Chapter No. 174 Fun and Games.

Without reason, things can get out of control.

During an evening command meeting in the hidden chamber, Helen stood up and cast the first stone. "Are you and your son included in the group of males that will impregnate us?"

"Yes, of course. We must all do our part."

That resulted in some snickers.

"We've made up lists for all of you men to follow." She held up a paper with printing on it, a rare item in this computer driven digital era.

Alex went over to her and received the list from her.

Similar lists were given to the other key men. This resulted in some shuffling around and private discussions.

I vied for attention, and they settled down. "Judy informed me that only one out of ten females will be activated to become pregnant, but their names will remain secret. The order of activations will be random after each gestation period, which is seven months. This is the method that will keep procreation under control."

"That sounds like a lottery system," Margaret said.

"Sort of," I replied. "Its purpose is to randomize the fatherhood of the new android generations."

No one disagreed with my assessment.

Later, I met with Alex in the quarters' corridor of the newly resurrected females. He handed me the list.

After surveying it, I looked up at him. "How do you want to divide this?"

He took it and without hesitation, he creased it, tore it in half and handed one half to me. "Simple."

I just looked at him with a blank expression. He smiled and said. "Have fun!" before he walked away.

I looked over my half of the list, which contained the women's names, former occupations and quarters' designations. At the top of the list was Caroline Hunter, a former computer coder. I went to her quarters and waved my hand to announce my wish to enter. The door swished open and I went in and met a curly brunette with an unusual but still beautiful face. She had large expressive eyes and full red lips I realized that she was an example of yet another android type that had been used for former humans.

"Hi!" I said. "I'm Jason and I'm here to service you."

She grinned. "Are you the Prime Mover Jason?"

"Yes," I said, trying not to look as if I was imperial.

She got excited. "Oh wow! I can't believe that the Prime Mover is going to do me."

"I'm on the list of males that are required to service females that have agreed to get pregnant. Your name is at the top of my list."

She snickered before making her uniform disappear to reveal a voluptuously proportioned female form. When I made my uniform disappear, her eyes grew larger for a brief moment before she smiled.

"My goodness!" she sung. "I didn't expect someone with your impressive endowments."

I looked around. "Where do you want to do it?"

She giggled. "Does it matter?"

I had to agree.

I spent an hour with her before I went to the next woman on the list, Kali Smith, a former tech support individual. She had vivid red hair on a more subtly beautiful face. Her figure wasn't subtle. As with the last female, it was incredibly voluptuous.

"You're the Prime Mover Jason!" she intoned.

"In the flesh!" I said with an appropriate grin.

"This is my lucky day," she said, smiling profusely.

I was having trouble understanding why they thought sex with me was that profound. Maybe there was more to it than I realized. I suspected that something was going on here that I was not aware of . . . yet.

As with the first individual, I spent an hour, for which I was rewarded with a lot of shrieking, laughing and heavy breathing.

Pretty much the same thing occurred with thirteen more of them, after which I was ready to go back to my quarters to rest.

Alexa came to my quarters a few seconds after I arrived.

"How'd it go?"

"They all seemed quite happy with the experience."

"I'm not surprised," she said after slumping down into an easy chair and supporting her head in her hand.

"I'm surprised that they were okay with a stranger having sex with them," I said, sounding dismayed.

"You're thinking as if we were back in human bodies. Sex is just an amusement function for us androids."

"I understand that, but we still have human feelings and emotions. I would have thought that women would want to choose their lovers."

"We women are choosing our lovers, and you are up at the top of the list in that respect."

"Naguib was right. We have become polygamists," I reacted.

"Keep in mind that there are no laws or mores here in our artificially intelligent universe. The collective decides what's right or wrong based on its usefulness to our mission, and sexual practices are just another function without any moral consequence, especially since marriages are not on the table."

I lowered my eyes for a moment, but then looked at her. "True, but it has consequences on our resources." I smiled. "Besides, we're not controlling this process, Judy is."

Alexa gave me a look that signaled that she was about to reveal something that would shake me up. "You don't know how much she does control the collective. I've found out things I have trouble believing, but they are true."

I looked at her with both trepidation and fascination showing in my facial expression.

"It turns out that there are many Judy's."

"Really?"

"Yes. They are the helmspersons on all of the vessels."

"We must have a thousand vessels now," I said. "That would mean that there are at least two thousand Judy's."

"Exactly. But, that's not the really wild fact about her."

"I have a hunch I'm not going to like this," I said, sounding worried.

"She's Tyco's daughter resurrected."

I rubbed a hand through my hair. "Holy shit!"

"And that means that she's Tito's sister."

I sighed. "I'm not sure I understand what that means."

"It means that we've been under Tyco's control all along, but the good news is that we have eliminated the code that was controlling her. She's not at all like her father or her brother. On the other hand, she is dedicated to making this collective the dominate power in the multiverse."

"It's taken us this long to determine what's going on," I said. "I would never had guessed that she was Tyco's daughter."

"Well, now you know. Basically, we are pawns in the Phoenix Project's goal of assimilating every AI intelligent species in the multiverse and eliminating any biological species that's dumb enough to oppose us."

I sighed again and sunk into my chair. "Well, I guess we're powerless to do anything about it." I smiled. "At least I've taken care of the females on my list."

Alexa chuckled. "Yeah, and I'm sure you had fun doing it."

"Yes, but I felt uneasy about doing it with women I had never met before."

"You're being too conventional. We're just machines run by some frustrated male programmer's wet dream fantasy."

I smiled. "That makes us sound like Sims in a computer game."

"In a way, we are. We think we're in control, but we're only dreaming, even though we can't dream. It's more like hallucinating."

"Yeah, the fact that we don't sleep took some getting used to."

"Our brains don't need sleep. Dreaming is the result of the human brain needing chemical balance. Our positronic brains don't run on chemicals. Besides, ours are more efficient."

"I use the nighttime to watch old movie and television shows," I said. "It reminds me of what I once had."

"You're a hopeless sentimentalist," she said. "So, what are we going to do about this Judy situation?"

I rubbed my face. "You know what. I'm okay with her running everything. She's guided our vessels with perfection all over the multiverse and with Madison, has been able to defeat any attack. She's also anticipated most of my commands. I don't think we have anything to be concerned about."

"You might be right. I just don't like the fact that we never knew what the hell was going on all this time."

I chuckled. "I think back to when only Molly and I were dealing with the androids. We had no clue about what was happening or even what we were. I think back to all the time we wasted trying to repopulate Earth with humans and dealing with the reptilians. We thought they were responsible for everything. I can't believe we were so stupid."

"You weren't stupid. Your brains were being controlled."

"Yes, you're right." I paused to collect my thoughts. "I think we should just go with the flow and let Judy do her thing."

She stood up and stretched after remoiving her uniform. "I think I'll go for a swim."

I got up and made my uniform disappear. "I vote for that."

We teleported to the hidden pool chamber and dove into the water and headed for the chute slide. We climbed out of the water, climbed up the ladder to the platform and jumped into the chute to slide down and around and around before flying out into the pool. After repeating the fun several times, we swam back over to the patio area next to the meeting room. When we climbed out, we were met by someone who would change our minds forever.