Bab 120: Productivity
He glances behind him at Daisy, "You cleaned my bike?"
She nods, "Couldn't bear to see such a good piece ruined by all the dust it'd collected. Didn't want to do anything too invasive and decided to just clean it for you. Is that a problem?"
Afton shakes his head, if anything he was grateful... It'd require very specific tools and chemicals to clean all the dust, rust, and grime from it. Perhaps the [Mechanicus] perk would slowly remove it for him, but he had no idea how long that'd take. He was fairly happy with what she'd done anyway... The motorbike now shined as if it were brand new. "No, it looks great. Thanks."
Daisy smiles at him, "No problem... Though, I would like to ask for a favour in return for this small service." she says, causing his lightened mood to dour slightly, maybe she was just looking for something from him after all. "I was hoping you'd let me help out with fixing it up... No idea where you got the parts for it, but I'm not gonna give up the opportunity to recreate a real pre-war bike!" she says excitedly.
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"Sure." is all he could mutter, having never expected someone of Daisy's apparent age to get so excited over this. "If we get it fixed in good time I'll even let you drive it.", yep, her eyes seemed to light up at this, the woman skipping over to her toolbox and hefting it onto her shoulder before depositing it next to the bike.
He'd not admit he didn't actually know how to ride a motorbike, he'd only asked to see if she was able to teach him... If not it'd just be trial and error, hopefully he'd manage to survive crashing it a few times.
"Can we get started!?" she giddily says.
Afton shrugs, "There's still a couple parts that I need to... Retrieve before we can make it functional. All the bike needs doing right now is wiring, you got any experience with that?"
[Spies Guise is in effect]
Daisy nods, "Boy, I was wiring the insides of Verti-birds while you were still wearing a diaper. I've got this." she states while patting her bicep.
Afton raises a brow before he begins removing the reinforcements, allowing the duo to open it up and reveal the brand-spanking-new reactor core and cooling fan. Of course, this causes Daisy's eyes to bulge at the condition of them, apparently she'd never seen something this pristine before.
"Where did you find these components? They look straight outta the factory!" she exclaims.
Afton flashes a toothy smile, "That for me to know and you to get to work." he says, gesturing towards the stray wires that hadn't been fixed to anything yet.
She snorts and immediately starts handling the wiring with expert precision. He wanted to make sure she knew what she was doing before allowing her to work on it, but from the way she handled the wires, he could tell she'd handled machinery before.
"What did you say about verti-birds earlier?" he asks, the only people who should've been working on them are pre-war military, or belong to an organisation such as the NCR or Brotherhood of Steel... More likely the brotherhood as the NCR only has access to a few of them.
She purses her lips at the question, "Oh, that? I... I lived in an area close to the Brotherhood that has a lotta crashed verti-birds. Let me up close and personal to work on em."
"Mmhmm..." he hums, she didn't sound as convincing as she had earlier, "Well, it doesn't matter I guess." he shrugs.
As Daisy starts working on the bike Afton leaves to start using [Jury Rigging] on other vehicles to gather other components needed to fully fix the bike. He'd need to make sure no one was able to spot him this time though, if people discovered this ability of his he didn't doubt that the main forces of both NCR, Legion, and Brotherhood of Steel would send armies to acquire him... He could probably produce an armies worth of weaponry for them, if they pushed him enough. Imagining either organization having access to as many vehicles as they wished caused his features to harden.
Neither would use the newfound strength for the good of the wasteland, instead just gathering taking more resources and attempting to snuff out the competition. The brotherhood would maintain its draconian laws, the NCR would get even more corrupt than it already is... As for the Legion? He'd probably just be executed due to their attitude on technology. It was kinda that Caeser forced his armies to run into battle wearing sports gear and wielding machetes...
It'd ben a few days now since he'd started working with Daisy, he'd found her quite good company as they worked on the motorbike she'd started to call "Dirt-Bird". They did dance around certain subjects like what she used to do and other similar things. He was in the same situation due to his ties with the Brotherhood. It turned out rather amusing for both to try and trick the other into revealing pertinent information about themselves.
Afton was, of course, almost constantly pulled away from their project by Ada Straus who was slowly receiving more people due to Afton's climbing reputation... Seems like not many people actually trusted the woman and left their injuries alone, only now deciding to get them checked due to Afton's presence.
It was helpful he'd met Daisy as she continued working on the bike while he was away. She never questioned where the components had come from but he knew she was curious... He'd tell her... If he was stupid. No, he never intended to tell anyone of his abilities ever. The settling of someone's curiosity wasn't worth potentially being hunted to the ends of the earth.
While Afton was doing all of this, Karl was just relaxing like a regular old man... As if he wasn't a deadly former-ranger. Last he'd seen of the man he was still milling about Jeannie, maybe he really did want to to know her better? Or maybe the old man was just horny, something Afton'd rather not think about.
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Bab 121: Revenge
Tony Cole had been a regular guy who'd been down on his luck, not long ago two NCR mercs had infiltrated his buddies gang known as the Powder Gangers. He didn't know exactly what'd happened as he had been halfway between Nipton and Primm as it was going on.
Once he got back he found the whole place was crawling with NCR, not to mention the many corpses of his friends he could see through the barbed fences... It was at that moment he decided he would hunt down whoever caused this and get revenge.
He'd managed to find a hideaway he'd left just in case for this very situation. It contained a 10mm pistol, some dynamite, food, water, and spare clothes. Taking it he immediately headed back to Nipton to try and cut off the two merc's who'd done this.
The journey was difficult and he'd needed to stay off of the main road due to the colony of ants he remembered being there. The canyon paths were hidden but already mapped out by the Powder Gangers to allow easy access. The only problem was that Nipton had apparently been destroyed during his absence... Everyone was dead, even the the whore's which he often visited.
He didn't have enough supplies to continue like this so he'd been forced to scavenge the place... Fortunately there'd been some food and water left behind by whoever did this. Not to mention a large expensive book called "The Big Book of Science". He tucked it away into his gear to sell it for caps later.
Tony had just walked around Camp Searchlight and headed to Novac, he had to avoid it due to the radiation and encampment of NCR soldiers there. He was beginning to think continuing to wear his Powder Ganger outfit was a bad idea.
Eventually he reached Novac and booked himself a room before going around and asking the residence some questions. They were wary of his outfit but he just stated that he'd scavenged the clothes off of a corpse. They seemed more negotiable after learning that and told him everything he wanted to know about the mercs who were apparently staying here.
Karl Martin. Bastard. Tony always knew something was off with the fucker, the fact he wouldn't touch any of the girls they caught and didn't seem to care for caps aside from the alcohol they could potentially buy.
He'd not attack this man first as he knew of his skill... No, he'd need to go for the other one first. Afton Parker.
Little snot had a few rumours going on about him, Tony only knew him as an alright doctor and semi-alright shot. He wasn't sure whether to take the rumours of him being the "Fastest Shot in the Mojave" seriously. Regardless, he knew what he needed to do, it was fortunate that the kid was apparently working on something during the night.
Afton was heading back to his motel room after spending the day fixing up the motorbike with Daisy. He was pretty exhausted but felt satisfied at the progress they'd made.
The tiredness in his body vanished in an instant when he felt the barrel of a gun pressed up against his back. He hadn't expected this and had to suppress himself from spinning around and unloading his revolver at the perpetrator.
Whoever it was had some talent in stealth apparently, he'd not noticed them sneaking behind him... Though, that was partly due to how comfortable he'd gotten in this town, not having expected someone to want to harm him with all the help he'd been giving. "What do you want?"
"Revenge." Tony states, prodding Afton in the back to get him to start walking.
Afton starts walking, changing their route minutely. He knew the man probably wanted to get him outta town to kill him without alerting the whole place... But the man probably didn't do his research.
Tony grinned to himself as Afton continued walking like his personal pet. They'd just passed that giant dinosaur eyesore and were standing on a small hill opposite it. He had his "Pet" stand on the hill as Tony grinned at him. "It was dumb of you to follow me out of here. I was never going to let you go for what you have done."
Afton keeps his expression tame, he needed to know who this was, if he had any companions, and whether or not this'd be a recurring thing. Held his hands above his head while sending a hidden thumbs up to whoever was in the dinosaur right now, he needed them to wait for a moment before acting. "Well, before I die... I'd like to know what I did to deserve this." he asks.
Tony scowls, "Have you committed so many atrocities that you can't recall them? Bastard, I'd shoot you where you stand if I didn't enjoy the fear coming from you... The Powder Gangers, you wiped them out after joining them, there's nothing worse than a betrayer!"
"Hmm, even if I managed to escape, you have friends ready to help right?"
Tony growls at him, "No. You made sure of that by leading the NCR to us."
Afton raises a brow, "In that case-" his hands turn into a blur has he draws Lucky and fires six shots into the man's chest. A shot rings out from the dinosaur and splatters the Powder Ganger's grey matter across Afton's face, causing him to grimace.
He wipes his face off and looks down at sorry bastard who thought he could get one over on him. At least there wouldn't be anymore Powder Gangers hoping to attempt the same thing. He'd also want to thank whoever's in the dinosaur for their help. Having that extra line of defence was more for reassurance than anything else.
Afton looted the body for caps and equipment, grinning to himself as he found a Big Book of Science in their possession.
[+3 Science]
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