While flicking the safety on Maria and passing it to Taylor, Damien went towards Benny again and lifted him up from the ground by the neck. Benny was dangling around in the air until Damien pulled him close. "If i see you around in Vegas again, I will kill you. Nothing is going to stop me next-time from doing so, got it?" Benny weakly nodded in response.
(I believe you mean Jenny) Abbey: so what now? Jenny: (examines Maria) hmm... this is a pretty sweet gun c:
(Taylor was going to hand it to Jenny, forgot to write that in) "We should report back to House, he's likely waiting for us" Taylor said to Jenny. Damien returned back to the group a minute later, disappointed but also satisfied in getting his revenge of some sort. However, nothing was going to stop him in getting his revenge against Caesar. It was a major reason he's kept himself alive, a vendetta against the Legion worth more then mere blood.
While on their way into the lucky 38 however Will was having second thoughts on what they were doing. After all, the platinum chip couldn't be just any ordinary poker chip made out of some rare material for the hell of it. it had to have purpose. Will: guys! wait! (Goes to get Benny) Jenny and Abbey: (both get a confused look on their face) Will then comes back with benny under his arm Benny: what do you want now? Can't you see you've done enough? Will: what's the chip for? Benny: why should I tell you that!? Will: Well you don't have to tell us if getting roughed up is your thing. Benny: gah! you people don't give up do ya? Listen, I ain't saying Jack about the chip! if you really wanna know what it does then tough luck 'cause I ain't squealin' and I'll my know how of the chip to the grave!
Damien broke his promise and pressed a finger just underneath Benny's shoulder, causing him an immeasurable pain as he placed his fingers on a vital pressure point. Although the others couldn't really tell what was happening, Benny would have felt that his blood would have been injected with napalm. Damien then looked him dead in the eye. "What does it do?" Damien told Benny. "Alright, Alright! I'll tell you!" Benny ordered as Damien removed his fingers. "It's the house edge, literally. That chip upgrades the defenses for New Vegas and will protect the whole city from just about everything. NCR, Legion, even both of their entire armies at the same time. It was supposed to have been delivered to House just before the Great War, it never made it to him until it was just found again recently. That chip will make New Vegas a much safer and prosperous place. That chip will change the world." "Interesting..." Damien responded. "Anything else that I should know about?" "No...never.." Benny responded, Damien deciding to lower his hand slightly to grab his Sequoia on purpose to intimidate Benny. "Alright, I'll tell you more. Inside the Tops...in my apartment. What you will find in there will change the entire war, the ultimate component for my master plan A plan that will never function now because of you." "What a shame..." Damien said before looking at Will. "We've heard enough, let him go."
Will: I'd rather not, he might try and slip away. Jenny: don't worry, I don't think he's got much of a reason to leave. Will: alright then. (puts Benny down and dusts him off) Jenny: Here (throws Benny a stimpack)
"Now...get out of here" Damien ordered, while Benny took the Stimpack and ran like a whimpering pup out of the Strip and likely out of Vegas entirely. Damien then looked back at the group before looking at the Platinum Chip. "Well...now we know what this thing does. What are we going to do about it?"
Abbey: Let's take it to his apartment in the tops. If he's been working on it, then he'll have worked on it close to home. Jenny: how are we gonna get in though? He likely had the key to his apartment on him. Will: ugh... I'll get the keys. Fortunately for Will, Benny hadn't got far and soon shook him down for his keys. Benny was at this point desperate for the group to leave him alone so he also forfeited Will the keys to the presidential suit in the tops and his unique checkered outfit. Will: (returns) here's the keys guys. Jenny: we probably could've just picked the lock on his apartment y'know c: Will: Hey, I'm no lockpicker so how was I supposed to know? Anyways I've got us the key to his suite, a key for the presidential suite and his jacket. Don't ask why he gave me it, he just did. Abbey: to the tops it is then. The group then made haste for the tops hotel and casino's 13th floor where Benny's apartment awaited. Upon opening the door to the apartment everyone started looking top to bottom to find any clues that would help them uncover what the platinum chip's role in Benny's plan was. As the group's search drew near to the bedroom, a strange noise was coming from behind one of the doors inside the bedroom. This strange noise sounded like a large mechanical machine roaming around inside a place that looked rather like a storage cupboard on the outside. The group burst into the room where the noise was coming from and found a Robco securitron with a smiling face on it's monitor roaming around looking seemingly bored. Jenny: oh cool Abbey: oh great... Will: what the heck? what's all this?
"What's a Securitron doing so deep into the Tops?" Taylor responded before heading deeper into the room to study all of the terminals nearby. "This isn't one of House's, Benny must have gotten somebody to reprogram it." The robot then went up towards the group and began to make conversation. "Hey, good to meet you! What can i do for you today?" The Securitron spoke. Taylor asked one of the others to take out the Platinum Chip and hold it. "Have you seen this chip before?" "Sure! Benny had me look at it a bunch of times! It's a data storage device, kind of like a holotape, but a lot more advanced! As for what's on it, well...some of Mr.House's data transmissions made it sound like the Chip can upgrade his defenses somehow! That's just a guess, though! The Chip's a proprietary format! You'll need special hardware to read the data on it! There are two locations with non-standard hardware on the network - The Lucky 38 and an underground facility at Fortification Hill. I'd look there!" Damien's ears quickly picked up when the mention of the Legionary camp. He had something to settle with them afterall, and from what he's hearing, he might end up going on a suicide mission there. "What are you doing in here?" Taylor asked, her highly intelligent mind trying to come up with different variables. "Good question! My function is to monitor Mr.House's data network and decode his encrypted transmission. Allow me to introduce myself! I'm a PDQ-88b Securitron, but you can call me Yes-Man!" "Shouldn't you be working for Mr.House? How'd you end up here?" Damien asked Yes Man. "As I understand it, I used to be like all of those other Securitrons on the Strip. But then my neuro-computational matrix was completely reprogrammed! To be nice! Very, very nice! "So..." Damien picked up his tone. "What was Benny planning to do with the Chip?" "Oh! He want's to kill Mr.House and use the Platinum Chip to copy my neuro-computational matrix onto the Lucky 38's mainframe. That should give me control over all of Mr.House's defenses, most prominently his Securitrons. And then I just do what Benny tells me, easy-peasy! "You're very...forthcoming with that Information" "I was programmed to be helpful and answer any questions I was asked. I guess nobody bothered to restrict who I answer questions for. That was probably pretty dumb, huh?" "Let's say that me, my sister and my friends behind me wanted to take over New Vegas, instead of Benny?" Damien asked. "Then I'd have to help you! I mean, it seems pretty obvious Benny wouldn't want me to, but hey, not my fault that I can't say no!" Damien then decided to ask a question while Yes Man went over the details of the Benny's plan. "What do you know about the courier that Benny shot?" "I knew that he was carrying the Platinum Chip! And I knew right where Benny would wait for him! That's why Benny put me here! To monitor Mr.House's data transmissions. They're all encrypted of course, but I'm quite the decrypter! Did you know that Mr.House spent 812,545 caps hiring salvage teams to find the Platinum Chip, just in the last year alone? Of course you didn't! Or that there were seven couriers, but six of them were carrying junk? How about their exact routes, and the mercenary teams that screened them? I knew all that. Pretty smart, huh? "I'm the Courier that Benny shot..." Damien replied back once Yes Man stopped talking. "Hahaha! I know that's not true, because you still have a head!" "I'm serious" "Hahaha! That's not funny, you getting shot in the head. I really shouldn't have taken so much in how I set that up, huh? I feel really bad right now. Damien sighed in disappointment. There was no point trying to kill him, his personality could be somewhere on the mainframe and would be wasting a Securitron. He looked at the others behind him. "Well, we have a potential plan to become the rulers of an entire city and potentially an entire country if we look after it right, in the meantime ruling one specific city of pre-war glory that would make us immeasurably wealthy and powerful while the other plan is walking out that door and giving the chip to House. Either way, we can't leave the strip. "
Will: so the chip basically has what house needs to upgrade his securitrons and possibly turn them into a private army. Abbey: no wonder he wants it back. Jenny: Groovy taking over Vegas sounds like fun
Abbey: Absolutely. Will: sure. Jenny: let's do it Will: what about John though? Jenny: we'll pick him up and tell him the plan. c:
"We need to deal with House first however, and that alone is going to be dangerous." Damien replied. "Working alongside him for a while would be far too dangerous, he might catch onto us. I think we should take him out straight way."
Abbey: Right. But we don't really know what he is though. Some say he's a ghoul while others say he could be a sentient computer who's just taken on house's pre-war personality. Without knowledge as to what he is or where he is, it'll be hard to bring him down.
"Well...I guess we could find out" Damien said before spinning a pen between his fingers. Taylor only nodded in response, as the two of them began to walk out the room. Yes-Man began to leave his room as well, telling the group that he will be waiting outside The Tops until House was removed from power.
The group left the strip and went into freeside to check on John and tell him the plan. When they enter the fort they find John up and about talking to some of the followers, wanting to know if they'd seen his daughter. He was adamant that he'd heard her in the wrangler earlier and was hoping the followers might've seen someone matching her description. Sadly for him it wasn't to be as no-one at the fort had seen anyone matching his description of her. Will: hey, John! John: oh, so you're back. Jenny; of course we are. We wouldn't leave you behind c: John: (grumbles) whatever... Will: we've got something we wanna discuss with you dude, it's pretty important but we're gonna have to leave freeside to talk about it. John: alright. Well let's go then. the group leaves freeside and heads for a quiet area outside the walls of vegas to tell john the plan
Eventually, the group found themselves in an isolated location away from Vegas. Nobody was around for miles, and Damien's local knowledge of the city made sure that finding such a place was easy. "Alright..." Taylor begun. "So we have decided to plan something. We were invited into the Lucky 38 by Mr.House himself, and that we are the first people to enter the building in over 200 years. We had a talk and he wanted us to recover something important from Benny, the head of the Chairmen. Benny nearly killed Damien as well, so he had a revenge motivation about him.” Taylor then took out the Platinum Chip. “This is our trump card. This chip contains data that will dramatically upgrade the defences of Vegas, and possibly so much more. House spoke of upgrading every Securitron in Vegas itself, and that he has an entire army of them stored somewhere. That somewhere is exactly where the Legion has built the Fort. With this, we will ensure that the Legion or the NCR will never take the Mojave.” “In short” Damien added in. “We are going to take over Vegas.”
John: ... Jenny: you okay John? John: you guys been huffing Jet while I've been gone? Abbey: we're serious John. We'll show you if we have to. John: (puts a cigarette in his mouth then lights it) alright. humor me.
"Sure, I'd give you something to laugh about." Damien replied before the group headed back to Vegas and onto the Strip itself. Once they were inside, they were escorted on the elevator once more by the two Securitron's. Mr.House's face was on the screen again, the green projection of the man when he was still human. Damien stood at the front where House was, and Mr.House was not exactly pleased about how long it took to deliver the Chip. "You're late. Although, better late then never. I assume that you have the Chip?" "We know what this does, House. You are not getting it." "Hmm... How shall I put this? Delivery of the Platinum Chip is non-negotiable. I invite you to think carefully about what you do next... standing alone before me, surrounded by my heavily-armed Securitron guards." Damien just smirked in response, with his hand on his Ranger Sequoia as Six Securitron's begun to surround him. "No..." ""By the time I was 30 years old, I was a billionaire 30 times over. I founded and ran a vast economic empire. Do you really think I'm going to let an upstart come into my home and ransom my property to me? I spent two centuries searching for the Platinum Chip. It's my invention, my property - mine. Now be a good courier and deliver it!" Mr.House was fuming in rage, as the Securitrons around the group began to approach him. "Fine, you win. Here yo-" Damien never finished the sentence, taking House by surprise by taking his Sequoia as Taylor ducked. Within two seconds, all six Securitrons were destroyed in a spectacular fashion. House was mortified about what happened, as Damien looked at his sister and nodded his head. Taylor took her Plasma Rifle and went over to the terminal nearby a wall, chip in hand.
Will: Damn I wish you guys 'd tell us these plans of yours before you executed them. Abbey: oh what does it matter Will? So long as they're the ones who go first into the frey then I'm alright with it. John: well this just got outta hand very quickly. Didn't even get a howdyado from that guy on the screen there. Taylor uses the platinum chip on the terminal to open up a secret door to the right of the terminal. Two securitrons awaited behind the door ready to destroy the gang if they tried to get in. Any effort the securitrons made to defend the room was wasted by the fact that they had 9mm smgs at best, whereas Will the group tank had a little something called Annabelle and Annabelle wasn't even the best he'd got. In a loud and violent instant the securitrons had been reduced to scrap metal and the group moved into the room, where they then discovered an elevator leading to a new part of the lucky 38 Abbey: wonder where this lift goes. Jenny: only one way to find out c: John: I still don't know what's goin' on here! Jenny: It's complicated.
