Fallout Wastelander

"Alright. I think we're done here. Let's head on over and see how the ghoul brothers are making out." I said.

"Okay." Amata responded in an extremely positive mood.

But before we headed out, I used one of my thought processes to try out a new technique I gained recently from raising my science to 500. Which was the ability to take over mechanical constructs from afar as long as one of the mechanical constructs I had control of was nearby to the construct I wanted to take over.

Within a moment, I had the new technique and all of its intricacies figured out, so I put it into use and took full control over the recently produced worker bots that I'd yet to instill my will into due to my time being occupied with other activities. Upon gaining control of them, I immediately told them to go initiate construction of the water purification system on the second underground floor that will mainly be based around reverse osmosis. That construction project, by my estimates, shouldn't take my worker bots more than a couple of days to get everything built and integrated.

Thank god this facility has no problems with its water supply other than it being contaminated with radiation and other contaminants, of course. It would've sucked if I had to reallocate my workforce to start working on digging and drilling a water well.

Shortly thereafter, we arrived at the ghoul brothers' rooms, where we checked in on them to see how they were doing. Talking with the three of them for a short while, they seemed to have everything they needed. Therefore, I told them they could relax for today while Amata and I head on back to Vault 101 to pick up furniture, materials for the bathroom remodel, and to continue transferring more of my things over.

Check up completed, my partner and I returned to our room and got suited up in our kit again. And when we had all of our gear re-equipped, we walked to the elevator, pressed the button, and waited patiently for the elevator to reach our floor. As the two of us waited for the elevator to show up, I sent a signal to my usual squad that travel with me on my ventures into the wasteland to get ready to depart.

The second our ride reached the third floor and opened its door, we got on, pressed the button for the ground floor, and rode the elevator down. Once it arrived on the desired floor, I departed for the loading area with my girl in tow and unloaded the stuff from my inventory for my mechanical forces to sort through and transport to the warehouse area.

Whilst my robots were working away on that task, Amata and I walked over to my usual group of robots. Regrouped with them, the newly reformed convoy began nearing the door and when we reached it, I signaled for one of my nearby robots to open the massive blast doors for us. As soon as it pressed the button, the siren came to life and blared, releasing a loud chirping sound and soon thereafter that the door started to move.

*Grrrnnnd...*

Seconds later, the massive door settled into place, so I took the lead, stepped forward, and exited through the massive opening with my main weapon, Mauler grasped firmly within my hands. From there, the convoy I was leading spent the next several hours traveling to and from Vault 101, loading up a good percentage of my accumulated resources. In addition to that, we also brought along several pieces of furniture and a plethora of building materials for redoing the bathroom in my and Amata's room.

But prior to us heading out again, the two of us participated in a quick family dinner with the both of our dads in attendance. Following that, we traveled back with a fully loaded convoy packed to the brim with materials on the brink of sticking out the rear of Hauler's cargo compartment, and before we knew it, we found ourselves back at our new home once again.

Although it was a safe trip, it wasn't wholly uneventful; we encountered a large group of giant ants that consisted of 100 Giant Worker Ants and 25 Giant Soldier Ants on our way there that my group made short work of. And that large gathering of giant ants was not all, we also came across another raider party comprised of 21 individuals by the Springvale School on our way back to the facility.

Thankfully, they weren't too heavily armed or armored, so they couldn't put up much of a fight against us. Hence, my robots and I took them out one by one until there was only a single poor sap left alive for Amata to kill. She had some initial hesitation, but as she was working herself up to doing it, the female raider began pleading for her, which exacerbated Amata's hesitance. Nonetheless, she still followed through and ruthlessly did the deed, cleansing the waste of one more bad actor.

After she disposed of the raider, I made sure she was alright and she seemed fine for the most part. However, I could detect she was thinking about it and had some negative feelings regarding what she had just done, so I gave her a peck on the lips and told her she did a phenomenal job.

And that she had no reason to feel that she had done something wrong, when she in fact had made the wasteland a marginally better place just based on the fact that there was one less thing trying to kill the people of the wasteland. The ones who were just trying to get by and survive day by day in this ruthless and extremely dangerous world, for the most part.

That positive reinforcement of mine did the trick and made her mood and energy change for the better. To such a point that she was smiling and practically glowing from that point on till I had to remind her that she needed to put her power armor helmet back on. With Amata's dilemma solved, mostly, we continued traveling back to the facility without issue while she hummed a happy tune to herself and was practically skipping in her power armor suit, which was somewhat amusing to watch.

As for the loot we got from this trip, we only got a Guns and Bullets skill book, which we found among the remains of the raiders after my robots and I blasted them. Any other loot that survived the onslaught of ballistic and energy weapon fire was a bunch of useless garbage, so we left the scraps for someone else to come across and continued on our way.

When we finally made it home, my group and I circled around to the back of the gargantuan facility, where I had one of the nearby robots inside open up the usual door as the sun was setting in the distance. A short period later, the doors slid open and settled into place, so we proceeded inside through the large opening. The instant the last of my forces had rolled on into the loading area, the same robot that opened the door for us pressed the button again, closing the door shortly thereafter.

"We finally made it home." I commented aloud once the doors had closed.

"That we did, and before it got dark at that. I was worried for a second there that we wouldn't make it home before it turned to night." Amata responded, sounding relieved.

"Yeah, we were cutting it close there, weren't we." 

As she was nodding her power armor-covered head to my response, I continued. "Well, let's go head up and see how the brothers are doing before we retreat to our room for the night."

"Okay."

Following our brief conversation, we headed over to the elevator and rode it to the third floor while my robots were busy unloading all the stuff we brought back with us from our second trip to Vault 101 today. When the elevator reached our desired level, we hopped off and proceeded to where the three ghouls' rooms were located and once we arrived there; I knocked on Don's room since I could tell that all three of them were in there.

It took several seconds but Don eventually opened the door and when he did; I inquired about how things were going and if they had eaten yet. They replied that they did, so I asked them if they needed anything and to not hold back.

"... I don't think we particularly need anything at this moment, but if you don't mind me asking, what do you plan on having us do tomorrow?"

"Hmm, that's a good question... I plan on having Hugo and Kevin help out with the manufacturing area to work on the various things that are going on over there. So if you want, you can head over there and join the two of them tomorrow and make sure things are going smoothly with the newly built automated weapon manufacturing machine my robots just finished assembling an hour ago."

"That's fine by me. But I hope you don't plan on keeping me there forever, since that's not where my talents really lie."

"Yeah, it'll only be a temporary thing till we start exploring the surrounding area, at which point you'll be accompanying me to go clear the metros of all hostile life."

"What kind of life?" He asked in his raspy ghoul voice.

"Probably feral ghouls, giant rats, raiders, and super mutants."

Our discussion was later joined by his brothers and after covering a few other details I asked. "Any more questions?"

"No, I think that's all we wanted to know. Thanks for entertaining our questions." Kevin responded while his brothers followed up with similar responses.

"Alright, well, I'm heading to bed now, so you guys have a good night's sleep. I'll catch you all when you wake up." I said before they responded with something similar.

As soon as Amata wished them a good night as well, we departed from Don's room and began walking to our own. Shortly thereafter, we reached our room, which was now being guarded by two of my assaultrons that I assigned here prior to our second trip to the vault today. Going inside once the newly installed blast door was open, I shut it behind us and went over to my designated structural pillar and exited my suit of Annihilator Power Armor while Amata did the same at the opposite pillar.

When the both of us were out of our power armor suits, we made our way over to the bathroom, took care of our hygienic needs, got changed into some more comfortable sleeping attire, which for me was stripping down to my boxer briefs. The minute I was done changing, I came out of the bathroom and upon doing so, Amata's eyes glued to me and entered an entirely different reality.

"Amata."

"Amata."

"Amata, you there." I called her name for the third time, bringing her back to the real world.

"Huh, y-yes I'm here." She responded with a flushed face.

"It's your turn to get changed, head on in."

"O-oh." She stuttered out in response before she raced into the bathroom with a change of clothes in hand.

A couple of minutes later, she came out of the bathroom dressed in a nightgown that ended just above her knees, with thin straps that rested on her clear, unblemished shoulders. 

She is quite the beauty. I've really lucked out in this life compared to my last.

From there we climbed into bed together, with me taking the left side and her taking the right side, and after staying like that for a few minutes, she wanted to cuddle. So, seeing how she went through what would be considered a traumatic experience, I gave into her wants and did as she asked. Laying there cuddled up together, we started talking about today's events until her breathing evened out and she fell asleep.

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