Chapter 307 - SCHEMATICS!

After Afton pondered his plan of action for a while in VATS, he eventually decides to exit via the opening doors of the X-8 facility... He deactivates VATS and makes a run for it, ducking and weaving as lasers impact everything near his current position, the invisibility providing at least some degree of cover.

However, once Afton reaches the door, he comes face to face with hundreds of beady little eyes, all waiting in the darkness for the doors to fully open... Before he's even able to compute what this way, a laser strikes him in the back, causing him to fall forwards, barely avoiding one of the creatures here.​​

He groans in pain and looks around, finally able to see who the eyes belonged to... "Ah, huh..." he mutters as he stares at the hundreds of Cyberdogs, all seemingly prepared for combat...

Once the doors were fully open, a bell-sound rings out, and all Cyberdogs immediately charge out of the facility, barking sonic projectiles at the army of Robo-Scorpions. This causes many to be thrown over one another, disrupting their laser fire that'd been trying to retarget the Cyberdogs.

The sonic barks were just the initial attack however, it didn't take long for the Cyberdogs to finally reach their targets, beginning to bite, claw, and tear the Robo-Scorpions apart... Sure, it'd take a while for the Cyberdogs to actually kill the scorpions due to their tough armour, but they were easily able to disable their combat capabilities... Tearing off their laser tail rendered them almost useless, as their pincers proved very, very ineffective against the Cyberdog assault.

Afton just watches all of this happen with a dumbfounded look on his face... This whole situation sounded too weird to be real, him, an invisible guy barely escaping an army of robotic scorpions, only to be saved by an army of robotic dogs... Yeah, sounds pretty cookoo when put like that.

Afton guessed that the reason the Cyberdogs were sent attacking was due to the damage the Robo-Scorpions had done to the test chamber, the facility itself taking it as an attack that must be defended and retaliated against. Still, Afton wasn't sure if he'd be attacked by them if they spotted him... If they hadn't already sniffed him out earlier, burnt flesh is quite pungent after all.

"I recommend we sneak past them, user." Nyx states, and Afton nods in agreement.

"Yeah, I'm not getting involved in that." he says, slowly heading back to the Think Tank. Now that he'd secured all of the schematics, they should be attacking Mobius directly next... Hopefully.

Afton didn't have much trouble sneaking past the fight, his invisibility combined with the stealth suits dampening capabilities made him almost untraceable to enemies not specifically searching for him.

A couple hours of walking later and Afton found himself back at the Think Tank, his wounds having slowly healed due to his exposure to the sunlight. The scorch marks on Nyx had pretty much all faded too due to his [Mechanicus] Perk.

Once inside he marches towards Klein who's still in the exact place he'd left him... It was strange, and Afton knew he wouldn't be able to sit in the same place conducting experiments for two-hundred-years without losing his mind... Though, he wasn't all that confident in the scientist's mental stability in the first place.

"Klein." he greets from behind the robot.

Dr. Klein stops tapping a terminal with his manipulators and turns towards Afton, "HAVE YOU DONE WHAT WE ASKED? IF NOT, WE WILL NOT HESITATE TO ASK AGAIN!"

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"Was that a joke-Wait, you know what? I don't care. I've secured all the schematics you asked for." Afton says after a moment to process the scientist's words.

"IT WAS NO JOKE, LOBOTOMITE. YOU WILL FIND THAT MY ABILITY TO REPEATEDLY ASK QUESTIONS WILL TRIUMPH OVER YOUR OWN... AS FOR THE SCHEMATICS, I MAY NOT DISPLAY IT, BUT I AM ASTOUNDED AT YOUR SURVIVAL. YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DIE-*Ahem*, PREDICTED TO PERISH MANY TIMES OVER..."

Afton shrugs, "Thanks for the confidence." he states with a blank expression "Now, what did you actually need the schematics for? None of the technologies seemed to have anything to do with one another... Apart from maybe the Sonic Emitter and Stealth suit for their uses in infiltration..." he questions.

"JUST GIVE ME A MOMENT TO CHECK MY TRANSMISSION DATABANK FOR THE SCHEMATICS... LET'S SEE HERE... A THREAT BY MOBIUS... ANOTHER THREAT BY MOBIUS... AN APOLOGY? BY MOBIUS, FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER THREAT..." Klein continues to list off many, many, many messages he'd received from Mobius, most of which were either threats, apologies, or both at the same time.

"AHA! YES, THE X-2 ANTENNA, X-8 SONIC EMITTER UPGRADE, AND X-13 STEALTH SUIT. I'D SAY EXPLEMARY WORK LOBOTOMITE, IF YOU HADN'T GOTTEN BY ON LUCK ALONE."

Afton scoffs, "Ah yes, luck granted me the ability to fight through hordes of Robo-Scorpions, Lobotomites, Night Stalkers, and other defences each respective facility had. A shame you aren't as lucky as me Klein, otherwise you would've accidentally pieced together nanomachines that would allow you to do anything and everything you wished." he says facetiously.

"HMM? NANOMACHINES? NO, MOBIUS IS THE ONE WHO STARTED THAT PROJECT. NOW, THE SCHEMATICS... LET ME JUST... AH.... YES...." Klein mutters, sounding as if he were exerting himself extremely hard.

"You alright, Klein? Sounds like you're going to shit yourself... Or brainfart?" Afton says, smirking at the stuttering scientist.

"J-JUST BE QUIET FOR A MOMENT. THESE TECHNOLOGIES ARE EXTREMELY... COMPLICATED."

"You have no idea what you're doing, do you?" Afton asks bluntly, wondering why they needed the technologies in the first place. He wasn't going to complain, as Nyx herself was reward enough for everything he'd done, let alone everything else he'd acquired. Still, it as annoying to know the person who sent you out had no idea why he was doing so...

Klein floats over to his terminal and presses a few buttons, causing some machinery to spark to life and start vibrating... Eventually, many pages of blue paper filled with schematics of the technologies were printed out. And the scientist began quickly examining them.

Afton look at them himself and raised a brow, most of it was very, very complicated. The scientists who created them likely doing so over years and over many iterations. But that wasn't what caught his interest however... No, that would be the 'OBVIOUS' notes written by someone called 'Mobius'... Yeah...