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(BUS)Chapter 54: Who the Fuck said roids are bad for you!?
🕑 Added 2025-01-03 16:29:41 +0000 UTC"Please follow me!" the bot said and began to wheel away with purpose.
"Might as well." I said curious about what the thing was trying to do.
We followed the bot to a sealed door with a password lock next to it that the bot punched in a password for.
"AAAANNNDDDD OOPEN!" it said dramatically as the door unsealed and popped open on it's own after being unlocked.
Inside the doorway was a storage room that had clearly been forgotten for quite some time as dust layered over everything. In the center of the room was a red chest that Brick wasted no fucking time flipping the latch to even at the cost of everyone other than me coughing from the inhaled dust. The entirety of the contents were a Epic quality SMG, an echo cartridge, a good chunk of cash and some ammo.-
"Hot damn that's a storage deck upgrade!" I said amazed at what the chest held.
"More inventory space? Hell yeah!" Brick said with a grin as he snatched up the cartridge and stuffed it into his echo that beeped a few times before going silent.
The cartridge got passed around until everyone's echoes minus my own maxed out one had just a bity more inventory space.
"You want to come with us or gonna stay here?" I asked the Claptrap after Lil took the SMG.
"My programming designates maintenance of this area as my primary directive! I cannot leave even if I really really want to!" the bot said in a chipper manner.
"So to be clear if I were to take you you'd not resist?" I asked with a grin.
"Hypothetically I would not be able to stop you if you chose to abduct me and hypothetically I might be happy if you did." the bot said all but asking me to save it from this place with it's air quotes on the word hypothetically.
"Say less little dude." I said with a grin as i opened my house up and tossed the bot in.
"Why do you even want that annoying thing anyway?" Lil asked once I put my house up.
"Potential. Obviously the fucking thing is useless as is but with a few modifications and some reprogramming that could be changed. In fact I am willing to put money down that if done right the thing could give even you guys a run for your money." I said confidently.
"I don't know, things seem kinda weak to me" Brick said doubtfully.
"I did say modifications and reprogramming didn't I? Besides it's not like anyone else wants the damn things so who's it gonna bother, Hyperion?" I asked with a sarcastic tone.
(3rd person POV, Hyperion office)
"Did he seriously say that Angel?" the man behind the "Angel" asked seriously.
"He did, I already know what you are going to ask and scanned the design blueprints for that model of robot and discovered a few things that point at what he said as being true if difficult and costly to implement." The angel replied.
"What sort of things and how costly exactly?" the man asked intrigued.
"Reinforcements of specific areas, material upgrades and a full A.I reprogram to exclude the first and second laws of robotics to name three. As for cost the price to manufacture each unit triples from it's current amount." the angel said sounding surprised.
"Hmmm, send in an order for the modified body of the unit. I'll reprogram the A.I myself with imitating these vault hunters in mind." the man said seriously.
'A trial run then?' The angel asked and he nodded.
"We'll see how it goes." he said skeptically.
(Normal POV)
We moved on through the groaning safehouse after that until we came across a medium sized room with what appeared to be four Skag dens at the corners and a thick metal door blocking the way. A low warning sound came out from the door and four midgets in psycho masks came out of the Skag dens. Two with Buzzaxes and two with shotguns. They all died immediately as we shot them in the face. Another warning sound came from the door as it was pulled into the ceiling and two psychos walked out of the now open doorway.-
Fascinatingly one of them had a skull on covering their face that was on fire as they charged at us with a flaming Buzzaxe. I casually grabbed that one by the throat and snapped his neck while checking his traits. To my surprise I found [Fire resistance-Uncommon grade] listed alongside the normal traits I have found on these bandits.
"Hey this guy has a low grade version of [fire resistance], anyone want it?" I asked since even if I didn't want it they might.
"Gimme that trait! That Skag was annoying to beat up!" Brick said seriously.
I looked at the others who just shrugged since they didn't want to get in Bricks way and so I drained the 4,127 lifeforce from all the corpses while spending the 2,000 units it took to make a copy of the trait. I held out my hand and Brick gripped it without hesitation and I passed the trait to him. His skin visibly shifted on his body as the top layer shed off to reveal slightly red tinged skin underneath it.
"That itches!" Brick complained as he scratched off the shed skin.
"That was rather mild compared to what I expected." Roland commented offhandedly.
"It was a low level resistance trait so if I had to guess it just made his skin a tad bit less flammable but his body would still cook if put to the flame. The change wasn't dramatic enough to cause all his skin to need to be replaced like a higher grade trait would." I explained with a shrug.
After that we moved on to a set of stairs with neon arrows pointing down.
"Gross!" Lil said when we reached the bottom of the stairs and saw the sheer amount of blood on the walls and floor like many had been killed there and no one had bothered cleaning it up. It was so bad that there were flies and a horrible rotten stench that made my eyes water in the area. I cursed my enhanced senses at this moment as this REALLY fucking sucked. It became clear however that this was towards the back of the safehouse as the area opened up into a sort of maze with the exposed pipes and power generators being visible. Some midgets and marauders came at us but we dispatched them easily.-
We found an area with a dismantled runner and a fenced oddly wide open cavern that our echoes said had the key we needed right in the center.
"Fifty bucks says theres something big guarding that key." Mordy said seeing this and none of us were willing to take that bet.
The moment we stepped into the cavern an inhumanly massive thing stepped out of the dark doorway at the end that LOOKED like it might have been fucking human once but was beyond that now. Standing a good nine feet tall and having arms and legs as big around as Brick of pure muscle the behemoth started snarling and running at us as fast as it could with a Buzzaxe the size of Lil.-
"BANGx3" I unloaded three rounds at the huge bulbous metal covered head as we scattered without hesitation. The others began to fire at the big bitch as well but it just seemed to make it more and more mad while my own bullets only ricocheted off the thick metal helmet on the things head. Still that was clearly more than enough for the thing to decide I died first.-
As if that wasn't enough like ten fucking psycho midgets came out of the holes in the caverns walls and were REALLY fucking annoying. I inhaled deeply while activating both my fire and shock [Elemental body] traits which worked to make the charging thing pause in fright or surprise(fuck if I know which) and gave me the time to belch out flames at it. This worked a little TOO well as the thing screamed and swatted at the flames causing it pain but seemed to dumb to realize I was the source of the stuff and burnt to death as it inhaled fire.-
{Human(Mutant)
Lifeforce: 3,911
Traits: [Omega body-Rare grade]- 7,000 units, [Gigantism-Uncommon grade]- 2,000 units, [Atrophied brain-Trash grade]- 150 units, [Mutant strength-Legendary grade]-350,000 units [Steroid dependency-Trash grade]- 150 units}
"Fuck!" I exclaimed in shock as I looked the corpses traits over.
"Something good or bad?" Mordy asked as everyone grouped up.
"A bit of both if I'm being honest but this fucking thing has a legendary grade trait and I really really REALLY fucking want it! But I'm a broke bitch and ain't got the lifeforce to buy it!" I said complaining.
We hit the button to bring up the "key" (it was a fucking finger on a ring) and the moment the jingle sounded out we got a new message.
"You should be able to get into the mine now. There is nothing between you and Sledge, and we'll be one step closer to the Vault. I believe in you!" The "angel" said in our heads.
"I told you so!" I said as I took out my echo to point at it.
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Alexander Drake
Lifeforce: 210,191
Integrated Traits: [Gun expertise-Uncommon grade], [Clever mind-Rare grade],[Enhanced senses-Epic grade]X2, [Omega body-Rare grade]x4, [Supreme armored hide-Epic grade]X2, [Bone regeneration-Uncommon grade], [Corrosion resistance-Uncommon grade], [Energy projection-Epic grade]x4, [Superior vitality-Epic grade],[Flame breath-Uncommon grade],[Regeneration-Epic grade], [Disease resistance-Epic grade],[Amphibious lungs-Uncommon grade], [Thermal sensing-Uncommon grade], [Water resistance-Common grade],[Active camouflage-Epic grade], [Eridian engineering expertise-Mythical grade], [Efficient lungs-Rare grade]x2, [Fire resistance-Epic grade], [Elemental body(fire)-Legendary grade], [Shock resistance-Epic grade]X3, [Energetic sustenance(shock)-Epic grade]X2, [Radiation resistance-Epic grade]X3, [Energetic sustenance(radiation)-Epic grade]X2, [True omnivore-Rare grade], [Biometallic bones-Epic grade],[Elemental body(shock)-Rare grade]X2,[Quick thinking-Rare grade], [Hyperflexibility-Rare grade], [Strong circulation-Epic grade], [Minor spatial awareness-Epic grade], [Buzzaxe expertise-Uncommon grade], [Siren(Phaselock)(Altered)-Mythical grade]
Stored traits:[Pugilist expertise-Uncommon grade], [Adrenal rush-Rare grade], [Elemental body(fire)-Rare grade], [Fire resistance-Epic grade], [Elemental body(shock)-Rare grade], [Shock resistance-Epic grade]
Comments
Wizzy
I wish he insulted Hyperion a bit cause tbh, the company sucked before Jack took over.
Christian Jeffress
Oof, too bad he can’t get that legendary trait. Thanks for another fun chapter. Hope you had a great new year.
