Chương 677: Moment of Resignation
Afton sighs at Christine's words, wondering if his spies had gotten any dirt on the Brotherhood higherups... It wasn't as easy getting intel on them as it was the NCR, their tech removed many, many avenues of attack that he previously had... Not to mention the fact that the NCR civilians gave easy cover for Cass, Anja, and Juan to work under...
There wasn't really anything like that inside Brotherhood facilities, especially since everyone has to carry around identification. He wouldn't be surprised if the place went on lockdown whenever forgot their holotags...
Shaking his head, he unpauses the holodisk. Allowing Elder Gurren to continue.
"We, at the Brotherhood of Steel, wish to negotiate your surrender. We are not lost on the advanced technology you possess, but the weapons you have gathered would stand no chance against our combined might. You must know this, after all, you were one of us at one point in time." Gurren pauses.
"The Brotherhood of Steel will pledge not to annihilate Bulwark, its people, and any other resistance we encounter if you agree to our terms... First of which, will be to hand over all the weapons you possess... Power armour, laser and plasma weapons, vehicles... Even the device you used to cause mass destruction from above..." he trails off and Afton pauses again.
He scoffs, "I can't tell if this is an honest offer, or if they're just baiting us to declare war against them..."
Veronica shakes her head, "They probably just want the green light to invade the Mojave... Want to skip all the rules and protocols inhibiting them."
Josie shrugs, "Er, what's stopping us from just, like, shooting the orbital laser at them?"
Afton chews his lip, "I'm not sure... They know it exists apparently, so they must have some countermeasures against it, besides the fact they have my father as a hostage" he says before unpausing the holodisk yet again.
"We are willing to reinstate Afton Parker, Zachary Parker, and any other member of Bulwark that had formerly belonged to us, if all of our terms are met with due haste. If Bulwark's surrender is not announced and confirmed within two weeks, we will have no choice but to defend ourselves against the growing threat your band of traitors presents.
You will subsequently be dealt with swiftly, and efficiently, our army will incinerate any obstacles, and to ensure the protection of the Wasteland, and perhaps even the world... We will employ our own weapons of mass destruction, such as Liberty Prime, and other weapons that the public is not yet aware of.
...
As for our terms? Aside from handing over all dangerous technology you possess, you will execute each and every Supermutant and Ghoul in your employ, those condition includes any artificially created life... Including plants, animals... People..." he trails off and Afton pauses it with some confusion present in his eyes.
"Artificially created people?... Are they aware of our cloning capabilities?" he questions, wondering if there was somehow a spy in their midst...
He looks to the others but finds that they are as confused as he is... Fortunately, there is one person present who seems to know what's going on.
"Creator, I am 70% sure the meatbag is making reference to the AI androids that have been appearing around the East coast... There have been no official findings as of yet, but rumours of machines wearing human skin have become common." Glados explains.
Afton rubs his face, "Cyborgs...? No, they'd be androids wouldn't they?... The only places that I think have the tech to do something like that is here, and... The Institute."
"Those secret scientists you keep complaining about?" Josie asks.
Afton nods, "Yeah, they might have equal-level tech to Big Mt... At least, before I came along. Seems like the Brotherhood has been better at locating them than we have though. As for Elder Gurren's demand? It'd mean we'd have to kill everyone who'd received a clone body, kill everyone in Jacobstown, every ghoul that works here... Glados, how many people would this directly affect?" he questions
"Four hundred and seventy-two." her robotic voice drolly remarks.
Afton shrugs to himself, "So, yeah... Even if we wanted to surrender, I'm not willing to accept that term."
The others nod, agreeing with his apprehension at committing what amounted to genocide against their own people.
The screen unpauses and Gurren continues yet again. "Additionally, we wish for the extermination of the one known as 'Mr House', his existence exposes a severe lack of knowledge concerning his continued existence, one we wish to rectify, preferably with laser fire.
Once Mr House has been eliminated, we will take the Mojave into our care. Protecting and caring for the common populace in ways New Vegas and Bulwark has not been able... This concludes our message, while there is far more we wish to discuss, such things would need to be face to face... By Maxson's will." he gives a small nod as the holodisk ends.
...
"Well that was..." Veronica trails off.
"Shit?" Afton guesses.
"Stupid?" Josie adds.
"Tyrannical." Christine remarks."
"Boring." Veronica finishes, blushing slightly as the others send exasperated looks at her, "What? He didn't say anything interested, and it's not like we'd be accepting their proposal in a million years." she retorts.
Afton sighs, "Yeah, I guess you're right..." he mutters, going into silent contemplation on the situation.
...
"What should we reply with?" Veronica suddenly asks...
Afton grins, "Oh. I'll definitely think of something... It'll be mature. Make our stance known while maintaining optimum civility and dignity." he explains, getting suspicious looks from the others.
...
"You aren't gonna fly a giant cock-shaped plane over them, are you?" Josie asks after a moment.
...
"Uh... No! That sounds really stupid... And funny..." he shakes his head, silently clicking his tongue at losing his first idea.
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Chương 678: Mature Retaliation...?
A week after Bulwark had received the Brotherhood Holodisk, a lone Knight in Powerarmour was patrolling the outskirts of the base nearest to the Mojave west border. It was incredibly hot, incredibly boring work, but someone had to do it, and such a duty fell on him for some reason...
Perhaps putting a depowered sonic detonator in his commanding officer's toilet hadn't been the greatest plan, but, it was certainly funny... The way the man was thrown from the bathroom covered in water and... Debris. Had livened up this shitty outpost like nothing else had.
And while this left him with almost every conceivable punishment, at least he had the recording of the prank stored on his holodevice... He pulls said device out and checks the screen, wiping off some dust and grinning vindictively at the reply of his commanding officer screaming while covered with waste.
Slowly, the heat of the desert sun seemed to be fading though... Confused, he glances around, noticing a large shadow being cast by something overhead... He follows it with his eyes, looking up and squinting against the remnants of sunlight as something slowly flies overhead...
"Whaaat the fuck...?" his mouth independently mutters as he finally spots it... A humungous canvas being flown by hundreds of Eyebots, what was depicted on it? Well, a giant hand flipping the bird... Why was this happening? He had no idea.
He points his holodevice up at it, beginning to record the events as a few eyebots separate from the group overhead and fly down towards them. He almost opens fire, but pauses when he spots that none of their weapon systems were active.
An eyebot finally reaches him, and a prerecorded message begins playing, in a similar fashion to how the enclave used to use them.
"I am Afton Parker, Leader of Bulwark, and I approve this message... The Brotherhood of Steel fuck their sisters, and can lick my taint. Also! Elder Gurren is a paedophile, and likes to molest little boys... That's all folks!... I am Afton Parker-" the message begins replaying, and the Knight stops the recording, storing it so he could report directly to Brotherhood HQ... And hopefully, get out of this shitty patrol position.
The giant middle finger and messages continue to travel unmolested, the Brotherhood fearing retaliation from the many eyebots present... Thus, unfortunately for the Brotherhood, allows the Bulwark message to be spread far and wide.
Elder Gurren didn't actually notice anything once the news had hit. He was just confused at why everyone was now sending him weird glances... This all changed a couple hours later when he was finally told about what'd happened...
"THEY DID WHAAAAT!?" He exclaims in complete and utter shock.
His colleague sheepishly coughs into their fist, "They... They accused you of being a paedophile... Oh, and also told the rest of us to lick Afton Parker's taint... Whatever that is?"
Elder Gurren shakes his head, "The taint is the skin between the balls and ass hole... Wait they called me a paedophile!?" he realises after a moment.
"They did... They also flew a rather well done giant middle finger around the Westcoast..."
Gurren growls, "THIS WON'T STAND!" he shouts, immediately alerting the other Elders to arrive at the council room. It was time for them to intervene in the fate of the Mojave!
Needless to say, Afton's actions were a clear and present insult to the Brotherhood, basically just asking for Bulwark to be attacked. The council almost unanimously agreed to wage war with Bulwark, regardless of the threat they may pose.
A couple hours later Gurren arrived at the Brotherhood research center, where a special guest was currently getting a checkup... Zachary Parker laid still on the bed as blood and other samples were taken. What they actually intended to do with said samples was up in the air at the moment, but the scientists were sure they'd be useful at some point... Not to mention making sure whatever ailment Zachary Parker had contracted wasn't contagious.
*Beep!*
Gurren presses the button to alert those inside of his arrival, entering the observation room and sitting calmly before it.
Zachary is given permission to take a break and speak to the Elder, sitting opposite him with the window in between them both. Immediately, Zach recognises the look in Gurren's eyes, inwardly sighing to himself, "Let me guess. My son?"
Gurren nods, sliding a holodevice with the events stored on it through the present gap. Zach looks at them for a moment, not showing any emotion in his deformed features... He lays it down and passes it back, "How is this related to me?" he questions, clearly having cut ties with his son.
"It's related to you, in the way that you are directly related to the person responsible." Gurren states. "I wish to make a request... To fake using you as a hostage to bring your son under control... I promise, I will do everything in my power to leave him unharmed when we retrieve him."
Zachary quickly shakes his head, "I refuse. I want nothing to do with Afton anymore. I wish only to perform my duties as a Paladin. That's it." he states, going to stand from his chair.
Gurren scowls, "Your duties as a Paladin are to follow my orders!"
Zach sniffs, "No. My pledge was to the people and my brothers, not to you." he remarks before leaving, lying back down on the bed.
Gurren beeps the button a couple more times, but Zach refuses to speak with him, only making the man even angrier than before. He eventually gives up, decided to channel his rage into the conflict with the Mojave.
"I will not be slandered by some uppity little bastard who's playing as a king! This will not stand!"
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