Eleven out of twelve blue angel women were NOT in a massive underwater healing chamber inside an artificial and magically enhanced mushroom island. Not at first, anyway.
And at least ALL sixty-two angel babies were CERTAINLY not near that chamber. Or within visible range of it. Though they were currently busy enjoying the pressure pulses that caused all the other healing pods and healing tubes and so forth to rock with (normally deadly) impacts.
And several of those angel women turned down their emotional connection to one another, if for no other reason than to ensure they could focus on keeping an eye on the little ones or explore their new home. Especially as the children were not allowed out of the tanks just yet, as only Mushroom Island could absorb enough energy in the air to prevent them from accidentally casting stuff.
Normal spells and stuff would still be usable, but Eve had locked those down for the little ones despite Adam and Sarah passing over the entire database of 'Researched' Materia that she had consumed.
So the women were 'equipped' with nearly every possible spell, and their Symbiotes easily allowed them to pick active effects to autocast (Defensive stuff) and to modify effects on the fly during casting (Apply [[All]] or [[Status Strike]] or [[Elemental Ward]] and so on and so forth).
But even after ensuring that they were able to (Aside from the more common defenses) ward against all Materia with status or elemental effects and so on and so forth, that only made an impact on their overall magic reserves and recovery rate. And uh. Didn't take too long to do.
And then one Symbiote found the more interesting setup of hilariously overpowered protection and suddenly all the other women and babies had that as default. Which uh. Was great?
Sadly this change allowed the LAST blue angel to better withstand the silver demon under Mushroom Island.
At least the babies enjoyed the increased waves?
Although Eve found it humorous that her children who complained most still ensured that she was keeping a recording of various things for future 'Scientific Research', not that it bothered her too much.
No, what WAS important was that a golden horned silver skinned demon was being distracted heavily by a white-haired blue angel. Which became MUCH worse fairly rapidly as the woman had a history of sexaul adventuring before and DURING their relationship, and now had a group of eleven equally attractive best friends who endured torture and recovered together.
And wasn't against sharing.
Point was, Vincent Valentine was distracted, then VERY distracted, and none of those involved paid attention as golden motes of Chaos energy began to rapidly fill the healing chamber inside a massive false island designed to absorb ambient mako and keep the local terrain from being dangerous due to too much power.
But Eve was suddenly VERY aware of this as that raw Chaos energy eventually hit the [[Summon: Leviathan]] Materia empowered in the Island's magical core.
The Avatar of Eve blinked… As the daughter of Gaia realized she now had TWO controllable goddess dragons connected to her magic.
And that nebulous threshold of power needed to generate a THIRD Avatar was rapidly approaching as more Chaos flowed through the collection network.
Oh dear.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Sarah huffed. "I'm not running, I'm just collecting Summoning Materia to complete our [[Summon: Shiva]] Avatar. If it WILL be an Avatar, at least."
Adam chuckled. <<You know Gaia would just hand over a few dozen or give you the location of the nearest few, discovered or not, with only an instant message.>>
She frowned. "Shh! This is super important!" Plus she thinks that Aerith must have said SOMETHING to the others when she got back home, because Elder Godo had this knowing look going on and that whole situation was embarrassing.
Seriously, the SECOND those two stopped 'rocking the boat' Adam had promised to have ALL KINDS of vibration negation material set up. Maybe have some Materia cast [[Silence]] too, just in case.
Had this whole plan, was going to make a defensive island with protective schools and housing and support shipping and free markets… And it ended up being a big love Mushroom for the Demon and its Harem. Because those ladies were NOT against sharing, and WAY too much information was being sent to Sarah before she got Adam to shut that whole section off from her feeds.
Sheesh! Can't a girl just gather ultimate attack weapons of magical destruction to enhance her personal ice goddess of sexyness in peace!? People gotta make this all into a big deal.
Whatever, these changes were probably enough to keep Wutai secure while she went off to do more interesting things like try to make NEW spells using her completed Materia collection as 'Research' base material. And all those experimental and unstable Materia that had been stolen from Shinra's base could hopefully be used to make something useful. Eventually.
Speaking of which. "Hey, have they excavated that Materia warehouse we robbed over in Midgar yet?"
Her Boss hummed. <<Made good progress, but the construction crews were called off to ensure the massive section of the building we stole won't cause a collapse.>>
Well duh. She had ensured it wouldn't potentially kill someone when taking all the floors and supports and stuff in the first place! If she didn't care about casualties, it would have been much faster to harvest the entire section of the city and 'recycle' all the non-specimens outside the labs. Or leave a bomb behind or something.
Still. "How much progress?"
An image showed heavy machinery and a pit dug into the mostly solid iron. The center was still a bit glowy, but that was due to the ambient mako levels preventing heat from dissipating like normal.
Hmm. Heh. "They think we left the Materia under that mess, don't they?"
Adam pulled up some internal Shinra memos. <<Yep.>>
She smirked, even as she focused on the (not insignificant) progress. "Well, no reason to make this easy for them!"
[[
Harvest.]]
The entire structure of iron and the materials it covered vanished. As did all the heavy equipment, though she didn't need the schematics of them or the materials they were made of.
At the bottom of the pit she added a basic magic spring.
[[
Fill.]]
And NOW the liquid iron. So hot it actually formed a barrier of gas trying to escape the sides that prevented the metal from touching the walls for a few moments, heat levels so high that it risked converting the glowing metal into vapor.
That plus the raw supply of mako should keep it at this temperature for a LONG time. Heh.
Sure, Shinra could set up a reactor here or something to take advantage of the heat or something. But this was in Midgar, and they had lots of Mako Reactors already. And lots of metal, and lots of heat sources.
What they DIDN'T have was expensive and heavy excavating equipment.
They ALSO didn't have the (totally not stolen) Materia that was certainly underneath all this pesky molten metal. Best spend a lot of money digging that stuff up!
Just in case. "Hey Adam, can you submit a report on this to Shinra? Claim someone saw the excavating equipment somehow set off one of the experimental Materia and cause all the tools to sink down into the mess?"
He hummed. <<Hell, I think I can set off some automated sensors and fake some video footage of the event. Sure!>>
Ha!
Now where was that stupid Materia, the Planetary Network maping module detected one around this island somewhere. And who needed a bunch of knights compared to a hot ice lady anyway?
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
President Shinra waved them away. "I don't care about any emergency reports, I am getting those constantly. Summarize them, have a report on my desk for tomorrow, I am needed elsewhere."
They STILL hadn't managed to disable that 'Secure Door Left Unsecured' alarm from Professor Hojo's missing laboratory. And he had the fucking things set up on EVERY DAMNED DOOR, which didn't matter until now.
Because all the doors were missing.
Which meant that the network couldn't contact them.
Which sent THOUSANDS of alerts per day. Every day.
Which set off emergency override protocols designed to detect major situations and alert someone if the situation wasn't correctly handled. Setting off loud alarms every six hours.
EVERY. DAY.
Oh, they could all be turned off. It was easy! A simple command from nearly anyone at his level of permission.
It would just require disabling ALL SECURITY.
Because the dear Professor Hojo had decided his lab's security needs were so vast that it had to be mandated for any OTHER security to operate as designed.
Which was why the President was attempting to calmly NOT stomp his way down to the dear Professor, who was cleared for visitors today.
Oh, he couldn't leave. Even if medically he was able to, and that certainly was not a guarantee, legally the man was staying there a bit. Not because of Midgar's laws, Shinra made most of those in the first place… No, because of internal Shinra policy.
So as a competent employer, President Shinra was going to discuss several issues with his one limbed employee in person. Loudly. For a while.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Professor Hojo forced himself to focus.
The rage made it difficult, but he was above lesser men.
One arm left. Surgical removal and cauterization of his other three (technically four?) limbs. Not that he needed them. Any of them.
Losing his failsafe countermeasure was unfortunate, but he had enough resources, data gathered from many test subjects, and archived products already designed to ensure the experiments could function when needed despite trauma and heavy organ loss.
Replacing his lost attachments, even the personal one, would be simplistic.
Getting his vengeance would not be.
While information was restricted, he should have already been released by now.
If nothing else, his many OTHER contingencies should have fired off. Ignoring the massive network of setups in his personal lab and so on, he had ensured that his human trafficker down in the slums would be fingered as the scapegoat and mastermind. Whatever that man's name was... Danny? Doonie?
No it was Don Corneo, that was it.
A man chosen due to being nearly impossibly guilty by his very nature.
A prime patsy, as it were.
Point was the man was supposed to be so overwhelmingly guilty that Shinra would allow the further contingencies to more easily succeed no matter HOW many issues had occurred. Professor Hojo had greased palms and turned political gears to ensure it was so.
And if nothing else, the secured server in his most protected spaces of the labs should have set off the chemical conditioning for those terrorists to run some suicide bombing runs or attack the Mako Reactor or something. He had spent decades ensuring layer after layer of plans upon plans! Science MUST BE DONE! He had ensured such!
Well, not him personally. Tools of his tools of his tools served their time to make sure this would happen, and then Hojo used that same chain to cut itself apart. No living evidence could connect the two, and even if the raiding groups and terrorist cells fell through that slime of a human trafficking slum whore should have hit several systems and flagged multiple alerts after the Professor was held up here for so long.
Not to mention the other 'high society' political backups and blackmailed financial 'supporters'.
So why was he still HERE!? He had work to do, evidence to gather, and
lives to ruin/
vengeance to claim/matters to see to!
His focus shifted as that whiny so called 'Leader' entered, closing the door silently behind him.
Good. "I assume it's time for my release? I'll need to delay several deadlines, but needs must." He shifted his stump. "It may take time to ensure working equipment."
President Shinra snorted. "No."
Rolling his eyes, Hojo grunted right back. "It is impractical to demand me to meet deadlines missing the majority of my limbs. I won't need much of an adjustment period."
And if it grew too frustrating working mechanical prosthetics, then replacing them with clone parts wouldn't be too complicated. It would just be easier to include more backup plans and equipment if his future limbs were artificial. Maybe some encoded recorders so any further attacks on his person would be properly documented.
The man sighed. "No, as in you are not going to be released. There are discussions going on. Ones I can't ignore like usual."
Ah. "Let me contact some people."
The president shook his head. "Probably won't work this time."
Moron. "With proper leverage, even political obstacles can be easily shifted."
His eyes were serious though. "And was your proper leverage within the classified section of your labs? The uppermost area?"
That… That was in the past tense. "You know that I can neither confirm or deny anything within that area. You above all people know this. Plausible deniability, if nothing else."
Aside from his personal projects, the number of political lab subjects alone were numerous in the classified section. And if one or two were lost, he had enough insurance that other people would step in to prevent issues as long as THEIR children or family members lived a little longer.
The other man sighed. "It's gone Professor."
He felt nothing but confusion. "I'm sorry? What's gone?" Weren't they talking about people? Not many others than himself considered them property, and he rarely risked mentioning that aloud to any potential listeners.
Shouldn't it be 'They are gone' instead?
Anyway, that did not matter in the least. "They all signed contracts. If anyone searched my classified areas for whatever reasons, it was clearly to attempt to plant false evidence and testimony. Did you include those extra clauses in the standard Shinra employment waivers?"
President Shinra glared. "I did, not that it matters. Any of it. No one searched your previous and so-called 'secret' labs."
Well… Good? But now he felt he was missing something. "Then there is no issue!" Hell, with the contacts he had it was possible to claim the theoretical 'rescuers' had done all the damage themselves to manufacture evidence and the 'victims' should be put down as a mercy killing.
Might even charge them financially to pay for the process before adding the 'heros' to the surgery table. He hadn't done that for a while.
With a heavy sigh and a look that was hard to define, President Shinra waved. "Let me try and make this very clear. Those people aren't gone, your lab wasn't searched, it is worse than that."
Professor Hojo blinked. What could be worse than that? "My budget is to be reduced?"
He paused. "Well, yes, that too. No, someone using an unknown method has silently vanished the entirety of Shinra's Science & Research Division."
What? "I don't understand."
The man shook his head. "Nothing was damaged, we can't tell if anything or anyone was taken. But somehow and by someone or something, a hole has been carved into our god damned Headquarters and I can get a sun-tan on fucking floor 65 over there."
What. "That...I'm not following you."
The delusional man shrugged. "Yeah, it sounds impossible. Even your secured elevator for 'special deliveries' is missing, as are the subfloor testing areas below the building. And yet somehow this isn't the biggest issue we have."
RAGE. No. Focus. "From my point of view, that sounds like a significant issue indeed."
How many leashes had slipped!? And how could anyone even ENTER his secured areas, much less dismantle it without setting off an innumerable mountain of traps and fallbacks and issues!?
Even HIS vast intellect struggled as he attempted to follow the web of connections and determine what would be left behind with such a section of his network sliced out and removed.
None of the biochemical agents hidden in the reinforced walls had been released, the explosive charges failed to activate, the electric pulse generators hadn't come online…
Just… How could this be? "How?"
The man sighed. "Strange as it is, I've been getting reports that some bastard down in Sector 6 slums might be involved, but he's denying everything despite having access codes to your supply chain and a delivery route to the subfloor labs. Or the former subfloor labs, it's just a pit that is filling up with groundwater now I suppose. Can't determine any other way they could get in."
Oh joy. So at least a FEW fallback plans were activated. Or someone very soon to be dead HAD used the test subject delivery method to infiltrate his facility and do impossible levels of damage. "I will have to move facilities and restore our systems."
Was that fucking PITY in his eyes!? "The servers are gone as well. If it wasn't for us storing offsite tapes separately for each department, we could have lost everything in all other departments along with your data. However… The newest tapes for your facility haven't been updated in three years."
Vaguely he remembered being annoyed when some minion tried to shut down testing to do the so-called backups and having the moron being sent off for Remedial Reconditioning. While that had stopped the issue, that had clearly caused an inconvenience now.
Calm. Science is the faith of the Logical. No matter. "I always ensured my most valued data was encoded off site." His home, not even in this damned city. "That can be recovered later. When can I get back to operations? I will require access to significant voltage and proper drainage, the liquids corroded plumbing before."
Without that data, rebuilding his body would be delayed slightly. But he could handle this.
President Shinra sat heavily in a chair. "Your people are being detoxed, treated for mental contamination, and even if contractually obligated to follow orders are unlikely to take this one silently. Worse, without your so-called 'leverage', well… Again, I've been hearing discussions."
That… That could complicate things. "I see what you mean when you claim larger issues were at stake."
This could seriously setback his recovery effort.
The man leaned back. "No. The larger issue is that someone used the destruction of your facilities to heavily damage Shinra in an unrelated location. These unknown people transported liquid iron undetected directly into the Primary Materia Storage Facility."
Hojo waved it off with his one arm. "No level of heat would damage Materia, not outside of extreme lab conditions. It should be easy enough to dig through that mess and recover them."
A shaken head. "I'm talking about thousands of gallons of liquid iron, instantly delivered without detection. It fully flooded all thirty-six sub-levels, and we were only able to begin excavation now that the surface has cooled enough to support excavation equipment. Workers estimate another two weeks before we even reach the second floor down, and our Mastered Materia was in the most secured bottom floor."
How!? Just… "Was it some sort of metal elemental summons we never detected before!?"
His face shifted. "Running theory is we have an infiltrator in the company as a researcher and they were using one of our unstable and untested Materia to cause the situation. We have… Had. We had a few that might be capable of such a thing, but none of our people had managed to control them or activate their effects safely or as desired."
Because only one of his people would know about the details, the hidden freight elevator, the subbasments, the hostages. Because only his people had access to the most risky and dangerous Materia under study.
Damn it. "That facility needs to be excavated just to determine which Materia is missing. And if the systems down there are as designed, they should have the data banks survive this damage…"
After all, any area built to contain Materia was built to last. "Once we know which one was used to cause these two effects, we can determine who was in contact with them."
The President frowned. "Once my people do so. YOU are to be kept here."
Not with work to do. "I need to…"
He glared. "The only thing between suicidal former employees and YOU right now are some very unenthusiastic guards. The only barrier between certain conversations and YOU is your 'incredibly weakened health' and the 'devious attack and slanderous lies' you are so bravely facing."
President Shinra stood. "I can barely risk sending you basic medicine and food because the evidence exposed before I could get a grip on it has the fucking STAFF trying to poison you. You will stay the FUCK down here until further notice. And you will work with two of my attendants outside to get your pointless laboratory emergency alerts turned off so I won't have hazard sirens going off four times a day."
Push the anger back. "Understood."
The man calmed himself and walked to the door. "I will later take a list of equipment you need and see what I can do, but obviously I have other obligations to see to… Have a good day, Professor."
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
President Shinra's third assistant carefully shifted the 'urgent notification' to the bottom of her lists as the screaming in Professor Hojo's room went silent again.
Someone ELSE could tell the president about the Primary Materia Storage Facility. Tomorrow morning, for example… Not like anything could be changed about the situation tonight anyway.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Alright!
Adam watched Sarah dig the red crystal out of the rock, her fingers easily piercing the lesser material. <<And that should do it! Maybe.>>
She rolled her eyes. "I believed you the last two times, just admit that you don't know either."
Never! <<'Research' is like super sure this time.>> Nah, not enough data. But it felt lucky!
Sarah summoned her bone spike, the two materia in the base easily switched positions with each other… Though Adam was not sure how, it wasn't DESIGNED to do that.
Like the others, she tapped the solidified Materia onto the glowing orb… And they sucked together with an odd slurp sound. Again.
Comeon! <<It's gonna do it this time.>> Don't fuck with him! You can do it Shiva!
The orb pulsed like all the other times… And flashed!
It was now a perfectly clear orb of magic with a bright red star inside!
Which uh. Wasn't normal.
Whatever. <<See!? I told you it was time! I called it!>>
Sarah was too busy grinning. "Bullshit, you tried to call this a dozen times already."
Where should they go? <<Hey, want to head back to the Goblin Islands? We could summon her there.>> It was close to that Materia cave island where she got those knights, but much more space with no one important nearby. Just a fuck ton of goblins.
She hummed and…
Step.
...Was standing in a wide open field. Her other hand absently aimed a sniper pulled from inventory, a few shots ending the nearest monsters. "Right, so I just send power to it?"
Uh. Maybe? Normally she would 'equip' it so the thing could easily absorb ambient mako and the energy of creatures passing away nearby, but by using up those other Summoning Materia that had really short cut the process.
It technically counted as 'Mastered' now, and it was due to Warehouse Shenanigans that it didn't create a 'new' Materia seed to grow. Not like this thing was normal after all.
A bit of checking… <<You got two options.>>
Might as well add it to her interface too. <<First option: Cast it like normal. Use your magic, summon her for a single attack, done! Costs a finite amount of power to use, and linking to it modifies your Avatar's magic power upwards, increases the amount of magic you can store, and in cost reduces your overall health slightly.>>
It was the interaction between people and Materia that prevented normal people from just equipping a billion of the things and becoming a god or something. Even the ones not designed to directly modify the person would have SOME effect.
Sarah blinked. "Maybe later? What is the second choice?"
Adam grinned! <<I add it to the FF7 Jump layer directly! Then you can call forth a copy of the Materia to use in Mr. McStabberson but ALSO lets you call forth her form as an Avatar!>>
It basically used some of the same system units as the ones to 'drop in' to a new Jump, but transferred control to the new Avatar.
She frowned. "So… I won't be able to talk to her?"
Damn it. <<I don't think so. It will create a 'mind' using your subconscious as a base, but that is mostly so the one off attack can determine who to target. I can't find out how to keep it running all the time.>>
Not yet anyway.
Sarah slumped. "Well… Shit. Still, better than nothing? Yeah, let's get this sucker installed!"
Sure! <<No problem!>>
Snag the crystal blood star orb from the lovely lady, shove it into the special [[Summon: Shiva]] Materia slot Adam had added to the FF7 layer LONG ago… And just in case, put some memory units in here that the summon could personally access.
It may be formed from Sarah's subconscious NOW, but this should hopefully prevent her from being reborn every time she attacks! Hopefully Shiva would become more of a person over time! Maybe.
Well, that was the idea at least. Adam wasn't going to tell Sarah about the plan unless this worked. <<Ready?>>
She grinned! "Yeah! What do I do?"
Let's see… <<Either call out her Materia name for the Avatar… Or just yell the attack name to summon her for a one off while sending magic to her orb. The attacks would be [[Icicle Impact]] to stagger a target and do splash ice damage, [[Heavenly Strike]] to make her drop an iceberg on a fucker, or [[Diamond Dust]] to smash the place up with an hurricane of frozen wind and then shatter caught foes.>>
Sarah was bouncing with enthusiasm. "Do I get to say something cool? I want to say something cool!"
Heh. <<Go for it! Go full dramatic bullshit protagonist on this bitch!>>
Holding one hand up in the air, she couldn't stop her smile! "I call upon the mistress of snow, the Ice Queen of eternity, the Empress of the World of Ice!"
A ghost like copy of the Materia faded into existence as she SLAMMED it into her spike!
With passion, she drove the spear down into the soil.
"Come forth! [[
Summon: Shiva!]]"
And power DRAINED into the ghost orb, even as Sarah shimmered and a massive pillar of ice shot forth from the soil.
Embedded in the crystal was a woman who looked more different than what Sarah
expected…
Instead of the expected purple bikini it was slightly more exposed.
And by slightly, Adam meant a LOT more exposed.
[[
Summon: Shiva]] was floating within the ice pillar, her elven form and pointed ears more of a hint, a shade of light purple. Her clothing, if it could be called that, was formed of some sort of mystical black metal that seemed FAR too thin to actually do more than suggest her generous assets not escape confinement.
Instead of a purple bikini, the sensual black 'armor' was lightly 'covered' by transparent silk scarves, while the purple lines of glowing magic that traced unknown patterns over her delicate skin had tiny fragments of ice like diamonds accentuating her body.
Her body seemed to float out of the ice pillar… And Shiva stared at her summoner.
A voice like crystals sang. "Adam, what the FUCK went wrong!?"
Sarah blinked. "Damn, that's what I look like? That's pretty hot! No wonder you two went looking for more Materia to feed me. Hell, even as a bisexual harem proponent I would be tempted to go monogomous to tap that."
Uh. <<Hang on.... I can fix this!>>
Shit! No, uh. Which modules did this?
Not this one, not that… AH HA! <<GOT IT! Right, Sarah. Undo the casting.>>
Shiva frowned. "I can't, I'm over there."
Oh for cripes sake. <<You just swapped Avatars, you are always you. Just do it.>>
She shrugged. "Fine."
And a SECOND Sarah popped up.
Shiva blinked. And looked down. "Well I'm fixed, but what's going on over there?""
Sarah's looked at each other, stunned. ""Why are there TWO of me!? Wait, no. Why is there one of me with two bodies!?""
SHIT! <<Everybody don't do ANYTHING and shut up! I can fix this!>>
Shiva grinned! "Oh don't go out of your way on MY account. The world can use more hot women in general, and I don't hear Sarah complaining about having a bit of extra eye candy even if it's only herself."
The sudden twins blushed and looked away. Which was cute and all, but FUCK this went bad.
Right uh. <<Are we all still connected?>> Give me something to hand off to 'Research', PLEASE!
Sarah Kisaragi (Classic Flavor) frowned. "I don't have inventory access, but most of my abilities are here. And I am getting some messages about joining 'Local Jumper Hive'?"
Sarah Kisaragi (New Hotness) blinked. "Huh? Nothing like that on my end."
Alright, uh. Check those sub units, this routine… Oh. Shit. Uh.
Fuck it, own up and handle it. <<Right, found the problem.>> Some minor adjustments… And there. <<And it is sort of fixed.>>
Sarahs raised their eyebrows at him while Shiva slumped. "Aww, no more sexy business ladies."
This probably wasn't going to go over well. <<It has to do with our incarnation and excarnation system units. And how badly they were documented when I was fixing stuff.>>
A virtual image showed up with some diagrams. <<Instead of recycling Avatars when we give you a new one, which I thought was a bad design choice, it is leaving a copy of you behind.>>
Yeah. Adam's bad, really. Sorry, everyone.
Sarah raised a hand, Shiva and Sarah giving her the nod. "But that won't happen anymore? So I can summon Shiva without creating copies and won't get her hurt… And I won't increase Dad's family size again?"
Sort of? <<From now ON, there will only be one Shiva per Jump. Period. But the other future Shiva's will leave a copy behind when we head out to a new Jump if you summon one locally… And you two will continue existing when we leave eventually. Thankfully I made a lot of redundant backups and edge case scenario support systems, so no one will lose memories or power or anything.>>
Sarah frowned, and the other one waved her to talk. "But If I…" A glance at her sister. "If WE are left behind when you jump, what happens to us?"
Yeah, that wasn't the biggest issue. <<Time won't pause here, but time DOES act oddly while we are gone… I should be able to ensure not too much time passes while we are gone.>>
Probably. And he had loads of time to figure that mess out, right? Right. <<And when we come back the memories will rejoin the hive mind networks. For both of you AND Shiva. Heck, that part doesn't need any modification, I already made those units way back when! No additional work required.>>
Thank everything holy Adam had over engineered this bitch. <<If anything, it should make your life with your girlfriend easier since she is already a temporal and spatial spanning universal hive mind with infinite bodies… And Shiva is sort of you too! So uh. Woo?>>
Shiva blinked. And leered at her two 'Masters' (Or Summoners or whatever). "I am alright with this."
The Sarah twins though seemed hung up on something. The 'current' Jumper frowned. "I'm ignoring that not so subtle attempt at changing the conversation."
The other one however winked at Shiva, who posed. "Though we WILL come back to that! Mama likes."
She pointed ."Right! Won't forget it, because that sounds conceptually hot on a hard to imagine scale, but no. I'm staying on topic. Does this mean that we DIDN'T pause on our previous jumps? And that we left many copies of ourselves behind ALREADY!?"
Yeah, that was the biggest issue. <<Mostly no, but slightly yes. There IS a Sarah Killgrave back home, but she should roughly know what is going on because I wrote messages for damn near every scenario.>>
Both girls rolled their eyes while Shiva seemed to just enjoy the show. ""Then how is that 'Mostly no'!?""
Yeah, thank goodness they found this early in the trip. It was better to make sure no more than one Avatar (at least, one unique Avatar) existed per Jump.
Plus, that should be fixable without forcing him to kill his favorite Jumper (or even a clone of her) each time they moved on to a new Jump destination. <<Because this is your first chain of your Jumps? Aside from home, I mean.>>
And now they knew about this little screw up! So Adam could design and implement MORE support units for any Sarah's left behind. And a TON more recorded messages. At least it would keep him busy if his Jumper got all angry about this later.
Shiva blinked. "Wait, I'm limited in our available past memories just like my Summoner because of the drawbacks she had been under when I was formed… Are you saying that this is Sarah's FIRST Jump!?"
The other two blink. ""Apparently yes?""
Her floating form shifted as she threw her arms in the air! "Then WHY THE HELL are you SO POWERFUL!?"
Adam snorted as the two Jumpers tried to defend themselves from the confusion of their own Ice Goddess without knowing enough to really achieve anything.
Kids. This entire mess was just fragments wrapped in duct tape holding together his partner while she healed. He would mark her as passible at best.
Right, while they distracted each other let's go through all the Warehouse units and make sure something like this couldn't happen again.
Leaving a sister on each Jump to look over things until Sarah can ascend and come back to sync her people with herselves was one thing, accidentally abandoning family or worse KILLING them due to not understanding the equipment was a different kettle of fish entirely!
Hmm. While they would have to move on, couldn't he leave Shiva in control of something similar to the Warehouse? Though drastically more simple and weak, that could be useful. A local administrator for the Planetary Network basically?
Something to think about.
