme to be natural, and that they pose a threat to the Vault, the Overseer charges the Vault Dweller to find the source of the mutations and stop them.
 * The Vault Dweller finds and joins the Brotherhood of Steel - remnants of a top-secret genetic research program involving the U.S. Army that survived the war, and continues to research advanced technology.
 * The Brotherhood supplies the Vault Dweller with equipment and information on the Super Mutants, which so happen to be directly related to the genetic research they conducted before the war: a mutagen called the Forced Evolutionary Virus, which can be used to mutate humans into Super Mutants, but leaves all such mutants sterile as a side effect.
 * The Vault Dweller travels to the Boneyard - the ruins of Los Angeles - and finds out that the cult-like Children of the Cathedral operating around the Wasteland are a front created by the Super Mutants' Master, who is using the Children to preach his message to wastelanders and get them to submit to him peacefully.
 * The Vault Dweller explores the Cathedral of the Children and finds a prototype Vault beneath it, from which the Master commands his Super Mutant army.
 * Disguised as one of the Children, the Vault Dweller infiltrates the Vault and destroys the Master.
 * The Vault Dweller travels north to a military base, where the Super Mutant army was using the Forced Evolutionary Virus to mutate humans into Super Mutants, bolstering their numbers.
 * The Vault Dweller destroys the base, stopping the creation of more Super Mutants and splintering their army.
 * The Vault Dweller returns to the Vault and is greeted at the entrance by the Overseer.
 * The Overseer is happy that the Vault's safety is secured, but fears the Vault Dweller's experiences have changed them, and that hero worship of them in the Vault may encourage others to leave.
 * For the greater good of the Vault and to preserve its isolation, the Vault Dweller is exiled into the Wasteland.

Volume 2

 * In 2241, the primitive town Arroyo suffers the worst drought on record.
 * Faced with the calamity, the village elder asks the direct descendant of the Vault Dweller, referred to as the Chosen One, to perform the quest of retrieving a Garden of Eden Creation Kit (GECK) for Arroyo.
 * The GECK is a device that can create thriving communities out of the post-apocalyptic wasteland.
 * The player, assuming the role of the Chosen One, is given nothing more than the Vault Dweller's jumpsuit, a RobCo PIPBoy 2000, a Vault 13 water flask, a spear and some cash to start on their mission.
 * The Chosen One eventually finds Vault 13, the supposed location of a GECK, devoid of the majority of its former human inhabitants and instead inhabited by intelligent Deathclaws.
 * The Chosen One then returns to find their village captured by the deep state remnants of the United States government known as "The Enclave".
 * The Enclave often terrorizes the inhabitants of continental United States with their supreme arsenal of advanced technology.
 * The Chosen One, through various means, activates an ancient oil tanker and engages its autopilot, thus allowing them to reach the Enclave's main base on an offshore oil rig.
 * It is revealed that the dwellers of Vault 13 were captured as well, to be used as test subjects for Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV).
 * Vault 13 was supposed to be closed for 200 years as part of a government experiment, making them perfect test subjects.
 * The Enclave modified the Forced Evolutionary Virus into an airborne disease, designed to attack any living creatures with mutated DNA.
 * With all genetic impurities removed, the Enclave (who remain protected from radiation) could take over.
 * The Chosen One frees both their fellow villagers from Arroyo and the Vault 13 dwellers from Enclave control and subsequently destroys the Enclave's oil rig, killing the President of the United States (President Richardson) as well as a genetically modified Secret Service enforcer named Frank Horrigan.
 * In the end, the inhabitants of Vault 13 and the Arroyo villagers create a new prosperous community with the help of the GECK.

Van Buren

 * For the first 19 years of their life from 2258 to 2277, a baby grows up within the isolated confines of Vault 101 (designed to never be opened as a social experiment by the pre-war corporation known as Vault-Tec) alongside their father James, a doctor and scientist who assists in the Vault's clinic. While growing up, their father comments about their deceased mother Catherine and her favorite passage from the Bible – Revelation 21:6, which speaks of "the waters of life".
 * Upon reaching their 19th birthday, chaos erupts when James suddenly leaves the Vault, causing the Overseer to lock down the Vault and send security guards after James' child.
 * Escaping from the Vault with the aid of the Overseer's daughter Amata, the search for James across the Wasteland begins at the nearby town of Megaton, named for the undetonated atomic bomb at the center of town, and eventually into the ruins of Washington D.C. and the Galaxy News Radio station, whereupon James' child, after helping the station's enthusiastic DJ Three Dog, is given the moniker of "The Lone Wanderer".
 * Directed by Three Dog towards Rivet City, a derelict aircraft carrier serving as a fortified human settlement, the Lone Wanderer meets with Doctor Madison Li, a scientist who worked alongside James.
 * Li informs the Lone Wanderer that their parents were not born in Vault 101, but lived outside of it, where they worked together upon a plan they conceived to purify all the water in the Tidal Basin and eventually the entire Potomac River, with a giant water purifier built in the Jefferson Memorial, called Project Purity.
 * However, constant delays and Catherine's death during childbirth forced James to abandon the project and seek refuge in Vault 101, where he took the Lone Wanderer to raise within a safe environment far away from the dangers of the wasteland.
 * Learning that James seeks to revive the project and continue his work by acquiring a Garden of Eden Creation Kit (G.E.C.K.), a powerful piece of technology issued by Vault-Tec intended to assist in rebuilding civilization after the war, the Lone Wanderer tracks him down to Vault 112, and frees him from a virtual reality program being run by the Vault's sadistic Overseer, Dr. Stanislaus Braun, whom James had sought out for information on a G.E.C.K.
 * Reunited with their father, the pair return to Rivet City and recruit Li and the other project members to resume work at the Jefferson Memorial. As they begin testing the project, the Memorial is invaded by the Enclave, a powerful military organization formed from the remnants of the United States government, which continues to remain active despite the demise of their brethren on the West Coast thirty years previously.
 * Seeking to stop them from gaining control of his work, James urges the Lone Wanderer to finish his work and find a G.E.C.K. before flooding the project's control room with massive amounts of radiation, preventing the Enclave's military leader, Colonel Augustus Autumn, from taking control of it and killing himself in the process.
 * Autumn survives, however, and the rest of the team flees from the remaining Enclave soldiers.
 * The Lone Wanderer, accompanied by the remaining Project Purity members, make contact with the Brotherhood of Steel within the ruins of the Pentagon, now known as the Citadel. With their help, the Lone Wanderer travels to Vault 87 to find a G.E.C.K., which had been used as a testing site for the Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) and now as a breeding ground for the Super Mutants.
 * The Lone Wanderer recovers the G.E.C.K. from within the Vault with the optional help of a friendly Super Mutant named Fawkes. As they make their way out, the Wanderer is ambushed by Colonel Autumn and the Enclave and is captured with the G.E.C.K confiscated.
 * At the Enclave base at Raven Rock, the Lone Wanderer is freed from their cell by the Enclave leader, President John Henry Eden, who requests a private audience with them, but Colonel Autumn defies Eden's orders, takes command of the Enclave's military, and orders the Lone Wanderer to be shot on sight.
 * Despite the setback, the Wanderer meets with Eden who is revealed to be a sentient ZAX series supercomputer that took control of the Enclave after President Dick Richardson was killed on the West Coast.
 * Seeking to repeat Richardson's plans, Eden reveals his intentions of using Project Purity to infect the water with a modified strain of FEV that will make it toxic to any mutated life, thus killing off most life in the Wasteland including humans.
 * The Enclave, who would be immune to the effects because of their genetic "purity" as a result of their isolation, would be free to take control of the area.
 * Forced to take a sample of the new FEV, the Wanderer leaves the base, regardless of doing so peacefully or convincing Eden to self-destruct.
 * Returning to the Citadel, where news of the Enclave's possession of the G.E.C.K. is known to the Brotherhood, the Lone Wanderer joins them in a desperate final assault on the Jefferson Memorial, which is spearheaded through the use of a giant prewar military robot named Liberty Prime.
 * After reaching the control room, the Lone Wanderer has the choice to either convince Autumn to leave or kill him.
 * Li informs the Wanderer that the purifier is ready for activation, but that the code must be inputted manually within the control room, meaning whoever goes in will be subjected to lethal amounts of radiation.
 * To make matters worse, the purifier has been damaged and will self-destruct if not activated.
 * At this point, the Lone Wanderer can either:
 * Do nothing and let the purifier explode, destroying the Jefferson Memorial and killing everyone inside in the process.
 * Sacrifice themselves and input the right code that is hinted throughout the game.
 * Send Sarah Lyons into the chamber and give her the right code.


 * Except for the first choice, the Lone Wanderer has the choice of introducing the modified FEV into the purifier or not, which further affects the ending. Whatever the choice, a bright light enshrouds all, and an ending slideshow begins, including any actions they took that had an influence on the wasteland.
 * If the Lone Wanderer activates the purifier, an ending scene implies that the Lon Wanderer survives.

New Vegas

 * The Courier is ambushed by a mobster named Benny en route to New Vegas to deliver a mysterious item known as the "Platinum Chip".
 * Benny shoots the Courier and leaves them for dead, taking the Chip for himself, but the Courier is rescued by a Securitron named Victor and brought back to good health by Doc Mitchell in Goodsprings.
 * The Courier embarks on a journey across the Mojave Wasteland to locate and confront Benny and get the Platinum Chip.
 * The main storyline follows the Courier's pursuit of Benny to both settle the score and retrieve the Platinum Chip.
 * Along the way, the Courier encounters many groups of people with various problems that they can choose to assist with, ignore, or otherwise sabotage, resulting in positive or negative karma.
 * Eventually, after finding Benny and the Chip, the Courier finds themselves in the middle of a conflict between three major factions: Caesar's Legion, a group of Roman-esque slavers, the New California Republic (NCR), an expansionist democratic federation, and Mr. House, the enigmatic de facto ruler of New Vegas, in command of an army of Securitron robots that patrols the city.
 * Each of the three sides aims to control the Hoover Dam, which is still operational and supplying the Southwest with power and clean, non-irradiated water; thus, control of the dam means effective control of the region.
 * t is revealed that Mr. House, a human from before the Great War and surviving via a contained life support chamber, ordered the Platinum Chip's delivery before the war.
 * The Chip is a data storage device with a program that can upgrade the Securitrons to a greater level of combat effectiveness, and was stolen by Benny as part of a scheme to take over House's security and claim New Vegas for himself with the help of a reprogrammed Securitron named Yes Man.
 * The Courier is notified that Caesar's Legion is attacking Hoover Dam, and they must take part to decide the outcome.
 * As the Legion strikes the Dam, led by the fearsome Legate Lanius, the NCR defends its position under General Lee Oliver.
 * Depending on the faction sided with up to the battle, the Courier will either destroy the Dam so no faction can claim it, conquer it for Caesar's Legion, defend it for the NCR or connect the dam's systems to House's network so either he or Yes Man can take control.
 * A narrated slideshow show shows and explains the results of the Courier's actions, the battle for Hoover Dam deciding the faction that comes to power over New Vegas and the Mojave, and the fates of the various other factions based on how the Courier negotiated with them and which of the major factions emerged dominant.
 * The Courier faces a choice to determine the fate of the Mojave Wasteland.
 * Yes Man (independent) – siding with Yes Man will lead the Courier to go solo (if the Courier helps Yes Man take over New Vegas and Mr. House's Securitrons) and take over Hoover Dam for themselves. The Courier must either convince General Oliver, and the Legate, to withdraw, or kill them. The Courier and Yes Man eventually take control of Hoover Dam, while ensuring New Vegas's independence.
 * Mr. House – siding with Mr. House will lead the Courier to enter the control room in Hoover Dam and install the override chip in order to power the Securitron Army. The Courier must either convince both General Oliver and the Legate to stand down or they can kill them. Mr. House and his Securitrons drive both the NCR and the Legion out of Hoover Dam, taking control of it, while still running New Vegas.
 * Caesar's Legion – siding with the Legion will lead the Courier to help attack Hoover Dam. The Courier must enter Oliver's compound where they have the choice to either convince him to retreat for the sake of his men, or they can kill him. The Legion seizes Hoover Dam, forcing the NCR to retreat, allowing them to gain control over New Vegas and the Mojave Wasteland.
 * New California Republic – siding with the NCR will lead the Courier to defend Hoover Dam from the Legion. The Courier must also lead an attack on the Legate's camp where they have the choice to either convince the Legate to end the fighting peacefully, or they can kill the Legate. The NCR wins the battle and annexes New Vegas and the entire Mojave Wasteland.

Volume 5

 * The story begins in 2077 in Sanctuary Hills, located near Concord, Massachusetts.
 * Nate is at home with his wife Nora, their son Shaun, and Codsworth, a robotic butler.
 * A Vault-Tec representative admits the family into Vault 111, the local fallout shelter.
 * Moments later, a news bulletin warns of an incoming nuclear attack.
 * As the detonation occurs, the family evacuates to the Vault, where they are tricked into entering cryogenic tubes and frozen alive. After an unknown number of years, they are reawakened by two strangers, who murder Nora and kidnap Shaun.
 * Nate is put back into cryogenic sleep and awakens again when the life support system malfunctions.
 * Nate, nicknamed the "Sole Survivor" of Vault 111, vows to avenge Nora's death and find Shaun.
 * The Sole Survivor heads home to find Sanctuary Hills in ruins. He reunites with Codsworth, revealing that 210 years have passed since the war.
 * Codsworth suggests that the Survivor go to Concord for help.
 * The Survivor finds and befriends Dogmeat, and assists the Minutemen faction in evacuating to Sanctuary Hills.
 * The Sole Survivor travels to Diamond City, a fortified settlement based in the ruins of Fenway Park, where he meets Piper.
 * There, he learns about a secretive organization called the Institute that has been terrifying the Commonwealth by kidnapping people and replacing them with "synths", synthetic humans indistinguishable from real humans.
 * With the help of synth detective Nick Valentine, the Sole Survivor uncovers the identity of his wife's killer: Conrad Kellogg.
 * After learning from Kellogg that Shaun is being held in the Institute, the Sole Survivor kills him and retrieves a cybernetic implant from his brain to access his memories.
 * During this time, the Brotherhood of Steel arrives in the Commonwealth on the Prydwen, an airship.
 * The Sole Survivor learns from Brian Virgil, an ex-Institute scientist, that teleportation is the only way to enter the Institute.
 * After the Survivor retrieves a chip and decodes it with the help of the Railroad, Virgil provides the blueprints for a teleportation device, which the Sole Survivor constructs by allying with the Brotherhood, Minutemen, or Railroad.
 * The Sole Survivor successfully enters the Institute and discovers that Shaun is the Institute's director.
 * Shaun, now an old man calling himself Father, reveals that he was kidnapped by Kellogg to become a specimen for synth experiments due to his pure pre-war DNA, and that the Sole Survivor remained in stasis for a further sixty years before being reawakened. He invites the Sole Survivor to join the Institute.
 * If accepted, Shaun reveals that he is dying of cancer and wishes for the Survivor to become his successor. After initiating a purge in the Commonwealth, wiping out the Brotherhood and Railroad, the Survivor assumes control of the Institute after Shaun's death.
 * Otherwise, the Sole Survivor devises a plan with their faction to fight the Institute. Siding with the Brotherhood or Railroad will force the Sole Survivor to destroy the other faction. The Sole Survivor detonates a nuclear reactor, destroying the Institute. After this feat, if the Survivor sided with the Minutemen, they must lastly wipe out any remaining hostile faction. Otherwise, they will remain neutral.

Volume 6

 * Twenty-five years after the Great War, Vault 76 is opened up and its residents are given the task of repopulating the Wasteland. Shortly after they emerge from the Vault, the Resident is contacted by the Vault Overseer. She reveals that Vault 76 was given a secret mandate to secure an arsenal of nuclear weapons deployed throughout Appalachia in three still-functioning nuclear missile silos: Site Alpha, Site Bravo, and Site Charlie.
 * The Resident is directed to contact the Responders, a faction of emergency services personnel who tried to aid the residents of Appalachia during the war; however, they discover that the Responders evacuated after they came under attack from the Scorched.
 * Further investigation reveals that the Scorched are ghouls infected by the breath of a Scorchbeast, a creature that was awoken after the Great War.
 * As the Scorched represent a threat to the Wasteland beyond Appalachia, the Resident decides to secure a nuclear weapon and use it to destroy a Scorchbeast nest. In order to achieve this, they start searching the bunkers of survivalists calling themselves the Free States who were working on the means to detect the Scorched until the Scorched overran them.
 * The Resident is able to build a radar system that detects the viral signature of the Scorched, but its limited range makes it ineffective.
 * The Resident attempts to boost the signal first by gaining the friendship of Rose, a Miss Nanny robot trying to rebuild the local Raider gangs that lived in Appalachia before being scared off by the Scorched; and then by investigating research done by the local Brotherhood of Steel into the Scorchbeast as they had tried to stop it spreading from its main lair.
 * The Resident hacks into a government network and draws the attention of the Enclave, the remnants of the United States government.
 * The Enclave are led by MODUS, a centralized artificial intelligence system located in a secure nuclear fallout bunker beneath the Whitespring Resort.
 * MODUS asks the Resident to help connect them to a series of isolated computer networks across Appalachia through the local SIGINT base and reestablish contact with the Kovac-Muldoon orbital platform, and in return offers to connect to the radar system to detect Scorched across the region.
 * Once MODUS is connected, they are able to identify the Scorchbeast nest at a location called Fissure Site Prime, close to where the Brotherhood of Steel had made their ultimate attempt to stop the Scorchbeast threat themselves and failed.
 * The Resident is directed to one of the three nuclear silos and they launch a missile at the nest. Venturing into the irradiated area, they uncover a laboratory at the center of the nest that was also found by the Brotherhood of Steel, implying that the Scorchbeasts were man-made.
 * The explosion awakens a Scorchbeast Queen, and the Resident is forced to fight her.
 * With the Queen defeated, the Scorchbeasts' hive mind is broken, and the threat to the wasteland beyond Appalachia is halted.
 * The Resident rejoins the other residents of Vault 76 in rebuilding the Wasteland.

Volume 1

 * Based on Fallout.

Volume 2

 * Based on Fallout 2.

Van Buren

 * Based on Fallout 3.

New Vegas

 * Based on Fallout: New Vegas.

Volume 5

 * Based on Fallout 4.

Volume 6

 * Based on Fallout 76.