Salvatore led Adam down the hall towards the reactor room and passed by the path that led to all the rooms, he could explore that section more thoroughly later, but he already saw the refugees from Naper who found cleaning supplies, mops, and other various tools beginning to clean the place up, some in the rooms themselves, and some in the hallway. He was surprised they had jumped right into work but it was not his concern at the moment, he had more pressing issues.
Once they were near the reactor room but safely far enough away from the door so Adam wouldn't get any residual radiation, he walked over to the Mr. Handy that sat on the floor, deactivated. Adam nodded to Salvatore and then sat down on the ground before plugging his pip-boy into the Mr. Handy and booting it up to see what might be wrong.
The first issue was simple, it was out of fuel. Luckily there was still some fuel in the Vault somewhere in all likelihood, after all the Vault was meant to independently run for a long time, and since the former residents left shortly after they got inside there must be a ton of unused fuel in here.
The second issue seemed to be much more problematic. The code was seriously messed up. At first Adam couldn't understand what happened with all this code, it looked so jumbled and confusing with extra lines of coding that made the entire system feel off. And then he noticed it, the hyper specific command code lines that directly related to the reactor control systems. Someone had deliberately tampered with the Mr. Handy to sabotage the reactor. Why, and for what purpose he could not say. But this was way too specific to not be done intentionally. Someone with a far greater idea of how nuclear fusion worked than him set it up so the Reactor would not be destroyed but… lose power? He wasn't sure, again, the effects went over his head. However it was very easy to tell which subroutines were added after the fact and which weren't. It felt as if whoever had done this to sabotage the reactor had also made it easy for the Mr. Handy to be repaired so long as someone knew programming? It certainly raised far more questions than it answered but ultimately he had a task to complete, so he set to work.
Salvatore left shortly after to help Pearl move the bodies leaving Adam alone to work out the bugs in the Mr. Handy. Luckily it was not too difficult to do, he just needed to be thorough as well as careful not to erase any important information from the Mr. Handy, after all it was reasonably the only way he was going to get the reactor running again.
Several hours passed while Adam plugged away, making sure to be extremely meticulous knowing how critical this was, however eventually he was done and he stood up, pleased to have finished.
"You finished kid?" Salvatore said as he hauled over a gas canister labeled for Mr. Handy fuel.
"Yes, but how did you-" Adam said, confused at Salvatore bringing over the fuel without him asking.
"Figured it might come in handy." Salvatore shrugged. Adam shook his head in disbelief and then refueled the Mr Handy. Finally he reactivated the unit. The Mr. Handy sprung to life a moment later.
"Good afternoon sir!" The Mr. Handy said with its chipper British tone as always.
"Recognize Adam Baxter." Adam said, wasting no time to make use of admin privileges.
"Recognized, sir!"
"Wonderful. Run a diagnostic of all your internal programs as well as your external hardware, report any malfunctions." There was a moments pause as the Mr. Handy just floated there until it began to speak again.
"I report no issues with my program, however there are a few minor malfunctions with my third actuating servo in my optical sensor as well as the saw reporting non-functionality."
"Can you complete repairs on the reactor for the Vault in your current condition?" Adam asked, skipping to the end, he wanted to get the reactor up as soon as possible.
"I cannot sir!" Adam raised an eyebrow.
"Why not?"
"I am incapable of completing repairs on the system alone as last time I interacted with the system it was too damaged for me to fix. I require an engineer to assist me." Adam then turned to look at Salvatore.
"Can you?" Adam asked him with pleading eyes.
"What, me?" Salvatore groaned. "I told you I don't know the first thing about fixing that shit up."
"Yes well there are few people we can ask, I can't ask Pearl, she would lack the dexterity to handle the tasks, and the same for most of the robots here. I can ask Rae to help as well, but it'd be best if you were there to, at bare minimum, supervise."
Salvatore sighed loudly.
"Alright, I'll do it, fine. Just don't expect me to have much of an impact, guess I can grab a chair and just watch." He shrugged. Adam smiled.
"Wonderful, I'll let Rae know." He patted Salvatore's shoulder and then turned to The Mr. Handy.
"Okay, I got you one assistant here, a second assistant, a robobrain named Rae will be joining you in the reactor room soon, is that enough?"
"I assume so sir!" The Mr. Handy responded cheerfully. "Though I will not know the extent of the damage until I take a look at the reactor again, I have been deactivated for at least a few decades according to my internal chronometer." Adam nodded.
"Alright, well get to work, do what you can, if there is anything you need I will find it for you, send Salvatore to report to me what you need."
"Right away sir!" The Mr. Handy said before turning to fly away. Adam remained silent for a moment and then spoke up again, stopping the Mr. Handy in its tracks.
"By the way, do you have a name?"
"I do sir! I was once called Remington by the residents of this vault!"
"Wonderful, nice to meet you Remington" Adam said with a smile.
"Wonderful to meet you too sir! If you don't mind my asking, judging by your vault suit, I assume you are a resident of this vault. Who, might I ask, is the current overseer?"
"Ah um…" Adam paused. "Currently the vault does not have an overseer, if it matters you can report to me, but the residents of the vault are all new."
"Understood sir! Now, I shall resume my task of repairing the reactor. I shall report back to you when my task is complete!" And with that Remington began to float away. Salvatore rolled his eyes and then followed behind, heading into the nearby reactor room to see what they could do to fix it. Even in the short time the heavy metal interior vault door leading into the reactor room was open there was a sizable amount of radiation leaking out, enough that even a bit away and around a corner Adam's pip-boy was ticking in warning. However as soon as the door closed behind them the geiger counter stopped.
Truly it was far too dangerous for a human to enter the room right now, he made the right call, but for the moment he needed to send Rae to help Remington repair the reactor, hopefully. He was tired of these dim red lights being the only source of illumination in the entire vault with the exception of the entrance.