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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Afton continues observing the Y-17 trauma override harness, the creature or machinery in question finally getting to its feet. He wondered if it actually knew how to fight in melee combat... It lacked any saws, flamethrowers, or other enhancements that robots generally used to bypass their weakness in flexibility and the limitations in their programming.
The suit raises its leg robotically, before stepping forwards and slowly walking towards him. Afton drops into a martial stance, waiting to see what it'd try, inwardly considering ways to utilise this technology for other purposes...
The suit stumbles forwards and throws a sloppy punch at him, but he easily sidesteps it, kicking its leg to see if it'd be able to avoid falling... It doesn't. It falls to the floor facefirst and looks like a struggling tortuous as it tries to get back up.
Shaking his head, Afton draws Lucky and shoots it in the chest... And then raises a brow at the fact that his bullet was easily shrugged off... Whatever material these suited were made up of was bulletproof for some reason. He fires again, this time at the glass bowl encasing its head...
Again, it pings off, doing no damage whatsoever... Well, while these suits fail at basic movement and combat skills, they make up for in durability. He reloads Lucky and holsters it, this time taking out a Proton axe.
He slashes the axe across its waist, easily cutting it in half and causing the sound of its mechanical insides to cease. He pushes one half away with a foot and raises a brow the cross-section. The skeletons spine had been completely crushed, Afton had thought that the suit was somehow utilising the bones to make movements, but apparently, that assumption was wrong.
No, the suit was moving entirely on its self, the small, complicated machinery surrounding the skeleton being more high-tech than he'd anticipated... Was this what the scientists were truly capable of? Sure, Proton axes and forcefields were cool and must've been hard to create, but this suit was something else entirely...
His fears of a robot uprising that'd been stemmed from Mr Houses army were nothing in comparison to his apprehension at this thing. He'd find where they were manufactured and learn more about them, afterwards he'd see if they were useful enough and worth the risk of utilising them.
He walks past the suit and looks towards the X-2 Transmitter Antenna Array, the technology he'd been told to acquire was at the very top of it. He claps his hands together to rid them of dust and sighs, "Alright, time to work." he mutters before pushing the door open and entering inside.
Inside he's greeted by a hallway with a shut door at the other end. Not wasting any time, he taps the switch with the back of his plant-hand, causing it to open up and reveal a huge room with a winding staircase that goes all the way to the roof, stopping at a few floors as it does so.
Not only that, there were many Protectrons walking around the place, all of which turning their bodies in his direction and points their manipulators towards him. "INTRUDER!" they all call in robotic voices, the combined volume of them echoing through the room, no doubt alerting any other protectors that hadn't been aware of his presence.
He deftly steps towards and slices one in half with a Proton axe before unholstering the Sonic Emitter and firing a couple of shots at the next robot... The impact of the projectile isn't all that great, but the electricity from the robot in response meant that it was doing something at least... At first glance it didn't seem to be doing all that much damage, but, after two hits the robot goes down in a steaming mess.
[Uncivilized Weapons] had boosted this weapon to a silly degree...
Afton's forced to duck and take cover from the barrage of lasers that were being shot at him, with quick and efficient utilisation of VATS though, he slowly begins picking away at their numbers. The Protectrons were quite accurate and had a decent amount of firepower, but they were still slow and clunky. Not the king of soldiers you'd want in close-quarters combat inside a building.
He'd taken out around twenty of them with relative ease, and slowly began scaling up the staircase. One bonus his Sonic Emitter had was its ability to occasionally paralyse robots... Once in a while a Protectron would lock up and fall over, making it incredibly easy to execute.
Of course, Afton knew the chances of this effect occurring were based on luck, so he'd not rely on it at all. Instead just taking advantage of it when it happened.
Soon enough, with much slashing and shooting, Afton had made it to the top. The top floor had a metal catwalk cutting through the middle of it, a ladder leading to the satellite dish from down, and a door sitting on the opposite side of the room.
Afton wastes no time and climbs up the ladder, blinking the light out of his eyes as he crawls out and onto the decrepit and damaged-looking satellite dish... It looked as if bits and pieces were falling off of it, but the things in question had been replaced with forefields... Whether or not using forcefields was most cost-efficient than simply repairing it, Afton didn't know.
Above him, being held up by thin struts of metal was the antenna relay. He clambered up it and climbed to the top, eventually finding himself face to face with the technology he'd been asked to retrieve...
"GOOD WORK, LOBOTOMITE! THE SCHEMATICS HAVE BEEN UPLOADED TO THE THINK TANK-" Dr. Klein's voice is cut off by Mobius.
"Ah!? Trying to steal the X-2 Transmitter Array Antenna, are you? You won't succeed, not if my lethal Robo-Scorpions have any say in the matter!"
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