Chapter 40: On The Road Again

Date Wednesday, August 25th, 2275

The next morning, right as I woke up, I asked Hauler for the time as usual, to which he told me it was 5:45 AM. 

Looks like I've woken up a bit earlier than normal.

Ready to get a head start on my day, I immediately rose from my simple sleeping arrangements and went through my morning routine of taking care of my hygiene and making a bit of something to eat for breakfast.

Once I had that all out of the way, I swapped my focus to Mechu-deru to check on my robots. With my focus swapped over, I saw that I was now up to a total of 200 worker bots.

Good, my workforce is growing larger day by day. It won't be long before I'm one of the big guys here in the capital wasteland.

Having done my checkup there, I sent a signal with Mechu-deru to have any newly produced worker bots to be assigned to the manufacturing area to assist in getting a number of my other projects up and running. After issuing that order, I sent over another task for my worker bots assigned to the manufacturing area to accomplish. Which was to start getting weapon production up and running using the large number of fabricated parts that were sitting in the warehouse area.

I was going to need a ton of weapons to arm my robots with, therefore it would be wise of me to get a jump on the issue before I end up in a situation where my robots are running around without proper weaponry or none at all besides what they have built in. So as they began the process of making a stockpile of weapons that they'll be able to use in any given situation they might encounter in the future, I turned my attention elsewhere.

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When I eventually finished checking over my robots and assigning them new tasks, I had the robots that I was going to take with me to Vault 101 start moving to the loading area in preparation to leave. With all of that taken care of, I headed to the warehouse area and began stocking up on gear. Once I was fully stocked on gear and equipment I thought I was going to need including Amata's power armor, I climbed into my Annihilator Power Armor and walked over to the loading area where I had my convoy ready to set out at a moment's notice.

As soon as I reached the place, I pulled out my gatling laser Purge from my inventory and slung the heavy weapon sling attached to it over my shoulder. I then followed that up by equipping the backpack power unit and taking a firm hold of the weapon. My weapon now equipped and firmly within my grasp, I had one of the worker bots start the procedures for opening the massive blast door in the loading area. The instant it pressed the button on the door's control panel, a loud siren began going off, alerting everyone nearby that the door was opening.

*Grrrnd...*

Moments later, the massive blast door slid open and settled into place. So I stepped forward and exited my home through the huge opening with 5 power armor compatible assaultrons equipped in 5 suits of T-51 Power Armor along with a whole assortment of heavy weapons, 5 hauling bots, 2 sentry bot Mk IIs, 30 worker bots, and Hauler trailing behind me.

Not more than a few seconds after the last of my robots passed through the doorway, the blast door started to slowly close behind us as we circled around the building to get to the front of it. Whilst we headed to the front of the former RobCo facility, I kept my eyes peeled, scanning the surroundings for any potential danger. 

And after walking for a short time, we found ourselves at the parking lot out in front of my base of operation that had a significant amount of junked cars missing due to my worker bots scrapping a ton of them. Upon making it to the parking lot, we continued on our way, journeying north toward the intersection up ahead. From there, we kept going north along the road while continuously scanning the surroundings for hostiles.

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Sometime later, as we were traveling north, I spotted a pretty large group of super mutants far out in the distance. Thanks to my enhanced eyesight, I could see that this super mutant unit consisted of 10 normal super mutants, 6 super mutant brutes, 3 super mutant masters, and even 1 super mutant overlord.

"Guys, hold up for a second. We have enemies ahead." I told my robot companions while I started examining what sort of equipment they were using.

Observing the group of super mutants closely for a few seconds, I saw they had better makeshift armor than the first group I encountered. The big sickly yellow green mutants were armed with 5 R91 Assault Rifles, 5 Type 93 Chinese Assault Rifles, 4 5mm Miniguns, 2 Light Machine Guns, 1 Missile Launcher, 1 M2 Browning Machine Gun, 1 Fat Man Mini Nuke Launcher and 1 Gatling Laser.

Holy hell, this group is so much better equipped compared to the last one I dispatched, that's for damn sure. And from what I can tell, all of their equipment appears to be in much better shape, too. On top of that, all the assault rifles the normal super mutants are carrying all have drum magazines loaded instead of the standard 30-round magazines that are usually seen with those two types of assault rifles.

Finished gathering intel on their combat capabilities, I started thinking about how I wanted to handle them. After a bit of thought, I decided to play it safe and take out the main threats first with my A-21 Anti-Material Rifle from afar. When the main threats have been dealt with, I'll close in and annihilate the rest of the super mutants with my gatling laser Purge that has yet to see any actual combat.

Decision made, I retrieved my heavy rifle from my item box and loaded it up with a 10-round magazine filled with armor-piercing rounds. Chambering a round into the gun from the newly inserted magazine, I looked down the variable zoom scope while thinking about which of the higher-tier super mutants I wanted to deal with initially.

About a second in, I decided to start off the super mutant massacre by ending the life of the super mutant overlord first. Since that was the only super mutant that could pose any real danger if he were to get close, given that he stood at a height of about 10 feet and probably weighed over 1,000 pounds.

And If I had to take a guess, the big guy probably possess a strength rating around the 25+ area if I was comparing it to my S.P.E.C.I.A.L.s and if I was comparing it against normal human values, I would put it around the 50+ range for strength. That's the sort of strength that could smash a human head as if it was nonexistent. My decision was also made easier by the fact that I could see the super mutant overlord had a ton more DT and health via my living anatomy perk. So with that information available, it only reinforced my decision to deal with it first and foremost.

Now that I had my target picked out, I moved closer to the super mutants with my robots. My reasoning for doing so was because one, I was a long way out and two; I didn't feel sniping from over 3,000 meters. That last one had a number of negatives I didn't want to account for, like wind and various other elements that could affect my bullet's accuracy. Not to mention the lost velocity from shooting from such a distance that would no doubt lessen my weapon's damage.

Shortly thereafter, we made it to the 1,100-meter mark. So I took aim with my weapon's variable zoom scope and moved the scope's crosshair to where I predicted the super mutant overlord's head would be a moment later. Holding the crosshair steady, I pulled my A-21 Anti-Material Rifle's trigger, letting loose a deafening gunshot and sending a sizable fireball out the end of the muzzle brake.

A split second later I saw the armor-piercing 50 caliber round enter the super mutant overlord's head, killing it instantly and right as its body started to fall, I had my next round chambered. Ready to go, I swapped over to the super mutant master that was wielding the missile launcher and repeated the exact same set of actions I took with my execution of the super mutant overlord. The instant a second had passed, the super mutant master I was targeting had its head taken off almost entirely.

Dealing a killing blow to that super mutant master, I racked the bolt on my gun and chambered a new round. As I was lining up the next shot on the super mutant master wielding the Browning M2 Machine Gun, the surrounding super mutants caught on to what was happening and began reacting to the dangerous situation I had them in.

The instant I lined my scope on my next target and was about to pull the trigger, the group of super mutants began scanning the surrounding area, looking for what was taking them out one by one. So while they were beginning their search, I finally applied enough pressure to the trigger on my A-21 Anti-Material Rifle, releasing another deafening gunshot. 

That echoing gunshot of mine gave away my position, although not till after the round I just fired arrived at its intended target, eliminating another super mutant master. This left the group with only one super mutant master remaining among their increasingly smaller squad.

As soon as the party of super mutants registered the sound of my 50 caliber rifle going off, they all collectively turned towards my direction, the place where the loud gunshot originated from. Within moments of finding where the gunshot came from, they collectively let out a war cry and started charging towards our position.

Unwilling to let them get too close with their absurd strength, I lined up another shot on the last remaining super mutant master, the one that was carrying a fat man mini-nuke launcher, and pulled the trigger. Once a bit less than a second had passed the armor-piercing round I had just fired arrived at its intended destination, taking out the last remaining super mutant master from the fight by turning its head into a literal bloody mess and scattering the remains of it across the capital wasteland's relatively barren soil.

When the last remaining super mutant master was killed off, I loaded a fresh 10-round magazine into my A-21 Anti-Material Rifle and placed it back in my inventory. The second I had it put away, I grabbed hold of my gatling laser Purge that had been slung and resting against me this entire time. Grasping my unique gatling laser firmly, I pointed it towards the charging group of super mutants with my laser sight accurately lined up on the front-most super mutant and let loose a stream of laser fire milliseconds later.

*Bzzzz…*

As I continued to hold down the trigger, I watched as the ridiculous amount of laser beams I was sending down range melted, burned, and turned parts of the super mutants' bodies to ash piece by piece and bit by bit. Around the 10-second mark, I let go of the trigger since I had just finished killing off the last remaining super mutant of the group.

"Alright, guys, let's head on over and collect the loot." I told my robots before I started walking towards the super mutant corpses to collect the gear they were carrying.

Arriving in front of the bodies, rather quickly, I had my robots start removing and loading up all the gear and loot they were carrying.

[ Loot ]

Ammo: 385 .50 MG Rounds, 7,744 5mm Rounds, 2,756 5.56 Rounds, 9 Fusion Cores, 73 Microfusion Cells, 7 Mini Nukes, 13 Missiles, 103 Small Energy Cells

Magazines: 8 5mm 500 Round Minigun Drum Magazines, 4 5mm 1,000 Round Minigun Backpack Magazines, 10 Light Machine Gun Box Magazines, 4 M2 Browning Machine Gun Magazines, 20 50 Round R91 Assault Rifle Drum Magazines, 20 50 Round Type 93 Chinese Assault Rifle Drum Magazines

Miscellaneous: 3 Stealth Boys

Weapons: 4 5mm Miniguns, 1 AER9 Laser Rifle, 1 Fat Man Mini Nuke Launcher, 47 Frag Grenades, 1 Gatling Laser, 2 Light Machine Guns, 1 M2 Browning Machine Gun, 1 Missile Launcher, 5 R91 Assault Rifles, 5 Type 93 Chinese Assault Rifles

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