Afton eventually reaches the X-8 Facility. It's a rather large building with a large satellite atop some sort of spire. Though, judging by what he'd heard from Borous, he'd guess that much of the facility is underground. He scouted around the place, but didn't find any indication that Mobius' Robo-Scorpions had set up here, meaning that they were either hidden somewhere else, in the facility itself, or not actually here at all...
Once through the metal doors, Afton's greeted with what most would refer to as 'chaos'. The room itself was relatively fine, but there were windows on the opposite side of the room that allowed him to observe various experiments that were currently being conducted.
Somehow, even two-hundred-years after the great war the robots were 'experimenting', and by he meant, brutally dissecting any organic matter they got their manipulators on. Through the window, he spotted a surgical bed with a pile of bloody meat atop it. It looked to have once been a person, but with the many sawblades hanging from the ceiling cutting into it. Whoever they were aren't recognisable anymore.
Grimacing, he looks into the other window, spotting someone wearing the typical Lobotomite clothing strapped to another bed. Their eyes were wide open in fear of the approaching saw-blades, but their mouth didn't produce any sound. They looked like they were trying to scream, but simply weren't able to.
*zzzzzZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!*
The blades finally connected and cut deeply into the Lobotomite's chest, causing blood to spray out everywhere, some even spattering on the observation window for a moment before a windscreen wiper robot cleaned it off.
The Lobotomite wasn't dead yet however, as more blades came down from the ceiling, brutally tearing them apart in a slow, yet chaotic manner... Whatever experiments were being conducted here, definitely weren't the 'moral' type... Afton wasn't even sure what they were trying to achieve...Perhaps the robots had just gone crazy?
Shaking his head, he ignores this for now and looks around, there were two exits. One leading to the second floor, and one to something called the 'Splicing Lab'... "Where next you think, Nyx?"
"The lab... Maybe we can 'splice' things up around here... No?"
"Just had to 'sneak' that in there, didn't you?" he retorts with a small smile, trying his best to ignore the gruesome surgery going on nearby. Nyx giggles at his joke as he steps into the splicing lab.
They are greeted by many generators connected to some sort of machinery hanging from the roof, there's an enclosed cubicle with a terminal that seemed to be heavily reinforced, as if it was expecting to be attacked.
Afton walks over and look at the terminal, receiving a few options to go forward with... Not knowing all that much about this room, he clicks one that looked the most 'interesting'.
[Splice Lobotomite and Robot]
Upon selecting it, the machine hanging from the roof begins charging up. Panels in the wall open and spew out a heavily injured Lobotomite an a Mister Handy, both seem to want to attack Afton, but they aren't around long before they are enveloped in bright light.
Afton shields his eyes momentarily, and looks back over once the fireworks were finished... What he sees next surprises him. Both robot and Lobotomite were gone, replaced with a single entity... One that combined both, it was almost entirely mechanical, aside from the human brain sitting visibly in the glass dome on its head.
"W-who... Am I?" it asks in a small voice, "I am awake! Alive for the first time ever! What is this strange new world around me? What does it hold in store for a dreamer such as myself..." the 'thing' asks hopefully. Unfortunately, Afton hears a faint humming coming from it... As if its reactor had been cracked-Oh shit!
He quickly ducks as an explosion occurs, the newly born robo-human-thing yelling out in pain and anguish as its body implodes. "Noooooooooo!"
Afton peeks back over and sees no damage done to the observation area he was in, nor any damage to the lab itself aside from a scorch mark where the robot abomination had been. "That was rather tragic... Let's not do that again." he mutters. Something just didn't feel right about bringing a sentient creature into the world, only for it to die moments later.
*Ping!*
[Playing God : -100 Karma]
...
Yeah, he deserved that.
Afton shakes his head and walks to the second-floor entrance. Heading inside, down some stairs, he's about to open the next door when Nyx warns him of something moving around inside.
After preparing himself, Afton bursts into the room, using VATS to locate all the enemies before blowing them all to pieces with bullets and hard-light weaponry. The Mr Orderly's didn't stand a chance, and were all blown to pieces before they could deal any meaningful damage.
Once the action was over, Afton was able to take a look around the room. There were many operating tables with saw similar to the ones he saw earlier, a large stack of coffins lying on the floor, and many brain kept in jars...
There was one large metal door with a terminal next to it on one side of the room and to the left of that was the hallway leading to the kennels. Afton assumed the former to be how you access the testing area, so he immediately walked into the hallway, trying to open the kennel door but finding that it was locked.
"Many potential enemies behind the door, I recommend sneaking past them." Nyx cautions but Afton just chuckles.
"Yeah, I don't think that's going to happen." he mutters.
Deciding to use his own 'methods', Afton began slicing through the door with his Inversal axe. As he was doing so he could see many, many night stalkers through the gashes he was created. Most were confined to various cages, but a few seemed to have been able to chew their way out. He'd need to deal with them once inside.
Once he was through the Night Stalkers inside immediately charge him, but were all easily fended of via his Inversal axe. The tight hallway making it incredibly easy to cut them down as they approached.
After five minutes of this, the only Night Stalkers left were the ones confined to their cages.
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After dealing with the 'escapees', it wasn't all that difficult to gain access to the terminal inside and alter which creatures would be introduced into the test. The Night Stalkers were regarded as 'Unusual Specimans', meaning whoever was running this place had no idea what they were.
All Afton had to do with swap the Cyberdog kennels with the Night Stalker ones, confusing the system and making it spit Night Stalkers into the test areas.
Hopefully, after Mobius is dead and everything else is finished, he'd be able to do something with the Cyberdogs.
With that he quickly returns to the terminal where he'd be able to access the test, he selects the basic test and is given a brief explanation over what his task was.
Apparently, he needed to retrieve three students files from three separate terminals, all the while fighting through the security systems that'd been set up. Afton wasn't sure how many tests he'd be forced to do before he could retrieve the Sonic Emitter upgrade, but hopefully it wouldn't take too long.
Of course, there was a way to fail the basic test... Death. But Afton wasn't planning on doing that anytime soon.
Once he'd selected the Basic Test, an alarm goes off and he can hear the room behind the metal door shifting, as if the test area was being moved around... He wondered if that was actually happening, or if some other mechanism was occurring... Moving rooms sounded pretty awesome to be honest, and Afton could imagine a whole manner of things he could do with them.
Once the sound of stone, concrete, and metal scraping around stopped, he entered the through the door. Finding himself in some sort of American highschool? The metal doors lock behind him with an audible *CLACK!*, but that isn't all... Borous seemed to have made some pre-recorded messages...
"ATTENTION STUDENTS! This is a pre-recorded voice of your pre-recorded principle!... Doctor Principle Borous!... You may know me as the head chief first researcher of labs Z-9 and Z-14. There I fought valiantly to preserve rattlesnake DNA and put it right back where it belongs, in the husk of another feared predator. Oh! And the tarantula hawk. Can't splice enough, I always say, especially if you can make a magnificent Cazador!"
Upon hearing this Afton didn't feel all that bad about guilt-tripping Borous now... He was obviously mentally unstable, enough so that he'd recreate the Highschool were he was presumably bullied. Borous' voice continues.
"Enough about ME! It has come to my attention that many of you SEEMINGLY innocent children have been subverted by Red Propaganda! This is a most serious matter, requiring the MOST serious of detentions! Can you spell detention? I'll tell you how I spell it: Deathtention. Commie-pinko-traitors, ALL!... Now I will send vicious Cybernetic cyberdogs through the corridors to weed all traitors out!"
Afton smirks, there wouldn't be any Cyberdogs here today. As Borous continues his diatribe against his school-time bullies from two-hundred-years ago, Afton looks around the room. Spotting various forcefields covering the place.
Most were covering trophy cases, and Afton was 'really' curious to see if they were made from actual gold, gold plated, or just useless trinkets. He wouldn't mind pocketing them after all was said and done... First he needed to acquire the Sonic Emitter upgrade though.
"Enemies approaching! I recommend approaching them aswell... To scare them off!" Nyx says, and Afton could already hear the rattle of the Night Stalkers tails.
As soon as the first creature stuck its head around the corner, it was blown off by That Gun, showering the hallway in blood and gore.
"NO LITTERING IN HALLWAYS! DEATHTENTION FOR YOU! More Cyberdogs!" Borous' pre-recorded voice exclaims, somehow detecting that he'd soiled the hallway...
[John Wick Style is in effect]
Panels in the walls open up and more Night Stalkers charge towards him. Afton draws Lucky in his other hand and just starts blasting... By the time his guns were empty there were twelve corpses at the door, despite the fact he only had a combined eleven bullets.
"Heh, now that's what I call a 'collateral'." he mutters as he rapidly reloads his weapons, finally stepping out of the room and coming face to face with a sentry turret. His eyes widen momentarily before he ducks backwards, avoiding the barrage of bullets that pepper the wall he was hiding behind.
Afton waited until the turret had stopped shooting, once there was a lull he retrieved his Anti-Material rifle from his back and quickly peeked up, delivering one shot to the turret and completely destroying it.
Once that was done Afton starts sneaking around the 'school' to find the various terminals. It was rather annoying to navigate about the place due to the impenetrable forcefields blocking access to various shortcuts. But he circled around and reached where he needed regardless.
The first terminal he accessed gave allowed Afton a glimpse into Borous' damaged psych... The information on the file he was supposed to retrieve was... Doctored, to say the least.
[Richie 'Ball-Lover' Marcus]
English : F-
Maths : F-
Science : F--
History : F-
"Well, I guess this is what happens if you horribly bully someone who eventually grows to become a mad scientist... They give you a bad report card..." he mutters.
Afton wonders if Borous would have retaliated more severely had his bullies not (most likely) died during the great war. The almost psychopathic experiments being conducted upstairs didn't give him much hope, to be honest.
Afton shakes his head and downloads the files, making his way to the next area to find the other terminals. Of course, it wouldn't be a 'proper' school experience without vicious Night Stalker attempting to tear you limb from limb, as well as the sentry turrets placed at every corner...
Afton idly wondered if American schools in the Fallout universe did actually have sentry turrets hidden around... It seemed paranoid enough to actually be realistic, the 'red-menace-threat' was supposedly big enough to scramble even Borous' brain, let alone any other American citizen.
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