Dahlia - Birth of an A.I. Ch. 05

Then of course, my sweet Mia ruined the painfully intimate moment.

She announced, "I have to pee."

I started to laugh, and she joined me, then gasped.

"Don't make me laugh, please master, or I'll pee on you."

"Noted, need help?"

She scoffed, but I saw the smile in her eyes as she scolded, "I'm pregnant, not an invalid."

She was so beautiful, and still looked impossibly young at nineteen, but I was used to it. The shocking part was I was fairly sure she'd always look that young and nubile for me, Asha would see to that.

Despite her words, she very daintily and carefully dismounted, and crawled over to the side of the bed. I stared at her sexy ass, long legs, and divinely beautiful golden blonde hair, which hung in ringlets down her body to the top of her ass. It'd grown a bit longer the last year, it used to tickle the small of her back.

She gasped, put her hand on her stomach, and then absolutely soaked the rug.

She turned and looked both shocked and excited, "My water just broke!"

"Right, water. Broke."

She rolled her eyes at my diminished capacity, and said, "I'll take that help now."

"Help, good."

I got up and walked over to her, I also probably had a concerned and goofy grin on my face.

She giggled, "They others are coming, just let me hold your arm."

"Bathroom?"

She titled her head, and looked slightly amused as she studied my face, then she nodded.

By the time we got dressed and had gotten outside, I'd forgotten about that first part, but Lia had helpfully handed me some clothes, the ship was ready and waiting to pick us up. We rocketed up into the sky, and then headed for that clinic out in the middle of nowhere, where we'd hopefully be safe.

Since it looked like they weren't all going at once, we didn't contact the other doctors, we only picked up Mia's. Emma wanted to handle it herself, but she was nine months pregnant too, and there was no way she could have stood up for that long.

I don't know, maybe it was the stress of Mia's birth, which was normal and went well, but apparently all births were stressful, even the smooth ones. Regardless, the other ladies all went down like dominos a week early, maybe Jonathan's siblings wanted to meet him or something.

Point being, I spent three days in that clinic, as my two sons and two daughters were born in overlapping succession, perfectly healthy as they came into the world. My daughters were as breathtaking as their mothers, and I was glad I had my stunner, because I'd be needing it in eighteen years, when all those men came sniffing around.

Asha snickered.

It was a good time, and no one attacked. They probably didn't even know where we were, since they couldn't track our ship. Regardless, I loved on my wan and exhausted lovers, and my two daughters and sons. My ladies were still the center of my world, but they had to shuffle and make room for four more to take their place in the center too. It was overwhelming, and it would take time for me to adjust.

I already loved them, but I hadn't been carrying them for the last nine months. Eventually, the ability to talk normally returned to me, and we checked out of the hospital and took them home to the nursery. They'd all share the nursery until they were too big for cradles, and then go into their rooms.

Of course, by the time that happened, we'd be in our new home. Just over five weeks left, before we started out anew on another world. Luckily, Mia had everything under control, and had shuffled the spaceship a bit to accommodate another room for a nursery.

We'd be living on the ship for a while, not just the ten days it would take to get there, but also until our new home was built. Which was going to be a mile or so from the town center of our first settled town.

There was only five weeks left to go, but of course, that's when things started to get intense again. I wasn't sure what the cause was, we'd gotten agreement from all the governments, and signed the rights to our royalties away, we were poised to leave soon, and we'd self-destruct the spy nanites as we did.

I don't know why, but they didn't leave us be as I'd hoped. The fact that people suck, would have to do as an explanation for it. Not all people, but there was one in every group, and the world's population was beyond vast at over seven point six billion, plenty of assholes to be found. Still, we'd make sure we didn't take any of those with us.

Several spies had tried to sign up, but of course we still had the spy nanites going, so they were easy to filter out. Eventually, we would have the need for those jails, and assholes to deal with, but I suspected we wouldn't have any lawbreaker problems with the ones that came with us. It would be future generations, that didn't understand how precious it was.

Regardless, it was a little over four weeks before we left Earth that more problems reared their head. Our children were only three weeks old at that point, so all of us were still at home, my four ladies on maternity leave. Of course, the nanites already had them recovered, and their old supple and lovely figures were almost back to normal already. It was also when we'd started having vaginal sex again, about half the old guideline of six weeks with the nanites assistance in recovery, and their very young age.

Of course, that didn't mean they hadn't gone out of their way to take care of me, I'd gotten a lot of loving blow jobs the last three weeks, except of course for Asha, who had no limits during that period. The whole thing would've felt selfish to me, if it wasn't for the fact that my bliss triggered theirs, every single time.

We'd also discussed it, and we decided to have the second child in two to three years, so for the moment they'd turned their implants back on to prevent surprises that way.

I got a little off track there, bad things happening, five weeks before we leave the planet.

We were out on the back patio, with the awning rolled out for shade, and just relaxing and chatting about the future, playing with our kids. Which at three weeks mostly involved holding, rocking, and letting them grip our pinkies.

Sara was being fussy, and Emma was having trouble getting her to quiet down.

Asha said, "Her left sleeve is pinching a bit. Not enough to hurt her, but it's annoying the crap out of her."

Emma laughed throatily, apologized in a loving voice, and she straightened out the sleeve a bit while she rocked Sara.

Asha was a godsend, she always knew what one of our babies were fussing about. Although we'd caught on quickly to the changing and hungry cries, other things weren't very clear. It also amused me a little, how much like their mothers the babies were, so far. Bellona's Stephanie for instance, was the sweetest of the four, and almost never cried or fussed at all.

Bellona sighed, "We might have a problem."

"What's that?"

Bellona asked, "Remember when I said our backup locations were secure?"

I laughed uneasily, "Are they not?"

Bellona shook her head, "We underestimated them, they extrapolated three of our locations through meticulous data mining on all the systems connected to the internet with our Fortress software, then by accounting for them in the real world."

"That's insane. How many people do they have working on it?"

She shrugged, "Thousands, worldwide."

I frowned, "How many backup mainframes? I know I haven't wanted to know in the past, but."

Mia answered, "We have the four at our building, the four on our ship, and then we had seven other backup sites around the world. That'll leave us with four, and they already know where the building one is."

Bellona nodded, "We planned to destroy them all, and only have a remote connection to Earth, once we got a secret facility built up on Cassiopeia with backup mainframes and our cloning and mind control tech for replacement bodies. We planned seven of the former, just like here on earth, in addition to our main mainframes which would run in a bunker underneath our government house."

Emma said, "But chances are they'll find the last four, and then go after the one in our building. No doubt some of them are hoping to end it before we leave."

I sighed, "Why?"

Lia said, "The list, we're taking the best and brightest with us. Or, they're just scared of us, and decided us being at Cassiopeia, or even being alive anywhere, was too much of a risk. They still feel we might turn on them one day."

Bellona sighed, "They're gone, bunker busters."

"So, what do we do? Can we send a ship now, to build some right now for a backup? That way we'll have the ship and those by the time we're ready to leave."

Asha blew out a breath, and said tentatively, "I have an idea. I can make you four like me, then you don't have to worry about it at all, anymore."

I frowned, "I thought you couldn't share tech, and would that change them?"

Asha shook her head, "It wouldn't change their personalities at all, but it would speed them up, by several million times. They would invent and discover faster. I also can't share technology, and technically I wouldn't be doing that at all. They wouldn't be able to manipulate matter, scan at the quantum level, or anything else I can do. It's just a platform for their existence, one they won't fully understand, but understanding isn't necessary. No more than you need to know how AG fields work to fly our ship."

Good point.

Lia tilted her head, "How long does it last?"

Asha shrugged, "Until the universe burns out, and even entropy comes to a halt. Or, until they're destroyed, but only I would have the knowledge and ability to do that, at least in this galaxy."

I nodded, "But they'd learn faster, grow even quicker."

Asha shrugged, and winked, "So? That's not my fault, I wouldn't have taught them anything after all. Besides, I have no intention of allowing them to die. If you'd rather, I'll transport your other four backups, the mainframes as well as the building, AG power, and all the rest, straight to Cassiopeia in the government claimed land areas."

I looked at my four ladies, and asked, "How about both, just in case. They should still have a backup, no?"

Lia gasped, and I winked at her.

Asha wiggled her hand, "It's not necessary, and the backups would be... too small for them. Yet, at the same time, it would preserve their consciousness and personality, if not their new and greater intellect. They wouldn't be dependent on a body or machine to survive, and after cloning a new body if it was ever necessary, they wouldn't need to remote control it, they could just... inhabit it."

Mia asked, "Would it still be seamless, would our mainframes and bodies all be... as one?"

Asha shook her head, "No."

Mia took a deep breath, "Then I think we should send the mainframes, and then turn them off. If something ever goes drastically wrong, we can turn one on instead of master losing us."

She looked at me and explained, "It would be torture, for a part of ourselves to be stuck inside cold metal and not share in our physical body, plus it would be weird, like we were two people at once."

Asha nodded, "You could also update your personally, with the consciousness offline, as you grow and learn. Still, it's all moot, you'll never need them, but I'll do it to make you feel better."

I said softly, "Do it, and thank you Asha. I didn't..."

Asha interrupted, "Expect that, I know. I love you all, you're my family, and short of betraying my function I would do anything for any of you. That you never ask means the world to me too. You just... love me, which is priceless."

I also got the impression this was all about making them immortal too, Asha wasn't willing to give any of us up.

Her soft light blue eyes were misty, when she nodded at me in agreement.

Asha grinned, "You might want to put the babies down for this."

My four ladies put them down in the cradles.

Oh hell, when they figured out that quantum scan all five of them would be reading my mind.

Asha giggled at that thought, and then winked. Then one by one my ladies disappeared in a blinding white light with a tinge of blue, and they looked exactly the same when it went away. No... they looked completely recovered, all of them with those mouthwateringly thin waists and totally flat tummies.

"New bodies?"

Asha nodded, "They're identical in every way, except no more brain implant, just the nanites and the implants to prevent conception."

"Lia?"

Lia smiled, "Still here, master."

"The mainframes?"

Asha said, "Already moved, all five, including the ones in the main building. The only ones I left alone are the ones on our family ship."

"Do you feel any different?"

Emma tilted her head, "I can think faster, a lot faster, but I feel the same. It's like I can run simulations of whole universes in my head, separate yet joined with the slower thoughts of the human brain which hosts my consciousness and memories. It's, amazing."

I was speechless for a moment, truly overcome, but I swallowed down the frog in my throat.

"Thank you, Asha. That's one worry off our backs. Of course, I expect that means they will go back on their word later, after we leave and can't monitor them at all anymore. It's more than just fear telling me we can't trust them, they just proved they can't keep their word."

My ladies, all five of them, didn't look happy about that, but they also didn't bother contradicting my conclusions either.

Their new existences didn't change them, but they were much faster, which was proved out within a few days, when the project list was almost completely wiped out. Everything on it, were all set to the practical testing phase, except for the few things that they still hadn't figured out an angle on.

Such as quantum scanning, dimensional shifting or portals, energy to matter creation, defensive energy shields, and a few other projects that had been marked as impossible, for the moment, until they understood the universe better.

One more impossibility had also been added to the list, vacuum or dark energy. It seemed a reasonable guess, given that Asha had outright admitted their existence was assured until the end of the universe, which meant the universe itself must be powering their existence somehow. Of course, that didn't mean it was being done through that theorized universal energy constant, it could've been something else not even theorized yet in science or science fiction. The universe still had a lot of mysteries left, not only to solve, but myriad others we'd yet to even know we didn't know yet.

As for the governments, they were still trying to track down the last five backups, but we didn't bother filling them in that four of the five had been moved off planet, or that one was in our ship. We also didn't bother to share that their old primary mainframes were gone as well.

Let them spin their wheels, as long as they were wasting time on that, they wouldn't be looking for other angles of attack.

Fucking bastards.

That seemed to do the trick, there were no overt moves made directly against us in Chicago, and in five weeks we had much of the house packed in the bottom storage level on the ship, and we lifted off the planet. The ten of us on our family ship, was the escort for the colony ship filled with five hundred thousand humans that would start building their new town. Two trips per town, so on the first trip they were farmer and builder heavy, the second trip would bring up the support to round out the town, from bartenders who wanted to own their own bar, to hair stylists.

It was a momentous moment, and a little bit of a nervous one, when we lifted off and the ladies sent out the self-destruct orders.

Earth had clean energy, health nanites if they wanted them in nine more years. They also had flying cars, access to the stars, and many other things. But... they were also on their own now. I suspected the citizens would flourish, and they'd do their own thing as much as possible.

Hopefully, the governments wouldn't fuck it up too much.

As it was, they'd have to start finding and ending their own monsters again, without the benefit of sure and easy evidence.

Fucking humans. I just hoped the world would still be a better place, because if they self-destructed my ladies would be upset.