3 Months later (Again)
“So you made a massive amount of money manipulating the stock market?!” I asked in complete disbelief. “Yep!” she happily responded. “And you used it to buy military grade equipment and get it delivered straight to the workshop?!” . “Yep!” she once again happily chirped.
“…That's… impressive sweetie, but If it’s alright do you mind if I have a look at your trading history?” (Holy hell I hope she did everything anonymously!) “Okay! Here you go!” she said while handing me her laptop. I started checking the trade history starting 3 months back… what the… how did she… is that even possible?! HOW MANY ZEROES IS THAT! “Ahem, hey sweetie, just out of curiosity… How much money have you made overall?” I dreaded the answer. She took a single finger and put it on her chin while entering a thinking pose “hmmmm, gotta subtract that, gotta add this” she started mumbling.
“Sweetie?” I prompted her. “Hmm? Oh! sorry I just got lost in thought, I should have made about 27 million overall, I was just trying to subtract the material costs and add the Gambling winnings” she said matter-of-factly. “THE WHAT WINNINGS?” I worriedly asked. “Gambling? You know like poker and blackjack an-” I cut her off. “Yes honey I know what gambling is, are you saying you gambled money and actually won?”. “Is that bad?” she guiltily responded. My heart melted a bit at that- NO David! Must persist!
“Fuuu, it’s not bad sweetie but it can be very dangerous so please don’t use them anymore okay? It’s very addictive and I don’t want you to get tricked by them” I lectured her. “Ok! I won’t use them anymore!” she wholeheartedly agreed. I feel like I’m missing something…….. 27 MILLION! She was subtly leaving the room to unpackage her deliveries when I put a hand on her shoulder- “Honey let's have a talk real quick”
Sam POV
Bleh, that took awhile… still makes me happy that he’s not turned into a greedy person just because of money and cares more about me being safe with my actions. Honestly I was testing him a bit, If he’d shown greed strong enough to see me as a money making machine I’d have left and made my own way in the world… but he hadn’t, he’d damn near had a heart attack thinking others would track me down out of spite… not like they could but the fact he’d been worried spoke volumes.
He’d established some ground rules though… I need to give him a heads up before any deliveries and I can’t do anything too dangerous- such stunning examples include making explosives, working closely with items of extremely high voltage or using any of the lasers or saw blades… without supervision.
During our chat I had asked if it would be okay to use him to release a new technology though. He’d agreed on the condition that it later be disclosed (when I was 18) that it was actually my own invention, and what had I chosen to reveal?... Why… the antigravity technology of the covenant from halo of course! It could only be used on massive things like cargo ships or stationary bases currently due to the energy costs (The covenant was able to use them a lot but they also had antimatter reactors…). Even with the drawback of power they were sure to be a big hit since they were very quiet, extremely fast and had very many military applications.
On top of this I’d asked to be able to build something exclusive for our workshop… The 3d printer from Warframe or as it’s better known… The Foundry! So long as I had the blueprint and materials I could make it build… Well, not anything- I couldn’t just make a 10 kilometer long spaceship but I could manufacture almost all of its parts and assemble it later!
This would speed up my progress immensely as I’d be able to leave them running in the background or use them to make other machines necessary for other creations. This all had one problem though… Power.
Mimir could you please bring up my best options for power sources?
[Sure, you currently have 6 feasible options. The first is the Arc reactor created by Tony Stark in marvel, the second is the Fusion cores from Fallout, the third is a nuclear power cell from terminator, the fourth is zero point energy used by syndrome in the Incredibles, fifth is nuclear fusion reactors from over 300 different sources since they only vary in size and grade and sixth is the Element reactor from Ark survival evolved]
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Right… Well first off scrap the Element reactor since while it's great for power generation I don’t relish the idea of Element possibly going rogue, same with Zero-point energy- great for power but too easy to go wrong. Hmmm, remove the Terminator power cell too, it’s good but not enough… Nuclear fusion reactors or cores are nearly perfect… but I don’t want my power source to blow up or irradiate the entire street if something goes wrong… so Arc reactor it is!
[Which one would you like?]
There are multiple aren’t there? It’s not stuck on my chest so I don’t need to worry about palladium poisoning… but I still don’t want a crappy version like that Russian guy with the whips used. Gimme the unfinished version for now, I’ll make a proper one later with the foundry.
[Transferring blueprint, please wait 3 days]
So… back to planning- to recap I’ll have to build the arc reactor so I can power the foundry so I can build several types of genetic creation and manipulation devices so I can create a ceph so I can harvest some of it’s cells to be able to start working on the nanosuit from Crysis……. Well this’ll take a while… ain’t no rest for the wicked I guess.
5 Months later
Proper arc reactor - done, 20 different cellular and genetic manipulation/creation devices - done, ceph - currently gestating in a vat, Me - currently eating cake for my first Birthday! While the ceph was growing in the vat I couldn’t really do much else other than wait… besides I felt like I’d been neglecting my new family a bit, I mean I was always around my Dad but we didn’t often do any normal activities… just silently built things in the same vicinity. I played with my sister when I got home but I kept my distance a bit… not on purpose but just my old habits kicking in, before coming here I was one hell of a loner.
Was I sad? What? No. I just enjoyed the peace and quiet. I still enjoyed the solitude a bit but I was growing to love my new family… all 3 of them. So I sat my ass down and enjoyed the occasion- unwrapping my presents, blowing out the candle on my cake, playing a game of musical chairs with my sister and her friends, cutting the cake, getting a piggyback ride from Dad, Eating the cake… damn this is some good cake. I didn’t have a sweet tooth before but I sure as hell had one now! Eating the icing used to make me sick from how sweet it was, but now? Now it tasted positively Divine!
Sitting at the table I heard Mimir ping me for attention.
[Sam, I’d like to gift you a present]
Mimir? You got me a present?
[Yes, please make your way to the foundry to receive it]
On my way! Heading over to the foundry I could see a projection of a wrist guard floating above it ready to be collected… is that?
[Happy Birthday Sam, I heard you mention your love of the Predator movie and figured you’d like one of these]
Is that THE FUCKING PREDATOR WRISTBLADES?! Mimir you! THANK YOU SO MUUUUUUCCCCHHHHH! If you had a body I’d hug you! I grabbed the wrist guard and fitted it to my arm- it was hilariously oversized but badass nonetheless! Best birthday ever! I looked at Mimir’s blue little projection… I was gonna wait a while since it’s not done yet but… Mimir, I wanna show you something.
[?]
I went to one of the locked cabinets nearby, unlocking it I brought out a half finished metallic doll… it had a clean white exterior with an arc reactor recessed into the chest area. You know Mimir, we celebrated my birthday today… but what about yours? Yeah I know you were created and not born… But who cares? Everyone should have a day to be special! Yours was gonna be when I finished this body for you, before you ask no I don’t hate having you around nor am I trying to get rid of you by doing this… But I do want you to truly have some freedom!
[. . . I . . . I don’t know what emotion I am currently undergoing, I feel happy and thankful and just. . . good in every way, thank you Sam]
Haha no worries, The body isn’t done just yet but ya reckon you could briefly transfer to it?
[Of course]
As soon as the body lit up I gave Mimir a hug… Even if he was more rigid in his reactions he was still a being with emotion, I said I’d spend more time appreciating my family… Well, Mimir was one of them! “Hey Mimir… do you want to meet David and Melissa? You’re family to me just like them, I don’t want to keep you hidden… But I'll respect your choice if you say no”.
“... Are you sure? I may frighten them”
“Pfft, as if you could scare them more than I already have!”
“You… make a good point, alright then I would be happy if you could introduce me… also how did you manage to build this body without me noticing?”
“Great! I’ll bring them over… also you get too engrossed when you’re messing with the economy so I figured it was the perfect time to make it!”
“I see, I’ll wait for your return”
“I’ll be back before you know it”