บท 290: Nyx Nyx Nyx!
Afton rolls his shoulder while adjusting the collar of the armour, he certainly felt more comfortable than his Recon armour had. Much more flexible too. "Not bad." he mutters to himself, not expecting a response...
"Thank you!" a feminine voice says, causing him to jump backwards, almost completely destroying the terminal behind him.
"WHA!" he shouts in surprise, spinning around to try and find the intruder. "Who was that!?"
"Hello! It's nice to meet you. Who can I hide you from today?" the voice asks, and Afton still isn't sure where it was coming from...
"Er, hello? Who am I speaking to?" he asks with furrowed brows, not liking being in the disadvantaged position.
"I am the X-13 Research Facilities Experimental Stealth suit Mk 2. I am designed for all of your sneaking needs, proximity readings, sneaking tips and techniques, and health maintenance."
"Proximity readings?" He asks, confused at what that might mean.
"I am able to detect potential enemies at a limited range, I will seek to warn you should I detect them before you are able to." it explains.
"And 'health maintenance?'" He asks, not wanting to be surprised by anything.
"Health Maintenance mode activated, attempting integration." the feminine voice states, and before Afton's able to object he feels sharp pricks all across his body, as if needles were being jabbed into him... Though, if he had to guess, that'd probably what it was.
He was about to draw the line and take the suit off when he felt a couple pricks on either side of his neck, but relented when he heard the suit speak again. "Integration complete, vitals signs nominal, body condition... Attractive." it states causing Afton's eyes to widen slightly, that didn't sound like any health check-up he'd ever heard of before!
"Oi, what're you checking you perverted suit?" he quickly retorts.
...
"Body condition, healthy." it corrects before continuing, "Testing for medicinal allergies. Med X... Effective. Stimpacks... Effective. All readings green, user can proceed with whatever incredibly dangerous task they have." the robot states.
...
Afton sighs and rubs his face, was there nothing normal in this god-forsaken crater? He shakes his head, "So, 'stealth suit', what do you actually do?"
"That was already explained." it states in a mocking tone.
"Yeah, I heard. But I just want to confirm..." he feels around and notices the pricks across his body had disappeared. Though, he could still feel himself connected to the suit in some way. "Do you automatically introduce drugs depending on my health?" he asks, slightly worried at the fact.
"That is one of my functions, yes."
"And when do you deem it acceptable to inject Med X or Stimpacks into me?"
"When the user's life signs see a significant decrease in overall health, a stimpack will be introduced into the most heavily damaged area. If the user's pain receptors are firing at an unusual rate, Med X will be used to suppress them." it explains.
"I see... And am I able to disable these functions?" he asks, not having decided if he wanted the suit to have that kind of control yet.
"The user can. All you need to do is command my Health stabilisation functions to be disabled."
Afton nods, "Alright. I'll keep them for now and see how it goes... Do you have a name I can call you? I'd rather not call you 'Stealth suit' if I can help it." he says.
"User can designate a name for me."
Mmm. Afton wasn't all that good with names, as could be observed from the way he'd called the sink AI Alfred. He taps his foot while going over short, suitable names that could fit the suit. Clara, no. Mary? No... Night? No... Hmm, "How about, Nyx?" he mutters, it was short, relevant to the suit's functions, and had some history behind it.
"Affirmative, my name is Nyx." it states, and Afton wasn't sure, but the voice sounded somewhat excited with its new name. Were all AI's like this? Or maybe it was just his imagination.
"Checking inventory... Med X, stocked. Stimpacks, stocked. A number of psychogenic, hallucinogenic, carcinogenic, substances were also found. Does user wish to dispose of them?" Nyx offers, and Afton quickly shakes his head, "No! Do not do that!"
"Affirmative, I will ignore the dangerous substances... For now."
Afton breathes a sigh of relief, he definitely wouldn't be happy if Nyx just dumped off of his chems without his permission. Sure, most of them were incredibly dangerous if misused, most were useful in certain situations. As he had shown during his fight against Violet and her dogs.
Afton flexes his body a couple more times to get used to the suit before walking into the next room, inside he finds many pens below blocked off by forcefields. There are doors on each side of the room and many terminals and desks lying around the place.
He skims through a couple of the terminals and finds that the Stealth suit test area is nearby, as well as some kind of VR test area? Though, while all of these were interesting, they weren't dangerous. Of course, this wouldn't be a madman's laboratory without something out to kill you inside.
The terminals stated that they were using Night Stalkers for something and that there were pens someone in the facility. It also mentioned the fact that they'd somehow mutated after chewing on a stealth boy, obtaining the ability to go invisible like you would if you used the device... Scary stuff.
Afton ignores the other doors and test area, for now, instead, seeking to gain access to the 'VR test area' Yeah, he was excited to see what was inside... Already he was imagining a Holo-deck sort of set up.
Unfortunately, the door was locked. But that wasn't going to stop Afton. He took out a Proton axe and started hacking away at the door, the light blade cutting through it with ease. Though, the door appeared to be somewhat electrical, as the EMP properties of the weapon caused great sparks to shoot out from the cuts.
"Hm, I hope this doesn't damage the room..." he mutters.
"Oh, it most certainly has." Nyx states, causing him to grimace.
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บท 291: Elite's outta nowhere!
Afton continues to cut his way through the door, until eventually there isn't anything that remains of it. In the next room he's almost blinded by what he saw... Everything, the floor, walls, and ceiling were layered in glowing black and blue hexagons.
On the ground appears to be a skeleton with a purple proton axe sticking out of its back? There's another skeleton at the opposite end of the room, lying under a destroyed terminal that sparked with electricity from its destroyed monitor.
There were also two holographic floor mounted projectors, displaying a proton axe and a box respectively... For what purpose? Who knows.
Afton sighs, "Well, I guess my dream of a holodeck is gone." he mutters, walking over and picking up the purple proton axe before checking it with his inventory.
[Protonic inversal axe]
Strength req : 5
DMG : 58
Crit dmg : 45
Crit mult : x1
AP : 25
Weight : 8
Value : 10000
Special : +50 damage against robots outside Big MT, +20 damage against Big MT robots and power armour.
Well, it's just a straight upgrade of the regular Proton axe... A bit more base damage and almost double the crit damage. "I don't think this thing is worth not having a holodeck." he says, inspecting the damaged terminal and finding a boot sitting within its destroyed screen.
Perhaps he could repair this? It'd have to be another time, as he had no idea just how long it'd take to do that. Plus, if everything went as he wanted, he'd have help in repairing this.
Turning he leaves the room, walking over to the opposite side of the room, heading down some stairs towards where the Night Stalker kennel should be. At the end of the hallway is completely stained with dark, dry blood. A skeleton lying directly under it. The door to the kennels was wide open, with the cages that used to keep the creatures restrained having been bent, and broken so they can escape.
"Detecting movements beneath us." Nyx states, and Afton draws his new Inversal axe along with That Gun.
"Can you tell how far?" Afton asks, wondering if there was a room underneath him.
"Between one and infinity meters." Nyx says, his tone fixed but it was clear she was taking the piss.
"Oh, ha-ha. You're very funny." he sighs, checking the room for anything good to loot.
"Thank you. The people who designed me always praised my humour."
"I was being sarcastic." he retorts, taking great pleasure in getting some payback.
"Ah, I couldn't tell. Are all human jokes that bad?" Nyx asks as he was rummaging through an upturned desk.
"Alright, here's a joke then. Knock Knock."
"Who's there?" Nyx replies dutifully.
"Nunya."
"Nunya who?"
"Nunya business. Now, let's get to work." Afton states, not wanting to get caught by some Night Stalkers with his pants down and talking to Nyx.
"You are a very strange man."
Afton ignores Nyx's comment and continues looking through the various rooms that used to hold the Night Stalkers. He walks through large pipes that were presumably made to transport the Night Stalkers to whatever test area's they were required at.
Though, he could see a grated off part of the pipe completely destroyed, Night Stalkers having apparently chewed through the metal bars and escaped the facility. He continues into the next room and spots various things to loot, though, he was staying far, far away from the still somehow 'edible' steaks lying on the floor...
Afton simply couldn't believe they had been lying on the floor for two-hundred years, and not rotted or been eaten by the Night Stalkers here... Either the were poison, or wax replicas.
He checks the room for a while and eventually finds a Stealth boy tucked into a corner, Afton examines it and snickers to himself. These things used self-contained power sources that couple be swapped out as they were inextricably linked to the other electronics that allowed it to function. This was a negative thing in most instances... But, Afton was uniquely suited to dealing with this.
His [Mechanicus] Perk allowed him to repair it after each use, making the Stealth Boy reusable, and not just a disposable tool that most saw it as. Of course, he'd need to wait a bit after each use for it to regain functionality, but that was fine.
"Hey Nyx, I've already found your replacement," he says with a smirk, holding up the relatively heavy Stealth boy. With it, he could now become totally invisible for around ten minutes.
"That is not funny either." Nyx complains, the AI slightly worried if there was truth in his words...
Before Afton is able to say anything in reply, Nyx's next words stop him in his tracks... "Uh oh. Enemies incoming."
Afton shoves the Stealth boy into his Deathclaw leather satchel for now. The enemies were likely to be Night Stalkers, so there wasn't any point activating it when they could just smell him out. He ducks into the corner of the room and lines up That Gun at the pipe where they'd likely be coming from.
Though, strangely enough, despite hearing the rattle of their snake-like tails and quiet steps through the hollow metal exit, he couldn't see them... No, that wasn't true. He could see slight shimmers in the air, indicating that the creatures had somehow evolved to acquire the ability to become invisible. Was this the ability the scientists in the terminals upstairs were talking about?
He takes a slow, deep breath before firing at one of the shimmers. A spray of blood is the only indication that he'd actually hit something, but quickly the others were on the move.
*Bang, Bang, Bang!* he continues firing, not knowing exactly where to aim.
[John Wick Style is in effect]
One Night Stalker falls over as its invisibility disappears, a bullet wound on the side of its head. Afton isn't able to celebrate as he's assaulted by the rest however.
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