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Chapter 562: Juan day, over the rainbow!

Afton eventually breaks out of his deep thoughts and sighs, "Glados, send some scouts west of the Mojave to search for the OSI base."

"Affirmative."

Afton nods to himself and turns back towards the man, "Alright, now's time to see if you were telling the truth... Dala, wake up the girl." he states as he stuffs a cloth into the man's mouth and ties it to prevent him from speaking.

Some stimulants and slaps later, and the woman is up, already paling at the sight of Mr X with tears of despair streaming down her face. "PLEASE LET ME GO! I'LL DO ANYTHING!"

"Uh-huh, well Mrs 'Do anything', let's first start with where the OSI base holding Doctor Macka Bree is."

Her head whips around at Afton once she hears the name, but quickly purses her lips once she spots her restrained and gagged colleague. "I KNOW WHERE IT IS!" she exclaims, still looking incredibly fearful, "IT'S UNDERNEATH THE CONGRESS BUILDING IN SHADY SANDS!"

...

Afton smirks at the male scientist who's begun to sweat through his clothes. His eyes were wide and disbelieving as if he hadn't expected her to say that. "Oh? Are you sure? This guy here says the base is located west of the Mojave."

The female glares daggers at her colleague but quickly nods, "He lied! That's why he gave such a vague answer!" she shouts.

Afton slowly nods in agreement, "But... Why would a secret OSI base be under the congress building?... Hm, seems like I'll need to be more persuasive." he states while holding out his hand, "Dala, pass me the small bone saw... Thank you."

Afton walks between the two hostages while clutching the small tool, "Hmm, how to choose. Girl, you get to decide, choose either him or yourself."

"HIM!" she immediately shouts.

Afton nods, and turns to face the fearful man, "Look like it's your lucky day. She picked you to be spared punishment... Are you lovers or something?" he jokes while using chains to restrain the woman's arm, all the while she screams that she didn't understand the question.

He locks her fingers in place and begins slowly sawing off each digit, one by one. She screams bloody murder as this occurs, but neither Afton nor Dala take any notice of it. Once all the digits on one of her hands were severed, he took his time to feet each one to Mr X as the two hostages watched. "Sorry, looks like my old man was hungry... You do know he's my father, right?" he questions and quickly finds that they hadn't.

He nods, "Yeah, Doctor Macka saw fit to mutate my father into this... Say, I wonder what'd happen if I injected his fluids into you... Would you become the same? Or would you simply explode?"

"Oooooh, I like this... Let's explode all the teddy bear's fluff across the walls." Dala audibly mutters to herself, unconsciously revving her sawblade.

"P-PLEASE! DON'T!.... I LIED, OKAY!? IT ISN'T IN SHADY SANDS!" she suddenly screams out, his [Spies Guise] Perk along with all his other intimidating related ones most likely helping this process along.

"So your colleague was right?" he confirms and the woman rapidly nods.

He thinks for a moment before grinning to himself, activating his Pipboy and turning it to the map. "Alright, here's one last test. Each of you will point to where you think the base is, if both are similar, then I won't kill you. Cool? Cool." he states while choosing the woman first.

She does as she's told, quickly using her unmutilated hand's index finger to point at a position a couple hundred miles or so west of the Mojave.

Afton nods and lets the male scientist do the same, both pointing at around the same place. Confirming the location of the OSI. "Aha, thank you for your cooperation. This information will be very helpful in my future endeavours. Dala, do what you want with them... Actually, wait... Let's extract some FEV from my father and see its effects on them. Maybe it'll provide some insight into his mutations." he states, and both scientists immediately start struggling against their restraints. "BUT YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T KILL US! PLEASE DON'T DO THIS!"

Afton shrugs, "I'm not killing you, just subjecting you to the same treatment of my father. See, if you paid a little more attention to your Karma, you wouldn't be in this situation." he states, glaring at the completely red aura covering the both of them.

They both had very limited positive karma, with a shit ton of negative. It wasn't even a question if they were bad people, only 'how bad'. "Both of you enjoy your stay, say your peace to whatever god you worship, because you'll likely be meeting them soon." he says as he leaves, ignoring the terrible screams of the woman as despair overtakes her.

He claps the dust and dried blood from his hands and decides to take a walk to clear his head. He'd been stuck in that lab for hours, plus the discoveries of FEV's influence on his father had his head cramping at all the work he'd have to put in to fix this.

He's greeted by the residents of Big Mt as he strolls through the place, though, most keep a good distance due to the blood covering his hands. He does spot a strange duo sitting on a bench further up the bath though...

"Anja? Scorpion dude?" he asks, stifling the knowing grin that as threatening to appear on his face.

"A-ah sir!" Anja scrambles to say, her posture straightening in his presence... Obviously, she hadn't seen him coming because, youknow, her eyes. He just chuckles though, "Relax Anja, I'm not 'sir' right now, chill."

"Ah..." she murmurs as she slowly nods.

Scorpion-Man looks at Afton and frowns, "Erm... My name is Juan, Juan Cienna.." he offers, not wanting to be called 'Scorpion-Man' for the rest of his life.

Afton crooks a brow and somehow manages to hide his snort, "Juan Cienna? No relations to John Cena right?"

"John Cena? Who is that?" asks the superhero, thoroughly confused.


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Chapter 563: Morino til Mornin.

"John Cena? Who is that?" asks the superhero, thoroughly confused.

Afton shrugs and waves it off, "Nevermind... What're you guys doing here anyway? I thought you'd still be training, Juan..."

The man blushes slightly, "Ah, well... G-Glados asked me to look after Anja for a bit a couple days ago and..." he trails off, obviously too embarrassed to admit it.

"You hit it off, huh?" he chuckles.

Juan and Anja nods, "Y-You how it is with my condition... Even without that, Anja is pretty great..." he mutters, both his and somehow Anja's face furiously blushing.

Afton just idly nods his head, "Alright, as long as you two are cool... Oh, yeah, Juan you better kick up your training. Thing's are going to get very interesting, very soon." he states before leaving, continuing on his walk.

Juan glances to Anja after Afton leaves, "He is strange, isn't he?..."

Anja smiles but slaps his arm, "Maybe, but he's still our leader. Respect is still due, regardless of how casual he acts."

Juan shrug, "Alright, alright... Say, it's kinda hot, you wanna get some ice cream?"

Elsewhere :

Orion Moreno, former Enclave heavy weapons trooper, and current homeless vagrant that continues to slowly walk through the desert. He adjusts his glasses and brushes some of his aged silver hair out of his tanned face as he searches ahead for his destination...

He'd been walking for days since the NCR finally threw him out of his house, and the bag on his back carrying all his valuables was feeling like an anvil at this moment. He squints and a hand attempted to stifle the sun but gives a dim smile as he finally spots the walls of Novac.

"Finally! Thought I'd die of dehydration before I reached this damned place!" he mutters to himself, the sight of Novac unconsciously increases the strength in his strides. "This place better be worth it Daisy!"

An hour or two later he finally arrives at Novac, but as soon as he approaches the gate he's frozen in place as many high-tech looking auto-turrets spring out of the walls, all pointing directly at him.

"You there! Don't move or your own safety!" a guard stop the wall shouts, looking as if this was a common occurrence.

"You fuckin' think!?" Morino exclaims, not daring to move an inch... This place looked more fortified than the old Enclave oil rig, he wasn't a robotics expert either, so he'd do nothing that could potentially set those things off.

"What business do you have here, stranger!?"

"I'm here to see Daisy Whitman!" he shouts, continuing to stand stock-still.

The guard looks surprised at his words but nods regardless, "Stay there, I'll go get her!" he says before running off.

"You could at least deactivate the tur-..."

...

"Fuck sake." he grumbles, continuing to mimic a statue.

Ten minutes later and Daisy finally reaches the wall, looking surprised to see Morino just standing there as if frozen midstep. "Orion? What're you doing there?" she asks.

Morino looks confused at this, "Whaddya mean!? You invited me here!" he shouts.

Daisy shakes her head, "No, I mean what are you doing standing there like a street performer?"

...

"You think I'm gonna move with those guns pointed at me!? Deactivate them for gods sake!" he retorts.

...

"Hahahaha!" Daisy laughs, slapping her thigh a couple times at Morino's troubled look. "You think our defences are too stupid to differentiate between neutral and hostile!? Stop fooling around!" she turns towards a nearby guardsman, "Open the gate, he's an old friend."

The gate quickly opens and Morino steps inside and is greeted by not only Daisy, but by Arcade Gannon as well?

"Hey kid, didn't think you'd be around here too... What, those hippies at the FOA not doing it for ya' anymore?" he states.

He shakes his head, "For your information, that isn't why I left... But, it's still good to see you again, even if you're as grumpy as ever."

Morino slaps him heavily on the shoulder, "I gotta right to be grumpy! Those NCR bastards kicked me outta my own house! Fuckers!" he grouses.

"Huh, sounds like something they'd do... They haven't exactly been the most peaceful group these days." Arcade mutters, "You heard from the others? Johnson or Henry?"

Morino shakes his head, "Nah... Heard some rumours about Johnson but I ain't opening that can'o worms... As for the Doc? No idea... Heard he's still roaming around like an egg-head, doing egg-head things for egg-head people." he shrugs, "Now, why don't you tell me a bit about this town? This ain't like the Novac I remember, and those symbols remind of something I heard over the radio."

"Mmhm, you heard of Bulwark already then?" Arcade questions and Morino nods with a scoff.

"Who hasn't these days? I ain't never seen anyone give the NCR as many problems as those fuckers have... It's fuckin' hilarious!" he laughs.

Arcade idly nods, "Yeah, well, this place is technically owned by them... They provide protection, supplies, even research materials for me. Really, the mystery gets more ridiculous the more you try looking into it... We don't receive visitors, yet our supplies are constantly getting restocked..." Arcade leans closer, "If I had to guess, I'd say Bulwark has some teleportation technology they aren't willing to speak about."

Morino's brows reach his hairline, "Teleportation? You sure? That's some future-tech-shit that the Enclave could only dream of..." he conspiratorily whispers.

Arcade quickly nods, "Yeah, but that's only the tip of the iceberg with these guys..."

...

Both men almost jump outta their skin as Daisy approaches behind them, "Howdy Orion, never thought I'd actually see your ugly face greet my town." she jokes.

"Yeah, well, never woulda come if I still had a home... Look, my feet have got blisters ontop of their blisters, can we sit down someplace and have a drink?" Morino groans.

Daisy shrugs, "Well, I suppose we can show you to your new house, we'll figure out what work you can do once you've settled in." she explains as she begins leading the man on a tour through the town.


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