Afton glances between the two healthy lobotomites, the one missing an arm, and the two cyberdogs glaring at him behind the lobotomites. He didn't really know if they'd continue shooting sonic blasts at him or simply charge his position... He wasn't exactly looking forward to seeing how painful their enhanced bites would feel.
The lobotomite whose arm he'd cut off seemed to be in a lot of pain, but wasn't losing all that much blood. He wasn't lying when he'd said these weapons were like lightsabers. Their wound had been cauterized by his simple slash...
The lobotomite in question seemed to shrug off the pain however, picking up another dropped holo-axe-thing with the remaining arm and charging him, the other two seemingly allowing them to test the waters.
Afton dodged backwards to avoid the wild slash and chops down in anticipation of the next, freeing the lobotomite of their other hand. Not wasting any time, he uses his other axe and slashes the lobotomite at the waist, cutting them completely in half...
He didn't even have time to be surprised at the sheer power of these weapons as he was forced to throw himself to the side axe two more shockwaves shot by the cyberdogs pass his position. Once he was out of his roll the two other lobotomites were already upon him.
Afton blocked one attack by locking the axe handles together, and was forth to do the same for the next attack. His arms were restrained while trying to hold back the attacks of both lobotomites, if he didn't have 13 Strength right now the enemy would be overpowering him.
While he's preparing to throw them off of him he's stuck in the side by a punch, one of the lobotomite's taking the opportunity to attack around the axe. In response, Afton slams his foot down on their knee, breaking it inwards in a spectacularly disgusting fashion.
Just as he was about to take advantage of the now crippled enemy, he notices the cyberdogs running towards him. "HAARRRGH!" he cries as he forces the enemies back wit hall his strength, throwing them off of their feet from the sheer force of it.
Immediately afterwards he turns towards the cyberdogs that were slowly circling him as if they were wolves and he was prey... They were definitely smarter than your average dog, or average cyberdog for that matter.
He holds both axes in a ready stance as he slowly turns to face them, idling noting that the dogs were separating and beginning to flank him. He glances towards where the lobotomites were and notes that the still healthy one was getting to their feet-
The cyberdog, either noticing his attention being elsewhere or just losing their patience finally snarl and charge him. Afton had expected this and prepares to slam his axes into the dog and hopefully cut them in two.
But before the dog is in range it stops back quickly backs away again... His eyes widen when he realises what it's plan is-
*BARK!*
Again, he's thrown through the air, wildly spinning as if he'd been hit by a sportscar. He doesn't lose concentration though, even if he was feeling slightly nauseous. He concentrates on the cyberdog as he flies over it, prepared to slash at it when he hits the ground.
*SLAM!*
"OOF!" he lands with a groan, and can already hear the cyberdogs paws pattering across the stone. He waits for couple more moments before swinging an axe in its position, feeling a small amount of resistance as he hears a pained yelp.
Turning towards it, he spots the attacking cyberdog that'd had half of its body cut off at an angle. He wastes no time and slashes an axe past its head, putting it out of its misery as he looks towards the remaining cyberdog and lobotomite.
Seeing them somewhat apprehensive about approaching him, he lets the axes clatter to the ground and drops to his knee while pulling his Anti-Material rifle off of his back. Seeing this the enemy breaks into a sprint towards him, but they are unable to stop him from firing a couple of shots.
*BAAANG!!*
A 50. calibre bullet tears through the brain dome of the remaining cyberdog, passing through its head, and continuing into its torso, causing so much damage that even a necromancer wouldn't attempt to bring it back.
Quickly, he pulls the bolt and prepares another shot, aiming it directly at the chest of the approaching lobotomite...
*BAANG!!*
The sheer force of the bullet throws them backwards, a huge hole forming where their heart used to be. They fall lifelessly to the ground, their heart, spine, and most of their lungs having been unceremoniously removed.
Afton grins as he discharges the empty 50. cal shell via the bolt, afterwards slinging the weapon back over his shoulder to be ready for further use in future if he needed it. He gets to his feet and draws Lucky and starts reloading it, opening the wheel and sliding .357 rounds into their respective housing.
He walks over to the crippled lobotomite who was still for some reason, trying to crawl towards him. He points the gun at their head and executes them without any fanfare, granting the blue grass more sustenance via whatever fluids leak into the earth.
Now with the enemies dead, Afton is able to take a look at the futuristic axes the enemy had been wielding... He picks one up and slowly examines it, only now noticing a hidden button on the side. He presses it and causes the blue holo-blade to cut out, leaving just a metal handle... Raising a brow, he uses his inventory to get the proper stats of the weapon.
[Proton axe]
Strength req : 5
DMG : 50
Crit dmg : 25
Crit mult : x1
AP : 22
Weight : 8
Value : 6000
Special : +50 damage against robots outside Big MT, +20 damage against Big MT robots and power armour.
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Afton is quite taken aback once he observes the stats of the proton axes... They are apparently weaker than Knock-Knock, only having 50 damage compared to it's 66... Why were they so strong then?
Sure, the Proton axes had special attributes that did more damage to robots and power armour, but that didn't apply to lobotomites, even if it might barely to Cyberdogs...
He rubs his face while trying to solve this mystery... They acted like lightsabers, cutting through anything and burning surfaces they contracted. But their stats were completely contrary to that, was it perhaps, something relating to him? Thinking about it further, maybe one of his Perks was-...
"Oh... Is it really that simple?" Afton mutters to himself as he pulls up the Perk that may be responsible for this...
[Uncivilized Weapon] : All Energy weapons become overcharged, adding +100% damage to any Energy Weapon you use!
... Did the Proton axes count as Energy Weapons? Because that would make sense. Boosting the pitiable 50 damage of the proton axe to 100... It might not seem that much of an improvement, but when you consider that an Anti-Material rifle does 110 damage, it's obvious to see why they seem so powerful. Especially if you consider the bonus damage to robots and power armour...
But that raised another question... Did [Uncivilized Weapon] raise the damage of the special attack? Boosting it from 20 to 40, or 50 to 100?... If so, then he literally had one of the most powerful weapons possible to deal with robotic foes and power armour.
Shaking his head, he decides to put off further observation and research until later... For now it was time to retrieve the spoils of war. He shoved the four proton axes into his backpack and stepped towards the 9 damaged chips still laying on the floor.
He grabs one and examines it with his inventory :
[Blind Diode Jefferson Personality Moduel] (Broken)
Hmm, he was expecting a description of some sort but you can't get everything... He grabs them all and wraps them in a makeshift cloth pouch, storing them in his backpack so his [Mechanicus] Perk can begin on slowly repairing them... He still wasn't sure on how long it would actually take however.
Humming to himself idly, he opens his Pipboy and takes a look at the map to see where the destination of the easiest technology to reach would be.
Hmm, the X-2 Transmitter Antenna Relay is directly north, and Afton could see it off in the distance. It looked like a large satellite disk to him, but who was he to judge the 'geniuses' in the Think Tank...
He starts walking towards it while reloading the rest of his weapons, making sure he was ready for the next ambush. He was expecting this place to be absolutely riddled with enemies, especially considering how lax Dr. Dala and the other scientists were about 'lobotomites'... It wouldn't surprise him if there was an army of them just wandering around, brainless as well as aimless.
He followed the stone tile path, occasionally examining the large green pipes that seemed to have fragmentation mines laid atop them? He didn't bother grabbing them as climbing the pipes was too much hassle for the reward. Though, he was curious at who would place mines there... It seemed rather redundant... unless of course they were meant to damage the pipes themselves.
On the way he ran into a couple more groups of lobotomites, except this time he got the drop on them. Now that he knew they couldn't be reasoned with, he had no problem at all with simply assassinating them from afar.
A group of twenty was annihilated and the look were a couple proton axes, and some proton throwing axes? They were singled handed versions of the two-handed ones, balanced to support throwing instead of chopping. They seemed rather pointless, as a relatively average gun would beat throwing weapon any day of the weak. Regardless of his thoughts on them, he stowed them away anyway, along with the other weapons he found.
He was somewhat thankful he hadn't run into anymore Cyberdogs, not because they were tough to kill, but because he'd rather not kill dogs if he wasn't forced to.
Afton had just finished off another group of lobotomites when he suddenly had a bad premonition... He looked around and saw something peculiar. A skeleton wearing some sort of spacesuit was propped up against the wall, it's lifeless eye-sockets glaring at something in the distance... On its lap sat a plasma rifle, it looked heavily damaged but loot was loot, so Afton walked over to pick it up.
Only to have his arm grabbed by the skeleton! His eyes widened in surprise and slight fear, he wrenched his arm backwards to escape its grasp, his 12 Strength easily allowing him to pry his arm out and back away. "What the fuck are you?" he asks apprehensively, sure, there was a lot of weird shit in the wasteland, but never a literal moving skeleton!
The skull didn't move but its arm slowly reached for its plasma rifle, it gripped the handle of the weapon but Afton wasn't willing to let the thing attack him without retaliating. He steps forwards and kicks the plasma rifle away, sending the weapon clattering against a nearby boulder.
The skeleton shifted its body in the direction of the weapon, as if astounded that it'd been knocked away... It then turned back towards Afton and slowly started to get up.
Afton could hear some kind of servos moving, if he had to guess then he'd say the skeleton wasn't actually alive... Instead, just being controlled by some machinery in the suit...
He uses VATS to determine what it was actually called... [Y-17 trauma override harness]? Hmm, at least it doesn't say 'Ghost of Christmas past' or something similar. Afton was strong, but he didn't think he could handle supernatural enemies... Yet.
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