Real World
A private jet was hovering in the dusky sky. The shades of the being sky orange, the rough contrast, the sun spreading its brilliance on the clouds, one of the most beautiful weathers according to Ayrton who was peeking through the widows. In front of him was Xue on her clinical chair, they had moved the whole thing here, the quantum computer as well. Her nutrition, everything was kept monitored. Beside her, Blue was getting the same treatment.
It seems that the hardest thing to bear is the people that you love in danger.
This was a first experience for Ayrton, in the richness of twenty fourth century, people like him hardly expected any danger.
The vibrations of the plane landing hit him, it seemed they had reached Ulysses, located in Iceland.
In a van which was auto driving, Ayrton was getting nervous and impatient while Lorca was listening music on her headphones, her eyes closed.
Ulysses was a longing for brilliant minds, it was one of the largest research center. It looked rather like a city , the snowy ground filled with footprints and trye marks. Their van stopped inside a huge warehouse, with his hands on his jacket’s pockets he was walking near the bots who were steering Xue and Blue’s clinical chairs .The interior of the warehouse was lush green, the temperature warm such that he had to remove his jacket.
After a short walk, an exquisite humanoid bot with girlish figure and clothing entered his view. Its body looked premium and cutting edge making it stand apart from others. This was Lizzy, his father’s replica and somewhat like an ancient big sister to him. She was standing in a ladylike posture, her intelligent eyes eyeing their group. Ayrton neared her as she hugged him and patted his hair.
“Ohh, poor boy” She paused
“And she must be Ms. Levi” she said glancing at Lorca “I know your grandfather”
“What an unexpected thing it is” As she led them to his father, she would occasionally introduce them to the facility to make them comfortable here. It was also an eye opener to him that how much faster technology evolved here. In the main room they could see a humanoid figure working with some tech.
“They are here”
“Who at this time? I don’t remember anyone so off-schedule” said an old man who looked like a cyborg. His all limbs were bionic, his eyes bionic as well.
“Look at them dear, you will surely remember”
Juan eyes moved from the clinical chairs to Lorca, then stopped at him. He seemed to focus as he scratched his head.
“He’s your-” Lizzy was interrupted
“Stop, I’m close to remembering” He pauses “Black hair that would gradually become white in the ends” He screamed.
“Black hair hmm”
“You are Ayrton” He screamed with excitement
What’s so much exciting
“Hey old man” Lizzy explained him the situation about Xue and Blue. Juan was an ancient guy, rumored to be older than one hundred and twenty years. Although medications to stop cell senescence and DNA damage were available, human body had its limits. Death was always the end, to prevent his psychosis Juan underwent treatment regularly to remove his new unimportant memories. Hence, he was forgetful.
Both Lizzy and Juan started working, after a long time passed in his passiveness, they finally found out the problem. Most scientists would create prototypes in Epi-Verse, and then produce the real deal in non-virtual world here. Based on the feats each player has performed, epi verse intelligence had the ability to grade people in star grade.
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They both were 7 stars, and could understand what normal people couldn’t, even advanced ai like that medic bot were not able to identify such new problem, the former being new to its data.
“It’s quite peculiar…. how do I put it; I know how to cure this but for why did it happen. I don’t know” He explained
“So, what should we do now”
“We forcefully eject her, what else”
“Wont that harm her!”
“Normally it would indeed, but we have our ways”
“Should we warn her in epi verse”
“Why should we warn her?”
It seemed that Juan was abundant in his stance. After a while Lizzy removed Xue’s epi verse helmet, and to Ayrton’s surprise Xue was not in any trauma due to sudden shift. Her body was definitely not in good shape though, the consequence of staying in bed for more than two days. She would have to stay here in Ulyssis for some time.
During that night Ayrton could sleep like a peaceful baby. A bond between a replica and a human unlike anything, it was like having another version of you nearby. For him Xue was heaven-sent.
The morning here in island fell somewhat calm. There an unpleasant chill co existing with warmth. His mind was working actively, as if life had again become exciting for him.
Ayrton was aiding Xue in light cardio exercise. On the treadmill Xue asked him
“I heard that you were also unconscious”
“Who told you”
“Xmox, back in epi verse”
That bastard, well I shouldn’t keep secrets anyway. She also has the ability to read me.
“Yeah, I was. To me it felt normal, like a day passed in a blink”
But we should get a checkup”
“Already planned that, it’s on afternoon”
“I figured out you would, such hypochondriac you are”
“How are you feeling”
“Ohh…Don’t pamper me”
“When you were using automated voice and hiding your face, I knew you got emotional seeing me”
“So” She already figured out that I found out
“Every crybaby needs pampering”
Footsteps entered their ears. Ayrton could see a yellow eyed youth with silver hair wearing glasses, they youth had exceptional physique.
"What is he doing here!"
They both said at the same time.
“Am I that ugly”
“I’ve been isolated from a long time, might as well socialize with my siblings”
His dad was a part of scientists who would create multiple humans like Ayrton. Normal people called them synthetics. They were completely created with one of his father's DNA templet(Y) and the other one(X) was artificial, meaning they had no biological mother
“How is your workshop going”
“Same as always” Sighed Xue. Ayrton and Xue were both 5-star engineers, hence they wanted to create their own technology. But sadly, due to them being lazy, they hadn’t made any significant progress.
“Ohh…don’t get discouraged, all creators are on the same boat" said Max as he was doing his extensive exercise ebulliently. Balancing his whole body on one hand.
After a while Maxims did all of Ayrton’s checkup and it seemed that there was no problem. “Now happy” asked Ayrton to Xue.
The day went smooth, the atmosphere here in his father’s lab was somewhat of his liking. He was quite happy these days socializing with some of his siblings present here which felt to him like a vacation. Ayrton’s finger was held by a tiny hand, he was strolling here in the park with Ezra, the thirtieth child.
Ezra was nine years old and quite talkative with him.
“When will they allow me to go outside earth in epi verse”
“After you pass three-star mark probably. Maybe when you get fifteen”
“That’s so mean!”
“Well, I mean what would you do in outer space if you don’t know how it works”
“I wanna buy ships, I wanna fly ships, I wanna destroy ships”
“That’s a nice goal!”
Quite lively
Ayrton had a habit of trying to find the reasoning about why people behaved or acted like that. He would sometimes make different conclusion. Like he could perfectly rationalize Xue’s behavior and draw conclusions. With unknown people he was quite in a predicament but children were easy to predict, hence it was quite his liking to interact with them.
When they returned it seemed that Xue had some news for him. Archangel starship was brought by both Xmox and Seth’s funding. But still Xmox had paid seventy percent, Seth only owned thirty percent of it. Now out of nowhere Xmox paid him his share back and claimed the whole ship with which he went somewhere.