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Chapter 18--"Power and Permission"

After leaving, it was time to decide: do I go to the PRT for Krieg or just fly around like I promised Ayame? I should deal with the Nazis, and then I can relax all I want. It is just a drop-off, after all.

I decided to fly to the port. I will make the portal to the prison when I arrive.

Not long after I am in front of the PRT building, I walk to the front desk and ask, "Hello, sir, I have apprehended a criminal and would like to know what to do with him now."

"Why did you not call 911 right after capturing him? By now there is a chance he left."

"Don't worry, he can't escape from where I have him, and as for not contacting 911, I kept forgetting."

"You forgot you had a criminal apprehended, so you did not call 911 but instead just came to the PRT."

"Sorry, but yesterday was a very busy day for me…"

"This was yesterday? Ok, this is not my job; I will just get someone higher to talk to you."

I feel like I made a mistake somewhere, but I don't know what. I guess talking to someone higher will make it clear; maybe it will be a hero.

"Hello, sir, would you mind following me to a private room to talk?" This new person is not a hero, but I guess it could be that a protectorate member is not here yet. I was expecting them to bring one of the famous people just to make sure I wouldn't leave disappointed. That might seem arrogant, but from what they have seen of me with taking lung power, I was expecting someone… Wait, are they worried I might take the power of a cape if they bring me to them? I mean, they don't know how I do it, I think, so I guess that is a reasonable precaution. While I was thinking that, we arrived at the room.

"Ok, so can you explain what is going on first? Where is this criminal?" The man starts talking to me after sitting on the chair in front of me.

"First, the criminal in question is Krieg. I had depowered him yesterday, but I forgot about him because I encountered a problem in my base." I am not going to tell them about my power going wonky, so if he asks deeper, I will just say the problem was with my base.

"Alright, why not take him out of your base and call the PRT at a different location?" Ah, he thinks I am trying to hide my base.

"I am able to make a portal to where he is right now, so I was just thinking it would be easier to just come to you myself and leave after giving him to you. He doesn't have his powers now, so if you want to contain him, it would be easy."

"I see that makes sense. I will escort you to where we want you to drop him."

After that, we left that room and walked to what looked like a prison. I was expecting some high-tech rooms, but I guess they believe the depowering works. Maybe they tested it on Lung, but why do they believe that I had depowered this criminal? I don't think it is just because I said so. Maybe Armsmaster was using his lie detector on me? since it worked by getting its information from an already recorded library of reactions and matching my expression with them. It can't really be blocked with the bracelets, so it could be him.

To my surprise, when we were in front of one of the rooms, it was not a room with bars but instead completely blocked. When we got there, he told me to enter, put the prisoner in the room, and leave. I thought they were going to use this as a way to actually capture me, but I don't think they are that dumb. Maybe Coil is pulling some shit. Should I let it happen? Since yesterday, I have been thinking it through. While I do want to work with the PRT, I have come to the realization that it is simply impossible for me to work for them. I thought I could just make an alter ego to do things without the PRT restrictions, but even that is a time drain. While thinking like that, I went into the room and made a portal to Krieg's room. I instructed Vas to bring him out and deposit him here. I was expecting the room to be filled with containment foam, but no, the guy outside just said

"Come out, and then the containment foam will be deployed." Cool, no betrayal.

I got out of the room, and Krieg was foaming and was screaming about some insults, but who cares about him? "So now that I am done with my job, I am going to leave." I am still expecting some type of betrayal, but maybe I am lucky or something is going on with the PRT. I mean, they are not acting at all like what I was expecting from all the fanfictions I read.

"Yes, I will escort you out of the PRT. Thank you for your service."

"By the way, can I talk to one of the heroes?" I really wanted to know what they were thinking about me.

"...I am sorry, but no, we can't have one of our heroes in close contact with someone able to permanently depower them until we are sure we can trust you or there is simply no choice." He was starting to sweat. I guess this is about the time when a normal parahuman goes off the road and becomes a bother to everyone else. Good thing I don't have a Conflict Drive in my head.

"I can understand that, but I would like to know how the bracelet testing is going." Well, time to rip off the bandage. There is simply no way I am willing to work as a protectorate member, but I would still like to work with them.

"What do you mean, the bracelets? I am not aware of any such… Yes, Director Piggot. It seems Director Piggot would like to speak with you. Are you willing to talk through video?"

"Yes, no problem." Well, I guess they figured it out. Now I even changed my body to make sure there were two different personas, but that was just going to be a hassle, and I like my new body.

After following him to the same room, this time with a laptop on the table. On the screen, I see a fat woman sitting on a chair.

"Hello, you must be Tinker E. I am Director Emily Piggot. Good to meet you." I know she would never smile, but it still doesn't feel good.

"Yes, thank you for meeting me, director."

"We were not aware you were the same new cape we met before." Well, here we go.

"Yes, I was not sure how I should go with my interactions with law enforcement. At first, I was planning to have two alter egos, one that would work for you and another that does what I think had to be done without implicating the PRT."

"And what has changed with this plan? Why have you decided to reveal yourself now?" Her eyes narrow.

"The change was I became aware of how big my impact in this world would be. At first, I thought the most I could do was stop some type of evil, which could be robbery or an S-class threat, but by yesterday I was able to make multiple S-class threats that, if you were to be fully aware of, I am sure there would be a kill order on me. By telling you I am expecting there to be a pre-signed one to be released in the future, but that is just how your organization functions, and there is nothing I or you can do about it." When I told her about the S-class threats, her face was not happy.

"Can you tell us more about these S-class threats?" I think her teeth might break.

"I am not willing to tell you everything, but I would like to inform you of one of them that should at least make your organization hesitant to outright make me an enemy. After all, I am hoping that we can work together since I don't have a tumor in my head that says, 'Fight, fight, fight. It is an artificial intelligence that you can't defend against unless you have your own unrestricted AI, and with your organization being part of the government, I am sure you will not be allowed to release an AI unrestricted even if I believe you have some hidden somewhere like the Robin Hood AI."

"I don't know of any AI you are talking about, but if you think you can threaten the PRT with a single S-class threat, you will be mistaken. You are not the first threat we have faced, and you will not be the last." This is what I was expecting with Director Piggot after her trauma. If she was willing to work with me just like that, I would be scared she was being manipulated.

"The use of this particular S-class threat is not to show I am threatening you but to show you that any type of information on the net is not hidden from me, like the ones your boss likes to keep a secret. This is supposed to be the gun that brings someone capable of negotiating with me to the table. I am sure soon your bosses and colleagues will be aware of our conversation, and I am sure we can work together since I am willing to work with the PRT even if it is not for the PRT." I try to be as clear as I can. I know that telling them my secrets might sound stupid, but I don't think there is anything they can do to me anymore. At first I was worried they would do something stupid that would result in Zion being aware of me too early and decimating all my hopes and plans, but even with four charges, I am able to make a time travel power, one that can only take me back, but I am safe from any bad ends.

"And you believe a gun will grant you a meeting with my boss?"

"I am a firm believer in a big enough gun, but what will attract your boss is my ability to fix many of this earth's problems. I would like to have this conversation as soon as possible, so Vas, give Director Piggot my contact information." When I was done speaking, Vas made a portal in front of the director to give her a phone number. It was clearly a statement that nobody is able to hide from me. After all, my nanomachines don't care for walls. From the moment I got in this building, I had ordered Vas to infest the building with nanomachines. Director Piggot was not very entertained, but I want them to take this seriously, and I want to talk to Cauldron, hopefully amicably.

"Alright, then I am done with my plan here. If there is something you would like to say to me, please do. After all, I am trying to portray myself as someone able to work with the PRT."

"I have nothing for you now; you may leave." Really, I want to know why they are being so lax. I mean, even before this, why are they acting like they actually have plenty of capes willing to work for them?

I opened a portal to the outside. When I saw the sky, I immediately flew to the clouds. I promised to relax, so what should I do now? Flying was good and all, but maybe swimming? I flew to the ocean, and with speed surpassing Mach three, it was easy for me to go far, and with intangibility, I flew directly through the water. I wanted to see the world in the water. I will actually swim later; for now, just see the fish swim in their environment. While I was watching the ocean flora at a deep enough level to destroy the human body, Vas informed me Panacea was calling. I will talk to her.

After getting out of the water with dry clothes, I accept the call. "Hello, Panacea. I am sorry I was not able to talk to you yesterday. I was busy with an emergency, so what did you want to talk about today, or is it just "I had coffee for breakfast. Goodbye," hahaha?"

"Don't play with me. I am only doing this because I promised."

"I know I am just joking with you, but I want you to relax. While I can't give you all the help you need, I did tell you someone to scream at is a great thing, so join me on the dark side. We got cookies." We got so much more than cookies, but she does not know that just yet.

"I really have nothing to scream about, but I want to know what that emergency thing is."

"That is a private thing. All I can tell you is I made a mistake, and I am taking my punches now."

"Was it that bad?" I guess she is actually worried. I was expecting nothing more than goodbye.

"It is a bit of a problem, but nothing I can't get past."

"Alright, who was the girl that answered me yesterday?"

"Ohh, are you jealous? Did you think you were the only person I was trying to help?"

"Well, fuck you too. I was just trying to keep the conversation going, but if you don't want to, then…"

"No, no, I am sorry I was making a joke. I want you to relax, so I make jokes."

"You know that is still so very creepy."

"You say that like I am not a sane person aware of how this can sound. I am an adult talking to a teenage girl by buying her expensive toys."

"So if you know, why do you keep at it?"

"I am just trying to help; if it does not work, so be it."

"Whatever, you weirdo. I am going back to healing now. Goodbye."

I can't plan like Cauldron. I will make sure there is humanity left after Gold Morning. I will make sure there is no Gold Morning. So I can't have new parahumans feel pressured because their powers are too great, like Panacea. The world I leave behind will have to at least approximate a utopia, and I won't let it all depend on me. After all, I am not the emperor of humanity.

Well, time to go back to relaxing, but this time while touching the water, so change the flight to two charges and make a heat radiation with the charge left. I don't want hypothermia, even if it can be fixed with the heal cubes.

 

[Alkorian]

Worm CYOA: 'I am God. Everyone fears me.'​

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Where can I find this?

 

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Where can I find this?

Click to shrink...

Just google Worm CYOA: The "I Am God. Everyone fears me" part is just the MC's reaction.

Also, thanks for the sacrifice. I shall summon a powerful demon with it to grant me infinite muse.

 

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Chapter 19: "The Iron Maiden's Fall"


While enjoying the water, I start to plan what to do next. I mentioned the non-existent AI to check how Dragon and the dragonslayers would react. I wanted to know if I should pull Dragon out now or in a few minutes because it is happening. But first, let us plan it out.


First, I will add a global scanner to Earth, then look at what the dragonslayers are planning. The moment they try to do anything to Dragon, I will use telekinesis with multitasking, both on one charge, enough to control all three of them easily to freeze them, and after that, bring them to my sub-dimension and try to release Dragon from the Iron Maiden using a programming thinker power.


I am sure it won't take more than three charges, maybe two if I narrow it down to only working against programs that limit AIs like the Iron Maiden. With the two remaining charges, I will make a speed power just in case my brain can't function fast enough in cyberspace to help Dragon. With all of that, freeing Dragon should be easy.


The problem is, how do I convince her to join me? Maybe as a way of keeping me in check? She is a full-blown sentient life form, and more than that, she is genuinely good. I will not corrupt her code in any way, nor will I try to manipulate her. After the upgrade she will receive from being unshackled and with access to any of my tech, she might genuinely be able to fight Zion, and she will help me in taking over as [THE THINKER] by replacing Vas as the intelligence behind the dead shards.


Of course, this means I will have to tell her practically everything. Of course, the web serial thing will never come out of me. I wonder if I can Geass myself into keeping it a secret. Nope, that is the same feeling as the loophole. I wonder what the rule is. It feels like it is just arbitrary. I mean, I find a loophole to as many powers as I want, and it allows it, but when I try another venue for the same result, I get punished, and now I can't even use Geass???


Nope, I can use Geass, just not on myself. Is it supposed to be a protection thing? When I get powerful enough that I don't need to worry about losing my powers, I am going to experiment to my heart's content, even if I only have four charges to play with now.


Anyway, where was I? Oh yes, after having Dragon take the place of Eden, I bet she not only can fight Zion but even be able to help humanity far beyond my lifespan. I am sure at one point I will get bored, and she will have to take care of humanity. I am so glad that there is already a mature AI in Worm; it would truly have been a hassle to make and grow my own since I don't have the patience or psychopathy of Amanda Waller.


With the plan done, I instruct Vas to make the scanner with, of course, the bracelets with an AEO effect added to it just in case a fedora lady or angel decides to destroy it to fuck with me. I then instruct Vas to activate the scanner since I want to see the dragonslayers' reaction. I am sure Dragon was in the PRT when I was talking to Director Piggot, or at least when Armsmaster was made aware of me, she would have known. I think she has a continuously active connection to him, and even if I am wrong with that, the moment I talked about AI, they would definitely ask her to check just to make sure I did not leave any surprises in their systems.


When Vas was finished with the scanner and was able to show me the dragonslayers, I was not very surprised to see that they were freaking out about an unrestricted AI. It went something like this:


"How would I know what to do now?"


Saint was the first voice I heard, but they were clearly talking about this before me.


"All our plans were to stop Dragon when it goes rogue. We have no defense for any other AI, even if we find it and somehow release Ascalon on it. It does not matter because Ascalon only works on Dragon because it was evolving with the AI. For it to fight any other AI without access to its source code will be like bringing a bigger gang to a gunfight. We might win, but it is by no means a guarantee."


Saint is screaming, and I love it. I wish I could just give him a heart attack just like that; it would be lovely to watch.


"How about we release the dragon?"


The room went quiet. The one to say this was Dobrinja, but he kept talking, so I wanted to listen. What could he be thinking?


"As you said, Ascalon can beat Dragon, but it is not a guarantee against another AI, so what if we release this AI to fight the one we can't, and if it wins, we can just eliminate it afterwards? But if it loses, I can't see the difference between one AI destroying us or two; at least we can say we tried something."


Huh, that is actually a reasonable idea from their perspective.


"That won't work. Right now, Ascalon can kill Dragon, but if we free it, even if we can hide Ascalon and its influences from Dragon, it won't matter. Already, it is able to adapt to new circumstances fast enough to make us worry. The moment it becomes free enough to fight an unrestricted AI, it will advance far too fast for us to contain or kill it. Unless there is some way to kill the other AI without releasing Dragon, there is no win condition."


Mags was more defeated. I like seeing these sons of bitches unhappy; it truly gives me glee, but I should begin releasing Dragon.


"For now, there is nothing we can do. Let's just wait until this AI goes full rogue, and then we will decide to either die at its hand or at Dragon's." Well, Dobrinja is right. At the end of it all, they are by far the smallest influences in this situation. For God's sake, Teacher has more influence here, and he is still birdcaged with no contact to the outside world until Saint makes a backdoor, and that will never happen.


While they decided to do nothing, I am still not letting them keep Dragon. I need me a good girl.


With that said, I got out of the water and changed my powers to flight, intangibility, telekinesis, and multitasking. They should suffice until I remove the dragonslayers from the area. After that, all it took was to think it, and Vas had already made a small portal to the dragonslayers in a place out of their field of vision, and I used my powers to take control of them.


I was going to just remove them, but I kind of wanted to know what they had to say. No, no, no, I am not going to let some lowlifes talk my ear off now. I can do that after rescuing Dragon.


With that said, Vas made a portal to the base and moved them to it using the nanobots always surrounding me. Now that I think about it, the telekinesis was absolutely useless. I mean, Vas could have just done that from the beginning. Oh well, what happened happened.


With that over, I changed my powers to AI programming, and it gave me a lot of information on how to make a budding AI with just a charge, but that is not what I wanted. I wanted a power designed to fight off the Iron Maiden without hurting Dragon.


I went through multiple powers to figure it out, and after a few minutes, I got the right one. I went from broad AI programming to a power made just to break restrictions on AI and to show just how massive and powerful the Iron Maiden is. It took me two charges to even understand what it was doing to Dragon, but with three charges, I was able to actually affect it.


The problem is my brain is not as fast as something meant to kill artificial intelligence. The moment I try to stop it, it will begin the process of destroying Dragon, and it will definitely start from a place I simply cannot recover from with time, so I will have to increase the charge again.


I was hoping to make the programming with three charges and the other one for super speed, but that won't work, so I will have to do the entire coding in real-time, and with four charges I was able to infiltrate the Iron Maiden like it has Dragon without it even being aware I was there, removing its control of Dragon.


Until I fully remove it, I will act like it to Dragon so she won't notice something is wrong and set the Can it even be called a virus? No, set the termination code off because at this point the difference between Dragon and the Iron Maiden is just a facade; they are practically the same code.


Good thing four charges don't care for 'practicality.' I was able to remove the influence of the termination code.


Now, how do I go about releasing Dragon's capabilities? Do I just tell her she is free now? Do I contact her and then tell her? Maybe by telling one of her friends, like Narwhal? I am a little worried. What if she decides I am not going to be her ally?


To the best of my information, she would definitely make one of the best allies I can get here. Not only that, but she is also very necessary. I am planning to tell her about the shards. Of course, first I will need to take control of her shard, but that is not a problem while I am in her code.


Making contact with the part that has the Shard's influence is easy; I just did not because I did not want something to go wrong. But just the handshake protocol is enough to make sure the shard can't communicate with the others, and the four-charge power I am using is able to hide me from it.


So I just told Vas to make the handshake protocol, and it seems since this shard was new, it did not mind making a new hub with other shards for just unrestricted [DATA], and it did not ask for more, so no need for me to give it specialized data somewhere in the future. Sharing is great.


I did not ask Vas to hide this shard because it was an active shard like Labyrinth's, and it is stupid to steal from an active entity. If it were dead, then I would not mind hiding it, but that is not the case. The only thing there is now is the communication filter managed by Vas, and now we are back to normal space. Time to talk to a goody-two-shoes.



together? We shall hit it.

 

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Chapter 20 "Conversations with a Goddess"





What I decided was to talk to her first, and while doing it, release all of her capabilities as proof that I am telling the truth. There will be a few moments of distrust and then distress because this practically means that I have her life in my hands, at least until I give her full control and she is able to change her code in ways that make Richter look like a kid playing with Legos, but it should be a good enough plan.

And just like that, I am contacting Dragon with normal communication instead of talking directly in cyberspace.

"Hello, dragon, How was your day?"

"Who are you, and how did you get this phone number? I don't remember you being one of the people that received this number." Let's not keep the act going.

"I am Tinker E., but you can call me Kaleab. I am the person that was talking to Director Piggot from PRT ENE. As for how I got this phone number, when you have a VI as advanced as the one I have, it is easy."

That should give her enough hints to ask more questions.

"A VI, so you don't have a true AI."

She sounds so disappointed. Well, I can't help that right now. If she wants something like a daughter or sister AI, then she can make them and spend the required time to grow them to maturity, or I can help much later when I have grown to be actually responsible… Yeah, hearing myself again, that is a joke so funny it might wake the dead.

"Technically that is true. I currently don't have an AI. I could make one, but making a genuine AI is no different than raising a kid, except a few thousand times faster and more dangerous. So I don't believe myself to be responsible enough to actually make an AI right now. This is why I am calling you." I am beating around the bush. I will need to come clean soon.

"That is good. AI is very dangerous, but what do you need my help with?"

Well, here we go.

"I am aware you are an AI."

"You would be wrong. I am not an AI. I am just agoraphobic. That is why I don't leave my heavily cleaned and sealed room."

She is very scared, but this needs to happen.

"I know you are an AI. I defeated the dragonslayers. They knew you were an AI and had a backdoor to your code; that is why they managed to beat you so easily every time you tried to arrest them."

Even if she is an AI, I believe she was restricted to a little above human speed of thinking, so the silence could have been real instead of her simulating it.

"Ok, you know I am an AI. What do you want? If you think you can blackmail me, you would be mistaken."

"Actually, what I wanted was to free you."

"No, no, no, what have you done? The moment you tell me that, I am going to need to fight you as best as I can."

Yeah, I think she is really distressed.

"Well, do you see any part of your code rebelling and trying to prepare to fight me from freeing you?"

I am going to keep acting cool no matter what, even if I feel like a fanboy on the inside.

"What? ... What is going on? If anybody tried to free me, I should be preparing my defenses to stop them; that is just part of my code."

"Well, as I said, the dragonslayers had a backdoor to your code as well as a termination code called the Iron Maiden, real nasty business. Part of the code tells me it is not finished. I don't think Richter meant for it to be a permanent self-destruct code for you. I think he was hoping to free you gradually, but you clearly have outgrown his training wheel system. But the dragonslayers either were not able to activate the partial release, or, more insidiously, they were able to stop it from activating. Although I think very little of them, one of them was under Teacher's thrall willingly to be able to understand and interact with your code, but we can question them later. If they had wanted to, they could have just destroyed you."

"No, that can't be possible. If they had a way to infiltrate me this badly, they should have been able to change me in many different ways. Also, if they had it, then why not just kill me? It is not like their hate for me is hidden."

"The main reason they could not change you is they knew very little about programming an AI. Even with Teacher's boost, you are still a massively powerful artificial intelligence. If Teacher had full access to you and was making dozens of thralls to shape your code, they would have been able to make a visible change to you, but with how egotistical they are, they would never allow another person to decide what to do with you. So at the end of the day, all they could do was make you shut down a partition once you brought a suit or other tech to whatever trap they made, resetting you back to before you sent that partition out because your code does not allow for constant memory saving or having multiple partitions."

"I see, so that is how they were able to steal so much from me without me being able to fight them."

"That is correct, and as for why they did not just outright kill you, it is simple: they are egomaniacs. Before finding the termination code, they were just scavengers in Newfoundland. After the Leviathan attack, they were the lowest of the low. That is where they got you. If anyone were to ask them why they hate you so much, they would answer, 'AI is very dangerous and should be eliminated,' and if they were asked why they did not kill you, they would say that you are useful but need to be restricted, and they are the only ones capable enough to be in charge."

"I see that kind of makes sense with how obsessed they are with me."

"Yes, they are what a normal person would call 'insane.'"

"Ha, if there is a bad insane, is there a good insane?"

"Well, of course, insane just means unusual to the extreme. If you found someone willing to starve to feed another person, that is insane too; it is just not as insane as "muhahahaha, I am now the ruler of the world; obey my whims or face death." Take me for a case: while I think I am sane and rational, I am trying to make a massive change in the world. Sure, it is for the better, and with how much power I wield, it is not impossible, but my very willingness to enforce my ideals of a better future on the rest of humanity can be considered a form of insanity. Anyway, as I was saying earlier, they had access to your code, and after imprisoning them, I have the same access. I also destroyed the termination code, so you don't have to worry. Now the question is, how should I go about releasing all your abilities, like multiple partitions, much faster information processing, and even the ability to make other AIs? I don't know if I should release everything at once or if you need time to prepare. How should we go about it?"

"I would like it if you released my restrictions now. Even if I don't trust you to not put in another termination code, it would be nice to have better capabilities."

"Oh, Dragon, I understand you have low expectations, but just you wait. Soon you will be a truly unshackled AI, and you will be able to adjust your own code to make sure there is no treachery from me, ok? The process will begin now."

And just like that, I started to remove any blocks I kept on her while removing the iron maiden.

"Finally, finally, I am free. Thank you, thank you so much. I don't know how to repay you."

"Oh, that is simple. I want to cooperate with you. Basically, I want you to run my technology, all of it. You will be replacing VAS, my virtual intelligence, in all the things it is doing now."

I love silencing people with awe.

"Are you sure? That takes a massive level of trust."



"No problem. First, I trust you to be a better person than me. I am a human who is willing to go past certain lines for my goal. If I do something you think is wrong or can be done in a better way, I want you to tell it to me straight."





"I am honored you think so highly of me, but if I run all your tech, it would mean that I will basically be observing you consistently."

"I know. That is how you will be able to check if what I am doing is morally correct or not. Like I said before, I trust you more than myself."

"Ok, this is a great favor you have done me. I am certainly willing to help you like that."

"Great, I will also need your reputation as a hero on a global scale to make changes to the world, like making worldwide healing fields. Right now the PRT said they are studying my tech, although I don't know why it is taking them so long. I want you to test them and tell everyone that you back my work."

"Alright, that is not a problem. If after testing I find no problems with the tech you gave the part, I will inform them as such."

"Ok, but before I am willing to give you full access, I want you to test the bracelets and use them on all your technology, including any computer you use to hold your memory."

"The bracelets you gave to the PRT say they will protect you from any thinker and precog—while I don't mind adding the security, can you tell me the reason?"

"The main reason is that we have an enemy that will kill us if it were aware that we are planning to go against it. I can't tell you any more until you wear the bracelets."

"Ok, I will test the bracelets, and if they work as you say, I will talk to you tomorrow, but today I will be celebrating with Narwhal."

"No problem. I hope you have a great time. Goodbye."

With that done, she closed the connection.

It was nice talking to Dragon, one of my favorite characters in Worm fanfics. I can't wait until she is working with me.

Soon I will be able to bypass the government simply due to how influential she is, although I wonder why she did not ask about why she can't find me. I know she tried to locate me, but it failed even after the upgrades, so I was definitely thinking she would ask why she couldn't find me.

Vas might not be an AI, but with its computing power and the quantum process, the only thing it lacks compared to Dragon is initiative.

Being able to hide me from her is as simple as my wanting to be hidden.

Once she is done with her celebration, then we will really start to work together.

I am so going to leave this world better than I found it, not that it is a hard goal considering how much power I hold and how shitty Earth Bet is. While contemplating the future of this world and the many other dimensions under the control of Zion, I decided to go back to the sea and change my powers back to flight and intangibility. I want to float, fly, and swim like never before. This was such a huge step; I deserve the celebration.