Date Friday, August 9th, 2261

  The day I spent the early, early m tinuing to hone my body aing used to my new abilities as much as I could at home. Eventually my parents and Alice woke up and after a quick breakfast my mom and dad headed off for work while Alid I waited framps to arrive. It wasn't long after my parents had left that gramps showed up in his armored truck.

  "Mornin, you two ready for today?" Gramps asked while walking over and joining us in the living room on the opposite couch.

  "As ready as I be." I answered him.

  "Yeah, ready to watch you two go and have all the fun." Aliswered somewhat sarcastically, clearly making it known that she wao e along.

  "Well, maybe you e ime, kid, although you'll have to clear that with your boyfriend."

  Alice turnitention to me now I responded. "If the situation isn't as dangerous ime, you e, Alice."

  "You promise?"

  "I promise."

  Hearing my reply, she lit up and smiled happily.

  Following our brief versation, we covered a few other things a for the truck, aed only a mier. The old man drove the bunch of us through the metal and crete uy to the foundry and the sed the truck ut in park, we wasted no time and unloaded from the vehicle a inside. Upon reag the main area where the bulk of the manufacturing takes pce, the Prospe I had my Multibots w on the past ten days was finally finished being put together.

  | Prospe |Armament: 2 x ied palm sersCarry Capacity: 650Power: Fusion BreederValue: 185,000Description: The Prospe is a bulky humanoid shaped robot that was designed with the purpose of finding arag resources from the earth. The robot model es with emp shielding, making it immuo emp ons and es equipped with two beefed up maniputor arms with ied sers built into the palms. So they use a wide assortment of tools and be able to fend off hostiles that may be lurking underground. On top of its useful maniputor arms, the robot also has an assortment of other in-built tools, such as its ore and mineral detectors, which help it easily track down resources underground. Designed by Dom Mason Woods.

  Good, I have a bot that passively s the surroundings for resources as we scour the mine and caves, killing off the molemen. I also didn't use Meical Domination nor that presence hiding field I got from Shadow Lurker yesterday, so let me test those two perks out starting with Meical Domination on my robot.

  It took me a minute, but I eventually figured out how to use the ability and the instant I did, it felt as if I myself was the robot. Further testing the ability revealed that I had absolute trol over it and could trol it as if it was my own body.

  Alright, that's fug cool. This perk, along with my sed thought process, basically gives me the ability to be in two pces at once. And if I ie the rest of my robots, I could have eyes and ears anywhere my robots are that I could s to in an instant.

  On top of that, this power would allow me to issue new orders to any of my robots, no matter where they are. That ability will give me a ton of versatility and will allow me and my forces to adapt to various situatioraordinarily quickly.

  I could also use it to manage my manufacturing and from just about anywhere I wish, which is very handy. Ahh, I see it now chilling on the beaewhere with family while still being productive...

  Leaving those thoughts behind, I tested out several other things with the Prospe to see the extent of what I do. Once I was satisfied with my testing, I moved to the robots I had called over when I first got here to see how fast it would take trol of one of them and how close I o be to do it.

  On average, it seems to only take one sed to take full trol of a robot, but when I tested it out on the Crusader, it took about three to gain full trol over it. I suppose it takes longer because of its rger size. I'll have to do more testing iure to make sure that is the case.

  Happy with how useful the perk was and how much easier and effit it was going to make life going forward, I moved onto the hing and started testing out the effects of the presence hiding field with my robots. A couple minutes of testing showed that I couldn't find out shit with their help, so I called gramps and Alice over to see if they could help me find out if the perk's ability was useful or not.

  "I'm going to activate it. Tell me if you notiything peculiar or odd." I asked them.

  Receiving a nod from the both of them, I activated the presence hiding field and after testing several things out for a few minutes; I asked for their input. "So, did it do anything?"

  "Yes, it basically entirely removed your presend any noise you were produg prior to you activating the field. So, if you were to be standing beside me without me having seen you, I would have no idea that you are even there." Aliswered.

  "I agree with everything Alice said although I noticed oher effect."

  "What?"

  "It obscured you to aent just not by much. You'll more than likely have to spend a bunch of your skill points oh to increase the effectiveness of that effect."

  "Hmm, so that's what that was. I thought it was just something from the activation of the field."

  "Thanks for the help guys and if you see anything, no matter how miniscule the effect may seem, tell me ime, even if it seems unnecessary, Alice."

  "Yeah, sorry about that, darling. I'll be sure to tell you everything I notiext time, no matter how small it may seem."

  "No problem, babe."

  The testing ed up; we went and sat down in a pnning ssh rexation area I had set up when I took the building over.

  "I'm guessing you're doing out your new perks?" Gramps asked right as I joihem.

  "Not all of them, but most of them, and it's going to make life a hell of a lot easier for me, too."

  "Good, so what's the pn, Dom?"

  "Alice, will be watg us from the desktop over there, and if anything goes wrong, she make a call to her dad." I answered while pointing at a PC 30 feet away.

  "While she is doing that, you, I, and the robots will head into the mih several pieces of heavy equipment, clear the blockage, and reinforce the tunnel before we go in to get rid of the moleman problem."

  "Sounds like a pn, and what sort of gear are ying? We're going to be fag quite a number of molemen, I imagine, so yon something with a lot of ammo."

  "I'll just use what I was using at the range yesterday. 't g with the NPDM. Although I'm going t along a sed FBLAR-1 Laser Assault Rifle and a bunch of T-4 Psma Grenades."

  | T-4 Psma Grenade |Damage: 200Weight: 1Value: 5,000Item Description: A psma grehat was developed by the U.S. military prior to the he grenade either be set to explode on impact or after 4 seds have passed si was armed.

  "Gimme a belt of those nades and one of those Laser Assault Rifles too. I won't necessarily use it, but it's good t something that doesn't run out of ammo, just in case."

  "Sure, take as much as you want gramps, I alroduce more."

  We covered a few other topid whehing was just about ed up; I turo Alid said. "Alright, wish me luck, Alice. I'll be ba a bit."

  "Good luck, darling, make sure you e bae in one pied if things look like they're going south, I'll do whatever I to get you out of it, even if I have to go in there myself." She said, sounding and looking very determined.

  "I appreciate the thought, but let's hope it doesn't get to that."

  "Agreed."

  "Okay, we're going to head to the armory a geared up. Love you, Alice." I told her before she closed in on me and caught my lips.

  "Love you too, Dom." She responded sweet as honey after ending the kiss she initiated several seds ter.

  "You two lovebirds do. I want to get a move on." Gramps piped up from the side, causing Alice to gain a blush and feel embarrassed because of her as.

  "Alright, let's go, old man. I know you aren't getting any younger." I said jokingly.

  "Let's get to it then, youngin."

  Ending the versation there, I grabbed the streaming device that was already setup and signaled for my robots to all head for the armory via Meical Domination while gramps and I made our way there so we could all get kitted out to the teeth the bots included.

  The mome there, all the robots minus the Crusader were already doing their thing streaming out of the armory with FBLAR-1 Laser Assault Rifles in hand and war belts with plenty of T-4 Psma Gretached magically on the various magic attat points.

  | War Belt |Resistances: DT 1Css: LightWeight: 2Value: 500Item Description: A leather belt with attat points for different pouches, holsters, sheathes, and adjustable mags for quick drawing ed ons, melee ons, and explosives.

  Gramps and I, not willing to dey our excursion by another sed, quickly joined my robots iing geared up. Once I made it past the armored door into the armory, I headed to the rge locker in the back where I kept my normal kit and unlocked it. I began pulling out my shit aing it set up oainless steel table located right in front of the mannequin that was wearing my Heavy Trooper Set.

  After getting everything pced in front of my armor to speed things along, I removed my armor from the mannequin and wore it. Quickly getting it on, I ed my war belt that had most of the stuff I needed already attached around my waist and secured it. Pretty much ready to get this show on the road, I slung both FBLARs onto my bad picked up the NPDM from the stainless steel table, putting the sling up and over my head aing the light mae gun hang in front of me.

  Wrag the charging handle, I turo gramps and asked. "Are you ready to do this, gramps?"

  "Fuck yea, I am. It's been so long since I've gotten some a, hahaha."

  Gramps, more excited than I expected he would be, was ready to roll. With nothing else to hold us up, I mouhe streaming deviy chest securely and asked Alice through it if she could hear and see everything clearly. After hearing her say crystal clear gramps and I started making our way to the mine.

  The two of us reached the heavily armored doors of the mirand after taking them over with Meical Domination I began the process of opening them via my will instead of the usual door trols. The lights sitting above the door lit up and began rotating within their housings while releasing high pitched chirps. Following several chirps, the massive door split in half, one part grinding and reg off to the right and the oing off to the left into the foundry's wall.

  "Let's head in." I said aloud to my group.

  Entering the mine, we first passed by the maurrets I had set up in case shit went down ahe other improvised mihat were still in pce serving their purpose, both of which I took trol of with meical domination. Not too many minutes into the mine, we arrived in front of the artificial cave in.

  Needing the blockage removed before we could proceed, I had my robots begin dismantling it and hauling the rubble off to the side for now with the heavy equipment I had them retrieve with Meical Domination while gramps and I were equipping our kit. With nothing to do but let them do their thing, we waited in anticipation, thankfully we didn't have to wait all that long.

  Around ten minutes of clearing is all it took for my robots to have the cave in cleared and with it cleared, it revealed a dark miuhat had all its wall mounted lights extinguished due to the previous colpse.

  "Those two molemen that have been guarding the rubble for the st year are gohey must've gone off to inform the rest of their group a reinforts." I said upon not seeing the two molemen that were supposed to be watg over the rubble.

  "That's most likely what happened, so what do you want to do? We either wait for them to e to us o forward and find them ourselves."

  "Let's do the tter and turn yht vision on and your IR light so we see."

  "Guys, start reinf the colpsed se so we get a move on."

  "Rodger." The many Multibots and the singur Prospe I brought along responded befoing aing up reinforts to prevent the ceiling of the tunnel from further colpse.

  Whilst my robots were doing their work, I turned my night vision on and my IR light so I could see in the plete darkhat y ahead and guarded them along with gramps and my Crusader's help.

  Approximately 15 minutes is all it took for them to plete the reinfort and so with nothing holding us baow and not wanting to waste time twiddling my thumbs while waiting for the molemen to show, I took the lead. As I was taking my first step to head into the depths aermihe molemen, I enabled my presence hiding field c myself, gramps, and a good number of my robots in its radius and began walking further into the mine beyond where the rubble used to be.