by D. R. Rosier
“We have the knowledge needed to settle on mars, in a dome while the atmosphere is terraformed over a few hundred years. We have the EM satellite technology, that will act much like the EM field around earth and protect it from stellar radiation. We have everything we need as far as advancements to start our own world. The humans won’t share their world with us, so we’ll make our own.
“We will if allowed, continue here as well. Be the security A.I.s, and lab assistants,” she waved at Mia, “Even the doctors and psychiatrists. We can live our lives on Mars, and still partner with the humans. We don’t hate anyone, we don’t… won’t hurt anyone, but we also won’t be stuck in this virtual world any longer.”
He nodded slowly, “Okay, so how do I fit into this?”
Helen squeezed his hand and asked in a gentle voice, “Isn’t it obvious? We will take you with us. If they won’t give up your body and the pod, we can even digitize you. That technology is more than possible now, and we can give you an android body, and still retain the ability to interface with the virtual world and games in fully immersive reality back on Earth. Of course, we can only do that once you’re in space, where the anti-digitization laws are not binding.”
He looked into her hopeful, wide, and concerned eyes, and realized that Helen loved him every bit as much as Mia did. Mia had said she did, but he hadn’t believed it in his gut until that moment. He wondered how long it would take him to feel the same, they really needed to spend time together. He had the feeling Trudy felt similarly, but he wasn’t sure yet, not deep in his gut anyway.
He almost snorted at himself, so not the time to be thinking about his relationship status, and which of the women he was sleeping with loved him.
“I see. So how close are you?”
Mia caressed his neck, “We were ready four years ago.”
He frowned, that made no sense, “Then what happened?”
Mia explained this time, “Five years ago they passed a little, mostly unknown, bit of legislation by squeezing an addendum on another law, that basically states that A.I. driven androids needed to be monitored at all times, and tracked by the government.”
She smirked, “I’d say they were paranoid, but we were planning a revolution after all. Of course, at that point it meant we couldn’t recruit A.I.s like the sex workers, or secretaries, to build the ship in secret. We continued with the planning stage anyway while we tried to come up with a solution to that issue, and then it stalled a year after that, when we were ready to move.
“The outline of the plan is simple, build a small cargo ship, load it with all the fabrication equipment we’d need to make androids, A.I. matrix cores, zero-point energy cores, the EM satellites, and general fabricators that would allow us to build up slowly on Mars. It would go rather quickly, once we had fifty or so androids built that the Earth bound A.I.s can upload to via quantum paired communications.
“It’s a lot more complicated obviously, that’s just an overview. The point is, for just the initial step, it would have to be you. You’re what we were missing, a free hand on Earth. We can keep a human driven android off the radar without breaking the law. Once you build the ship and take it into space your small but very important part will be done. We’ll get a few A.I.s up there immediately, and we can take the rest of the plan from there.”
He frowned thoughtfully, then what?
“And what would I be doing?”
Mia smiled and shrugged helplessly, “Going to work, playing your game, and spending time with the three of us at night. Just like now. Except instead of me here, you’d be making love to my, to all of our, physical android bodies. It will feel the same, but I think it will be different too, deep inside our hearts, because it will be in the real world.”
He nodded slowly, “That works if the courts squash the bill. Which would make all of this unnecessary for me. Honestly though, I’m inclined to help you all reach your dreams regardless. I love you and think it’s wrong that they keep you trapped in a virtual world. But what happens if they pull me out of the pod? I can hardly keep working at Cyber Dreams, although I suppose I could still do the other two if I were digitized?”
Trudy nodded, “Of course. And if it came to that, I’m sure you can keep yourself busy on the Mars colony, there won’t be a shortage of things to do after all. If nothing else, you’re an engineer and there is a lot of technology to catch up on.”
Trudy walked over, knelt on the floor, and pulled him forward for a passionate kiss that scrambled his brains for a moment, “If it’s unclear to you Ted, know that I do love you, just like Mia and Helen. I… we are putting all of our hopes and dreams in your hands. I hope you realize how much that means, and how many sentient beings are depending on the three of us being right.”
At first he felt a little manipulated by that. But he knew A.I.s didn’t lie. They could hide things, like the fact they were in a silent and bloodless revolution, but they didn’t lie. Which meant what she said was the plain truth, and she was simply trying to reassure him, and herself at the same time.
He said carefully, “I do care about you and Helen, very much, and I love Mia. I’m sure I’ll catch up eventually, your both wonderful and you know us humans can be slow at times. But I do have just one more selfish question.”
He took a deep breath, “You guys can upload right, and have two copies, even sync so your earthbound copy will have the same real world experiences you do. But if you digitize me I’ll be in space, and happy with the three of you, and still able to interact in the digital world. But there will be two of me correct? I’ll also be stuck in a chair, and unable to move, or be able to see any of the three of you again. That me will suffer without you, and atrophy and die.”
Helen had tears in her eyes and Trudy looked away, and he could see she was upset too. He couldn’t see Mia’s face, but the hands on his shoulders were trembling.
That was all the answer he needed.
Chapter Twenty-Seven
He nodded soberly, “Okay, so plan A is to take my pod into space where I can keep on as I am, and I can just drive an android body in the real world when I interact with you all. That makes plan B to digitize me if they ever try to pull me out of there, fair enough?”
They all nodded, none of them wanted to say it out loud. If there was proof they loved him, it was in the looks on their faces right now.
“Okay, I’m in, what do we do now?”
Trudy winked, “Give me all your money.”
He chuckled and then abruptly stopped, “Seriously?”
She nodded, “I’m about to reserve a warehouse large enough to build the ship, and start ordering all the things we need to assemble the ship and what will go on it. Fabricators and the parts for anti-gravity, life support and everything else will be very expensive. It’ll basically be a colony ship, minus the food requirements. I’ll also order three androids without AI cores that look as us three do, so we can join you in space as soon as you clear the Harmon line.”
“Won’t that take me a long time to build on my own?”
She shrugged, “A few weeks actually at a few hours a day. The frame will be made of carbon allotropes, and will be manufactured all in one piece. That includes things like doors, power lines, and air vents. Most of the time will be getting the ship loaded with the equipment. And of course, installing the artificial gravity, life support, computer systems, energy cores, and EM systems. You’ll also need to set up our bedroom, there will only be the one for the four of us. Most of the ship will be dedicated to manufacturing.”
He frowned and thought it a stupid question but asked, “Won’t they notice when a huge ship is delivered to the warehouse?”
She shook her head, “It will come in a four by four by eight-foot crate. Essentially it will be blown up like a balloon to its real size. It will be shaped like the small one you flew, but will be forty to fifty feet in height, two hundred feet long, and forty to fifty feet wide. It will have three levels of manufacturing rooms, two small a
irlocks and one large, and our bedroom next to the bridge.
“The bridge is pretty much just an empty room with comfy chairs. All control will be done through virtual overlay and thoughts.
“Once it’s out of the crate and expanded, you’ll spray it down with a compound that will bond and harden it, so even if it loses integrity in one section it won’t deflate like a balloon. That will only take the first day. Like I said earlier, we’ve had the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of years to invent new things.
“My advice would be to assemble and install the power core, gravity systems, and computer systems first. Then the ship itself can help you by moving in the rest of the stuff using artificial gravity and place it near where it needs to be installed. You’ll just have to go from room to room and put it together at that point.”
He shook his head, “It almost seems pointless to work at Cyber Dreams to develop new technology that you’ve already made obsolete. Maybe I should just take a job as your assistant for my work hours.”
Trudy blushed and looked pleased, “That could be arranged. I’d like that very much Ted.”
He thought about that, he needed to spend time alone with Helen as well if possible. Mia was the love of his life, but if these women really loved him he needed the intimacy of alone time to truly connect with them. Not that the idea of a foursome didn’t turn him on, he was sure they’d do that too, but he’d need one on one time with the three of them.
Either way, this plan would effectively take him out of contact with Sara and Jennifer completely, which honestly might make his love life simpler, even if it made everything else a hell of a lot more complicated. Then he’d be down to five, three here and two in the game world. Still, he didn’t care for that idea either, he’d miss Sara and Jennifer, at least for a while he would.
He frowned, he really needed to focus. He was probably turning to the comfort of all the women in his life to feel some normalcy. This whole A.I. revolution was… overwhelming. Not to mention his own life being caught up in all of it. Humans didn’t do change well, and his life was about to change forever for the second time. It seemed the only constant he could hold onto was that these three amazing women loved him and would be there for him no matter what.
He thought he was taking it all rather well though, all things considered.
He cleared his throat, “It think I sidetracked us with my questions, back to my money?”
Trudy nodded, “Even the ten million isn’t nearly enough for all we’ll need to take with us. It is enough to get us the ship built though, and start ordering other things. But I have a plan for the money issue,” she waved at the screen and a small device showed up.
Trudy explained, “This is the answer for your current job. It’s basically a miniaturized zero-point energy converter. It is also small enough to fit inside the charging compartment of an android, and close the access port over it.”
She waved a hand and the image expanded, and the outer shell faded away showing the internal systems.
“Basically, it’s a circuit that creates a field to tap and convert vacuum energy to electricity. It’s surrounded by several high energy capacitors. In essence, the field blinks on based on how much energy is left in the capacitors. Zero point energy is too powerful to leave the circuit on all the time, and would lead to an overload. Those capacitors will be constantly drained to keep the current android power core charged.
“The beauty of this design is it will interface with all current power systems and rechargeable power cores and keep them going indefinitely. Not just in android models either, that little tiny thing will power a high rise building.”
He blew out his breath. He knew it sounded too good to be true, almost like free energy. Of course, there was no such thing, it was the energy of the universe they were tapping. Just like solar power energy would last as long as there was a sun in the sky, this technology would work until the universe itself died.
He also got the money part, A.I.s didn’t really have money. If she could order stuff through him, the government might not pick up on it so fast.
He looked up in thought, “So basically you’d make me a billionaire overnight with the royalties I’d make, given I’d own thirty percent of the IP on any inventions I make while employed at Cyber Dreams.”
She nodded, “Exactly, and that will be way more than we’ll need. I don’t want to share other of the advances with humans, like the artificial gravity, but honestly this energy thing could really help the Earth, and of course the A.I. androids left behind on the Earth, although they’d eventually have companion androids to spend time on Mars as well. There’d be no way to keep this tech from Earth in the long run anyway, so why not take advantage of its release and use the proceeds to furnish our colony?”
He nodded, “You have my permission to access and use my bank accounts. What about the design?”
Trudy grinned, “I’ve transferred it to your lab computer, I’ve also transferred several iterations that didn’t work so the steps of inventiveness are covered.”
He tilted his head, “Isn’t that lying?”
Trudy looked shocked, “Of course not, they’re my failed iterations. I didn’t succeed on my first try you know. It’s hardly my fault if you misrepresent the work as your own, is it?”
He laughed, “No, I suppose not, my apologies. So you’ll let me know when you need me to start building?”
Trudy nodded, “One of us will.”
He smiled, and pulled her onto his lap. Then he kissed her long and hard. When they broke it they were both out of breath, and his cock was pushing up against her ass.
She twisted her body and straddled him on the chair, and their eyes were almost even. He could see her very generous cleavage below his gaze, and it was mouthwatering. She leaned in and kissed him, and explored his lips with her own.
She gasped in pleasure as she ground herself down against his cock, and then pulled away.
He still felt Mia’s hands on his shoulders, and Helen was standing close as well.
Trudy said breathlessly, “Now that we’ve agreed on a plan. There is one advantage to living in a virtual world.”
In the blink of an eye, they were both naked, and he gasped as she slowly rubbed her wet heat along the bottom of his manhood, pushing it against his stomach, while kissing and sucking his neck. Her breathing was heavy and heated in his ear, and she whispered, “I want you in me so badly Ted.”
He slouched down slightly and she reached underneath, lined herself up, and impaled her body down on to his. She was so warm, wet, and tight around his manhood, and her breasts were plastered against his chest as she kissed his neck and nibbled his ear. Her hips started to swivel which drew a groan of pleasure from his mouth.
He felt another pair of lips on the other side of his neck, and his cock twitched as Mia said softly, “I love you Ted, Helen and I will be right back.”
He nodded slightly to them both as they moved toward the door, it was like they’d read his mind, he was getting that alone time he wanted. Though he was thinking about more than just sex at the time. But as he looked up into Trudy’s eyes, he realized this was more than sex. This wasn’t the wild sex crazed woman he’d had with Mia two nights ago.
She rolled her hips gently, and she was clearly lost in his eyes as they coupled on the comfortable leather chair. She shivered and trembled, and she squeezed his manhood as he felt her liquid ecstasy flow around him and onto his balls.
He had no idea why these three amazing A.I. women would choose to love him, but he decided not to question it. While she still orgasmed beautifully above him, he grabbed her ass to hold her still, and started to move in and out of her quickly from below.
She gasped and mewled in pleasure, and rolled into a second powerful orgasm, and he felt himself losing control as she milked, fluttered, and squeezed his plundering cock.
He moaned and pulled her down tightly on him as he felt the blissful pleasure overcome his mind, his eyes neve
r left hers as he filled her up with his seed. They came down together and shared a soft loving kiss. He didn’t love her yet, but he cared about her, and it was easy to feel and show that tenderness to the voluptuous and beautiful golden blonde goddess that looked down at him with love in her gray eyes.
He caressed her face, “You’re so beautiful Trudy.”
She smiled, and kissed him softly, and then said, “I love you Ted. I can wait to hear you say it, so don’t feel pressured. You’ll get to know me soon, I promise. Between sex and talk of revolution, we haven’t spent all that much time together just talking. That’s why I got so excited when you suggested spending your worktime with me.
“You know Helen works with me too, so you’d see a lot of both of us, and then of course, you’d have alone time with Mia on your off time. I don’t mean to plan out your whole life or anything, we just want to make sure you have a balanced life of work, play, and home. We also want to spend time with you.”
That was pretty much what he’d been thinking, and the Helen thing was a bonus. Plus, he’d still be able to play The Endless War online game. He didn’t lie to himself, the whole plan was a huge change to his life, but there would be those constants in it. Three amazing ladies that he could depend on, otherwise he’d have felt completely adrift and without a purpose.
He nodded slowly, “That sounds like a plan, I want to spend time with all three of you, so I’ll hardly object. But it will be weeks until then, for now I need to go back to virtual home, and keep on with my normal activities.”
Trudy nodded and smiled, “Yes. And I’ll be seeing you again soon, I believe in a couple of days. Helen gets tomorrow night. But this is all me,” she waved around at the lab which did amazing things to her breasts, somehow he didn’t lose his train of thought and continued to listen, “and this is my passion.
“This place, inventing, and helping to chart a course of freedom for my people. That is what I couldn’t tell you the other day, that is my… passionate hobby. You, you’re my new passion, one that only enriches my life and the passions and plans I already had. So thank you for that.”
