A/N:I had bought the bluray version of 2001 a space odyssey specially for this chapter. And let me tell you, it was worth every penny of my money. Although its quite a long movie bordering 2 hours and half. I would have read the books/script, but that would have just taken my free time and I already know most of the books storyline. So that would be detrimental to the progress of this fic. So without further ado, enjoy.

Song Inspiration: 2001 A Space Odyssey - Johann Strauss II - The Blue Danube Waltz

Relics of the Firstborn

"I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do." ~ HAL 9000

Monolith: III

~The Lunar Monolith~

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Underwater Spacecraft Launch Facility - Atlantis II - 1997

I recheck the mission parameters and system guidelines. Starting with the physical systems. The deployable Clavius base rocket, a single stage rocket that was gigantic in size. Not because of the fuel, those things were not necessary. Its because I managed to cram every possible equipment and food into it that could probably fund a small country.

Which surprises me how small the craft was supposed to be. The reason Is that I didn't need not to worry about limited concepts like thrust to weight ratio. Of course we wouldn't waste space just like that. The potential it had for more equipment is more important.

The only free space I reserved is the command module for two people. Once we arrive to the moon near the Tycho crater, the rocket will deploy into a huge base that will give us enough free space to move around anyways.

The planned trip to the moon will be relatively short. With anti-gravity and kinetic vector arrays speeding the thing, I estimate we will arrive within a day if all is according to plan. A negligible time considering we will be asleep most of the time travelling to the designated lunar landing area where I found a strange magnetic readings. An excellent place to start my research and start sending probes to other celestial bodies until I found other viable FTL methods.

I initially wanted to leave 5 months ago, but giving a 5 year old astronaut training was not the easiest of things. Artificial gravity managed to cut half of the training time, but most of the time I just taught her how space works, not to touch the power lines and don't leave the pressured chambers. Which is easy enough if nothing else.

I look behind me through the reinforced glass, seeing aquatic life drifting by between my base towers. An amalgam of Carbon nanotubes walls, power cables and glowing blue lights from my cloaking boundary field powered directly from a Ley line. The reason why I chose this place. Because it was underwater, mana rich and the only place my future/old me didn't explored yet. The name Atlantis Second seemed appropriate at the time. Even if the true location and existence of Atlantis is still unknown to me.

"Onii-chan, I am ready now!"

Looking away from the fishes roaming about, I turn around to see my adorable little Sakura-chan lumbering to my location in her bulky all black pressure suit. Which is strange because the suit was supposed to be form fitting. Although there is a small chance I didn't take some measurements in account.

Grabbing her waist, I lift her up to my eye level. Looking for any problems that may have caused the bulky appearance.

"What are you doing Onii-chan. That tickles." She giggled out.

"Because you look pretty fat in this suit, I am trying to find out why"

"I am not fat..."

"Don't worry, you are still cute as ever Sakura-chan... Ah, I see now. You forgot to release the Oxyale from the pressure sections. Let me fix that for you."

I put her back on the ground with her back to me. Finding the small monitor on her back shoulder. I press a button that sucked all of the pressurized oxygen from the suit. Shrinking it to fit her more petite frame. Which looks far more better than the previous setting. Which probably wasted space like no other and made some movements impossible.

"Can we go to the moon now!" She excitedly yelled out.

Looking into my mind link to the computers again. I see there were no issues or errors in the systems that could have delayed the flight. I order the platform we are standing upon to detach from the ground and float to the command module. A giant black krystal shaped point standing on a obsidian pillar made out of a plasmonic metamaterial that makes the craft partially invisible. All my materials are metamaterials to be honest, because they are all artificial in nature. For propulsion I have four protruding rectangle vector thrust engines.

The spacecraft is 30 meters in diameter and 2 kilometers in length. For comparison the Burj Khalifa won't reach even half way that length. Most of it will be converted to structural pillars and walls for the base. The extra material for the base will be collected from lunar material that will function as a natural cloaking material if any space agencies were interested in that region of the moon. That way, we aren't wasting energy to constantly cloak ourselves.

"Yes, we are ready now. Do you have everything transported to the storage unit in the ship?"

"Yeah, but why are we moving to the moon again?" She asked me with a cute inquisitive face.

I smile at her forgetfulness and answer. "Because if we don't leave, Shirou can die. You don't want that, don't you?"

"No! I don't want Onii-chan to die!" She cried out, hugging me.

"Don't worry Sakura-chan, I will not die that easily. Once we leave Earth, everything should be alright."

"Really?"

"Yes. And if all goes according to plan, we can come back here in 18 years."

The platform locks on the command module hatchway magnetic strip, securing itself firmly enough to hold a cup of neutronium. The heaviest matter known to man. If it didn't destroy the entire planet that is. Degeneracy pressure and artificial materials made it moot anyways.

This is all made possible by new applications of matter and energy manipulation. With the processing power I have in disposal, I can finetune magnetic/gravitic fields with the mana in the air along a rare limited substance I found, which I subsequently named Grain for no reason other than that it seemed appropriate.

Stepping into the hatch and seating yourself onto the tight multi riveting seats, I mentally interface with control panels in front of me.

"Are you ready? Once we liftoff, we can't go take a pee break or something. Although I can always do a... direct transmutational... approach."

Blushing a bit, she replies to me. "No... I think I'm ready."

"Okay then, preparing for liftoff. Opening the water sealed launch passage and activating cloaking repelling field."

The roofing of the massive chamber breaks apart into small black blocks that reassembled themselves to the walls. Letting seawater wash over the chamber in mere seconds through the pressure made by miles of water from above.

Checking if the airspace is clear, I command the magnetic clamps to release from the ship. The craft swaying a bit before the inertial compensators took over, righting the ship to the rough underwater trajectory to the moon until we reach airspace.

Looking at the inertial meters, I found that everything seems to be okay. It would be catastrophic if we instantly accelerated and found out they didn't work, turning us into paste from the g-forces exerted through my vector engines.

But the command module is currently safe. The reason we can survive such forces is because of Gravity Furnace powered by Grain. The substance can change mass through field more effectively than my regular Gravity Furnaces I used to power the halo collider with. And at a low energy cost.

Of course changing mass has its limit. The regular Gravity Furnaces would be far more effective if you wanted to warp space time, although it would require tremendous amounts of energy that even my Zero Point Energy modules can't power completely. I have a new power generator in progress, but it will have to be finished on the moon.

"Directional vector activated. Speeding up slowly to avoid water disturbance."

The massive craft moves upward to the opening, groaning loudly enough to concern me bit even though the craft is made from Neo Scarletite. A stable Neutronium rich Scarletite that has none of the properties of regular Scarlite, but having the advantage of being two thousand percent stronger.

"Four kilometers before we breach the surface."

Considering the size of this spacecraft, it will not take long to reach water surface. The deepest part of the ocean is only eleven kilometers, which my craft could travel in less than a second if we were in space. But if I did that underwater, the shock wave produced would likely create a tsunami the size of the Eiffel tower that would affect the pacific coastline of Europe and America. So we are going slowly and not 'Sanic fast'.

Growl!

"..."

"Um, I'm hungry Onii-chan."

"..."

"Onii-chan?"

"But y-you just... Ate, so much sushi... That I-I almost made a species of fish e-extinct... It was... traumatizing..."

"Pwease, Onii-chan." She pleaded me with her accursed teary eyes of her.

"Okay, okay, Fine. Use the food fabricator on your right. I gave you admin privileges."

"Yay!"

Ignoring the abuse of my advanced technology being made to do mundane stuff like creating snacks. I focus back on the launch systems, checking the calculations over again once the spacecraft's tip passed a hundred meters from the water surface.

"Oh well, safe enough. Activating vector impulse in 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, liftoff!"

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"Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before."

Plasmonic Lithography based on controlled Grain-Scarletite molecular lattice constructors.

"For science!"

"I-I Have f-found the answer to the universe... I-Its Love..."