I awoke in a holding cell and waited for breakfast. There were at least three or four days before my orders arrived. I paced the cell. I smelled like fish. I had grown accustomed to my odor. My clothes smelled like fish. I needed to get back aboard that ship and speak to the captain. He seemed as angry as I was about what happened. What else could I do? I needed those tools and materials. 

Breakfast arrived with a surprise. The captain of the fishing boat that rescued me was there. He looked about as angry about the situation as I was and I trusted my judgment.

"They want your ideas on the robotic nano mining system, it would be great for Somalia," the captain said through clenched teeth.

"They also want a super to protect Somalia forever. I wish them luck with that," I said while eating my oatmeal and raisins.

"What should we do Fish Man?" This is what they had been calling me after pulling me out from the deep.

 "We continue with the plan as normal. When the packages come, get them onto the ship. Let me know when they are here and I will make it back to the ship. Then we set off minus the traitor. I think this should work," I said.

"So we should act as if nothing has changed, Fish Man."

"Yes," and with that, the important part of the conversation was over. We talked a little more about this and that until the guard came in and took the captain away.

I had a few days to kill and to make those days productive, I designed a new computer program using an advanced version of a generative adversarial network algorithm. In a sense, the program played against itself to improve itself. It would in a few days give rise to EIS. All I needed was a laptop. It would be here at the end of the week. It would be on the ship at least. I needed to get onto the ship.

I sat in a meditation position, and in my mind, I began to design EIS. the Evolutionary Intelligence System. I was always interested in AI and EIS was the first super-intelligent system with copies everywhere on Earth. This was not Earth. It was not the earth I was born on even though my body was destroyed. I wanted to get back home. I stopped only for meals and sleep while I designed in my mind. 

 The first day passed and I finished the algorithmic changes that made a custom GAN. The second day was spent pretty much like the first, working mentally on the algorithm design. I got closer to what I needed. I added several neural networks to the fix and by the end of the second day, I had a working design that would lead to EIS. It would improve itself more and more while it ran against itself. The tweaks I made would make the transition into EIS faster. 

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Next was nanotech; physics and chemistry. I design the base of a nanofactory in my head. Because of the required nano precision, it would take decades for this world to catch up to me. Unless they had superminds like mine here. 

I planned my escape. I didn't want to hurt anyone, so it would have to be a bloodless escape, or as close to one as possible. I checked the bars and found I was strong enough to bend them. These people were not terrorists so I had qualms about killing them, the four of them outside my cell. I would rip the bars off of my cell and get one of their guns while going hypersonic. I would take hostages as I made my way to the sea. I would swim to catch the fishing ship after I got the message it was leaving. In international waters, we would be safe. 

The day finally came in the form of a phone call saying, "out." I waited till night and applied an alternate plan. I bent the bars and got out of my cell after calling a guard over and grabbing him. I was on the other side of the cell when he came, and I almost teleported the distance to grab him. I took his gun and told the other three to disarm themselves or die. I had no intention of killing them but they didn't know that. It was child's play to get outside the building and vanish onto the rooftops where they couldn't find me. Before long I was swimming deep in the sea.

I didn't know where the ship was but that didn't matter. I would rely on Probability Manipulation and swim until it felt right. I swam for several hours before it felt right and I found the ship sailing in circles. I made my way onto the ship and got the tools and materials I needed. I was given a cabin and I went to work. 

First I got my computer and input the program that would result in EIS's creation. I next began the design of the microbes that would, in turn, create nanotech basic tools and structures. I used those tools to create other tools and the simplest of structures on the nano level. When I was done I had half a metric ton of mining nanomass which I promptly poured overboard once we were in international waters. We cycled through the area. Gold came up without pollution and we began to amass large quantities of it. Within days we had over a ton of gold and over a ton of the self-replicating nanomass.

I programmed the nanomass to give me 20% of the gold and the rest to the captain and crew after I accumulated for myself 25 million dollars in gold. I satisfied the quest and got 20,000 experience points. EIS took a little longer but within the month each of the fishermen had a copy of EIS and I uploaded it to the Debian Linux distribution so that anyone who wanted one could have a copy. 

I took the Super Powers Engineer skill or ability when I got the message that the EIS was created, I have a copy on my laptop that also controlled my nanobots. Next, I would need a base, and I was getting used to being on a boat. I decided I would get a research yacht.

I smiled, I would be going home soon. I still smelled like fish.