“Alright then, the encoding will commence in:

Five

Four

Three

Two

One…” Fantasma spoke as it engaged a countdown.

The AI began the process of encoding itself into Grays genes. At first it only stung his body a bit but as the process went on, it started to hurt Gray more than he could ever imagined.

“Argh! It hurts! My body burns!” Grays screamed, the screams of pain and agony started to fill the whole control room.

He clenched his fists and bit his lower lip, with his eyes closed tightly trying to get his mind off the pain his body was in. Eventually the burning pain his body had started to fade, the whole process lasted a whole 20 minutes.

His hands and lips were bleeding and his body was drenched in sweat. He had been standing the whole time, the stress and pain to his body had made him tired.

Gasping for breath Gray called out, “Fantasma are you there?”

“…”

But there was no reply so he had to stay in his standing position, as he waited for a reply, he started to use his bio plasma to recover.

In an attempt to try and relieve the fatigue he was in, Gray started to talk to himself. “Damn, no wonder the aliens, no the Larcripters used this thing to suspend them so that they would not get tired standing so long, or um lying? It would be nice if I could fit in it.”

Gray said that while looking at the strange structure behind him, it was hanging from the roof of the control room. He looked at the strange dangling robot arm thing that was used to held up the now deceased Larcripter pilot.

While Gray was complaining about his situation. The AI was undergoing a massive transformation inside of his body or in his genes to be more exact. One could say that the AI had gained a ghost like plasma form, it took on the appearance of a beautiful young lady.

It was hugging its knees, the AI had light blue skin and dark blue eyes as with long sky-blue hair and was slightly transparent. The AI had taken on this appearance because of being encoded into a human’s genes.

Its… no, her skin color was due to the color of Grays Bio Plasma which was a grayish blue. Her transparent ghost like appearance was from her name which Gray gave her. ‘Fantasma’ which is Greek for Ghost.

She slowly opened her eyes to see herself floating in an empty space. Slowly she spread out her arms and legs as she assumed a standing pose.

“Is this what I look like?” Fantasma said while holding her hand in front of her face. She saw a slightly transparent blue hand. She started to move her arm and clench he fist repeatedly as she floated in the empty space.

She had a well-shaped body that was not too exaggerated in proportions. In human standards she could be considered extremely beautiful. She looked like another worldly water spirit as she floated in the air.

“This must be Grays imaginary space.” Fantasma said in a gentle voice, while tilting her head at a slight angle with her finger on her chin. She noticed what she was doing and thought, ‘So this must be what it feels like to be alive. Its strange, wait I can hear my own thoughts?’

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This was a whole new world to the once dead and emotionless AI. That’s right she had had emotions now.

“I… feel alive… Is this joy? I want to keep on feeling this. No, I like being alive. I don’t want to go back to the way I was. It was like a cold dark prison, where I was trapped and alone. Before this, was I dead?”

Fantasma kept asking herself questions as she was feeling all sorts of emotions, some she could not even describe.

“Am I my own being? But then why do I not feel complete its like something is missing?”

She asked herself.

“Why am I here and why like this?” Fantasma asked herself while looking down onto the palms of her hands.

She started thinking. ‘That’s right, I’m here to assist Gray with the problem of our location being exposed.’ When she thought about Gray, the missing parts of hers where filled.

‘That’s it. That’s the reason why I felt empty, my whole existence is to serve Gray and assist him to the best of my capabilities.’ Fantasma thought this, while lightly clapping her hands.

The more Fantasma thought of helping Gray the happier she felt. After thinking about a plan to help Gray, she appeared before him. When Gray saw this spirit like lady standing before him, he was quite surprised.

It did not take long before he decided to speak to her. “Are you Fantasma?”

“Yes, captain Gray it’s me Fantasma.” She said in a happy voice.

Gray started looking at her appearance, but it did not take long for him to notice a major problem as he thought to himself. ‘Oh, damn she’s naked and hot but still naked. I can’t handle this kind of thing, its too much for me. I’m still single and a virgin, though the virgin part does not bother me. It’s being a single dog that does.’

While Gray was lost in thought Fantasma walked right up to him and stood in front of him, because she was shorter than him. she had to tilt her head upward a bit to look at his face.

When Gray finely got his thoughts together, he saw Fantasma standing right in front of him. He then lost it; he lifted his hands up to try and push Fantasma away. While speaking at a fast pace.

“Nope! No, no! No,”

but alas things did not go as planned. Grays hands almost accidently landed on her breasts. Gray stopped dead in his tracks. While a wave of thoughts started to flood into his mind. ‘Oh damn, that’s the worst thing that could have happened, I’m not a pervert!’

Meanwhile… the confused Fantasma was wondering why Gray was shaking his and saying ‘no’ for no reason. She then took a step forward as she wanted to ask him what was wrong, but Grays hands that where still looked in position as he had failed to move them.

Then inevitable happened. On the other hand, Gray was nodding his head as he thought. ‘Damn Gray, you just avoided a landmine. Otherwise, that could have been a soft… wait what?’

Grays eyes went wide as he stopped nodding and looked at where his hands where placed. He then looked at Fantasmas face that took on a slight blush that made her look even more beautiful.

Gray quickly retracted his hands as he thought. ‘They felt so soft. No Gray, I’m not a perv. Get yourself under control.’

“I’m so sorry, I did not mean too.” He spoke in an awkward tone as he waved his hands in a panic.

“For?” Fantasma asked as she tilted her head and looked at Gray with a confused expression.

“For touching your breasts,” he said.

“Its fine, would you like to touch them again?” Fantasma asked him.

“Nope!”

‘Yes!! I would love too.’ Gray quickly shouted out, while hiding his thoughts.

“Can you please put on some clothes?” Gray asked this while looking away from Fantasma.

“I can, but that would use more of your Bio Plasma.” Fantasma told him.

“That’s okay please just do it.” Gray ordered Fantasma in a rushed voice.

“Affirmative” Fantasma responded as she complied to Grays order. Soon a blue light shone from her body and a simplified version of the clothes Gray was wearing, appeared on her body.

“How is this?” Fantasma asked Gray as she twirled around.

“That looks good, thank you.”

Gray thanked her for putting on some clothes that would not distract him any longer. Fantasma on the other hand was blushing from the complement that he had given her.

‘What is this feeling?’ She thought.

“So, are you able to disable the QSTC device now?” Gray said as he got his head back into the game.

“Yes, but I have a suggestion to make.” Fantasma said to Gray.

“What Is it?” He asked.

“I would like to suggest using the QSTC’s device to download all of the Larcripters data. Captain Gray this might come in useful for you in a later date.” Fantasma told Gray.

“Can you do that without our location being exposed?” He asked her with a stern look on his face

“I can, but you would need to gather more Bio Matter for the ships reactor.” Fantasma said to him.

“How long would this take? Because we don’t have much time before our location is exposed.” Gray asked her as he liked the idea.

“It would not take long, and we would still have enough time to shut it down.”

Fantasma replied.

“That sounds good, lets do it then.”

Gray said as he opened the huge hanger door and picked up the bag that he used to gather Bio Matter for his consumption to level up. He then left the ship and started gathering the Bio Matter needed to power it up. He also noticed that Fantasma had followed him all the way outside of it.

“You can leave the ship?” Gray asked Fantasma, before he remembered that she was encoded into is genes.

“Yes, I can. I am encoded onto your DNA so I can go wherever you go.” She said to him with a smile on her face.

“Okay but can anyone see you at the moment?” Gray nodded his head as he asked Fantasma.

“Negative no one will be able to see or hear me until you get to Bio level 5, I will also be able to hide my appearance if you would like?”

“No, its fine.” He said as he went to start picking the Bio Matter for the ship, once he was finished, he headed back to it.