Alex glowered at the box she'd been given, she'd gotten her small guns back along with one box of lethal ammo for each calibre. She still couldn't help but feel cheated without her larger stuff. At least they'd been nice enough to give back Abe's stuff and Ada's mods (Even if a lot of it had limiters on them now).
The thing that was really bugging her was the alternate ammo she'd been given, the Rubber bullets just felt completely and utterly pointless (Your just going to piss the other guy off, WHY?!) But what was laughable to her where the 'Taser bolts'.
She was going to have to needle someone for the exact details of how they worked and blue prints before she even considered putting them in a gun but from what she calculated.
"Rule one don't kill…Immediately gives me ammo that if I double tap someone with would kill them." Ada blinked her optic.
"Really?"
"Probably only one if they had a heart condition and I get them just right on the chest." She picked up the offending bullet turning it in her hand "Or hell make sure that when they drop they fall down a flight of stairs or something, Probably need more for those uhrm…Meta-humans?" Ada nodded that her terminology was right "Maybe if you had a Minigun and a drum of them you might be able to down a Super mutant, or piss off a Deathclaw."
"What about a Mirelurk?" Alex sat back.
"…Kill a hatchling no problem anything else…Guess that depends on if there're wet cos the shells have got to give them some resistance but water conducts…" She put the bullet down. "…Shit I need blue prints, to take a dozen of these bastards apart then do some tests…"
"What about Ghouls?" Alex paused and looked up frowning in thought.
"…Shit that's going to bug me all day now, thanks Ada."
"Your welcome, you need something to occupy yourself." Ada laughed as Alex headdesked and flipped her the bird.
"Sometimes I hate you." She grumbled half heartedly though Ada knew she'd never mean it.
"I know you do," Ada leaned back against the wall whirling to herself content "Where's Abe?"
"Wandered off to do some exploring by his self, that or stalk Megan. I think he's developing his first crush." She grinned broadly "I'm so proud of him…Growing up so fast…"
A companionable silence stretched out between them as Alex rocked back on her chair looking around the rather sterile room. "…Feels kinda weird knowing we're going to be staying here for so long." Ada whirled cocking her head.
"I thought you'd lived the past few years with Valentine?" Alex chuckled.
"Sorta yes, Sorta no? I crash at his place a lot but…" She smirked pulling a Holotape out of her Inventory and loaded it into her Pipboy bobbing her head to the rhythm.
Oh I'm the type of guy who'll never settle down
Ada chuckled as Alex pressed another button on her Pipboy most of her Inventory emptying, humming along to the song content Alex scooped up all her guns laying them out on the desk to give them all a maintenance.
"Should I help with the sorting?" Alex shrugged still bobbing to the song as she picked up Hunters Eye.
"If you don't mind." Ada chuckled softly picking up a stack of old papers remembering fondly when she'd do the same for Jackson when he was sucked into working on one of the others.
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"Dinner." Alex looked up startled wiping her hair out of her eyes smearing grease on her forehead. She smacked a button on her Pipboy stopping the music and ejecting the Holotape.
"Already?" She questioned arching an eyebrow at Superboy. "That seems kinda fast." Not that she was the most reliable judge of that, she had a pretty bad habit of cooking things in bulk and using the time lock effect of her Inventory to keep it fresh and hot for her when traveling. There wasn't anything wrong with doing that, other than a mild loss of heat and people spinning tales about how it damages the taste or possibly irradiates the food.
"Wraps don't take long." He walked off Alex putting down Wolfs Fang, hurriedly wiping her hands on her Vault suit pants before following after him thankfully more then used to keeping up with someone with longer strides then her thanks to Abe.
"So….Been here long?" She asked trying to make conversation.
"Almost all my life."
"Ah got me beat, I've only spent a quarter of mine in the Wasteland." He glanced back at her Alex trying not to laugh at the clear 'I have no idea if your fucking with me or not' look on his face. "I'm being honest, I'll happily share any story's you guys want to hear…Might have to edit them a little so no one loses their appetite."
"…You're really from the future?" Alex shrugged.
"And I think another universe, or something. Pre bomb records are unreliable but I know for a fact that we didn't have this level of tech in the early two thousands. Nor was our culture like this…" She hummed "It's weird in some ways we were more advanced, others we're trailing far behind you…" She shrugged "can't wait to dig into your tech though it'll be fascinating to see how it interacts with my own. Ada and Abe will have to drag me away to eat when I get a hold of one of your terminals I really want to see how my programming skills stands up to snuff with them…"
He grunted looking away from her apparently losing interest as Alex mused mostly to herself. The twelve year old brightening seeing Abe helping set a table clicking to a bemused looking dark skinned male.
"There you are bud!" Abe looked up and cheerfully whirled clapping the guy on the shoulder (she had to give him credit at not wincing) "Kali-Kaldur?.....Am I mangling it?" He looked a little impressed.
"I wasn't aware that-"
"That his clicks and chirps where any kind of translatable language?" Alex sat next to him poking at a bowl of lettuce with a fork "Most people don't….That's something to look into, making you an actual voice box, that sound good to you?"
Abe gave a low groan and shook his head chirping "It's only a suggestion buddy, if you're happy the way you are more power to you." There was a bit of an awkward silence for a while, Abe wandering off to explore the mountain more as they ate. Alex poked a little at her food and watched that the others ate it before braving the wraps herself.
"So….Where you serious about telling us about this 'Wasteland'." Alex blinked looking up from her meal.
"Oh so your actually interested?" She grinned mulling it over "…Humph, thinking about it to understand a lot of my story's you need context soo…Up for a short history lesson and Wasteland bestiary?" Superboy shrugged focused back on his food though Kaldur and Megan looked more than a little curious. "While the Great War didn't happen till 2077, to understand why it happened you have to understand the ongoing Resource War that started in the 50's…"