"House?"
"It seems you're having trouble with the enemy, Afton. Perhaps I could provide some assistance?"
...
"Assistance? You mean reactivating the defence systems you turned off for some reason?" he questions with a small frown.
"I didn't willingly do that. The Alien's proved immune to our weapons, and almost instantly destroyed the defences we had... I deactivated the remaining ones to retain at least some defensive measures." House explains.
Afton mentally chides House, but understands why the man had done it...The Alien shields were far too resistant for any mundane weapon to get through them. "What assistance can you provide then? I doubt you've got a BFG sitting around unattended."
House pauses, unsure what a 'BFG' was, but ignores it and continues anyway, "I had been designing a weapon that may, or may not be able to disable Liberty Prime's shields, should the need arise."
Afton crooks a brow, "But Bulwark controls Liberty-.... Hey! You were making countermeasures against us, weren't you!" he retorts exasperatedly.
House gives a sheepish cough and refuses to acknowledge his potentially traitorous actions, "*Ahem!* Anyway, regardless of the implications when designing it, you seem to be needing it at this moment... Head to the Lucky 38, it will be delivered to you at the front doors... Oh, and try not to get my tower destroyed please?" he requests.
Afton shrugs, "Oh? Well, even my kindest intentions may lead to your tower accidentally receiving a few stray shots." he trails off, "It's unavoidable really." he snarks before leaping away, flipping out of the alleyway and towards the Lucky 38 as the Alien spacecraft continue to try and pick him off from afar.
"ITS A PROTOTYPE BY THE WAY, IT MIGHT EXPLODE IN YOUR HANDS!" House shouts futilely as Afton abruptly leaves, hoping that the prototype weapon wouldn't end up killing Afton...
He dodges yet another of the many lasers, but is forced to protect himself as one smashes into his hastily made root shield... He's sent careening down the street again, this time going straight through a shop's window...
He groans as he gets back up, but notices a tall, thick mirror sitting next to him in the shop. Afton grins and picks it up, running out of the store into the oncoming laser fire and using the mirror as a bat, proceeding to swing it as if hitting a baseball.
*SHATTER!*
The mirror shatters as the first shot connects, but somehow manages to reflect it just as the glass turns into a superheated melting mess.
One of the flying saucers was unlucky enough to be caught off guard by this, allowing the laser to connect with it...
*BOOM!*
The ship almost instantly explodes, its shields imploding as the laser connects... The other aircrafts scatter and get some distance in response to one of their own being randomly destroyed like that. Allowing Afton to reach the Lucky 38 almost completely unmolested.
Once there, the ground opens up and pushes a strange-looking weapon towards him...
"I was only joking about the BFG... What the fuck." he mutters, as he hefts the large, futuristic-looking weapon that glows an eerie green... The ground also spits out a number of green canisters, presumably additional ammo.
Afton nods to himself and finds some cover behind the recently renovated, and currently ruined Omerta Casino.
After the shock of one of their comrades being randomly destroyed wears off, they quickly begin looking for Afton again. The flying saucers flying in formation over New Vegas.
Waits for an opportunity to strike, and jumps out of cover with the BFG-Pulse Gun with a vicious grin plastered across his face, "Say hello to my little friend!"
*ShhhhHHHK!*
...
Afton glances down in confusion as the still charging gun, tapping it a couple times as the flying saucers get closer and closer, arming their weapons.
"Just fucking shoo-"
*BEEEEEEEIIIIIIIING!!!!!*
A massive green energy globule leaves the barrel of the BFG, flying past the alien aircrafts as a wave of static green lightning follows it, enveloping the ships.
*JUKUKUKUKUUUK!*
The aircraft seem almost completely unharmed at first,. but quickly their systems begin to fail. First goes the shields, then the lights, then their flight systems stop, allowing them to fall from the sky.
All of them abruptly fall like rocks dropped in water, slamming into the ground and flipping due to their weirdly shaped ships.
Afton gives a kick to one bouncing towards him, splitting it, and its occupants in half from the sheer force of the exchange. He then starts tearing apart the other landed ships, using his plant arms as whips, blades, hammers... You name it.
The Aliens actually start getting out of their ships and start firing at him with smaller versions of the ship's lasers, but Afton easily dodges and blocks them. The aliens simply weren't able to keep up, and if Afton had to guess, they were actually weaker direct combatants than your average bandit.
Their bodies were slow and very frail, were it not for their advanced weaponry, they wouldn't last a second against any faction on earth... Which, means they were easy picking for Afton.
He easily kills all of them except one, he leaps at the alien, smashing its weapon out of its hands and grabbing it by its thin throat. He fingers penetrate the glass-dome-like helmet, allowing Afton to easily tear it off.
Afton gets face to face with the Alien, grinning maliciously, "You guys killed, my, wife." he states in its language with cold rage, waiting to see what the creatures would be. Its incredibly frail, and he kept having to hold himself back from crushing its bulbous green head, or tear it in half like a Kitkat.
He takes a great degree of satisfaction as its black eyes widen at understanding his words.
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Afton chuckles at its shocked face, decreasing his grip on its throat to allow it to speak, "Beg for your life, and I might let you live, creature."
...
"Die before, beg!... Race, weak. Will die. Friends weak, will die! Offspring WEAK! DEATH!" it screams in response, its sentence structure sounding broken and foreign, despite Afton knowing what each word means.
Afton shakes his head and laughs, "My race is weak!? Look at you! Without your weapons, you are weak! Once we steal your technology, I WILL ANNIHILATE YOUR RACE. You won't be able to touch our children, you won't even be able to stop me butchering your own!" he states, shaking the creature by its neck.
Once Afton stops shaking its neck, the creature grins, Afton Danger Sense triggering as he notices the alien activating some sort of device. He forms a root tentacle which grabs the device and throws it out of the city at terminal velocity... But the Alien just grins in response, showings its thin fangs as it gives an awkward laugh.
He crushes its neck and feels his hair begin to stand, static electricity clear in the air... His eyes widen as he looks up, finally noticing the giant spaceship that was floating overhead. A compartment underneath it opens up, and a bright light shoots from him, Afton momentarily wondering if he'd just had an Exterminatus dropped on his head...
A laser similar in power to his own Helios Sattalites descends before Afton can react, Afton somehow managing to use VAC's just before the laser hits him.
...
"Fuck." he mutters, his eyes locked on the bright beam of light about to wipe him off of the planet... How was he supposed to get out of this situation now...?
He shakes his head, looking at his status and focussing on the 10 remaining points left... Calming his breath, he selects the Mutations tab and starts looking through it, unsure what could possibly save him at this moment...
Sure, he had his [Miracle Maker] Perk which might save him... Or he might just survive the first wave of atomizing laser fire and get spawn killed almost immediately after...
He shakes his head, not willing to risk it... Plus the fact he had no idea if the orbital bombardment would reach the underground bunker where House, Tamia, and Rose were hiding.
[Atomic Decompression] : Allows user to enter a state of intangibility, doesn't work on held items. 10 points. Wouldn't help in protecting the bunker.
[Light Manipulation V3] : Allows user to manipulate Protons to a certain degree. 8 points for V1, V2, and V3... Doesn't really say how powerful this ability is, nor if he'd be able to immediately use it proficiently.
[Photosynth-Eater] : Allows user to absorb light and use it for sustenance. 4 points... Might be useful? It would meld well with his [Solar Powered] Perk, maybe even increasing its effectiveness? Though, it still might not be enough...
[Unstable Growth] : Allows user to force plants to grow incredibly quickly, even without necessary nutrients... Might be usable on his plant arms? 3 points...
[Diamond Skin] : Allows user to turn their body into an incredibly reflective surface, +20 DT when active... This, might actually work. It seems as if the Perk is more focused on defence than reflectiveness, but it might work nonetheless?... 6 points...
Afton frowns, wondering if he should keep looking... He'd already spent what must have been twenty-four hours looking through the list, and the above mention was the best he'd found that was in his price range... He was starting to regret wasting it on the language acquisition skill...
He shakes his head, deciding to just go for it, and take responsibility for what happens afterwards... He buys [Diamond Skin], and [Photosynth-Eater], praying to whatever gods still exist in this shit-hole of a world that the combination would work.
With that, he mentally reaffirms his decision and unpauses, immediately activating [Diamond Skin] and covering as much area as possible with roots. His skin quickly turns into a pure white, sparkly substance that spreads to the roots, all of them looking like massive diamond structures.
They each resembled disco-balls in their looks, which was only exacerbated when the orbital laser finally struck. The light of the attack refracting in all directions, in an unstoppable wave of destruction.
Almost immediately, the entirety of New Vegas was obliterated... The refracted laser scorching the city, cutting buildings in two, and even bisecting Mr House's Lucky 38...
Afton struggles under the force of the attack, feeling the heat of the laser rapidly transfer into his roots. [Solar Powered], [A Pool of Dead], and all of his other defensive Perks were working overtime to resist it, but he could feel it slowly eating away at him.
Of course, his regenerative abilities would be massively enhanced by the amount of energy he was absorbing from the light the laser was producing, his [Photosynth-Eater] mutation allowing him to produce even more roots than he usually could.
Unfortunately, it didn't feel as if the laser would stop any time soon... The ground under his feet had already started liquefying from the sheer heat being produced, and it wouldn't be long before Afton found himself sitting in lava... Luckily, his roots were fracting enough to stop the laser from eating completely through the earth, potentially saving the bunker...
Of course, it all depending on how far House had built the bunker... Something Afton wasn't privy to... Mostly because he didn't care enough to ask about it, nor expected it to be needed anytime soon.
Eventually, the assault ends. Afton's roots almost immediately turning to dust as the cool winds cause a catastrophic failure in their superheated structure. Afton falls down backwards, exhausted. But happy for stopping disaster from striking.
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