It had been nearly two weeks since Easy Pete and I had made the mines and my robot army was finally at the level I felt comfortable confronting the deathclaws with.
My eyebots numbered 126, I would have made more but I had run out of resources to make them. My Handys stood at 34, a decent number of them. I of course had my sentry bot and the scuffed sentry bot turrets. Beyond them I had 10 normal turrets and the mines. I had already scouted the deathclaws and the area around the quarry. The deathclaws numbered 32, a massive amount of them and they had an alpha and a matriarch.
Sloan was lucky the deathclaws had two ways in, otherwise the few defenders they had would get annihilated in an instant.
Over time I had slowly moved my army to Jean Skydiving to prepare for the assault. My Handys would be hauling and planting the mines while the rest guarded them. I had even prepared a mass of barbed wire for the Handys to place. I wanted a no-man's land between us and the lizards.
With the army ready I went to town and grabbed the people who had been told my plans by Pete and wanted to participate. Sunny Smiles, Easy Pete and a small militia left the town with me to Jean Skydiving. Nearly everyone in town had contributed to us as they knew without the deathclaws in the quarry trade would start back up. Chet had even given me tech scrap to make more bots.
When our little group arrived at Jean they were stunned. The small building had gotten a makeover and outside it sat barrels upon barrels of water, all purified by a small treatment plant. My pilons sat around the area being tended by Handys. The whole area was filled with eyebots, some sitting idle while others patrolled.
Sitting near the building was a group of traders with mercs,they had probably heard about what I was doing and set up to restart trade in the area. Behind the traders I could see something iconic, I'd never forget that armor. Prewar riot armor and helmet, thick leather duster on top. An anti-material rifle on his back and a massive revolver peaking out of his shadow. His shimmering red eyes met me and looked me over.
The NCR knew about me and had sent a ranger for some reason. The ranger stood there at the back of the group not doing anything. I didn't know why he was here so I gave a quick order to my boys to watch him.
With my army ready we set out to remove the deathclaws. Sloan was half a days walk from us and I knew we'd run into some powder gangers so I sent some bots ahead to deal with them. On our way there people looted the fallen gangers of their possessions. Finally we got to the town itself, and it wasn't very big.
In the small cliff side was a large open space filled with some houses, a barracks, a bar/restaurant and some miscellaneous buildings. On the road beside the town was a small fortress of sandbags and scrap fortifications.
"Well, the prodigal son returns home with an army at his back. What you lookin' to do with that army?"
I looked around and at the top of one of the fortifications was standing a bearded man with a hard hat on. Chomps Lewis, from what I knew he was the leader of the mining in the quarry and was a good friend of my father.
"I'm here to wipe out those overgrown lizards and then set up to take black mountain." I responded.
"That's good kid, I'm guessing that ranger back there is the NCRs toe in this?"
"I don't rightly know, he showed up with them traders and simply followed along."
He snorted "Course they probably sent him to observe and spy on you, their not liable to do much unless it give them more power."
Of course they wouldn't do anything. They were all led by corrupt, power hungry politicians, just like every prewar government.
After some more discussion I sent my bots to set up the no-man's land and the turrets as Lewis gathered Sloans militia. Afterwards we all went down to the front and set up the plasma cannon bots. It was finally time to wipe out the deathclaws and I already had my lure for them. I sent my lure to down the road towards the railroad station. Five eyebots shot off with fresh bleeding hunks of meat tied to rope connected to them.
After an hour we could see them, 12 deathclaws and 3 eyebots racing towards us. The plasma cannons were slow firing and had slow projectiles but there range was massive just like a laser gun. Immediately a light show of red and green bolted down the road right for the monsters.
Two eyebots fell with three deathclaws. It seemed like the deathclaws were in the
no-man's land in an instant. As soon as they got in the mines everyone opened fire on them. 4 fell in the first barrage and the rest were crippled by mines. The strongest and fastest of them was even able to make it to the plasma mines in the back before it was reduced to deathclaws chunks and green goo by a plasma mine.
Despite the firepower aimed at them they all showed the power their counterparts ingame had. Massive muscled lizards with thick scales and extreme speed. One had taken three plasma cannon shots after being crippled by mines. I gave everyone some time to breathe before sending some more bait into the quarry itself.
I had directed them to lead the alpha out first. I wanted to eliminate the alpha because if it and the matriarch moved together alongside others we would probably be overrun. Just a few minutes later we could see them. I'd sent in 10 bait bots and only one came out.
Behind it was a massive deathclaw with much darker scales and was charging on all fours. Before the eyebot got to the mines it was diced to pieces by a claw twice its size.
Seeing this everyone started firing. It didn't matter if it was in effective range or not, if we could start damaging it now we would have an easier time killing it later. The ground around it practically exploded as projectiles slammed into it. It immediately charged ad was in the mines before the plasma cannons could take a second shot.
It only lost a toe as it hit a single mine before getting to the plasma mines. One went off but it dodged to the side losing an arm and getting horribly burnt but it kept charging. When the next plasma volley hit the massive bastard was so close I swear I could feel his breath. His chest nearly disintegrated under the plasma as its head was nearly removed by a plasma shot and my sentry bots Gatling laser. The fucker dropped dead slamming its claw into a plasma cannon, destroying it.
With the alpha dead we shifted back and found 10 massive lizards already at the minefield. This exchange went much like the first with them getting put down by overwhelming force and the rest getting crippled the executed. If the eyebots had gotten the numbers right there were only nine left in the quarry.
The matriarch probably wouldn't leave her nest so I sent in half my eyebots and ten Mr.Handys to recon or maybe even eliminate the juveniles to anger the mother into coming out. After about an hour two handys and three eyebots careened out of the quarry only to get shredded a second later as two pairs of swords like claws slashed through them like a hot knife through warm butter.
The matriarch was clearly pissed that the bots had killed her young and we could see that as another massive slathering deathclaw charged our lines. This was really bad. I ordered all my Mr.Handys to enter melee to stall her and allow the plasma cannon to shoot her.
The handys didn't stand a snowballs chance in hell as she carved through them. As she resumed her charge all plasma cannons fired and one caused her leg. She stumbled and everyone focused fire on her. She slowly stood back up shrugging of our weapons and trudged forward. Then she suddenly stopped, for a terrifying moment I thought the bitch would leap at us till a gunshot rang out.
Her head snapped back as a horn was blown clean off her head. Another stumble and she leapt at us. She had cleared the mines and was right in front of us. Bang! She stumbled again. Plasma cannon shots slammed into her. The Queen tumbled to the ground in a heel of shredded mutant lizard.
With a final act of vengeance she let out her last breath and swung a backhand. Three bots and four people were caught by her attack. The bots crashed as three people and I hit the dirt. When the pain finally dulled enough to open my eyes I saw a ranger kneeling over me as he tossed a used stimpack away.
He stood and walked to the matriarch and began hacking at its back near the head. I couldn't care less if he took it. He had contributed to killing it and probably needed proof for his higher ups so they would move forces back in.
With the deathclaws dead I sent my army into the quarry to clear it and collapse the back entrance to the quarry. The treasure of this place for me was the fatman and two mininukes along with the four deathclaws eggs. The enclave had proven that deathclaws were tameable. I could only hope they were fertilized and alive, and put them in customs incubators.
After collapsing the back entrance I sent eyebots to scout the area and stayed in Sloan for a few days while resting. I made sure to keep the eggs warm and safe while resting and worked on the fatman and the mininukes as they weren't in the best of conditions.
I left Sloan on the four day with most of my bots as I left some behind to wait for the NCR forces to show up. I needed to get my army back in shape as many had been destroyed. My next target was the NCRCF.
I wanted to increase NCR forces in the area in order to have a safe foothold on the black mountain area.
The next few weeks were spent recovering from the matriarchs slash to my chest and rebuilding my army. While we were taking out the deathclaws and staying in Sloan trade had pretty much restarted. Five caravans had passed through Goodsprings and I had traded bots for massive amounts of scrap. I had even set up a more permanent tech scrap delivery from
crimson caravan company.
My army was growing steadily and my greenhouses were being seeded. I had even begun trading the water the pilons collected as my bots had made plenty of them and I had stationed them throughout Goodsprings and Sloan territory. The water collected was even bought by the NCR to send to McCarran.
With all the waiting I was doing I decided to make my own vehicles. With my bots backing me up I easily made multiple electric powered hauling trucks and an IFV for myself. I new I'd need to bring people into my plans so I had already gotten in contact with people I knew were trustworthy and asked them for help.
After sending out multiple letters I received one back stating they knew some people and would send them my way. I wanted a reliable way to transport both items and people and I could advertise with people driving around the Mojave and NCR.
The trucks were little more than engines on wheels with a large truck bed. The IFV however was closer to a tank. It was massive and had an plates of steel all over. The wheels were massive full rubber tires with a metal internal rim and spokes. It had an inbuilt turret on each corner and on top a large plasma cannon. This cannon wasn't an upscaled plasma rifle like my previous ones were. It was more of a large electromagnetic cannon that funneled a large plasma laser at the target.
While waiting I also to a page out of a book I had cheated from earlier. I took the propulsion tech from multiple eyebots and the parts of torn down motorcycles and made a speeder bike. The bike was 16 feet long and was capable of hitting 200mph. The weapons of the bike were at the front in the form of half circle of laser rifles powered independently by MF Hyperbreeder tech. I was planning to give it to the courier as for her it would function as a decent real-world fast travel system.
I had tried to make my own power armor but it seemed I would need much better sensors technology if I wanted the armor to function with a good degree of control and speed. So without power armor available I began making normal armor. I had already prepared the materials for my new armor. Ballistic fiber to make ballistic weave, deathclaw alpha leather, titanium plating and molds for polymer plating.
I had also prepared multiple types of tech for my armor. I was modeling it off of prewar riot gear. The under armor was a bodysuit made almost entirely of ballistic weave and covered in sensors and technology. On top I had jeans with ballistic weave and a long sleeve shirt with ballistic weave. The actual armor was plates of a polymer and titanium mix. My boots were heavily armored with titanium plates and a metal frame and were made of deathclaw leather.
Finally I made a leather duster of deathclaw hide then began working on my helmet. I wanted lots of stuff in it without it looking bad or being to heavy. After a few days it was finished and ended up looking like a like a riot helmet with large octagon filters and two large protrusions filled with tech, mirroring the radio and such on the normal riot helmet. The biggest difference between the to helmets was that mine had multiple thin line visors instead of eyes.
My armor and helmet connected to each other and functioned much like a pip-boy did. The helmet itself had radio, scanners, and both night and thermal vision. The gaps in my vision were covered by the powerful sensors I had installed that transmitted to small internal screens.
With my armor complete I was ready to take the NCRCF then start preparing for my takeover of black mountain.
After a few long days of making my armor I went to bed knowing that my army was more than capable of eliminating the powder gangers.
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