Prepared to move and involve ourselves in the fun, I wordlessly sigo gramps via a hand signal and we quickly poured into the rocky space the sed and sughtered the molemen fighting the giant bd e-colored lizards. The instant we had mopped up the molemen defenders, we switched hts to the giant approximately 5-7 foot tall and 25-35 foot long lizards, my robots were busy holding back.

  Spooling my 7.62mm minigun fired off a burst of rounds at the head of the reptile. As the rounds impacted the Giant Gi Monster's head, they initially tore holes into its scaley defenses before traveling beyond them and sinking into its flesh.

  No more than a couple of seds ter, the gs of the many rounds I had just fired off ked and cttered onto the cave's floor. That was soon followed up with a thump sound of the now deceased monster's body hitting the hard stone floor.

  With that lizard swiftly dealt with, I repeated that same burst four more times, effortlessly dispatg the rest of them.

  That was easy.

  Thinking the battle was over, we began wandering over to the corpses of the Giant Gi Moo take a look at them. As we were nearing them, I heard a a rumbling through the cave floor. Looking to where I sehe rumbling inated from, a massive bd e draic looking head poked into the cave from the exit.

  I didn't expect to see a Colossal Gi Mohis early on in my life. But they're basically sidered a massive threat, so I better ha quickly before it releases a poisonous breath attack.

  Not wanting to start my life so soon when I've yet to really aplish much of anything in this one, I let my minigun go, leaving it to rest against my abdomen while I retrieved the only on that would be help me here in this given situation besides having my robots swarm it and self destruct themselves on it.

  Making the Carl Gustaf appear in my hands from my item box, I hastily set it up on my shoulder and said. "Gramps, fall back. I got this."

  Gramps, seeing the 84mm shoulder-fired recoilless rifle poofing ience from thin air, immediately started high tailing it out here at his fastest possible speed, getting out of the way of the back bst zone along with all of my robots. With my rades out of both possible kill zones and the pseudon ramping up to unleash a deadly venomous breath attack, I took aim at its dragon-like head and waited for the perfeent.

  A brief moment was all it took for the right moment to appear, thus with my time to shine, I adjusted my aim to its open maulled the trigger, firing the HEAT (High Explosive Anti Tank) round I had preloaded.

  *BOOM*

  Back bst firing out the rear of the Carl Gustaf, the round near instantly hit my desired target and when it did it blew up ahe creature reeling back with blood p from its massive maw as it released an incredibly loud, pained roar. Whilst the gargantuan flightless bd e lizard was dealing with the massive injury I had just dealt it, I brought the on down from my shoulder and poi at the ground.

  Opening the rear of the Carl Gustaf, I removed the spent shell and slid in an APDS (Armor Pierg Discarding Sabot) round and closed the back of the recoilless rifle. Locked and loaded, I shouldered the on again and saw the lizard retreating from the exit.

  "Where are you going, big guy? The fun is just starting!" I said aloud while pursuing the massive lizard out of the cave and into the wastend.

  Stepping beyond the underground for the very first time since I've been born in this world, I took the sights in and sed my surroundings while making sure I kept more than enough attention on the Colossal Gi Monster.

  As I was making sure I wouldn't bee a red smear on the ground, I saw I had stepped out from the cave onted and a retively fttish area located iween two mountains that were covered in massive pirees and numerous other species of foliage that had also undergoation sihe bombs.

  Looks like I'm in a valley and the coast appears to be clear except for the massive creature in front of me.

  After making that discovery, I returned my full attention to my current foe. Getting a good look at the entire beast, I could help but be impressed by the colossal creature's size. However, as impressed as I was, I still took aim with my on, this time log onto the Colossal Gi Monster's eye.

  It's too bad I have to kill this Colossal Gi Monster. It would've been cool to have a creature that basically looks like a nd dragon, but I have no way of doing so, nor do I have the ability to expin how I got my hands on it. Not to mention, even if I did somehow mao tame it, how would I bring it into the uy?

  I sure as hell 't bring it through the cave system with the beast being at least two stories tall aories long… Sigh, unfortunate as it is there is no way I'll be able to make this creature miherefore I might as well put it down and at least get a sizable amount of exp out of it.

  Not too happy that I couldn't tame it a my very own dragon, I pulled the trigger, firing off another shell.

  *BOOM*

  The round was a direct bullseye and as soon as it struck; the sabot destroyed its eye and pierced right through as if it never existed, peing into its skull and, hopefully, its brain. Unloading the spent shell and loading another APDS round, I waited to see if it would drop dead.

  As I was waiting around to see if that was enough to take out this final boss tier creature, gramps and robots came rushing out of the cave behind ying fire onto the beast. With the introdu of the tacks, the reptile tio roar in pain and thrash about.

  Gramps and my robots weren't dealing all that much damage with their ser ons due to the enormous lizard having incredibly thick scales, although my crusader could have if I had allowed it to use its missile pods. So, not wanting t things out any further than I o, I took aim at its other eye like I had dohe day prior with the Moleman King and fired, destroying that eye too.

  This round didn't cause it to colpse either, so as the Colossal Gi Moruggled, I unloaded the spent shell and rapidly loaded another APDS round into the 84mm recoilless rifle and shouldered it. Now that its sight was out of ission, I moved onto the vulnerable location I could think of and aimed at the ear of the beast.

  But as I was lining up the shot, the beast suddenly rolled. My target out of sight, I patiently waited for it to enter my sight once again and the very instant it did, I took my d fired at the lizard's proportionately small ear.

  The round unched from my recoilless rifle and struck the beast's ear and I suppose because of the angle I shot it from; the beast passed away almost immediately. Although not before struggling to release o pained roar and finally colpsing to the not sround of the Nevada wastend. One of the few positives the state of Nevada has experienced sihe nuclear war and most of the human popution across the p being turo ash.

  As I was ging out the expended APDS round for a fresh HEAT round, gramps and the robots came speeding over from the short distahey were ying into it from moments agramps arrived at my side as I was returning the loaded Carl Gustaf to my item box and ented, amazed at what had just taken pce. "I 't believe you took that Colossal Gi Monster down. Do you realize what you've just done?"

  "I do. I near single handedly took doex creature of the wastend that could easily ftten many wastelements and towns all on its own." I responded, still irked that I couldn't make the poisonous dragon like lizard mine.

  Gramps, hearing my response, was surprised to hear the unhappiness in my voice, so wanting to find out the cause, he asked. "What the hell could you be upset about after taking down that monster?"

  "Well, for your information, I wao tame that creature and turn it into my pet/mount. However, given the circumstances and my current capabilities, that simply isn't realistior possible. So, my ce to have my very own pseudon has disappeared, hence why I'm not all too happy about the kill."

  The old man was astounded when he found out why I was bummed out and remained silent as I left him behind and walked off in the dire of the pseudon's corpse with an idea in mind.

  The ce to obtain my very own dragon hasn't pletely escaped my grasp, just o see if it was female and if it was carrying any eggs. Hopefully, it was and has at least a single fertilized egg for me to take home with me, so I still have my dragon one day. I'll just o spend a lot of time raising it from birth to do so.

  Not losing all hope, I tinued my stride to the massive reptile's body. Upon reag it, I started iing it to see if it was the correct gender first and as luck would have it; it was indeed female. Prerequisite met, I moved onto the step and turhe focus of both of my thought processes to my perception field and began sing its body with my now enhanced perception field.

  Though not before issuing a new order for my robots to keep a close eye on the surrounding enviro. You never know what the wastend will throw at you when you aren't paying attention, so it's never a bad idea to be overly cautious.

  As my robots were keeping a close wat the area, I used my focused seo peer into its body, searg around the general area of where the eggs should be if it was carrying any. It took a couple of minutes, but I eventually found what I was searg for with my enhanced perception field.

  Oh, thank god it's carrying eggs. Let me ched see if they're fertilized.

  Direg my focus to the five bd e eggs it was carrying, I ied them closely to see if they had an embryo developing and indeed one of them did just not the other four, sadly. My future pet/mount located I upholstered my gramp's old bat knife from my war belt and reinforced it as much as humanly possible with the qi like aura from Martial on Master.

  With the knife reinforced aing a white glow with a slightly reddish tint that it had gained retly, I approached the area of its body that I o go slice through to reach the eggs. Now where I o be, I looked at the armored scales and attempted to route my khrough its flesh after getting a few of them lifted.

  Unfortunately for me, its skin and flesh were extraordinarily durable and dehus the process I o gh to reach the eggs was going to take more than a few minutes.

  An hour and a half of digging my way through its dead but still plenty warm body, I made it to where the eggs were located. Careful as to not damage the one I wanted, I sliced my khrough the red bleeding flesh arieved the five foot tall egg after re-holstering my hand-me-down bat knife.

  Backtrag through the bleeding tunnel I carved into the Colossal Gi Monster's flesh, I popped back out of the corpse after a minute, my armor covered head to toe in blood and other bodily fluids.

  "Alright, I got what I wanted. Let's head on home." I said happily, with my future panion in hand.

  "Guess you got your dragon in the end, huh, kid?"

  "Yup."

  "Good luck trying to vince your parents to let you keep it when it hatches."

  "Thanks, but I won't be needing it since I'll be keeping this little guy in the foundry."

  "Up to you."

  My reward for putting that monstrous foe down in hand and things ed here, the bunch of us returo the cave to tihe inal mission. After setting up a bunch of demolition charges and moving to a safe distance away, I hahe egg to two of my multibots to hold and activated the detonator. Following a rge booming explosion, I went and checked the destru when the dust and debris had settled somewhat and things were mostly safe.

  As I had expected, the cave exit was pletely sealed, thus I turned right round ahe way to the foundry, with my panions following directly behind me in their bat formation. The return journey was especially uful and whatever molemen we entered were a whole lot fewer in number, making it obvious that all the killing we were doing was causing their popution to dwindle.

  Back at the foundry, I sent everyone ih only the egg and I remaining behind because we both o get ed off. A couple of mier, a few of the Multibots came back dragging hoses and, as soon as they were close enough, they ehe washing.

  Several minutes passed before both I and the egg were as a whistle, but the sed we were, I headed ih the egg to the armory while the robots were setting up one of the many rooms in the foundry into an incubator.

  Pg it on a stainless steel table in the armory, I took my gear off and stowed it away. Finished here, I headed to the pnniioo take a break with gramps and Alice. Right as I was ing through the door, Alice was going to race over and give me a hug. However, seeing the precious cargo I was carrying, she stopped mid step.

  "Ohh, so this is the egg you retrieved from that enormous gi monster. You really pn on keeping it?" Aliquired.

  "Absolutely, this guy's mom was a Colossal Gi Monster, so why wouldn't I want one of my owhe opportunity is right there? Also, if I raise this little guy well, it could be used to protect my family and friends when I'm not around. Adding to that, I don't think there will be too many that would want to deal with a colossal draic looking lizard that fire off poisonous breaths."

  "You do have a point… Well, you'll have no pints ing from me. It's actually quite exg imagining that we'll have a pet that's basically a dragon, although a flightless one." Alice responded with a glimmer in her blue eyes.

  "Right."

  Whilst gramps assed out on one of the many couches, Alid I sat on another a det distance away from him so we wouldn't disturb him.

  Shortly into our versation, she asked. "Do you mind if I hold on to it for a moment?"

  "Sure, it's very heavy, though."

  Carefully handing the bd e egg to her, she immediately felt the weight and pced it on her p. With the egg sitting on her p now, she looked it over curiously and ran her finger over its pretty smooth surface.

  "I 't believe he it is. It reminds of those dins we read about in our younger years."

  "Mm, it does indeed resemble them quite a bit."

  The two of us talked about the dragon to be for a bit before she was tent with looking at it and tried to hand it back. But due to its weight, she struggled, so I easily removed it and pced it over on its own couch si was really much too big to be on the couch we were sitting on.

  We chatted for a while about what Alice had learned so far today before she asked. "You pn ourning to the cave system to close up another exit, or is that it for the day?"

  "No, that's it for today. The old man is already passed out napping peacefully, so I'd rather just pick things back up tomorrow."

  "You want to spend the rest of the day with me, then?"

  "I nning to get a on design ed out." I said, instantly causio look saddened.

  "But I suppose I should take a break from work every on a while to spend some time with my partner, ain't that right, babe?"

  "Nn, that's right, you should, darling." She followed up sweetly and smiling happily.

  Now that I forwent my inal pn, I spent the rest of the remaining time until we o show up at home with Alice. The first hour and a half we spent cuddled up together, watg an old pre-war movie we had yet to wat the ected theater room. When it ended, my robots had finished preparing the incubation room, so with the egg needing to be moved to its new home for the foreseeable future, we made our way there.

  A retively short walk ter, we deposited the bd e egg iemperature trolled room. Satisfied with the preparations my workforce had made, we returo the pnning ssh rexation area and spent the remaining time we had left ing up with ideas for ons and other robots I may want to produ the not so distant future.

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