Chapter 667 - NCR Flight

A couple more months pass for Afton and Bulwark with thankfully no disasters. Though, while nothing bad had happened to the Mojave, California was another matter entirely.

The Brotherhood had finally mustered their forces and left a trail of death and destruction as they entered NCR territory... The various gangs, factions, and whatever was left of the NCR military attempted to hold them off, but the destruction of the government and chaos caused by it had weakened them far too much. Allowing the Brotherhood to traipse on through without opposition.

Indeed, things were only accelerated when the Brotherhood brought out their ultimate weapon to destroy the NCR tank and armoured vehicle defences... Liberty Prime...

What good are tanks, missiles, guns, and bombs going to do against a basically invincible transformer? Nothing, that's what.

The war only lasted a couple of weeks before the survivors surrendered, not willing to risk their lives trying to claim land that wasn't theirs, or reform a country that didn't care about the people within it.

Afton kept a close eye on all of this, making sure the Brotherhood wouldn't quickly turn their army around and start marching toward the Mojave. Their Vertibird's would be able to reach the region fairly quickly, but getting Liberty Prime from New California to the Mojave would take a while.

Afton hadn't been sitting on his hands though, before he'd even had the NCR government assassinated, he'd begun constructing more Ultimo-Bots, Power armour, and other military equipment to prepare for the eventual Brotherhood offensive.

Additionally, he'd finally managed to get time to complete some longstanding projects that'd been needing some final touch-ups... Specifically, Bulwark's airforce... Yeah, you heard it right, the Bulwark Airforce.

With the schematics taken from the Boomer Bomber, Afton had finally completed the modified aircraft. From afar it looked quite similar to the Boomer's aircraft, though, without all the rust and missing material's theirs had.

Up close you'd immediately spot the strange film covering the metal of the aircraft, it was matte black, and would prevent any light refraction, and make it incredibly hard to notice for anyone during the night.

The size of the bomber had also been drastically increased so as to hold more bombs in its cargo hold. Its engine was refitted with a more powerful nuclear one, and many anti-air defences had been installed to prevent any other aircraft from combatting it, something most prewar bombers had issues with.

Then, there was also the shape of the plane to address... It was aerodynamic, yet, had many sharp and weird edges that seemed unnecessary... This was the anti-radar system Aton had devised after remembering the Stealth Bombers from his old world... He wasn't sure if America had created them in this world or not, but even if they had, he doubted any faction had any defences against them.

Once it was complete, and he'd taken it for a couple spins during the night to confirm that it was effective at bombing and remaining undetected, he made plans to produce more. This, with Afton's assistance to launch more Orbital satellites, had drastically increased Bulwark's productivity.

The need for more Glowing Ghouls to power everything forced Afton to send more patrols out in search of them... But after the quantity started getting lower, he created a project for Dala and Borous to see if creating Glowing Ghouls was possible.

As for how the satellites were going? Well, after mapping out Helios One, developing more weapon systems like it wasn't all that difficult. The only problem was the large solar arrays needed to power each one.

Thus, in the few months after hearing about Shani's vision of 'destruction' he'd only managed to create two extra orbital lasers. Of course, this wasn't just going to help against whatever attack was going to happen, it'd also be useful against the Brotherhood whenever they tried to attack.

During all of this, he'd had to split a good portion of his time with Josie. Her baby bump was getting bigger and bigger, and he was afraid she'd pop if he turned around... Honestly, the idea of having a child scared him far more than anything before. And now that conflicts were threatening to get worse and make their way onto his doorstep, he was determined to make sure nothing could possibly harm her.

Speaking of family... Dala had finally made progress altering the FEV virus to cause specific mutations... While it had taken quite a few prisoners(Hundreds), she was now able to influence what specific part of the body would be mutated.

For instance, she was able to grant a human, a Supermutant arm, leg, head... She'd even gone so far as to change a person's entire body aside from their head. They weren't affected by the rage and mental degradation most Supermutants would experience, yet they were far stronger than any human could usually be.

Of course, such things didn't come without side effects, this changed person only lasted a couple days before their immune system freaked out and torn itself apart, rejected the person's head and literally causing their brain to liquify.

Still, this progress wasn't as fast as Afton wanted it to be... And with his and Josie's child on the way, he thought it'd be fitting for his father to be present to see his grandchild... Thus, he decided to use drastic tactics...

*Shuuk!*

The reinforced door opens to reveal a cell that doesn't have a floor, instead having vicious-looking acid covering the bottom like a pool. Above it, strapped to a machine held over the middle of the acid was Macka Bree, the gaunt-looking man turning his head away from the T.V he'd been provided that only plays reruns of bad prewar shows.

"U-uh-please! Don't take away my T.V again!" the man quickly shouts, struggling slightly in his restraints.

Afton just shakes his head and sighs at how far the man in front of him had fallen... From a genocidal maniac with a god-complex, to this snivelling piece of shit who'd flinch at the slightest movement....