Star Fields

Chapter No.149. Perdition.

Chapter No.149. Perdition.

Sometimes it's just too much to handle.

Alexa had detected it first, and I realized that she had just stopped the destruction of a million androids.

I turned to her and smiled. "You are the alert one. You sensed that all of their chemical bombs were going to explode at the same time. Nice job."

"The code was programmed into their brains to detonate at a precise time."

"We'll have to remove all of the explosives and send them away into space."

"Yep," she said, before beginning the process.

I helped her, but it took twenty minutes in suspended time for us to complete the process before starting up normal time again.

The bombs exploded in space away from our ships and the planet.

"All of these androids are in suspension at very low energy levels," Alexa said. "I'm no expert on android metabolism, but I would think that they are very close to going inactive permanently."

"Hopefully they'll survive until we get them in charging stations. We have plenty of stations on the new ship. Let's start the process of teleporting them into those stations. Judy is aware of what we're trying to do."

Alexa nodded and we began the process by seeing the charging stations in our minds and then teleporting the androids into them. I started on deck two, and Alexa started on deck three. As each if us filled the stations on our deck, we mentally jumped down two decks to complete the job.

After completing the task, we teleported back to our ship and noticed that the Explorer-2 and -3 vessels had arrived.

"Let's transfer some of the androids to those ships," I told Alexa.

"I'll take care of it," she replied.

"What the hell are we going to do with all of these androids?" Molly asked.

"Well, for one thing, we're going to build more vessels like this one."

"The process has started," Judy informed us.

"A million androids!" Marie said. "That's crazy. It's as if Tyco was planning on populating the entire universe with them."

"He might have been planning on populating the entire multiverse," I said. "There's fifty thousand males in that group. Can you imagine what would happen if they began impregnating all of the females."

"Holy crap!" she cried.

"Are we going to allow that to happen?" Margaret asked.

"We're going to be busy enough trying to get a bunch of new vessels constructed to accommodate the androids we already have. We'd need hundreds of them if we allowed them to copulate."

"It's mind boggling!" Alex blurted.

"Amen to that," I added.

After all of the transfers had been completed, we returned to our home solar system.

"It looks like construction is going well," I said as we approached Helios Station. They already have the outer shells built for two more vessels."

"With all of these new androids, we should be able to construct lots of ships," Alex said.

"One thing we need to do as soon as possible is expand the capability of our central processor core," I said. "We're going to need the extra capacity to handle all of these new additions."