Professor Eversoul wasn’t sure what to feel these days. It was like….nowadays no one took her seriously.
"*sigh*" Nowadays it was all “Prof Mira” and “Prof Momma” here and there. And she couldn’t be mad about it. It was her order after all……..God knows what could happen if someone called her “Professor Eversoul” in front of that monster of a little girl and she threw a tantrum again.
"*sigh*" Which was part of the problem, she couldn’t blame that little girl….no. She couldn’t blame Alexa for it. She was learning after all….They all knew she was learning.
She could even remember to put on her pajamas before going to sleep! Wasn’t that a funny thing, to be happy because her charge could remember to dress to the occasion " Even if she lived in a frickin tree and eats better than all of us together…." would mumble the woman under her breath from time to time while looking the live feed of said little girl.
There it was without a care in the world solving her math problem while eating those god dammed mangos she liked for some forsaken reason. The professor could admit that they were tasty, but to eat them in all three meals and not get sick of them…or sick because of them was something on another level. Even so, she would log it and pass it on to someone else so it wasn’t her problem anymore. Even if it would be her problem later on, it wouldn’t be her problem again at least till her next visit.
Unless something happened….again….But even so, for now, she would log it, send it for review, and call it a day. She would log off of her machine for now, since she had somewhere else to be, put all the locks the IT guy told her to put, and place that god-dammed magnet on the machine because “It's to be sure”. So much money to the trash can just so that some big shoot could feel safe about “His project” If he wanted to be so damn sure about it he could come and check on it himself!
But that was a pipe dream and Professor Eversoul knew it, at least they had a cleaning service again….and chefs….god... How had she missed the chefs while moving all of her staff here.
She wasn’t sure if the cleaning guys were cleaning guys or plants to look over her shoulder, and honestly she didn’t care so long all was clean and smelled nice, it was a somewhat fun thing to think about how all the hallways of the site smelled nice 24/7 just because “Someone” said she didn’t like how she smelled after a somewhat intensive experiment with a somewhat weird substance that doesn’t have a name… She should get Alexa a new mango cake one of these days…
But for now, she had more important stuff to think "Oh, Professor Mira you are here at last " said a balding and overweight man who was bending a few laws of physics to fit in that cheap-looking tuxedo. Every time she saw him, Professor Evesoul thought the same, and since she was the top scientist in physics in this base, she must be right, should she get into more decontamination again? She was projecting her inner Alexa again... Psychic contamination was no joke..." Sorry, was reviewing a few of the logs of the P4 site after the ND0 system threw a new alarm, and you know how the time goes on and on when looking into such amusing stuff, Mister Hamilton," said Professor Eversoul trying her hardest to eat the smirk that wanted to show on her face. She was definitely going into decontamination.
At the same time, the physic-bending pig in a tuxedo was in its own fight trying to keep calm "Oh, I see….You should just send a message if something important happens, that's what the R4 relay system we installed is for…." he was losing that battle and they all knew it since his face was turning a white color that couldn't be healthy. Even so, Professor Eversoul was a woman of integrity (somedays at least) and threw a lifeboat to her boss(Or current one, god knows when this one would bail on them) "It's okay, it wasn’t anything serious, but we might need to reschedule a few imports of the priority list, and we need to raise the level of importance of a few items on the secondary list" she said while highlighting a few items on her notepad and sending the mails on the shortwave system to everyone on attendance.
More weird security from their IT Overlords, because god knows what would happen if someone even suggested having Wireless communication on the base. No no no, we don’t need more gates for the information to leak to the world and yada yada would say that grumpy Old man on his weird IT server cave. She was sure that someone could monitor everything here though, even with all these weird limitations and all the wireless blockers in each hallway "Anyway, was anything of importance in the schedule to discuss today?" said her colleague to the left.
A blue-haired woman with a body that was definitely either artificial or crafted with some genetic shenanigans " Ah yes, thank you for bringing us back to schedule Professor Vivi " but even with all of that she also couldn’t escape from the evil clutches of a weird nickname from Alexa.
Professor Vivian Kellet donned her white lab with the posture of royalty. A red sleeveless blouse and a black skirt were all that she had for clothing, a few pieces of jewelry here and there was all she needed, her atmosphere said 'I will only listen to you if you grovel bellow me!', her face was emotionless besides a cold glint on her blue sapphire like eyes, it was mostly hidden behind her glasses, she had some light makeup going, but most of her close friends (Only Professor eversoul) and a couple of blondes on base knew the truth behind that makeup. It was done to her by one of her interns.
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She was a major scientist in genetics & neuroscience…From the genetic side, some rumors claimed something along the lines of self-experimentation… On the Neuroscience side, she was studying a way to synch the conscience with a machine to better learn and manipulate the genetic code from a person in real-time.
Of course, everyone laughed and thought she was on drugs or something when her first thesis came. Then when the second one came through some thought she was just messing with the world, since every side work she did brought millions. On the third one….Well, she had enough money from “Side work” that she just shut herself from the world and no one could get her to work anymore on anything else…Unless you could help her in her study that is " Here is an updated list of new requirements I need for the next stage of experimentation." Whole nations would empty their coffers if she just spent a few hours teaching or fixing the errors on the works of their own theories.
There were rumors that a certain country even offered her a royalty title " These are toys Professor Vivi…." Said the pig trying his hardest to not sound condescending. For her part Professor Kellet just answered " Inflatable toys and a kiddy pool, plus a barbecue set to be precise Mister Ham….ilton. These are important to my current work Mister Hamilton," said the cold beauty without missing a beat….or at least not unintended. One had a hard time correlating the cold blue-eyed beauty with the demands she was giving. But it was nothing new on the site, they all knew she was probably using those as bribes to a little girl.
For his part, Mister Pig was again losing the battle with himself trying his hardest to not curse a storm " Please don’t prolong my name Professor Vivi, and I have no doubt of their importance, but we have other stuff on the priority list that I wish it wasn’t there already….There are other laboratories in this place too. And they too have stuff that they need" said the pig while looking into the other people in the room begging for help. For his part, he tried to look everywhere but to the two women "Laboratory 2 doesn’t mind leaving a few spots for Professor Viv…." Corrects his posture" Professor Kellet and Professor Eversoul " said a somewhat normal laidback-looking blonde from the other end of the table.
He looked more like a mischievous guy than a scientist on this setting, and his clothing said the same, a white lab coat that had seen better days (It wasn’t that bad…it was maybe just missing a few laundry days), a plain black T-Shirt with a weird yellow bird on it and cargo jeans with sports shoes to finish his ensemble. One could think he was a stand-in instead of a major scientist in his field…But alas, appearance matters more than it should.
"Laboratory 3 is willing to leave a few spots if Lab 1 let us a few hours of their time on site." said the fifth voice… which was completely ignored. The person in question pretended nothing happened and kept writing something on his notepad. He was a somewhat normal-looking guy who just wanted to leave with some extras to his name and never once achieved his mission. To be fair they all knew lab 3 was the one with more needs….And most of the spots on the priority list were usually taken from them since they didn’t achieve that much. They were still better than Labs 4-7 since they HAD spots on the list, so they could be here.
But alas " We will take a few spots from Lab 2 and cede a couple of hours of time on site to you Prof…" And here the blonde raised a finger pointing to Professor Eversoul "....*sigh* We will cede a couple of hours of playtime to you Alexanders" and finally the blonde made a little dance on his chair. And sent a few documents (at least 50 pages long, which means this was an ambush) "Alexa will love my new toy " said the blonde while whistling his little song. And Professor Eversoul could feel the years fall away "I still don’t understand why you gave your name to her, isn’t it weird? " said Professor Kellet.
To what the blonde just shrugged and said " I mean, it's funny at the very least. And she still doesn’t use it that often, so you all can try and stick her with a name too. Only Professor Eversoul ever uses it anyway, so you still have a chance. If my name sticks we will be the golden duo. Alexanders and Alexa! " said the blonde while raising his fist to the ceiling. They all knew he was weird like that, and if he didn’t give his allowance on the priority list that often to Lab 1(And use her right name) Professor Eversoul wouldn’t use the name Alexa for the little girl either.
She knew it wouldn’t stick (Or she hoped so) and she knew he only did it for the joke of it. But she still couldn’t help but feel that something was going on in the blonde’s head. Professor Alexander *last name omitted*, no one knew from where he came. No one knew what his majors were, nor what was going on in Lab 2. They knew he had some achievements as a programmer, but he wasn’t the IT Overlord, since he was the main culprit in all the little exploits Lab 1 & 2 used to circumvent the security. And he was also the major helper for the interface Professor Kellet was using in her thesis. But the man was a mystery. No known age, no known nationality (not that it matters much on this site), and if you needed something he was the man to go for it.
He was also one of the only few persons on this site who went with Alexa just to mingle and play (or at least it looked like it). He also was the only one to give away his slots on the priority list to get stuff for Alexa without any meaning. Besides Professor Eversoul and the god damned mangos that is.
Alexanders was one of the enigmas on the base, and she wished he didn't spend so much time on site, but beggars can't be choosers, and he was giving them his spots on the list, besides Alexa liked him enough to call him brother, not that they had any ties. She didn't have any ties with anyone on site, besides Vivian and maybe the head of Lab 3. Not that she liked either much, the first one she called Teacher instead of Profesor since his first dealings with her were as a teacher, nowadays she was the one teaching Alexa though.
The latter... well she liked him more than Mister Hamilton...but that wasn't much, not that she could blame Alexa, his early dealings with him weren't that good, not that she would blame the man for it, they didn't know better...And almost paid the price for that, part of the reason she didn't mind Alexanders shenanigans was the save on those early days. She still didn't know from where he came nor what he was doing there that day.
But she didn't have the free time to deal with that, so she would ignore the many mysteries Alexanders had, and try her best to get Alexa to not copy too many of his traits, she could hardly deal with the manchild on a good day, and while Alexa looked somewhat cute doing her antics... "If that's all for today. I need to schedule time for decontamination, so I will take my leave for today," better deal with this while still conscious of the need for decontamination. Maybe Alexanders ignored the call for decontamination and that's why he ended like that?
More food for thought "Okay Professor Mira. You can have my slot for today since I have a few extra meetings today" said the pig, it seems he still wished to fix something? They all knew that man was the one spending the most amount of time in decontamination. They never saw any changes in his demeanor, so it wasn't very effective in his case...He still went like a religious man going to church. So she was grateful for the timeslot "Thank you Mister Kendrick" so she would be polite and use his name instead of his last name, they all knew how sensible he was about his last name. One would think that a man of his figure would be used to his own last name, but for some reason, he found it insulting. She wasn't sure why though? It was fitting if nothing else.