Once I managed to gain control of the electrical sparks coming out of my hand, I decided to see exactly how many powers I had. Given the fact that my biometric computer stated that my E-DNA contamination was 'stable', I probably wasn't going to gain new powers by accident, though I probably could add in the abilities via Crogenitor genetic engineering bullshit, but that would have to wait for a later day. Mainly because I didn't trust myself to not overdue it, but also because I had doubts that I'd actually need that kind of power: after all, with the power of a progenitor commander, I'd probably only be using those powers if I was screwed.

Needless to say, I did end up needing them eventually, but that is irrelevant for now.

Any ways, the first new power I discovered I had in addition to electrokinesis was pyrokinesis: at the moment just limited to setting my fists on fire and shooting small fireballs out of them (violating the law of conservation in process, somehow). After testing out that power, I focused on a different genesis type, specifically bio. I decided to see if I had any plant based powers first, so I focused on trying to create anything I could think of that was plant based: seeds, vines, roots, etc. Eventually, I was able to grow a throny whip out of my arm, with every thorn apparently secreting lethal toxins. Again, I was violating the law of conservation. In fact, a lot of my powers did that. Next I tried focusing on fungi, which lead me to release a cloud of spores which I could use for healing. Sweet. Finally, focusing my thoughts on bugs allowed me to grow an insectile carapace, great for defense. Cool.

After that, I focused on Necrogenesis, and started by focusing on some soul based abilities. To my surprise, I grew glowing purple claws, which could easily cut through just about anything. When I accidentally stabbed on into a plant that just happened to be lying around, it drained the life out of it in seconds, leaving me feeling invigorated. Vampiric claws: nice. Additionally, I also found out I could shoot bolts of darkness by thinking hard enough, one of which ended up knocking me out when it hit something important. When I came to a minute later, I found out I had a third necrogenesis ability: I could project my soul out of my body. Oh man, that was awesome. There were a ton of ways that I could abuse that...

Not that I used them in any lewd ways...

ANYWAYS, back to my new powers: with Plasma genesis, Necro Genesis and Bio genesis checked off, time to focus on Cyber: apparently I could now create and control nanites in my body, primarily for healing, but I was pretty sure that they could be modified to eat things. Hmm, should probably upgrade those nanites with any viable tech I come by, to make sure they stay valid. Also, the nanites could be used to generate laser canons or missiles as needed. Sweet.

So far, I had three powers for each genesis type: fire balls, burning fists, and arced lightning for plasma; a venomous thorn whip, healing spores, and chitin armor for bio; soul projection, vampiric claws, and bolts of darkness for necro; and assembly nanites, missiles and laser beams for cyber. Logically, I should have three powers for quantum genesis as well. So let's see what they are.

First thing I did was try and charge at something distant, to see if teleportation was a skill I had. Answer: yes, and the teleport also generated special claws on my hands. Hmm, teleport charge. Me like. Next I focused hard on a distant piece of scrap metal (because these sort things always seem to require concentration) and struck out with my arms, which ended up releasing a pulse that didn't just send the metal flying back, it pulverized the scrap into a tiny ball. Apparently I had gravity waves as an attack: me like that a lot.

Just then, I noticed I was receiving an alert from my support computer in my commander: apparently my subjects wanted to know how big the Citadel I was building was going to be, because they wanted to set up a safe zone if it fell. The mere fact that they brought it up made me groan internally: I hadn't actually thought up the size yet. Annoyed, I just stood around for a moment, eyes closed, trying to think up how big I wanted it while deeply wishing I had more time.

Then I heard a strange noise, which prompted me to open my eyes. At first, nothing seemed out of place. Then I noticed that the artifact in front of me, which had been spinning on its axis this entire time, wasn't moving. Like, at all. Curious, I was about to touch it when I noticed that some of the computer screens in the room had also frozen up. I was starting to get worried. As I was about to check those out, I finally noticed that the clock within my commander was not advancing forward. I mean, a full two minutes passed, during which I got a really bad headache, but the clock didn't change.

Wait, was my third power from quantum genesis the ability to stop time? SWEET!

Also, my headache was getting really bad. So bad that I couldn't focus anymore and, with the loss of my focus, the time control faded.

Hmm. Guess I can only control time for a few minutes before I need to break. Better save that data for a later date.

With my powers determined, I decided to head back to my hub world, and, you know, finally design the citadel I wanted built.

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In hindsight, I think that the event that unlocked my chronokinesis (time-control, for those of you who aren't aware) was one of my shining moments of idiocy, since, as a commander, I could just slow down my perception of time and design the citadel in a matter of seconds in real-time. Needless to say, that's exactly what I did when I made it back to my Hub world. It took my just one second in real time to do it (it took me a day to get satisfied with it in commander time), but the result made Godzilla look like a midget. If it weren't for the casual violations of physics I could do with my technology, it would've also been impossible to build, but my technology was more than sufficient to tell those laws to go and take a time out.

Any ways, without out of the way, I decided to check out my progress on the Osiris commander. Turns out, my optimistic belief that it could be reactivated fully within a week was not holding water: it needed a lot more time to finish. Oh well. Back to the drawing board.

Additionally, it turned out I was starting to experience some cramming within the settlements I'd built on my hub world. While I could've just built more cities on it, I didn't want to ruin its beauty too much, so I instead decided to work on colonizing the other planets in my hub universe. I also noted how eerily creepy it was that five of the planets I had roughly matched up in terms of environment of the five main worlds of Darkspore. While nothing ultimately came of it, it was still unnerving.

Just then, I received a report from he metal planet. Man, I needed to give those names soon. Any ways, apparently my fabbers had been examining it and had found a- wait, is that a POTBELLY COMMANDER?

Okay, now I'm getting suspicious. Someone really seems to want me to have a lot of advantages, don't they?

(In hindsight, I'm really not sure why he decided it was a good idea to dump them here, but I digress).

I set my fabbers to start rebuilding it and, in doing so, net me another commander. Every advantage I could have was appreciated.

Then I set the rest of my fabbers to begin assembling my tower, which, due to my advanced technology, would only need a day to construct, rather than a few months if not years, before turning my attention to the crogenitor tech I now had access to.

Advanced cybernetics: eh, I could probably find some better examples, but it was a start.

Advanced gravity manipulation machinery: oooh, I like this.

Hyper efficient teleportation: good to have

The ability to communicate with the dead (achieved through advanced research into necrogenesis): okay, that tech was weird, but appreciated.

There was plenty more tech, but for now I was content with those few techs. Besides, I had other pressing matters to attend to.

Like, for example, designing some new AIs.

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Look, I like to have things I can use long before I actually need them. Also, every time I procrastinated on a topic prior to becoming a commander came back to bite me in the ass BIG TIME, so I was not going to let this happen now that I was a commander.

First off, I needed to have the technology to develop an advanced AI. Since I had HELIX and Seraph to work with, this was already complete.

Second: determine AI function

I had three AIs in mind at the moment: one to function as my aide, while the others would help fill out my Freudian trio.

Step 3: Give them personality.

Well, my aide was going to be mostly logical, but also some emotion, to keep me from getting to unnerved. Also, she will have a feminie personality.

As for the ID and Superego: Well, Superego would obviously be selfless, ID would be selfish, though loyal to me. Also, Id would be masculine and Superego feminine, because it felt natural, for some reason.

Finally, I also decided to grow them bodies, taking advantage of the fact I could easily engineer them in a set of cloning tubes. It was easy to set up a quartet of tubes, allowing me to provide all of them with bodies to interact with.

Well, problem solved for now.

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You know, in hindsight, I probably should've kept a better eye on the cloning chambers I'd made. If I had, I probably would have noticed that, with nothing else to do, the last cloning tube had begun to engineer a body of its own. Since there were no preset orders, it set out to balance the number of entities already gestating, meaning the new being would be male. Since all of the others gestating were human, so would this one. And since it had no presets when to wake the subject, it would do so when the subject was of basic cognitive awareness.

But that would be a problem for the (admittedly, near) future...

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Alright, with that out of the way, time to go to the next universe.

Now, considering the artifacts I'd found in both the Spore universe and Darkspore universe, I was pretty sure that I was being railroaded into universes containing them. And while I wasn't happy about this (and, I later learned, neither was ROB), it wasn't something that I was going to change yet. For now, I'd just have to settle for being prepared for the dangers to come. Ugh.

So, once I had an army set up, I decided to march through the portal after it found a new destination. Strangely, once it locked onto the new universe, it began to glow blue-green, red, yellow, blue-white, purple gold, and purple-pink. While that did end up being important, I mostly just brushed it off at the moment and took the plunge.

On the other side was a large strip of coastline, home to odd, bug-like aliens and tubular trees. The biology of the creatures aliens was earth-compatible, but I wasn't sure where exactly I was yet. Since I hadn't encountered any resistance yet, I quickly began to set up a base. The animals expressed curiosity at what I was doing, but didn't intervene. Because of this, I was able to get all of the basic factories up before I finally received interference.

Said interference came in the form of three groups of infantry. A quick scan revealed two things: all three groups were at battalion strength...

And all of them were composed of humans. Uniquely, though, each had a different color and design scheme to their armor: one was blue-green and slightly resembled the fauna watching my base, another was yellow and steel in coloration and looked almost robotic, while the last group had red and tan armor and resembled stereotypical space marines.

After one minute (the time it took the battalions to realize that I hadn't been trying to kill them when I scanned them. Should probably be more careful about that in the future), the three groups tired to initiate contact with me, via math. I quickly vetoed that idea and began broadcasting in English.

"Greetings, who are you, and who do you represent?"

The stunned silence that followed was pretty amusing.

After 10 seconds, though, one of the guys in the blue-green armor spoke up.

"Greeting, I am Amare Berko of the People's Africa Union."

He was followed by one of the more robotic looking soldiers.

"Greeting, I am Marion Hawthorne of the American Reclamation Corporation."

Finally, one of the space marines joined the conversation.

"And I am Mousier Alain Durand of Franco-Iberia."

Hmm, all of those names of their home nations sounded very familiar-wait.

Now I knew where I was.

In this universe, a great mistake had happened that had wrecked life on Earth. The planet was now dying, with everyone left on planet struggling to scrape by. With this in mind, the leaders of the world had decided to look towards the last hope for Civilization: Beyond Earth.

And if the lights I had seen in the portal were any indication, I would have to face the Rising Tide.

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AN: Well that completes possibly the longest chapter I have written for this fic.

And yes, the new universe is Civilization: Beyond Earth, with the Rising Tide expansion. And before I leave the universe, we will reah Sid Meier's Starships territory, because I thought that the Starships in that game were cool, even if the game itself wasn't really that good.

So, Read and Review. This is Flameal15k, signing off.

Also, @RyvenRazgriz: I'm well aware of that. Still, it would be fun.

Also, Fusou seemed to enjoy doing so in the Worm Omakes, even if she was shoehorned into it.