As the smoke cleared Adam picked his head up from behind the cover and saw the carnage. The Sentry bot was a splayed open shell, melted from the inside out by the explosion, the assaultron lay decapitated near a wall on the opposite side of the room. Rae was damaged, laser blasts having hit their chassis top to bottom, Deccannus took a bit of wooden shrapnel in his arm and was already tending to it, and Eve looked more dinged up than before but otherwise okay.
"Everyone alright?" Adam, called out.
"I am fine." Deccanus said as he grit his teeth and pulled out a spike of wood that had hit him in the arm.
"Rae reports non critical damage! Requesting repair at your earliest convenience!" Rae chimed in with a happy tone.
"I'm alright, handsome. Nothing that won't buff out in the wash~" Eve added in with a sultry tone.
"I was able to get to the computer safely so I was not even hit." Mira said as she slowly walked over, her stealth mode now off.
Adam made his way to Deccanus and helped him pull out some shrapnel from his arm and then administered a stimpack. Deccanus made no move to stop Adam so that was something. After he helped Deccanus he walked over to Rae and examined their body. At a glance Rae would need a workover but they would be fine to continue functioning until the end of this mission. It just meant he would need to do some repair work on them later.
Eve walked over to her fallen assaultron compatriot and then threw the body over her shoulder.
"I'll be taking this one. I don't imagine anyone will have any objections~" She said as she began to head towards the door. Probably planning to put the defeated assaultron's body in the APC.
"What do you need that corpse for?" Deccanus asked offhandedly as she smoothly made her way to the door.
"Spare parts~" She said with a tone and body posture that indicated to Adam she would be grinning if she could.
She left the room shortly after while the other four began to split up and look through the room.
Adam first headed to the destroyed sentry bot. It was destroyed beyond reason, honestly he was not even sure he could salvage anything at all from the bot in its current condition. It was not as if he was trying to spare the robot's destruction, but Sentry bots had a lot of valuable parts. Or, even better, if he could repair and fix it up it would have been worth a ton. Unfortunately it was completely destroyed.
Adam took a look at the alien blaster gun again. This was such an enigma. First of all, the laser it shot was blue, like a recharger rifle shot. However unlike the recharger rifle it was a white tinted blue instead of a solid blue. Second, there was no beam like every other laser weapon had, instead it was like a bolt of light was shot out. Third, the power the gun produced was incomparable to anything he had seen before. Based on what he had witnessed, this gun was strong enough to punch through the hull of a sentry bot like butter. Even Power Armor would be useless against such a weapon. Fourth and finally, the round seemed to use up the entire gluestick worth of ammo. There was space for more than one gluestick to be inserted but he had only used one due to testing it in a stressful situation. However that meant he only had one shot left with this thing. For now he filed all this away under 'anomalous' and 'to be examined later'.
What wasn't to be examined later, however, was the UFO looking vehicle parked in the room.
"What do you think it is?" Adam asked Mira who walked up beside him without breaking eyeline with the saucepan shaped ship.
"I have no idea." Mira said back, also staring at the supposed UFO.
"Think it could be from outer space?" Adam joked.
"No, that's impossible." She said back, however there was a bit of hesitation in her voice before she decided to continue. "Well… I suppose there might be some merit to that line of thought."
"Wait, what? I was just joking." Adam said as he turned to face her now.
"Back when I was with the East Coast Brotherhood I used to hear stories about this vault dweller who people nicknamed the Lone Wanderer. Anyway they apparently had a run in with aliens? Went to outer space and everything. Not that I believe that, even a con man would come up with a better lie." She paused again. "There are also ancient reports, back from the earliest days of when the Brotherhood first was founded, about some strange creatures from the Appalachians. Supposedly they had to fight off so-called aliens or something? But they knew so little back then and supposedly there was a plague going around at the same time so I don't put any stock into stories of madmen from days gone past." Adam listened carefully and simply internalized all this information. He had no idea what this all meant but the small child inside of him that once gazed upon the stars and wondered if there was life out there was secretly reignited. Even if it was not going to change anything in the here and now.
Adam walked over to the UFO and began to examine it. Predictably he couldn't make heads nor tails of it. Not how it worked, not how it ran, not even how it flew. The only thing he could say for certain was that the thing was destroyed. Even if he had a users manual he was convinced that it would never run again… in his professional opinion anyway. For what that's worth when looking at possible alien technology. But this could have also just as easily been a Chinese secret weapon, or a US secret weapon, or something else he had not considered. So, with no knowledge about what this thing even was, he decided to just leave it alone and walk away. Afterall, what use would he even have for… whatever this thing was anyway?
Adam's next stop was to examine the vertibird that was down here. Or rather, what little of a vertibird that was actually in front of him. It looked as if it was only a third of the full thing, missing so many parts he doubted it could fly even if it had a clear space to go to above, which it did not. However, he did find an intact control console that he could cannibalize for parts. It seemed a shame but truthfully even if the vertibird was fully intact he simply did not have the means to get it outside. It would take weeks to move it piece by piece. And that's assuming he even wanted to, which he didn't.
Lastly Adam stepped into the office that Mira had gone in to change the target priorities of the laser turrets on the ceiling. Inside was a pretty boring and uninteresting office considering the weird stuff he was seeing down here. However one thing did catch his eye. A Vault-Tec Bobble head. Specifically one of the Iconic Vault boys holding a cartoon ray gun. The sort that aliens would have in TV shows… the same sort that he now had… this brought up too many questions.
Why did this research lab have this gun? Where did it come from? Why does the gun on the bobblehead look so similar? Why did a US Army affiliated laboratory have a Vault-Tec company branded bobblehead? Was there a deeper connection between the US and Vault-Tec that he was not aware of? At this point there were far too many questions swirling around in his head and zero answers to any of them so instead he just put the Bobblehead into his bag and left the office, seeing nothing else worthwhile inside. The computer had no information on it and just had turret controls so it too offered no insight to the many questions he now had. However, As he left, he was met with Mira calling him over.
"Adam. I think you will want a look at this." She said slowly.