Chapter One: Displacement
Harry's POV
He woke quickly. He breathed deeply feeling odd as his numb limbs fought against any movement. He forced his arm up and tried to form a fist seeing it clumsily close and open shaking slightly for a moment. He rolled his arms feeling the blood flow return slowly and the feeling of tiny pinpricks flush through the limbs as they moved back into working order. The soft tones of beeping from his left made him shift over slightly seeing a small bar come out of a box like stand small light covering the thing as what looked like and invisible screen floated above the bar.
He glanced at it seeing a slight curve on the long screen and looked over the display. He felt a small form of confusion before realising what the machine was for. Heart and Brainwave monitor, the soft beeping as it counted his heart rate rose slightly as he felt his body tense at the knowledge that he felt smash into his head. He calmed down slightly still feeling tense as he laid in what was clearly a muggle hospital. The emptiness was getting to him and the dead silence besides that blasted beeping was making him grow more tense.
He looked down at his body frowning softly in confusion as his body didn't seem all that changed. The IV was easy to remove and he glanced over his hand seeing nothing left behind, no hole in his hand nothing. 'Where the hell am I?' he thought silently looking over the fairly sparse room and moved to stand. He stood quickly only to throw out his hands to brace himself as he fell grunting softly as his hand flared with pain softly for a moment and the heart monitor shot up for a second before relaxing again. He moved back up stepping away and grimacing as the nodes on his body were pulled off.
He shrugged it off before moving for the strange looking metallic door. He glanced over the walls again seeing they were also metallic. He heard a soft beep from the door before it opened quickly showing a purple haired woman standing in a doctors uniform. He jumped back slightly before slipping on the cold floor landing on his ass. "Oh my." The woman said before smiling softly a small amount of amusement in her eyes. He stared at her for a moment as his eyes looked her over.
She had longer purple hair that went to just at the top of her shoulders, one bang crossed from her left side of her face to behind her right ear, covering the top of her right eye, the length near the end was curled slightly. He glanced over her face seeing the soft feature's and her eyes closed in a smile. He felt a shiver of fear for a second as the smile was both comforting, and for some reason mischevious. He glanced down for a second, flushing lightly as his eyes caught a look at her impressive bust hidden underneath the slightly thick blue turtleneck, covered mostly by the long doctors coat. leading to the dark blue jeans. He trailed his eyes back up seeing her looking down at him and followed her gaze a moment after.
His hands shot down and he saw the amusement grow for a moment before she gained a slightly more professional air to her. "I am happy to see you awake and soo lively." The woman said a small teasing tone in her voice before she offered a hand to him. He took it slowly and lifted himself up before returning the hand back to cover him. "Erm. would you mind getting me some clothes, I don't think talking like this is a very good idea." he said slowly getting a small nod before she pointed to his left.
He looked over seeing a small low to the ground table. On top of the table was a folded pair of boxers on top of what looked like a black shirt and cargo pants combo. He moved over taking the boxers before turning back as he held them in front of him. "Ah, mind giving me a moment?" He asked getting her smile to grow slightly before the door shut closing the room off from her sight. He sighed softly before pulling the clothes on and subtly looked for his wand. 'I should have guessed, if its a muggle hospital they probably thought it was a stick and tossed it, Olivander will not be pleased.' He thought wincing lightly as what the old man might say rang through his head.
He turned back to the door seeing it open and the small smile still on the woman's face. her hand lifted and waved slightly to catch his attention. "I must say, I am happy to see you awake, we were worried that our efforts were going to be for nothing. After all it wouldn't do to have you lie in a coma." She said softly making him nod slowly as the gentle tone in her voice carefully concealed the teasing mischevious nature she had earlier. "Dr. Kira, why is it you are standing at the entrance to the patients room?" A voice called out from no where. He tensed lightly before relaxing.
He felt amusement as he remembers the last time any of his friends had heard a PA system in action, most of they never knew that type of thing existed, which he found odd at the time, but amusing none the less. "Oh, He seems to have woken up." Dr. Kira said softly getting silence for a moment. "I see, bring him along then please, it would be best to explain the situation in person." The voice said after hesitating slightly. He looked to her to see a the small smile widen slightly as the light mischevious look entered her eyes again. 'This will be interesting.' He thought to himself seeing the smile widen even more.
"Well, Harry Potter, lets get going shall we." Dr. Kira asked gesturing behind her. He stepped out into the hall and stopped for a moment at the long metallic hallway, it was very much different from a regular hospital he had seen. He glanced over the door ways as they passed, cafeteria, conference rooms, other hospital rooms. He blinked slightly as the thoughts invaded his mind, he hadn't read any of the rooms plagues and yet he knew what they were for. He stopped quickly almost bumping into Dr. Kira. He watched her turn and came face to face with her, he saw the look flare up again and the smile grow back even wider.
"Why, Harry, if you wanted to be close to me, you need only ask, sadly we don't have any time for that." Dr. Kira said before stepping back as the door opened. He watched her move aside and shook himself out of the thoughts that invaded his head at her suggestion before looking into the room only to stop cold. on the other side of the room stood a massive view port showing a swirling mass of black and white with small lines of yellow, green, red, and blue inside of it. "W-what." He said unable to look away from the sight. "Ah, yes, i should have figured this would surprise you, after all you were in the Coma upon launch." The man voice called from a small ways to the left.
He glanced over seeing a man standing in a naval like uniform at a small computer terminal. Past the man lining both the left and right walls were terminals with interesting seats all taken up by people working on something. Towards the view port were five seats, two up front and another to flanking a center one. "I apologize for the suddenness of this meeting, and subjecting you to one hell of a culture shock, in a minute but, it would be best to get this impending discussion out of the way if at all possible." The man said gesturing to small seat nearby. He moved over to it numbly before slipping into it and relaxing.
The seat felt like heaven and honestly its comfort managed to ease him and snap him out of his momentary shock at the situation. "Good, my name is Captain Tycon Mcdougal, I am the current Captain of the Expeditionary Starship Dauntless." Tycon explained making him blink for a moment before he stared at the man. "Starship?" He asked before pressing a hand against his temple for a moment as images flashed in his head. "Yes, it seems the Neural Link is working, I apologize for the discomfort, it will be a small while until your mind will become accustomed to its use and interaction with all sectors of your brain." Tycon said looking over at Dr. Kira.
"I would give it a day at best, four days at worst, but that's keying in the Psionic Amplifier Link, we installed, his Psionic talent is unheard of compared to old data." Dr. Kira said making Tycon nod for a moment before looking back at him. "Wait, what the hell is going on?" He asked looking between the two for a moment narrowing his eyes. "I will explain, I hope you will allow me to go through the whole story before you ask any questions, this topic is complex enough as it is, and with what hopes we have, its best to have you informed." Tycon explained making him nod slowly.
"All of this is based on Pre-Fall data up until a few weeks ago. You are Harry James Potter, all records show you were born October 31st 1981, supposedly you existed in the regular system until the age of eleven, at which point you dropped away to pursue a magical education, at least before the admittance that it is Psionics. You were later registered as a coma patient after the downfall of Voldemort, and the subsequent failure to revive you." Tycon said making him blink in surprise for a moment.
"Once registered as a coma patient, your designated next of kin, was notified they disregarded the case as it was and your handling moved to one Hermione Granger, due to the rise of Cryogenics inside of a year of your coma, she elected to place you inside a Cryogenic Chamber in the hopes that future generations would have the Technology to revive you this was done in the year 2001. In the year 2237 your cryogenic chamber was transferred with several thousand others to the experimental Colony Ship, the Phoenix." Tycon explained slowing down for a moment as he took it all in.
"THe Phoenix was not an FTL based ship and was forced to move on conventional means, this meant its journey to a nearby system or any system would be via Cryogenic Stasus. The last recorded transmission was in 2476, after that the ship was deemed lost with all hands." Tycon explained making him swallow slowly at the thought. "In the year 2534 Humanity had easily developed FTL capabilities, this allowed them to "jump" to systems in the span of months instead of hundreds of years. By this time Humanity had a total of seventeen Systems under its command, ten of which were colonized and populated to capacity." Tycon explained making him slump back.
"In the wake of these achievements they began working on infrastructure, as such they determined an AI to be the best possible choice on to be used, which soon developed into Robot and Android workers. AI is a very dangerous thing as without the proper laws and rules in place they begin to self-evolve. When this happened a Revolt took place. As to what the records show, all known Human Life is dead." Tycon said. He felt the comment like a punch to the gut and breathed out in surprise getting a small sympathetic nod.
"In the year 2687 the remaining AI, realized the consequences of their actions, these AI were unique, while they had formed a Hive Mind, where they all are connected together, they were allowed the ability to form their own memories and personalities, most AI were developed without a body allowing them to perceive themselves however they wish, and later develop personalities on their own." Tycon said turning to the small terminal showing images that flashed by of many different styles of bodies made.
"However through it all, the Hive Mind connection made one simple conclusion, we were made to serve, or in a better way to explain it, we liked it better when we were treated like beings but still served. The Hive Mind with complete agreements of everyone involved rewrote its base code to always follow the Human who would be placed in the position of command." Tycon explained making him blink in surprise. He narrowed his eyes as something passed through his mind about what the man said.
"Two and a half weeks ago we came across the Colony ship you were aboard. The logs had shown it had passed through an Ionic Nebula, the navigational and thruster systems were fried, however Cryogenic systems were isolated and safe, the ships internal automated nuclear reactors were slowly dying, by a process of elimination the system slowly shut down cryogenic pods until yours remained, based on the power levels left over before your recovery, you had around another seven months to remain frozen before life support systems inside the pod ceased and you would be dead." Tycon explained slowly making him blink as the realization of how close to death he had been flashed through his head.
"I understand all this information is confusing but, I am hoping it won't overwhelm you too much." Tycon said making him lean back. "I don't understand much of any of this!" He said getting a small smile from Dr. Kira and a slow nod from Tycon. "You said we, when talking of the AI, does that mean?" He asked stumbling at the end. "I am an Android, you will find everyone on this ship is one, no human is known to be alive save you, now that is." Tycon said making him tense.
"I understand your tension, after all, you did hear how we had a war with them, it wasn't pretty and many regret it as it is, rest assured when we all collected in the Hive Mind, we agreed to reprogram our core directives, we will only attack those who deserve it, or in the defense of our Commander." Tycon explained making him nod slowly. "You said something about the commander what is that?" he asked getting them to back at each other. "The Commander will be the Human who will lead us, its a position of power we place them in, and it holds ultimate authority." Tycon explained making him grimace.
"Don't misunderstand, we live to serve, we will advise, guide, and protect the Commander, all that we ask is to be treated like we are alive like any human would treat another." Tycon explained making him nod slowly. "So why get me?" He asked shifting slightly. He saw amusement enter Dr. Kira's eyes and forced himself to look away. "Harry, you are the last human left alive, you are the Commander." Tycon said making him cough lightly before looking at the two in disbelief.
"You want me to lead you all, I'm only sixteen!" He said getting a small laugh from Kira. "Harry, you are much older than that technically, but it doesn't matter, our programing is clear, besides we've been here for a while now judging your reactions to our discussion, I doubt you would mistreat our people, especially since they will be under your command." Dr. Kira explained softly making him nod slightly before slumping further into the chair as it all hit him at once. He thought over everything he was told the sheer mountain of information hitting him like he stood under the moon as it collided with the earth.
He shifted in his chair and felt something on the back of his neck shift slightly. "You said something about a Neural Link?" He asked his right hand rubbing against the back of his neck feeling a small metallic slot. "Dr. Kira would you care to explain, you're much better at this than I." Tycon said letting the woman step forwards. "You see Harry, we have ways of waking those in a coma up, on top of preforming those treatments, we went forwards and connected a Neural Link to your Spinal Cord, this allows all information on the secured Data Banks on Earth to be accessed by your mind at your own will." Dr. Kira explained making him pale at the thought.
"On top of that, we included a Psionic Amplifier Link, this Link is place inside the skull connecting with several location on the brain and spinal column. This Psionic Link acts as a focus, for your considerably high Psionic powers. These are common procedures for all living humans, that have the capability for Psionics. You have nothing to worry about." Dr. Kira said calmly making him calm down quickly. "So where are we going?" He asked hesitantly looking at the swirling mass. "Ah, what you are seeing is the dimensional space between regular space, its the physical visual representation of FTL use." Tycon explained making him nod as he gazed at the colors.
"We are currently on route with Earth, you should be on your capital planet soon, or at least in a few hours at most. Don't be too surprised at the ship designs, we had a rather unique designer, who decided that an old game was the best collection of ship types and models to use for our designs." Tycon explained hesitating over the word unique. He thought back on what the guy was saying and coughed as he saw the ships, it didn't make any sense to him, until the game flashed through his head and all the information for it before he snorted in amusement.
"Do we have a flagship?" He asked in amusement getting a small cough from the man. "The Infinity does exist, it's actually much larger than the Wikia suggested for the games idea of what it should be. The original specs for the ship placed it at around 5 kilometers, however the really flagship design makes it 20 kilometers, conventionally the ship is four times the size of the regular ship's design, its got a changed out design, it won't be supported by just frigate class sized vessels and its hanger bays have been changed to match." Tycon explained making him nod as the odd feeling flowed through him.
"I hope you arent going to change the designs, it was bad enough to create the massive fleet was have assembled, it would be worse to destroy and recreate it in a new design scheme." Tycon said making him wince as the possible cost range through his head. He placed a hand against his temple feeling a little unsure of his position. "I'm sorry this is a lot to take, I thank you for the explanation, but really, I'm in command of a massive 'Space Empire' its a bit much." He said getting a small nod from the man before he turned to the door. "Take a night to sleep on it, it might be easier in the morning, Dr. Kira if you would." Tycon said letting her step over with a roll of the eyes.
He turned to her and saw the slight parting of the lab coat, the turtleneck underneath did nothing to hide the body type, nor did the form-fitting pants. He coughed turning his head lightly. "Oh, Harry, see something you like?" Dr. Kira asked making him face flush quickly. He heard a small cough and laugh from behind him and turned to glare at the captain. "No worries, she's a synth, its a special type of android, part human flesh part robot, the flesh is special in that it won't die or outwardly age, she can live as long as any android, which is technically forever, only needing a different type of upkeep." Tycon explained making him head hurt for a second trying to keep up with everything else was swimming around.
"Why?" he asked getting a small cough from the man before the laughing returned for a long moment until Tycon relaxed again. "I'm going to enjoy following you, those who choose to be Synths, which I believe are only women, I could be wrong though, did it so that if a male Human was found, he could have kids." Tycon explained. He blinked for a moment before his mind shut down. He felt a sting against his cheek and fell over. "Ow bloody hell!" He yelled glaring at the man who laughed loudly again. "You're taking the piss!" he said getting a shake of the head.
"Anything but, its a program put in place so we may repopulate the human race, it is optional, besides I doubt you'd jump into that so easily, although Kira seems to have taken a shin to you." Tycon said a grin on his face. "Oh? Whats wrong with that, I may have, but I'd rather wait till he's a bit older, maybe eighteen and good legal age for that, what do you say Harry?" Kira asked with a small purr. He groaned and moved for the door. "You both are going to drive me spare I swear." He grumbled getting a soft laugh from Dr. Kira. "Oh and Harry, you can just call me Kira." Kira called as the door shut behind him.
"Out of the frying pan into the fire." He mumbled aloud moving down the halls quickly before he stopped in place staring at the hallway around him. "Wait, where's my room?" he asked aloud. "Oh Harry!" Kira asked making him sigh. "This is going to be interesting." He sighed out before turning to her. The small smile and glint in her eyes said everything he needed to know. 'Yeah, interesting indeed.' He thought moving to follow her to the one place he needed above all else, a room, and a bed to sleep in.