The voy quickly passed through the ruined mining town that was long ed up by the uy and its wastend explorers and got on the road heading southeast. Leaving the ruins behind, we headed down the mountainous terrain the mining town was located on and tinued doing so as the terrain and enviro begaing dryer with vegetation and trees being lesser and lesser the closer we were getting to the deserts of Nevada.

  Slightly more than a mile and a half into our journey, we came across a number of abaructures that were inally built friculture. However, seeing their current ditions that was no lohe case today, sihey were in various states of disrepair and on the cusp of falling apart. Ign those structures that I knew had nothing of value in and to them due to my literal years of pying the wastender games, we kept traveling, but not before taking a couple of turns so we could go west.

  Keeping my wits about me, I sed my surroundings for even the smallest threat since I couldn't afford anything to g this soon into my mission. I persisted in my examination of the enviro for the wo miles till we had finally left the mountains aered the desert terrain.

  Even though I'm feeling safer now that we've left the mountains, I still 't afford to drop my guard. Therefore, I'll have to remain up here on this hot metal roof till we get to the facility… It's a damn good thing I have such a high enduraat, otherwise I would be getting cooked alive up here.

  Remaining on high alert, I stayed up top with my man portable gatling gun at the ready, more than happy to dispee onto whoever is dumb enough to get in my way and impede my voy. Whilst I was getting cooked uhe bzing Nevada sun and perf guard duty, I took in the views of the desert that went on for miles and miles, with the only vegetation in sight being short arid shrubs and several other smaller desert species, all of the mutated variety like everything else out here.

  If it wasn't for all the opportunities here in Nevada, I would've preferred a start in a climate that was more hospitable. But sihis is a pce where I get the best start, I suppose I'll just move and find a perma home for myself once I fix this shithole of a world and have dealt and put innumerable termeasures in pce for the Zetans… And whatever alien races may or may not lie in the vastness of space.

  As I kept an eye on what was going on in the surroundings, thinking, and managing my many robots and maery both here and at Uy 7, my group and I sped along the eight-mile stretch of road. When that road eventually came to an end because of a mountaiook the right curve that came into view a southward for three quarters of a mile. From there it curved to the left, thus we journeyed west whilst passing by a road that branched off to the south that led to a civilian airfield, ohat I will more than likely loot iime.

  My small army and I moved on down the road, passing by mountains, a rge craggy oht and an even rger one a ways out to our left past a retively small two mile stretch of desert. Cheg out the gray jagged oo the right for a few moments, I saw nothing, so I redirected my vision to the left reddish brown one.

  It looks to be clear.

  Not seeing anything of i, let alone something that could pose a threat to my forces and me, we tinued moving through this barren and not so traveled area of the state uurbed. The bunch of us proceeded on that stretch of cracked and sun bleached asphalt for two miles when we entered a Y-jun ahead.

  Already aware of ath we o take, the voy we for anht tenths of a mile, where we came across yet another Y-jun. Instead of goi again, I had us ght, nearing ever closer to our destination and where my pns will really start to take off.

  As the voy was in the midst of turning and heading southeast, I heard Rei over my group's encrypted unications system. "Dom, how are things going for you up there?"

  "It's hot, but it's nothing I 't handle." I replied with not a drop of sweat on me because of superhuman levels of endurance.

  "Phew, that's good. I just wao make sure you were doing alright."

  "I appreciate the thought, but you know how durable I am, so being subjected to a little sun is nothing to me."

  "I know. Anyways, let us know if you need anything... Oh, and also do you know how much longer we have to go before we arrive at that robot manufacturing pnt?"

  "The pce is right around the bend up ahead, so we'll be there in no more than ten mi the speed we're going."

  "e're that close, huh. Well, I 't wait to get out of this vehicle and see you."

  "I'll see you in a minute, Rei." I said shortly, ending the versation there before she could get too affeate over the unication system.

  "Moh-"

  Envisioning my buddies looking green with envy minus Takeshi, sihat was his sister, I rode atop the Buffalo for a bit more than half a mile when the mountain we were traveling alongside came to an end. What came into view past that point a few miles down the road was the Cyberdynamics Robotics Facility in all its glory. The massive facility stood at five stories i and covered acres' worth of nd, probably han a million square feet in size or close to it.

  With my target in sight and my excitement beginning to bubble, I had everyone speed up so we could arrive there sooner. Because of our increased miles per hour, we reached the dipidated gate that was blog our way into the parking lot out in front of the pce. So needing it out of the way, I had the front most bat vehicle ram it and bring the gate down.

  *Crash*

  After the rusted gate cttered onto the cracked pavement, I had the voy begin pulling into the parking lot. Ohe ey of the voy and my forces were past the gate, I hopped off the armored big rig I had been riding atop of for the st hour and nded with a thud, both feet solidly pnted onto the weathered asphalt.

  Taking in what would bey base of operations and my home away from home from here on out, I couldn't help but ent aloud to myself. "The games really didn't do this pce justice."

  Staring at the gargantuan facility that was surrounded by its very own security fence, although a rusted one for a few seds longer, I immediately got to work. I first ordered my robots to start taking up positions around the pce to secure the entire area around the structure. Following right up on that order as the gang was emptying out of the Wolverihey rode in, I had the 5,000 K-1 Spider Mines I brought with me begin disembarking from the Buffalos.

  The moment I issued that and, several of the Buffalos opeheir armored cargo tainer doors, allowing the many fged roboties to unstad unload from the vehicles. Watg the thousands of little meical structs jump out of the vehicles by the dozens, I gave them their directive. That new directive was for them to spread out into the surroundings evenly around the structure of the facility and beyond to bey first line of defenses and provide eyes and ears over the region of what will bey safe haven out here in the Nevada wastend.

  As the many, many K-1 Spider Mines were climbing over and around the hundreds of rusted out sci-fi-ish wrecked cars spread throughout the employee parking lot, I went over to my squad mates. But before I could start discussing what would happen from here on out, Rei rushed ahead of them and jumped at me, trying to hug me. So I grabbed her mid flight, spun her around, and pced her to my side. "Rei, we'll have time to fool around ter, so hold off till then."

  "...Sigh, alright, honey. But I'll require more attentiohan now." She relinquished while insinuating something.

  It looks like Rei is done waiting, now that Alice has had her ce. I guess it's time to quer her a her have a go at it in the sheets.

  Knowily what she was insinuating, I responded in kind. "Thanks, babe. I'll make sure you're left more than satisfied ter on."

  "~Ara~ I'm looking forward to what you have in store for me then." The Asiay said from behind her suit's protective mask via the inbuilt voice modution module.

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