She grabbed and went back to the bathroom to change into her Nanosuit and then went to bed, where the suit did its functions. Ava continued laying on the bed, her anxiety and other fears being eliminated by the technology of its suit.
It was assuaging, she continued laying before she felt asleep - Ava however was planning in her sleep, she had visions of what she will be doing in the future where she will have access to weaponry, brutalized training, seduction, tragedy, luxury, all the stuff of morally grey stuff
In the end, there was light. As that happened she awoke from her slumber, and stood up and walked to the bathroom to brush her teeth and wash her face, she still had those eyelashes with her - She took prepared new clothes and changed, and arrived with a sleeved shirt and a skirt, one was merely orange the skirt had this brick texture to it, red and black.
Kurt arrived and looked at her, "You look like a child with that outfit" Ava said nothing, before making her thoughts explicit, "I am not going on a date, but if you want me to wear something formal I can arrange that"
Ava went to her closets and started picking clothes more formal, the better - she remembers her blouse and changed to it where she comments, "Maybe I could however get help from Maya or uhh Henry, I wonder if I had my.. Uhh 'confidant' privileges, thinking about it that word seems to have that special undertone even when employed in manipulation"
Ava sighed, "Oh well" she went to the first floor where she meets Kurt and awaited instructions - Kurt directs Ava to the living room where the floor between the TV, sofas and couches the fake display of the floor unveiled, revealing to be a mechanical door with holographic display as it slid open
Kurt remarked, "Don't forget Ava I am rich" Ava looked down and then a rusty but metallic stair could be seen where Ava started walking down revealing a hidden tunnel on its not filled with a metallic surface, it's natural and rock filled with lights there it is a motorcycle, it's so primitive why is there a motorcycle
Kurt looked at it and then rotated his head down to Ava knowing what she's thinking where his mouth speaks, "I know it's primitive but this one is what I build from scrap metal for fun, old antiquated stuff isn't so bad after all there maybe a time where all those anti gravity or other flying stuff would be too superfluous, so I commissioned the build up with a motorcycle. I am a kind of a history guy"
Ava looked at him, acknowledging his quirky interests, "I see, but do you know how to operate this?" Kurt used the motorcycle - the classic type from the 21st century and said, "observe" kurt drive the motorcycle went straight to the tunnel before going back, Ava understood its functions, the breaks, the levers and stuff
Ava understood the nature of the engine, oil into kinetic energy for the torque of the wheels to spin, a combustion engine, where Ava asked the guy, "You sure the gas wouldn't come out to the real world, and that you have a sufficient amount of gas to reach this place?" kurt smiled and quipped, "You worry too much, let's go"
Kurt gave Ava a helmet and the both wore a helmet where Ava rode the motorcycle with kurt serving as the driver, the lights in the rock tunnel gave a limited view due to limited scattering but the motorcycle started moving with lights on where after a kilometer away and a bunch of dim lights shows a building in the tunnel, an electronic slider door can be seen where the two of the people exit the motorcycle, and approached it - inside there was a bunch of people, but few working in their scientific project and security guards patrolling the perimeters.
Ava looked around the lightning is white and the material is like plastic - metallic plastic where an attendant appeared before them announcing, "The special training will begin here, subject 01" the attendant was wearing a laboratory suit where he directed Ava to a room with a big monitor it was large almost covering the whole wall with a theater futuristic chair on the middle, the lights were off yet visible neon lights can be seen pulsing blue
Ava slowly walked to the chair, where the TV puts on a classic countdown
It counted "3"
"2"
"1"
The TV display turned off, where for a while where it flickered and revealed Cassandra wearing an officer uniform in the screen it has a evil smirk her face cover was ominously shrouded, she has a different hairstyle it got trimmer and her eyes turned sinister
The television speakers speak where the mouth moves, "Hello Ava, this will be your special training. In this training you will learn how the basics of weaponry, how to create weapons, knowing beyond your academics - where epistemology makes very little sense, all for the glory of the Organization - you will be your mother's replacement"
"I am a special training sentient developed by your father, where I am designed to brutally, BRUTALLY train you. Soon Ava, you will understand the depth of my husband's research - Oh wait I mean my research"
The sentient laughed, the sentient looked like an tsundere prime version of Cassandra, her hair was cluttered with a grin that's been warped who's age has been regressed to something young
Where something happen in a point of the floor where it open like an iris door, and a long circular shape elevated, where after a while a sound was made and the material became transparent it revealed a gun, a really large gun, it looked nice it also has this plasma regurgitation in its mechanism that can be quite deadly and dangerous when physically in contact can even corrode metal judging by what Ava intuited
Cassandra's face in the monitor with a pride and strengthening grinned, "Do you like my creation, I have a habit of creating weapons for my genius. Marvel at my creation Ava! Let creation appreciate another creation of mine!"
Ava intuited the design of the weapon and intuits its understanding, she was impressed but it didn't register to her face
The weapon design has this metallic sheen with plasma conductivity, it's large where the ammo can be converted through a magnetic field and turn into a plasma that can harm nearby electronic devices and harm someone with radiation. The sentient that looked like a young Cassandra looked to the left facing Ava inspecting the gadget, said with a synthetic voice, "It's impressive isn't it? Very impressive, a sign of my true genius"
Ava said, "It's an impressive design, quite dangerous. Say who are you?" Ava looked at the screen addressing the sentience, the sentience replied, "Oh so you are finally piecing the patterns as expected" Ava eyes wide as she stands there looking at the screen, the AI in the TV, "Can you guess who I am? With that brain OF yours, can you fathom me?"
Ava raises her finger pointed at the TV, "You are him, victor. I thought you are an AI", the AI in the monitor responded, "That's where you are wrong, and also wrong if you presume that I am him. Quite paradoxical get it"
"I am a conscious-identity copy of your father, except my program is entangled with his mind through a neural interface, so whatever happens in this TV is by his own desires and autonomy. As for the entanglement, it allows me to carry out his personality, desires, and many more. This link is then downloaded to this virtual design, and yes this design is of my workmanship"
Ava became curious then asked, "I see, but why Cassandra" the monitor showed the sentient laughing, "Hahaha what a funny joke, Ava good one"
The sentient turned sorrow, where her head stared down, "I can't show you my face and body, I just can't"
Ava said while slouching staring at the virtual sentient, "I understand" with a smile
The sentient told her to sit in the chair.
The sentient addressed Ava, "So, back to business. You here for training not for a reunion"
Ava nodded, where the sentient said, "Very well"
The monitor then displays a bunch of weapon designs, their science and their destructive powers, military advantages and the basics, while the sentient continues to explain weapons with enthusiasm and pride.
Weapons like Antimatter disintegrator, Local field disruptor, EMP grenades, even a weapon that can hack robots, even bragging about his own designs like a childish lunatic. Cassandra here is so waifu like, Ava was weirded out but somewhat entertained by his antics, the sentient continued to explain Genesis Innovation, the place he works in but also insists that there are many facilities
Sentient then moves her hands explaining the facilities, one by one and that she was a proud scientist of Genesis Innovation, and every facility connected with the organization.
The sentient talked about how these weapons work and some basic quantum mechanics.
The sentient then makes a bunch of random points in the floor circularly opened revealing a bunch of high tech weaponry as long cylindrical shape arrive and their transparency showing like a window
Ava mentioned, "A high energy photonic gun", "Antimatter Dislocator", "Plasma cannon", "EMP grenade", "A local field disruptor" and many more
As Ava mentioned the names of these weapons, the sentient embodying a younger Cassandra grinned, where it addressed, "Ava, why don't you give these weapon a test drive"
Ava looked at the monitor before nodding. She handed out her hand to the transparent where it phases through where she can feel the weapon.
Another door slid open where a testing ground has been created and can be compensated for. Ava picked a high energy photonic gun and carried it with her arms where she entered the testing ground there she a bunch of test dummies, however these test dummies are hostile they saw her and start running at her and to Ava's shock start firing beams from the high energy weapon and starts damaging the dummies one by one
she head back to the room where she returned the weapon and chose a Local field disruptor, Ava carried the Local field disruptor to the testing ground where the Nanities assembled each other to create four legged robots and start marching unto her Ava fires the weapon and localized field damaged the structure of the robots by affecting the magnetic flux of an area
Ava continued trying out the weapons with a variety of robots, eventually the robots explode, but the most dangerous weapon was the Antimatter dislocator just one little bit of antimatter with a matter will cause a chain reaction causing an AoE explosion, the sentient advised Ava with a serious frown eyebrows, and her eyes turned serious to not use it so flippantly.
Ava used the Antimatter dislocator where one sturdy robot appeared, Ava fired a projectile a really unstable projectile where it hit the robot in point blank range where a few antimatter on the projectile erases the entirety of the golem like robot leaving only it's lower part of the feet. Ava returned where the sentient who looked like Cassandra imply the following, "The antimatter weapon is calibrated to only 1% of anti matter generation too much can cause an unstable AoE explosion or even dangerous fluctuations, and we don't want that"
"Luckily the golem is strong and I made sure that the antimatter weapon would prioritize hitting the target first than a contact with a floor" a virtual sentient imitation of Cassandra speak
Ava returned the weapon, and looked at the monitor. The virtual sentient announced, "You are dismissed, you may go now"
Ava saw a door slid opening leading to the underground facility's lobby she checked on kurt her eyes somewhat traumatized, "We can go home now" with her eyes somewhat Kurt looked at Ava, "Wow, it looks like you've been through a lot"
Kurt followed her to the motorcycle in the tunnels, and Kurt helped Ava wear the helmet subsequently wearing one herself. Kurt drove through the tunnel with his old motorcycle, it continues to make a hoarse noise as he steps on the pedal with the female on his back where they arrived back on their own underground stair back to their house they arrived, where they went off and remove their helmet and climb the stairs to the first floor of the the house.
As they arrived there, the first floor of the house from the secret door to the underground closes where it wears a regular holographic texture of the floor, Ava remarked seeing it close, "I guess that's why you never have a table there" Kurt laughed, "Ahaha, you guess correctly"
Ava looked down and disclosed, "I have met my father" Kurt looked at her, "What was she like?" Ava answered, "Just as the rumors take in but not his real appearance" Kurt then grasps his hands and touches Ava's shoulder while leaning as he looks at her, "What did he do?" Ava said, "He just showed me his guns, and how they work then had me tested them"
Kurt said, "I see"
Ava nodded when he walked off from the interaction to her room, she texted Maya, "Hey, do you have fashion advice for someone like me?"
Maya replied back, "Oh so, so someone wants to know fashion. You came to the right place"
Ava texted in her phone, "You know for work"
Maya texted, "Hmmm, well. I am kinda busy but check these sites, are you getting paid at your job?"
Ava texted, "No, I just underwent training - I mayhaps forgot to get my paycheck"
Maya texted, "I see"
Ava texted, "Do I still have my 'confidant' privileges or she is into another girl?"
Maya texted, "No he hasn't been with another girl, he has been reluctant"
Ava texted, "Why is that, businesses"
Maya texted, "Don't know"
Ava texted, "Anywhere I can get money?"
Maya texted, "Henry already gave you enough. Though I may require your services"
Ava texted, "Really? Yeah I will do it"
Maya texted, "Great, come alone"
Soon, Ava then makes a stride to the place Maya will be at
She makes her walk and rode a train to the place Maya will be at, she arrives where Maya is supposed to be at, a big tower with the title, "William Corporation" held by a structured on the top front it was like 1 kilometers high up in the airs
Ava looks up, "This is ridiculously high" Ava started approaching the security entrance, guarded by two security guards holding rifles with black metallic armor and the helmet with protection, "Hello security, I would like to enter the building please, Maya needs my assistance" the two security guards look at each other skeptical where they look at her with the intonation of someone with aggression, "How do you know Maya?"
Ava disclosed, "She needs my attention, sir? I can't pass on this request of her" the security guard elevates his rifle and start pointing his rifle to Ava's head where she raises her hand and bites her teeth
Ava held her fear and tried to reason with them, "Please, Maya wants me in" the security angers, "Shut up!" the security guards pointed his rifle before closing in with Ava and then inspecting her, nothing at all. Until Maya spoke through the walkie talkies or a communication device, "Let her in"
The security guard reads her, and apologized, "Please this way" the security guard points to the entrance where the other opened the door Ava continues walking where software engineers, technicians and others were working in robotics for electronic chip manufacturing, and said "Wow"
When an attendant approaches Ava it was a female with eyeglasses with a tech suit where she helps Ava to the elevator, its G forces doing fine as it accelerates with speeds as she ascended to a floor level, the elevator slid open where she walked out with minor dizziness. She see Maya looking out the window wearing a suit befitting of her status with her hands on the back looking at the sky it was already night time, she looks at her back facing Ava and said, "You are just in time"
Maya makes a disclosure, "One of our technologies have a problem, Ava that's where you came to fix the machine, this machine uses ionized gas for computation somehow the error correction code isn't working properly that's where you came in to fix it"
Ava nodded, Maya walked and headed to the machine which was a long distance, it was on the far reach of the tower where Maya requested with politeness, "I need you to diagnose the Error correction code for me"
Ava acceded as she uses her cybernetic brain to intuit its function before requesting the machine for a temporary shut down where Ava went to the servers and check the materials without touching it, this machine creates an ionized gas inside where non locality occurs for Qubit computation.
Ava was flabbergasted of its technology it was advanced, she inspects the ionized gas generator suggested it to be more isolated with nanofibers that gets encoded with its original information, Ava reprogrammed the algorithm in her mind and then implement it, so when the ionized gas tries to get the original information from the nanofibers it will be done smoothly
While the repairs were being made, scientists objected that the error correction code machine was already perfect with its nanofibers, however Ava insists something about the algorithm even if physical qubits were encoded with the original information like a recorder
It doesn't change anything when the algorithms fails to fetch this data from the encoded physical qubits
After a long time helping scientists like a novice engineer, they were done.
An algorithm update happened, however many workers in the tower were angry but understood knowing it was on maintenance
Ava knows some of what she thinks may be wrong, but she can only rely on her intuition regarding the machine.
The machine was large, you even need a door to access it, it's trying all its can to ensure that the ionized gas doesn't leak while the fourier transformer is on the bottom doing smooth quantum computations
After four hours of trial and testing, the machine was already done. It worked smoothly, the new changes in the algorithm worked, finally done repairing the circuitry and algorithms
However Maya looked at Ava with her hands crossed, "You weren't that special after all, but at least you knew how the machine worked - hard to tell if you're a pseudo technician who's lucky or someone who's technology is on her side. You're like a winning card"
Ava confessed, "I am sorry Maya, I might have forgotten that there were actually nanofibers for physical encoding, so I just needed to correct the circuitry responsible for the error-correction code and the algorithms. I guess I can say I am lucky, if it weren't for the others I wouldn't have been so lucky"
Maya slapped her back, her disappointment turned to joy and reassured, "Don't worry too much about it, you did your task."
"About that payment, or perhaps fashion advice. Come with me later we are on a roll, unless you don't like Henry"
Ava then touched her own arm with shyness, "I don't know if I can meet Henry, I hope he's okay. I don't - don't want to be with him"
Ava then walked off, where Maya grabbed her hand with eyes that were soft, "I understand. However this tower does have its clothes sponsors - as for your reward for fixing the machine I am giving you additional passes to take a few of its clothes. I will have one of the tower's fashion adviser guide you along the way"
Maya walked out of the room where the Quantum mega-computer is at, and commands someone to call an fashion advisor, Maya gave you her a paycheck of 120,000 credits (virtually) for the repairments of the error correction code of the Quantum Mega-computer
The fashion advisor arrives. She was a black complexion woman with full lips with sharp rectangular eyeglasses wearing a suit, her hair tied to a bun, and her figure was very curvy.
"Yo wassup, so this is the girl who fixed that quantum or whatever"
Ava somewhat shy looked at Maya unsure what to say, Maya acknowledging her, "Veronica, a pleasure to see you around"
Veronica smiled and then tapped her eyeglasses. She was quite tall and athletic. Those curves make a woman look like a supermodel. Eventually she retracted her smile and then questioned with disdain, "So where is that obnoxious playboy anyway?"
Maya puts her hands in her back and said "Somewhere I suppose, where he wouldn't be bothered" with her eyes straight and her head up in a secretary manner
Veronica looked at Ava, with her brown eyes the black complexion woman with an African bun muttered, "Hmmmm, is this another of the guy's conquest"
Maya looked at Ava and smiles, "At first she is, but in this living tower she is a special guest"
Veronica smiles, "Come, I shall accompany you" her smile turning into a grin, as she walked with pride. Ava followed, Veronica was accompanied with power intrigued by her walk - Ava asked with pride as she walks with her, "So, Veronica I presume you are here to help me with me fashion - just so you know the genre I am looking for is Work, just work"
Veronica's eyes turned confident. She touched her waist and stopped as she smiles where she asserted herself, "It will be my pleasure, dear Ava I shall perform my duties with unduly pride and ability" Veronica starts walking like a model hips sway with her professional suit while grin smiley where her mouth moved while she walk, "You ever tried asserting yourself in the town with the clothes you have?"
Ava continued to walk as she answered her question, "There are times I have employed my beauty and adjusted my act just to maneuver around those who are subsumed with my looks - beauty is a tool I wield but of course I am a human - I can fail or just cause awkwardness"
Veronica continued walking through out the hotel even go descending through the floors via elevators where they went to the cloth sponsors her head rotated to Ava who's below her height, "Oh don't worry about it, you will make a good fashionista
but when it comes down to whether you will succeed I will just make sure to plant the seeds" Veronica with her black complexion grasp her hands about to make a move to the clothing sponsors.
Veronica continued walking where she arrived at the sponsors, while Ava followed like a student suddenly Veronica halted, she looked around the booth where she looked at blouses, trench coat, and stuff and other clothes - Veronica calmly analyzes the clothes, but she looks at Ava something about her reminds her of someone whom she used to respect the most - the more Veronica looked at her, an idea of her formulated she whispered the words to herself, "Secret Agent"
Veronica looked at the blouse. She found one that's white chic with a tie on its front with black coat with a medium length navel skirt Veronica looks at Ava she asked Ava to try wearing this outfit, she also volunteers Ava to be her hair dresser. Ava nodded where she brought the clothes to the changing room where after a while emerged from the changing rooms
Veronica waited, while the lower floors of the tower were riddled with rich kids and celebrities, even while scientists and engineers worked in the factories researching robotic systems for factory automation.
Ava emerged with a chic shirt with a chic tie neck, with a black coat and a navel skirt. Veronica was impressed but then she felt like she was forgetting pantyhose and high heels.
These accessories would complement Ava's work like appearance, Veronica then looked for a pantyhose and high heels, and told Ava to wear these, Ava got these and went back to the changing room where she emerged again. It lasted like 10 minutes
Veronica smiled, "Not bad looking Ava, let's go for a new one" Veronica looked and said "I am getting tired of the old fashioned dressing, I have something better"
Veronica went to go a laboratory where engineers are working, where she grabbed a mirror and announce, "That she will be borrowing this"
Veronica returned to Ava's proximity where Veronica shows a mirror and face it towards Ava, the mirror like device turned on where it scanned Ava's appearance through a camera and then the computing begin where the display showed many clothing recommendations with her body and face simulated in it
Veronica picked the clothing where she showed it face to Ava where it generates an version of her in a elegant sleeved lace outfit with a black shirt, another version it is her with in a red dress with V neckline, the other one is an outfit with her with leggings and a form fitting shirt with square neckline.
Ava was intrigued by the functions of the mirror device and said, "This is an interesting technology, Veronica - how much is this"
Veronica smirked, "This isn't for sale, cupcake"
Veronica then tapped on the display and checked for something science fiction suit, she tapped where she holds it in front of Ava facing her, where it generated a version of her in a suit, Ava moved her face and the model with the generated version of her moves with the clothing as if it were syncing like it was projecting her with the clothing
The technology was impressive, Ava used her cybernetic brain to get the internal schematics of its design, her greed overcame her. She gets all the designs, all the algorithms which alerted Maya
Maya emerged somewhat angry from the elevator, she approached Ava and screamed, "Did you hear Veronica, this technology is not for sale! That means it's not for others, it's company property!"
Ava scratched her back, her face in grimace and said, "I am sorry Maya I don't know what came over me"
Maya soothes under pressure, Veronica looked at Maya and then to Ava with curiosity but with professional restraint
Maya then composed herself where she then asked Ava, "Anyhow did you find what you liked?" Ava nodded, "Yes I have but the whole chic thingy was getting too old for me, however I could have it and I also like the shirt"
Veronica asked, "What shirt dear" Veronica displays the history of clothes that the device has simulated her from, Ava uses her fingers and then points at the square neck shirt
Veronica smiled, "very well it will be included in your acquisition Ava, should I dress your hair?" Ava says excitedly, "Yes!"
Veronica then walks off and her head rotates to her left, "Follow me" where Ava followed Veronica, they went outside where Maya just stands where she approached Ava from the back, "Ava… Could you at least remove what you know of the device"
Ava was reluctant, "I can try" Ava exerts effort in her cybernetic head to try forget it, but no matter what she does it can't it's already stored in her memory like a human, Ava felt regret she looked at Maya, "I will pay you my money - all of it, to compensate for stealing the internal schematics and its algorithms"
Maya hold herself, her head with a short bun hair looks down at the floor she said, "That won't be enough, but - but that should be sufficient, I wish it didn't need to be like this"
Maya looks straight to Ava, "You don't need to pay the whole, you are the mind behind the repairs of the Quantum Mega computer for our corp"
Maya then points at Ava assertively, "However you have a debt with me now, for now you will be working in our company as a consultant" where Maya shakes her head and her hair waved
Maya then noted, "Only if the company needs you…" Ava smiled when she tilted her head, "How about I have the same hair length as you?" Maya flushed she looked at Ava with her short bun brunette hair and her professional suit as the cringe spread through her android veins
Maya whole composing her embarrassment,, "Uhm okay, I appreciate that" Maya then walked away with speed.
Veronica asks Ava professionally, "Should we continue?" Ava nodded where Ava followed Veronica. Ava followed Veronica throughout the city, before heading to a barber shop it was bustling with people and once again beautiful grass of sector 451 from the outside of the city.
Ava continued walking around the city, fountains, skyscrapers, holograms and people enjoying their time. One family enjoying their time with their kid, another socializing with others, and then one teenager racing through the city with a hoverboard.
Ava continued following Veronica, her body was curvy, athletic, with a professional modelling. Veronica was walking with style, the people of course noticed the way Veronica walked.
Every step was harmonious, it was like seeing Shalom Harlow or Nicole Campbell. The hips swayed as every leg thrust, Ava mesmerized and asked, "What were you like back then?" Veronica answered, "I used to be a model back then, but then I retired and decided to work as a fashion advisor. I usually work in William corporation and other places where fashion is high at"
Ava assumes that William corporation tower on the lowest floor hosts the richest kids, with engineers and scientists working on projects while they get paid being watched through acrylic glasses or rooms.
Ava checks her bank account through her mind, where she wired 60,000 credits to Maya for what she did. Soon enough Ava finally arrived near the barber shop, Veronica opened the door where she pays one of the machines to have her hair styling, even with lasers, this technology would cut down every hair and style without harming the body
Veronica asked Ava, "Pick the kind of hairstyle you want?" Ava looked through the menu and selected a wolf cut looking hairstyle. Veronica requests the operator, "This hair please #24"
This male operator was wearing normal clothes with brown stripes, where Ava enters a room and sat on a chair wearing a neck strip, everything was empty except for a white motif in the texture with an antigravity cylindrical robot
The process begins where a machine with antigravity capabilities that appears to be a cylindrical shape yet underneath carries an anchor of rigged electrical-powered arms equipped with haircut and hairdressing tools as they came out of nowhere start cutting out hair while another holds her head from the back or from another angle where after a while another procedure is about to begin
The hair continues being styled after being cut, another arm starts spraying foam where the hair becomes groomed - eventually smoothened out after 20 minutes it was already finished, the cylindrical antigravity robot announced to Ava, "The hair styling is complete, please leave the seat" it was done by an operator with training in hair fashion
Ava leaves the room where the cylindrical robot returns back to the door located on the ceiling, the operator removes the apron, this apron has a nanotech integration where every cut follicle would slide away from the garment
Ava hair changed it was no longer the straight wavy black she and others knew, it was wolf cut type, her hair was trimmed and the more you looked at it, it was like Maya but flowy yet dishevelled, she looks like a girl who just went rogue while wearing a chic suit outfit with a chic tie neck
Ava started moving, she asked Veronica, "How do I look?" Veronica gasp for air, "You are like Maya but taller"
Ava being pleased, "That's good to hear. Am I still embodying the feminine aspect?" Veronica, not being pleased, replied, "You do, but there is a masculine edge to it. It's almost like this self empowering aspect to it but not in a girlboss way"
Ava touched her hair while blushing, "Thanks. I do love the old hair sometime it's nostalgic and has its charm but I ought to be different"
Ava looked at Veronica, "So what now? More fashion?"
Veronica giggled her full african lips stretched, "Huhuhu, looks like someone got into fashion and is willing to fritter more money"
Veronica returned to normal mood, "Well. Should I accompany you back to the tower dear?"
Ava nodded, "Yes, you may" Ava offered her hand where Veronica held it and walked. As they walked out with all these towers, and its architecture and its people, she still feels the same, the same feeling she had with her haircut but she no longer feels the lovely cozy woman she is. It's as if her makeover was oozing a different 'vibe'
Ava walked with Veronica, there were less people looking at her - she was fierce she looked at Veronica while walking and remarked, "You know Veronica, this haircut makes me look bold I doubt henry would want to see me as a trophy after this"
Veronica walked like a model, her eyebrows arched and projected, "Maybe because you want yourself to be his trophy? Are you that hungry for his attention Nuh-uh you are showing him your true colors - bitch whether you like it or not"
Veronica raises her finger with an assertive tone, "And you are going to do just that. Is that alright with you baby girl"
Veronica then looked at her for a minute, "Say what do you see yourself in this society?"
Ava answered with her eyes looking down and unsure, "I actually don't know… what I will become in this society" her eyes are looking up, eyes all deep green with her wolf cut hair, "But I am under the obligation…. To thrive and to use any means to survive" Ava's head glitches out she doesn't want to say that she is serving the organization interest and what she might be doing - it was too much to say
Ava confessed with her eyes and breathe all suppressed and then pushing oxygen aware from her lungs, "I actually don't know.. but I think in some way I am forced to survive to find my truth and familiarity"
Veronica then looks at her with curiosity and enquired, "How did you end up personally knowing Henry?"
Ava answered with bashful eyes, "He helped while I was in a rain with all of my oxygens depleted, then offered me and made deals I find way too irresistible"
Veronica looked at Ava, "I know… At age like this, you are often lost and don't know your way"
Ava didn't say anything at all, she knows what Veronica is saying, the isolation and alienation she gets after talking with Henry in his limousine after being picked up from a desolate situation and her debt towards Henry and her mixed attraction towards him, while feeling the luxury and decadence of his offer - it was too insatiable, the man himself was a living Dionysus of the 28st century with cunning and wealth that smells like aphrodisiac
Ava looked at Veronica, "When you see me, what was the first thought that came to mind"
Veronica inspected, her eyes scanned Ava's appearance, "I wouldn't easily pegged you as a super-smart lady but a pretty face" Veronica looked at Ava, "In fact there was someone who was like you but little more older, I think her name was Cass" Ava left eyebrow lowered where she looked at Veronica, "Cass, who?"
Veronica said, "She was a mysterious lady I think that's what I call her, she had this some sort of collected-ness to her as if she could disarm you with just her smile and hair - a living femme fatale that every man wants a piece of her"
Ava asked, "Who is Cass? And what was she like?"
Veronica tries to remember, "Hmm, interaction with her was weird she would talk to me but everything would be calculated I don't really know her that well but rumors around her were intense and the way she talks to men was like some sort of naive warm lady, but then there is this intensity that she can tear you pieces if she wanted to. One time she faced a potential sociopath head on and after a while he walked away not wanting to do anything with Cass"
"Modelling for her was a gig, only the most exclusive man gets to know her well"
Veronica continued explaining, trying to retroactively visceral with her experience with the person name 'Cass'
"She was an odd one, one you desperately want to get your hands on. Not the most open person but with a mesmerizing smile that can turn ugly the moment it flips"
Ava said, "Interesting…. Any idea of any pictures of her or her appearance"
Veronica said, "I don't know, I don't think I am allowed to share any pictures of her…. She probably doesn't want to want me sharing photos of her old times"
Ava smiled and her spine pushed forward, "I understand"
Ava said, "Whoever that lady maybe I hope she has the best day of her life"
Veronica, "You know, you do remind me of her. That lady doesn't often talk about herself - but she was my inspiration I cannot be her but I can be me"
Ava smiled, "In what way'
Veronica, "Appearance wise, proportions that remind me of her the delicateness and that beyond looks kind of surprise coupled with the feminine elegance"
Veronica looked at Ava, "Eyes that are dreamy and large, with a small nose, head shape is like heart shaped with a slightly rounded jaw yet pronounced, except her was a little more roundish than your jaw with a lesser cheekbones"
"She wasn't a supermodel by any means but the aura she ooze off with us and clients feels very comforting yet deadly to some"
Ava, somewhat overwhelmed by this dialogue asked, "And what's the difference between her and me that's a giveaway?"
Veronica furrows her eyebrow, "I don't think you have her dignity… Your attitude seems way too younger than hers miles away, no one here will assume the fullness of your intelligence. Cause the moment you put yourself in a scandal or better yet try to presume the pretty girl trophy, you are marginalized yet valuable"
"Beauty confers power, yet with yourself you belong to superficial beauty that ought to be owned than to own or wield"
"It's like being invisible, do you want to enjoy the luxuries and business life that comes with commodification or you gonna do something with your own ego? Either way you will find more acceptance and enjoyment, something you will enjoy?"
Ava felt an umbrage, "Oh yeah, where does Cass belong to then?"
Veronica rolls her eyes in shock, her ears emotionally disoriented from the girl's words, "I don't know.."
"She talked to many men, while.. also giving a impression she had… secrets and because she couldn't help herself, she eventually disappeared"
Veronica looked at Ava with eyes that are all dizzy
Ava cross her arms, her hand pinches her chin as she processed the insight
Ava let go of her hand from her chin and finally processed the words.
She knows who she is but she rather keeps it low to avoid complicating the matter
Elusive reputation, Feminine symbol, and deadly collected behaviour coupled with a calculated nature all things point to her
But Ava was curious of the kind of symbolism or character she represented, not the legendary status or any slope underscoring of anyone's legacy - only reason she was interested in hearing this woman out about this particular person per se because this aforementioned figure bear an 'uncanny' resemblance to her or so by Veronica word's
Ava kept low, she looks at her own wolf cut hair before heading out
thoughts goes like
"Cass, this and Cass that. What should I do with myself I don't know except what fulfills me"
"Maybe I could get another sip of wine"
Veronica looked at Ava who was wearing the same Chic cloth with chic type neck, coat, high heels, pantyhose, alongside navel blue medium skirt length with the new hair styling Wolf cut
Ava simply just walked, where Veronica with her eyes turning somewhat amused, "You know Ava… You're as every bit of a executive fierce type, let me know if there are other fashion you are into"
Ava stopped for a bit, her eyelids turned to her left before straightening herself and walked off
As Ava composes herself, she was lost in her own mind - Ava rotated through every boutique checked every dresses and bought some regular clothes and wears her deluxe handbag while carrying the plastic bags containing the goods, for experimental purposes
Ava starts bringing the plastic bags and her deluxe black shoulder bag wrapped around her torso
Was she being materialistic, or does she have her own style now? It didn't matter she was turning heads now, she loved that she looked different
She went to the train and returned to Uncle Kurt's house.
As Ava resided in Uncle Kurt's house, Uncle Kurt noticed Ava's clothes. Uncle Kurt looked at Ava with curious eyes, "Wow, you got a haircut or something?"
Ava responded while smiling, "Yes, I did have a haircut" Uncle Kurt acknowledged where Ava walked off to her room just so she could, she soon arrived in her room and then
She lays down her plastic bags and starts placing the new clothes in the laundry, also hanging her new deluxe leather black shoulder bag in the hanger. The laundry due to its state of the art technology managed to complete it within 10 minutes, no stain, no bacteria, it was fresh. Ava packs these clothes to her closet. Storing them for future use and then closing them
She wore her nanosuit suit as she head to lay on the bed, the luminescence of the moon shining through the refractive material of the window, the cold breeze soothes her nerves
As she was sleeping, the dreamstate begins to morph into something - it showed a vision where Ava was a young adolescent she could hear something away from her room, the more she hearkens the more disturbing it became
Ava as a young adolescent in this dream starts to move swiftly from her bed, she opened the door, the noises were getting louder the more she is away from her room
As her feet walked around the room quietly she can hear two parents arguing, the mother was a beautiful figure with brown hair with black locks she was arguing with someone the figure appears to be tall, his face was a little more red and so were his eyes while he wears eyeglasses
"Let me inject him with nanites, let me make him part of the new world of cybergenesis Cassandra"
Ava in her adolescent self could not see it, but she could hear the violence happening in the house - she can only see shadows and little hues of red and black associated with them
A feminine roar throughout the wall, "No, you can't! Max is our child! He's supposed to be there for our beloved daughter, without a human in our family how can our dear Ava see human love"
A masculine aggressive voice echoed, "You DON'T understand Cassandra! You don't get to choose who is to be human nor a cyborg! this is for the glory of my ultimate project, one that will elevate humanity to new heights of power and glory - No more suffering, no more insecurity, no more talent wasted, we can conquer the stars with Cybergenesis"
A feminine voice roared through the wall, "Even if humanity could conquer itself, I just want our son Max to remain pure in his body, he will be a reminder of our daughter's humanity. That's not something you will understand Victor even with your prodigal scientific mind"
Soon enough fume starting echo throughout the wall, and the lady started screaming, the baby named Max was crying, Ava knew very well he was in the crib while holding her breath trying to conceal her presence
"No, don't! Stop! Please I know I may have seduced you but please, please please! Just let our boy Max be"
"Please!!!!" Ava feeling the thump of a rush of Victor's move aggressively attempting to convert Max into a cyborg with a prototype of his, this incident drove Ava who was holding her breath to peer through the open door, Ava eye widen as she peered through the open door of the room, there it is both her father and her mother are there
It didn't occur to Ava that her father would be in the house, she was happy that Cassandra was pregnant prior to this harrowing event symbolizing her father's presence in the family and a new member
Through the gaze of her deep-green eyes, Victor with his eyebrows arched, him wearing eyeglasses holding some sort of cylinder with genetic polymerizing capabilities, its appearance looked like it had thousands of nanobots waiting to rewrite him, and from the adjacent view the fetus was wrapped in a towel
The baby was crying in his crib, while Cassandra trying to hold him off with all the strength she has over the man, there Ava revolted from peering through the corner of the open door she was trying to compose herself from the traumatic pressure, eventually the man's head looked at her, a face buried in anger his eyes were glowing red
Ava felt threatened as she attempted to guard her own face, a voice could be heard from the man, "What are you doing here?" in a quiet voice where everything faded
Ava torso jumped from her bed, she looked at the alarm it was already 9 am - Ava panted trying to collect herself before Ava looked at herself trying to recall why did she have this dream now, she never knew that memory at all - surely uncle kurt's disclosure were a trigger of her suppressed substratum, all she knows that she doesn't know why it happened at all
Ava felt nervous, before deciding to get up reminding herself that it was just a nightmare, an inconsequential one on that. Ava from her bed walked to eat recess and did a hygiene cleanup combined with a shower
As Ava brushed her teeth, she was trying to suppress the nightmare she had at night. Ava looked at the mirror, her wolf cut hair, while recalling her rugged appearance, the memories when she got kicked out or had stayed in the library for months on end
Before deciding to use every secure opportunity and the leverage of her beauty for her to thrive in society.
Ava stare at her own reflection, her eyes somewhat laser focus - she used her cybernetic mind to get data in her vitality, hoping some wishy-washy control theory help her
Ava's eye looked at the reflection and said nothing, she wore her chic shirt with chic tie neck with the new navel medium length skirt, and the coat she had
She went to Uncle Kurt where he drove his motorcycle through a secret tunnel connecting to the underground facility, she arrived back to the same room with the large monitor her eyebrow fierce sitting in one chair with no lights but with blue hue strips on the room's walls
Ava looked at the monitor awaiting the sentient's arrival, something appear on the display - there it is the sentinel
The same virtualized Cassandra with a uniform appeared on the screen, she made her greetings, "Hello Ava - I see you have a new hair and clothes"
"Have you ever thought about the inner workings of your cybernetics? I assume you might have intuited your cybernetics prior to our meeting…"
"But, the truth is - they are not cybernetics at all"
"You were not given the truth of your cybernetics nor implants"
"You are not human"
"You are essentially a hybrid of computer and human, yet here you are doing foolish things that humans do, it appears in verge of transhumanist vessels humans have like this disembodied human spirits in them"
This virtualized younger Cassandra wearing a uniform controlled by Dr Victor's double mind interface looks up while grasping her hand downwards
Victor controlling the sentient asked while pushing her head, "Tell me. What do you think of yourself - have you ever pondered the nature of your neurobiology?"
Ava answered, "I know my neurobiology isn't normal - I have intuitive understanding of technology even their bits because of the cybernetics that's been integrated"
"I know I am not human, yet I was given a chance to a normal life to experience"
Victor, through his mind-controlled sentience, looked at Ava again, "Are you really human?"
Ava frightened, "I don't really know"
Victor inform, "Then you are here to find out"
A cylindrical tube appears from the ground that was opened like a iris door, a small another cylindrical tube appeared from the below, there holds a levitating object a smartphone
Ava looked at it, before veering her eyes at the monitor bewildered, "What am I supposed to do with this?"
Victor through the speakers speak, "Why don't you hack it with your mind"
Ava uses her mind to brute force the very connection with the phone, but it only gives her a headache - she then tries to simplify it by connecting to the network and finding it"
However the network blocked her from connecting, and the speakers spoke, "Pitiful trying to connect to the internet just to find the MAC address of the phone? You really are hopeless"
"How about hacking it without connecting to the internet"
Ava became offensively confused and blurted, "What? What do you mean, it's not technically possible to hack a device without connecting to the internet"
Victor reflexively responded with fire, "Don't you DARE speak like that to me, subject. I told you to hack it without connecting to the internet, your inability to do so is an insult to my craft!" the virtual Cassandra eyebrows are crossed as it peered at Ava
Ava somewhat exasperated in a passive aggressive manner, "Okay, fine, fine I will try to hack it. What you are making me do is like magic"
The sentient in the display, rolls its eyes, "Oh my dear, advanced technology is indistinguishable to magic"
Ava muttered while approaching the smartphone, "You say that as if you are alien - a condescending one"
The sentient did its evil smirk again.
Ava focuses her mind to the trivial device, trying to assume she has some sort magic with it's smartphone she raises her hand pointing at it, where a mysterious force between her and the smartphone was then felt, the smartphone turn on by itself
It all makes sense now, this technology she was endowed is not cybernetics at all but something incredibly inhuman. A connection between the phone and her, it was like magic
Ava looked at what she did, she withdrew her hand and gazed upon her hands, where her hands are in her front and said, "How did I just hack it?"
Ava reveals in her epiphany, "No… my hands, my biology the intertwining of technology to my fibers it can interface with gadgets via electromagnetic field and have my stream of thoughts and commands control it around like bits"
Ava thought to herself, "This isn't what I thought my body can do, it's like a living hacker biology"
The sentient shows it's mirth satisfaction, "Precisely, you are finally catching on"
The sentient apprised, "More or less your mind is finally understanding the complexity of my power, it will be your vital tool for the organization's missions in achieving revolution"
Ava conceptualized of the sentient's words
Ava still don't understand but she unlock a different understanding of herself
How could a living human like her who thinks like a supercomputer, not realize she could interface with technology in unusual way
Ava did bio-analysis of herself for a bit with any comparison between human and herself
Ava stands up, she wanted to see if nanotechnology has really weaved throughout her body, she has recalled instances when she hacked the collar her finger near the collar allowed her read its electromagnetic bits giving her an unfair advantage when creating an exploit to power off its monitoring functionality
And that other time when her mind impulsively hacked the tablet and download its schematics and code to her mind
Soon enough, Ava started to make her move she walked away from the device and unto the monitor
"What do you think you are doing?" the voice of the monitor that is speaking
Ava grinned, "Oh just using what you teached me"
Ava focuses her mind on the monitor, just to reverse engineer it. However Victor knew very well how to counter it, a turret came out of the ceiling and fired at Ava's back in point blank range with a reverse function to turn off her technology.
Ava screamed, "Ahhhhhh my body, no, noo my cybernetics are being disabled my mind is fading into oblivion"
Ava stood up somewhat feeling wounded from the point blank range attack.
The sentient controlled by Victor's double-identity interface speaks, "You think you are invulnerable and powerful, that's your error. You think you can go against your creator because you are made to blend with technology. Don't forget Ava, I created you"
The sentient was not amused of what Ava did
Ava was stunned to the ground on the shock of the turret. It was like electricity that pulsed through her body. Her arms along with her hands are held to the ground, her hands were trying to clasp - this big hit of surge she
Ava was still trying to hold herself, her cybernetics were rendered useless where she stood up while holding she tries to access the monitor it was useless, the more she thinks about the nature of her abilities and intelligence the more useless it was
"Shit fuck!"
"I can't think properly"
All she can do is think impulsively, Ava stood from her platform with fear while steading her hand connected to her arm
Victor focused the sentient's eyes upon her, "Know your place, you impudent computer!"
Ava crosses her eyebrows as she focus on the monitor, "Is that it, is that how you treat me"
"A damm supercomputer for you!"
The sentient's eyes looked at Ava slowly, the two looked at each other fiercely
Sentient's eye smiled, "Every bit of you reminds me of Cassandra, your mother"
"That attention seeking, that need to rely on survival, the pathetic use of your beauty, everything illogical - all the staples of a falling out woman"
"But don't worry Ava, I guarantee you, you wouldn't be a femme fatale from the movies here. You see Ava without my engineering you will just be an average female who gets a boyfriend, and then premarital sex and then what problems… And now the organization sees you more than a supercomputer but Cassandra's replacement. Dross!"
"You make my engineering look crap!" the sentient peered through Ava's eyes with vexation as she points at Ava with a condescending tone
Ava smiled, "You say that, yet you put on an appearance of mother's younger appearance on the screen. Aren't you compensating for something"
The sentient incensed, her eyes widened and screamed, "That's where you crossed the line subject 1!" the turret from the ceiling starts to point at Ava for another point blank range attack
The turret was about to fire, it was locked on Ava before it was disengaged. Victor disengaged the gun where it returned to its default position
The sentient blurted out, "Don't take it the wrong way, too much voltage to your body would only incur damages"
Sentient's pride seem wounded, it was mad at itself for realizing the truth after shooting Ava with an tesla turret, the sentient bits its teeth as she grumbles her mouth on her lips - Victor's mind hated how one electrovoltage shock was able to show him how inadequate his experiments
Ava returned to the chair, her cybernetics have been disabled if she has one she would have realized the crux of Victor's distress based on the sentient's micro expressions
She was recovering, she held to the arm rest she knew the supercomputer she was once was temporarily gone - transhumanist vision gone wrong, just one error or bug and it would be the end of the idealistic dream of Victor's ambition
The engineers and scientists rush into the door where they bring a small device and tools that can interface with Ava's cybernetics without invasive methods, the sentient addressed the workers and orders them to update Ava's biotechno organisms patches and to put her on a rest for 1 hour while scanners with inverse-kinematic arms are just looking throughout her body with infrared or any kind of advanced vision.
Ava's departure from slumber would come to an end when she became conscious from the pod where she saw scanners that were monitoring her and have been a silent pivotal for her recovery.
Ava arose from her pod and start walking out back to the room, where she and the sentient meet up
Ava walked back the chair and looked at the monitor, she saw Cassandra sentient she had a palm on her head as if she was gripping, like overwhelm of stress overtook her before looking at Ava in its default state
"Subject 1 has finally recovered, it seems"
"Say, what does my dear daughter have to say?"
Ava stared at the monitor, "when you shot me with electrocution. I felt like I was no longer superhuman, I felt weak not physically but intellectually like all my interface and computational abilities have been stripped away from me"
The sentient listens with caution
Ava implored the sentient, "Can I have natural training in other talents other than academic subjects"
Ava with her mouth, "Martial arts and other extracurricular stuff"
The sentient paused for a bit, no idea how to respond eventually relented
"Very well, I will be preparing you for other extracurricular at the mean time why not learn something about yourself"
Ava sat at the center as she watched the sentient explain everything that her biology can do.
Ava learnt to harness her technobiology as a way to tap into wireless devices and many functions of her technobiology.
She discovered many abilities, it was packed with many functions and failsafes just like the time when she was alone with rain and the lack of oxygen where her nanotechnology fires a distress signal
or the other time she overdosed on Serotonin stabilized pills and was unable to mobilize even her heart felt like she was burning until nanoparticles were released onto her blood brain barrier for neural recovery by stimulating the glial cells located in the side or in the medulla oblongata
It all make sense, it has a life support system
Ava asked, "I have been meaning to ask you, what is it that powers my cybernetic neurobiology then?"
The sentient replied, "Through genetic engineering and nanotechnology, the synthesized genome through silicon like composition and nanobots made sure your neurobiology would share electrical output with the brain. Your brain is not just cybernetic integrated or it never was, it's your default unusual neurobiology. You were just a living computer in a human vessel"
Ava nodded, "It makes sense, sometimes I feel like I am neither a computer nor a human"
The sentient from large monitor screen affirms her belief, "Exactly"
Ava asked, "How about the new prototype for recomposing the person's gene with robotic"
The sentient grinned devilishly, "It was an experiment that stretched moral boundaries… Ava, parents would offer their embryo for their survival or who believe by having them adopted here during embryo stage they could ensure a better life, the extraction of embryo relies on quantum teleportation through a careful non locality phaser - little do they know they are only becoming lab-rats. Lab rats for my project, the new species of the world."
"Just so you know modifications in your genes were ensured that you will integrate with silicon-like nanofibers and nanosensors, all can compute 0 and 1. Are you aware of quantum computing"
Ava answered, "Yes"
The sentient said, "pseudo entanglement of your brain's electrical field has to be prepped for nanotechnology. So no brain damage or even any nasty side effects would happen"
"And yes, my dear beloved subject you are just learning more about how much of your human cell, the eukaryotic one was tampered by me"
The sentient stops all its lecturing about blackbox and stuff
Ava asked, "How did you develop my brain's software and its operating system then?"
The sentient, "That's the hard part to elaborate… You brain was receptive to signals since you were young everything around you about technology it was cleverly adapted to your techno-neurobiology as an interface albeit a working schematic with a receiver"
"We observed it through analysis of how much receptive you are with our machinery or computer bits - I am not too sure if your neurobiology has this computerized operating system, all I know is that you have an exceptional affinity with technology that goes beyond normal computing these days"
"Think of yourself as someone who has every computer part meshed with biology but is not actually full of circuits just nanotechnology weaved with your DNA"
Ava answered, "That's crazy, creepy yet cool"
Ava looked up left and right before looking at the sentient, "What do I do now"
Sentient answered, "You can leave now. You are dismissed"
Ava left the room
While Ava was walking away, Victor in a secret laboratory was fine tuning a device he has been working on, his arms being all that grimly mechanical, while wearing a hood, and a breather attached to his mouth who is now aware how much much incredible amounts of voltage can damage her internal system
The large monitor is still active, with a sentient resembling the younger Cassandra she pinches her chin as the virtual sentient is still entangled with Victor's mind.
"Hmmm, perhaps I should do another techno-symbiote update or create a device that minimize electrocution"
Meanwhile Ava just walks off the room, she was glad to receive some insights about herself, she didn't like that she was shot with an electrocution, mildly hampering her biological powers and returned back to Uncle Kurt's house
She went to sleep, meanwhile unbeknownst to her there was a meeting. There is Henry in the main chair, no seatmate, just him on the front of the board, other executives or important figures in the company are there.
Henry: "So Ava managed to fix the Mega quantum computer?"
Maya: "Yeah she manage to do, she fixed the error code correction algorithms and circuitry"
Henry: "We had a problem with that for like weeks now, what could have caused the issue?"
Maya: "I don't know… Somebody interfered with the error codes algorithm or something might have tampered the algorithms"
Henry: "Huh who could have been?"
One man who is wearing a security officer uniform enters the room with a rush, wanting to alert what's caught in the security, "Sir, we have security logs of who who broke in the room and tampered with the algorithm"
The man brings out the tablet
(Security footage of someone with a dark-brown hair with a beautiful figure in a scientist coat who pulls out a robot that can tamper with the circuitry of the room and tamper the algorithm, it had antigravity technology it can use laser to break into things and then cover up the device, it's like a hemisphere with an extruded in cylinder that emits laser
The hemisphere starts to beam its laser as the wires became disentangled or perhaps to disrupt the wires conductivity, it even approached the fourier transformer and damage the memory pointers and its interface with hardware)
The man apprised them, "We have been trying to find the identity of the intruder. No one in the database fits the appearance of the intruder - we did a wide search of this"
Henry looks into the man while his elbows are in table holding his own chin, "I wonder who could that be"
Maya remarked while looking at the footage, "That looks like a certain someone - looks like Ava with a different hair color"
Henry eyelid looked at Maya, "Yet Ava is the one who fixed our mega computer"
Maya nodded, "Yeah, but it's hard to tell if it's based on her technology or natural talent"
Henry asked, "What do you know about Ava?"
Maya revealed information
"She worked voluntarily in Genesis Innovation Inc, and her neurobiology isn't human-like"
Henry's head looked at Maya, "What do you mean her neurobiology, are you suggesting she is enhanced, and of course I know Ava works in Genesis Innovation Inc"
Maya remarked, "Not enhanced… More like it's a different breed of brain and physiology"
Maya uses her android capabilities to connect to the hologram projector, and show Ava's internal body
Henry looked at the Xray three dimensional representation of Ava, he was pondering to himself while others were looking at it, not to mention the security guard excused himself
Henry stared at the biology, "This biology isn't normal - I know Ava is extremely gifted, probably with enhancements or not, but to think her physiology is abnormal or rather to put it alien like"
Where Maya runs her mouth while pointing at the body, "There were enhancements in her brain, physical dexterity and millions of receptors in her body with radar capabilities"
Henry leans back on her chair with his hands on his back, "Huh, what could have granted her such capabilities"
Maya scratches her back, "I don't know. If it was intended it would be pretty grim, perhaps genetically engineered"
Henry's head rotates to Maya, "Genetically engineered?"
Henry rotate to his straight grinned, "Perhaps this is one of the testimony cybernetics are proof of one's superiority"
Maya perplexed at Henry's emotion, "What are you planning"
Henry with his narcissistic CEO attitude, "I am including new upgrades of my own to my journey of a trillionaire"
Maya smiled, "That's interesting, tell me how would you include upgrades to yourself"
Henry puts hand on his chin, "It will start with Genesis innovation inc, the place that Ava wanted to work in"
Maya gazes her eyes further, "Uhuh, Genesis Innovation Inc - what are you suspecting what's going on that place, it's just a research facility"
Henry informed, "Who knows maybe I could extract some confidential papers regarding cybernetics, I am also inferring Ava's origin came from there which is why she wanted to stay there"
Maya impressed at his insights, "Impressive insights, but how should we get confidential papers"
Henry looked at Maya, "We would do what that Lady did to our Quantum Mega computer"
Maya straightens her eyes, feeling somewhat dubious, "You don't expect a raid don't you?"
Henry did an evil hand's rubbing he was smiling, "Yes, Maya you are thinking what I think"
Other electives gave out their opinions agreeing to Henry's plan to have the research facility hacked or breached, others concern about the ethics of this plan even comments about how this plan would get them into a lawsuit
Executive 1 expresses admiration for Henry's thoughts, "How should we proceed with the raid?"
Executive 2 on the other hand, showing his distrust. "I don't know, I wouldn't want to get in trouble with the lawsuit"
Executive 3 expresses his uncertainty, "Sure we can assemble a team of hackers, but what are we going to do? The security measures there are extreme"
Henry scratches his chin where he places his hand on the board table saying, "I think I am also aware that Ava once broke into the building but was punished with a monitoring collar"
Executive 3 reacted, "That's horrible, how can we even do a breach if the security measures are impregnable"
Henry informed, "I have connections and wealth to assist anyone who is willing, one who said that we would get in trouble with lawsuit is also right, that's why we are doing a stealth mission"
Henry rotates his body facing Maya, "You think you can handle it? If not, could we invest funds into developing cybernetic research?"
Maya smiles while crossing her arms, "I don't get doubters when it comes to my capabilities"
Henry felt reassured, "Then good, if the research files are extracted and studied we can use them to lessen the time needed to develop our cybernetic products. I will let Maya handle the rest, all of you in the other hand - I promise we're are going to make a lot of money once we're done with our plan"
The rest cheered with the new announcements, some bicker while Henry just watches with calculation glimmer to his eyes
After like a hours later, the night sky is dark, the moon is luminescent, and the grass are prosperous, stands Maya with a team of agents with their specialized roles, one is male, the other is a female with a holster belt, the other is a hacker with goggles strapped on his forehead - all are prepared to breach the research facility
The scene end with them running to the building, they got into the building, evading the security guard's eyesights, one of the security guard disappeared, others got into while the hacker got control of the logs and security camera being able to create a fake footage via Deepfake control.
And breaking security measures
The scene ends
Ava woke up, and wore her square neck tight shirt with Jeanie pants where she went to the underground building with just a motorcycle through the tunnel and arrived in the building to do her training. She was practicing learning how to dance with a robot - some kind of dance you see in the prom
Meanwhile the sentient, just watched Ava and just cringed, not fully understanding why Ava wouldn't prioritize her intellectual development but seeing it as unusual necessary
The monitor turns itself off while Ava continues dancing with the robot torso, she held the hands of the robot as she dances with the torso
She continues dancing with the torso, holding the hands as she moves around the room.
She dances with the torso, as she held the robot's hands and spins around while the robot does its function - simulating the man in the ball dance form
The robot spin her as she pulls her down while holding her hand while her legs is up in the air, her high heel
Soon the robot and Ava stood up as she returned back to chair, she knew she had to learn some skills outside of intellectual areas there might come a time when her intellect becomes useless, so the only thing what she can do is use other things in your arsenal even taking the words of Veronica herself
She sat on the chair, looked at the monitor where it turns on - the sentient groaned, "Urghhhh" the sentient then lets out many technologies Ava focuses on her mind to access many of these devices, she asked the sentient, "May I hack the monitor or database as a way to test the security measures"
The sentient nodded, and allows her to hack the system with only her mind
The cryptographic hashes in the system were being decrypted by her mind, as she overcomes her challenges - she manage to, but it was counteract by Victor firmware
Ava became frustrated, not even a brute force would break these security measures, I mean she can decode the hashes but it seems that there is another software that will block any form of unusual connection - it's like a living SOC analyst
Ava finally done pressure test the system, "It seems the security system would require an external certificate like an access to an external device registered by the software allowing full access"
The sentient's hazel eyes dilate, "Of course dear, I have formed and prepared contingencies after you and your children's birth - we have known about your kind's terrific abilities having studied them. But you are right if one of you are serious you would need to do it through an registered external device, until the time is right I cannot allow you to have such prestige"
"While you are at, there has been a breach in one of the facilities"
Ava asked, "Who could have done it"
The sentient answered, "I don't know they were a clever bunch, but I can feel in my intuition the secrets is not in our confidentiality anymore"
Her digitalized mouth moved, "I have instructed security engineers to check but they have seen none, AI's were completely useless"
"Whatever it is, Ava - your cybernetics and everything is no longer a secret to someone before"
Ava uses her mind to connect to the internet, to get entries in the dark web and find none. She now has to play detective, she is still thinking she left the room abruptly leaving the monitor behind, the virtual sentient in the monitor asks, "Where are you going?"
Ava in the rush, "In one of our facilities. You have any idea where the breach transpired?"
The virtual sentient responded, "I have no idea, Ava. It's hard to pinpoint the location but I think it's somewhere"
Ava left off, first thing she went to was Genesis Innovation Inc, she looked at some of the parts even introduced her own card to the security guards she tried to use her data analysis to check for anything regarding footprints, even looking at the keycaps or peripherals it was reporting 60% chance of interaction but it was uncertain many of these footprints were overlapping with workers footprints, it was a fruitless search she gave up and returned
She came from the sliding door and inform the sentient, "You were right, it was breached but it was too elusive"
Sentient sympathized with Ava albeit briefly, "Do well to exert your power next time"
The sentient, also further her announcement, "I will make sure the security there are improved but that is not my priority I will delegate my concern to the organization for concerns of the confidential breach"
"In the meantime, we shall continue with your training next time"
The monitor signed off
Ava walked off the room, loitering around as she pondered the existence of her being, can her origins and her sibling remain in secrecy forever can she still be normal in this world?
No, not anymore not even her fellow techno-bio kind would be unique or today she fears her being and identity are exposed to someone. She just wants to be a normal girl as for today, she went to a bar and ordered a couple of drinks where she drank one of them, eventually she became inebriated
Ava lets out a comment, "What am I beyond my design?" while her body wiggles left and right, as her eyes turned into symptoms of drunkenness with drinks splattered throughout the bench
Eventually an attractive but muscular man would pass by her, they would look at each other
Ava was still inebriated, she stared at the man somewhat her face turned perplexed
"Is there anything I can do for you" Ava looks at the man, through her view he was a muscular man with brown hair and beard
The muscular man scratches the back of his head and replied, "Nothing really, I was wondering why a girl like you would be drinking outside the bench"
Ava flaps her hand and answered, "Oh it's just personal problems, now you are it"
Ava's eyes turned invitingly and asked, "Wanna have some fun? You have quite the muscular build" Ava is seen touching the bench as she leans and smiles towards the man with her wolf cut hair
For a while the man became somewhat unsure of himself, he seemed tempted he looked at the girl she was an attractive lady with a healthy figure carried by a proportionate face, her hair was wolf cut type
And here is the man who had exercised all his way even fought others for his own glory he retroactively experience his own visceral masculinity where his eye looked possessive, he imagined all the kind of things he can do to her like making her feel breedable and him the superior
the man whose eyes turned cold walk away with a large consonant voice, "Come with me"
Ava stood up as she grabs on the man's arm and started walking with him, soon enough Ava woke up in a bed she had felt even more lonelier before why did she got drunk all of the sudden, she saw herself next to the man whom she doesn't even know the name
She shakes the man while the two were covered with a blanket, she shakes him until his eyes open he looks at Ava and shows exasperation, "What?!"
Ava asked, "Did we have sex?"
the man answered, "Uhmmm what do you think?"
Ava's eyes evince disappointment, "Oh… I see" she stood up and wore her clothes and left the hotel - she was so confused she had no idea why she just did that with a stranger, for validation or because she was drunk, she had to consume a lot of liquor just to be loose with someone
Ava felt stressed out where she returned back to uncle Kurt house, uncle Kurt opened the door wondering where Ava had been
However she lied, "I was attending some business, uhm a party" Ava rushes into her room. She was so worried about the publicity of her abilities and biology her head was on the pillow as her face is on the pillow as well
She was so confused, it was clear she was grappling with existential problems of herself and she just turns into distraction just to offset worries and that crippling insecurity
She even seduced a stranger who she found attractive just to pass on time, and experience some orgasm via natural selection
Did it satisfy her? Yes
Did it provide temporary relief? Yes
Did it provide a fix to her problems? No
Nothing about it, fixes her problems at all - she then did a deep search in the internet of who this guy is, she spent 2 hours looking for him until he found him
"Walt Matthew"
She scrolled through the internet regarding stuff about him, apparently he is one of the gymbro - a pretty normal guy, nothing special about him he works in architecture and stuff. One of the best architecture he ever planned even impressed some companies, yeah companies.
Fueling her interest
Ava opine, "Impressive… Quite impressive for a guy like him", she was still bitter about having seduced him into her wiles just for one night - a person she doesn't even know fully she rolls her body as she stared at the emptiness of side wall
As she stared at the wall, she felt rather numb to her pain - nothing she can do can fix her problem but wail against the inevitable, her eyes are numb she checked the time of the place she is in, 11 am she took a shower and then she travelled to Genesis Innovation Inc through a taxi
(Yeah it's not the underground facility as it's only accessible through a teleporter or elevator)
Ava started working in her office. Her coworkers have been wondering where she has been but shrugged it off. She continues hacking away code in the IDE, she then stood up and approached the Cyber Security department
She asked one of the personnel, "Don't you think the research here was hacked?"
The engineer shook his head, "No, I don't think so, there was no sign of any exfiltration in our data?"
Ava crossed her arms, her hips somewhat accentuated as her eyes are straighten, "I would feel concern that any research highlighting Thea, Brian and the other children would be exposed to the public, get to it that no suspected breach would compromise the company's data"
The engineer with casual clothes barked at Ava, "When did you have the authority to command us, you bitch!"
Ava was about to punch him, she grips her fist before realizing it was not worth it. She chose a wiser approach to just walk away to avoid further conflict
She returned to her office and started maintaining the scientific computing software of the research facility
She scratched her head, as she peered to multiple monitors as she typed away code in the screen, she typed before getting bored she drank tea
She decides to socialize with one of the people, she made an attempt to socialize her beautiful appearance was enough to hack the social perception of others
Ava approached a girl with blue eyes and brown hair, "Hello how are you? Have you been doing well?"
The girl waved her hand, the palm up in the air was shown - it was cute
"Been doing fine, I have been trying to take care of my child"
Ava perplexed, "You have a child?"
The girl nodded cutely, "Yes, I do. What would be your name, would it be Ava?"
Ava somewhat bemused but wowed, "You know my name?"
The girl smiled, her eyes closed before opening, "Yes, I do know your name especially that incident with the other children in the laboratory - Thea and Brian"
Ava conjures an image of Thea being the platinum haired female, with brian having a dark hair with a rounded face, she can even conjure it in her mind's eye as a visualized image shot of them
Ava asks, "What about them?"
The girl with brown hair and blue iris, like natural blue iris answered, "Well I found the situation amusing - I watched as you three play hide and seek, it was amusing"
Ava nodded, having acknowledged her, "I see.. But why are you so interested?"
The girl puts on a demurely pose as her torso rotates left and right by 20 degrees, before bashfully saying, "Because… I have a child… Sometimes I work hard to care for my child"
Ava confused, "In what relevance does that hold to my question? Could you elaborate"
The girl disclosed, "Because, when.." the girl started to stutter. She was really shaken up, "I have a hard time supporting my child, I had to work hard - the father is away trying to do his best to support the child. I have also been considering to surrender the child here just for his own good"
The girl then twitched her fingers, "Maybe if I do just that and surrender my child, at least I can spend time with my child while saving us the trouble of caring for him. I love him very much"
Ava asked, "How old are you? And what is your name?"
The girl answered while her eyelids were staring up on her, "My name… My name is Beatrice and my age is 24, I work as a junior software engineer. I came here due to an offer from my grades I worked so hard for - I graduated Magna Cumma laude"
"I work hard in my college while he was just an infant"
"I had premarital sex, me and my boyfriend decided to get married while supporting each other. And of course it wasn't always rainbows in our case, we have been debating whether to give up our child here…"
Ava grabbed her shoulder, "No! Just no! Never think of this facility as an adoption center. You are doing him a disfavor"
Beatrice became scared, her body became nervous, "What? Why? What do you know about this place?"
Ava urged, "Please, find a proper adoption center somewhere, somewhere the child can be properly cared for"
Beatrice nodded, "Alright"
Beatrice asked, "What about you, what is your story?"
Ava froze and she couldn't answer her question, "Uhmmm daddy issues?"
Beatrice's face turned confused before acknowledging her, "Oh I see"
Ava grabbed her own arm as she walks away back to her office she started typing stuff in her IDE
She simply just looked at the stuff, and type in the keyboard as she looks at the monitors
Analyzing code in the IDE.
Ava brought out her device, one - her contraption allowing her to intercept traffic in the network she was about to do it, and did it she sniffed traffic but it blocked her
"Wow, security measures have really improved based on Victor's designs"
Ava thought about beatrice word's, yeah that temporary enjoyment she had with some man - was enough to make her feel like puking out, like her dignity was reduced to a toy in fact she can just turn all her senses off but it felt hollow, why didn't she thought about that she might end up getting pregnant in case he forgot to wear contraceptives
Ava held her mouth, was it really her fault she was just trying to find escape from her issue, or she was just drunk at that time. What can she do, nothing at all but to succumb to her interests it would have been better if the man just back away from her and refused her advances
Ava became nervous, her face became all sweaty
"Why, why did I become such degraded garbage." Why did I stumble?"
Her forehead was saliently sweaty
She doesn't know what to do with it
She just want to cry in someones shoulder
She could have just found someone to vent to, but instead she just bought a couple of drinks and enjoyed herself in the bench where she caught a glimpse of a muscular cute brunette face where she just tempted and used him for her pleasure.
Depression is real.
Did she ruin her life? No, not really, she didn't really ruined her life because of one thing she did, she was just experimenting
Ava looked to the monitor and started typing in the keyboard, before dismissal - she even forgot to do her training, she might be reprimanded maybe she can attend the training to make up for albeit she would have returned home past midnight
And so she did, she went to the room where she awaits the sentient appearance in the screen - as she approached the door, it opens where she sat on the chair and bid her time, as she bids her time she was thinking about data gathered regarding Victor, data analysis being performed on the sentient why is he using Cassandra's image and what is it with his unusual eccentric personality in contrast to past memories of him, aside from the suppressed memory of him and mother
That's what she's trying to understand - anything about her father is likely implicated or better yet isomorphic to her origin
As she rests on the chair, awaiting the mastermind on the screen her mind moves to the little kids - Beatrice's parental struggle, and the need to adopt her child to Genesis Innovation Inc. for a better and more secure life, not knowing the fate of these children. She also felt weirded yet thankful that she doesn't end up like these children who are used as living computers
Ava suspects, "Maybe because of my mother - I heard about her trying to giving birth to Max to humanize me, while trying to prevent Victor"
Ava thinks, "Ahem - and talking him out of it. I guess I got my Darth Vader privileges from Anakin Skywalker to Luke Skywalker except me. Knowing that he is crazy, I wonder how much of an apple has fallen from the tree am I regarding him. How much am I similar to my father?"
Ava finalizes her thought, "You never know."