After traveling through the halls for some time, we at long st came across another door, which Michael opened upon us arriving in front of it. The sed he activated the bst door, it quickly opened up and slid into its recess in the floor, presenting us with Michael's and his group's living space as well as a bunch of ghoul residents that were instantly frightened upon seeing us following right behind him.

  "M-Michael, who are these people yht?" A male ghoul asked in a frighteone, obviously misuanding the situation.

  "These people here have a proposition they wish to present to us, ohat I've already taken the liberty to accept myself regardless of what you guys decide to do. That being said, I would highly reend you guys do so as well, because your lives will improve drastically if you agree to the terms." Michael answered whilst attempting to calm them down from us barging into their home unannounced.

  From there, we calmed them down and expihe situation ieail, including who we are and what kind of deal I had for them. Which they accepted retively easily ohey found out that we weren't a bunch of bigoted wastenders like many were out in the wastes. The food I handed each of the fhouls also helped win them over, si was the best thing they'd eaten in a very long, long time.

  "So with all of that cleared up and our introdus out of the way, you guys introduce yourselves and tell us a bit about each of yourselves?" I asked the fhouls that were part of Michael's group.

  "Doesn't look like my friends here want to start so I'll go first. The names Roy Rodney Phillips and I used to be a cop before the bombs, but that was a long time ago, as you very well know." Roy piped up after none of the houls said anything for a couple of seds.

  "As for what I am now, I was leading this group here and just trying to get by, just like most others nowadays. But since you'll be the boss from now, you get to be the lucky bastard that gets to carry that burden now, haha." He tinued jokingly, with a hint of relief in his raspy ghoul voice.

  The minute Roy was dorodug himself, the female ghoul standing directly to his right began somewhat timid initially. "M-my name is Bessie Carol Lynn and I am Roy's girlfriend and I articipating iy pageants as a hobby and going to school for pharmacology. Sadly, I didn't get that far into it, so I didn't really learn all that much."

  Following Bessie's introdu, the ghoul started speaking in the signature rough voice, ghouls were known for, although higher pitched than a male ghoul's voice. "I guess it's my turn to introduce myself. My name is Romona Dana , and I was w as an atant prior to everything falling apart."

  After Romona's brief and to the point introdu was over with, the st ghoul began. "My name is Hector Dennis Hughes, and I was a handyman for a number of years before I nded a job at General Atomic doing simir work fixing simple problems that would occasionally e up in the factory I was w at."

  I spoke with them for a short while aually decided to get a move on. "Again, it's o meet you all and I'm gd that you all decided to join our small but growing group."

  "Alright, now that everyoroduced themselves and knows a bit about each other, let's get a move and head bae a you guys situated there." I told them before the ghouls began to gather a few of their things that were important to them.

  ...

  When they were finished gathering up their belongings, I led the way and backtracked the way we came frinally. However, before we set out, I sent a signal with Mechu-deru to my robots back at base to begiing up rooms for our new ining residents. And while I was at it, I had my rger robots that couldn't pass through the metro corridin moving to the Warrington Statiorao meet us there.

  A short walk through the crumbliro tuer, we arrived back at the train ptform. And the moment we did, we asded up the escators to the level above and began making our way to the exit to meet up with my rger robots. Not long thereafter, I arrived in front of the locked gate that was blog access to and from the Warrington Station. Needing it removed so we could proceed, I walked up to it and used my lockpig ability on it, undoing the lock the sed, before any of my newly recruited ghouls could offer up assistance.

  The instant the gate unlocked, I noticed with my perceptiohat ghouls behind were all wearing surprised expressions. Seeing their curiosity, I went ahead and got my ability story out of the way and expio them that I was one of those so-called gifted individuals and or a mutant and had a host of abilities which put me in a league of my own.

  They seemed satisfied with that expnation for now and didn't ask me to go into any specific detail regarding what I could do, not that I would have told them anyway sihey didn't o know. With the gate unlocked and no longer impeding us, the whole lot of us stepped forward and passed through the opening. We the up with my robots that were patiently waiting for us, but not before I had one of the ghouls lock the gate behind us with the key they had on hand.

  Ready to depart, I had the ghouls pile into Hauler's , and as soon as they were all aboard our increasingly rger voy, we began our return trip home. Several minutes into our journey, we once more came into the viity of Tenpenny Tower, so not wanting to get shot in the head by the old geezer uedly, I looked up at the penthouse baly.

  Looks like the old coot is still up there having his fun at the rest of the wastend's expense.

  Seeing Allistair Tenpenny still up there but looking at something in the distance further south, I kept trudging along till I moved my vision to where he was looking. Once I looked to the south as well, I saw a wandering Super Mutant Behemoth about several thousaers out from where we were currently headiward.

  Holy fuck, that's one hell of a monster.

  As we tinued proceeding down the road, I tinued the Super Mutant Behemoth and studying it from afar. No more than a moment ter of studying the behemoth, I estimated that the monstrous mutated human stood at a height of about 14 meters, give or take a foot. Which was a whopping 5 meters rger than what they were supposed to be.

  Besides its abnormal height, the mutated creature appeared to be armored up somewhat with rge pieetal scrap ed around various parts of its body. It was also armed with a rge spiked club that was evehaandard ripped-out-of-the-ground fire hydrants that the normal run-of-the-mill Supermutant Behemoths were seen within the Fallout games.

  Thankfully, that big fucker isn't ing our way, otherwise I would've had my group start hauling ass bae as fast as possible so we could avoid getting caught up in having to take it out. I'll for sure be getting to work on making those neons I've been thinking about tely as soon as possible. There's no way my 50 cal is going to cut it against a beast of that size and proportions.

  With a gargantuan-sized Super Mutant Behemoth roaming to the south, we picked up our pad tinued on our way home. Traveling along the cracked and disiing asphalt food bit, my group and I eventually reached our destination finally. The momeered the parking lot, I had us circle around back to the rear of our fortified base of operations, where I had the massive bst door open and ready for us to head on in.

  Following everyone making their way ihe new members of our small group hopped on out of Hauler's and began taking in the sights and looking around i the many robots busily scurrying about the loading area w on their individual tasks.

  Letting them view the going ons of my operation for a little bit, I acquired their attention. "Well, we made it safely, everyone."

  "Let me show you to your rooms and when you're all done dropping your stuff in your personal spaces, we'll head to the dining area to get you guys fed and hydrated." I told them upon gaining their attention.

  Following that, we headed upstairs to the third floor, where we showed them their living quarters that were currently being renovated by my robotic workforce. When they were finished being shocked at what rovided to them and dropping off their stuff in their rooms, we mosied on downstairs to the dining area a up with the other two Hill brothers that were currently taking their lunch break.

  ...

  Half an hour ter, we finished eating our fill, so I had Amata show them around the pd get them situated.

  Whilst my panion was busy taking care of that, I went back downstairs with Don and loaded up several Gatling Laser Turrets to install at the metro, a number of armored ptes to block off the Warrington Statiorail we could get a proper bst door installed, and a rge number of metal supports to hold up the colpsed ses of the tunnel whe to clearing the blockages.

  When we had all of the stuff we o secure and lock down both the metro station and the trainyard materials to keep the tunnels from g in on us once we unblock them, I added several more robots to our voy and headed on back out into the wastend with Don and the robht behient on clearing out the rest of the metro.

  As we were traveling back to the Warrington Trainyard, I dropped off a number of robots at the Warrington Station to start blog it off from the inside. With some of my forces handling that job, we tinued on to the railyard and the very instant Don and I arrived back at the Warrington Trainyard; I led us into the metro tunnels via the small door assed through previously. Swiftly passing through the corridor, I exited it, located the switch for the rge tunnel gates, and activated it.

  *Kshnk...Grrnd-*

  Listening to the sound of the metal gates screech for several seds, they each came to a halt. After they each settled into position, I had several of my robots begin installing turrets and other defenses while Don, I, and a buny robots proceeded further io explore and clear out the remaining areas we hadn't yet explored.

  ...

  A couple of hours quickly passed by as Don, my robots, and I cleared out the ey of the metro that was accessible to us. And when we had finally cluded our exploration of its many brang tunnels my robots and I had mao take out an additional 292 Feral Ghouls, 53 Feral Ghoul Roamers, 14 Feral Ghoul Reavers, 3 Glowing Ones, 3 Giant Radroaches, 27 Giant Rats, and 37 Radroaches in our clearing.

  While Don, oher hand, racked up a kill t of 42 various feral ghoul types that I, unfortunately, didn't earn any exp from, sadly. Despite missing out on that bit of exp, I couldn't care less since I had earned more thay at the end of the day.

  "Now that we've explored and cleared out all of the accessible areas, let's go unblod explore the tuhat heads northeast." I said.

  "Is there any particur reason we're hitting that tunnel first?"

  "It's the tuhat will most likely pass by my facility, hence why we'll be unblog that one first."

  "Mm, that does make sense." Don ely.

  ...

  The several hours were spent with us clearing one blockage after another, expl and killing off swarms of feral ghouls. At the end of all of it, my meical forces and I had sughtered 409 Feral Ghouls, 78 roamers, 16 reavers, and 8 Glowing Ones. In addition to the massive exp my robots and I harvested, we mao clear all the tht uhe main interse, the one located directly to the right of the VAPL-84 Power Station.

  "I think that's it for today, Do's head bad get some grub because I'm starving." I told my military ghoul friend, Don.

  "Ready when you are, boss man. I 't wait to get some chow."

  Done clearing the metro tunnels, I had the robots I brought along for the tunneling begin w on opening a path in the dire of my home. Whilst part of my workers were now busy doing that, I had the robots that were finished blog off the Warrington Statiorance move out to assist iunneling effort.

  Having assighe st of my robots their jobs, Don and I began heading back the way we came through the still dark metro tunnels. On our way back, we passed by numerous metal support beams that had been installed by my forces as we were clearing the colpsed se of the tunnels. No More than ten mier we found ourselves back at the trainyard, thus I gathered up the troops that didn't o stay and traveled bae, leaving behind a couple of Sentry Bots and Assaultrons to keep the pce secured.

  Speeding along, we cut the trip time down by at least 20% and as soon as we arrived back at home, the two of us went straight to our respective rooms and unequipped ear. We the back up with everyone and enjoyed a group dinner with everyone, including our new Ghoul friends.

  After eating and chatting for quite a long time, we ed it up and proceeded downstairs to rex and unwind with some games. Around the one-hour mark, everyone called it quits for the day and headed to their rooms upstairs to hit the hay.

  As I headed up with Amata, tg herself onto my arm, I utilized Mechu-deru and took trol over the robots and turrets that were manufactured during the day. When the elevator reached the desired floor and the doors opened up, we walked to our room hand in hand, got ed up, and hit the sack for some mueeded sleep.

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