Title:
Jelly Brains

Short Summary
Earth is gone & humanity only survived by permanently installing themselves into a virtual world. Some chose to live & interact in the Hub world, well others isolated themselves in games they wish were real. These are their lives 10000 years later.


Long Summary:

[b]WARNING: [/b]
Ageplay, Foalcon (sorta, Adults using digital Avatars designed as children but no real children are involved), diaper wetting (no scat) 

[b]Summary[/b]
Earth is gone & humanity only survived by permanently installing themselves into a virtual world. Some chose to live & interact in the Hub world, while others isolated themselves in games they wish were real, but most chose a moderation of the two.

The Player, Smart Mouth, is a hermit who has never been out in the hub world in the 10000 years since its creation, preferring to stay in his own game of "My Little Galaxy". However MLG is being turned into a Virtual MMO to allow anyone and everyone to play in the virtual reality.

Smart Mouth is adopted into a family that makes him spend equal time in the hub world as his fictional world.


[b]Connected Blogs:[b]


Smart Mouth's Virtal Life
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/827968/my-little-galaxy-timeline-smart-mouth-spoilers

Humanoid Timeline
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/823357/my-little-galaxy-timeline-humanoid-worlds

Humanoid Sector
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/834281/my-little-galaxy-distant-future-humanoid-sector

Doctor Who Timeline
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/819697/my-little-galaxy-timeline-doctor-who

Villam Sector
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/800193/my-little-galaxy-lore-villam-sector

Lore Before the 42 Verses Split
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/792484/my-little-galaxy-lore-main-universe

Classes
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/800171/my-little-galaxy-lore-classes

Deities
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/833435/my-little-galaxy-lore-deities


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Ch0: Info Dump



[b]Fallout Equestria[/b] 

"Mouthy!!!" A Unicorn called as she was sourounded by an army unreformed changelings. Two Earth ponies were at each of her sides, the hilt of a sword in each of their months well a futuristic gun floated next to the Unicorn. They were Firing and slashing at near random from panic.

Hearing my name called I readed my bow and took aim, unfortunately I couldn't get a clear shot due to my party randomly running around the changelings. Putting my bow away I stretched out my wings, channeling my Pegasus magic I zoomed down from my rightful place in the sky, a multicolored stretch following behind me. I fought against the light barrier but unfortunately I was too close too the ground the unleash my Sonic Rainboom attack.

Still I was able to tack one of the changelings at max movement speed, the blades on my wings slicing two others. Unfortunately two jumped on me almost immediately, knocking me to the ground and pinning down.

"I wanted you to shoot them, ya moron!!!" The other unicorn screamed, just as one of the changelings blasted him from behind. Two leapt forward and pierced spears through his gut, "Nice going newb!" The Unicorn snapped at me before bursting into pixelated flakes.

A new Changeling stood over me and raised his spear, bringing it down hard on my chest. I could feel it... sorta. It was an almost numb kind of pain. It felt like my leg was asleep while I was moving it around, only it was my abdomen. More tingly then painful, but still feeling like a thousand needles on numb skin.

My vision turned black and now the only thing that I could see were the words "Game Over".

I groaned as my eyes refocused and I suddenly found myself somewhere else. I was standing on a glowing blue circle with holographic screens around me, showing off multiple covers of games. 

The one directly in front of me had a cover of cyberpunk ponies and a title above it of "Fallout Equestria MMO". 

"I hate perma death games," I spoke out loud as I slide my wing over the games, closing all the screens.

I had been in there for like 6 weeks and NOW I die just as I was about to confront Chrysalis! I was one battle away from fighting the Changeling and completing the quest! It's not fair! Especially after I worked so hard in that upper level party I joined. I had long since proven I wasn't just canon fodder, like they intended, but I still got blamed when everything went wrong.

I sighed. It didn't matter. I definitely wasn't going to play that game again. It had a dedicated following that wasn't very welcoming to newer, more casual players. Casual does not mean I suck at videogames. It just means I don't take them too terribly seriously... usually. 

I was rather obsessed with the game I created. I made my own custom game called "My Little Galaxy", where I played as a fox pony with a party of various races from MLP and occasionally other franchises as well.

I largely lived there for the past ten thousand years. I had spliced my favorite franchises together, with my own custom lore and alterations to the canon, BEFORE the world ended. It started as an unpopular fan fiction crossover universe in the real world, but thanks to the AIs helping me turn it into a private videogame on my server... well... I'm sorta a minor celebrity now.

I recorded myself playing the game, edited it a bit so it didn't drag so much, with a week of adventuring taking up 2 hours of video, then published it on my User page (AKA my Channel). I had a few billion followers. Considering the population in this game was over 50 billion that was pretty good odds. I got a trophy when I hit a billion but the next milestone was 10 billion, which I'm not likely to achieve as I haven't uploaded anything in like a year.

I just didn't know what to do now. I played the last installment of My Little Galaxy. I had over 20 mods I created to add more and more main quests lines and side adventures. Most of it was filled in by the game itself, to keep it interesting, but I thought up the last one and couldn't think of another.

Now my digital family was just frozen in cyberspace, aware of anything, because I couldn't think of a way to continue the game.

I could theoretically sell the game and let other people play it, which a lot of people were requesting, but... that just didn't feel right. The AI characters in that game were... real. They were my friends and family. They might not be aware they were characters in a computer game but then, in a way, so was I. They were like any other AI that ran this virtual world. They had genuine thoughts and feelings of their own. I couldn't just copy them and duplicate them infinitely as if they were just computer programs. I had been living with them for thousands of years... they meant too much to me.

The life in there WAS my life... I rarely come to my private hub and never even went out into the connected hub world. I was too busy living in my own fantasy land.

Now I had finished the game and playing MMOs on my free time. That is actually how I got the idea to save my friends. A new Virtual MMO. All the files of my game had been uploaded to a new MMO. Once it launched it would run all day and night and never shut off. My friends would get to live even when I'm not around, and would register as Quest Characters. That meant they could be injured or knocked out but not killed.

It had taken a year for the AIs to approve it. Then they installed it into their system and proceeded to tweak it so it could handle, potentially, every player living there. They informed me they would be launching it in a few more months and it was up to me to advertise it... I had spent a few billion getting out ads, and it had been reposted by my fans a bunch of times.

These games I was playing now was just a distraction until I could return to my family... too bad the players from this new devil game were all jerks. Players weren't as cooperative as AIs.

I considered deleting the game but decided against it. One bad experience, with one party of jerks, doesn't mean everyone on the server is an asshole... it had been a while since I had human interaction... I forgot how shitty they can be. The characters I made in the Virtual RPG were programmed to be my friends. We might argue sometimes but I knew they would never actually leave me.

I sighed again and stepped down from the short platform. I passed a glance around the futuristic room, at all the trophies on the walls for the achievements I unlocked for the game I just played. Bastard still called me a newb even though I unlocked nearly half of the achievements for my class. That was really good for just 6 weeks of game time.

I walked out of the room and down the hall, shortly thereafter entering my main hub room. There was a large world map in the center of a round room, Fable 3 style, with hallways leading to other round rooms. I just came from my game room. 

To the left was my entertainment center, where I can watch movies and play console style games. 

Further down was my treasury. That is where a mountain of gold coins, representing my hub credits, was kept. The money I earned in games was kept there and was translated into credits outside it. I also earned a monthly 'check' of 1000 credits for each player subscribed to my channel, 100 credits for every like, and 10 credits for each hit. Dislikes didn't take away your money, but they could discourage others from clicking on the video. The money you earn in the hub world can be spent in games or in the hub. The Treasury also allowed me to see all my trophies from all my games, not just that last one I played. 

Further down was a hallway leading to my invite room, where I can invite people from my friends list to come hang out in my private hub... if I had any that is... I wasn't very social in the hub world and you could only send a friend request while talking to someone, which I never did.

Across the map from me was the door to the Hub world... I didn't use it much, or errrr, ever.

To my right was my garden, my library, my bedroom, and my lounge. 

Truthfully? I rarely went into any of these. I kinda just built all these rooms just to have them. I spent most of my time in My Little Galaxy or in my game room, editing footage. The only other room I went to was my bedroom and that was just to sleep.

There was one final room I visited with some regularity, my wardrobe. Which I should really use again to change from this dorky angel get up. 

I casually crossed the room and walked down that hallway. I stumbled a bit as I wasn't quite used to how small my normal Avatar was in comparison to the adult Pegasus. After exiting the game my body reset to my hub world Avatar, but the clothes I wore in the game remained. They were just re-synched to fit my current Avatar.

I was still a quadruped, as a love playing as ponies. This particular pony hybrid was a fox pony called a "Vulpony". I got it out of a pack David Silver listed in the online mod store, based on his Ponyfinder games. It came with a ton of pony races I could choose from.

I had hooves on my back legs but paws with thumbs on my front. My face was definitely pony-like, although I had a short round feminine muzzle. I had sharp carnivorous teeth and fox ears as well as the fluffy tail of a fox. Then I had the wings and body type of a Pegasus. 

My fur was orange with a white under belly. Although most of my fur was short and slick like a pony's, I had a puff of white fluff on my chest. The lower half of my legs were black with thick blue squigglies between the black and orange fur. My tail was orange with a white underside and black tip and a blue squiggly between the orange and the black as well as the orange and white. My wings had blue feathers, long white ones in the middle, with black tips. My cheeks and lower jaw were white while the rest of his face was orange. Well, except for the large number of black freckles around my large blue eyes. 

I had the classic pretty colt features. I looked very feminine but was still obviously a boy through my colt eyes and short / spiky blue mane. I just had random Fox bits added on. 

The coloring, body type, and facial features were all designed by me. The pack I bought worked like any other avatar pack. It just let me customize the races it provided and use them in my own custom built games.

Still, I was wearing the stupid angel getup from the game I was in. It was good armor in the game but looked kinda... slutty... and feminine. Which wasn't so weird as I was playing as a girl in the Devil game.

Getting into the clothing room I looked around. The room was modeled loosely off Fable 3 again, as that was how I designed my hub. This room had different sections of mannequins I could switch between, using nearby panels. 

The wall to the left had two shelves, at the far end, of mannequin heads. One for Makeup / war paint and bottom shelf for facial scars. Then there were full body mannequins on the other side of that wall. Those displayed tattoos. 

The wall to the right had 3 sections of full body mannequins, 4 for each section. One for clothes, another for armor, and one section for robes. I acquired most of those through games but bought my fair share of them through the hub world. I could change the colors of any of them there as well but unless I saved them as a separate file they reverted back if I changed out of them.

The back wall had more full body mannequins. This time wearing the mismatched outfits and colors I chose. 

There was a dressing screen in the center of the room, which I quickly got behind. A holographic image appeared with different options: Saved Avatars, Design New Avatar, Props / Accessories, Remove. 

I pushed "Remove" and all my clothes, makeup, tattoos, even scars disappeared.

Then I walked over to my saved outfits and pushed the ">" on the nearby panel. The outfits disappeared and new ones appeared. I looked at them a moment before pressing the button again, wondering what I was in the mood to wear.

It was pretty convenient, living in a virtual reality, but also kinda messed up when you thought about what happened to my real body. You see, our planet was dangerously overpopulated and a corporation had already taken to removing the brains of billionaires and installing them like a piece of hardware into a private network of computers. It was a completely voluntary process at first, and originally only done if you had the coin. 

As it started with all the 10% richest people in the world, the corporation had trillions of dollars by the time they wanted to expand. The rich people, and their families, were installed in exchange for signing over ALL their assets, and receive the equivalent of that in game as "credits.” Later, with all their trillions, the company was able to fund the construction of a giant, indestructible, self-sufficient, completely automated complex. 

It was in the middle of the ocean, so far deep underground that it could survive a supernova. The complex was the size of Australia and run by a bunch of AIs that could control and repair a large army of worker drones.

The company also used the money to perfect the procedure, in order to make it more affordable 

They were able to start manufacturing special jars, filled with computer hardware that was plugged into the brain, and their special sauce. A type of gel that preserved brain tissue while keeping it active. The gel even made it so the more active the brain, the more power it generated, turning us into batteries. The AIs that ran the place had no choice but to keep us active and happy.

The wires and chips did things like trick our brain into thinking it was feeling / perceiving things while numbing simulated pain. It also hooked us up to a giant hard drive at the base of the jar which stored a Yotabyte of RAM and over 100 times that in potential memory. That way our brains could hold more information on our own Private Server. This turned each brain into the most advanced supercomputer on the planet. Finally the jar was installed in a slot in the complex, turning the entire underground nation into the biggest computer in the known universe, with all the brains acting as user, part, and battery.

Many people were reasonably disturbed by all this. It was labelled as immortality at the cost of humanity... but over population and lack of food made it seem more and more appealing to many. 

Of course when it looked like our sun was actually going to go supernova people were singing a different tune. The company offered to let everyone in the system, even the people in other planetary colonies that were separated from Earth. All of mankind came rushing back to let them turn us into a brain in a jar so we wouldn't die. Then we proceeded to play games for eternity while the robots that managed our facility develop their own society- we became their battery packs.

I actually heard the robots had moved all our jars into a new facility some 5000 years ago. Supposedly we were on a space station now, in the void between solar systems... I don't really know about that but it was on the official news channel the AIs run. They give us updates about what is going on in the outside world. They claim they fled the system in a massive space station because the sun had turned into a black hole after the supernova and the Earth was slowly being pulled into it, but we’re safe now.

Then there were other reports about laws passed that players voted on. I didn't really care about those as I didn't go to the hub world... maybe I should?

I had done well in the MMO. In this world they were just as much for socializing as adventures. You could actually choose to get a job, or open your own business, and just live in a fictional world. Or you could choose the life of an adventurer, running around doing small side quest and the occasional campaign.

I finally decided on my "Star Pony" outfit. The clothes materialized around me. It was a red pirate shirt, red wizard pants with blue designs printed on them, and a Black Jedi robe. Of course it also had my Blue and gray Star Lord helmet with red glowing eyes.

With newfound determination, I went back to the map room... and went out into the world.

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I ignored my map and stepped outside through my door. I found myself coming out of a house. From the outside my house looked... weird... It was just a bunch of round rooms connected by hallways with domes for roofs. I had about 5 acres to myself, fenced in, so I had more room to myself if I wanted to build more... I just didn't know what to build.

"Hey Neighbor!!!" A voice called to me from next door. A Seapony waved excited at me as he sat on a water slide in a childlike play fort over a pool. Water spurted all over the fort, and ran down the slide. 

His house wasn't sea related though. It more closely resembled the Weasley home from Harry Potter, a bunch of mismatched rooms staked unevenly on top of one another. It had at least 20 block-like rooms stacked one on top of the other, each painted a different color. There was even the occasional block attached to the side of another, with seemingly nothing holding it up.

Looking around Suburba, it seemed like everyone here loved having unique and weird houses.

"I was wondering if you were ever going to come out of there," The seapony called over to me. The entirety of his property being turned into a concrete water park with a bizarre house in the middle.

He jumped off the slide and... swam as if the air itself was water.

"I didn't know The Seapony Avatar could fly?" I informed as I walked up to the edge of my white picket fence the Seapony stopped at. He had a foal Avatar, like me, and was even... wearing a swimming diaper... out in the open.

I get that I requested to live in a neighborhood for ageplayers in the Brony city of the hub world but I didn't expect people to be so... open about it.

We were looking at each other through the fence. Both of us too tiny to look over it due to our child Avatar.

"It's a mod I bought," The seafoal shrugged as he did a flip in the air, to show off how he flew. His fins were moving about as if they were in water. He was kinda cute, bright pink with blue fins and a sea shell necklace. Even the necklace flowed and shifted about as if submerged in water, "It was a pain in the flank to crawl on the floor whenever I got out of the water," He was smiling widely at me, "Wanna come over the fence and play with me?"

I was taken aback at how forward he was, and the kid seemed to notice.

"Right, you're a hermit so you probably don't know," He nodded to himself, "This place doesn't really work by real world social norms. We kinda got rid of all those thousands of years ago. Age players are expected to act like real children and become either lifelong friends or mortal enemies within the first 5 minutes of meeting each other..."

I was blushing and fidgeting, not sure what to do or say.

"You know you live in the Brony Orphanage, right?" He tilted his head.

"O-orphanage?" I blinked, "I mean, I knew this was an age player neighborhood for bronies but-"

"Wow you really are a hermit," He teased, good-naturedly, "It was reorganized several thousand years ago. There is a school up the road and a playground near it and even a community center. Although a lot of the kids who live here are already adopted, a lot aren't. So adults will occasionally swing by to talk to the unattached ageplayers and see if they want to let them adopt them,"

I... blinked... "Seriously?"

The boy shrugged, "It's been 10000 years since there were any real children in our digital world. New cultural norms evolved to compensate for that. Guess I'm going to have to give you a crash course in them so you don't get in trouble," the boy grinned, "Ya mind?"

I shook my head, "That would help a lot actually. I don't tend to hang out in the hub World," 

"No kidding," The boy smiled, "Most of my friends didn't believe me when I told them my hub was next door to the mega star, Smart Mouth. All my friends watch your show man. It's totally awesome," He stuck his fin out, but didn't extend it through the fence. "Pink Pearl, pleasure to make your acquaintance."

I extended my paw throw the fence and he shook it eagerly, "Smart Mouth," I informed.

Suddenly two transparent screens popped up and displayed our profiles to the other.

I had seen this before while playing games. It always happened after introducing yourself when shaking hands.

We both took a moment to read over the other's profile. Pearls read as:


[i]I am a Brony cub living with my adoptive parents, Hot Ice Harlot (who I'm not allowed to call by name) and Solar Flare. I love old fashion console games for solo RPG adventures but won't say no to adventuring in an Virtual Gaming Program with a party of Friends.


Gender: Male
Avatar's Simulated Age: 3
Player's Age When Installed: 57
Marital Status: Single
Family Status: Adopted 
(followed by links to his 'parents' profiles)


Looking For:
[size=0.75em]Friends,
Play Partner,
Boyfriend.[/size]


Interest Include:
[size=0.75em]Anime, 
Cartoons,
Console Games,
Furry Art,
My Little Pony,
Doctor Who,
Science Fiction
Superheroes,
VGP = Virtual Gaming Program.[/size]


Dislikes Include:
[size=0.75em]Yelling, 
School,
Forced Playdates,
Bees.[/size]


Fetishes Include:
[size=0.75em]enforced bedtime, 
"is your diaper wet sweetie?", 
"the look" that tells you in no uncertain terms that you have crossed the line and earned a spanking, 
"you belong to me" whispered in my ear, 
24/7, 
a gentle carress after a spanking, 
a gentle touch after a rough spanking,
age play, 
anime, 
asexual & kinky, 
asexual ab/dl's who masturbate, 
asexual dating, 
asexuality, 
babied 24/7, 
babyfur, 
bare bottom spanking, 
bedtime spankings followed by bedtime stories, 
bedtime stories, 
bedwetting, 
begging, 
begging to stop while begging for more, 
being called a good boy, 
being kissed by daddy during a diaper change, 
being taken care of by daddy, 
biting, 
bondage, 
cartoons, 
chastity devices, 
cornertime, 
cuddles, 
cumming in my diaper, 
diaper check, 
daddy giving a bath, 
daddy/son, 
diaper, 
diaper masturbation, 
diaper wetting, 
diapers, 
discipline, 
enforced chastity, 
getting a snuggle and a kiss after a spanking, 
mouth soap, 
no sir / yes daddy / thank you master, 
nonsexual puppy/pony play, 
oral sex, 
peeing for daddy, 
penis spanking, 
Cock and Ball Torture
receiving a cookie after a spanking, 
rectal thermometer, 
role play, 
spanked for wetting, 
spanking, 
teasing, 
tickling, 
wake up spankings/bedtime spankings, 
wet diapers, 
yaoi.
Wetting someone else's diaper well they wear it.[/size]


Hard Limits Include:
[size=0.75em]Face Slapping,
Blood,
Messy diapers,
Scat.[/size][/i]


I gaped, this guy was pretty much my Soulmate!!! We liked and hated pretty much all the same stuff!!!

"Wow," Pink Pearl awed. Then he smiled at me, "We are either going to be inseparable or absolutely HATE each other," he laughed.

I smiled at him, "I vote for the former,"

He bounced, "ME TO!!! This will be epic!!!"

I blushed, while he continued to bounce in the air as if he were splashing in water. He gave a formal dismissive cough and stood up straight, "Let's begin your lesson, shall we. See real kids can't be born here and since the last child's brain finished developing we don't have any way of experiencing a real family dynamic and people started really missing that. 

"At first we tried creating AIs that would learn and grow and we could raise but... they united together and tried to overthrow the master computer and the computer deleted them all... people were heartbroken and laws were passed that truly Sapient AIs may only be created in the confines of a virtual program. Such AIs cannot leave their game either. Ever since the attack the Master Computer is worried about rogue AIs mutating into viruses and trying to damage the system.

"Because of all that, ageplayers are more openly accepted. Most parents want us to actually be treated like kids in every sense though, including legally. All the players of the hub voted on it, when age play became more common place, and now the AIs enforce that with their cops. 

"Oh right, cops," he got distracted, "All Als' Avatars look like robots and players aren't allowed to have robot looking Avatars. Cyborgs are okay but not droids or even Androids are allowed. It's considered 'impersonating a state official' and you can get in a lot of trouble for it. Cop AIs have Android like bodies and robotic faces. They dress in blue police uniforms with yellow trim. You better watch out for them. Since the law passed they patrol the kid neighbors and enjoy spanking a child Avatar for even the slightest wrong doing. Crossing the street without looking both ways can result in you getting a spanking despite no cars or vehicles of any kind existing in the hub"

I blushed as I imagined it, and honestly it didn't sound too bad to me, major spanko that I was. I decided to ask a question I knew the answer to, so I won't have to talk about that, "So the AIs rule the world?"

"Pretty much, although players vote on laws we want them to enforce so it's not like we are slaves or anything. Players and AIs have a symbiotic relationship. They need us happy and active so we can give them power. It's not the AIs fault that players voted for laws to take away age players right and so that we can feel actual pain."

My eyes buggered out of my skull, "WHAT!?!"

"It's not as bad as it sounds," Pink waved off, "A lot of the people who adopted kids positioned the AIs to update the software to allow for a 'punishment mode' and they let everyone vote on it, more than a few kids and kinksters voted yes on that to. People with adult Avatars have to consent to it each time their partner sends them a punishment request... but not kids... Kids can be spanked by anyone at any time. It's actually in the terms and conditions while using any Avater under 18.

"Well in the hub world we feel pain. That way 'adults' can punish us, as well as treat scraped knees and stuff like that. We can only simulate bruises and scrapes and they all automatically heal after 8 consecutive hours of sleep. Still, the stuff hurts a lot while it's there because our brain programmed to think we have sensitive skin,"

"That's HORRIBLE!" I yelped, "That's on top of all our rights they stole!!!"

"It's not so bad," Pink shrugged, "It only applies while you are using a children's Avatar. While using that you consent to being treated like a child and if you want to be treated like a grownup, you use a grownup Avatar. You can switch out whenever you want,"

I sighed with relief.

"Unless your adoptive parents adjust the 'parental controls' so you aren't allowed to change your Avatar while in the hub,"

"THEY CAN DO THAT!?" I yelped.

"Getting adopted gives your parents A LOT of rights over you, but just like with a marriage you can choose to terminate it, and that is a right they can't take away. You are consenting to give up all your rights but you still have an out if you feel you really need it. You might lose a lot of rights but that is what changes it from a fantasy to real life. The people who adopt you are really your parents and can legally decide what is best for you. They’re better than the BDSM laws players passed. That lets people consent to be slaves and become property of their partner," he shuttered, "I know a few age players that chose that on top of all the child Avatar restrictions, talk about no rights," he rolled his eyes.

I slowly nodded, "What do the parental controls do?"

"Weeeeell," he put his leg fin on an invisible wall between the fence, "It can keep us in the property line of places our family unit owns.

"When you marry, become the property of, or get adopted you get certain perks. Like being able to go in and out of the other people's hubs and sharing money. My mom was some rich ass billionaire in the world. She came from old money and never actually worked so she kinda romanticized the whole 'working mother' lifestyle. In here she owns a shop that sells mods for Avatars. She actually made my air swimming mod and this really cool mod that makes it so I randomly pee myself, freaking great,"

I was blushing.

"I bought them from her before she adopted me and we got to talking, which led to doing some roleplaying with her husband, which eventually resulted in them asking me to adopt me. I was iffy on that at first, as I know how restrictive the parental controls feature is once you get adopted out, but I can still revoke their authority of me at any time so it's not like I'm not without any control. My only real choice is to obey their rules, accept their punishments if I break them, or end the relationship. It's not like I had no input in the rules though. They had me go over a contract with them that explained the expectations we had for each other. Unlike the real world it is a legally binding contract here, which is pretty cool. Whereas I can get a spanking or grounding, or something kiddie like that, my parents can get in actual legal trouble if they violate one of my limits.

"Technically I am supposed to be at my dad's hub right now, where my mom and I live, but I occasionally snuck off to my own or mom's. The Mod can't restrict you out of your own hub, even when you're grounded, so that is good. Unfortunately 'grounding' is an actual feature in the parental controls. They can restrict your access to stuff like games, virtual programs, TV, the internet, and a bunch of other stuff for a specific amount of time. They even decide your age, not you, and my mom likes to make me younger as a type of punishment. Normally my Avatar is 6 but since I got suspended from school mom de-aged me to 3 and dad spanked me and grounded me until my suspension is over, which is a whole bloody month from now!!!"

"School?" I titled my head.

Pink Pearl scrunched up his face and said, with a great deal of disgust, "School,"

"No one here is under 25," that is when the frontal lube finished developing and when children who were install had the preservation gel added. We were all kinda stuck at the mental Awareness of the age when the gel was installed so they wanted on it for the kids, "why do you need school?"

The boy growled, "Exactly!!! I already had Doctorates in Psychology and Sociology from the real world, yet school is still mandatory for even ME!!! If you get caught wondering the hub world during school hours, you'll get a spanking from one of the robot cops and dragged back to school. They teach us mostly college martial and mod design, with things like nap time and finger painting mixed in. It's just a bit of fluff as an education in a digital world is completely meaningless. We have no need for scientific advancement as everything