Chapter 266 - Twice Armed...

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"DID... DID THE LOBOTOMITE SAY THAT?" Klein asks the others, having already gotten what Afton had said.​​

"*Bzzzch!*" 8 says, and Borous slowly starts floating away. Though, by the way the others were looking at him, he wasn't doing a very good job at hiding it.

"BOROUS! WHAT ARE YOU HIDING YOU GERIATRIC SIMPLETON!?" Klein exclaims.

"NOTHING!" Borous loudly says.

"Err, aren't we all technically geriatric Klein? Two-hundred years would make us double or even triple geriatric...-ness?..." Zero questions neurotically.

"QUIET DR. O! WE AREN'T HERE TO POINT OUT HYPOCRITES! NO! WE'RE HERE TO DEFEAT MOBIUS!... AND SOMETIMES SCIENCE!..."

"*BZZZZCH!*"

"That's a LIE! And you know it 8!" Borous states at 8's apparent insinuation.

Afton was beginning to get tired of listening to their back and forth babbling conversation... If he wasn't out to receive rewards from them then he'd have left already.

"Please, Dr. Borous! Even the Lobotomite can tell you're hiding something, and they don't even have a brain!" Zero gesticulates, pointing his manipulators at Borous.

"BOROUS! YOU WILL REVEAL WHATEVER YOU ARE HIDING, OR SO HELP ME! I WILL LACE YOUR BIO GEL WITH THE EXCRETIONS OF YOUR CYBER DOGS!"

"FINE!" Borous finally gives in, floating towards his own workspace and opening a case, the thrusters keeping the robot floating beginning to struggle under the weight of the new object he was carrying. "I still do not agree with giving the Lobotomite a gun... Guns are DEADLY!" the robot states, returning to the others with some sort of large machine gun in his manipulators.

"*Bzzzzch!*"

"Dr. 8 is correct. We have already given the teddy bear a lethal sonic deathray filled with his ejaculate and sterilized by my soft WoooOOOoo'ing... Giving the teddy bear a gun would be the equivalent of following a glass of hemlock with an abraxo chaser. Delicious and redundantly deadly." Dala concurs with 8's... Whatever 8 had said.

Dr. Borous seems to sigh and hefts the weapon in his manipulators up, "This is the Cyberdog gun K9000, with its floppy ears and curious nose sensor... You be sure to take good care of him! I'll plant a virus in your RobCo device if I hear you've hurt him!" he warns.

"WILL YOU JUST GIVE IT ALREADY? THAT THING MAKES ME UNCOMFORTABLE! ALWAYS WORRIED IT'LL START HUMPING MY CHASSIS!" Klein says.

Borous reluctantly drops the heavy machine gun in Afton's hands, and Afton is immediately caught off guard by the whimpering sound being emitted by the gun...

He examines it for a moment and is 'almost' appalled by the fact the gun literally contains a dog's brain in a dome filled with bio gel, not to dissimilar from Dr. Klein and his colleagues.

Truth be told, it was more akin to a mini-gun than a machinegun, the size alone would make most unable to properly use it. The casing was tough, heavy metal, and the barrel was separated into three that'd spin like a minigun's would. It had two floppy metal things on the top that resembled dog ears... Judging by the way they moved and responded to stimulus, it didn't seem like a bad guess either.

The gun didn't have any iron sights, instead, having an x2 scope. He could also tell it seemed to take .357 calibre bullets, a boon since such rounds were easily acquired in the Mojave. Last but not least, he checks it via his inventory.

[K9000 Cyberdog Gun]

Strength req : 8

DPS :182

DMG : 26

Crit dmg : 18

Crit mult : 0.06x

AP : 27

Weight : 27

Value : 14000

Special : Is able to sense its surroundings, and will alert the user to threats it detects. Will also become a life long companion that will never let you down!

Huh, the damage per bullet is actually quite high considering this thing is basically as Minigun. The DPS itself is insane! Compared to the Anti-Material rifle, it has triple the DPS! Of course, both weapons were strong in their own respective fields, but it will still very, very impressive.

The only problem was the fact that he'd be forced to lug around an incredibly heavy mini-gun that ate ammunition quicker than most people could realise... He didn't have enough .357 rounds to properly fire the weapon for any kind of long term use, and he doubted the scientists would have enough either...

Afton conned some more .357 bullets out of the scientists by acting like a fool who didn't know what bullets were. He was then given the Sink's central personality chip, one that would apparently reactivate one of the machines in the sink and allow him to trade and barter with it.

"I still think it would be more appropriate for the teddy bear to reside in my chambers, my radars would be the best suited to, slowly, scan its form and collect sensitive data." Dala says, causing cold sweat to gather on Afton's neck and back. Something about the creepy scientist made him want to run and never return.

"NO! OTHERWISE IT WOULD BE TOO CLOSE TO US, TURNING LIGHTS OFF AND ON, MOVING AROUND WITH THOSE... UGH! EXTREMITIES! NO. THE ATTIC IS THE BEST PLACE FOR IT TO BE." Klein states.

"What about the other personality chips?" Afton asks, "I remember seeing more than one machine in there that wasn't operating properly."

"WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER PERSONALITY CHIPS?" Klein parrots, seemingly confused.

"Are you... Echoing what he said, or are you asking for real?" Zero tentatively asks.

"He's asking, yes. Dr. Klein, there are other personalities. If you recall, you hurled them off of the Sink balcony after your argument with Mobius." Dala says.

"IT IS NOT AN ARGUMENT IF ONE IS CLEARLY RIGHT AND THE OTHER IS CLEARLY WRONG! I REMEMBER NOW, LOBOTOMITE. THERE ARE OTHER CHIPS SCATTERED AROUND THE RESEARCH FACILITIES IN HOLOTAPES. IF YOU WANT THEM THEN YOU'LL HAVE TO GATHER THEM YOURSELF." Klein states.

Afton raises a brow, couldn't he just recover the chips that'd been thrown over the balcony? Sure some would be broken but his [Mechanicus] Perk would correct that fairly quickly. Though, whether or not the personalities contained within the chips would remain is still unclear.