The convoy quickly passed through the ruined mining town that was long cleaned up by the undercity and its wasteland explorers and got on the road heading southeast. Leaving the ruins behind, we headed down the mountainous terrain the mining town was located on and continued doing so as the terrain and environment began getting dryer with vegetation and trees becoming lesser and lesser the closer we were getting to the deserts of Nevada.
Slightly more than a mile and a half into our journey, we came across a number of abandoned structures that were originally built for agriculture. However, seeing their current conditions that was no longer the case today, since they were in various states of disrepair and on the cusp of falling apart. Ignoring those structures that I knew had nothing of value in and to them due to my literal years of playing the wastelander games, we kept traveling, but not before taking a couple of turns so we could go west.
Keeping my wits about me, I scanned my surroundings for even the smallest threat since I couldn't afford anything to go wrong this soon into my mission. I persisted in my examination of the environment for the next two miles till we had finally left the mountains and entered the desert terrain.
Even though I'm feeling safer now that we've left the mountains, I still can't afford to drop my guard. Therefore, I'll have to remain up here on this hot metal roof till we get to the facility… It's a damn good thing I have such a high endurance stat, otherwise I would be getting cooked alive up here.
Remaining on high alert, I stayed up top with my man portable gatling gun at the ready, more than happy to dispense hate onto whoever is dumb enough to get in my way and impede my convoy. Whilst I was getting cooked under the blazing Nevada sun and performing guard duty, I took in the views of the desert that went on for miles and miles, with the only vegetation in sight being short arid shrubs and several other smaller desert species, all of the mutated variety like everything else out here.
If it wasn't for all the opportunities here in Nevada, I would've preferred a start in a climate that was more hospitable. But since this is a place where I can get the best start, I suppose I'll just move and find a permanent home for myself once I fix this shithole of a world and have dealt and put innumerable countermeasures in place for the Zetans… And whatever alien races may or may not lie in the vastness of space.
As I kept an eye on what was going on in the surroundings, thinking, and managing my many robots and machinery both here and at Undercity 7, my group and I sped along the eight-mile stretch of road. When that road eventually came to an end because of a mountain, we took the right curve that came into view and went southward for three quarters of a mile. From there it curved to the left, thus we journeyed west whilst passing by a road that branched off to the south that led to a civilian airfield, one that I will more than likely loot in due time.
My small army and I moved on down the road, passing by mountains, a large craggy one to our right and an even larger one a ways out to our left past a relatively small two mile stretch of desert. Checking out the gray jagged one to the right for a few moments, I saw nothing, so I redirected my vision to the left reddish brown one.
It looks to be clear.
Not seeing anything of interest, let alone something that could pose a threat to my forces and me, we continued moving through this barren and not so traveled area of the state unperturbed. The bunch of us proceeded on that stretch of cracked and sun bleached asphalt for two miles when we encountered a Y-junction ahead.
Already aware of what path we needed to take, the convoy went left for another eight tenths of a mile, where we came across yet another Y-junction. Instead of going left again, I had us go right, nearing ever closer to our destination and where my plans will really start to take off.
As the convoy was in the midst of turning and heading southeast, I heard Rei over my group's encrypted communications system. "Dom, how are things going for you up there?"
"It's hot, but it's nothing I can't handle." I replied with not a drop of sweat on me because of superhuman levels of endurance.
"Phew, that's good. I just wanted to make sure you were doing alright."
"I appreciate the thought, but you know how durable I am, so being subjected to a little sun is nothing to me."
"I know. Anyways, let us know if you need anything... Oh, and also do you know how much longer we have to go before we arrive at that robot manufacturing plant?"
"The place is right around the bend up ahead, so we'll be there in no more than ten minutes at the speed we're going."
"Wow, we're that close, huh. Well, I can't wait to get out of this vehicle and see you."
"I'll see you in a minute, Rei." I said shortly, ending the conversation there before she could get too affectionate over the communication system.
"Moh-"
Envisioning my buddies looking green with envy minus Takeshi, since that was his sister, I rode atop the Buffalo for a bit more than half a mile when the mountain we were traveling alongside came to an end. What came into view past that point a few miles down the road was the Cyberdynamics Robotics Facility in all its glory. The massive facility stood at five stories in height and covered acres' worth of land, probably no less than a million square feet in size or close to it.
With my target in sight and my excitement beginning to bubble, I had everyone speed up so we could arrive there sooner. Because of our increased miles per hour, we reached the dilapidated gate that was blocking our way into the parking lot out in front of the place. So needing it out of the way, I had the front most combat vehicle ram it and bring the gate down.
*Crash*
After the rusted gate clattered onto the cracked pavement, I had the convoy begin pulling into the parking lot. Once the entirety of the convoy and my forces were past the gate, I hopped off the armored big rig I had been riding atop of for the last hour and landed with a thud, both feet solidly planted onto the weathered asphalt.
Taking in what would become my base of operations and my home away from home from here on out, I couldn't help but comment aloud to myself. "The games really didn't do this place justice."
Staring at the gargantuan facility that was surrounded by its very own security fence, although a rusted one for a few seconds longer, I immediately got to work. I first ordered my robots to start taking up positions around the place to secure the entire area around the structure. Following right up on that order as the gang was emptying out of the Wolverine they rode in, I had the 5,000 K-1 Spider Mines I brought with me begin disembarking from the Buffalos.
The moment I issued that command, several of the Buffalos opened their armored cargo container doors, allowing the many four-legged robotic mines to unstack and unload from the vehicles. Watching the thousands of little mechanical constructs jump out of the vehicles by the dozens, I gave them their next directive. That new directive was for them to spread out into the surroundings evenly around the structure of the facility and beyond to become my first line of defenses and provide eyes and ears over the region of what will become my safe haven out here in the Nevada wasteland.
As the many, many K-1 Spider Mines were climbing over and around the hundreds of rusted out sci-fi-ish wrecked cars spread throughout the employee parking lot, I went over to my squad mates. But before I could start discussing what would happen from here on out, Rei rushed ahead of them and jumped at me, trying to hug me. So I grabbed her mid flight, spun her around, and placed her to my side. "Rei, we'll have time to fool around later, so hold off till then."
"...Sigh, alright, honey. But I'll require more attention then than now." She relinquished while insinuating something.
It looks like Rei is done waiting, now that Alice has had her chance. I guess it's time to conquer her and let her have a go at it in the sheets.
Knowing exactly what she was insinuating, I responded in kind. "Thanks, babe. I'll make sure you're left more than satisfied later on."
"~Ara~ I'm looking forward to what you have in store for me then." The Asian beauty said from behind her suit's protective mask via the inbuilt voice modulation module.
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