Chapter 670 - Doc Henr-Usnagi.

Usanagi isn't bothered by the man's rather frantic behaviour, instead of panicking or tensing up, she instead just coughs into her hand and looks over her clipboard. "Ahem, what is the last thing you remember?"

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"I..." he shakes his head, "That's none of your business! Tell me why I'm here! Now!" he shouts.

"Mr Parker would you please calm down? I'm afraid that answering my questions is the only way you'll be given any degree of freedom... If you are considered well enough, we may even let you meet your son." she states, causing the man to pause.

"My son?... How do you know about my son? I swear if you've hurt him I'll-"

"Stop! We have not hurt your son! He is perfectly fine and living a very fulfilling life, it is he who actually rescued you from the NCR after all." she explains.

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"H-he did? Wait, how old is he now!?" he suddenly asks, not believing that a young teenager could do such a thing, even if with Brotherhood training.

Usanagi herself pauses, not actually really knowing the answer... Luckily, Afton tells her over the earphone she currently had in. "He's nineteen years old now."

"N-Nineteen!?... H-how? I was only captured... No..." he clutches his head, "Why is it so hard to recall?"

"That may be because of the extensive brain surgery you had to undergo to return your senses... Please, what's the last thing you remember?"

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"I... After I was captured by the NCR, they interrogated me, I think... After that, they sent me somewhere else, a laboratory I think... Everything after that is blurry..." he looks to Usanagi, "What happened to me?"

Usanagi inwardly sighs to herself, how could she explain to this man that he'd been turned into a monster that had killed many people under the OSI's orders... "The NCR used you as an experimental subject and managed to turn you into a mindless puppet. You were their super-soldier, but we managed to capture you and work in finding a cure... Tell me, do you remember your son's name?"

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"Afton, I could never forget him. The most peculiar yet talented child the Chapter had ever seen." he fondly recalls.

"And your wife?" Usanagi presses, wondering if this question would set off a psychotic break... To him, his wife had only died relatively recently after all.

"...Verna." he states with a solemn look, or, as solemn as his monstrous face could manage.

Usanagi nods, "Good. At least your memory seems in order... Now, why don't you tell me how you are feeling right now?"

"How I feel?" Zach questions, unsure what this would accomplish.

She nods again, "Yes, do you feel anything unfamiliar? Peculiar? An urge or instinct to do something?" she asks.

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He shakes his head after a moment, not feeling anything like she'd described. "No... Kinda hungry, but that's it." he says. He was feeling concerned over his current situation, and mournful for his wife, but that wasn't strange or out of the ordinary.

Usanagi examines his face for any deception, but smiles in acceptance once she was sure he was telling the truth. She glances up at the corner of the room, "Glados, could you pull up the psychological tests for me?"

"Affirmative." the AI's robotic voice says as a holographic screen suddenly appears on the nearby wall. On it was a strange shape, a shape Zach immediately realised was a rorschach test.

The holographic screen had surprised him, but the Brotherhood was known to possess holographic screens to be used for important tasks, such as the map in the Elder's room... To think they'd consider him that important though brought a slightly smile to his face.

Usanagi gestures at the screen, "I see you know what this is... If you could answer as truthfully as you can, that would be appreciated... Now, what do you see?" she asks.

"A chemical reaction." he says after staring at it for a moment.

Usanagi nods as the screen automatically moves to the next. "This one?"

He shrugs, "It's some piece of space-age technology I think..."

The screen changes again, "And lastly, this one."

Zach stares hard at this one, "It's... Two bears high-fiving."

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Usanagi crooks a brow, "Huh, no one's ever given that answer before... I can see the resemblance though." she mutters before shaking her head, "Alright, there are a few more tests we need to do, but I can promise they won't take long..."

Zach nods and silently waits.

"I'm going to say a word, and I want you to say the first thing that comes to mind... Dog."

Thirty minutes later :

Afton breathes a sigh of relief as he watches his father finish up with the psychological evaluation. From what he'd seen, the man was perfectly healthy and mentally stable. Something he'd been unsure about after they'd removed so much brain matter.

He was a bit worried about how his father would react to the news of what he'd done to the Mojave Chapter of the Brotherhood, but that issue could wait for now...

He looks at his father and activates [Living Anatomy] to see what changes had actually occurred.

[Zachary Parker]

Health : 100%

Stamina : 99%

DT : 18

Strength : 10

Perception : 8

Endurance : 10

Charisma : 3

Intelligence : 7

Agility : 5

Luck : 3

Ailments :

[Mutative Remnants] : Having gone under massive mutations in the past, some things still remain despite the attempts to heal them... +3 Strength, +4 Endurance, -1 Intelligence, -3 Luck, +12 DT. Also increases resistance against diseases and any further mutation.

Hmm. Seems like Macka hadn't been able to fix everything... Afton had expected something like this as his father's appearance hadn't returned to normal... At the very least, he'd have retained some of Mr X's strength due to his drastically increased size.... He'd need to run a couple tests to make sure everything was fine though, it'd be stupid if they healed him, only for cancerous tumours to suddenly appear all over his body.