Astra Pt. 07

I spoke with the President. He told me good luck in getting this resolved. No military is coming and the only guns are those on my shuttle. I am traveling with other hybrids who wish for this to end peacefully. Would you tell him, I do have the answers he is looking for to find peace in his life again?"

She nodded and hung up. Aiko looked over, "We are five minutes out. They have a TC for the gated residential neighbors he lives in. It has three houses."

Jack nodded, "Handle it or let them know I can have the President handle it."

She nodded and talked for a few minutes and they flew over the gate up toward the main house and a numbered landing pad. The shuttle landed and there were 6 men with automatic weapons drawn. Sprits thought, * Got a wall up at the doorway. *

Jack walked forward and in Japanese, "We are expected. You do not need those unless you wish to fish them from the middle of the lake."

One of them said, "No weapons. We take swords."

Jack sighed, *Ash, put just their guns in the center of the lake. Including handguns. * The men's weapons went flying and fell into the lake. "Hybrids do not surrender their swords. Not even at the Capitol. Jack walked forward and one man tried to kick him and Jack tossed him into the lake away from the guns.

He looked over, "Trying to attack us when we came to talk is not the best way to start a dialog. Go speak with your boss about what he would like to do. Work and talk with me or have military special forces storming this place."

One left and went to talk that left 4 of them blocking their path, He came back a moment later, "He said to let them in."

Jack pointed, "Lead the way please."

Astra, button up the shuttle and take it up 30 feet facing away from the building." He looked, "Who is in the shuttle?"

Jack looked at him, "Nobody, Remote controlled from carrier base. People have gotten into a nasty habit of planting explosives on it so it became required to do this way. Anybody fires on it and 4 squadrons of fighters will be all over this place."

The man opened the door, Jack shook his head, "At least one of you steps inside of the firing squad waiting first." They looked shocked. "Go."

Jack put him in a barrier and walked him into the house first. Five or six shots bounced off the shield, "Do I need to send more guns into the lake?"

Jack was behind the one guard, "If I had wanted you dead, I would not have shielded you."

Stepping away Jack walked forward with the others following, "I came to talk with Shimada Riku face-to-face."

Jack walked forward a few steps and sat down.

A fairly buff man came out with no shirt and a black hand He carried two of his swords Jack pulled them up merged them together and spat them out as bars on the ground. In front of him, "I help hybrids make swords. Like me, that was not by choice. I found out what happened to you after we examined the records from the Excalibur II.

What did he promise you? What piece of happiness was taken from you? I know of your wives I have lost 17 wives. 3 since being pulled back into this time against my will. Sit. You will learn something."

He walked forward and sat down a few feet from Jack. He telekinetically put out two metal bars from his pack and set them down.

"This is normally done after one makes a decision. You have three decisions to make with that hand. Become an alien Drakor and stumble your way through life until you find them. By the way, I do not know what they eat. We cut off that hand and be done with it, or you become a hybrid. Hybrids have a code of conduct."

The others behind him told him the rules. They spoke as one. "You, Ash, and I never asked for this. We adapted to a new reality that could span centuries."

He looked at me, "How do I know this is not some kind of trick."

Jack nodded, "The hand you carry can answer that question. All you have to do is ask it to communicate with you."

Jack listened in on the discussion and spoke with the hand. *I know what you do after a long delay. I ask that you do not do this. Help him with logic, to see reason. But do not change him and think he is indecisive. He was not instructed on what to do with you.

He fights with two swords he should get to decide if that is what he really wants the extra to go. It is a choice. Up until now, he has not been given one. I am the Dispenser of Justice. I want justice for what was done to him. *

He heard back, *You are a graduate and you did not tell him? *

Jack sighed, * Someone else did this to him and we just found him. We are trying to get him focused and to find some peace in a troubled life. Give him this chance. *

He heard, * I will treat it as though he just put it on but I know his heart is filled with hatred. *

Jack thought back, * I know the next step is to try and dissipate some of that hatred before he does this. *

He left the mind and looked at him, "Ash and Grace have two plates in their heads. One over each side. For being indecisive. If you want your off-hand to be nearly as strong as your other you would let it know that. It is an intelligent DNA. Now I know about your wives, the assassins, and the messed-up sword. What else is making you angry and it if is myself or hybrids in general then tell me?"

Shimada Riku looked across, "The fuck that did this to me cut off my balls. Said They would reattach them once you were dead. They put them in status, they told me. Then you destroyed his ship."

Jack shook his head, "Ask your arm about that because it does regeneration. IT should have already unless they put something in you to stop Drakor regeneration. That same fuck had a psychotic bitch of a bot make changes to my body.

Like removing nerve endings and increase semen production and semen output on me. I cannot make slow love to a woman if I want to get off and then it might happen after 2 hours. The AI left me with was so full of failsafe that it created catch-22 errors in her routines.

I ended up replacing power cores to keep them from being remote detonated, rebuilding her body in order to get rid of the explosives they packed inside her. Killed an assassin bot they had hidden in the ship after it cut off my right hand, and the list is endless. They got corrupted by there creators.

My hand grew back. Astra, that is her name should have died with the Excalibur. I convinced her job was not to protect the Excalibur but the archives on technology and personal history from the timeline we came in.

She makes sure I did not screw my Great Grand Mother 5 times removed and alter her destiny with children. She pulled their archive. I know for a fact they caused the accident in my previous life. They spaced everyone except me and brought me back here.

Astra is very different. She was programmed to aid me on my mission and to protect those archives. They are protected and sections I instructed her to make read-only to her. She checks every invention I make. I have only created a few things from the future as they are and that was to help man and I gained nothing from that.

I took the first 'fortune' I amassed. I built 9 space stations 8 with space docks in Terra and 75% of the convoy I took with me to Tau Ceti. You have seen me on the news. Do you think I would waste my time if I did not think you could be redeemed for your wives' sake and your own? Is this the life they wanted for you? Talk with your hand. Ask about the regeneration."

He was quiet for a long time He thought over to his arm knowing he would hear, * Has his anger subsided? *

He heard, *Some. It is still there for how this happened and what you told him. I told him I would believe a Justice. They place something in him stop regeneration. *

He looked at him, "Your actions now almost guarantee you are a red and most scientists are blue. Blue is the guardian. Reds are the fighter pilot and lead Marines. They are ready to take the fight head-on.

Then there are purple. Justices. If you can get yourself into a balance between your rage in attitude and your defense of home you could become a justice. The arm decides that on your total character. We will not know it until you go through the change. Which is painful and you will likely pass out. When you come to your arm will leave a final message. Now sit there and breath for a second. If you got someone you would like to watch over you have them come now."

He called out, "Yeko."

Jack looked at him, "The defense of your home is an act of a blue and your sending assassins. Well, I was trained under samurai codes and you know what we think of assassins. He will want to be laying back with you holding his head in your lap. He needs to breathe, center himself, and then tell the arm in your mind or out loud that you wish to be a hybrid.

It is major surgery with no anesthetic and no chance of dying; yelling and passing out is normal. I will remove the device blocking your regeneration while this occurs so it is just another part of the pain and only occurs once. I did not yell but I did pass out toward the end. I know of one person who has had the will and focus to scream her head off. Yet she did not pass out from the changes she underwent. My wife Grace. I wanted to show you my blade. Why your swords were no good. They should be destroyed. At least forged when you are balanced.

They only respond to anger as a mechanism. Not what these swords were meant for. He took the handle of his blade and set it on the ground. He touched and turned it on. "You look closely and it looks like the psi energy in that sword has been folded 16 times."

He grabbed the other handle and set it on the ground, "From the material you have been using. I crafted that blade. I had to turn it back into bars first to do it right. I have studied fighting with two hands but prefer the one Katana in both hands. My style of fighting.

When you create your weapons or weapon you get to make the handles your dream weapons and the blades will take the shape you give them."

He turned them both off and put them away. He looked across, "Do you wish to become a hybrid?"

He said back in Japanese, "I will be hybrid."

He immediately tensed up and his body, parts of it turned black, "This is normal." Toward the end, he screamed out and passed out. Jack yanked out the embedded device and destroyed it.

He looked at her, "We all went through this. Except for the piece I had to pull from him."

She nodded, "This is the calmest he has been in over a year. Mostly waiting to see if you would ever return. You know why he hated you."

He nodded, "They sent him because they feared being discovered and outed. They took his balls so he would not have children like me. They did not give him a complete speech on how to make the choice."

He explained the process he went through with the arm in order to be able to communicate with it. She nodded her understanding as he came too. "Your coloring will be back to normal in 24 hours."

He nodded. Jack looked at him, "Center yourself."

He thought to him, * No questions put your hand or hands over the bricks if you are wanting two weapons. Now focus on the sword or swords. Do not describe them to me in any way. The detail, the beauty, and the lethality of them. *

He called out, "Call your weapons into your hands."

The sword came up and one was red and one was blue. Justice commented, *We have never seen this before. *

Jack called to him, * He has a choice to make. Give me a moment. *

He looked at him, "Turn them off and set them on the ground together. You have Protector of Family' and you have Vengeance Unbound' You only have one color. This is unprecedented. But I think I know what your Drakor DNA wants in this case. Trust me. Stick your primary hand over the two blades. Focus on your hand. Ask it to call the blade that best reflects you going forward."

He stuck his hand over and Jack stayed out of this. He watched them both wiggling fighting for one or the other. "Remind them you need that sword for both hands. What color are you going to live your life by going forward? Focus you will harder into the hand. I am not helping you with this one. You have to have the willpower to make this choice. The choice is yours and you better make the right choice for yourself."

Both blades finally rose as he looked like he wanted to collapse and they merged together. One flew into his hand. A dark purple blade. He called up the other and it was dark purple. He looked at him, "The hand was telling you it was your choice for which way you wanted to live your life. You had to do that part on your own; you had not made the choice on your future yet.

I have merged two blades when I started. They were Drakor blades. On the handle, likely in Japanese, you should see a name on both blades that match that describe you. He looked at it and cried for a second. "It says 'Justice Redeemed.'

He thought to Justice * He was evenly balanced in red and blue, but the balance was at the extreme edges. Until he asked that question of himself, about his future, he was divided. Now he is whole. *

Justice thought back, * Humans, are a strange lot. You seem to have red and blue in equal measure. Justice is about 15% of your lot. Which is unbelievably high to us. *

He looked over, "I just had another conversation with the Drakor. He called us a strange lot." They laughed. "He has seen many oddities about our people. From the type of blades to your situation. I told him the arm could not determine your path forward. You had to commit to it. That is what holds you back, and why it felt like it was sucking the life out of you."

He nodded, "I am ashamed now of the greeting we gave you."

Jack looked around at all the men on the balcony He Grabbed them all and brought them into the courtyard. He looked at the man, "I was never in any real danger. I stayed focused on getting you answers. Limbs are usual back in 3-7 days. I do not know about balls. You will have to check those."

Everyone laughed. He looked at him, "Are ready to join us?"

He looked over, "I want to protect Terra."

Jack nodded, "My ships are in Terra. When they leave for a convoy you will remain behind. You have a lot of training to do. Fighting and mental."

Riku looked at Jack, "I am really good with two swords."

He looked at Aiko, "Get him padded up and into the gym and we will see just how good you are really.

He thought to the man, * I had a match against her and Ash. They were moving at 3x speed and I was moving at 5x speed. Those two have not gotten there yet. They felt it more than I did. Why I destroyed your corrupted swords. You want me to take all the ones here and put them back into bars?

When you are back you can work with each individual and have them focus and you exert your will into them? Their swords will have blades but they should activate if that person is in the right mindset. Not just anger. *

He looked at Jack, * You mean compared to a normal non-hybrid. *

Jack nodded, "Secret."

He looked over, "Bring all of the swords from the clear metal."

They walked over and Jack pulled them into the air and merge then, Grace, Sprits, and Aiko were aiding him out of instinct. One by one they fell back into bars on the ground. Until it was done. Jack looked over, "He will remake them with you the right way. They will not be all about anger.

He is refocusing his life and he will be focusing his will into you just as I did for him. The swords will reflect your focus in life. Those who excel in the code that we talked about, could volunteer to become a hybrid. Time will tell.

He can only make 3 without taking months or years to grow back. Each one of those can do three. You must represent the code, avoid petty politics, and focus on helping humanity as a whole, not just yourself. I do not just say that. I live it."

Jack stood up and extended his had to Riku, "You wish to go back with us or do you wish to bring your own shuttle?"

He looked over, "How many can I bring?"

He looked at him, "Wives and wife candidates only. No need for bodyguards. If they have an armed shuttle, they fly you in that is fine. If you need air cover coming back. Talk with the ship's commander about pulling a few of our fighters to follow you back. A Justice type is more than that. They are leaders in keeping the balance."

He nodded at what Jack said. Jack sighed. "I will work to smooth things over with the President somehow."

Riku nodded, "Let me know."

Jack walked out of the compound as the shuttle landed and they walked on board. He took a second seat. Jack contacted the President. He sighed, "Was beginning to worry."

Jack smiled, "Astra secure this line."

She smiled, "Secure all the way." He looked over, "Officially there are none of those blades in this compound at this time. I can say justice has been done to the perpetrators."

He looked at me, "Unofficially?"

Jack smiled, "I turned all of those blades into bricks of that material. You know he lost three wives. They also cut off his balls and told him they would reattach them when the job of killing me was done. They added a device to stop regeneration in him.

He knew what the ship looked like. He was given no guidance and he never thought to talk to the hand. To get a communication link going. When we essentially blew up his baby makers, he had a case of temporary insanity and lashed out. The swords he got were something else completely."

He rehashed the ceremony from beginning to end including Justice's confusion by it all. "In the end, the Drakor saw another first for any species. The kid is loaded from what I can tell."

Astra piped in, "He inherited over 250 trillion TC from his father's estate including some business holds. Some of which were big losses like stock in the weapons manufacturers. Most are what they call cash cows."

Jack nodded, "A justice hybrid who is also a wealthy businessman. Attacked in the same manner, if you will as myself. I got mine expanded not cut off. With some training, he could be a local leader for hybrid rights and oversight. His swords are called 'Justice Redeemed.' We will watch and see if he can do it, or if I have to eliminate him."

The President looked over, "I will tell the Security Service that we got the 12 to attack and we do not see much to go on. Close up that case. You mean because of corruption? Right? Part of your tenants?" Jack sighed, "There are many tenants, acting against his nature; he chose a middle path and that will be hard for him to do.

Considering he was extremes on both ends instead of centered in the middle. Time will tell if he can keep it balanced. If he is bipolar from all of this he might be beyond saving, but he is my problem now."

The President nodded, "Thank you for getting to the bottom of it. Also explaining your concerns."

Jack shrugged, "We only had to throw 18 guns and one stupid bodyguard into a lake. There was some gunfire but that stopped after they shot their own guard. I had him in a forcefield and made him go first. Trigger happy lot. As soon as they saw what I did for him in keeping him from dying they kind of figured out their approach was not working and it was just best to meet with the man."

He explained the initial encounter and President laughed, "Disarmed and unforged."

He nodded, "While sitting there waiting to talk."

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Jack spent the next two months with the wives tracking him down to find time to fuck him. Grace and Sprits recognized the signs. They got with the wives and explained to them about his creative surges and he had to get his ideas out and if he had too much interference, he'd lock himself in a lab for a week or more at a time and end up in medical for another week or longer.