บท 314: Forbidden Zone Dome...
Afton quickly deactivated VATS, resuming time as well as the Robo-Scorpions charging laser. This wouldn't matter however, as he immediately slammed his plant-fist into one of the generators attached to the wall.
Once hit it exploded in a spectacular display, if Afton wasn't pretty durable in his own right, or punched with his left hand, he may have lost it in the subsequent explosion. Fortunately, he'd earned some Explosion resistance thanks to his new Perk [[Explooo-sion!].
He takes a peek at the Robo-Scorpion and spots that its charging laser seemed to have dimmed slightly, though it was still trying to fire at him. "Fine then!" he shouts, delivering a brutal punch to the one remaining generator.
*BANG!*
It explodes much the same as the first, sending metal pieces of shrapnel through the air. A few scratch Afton's unprotected face, but that's all the damage it managed to do.
Once he'd recovered from the abrupt 'robot-facial', he took a peek towards the Giant Robo-Scorpion and saw that it'd stopped charging its laser. In-fact, after a few moments of nothing happening, it turned towards the Protectrons and started tearing them apart with its pincers.
Afton wipes sweat from his forehead and leans against the desk, if that had not worked he'd have been forced to whittle it down from afar, taking god-knows how long in the process. And that's not even considering if he'd have enough cover to use before it was all melted away by its atomic laser.
"Right, lets see if I can force Mobius to turn that thing off..." he mutters, not wishing to deal with it on the way out.
Afton begins walking towards the reinforced exit that's directly opposite the desk filled with papers he saw earlier. He looks it over and scowls at the lack of controls, handle, or anything indicating that it could be opened.
*Bzz!*
He activates his Inversal axe and starts swinging at the door, cutting deep red-hot gashes through the metal. He continues this for a couple minutes until all that's left of the door is a large, molten hole leading to some sort of tunnel.
Stepping through, he realises that this looks eerily similar to the entrance of the Think Tank. This is compounded when he finally lays eyes open the Forbidden Dome. It was an exact copy of the Think Tank, with the exception of the strange green fog colouring the room, along with the few broken screens and many crazy-looking notes written across the walls.
They all looked like math computations, coding, and other scientific projects... Floating through the middle of the room is a robot with three screens that it uses as its eyes and mouth, similar to the Think Tank scientists. One monitor seemed to be cracked and broken however, leaving it with one eye.
This was obviously Mobius. Though, Afton had expected the robot to attack him on sight, not simply meander around the room attending to its various projects, heeding him no mind at all.
One thing he immediately noticed was the lack of a Pacification Field, allowing him to think, and more importantly, commit. As much violence as he wanted, or needed.
"Nyx, any enemies?" he tentatively asks, feeling like he was walking straight into a trap, especially with how creepy this run-down place looks.
"No movement other than Dr. Mobius detected." she states, relieving him slightly.
Afton reaches into his deathclaw leather satchel and draws the [Fallen Ranger Sequoia], he'd been saving this for a special occasion, and killing Mobius just so happens to be included in that. He slowly walks up the ramp approaches the scientist from behind, coughing lightly in his fist to catch its attention.
"Mmm? Y-oh? Hello there!... Eh, you are there, aren't you? Forgive my confusion, it's so hard to tell these days... Oooo, many apologies, I have a brain-ache that's been annoying me for some time now..." the robot says before moving its monitors closer to Afton, causing his grip on his weapon to tighten.
"You seem familiar, somehow... Are we acquaintances perhaps? No... That's not right, all my human ones have been made into fertiliser and shipped to X-22... Unless you are some kind of GhooOOoool? Ah, could you step right slightly? My eye is slightly eh, broken, you see... Heh, get it?! SEE?" the scientist breaks into chuckles at its unintentional joke.
...
Afton certainly hadn't been expecting... Well, this. Mobius's voice undulated as if he was unsure about what he was going to say next. He was clearly senile. Afton was fortunate he hadn't tried to ally with Mobius when he'd first met the Think Tank, otherwise he'd have had to deal with this 24/7.
"Enough... You speak as if you weren't just trying to kill me moments ago, did you really forget about sicking your Giant Robo-Scorpion on me in the next room?" he asks, exasperated at how this was going.
"Oh?! I did?... I don't remember that... Though, I was tripping balls on Psycho earlier..." the senile scientist admits. "Ah, would you like a Mentat? As an apology." the robot says, holding out a single mentat in its Maniputalor, another one of its limbs sticking a Mentat into some sort of receiver, most likely used to pump the drug into its bio-gel.
Afton shrugs and takes it, popping the addictive chem into one of his pockets, still pondering whether or not he should blow this robot to pieces. He had wanted to get it to work for him, but someone as unstable as Mobius would probably be more detrimental than helpful...
"Emm! I love Mentats. Delicious and smarty. I have all sorts of amazingly science-arific thoughts and ideas when those chalky tablets are zipping through my biogel... Wouldn't be able to think properly without them... After they ware off, I tend to... Forget things... That's why I have to write what I know on the walls. Only problem is, I forgot what they were written for in the first place!"
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บท 315: Recursion
"Uh, huh..." Afton mutters, "Before anything else, can you turn your Giant Robo-Scorpion off? It's probably finished destroying all the Protectrons by now."
"Oh, of course! I forgot!... I was wondering what as causing all those power outages..." Mobius says, floating over to a big red button and pressing it with a manipulator.
Afton thumbs the handle of the [Fallen Ranger Sequoia], wondering where to go from here... Mobius was undoubtedly a genius, a robotics expert Dr. Zero could never hope to be. Yet, his mental stability would make it terribly hard to give him a project... Though, it also made him pretty easily manipulated if he played his cards right.
First things first though... "Why did you steal my brain?"
"Oh, a variety of raisins... Reasons? Reasons." the scientist slowly corrects himself after flubbing his words, "You're something of an anomaly, quite special indeed, and not in the cranially-challenged way... You see, you are the most successful brain extraction experiment ever performed here in Big Mt, aside from our own of course. You are a victim of your own success, as the saying goes... I think?
If you were to go back with what your brain knows about the procedure, well... Your brain could be popped back in and you could walk right out of here. Can't have brains moving of their own volition after all." the scientist says with a chuckle.
"What do you mean? Aren't you able to move around with only your brain? That's what the robot-body is for right?" Afton curiously asks.
"Ah, well, you see, our robotic bodies were specifically designed to not bypass the fence. Though, I can't remember why this is the case, but I think there was a very good raisin for it. Everything I do needs a good raisin, otherwise, what's the point! Hehehehe!"
...
"So, there was a good reason for spamming Klein's inbox with threats, apologies, and whatever else he didn't care to mention?"
"Oh, don't mind that. I'm sure you know what it's like to accidentally dose yourself with psycho and only find out who you murdered hours afterwards." he says nonchalantly.
Afton raises a brow, "Wait, so all the threats you sent to the Think Tank were literally just a Psycho-fueled rampage?" he asks, this would certainly change things, considering the Think Tank were under the impression that Mobius wanted to invade, steal all their brains, and take over the world or something equally stereotypical.
"Hmm. Partly... Aha! The other raisin was for something like, ethics?... Conscience? Perhaps something to do with morality, or, Mhm, Theology? Bah!" The scientist makes a sound as if it were spitting on the floor, "Of course not theology!... Anyway, I can't exactly let them leave, can I?"
"Why not?" Afton asks, immediately feeling stupid for asking such a question. Of course the scientists couldn't be allowed to leave Big Mt! Who knows what kind of destruction they'd cause while experimenting on literally everything that moved, and did not.
"My colleagues were always more science forward, as opposed to anything related to 'common decency' or what is 'morally right'. I was always the one objecting to their experiments which tried to push the boundaries, as it were... Personally, I still think extracting a babies bones to see how it would grow is a little too much... Anyway, that is the raisin I reprogrammed everyone, changing their names and forcing a recursion loop in their perception programming... Or, atleast, I think I did? Perhaps the answer would be written on one of the walls around here..."
Wow, he hadn't been expecting that... Mobius had essentially 'mind-raped' the other scientists, stopping their ability to learn, process information, etc. Afton could see why this would be needed, as the scientists would eventually find a way to disable the Tesla fence keeping them all in the crater.
Additionally, it was probably a good thing the Auto-Doc fried itself after extracting his brain, otherwise they could've used the data it'd acquired to properly complete the procedure to put their brains back into organic bodies... Why, they could most certainly steal a Lobotomite's body and use it as their own if they acquired such knowledge.
Afton connects the dots and looks at Mobius in a slightly new light, "So, you reprogrammed them to stop them breaking out into the wasteland, I'm guessing your 'Evil Dr. Mobius' bit was to keep them occupied then?
"I think you've cracked the case!" Mobius says, "Er, I mean, I think I did all of that. Along with reprogramming their chronometers, geometers, and cartography programmes. Their histories are forgotten, all that exists to them now is Big Mt. For the good of man, animal, robot, and other-creature-kind, this is the best outcome." Mobius says, a bit forlornly.
Afton shakes his head, "I doubt this is the best outcome... The scientists are still active after all, lobotomizing any unfortunate traveller who gets caught in their path. How many thousands have been crippled or killed by them? If you truly wanted the best for man-kind then you would have eliminated them outright." he states.
"I see the logic in your argument but... Despite their flaws, crimes, and moral-evils they have committed. They are, were, still my friends. Everything I have done, every action I have taken in these long, long years has been for their sakes..." Mobius says in a moment of clarity... "Or maybe I just couldn't be bothered? Who knows!" Before returning to his mad, senile, self.
Afton shakes his head, If Mobius had just killed the scientists off in the first place then Christine wouldn't have had to go through their experiments... Though, he likely would have perished due to the Fungus ravishing his body as well... "Still, I think it would have been to everyone's benefit to have just eliminated them there and then..."
Mobius seems to shake his chassis, "All would have gone according to plan D, or was it E? Anyway, if it weren't for your arrival I'm sure everything would have been fine... That fungus attempting to strangle your brain allowed the Auto-Doc to recalibrate its medical procedure enough to fix its initial errors... All I could do was steal your brain and destroy it, but as soon as you started speaking to the Think Tank, giving them the idea of what might be outside Big Mt, things started going sideways..."
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