Astra Pt. 09

She reached over and pulled up an old desk lighter and set it on fire herself. It screeched for a few seconds. She backed off as it died. He looked at the President. "I have been doing this for a while Madam President."

He looked at her. "You need to understand." He sent her everything that happened to him. She slid back into her chair and held onto her head. One of the others looked at John, "What are you doing?"

He looked at the man, "Giving her the answers to all of the questions she has circulating in her head about why I am here. I showed her the future of humanity and the power the Drakor possess if they truly wanted to destroy us. That future invasion; for the moment I have averted that aspect."

She looked up, "Our government made you this way?"

He nodded as Astra came into view and popped open her chest panel, "Yes, It was part of my core's programming before I came on-line. Done by another, but I am the one taking care of your technology security."

She nodded her understanding. She looked at her Security Service. "He carries a sword. No need to try and take it. I have seen him make it out of folding chairs, or podiums. He would always have a sword."

John nodded, "But I never use it without a reason."

She nodded, "I saw what you did. Others will find it hard to believe."

He nodded, "I know. But the question to you is, do I distribute this cure to the terminally ill patients that are flooding your communication lines, or do I leave it with just the semen samples within the marketplace?"

Astra looked over, "All 30,582 samples have been distributed after that news broadcast, I sent them out while he was working on the shuttle changes earlier. Over half have already been implanted."

She sighed, "How would you do this?"

He sighed, "I choose a location, and do a selection of patents. The adults, 4 hours after getting it, would give a liter of blood. They get distributed around the world. The process is repeated at every major hospital and medical center and filtered out. Those that are closest to death should be the priority. Then the children in danger at every facility, starting with those who are in the worst shape.

Then everyone else. Some have religious convictions or personal beliefs against this and that is their choice. Those are the places where the remaining 8 Caldar will congregate. It narrows where I must search for them. I saved your life today and I intend to do it repeatedly in the coming months. For all of humanity. You are going to ask about technology.

Stuff you see on those images. I have it, I will never give it to GS. They work, unknowingly, to the detriment of mankind and makes us an easy target for alien species. The company needs to be eliminated. Innovation and an open market will help to protect humanity than one doing everything extremely bad government contractor.

I can build the fighters, shuttles, scouts, destroyers, cruisers, battleships, and dreadnoughts you saw in the images. I would not do it to attack humanity but to help humanity to have a stronger shield against truly dangerous outside influences. Like the Caldar that was right next to you."

She looked over at the Admirals' blob of a body, "Get that out of here." Her Security Services went to work. She looked back at John, "You are a piece of work. You boxed me in with this cure."

He shook his head, "There is always a choice. You can simply tell people the choice to accept it is their choice. That is a choice. You have the choice as the leader of Humanity to block that choice."

She sighed, "You will be making more hybrids?"

He nodded, "To establish your colonies to solve your population problems. I am on my way to see a patent lawyer. The insecticide for the killer bees will be one of the first ones I put out there then all the ones for new colony ship designs to support the engines I will introduce when I bring GS down. In fair head-to-head competition."

She sighed, "You are talking about becoming the new GS?"

He shook his head, "No. I want every subset of components built by one or more groups of competitors. Everything I introduce will be on that new technology tree. I will not introduce anything that overlaps with future technology that I know about. Every piece will be my technology going into the market for companies to improve upon.

I cannot go after small contractors upfront because GS will simply kill off the owners and destroy the company. Astra is sending you the files where they have done this in the past; including last year's small, retro thruster challenger that blew up mysteriously in a testing accident."

She sighed, "What do you want?"

He smiled, "I want to take the Jupiter space station and relocate it. Build my docks and when contract day comes, give you the bids and specification as those patents hit the market. I will build my own workforce away from the prying eyes of GS. I can see invisible ships.

I need permission to arm my space station and docks against the attacks that will come. Permission to fire if fired upon. In short. Allow me to defend myself. The other option; is to get that workforce and build it in Tau Ceti. Give me fair competition and the right to defend myself and those working for me. Nothing unreasonable. I have the three colony charters for Tau Ceti ready."

She sighed, "I will leave the choice to the individual. I will have my Surgeon General coordinate distribution. Do you know where you are going to start?"

He smiled, "There are many in your inner circle who hold GS assets in their portfolio and would not want them to see what I am doing to occur.

Hatred can run deep when corruption hits; coveting wealth. I will contact you back or let the hospital or hospitals I hit contact you directly. I just put a large target on my back by saving your life and telling you all of this. It was a choice I made. I am a justice and I do not do politics."

She sighed and nodded, "I understand." She ended the call.

He looked at Astra and his guards. "Think you might be underpaid for this job?"

The guy chuckled, "Yes. We need to get you moving. I will contact the owners and see about getting some additional coverage over you. I have a family member dying of cancer. If what you said is true? Then that is reason enough to ensure they get a cure."

He nodded. "Where is your family?"

He sighed, "Iowa."

He nodded, "Any others in this group in the same boat?"

He nodded, "Probably."

John nodded, "Get names and locations." He smiled and nodded, "Will do."

They made it back to the ship and docked it to the shuttle. He looked at Astra, "I am leaving you on The Survivor while I talk with the lawyer."

She nodded, "Alright, but take security." He nodded.

Astra smiled, "I sent the payment of 3 million TC's for the Jupiter station and received your executive orders to fire if fired upon. Also, to arm your research center. She has given you the green light to try and compete here."

He nodded, "Get supplies ordered. Stock both shuttles with food, you know what I want."

She nodded, "It will be waiting for us in the hanger in Sydney. They will bring all the supplies there under a shell company I put together. I want to avoid you getting poisoned with something that works. 20 people, 20 years of supplies."

He looked, "Connect me to that corporate attorney."

She smiled, "Here you go."

She dialed it and he smiled at the lady who answered the line. He nodded to her, "I am looking to create a business and I need a lawyer who can set this up plus deal with the patents I want to be filed. They need to act as a full-time business manager. I had a researcher give me your number."

She smiled, "One moment. She put him through to the woman who took his breath away.

He looked at her as she smiled, "Can I help you?"

He nodded, "I want a business established named Hybrid Innovation Solutions, LLC. I also have several hundred patents I want you to file. I would like to have a business manager as well; full-time."

She smiled, "Anything else with that Mr.?"

He smiled, "John Travus, dinner with you and we can talk about dessert afterward."

She smiled and laughed at that. "My girlfriend might object."

He smiled, "Camille, I know. You said she might object. Meaning I have hope. Are the two of you looking to make beautiful children?"

She seemed shocked, "How did you know about Camille?"

He smiled, "I researched, or should I say my personal assistant researched patent attorneys for me. She had a lot of her own personal criteria in the search and she found you."

She smiled, "One look and you want to be the father of my children?"

He smiled and sent her a file with a picture of Grace. She opened it and looked at it. "Where did you get this?"

He smiled, "Dinner, it is a 3-bottle conversation. Not stalking you by the way just very pleasantly surprised when Astra came upon you in that search. I know you are named Lacy G. Landers; The G stands for 'Grace'.

She looked shocked, and looked at the picture, "How did you know that. This is who this is a picture of. The woman who I was named after; she died long ago. She looked like this and was a lawyer as well."

John nodded, "A very good lawyer, patent lawyer, business manager, lover, and wife. She had a girlfriend named Danyelle. In another life for me. Over 220 years ago."

She looked a little freaked out, "I know she married and had one child who died but not much else about her.

There was also a reference to her working the patent office and burying a friend named Danyelle."

He nodded, "I know, no physical body though, she fell into a crevasse on the moon. When would you like to meet? I am en route to Sydney. Collins Security Hanger." She looked up at the time, "2 hours and I am bringing my girlfriend."

He nodded, "Understandable. Let us set up that business account with these leases and 87 Billion TC's in a business account. Business name Hybrid Innovation Solutions, LLC.

I want you to set up a couple of shell corporations under there called Conserve the Universe Foundation. I want them to buy the leases for metallic hydrogen rights at Saturn and Jupiter with a company page calling out protection and conservation of our universal natural resources being a Foundation priority."

She looked at me, "You plan to mine them."

He nodded, "Eventually, but not from a station. I bought the Jupiter station and that is in my name and not under the business. That needs to be moved under a new company called Space Based Construction, LLC."

She looked at him again, "You're the guy from the news. The hybrid."

He nodded, "Yes. I also need you to file these three colony charters." He sent her the files.

She looked over, "90 minutes!"

She ended the call. They landed and the supplies had arrived. They were scanned, and cleared and being loaded when Lacy arrived with Camille. They looked over, "You have a lot of security. Your colony charters were approved easily enough. I do not think they really read them."

He nodded. The guard gave him a list of three locations.

He waved them inside with Astra, "Astra fill three bags with half a liter of my blood and give it to these three guards with instructions on what to do with it and the hospital. You cleared them. Let them start the distribution."

She nodded, "I would caution of giving more than a liter of blood but you will just tell me you regenerate."

He nodded, "Saves on the arguments. Lacy, I need you to generate a patient release to get injected with my blood to try and cure them of human ailments knowing that the blood has an alien DNA component to do that."

She wrote it up and sent it to Astra who put it on three pads with instructions. She went out and gave it to the guards who looked up and nodded at what he wanted them to do. He got the second shuttle docked. He looked at the ladies, "Grab a seat and Astra will explain everything to you two."

He called out, "Sydney tower TSM-158475 ready for departure."

He heard back, "Destination?'

He smiled, "The dark side of the Moon."

He heard the man chuckling. "Cleared departure, "095, 15,000+ meters. Good luck on the dark side of the moon."

He took off and looked back, "Anyone wants to bet me TC's that we are attacked after we break orbit or before?"

Lacy looked forward, "You are going after some very powerful people."

He sighed, "It is an illusion. If you know how to see through it."

She nodded unconvinced, "Right."

They cleared the atmosphere and were immediately fired upon by a stealth battleship. He contacted the nearest Station. "Terra-3, This is TSM-158475, we are being fired upon by a stealth battleship." Terra-3 called back, "We do not see any battleship firing on you." He turned his ship and gave them one barrage, dropping their shields, stealth and half of their weapons, "Tera-3, Do you see the battleship now?"

He replied, "Negative contact on any battleships in the area."

John circled around and blew out all of the retro thrusters. And then the engines. He used his tractor beam and pushed it toward Terra-3. "He called out, "Terra-3 the Battleship you refused to recognize is disabled and on a collision course with your station. I hope you see it soon."

He heard back, "You cannot do that?"

He called back, "Do what? I was being attacked by nothing. Now that nothing is your problem. You might want to get some tractor beams on them. This vid file is being sent to the GBI and the Capitol. Arrests are expected."

Astra sighed, "Information is being sent. Pushing your luck sending it at a station."

He nodded, "Granted, but if it is so invisible it will pass right through."

She shook her head. He went to the dark side of the moon with a pair of fighters attempting to pursue. He opened the wormhole and took them out to Jupiter station leaving them all behind. He looked at Astra, "Finished briefing them?"

She nodded, "They got pads to go through the rest of it. I will take Divine Grace around to the other side and get the power and environmental controls on-line. You dock on this side and we will work to get the shuttles into the lower hangers when we get them emptied of supplies."

He nodded, "Nothing over half power, "More fabricators, maintenance bots, and then weapons for the station after you print this out."

He handed her a pad and she shook her head, "A cloaking device?"

He nodded, "For the station until we get it moved and get our operation going."

She sighed, "Alright. You have never messed with them before."

He nodded, "This station is vulnerable." She reluctantly agreed. He shut down all transponders. They spent the next several hours getting everything offloaded and the shuttles docked. Lacy and Camille lent a hand as they thought about what they had seen. He undid the storage section along the roof inside the scout and started unloading the parts for the bed and bio-bed that they built over the years.

He found the 'Captains' quarters and got his bed set up just as Lacy walked in, "Big bed."

He nodded, "I had eight women sharing my bed at one point."

She nodded, "Astra showed us some of that. You know I am not her?"

He nodded, "I came very close to not contacting you at all. It was a very difficult decision on my part as well."

She nodded, "I can understand that I guess. You were serious about wanting to have children with us?"

Camille walked in and he looked at her and nodded, "Yes to both of you."

Camille asked, "Why me?"

He smiled, "Your young, beautiful, and you have to have a good and caring heart with the right amount of perverse to love this woman. If she is anything like Grace at all. She enjoyed a lot of things, especially anal sex."

Camille smirked, "I guess we know where you got that from."

Lacy rolled her eyes, "Alright, I like anal sex when it is done right. But why me?"

He looked at her, "I know enough to know you are not her. You are not even a poor imitation of her. You are you. You are your own person. You have a good heart; you have the right combination of bravery and foolishness to want to be out here with me."

She looked around and laughed, "Alright I will concede that last point."

He looked at her, "You, by your looks alone, are definitely one of my types, as are you Camille. I had a couple of ladies who were short in stature and firecrackers in bed."

She looked at him, "You would plan on doing anal with me?"

He nodded, "At least once. To see if I can rock your fucking world."

She sighed, "I want to see how it goes with her first."

Lacy looked over, "I have not agreed yet."

John walked over and kissed her long and hard until she melted into him.

She groaned, "I don't know if that is for her or me."

He nodded, "You will always question that and so will I to a small degree. Again, I was tempted to just turn away and not go there. I also know from many aspects you are my type and that is hard to fight. I am not just looking for mothers, I am looking for those who would join me in being a hybrid. This is a lifetime commitment so marriage is kind of a given if you agree to this because you would become part of the eternal council in this timeline."

Camille sighed, "I would want you to meet my grandparents first. They would be interested in meeting you. They are aboriginal. Some of the last."

He nodded, "Well then, you two can share the bed and I will go work through the night."

Lacy looked at him, "You don't sleep?"

He sighed, "I slept for the first time in four years the other night."

She looked at him in shock, "How?"

He kissed her again, "Because I do not require sleep and it took me 4 years to build the pylons, upgraded power cores, the Wormhole engine, and extend the structure on the Scout myself. It did not arrive looking like it does now. I had to build it into that ship and make it larger."

She nodded, "Wow."

He walked out to see Astra working. "Our long-range is picking up four stealth ships approaching here." He nodded and went into the Scout and sealed it up. Then he turned on his ID with the Mixtious ID also active. He went out at 4x speed straight at the largest of the four ships. They altered course and he matched them. Soon they realized he could see them and they all open fire on the scout. He knocked it up to 5x and dove under most of the shots.

Rotated around and blew out the power core on two battleships with the rail guns before unloading the lasers on the third. He jammed up communications over that last ship for anything long-range. They became visible and he shot out the communications array. He got a fuzzy message, "We surrender."

John asked, "Who are we?"

He heard back, "We are mercenaries."

John laughed, "GS employees."

The man shook his head, "They figure out what you got and they will hunt you down for that technology!"

He sighed, "You are telling me you are still a threat."

The man got backhanded by another, "Look, I am in a position to negotiate. You let us go and we will ensure they don't come to kill you."

He sighed, "How are you going to ensure that?"

He sighed, "The president of GS in my grandfather."

John asked, "Did GS put you up to this or did you just go joyriding on your own?"

He sighed out, "I work for GS and we were told to eliminate you."

He thought to Astra, * Answer me, is he telling you the truth? *

She sighed, * Yes, he is. *

He paused, "Put me through to him and get the President in on the side."

She laughed, "She is asleep."

He groaned out. "Fine, put me through to the man." He was connected directly to a board meeting.

He heard, "This creature will be a menace to us all."

The man looked over, "You! How did this creature get connected?"

John shrugged, "Access codes from your grandson who is begging for his life right now. He is adrift in a scout heading toward Jupiter. I am debating if I should assist him now after the 2 battleships and 1 destroyer that attacked me were destroyed. The scout is floating helplessly at the moment. All from stealth, including this scout he is in."