We talked about my other robots and what they were designed for and once I expined everything regarding the other designs iail, he seemed to be more assured than he was initially.

  "Alright, now that you've seen the designs, gramps let me show you the AI in a."

  ...

  "That's some impressive tactid programming you've got for those bots. Looks like they'll have no difficulty handling most sarios they'll e across in the wastend. I think I'm feeling a bit better about all this, but I'm sure you have more to share with me, right?" My grandpa John said after watg my simuted robots decimate a heavily armed bandit stronghold.

  "That I do, and it has something to do with one of those three pces we visited yesterday."

  "I'm listening."

  "Well, that third location has molemen behind the rubble in the mine." I said, dropping an absolute bomb on the old man.

  "WHAT? WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME ABOUT THIS, YOU KNOW HOW DANGEROUS THOSE THINGS ARE!"

  Ahh, here he goes yelling. I probably should have expected this kind of rea out of him.

  "Alright, alright, calm down, gramps, and sit back down." I told my gramps, who was currently standing up, dispying a mixture of anger and worry.

  "What do you mean, calm down? We o go tell the gover security forces right this moment and have those damn molemeerminated immediately." He responded, ready to rush out of the house and go get the uy gover involved right this very sed.

  "It's not that dire yet. Sit down so I expin."

  "But w-."

  "DAMMIT GRAMPS, JUST SHUTUP AND SIT DOWN ALREADY."

  After raising my voice at him, he begrudgingly sat, so I began to fill him in. "There were only two molemen behind the rubble, so I don't believe they have any iion of taking down the rubble and invading the uy anytime soon. That said, they will o be exterminated because they are hostile to everything uhemselves."

  "Thus, they will bee a problem down the road at some point if they are left unchecked and allowed to grow in number. I have no desire to see them grow to the level of a horde and bee a threat to the uy."

  "That said, they also present a massive opportunity for me to grow in strength because of my system and the exp I'll gain from killing them off. Therefore, I would like to acquire the pyself aermihe vermin on my own. I'm sure you doly like that idea, gramps, but think about what it could do for me in the long run. I also have a pn in mind that I think you won't find too many faults in, so why don't you hear me out before you head to inform the security forces?"

  "I don't like it but I'll hear you out grandson, it better be fug good." He replied grumpily, making it clear as day that he wasn't all too enthused with this whole shit show I preseo him.

  "Sorry for yelling at you, gramps, and thanks for heari. Hopefully, I'll be able to vince you a you on board."

  "The first thing I'll do upon acquiring the property is I'll check up on the cave-in to see what the molemen are up to. Depending on what I find, I'll either tell you that the gover o get involved if things appear to be going south or I'll inform you that there has been no real ge from when I first discovered them."

  "In the case of the tter , I'll proceed to the step and vert at least a couple dozen microfusion cells I have in my possession into mihat I'll then spread around the tunnel as a security measure in case somethio happen."

  "How strong will the mines you pn to use be?"

  "The mines should be more than powerful enough to wipe out whatever initial molemen e through and colpse a signifit portion of the miunnel, which should give us more time than o inform the gover security."

  "They dig well with their cws in dirt and softer material, but down here where everything is made up of hard rod various ores, they'll only be able to make progress with external tools. Your mines should be suffit to stop them iracks, okay tinue."

  Given the signal, I began again. "After setting up the mines, I'll be cheg up on the colpsed seultiple times a day while I'm acquiring the maery I o start building robots, turrets, and ons. Going by the extensive knowledge I've collected over the years, I estimate the first robot will e off the produ line in no more than a week."

  "The ons I should be able to produce even sooner, along with the turrets that will be used to beef up the defenses even further. All this will ehat if any do breakthrough, they'll have to pass through the further colpsed se of the mine, courtesy of the many mines pnted about the tunnel before arriving at a choke point filled with overpping ser fire."

  "So within a week, I'll have both turrets and a robot to watch over the colpsed se 24/7 until I get a bst door up to seal off the mine's entra that point, they won't have any real way of getting through uhey are extremely well equipped to the point they brea armored door weighing many tons. If their two guards' equipment is anything to go by, they'll have zero ce of aplishing that."

  "What kind of arms were the two molemen using?"

  "It was only two sawed-off double-barreled shotguns."

  "If that's all they're equipped with, their group must not be that well off. They probably aren't that rge of a group yet, either." He thought aloud, analyzing the situation.

  I waited a couple of seds and when I saw my gramps not asking anything else; I tinued on. "The lohings go by without ge from the molemen's side, the more I'll be able to amass. And when I believe I have a suffit enough force to hahem, I'll clear the rubble blog the mine and head into the tunnel beyond to exterminate whatever mutants I e across alongside my robots."

  "That's about all I got for now, but I believe my pn is good enough for the moment, and if need be, it be ged on the fly at any time, depending on what the molemen are up to. However, I don't believe there will o be too many ges made to it sihe two-molemen I saw through my perception field were only equipped with very rudimentary arms."

  *Sigh*

  "I'll put my trust in you Dom, but if you think there is even a minute ce that the molemen are up to something you are to inform me immediately of the situation, don't leave a siail out no matter how minute, you got that!"

  "I hear ya Gramps, I'm not looking to experien early death, so if anything appears off, you'll be the first to know." I responded before we began c a few other things.

  "Ahing I'll be ing along when you go to extermihose rats. I o make sure you don't go a yourself killed."

  " I e?" Alice asked timidly, pretty much already foreseeing the answer she was going to receive.

  "No!" Gramps and I told her simultaneously, shutting her down immediately.

  "Sigh, I expected that answer, well it was worth a try at least. But if I 't e, you at least stream it so I watch, please Dom." She pleaded.

  "That I do. I would've let you e if I had the means of guaranteeing your safety within the mines, but currently I don't know what we'll be up against just yet and I 't risk losing you, Alice."

  As Alid I were sharing a sappy moment, my grandad had enough of it. "Alright, you two, that's enough. Let's head back downstairs to the gym. You two little rascals o undergo a hell of a lot more training before I'm fortable letting the both of you loose to venture wastend."

  "Hold up, we have o subject to cover before you throw us into your training gau."

  "Mmm, and that thing would be?"

  "The man that owns the property, William Andrew Broward."

  "What about him?"

  "The guy knew about the molemen and is trying to offload the property onto some unsuspeg buyer a away scot-free. On top of that, when I used my perceptioo look beyond the colpsed portion of the mine I discovered several bodies belonging to the miners who were w for the man, and from what I could tell with my limited ra appeared they were left for dead."

  "So when I woke up early this m, I scoured the for his details and did a bit of digging. After doing said digging, I discovered that the guy didn't pay out the pensation the miners' families were entitled to."

  "What a surprise. The guy who's trying to unload his problematic property onto someone else's shoulders would do something scummy."

  "Right, and since I want the facility, I'm pnning te a meeting with this piece of garbage and put the screws to him to shake a heavy dist out of him. While I'm at it, I do a good deed ahe miners' families pensated for their loss."

  "Doesn't sound like a bad idea."

  "So I was thinking of asking my dear ole grandpa to e along and back his grandson up. What do you say?" I asked, half joking, half not so much.

  "I don't see why not. It's been a moment sihe st time I got to pummel a piece of shit." My gramps said while looking ready to put someone in the dirt six feet under.

  "Well, we're not going there with the i of beating him up, but if he gets rowdy, have at it, I won't stop you. I might even join in too."

  "If he does, I'll join in too." Alice joined in, eager and ready to dish out some punishment as well.

  Following that, we ironed out the details aled oing the meetier today after my and Alice's training. Whilst we were beginning to leave the living room and head back downstairs, my grandad had o thing to say.

  "Ohh, o thing I'll be apanying you at all times when you go to the facility. This will remain iil you have that bst door installed. This is noiable, so if you 't accept this, then all previous requests are off the table and go poof."

  "That's fine. I don't have any issue with that, do you, Alice?"

  "Not a one. I'm always happy to spend more time with Grandpa John." She said brightly.

  "There you have it, gramps, gd to have you with us." I said stly, presenting my right hand to him, which he grabbed hold of with siderable pressure, causing us two buff dudes to resemble certain movie se from my previous life.