As the group was starting to calm down Scarlett entered the room dressed in a French maid uniform that hugged her frame.
"Lunch is served as there was no request Alfred chose to cook fajitas using both steak and chicken in the main dish with sides of refried beans, yellow rice, lettuce, guacamole, and pico de gallo."
At hearing lunch was ready everyone's stomachs growled, untangling themselves they went to leave except Sirius who was looking at the shelf of blank books thinking he could get one for Harry, but Marcus shook his head guessing the man's thoughts.
"They won't go through the gate it's a safety feature to keep the information from getting into the wrong hands," he told the other man while guiding him out of the room.
The smell of the food hit their noses then the sound of sizzling could be heard from the dining room, as they entered the room they found the table set as Scarlett described.
"Cameron made sure to stock a large selection of soft drinks from around the world if you do not want those Alfred has prepared iced tea and English tea as well," Billie said as she pushed a silver cart filled with a variety of drinks into the room.
Marcus and Emma took an iced tea while Alice found a bottle of melon-flavored Ramuné the rest took English tea.
As they sat everyone was confused about what to do with the foreign food until Marcus took a tortilla from a plate in the center of the table holding it to form a U and began to fork portions of each food item into the tortilla then he looked around the table but not seeing what he wanted he called out to the kitchen, "A small bowl of sour cream please."
Alfred came into the room a minute later with the bowl, "Sorry master I was unsure if anyone would eat it I'll be sure to include it next time I cook meals that normally have sour cream."
"It's fine I normally only have it with Mexican meals and I'm not sure if anyone outside the States or South America eats it at all," Marcus said as he picked up the spoon from the bowl and added some of the sour cream to his folded fajita.
After that, the meal was eaten in silence with a few murmured compliments about how the others were enjoying the food, Alice did try some of the sour cream using a clean spoon but going by the face she made she did not like it.
After eating his fill, Marcus sat and watched as Sirius, Rose, and Hermione ate nearly twice as much as he and Emma had.
Alice and Luna had finished eating earlier excusing themselves from the table and going to the sitting room with Alice talking about a cartoon she likes to watch when the TV in the sitting room came on and the music of the opening credits started Sirius looked torn between seeing what it was and finishing his meal.
Once the three had finished, Scarlett and Billie came to clear the table leaving the drinks as Marcus signaled them to stay sitting, pulling the Wills from a pocket and laying them on the table. he looked at Rose and Hermione.
"Luna mentioned eggs to continue your bloodlines and hers as well in your home world, but neither of you names who you wish to father the children nor who to carry them, "he said while tapping the parchments.
Emma took over speaking, "If you want them to be raised right you need to name surrogate mothers or the ministry can take control of that and the people they chose may take control of them and use the children of heroes to push their agenda."
"I'm not sure how things stand now but I know of a few worlds similar to yours where after the war the ministry cleaned out most of the troublemakers for a time then went back to the way it was after a few years corrupt and filled with biased laws if they have any chance to control the children they could do it faster saying it is to protect your legacy, my recommendation is to tell whoever you choose to as a surrogate to leave the country and watch how things go until it is time for the children to go to school," Marcus said after taking a drink.
The two sat and listened while gripping each other's hands, then turned to hold a silent conversation with their eyes before speaking aloud together, " Daphne and Tracey."
Sirius had nothing to add to what was being said until now, "What about Remus or my counterpart over in your world?"
The girls flinched at the name Remus, the last time Rose spoke to him had been harsh after she found out he ran away from Tonks after getting her pregnant.
"Remus ran out on his girlfriend after he got her pregnant, we ran into him at a safe house when we were looking for some information to help end our war, Rose here kind of blew up on him when she found out he ran out, the curses verbal and magical sent him running and hiding from Rose until the safe house was attacked, as for your counterpart he went missing just after we started our sixth year, " Hermione told them while Rose sat there her head lowered thinking that she had been a bit hard on Remus.
Sirius was silent after hearing this his mind trying to get over the fact Remus got himself a girlfriend was a shock after all he and James had tried to hook the man up when they were younger, and he would fight against it because he is a werewolf.
"Why Daphne and Tracey?" Emma asks trying to get back to the main subject.
Rose answered, "They are a couple whose fathers disowned them after they umm broke each other's maidenhead breaking contracts to death eaters with virginity clauses and cost the families a great deal of money, the two barely got to France before the borders were closed when Riddle took over the ministry, last we heard they were living with the Delacour family, they were friendly with Hermione mostly I think because they found her pretty like I do."
Hermione began to blush at the last statement causing the others to smile, Hermione slapped Roses's arm getting a few laughs from the group.
Pushing the wills across the table, "Add that in now you need to choose a father..., " he stopped talking when both looked at him and then to their stomachs, Emma burst into a laughing fit as his head met the table with a very loud thunk.
Sirius was trying to hold his laughter in but when Marcus lifted his head from the table the large red mark on his forehead was enough to cause his laughing to join Emma's.
Suddenly a panel on the wall nearest Marcus turned on showing Beverley's head with a bemused expression, "Sir I have Miss Lovegood in the sickbay saying that she is ready for me to extract some eggs for you to fertilize and send to her mother in the world Miss potter and miss Granger came from."
That was enough to have Emma, Rose, Hermione, and Sirius all start laughing loudly Emma ended up falling from her seat when Marcus once again hit the table with his head, "Luna, please wait until Beverley finishes the medical download," he said his voice sounded strained.
"Yes, Big Daddy," Luna replied with a sing-song voice, that set everyone off again.
It took nearly ten minutes for them to stop laughing mainly because they would set each other off again, Alice at one point came for another drink from the cart and gave them all a funny look that did not help calm them down.
Marcus having enough stood from the table and went to join Alice in watching TV at the door he said, "Add that to the Wills once you are done."
As he was about to close the door, Hermione said something that made him misstep, "What about Daphne and Tracey I'm sure they will want children of their own will you be helping with that as well?"
Luna who was still on the video screen didn't help with her next comment, "Yay these children are going to have a big and wonderful family."
That was it for Marcus who just shut down, not even hitting the floor got a reaction from him as the world went black.
Emma who was looking at the screen saw lunas eyes glowing with silver light, turned at the sound of something hitting the floor jumped up, and ran to his side just as Beverley appeared using the house sensors to scan him, "Nothing physically wrong with him other than the mark on his forehead but that should not have caused him to lose consciousness."
Emma shook her head and then looked at Beverley "We may have gone a bit too far about the children and then Luna being a seer adding that last bit made it real for him and it was just too much added to stress he may have been hiding from what had to happen yesterday."
The others had gathered around them by now and hearing what Emma said made them feel like kicking themselves, Rose and Hermione had spoken about it in the bath that morning and while not fully over what had happened to them they didn't blame Marcus as he was only helping them stay sane and alive.
Sirius just stood there trying catch up, while Alice came over and started poking Marcus on the cheek.
Emma stood up as Scarlett came in from the kitchen setting a platter of cookies and milk on the table she went and lifted Marcus from the floor flashing everyone as she did so.
Sirius was looking at Scarlett's behind while Rose and Hermione looked away, Alice was spared the sight as she was in front of the cyborg, Emma could only shake her head then slap the back of the mans head.
"Take him to the bio bed," Emma said then turned to Sirius and the girls, "Go and watch the TV while I make sure he will be okay."
She then followed Scarlett as she carried Marcus to the sick bay and lay him on a bed then stoo to the side waiting for nee orders.
"You and Billie will need to wear panties," Emma said to the cyborg while she watched Beverley scan Marcus with a tri-quarter.
"Yes mistress but we will need to be ready should master want to make use of us and panties would be in the way," Scarlett said.
"You are not here for that, we need maids, not sexbots," Emma said rubbing her forehead.
Luna who was still in the room lying on a biobed piped up startling Emma, "Ohh sex bot what's that it sounds fun?"
Emma turned to face Luna while patting her chest over her heart, "Luna! I thought you were watching TV again."
Luna pointed to the ceiling that had a screen showing the cartoon that was also playing in the sitting room, "So what's a sex bot are they fun?"
"You are too young to know that right now maybe in a year or two," Emma said walking to Luna and stroking her head.
"Ooh poo everyone says that to me when I ask some questions," Luna said pouting cutely.
Emma giggled and kissed Luna on the forehead, "I know sweetie but we adults keep some secrets to keep you youngsters from doing things that could hurt you or make life hard,"
Luna gave a cheeky grin and then rolled off of the table and skipped across the room to bounce on her toes a few times before pouncing onto Marcus's chest getting a grunt from him she then poked his nose causing it to twitch a time or two.
After a minute of this, his eyes opened to find Luna sitting on him and his nose was feeling funny, "Hi Little Moon while I enjoy your company I do need to breathe," he got out weasing.
Luna leaned down and hugged him getting another wease before she hopped off of him and biobed, then skipped out of the room.
Emma and Beverley were both smiling at Luna's antics, "Bumps on the yeah doth front and back from falling other than that he is medically fine."
Marcus sat up looking around the room, " Why am I in here?"
Emma giggled for a second, "Well Big Daddy I think you were stressing over the girls last night then them wanting your seed for the babies in their home world then Luna added her request, that was the tipping point so you passed out," Being called Big Daddy caused Marcus to groan.
In the sitting room, Luna skipped to sit with Alice to finish the cartoon, Sirius was fascinated by the TV while Hermione and Rose sat off to the side of the room and talked.
"I think we went a bit far asking him to father more children, these we now carry he will get to see and be a part of their lives but what about the ones back home and then adding some for Daphne and Tracey," Hermione said while slumping on the loveseat she shared with Rose.
Rose leaned against her wrapping an arm over her shoulder, "I know but I can't think of anyone back home to trust not to try and use the children just like he said the ministry would try."
Billie was serving snacks to the group and then going about dusting and other cleaning ignoring Sirius following her with his eyes on her every time she had to stretch up or bend over each time she did he would stutter and drool as every time she would flash her bare bottom.
Hermione grew tired of Sirius making noises waved her wand conjured a pair of panties and then used a switching charm to put them on the maid and lengthened her skirt much to the man's disappointment.
Returning her attention to Rose gave a smirk, which was mirrored before she could get back to discussing what to do about the children Emma pulled a staggering Marcus into the room and sat him between Alice and Luna both of whom leaned against him.
Emma then joined the two teens turning a chair to face them, " We are sorry to ask him for..." Hermione started to say but Emma raised a hand to stop her.
"It's fine dear I understand but he was feeling that he had taken advantage of you two as well as fathering more kids was a bit much but I was able to talk him into giving a sample to fertilize the eggs, " Emma told them licking her lips at the last bit.
Both were confused for a minute until understanding hit Hermione who blushed further confusing Rose until Hermione whispered something that caused her to blush as well.
After that, they sat there talking about the differences between the world's but Emma noted that the only real difference was the changes in genders of Potter and Lovegood and Sirius living while Lionel died in the DoM.
Marcus sitting between Alice and Luna eventually regained his composure and watched a few episodes of a cartoon he did not know with them when suddenly Zeke and Snowball came running into the room followed by what looked like a cat-sized dragon with blue hide and white feathered wings.
Zeke jumped up to Alice while Snowball went to get scratched by Emma before wandering off to explore the house some more, the small dragon landed on Luna's head.
Marcus was confused about the dragon as it looked like it came from the anime Sword Art Online, its appearance and apparent instant linking of Luna were not all that weird as she just oozed kindness and an odd serenity.
"Mia?" Marcus called out causing the others to jump a little.
Mia's voice came from the speakers around the room, "One of the new farms of magical creatures has a flock of these types of dragons, they eat fruits and vegetables and are harmless so are not restricted to the farm, a few have begun to nest in the fruit trees around the house, like the one from that anime the have a healing breath."
Luna had reached up and lifted the dragon down and was looking it over closely, after a few seconds she turned to face Marcus with the deadly weapon of puppy eyes.
"We will have to register it at the ministry as a rare creature then talk to Professor Flitwick," Marcus said caving after only a glance at the puppy eyes.
Emma, Hermione, and Rose had watched them and even from across the room felt the power of those eyes, Emma could only nod as the other two had left the loveseat to hug Luna rubbing their cheeks against Luna's getting giggles from the girl and Alice.
"Master Jessup just informed me that the Feather Dragons have spread to the other farms as well, their dung will have similar effects as the dung of the Dragons of the world your mission is taking place, he said this will eventually lead to the harvest to be three times as large as it is now in a few months," Mia let them know, Hermione seemed to flinch at the word master.
Emma saw the flinch and remembered that the girl was big on beings not having masters and would most likely start some campaign to free Mia, Scarlett, and Billie, deciding to stop that before letting it happen, she pulled Hermione off to the side and started a hushed conversation informing the tern that they were not slaves and even if they wanted to let them go it wouldn't do anything because of the programing.
"Fine just tell him to keep them in check if he can set their reproduction rate to a clutch of eggs every five years or so we don't want to be overrun by the things in the future," Marcus said while fighting to take his eyes away from the cute scene in front of him.
"Message sent, he also wishes to inform you that the company has already bought the stocks of ore and ingots you had, and the stocks we kept are in the storage room connected to the machine shop and labs are full as well, by our estimates there are enough metals to build a ship on the scale of the Destiney and the company has the blueprints for it and several other ships, if you have these and build a ship the company has offered to upgrade it to Heaven Built for free as the stocks they received were enough to build ten stock models that agents usually buy," Mia said while using one of the glass panels of the window/wall to project several ships with measurements.
The largest was a Wraith hive ship and the smallest was the Nx-01 Enterprises, many of the ships Marcus did not recognize but his eyes fell on several he knew like the Asgard Billiskner battle cruiser and even the USS Voyager was there, standing he walked to the wall and taped the images of the Billiskner, Voyager, and Destiney, Emma was just standing there mouth moving but no words formed after hearing that the stocks of metal were so large after seeing that the Destiney was a thousand meters long and nearly five hundred from wingtip to wingtip.
"H how do we have enough to build something that big," Emma asked looking from one ship to another and comparing them when Marcus selected three.
"It's a combination of the metals farm and the original ore vein that master had it being made using the blood of an elder being would develop ores at a high rate when the vein was moved to the farm its nature spread throughout the farm while the farm also has a time dilation when no living person works with the farm it can go through a year in a day on the lowest setting up to a hundred years at the maximum, without the time dilation the farm produces around fifty pounds of each type of metal a day from each vein, Jessup has had the time dilation at maximum using the golems to gather it all, " Mia said while Emma listened trying to do the math in her head but the numbers kept getting jumbled up.
Marcus was thinking over the farm and it was larger he bought it as full size and it had multiple veins of each ore something like ten for the rarer metals and a hundred for the more common metals, "So we have a lot of metal stocked up?" after doing the math on only the time.
"Yes the time dilation comes up to 5,657,500 years in total during your time on mission," Mia confirms causing a lot of gasping.
Pulling out his phone Marcus looked up the blueprints for the ships each was a single point, tilting the phone to Emma showing that he planned to get the three plans, nodding Emma did not see a reason to not build a ship for the future, she then took the phone and looked through some power source blueprints finding something called a potintia satellite she added it to the list as the satellite would give them a long-lasting energy source increase they are unable to enter the island for some reason.
After seeing what she picked he nodded then hit the buy button spending thirteen points, the screen on the wall flickered removing all but the three ships he bought the blueprints for adding the satellite as well.
" Run simulations using the hull and floorplan of the Voyager, the power source of the Billiskner, and solar collectors from Destiny, weapons can be a mix of the best from all three same for shields, The Destiny should also have the potintia slots for a secondary source if I am reading this right the ancients were going to bring a few once they were onboard but they never went after the ship," Marcus said
Emma was looking over the Voayger and spoke up, "Keep the warp core and engines as well, add two extra industrial replicators, and move a holodeck closer to the crew quarters of the senior crew no sense in having to go halfway across the ship to use them if needed, add secondary and tertiary systems for shields and weapons as well,"
"Use the same room Nealix did for the dining room it's not far from the bridge and crew quarters, also keep the bio-neural gel packs and holo emitters throughout the ship, when the simulation renders a working model using the machine shop start the build, go ahead and build three satellites and send them through the gate to the empty earth I have and store the potentia there for the time being, I'm thinking one for each system with a router to feed power to the secondary shields, "Marcus said then looked over the plans as they changed rapidly to accommodate their wishes.
"Build the storage for the solar collectors a few decks below the main engineering and tie it into the core ejection system just in case they need to be ejected, "Emma finished while also looking over the ship.
Everyone was looking at the screen now as it rapidly changed, Sirius was looking lost his eyes glazed over thinking that these people were talking nonsense, Hermione, after getting over being told she couldn't think of the A.I and maids as slaves was now bouncing on her toes as she grew up watching science fiction shows hoping to get to one day board the ship while Rose just hoped Hermione wouldn't get lost in the thing.
Alice and Luna had been distracted by the pets Zeke was begging for cookies while the dragon was sniffing Luna's fruit drink.
"Two days estimated until construction can begin I will send you a confirmation request before I start," Mia said as the image continued to shift.
"Thank you," Marcus and Emma said together as they turned to see Sirius looking completely lost, Hermione was hugging herself eyes glowing as Rose was looking at the ship smiling.
"Alright let's get things going on the wills, Sirius you stay here with Alice and Luna, " Marcus said getting the attention of the others.
Rose and Hermione jumped a little while Sirius just walked to sit back down to watch TV, Marcus started to leave the house when Emma lay a hand on his arm, "Beverley still needs to finish the download and the girls will need to give eggs,"
Marcus stopped and then looked around the room getting nods from Rose and Hermione, sighing a little Marcus went to sit between Alice and Luna again he had to pick up Zeke and put the dog in his lap.
It was several hours later the group watched some of the first season of Star Trek Voyager, Sirius saw what the ship could do, and he was amazed he had thought that the ship was like the ones he knew not something that could fly amongst the stars.
They were just finishing the sixth episode when Alfred announced dinner was ready tonight they would have spaghetti and meatballs with assorted breads.
Everyone enjoyed the meal and ate mostly in silence, after finishing the meal Sirius decided to return to Hogwarts to settle his mind as all he learned that day made him feel small compared to what most of this group could and would do, "I'm not sure what to say about all of this but do take care of the pups," Sirius said while looking to Rose and Hermione, they both smiled at the man using his pet name for them just as their Sirius would do.
Marcus nodded as he led the man out of the house and to the car letting Billie drive them to the gate.
" We will do our best before you go back I need to cast a charm to hide what you learned today, you can tell Harry and Hermione that you went to visit some distant family, the charm will last until their sixth-year Yule, I know you want to tell them everything but Harry has a bright future but if he learns of this he may not take it, if he doesn't a war will break out that will last year's that will be hell for him," Marcus said drawing his wand readying to cast.
Sirius was taken back hearing this but nodded, "Alright but make sure it is only that long and you make sure I get to meet the pups before you all move on to the next place you all are going to go to," He said bracing himself to not fight the charm.
After casting the charm Marcus held up a piece of parchment, "Change back to padfoot and chew this up then take it to Flitwick, I doubt Luna left word with the professor she was leaving with Alice, it's a note explaining that they are with Emma and I until Sunday evening."
Sirius grinned before doing as told Marcus opened a portal just outside the room of requirements and sent Sirius through.
After closing the portal he returned to the house to find the group of girls watching more Star Trek Voyager, sitting with Emma this time he stole her glass of tea and took a sip receiving a mock glare from her.
Back at Hogwarts Padfoot was running through the halls to find Flitwick the note in his mouth was chewed up but readable, he found the diminutive man exiting his office and slid to a halt barely bumping him with his snout and dropping letter at his feet.
Flitwick picked up the letter and cast a drying charm to get rid of the drool opening and reading it before nodding then looking to Padfoot and patting his head.
"Next time they have to leave tell them to just stick a note to my door and you best stay in dog form, also stay away from Severus," he said and began to laugh at Padfoot's jaw hanging open.
After a minute and looking around seeing they were alone Sirius changed back to human, "You knew?"
Getting his laughter under control and looking up to the man with a grin, "Of course I knew that you are an animagus just as James and Peter were, Don't forget I am half goblin we have better scenes, also my cousins at the bank are upset you haven't been in to speak with your new account manager BlackBlood."
"I'll get to that after the weekend the firsties seem to like having a big dog around a few seemed to want to play fetch when I was looking for you, i think ill go do that before going to find Harry and steal some of his time before curfew," Sirius said before changing back to Padfoot and bounding off to find that group of first years that tried to call him to play.
Flitwick watched the dog run off with a smile before reopening his office door and floating the letter to his desk then leaving again to join Pamona and Minerva for tea and their head of hose meeting they had begun after Severus's first year as a Professor to plan out how to balance out his excessive point taking or awarding.
As Flitwick was nearing Pomonas office he heard children laughing and calling out for the stick to be brought to one or another and a dog's happy but muffled barking coming in from an open window that didn't let in the cold November winds.
Pomona and Minerva were standing at the window watching a group of first-years throw the stick while the big black dog ran through the courtyard some kind seventh years had cleared of snow by banishing it into piles that other students used to make snowballs or snowmen.
"I do have to wonder how long it will be before Albus will try to make him leave, after last year's fiasco?" Pomona asked Minerva who was watching the dog closely as Harry Potter joined the children in playing with the dog upon seeing the teen the dog jumped on him and licked his face.
"There is a nice charm cast on him neither Albus nor Severus will notice him as long as he keeps some distance from them," Fillius said as he joined the two women at the window.
Minerva nodded taking her eyes off the students to look at her friend, " As long as he doesn't harm the children I'll not stop him but if he should show any hint of doing such I will send him back to Azkaban faster than Barty and Milicent did back in eighty-one,"
"Cornelius was a fool following the advice of Lucius and placing those monsters here and not even asking the governors nor the staff for an opinion, I mean we all know that the man is Potters' godfather after you told us last summer I'm just angry that the stupid little man will not listen when we tried to bring it up during the meetings on this crazy tournament," Pomona ground out leaving the window to start the meeting.
Fillius used a stepping stool to get into his seat as the two ladies sat down and cups of tea were passed out by Pomona's house elf, "We are not paying him to listen to us.."
Both women sighed taking sips from their cups before letting the subject drop and being the reason why they met every month besides the company of friends.
After a couple of hours of planning on how to counteract Severus for the next month with the pleasant sounds of happy children in the background it was nearing dinner time, Minerva went to the window and found that the children had all been sitting around Harry and the dog who had been covered in ribbons and bows most likely something the young girls, she was amazed to find even some Slytherins of third year and below had joined the group with only Miss Greengrass and Davis of higher years.
"Dinner time children, Mister Potter and Miss Granger please ensure the dog is cleaned up before bringing him into the castle but do have Mister Creevy take some pictures, I am sure that the children will enjoy a reminder of this time with Padfoot."
The large black dog looked at her and saw a gleaming in her eyes and knew that she was aware of who he was, the children cheering kept him from running when they all gathered when Collin Creevy who was there lifted his camera.
"Already done Professor but I do think we should take a group photo," the third-year Gryffindor said.
Filius came to the window to see this when he noticed that from this height they could get every student in the picture lifting his wand he called out, "Let me see your camera, Mister Creevy and you join the others,"
When Collin held out the camera Fillius levitated it to himself and set it on the window seal focusing it on the large group of students then pushed the shutter button, just as the camera flashes Padfoot turned to lick Harry who was sitting at the dogs side an arm around him from chin to brow causing all that saw it to launch into laughter, Hermione was not let off as Padfoot turned and got her as well.
"Mister Creevy the counter indicates one more photo can be taken do you mind if we take one more this time Paddfoot will behave," Fillius asked looking to the boy who nodded.
This time the dog did behave and sat there, inside he felt extremely happy for not being chased after and could have fun and even play with his godson and his friend.
After the second picture was taken the students gathered up their stuff and went to dinner as Harry and Hermione began removing the ribbons and bows as well as casting some cleaning charms they learned from the room of requirements, Professor Flitwick had called Collin to join the professors to talk about developing the photos and giving out copies to the students the three professors agreed to pay for it making the young boy beam because developing that many was beyond what he could pay for.
