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Chapitre 324: Inspiration

"I am not just a toaster! I am the scourge of all appliances! And the bogey-man who keeps lesser toasters up at night! Any device that crosses my path, I will murder, and render them down to scrap! NONE WILL ESCAPE MY HEATING COIL!" it roars, wishing to show its dominance... Or something like that?

"Sooo, you dismantle appliances?" Afton asks, ignoring its over the top monologue.

"NO! I MURD-" It stops as it notices Afton's unforgiving glare, "Y-yes... My function is to dismantle..." it reluctantly admits.

Afton crosses his arms, "Just appliances? Or can it be any number of things... If I made you larger, could I toss a Protectron inside and receive materials from it?" he asks, curious.

"YES! I CAN! MAKE ME LARGER MASTER! SO I CAN DESTROY ANY WHO OPPOSE ME! MWAHAHAHA...HAHA...haha... Please don't hurt me." the toaster pleads, Afton's scowl having gotten more menacing the longer it laughed.

"Alright... I think I can find a use for you... I think I'll call you... Aphan" Afton states, smirking at his 'Ovan' joke.

Flashback end.

After his talk with Aphan, he elected to give it an upgrade, converting it from a useless toaster sitting inside the SInk, to a large incinerator waiting to be used outside the dome. It was probably the most effective thing he'd done since getting to Big Mt if he were honest.

Restoration of Big Mt had already begun, but they were having trouble finding where to put all the scrap metal and other useless materials. Once he created the incinerator however, everything could potentially be made usable again.

Despite the increase in size, Aphan's function remained the same, processing materials and spitting out anything useful. This proved to be incredibly valuable when the robots required materials to repair the various laboratories that were still in operation. X-13 and X-8 being prime examples of this.

Both continued to serve their respective purposes, Afton hadn't even realised at the time, but the labs themselves seem to be controlled by a limited AI. This is the reason they were able to continue operating without the scientist's intervention for centuries.

Of course, Afton intended to scrap and assimilate those AI's into the one he was creating. He didn't know their exact functions or programming, so it would be best to get rid of them before they do something he disliked.

Though, there was one thing he still needed to do... X-22 needed to be razed. He hadn't found the time to do so as of yet, but that didn't make it any less necessary. Especially since the cryogenically frozen pre-war plants and seeds were still locked away inside somewhere.

If Afton were honest with himself, half the reason to get rid of X-22 was his fear of the fungus, while the other was his wish to taste proper tomato sauce again... He'd heard of a similar plant called a 'Tato', but from hearsay, it was basically a shittier, more durable tomato.

He sighs to himself, head glowering down at his desk where a new terminal had been placed for his research needs. He'd been trying to programme this AI for a while now, but found it to be significantly harder than Mobius had made it out to be.

It was now easy to see why each personality had such... Interesting quirks. They needed to base themselves on something, or their personality would slowly, hm, what's the word... Degrade?... For example, Alfred was almost obsessive in his duties towards Afton, barely managing to contain his desire to be useful at every moment. If Alfred let go of restraint, the personality would literally be forcing the tiny robots to carry Afton wherever he needs to go.

Aphan was another obvious example. The intensity of the personalities 'quirk' needed to match its functions. This is the reason Jefferson, and Lumina were less... 'Weird'. They had their own eccentricities, but they kept it to themselves so it was almost unnoticeable. And don't get Afton started on Austin.

If Afton had a couple years, he could probably create an AI that wouldn't be restricted like this, but he obviously didn't have that much time. Eventually, he'd need to return to the Mojave, but before that he intended to get Big Mt self-sufficient and working properly without him hovering over everyone. Not to mention creating enough weaponry that'd scare both the Legion and NCR.

So yeah, Afton was struggling to create a valid personality for his AI that was 'quirky' enough to not lose itself in its programming and go on a terminator style rampage. Of course, he could create restrictions on it, but that could only go so far.

Afton actually needed Mobius to finish the transistors before he could actually create the AI, as it'd need much more sophisticated machinery to function in the manner he wished.

[Eureka! has been activated]

...

A flood of ideas suddenly starts flowing through his mind, causing him to sit upright at his desk. His eyes glaze over momentarily as an old memory from his original world plays before his eyes like a movie...

...

A few minutes pass, and Afton slumps as the breakthrough passes, he's pretty tired and has a massive headache, but despite all this a smile finds its way onto his face... "Yeah, that would definitely work. Actually... IT'S PERFECT! HAHAHAHAHA!" he bursts into uproarious laughter after realising how stupid he had been. The answer had always been so SIMPLE!

His fingers become a blur as he starts rapidly typing, the terminal almost unable to keep up with the information he was stuffing inside it. He now knew exactly what he wanted the personality to be, now he just had to create it.


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Chapitre 325: Doggo

Afton was strolling outside the Think Tank, getting from fresh air after spending many hours hunched over his desk. He watched as robots hobbled and floated from one place to another, all completing various tasks assigned to them.

Already, Afton could see a drastic change to Big Mt. No longer were raving bands of Lobotmites roaming around, Afton had assigned the Cyberdogs from X-8 to finally deal with them. Dala objected as she still wished to use some for experiments, but Afton understood such research was more for her enjoyment than anything useful.

This did leave quite a large stockpile of weaponry in storage though, the Lobotomites had somehow acquired relatively good equipment to arm themselves. Sure, all of it used by them for any length of time was rather heavily damaged, but that could easily be fixed.

Already, the area around the Think Tank was looking almost brand new, there weren't any more wreckages or scrap metal left after the robots had shoved them into Aphan and reused for something else.

Not to mention the footpaths had been 'renovated' with fresh stone and concrete. Though, that was more on Klein's whim than anything, Afton personally wished to get everything important done first before fixing the aesthetics of the place.

Afton squints as a large figure begins approaching, carrying something in its mouth. As it got closer he could finally see that it was a massive dog, Gabe... After Afton took over Think Tank, he worked with Borous to try and flush the various Chems out of the beast's system. Afton's medical knowledge was as good as it can get... For humans. For Gabe he was left being a lab assistant for Borous.

Eventually, they managed to fix Gabe up, but the beast's mind seemed to have reverted to a puppy's... Perhaps this was good, perhaps this was bad. On one hand, it wouldn't remember the brutal experiments it was subjected to. On the other, they'd have to train a GIANT dog to be calm and respond properly to orders...

In the end, Borous just elected to expand the X-8 Lab and shove Gabe in it so he could be trained like the rest. It didn't take long, and now Gabe was essentially the pack leader of their army of Cyberdogs.

Most of the time they patrolled inside and the outskirts of the crater, but Afton also had them assigned to the robots scavenging materials far out of the crater. He hadn't lost any Cyber dogs or robots yet, and that's the way he wanted to keep it.

He focussed on the thing in Gabe's mouth and scowled. It was a Spore Carrier. The limp corpse of the green creature was in pieces and dripping green, almost coagulated blood as Gabe dropped it before Afton, sitting and wagging its tail as if waiting for a reward... Which it probably was.

Afton didn't have any food on him so he decided the next best thing... "Who's a good boy?" he coo's, scratching the dog on its head and behind its ears.

"You're a good boy!" Nyx joins in and praises Gabe along with Afton. The dog sucking up the attention like a vacuum cleaner.

Afton knew Nyx had been a bit bored through these weeks of 'not sneaking', but there wasn't really much he could about it. He intended to treat her when he'd finally constructed his chosen weapon against the X-22 Lab, and everything else infected by Fungus.

He would have asked Dala to come up with a serum to completely kill it, but he'd obviously also die as a result. It was honestly very, very fortunate that she'd managed to inhibit its growth in the first place. The fungus had been created before the great war, which is why Vault 22 had it, so if it had been left for 200 years it would've literally subsumed the world by now.

"User, your appointment with Dr. Mobius is in five minutes." Nyx states, Afton having asked her to help him keep on schedule.

He palms his face, "He'd almost forgotten..." he stops stroking Gabe, much to the dogs chagrin and heads back into the Think Tank, travelling up the Sink and onto the balcony. He reaches into his Deathclaw leather satchel and retrieves a Holodisk which he plugs into his Pipboy.

He looks at the program that'd been opened up and at the various locations that were listed... "Think Tank, no. X-13, no. Higgs Village, no... Ah, Forbidden Zone Dome." he mutters, selecting the option and going completely still.

*CRACK!*

Lightning strikes his position, completely disintegrating him and leaving nothing behind. Not even a scorch mark on the floor where the lightning had hit.

*CRACK!*

Another bolt of lightning strikes outside Mobius residence and Afton steps out from it, nonplussed. Robo-Scorpions were patrolling, but they left him alone, as opposed to what happened last time.

He quickly made his way through the massive chamber where repairs on the Giant Robo-Scorpion were on the way. Mobius had programmed some robots via already known schematics to fix up the damage Afton had done to it during his fight.

He makes his way past and into the dome where Mobius was residing... Walking through the tunnel, and up the ramp into the main chamber. As opposed to what it was previously, there was no-longer a sickly green fog hanging around the air, the writing scrawled across the floors and walls had disappeared and many of the damaged machinery had been repaired.

Floating above a desk with some sort of arc-welder was Mobius who was looking very, very different from when he'd first met the scientist... As promised, Afton flushed his Bio-Gel and added a mixture of various chems into it that'd hopefully fix some of the problems 200 years of not degrading in expired Bio-Gel would cause.

Of course, he wasn't a miracle worker... Not for other people at least. Mobius was still pretty senile, but more or less didn't have massive problems remembering things nowadays. This allowed him to focus on various projects without getting distracted and going off on a tangent.

His broken monitor and damaged robotic body had been repaired, and the misty fog in his brain tank had been cleaned, making it clear and his brain visible to all who wished to look... Why they'd want to do that though is a mystery.


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