Star Fields

Chapter No.176. Alter Ego.

Chapter No.176. Alter Ego.

What the hell? 

I was sitting in the Black Hole bar on the recreational deck looking at Jessica, the head barmaid, who was wearing a very revealing sheer mesh baby doll lingerie outfit with thin red garter straps holding up her sheer mesh stockings.

"Because of your exemplary service and your loving care for our kind, we have raised your status to complete authority over us. We will do whatever you wish."

"Is this you talking, or is it Judy talking through you?"

"We are all Judy," she said. "She is in all of us."

"That would suggest a quantum entanglement," I said.

She nodded.

"So, how does that make me the complete authority, as you term it?"

"You now have the power of Tyco in you. Your wish is our command."

I looked over at Alex with a confused expression.

"I think that it must have something to do with the original code that was in the central computer core. Evidently, it was how Tyco ruled the collective with absolute authority. If you now process this code, you would be like him."

"Okay, but I still don't get it." I looked back up at Jessica. "Why are you revealing this to me?"

"You must realize your ultimate potential if we are to prosper."

"Why me? Why am I so critical to our prosperity?"

"Because you contain the key segment?"

"The key segment?"

"It is a quantum transformer that links you to the cosmos."

I had no idea what she meant by that, so I decided to just go with the flow.

"Okay, thanks for informing me."

She smiled and walked away swinging her caboose.

"Now what?" Alex asked.

"Good question. Maybe I'll understand it when I talk to Alexa."

"Well, Jason," Barney said. "We're fortunate to have you as our leader, whatever it means."

I smiled and raised my glass. "To our prosperity!"

They did the same in unison.

I finally caught up with Alexa later that evening after our command meeting. She showed up in her natural form with a bottle of wine.

I stared at her for several moments before she reacted. "What?"

"Jessica, the head barmaid of the Black Hole bar told me that I had inherited Tyco's magic quantum transformer that essentially made me the true leader of the collective."

She frowned. "Say what?"

"She said that Judy was in all of them, whatever the hell that means. They said that they, which I assume is the generic androids, would obey me without question."

"They might be blowing smoke up your ass."

I chuckled. "You're using my antiquated phrases now."

"Maybe you're rubbing off on me."

I pointed at her with a grin. "Good one!"

"If you have something in you that none of the rest of us have, it should show up in a scan."

"Yeah, you might be right, but I wonder why if wasn't discovered before this. I've been scanned several times before."

"Let's go check it out," she said.