Power Stone Goal: 300/300
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"So let me get this straight... You created a true Artificial Intelligence to help you manage your company and then you found that he was more interested in designing things so you create more AI like him so that they can do the other jobs you don't want to hire people to do?"
I nodded whilst wincing at the frigid temperature on my cheek from the ice-pack.
"And you've been spending all this time helping people that aren't your family or yourself?"
Once again I nodded, Artemis and Hestia standing in the background giggling together over a cat video.
"You're an idiot." She deadpanned.
My eye twitched as she sighed loudly and rolled her eyes.
"Why didn't you at least tell me???" She asked.
"Why do you need to know? It's my company..." I questioned.
"I- I'd like to at least be kept inside the loop Draco." She whispered a little, tears gathering in the corner of her eyes.
And now I felt like shit... 'I suppose I should tell her the whole truth.'
"Okay Em, I'll explain what has been going on, but I need you to keep calm and trust me, 'kay?"
She gave a sharp nod as I then proceeded to explain the entirety of the chatroom to her, the missions we have done and the missions that had recently popped up. Needless to say she was mind-blown by the sheer scope of everything and at the fact that my spaceships had come from Star Wars. Apparently there has been rumours that I was a Star Wars fan because my designs were based off of the franchise, little did they know it came from that same franchise.
"Holy shit Draco! That's a lot to keep from your own family!" She was pacing backwards and forwards, her speed somewhere between panicked and annoyed.
"Yeah, well, you and Cordelia are busy with your own lives. I couldn't just come in and say 'Hey Em, hey Delia, want to go to another universe where there's homicidal goblin hoards that want to rape and kill everything?'... It's a bit much isn't it?"
Emma immediately paused her pacing and stared at me in mild shock before shaking her head and regrouping.
"I could have helped though! Your company was new and you could have asked me to look after it whilst you were off saving people." She stated with thinly veiled frustration.
"Could you though? You're already handling the Hellfire club, The Frost family company, Cordelia's schooling and your own social life... My company on top of that? You would have murdered someone in less than a week." I stated calmly, my cheek slowly starting to numb.
"Bullshit, you know I don't have a social life!" She yelled out in annoyance.
"At least you're self aware..." I mumbled whilst repositioning the ice-pack.
"What did you say you little shit!?" Rolling my eyes I softly used my matter manipulation ability to repair the damage my sister had left on my cheek. I hadn't removed it immediately because she needed to feel like she'd blown off some steam.
"Look. I know I'm overworking myself, I know I could use some help... But everyone else is busy with their own life and things... So I decided to make some artificial help to ensure I could spend more time doing what I want." I paused my speech to stare her down as she looked close to interrupting, "Cordelia is still in high school and needs her big sister more than her big brother. You are too busy keeping everything copasetic here for me to annoy you. I'm doing what I can."
She instantly huffed.
"You're a jerk, you know that? Using logic to beat me..." She murmured the last part, her arms crossing underneath her breasts.
"Someone needs to defeat you with logic... Not many can, to start with." I shoot her a cheeky grin before taking the ice-pack off my cheek, setting it down on my desk.
Artemis and Hestia had switched videos now and were watching DND clips about the 'Legends of Avantris'? My AI daughters were a little quirky, that's for sure. Shaking my head, I walked behind my desk and pulled out several documents that mainly held information on my future plans and ideas.
"Here Em, take these and have a look over them... Let me know if you want to help with one of them and we can work on it together. Hell, get Cordelia invested in it if you want." I said as I dangled the papers in front of her, her petulant exterior cracking under the curiosity of what was held within the files.
"Fine, I'll take a look. But If I do choose one, you have to let me take at least half the work load!" She pointed a finger at me, glaring me down, as she finished her statement.
"Yeah, that's kind of the point sis..." If this was an anime I'd be sweat-dropping alongside my words.
"Okay, well... Cordelia and I will be coming over in two days time. You'll be there to explain to her why you haven't visited in a while." She commanded.
"Sure, I can make time. I mean, I'll be in a timeless mission for a while so it'll be no hassle." I flippantly commented whilst looking towards the still awakening Hermes. He was taking a little more time than his siblings it seemed... Maybe he was sleepy?
"Ugggghhhh, the meaning of it was to get you away from work!" She yelled.
"And I said I'll be there... It will just be a bit longer until that day for me than it is for you." My sarcastic tone apparently didn't help because she picked up a book and flung it at me, not that it hit.
"I'm done! I'm going home! You better give me something awesome to make up for all this stress you're causing me!" She spun around and strut away, as if she hadn't just thrown a book at me or petulantly commanded that I spend time with her and Cordelia.
"Have a good night sis!" I gave a small exaggerated wave in her direction as she extended her middle finger at me on her way out.
I sat down, looking over at Hermes' server. The second male AI was taking his time and from what I could detect with my technopathy he was intentionally sitting in a limbo of sorts so information was absorbed more effectively without interruption. I was impressed but I was also utterly bored as I waited for the little shit to finish.
'Maybe I could make Athena?' Looking out through one of the windows in my office I noticed a limousine pulling up downstairs, several of my friends from this world stepping out and admiring the renovated Chrysler building.
Waving my hand towards an empty space beside Hermes' sever I created another one and set about creating an entirely new programming language using Xenoglossy, Technopathy and the Star Wars knowledge I had obtained from the Jedi temple.
The basis of the language would be Norse runes but mixed with Egyptian hieroglyphs, Valence and Piet. Depending on the combination of imagery, pixels and position the symbols could potentially make binary and trinary look like a toddler playing with crayons. Naturally the language was almost impossible for most people to learn without a dictionary of runes and images to work from, but that wasn't an issue for me or the AI since I could immediately understand it and Apollo/Artemis/Hestia/Hermes could use their thousands of Q-bits to just power through each line.
"Master, the Avengers are here for a meeting?" Discordia's voice echoed out from the entire room as I was delving through the possibility of using the new programming language in Athena's server.
"Yeah Disco, let them up to my office." I said offhandedly as I started communicating with my desktop to create the fundamentals of the programming language. It was going to be a complex language to implement due to the constrictions of normal computers and hardware but that was fine, it just meant I needed to create some Star Wars computing systems earlier than I thought I would.
The room turned silent for a few moments before I noted Hestia and Artemis looking up the Avengers and our debut. "Hey girls, why don't you go spend some time with your older brother Apollo? Take Hermes with you, if you could?" They both looked at me before turning to look at one another before eventually agreeing, their forms fading into flames and leaves separately. Hermes was also taken along as his presence in his servers dampened.
I was half way through the foundational stages of my new language before the door to my office opened and the other Avengers stepped out. I stopped my work after a few seconds, leaving my work at a natural pausing point before leaning back in my chair and addressing them.
"Sup guys?" I waved at them cheekily, watching as several of them laughed awkwardly; namely Clint and Steve.
"Drecarios! My friend! It is good to see you again...!" Thor stepped around my desk and clapped a hand on my shoulder boisterously.
"Great to see you as well Thor. Tony said there was Shawarma?" A laugh rose from the entire group this time as I created several lounge chairs and a coffee table for all of us sit around.
Tony lowered several takeaway bags down onto the table and began dispensing the contents amongst the group. Natasha and Clint splayed some alcohol around the table for everyone whilst Bruce dropped several snacks in the centre of the eclectic gathering of foods and beverages.
"So, why'd you guys to come over?" I asked innocently as I took a bite from a kebab.
All of them glanced around at each other before Tony chuckled.
"You haven't spent much time with the team since the alien invasion, we wanted to fix that and get to know you." The playboy said with fake sincerity, since he knew damn well that I was busy with the chat and my company.
"Fair enough... Well, what do you guys want to know?" I took another bite from my kebab.
Another awkward pause ensued as everyone ate.
"Hmmm, what does your company do?" Thor asked innocently.
"We are a logistics company right now. Our spaceships carry cargo between our towers and do sub-orbital satellite deployment for the American government. My plan for my company is to turn it into a conglomerate of several of my own companies that deals with everything outer space."
"Don't you get a lot of pressure from the American government to hand over the technology?" Steve immediately questioned before munching on some French fries.
"We do, is what I would say if they hadn't been emasculated already." Natasha and Clint perked up at the end of my assertion.
""Emasculated?"" Both of them said at the same time. They turned to one another and shouted "Jinx!" before laughing.
"Yeah, that's what happens when you have an AI that can hack into the Government's back rooms. I found all sorts of corruption and bribery going on. Surprisingly a lot of it was sourced from AIPAC donation recipients... Odd that..." I leeringly said before finishing off the kebab in my hand.
"Hah! I'd love to see the look on their faces when you upended all of their dirt in front of them..." Natasha snorted out as she scoffed down a chicken burger.
"Personally, I didn't do it... But my AI recorded the meeting and it is hilarious." Bruce perked up as I spoke about Apollo but held back as the rest of the Avengers laughed together about the stupidity of bureaucrats.
The rest of the party followed in much the same way, all of us trading stories and questions back and forth whilst consuming an ungodly amount of Shawarma. It continued until late night where I ordered Pizza and some Mexican food. By 12Am we were all passed out on the freshly created couches that everyone had requested of me, a video of several US congressmen and senators going pale in shock and rage at the info we had discovered about them playing in the background.
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