Here's the extra chapter! Hope you all enjoy!
I was originally thinking of doing a family chapter... But I just didn't get a feel for it.
So I decided to do something cool instead. This is a time-jump chapter, hope you enjoy!
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A week had passed since I had first received my rewards for the Doom mission, and boy, has it been a productive week!
Dinner with Emma, Cordelia, Rogue and Barriss had gone well with each of them bonding over fashion and other girly things that made me mentally shiver. From dresses to shoes, all forms of fashion were discussed religiously. Makeup was next and that 'little' chat lasted so long that the three course meal had already finished and desert was being served as a finisher. When they did eventually get into more interesting topics I was already drifting off to sleep and wound up on the couch the next morning.
After waking that day I went through my morning routine before spending some time with Emma in her study, getting a small report on the investments I had ordered. Alchemax was now officially a branch of Frost International and was working in several hundred different branches of the scientific community. Reed Richard's company was struggling more than I thought it would be, just due to the sheer complexity of the designs he produced and the level of automation needed to create them at any industrialised capacity.
From there I dragged Barriss and Rogue back to the Chrysler, deciding to spend some time training Barriss before I got too involved in creating stuff. Rogue decided to join in on the exercises but found herself wildly outmatched by both Barriss and myself. 100 years plus of mastery would do that... Heh.
Finally, after training that day, I was able to settle down into my usual headspace... Athena had awoken and even now I can remember the first time I saw her avatar... It gave me shivers...
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I took a sip of my whisky as Apollo poured hundreds of designs into my computer's hard drive. The sun-gremlin was certainly putting a lot of effort into them as he was listing several hundred upgrades that could be made to the base FR1s that could have made them far more effective in combat. He was also loading schematics for industrial droids, in the hopes that I would approve them and use them in several droid factories. All of my children were obsessed with industrial scaling... It was almost like they were trying to play Factorio but in real life...
A small huff and I started scanning through them, accepting some designs whilst discarding others with small notes on how oddly specific those droids' jobs or tasks would be. This continued for half an hour until the door to my laboratory snapped open and Athena stepped out.
Lilac eyes that glittered with power and knowledge beyond the norm snapped onto my own with a confidence that surprised me more than I would admit. Her face was literally glimmering with light, her skin a silver-white that reminded me of Elves from Lord of the Rings. Dark purple lipstick clung to her lips in such a way that it made her white skin pop at the colour difference. Her hair was long and luscious, reaching down to her mid-back, and was a mix of white and black. Eyeshadow of a similar hue to her lipstick peaked out beneath the side of her white bangs she she moved out of the doorway and slowly strut up to the front of my desk.
Blinking my momentary surprise I took note of other smaller details of her form. Namely, her owl-shaped choker that clasped loosely around where her larynx would be. Her clothes consisted of a black jacket with silver lining that accentuated the seems and shape of her body... A purple laced bodice with silver, purple and black rose patterns that mimicked much of the modern goth style whilst borrowing from historical imagery. Lastly there were her earrings, which housed Amethysts and dully pulsed every minute or so.
"Hello dad, I'm ready to get to work." She said in a velvety voice that invoked tingles that made me uncomfortable and awkwardly aroused. It was getting so weird that I had to bite my tongue to ignore the satisfaction that her wispy voice had induced.
"S-sure... What do you want to do...?" I asked in as clear of a voice as I could manage.
"I'll take over the library of information that you have and the implementation of research. You know, Athena's whole domain over practical uses for intelligence and all, hehe..." She giggled into her hand softly, making me tense up and use my powers to control my reactions. These AI were going to be the death of me.
"A-ah, sure, sounds good. Just let me know if you need, ah, any help...?" I finished off lamely as her smile grew wider and more adorable by the second. How I hated my attraction to goth-chicks at this moment... You have no idea...
"Sure dad, don't let me interrupt you anymore... I'll just go have a chat with Rogue and Discordia..." She sent me a small grin before softly turning and walking over to the elevator, her hips swaying ever so slightly back and forth.
'Fuck! Why did I have to create a temptress!?' I mentally groaned, my head falling into my hands as they rested on the desk.
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Yeah... So that happened...
Ah! But it wasn't all bad though, because an hour after she left the designs from Apollo were syphoned away by her and examined with a fine toothcomb. Within minutes of them being taken away from my computer she had sent a list of the useable designs and the slight alterations she would suggest based off of the information from the Jedi Archive and the Rakata technological records.
One of the listed designs were an upgrade for the FR1s that gave them small flamethrowers and missile launchers built into their shoulders and arms. The missiles would have a yield similar to grenades but incendiary in nature whilst the flamethrowers had different variants, some being Napalm in origin, others being a pure plasma-thrower that acted much like a Melta-gun from Warhammer 40k. There were smaller upgrades in the chassis that enabled them to be quickly repaired in the field with modular replacements. The final large update to the model would be the enhancement of their droid-brain's processing power, to allow for more complex orders.
The next design I looked at were the spider-tanks, which apparently had many issues with traversing complex terrain that was outside of Urban combat. Apollo's suggestion for fixing this was to create small gravitational locks on the 'legs' of the tank that allowed it to simply lighten itself when faced with swampy terrain or anything of a softer nature. Athena immediately agreed but also added the possibility for magnetic clamps for space combat, in case we needed to board an enemy vessel in future.
After seeing their work for those two designs I signed the rest, sending a small note alongside the designs that essentially requested these models to be put into production as soon as possible. For the rest of the day I completed my new computer language and code, using my technopathy to rewrite the entirety of my computer's functions with my newly enhanced code/language. It was so effective that I had all of my Ai kids pop up with concern etched across their faces... That was, until they heard my new computer language was complete and then they were all trying to get their hands on it. Athena was the only exception because the language had already been stored inside my digital archive and thus she had implemented it for herself already.
Apollo had whined about never getting any attention now that his siblings were awake, which was quickly handled as Hestia grabbed him by the ear, her entire form crackling into fire as she chided my eldest son. Artemis was smirking to the side, watching her siblings act like the gremlins they wanted to be and rarely were. Discordia was watching me like a hawk, with a smile on her face and a twinkle in her eyes. Hermes was just innocently watching the new computer language flicker up and down the command prompt screen, his face centimetres away from it. Athena just stood off to the side, staring into the middle of the room as if she were a million miles from the room. After all of that excitement I went to bed, deciding to call it early since I had very little left to do for the day.
The next few days were spent in experimentation with my abilities. There were multiple discoveries I had found before I eventually stopped. The first discovery was that the 'true naming' element of my ability didn't steal a true name or invalidate the true name of an entity with the same exact name... I found this out by naming a droid after Tony and seeing if Tony was effected in any way, achieved via Artemis who liked stalking random people's browser history and real life surroundings; it didn't effect Tony at all... But it did give the droid a small fragment of Tony's technomancy ability which allowed the droid to manipulate other droids into doing as it wanted. I destroyed that droid soon after as I realised it had also copied some of Tony's ego and none of his restraint.
The next discovery was that if I mentally or verbally spoke the name of what I wanted and could associate an image of what I wanted with that name, I could immediately create it without any delay. This lead to the creation of hundreds of Super cars which I got Hermes to handle, since he was slobbering all over them as soon as I finished creating them.
My next find was that I could create names with entirely new meaning and have my ability give a more comprehensive upgrade based upon the meaning that I gave that word. For instance, I created the name: Destolver, and mentally listed what i wanted the name to mean and what it represented. Given that experiment was on a Roomba, I gave it name that to me, meant that it could get all of the dust out of a room and clean almost everything perfectly... The power in the Roomba skyrocketed as within moments of it being turned on the entire office was clean and every ounce of dirt that I could feel before had vanished into the excitable little robot cleaner... Yeah, it had also somehow gained a small amount of sentience, on level with a dog or cat.
Armed with the fact I could create words, I decided to attempt mashing words and meanings together. For instance, I merged the word 'destroy' and 'ize', creating the word 'destroyize'... The effect was that I named a flamethrower prototype that and found that its flames literally ripped something into its base components and ensured that it couldn't ever return to what it once was by locking its quantum state... Naturally I could fix that little issue but it added such a level of bullshitery to my powers that I couldn't help but consider just what Typhon, my former flag-ship, was doing in universe 909.
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Death watched as her minions were blown to pieces as the monstrous Carrier named Typhon created hundreds of thousands of mechanical monstrosities, all of them shaped like chimeras, dragons, dracones, hydras, Lamias and numerous other mythological beasts.
"I will kill whoever set these thing upon my forces... I swear it..." Death harshly declared as the undead Franklin Richards attempted to erase the carrier once again but found reality itself protesting the act, rebuffing his attempts entirely. Yet again the carrier roared and dispensed another million chimeras onto the unending tides of death.
"...." She facepalmed.
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Anyway, I spent the next four days creating some cargo-ships for supply missions to and from the space station. It was very easy for me after everything else as it just used my basic matter creation abilities. Ahem, naturally I named the ships... Zephyr, Hale, Hurricane and Eclipse were only some of the names I gave, but they all had interesting effects... Especially Hale as that particular ship generated ice during atmospheric transit but also tightened atomically in such a way that it could shrug off a normal strike from the Hulk. I also trained Barriss more, getting her emotions to slowly flourish and bloom as we sparred and worked on her lightsaber forms.
Barriss was usually very busy with sifting through the Holocrons I gave her so my job as her master was rather simple. The benefit of this simplicity was the fact that I could essentially enjoy several days worth of relaxation, for the first time in what felt like ages.
Yes it was good whilst it lasted... And now, now I was flying up into the orbit of Earth upon my Fury with all of my sons and daughters arrayed around me. Rogue was sitting next to me alongside Barriss, who was having a small conversation with Athena. Emma was siting next to Rogue with Cordelia leaning up against her chair, perched on the floor.
"Hey Drake, why are we going into space?" Cordelia asked me as I copied the coordinates of the space station from Apollo's servers, his conversation with Artemis trickling into the back of my mind as I did so.
"Because we're going to witness the completion of our new space station..." I stated harmlessly.
Emma immediately sat up and whipped her head around to me whilst Cordelia was gaping like a guppy fish that had just been caught on a hook. Rogue's eyebrows were so high on her face that her stark white bangs nearly covered them. Barriss nodded comfortably, a space station being a completely normal thing for her and Jedi in general. All of the AI were various forms of excited, with Athena and Artemis being the most cool and collected of them; the two of them leaning against the side of the cockpit and chatting amiably with one another, Barriss joining in every now and then.
"Bullshit!" Cordelia shouted in shock as Emma snapped her gaze back to our youngest sister, her eyes spitting fire.
"CORDELIA FROST!!!" Em shouted in incredulity.
"Pffft, loosen up sis... You're way too wound up." Cordelia waved her off.
Just as they started to bicker the Fury broke through the low-orbit and entered high-orbit. The view was as beautiful as a painting and as sobering as death itself. The void that was space expanded around us as the light from distant stars gleamed in the distant edges of my perception. Sitting amid all of that inky-black nothingness was a beautiful cerulean structure that had a centre shaped like a knife with massive spokes jutting from the middle of it. Those spokes connected to a massive transparisteel and Doonium ring.
The transparisteel was of a unique blend as it was partially stained to have a multitude of amazing colours. Each paned segment was placed in a beautiful pattern that revealed the image of the me standing next to the Avengers, all of us standing strong against depictions of the Chitauri invasion force... Another section had me walking forwards with Emma, Cordelia, Rogue, Barriss and all of the AI trailing behind me. In front of the artistic procession was the image of the universe itself and many smaller depictions of other universes.
'Apollo... You little shit...' I thought tiredly as Emma preened at her place next to me inside the art. Rogue and Barriss were obviously flattered as they simply stared at the artwork with a dazed gaze. All of my AI kids all whooped and cheered, including Athena who clapped and smirked in my direction.
"I sure hope that the people who live there won't see that every morning..." I groaned out.
"Nah dad, the stained portion of the transparisteel is purely external. The internal glass has been made to mimic the sunlight of the sun and night cycle on Earth... It should make living on the station much more comfortable and also allow plants to be grown properly." Apollo commented conversationally as I breathed out in relief.
With all of the power in my hands I was barely keeping my ego at bay, let alone with my kids helping it out further... I already felt tired and we hadn't even toured it yet...
"So what are you going to name it?" Emma questioned softly, a mischievous grin spreading across her face.
I paused everything else as I considered my theme and naming scheme.
"Why not... Rimecrest?"
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This probably isn't my best work... But i was struggling to write a Barriss, Rogue and Frost family chapter. This was my next best idea and in the end I decided this progression was much better than giving you guys nothing.
Yes, this chapter encompassed a week's worth of activity for Drecarios, so don't be surprised when the Empire building starts going crazy next chapter. We're going to start making starships, bases, satellites, all sorts of things!
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