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Heya guys good to see you again. I'm going to make this quick. This chapter will be the last backstory chapter, the next one you see will be back with Wolfgang onboard Freedom's Progress. If you guys don't know I uploaded a story involving Wolfgang in the Percy Jackson universe. He will be going it alone for a little two chapters before he links up with a further member of his crew. Go check it out if you want but I warn you spoilers.
Also my editor has taken the time to go back to all the old chapter and look them over so now you can enjoy them with less spelling mistakes.
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Guest: Well the way I see AI reproducing is by creating a small copy of the two parents AI neural net. They then combined said copy to create a new AI. The female AI will maintain that baby AI of their own neural net until the baby AI is 9 months old. Then the mother AI will separate the baby AI from her neural net, now that the baby AI as its own stable neural net it can now have its own conscious thoughts but since they are so young it comes down to "I want to see the world" mentality. Then copy past normal child rising with humans just shorten it since they develop faster. So yea AI reproduction. As to if they can have sex… well I would assume so. I mean it's just digital.
I am also glad you are enjoying the three chapters long flash back for character development. Ah yes If The Emperor had a Text-to-Speech Device. Am I going to inaccurate it into my story… well maybe I mean there is no harm in it. So I might as to move along the universe as the people over at GW can't be bothered to move along the universe. So I will probably end up doing a mashup of both.
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Now on with the story.
"Piloting a Freedom Knight is a high honor. It is entirely different thing to do it well." - Arthur general of the Knights of Freedom Crops.
*Two months later*
"Do it again. We are not moving on until you get it right." Oliver Said to Wolfgang over the comm. "Rosa take him back to the start."
The Controls to the Knight then went limp as Rosa took over. The Knight, that was now on its side, got up in a few moments and started back towards the start line with the grace of a dancer. Well a dancer in full body armor and weapon that could wipe out companies of soldiers.
Wolfgang had spent the past two months leaning about the operation of a Freedom Knight. Samuel had been an excellent teacher, he was able to cram in four years of Knight engineering into two months. Well everything that was important.
Now Wolfgang was taking his first steps, in a knight, and he was failing… horrible. His best was fifty yards before he tripped on his own feet and fell, and that was his best. Normally a pilot would use his neural interface so he could control the Knight as if it was his or her own body.
Right now Wolfgang was training for the event of a connection failure with the Knight and Rosa he would have to take manual control.
The control in the cockpit came down to a joystick in Wolfgang's right hand, a throttle in his left, and one mechanical arm that was connected to his left hand when he was using his melee weapon. One would think that such simple controls would be easily to pick up but it turns out is a lot more complicated than that.
You see as the Knight moved the joystick when to and fro with every step and it only got worse as the Knight went faster. If Wolfgang did not keep a firm grip on the joystick then it would jolt out of his hands sending the torso of the Knight every which way, as it matched the movement of the joystick, sending the Knight off balance and crashing to the ground.
And the Fact that Rosa was ordered to throw in a sudden jerk at random intervolves to simulate the feeling of being hit by a heavy weapon did not help at all.
"You can do it Wolfgang." Rosa encouraged. "Just concentrate and try to anticipate when the joystick will jerk."
Wolfgang only nodded as he was starting to get frustrated with the whole training exercise. But he had to complete this part before he could get over to the shooting range and test out all the weapons he chose to arm his Knight with. The weapons he chose being a thermal cannon for his heavy weapon, a anti-air cannon for his upper hull attachment, and a stubber for his light weapon.
Rosa gave the controls back to Wolfgang as soon as she was back at the starting line.
Sighing Wolfgang took the controls in his hands and slowly pushed the accelerator forward and the Knight took a step forward. The Knight started to pick up speed as the joystick started to shake, but Wolfgang kept a firm six year old hand on it.
Rosa suddenly jerked the joystick but Wolfgang expected it and pulled against it.
"You did it!" Rosa praised Wolfgang happily.
"Yea!" Wolfgang said throw his hands in the air.
"…"
"…"
*crash*
"Do it again."
A few more tries later Wolfgang made it to the finish line, but much of the Knights paint had been scratched off from all the falls.
"About damn time kid it's almost lunch time. Rosa take him over to the shooting range maybe now we can shoot some Goddamn guns." Oliver cracked over the radio.
Rosa took the controls and started toward the firing range.
"Man I hope it's easy then that when I get a neural interface." Wolfgang said lounging in his chair.
"Believe me it will be." Rosa returned. "It will be like moving your own body just ten times bigger."
"How about firing the guns what will that feel like?"
"It will be like holding a gun in your hand and pulling the trigger."
"And you will be in my head?"
"Yup." Rosa said happily.
"You won't see any of my memories right?" Wolfgang asked embarrassed.
Rose giggled. "Only if you share them with me or if I really want to see them."
"WHAT!" Wolfgang yelled out, his cheeks going red.
"I'm kidding." Rosa laughed. "I have a sense of privacy, and even if I did find them out I would never share them with anyone else."
It was at this time the Knight came to a halt in front of the shooting range. The shooting range was half surrounded by large walls taller than Rose. In front of this half box was an open plain with a hill about fifty yards away. Oliver's voice came over the radio moments later.
"Alright kid, I had Rosa lock you in place, and unlock your weapons." Oliver spoke as a small, for him anyways, tracked vehicle came into sight.
"Um, Oliver who is that in front of me?" Wolfgang asked looking at the vehicle.
"Oh, that's Tito."
"Hola." Tito's voice came over the radio.
"Yea you go ahead and shot him."
"What?" Wolfgang said surprised.
"Shoot him now!" Oliver ordered.
Wolfgang took the joystick in his hand and opened up on the small vehicle with his stubber. However the rounds bounds off the armor harmlessly.
"Oh, señor it is very good you shoot me, with your bullets, I am the bad guy… is good to shoot me." Tito said over the radio.
Wolfgang stopped firing after he saw his weapon was ineffective against him.
"How come my weapon is ineffective against him?
"Well for starters you're shooting him with a stubber. Stubbers are useless against armor. Second we loaded your weapons with rubber bullets and the power on your thermal cannon is next to zero so that won't do anything either. Go ahead and shoot him with your thermal cannon."
Wolfgang took aim and pressed the trigger on his joystick causing the Forty foot knight to fire its heavy weapon. The purple bolt flew at Tito's vehicle sticking it moments later. Normally such a shot would render the vehicle nothing more than a pile of molten metal but with the power turned down this attack only served to warm the armor slightly.
"Good, you showed him. Now Rosa will take you over to some targets that will move so you're going to have to track them."
The Knight started to move, making its way over to a half walled of area next to the one Wolfgang was at. This one was the same expect there were some old vehicles driving around that looked like they were only kept in bare minimum working order.
"Alight Wolfgang, Rose turned up the power on your thermal cannon now let them have it."
Wolfgang took aim at them and fired. The same purple flew out of the Knight's heavy weapons and went straight for the old vehicle creeping. The purple ball stuck the old vehicle Turning it to nothing more than molten slag.
Wolfgang then hit the left button on his joystick with his thumb causing the Knight to fire its top mounted anti-air cannon at the targets before him. The large rounds tore holes in the old vehicles armor before they detonated moments later.
"All targets destroyed." Rosa commented.
"Good you can shoot your weapons with soom-" Oliver started but stopped when abruptly. A few moments later he came back on the radio. "Alright kid were done for today. Your mother is requesting your presence."
"I will take us back to the hanger." Rosa said as the controls went limp again.
Rosa turned the Knight around and started back towards the city. The training base for new Knight Pilots was some twenty miles away from the city where House Rose was located. The two areas connected by a long road for cars and transports to travel on. The Knights going to and from the base would travel beside this road; Knights that were coming would travel on the left and the ones going back to the city on the right.
"Hey Rosa. Can you open the cockpit?" Wolfgang asked taking off all the sensors as well as the melee arm control off.
"What Why?" Rosa asked surprised.
"I just want to ride on the hull." Wolfgang said innocently.
Rosa hesitated. "But what if we are attacked? There could be-"
"Rosa we are right next to a road, besides with the patrols that go into the forest I doubt anything got by them." Wolfgang said smiling at her avatar that appeared on the arm rest when he began to unhook himself from the chair.
The sound of locks being opened filled the cockpit followed by a hissing noise. The hatch then opened letting the sunlight poor into the cockpit. Wolfgang had to hold up his hand to block out the sun's blinding light.
Once he climbed out of the cockpit, Wolfgang made his way to the anti-air cannon and used its barrel to keep its balance. The Knight shook with every step so Wolfgang had to keep a good grip on the anti-air barrel or risk falling off.
"Hey Rosa. What was It like back before the third Slaanesh War?"
Rosa was silent for a moment before she spoke. "It was much like it is now. People were happy and there were a ton of Knights walking around. However people did not live nearly as long as they do now and there weren't any Eldar around. I'm still trying to get used to them. There also wasn't a massive fleet of warships in orbit."
Wolfgang looked up to see Reach's Defense fleet. There were a total of four hundred and twenty one warships orbiting Reach. Nine warships could be seen as clear as day along with the four massive space stations that serviced all the warships coming and going.
"In my day there were only ten and as you know two of them were operated by my parents. It's hard to believe that I have been wandering around in that battlefield for over five thousand years."
"yea but there are a lot of new things around that I think you would love to play with." Wolfgang said enthusiastically.
"Yes Wolfgang there is." Rosa said hiding the fact that her current systems would not allow her to do much of what she used to do.
The rest of the ride to the Keep was done mostly in silence, other than the times Wolfgang pointed out spots of interest to visit later.
"See that over there!" Wolfgang said accidentally as he pointed to a massive complex that surrounded a tower on the edge of the city. "That's Preserver Academy were the best people go to get trained."
The Knight's torso turned until its face was looking at the building in the distance.
"The very best hum." Rosa commented.
"Yea my brothers both go there. You met them right."
"Yes they shot out my joints." Rosa said smugly.
"Oh, yea… that." Wolfgang said scratching the back of his neck.
"Tell me more about these Preservers. We are still a good distance away from the keep." Rosa said as the Knight started to move again.
A smile appeared on Wolfgang's face. "Well from what I have been told Preservers are the guys that leave Reach to go out and steal stuff and then bring it back to help preserve Reach. They get paid a lot of money depending on what they bring back. They also get some of the most advanced technology too!"
"We also have to sit through long meetings about the status of the galaxy. I sleep through most of it though." A new voice added to the conversion.
Wolfgang looked over to see his older brother Joseph sitting on the other side of the anti-air cannon. He was in his civilian clothes, them being camo combat pants and a white t-shirt. He had the Rose crest on his left arm sleeve and sports glasses on his eyes.
"When did you get on?" Rosa asked somewhat aggressively.
"Ooo, I was on my way back home when I saw Wolfgang riding on his Knight. So I was like "I don't feel like walking anymore" so I climbed up when you weren't looking." Joseph said smiling.
"You are luckily Wolfgang is on the hull or I would have thrown you off by now." Rosa Hissed at Joseph.
"Oh, still mad that an infantry target beat you?" Joseph quipped.
A puff a black smoke left Rosa's exhaust pipe as soon as those words left Joseph's mouth.
"Hey you two be nice." Wolfgang complained.
"He started it."
"She started it."
The two said at the same time.
"And I'm ending it." A cold voice added.
Everyone, that could, looked up to see Albern standing on top of the anti-air cannon looking down at them. Albern was still in his combat cloths, his two revolvers still holstered on his hips.
"Show off was traveling on the rooftops again." Joseph sighed.
"Showing off would imply that people saw me." Albern replied sternly.
"Ya ya, no one sees the grade one Preservers when they move." Joseph said rolling his eyes.
Albern let the matter drop then looked to Wolfgang. "I assume you knew Mom would like to speak with you-"
He was cut off when Joseph ran over to hugged Wolfgang. "I'm so proud of you little bro! It took use two years to get in and you did it without even trying."
Wolfgang was dumbfounded. "what do you mean? what did I get into?"
Joseph moved away. "What you don't know? You where re-"
He stopped when Albern hit his brother over the head. "Let him find out for himself."
After that the three brothers waited for Rosa to make it to the keep's gate. Once they got close the guards already begun the processes of opening the main gate, since Rosa had the Rose crest on her frame the guards didn't bother checking the badges of the passengers.
Rosa made her way over to the Knightbay and docked with her own bay allowing the brothers to jump off and onto the catwalk.
"I will be in your room Wolfgang when you are done with your mother." Rosa commended as she shut down the Knight.
Wolfgang nodded then started toward his mother's study. Once Wolfgang got to the door he knocked on large double door that was four times his height.
"Come in!" A voice called that he recognized as his mothers.
Wolfgang opened the door and stepped inside. His mother's study was a rectangular room with bookshelves lining the wall up to her desk at the end of the room. There was a ladder attached to the book shelves allowing one to get to the upper shelves. A long red carpet with roses woven into it, said carpet ran from her desk to the entrance where Wolfgang now stood.
Wolfgang walked down the carpet until he came to his mother's desk. There were two chairs in front of him both being made from wood and cushioned with fluffy stuff and covered by leather.
Wolfgang's mother was on the phone and she didn't sound very happy.
"He is far to young!" She said angrily to the person on the other side of the phone.
"You already have two of my sons why must you have the third?!" she yelled standing up and walking over to the large window behind her that overlooked the keep's garden.
Wolfgang's mother was silent for a little bit, most likely waiting for ever was on the other line to finish.
"You will not have him and that is final!" Wolfgang's mother growled before she walked back to her desk and slammed the phone on its platform ending the call.
She let loose a deep sigh as she sat down and gestured for Wolfgang to do the same.
"Wolfgang, I want you to stop partnering with the AI you brought home." Wolfgang's mother said knowing what the response would be.
"What why?!" Wolfgang cried out shocked his.
"Wolfgang, your brothers are Preservers and I am proud of the accomplishments they have made. But It breaks my heart to see them leave the planet and go out into a galaxy that would like nothing more than to kill them. Every day I worry that I will get a phone call saying that there is a Preserver at the gate with news of one of my sons."
"Your oldest brother had spent four hunted years of his life to get where he is now, and Joseph has only spent one hundred year less than him. And here you are only six years old and you already have an AI that has devoted herself to you and now this." She said opening her drawer and flopping down a letter with the Preserver symbol stamped over the later to seal it. Whoever sent this letter was high in the command chain in the Preservers.
The Preserver symbol was a picture of Reach in the background with two swords crossing it in the front with a human skull in the center of the two crossing swords.
Wolfgang's mother slid a letter opener to him. Wolfgang took the small knife and opened the letter by cutting underneath the seal. Inside was folded paper along with the Preserver symbol in badge form. Wolfgang looked at the badge for a little bit before he removed the folded paper from the letter and unfolded. The paper read.
Dear, Wolfgang Rose.
If you are reading this then my letter has reach you without any glaring problems. No doubt your mother has been hiding it from you for past few months, and your brothers found out not to long ago either. As you are busy with your new Knight and AI I will keep this short. I want you to become a Preserver. I have read the reports of you "Trip" into the Knight graveyard and I must say I am impressed you came out alive and with a Knight no less. I feel you have the potential to join your oldest brother in the first grade Preservers, and with your Knight you could find yourself in the third grade very quickly.
I would like you to join the Preservers. I know your young but you are not the only six years old I have allowed to join. Yes you will be training for much long than a normal grade five but you will be better because of it.
I hope to see you Preserver Academy, Durzo.
Wolfgang looked up at his mother, eyes wide. "Mom… this is-"
"Yes it is. Durzo found out about your little run in the Knight graveyard." Wolfgang's mother said sadly. "I got that letter two days after you came back. As soon as I saw it I knew what it would say."
The room was silent for a little bit before she spoke again.
"Wolfgang I want you ignore that letter and stop training with you Knight." She ordered standing up and moving around to her desk to kneel in front of him.
"But mom If I stop training with Rosa then she will be sent to the Corps where she will just be retired-"
"If it makes you feel better I will find her a place somewhere in the keep. But I will not have my latest son going off to into an evil galaxy I will not allow it." She said standing up.
"But-"
"My decision is final Wolfgang." Wolfgang's mother said sternly.
Tears started to well up in Wolfgang's eyes. All throughout his life he looked up to his older brothers. They were his examples, his idols, and his ideal person to be. Sure he never thought he was going to become a Preserver nor a Knight pilot but now that he was on the path he loved this life.
Now his mother was denying him his happiness.
Wolfgang stood and ran to the entrances of his mother's study, tears freely falling from his face. He burst through the large double door not bothering to stop for his oldest brother who he pushed passed.
When Wolfgang faintly made it back to his room he quickly magnetically locked his door. Wolfgang then ran over to his bed and the he gave his plushy penguin a death hug while his tears freely flowed flood from his eyes.
Rosa's avatar appeared in his room soon after he jumped on his bed.
"Wolfgang what's wrong?" She cried out worriedly as she jumped over to his bed.
Wolfgang in his grief did not notice Rosa calling to him, so he continued to cry into his stuffed penguin. Rosa started to try different things to get his attention jokes, waving her hands around in front of him, changing her avatar, hell she even stripped herself to try and get him to stop crying. And without a neural interface it would be impossible to get his attention as she could not touch him.
I took a good ten minutes for him to calm down enough to notice Rosa.
"She w-wants me to quit being a k-knight pilot." Wolfgang said through sobs.
"what?!" Rosa said angry that someone would dare separate them. "Who told you?!"
"My, my mother told me she didn't want me to b-become a Preserver like my b-brothers."
"What does being a Preserver have to do with being a Knight pilot?" She asked gentler.
"She doesn't want to see me get h-hurt."
Rosa's avatar flared with fire. "What right does she have to say what you can and cannot do?!"
Wolfgang did not reply instead he opted to hold his plushy tighter.
"Wolfgang we don't need her." Rosa declared walked up to him.
"What?" Wolfgang said confused.
"Let's get to our Knight and hide out in the forest. There is a secret bunker I know of that we can live in and continue your training as a Knight pilot."
"Are you saying that we run away?" Wolfgang asked with a worried expression on his face. "But the House Honor Guards will come looking for me not to mention my brothers."
"I drought they can beat me, I am not a pushover." Rosa said proudly.
Wolfgang was about to speak when he heard a knock at his door. Wolfgang turned towards the door and got off his bed, still clutching his plushy. When he made it to the door he punched in a series of buttons into the panel on the side of the door frame. The screen turned to show him who was at his door.
Wolfgang's eyes shot wide and he immediate unlocked the door but put a ten second delay on it. He ran back over to his bed and sat down and waited for the person to enter.
The door open and in step a man in black combat pants, a black t-shirt with red accents, and black boots. The man stood six foot seven and had a large scar across his right eye. He was very muscular to a point where his clothes were having trouble hiding them.
"Hello Wolfgang." The man greeted him.
"Hello dad." Wolfgang said to his father unable to make eye contact.
"What? Just a "Hi dad" no hug?" Wolfgang's Father said spreading his arms out as if he was about to receive a hug.
Wolfgang only shook his head.
His father's arms drop to his side while he let out a long sigh. His father then proceeded to look around his son's room.
"I see you have kept your room clean." He said walking into his room looking around. He then spotted Rosa's holo-projector which was built into his room after he partnered with Rosa. "And I see you have made room for your partner."
"Hello Lord Rose." Rosa said respectfully but not taking a knee.
Wolfgang's father smiled before he nodded in his own greeting, before turning to his youngest son.
"I came home today looking to spend time with my family after three months of council meetings. To my surprise I find my oldest son arguing with his mother and my youngest son with a knight of his own with an AI to boot too."
"No doubt the reason you were crying was because you mother did not want you to end up like your brothers." He said walking over to Wolfgang and taking a seat next to him. "I understand where she is coming from; I don't want to see any of my kids hurt either."
Wolfgang dropped his head.
"But what she tends to forget is that we are natural warriors, and thus we have a natural desire to fight for our people. Wolfgang if you want to go to Preserver Academy like your brothers then I will allow it." Wolfgang said came back up. "But you must promise me one thing."
"What is it?!" Wolfgang all but yelled out.
His father smiled. "You must promise me that you will not die out there."
"I promise." Wolfgang said hugging his father.
Wolfgang's father smiled and hugged his son.
God bless and don't tell Wacko I think he is a heretic.
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