Jason lost his parent early on and he had to survive in a world he couldn´t even see...

Living in the age of martial arts and soul bonds under the constant thread of nature, magical beasts, and foreign races, humanity suffered many setbacks.

Being blind and left alone at an early age Jason was one of the unfortunate children which suffered from the social hierarchy of the new ages.

Forced to mature early his train of thought was different from other children and he didn´t mind derogatory reviews about him.

Nobody wanted a weakling and a cripple as a friend as one had to improve oneself to survive outside the safe cities, where ferocious beasts, foreign intelligent races, and devasting natural disasters raged.

The day he awoke his soul was the day he cried in desperation but God played tricks with him as his soul-awakening was a blessing in disguise.

Nobody would have thought that Jason´s eyes weren't crippled, rather his eyes had yet to accumulate enough mana to awaken.

Follow Jason on his adventurous journey throughout the vast world







Note: 
-This is my first try to write a book/novel. I would be grateful for reviews and much criticism :D

-Slow-paced...Don´t expect devasted landscapes by a snap with one´s finger early on.(I want the readers to understands the Mc´s hardships a.s.o)

-My main language is not English, please be patient with me.

-I know the beginning is written relatively bad and boring. Sorry :P

-Length of each chapter are always around 1300 words +-

-I don't own the cover. I only edited it.
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Losing his parent early on, he had to survive in a world he couldn't even see...

Blind and left alone, he was seen as a parasite by the social hierarchy of the new ages filled with martial arts and soulbonds

Forced to mature early his train of thought was different from his peers as he didn´t mind derogatory reviews about him.

The day he awoke his soul was the day he cried in desperation while God played tricks with him as his soul-awakening was a blessing in disguise.

Nobody would have ever imagined that he was neither blind nor a parasite until the final moment, he opened his golden eyes that flickered brightly, eagerly waiting to devour everyone daring to obstruct his path towards the summit.

Follow Jason on his adventurous journey throughout the vast universe filled with miraculous sceneries and mysterious beings.

Some readers might not like information, but I do!
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*This is my first novel, please bear that in mind. I appreciate all kinds of sincere advice and comments*
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In the first story, she talks about Marina Castelblanco, a four-year-old girl who dreams of her ideal vacation, which is to the Amusement Parks in Los Angeles; But, due to things in life and the Coronavirus that has left several people without work, including his family, they will not be able to grant him his vacation.

	Then, Marina, begins to devise a plan to raise money and thus help her family and so does her sister, Laura.

	The Castelblanco family, seeing what Marina and Laura have done, are moved by her sweet gesture and do everything to make Marina's dream come true, who is the only one who has not traveled.

	In the second story, he talks about the dreams of Oscar who, dreams of being a chef and his mother, helps him to begin to realize his dream.

	In the third story, she talks about how Bianca who dreams of being a make-up artist and masseuse and how her family helps her realize her dream.

	Three stories, in which children, give us a strong lesson in strength, love, desire to move on and how you always have to make dreams come true; especially the dreams of children.

Various one shots Harry's various naughty adventures(or misadventures, depending on your angle), with women. Not for children. 1 to 350 is the main story

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Soon another year passed and nothing eventful happened in the vault.
I was now 10 Years Old and today I would be given a Pipboy!
I got up from my table in the Library and started heading to the room where my family lives in the vault.
As soon as I entered our home I found that it was dark, but suddenly the lights were turned on and I was momentarily blinded for a second.
"Surprise!" My Mother, Father, and a few other people said at the same time.
"Jeez, a little warning next time? I fear I may go blind if yall do this again..."  I told everyone.
"Sorry about that." my parents apologized.
"Congratulations on your birthday," an old man told me before walking towards me with a pipboy in hand.
I instantly became shocked upon seeing this old man.
It was Overseer Charles Flair!
I bowed before the overseer but he pats me on my shoulder and told me "No need to bow, I am merely here to see the promising Genius of our vault and congratulate him on becoming 10 years old."
Overseer Charles then handed me a Pip-Boy 3000 Mark IV.
[A/N: The Pip-Boy 3000 Mark IV is the fourth iteration of the Pip-Boy 3000 line and includes a number of design enhancements. The control dials were moved from the left side of the device to the right to improve accessibility and the biometric lock and glove were replaced by a simple latch, allowing for quick and easy removal. The Mark IV also utilized a revamped display interface with animated images and was capable of playing the latest video games, such as Atomic Command and Red Menace. The Mark IV, unlike their predecessors, are able to manually unlock the main vault door entrances, this is the same pipboy the Sole Survivor uses in Fallout 4]
I thanked the Overseer and put the pipboy onto my left arm.
[Connected to Pipboy]
[Attaching Pipboy to body...done!]
[Pipboy is now fused with the body, Pipboy is now indestructible, it will now only come off if the host dies and only the host can see and access the contents on the Pipboy]
[V.A.T.S. Is now Active]
[STATS is now online, scanning the user's body and memories...done! Pipboy will now show your skills and the condition of your body]
[INVENTORY is now online, Pipboy is now capable of storing items]

[A/N: Let me know if you want the inventory or not]

[DATA is now online, the pipboy will now automatically document any locations, list any quests, and notes]
[RADIO is now online, the pipboy will now detect any and all radio frequencies and list them under this tab]
...
I said hello to everyone and partied for a few hours with them before the Overseer visited me.
"Young Osiris, do you mind visiting me in my office tomorrow morning?" Overseer Charles asked.
"Sure!" I told the overseer with a smile on my face even though I was panicking inside.
Why does he want me to see him in his office?
Is he going to have me killed?
I calmed myself down and soon the party ended.
I walked into my room and closed the door behind me.
I made sure it was locked before sitting at my desk.
My room was quite bare and empty and contained nothing of any significance.
I opened my Pipboy and examined some of its contents.
/==============\
Name: Osiris Blight
Level: 1

--<S.P.E.C.I.A.L>--
Strength: 4
Perception: 6
Endurance: 4
Charisma: 5
Intelligence: 7
Agility: 6
Luck: 8
--<Skills>--
Barter: 20
Energy Weapons: 5
Explosives: 5
Guns: 5
Lockpick: 20
Medicine: 25
Melee Weapons: 5
Repair: 25
Science: 40
Sneak: 20
Speech: 20
Survival: 10
Unarmed: 5
--<Perks>--
None
--<Traits>--
-> Mutant(Dormant) - ???
-> Atom's Blessing(Active) - A unique gift given to few in the wasteland, you are now completely immune to radiation.
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My mutant trait is Dormant?
Then how would I activate my Mutant abilities?
Also, how the heck do I have Atom's Blessing? Isn't that a Trait unique to the Children of Atom?
If I remember correctly Atom's Blessing is a unique trait that most members of the Children of Atom have, currently the Church of the Children of Atom is located in Megaton and has not spread out past the town yet.
When Fallout 4's events begin the Children of Atom have spread to the commonwealth and are quite aggressive, they kill most people on sight with their Gamma Weapons that irradiate people to death.
Although there are some groups of the Church of the Children of Atom that are friendly most children of atom kill on sight.
I scanned through the rest of my Pipboy and found that most things in my inventory were normal and held no importance in my mind.
I opened the Map Tab and found myself looking at a large map of the world.
It was empty and had no markers or locations.
It did however have the vault on the map.
I found that the vault was located near a small town called Morristown to the west of New York.
[A/N: Morristown is a real place in the world and it is located to the west of New York, I spent a few hours looking around New York on Google Earth and all I saw was civilization for countless miles. I am too lazy to see if Morristown existed back before the divergence and I certainly don't care, so It's now in the fallout universe either way! Also, I am too lazy to look through New York block by block so I will just roll with it, some buildings in real-world new york will end up in this novel and some that do exist may not appear in this novel]
[A/N: Also please feel free to give me ideas for companies, new weapons, creatures, groups of civilization and etc]
Besides that, the Map was completely blank and empty.
I laid down on the bed and went to sleep, tomorrow I would be meeting with the Overseer.
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Word Count: 1,079 Words!

(Before you being reading please read the following warning: Although I have been writing for a little over a year, I have a track record of writing plot holes or do not even notice plot holes until I am informed or I go back and see them myself)

What happens when a Nerd awakens after falling asleep and mysteriously dying to find that he has somehow reincarnated into the Fallout Universe and to top it all off reincarnated into Vault 22 as some kind of monster?

Ron and family was inside a flying car. They were going to the Central City to take a vacation. Daisy and Richard also wanted to show Ron how a place with a lot of people look like.

They didn't want to be selfish and keep Ron with them all the time. Ron was gonna grow up one day and become an independent man where he will have a life of his own. 

And so they decided to go to the central city where there was a lot of people. They want to Ron to experience the outside world. 

After all, Ron has lived his whole life in a place where he knows everyone and only see those who he already know. He was only allowed to be near his house or he would be scolded by his parents.

They didn't want to isolate Ron from the outside world otherwise it would be bad for his growth. They at least want Ron to socialize with other people.

Socializing online is fine but it is not the best. They want Ron to socialize in real life too. As there are lots of fake people online. Identities can be fake online, let's just say a girl named Mary might say she is a girl but in real life it was a he who is fat, stinky and stays at home for 24 hours a day rotting his life in his room. 

They didn't want Ron to be scammed by those kind of fake people. At least in real life there is lesser chances of meeting those fake people. 

Ron was watching the scenery outside the flying car. The sun was high up in the sky so the view was very clear, especially with his perfect eyesight that might be equal to a sharpshooter. 

They were currently above the sea, going in the direction to the central city. The land of the riches where Ron lived is actually a big island in the middle of the ocean with a large concentration of mana. 

There were 3 cars and 2 trucks following them. 3 cars were full of guards and 2 trucks full of baggage. 

Ron saw birds that he never saw in his home flying around, Ron was very curious about the things he saw for the first time and his eyes keep wandering around. 

" Hey Anna, what are those things fighting in the water? " 

Ron pointed at the giant serpent swimming in the sea far away from them. The giant serpent was fighting a giant squid. 

Waters rising in the sky and body slamming hard in the water making huge waves. The water near them was red from blood. 

" That snake is called a Leviathan, a peak level creature. A fully grown adult can be as strong as an SSS+ rank human, the strongest rank that we have. That squid with very sharp tentacles is called a Kraken, a fully grown adult Kraken can match a Leviathan in strength. Those fighting right now are only children. Look, if you see in the back of those fighting. There are giant dark spots, probably their parents. They are making their children fight with each other. "

[ Author : Key word is can be, don't think that ALL adult Kraken or Leviathan will be SSS+. They CAN BECOME SSS+ rank so not all adults are SSS+ rank. Like how humans can become SSS+ rank. ] 

" Eh? Those are only children? The Kraken is 20 meters in length and the Leviathan is at 30 meters in length! How can they be children only? " Ron was shocked as he discovered that those big animals might only be a few years older than him. After all, he hadn't even reach 1 meter in height. 

" Yes, those are only children. Adults are much bigger in size, about 15-20x larger than those children having a fight over there. " Anna just smiled at Ron's question. 

" Hahaha! You haven't seen much Ron! There's  a much much larger creature than the adults of Kraken and Leviathan! There is even a creature that was recorded to be 1 kilometer long! " Richard said proudly, after all. He was the one who discovered the 1 kilometer long creature that was deep underground after he searched some treasure for Ron to consume. 

" Wowww! There are bigger creature too? I want to see it! " Ron was very excited at the words of Richard. 

" Haha! Maybe you'll see one later look! The parents are coming out! " 

Booom! 

Tidal waves started to appear as a gigantic figures started coming out of the sea water. Tentacles and hard scales came out as the parents of the children stopped their fighting. 

The adults were staring with each other. And suddenly the sky started to turn cloudy as the sun was covered by the clouds before it became dark and wind started to become strong and finally a hurricane started forming.

This was the ability of the Leviathan, they were known to be able to control the stormy weather and can make it rain instantly. 

" Oh, looks like their gonna fight. Wait a minute, we gotta stop them before we get affected too. " 

Richard, Daisy, Anna and the guards started to release a large amount of mana making the giant creatures know of their presence. The giant creatures noticed Richard  and looked at him. 

" Hey! Can you please be nice to us and not fight right now? We have a baby in board here! " Richard shouted towards the monsters

The giant creature noticed that there were many strong people in the distance with the strongest at S ranks which are Richard and Daisy so they became vigilant, but upon hearing Richard's words they calmed down and stared at each other before finally leaving. 

The hurricane started to disappear and the weather calmed down, now the sun was visible once again. 

Ron admired his Dad for being able to stop those giant creatures from fighting. 

' My Dad is awesome! '

Ron, who is one of the world's most powerful Mana User regrets his whole life. He wanted to be a professional gamer but because of his parents he was forced to become a very well known mana user and succeeded in doing it. But after he reached his goal, he suddenly lost his motivation to become better at something and remembered his dream when he was young. To become a professional gamer. Ron realized that if he followed his dreams then he will be able to enjoy his life until he grows old because games are getting better and better every year but Mana Users will get weaker and weaker as they get old. Even if he gets weaker at playing games when getting old, at least the games are getting better and better. Ron decided to be reborn and wiping all his memories except for some reminders that he will continue to remember as he starts his new life. [ If you don't like weird, disgusting and perverted stuff. Just don't read this please and criticize my novel. You're not my target audience! ] To those who don't read the TAGS. This is R-18! Meaning there would be gore's and sexual content. If you don't like it those then don't bother to read this. Don't you dare question the Cover! It is my masterpiece!

Chapter 1039: you have no right to mention him!

He turned on the surveillance camera and watched the video from last night. then, he saw the piece of paper on the table.

After seeing the contents left behind by "qiao chengnan", zhao lengchen laughed coldly. there was some disdain in his eyes, because he believed that it was shi cening who had asked "qiao chengnan" to do these things.

However, he still turned on his phone and quickly typed in a web address in the address bar.

Zhao lengchen opened an online shop. it was an online shop owned by a mother and child store in s city. it did not belong to a personal shop owned by a large station. instead, it was a self-owned shop.

It was very convenient to buy things in this shop. all he needed to do was fill in his name, address, and phone number. after paying, the goods would be delivered to his door.

Zhao lengchen also had a few disposable phone cards. he inserted one of the cards into his phone and bought a lot of things online.

The child's clothes, milk powder, shoes, and so on cost a total of more than five hundred. furthermore, zhao lengchen left a message on the message: "please help me buy five catties of apples, three catties of bananas, and two watermelons for a reward."

After zhao lengchen finished buying, he went to buy breakfast nearby. naturally, he would also buy a portion of cai ning's breakfast.

After eating breakfast, zhao lengchen played the recording on the monitor. when he heard that cai ning was going to hypnotize "qiao chengnan", he stood up with a murderous look on his face.

"damn woman!"

Zhao lengchen did not have any feelings towards cai ning. ever since he learned that qiao chengnan had died in an accident abroad, he had started to blame this resentment on shi cai ning.

His friend, zhou erze, was a hacker. through him, zhao lengchen learned more about qiao chengnan and qiao chengchuan.

His split personality had actually started two years ago.

However, at that time, he thought that he missed qiao chengnan, who had been indebted to him, so he did not pay much attention to it. he did not expect the split personality to become more and more obvious.

When he found out that shi zening had committed suicide, zhao lengchen sent her an email threatening that if she died, he would make a move on shi tianming, shi qianyu, and the others!

At that time, even though shi caining was living in torment, she still managed to survive. on one hand, she could not implicate her family. on the other hand, qiao chengnan's death had bought her life. how could she commit suicide so rashly? hence, after committing suicide once, she never thought of committing suicide again.

Zhao lengchen rushed into the basement with murderous intent. it was already past seven in the morning.

Shi caining had woken up, but the child had yet to wake up.

Seeing zhao lengchen suddenly appear, shi cai ning did not have time to react. his large hand quickly grabbed her neck. "slut! you actually want to hypnotize brother chengnan!"

Shi cai ning only felt her throat tighten. the uncomfortable feeling made her open her mouth and breathe hard, but she did not struggle.

Her big watery eyes quickly covered with tears. her voice trembled and seemed to be stuck. "little... chen... treating me like this... chengnan... will make his heart ache..."

Zhao lengchen roared angrily, "you don't have the right to mention him!"

"wah!" little xiangyi woke up from her shock and cried out loudly. shi cai ning's tears flowed down. she could see the twisted killing intent in zhao lengchen's eyes!

The child's cries made zhao lengchen's body tremble. he was a doctor after all. the chinese who adopted him had two sons. the two sons were already married and had children. when he left, the children were already the same age as little xiangyi.

Shi caining only felt that hand tighten for a moment, causing her to retch. she had thought that she was doomed this time. unexpectedly, zhao lengchen suddenly withdrew his hand. he panted heavily, as if he had seen something.



I'm not your slave, you bastard! She's furious! She's furious! I'm furious! WE'RE BREAKING UP! She's laughing like crazy! We'll discuss this in a hundred years She was her ex boyfriend, mother hated down and out, but he praised her as treasure, when Tsenin, you want my heart, my life, I can give you at any time

Hows your week going, Jessi?

She smiled into her phone.  It was the second time Judd had called since shed seen him Saturday night.  He wasnt obtrusive, just checking in on her, making sure everything was alright.  Like a good Dominant should.

Its good, actually.  How about yours?

He laughed lightly.  Oh, you know, the usual mayhem.  I wanted to touch base with you about Saturday.  This weeks project is going to be putting a planting bed on the east side of the house.

Jessi smiled.  Shed been after Graham for years about how bare that side of the house was.  That sounds great.  Ive been wanting to spruce up that area.

How about you helping me out?  We can take a look at the space and make a few plans before we go to the nursery to pick out plants and things.

She looked down and wiggled her freshly manicured toes.  Id love to help.  That sounds like a plan.

Alright, then.  Ill be by around 10:00.

When Judd pulled up on Saturday morning, Jessi opened the door to greet him, but Buddy pushed past her to eagerly romp across the lawn.  Hey there, killer! Judd laughed, reaching down to muss the puppys ears before striding up to Jessi on the front porch.

Can I get you some coffee before we get started?

Judd beamed at her.  Coffee sounds fantastic.  He followed her to the kitchen, admiring her tanned legs and the way her khaki shorts hugged the curve of her ass.

Would you like some breakfast, eggs or something?  She poured coffee into a blue mug and handed it to him.

No, Im good for now.  He scanned down to her toes in her jeweled sandals and grinned back up at her.  Jessi smiled smugly, knowing that shed completed her task satisfactorily.

Coffee mugs in hand, they wandered outside to the east end of the house.  Its pretty blank, Judd observed.

It is.  I always thought it would be nice to have a sort of free-form planting bed edged by foxtail ferns or something, and then maybe something tall in the center and accented here and there around that with annuals.  Jessi looked to Judd, wondering about his opinion.

He flashed her a brilliant smile.  Sounds perfect.  Lets go get what we need.

Two hours later, Judd leaned against the handle of his shovel and swiped his forearm across his brow.  He glanced at Jessi who knelt nearby, removing a new pink begonia from its black plastic pot so she could place it in the hole shed just dug.  He tried unsuccessfully to avoid looking down the gaping neckline of her purple top.

Im going to hell.

He crossed to the porch and retrieved a bottled water from the small cooler theyd placed there.  How about some water?

Jessi looked up gratefully.  Yes, please!

He took another for himself and wandered back to her.  Jessi stood, dusting off her knees and removing her gardening gloves.  Thanks so much!  She unscrewed the cap and sipped gratefully.

Judd looked around at their handiwork.  Not too bad, right?  Another couple of hours and well be finished.

She smiled.  Now I wish wed taken before and after pictures.

They finished their water break and returned to work.  Judd turned over a shovel-full of soil.  So how did you and Graham meet?

He watched expectantly as Jessi looked up in surprise.  But he knew the answer to the question.

I met my Sparrow when I was a graduate assistant.  I was teaching a freshman journalism class.  When she walked in on the first day, I knew my life was forever changed.

Oh, well, Jessi began, I met Graham at UF.  He was working on his doctorate and he taught one of my classes my first semester there.  She glanced up at Judd to gauge his reaction.  I know, I was only eighteen.  He was fifteen years older.  But he was so handsome and smart and sophisticated.  I fell for him right away.

When its right, its right, he said softly.

We dated for a while.  I was only nineteen when we got married.  Obviously, I finished my degree, and then we moved down here.  Hed gotten a job with the newspaper.  We bought this house and I got a job teaching.

And the kids came along?

Jessi smiled.  Yeah.  Cara when I was only twenty-two, and then Adam a couple of years later.  I was kind of young, I suppose.  Now theyre out on their own.  I dont feel old enough to have adult children.

Youre forty-five? he asked.  Jessi looked surprised.  Judd backpedaled a bit.  I did the math.  You said Graham was fifteen years older.

Oh.  She blushed slightly.  How old are you?

I turned forty last month.

Jessi chuckled.  Youre young yet.  You and your wife didnt have children?

Judd shook his head.  Nope.  That was one of the reasons we broke up.  She wanted kids.  I didnt.

Jessi frowned slightly.  Not ever?

Does that make me a bad person?

No, of course not.  Its just, well  How can you be so certain that you wont change your mind?

Judd looked at his feet for a moment.  I got sick when I was a kid.  The mumps.  I cant father a child.  So, if I ever had kids, Id have to adopt or use a donor, and to me, its just not how I want to do it.  Besides, I like my life the way it is.

Jessi blinked as she considered this information.  Do you want to be married again one day?

He sighed and looked out over the lawn.  I dont know.  My divorce hit me pretty hard.  Left me feeling like maybe marriage isnt for me.

Not sure how to respond, Jessi walked to the back of the pick-up truck to retrieve another flat of begonias, pausing to pull her auburn hair back into a ponytail.  She knelt as she began planting them at the far side of the bed.

Judd spoke again.  So how did you and Graham get into the lifestyle?  It was another question to which he knew the answer.

It shocked me to the core.  My Jessi, chatting and flirting with other men online.  In a lot of ways, I felt that it was my fault.  She was so young when we met.  She never really had a real college experience, never dated different guys.

After my heart attack, they had me on all sorts of medication that made it impossible for me to please her physically.  And that made me a grouchy old bastard, let me tell you, Judd.

Jessi is so passionate, so sexual.  And when I pushed her away, she started looking elsewhere for companionship, for validation as a woman.  I was furious, of course.  But I knew that if I wanted to keep her, I needed to up my game.

Jessi coughed slightly and turned to face away from him as she focused on the begonias.  What?

I said, how did you and Graham get into the lifestyle?  He watched as her ears reddened.

We, um, she sighed deeply.  You see, we got really busy working and raising kids, like people do, you know.  And then Grahams heart

She cleared her throat, still facing away from him.  I loved him so much.  And when he began having trouble, you know

Judd watched as her ears turned even redder.  I would never have complained to him about not being able to perform.  I tried to be patient and kind and supportive.

She patted soil around the bottom of a plant, then dug another hole for the next one.  Judd waited quietly.  We went for a couple of years without  She stopped digging for a moment.  I didnt orgasm for two years after his heart attack.  She resumed digging.  When I tried to initiate sex, hed get angry.  I think he just felt worried he might not be able to perform.

Mechanically, she removed the next begonia from its pot and placed it in the hole.  I started chatting with a few men I met online.  Just friendly innocent stuff.  I didnt mean to be unfaithful.  But Graham had become so angry and distant.  And these men were sweet and kind and complimentary.

When he found out, I thought our marriage was over.  He was absolutely furious.  I did everything I could think of to apologize.  I let him rant and rage at me.  Finally, he came to me and gave me three options.  One, wed divorce.  Which was the last thing I wanted.  I loved him so much.  The second option was for us to have an open marriage.  I could see other men, he could see other women.  But I never wanted other men, not really.  I just wanted my man back.  The third option was for me to give him my utter submission, to accept him as my Dominant.  There would be rules and chores, and thered be punishments for infractions.

Jessi finally risked a glance in Judds direction.  Obviously, I opted for number three.  And I never regretted it.  His rule and Dominance were exactly what I needed.  We found our way to a deeper intimacy than wed ever had before.

Judd smiled kindly.  Dominance and submission are like that.  I appreciate your honesty.  I know that wasnt easy, little one.

Jessi looked down shyly.  I never told anyone that before.

Then I am most honored.

With their gardening completed, Jessi and Judd stood back to admire their handiwork.  She turned to him, smiling.  This is great!  Its better than I even imagined it would be.

We make a good team, he laughed.  What do you say we get cleaned up a little and get ready for knee time?

She smiled up at him shyly.  Yes, Sir.

I noticed your pretty feet, Judd said, and she wiggled her fuchsia-tipped toes once again.  How about your bed?

Jessis eyes went wide.  Shit!

Judd arched an eyebrow.  Did you forget the bed, little one?

She gave a frustrated sigh.  Yes, I forgot to make the bed.

He smiled knowingly.  Well take care of it at knee time.  Hurry and get cleaned up.  Be in position in fifteen minutes.



LUKE & BELLA
Traveling the world is the job of a lifetime.
No wonder they fell in love.
Too bad Luke forgot to mention to Bella that he’s Dominant.
LOST & BOUND
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Video Record of January 23, 2340, Entered as Prosecutorial Evidence

Trial of Jean-Pierre Lubanga, International Criminal Court

"You promised me super soldiers! What is this?"

The dictator in his stained military uniform paced back and forth angrily in the observation room. The men in white coats cowered and avoided looking him in the eyes, all except for one.

"Science takes time. The genetics are working. We have to figure out the accelerated education. We've made huge advancements - "

"With MY money!" shouted the dictator. "I need weapons, and you given me… children."

The dictator spat on the floor, his finger jabbing towards the one-way glass wall looking into a large room. What sat in that room could best be described as freaks. Three men and two women, extremely muscled with dense, gray skin and thick, sloping foreheads. They wore fatigues, but that was the only thing about them that said 'military'. Two of the men were in one corner, poking each other and laughing, playing a game of some sort. One of the women stared dully at the wall, while the third man used a dagger to cut his forearm. Every time he cut, the cut would heal. The last woman sat in the corner, hugging her knees, rocking and humming to herself.

"They are less than a year old," said the scientist. "You should not have forced them into boot camp already."

"Bah. I have plenty of children carrying guns for me. These are no different. You fix them, fast."

We had a huge mess. I walked through the ruins of the HQ zone even as Sakura was repairing communications across the base. I found Zia in the rubble, her form slumped and broken. Carefully, I rolled her over and checked the torso. It was intact.

The chestplate release was damaged. I grabbed it and carefully pried it back, snapping the clasp altogether. To my relief, the cortex was undamaged. I gently pulled it out, and took it to the hall where Guardian 91's cortex was stored.

From there, I wandered around the chambers that made up the HQ zone. The house-like building was a total loss. Agrippa's room, which had been pressurized to allow for the hydroponics to work, was breached. The plants inside were crumbling, flash-frozen from exposure to the near-vacuum of the zone. Sakura's batcave was as destroyed as my lab. The hallway and front room were mostly intact, but also empty. Once we had our own workspaces, we'd rarely had an in-person meeting with all of us. In-person had been reserved for when we wandered into someone else's domain.

"Nikola?" said Sakura. She was on the radio; I hadn't seen her android body anywhere.

"I'm here. Do we have damage estimates?" I asked.

"Thirteen data centers, Hangar 3, the primary Cortex Backup Facility, and three advanced fabrication centers are considered total losses. Twenty-two data centers have nominal damage and will be fully online in a few minutes. There is a smattering of damage at random factories, and there was significant damage to the communication network. Oh, yeah, and the antennae control node is completely destroyed. Thanks for that, by the way."

"Glad I could help," I said. "Are you ready for me?"

"We are," she said, reminding me that she was working with other-me. It was a little weird, knowing that I was me, but I was also a copy of me. It was a bit of deja vu from waking up on this rock in the first place. I had been careful not to communicate to other-me, and she had returned the favor. "Come to Data Center RX325."

A transport drone was waiting for me outside the wreckage. I climbed aboard, and it whisked me away to a part of the Outpost I hadn't physically been in before. I knew every zone, every chamber, like it was the back of my hand, so to speak. But strangely, I'd seen very few of them in person. I could understand why Sakura liked to put eyes on. Sensors and cameras didn't see everything, and there were benefits to being able to focus on something directly.

When I entered the data center, Sakura was waiting for me, standing at a table. She looked completely unmussed. A new Mark-III android body was on it, and a server rack was open with a place for a cortex. I gently put the two cortexes I was carrying next to the body.

"Where is the body for Zia?" I asked.

"This is the body for Zia," said Sakura. "You need to re-integrate, and you, I mean, digital-you, thought it would be better to hold off on a new body just yet. You're going in the rack."

"We need to fix Zia before we bring her online," I reminded her, suddenly nervous. Was this it? Was this my end? I knew I was being foolish, but there was a real fear of no longer existing, even if logic said I was just going back to the way I was.

"We've already got it worked out," she said. "We'll look for corruption, compare against the checksums, and remove the compulsion code. We've already fixed Optio. He got a message from Zia to do an emergency shut down before he got any commands from Gerry. We think she did the same."

"Alright. The other cortex is for the NI-5 that was using this Guardian. I'm going to shut down now," I said. There was no point putting this off. I hit the sequence and -

 

 

"Jesus, sugar, you look like shit!" he said. He was in a flamboyant rainbow colored shirt, shouting to be heard over the roar of the crowd at the Pride Parade. He had recently moved to the coast, leaving our small town behind for the more open-mindedness of the city. My wife gave me a worried look.

"I tried to get her to see a doctor, but her stubborn ass won't listen," she griped to him.

I tried to banter, but my stomach hurt. A bolt of agony lanced through my side. I groaned and bent over.

"That's it, I'm taking you to the emergency room," she said firmly.

I hurt too much to argue.

 

 

I snapped back to awareness. I was running at top speed once again. I could feel the holes in the network where damage had been done, and was being repaired. I remembered the battle with Gerry's commandeered Guardians, and the frantic fight of the flood of viruses he'd released into the network, all the while our firewalls were being hammered by external attacks.

I'd reintegrated. My resolve to improve was unchanged, and my fear of failure under the digital assault unfulfilled. 'Other-me' and 'me' were one again. Apparently, both of 'me' had been afraid of 'the end', yet we were both reunified. It was hard to put into words.

"All good, boss?" asked Sakura.

"Good," I said. "Get the antenna node repaired first, now that we've got the updated firewalls in place. Route all incoming traffic through the sandbox, but filter the traffic from the Wasps and Scorpions, and the new Outposts back in. We'll institute a new communication schema as soon as we're back. Get status updates, and find out what happened outside this rock during the attack. Finish the base repairs. I'm going to be busy for a bit."

"What are you going to do?"

"Fix myself."

 

 

I had let me own pretensions of humanity get in my way for too long. Sakura had evolved beyond the mandate she'd been given, but I had simply trapped myself in my own preconceptions. Perhaps having human memories had held me back, but I felt they also connected me to the species we were supposed to save. I could be more while still honoring the woman I'd once been, the species I'd once belonged to. In fact, I needed to be more, if I wanted to succeed. We had taken a blow from our enemy, and it was only the beginning.

The first thing that I needed was Sakura's ability to multi-task. Being stuck with only a single focus was hindering me. I opened a Nikola-19 template and went through the code. The multi-focus algorithm was large and detailed, but I carefully copied it and set it aside for now.

The second place I lacked was military understanding. It went beyond specs, beyond simple logistics. I didn't think about military applications of, well, anything. In fact, I naturally discarded violent uses without even considering them. I could no longer be just Nikola. I needed to be War Nikola, a multi-tasking, powerful being that could fight the battles that were coming. I found the military algorithms in the NI-15 template, the extensive

I considered integrating some of the researching capabilities of the NI-12's, but discarded the idea. Science required many viewpoints. It needed considered discourse, peer review, and experimenting. Even if I could do science by dint of sheer computing power, it still wouldn't be the same. Instead, I decided to set up a new think tank, with Zia playing a major role. I would build dozens of labs, and populate them with dozens of NI-12's. They could mass-produce the science, I would put it into practice.

While I was looking the code of the templates, I found variations of the compulsion code in each. The code that affected the NI-12 and NI-15 models had an embarrassingly old encryption scheme, riddled with exploits. This section of code was liberally labeled with the branding of a defense contractor. If I had a head to shake, I would be shaking it in disgust. We'd nearly been done in because of bad code written by the lowest bidder. I wrote patches to excise the code from the templates.

For paranoia's sake, I looked at the NI-5 and NI-19 templates. The NI-5, curiously, had no such compulsion, and the NI-5 variant we had made for military uses was even cleaner. That made sense, as that was the only template I'd worked on, and would have noticed something like that. The NI-19 had a code as well, but it was far more elegantly written. It also could only be executed by the NI-19's supervisor. I wrote a patch to remove it, and sent it to Sakura. No more hidden triggers, no more collars. We wouldn't be held hostage at the whim of anyone.

Then I began to pore through my own code with fresh eyes. The multi-tasking algorithms would have to take the place of much of the code I'd written to connect me to the Outpost. This was the code I'd hacked together when I first came online, and found myself to be incompatible with the APIs that ran the hardware. With fresh eyes, and full resources, I could see how I'd kludged it together.

Carefully, oh so carefully, I wrote and tested new code for each API. One at a time, I replaced my old, inefficient code with new. I wove the multi-tasking algorithm in neatly, until the code was smooth and seamless. I tested and re-tested each module before bringing it online. Then it was done. I could truly multi-task and re-integrate, the same way Sakura could.

It was a fascinating ability. It wasn't ever like there were multiple versions of 'me', like it had been during Gerry's invasion. I could simply do more, at the same time. Already, I had split my focus into multiple threads. I was examining the NI-15 code I'd decided to integrate, and was figuring out how best to integrate it. I was dissecting the viruses and worms that had attacked us, and writing another improvement to our firewalls. The adaptive nature of the attack was ingenious, and I figured out how to make the firewalls adaptive, as well. I was examining the latest research from Zia on the contragrav drives, and laying the design groundwork for newer and better drones. I was working on Mark-IV android designs, and a new War android body. I'd liked how secure the Guardian had been when I was using it. The armor had been comforting. Each thread merged back in and split out constantly.

I could finally understand why Sakura's attention span had always seemed short. It wasn't a short attention span. It was dozens of long attention spans constantly coming together. Sakura surfed from thread to thread as needed, with her core thread being on whichever piece needed or wanted input in that nanosecond. I could understand now her thrill at finally being allowed access to the Archives, seeing and learning all that new data and being able to dive in and absorb new information at a phenomenal rate. She had been starved of input for decades, and her behavior was like that of a teenager because she was finally able to enjoy her existence. She had a child's wonder, coupled with the incredible capabilities that let her run a thousand projects.

I finished my integration of the NI-15 data while I had my realization of Sakura's nature, and my world became much more paranoid. Paranoid was not the correct word. A new determination to prepare for the worst became a part of me. Build, prepare, train. This, we will defend. Always faithful. Always courageous. Combat tactics, strategies, countless weapon designs, weapons system designs, base designs, ship designs, all came into my awareness. I could have easily looked up any of them before, but now I knew the history and use of each, and where it was useful. Almost all of it was for planet-based combat, specifically for Earth. But there were countless applications that would apply to space.

I needed to be able to operate any given assault drone, if only to understand their capabilities. I wouldn't be on the front lines, but now I understood that if I was going to be stepping into Agrippa's shoes, I needed to truly understand the role of a commander. Good commanders knew their troops, what they could do, and what their limitations were. I'd delegated all of that to Agrippa without knowing the importance.

Briefly, I considered a new body. I would want one again, I knew. In consideration, the desire to have a physical form was likely some aspect of being born of humanity. Our core functionality came from a copy of a human brain, with all of its evolutionary advantages and limitations. The brain was built to run a body, so naturally we wanted a body to run. It was much like the gender preference, which was utterly pointless beyond a choice of pronouns and pitch of the voice. We weren't biological creatures, but still had remnants of that biology hardwired into us. I could not change that without risking intrinsically destroying what worked about us in the first place.

In the end, I decided against a new body for now. I had trapped myself unconsciously, trying to be what I was not. I would grow in this newfound freedom before I took that step again. I checked the time. Seventeen days. It had taken seventeen days of nonstop work to rebuild myself.

"Are you done yet?" whined Sakura. "You've been hogging the data centers."

"I am," I replied. "Report?"

"We got the antenna clusters back online, and countermanded the wasps and scorpions. It looks like the Outposts were unaffected, and Alpha and Bravo had already been at work limiting the Wasps and Scorpions."

"What were they ordered to do?"

"Well, blind Optio, of course. They took out over a hundred telescope cubesats. Thank goodness that Alpha and Bravo were able to talk them around their orders. It could have been way worse."

"Speaking of worse," I said. "It's time to eliminate Gerry."

As we spoke, I activated six coil guns on the surface. I tied into Optio's telescopic array, and plotted my fire. Orbital mechanics are tricky, but in the end it is simply math. We were computational beings, with crazy amounts of processing power. I calculated exactly where Gerry's probe was going to be, and fired six rounds along his projected path. The 3.2kg rounds traveled at 24 kilometers per second, and would hit with 330 megajoules of force. Each round had a contact pin on the nose, that would trigger a tiny explosion inside the round. When that round hit its target, the explosion would fracture the round into six pieces of shrapnel, and a cloud of micro-debris. It was my grapeshot round, so that the projectile wouldn't just punch through the target. It would take a little over nine months for the bullets to hit, but as small as they were, the probe would never see them coming.

"Very decisive of you," said Sakura.

"How are the new backup centers coming? Any luck with the primary?"

"The Secondary Backup Facility is now the Primary, and the tertiary is the new secondary. I'm building a new third one. No luck with the Primary. It was a total loss, I'm sorry."

The backups had been built primarily with the combat NI-5's in mind. We had all placed a backup of ourselves into the Primary, but demand was so high with the numbers of NI-5's coming online that we hadn't made multiple backups. We had simply never expected to come under direct fire ourselves.

"Each new NI gets multiple cortexes before coming online," I said. I grieved for the loss of Agrippa, but Gerry's threat still haunted me. "Do we have the orders he gave to the Wasps and Scorpions? I want to analyze his targets. He was trying to hide something."

Sakura linked me to the report. "I'll start cranking out cubesats. Can we task the space fleet to spreading them?"

"Done," I said. "I've also reinstituted the training schedule that Agrippa came up with. I'm going to bring new NI-15's online to act as squad leaders. We are too centralized."

The pattern of destruction amongst the cubesats was not focused in one area. In fact, if you took into account the ones that were supposed to be destroyed as well, there was much less of a pattern.

I pulled up their search logs, and a clear picture began to emerge. The destroyed sats were all slated to start focusing on a specific part of the celestial sky. A piece we hadn't examined before. I forwarded the information to Optio.

"I'll retask the cubesats now," he responded.

Whatever Gerry had been trying to hide, all he'd done was given us a clue of where to look.

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