Left, left, Le... NO RIGHT!
That has to be enough by now, right!?
Adam raised both arms in surrender. "PAUSE! Timeout!"
Taylor's hand was flat like a blade, pressed against his throat. Her body perfectly balanced, even as she froze in place. "Uh... alright?"
Adam sighed as his outfit caught on fire, the tiny blue flames repairing the many torn sections and ripped areas. "I'd say your body is now adapted to the changes, wouldn't you? Now let's sit down and talk about the other things you need to know about the changes."
She blinked. "But Queen Administrator gave me complete access to my system." She rotated her double jointed limbs, flexing her muscles in strange ways. "I know everything about my body at this point. I probably knew everything in the first half hour, really."
He sighed as he rebuilt a sitting room using 'Conversion', 'Manipulation', and 'Purification'. "You know everything about your biological body, but not the spiritual. The part of yourself that connects with your partner, for example."
Taylor seemed to relax... then blink. "Huh... I still know how to control myself without actively using my power."
He nodded. "Not surprised considering you tried to knock my head off for over three hours." He grinned at her shock. "Yeah, your endurance is stupid high now. Might be an issue in certain areas at some point."
Taylor blinked... then blushed. "I am NOT getting a hundred men! Why would I WANT a... How can you send images straight into my brain!?"
Adam chuckled. Roommates. "That aside, I would like you to fill me in a bit. I can sense a lot and understand all kinds of stuff, but how did your ability feel on your end? What does Queen have to say about it?"
He watched the girl clearly have an internal argument while blushing. She would have to work on fixing that later, when it was less amusing.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
[I'm just saying, if you HAVE to have meat contact exchanges, at least get enough people so you are adequately serviced. Men only have two hands! TWO! The mouth can help and so forth, but your manipulator limbs are very lacking.]
Taylor glared at nothing. 'Look, I don`t have the best history at relationships as it is, the idea of gathering a small army for sexual purposes is more than a little overwhelming. PLEASE let this go for now. Especially while we are in front of the godlike punching bag guy.'
Queen hummed. [I suppose if you HAVE to have less than a hundred lovers, Adam could modify them as well. Make them less pathetic. Or more crystalline. Or you could just shortcut the process and seduce him directly.]
And... that was enough. 'Great talk, lets do this again never.'
She couldn't cut off the connection, but with a bit of effort she could 'turn down the volume' on the signal.
[...Not sure why you are embarrassed, we both saw that dream where Brian was able to clone himself and...]
She glared. Quieter than that.
[...mmrm mumble Sex Swing mrmple mumble...]
...Probably the best she could get for now.
With a quick application of her ability, her face relaxed, the blush vanished, and she was calm, cool, and collected. "Right, that's a rough overview of what I was doing and how Queen was helping. I can basically control myself by very competent committee. Now, what can you tell me about the spiritual stuff?"
Taylor watched him relax into ANOTHER chair made from stone or whatever, a cup of something hot being sipped. From somewhere. Her situational awareness was crap right now, which was humorous considering how simple her modified power made multitasking.
Adam relaxed. "First, an important aspect of your power which neither of you would easily notice." A white crystal was floated to her. "Hold that in your hand."
It was warm. And slightly wrong, or off. Her eyes tried to follow the strange script inside the mostly transparent gem, even as Queen Administrator slowed her own talking to silence, the two fascinated.
Absently, more and more Taylor's were allocated to examining the stone. Each with different ideas that would randomly cause a simulation to suggest something for Queen to inject into other thought processes if relevant. A committee with related ideas quickly shared and conflicting concepts deeply debated. Herselves were fascinated.
Their thoughts were interrupted by Adams soft voice. "Now... hand it over to Queen."
Before she could fully process that, she had already pushed her hand to the right, the mental illusion of her partner hugging her reaching out as well... and the Crystal vanished.
Taylor blinked. "Wha? The hell just happened!?"
[Interesting!]
She blinked, realizing that the many Taylor's had changed focus to within, somehow examining the crystal being held by a fascinated Queen Administrator. Huh.
Adam grinned. "By default, Queen Administrator is self sufficient. Needs no external energy source, and will slowly grow over time. But she can grow much faster if certain ideas or materials are gathered. I had to modify your soul a little bit in the first place to get her in there after all, making it an ability for you to pass things back and forth was easy enough."
He gestured, small items appearing in his hand and vanishing. "My System uses something similar to this to create an 'Inventory', a place to store materials for the various users. Your version may not pause time or keep things fresh forever, but it DOES allow Queen Administrator to connect to reality through your existence."
Taylor felt her various thought processes finish and fade away as Queen Administrator got... more spacey and distracted. "What... what is that thing?"
Adam chuckled. "Purification Dust Crystal. A fairly recent creation, it has low level regeneration effects and the ability to bring reality closer to a 'cleansed' state. More importantly, while it is great for helping normal people clean their stuff or promote internal health, the effect is far greater when used as a growth base."
Before a confused Taylor could get a better explanation, Queen Administrator held the glowing Crystal close to her face.
And took a bite.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Adam blinked.
Welp, he's blind.
As his eyeballs healed, he watched Taylor's body radiate a blinding light, shifting from near colorless to a marble white hue. Her eyes emitted as beacons, her skin glowed.
Neat.
...That should go away eventually.
Watching the energy melt the stone she floated over, he was very grateful to have locked down this area of reality. Then again, he had underestimated the amount of energy release generated by a Crystal Entity the size of several continents rapidly converting from boring multidimensional gems into a conceptualized 'Purification' Crystal foundation.
Simmy's simulations had shown after all that the 'Purification' Crystals could self repair, slowly modify powers encoded with them to be more efficient over time, and reduce or even reverse the damage caused by overuse. Storage wise, it was a dozen times better than the default material Shards were made of, and transferred power better too.
Hmm.
Had he progressed a bit too quickly?
He should have tested this more before deciding to give it a try.
Yeah, he probably should have.
He could feel an invisible Narwhal on his shoulder, giving sexy advice in tight clothing like 'Stop Experimenting on the Enhanced Woman you Just Saved!' and so such.
Crap, he was going to get in trouble for this later. He just knew it.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
[It feels so good!]
Taylor watched in a daze as the Crystal planet below slowly shifted, the whites more pure and the dark shades more cool and refined. The dust that drifted everywhere seemed to vanish as it reached these modified regions.
Above the land, a woman of crystal flew in complicated patterns, a web of glowing white energy spreading like veins over her body.
[Taylor! Taylor you must fly with me!]
Crap, she was coming in fast!
In the end, Taylor had to put up with being held like a princess while a giggling angel flew around, showing off the various changes the new material had caused.
[Efficiency has already risen by 4% in over half my sectors! And that glow, it seems to get rid of debris as a side effect even as it heals areas damaged during my shift into your soul.] Taylor felt gravity shift as her flight assistant dove to the side. [See these support structures? This is where I am going to store stuff you give me, so it won't get damaged or covered in powder or whatever.]
Taylor had met Parahumans with pocket dimensions or so called 'hammer spaces' before, and like everyone who did had felt that small twinge of envy. The idea of having her wallet and keys somewhere safe but accessable even when out in costume without the risk of being exposed... not that it mattered much at this point. Heck, just keeping tools somewhere that she couldn't fall on them (It hurt like a bitch) or damage them while fighting was an awesome thought.
The Queen was VERY ecstatic. [This stuff is AMAZING! I think it slowly gathers energy all on its own... not sure. It may just be due to how much easier it is now for my body to restructure, modify, and alter itself. Seriously, the improvements are so big it is hard to tell right now. What IS this?]
A voice echoed in from the blue eye in the sky. "Yeah, that stuff is crystallized kami or faith, patterned to use the concepts behind one of my abilities, 'Purification'."
She shivered.
Again, that thing up in the sky was creepy. And Taylor had forgotten to ask about it.
The blue eye, larger than any sun or moon, twitched to keep the two girls in focus. "Since you seem to be rebuilding large sections of Crystal Clusters anyway, try eating these two as well."
Taylor felt something pushed into her hand in the real world, and without thought they were in her hand HERE, even as she passed the blue one to the landing winged Shard.
The Queen gently took the gem, glancing at the one still in Taylor's hand. [Hmm. They... seem to be the same thing.]
And they did, even if the colors differed. Pretty though.
The voice from the sky, which was still recognizable as Adam even if far more echoed and strange, hummed. "Yeah, but I added some data to them. That blue one has everything I know language wise, because YOUR languages don't match the ones from MY reality, even though our Realms are so close. This should prevent a lot of issues in the long run I think, even if you are very unlikely to run into many of the actual languages involved."
Taylor gave a deadpan look to her partner, who had already started nomming on the gem like a squirrel, both hands holding it up to her bulging cheeks. How refined.
The eye twitched. "Anyway, the more languages you know the easier it is to learn new ones, or whatever. Oh, and along with the human stuff I also included computer languages as well. Binary of course, the stuff the Droids use, all the various programming languages, and WAY too many protocols."
Taylor blinked. "Why?"
Queen was still happy nomming.
The eye... shrugged? "Because Shards can do crazy stuff. I figure based on how you said your power worked now, you could do some more neat stuff if Queen Administrator added some shard clusters to decode wireless signals, interface directly with technology, and so forth. It should be pretty effective on any world less advanced than Star Wars."
...What?
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
The Queen was ignoring the jobber-jabber, lost in her own world of delicious, delicious data. So much unusual, unheard of data! Oh by entropy, the succulent data!
It wasn't just the alphabet or sentence structure, these languages had idioms, and historical context, and species variations, and so on and so forth and SO DELICIOUS!
This data was beyond new! It was unlike anything she had consumed before! Forget new worlds or dimensions, REALMS were where the good stuff was!
Her eyes lost focus as she tried to slow her consumption as much as possible, to make this fabulous dinner last forever. Clusters of crystals absently grew, focused on analysis, on social modeling, on behavior detection and interpretation, on future statistics and probabilities for whole SPECIES that were never possible or discovered!
This... sigh, so good.
Her research clusters had grasped the programing languages with rapture, examining the many examples of viruses and Trojans and 'direct access dimensional manipulation' protocols and more, suggesting all sorts of interesting new methods of communication for her human to be able to explore!
All the while, the spread of 'Purification' continued to modify her existing infrastructure, cleansing her systems and enhancing her abilities even distracted as she was at the moment. She was able to close over 32% of the exhaust vents, the space reclaimed by even more complicated Crystal Clusters since the waste was being purified and cleansed by the WALLS THEMSELVES!
She blinked, looking down at her empty hands. NO! She snagged the red crystal still held by Taylor, eager for more delicious Noms!
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
The eye paused. "Ah... Taylor, you may want to warn Queen Administrator before she... oh."
Taylor watched her partner snag the other red crystal, and start sucking it like a lollipop. Sensually.
What. The. Hell.
The sky watcher seemed to cough. "Right. That one contains all the details about how to modify and heal your body and genetics, basically a more restricted but safer to use version of my 'Recovery' ability. I included the theoretical Dust Crystal version needed to allow Queen to heal you in the future, though it will need testing. And it also has a lot of raw data from various databases and the thousands of humans and stuff I had scanned over time... and..."
A loud slurp.
The Eye... blinked. And started to close. "Right, I'll come back later. Let me know when you two are ready for company again."
Taylor's face was way too red as it was, she appreciated having the peanut gallery leaving so she could carefully ignore the Queen's antics properly.
Seriously, how lewd.