Afton eventually breaks out of his deep thoughts and sighs, "Glados, send some scouts west of the Mojave to search for the OSI base."

"Affirmative." ​​

Afton nods to himself and turns back towards the man, "Alright, now's time to see if you were telling the truth... Dala, wake up the girl." he states as he stuffs a cloth into the man's mouth and ties it to prevent him from speaking.

Some stimulants and slaps later, and the woman is up, already paling at the sight of Mr X with tears of despair streaming down her face. "PLEASE LET ME GO! I'LL DO ANYTHING!"

"Uh-huh, well Mrs 'Do anything', let's first start with where the OSI base holding Doctor Macka Bree is."

Her head whips around at Afton once she hears the name, but quickly purses her lips once she spots her restrained and gagged colleague. "I KNOW WHERE IT IS!" she exclaims, still looking incredibly fearful, "IT'S UNDERNEATH THE CONGRESS BUILDING IN SHADY SANDS!"

...

Afton smirks at the male scientist who's begun to sweat through his clothes. His eyes were wide and disbelieving as if he hadn't expected her to say that. "Oh? Are you sure? This guy here says the base is located west of the Mojave."

The female glares daggers at her colleague but quickly nods, "He lied! That's why he gave such a vague answer!" she shouts.

Afton slowly nods in agreement, "But... Why would a secret OSI base be under the congress building?... Hm, seems like I'll need to be more persuasive." he states while holding out his hand, "Dala, pass me the small bone saw... Thank you."

Afton walks between the two hostages while clutching the small tool, "Hmm, how to choose. Girl, you get to decide, choose either him or yourself."

"HIM!" she immediately shouts.

Afton nods, and turns to face the fearful man, "Look like it's your lucky day. She picked you to be spared punishment... Are you lovers or something?" he jokes while using chains to restrain the woman's arm, all the while she screams that she didn't understand the question.

He locks her fingers in place and begins slowly sawing off each digit, one by one. She screams bloody murder as this occurs, but neither Afton nor Dala take any notice of it. Once all the digits on one of her hands were severed, he took his time to feet each one to Mr X as the two hostages watched. "Sorry, looks like my old man was hungry... You do know he's my father, right?" he questions and quickly finds that they hadn't.

He nods, "Yeah, Doctor Macka saw fit to mutate my father into this... Say, I wonder what'd happen if I injected his fluids into you... Would you become the same? Or would you simply explode?"

"Oooooh, I like this... Let's explode all the teddy bear's fluff across the walls." Dala audibly mutters to herself, unconsciously revving her sawblade.

"P-PLEASE! DON'T!.... I LIED, OKAY!? IT ISN'T IN SHADY SANDS!" she suddenly screams out, his [Spies Guise] Perk along with all his other intimidating related ones most likely helping this process along.

"So your colleague was right?" he confirms and the woman rapidly nods.

He thinks for a moment before grinning to himself, activating his Pipboy and turning it to the map. "Alright, here's one last test. Each of you will point to where you think the base is, if both are similar, then I won't kill you. Cool? Cool." he states while choosing the woman first.

She does as she's told, quickly using her unmutilated hand's index finger to point at a position a couple hundred miles or so west of the Mojave.

Afton nods and lets the male scientist do the same, both pointing at around the same place. Confirming the location of the OSI. "Aha, thank you for your cooperation. This information will be very helpful in my future endeavours. Dala, do what you want with them... Actually, wait... Let's extract some FEV from my father and see its effects on them. Maybe it'll provide some insight into his mutations." he states, and both scientists immediately start struggling against their restraints. "BUT YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T KILL US! PLEASE DON'T DO THIS!"

Afton shrugs, "I'm not killing you, just subjecting you to the same treatment of my father. See, if you paid a little more attention to your Karma, you wouldn't be in this situation." he states, glaring at the completely red aura covering the both of them.

They both had very limited positive karma, with a shit ton of negative. It wasn't even a question if they were bad people, only 'how bad'. "Both of you enjoy your stay, say your peace to whatever god you worship, because you'll likely be meeting them soon." he says as he leaves, ignoring the terrible screams of the woman as despair overtakes her.

He claps the dust and dried blood from his hands and decides to take a walk to clear his head. He'd been stuck in that lab for hours, plus the discoveries of FEV's influence on his father had his head cramping at all the work he'd have to put in to fix this.

He's greeted by the residents of Big Mt as he strolls through the place, though, most keep a good distance due to the blood covering his hands. He does spot a strange duo sitting on a bench further up the bath though...

"Anja? Scorpion dude?" he asks, stifling the knowing grin that as threatening to appear on his face.

"A-ah sir!" Anja scrambles to say, her posture straightening in his presence... Obviously, she hadn't seen him coming because, youknow, her eyes. He just chuckles though, "Relax Anja, I'm not 'sir' right now, chill."

"Ah..." she murmurs as she slowly nods.

Scorpion-Man looks at Afton and frowns, "Erm... My name is Juan, Juan Cienna.." he offers, not wanting to be called 'Scorpion-Man' for the rest of his life.

Afton crooks a brow and somehow manages to hide his snort, "Juan Cienna? No relations to John Cena right?"

"John Cena? Who is that?" asks the superhero, thoroughly confused.