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บท 608: Percentages no bueno

Afton chuckles from behind his helmet at the NCR Colonel's question. "Nunya." he states, awaiting the response.

...

His captured prey doesn't say anything though, their face was locked in fear and desperation... But doesn't move afterwards. Afton feels his pulse and realises he'd accidentally killed the man by squeezing his head too hard... "Fuck..." he mutters, looking around for any survivors, eventually spotting one that was getting mauled by a couple Cyberdogs. "Hey! Nunya Business!" he shouts and grins at getting the joke off of his chest, all the while ignoring the soldiers screams of terror and agony.

He looks around the three artillery machines as the Bulwark soldiers which were comprised of former Brotherhood members mechanically executed the surviving NCR. Once that was said and done, he walks over and checks out the vehicles.

The artillery machines were essentially rocket launchers on wheels. With huge payloads on their backs that were capable of annihilating targets from huge distances. This was easily displayed by what they'd done to the Brotherhood base...

Afton looks over at the base in the distance. Its walls had been utterly decimated, any infrastructure had collapsed and been destroyed, and even the Bunkers that'd survived the great war had received significant damage.

Fortunately, he wasn't forced to fight these things in any difficult situations. If the NCR had any real idea about Bulwark's capabilities, how Bulwark operated, or even what Bulwark was willing to do, they'd pose a much greater threat than what'd happened here.

The ambush itself was rather easy for Afton to set up. Place decoy robots in the Brotherhood base and place teleportation extenders in potential strategic positions around it. Once the NCR turns up, teleport in his forces and watch the chaos unfold.

In all honesty, he didn't even have to turn up. The only reason he was here was to make sure the artillery machines weren't booby-trapped and were fully operational.

He's lost in thought until Melissa walks over with her helmet off, "H-hey, Afton?"

"Yeah?"

"Why are we executing them? Can't we, like, imprison them instead?" she asks, clearly disturbed by the orders they'd been given.

Afton shakes his head, "No. I'm not willing to waste resources on imprisoning them... Look at it this way, there's two choices for them. A; be executed... And B; get captured, tortured for intel and then experimented on" he states noncomitally.

...

"Uh... Experimented on?" she cautiously questions.

"I-er... misspoke, my bad, I only meant tortured for information... Don't you have things to do? Go set up the teleport extenders to transport the artillery machines." he shoos her away, only now realising his mistake... The Brotherhood was created in the first place to stop abominations from being created, something he and the Think Tank were coming perilously close to doing. That's the main reason he'd kept such research under wraps, he'd only be willing to reveal its existence once the Brotherhood of Steel as a whole was destroyed.

Once Melissa left Afton continued examining the Artillary machines, they were 99% functional, with only some dust damage from the drive over. They were still fully stocked and supplied with missiles, which would allow Bulwark to replicate it for further use.

The only thing that needed to be done now was clearing up the bodies and shipping the vehicles back to Bulwark... Hiding the bodies would stop the NCR from discovering what'd happened too quickly, it'd delay the war for a day or so depending on what happens.

After they all return to base, Afton has Glados get to work transporting the Artillary machines to the workshop in order to modify them for the coming battle. He was hoping to have them ready by the time the Battle of Hoover Dam begins as it'd reduce the NCR's morale and be helpful in decimating any Legion forces.

Some Saturnite plating and other system upgrades should be good enough, as well as easy enough to install before the battle begins.

Almost all preparations had been made so far, so all that was left was to finalize a couple projects and have the teleporter extenders ready to transport an army. He'd have the extenders around the Brotherhood base moved to the large hill that overlooks Hoover Dam.

"Glados, give me some numbers for the battle." he asks, wanting to hear what she thought of their planning. She'd helped prepare for it though, so perhaps she'd be a little bias?...

"98.5% chance of victory, losses are guaranteed but these should only be from our expendable forces." she states.

Afton crooks a brow, "What's the other 1.5%?" he asks curiously.

"It takes into account the possibility of another nuclear apocalypse, alien invasion, the bible and rapture being real, the world being a simulation, and the possibility of you inexplicably committing suicide and self-destructing our forces." Glados explains.

...

"Out of that 1.5%, how big is the chance for the rapture actually happening?" he asks, surprised that she'd even consider it.

"0.0000000000000000001%, Creator."

Afton slowly nods, thinking that was about right. "What's the highest possibility of happening out of the 1.5%?"

"Another nuclear apocalypse obviously. If humans are stupid enough to do it once, it is likely for them to do it again. The next would be an alien invasion, but there isn't enough evidence to even support their existence, making the chance of a coordinated assault lower than one would expect." she explains.

Again he nods matching her opinion, he wouldn't be surprised if the post-apocalypse China attempted to nuke North America again just for shits and giggles. The amount of propaganda left behind after the war would likely have an effect on any surviving populace... Especially since America did literally nuke them.

"Alright, the battle should be starting soon enough. Alert the troops and make them aware that they may be moved out suddenly." he says while leaving to check on the progress of the Vertibird.

"Affirmative."


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บท 609: Truth of the matter

Tamia certainly wasn't having a good time in the Divide. While Afton was preparing for the Battle of Hoover Dam, she was running through a military base with hundreds of Tunnelers hot on her tail. She'd lost the single remaining Ultimo-Bot when they started swarming, as well as the Cyberdog that had been limping... It was probably considered easy prey for the Tunnelers, as they easily caught it and torn it to pieces.

*BOOM!*

As for why the underground military base was exploding? Well... She may have pushed a random button and set off a random nuke, that may have exploded over a random location... Randomly...

Sure, it could probably be judged as her fault, but, who just places a big lever there and not expect someone to pull it? How was she to know it would launch a LITERAL FUCKING NUKE!

After that, her only path forward had been the underground military base that'd launched it, which was now malfunctioning and exploding due to having launched a nuke earlier... Yeah, not her fault... The nuke probably also awoke the hive that was hiding down there, which might have been why they might have been waiting for her.

As much as she hated to run, she simply wasn't equipped to deal with so many alone. Sure, her Cyberdogs might be able to fight off a couple, but they'd quickly get overwhelmed and devoured if they tried to directly fight the enemy. She still needed them to teleport back to Big Mt once the sandstorm cleared up, so her only option was to run.

Honestly, she'd gotten lucky prior to pressing the lever. After awakening from her sleep and venturing down the highway, she'd only run into one Deathclaw. One which had already been heavily wounded after fighting many flayed men.

She'd been running through this labyrinth-like place for an hour now with the Tunnelers hot on her heels, yet it felt as if she was only going deeper and deeper underground. It was incredibly disorienting, and if she weren't being chased right now, she'd stop for a while to recollect her senses.

Fortunately, judging by the sudden change in aesthetics, she was still progressing... The clinical metal of the military base had faded and she'd seemingly stepped into some sort of hotel building that'd also been buried. A yelp behind her signals that she'd lost yet another Cyberdog, leaving her with only one left... She couldn't do anything aside from running though.

Soon enough, she reaches a door that had beams of light peaking through it, signalling it was likely the exit outside. She crashes through it with her shoulder, pulling the pin on a grenade and tossing it behind her to collapse the entrance and prevent any Tunnelers from following.

*BOOM!*

The place shakes as the unstable earth collapses right onto of it. The Tunnelers give a final screech as they are buried... Probably not dead, but it'd restrict their movement for now at least.

She falls to her knees and heavily pants for a couple minutes to gather her breath, her one remaining Cyberdog doing the same next to her.

"*Bzztch!* Hopeville, High Road, Ashton... Tiny cracks in the earth, nothing compared to the road carved ahead... Before you, this is the edge of the Divide. Ahead lies your work, the history you burned in the earth. What you brought to the people here." the man says in a tense voice, clearly aggravated by the subject matter.

"Hah, hah, hah..." Tamia swallows her saliva and looks up to see what the man was referring to, quickly getting a glimpse of the utterly devastated landscape. She appeared to be in some sort of canyon, yet, the presence of buildings and skyscrapers showed that it hadn't been formed naturally.

It seemed to have been formed after the skyscrapers had, as the buildings themselves were halfway buried in it, fused to the canyon walls as if they were pillars holding it up... The ground level didn't look any better, metal and concrete scrap littered the place, and she was unsure if it was even traversable for regular people...

Currently, she was standing atop a skyscraper where the exit had led, getting a good look at the landscape she apparently had a hand in creating. She glances at her Pipboy and glower, "Why are you so hellbent on pinning this shit on me? There's no way I had anything to do with creating this!" she gestures at the landscape.

"You delivered a package, had markings that matched those in the Divide. Not all... But enough. Military markings, from someplace the Bear had scavenged in the west. Maybe seeing those markings on it reminded you of home... Made you carry it." he chuckles morosely.

"That's what I hope happened... But I knew you, knew who you served... We were the same, you a spy for Caesar... And me, a Frumentarius... Tell me, did Caesar order you to bring it to the Divide? Was it sabotage, or an accident like you had earlier with that nuclear bomb?" the man asks.

"No... I... I don't remember, but I don't think I would do something like this on purpose... If I did it at all." she states while chewing her lip in thought, "What was brought here anyway?"

"A detonator. Once I'd never seen before... Or heard before. You carried that thing into the Divide. I know because I followed you as you walked the road, Watched you do it. You brought it here, to the community you built. And you are responsible for what happened after..." he trails off and releases a solemn sigh.

"When the device opened, started to speak. The Divide answered back. Those missiles you've seen, buried in their silos. They exploded beneath the ground, cracked the landscape, sand, ash... The dead... The Divide skies became a graveyard."


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