It took us a few hours before we had all the loot secured in the armory but once we did I had my power armor compatible assaultrons equip 5 of the T-51 sets of power armor and 5 of the T-45 sets of power armor. When my robots got themselves decked out from head to toe in power armor, I had them start loading up on the large assortment of loot spread throughout the armory to take back with us.
While they were busy gathering loot to take with us, I headed over to the remaining power armor suits and put the rest of the sets away in my item box. After that was settled, I walked over to where the partially assembled chimera tank was located and stored that away as well with the Mobile Armory perk.
Alright, it's time for me to get loaded up with some weapons and to start off my loot-gathering spree... I think I'll start with the uniques first. And I'm finished there, I'll begin filling my inventory with mini-nukes and as soon as I'm done turning myself into a nuclear stockpile, I'll see what else I can get. Nevertheless, I'll more than likely just end up filling the rest of my inventory with heavy weapons.
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The next 45 minutes or so consisted of my robots and me getting ourselves filled to the brim with the large assortment of loot here in the armory, and when we were finally completely full of loot, we made our way out of the armory. As the last of my robots exited the armory, I closed the armory's blast doors and locked them shut before we then proceeded to the elevator, so we could head up and make our way back home to the RobCo Facility that I've yet to rename.
Making it to the elevator several minutes later, I turned to my robots and told them. "Guys, get on so we can head back home."
"Roger." The 10 of them responded.
The moment we were all loaded onto the elevator, I pressed the button that would take us back to the surface. Shortly after pressing the button for the surface, the elevator began moving upwards while also producing a whirring sound in the process. We quickly passed by one sealed blast door after another on each of the VSS Facility's levels.
Once we passed by a number of underground concrete floors, we made it back to the surface with a whole shitload of loot in tow. Arriving above ground, I signaled for my robots to get off the elevator first. Whilst they were stepping off; I pulled off the panel on the elevator's control panel and disabled the buttons from functioning, thereby increasing the difficulty for anyone attempting to access the bunker below.
So unless they knew how to undo the mess of wires I made in the control panel, there was no way they were reaching any of the floors below, let alone the armory where all the loot was stored. Happy with my handy work, I reinstalled the panel back onto the elevator controls when I had another idea come to my mind when I looked at the turrets above mounted on many of the steel i beams.
I should probably turn those turrets on as well... Yeah, let me do that real quick.
Following the appearance of that idea in my head, I spent the next half an hour climbing up the steel i beams of the partially constructed facility and getting all the turrets back online.
Okay, now we can head to the metro.
With the inside of the elevator's control panel looking like a rat's nest and the surrounding laser turrets up and running, I left for the military building we came through originally to reach the VSS Facility. My group and I speedily made our way through it and exited out the front entrance of the building. From there, we proceeded down the street towards Bailey's Crossroads Metro and after a few minutes; we arrived at the metro station entrance and went inside.
Damn, the place is still as dark as when I first entered the metro. I was really hoping my new Eagle Eye perk would have helped some on that front. I guess I'm going to have to pick up that Friend Of The Night perk on my next level up. It's better to rely on my body's own abilities than my equipment.
Because if my helmet's night vision were to ever stop functioning at an inopportune moment like at night or in a place with very little to no light, I would be blind with my only other way of sensing anything being my perception field. Which has a relatively limited range at the minute, though it is increasing in range day by day as my perception continues to go up. So having that perk in my tool belt would be an absolute lifesaver if anything were to go wrong in that area.
As I continued thinking with my multiple thought processes, my robots and I entered the dark metro station. Toggling my night vision back on, I walked forward into the darkness with my robots stomping behind me in their heavily armored power armor suits and heavy weapons at the ready. While I was heading deeper into the interior of the metro, another idea popped into my head.
It wouldn't be a bad idea to lay some traps out to stop others from coming into this metro. The ghouls are no longer here to stop anyone from passing through, so it's not like it would be hard to reach the VSS facility.
So as we continued making our way through the metro station, I would occasionally crouch down and disperse several frag mines around the area we were in to try to stop anyone from reaching the VSS Facility while I was gone. I did this the entire way through the metro and after doing so for quite a while; we found ourselves at the metro's exit. Thus, I toggled off my night vision and exited the metro station with my robots following suit right on my tail.
As I exited the metro station, I eyed my surroundings with my newly enhanced vision for a couple of moments and didn't spot anything other than some feral dogs heading up the road north. Not finding anything that needed our attention, I continued backtracking the way we came for the next 50 minutes.
The trip back was mostly uneventful, with us only encountering a group of 20 bloatflies that were quickly annihilated, along with 3 radscorpions that were also killed off just as fast. So before I knew it, we were walking into the parking lot out in front of my new residence with some of my newly produced robots busily running about scrapping the cars in the parking lot for materials.
"Haa, we're finally back, guys. Let's head inside and unload all the loot we just got into the warehouse."
"Affirmative-."
But right before I headed inside with my robots in tow, I used Mechu-deru on the 30 worker bots that were busy scrapping the nonfunctioning cars in the parking lot. After I was done using Mechu-deru on all of them, I entered inside with my robots and as we were making our way to the warehouse area; we passed by a number of the defenses I had recently installed.
While we continued walking through the facility, I noticed the place was in a much cleaner state than what I had left it in. Meaning my robots had gotten quite a bit of cleaning done from the time we left. A few minutes later, we made it to the back of my new home where the warehouse area was located and started unloading all the loot, getting it organized, and stored away.
Speedily finishing that job, I had my power armor compatible assaultrons go to the manufacturing area and exit their power armor suits there since I wanted to make some upgrades to them.
Those changes being a swap of their power systems over to fusion breeder and fabricating new power armor sets. I knew I could make significantly better power armor than any of the previous iterations of power armor that I have now, so it just makes sense to get them replaced. That said, it's just going to take a lot of fabrication and time on my end.
Also, while I'm at, I can see about adding stealth capabilities to the power armor suits as well as some emp shielding since normal power armor is susceptible to electromagnetic pulses. That is one weakness I would like to do away with, so this would be the time to do it.
When I was done planning out what sort of upgrades I wanted to make to the power armor suits I returned with; I sent a signal with Mechu-deru to have 10 of the worker bots outside currently scrapping the cars in the parking lot to come inside. Minutes later they showed up, so I had them get to work on producing more gatling laser turrets to upgrade the defenses of my home even further.
As soon as I finished issuing that new order, I made my way to the manufacturing area and got to work modifying the power armor power systems for the next few hours. From there, I got a little something to eat, which was the same old high-protein meal I'd been eating since the time I arrived here. And when I had my fill, I made a call with my encrypted radio and spent the next 10 minutes chatting with Amata.
Once I wrapped up my conversation with her, I walked back to the manufacturing area and began modifying one of the power armor frames and adjusting it for my size, since none of the frames I possessed would fit my massive size. Sometime later, I completed my power armor frame modifications, so I spent what little time I had left before bed fabricating power armor for the next few hours.
Unfortunately, due to the limited time I had left, I was only able to get a few pieces of the set made before I headed to bed for some much needed sleep.
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