Well, there's the signal time to start blasting.
Right as the Mini Nukes arrived at their destinations and went off, the buildings they hit started to have several of their floors collapse, probably sending a good number of raiders I couldn't see to the afterlife. And as all this was happening, my robots simultaneously fired at the dozen raider snipers positioned across the surrounding buildings with their laser rifles.
*RUMBLE*
*Bzzzt-Bzzzt-Bzzzt…*
In an instant, my bots managed to kill 10 out of the 12 raider snipers before they then swapped over to their other weapons to deal with the raiders below. Simultaneously, as that was taking place, I spooled up Mulcher to shred the remaining two snipers.
*Brrrrt*
Shredding the last of the raider snipers to bits, I kept my weapon spooling and examined the surroundings to see how the raiders were reacting to our sudden surprise attack and if we needed to retreat and change positions. Since all it would take to put me down is one well-placed missile hitting me directly in the torso or a well placed 7.62 AP (Armor Piercing) round to the face. But fortunately for us, what I saw below was a disorganized mess of raiders that were either fleeing, panicking, or trying to find cover wherever they could. So, not letting this opportunity go to waste, I took this chance along with my robots to start dealing as much damage as we possibly could.
*Brrrrrrt Brrrrrrt Brrrrrrt*
*Booom*
*Booom*
*Booom…*
Whilst we were putting out as much damage as possible, I took what I presumed was a 7.62 round to the chest. Fortunately, it ricocheted since it didn't have the penetration power necessary to go through my armor, so I pulled back and scanned the buildings in search of where it came from. Two seconds into my search, I spotted another sniper hiding on the 10th floor of one of the buildings to the northwest across the street. With the perpetrator found, I pointed my still-spooling Mulcher at him and let loose another storm of bullets, dismembering that particular raider to pieces.
Now that that enemy was easily and ruthlessly disposed of, I eyeballed the surrounding area again while the cacophony of gunfire, explosions, and laser fire continued going off. After no more than 10 seconds of watching the area like a hawk, I didn't spot anything further, so I went back to the shattered windows and resumed laying down fire over the area, adding many more bodies to the battlefield.
Ten minutes into the slaughter, I spotted waves of raider reinforcements coming from the depths of the ruins. And if I had to take an educated guess at their numbers, I would say there were at least a few hundred of them charging over in this direction. As they were getting closer and closer to the slaughter taking place on their turf, I could see they sporadically had some raiders in makeshift power armor mixed into their numbers. Paying special attention to the raiders wearing normal power armor frames attached with a messy amalgamation of rusted metal plates all welded together, I began thinking about taking my leave.
Oh, they got power armor, time to get the fuck out of dodge... But before we do that, I'm going to rack up several dozen more kills on the regularly armored raiders. I might even be able to get some lucky hits on the ones in makeshift power armor and take out a few of them.
As our time to make a tactical retreat was rapidly approaching, I issued a command with Mech-deru to my robots to start pulling back and making their way down the stairwell at their absolute max. My reason for doing so was simply because they were slower than me and I didn't particularly need their firepower anymore at this point.
So as my robots were beating a hasty retreat, I pointed Mulcher at the incoming enemies' general direction and held the trigger while also making a side-to-side sweeping motion. My gatling gun roared and poured well over a 1,000 rounds onto the small army of bandits, decimating a good portion of the hostile reinforcements. Despite thinning their numbers, a majority of the ones in power armor looked like they were still in relatively good condition, although I could see that I fucked up several of them luckily.
*Brrrrrrrrrt-*
Continuing to lay into them, I ran my weapon dry and found they still had a significant amount of the remaining raider reinforcements hiding behind cover.
Not wanting to find out what would happen if I got surrounded by a bunch of raiders carrying heavy weapons ranging from fatman mininuke launchers to multi-barrel missile launchers. All while I was up in a building that has been left to rot in the wasteland for the past 200 years, I put away Mulcher for the meantime and raced down the stairs after my robots so we could make a speedy escape. No need to stick around and find out whether they wanted to lob a mininuke at me.
As I was racing down the steps, the building started to shake from what I presumed to be missiles impacting the building's exterior. Seeing that the situation was beginning to deteriorate, I turned my speed up a notch and continued flying down the steps. Moments later, I reached the ground floor of the building where my robots were waiting for me, so I signaled for them to follow me while I activated my presence hiding stealth field.
With my stealth field active, the robots and I ran out the back door and retreated to the southeast, off of the roads into the wasteland wilderness. When we got a bit of distance between us and the structure we were using for cover, I heard a loud rumbling sound, so I turned around to see what was up and what I saw was the collapse of the building we were in just a short while ago.
"Those mother fuckers actually leveled building down... Haha, thank god I got out of there when I did."
"Alright guys, let's continue putting more distance between us and them." I told my robots before I heard 10 simultaneous rogers in response.
A few minutes later, we were quite a ways away from the war zone, so I had my robots hold up for a second while I swapped out Mulcher's empty backpack magazine. Following that, I took Mulcher out of my item box again and started swapping its current spent magazine with a fresh fully loaded one. And as I was doing that, I simultaneously checked my robots for any damage with Mechu-deru.
The moment I was done with my reloading procedures and checking my robots for any damage, which there was none of, thankfully, I headed eastward towards the location of the VSS Facility with my robots trailing behind me.
After about 10 minutes of traveling, we began nearing the Red Racer Factory, which was about 1,000 meters out still give or take a few. So, doing the smart thing, I took out my A-21 Anti-Material Rifle and scanned the surrounding urban area for any potential threats. And to see if I was going to have to venture through the Bailey's Crossroads Metro due to there being rubble blocking the path forward. A minute or so into my scanning of the area, I discovered there was indeed rubble in the way.
I could get over it with relative ease, but I don't think my robots would be able to... I suppose we're gonna have to pass through the metro.
*Sigh*
I was really hoping we wouldn't have to.
Besides that discovery, I also found a raider party nearby made up of 15 members walking down the road.
I'll deal with those bastards first before I head on into the metro, which I'm not looking forward to since I doubt it's going to be a fun time if my experience from the games is anything to go off of.
Man, I fucking hate feral ghouls. I can only pray I don't encounter any feral ghoul reavers while we're passing through the metro because I have no interest in finding out what those radioactive globs they throw at you in the games are made of.
With more raiders to dispatch my robots and I made our way over and came up behind the rear of the raider party with my stealth field active. And when they were all in position, they opened fire on them with their laser rifles, annihilating the group several seconds later.
*Bzzzt-Bzzzt-Bzzzt…*
Dealing with them easily, I walked over to see if there was any halfway decent loot. What I ended up scavenging was 1 Guns and Bullets skill book, 4 Combat Shotguns, 1 7.62 Combat Rifle in a sniper configuration, 4 R91 Assault Rifles, 6 Type 93 Chinese Assault Rifles, 8 drum magazines for the Combat Shotguns, 5 20 round magazines for the 7.62 Combat Rifle, 12 magazines for the R91 Assault Rifles, 20 magazines for the Type 93 Chinese Assault Rifles, 100 rounds of 7.62, 996 rounds of 5.56, 83 12 gauge Shotgun Shells and 20 frag grenades. All of which I dumped onto my robots to carry except for the skill book and the frag grenades. Those guys were coming with me.
As soon as my guys and I were done loading up on raider loot, I started walking in the direction of the Bailey's Crossroads Metro entrance with my robots in tow. A short time later, we arrived in front of the stairs that lead into the metro below and after looking around the area for a bit; we walked inside cautiously, passing by the partially destroyed rolling security door on our way in.
While we continued going further and further into the dark metro, it began to affect my visibility. Hence, I turned my night vision on so I could actually see where the hell I was going. Once the night vision was enabled, my eyes took some time to get adjusted to it and when they finally did, we ventured further into the dark decaying metro.
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