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This story is a composite of a couple of different things I have thought about regarding 
futanari stories, I know the majority of writers here deal mostly in natural futa, that is 
born as one, or magical means. This is more of a sci-fi kind of story, so if it's not your 
thing you might want to mosey on by. 

Don't read if under 18 or illegal in your little corner of the world, like you'll listen. This 
should appear only on my website http://www.asstr.org/~srb/ F3, Futanari Palace, Pal's 
archive site, through Pal's yahoo group, on Pal's Forum... well, it basically should be 
wherever Pal's stuff is. Also at the Grey Archive, and some other places they might end 
up, they know who they are. 

This is copyright me, so don't call it yours. Feedback can be left here. I created all the 
characters, they are all fictional, and any relevance to anyone living or dead, is incidental

BTW there is plenty of different portions which have been reused by numerous science 
fiction shows movies and books, including nanotechnology, rapid pregnancy, and various 
scientific mumbo jumbo, which I will try to keep to a minimum. (Bounce a graviton 
particle beam off the main deflector dish…)

THIS CHAPTER contains masturbation, futa/futa sex, and oral sex.

Chapter 7
Questions answered, Questions asked


Kyle groaned as the alarm clock blared. It took her a moment to find the alarm, blinking 
eight o clock as the speaker belted out an atonal melody composed solely in synthesizers. 
"God, I hate that stuff' she thought to herself, 'I swear the kids can only listen to this junk 
to piss off their parents.' 

As she sat down on the bed, she looked over and saw her child Terra, and with her hands 
covered over her ears she must have felt the same about the music.

"Sorry baby," Kyle said, getting up to her feet. "I just have that on the alarm clock 
because it gets me up," she said, making a mental note to change the preset on the clock.

"I'll get up early tomorrow and turn it off for you," Terra offered, turning over in the bed.

"No, I mean, I wanted to get up now, so I set the alarm to...you know, never mind babe, 
I'm up," Kyle said. "I'm gonna take a shower, I'll be back in a minute" she said, walking 
to the dresser and grabbing another pair of sweats and a top. 

"I don't really feel like a shower now," Terra said, turning over and stepping out of bed.

"Oh, well alright honey, it's not like you're really dirty," Kyle said, as she headed towards 
the bathroom door. As Kyle showered, her daughter considered stepping out of the room, 
but decided against it. She still didn't know anywhere to go, and figured that her mom 
could show her around. Only a few minutes later Kyle emerged, wearing a towel wrapped 
around her crimson curls.

"Do you want to get some breakfast?" Kyle asked, as she pulled up some socks before 
pushing her feet into a pair of sneakers.

"Sure. I um," Terra said, watching as her mother tied her shoes.

"Yes babe?" Kyle asked.

"I don't know anywhere. And I don't have shoes," she said, as a matter of fact. 

"Oh, yeah, well here, let me get you something to wear," she said, grabbing a pair of 
socks and a pair of running sneakers. She almost handed them over, but decided to slip 
off the ones she was wearing instead of passing on the smelly running shoes to her 
daughter. Handing them over, she accomplished another first early, tying her shoes.

Once the two were ready to go out, Kyle gave Terra a tour of the facility. There wasn't a 
long that was there for the two to go over. There was everyone's room, the four 
laboratories, which were all adjoining, the storage room, and the recreation room, which 
was almost always empty. Their final destination was the cafeteria, which was equipped 
with the latest food blenders, capable of creating food with thousands of varieties, down 
to over a dozen of different kinds of pepperoni. The blenders themselves had nothing to 
do with an ancient product designed to shred food apart which was used over five 
hundred years prior.

"So how does it work?" Terra asked, looking at the computer terminal.

"Well, you just select whatever you want, and wait a sec, and ta-dah!" she said, as a ding 
confirmed that the food was ready to be eaten. Kyle opened up the corresponding slot, 
and found a plate of blueberry pancakes, with a side of maple syrup. While it was good, it 
was nowhere near real maple syrup, but there wasn't much that could be done about that.

"But how does it work?" Terra asked, looking over the suggested breakfast meals, 
wondering what these things actually meant. What was a waffle? Or muffins? Lean ham?

"Tom invested it, it takes a combination of different stuff like grains and vegetables and 
sugars and meat and uses it as raw materials to make whatever we order." Kyle said, 
licking her lips as she looked down upon her breakfast.

"But, how does it make the food?" Terra asked.

"I don't know, ask Tom," Kyle said. "You don't have to know how a thing works to know 
that it works," Kyle said. "Oh, uhm, let me get something for you to eat."

"What are you having?" Terra asked, peering towards her mother's dish.

"Blueberry pancakes, here, try some," she said, ripping off a chunk with a fork before 
dunking it in syrup and pressing it towards her lips. Terra opened her mouth, and was 
amazed as it was filled with the most delectable flavor she had ever tasted. Grabbing the 
fork from her mother, she doused the pancakes in the syrup before shoveling a mouthful 
in at a time, barely taking a moment to chew and swallow in between bites. Kyle laughed 
as she guided her daughter towards the closest table, slowly lowering the tray before 
ordering herself another stack of pancakes. 

"Well, I guess that she won't have to worry too much about her figure," Yoshi said, upon 
entering the room. "With the nanobots and all,"

"'Morning" Kyle said, as she grabbed a second plate of pancakes. She watched as Yoshi 
began brewing a pot of real  coffee, as he put it, having hated the synthetic blend that the 
blenders put out, before inputting his own breakfast.

"Everyone make it through the night alright?" he asked, watching as the coffee brewed 
almost instantly, and poured the two of them a cup.

"Uh-huh," Kyle said, taking a cup from Yoshi before adding some of the sugar and 
creamer.

"We're gonna need you back for tests today, we wanted to get them out of the way early. 
You know how Tom is, works from dawn 'til dusk, doesn't even get out to enjoy the finer 
things," Yoshi said, breathing in the coffee before taking a sip.

The two of them watched as Terra got back up, and ordered another batch of blueberry 
pancakes. "What's that?" she asked, looking at the mug of coffee her mother held.

"Coffee," Yoshi said. "I wouldn't advise trying this out now though," he said, 
remembering her earlier experience in anchovy pizza. "You should try some juice, the 
pineapple-orange juice is actually pretty good," he said, pushing up the drink on the 
terminal.

The food blenders dinged almost simultaneously, and Terra grabbed the glass of juice and 
put it on the plate before heading back to the chair, and proceeded to wolf down this new 
stack. 

"You should take her outside, let her work off some of this big breakfast. And if you see 
Tom out there, tell him I'm going to prep everything for the tests," Yoshi said, grabbing a 
bran muffin before heading out the door.

"Wonder where Nadia is, usually she's here eating her usual oatmeal," Kyle said as she 
ate her food.

"So, what's outside like?" Terra asked, her mind able to think of concepts like trees, 
grass, birds, and plants, but it was like seeing a picture on television, to see it isn't to 
experience it. 

"We'll see in a minute, once I finish this," Kyle said. Only a couple minutes later she had 
finished eating, and the two of them headed out the door towards the exit. 

What Terra saw amazed and confused her, she had spent the entirety of her short lifetime 
in the sterile white environment of the laboratory. Yet everything here was so strange, so 
different, the ground, the air, the lack of walls, the plants and the birds chirping as they 
flew free overhead. Terra had to inspect every thing, down from a small anthill to the 
trees. She was amazed at the life that flourished, unrestricted by any walls or ceilings. 

"If you like this, we'll have to go to the greenhouse," Kyle said, smiling the whole time as 
she watched her daughter's curious nature. Truly, this was nothing like she had planned, 
she had envisioned a normal child, and a baby she could hold in her hand and dote on 
which would grow to be the fine young woman she was watching after sixteen years. She 
felt like, in some way, that Terra's childhood had been stolen, but not from her, from 
Terra. She won't have the normal kind of life that everyone else does, she won't 
experience her first day of school, her first period, going to high school, her prom, 
everything. Well, maybe it would be nice to skip a few of them. 'I'm just going to have to 
make everything as good as I can for my baby' she thought to herself. 

While Terra could speak like an adult, and even knew what a pine tree was as opposed to 
what grass was, she still had a childlike inquisitive nature, seeing everything for the first 
time. Kyle looked off in the distant, watching one of the guards. About a hundred feet 
away he kept an eye out, canvassing the outlying territory. 'She doesn't even notice him' 
Kyle thought, as she looked upon Terra.

"Over here," Nadia said, pointing towards the greenhouse  Tom actually liked to call it an 
arboretum, as most of the stuff he grew was pretty rare for this part of the country, 'But 
it's a greenhouse really' Kyle thought.

 Opening the doors, Terra eyes opened wide as a myriad of colors and smells invaded her 
senses. The flora was stacked in rows resembling a pyramid, starting low and working it's 
way up, with the smaller plants and flowers starting way up and working down to smaller 
shrubs, with gaps every four feet or so wide enough for a person to fit through to water. 
Terra was astounded, every color that she had seen, and some she never had were 
plastered from wall to wall. 

"Oh my god, I'm sorry Tom," Kyle said, breaking Terra's fascination for a moment as she 
turned towards Tom.

"What are you doing?" Terra asked, looking down at the sitting scientist. He was sitting 
on a small mat in the middle of the room, eyes shut, with a small candle lit in front of 
him.

"Meditating," Tom said, before opening his eyes. With a controlled exhalation he 
extinguished the flame, before getting up.

"What is meditating?" Terra asked, as she watched Tom arise.

"That is a tough question to answer. I guess the best way to put it is this, in order to focus 
my mind I try to eliminate outside diversions. In this way I can achieve a higher level of 
thought, and hopefully a higher level of consciousness. Through mental exercises, I strive 
to better myself and understand better myself and my surroundings,"  Tom answered, 
marshaling his words so as not to confuse Terra.

"So by closing your eyes and sitting down, you think better?" Terra asked, still confused 
by the notion.

"That may be a gross oversimplification, but in essence it's got a merit of truth. Think of 
it more like this, in order to focus on a single flower," he said, picking up a plastic 
flowerpot containing a scarlet begonia from the third shelf down. The color nearly 
matched Terra's hair. "It's easier to remove it from all the others, so you can appreciate it 
singularly, without it's beauty and smell being lost in a crowd. It's the same with 
thoughts. To focus on the individual idea it's best to remove the outside information and 
focus on it alone."

"But how do you know what to think about?" Terra asked, really getting into her first 
deep conversation. "I mean, even with your eyes closed, wouldn't you think about the 
smell, or the cold, or you're hungry, or anything?" 

"You do it first by emptying your mind, working with an empty canvas. As you clear 
your thoughts, your mind becomes as a glass, able to be filled anytime by whatever drink 
your mind thirsts for," he said, doing his best not to try to convert the young woman. Her 
mind was so impressionable, as any child is, but with her capacity to understand deep 
philosophical and spiritual conversations, the results could be difficult to predict.

Attempting to change the subject, she handed the plastic flower pot to Terra, saying 
"Here, a reminder of your first visit here. Just leave it by the window and remember to 
feed it water once a day, I'll show you once we finish," he said, stopping for a second as 
he noticed how much time had passed. "I'm sorry, I guess we're late with the tests, let's 
take care of that, we already have more on our hands than we can deal with as it is. And 
things will only get easier without me prattling on."

Tom opened the door, holding it open for the women in a gesture of chivalry that had all 
but died out. The three of them made their way towards the facility, making only a quick 
stop to drop off Terra's new flower before heading back to the main laboratory. 

When they entered, Tom was surprised to see Yoshi and Nadia in a heated conversation, 
which they stopped as the door opened.

"Hi everyone," Nadia said, forcing a nervous smile. 

"Hey Nadia, missed you for breakfast," Kyle said nonchalantly. 

"Oh, I slept in. After giving Tom a hard time yesterday about overdoing it, I guess I 
needed the rest too," she shrugged, hoping that everyone would buy the lie. To some 
degree it was relieving to her that nobody had figured out what had happened. But the 
fear hanging over her head was almost too much.

"Alright," Yoshi said, his voice still slightly annoyed. "This should be east enough. We're 
going to run through a series of tests designed to determine Terra's cognitive abilities. 
These include memory, hand-eye coordination, and an intelligence quotient test. as well 
as some physical strength, agility, as well as a few others. We'll round it out with a full 
body scan, a blood test, and a neural scan. Shouldn't take more than a few hours, and after 
that you'll have the rest of the day to yourselves," he said watching a rather neutral 
expression on Terra's face. "Don't worry, we're not going to hurt you in any way."

As Yoshi called up the first test the group realized that one fact had been missed entirely. 
Terra could read. And not just read like normal people. She could read a whole screen of 
test faster than anyone else could read the first line. Even more impressive was that she 
had a photographic memory. Tom had her recite line and verse of a Shakespearian sonnet 
hours after having read it for only once. Her grammar and spelling weren't nearly as 
perfect to start out, but with the more that she read the quicker that she seemed to 
naturally understand grammatical syntax. And her intelligence quotient was through the 
room, even for a grown adult.

Yet perhaps the most impressive aspect was her physical performance as she had the 
body of an Olympian. At least the physical talents of an Olympian. While most women in 
the world would envy curves like hers, such a body would be more than problematic for 
an Olympian. Her speed was close to record setting, both in the short distance and the 
long distance. She nearly broke the world's record established almost three hundred and 
fifty years earlier with no training. Her body was almost entirely lean muscle mass, and 
she had a body fat index of only six percent, caused primarily by her curvaceous body.

"Well," Yoshi said, as the last physical test, an endurance run, slowly finished it's cool 
down, "You did so much exercise you tired me out!"

"It's a good thing she ate so much for breakfast," Kyle said, proud of her child's 
accomplishments. 

"Now, if you'll just sit down here," Tom said, motioning towards a bland office chair. 
"We'll just finish this up real quick."

Terra complied, sitting down on the chair, but her eyes grew wide as she saw the needle 
in Nadia's hand headed towards her. "It's okay Terra, this won't hurt. I've taken blood 
samples dozens of times," she said, trying to comfort the girl as she cleaned the skin over 
the elbow.

"Don't worry, it won't hurt," Kyle said, speaking from more than enough experience. 
Nadia had to take blood samples from her every morning for over a month, by the end 
she wondered just how she had any blood left.

"The nanobots would compensate for any pain in any case," Tom said, as he readied the 
neural scanner .Terra looked over to him and by the time she had turned her head back, 
Nadia had already taken the blood and was applying the bandage.

"Now, if you're ready," Tom said, positioning the scanner.

"If I'm ready what?" Terra asked.

"If you're ready we can get the scan done. It should only take a minute and then that will 
be it. It'll even be easier than the workout," Tom said, pressing a button. "Just try to sit 
still." he said, waiting for the readout to show up on the monitor. Forty eight seconds 
later the information had been gathered and Tom turned the machine. "That's all, thanks 
for being so helpful. Looks like we're gonna have a ton of info to look over. You two 
should take the rest of the day off. I'm sure you have a lot of getting to know each other 
you want to do."

"Let me know if anything is wrong," Kyle said as she stood up.

"I doubt there'll be any problems, but we'll keep you apprised." Tom replied, watching 
the two head out the door. 

"Hey Nadia, can I talk to you for a minute," Kyle asked, drawing all eyes towards her. 
"In private?" she asked, following the doctor out the door to the hallway.

"My boobs are REALLY sore," Kyle said, grabbing them for emphasis. "I think I need to 
be milked, but Terra is so big and breastfeeding a woman that size seems..."

"It's fine hon., let me check, I'm sure we have some breast pumps for you to use." Nadia 
said, heading towards the storage room. Well, not so much a room but more of a 
warehouse that housed almost every medical device imaginable. Tom wasn't the kind to 
undertake any experiment involving human life without being more than prepared. And it 
seemed logical to have a breast pump somewhere. 'Of course there's probably a box of 
adult diapers here as well' she thought to herself. 

"Want to join us for lunch?" Kyle asked, as Nadia ran her fingers across the keyboard, 
searching through the computer terminal and finding the location of the breast pumps. 

"Yeah, I'm could eat," Nadia said, growing more comfortable as Kyle spoke normally to 
her. While she wasn't exactly starving missing breakfast was a change in her usual 
routine and she didn't want to raise any suspicions. Kyle followed her to a particular 
shelf, and using the librarian's step, took the labeled box off the second to the top shelf, 
and handed it to her. "These are pretty easy to use, basically whenever you feel the 
pressure building up, you plug the machine in, press it to your nipples, push the button on 
and it will automatically suck the milk out of your breasts, and fill the jar," Nadia said, 
before stopping a moment, "But we should take care of the breast milk. It's probably 
teeming with nanobots. I'll ask Tom what he thinks we should do about it later. Until 
then, let's grab a bite."

Nadia and Kyle joined the other three in the lab as the two scientists were trying to 
explain in detail how the food blenders work exactly. Terra was picking it up surprisingly 
well considering she didn't know the finer details behind how computers functioned. Tom 
and Yoshi seemed more than happy instructors. Tom was even drawing a diagram on a 
computer terminal.

"Maybe we can take a break off of theory," Nadia said, interrupting Yoshi in the middle 
of a description of the synthetic food processing unit, "And try a practical application."

"Come on, let's go get something to eat baby," Kyle said towards Terra. The two 
scientists watched as the three women headed out the door.

Yoshi's attitude seemed to change one hundred and eighty degrees. "Something is wrong 
Tom. Something is seriously wrong."

"What were you talking about with Nadia when I got here?" Tom asked. "The two of you 
looked like you were in the middle of a fight." 

"At first I thought that there was something that the two of you were working on that you 
didn't tell me about. I mean, she is in charge of the project and if you were doing 
something that you didn't want to tell me you surely would have to tell her. But she 
seemed insistent that there was nothing here that I didn't know. So I have to ask you, are 
you holding something back from me?" Yoshi asked, as serious as a heart attack. 

"I've never held a single thing from you on this project Yoshi why would I start now?" 
Tom asked, both confused and concerned by his colleague's question and tone.

"Look, I did some additional research on the nanobots this morning. The first thing that 
was all wrong was their ability to transfer the mental capacity that they have to Terra. I 
examined the nanobots and discovered a problem, they couldn't do it! The nanobots 
themselves don't have the capacity for memory transfer, even working in concert they 
don't have the ability to send information on the scale that they have." Yoshi said, 
punching up a report on the computer terminal. 

Tom dashed over, reading the data that Yoshi sent up as he continued. "Then I looked 
into a number of incongruities. While Nadia has grown a dick Terra hasn't shown any 
signs of it. She's just a regular, normal girl physically. But the DNA is identical! At first I 
thought it was due to the subconscious mind secretly desiring it like you suggested 
before." he said, bringing up another page of information. "These nanobots shouldn't 
even have the capacity to read or merge with the neural system, they weren't designed for 
it. These nanobots were designed for understanding preset commands, written in binary, 
just like all of our technology is. But the language of the brain isn't even compatible. The 
nanobots shouldn't even be able to understand them, let alone communicate or transfer 
the information."

"Then, I found perhaps the most startling evidence of all, the nanobots aren't the same 
ones we put in!" Yoshi said, punching up a detailed technological design for the original 
nanobot design. "I checked the original specifications including the ones we have in 
suspended animation to the samples we gathered yesterday in Kyle and Nadia. Look at 
this," he said, punching up a different readout.

"This isn't possible," Tom said, watching and soaking up every detail he could possibly 
read. The nanobot was different. Roughly ten percent larger mass and carrying  more 
complex systems than he imagined possible on such a small piece of technology. He 
could recognize individual functions, but there were entire areas whole physical makeup 
he couldn't recognize, let alone their purpose. As he examined the computer schematic, 
he knew this was no abnormality.

"I checked both a blood test and a semen test, both contained the exact same nanobots in 
Nadia and Kyle. I didn't want to bring it up in front of them, which is why I was so 
insistent on the blood test on Terra. Let's put it through the computer system now, I want 
to see what comes up." Yoshi said, placing the blood sample in the special cylinder. 
When the computer displayed the results, both scientists were struck almost speechless.

*

"Oh my god!"

"It's okay, just take your time with it,"

"It's so good though!" Terra said, working her way through her first dessert. An hot fudge 
ice cream sundae to be specific. 

"I think she should have to do some chores before she gets dessert," Nadia said with a 
smirk. "At least that's how I used to do it,"

"Any ideas for chores?" Kyle asked, watching with a serene smile as Terra worked her 
way down the bowl of ice cream.

"Well, at least clean up the room, maybe do the laundry? She seems pretty good at 
finishing her vegetables," Nadia grinned, the young girl's appetite had been nothing short 
of astounding. First a grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup, followed by a turkey 
bacon sandwich, then onto a grilled Caesar salad before eating her dessert.

"We're going to have to get some laundry first," Kyle said. "Unless we're just going to 
wear sweatpants for the rest of our lives."

"Well, this skirt isn't too bad," Nadia said, referring to the long black skirt that ran well  
her knees. It looked nice on her over her white top, covered by a bland everyday white 
laboratory shirt, of course with her newly grown breasts, there was more action these 
days.

"Maybe your skirts aren't bad, but I would have a hard time wearing a skirt without being 
noticed," Kyle said, laughing at the idea of a tent poking down under her short skirts.

"Why is that?" Terra asked between shoveling mouthfuls of hot fudge and ice cream 
between her lips.

"Oh, well I have um, something extra down there," Kyle said, still trying to duck the 
issue.

"Oh, you have one too," Terra said nonchalantly, paling Nadia's face in an instant. Kyle 
looked confused, but didn't ask any questions, much to Nadia's relief.

"Should we explain it to her?" Nadia asked, faced with a difficult discussion. While she 
had reservations about describing the state of things to the girl, she felt like she deserved 
to know. And her IQ tests were literally off the scale, she could comprehend this but this 
wasn't up to her. Not now, it was Kyle's choice for her child, and Nadia would have to be 
there for whenever Kyle thought it was appropriate for Terra to learn.

"I'd like to know," Terra said, running her tongue along the side of the bowl.

"Well, I don't know," Kyle said, struggling herself with the decision. While she wanted to 
tell her baby everything, part of her wanted to keep the youthful innocence for as long as 
she could. 'But', Kyle thought to herself, 'I can't keep the origin of her life secret, she 
deserves to know. But how do you even begin to explain?' she sighed for a moment, 
thinking on 'At least I have Nadia here, she can help me. And she wants to know, how 
can I keep it from her and still be her mom? But was this the right time? Would there be a 
right time, ever?'

"Baby, you probably know now that you're different than most people," Kyle said, trying 
to find a starting point to the whole discussion. The story really began ten years, three 
days ago when Mars had attacked, but how to describe so much to a mind that never even 
thought of fighting, let alone war, or death?

*

"This is impossible!" Tom said, reading over the technical specifications of the nanobot. 
This one was inconceivable to the scientists, not only was it more complicated than any 
kind of technology either had ever even heard of, but it had elements that neither one of 
them had ever even seen. There were elements of sixteen different kinds of metals that 
weren't even on the expanded periodic table of the elements. Some of these shouldn't 
even be stable, they should have a half-life of about a nanosecond!

"Something is wrong here," Yoshi said. "And it took everything I had to stop myself 
from scaring them."

Tom sighed, nothing here had been going as planned, and this newest fact frightened him 
down to his very core. Not only was this completely unknown, it also potentially 
threatened the life of three women that he held dear. 

"Does anyone else know about the project?" Yoshi asked.

"No, not really. I mean, Smith had approached me, then I had to get it okayed by a secret 
subcommittee to create the black project, but beyond those twelve senators and Smith, no 
one else should know about it. Other than the general." He said. General Bodarko, 
Nadia's father had been a big proponent of the project since its design. Tom had always 
been weary of having the support of the military. Nadia had always resented  the 
implication that she only got this job because of her family relation. "That was the whole 
plan, if we failed we would just scrap all the plans, all the evidence, that's why we had a 
soldier, someone who we could trust to do what she was told, someone who could be 
trusted in keeping her mouth shut. Nadia had been involved in working for the 
government for years before getting this project, and I had to get special waivers to even 
have them think about looking over adding you to the team." Tom said, cracking his 
knuckles as he tried to come up with some kind of explanation.

"We're going to have to tell Nadia," Yoshi said to no one in particular. "She's the project 
manager, she's in charge here."

"I want to know what's going on first," Tom said forcefully. "Until we can determine 
what's going on we have to treat these foreign nanobots as dangerous entities. They might 
be capable of controlling their minds, or even causing them pain. Especially if these 
nanobots have some capacity to communicate with some outside group."

"So what are we going to do?" Yoshi asked.

"We spent months going over the possible containment procedures. First things first, we 
have to each take blood tests, both by ourselves and by each other, as well as having the 
computer verify that we're clean of the nanobots. Then we have to close down the 
compound. If we're lucky the women won't want to go outside again and they might not 
notice. I'd rather not lie, and I don't want them to know if they are being observed." Tom 
said, running through a checklist he had prepared in his head.

"Supposed to rain today, should keep them inside." Yoshi said with some hope.

"Unless Terra wants to dance in the rain for the first time," Tom said grimly. "Once 
we've proved we're clean, and locked down, we can use the internal scanners to 
determine any outside communications, either coming or going. We can limit the 
computer systems access to the public feeds, and download them ahead of time to 
monitor any kind of transmission."

"Are we overreacting?" Yoshi asked.

"Yes, but what's the other choice? This could be damaging to everyone here. And what 
would be the price of not reacting?" Tom asked rhetorically. 

"Who needs sleep anyways?" Yoshi asked with a dry smile.

"We got more than we deserved last night," Tom said.

*

"So they killed all those people?" Terra asked, her mind barely capable of even 
fathoming the sheer number of people, let alone that they had been killed. 3 billion 
people, combined from the people who had died initially, along with the people who had 
died due to radiation poisoning, or lack of essential supplies like food, water, and 
electricity. The sheer idea  brought a tear to her eye.

"Yes baby, it's okay," Kyle said, as he hugged Terra. "It happened more than ten years 
ago, and we've been at peace since then. There's no reason to think they are gonna hurt 
anyone again." Kyle cursed herself as she embraced her child. 'This wasn't what I 
wanted' she thought to herself.

"But there's no reason to stop them?" Terra asked, sniffling a little as she wiped her tear 
on her shirtsleeve. Neither woman answered, which was enough of an answer to Terra. 

"One of the biggest blows wasn't just the people lost. A lot of the people we lost were 
men, who were always a majority in the military. Additionally, a lot of women, suffered 
effects from the radiation which made them sterile." Nadia added. "That's when we 
started this project, we wanted to make a means to help people."

"H-how?" Terra asked, taking a deep breath.

"Well, like she said, people couldn't have kids the way they used to. With a lot of the 
young generation of men...gone" Terra said, choosing her words cautiously, "And a lot of 
people suffering from sicknesses that stopped them from being able to have kids, they 
came up with a way to solve the problem."

"What was that?" Terra asked.

"They are called Nanotechnological Robotics, or nanobots for short." Nadia said, 
watching as the young girl's attention shifted from tragedy to curiosity. "They are tiny, 
tiny robots, so small they can fit into a cell of a human being. On their own, they can't do 
much, but in the sheer numbers they have, they can alter the body on the molecular level, 
changing the DNA and RNA, replacing old or cancerous tissue, cleaning out impurities 
the human body is incapable of, and healing it at a rapid rate, even removing pain 
associated with common discomforts, like getting blood drawn." 'Or giving birth' Kyle 
thought to herself.

"So you made everyone healthy?" Terra asked, her mind past the war, at least for the 
moment. 

"Not yet honey, we had to test things out first," Kyle said. "One of the important things 
its that there just aren't enough men around anymore, and a lot of the ones that are around 
are too young, or too old."

"So we were able to create a means to allow women to pass on genetic material to other 
women. The only viable option was hermaphrodites," Nadia said.

"So, you mean you have both a penis and vagina, so you can replace men?" Terra asked. 
Kyle's mind raced, concerned at the jump of logic her child made. 

"Not replace them, we're trying to help repopulate the planet. There's nothing wrong with 
men, and we don't want to replace them." Nadia said. "Men are just as important as us 
women, there just aren't enough right now to keep the species going. We had to find a 
way to keep us going, so the next generation can survive."

"That's where you come in honey," Kyle said, embarrassed as she began to explain 
Terra's  conception. "See, I was having trouble sleeping one night, and I," Kyle stopped, 
the color of her face matching her carmine hair. "I started masturbating." she looked over 
at Nadia, who was already scared to death of this conversation. Kyle nodded towards her, 
and suddenly Nadia seemed to get the idea, she wanted help.

"Normally, when people have sex, they put a penis into a vagina, and when the man 
orgasms, semen is ejaculated to fertilize the egg and impregnate the woman." Nadia said, 
watching as Terra gave a knowing nod. 'Oh god I can't take this for much longer.' she 
thought. "But when people are alone, they sometimes do what's called masturbation, 
where they please themselves, bringing themselves to orgasm."

"That's what I did. But while I was masturbating, I got some of the sperm inside of me, 
and," Kyle said, taking a gulp "I got myself pregnant."

"So, you're my dad too?" Terra asked.

"Well, kind of, I mean, I'm your mom, but...I guess I'm both," Kyle said, struggling to 
come up with words to appropriately explain the situation.

"I think that makes me a clone," Terra said, after a minute of contemplation. 

"Well," Nadia said, scratching her head. "The two of you do share genetic makeup. With 
the exception of your mother's...extra features, you are almost biological identical. Your 
DNA and RNA are the same..." Kyle gave Nadia an annoyed look. 

"So I am a clone," she said, not even wondering where she learned the word, or its 
meaning.

"It doesn't matter," Nadia said. "Terra is your mom, she carried you to term, and she 
loves you. While you might not be born the usual way, your still a person, and you are 
still loved."

"So, you masturbated, and got yourself pregnant, and you had the nanobots, does that 
mean I have them?" Terra asked.

"Yes, honey, you have the nanobots in your body, we checked as soon as you were born." 
Nadia said.

"But, I mean, I only have a, a vagina, why don't I have a penis?" she asked.

*

"Well, at least we're clean," Yoshi said, administering a little gauze over the small needle  
wound.

"I've taken care of the rest, we just have to figure out what's going on. Let's see what the 
computer has come up with..."

"Is it possible that the nanobots have somehow improved upon themselves?" Yoshi 
asked.

"No, it wouldn't be possible, even if one or two of them were able to somehow find a way 
to evolve, which is impossible, they couldn't replace the entire nanobot population. We 
would see at least a combination of both working side by side, they aren't present at all. 
Even in Kyle's body...pull up the scans we just took yesterday of Kyle, and the ones we 
took right after we injected the original nanobots," Tom said, watching as Yoshi 
compared the two scans. "The electronic signature of the nanobots are all wrong...but 
how could it have been...I mean, there's no way that we could have missed anything, even 
the..." Tom sighed. 

"This explains why the nanobots were able to do everything that we never thought they 
could. Someone used your idea, and improved on it." Yoshi said.

"But who in the world could come up with this? The list of people who knew about it are 
so small, and it took us years just to come up with a working system, but to improve upon 
it this far..." Tom said, part of him admiring whatever bastard had done this. This was far 
beyond even what he was capable, and that was a rarity.

"Look, the important thing is to make sure that the girls aren't being monitored or 
controlled. Let's just hang back and try to figure out what we can, and hope that things 
can work themselves out," Yoshi said.

"Bring up the scan we took today, and compare it to the previous neurological scans," 
Tom said, looking at the dichotomy between the two. "See, the nanobots in Nadia's and 
Kyle's bodies aren't fully integrated, they are assisting what they are trying to do, as we 
can see by when I cut Kyle's hand," he said, focusing on a specific scan "The nanobots 
are responding to the actions of the mind. But compare it to Terra's scans," Tom said, 
changing the scan, "See, here, the nanobots are fully working with the brain, even 
working in tandem with the brain cells, communicating directly with the neurons, 
copying the electrochemical signals, which explains her IQ and her photographic memory 
among other things..." Tom said, examining in detail the electromagnetic signature being 
let off by the nanobots.

*

"So, you wanted to be a hermaphrodite?" Terra asked.

"Well, that's kind of putting it a little simply, but yeah," Nadia said.

Terra sat for a moment, as she considered that. Since last night she had wanted to have a 
penis. The penis that Nadia used last night fascinated her. And if the orgasm she had from 
just her vagina was so mind blowing, she could only imagine what having a one of her 
own would be like. But if it was so simple as wanting it, then why didn't see already have 
one, she had wanted one since she first saw one.

"So how did you get it?" Terra asked.

"I don't really know, like I said I accidentally got the nanobots in my body, then I had the 
erotic dream, and suddenly I woke up with it," Nadia said.

"But that's it, you just wanted it?" Terra asked.
 
"Well, yeah. Tom's working theory is that my subconscious self sought the, well wanted 
it, and as the nanobots increased their numbers they grew it for me," Nadia explained, 
concerned about the way the conversation was going.

"Baby, I'm sorry I waited so long to tell you, I didn't want to, but,"

"It's okay mom, I probably had to grow a bit older before I could understand it," Terra 
said.

"Enough of this heavy talk," Kyle said,  "Let's do something fun."

"Like what?" Nadia asked.

"Want to shoot some hoops?" Kyle asked.

"It's raining outside," Nadia replied.

"Oh, damn. Well, we can still do something fun." Kyle said.

"Let me see..." Nadia said, as a shiver ran down her spine. Suddenly, she felt...warm. No, 
not warm, aroused slightly...like she had just been fantasizing about someone, like she 
was on a date... "Why don't we play a game?" She said, watching as Terra was looking 
down at the empty bowl, deep in thought. What she didn't realize was that Terra was the 
one who was fantasizing. Thinking about having a penis. Envisioning sex, penetrating, 
being penetrated, every which way, by Nadia. Nadia noticed Kyle was looking strange as 
well. 

*

"Here!" Yoshi said, pointing towards an electromagnetic transmission.

"What is it?" Tom asked, watching the wave amplitude. It was strange, it wasn't a 
transmission, and it wasn't even being broadcast either inside or outside the complex. 
Using the internal scanners, he was able to pinpoint the location of the transmission, it 
was coming from inside of the cafeteria. "Localize it" he said, watching the computer 
zoom in, showing the three woman sitting by the table. 

As he watched, he had a clash of conscience. As a doctor, his patients had the right to 
decide how they wanted to receive their medical attention, in this case if they wanted to 
be scanned. It was a serious breach of ethics to scan them. But this might be his only 
chance to get any information pertaining to the nanobots. and if there was something that 
was affecting their mentality, he couldn't ask them without endangering their health.

"Yoshi, start scanning all of them," Tom said, his voice grim.

"What?" Yoshi said, well aware of the ethical questions.

"Do it, under my authority," Tom said. Yoshi nodded before turning on the internal 
scanners. Tom watched in surprise as he found the location of the transmission, it was 
coming from Terra. The nanobots in her mind were generating some kind of harmonic 
transmission, which was reacting to the nanobots in Kyle and Nadia's bodies. To what 
extend, he did not know.

"Do you recognize this?" Yoshi asked, watching the transmission. It barely qualified as a 
transmission. It was more like feedback being picked up on an electric microphone, just 
feeding off of a background wave and amplifying it, then rebroadcast it.


*

"I know, how about we play the new Nintendo game?" Nadia said, suddenly breaking 
Terra and Kyle's concentration.

"Oh, that's a fun game. Kind of for kids though," Kyle said, then looking towards Terra 
said "I bet she'd like it. I don't know any other games we should start her on." she said, 
getting up, "Come on baby, let's go to the rec room."

*

"Huh, it's over," Yoshi said, watching as the transmission ended suddenly. "Whatever it 
was, it wasn't in English, that's sure. Wait, the transfer!" Yoshi said, pulling up the 
information that had been transferred just before Terra's birth. 

"They're moving," Tom said, wondering to himself if there was any way that they might 
have found out about it. Tom hated spying on the three of them, he had worked with 
Nadia for years on this project, and had grown to respect her immensely. He had always 
appreciated Kyle's spirit and determination. And he felt responsible for Terra almost in a 
fatherly manner, since it was his experiment that resulted in her being possible. His only 
justification was that this was necessary, that what he was doing was in her best interest. 

"Looks like they're going to the recreation room," Yoshi said, watching as the internal 
sensors followed them.

The remainder of the day progressed rather normally for the women, who relaxed for the 
majority of the day. They played video games, eventually finding out that Terra was quite 
the gamer, as she had beaten the other two in every game they had  played, much to 
Kyle's chagrin. Although she wouldn't admit it, Kyle was proud of her strengths, and in a 
day she was suddenly second banana to her own child. She took a little solace that the 
only person to best her yet was the fruit of her own loins. After a couple of hours of 
games the two introduced Terra into her very first chick flick, a story about a woman torn 
between two lovers, one of them she was physically attracted to, the other challenged her 
mentally. She finally found that the whole time she was searching for the combination of 
the two, and found it in her best friend.

After the movie, they went and had dinner, where Terra once again ate enough for three. 
Nadia eventually left the mother and daughter to take care of her own matters. She still 
needed to find a way to clean out her bed. There wasn't a lot of different ways to get 
supplies in here, and Tom and Yoshi would almost certainly notice anything that she 
wanted to receive.

Kyle and Terra meanwhile went back to their room, where Kyle told Terra most of her 
life story, at least the parts she had found interesting. Where she was born, her childhood, 
her friends, school, graduation, her life serving in the marines, and how she got to where 
she was now. They went over her photo books, as well as videos of her first day of 
school, her graduation ceremony, her sister's wedding where she was the maid of honor, 
her graduation from the military school, and her return home. 

Tom and Yoshi didn't have nearly as peaceful of a night. The two spent hours trying 
every way they could to find out what exactly was going on. The only thing that made 
sense was that somehow Terra's nanos were picking up and broadcasting information, but 
until they found out what it was they couldn't tell any of the three the information.

Yoshi took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes, before letting out a yawn. "Don't get up, 
it's my turn to get some coffee," Tom said, getting to his feet. "I could use some time to 
stretch my legs anyways."

Tom felt like a zombie as he paced the hallways, lurching forward towards the cafeteria. 
Even having had a full night of sleep last night and after having a chance to mediate he 
still was overtaxing his body. And he noticed all the telltale signs, the constant weariness, 
the dull headache, and a lack of concentration. It was his fault, he was the one who 
believed him and Yoshi capable of doing everything themselves. With Nadia to serve as 
both a physician and project manager, the number of people who had to know about the 
project could be kept to a minimum. But in instances such as now, he wished he had a 
whole think tank he could delegate responsibilities to. 

Tom silently went to the coffee machine, pouring in the grinds before turning it on. 

"Hey Tom," Terra said, making Tom jump about half a foot in the air at the unexpected 
voice. In his exhaustion, he didn't even look around the room to see if anyone was there.

"Oh, uh hey Terra, sorry, you startled me there. What are you up to?" Tom asked, trying 
to shift the focus off of his tense state of mind.

"I was hungry and came down to get dessert," Terra said, digging a fork into a slice of 
double chocolate cake.

"Where's your mom?" Tom asked, looking around.

"She had something to do, said it would take her a little while. So I came down here," she 
said. "I had some questions about earlier," she said, pointing her fork in the general 
direction of his greenhouse. "About meditating."

"Sure, what do you want to know?" he responded, too tired to bother with false pretenses.

"You said that you meditate to help think, how do you do it?" Terra asked. 

"Well, like I said before, by focusing on a single mental application, I try to achieve 
mindfulness," Tom said. "Once I learned how to achieve stability in calming 
mindfulness, I begin attempting insightful meditation."

"Does it really help?" Terra asked.

Tom smiled, as he watched the coffee finish brewing, "I ask myself that sometimes. I'm 
sorry, I'm just working myself a little too hard now," he said.

"But where did you learn how to do that?" Terra asked.

"Well, a friend of my father was a Buddhist monk, and he taught me a number of 
practices when he would visit," Tom said, thinking back to his good friend. "While I'm 
not really Buddhist, I do find the mental training and meditation to be extremely helpful."

"And it really helps you to figure things out?" Terra asked, completely engaged in the 
conversation. Even as tired as he was, Tom couldn't help his ego. He had always loved to 
teach, to mold young minds towards science.

"Well, it's not like a light switch, I don't just meditate and suddenly I gain insight about 
the world. It takes long periods of disciplining one's mind. Even when one mediates, 
there's no guarantee that they are willing to find what they are looking for," he said, 
noticing Terra seemed disheartened by the prospect of failure. "But when one succeeds, 
the rewards can be incalculable. Buddhists believe they can shed the suffering of their 
lives and achieve nirvana, which they believe is the ultimate state of being. It's when they 
shed off all material desire, along with the feelings associated with it such as greed, 
hatred, and delusion as to the nature of the life. Some reports show that people have even 
been able to use mental discipline to affect their bodies."

"Really?" Terra asked, her interest fixated on Tom's impromptu lecture.

"Oh yeah, there have been reports since the late twentieth century that people have used 
mental discipline to assist healing from injury or sickness. There have even been 
instances where meditating has helped people remove cancer from their bodies, although 
the veracity of those reports are disputed."

"So how would one affect their body like that?" Terra asked, committing every word 
Tom said to memory.

"Well, historically, they would envision the cancer in their body, usually as a large black 
lump. As they meditated, they would envision the cancerous lump slowly shrinking and 
shrinking until it disappeared. After weeks of doing this for hours a day, reports state that 
the cancer had miraculously disappeared." Tom said. "Although, it would take a great 
amount of mental discipline as well as exerted time to achieve the results. If you are 
interested in something, you have full access to the computers, we have one in the rec 
room and your mother has one on her desk in your room."

"Thanks Tom, I think I'll do that," Terra said, her mind racing with the possibilities. This 
might be just what she was seeking...

"Alright, well I have to get back to the lab. Tell your mom I said hi, and give me a call if 
you feel sick or just need to talk to me," Tom said, grabbing the pot of coffee before 
leaving.

"Take it easy," she said as he left. Terra finished her cake, but her mind still worked with 
different ideas. As she went to her room, she decided that she would have to try 
meditating in the future the next time she got a chance.

Opening the door, Terra watched as her mom exited the bathroom, carrying a strange 
device and a container of white liquid. "What's that?" Terra asked, confused.

"Oh, uh, well ever since you were born I started lactating. My breasts began secreting 
milk, to feed you. But since you grew so fast, there wasn't a need for the milk, so I had to 
use this device to extract it, otherwise my boobs get sore," Kyle said.

"So I'm supposed to drink this?" Terra asked, examining the contents of the plastic 
container. 

"Well, yes, I mean babies drink breast milk," Kyle started, watching as her daughter 
downed the whole pint container in seconds, "But you don't uh, have to do that. Nadia 
said I should just keep track of the milk because it contains the nanos," Kyle said. 
"Where did you go anyway?"

"I was hungry, so I got some dessert," Terra said.

"We're going to have to set some ground rules young lady," Kyle said, smiling as she 
imitated her mother, down to the waggling finger. "I can't have you eating snacks all day 
long."

"It wasn't all day long," Terra replied.

"It was a joke honey," Kyle said as she went over to the computer by the desk. Turning it 
on she started her communications program. "Every week me and mom talk to each 
other. Of course now I can't send visuals to her, but I thought you might want to see her 
in real life. Not just in pictures and videos. Huh." she said, checking a few settings on the 
program. "Maybe not, it doesn't look like she's there. That's strange, she almost never 
misses it." Kyle said, concerned for a moment. She checked the news feeds, there was 
nothing important being broadcast, just the same old news. Even the sports and weather 
were being updated regularly, so the comm link must still be working. "Oh well, I guess 
we're gonna have to do it some other time."

"I'm kind of tired anyway," Terra said. 

"Yeah, you've been through a lot today. Well, I could use some shuteye too. I'll see you 
in the morning babe," Kyle said, before hugging her daughter.


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