FREV Chapter 02 (Patreon)

Omniscient Point of View

‘New Human’ was focused on several different experiments, drugs, and activities to evolve humans into the next form of evolution. Anyone who looked at the F.E.V.(forced evolutionary virus) knew it was a dead end except the scientist who invented it. The giant glaring problem was there was no way to guide the evolution resulting in gigantic mutated ugly orc-esk humanoids. 

The scientists who stole his formula began altering it to not be so instantaneous, allowing more adaptability in the effects the person would develop. Thus the new formula R.E.V.(rapid evolutionary virus) was the most effective method for improving humans beyond their capability. The trial period thankfully took place outside the vault before the bombs dropped allowing for the testing to be done large scale first.

Besides the R.E.V. project, there was another to try and develop humans into psykers. Another on removing the ghoulification effect while retaining the immortality of a person. Another on guiding mutations gained from radiation and another on developing radiation resistance in people. Each with their own team struggled to make as much progress as the R.E.V. project did.

The biggest problem with the R.E.V. project is it didn’t mix well with any of the other evolution projects. If someone was given the R.E.V. they’d lose any progress on becoming a psyker and besides the slight improvement to radiation resistance, there were no signs a R.E.V. human could become a ghoul or develop mutations. 

It was almost thrown out casually during a meeting. If the R.E.V. humans couldn’t evolve further, perhaps the bonus effects could be bred into them, sparking another round of selective breeding. That was when another problem was realized. The R.E.V. only worked if you had the mental fortitude to not become an unthinking brute after it was used on you. So most of the people given the drug were women, the only few male scientists given the drug were the only ones who wouldn’t become psychotic maniacs.

The problem with the R.E.V. is it made women sterile. Twenty years after the bombs fell there was finally a breakthrough in the psyker drug when a very small amount of Zetan DNA was added to the mix. The new drug had the opposite effect as the R.E.V. where only those with a robust body could become psykers without their nervous system failing during the process.

While it meant that many troops could become psykers, it also limited the original selective breeding process because almost no women could take the medicine without dying. The only one with a strong enough body was a general. The general was outside the rank of those forced into the selective breeding program… But that was before she was the only female psyker they had made. Perhaps in a few more decades, they could reduce the effects on the body so women could be psykers more easily but the leaders didn’t want to wait that long.

They forced one of the scientists who had taken the R.E.V. and the psyker general together and the forced relationship became a real one when she finally became pregnant for the first time. This was when the first problem started. Vault tec, or the true Enclave leadership caused the end of the world, and they did it on purpose. Behind the scenes it made more sense, they bankrupted America with all their research projects and instead of paying the bill, they caused nuclear armageddon so they’d come out on top. The only problem with that is the main force they were relying on wasn’t that reliable.

The first time the leadership outside of the true vault(Vault Zero) was handed down the problem happened. The new leader of the Enclave outside the vault almost immediately betrayed the members of Vault Zero, removing their connection to the outside world so they could lead the Enclave without the Vault's input. It was shortsided for them to have every single capable person inside Vault Zero but at the same time, anyone they sent to lead would have most likely done the same thing as the new leader did.

This didn’t hurt Vault Zero much at the beginning but over time the lack of new information would cause many problems that could have been solved with members on the outside of a vault or knowledge gathered from other vault tests. The first large-scale problem was the castration rebellions that kept popping up. Almost everyone would rather die than be castrated, even through the brainwashing most were willing to rebel.

They needed more test subjects, except the number of dwellers who would go out and not come back kept increasing until it started to hurt their future plans. Even larger groups were soon getting wiped out until the first Vault war started. Tens if not hundreds of thousands of people showed up after one of the squads betrayed Vault Zero. Vault Zero killed a hundred for every one of theirs that died but it was an almost endless tied of bodies aiming to overtake the vault. They were forced to close the vault after eighty percent of the troops were killed.

The outside army created a city on top of the vault, waiting for them to open their doors once again. The prophesized child was finally born, not only where they strengthened through the R.E.V. but even as a child it was clear they had psyker telekinetic abilities. He had a mostly normal upbringing for the first five years of his life before he was forced into a cryogenic chamber.

The chamber was designed to keep the person's mental faculties active while slowing the rate they aged down to a tenth of the speed a normal person would age. The Visiontron/cryogenic pod would allow them to be trained to become the next leader of the Enclave outside of the vault while being puppeted by the true leadership still.

The Test Subject was forced through many rigorous tests, surpassing all of them with relative ease. Soon they were out of the original planned guidance and left him to his own devices. The Test Subject created his own world to live in but he always felt like something was missing. He somehow found a terminal inside the false world and learned what the Enclave leadership was planning for him.

He devised several plans for how to thwart the leader inside Vault Zero but at the end of the day, it didn’t really matter. If he went through with their plan and became the leader of the Enclave on the outside, he could just never reactivate their access to the other vaults, leading the new Enclave to crush the members of Vault Zero and overtake their original plan.

The Test Subject finally emerged from the cryo pod thirteen years after he went in. While his body was that of an eighteen-year-old, his mind was that of someone who lived a hundred and thirty-five years. He effectively lived an entire life before his real life had even started. Most of his life in the cryo pod was spent gaining knowledge and skills. He was one of the most competent people on the planet. As the cryo pod slowly opened he did his best to hold back the smirk across his face as he looked at the several men in power armor that were going to ‘guide’ him to the leaders.