A small walk through the facility later, I met up with the Hill brothers at the dining zone. "So, how'd you guys sleep last night?"
"Great, it was the best sleep I've had in centuries." Don replied.
"Yeah, it was pretty good. I don't believe I've slept that well since the bombs dropped and the world came to an end." Hugo agreed.
"Mm, it sure beats sleeping out in the wasteland on some rotten old beat-up mattress." Kevin added lastly, nodding his head.
"That's good. I'm glad all three of you were able to sleep so well." I replied.
The bunch of us chattered on for a bit before I brought up what will be happening today. "Also, some things are going to change. First off, I'm going to have several of my Worker Bots start adding bathrooms to your rooms, so you won't have to share the one bathroom you three have been sharing near your rooms up to this point. As for when you can expect it to be completed, my robots should be done building one for each of your rooms by the end of the day."
Seeing them looking mighty pleased to be getting their very own shitter, I continued onto their change in tasks for today. "And while that's going on, I'm going to have Don and Kevin begin work on assembling the Chinese Chimera Tank instead of having all three of you helping around the manufacturing area. Any questions?"
"Not a one." Kevin replied, just happy to be getting his own personal bathroom.
"I have no issue with that. I would actually much prefer to work on the Chimera tank in fact." Don responded right after his brother, Kevin, in his usual raspy and hoarse sounding ghoul voice.
"Okay cool, now that that's out of the way, we can discuss what will be happening tomorrow. Don, you'll be coming out with Amata and me tomorrow to clear out and take over the nearby Warrington Metro Station, so expect to get into at least some combat tomorrow." I told the former military ghoul.
"Finally." Don said excitedly with a somewhat violent and ferocious glint hiding within the depths of his aged, yellowed eyes.
Turning to his two brothers next. "As for your brothers, you two can continue working on your current tasks if you want, or you can join us for tomorrow's excursion."
"I'm fine with staying and working in the manufacturing area." Hugo answered rather calmly.
"Yeah, I would prefer to work on the Chimera tank if you don't mind." Kevin answered, somewhat hyped up more than likely because of the fact that he'll be working on one of the few vehicles that are still operational.
"That's no problem." I replied.
"Alright, with that settled, you guys enjoy your breakfast while I go head off to wake up my sleeping beauty." I said lastly as I began walking off in the direction of the elevator. However, before I could begin proceeding to the elevator, the three ghoul brothers wished me good luck on my loot runs.
Shortly thereafter, I arrived on the topmost floor and headed for the bedroom my fiancée and I shared. Navigating through the hallways, I made it to the blast door that was being guarded by the two Assaultrons I had stationed outside of it and went on inside and found Amata still soundly asleep.
Striding over to her side of the bed I began attempting to wake her. "Amata, it's time to get up." I told her while shaking her gently.
"Amata, it's time ..."
I repeated that a few more times and after the fifth time, she finally opened her eyes while releasing a yawn of sorts and stretching her arms up above her head.
"Good morning, Harold." She said in her typical bubbly voice with a bright smile plastered on her pretty face.
"Morning sleepy head. Go on into the bathroom and take a shower so we can head downstairs to get something to eat for breakfast."
"Ohh, did the robots finish putting together the rest of the water purification system?" She asked excitedly.
"They did, so go on in and get yourself cleaned up. We have quite the busy day ahead of us." I responded while ushering her to the bathroom.
But before I could get her all the way there, she paused, turned around, and asked me. "Can you lean down for a second, I think I saw something on your face?"
"Sure." Doing as I was told, I leaned down like she asked when and the next thing I knew, Amata stole my lips before quickly scampering into the bathroom with slightly red cheeks.
That little rascal is growing bold.
"Amata, you know you could've just asked if that's what you wanted." I said loudly from outside the bathroom door.
"Yeah, I know, but I wanted to do it this way." She returned cheekily from the opposite side with a slight giggle.
"Alright then, enjoy your shower. I'm going to put my Shadow Armor on." I responded before turning around and walking off in the direction of where I stored my armor.
Over 20 minutes later, Amata finally finished her shower and exited the bathroom, freshened up with her hair and skin glistening under the lights of our bedroom.
As she was coming out, I couldn't help letting loose a whistle. "Well, aren't you a sight to behold." I commented, making her slightly embarrassed and putting a small smile on her face.
Following that little comment of mine, we played and fooled around in our room for the next several minutes and eventually made our way downstairs via the elevator to grab some breakfast that we'll surely be needing to fuel our three loot runs to the vault. The minute we reached the main floor, we left the elevator hand in hand and proceeded to the temporary eating area and began preparing breakfast.
It didn't take us long to get everything ready, but once it was, the two of us sat down and chatted about this and that as well as what we were going to be picking up on the third trip. Which, after a bit of discussion, will mostly consist of things that will be needed for the entertainment area, like skee ball machines, air hockey tables, and other entertainment related machines and games.
But besides acquiring games for the entertainment area, we'll also be picking up a number of items for the dining area and a plethora of materials needed for renovating more rooms for future residents that will be recruited in due time. If I plan on carving out my own little piece of the wasteland one day, I will most definitely be needing a talented group of individuals to assist me in that goal, hence they will need their own personal living quarters.
When we finished eating breakfast and our conversation, we returned upstairs to our room and got geared up so we could begin transporting the remainder of my shit back and forth from Vault 101. Immediately upon equipping our full loadouts, we went downstairs to the loading section of the former RobCo Facility, where my usual squad was already waiting for us, ready to venture out into the wasteland.
Meeting up with my usual group of robots, we moved to the massive blast door that I opened for us with Mechu-deru and continued on through the massive opening, setting off into the wasteland and beginning our loot runs back and forth from the vault.
...
Many hours later, we rounded the corner of my base of operations out here in the wastes and kept moving until we arrived in front of the massive blast door that was currently sliding open for us. The second it settled into place in the open position, we proceeded inside, finally completing our third and final loot run.
"We're finally back. Good work everyone." I said aloud to my group, which received a variety of responses from my robots and a nod and somewhat exhausted sounding mm from Amata's power armor-covered head.
Following our return home, I had my robots initiate the unloading procedures. So whilst they were busy transporting the loot we brought back with us from our final trip to the warehouse area, I and Amata went upstairs via the elevator to remove our equipment and get ourselves cleaned up. Stepping off the elevator once reached the top floor, we journeyed to our room intent on enjoying a nice, hot, steamy shower.
"You hop in the shower first." I told her as soon as I had my gear off and stowed away.
"Thanks... You want to join me?"
"Sigh, you know that isn't going to happen, Amata. You got another two years before that's on the table."
"...Well, it was worth a shot." She replied, sticking her tongue at me and making a face at me.
Letting her go first, I waited patiently and in the process of doing so; I started going over what we encountered on our loot runs.
The trips back and forth weren't too bad and were pretty profitable overall in terms of exp at least. We met 5 Albino Radscorpions, 4 Centaurs, 3 Deathclaws, 21 Giant Soldier Ants, 142 Giant Worker Ants, 21 Molerats, 7 Radroaches, 11 Radscorpions, and 17 Super Mutants on our three trips back and forth from the vault.
Adding to that further, as we were coming back from our second trip, my group and I encountered a new type of Radroach, a Giant Radroach specifically which was surprisingly capable of flight and had the ability to spit acid from its mouth. The new type of Radroach might've been capable of more than that, but that was all I was able to discover before I dispatched it with my Mulcher gatling gun and continued on with our journey to the facility with my convoy.
Besides encountering that oddity, we also came into contact with a small group of 5 poorly equipped raiders that I had Amata dispatch so she could continue to get used to killing and taking human lives.
As I was finishing going over what we encountered on our trips back and forth from Vault 101, I had one of my thought processes take over the robots and turrets that were produced while we were away. The moment they were all under my complete dominance, I assigned the robots some work to do.
That was to start renovating and putting together the dining area and begin transporting the entertainment-related items downstairs to the entertainment area located on level one of the basement. So we could begin putting them to use and do something else other work 24/7. Simultaneously, as I was going over and assigning new tasks for my robots to take care of, I continued busying myself with my thoughts and managing my workers and other mechanical forces all across the facility.
...
20-plus minutes later, my girl and I were all cleaned up, dressed, and ready to get some dinner.
"Alright, let's head downstairs and get some food, and hopefully, by the time we're done with dinner, my Worker Bots will have finished moving and setting up a few of the machines for us to play with in the entertainment area."I said.
"I hope they do. It would be nice if we could play a few games before going to bed... But before we go grab something to eat, I believe I'm deserving of a reward for working so hard today, don't you think so?" She responded, looking at me with an expectant look.
"Hmm, I don't know." I replied jokingly with a thoughtful expression displayed on my face, which received a teary-eyed look from her.
Keeping her in suspense for a few seconds longer, I relented. "Now that I thought about it a bit more, I do believe you are right. Come here for a second, Amata."
Immediately upon telling her to come to me, she did so in an instant, looking forward to whatever reward I plan to give her with her glistening blue eyes locked to my own. With her standing right in front of me with her head raised to mine, I placed both of my hands on her slim but fit waist and leaned my head down toward hers and locked lips with hers. The instant our lips touched, I felt Amata lift her arms up and lock her hands behind my neck to extend the duration of this moment.
We stayed like that for a bit before Amata started to become a bit more aggressive, so not wanting to let things go too far, I put an end to it before she would provoke me to do something I would come to regret. Drawing back, I saw Amata's eyes were a bit misted over, so I kept my hands on her toned waist until she came back down to reality. The following moment she did, I saw the disappointment in her eyes, definitely because we didn't go any further.
"Yeah, I know you're disappointed, Amata, but we can't go any further than this until we're both of age." I told her, further deflating her.
"But it's not that bad since it will be a drastically better experience for the both of us when we finally do advance beyond this stage to the next one." I added, inflating her back up a bit.
As she was about to open her mouth and respond, I leaned down next to her ear and whispered. "Though in the meantime, we can do plenty of stuff like this and some other things to hold us over until that point." After whispering that last bit, I blew a wisp into her ear, startling her and making her go bright red.
Chuckling at her response, we spent a bit of time fooling around in our shared space and soon departed from there, holding on to each other's hands and heading downstairs. Following a short ride, we arrived on the main floor, so we exited it and went to the improvised eating area and prepared ourselves a sizable dinner to replace the calories we expended on our multiple excursions into the capital wasteland.
Half an hour later we devoured our meal but my Worker Bots were still doing their thing, thus we stuck around there and talked about a variety of different topics until my workers were done moving and setting up the games.
Another ten minutes passed when I saw they had finished their job, so I brought it up. "Alright, they're done setting it all up. Let's go."
"Finally."
Getting up from our seats, we made haste for the first underground level where the entertainment area was located and began having fun with the various games placed throughout the place.
The next hour was spent having fun, but when a full hour had come to pass, we decided we had played enough and that it was time to hit the hay. Thus we beelined it upstairs to our room. Not long after returning, we climbed into bed, cuddled up together, and talked for a short while before we both finally fell asleep.
| New Loot |
Aid: Duck and Cover!, 2 Bags of RadAway, 5 Stimpaks, 4 Psycho Syringes
Ammo: 149 12 Gauge Shotgun Shells, 1,611 5.56 Rounds, 1 Mini Nukes
Money: 367 Bottle Caps
Weapons: 4 CA12 Combat Shotguns, 13 Frag Grenades, 9 R91 Assault Rifles, 7 Type 93 Chinese Assault Rifles
Weapon Magazines: 11 12 Round CA12 Combat Shotgun Drum Magazines, 27 30 Round R91 Assault Rifle Magazines, 22 30 Round Type 93 Chinese Assault Rifle Magazines
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