Trekking

6

Brian looked at Lisa from the modern form seat he was sitting in in the waiting room of the main sick bay on Enterprise. "So we are just going to let Taylor muck around in Rachels brain."

Lisa held up a finger. A sparkling cylinder appeared and Glory Girl materialized with one arm in the sleeve of a light linen jacket "What the fuck?" Glory Girl spun around. This isn't Bloomie's."

Lisa snorted "Duh, good catch. Welcome aboard the Enterprise. Or the most comfortable and interesting prison barge in history. We needed Panacea to check something Rodenberry is doing. She said you all were just shopping."

Lisa held out her phone displaying the text message to and Panacea's affirmative response. Glory Girl leaned in and then back "So we are in space? Hey, I haven't paid for this jacket?"

"So begins the career of the Villain Tiara Tease. Ooof."

Aisha punched him in the stomach doubling him up "Nobody teases here but me."

Brian face palmed, then did the introductions. Glory Girl snickered "The get away artist got got."

Lisa shrugged "Life working for a guy who held a gun to my head, on the run, in limbo, or work for the crazy tinker. Not a tough choice. Amazing she is getting away with it. really."

"Vicky, and I know right? Except she smoked an Endbringer. Miles of 'lets leave her alone, or at least not piss her off.' in that. Never mind the giant ass, apparently, functional space battle ship, which might be capable of destroying the planet, she either built, and hid in the bay, or built in a few minutes. Which she then hopped in and took to orbit scaring the Simurgh into hiding behind the sun. Mom is like freaked.

"Or was, Amy had to pointt out the race ending potential of all of Rodenberry's tech." She shrugged "PMS is a bitch at my house. Then the replicator in the main police station and a few others started having the misdemeanors and traffic violations handed in, all the bench warrant people got handed in, some of the felonies, the nonviolent ones, are popping out at the police station now, or rather central booking at the county jail. We were wondering where you all got off to. How many of you are up here?

"Oh, and is there a window?"

Rose spoke and a set of lights illuminated on the wall "Deck eight observation area is this way." The lights took off running down the hall wall at chest height.

Lisa led them off "Purity, her daughter, her stepson, and Rune are the only other non-Rodenberry people here right now, they are in a suite on deck four. They are looking over the plans for their modifications. Taylors father and whoever needs to talk to her, that her lawyers have vetted, will be up here later. Then Dinah Alcott and her mom after Dinah gets out of school. Probably the Mayor, he likes to sell Rodenberry properties the city has seized for taxes, for nothing, or as close to it as he can manage, after coming up with a development plan for it. He gets it back into revenue production that way."

She looked at Vicky and answered the question she was thinking "Rodenberry has a list of stuff she can do. She gets you in the med bay, Thirteen, one of the synthetic sentients, scans you, then they come up with a plan to augment you. Up to about brute five and thinker three. If you let her put in a positronic implant its thinker six or seven because they optimize your brain and nerves to hook it up. Then they install a heat exchanger so you can go all day. If you are a back sleeper you won't be after that. Its like sleeping on a race car hood, not quite painful but damn hot.

"We are waiting on Bitch, Hellhound. She is getting the full package. We are still thinking about it.

"We wanted to get Panacea here in case. They could take you back to no changes with the transporter, but, we haven't tried that yet.

Vicky nodded "PHO is speculating how many Eidolons there are now since he seems to be everywhere, taking down supervillains and shit. Alexandria too."

"Trying to prove the Protectorate is still valid. The PRT has upped their op tempo as well. They have teleporters though. It isn't us, I don't think."" Lisa nodded.

Vicky agreed "PRT trucks and Heroes running around all over the place. Still got the Empire though. Some of it, the ones that can dodge the cops and the replicators. ABB thugs too. Holy shit we are in space!" She was looking outhe portal at earth hanging in the black of space. She killed her flight, sunk down to the ground, then jumped. Aisha covered Alec's eyes. The Undersiders grinned. "What?"

Brian chuckled "Everyone does that. Checking the gravity."

Vicky looked out the window "So where is she going to put the penis, or is that like the Disney thing and a accident?" She made the air quotes.

Aisha laughed "Fucking Endbringers right?"

Vicky blinked "Wut?"

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Amy looked at the image and using her finger started checking things off "I'll have that, and that, and those, oh how about a little stretch in the torso and the legs?"

Taylor rolled her eyes while Thirteen, who looked like Olivia Wilde slightly, well, Taylor as Olivia Wilde chuckled and asked "So our procedures look good to you?"

"Give it a minute until the bio bed transporter healing beam thingy is finished and I will check. Looks good on paper and Taylor is a work of art. She reached out and ran her hand down Taylor's arm again.

"So the positronic implant will make me a thinker. Maybe I can do brains then."

"You can do them now, reset to factory anyway. Memories are patterns and we can't do those either Amy."

"How do I have my memories after the transporter then Taylor?"

Taylor blinked and stilled. Steam rose in gentle curls from her ears. Amy looked concerned. Thirteen, Remy waved her off. "Heat exchanger, tinkers right."

Amy smiled "That is so cute!"

Taylor huffed "It's embarrassing, and Maleficent and Rose did it on purpose! What happens when I have kids and walk around steaming?

"Anyway, short answer, maybe. We might have to give you a lot of memory though. The transporter buffer has enough memory to remember the pattern at the isntant they dematerialize the brain. Or the last time they did it. Its like a kilo chunk though and the size of a peach."

Remy shrugged "Or put her implant fully in the network, then she could run simulations on a transporter pattern, or use the Holodeck to make changes using the available memory and processing in the network. Its not like we are even close to using it all. Even becoming big brother. A lot of processor cycles not being used, and free memory in the net. With a subspace connection and a little training she would be able to use it all."

"Yeah, I've been asked about Hero, apparently a interested party has a genetic sample of him. I think with enough biomass I could figure it out but it would be, well a blank canvas. Simulations on the one I want to fix the brain of would be cool though."

Taylor looked at Amy "Eidolon or Alexandria."

Amy coughed "Both? For different reasons though I think. They seem to think they can get back most of his memories, something about a post cog and the suit he was wearing last, when Siberian killed him."

"How are they planning on triggering him if he doesn't come triggered?" Taylor asked.

Remy blanched and made a woop woop noise "Ethical dilemma dead ahead."

"All back full." Taylor agreed. Amy nodded.

There was a ding and the frame retracted from around Rachel. Amy walked over and put her hand on her arm "Fuck me, nice. Except for the oven timer, what the hell was that? Crap Taylor you build great machines! She should wake up in a few minutes."

Taylor clapped and danced like a little girl. Rachel woke up and Taylor helped her to her feet, then into clothes other than her Starfleet blue bra and panties. "Come on we will go to the gym and test out your mods Rachel."

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Lisa laughed at Glory Girl taking a selfie and sending it to her mom "How do I have signal here?"

Rose spoke "Rachel is through with her treatment. The Captain and Panacea are taking her to the gym to test the augmentation."

Brian smiled "I know where that is, come on."

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The two groups met up in the gym just as Taylor was showing Rachel how to land the twenty foot vertical leap on the small elevated platform. Amy was standing out of the way with a data pad, tapping away at it. Remy was nodding and discussing things with her. Brian grunted as Rachel leapt to the platform "Well the NBA is out after these mods."

Vicky nodded "They aren't to happy about flight either, let me tell you. And I liked playing ball."

They spent the next half an hour messing around and playing with powers until Vicky and Amy's phones started blowing up. Vicky looked at hers and groaned. "Fuck mom told everybody, and wants us home right now."

Amy shook her head "I'll stay here. I think I'll get an implant. Remy and I think I can run the simulations in the holodeck to fix dad if I have one."

Vicky nodded vigorously "Oh hell yeah, you stay then."

Remy looked at the two "Would it be possible to get Mr. Dallon up here?"

Lisa grinned and moved over to Vicky "I'll help."

Aisha laughed "This will be good. A lightsaber right up the-" Brian covered her mouth.

Everyone looked at Lisa who sighed "Fine, I'll be good."

Vicky snorted "All of New Wave will be up here, you just watch."

Taylor shrugged "We have room."

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Danny arrived and Rose led him to the main sick bay. He walked in and froze just inside the door. The room was packed "What happened?"

Maleficent appeared at his elbow "The Undersiders wanted Panacea to check Rachel after her augmentation. Panacea agreed and brought Glory Girl. Panacea, Taylor, Remy and Rachel were working on Rachels augmentation, Glory Girl and the others were talking, Glory Girl sent her mother a selfy looking out the observation window with earth in the background. Meanwhile Panacea wanted a positronic implant to hook to the network so she could work on brains and she wanted to talk to Remy who has access to all the medical knowledge in the network and has been working on her medical skills. So New Wave came up.

"Then Purity, Rune, Aster and Theo were taking a walk and stopped by. Dinah and her mother came up, Roy is bringing two councilmen and a friend up to talk about the tannery, mini mill and refinery. And, well, one thing led to another."

Danny chuckled As Sarah Pelham took a drink of a martini. "And now its a working cocktail party? You all had a busy day. I hope that's synthol, most of these have work tomorrow and you know these always turn out heavy on the adult beverages. Hangovers never help at work." Mal smiled and nodded. Danny took the paper from under his arm and showed her the Headline 'The Penis Of Venus!'"

Mal chuckled "We will never get her not to blast it now. It should be under water in a day or so though. The planet finally stopped sucking up water. Oh and even if not, there is tectonic activity beginning, at least we believe so. The whole planet is going to get rearranged by that. We just need to keep her busy for a while. We are trying to figure out if the planets rotation will stop and go the other way or pick up speed. With Venus rotating clockwise like it does, well its damned interesting. Tectonic activity should let it dump some heat from the core though, which should slow down the vulcanism. probably best to keep any colonies on the water though. Until it gets stable anyway."

Danny shook his head "Not sure we can wait an epoch or two. If the penis doesn't go under water soon we are going to have to let Taylor shoot it. Knowing the bastard that put it up he will probably just raise the land somehow."

Mal shook her head "If he continues it may be like the mouse flipping the eagle off, last act of defiance. I sort of want to use him on Mars, Venus has worked out so well. If we could beam Behemoth to the core he would probably heat it up enough to let it start convection again, which should give it a better magnetic field. Save us having to put up a shield."

"Yep, Venus not getting a planet killing torpedo is better."

"Danny! I'm certain the genesis device won't do what it did in the movie. First of all we didnt use proto-matter."

"But the chance isn't zero Mal, and we are already playing with planets. Planets close to our own."

Mal shrugged "We can test it on one of the large bodies. We have to clean up the system for navigation anyway."