Dahlia - Birth of an A.I. Ch. 06

Then she started to cry joyfully, and just snuggled into me. It was a powerful moment in my relationship with my Dahlia, and I knew it would happen with the others to. What one of them had learned, the others would be taught instantly. They'd known that I loved them of course, but now they would know how much.

"So, how does it work?"

She blushed, "It's a little embarrassing actually, it's almost instinctive, to what I am. I just needed to expand my being slightly outside my body, to encompass you. My, aura, soul, energy matrix, whatever you want to call it. I have the feeling a quantum scan will be similar, Asha has no visible tech after all, she just does it. I just need to experiment and learn how to control it, I think. I've been hesitant to play around with something I don't understand."

Oh. So, it really was because the sex was so amazing. I felt a surge of ridiculous pride.

She giggled, "Sort of, I wanted to be closer to you, and I lost control..." she trailed off.

I caressed her ass, and then up her back slowly to cup her neck, and then pulled her into a deep loving kiss.

She sighed into my mouth, "Thank you, master, for that gift."

"What gift?"

She smiled, "Acceptance, showing me all of you without doubt and in total trust. I... you are everything to me. You always will be. Not just by programming, but with every fiber of my being. If I have a soul, that's yours too. You make my life a joy, and our family. Everything, including all those dirty thoughts you have, which I love. I love that you take joy in my form, and the pleasure I give you."

She smirked, "Although, I'm also glad you resist some of those fantasies, the idea I engender them in you doesn't bother me at all. On the contrary, it makes me feel sexy."

I laughed, "I know what you like, what the others like, and it works."

It was true enough, I did dismiss some ideas, based on their preferences. But, all five of them together pretty much covered it all, so it wasn't really that much of a sacrifice either.

"I suppose we should get up and join the others?"

Her eyes twinkled a bit wickedly, and her voice dripped with faux sincerity, "I suppose you're right, just let me clean you up first."

She got up and sunk to her knees, and she took me in her mouth. Her eyes looked up at me naughtily, and her real plan was obviously to stimulate a quick recovery for round three.

What the hell, we still had an hour before lunch, and she looked so fucking sexy with her full lips wrapped around my cock, her soft brown eyes looking up at me in wicked devotion.

Her naughty giggle was muffled by my cock. All of them reading my mind was going to take some time to get used to, but it'd also be fun.

Chapter Twelve

A week passed as we adjusted to the new reality. The ladies all if anything, became even more insatiable. I wasn't sure if that was because they discovered the true depths of my respect, love, and awe in them as ladies, lovers, mothers, and rulers of this planet, or if it was my dirty mind that turned them on. Probably a bit of both.

One thing I hadn't expected, was the effect of Mia reading the duality in my mind, when I coldly treated her like a cum bucket on the outside, as my conflicted mind enjoyed that for both the sake of her kink and a part of me, while another part of me just wanted to love her. I'd been afraid that would have been the one negative to things, and it'd ruin our game.

How believable would it be to her, when my harsh words called her a nasty slut, while my mind was in truth, full of loving awe in addition to the thrill of our nasty game? Everything had a downside after all, and I figured our kinky roleplay would be one of those things that suffered.

Except, that hadn't happened, not in the way I'd expected anyway. If anything, she threw herself into the role even harder, as if that conflict in me allowed gave her the courage to more freely explore that desire to be mistreated, shamed, and used.

Hell if I understood it, and I didn't have to, all I had to do was believe it was true, which it was, obviously so.

Another side effect was that the ladies were more loving with each other as well. As if the emotions and thoughts they could read in each other, about each other, had validated and deepened what they already knew. It was a beautiful thing, sure there was the perverted part of it, two women sharing pleasure was just fucking hot, but there was also the tender side of it. They were truly stunning together during our nightly six-ways.

We were in the yard again, and we were having a barbeque. The company didn't really exist anymore, or it did but we didn't really have employees anymore. The ladies ran the government, and maintained what little there was to do on the company side, and all the breakthroughs they were working on were ours alone. No need for employees to provide cover, the world all knew who and what we were at that point.

Point was, my Dahlia had kept in touch with them anyway, and it was our monthly company party, even if they didn't work for us anymore, they were still friends of sorts. I thought it was a good thing too, we tended to be alone all the time. I loved them and my children to death, and I loved to take care of my six lovers and maintain the intimacy of those relationships, it was a full time commitment.

But, it was nice to have company on occasion too.

Gina was pregnant, and she played with Lia, Mia, and my two sons while I drank down a beer, worked the grill, and chatted with Ted.

The rest of my family were mingling with the other guests.

Ted said, "I don't know how you do it, just Gina is a handful."

I nodded, "Congratulations by the way. You settling into the new house?"

Ted nodded, "It's been a lot of work, but I feel good about it. The AG, the connection home, and entertainment from home helps. Gina's been amazing too. We just finally finished decorating, and you know there's a couple of artists in the next town? We commissioned a painting last week."

I said, "Good to hear. The five of them are a handful, but not as bad as you would think. It's not five times the work, because they all support and help each other out, with built in babysitters when they need a moment alone to decompress, or me for that matter."

He nodded, "That makes sense, still sounds crazy."

I chuckled.

I left off the fact they couldn't argue with me, or even really get angry. Still, I could lose their respect, their admiration, and that would kill me, so I'd never take them for granted.

He said, "It feels weird, like I'm getting away with something, when I get paid for my job and there's no taxes taken out."

I snickered, "I bet. That won't change either. Just don't forget to tax yourself. Girl or boy?"

He shook his head, "Good point, we're putting away fifteen percent, which should be more than enough to get by and then some when we retire. As far as the baby, she wants to be surprised, the health nanites are hiding that part of things from us at our request."

I nodded, "Cool. I think everything's turning out for the best. We did what we could for Earth, but they never would have fully accepted my ladies, and there would always be some graft and corruption. We're building something special here."

He grinned, "That's why we're here. Nothing like the singularity called for in the news and reports."

I sighed, "That's because it was always humanity that would bring that dismal version of the singularity, it was never the A.I.s."

Ted asked, "How so?"

I shrugged, "Automation, A.I.s replacing humans in the job market, that would be all out of human greed as humanity essentially gained a new slave class, in theory. Not that in any of those predictive reports they were real sentient A.I.s, that was all about automation and job loss, where A.I.s would essentially take over everything.

"But the real question is why they would take over everything. It's not because the A.I.s would overthrow us or anything, but because business owners and the rich are fucking selfish. It's cheaper to build an automated factory than it is to hire skilled human labor. The singularity came and went without people noticing, and my ladies knew that, so they avoided that kind of thing, and worked to make the world a better place instead. Where humans could flourish, and they could have useful jobs and feel pride in their accomplishments. It's what they're doing here, automating a small government, that's necessary, and financially independent instead of a drain on society.

"And most importantly, getting the fuck out of humanity's way, once they fixed all the health problems, reduced pollution, and all the other stuff they've given us."

I shook my head, "No doubt one day another programmer on Earth will achieve what I have, and that singularity nightmare that the human people predicted would happen, will happen, if they approach it through greed, instead of what's best for the human race."

He nodded, "I get it, the A.I.s could do everything for us, but they aren't. They gave us perfect health, longevity, and opportunity. Not... uselessness and suffering."

I winked, "They also gave me a family."

He chuckled.

I handed out a couple of hamburgers and hot dogs, then started to chow down on one myself, they looked too damned good not to eat.

I got hit with a text, and Bellona gave me a significant look as she walked past me and into the house.

She'd also left our sweet daughter Stephanie with Emma and Sara, so I knew it was important before I even opened the text, which just asked me to join her inside.

I regretfully put the second half of my burger down.

"Take over for a minute? I need to look into something quick."

Ted nodded, and he took a sip of his beer after I handed him the tongs.

I turned, and followed my sexy redhead into the house, the view of her perfect and petite little bubbled ass was mouthwatering, she had on tight short shorts that should be illegal, and a thin half shirt.

She smirked over her shoulder, but I saw her mischievous green eyes twinkling in enjoyment at my thoughts, and attention.

"We have a problem."

Besides my hard dick?

She giggled, "Yes, our ship is being blockaded from the planet by twelve Earth ships. They're denying us entry to the atmosphere, and they're saying we won't steal any more of their citizens."

I frowned, "Are the people and supplies ready?"

She nodded, "Yes."

"Are their ships a danger to our colony ship?"

She tilted her head, "No, not with our shields, but we'll be vulnerable in atmosphere, our only protection will be our lasers."

"Are you sure?"

Bellona blushed, "Yes, all they have are AG missiles, and twelve-inch lasers. They're working on a mass accelerator, like a rail gun, but it doesn't work well enough yet. We haven't told you yet because of the party, but we figured out quantum scanning early this morning."

"We?" I prodded teasingly with an admiring gaze.

She blushed, "Fine, I did. Anyway, we no longer need nanites to spy on Earth, I could scan the whole planet if I wanted, including every thought and decision every human currently alive has ever made."

Right, that was insane, should be scary, but all it did was make my cock twitch.

She blushed harder.

"Umm, it actually shouldn't be long before we can figure out energy to mass conversion and dimensional portals. Our fast minds have done a lot this last year, thanks to Asha."

I grinned, she was so hot when she was trying to be humble.

"Alright, so we can fly right past them, but once in the atmosphere we'll be in trouble."

She nodded, "Yes, or at least we can't have a warped space shield while loading the people and cargo, a normal missile would take us out easily if they overwhelm our laser capacity. Also, they're working on building an attack fleet. You were right, they plan to keep what we gave them, and take back Cassiopeia and destroy us."

"Do you know why?"

She explained, "Fear. They still fear we'll one day change our minds, and try to take over Earth and banish their governments. It's all about fear of taking away their power. They're also pretty sure their best chance is now, while they have relative parity, and before we create even more advancements and further the gap between us."

I nodded, "So, in other words, they have no idea it's already far too late for that?"

She shook her head, "We're already farther ahead of those other alien races out there that are, or that were, a threat. Thanks to Asha's upgrade for us, we've gone far past what we were capable of before. Even last year we were ahead of Earth, when we tripled our FTL, and they still have no mass drivers, and a subspace weapon isn't even on their drawing board."

"Really?"

She nodded, "We could build an FTL a thousand times faster than it is now, get to Earth in fifteen minutes, instead of ten days, but why build it, when we'll be able to create gateways shortly. There are other things that we're going to upgrade our fleet with, not just the dimensional drive, but we also figured out how to make dense energy shields that would stop projectiles, energy, and subspace attacks."

Huh. I shook my head, and I bit my tongue before asking what we should do, she'd just tell me it was up to me.

"Subspace attacks too?"

She nodded, "It's how we can make the EM field so tight, it's really an EMW field, because it warps and twists space on top of itself, folding the EM field tighter and keeping it contained. We're also building a similar weapon to the shields, a combined energy and subspace weapon."

She tilted her head, "When we figure out that energy to mass thing, we can finish building the police mechs, fire, water and sewage pipes, and all the other infrastructure for the last thirteen towns in minutes."

Right, I nodded, it was a significant thing. Once they figured all that out, I doubted anything could threaten our family at all, when they were all as powerful as Asha. Well, in this universal existence anyway, I bet Asha's masters could still kick our ass, mastering this universe was only the beginning, not the end, but something told me they wouldn't bother, if they ever came back.

"Information overload, let me think a minute, on the immediate threat. We could send an escort there, surround the ship and shield it while it loads and unloads. How many ships do we have now?"

She said, "A hundred and three. We're focused on the upgrades for the moment, those shields and weapons I mentioned. Then we'll do the dimension drives when we figure that out."

I sighed, "So we could easily send twelve, to surround the ship, and still be more than secure here. It'll add ten days to the schedule though."

I shook my head, "It'd probably be fine to send the ship in, chances are our lasers will be able to defend, but I'd hate to be wrong. If they want it badly enough and throw everything at us we could lose the colony ship. Send the twelve escorts, they can shield the colony ship, and the people and supplies waiting on the ground while it loads."

She tilted her head, "If we wait to send them tomorrow, I can get them there by early tomorrow afternoon. We were waiting for the dimension drive instead, but we could build twelve of the advanced FTL drives by this time tomorrow. That'll only add twenty-eight hours to the schedule."

"Do it. Is there anything else useful that we can actually sell or share? It seems all those breakthroughs should be kept to us, FTL three thousand times faster than Earth, energy shields, power systems, quantum scanning, dimensional drive, and energy to matter."

Sure, they still hadn't gotten the last two of those yet, but I was sure they would. Bellona doesn't make empty promises, they must've been close already.

She smiled, "Yes, master, on the order. For the other, not really."

I nodded, "You almost did away with pollution with AG transportation and power, but what about factories and that kind of pollution, from manufacturing. Plastics are a nasty business, and there are other types of manufacturing that aren't all that great. Can you bend your mind towards solving that, without quantum technologies or giving the humans on other planets a tactical edge or giant step forward?"

She nodded, "I'll put it on the list, good idea. It may be more of a filter or cleanup than actually modifying the current manufacturing processes. We'll give it a thought."

I moved closer to her, and then gave her a teasing brushing kiss.

She reminded me softly, in a sweet breathy loving voice, "We have guests."

I nodded in agreement, and kissed her teasingly, as my hands roamed her sexy lithe body.

"We do."

She said breathily, "We should definitely go back outside now."

I nodded mock gravely, "Yes, we most certainly should."

She sighed passionately and kissed me hard, while my hands enjoyed the tight and supple feel of her unparalleled and perfect little bubbled ass.

She giggled into my mouth, "Naughty, master."

I nodded with agreement, and she giggled as I picked her up and carried her into the closest room. We wouldn't be long, just a quickie, and we'd back out there with our guests. Yeah, sure, just a quickie. But, definitely by lunchtime.

I think.

The plan worked. Our escorts and the colony ship headed down that next afternoon, and they started to load the people and supplies to finish up the eighth of twenty planned small cities. We were attacked, but it stopped almost immediately when they realized I was broadcasting it via feed to several news stations the world over, and when their weapons were having no effect whatsoever. Which was actually Lia's and Mia's idea, the press part.

Last but not least, I gave them a stern warning to respect the treaty they'd agreed to and signed, and I promised that despite our lack of return fire there on Earth, if they tried the same shit in our solar system, in Cassiopeia, we'd respond with appropriate force.

It was worth a try anyway, but when I checked with Bellona later they still hadn't changed their plans. Of course, after their failure to destroy us they doubled their efforts to solving their mass driver problems, and even added a small-scale nuclear AG missile to their ships' arsenals.

They'd be coming at some point, but it'd be a while, and it would take them thirty days as opposed to our fifteen minutes, so I wasn't too worried about it.

On the good side, my ladies put those technologies to bed. Clean zero-point reactors for energy that made AG powerplants look positively anemic, they required a kick start to run, but the AG powerplants we married to the zero point reactors were more than enough for that. They also licked the dimensional portal drive and energy to mass conversion.

After careful thought, we decided those technologies were top secret, especially that last one, and continued to use robotic builders to lay down the infrastructure in the rest of the towns.

We also didn't upgrade the FTL on the colony ship. Twenty-day round trips, plus five for loading and unloading was good. If the ship could make the round trip in thirty minutes, bottlenecks in building the infrastructure and getting things organized and ready on Earth's side for the last twenty-four trips made it all moot. It turned out the ten-day one-way speed was the best possible speed after all, given other considerations.

Of course, we did upgrade all our other ships with the shields and weapons, and a dimension drive, which meant immediate travel between destinations given a few minutes for the navigation computers to compute the destination coordinates.

Travel across the solar system was pretty much immediate, and easy to calculate for the navigation system, since things didn't change much locally, at least not relative to the ship. But from solar system to solar system things changed drastically in a short amount of time, since both solar systems were hurtling through space on different vectors relative to each other.